Ice Cold

Summary: Iemitsu and the Ninth made a mistake sealing away Tsuna's flames. They did not remember what happens when you seal away the flames of someone with a deep bond with their flames. If they do not die, it's as if they are walking winter.

AN: The reasoning behind this is that, I always thought that sealing away someone's flames would affect them more than it did Tsuna. I mean come on they sealed away what is basically his life force, so shouldn't it have affected him in some form?

I have been inspired to continue this thanks to the awesome kurosakiami01. I hope you guys like this.

Chapter 1

Tsuna didn't understand why he felt so cold and empty after the kind old man pulled his finger away from his forehead. But, the seven year old felt as if he had lost a limb as he cried into Iemitsu's chest. Tsuna felt betrayed, though he was unsure why and he was cold...so very cold. He was barely aware of anything or that he was given to his mother as he cried and shivered his core temperature started to slowly drop.

The next day, Nana watched her son worriedly after her husband and his boss left. The young mother just knew she shouldn't have left them with her Tsu-kun, but she had trusted her husband. Her Tsu-kun wouldn't stop shivering even after she wrapped him in an electric blanket and he was so pale. Even his bright eyes and fluffy hair seemed to have lost their life and were a pale shade of the bright color they had been.

As she watched her once bright boy stumble around the next week as if he had lost a limb and had to learn to walk again, Nana felt some of the love she held for Iemitsu die. Her husband had somehow hurt her baby, her light, and she would not forgive him. Nana resigned herself to set back and watch her baby boy for now as she tried to figure out what was wrong and how to help him.

After observing her boy for two weeks, Nana noticed how withdrawn her son slowly became and how his classmates started to go out of their way to pick on her son. Once she saw how the teachers were ignoring the bullying, the young mother confronted the teachers and ended up pulling Tsuna out of the elementary school. The same day, she bought Tsuna a laptop and enrolled him into an online school she heard about from some of her friends. She resolved to not tell her husband about what she had done as she felt it was his fault that this had happened in the first place. Her little boy did not deserve this and she would have him grow up in a healthy environment that wouldn't put him through more stress. Tsu-kun was suffering enough even if she did not know what was wrong with him yet. She would find out and then her husband would feel the full force of her wrath!

Nana could only watch with growing sadness as her little boy became more and more distant and cold, both physically and personality wise, as the years went on. When she had first seen Tsuna practically blue one morning and seeming to breath out puffs of cold air, she had rushed him to the local hospital only to have the doctor to shrug stumped as to what the problem could be. Apparently, Tsu-kun's core temperature was lowering at rapid rate to the point he was emitting waves of cold air to the environment around him. At the rate it was going, the doctor concluded it would get to the point that he could freeze things just by touching them.

This only further worried Nana and even after multiple tests, the hospital could not find a cure. All they could do was have Tsuna wear specially insulated clothing to keep his Chill, as a nurse called it, from affecting everyone around him and to come in for weekly check ups to make sure his core temperature wasn't dropping below zero. Nothing they did would raise it and the doctors were worried that if he got sick it could prove fatal to the growing boy. Tsuna had to have a specialized meal plan made for him to make sure he got the needed nutrients because it was found that since his core temperature began to fall, his metabolism seemed to have began working in over time, similar to that of hibernating animals but times ten. On top of her son becoming a walking popsicle, Nana had to worry about him possibly starving to death if he did not eat something every hour or so.

The only good thing that came out of this is that his grades were nearly genius level. Nana noticed that since this happened after getting used to being without whatever was taken from him, Tsuna became more focused to the point that he noticed everything going on around him and retained all the information he absorbed. Nana was proud at the praise she read in the emails from Tsu-kun's online teachers and he had been bumped up a few grades. She just wished this talent hadn't come at the price of Tsuna isolating himself in the house and being unable to make friends because of his condition.

As another act of vengeance against her husband, Nana would feed him false information during his monthly calls as the man never once set foot into the house after that visit. If he wasn't going to come and see her son after what he had done then he did not deserve to know what was happening in Tsu-kun's life. She had tried to tell him once when it all started and he just blew it off saying it was a 'phase'. If he truly didn't care what was happening, Nana would not tell him!

So when she found the flyer in her mailbox when Tsuna turned fourteen, Nana sensed that her husband had something to do with this. But, she hesitated before calling the number, just maybe, just maybe this Reborn would be able to help her Tsu-kun. She wanted her happy little boy back. She wanted him to live again!

"Ano, is this Reborn?" Nana hummed softly after the person on the other end picked up, before adopting her air-headed persona, "This is Sawada, Nana, I would like to hire you to teach my Tsu-kun.~"

AN: Personally, I always thought the civilian women in KHR were a lil too oblivious and I feel that Nana wouldn't stand for her baby boy to be hurt and bullied. -whispers- Secretly, I have always shipped Nana and Adult Reborn as Reborn is kinda like the father Tsuna never really had. Sure he bullies Tsuna at first but he works to better Tsuna and basically raised him into the boss he is. That's more than Iemitsu has ever done in my opinion. So, I feel as if this Nana would divorce Iemitsu later on down the line.

Welp, tell me who you guys think Tsuna should be shipped with and if I should ship Nana/Reborn?