Tsunayoshi Sawada

Awkward. That was the first word that comes to my mind that describes the current situation in front of me. Zack Fair was standing in front of a brown haired, green eyed girl in pink dress staring at her and she is doing the same. While me on the other side of the situation focused my attention to the half-conscious blonde whom I was carrying then glanced at them time to time. That was until the spiky blonde in my arms moaned inelegantly getting the attention of the two people doing the stare off.

'Thank God.' I thought.

Zack hurried to my side and grabbed the blonde's other side. "Where can we sit him?" He asked the girl.

". . . Over here." The girl said as she rushes towards a bench clearing it out immediately.

We dragged Cloud Strife towards where the girl directed us to then lay him down to get comfortable as much as possible despite of the sight of the almost damaged bench. The girl bends down to Cloud and tried to look for injuries when I stopped her and shook my head.

"He's fine. Just half-unconscious, he'll be fine after a few days of rest." I said to the girl. "But he, however." I continued looking towards Zack giving him a pointed look. "Almost got gunned down by hundreds of soldiers. I think you should check him."

"But how about you?" She asks.

"I'm fine, you should worry about him." I replied.

She nodded and grabbed Zack's arm pulling him to a nearby bench and started to help heal his untended wounds.

I watched them communicate silently for a few minutes then directed my attention to the altar of the church and beneath it was a small bed of flowers.

. . . .

Zack Fair

The moment when I saw her again, it seemed I have forgotten how to speak. I missed her so much that I didn't know how to react in front of her.

"Where were you? Have you been well these past four years?" She asked. The gentleness of her heart never changed.

I didn't want to ruin our reunion by telling my terrifying fate the last four years, so I decided to change the subject. "I missed you."

She nodded trying to keep her tears from falling. "I missed you too."

"I'm sorry I made you wait." I muttered to her ear as I felt her hand gripped on to my arms as if she's holding on so that I don't disappear again.

"Four years, you were gone four years." She sobbed. "I thought you moved on and forgot about me."

"I got held up. I'm sorry I made you feel that way." Hugged her tight. "I also thought I was never going to see you again."

"What really happened?" She said boring her green eyes to my blue mako enhanced eyes. "I want to know."

Her eyes were determined to know what happened demanded me to tell her everything.

"I-I.." I stuttered.

"Zack Fair." The earlier mysterious companion called my attention.

I mentally thank him from saving him from Aerith's determination and of course the earlier dilemma.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"We should move, we can't stay here any longer." He said. "We're still being pursued by those men."

"Oh, but." I started to argue but Aerith cut me off.

"I know a place you could stay for a while. Follow me."

She ran back to the bed of flowers and picked up a basket. Motion to follow her. Placing my sword at my back and side towards to Cloud to carry him but pushed back by the brown haired stranger.

"I'll carry him myself, while you think about what you're going to say to that lady." He said glancing to Aerith's direction.

I nodded my head and muttered."Thanks… Uh."

"Tsuna." He replied.

"Tuna?" I repeated.

He rolled his eyes at me and said. "Tsuna, T-S-U-N-A."

"Ah, sorry." I apologized as I rubbed my nape and followed Aerith.

. . .

We were walking towards Aerith's house when she decided to speak.

"So, who are your friends?" She asked, breaking the silence.

I glanced to Tsuna and Cloud. Tsuna nodded his head as if giving me permission to tell Aerith who he is.

"The blonde one is Cloud and this is Tsuna." I replied.

"Tuna?" She asked.

"Ma'am, it's Tsuna. Tsunayoshi Sawada." Tsuna corrected.

Aerith tilted her head in confusion. "You have a weird name."

"I don't really know what's weird with it." Tsuna replied.

I grinned at his respond. "It really sound like Tuna and it's hard to pronounce."

Aerith giggled and Tsuna gave me a harsh glare with his sunset colored eyes making me shiver down to my spine.

"My name is Aerith. Aerith Gainsborough, it's nice to meet you Tsuna." Aerith introduced herself.

"Likewise." He nodded.

"Hey, I just noticed. You have a weird iris color." I started.

As if being caught for a mistake Tsuna froze. "Eh?"

"Now that you mention it, it's uncommon for someone to have an eye color. It's like the color of a fire." Aerith commented.

"Well, I was really born with brown eyes but when a situation arises it always turned like the color of the sunset." He explained shifting Cloud from his shoulder. "But it's curious on why you compared it to the fire normally someone would said the shade is like a sunset."

"You see this plate?" I asked him and he nodded.

"Aerith was born here and never left the place so she doesn't really know where to compare your eyes other than fire." I told him making Aerith slightly embarrassed.

"Oh, what is the purpose of those plates anyway?" He questioned.

Aerith answered his question. "Up there is the floating city of Midgar. Mostly the rich people only live there."

"Just to build a floating city they needed to cover the sky. A shame to those who will not be able to climb the plate will never get the sight of the sky." He stated then his eyes furrowed angrily. "It's like a flame put out by water."

Aerith and I looked at each other and as if understanding each other we didn't speak another word until we reached Aerith's home.

. . . .

Tsunayoshi Sawada

When we reached Aerith's house, we placed Cloud on the bed Aerith's mother directed us to. I sat across the bed while Zack, Aerith and her mother have gone down to the kitchen. Being bored out of my mind I stared at my Vongola ring and realized that I didn't have my flames. I lifted my hand in front of my face and concentrated to ignite my flames.

A small orange fire lit up from my ring to my relief but then it crossed my mind, 'How come I'm in my HDWM and my flames are not lit. My eyes only turns to the color of sunset when I'm in that mode but earlier when I tried to use it to fly to Zack's direction it didn't work. Could it be Minerva's work?'

My thoughts scattered when I heard Cloud moaned and started to move around. His eyes opened revealing his electric blue eyes.

"Z-Zack?" He muttered.

I leaned beside him. "Hey, you're awake."

He looked confused for a moment. "W-who are y-you?"

"Are you feeling okay? Should I call Zack?" I continued ignoring his sentence trying to avoid to be called like a fish again.

"Z-Zack? Whe-where is he?" His words slurred.

"He's downstairs, I'll call him you stay down okay?" I said.

He nodded and closed his eyes again.

I left the room to call the black haired soldier, climbing down the stairs I saw Elmyra, Aerith's mother, and Zack in a somewhat heated discussion.

I interrupted their discussion by loudly clearing my throat.

"Where's Aerith?" I asked when I got the two's attention.

"I told her to pick up some things for dinner, is there anything I could help you Mr. Tsuna?" Elmyra inquired.

I shook my head. "Please call me Tsuna, Mrs. Gainsborough. Well, I was hoping I could borrow Zack for a moment, Cloud just woke up and he's looking for Zack."

"Oh dear, just call me Elmyra."She said then she turned to Zack. "We're not done yet."

When Elmyra left our sight Zack looked at me. "You know, somehow I think you're a lucky charm."

I arched a brow at his comment. "Why is that?"

"You seemed to appear on times I needed the most."He shrugged and head upstairs.

I stared at his retreating back. 'I wish it was really like that, if it was really that easy I wouldn't be suffering now.'

Heeeeeyaaa! Well this is an update! Obviously.

Well, I'm lazy to proofread my work so maybe it has a lot of typos and grammatical error. So if anyone who is iiiintereeeeested in editing it please contact me in... 0xxxxxxxxx . . sorry I'm kidding, just PM me here at FANFICTION~

for the next chapter I'm working on it so I may or may not post it tomorrow since I have nothing to do for the rest of the semestral break.

Hope you enjoy the Chapter.

Ja ne,

Iiiiiioooooorrrrrriiiiii. Saito