Ok, I was listening to you are my sunshine and this just kinda popped into my head. It kinda made me cry while I was writing it. Enjoy!
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Reborn stared at the still form on the bed. Covered in white sheets and surrounded by medical equipment, you could barely see who it was. All that was visible was a head of unruly brown hair.
Even after all this time, Tsuna's hair was still so wild.
Reborn smiled softly at the figure, though the smile was twisted by pain and sadness. Reborns fedora tilted a little further, hiding the emotions in his eyes from the almost empty room.
He'd held himself together for the others, refusing to show weakness and knowing he'd needed to be calm in order to reassure the others.
After all, if Reborn wasn't worried, then Tsuna would make it through for sure.
But now that it was just him and the unconscious Don in the room, Reborn was finding it very hard to stay calm.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
Reborn's not sure when he started seeing Tsuna as more than a student, but as a son. Maybe it was the same moment he'd seen it. The fire that burned in the boy's eyes, the fire that still stubbornly burned even after being sealed away and the whole tried to stamp it out.
Reborn was not blind, he knew what kind of affect the constant bullying must have had on the boy, he knew just how cruel people could be, even civilians, but he also knew that Tsuna could be so strong with the right kind of support from friends and family. The likes of which the boy had never really had before.
Yes, his methods were a bit unorthodox, but Reborn knew that the only way he could help Tsuna was by forcing him to become stronger by putting him in stressful situations where he had no choice but to wise up and fight.
And fight he did, for everything he believed in and wanted and all those he cared for. Reborn didn't just get to watch Tsuna grow, he got to watch him blossom into something extraordinary.
And somewhere along the line, Tsuna became his light. His little sunshine.
After the curse Reborn had coped the only way he knew how, lashing out. At colonelo, at Fon, even at little Skull who on his best days couldn't defend himself all that well. He was lost in a sea of anger and darkness.
Dino had helped, he'd been a good student and grew into a great man and friend. Reborn was proud of him.
But it was Tsuna who saved him, who gave him a reason to fight again.
It had been so long since Reborn had met a sky he'd be willing to follow.
He wanted to protect Tsuna and prepare him for everything that would come, how could he not want to, the little sky had become like his own little boy. And if there was one reason Reborn hated Iemitsu, it was that he was Tsuna's biological father and had tossed Tsuna aside like something that didn't matter, it was that he hadn't made Tsuna his priority, it was that he hadn't cared.
You make me happy when skies are gray.
Reborn walked closer to the hospital bed and stared down at the young man who had unknowingly saved him, who had brought light back into his life.
There had been days before the curse was broken when Reborn could only feel the weight of the pacifier around his neck, before those days had been painful and lonely, but Tsuna had always somehow known how to make him feel better. It was early on that Reborn had learned that there were few things better in the world than Tsuna's homemade espresso.
Reborn stared down at his hand, so much bigger than it had been when he first met Tsuna. It had been Tsuna who'd saved Reborn from the curse, helped return him and the others to their adult bodies and so much more.
So why couldn't he be there to save Tsuna.
You'll never know dear how much I love you.
Reborn was never scared.
But right now in this room, with his student(son) lying at death's door. He was scared out of his mind.
Because he knew what Tsuna's hopeful guardians didn't, he knew the damage had been worse than what they'd said. That there was a chance that he might not make it through the night.
He was a sun, but he wasn't like Lussuria or Ryohei or even Irie. His flames were wild and destructive, chaotic, he could not heal the broken like they could and they were not powerful enough to save Tsuna.
As Reborn stepped up by the bed he slowly lowered himself to his knees and gripped the limp hand lying on top of the sheets. The tears started to fall fast and quiet.
Reborn never cried.
Especially not when his boy could be on his deathbed.
Especially not when he might wake up tomorrow and his boy might not be breathing.
Especially not when he might never see that bright smile ever again.
Or ever feel that warm hug when he came back from a mission.
He just held the hand close to his forehead and let the tears and quiet sobs fall.
And for the first time in his life he prayed, because he might not deserve redemption or god's mercy, but Tsuna deserved it and more.
He deserved so much more than what life had given him and Reborn's greatest failure would always be not being able to give that to Tsuna.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
"Please don't take my sunshine away." Reborn mumbled between his quiet sobs.
Please don't take him away.
Welp there go my feels. I don't know why but I love sad things like this, if you do to then I hope you like this. I might make a sequel, I'm not sure yet. Tell me what you think in the reviews.
MotherfuckingDamianWayne over and out.