Chapter 1

Tsuna knew that something was off with him. He never knew what exactly but there was something harbouring in the back of his mind, telling him stuff. Urging him to do stuff, and Tsuna almost did once, but he stopped and pushed it to the very back and was cautious about listening to it.

His father, Giotto, never said a thing about it but did notice something off about his son lately. Tsuna's only friend, Enma Kozato, noticed too. But he never said anything afraid of offending the only friend he had.

Tsuna didn't know what this thing was until he was 15.

Tsuna always had problem with bullies. He was used to it by now. He never told his father about his problems afraid that he would be a burden. His father ran a company in Italy and he was shipped paper work daily for him to sign, he still had to go back occasionally to do certain things for the company and such. You could see the strain that it had put on Giotto and Tsuna decided not to be a burden.

But he had no one to confide in since Enma had moved 2 years back. He uses a journal to pour out his feelings to no in particular, but it just lifts the weight off of his shoulders once he writes it out and it prevents him from telling anyone what he's really feeling. He learned a long time ago not to speak out against higher authority, the hard way, and he doesn't want to experience what he went through again.

Whenever Tsuna gets asked about his bullying by his father, he just brushes it off saying he's fine. He's really not and Giotto can see the slight shake in Tsuna's arms or legs when ever he comes home injured. He doesn't pry and lets Tsuna carry on though. Giotto's worries get worse as the shaking he notices gets more prominent each time.

This prevents Giotto from doing his work most times and just starring worriedly at the door. Giotto was the ninth boss of the famed Vongola mafia family. He never wanted his sweet son to be involved into the mafia but he had to for he needed an heir and Tsuna had a special type of sky flame that needed to be kept in check. If he was put under too much stress he might break and the consequences would be horrible for everyone around.

When Tsuna was young there was an assassination attempt on his life. It failed but the bullet they used was special and one that had never been seen before. The Sky flames had become corrupted in a way nobody thought possible.

The Hyper-Dying Will Mode would gain a personality. Making the HDWM have a mind of its own and be able to influence the user into doing things to trigger their release. Giotto was able to seal the second personality before it could be fully released but it was already too late.

The personality had developed and could start to influence Tsuna in time if he was put under enormous stress, like having his greatest fear right in front of him or happening. If that were to happen, then the personality would come out full force and could go on a rampage.

To prevent this from happening, Giotto moved to Japan in the quiet town of Namimori. It was perfect from the low crime rate and how peaceful it was from a certain prefect and his family

But that doesn't mean that Giotto stepped down from his position as ninth boss. He traveled back and forth to Italy and Japan to do the work that wasn't sent over to him once it started piling up. He sometimes took Tsuna but most of the time, Tsuna would be left with his mother.

The only problem with that is that Tsuna had no mother any more. She had died a year back and it took a toll on Tsuna and Giotto. It was a miracle how Tsuna's alter personality didn't come out. Giotto decided to spend more time with Tsuna while he could and that further buried the alter personality.

The two had a great relationship and were like best friends. They could talk about anything like friends, Tsuna considered them as much.

One day Giotto had to go to Italy. Lampo just had to provoke G, and he had to leave ASAP. There were damages done to the HQ and he needed to sign the paperwork saying he approved of the things and hand out the money. He had to do it at his office in Italy too because he had to make sure that nothing else was broken, over see the construction and chew Lampo and G out for destroying the HQ. But that also meant leaving Tsuna on his own for a week at least, maybe longer.

Giotto said he would go and since it was already 10 at night, he decided to go to bed and tell Tsuna in the morning. He would be leaving for Italy at 12 the next day and would have to go to the airport to catch the private plane they had from the "Company".

In the morning, Tsuna was up early. He had got woken up from a bad feeling he had. It was so intense he felt physically sick. He couldn't explain it though.

Seeing he wouldn't get any more sleep, Tsuna got up and had a shower. When he got out, he noticed that he was up before his dad for once. It was only 6:00.

"Well, I never thought I would see this sight." Giotto stated in amazement when he walked out of his room.

"Ha-ha me either. I just couldn't sleep any more. Decided I might as well get up." Tsuna scratched awkwardly at his cheek and a half smile decorated his face. Giotto smiled, ruffled the brown gravity defying hair that was so much like his and entered the bathroom.

The brunette walked down the stairs and got himself a piece of toast and a glass of orange juice. The two normally had that since they weren't much for cooking seeing that they were both equally clumsy, Tsuna a little more so than his father was.

As the son was chewing his food his eyes drifted to the window over the sink that was facing the road, his house was located on the outskirts of Namimori and the school was a 15 minute walk. He knew that he would be late if he didn't leave soon since school started at 7:00 and it was already 6:30.

Getting up and bidding goodbye to his father that had just came down the hall, Tsuna left at a slight run before Giotto could even say anything.

The day was normal and Tsuna was bored with it as always. When he got home there was a note taped to the wall of the mud room. It said: 'Tsuna, I've gone to Italy. You left before I could tell you. Sorry for leaving you like this but my guardians were acting up again. There's some money in the jar on the counter and some extra food in the fridge for you to heat up.
Love, Dad'

Tsuna sighed as he finished reading. "Can't be helped, Lampo probably pissed G off. I can always ask him when he gets back." Tsuna slipped his shoes off and climb the stairs quietly. He walked into his room and set his back pack on his desk.

