A/N: Sequel to The Very Best No-good. Will probably be around three chapters long.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nada, zip. Both Pokemon and Reborn belong to their respective owners.
Wind and Sky
Chapter one
After three days of camping, Tsuna was quite fed up with the whole thing.
There had to be something very wrong with their society if it considered sending minors on world tours by themselves a good idea. His back was aching from sleeping in the sleeping bag and his tent building skills were below mediocre at best. Roof of the said tent was currently hanging much lower than it was meant to, almost touching ground.
Tsuna ruffled his messy brown bangs with something akin despair, as he surveyed his sloppy tent.
He supposed he should just back the whole thing up and start moving on. The problem however, was that he had no slightest idea of where he currently was.
He surveyed his map for what felt like hundredth of time, and it still made no sense to him. He had left home three days ago, or more like gotten himself kicked out of his house three days ago. He had walked the familiar road leading to neighbour town and then his no-good luck had kicked in and group of rattata had decided it would be fun to chase him. He had escaped into forest, ran for at least two hours before realising he didn't know which direction the road was.
Tsuna gave up on his map and let his shoulders slump. He was lost in a foreign forest swarming with feral pokémon all too happy to rip his gut out. And not only the feral pokémon, Tsuna glanced warily a small pokéball hanging on his belt. with some hesitation he plucked the thing off and held it on his palm.
Shortly after leaving home he ad accidentally caught the most violent meowth he had ever seen. This pretty much strengthened his belief that all pokémon hated him for some reason.
Tsuna stared at the red and white sphere, considering his options. During these three days he had mostly kept the monster cat in the ball and let it out only to eat. His feeble attempts to pet the thing had resulted in him getting long red scratches on his arms. He could just let the cat go, but then he would really be all alone in this big scary forest and he really didn't want that to happen.
Feeling like he was acting against his better judgement he opened the sphere. With a flash of bright white light meowth materialised in front of him and gave him an angry hiss.
"Hi Natsu," Tsuna gave his feline pokémon a half hearted wave. "Do you still want to scratch me?" a quick swipe of claws was his answer. Hís shoulders slumped little more.
"Well, fine. I won't try to pet or pick you up anymore." Natsu merely gave him a very condescending look before ignoring him completely. Tsuna, quite used to this behaviour just observed the cat in some concern. Natsu was pretty small for a meowth, Reborn had said this was probably caused by malnutrition. Living in the wild was though and not all pokémon got enough to eat. His oval shaped coin thingy was also damaged. The shining surface was ruined by two long scratches, forming a curious crooked cross shape.
"Did you lose a fight or something?" Tsuna asked the feline and didn't even get a flicker of an ear in response. Giving up Tsuna returned to observe his useless map, while Natsu busied himself looking over the clearing they were currently camping on. The forest was full of big leafy trees and pretty dark because their braches blocked the sunlight. This was one of the few places where you could actually see the sky and thus the only place where Tsuna dared to sleep.
His map reading was interrupted by a loud screech that made him almost fall from the rock he was sitting on. He fully expected some monster to jump on him from the shadows and started to slightly tremble. When nearby bush started to shake he was fully prepared to run away.
"Na-Natsu," Tsuna hurriedly whispered to his meowth. "come here quickly, let's get out of here!" Natsu ignored him again and curiously approached the bushes, causing Tsuna's trembles to increase.
"Natsu, please. What if it's a ghost or-Hieeeeeee!" Something brown had emerged from bushes and promptly jumped on Tsuna's head. "Hieeee! Take it off! Wha- what is it?"
Tsuna had closed his eyes in fright and didn't dare to open them. He felt sharp claws pressing on his scalp and didn't have the courage to move in case the monster wanted to rip his head off.
Natsu who had jumped startled at Tsuna's scream, was now watching curiously the creature on top of Tsuna's head. The said creature warily watched Natsu and hopped on Tsuna's lap.
Tsuna finally gained enough courage to take a peak between his eyelids and was surprised to see two small beady eyes observing him.