He silently went to work on his homework trying the best he could with the limited knowledge, he finished it at least. He knew it was wrong but he couldn't go to his father for help like he usually did. He only really understood after his father explained it. He did great on his homework but his anxiety got the better of him and that made him fail the tests.

After he was finished with his homework it was already passed 6 so he decided to go and heat up some of the food his dad left. He really liked his dad's cooking. His father would always say he was a bad cook so most of the time they would get some premade stuff. But Giotto was a fairly good cook if it was Italian food. Which this was.

After he had ate, he went to the bathroom and took a shower. He got in his PJ and brushed his teeth. When he climbed into bed to write it was 8 at night. By the time he was finished writing it was passed 10 and he was getting tired.

So he turned off his light and snuggled up to the pillow under his covers. He smiled slightly at the warmth the covers provided. He tried to ignore the whispering in the back of his mind and tried to get some sleep.

When the brunette woke up, it was to the blaring of the alarm clock. He looked at it and realized he was going to be late if he didn't get up now. He had half an hour to get to school and that wasn't very helpful.

He rushed around and got ready. He grabbed his journal and hastily shoved it in his bag while running out the door. He still had 20 minutes but he didn't want to take the chance the something would happen to make him late.

He ran and made it just before the bell rang. He had no time to do anything except get dressed and brush his teeth. He had no breakfast and no lunch so he was going to be incredibly hungry by the time he gets home.

School was boring but Tsuna tried hard to pay attention. He got a little of what the teacher was saying in science since it was a substitute instead of Nezu. When the bell for lunch rang, Tsuna made his way up to the roof to be alone. He wanted to write and didn't want people reading over his shoulder.

When he got to the roof he set his backpack down and started rooting through it. He checked every pocket for the notebook. It wasn't in the backpack at all and he was starting to panic. He had a lot of things in that journal that he would rather people not see. If they did they would most likely tell everyone and it would be hell for him if that happened.

When he finally gave up searching his bag for the third time, he ran around the school trying to find it in the places he had been. No such luck. It was no where to be found and Tsuna was freaking out. By now lunch had ended an he trudged back to his class in low spirits.

By the time school ended he was a nervous wreck. He couldn't remember if he dropped it or what. It just sort of disappeared.

When he walked out of his classroom he was greeted by laughing and pointing from the majority of the population. He was bewildered as to why, not understanding why they were laughing.

He decided to keep walking and keep his head down. He almost made it outside when somebody roughly grabbed his arm. He looked up and his eyes widened in fear. It was his main bully, let's call him Fernandez since I don't feel like making up a whole character sketch for him.

Fernandez usually made Tsuna hate his life at times. It was getting better since they barely see each other but that just made it more painful when they met to make up for lost time. The brunette tried his hardest to avoid him and it worked most days. Today wasn't one of those days though.

Fernandez dragged the trembling student through the school, keeping clear of the reception room, and threw Tsuna into an abandoned classroom. The room was dark since there wasn't much light coming in from the windows and the lights were off.

"So, you're father's out of town. You're all alone in your house and nobody's going to come looking for you once you arrive home late." Fernandez stated making Tsuna nervous at what he was going to do.

"U-Um well he had to go to Italy. He'll be back today though since he was gone when I woke up yesterday." Tsuna said as he lied through his teeth hoping the bully would believe him. He didn't.

"Liar, I saw your dad yesterday morning when I was walking to school. He seemed upset and had a tense expression on his face. So for lying, know what's going to happen?"

The brunette shook his head as he closed his eyes waiting for the hand to connect with his face. The senior smirked at the pitiful sight in front of him.

"What I'm going to do is I'm going to lock you in here. That'll be great won't it? You'll spend the night here where nobody will know you're here. It's going to be nice and dark too. It'll be awesome. And you'll get the entire school to yourself! Doesn't that sound like fun?"

"No, no. I think it's best if just went home." Tsuna said timidly as he tried to squeeze past. Before he could his arm was grabbed and he was flung to the ground in the middle of the room.

"No you're going to stay here and wait until somebody lets you out." Fernandez hissed as he closed and locked the door.

The room Tsuna was in, he noted, had a clock on top of the chalkboard. It said it was 3 in the afternoon. He was in a seniors class on the top floor by the looks of it and it was getting steadily darker. Even though it was only 3 the school was facing the west so this side of the school was shrouded in shadows during the evening.

Tsuna started getting nervous as the sun went farther and farther down. He could tell by the classroom getting darker. The brunette was slowly losing his sanity. He hated both the dark and heights. Those two were in play right now and he had no control over it.

As the sun went down completely the student dropped to his knees and clutched at his chest. 'If I don't calm down I'm going to unleash something nasty.' Was the last thought before he collapsed onto the ground.

Oh Jesus. Finally finished this chapter. It was taking forever but I finally finished it and got the story posted. Now I can procrastinate more and not update my one other one that needs it. Oh joy.

I made this chapter long so I could set things up and make it a little easier to write the other chapters. I almost have a script for it so lets see how long I stick to that.

Sorrynotsorry.

-Gate