"Err… Hello?" Tsuna carefully greeted the brown bird pokémon on his lap, not quite sure what to do next. Wild pokémon sometimes attacked humans when they felt threatened but this pidgey didn't seem particularly aggressive.
Tsuna held out a trembling hand for the bird and tried to pet it, at first it flinched and let out a scared screech but pretty soon it settled down and let Tsuna pet it without any fuss. Tsuna felt slightly amused by the bird's colouring, its feather seeming to be almost same shade of brown as Tsuna's hair.
"Um… do you want something?" Tsuna asked curiously. Pidgeys were shy pokemon and preferred to flee when they saw humans. The brown bird merely blinked and let out a soft cooing sound. It sounded cute but didn't really answer anything.
"Are you hungry?" Tsuna felt around his backpack and managed to find couple berries. "You can have these if you want to."
The pidgey shook its head and made a louder sound. Then it stretched its left wing.
"Ouch," Tsuna said sympathetically when he notices a large thorn sticking out. That got to hurt. "You want me to take it off then?" the bird gave him a quick nod.
"Right," Tsuna tried to ignore looking into the birds sharp talons and quickly plucked the thorn off. The bird pokémon gave a sharp pained screech but didn't attack Tsuna. He dropped the thorn and searched around his pack once more.
"Umm, will you let me put some medicine on your wound?" the bird had been looking at its wing in amazement and now happily nodded at Tsuna's request. "This might sting a little." he sprayed some potion on the wound and it looked almost instantly better.
Natsu had been fairly quiet during the whole ordeal, but decided now to let his presence to be known by swatting the pidgey's tail feathers. Tsuna expected the bird to get scared, birds were afraid of cats, right? But instead it let out a angry screech and attacked Natsu with its beak and claws.
Tsuna had been hissed and bitten by Natsu last three days, it was slightly humbling to see injured bird pokémon succeeding in something he hadn't in matter of seconds. With few sharp pecks Natsu was whimpering pathetically and laying in a very submissive position, the bird pokémon being the clear victor of their little fight.
With a ruffle of its feathers it sent a smug look at Natsu and hopped back on Tsuna's knee. Tsuna, having watched the whole ordeal with open mouth gaped at the bird.
"How did you do that?" pidgey merely snuggled closer to Tsuna in response. "I have been trying to make him behave for days." he stated in disbelief.
He may have to change his beliefs little. It seemed that not all pokémon were out to get him. This one for reasons unknown had taken obvious shine to him. He fingered an empty pokéball in his pocket uncertainly, and finally held it out for the bird.
"Would you like to come with us, I'm not a very good trainer." he hastily explained. "But I think it would be fun to have you with us."
The pidgey gave a cheerful chirp and eagerly pressed its peak against the sphere. With a quick flash of red light it was sucked into a ball. It wiggled couple seconds before stilling and capture light winking off.
Tsuna looked the ball uncertainly before turning to watch Natsu who glared at the sphere in obvious disgust.
"Do people usually catch pokémon like this?" the cat waved his tail angrily in response. "Yeah, I didn't think so either."
With tired sigh he pulled out his sky blue pokedex and observed its screen. He ignored the mechanical voice explaining the basic information about pidgeys and focused to see the gender of this particular specimen.
He stuffed the pokédex back to his pocket and patted lightly the pokéball on his palm. "You are a girl… I think I'll call you Kaze."
Happy with the name he stood up and gave Natsu a stern look.
"Kaze is going to be travelling with us from now on and I expect you to be nice to her."
Meowth gave him a sulky look but didn't otherwise object.
Tsuna smiled down at him "I'm sure you and I are going to become good friends too." he reached out a trembling hand to pet Natsu omly to have needle sharp teeth closed around his fingers.
"Hieeeee!"
A/N: Yeah, he caught a pidgey. Not the most exciting pokemon but I thought it suited Tsuna's image. At least they are similarly coloured. The next page will be more action filled… I think.
I apologize for any possible grammar mistakes.