CHAPTER 2
DISCLAIMER: KHR DON'T BELONG TO ME
WARNING: GRAMMAR MISTAKE, WRONG USE OF WORD, AND ETC
EDITED BY: SainSaavy [FROM WATTPAD]
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Finally, Nana found a place where she could raise Tsuna properly. For 6 years she raised Tsuna alone without a person to call her husband.
It was an unnaturally dark day when Nana heard someone slowly open and close the door as if they didn't want their presence to be known.
"Tsu-kun," Nana called sternly causing Tsuna to nearly shriek in fear, it was almost like Nana had appeared from thin air. He looked at his mother who narrowed her eyes at him in a stern manner.
"Where did you go? Look at the time. It almost 9 pm. Where did you go alone at this time?" Tsuna's mother demanded with a serious look on her face. Tsuna remained silent, afraid that his answer would cause his mother to be angrier at him.
"Answer me, Tsunayoshi!" demanded Nana. Tsuna flinched a bit when Nana called his full name, that just showed him that his mother was serious this time.
"I visited a friend, Mama," Tsuna said with his voice trembling a little.
"Where?"
"At the forest?" said Tsuna looked at his mother. Nana squint her eyes, glaring at her son. Feeling frustrated, she grasped and tugged on her son's wrist a little harshly as she dragged him up the stairs.
"How many times have I told to never go to that forest? What if something bad happened to you, huh?! Why can't you obey anything that I tell you, Tsuna?" said Nana, continued to drag her son and pushed him into his bedroom.
"You're grounded," Nana said through gritted teeth, slamming the door with a loud 'bang', the automatic lock on the door immediately clicking into place.
"I'm sorry, Mama! Please forgive me. I'll listen to you after this! Please Mama, forgive me," Tsuna pleaded while hitting the door until his palms were red. He sobbed and cried when he didn't hear his mother reply to his pleading.
~Meanwhile~
Nana slid down to the floor, her knees had gone weak with slight guilt when she heard Tsuna's plead. She steeled her heart so that she would not lose to Tsuna's insistent pleading. She really hates when she has to be strict with her little Tsuna.This is the only way that I can protect Tsu-kun. This is the only way available option for her.
"I don't know what to do anymore, Iemitsu," Nana whispered softly. She looked at the scar on her palm, the scar from the ritual marriage with Iemitsu.
~Time Skip~
"Darling, it's already morning. It's time to wake up and have breakfast," speaking in a soft tone, she knocks on the door gently. When she receives no answer from the resident inside, she unlocked the door and was horrified to see that the room was empty. She searched everywhere around the house, but her son was nowhere to be found.
Her mother's intuition keep telling her that Tsuna ran away from home (she didn't want to believe that her Tsu-kun actually ran away from her ). Fearing for Tsuna's safety, she quickly grabbed her plasma pistol and dashed outside while silently praying for Tsuna's safety.
~Time Skip~
"Mama is so mean. How could she lock me up just because I came to see you? Mama doesn't know how lonely I was because nobody wants to be my friend. Mama doesn't know how I feel when they insult me because I don't have a only knows how to scold me and ground me. Mama is selfish," said Tsuna, letting out his frustration. He feels someone tousled his head and looked up to see his friend's wide grin (yet something felt wrong with that grin, so very wrong).
"I'm your friend, right?" the green eyed man said, looking at Tsuna. Tsuna nodded (but there w as a voice in his head, telling him that this man was not a friend).
"So, no one knows you came here?" asked the man becoming slight overbearing. Tsuna nodded once again, causing the wide grin to be replaced with a smirk that sent chills vibrating through Tsuna's body.
"Good boy," said the man, looking at Tsuna intensely. Tsuna feeling uncomfortable, took small steps back, trying to put some distance between himself and his 'friend'. The man laughed loudly, he looked vaguely amused at Tsuna's reaction. Tsuna didn't understand, why did he feel scared of his friend?
"Why are you distancing yourself from me? I thought you said we were friends," the man taunted him with a mock hurt look, but he peered at Tsuna like he wants to devour the boy.
"I n-need to go h-home. Mama's probably w-worried about me," Tsuna stuttered as the voice said to run.
"It is still early. Your mom probably hasn't awakened yet," the bald adult said in a convincing tone, almost like he was trying to lull Tsunayoshi into a sense of security. Tsuna ignored him and started to move away and the man's expression became blank as he snapped his fingers. Tsuna shriek in fear when a few demons appeared in front of him.
"Don't even think that we'll let you go so easily, Tsunayoshi-kun," his fri-, no, his enemy's lower body started to sluggishly transform into something that Tsuna wouldn't classify as human.
"You're a demon," Tsuna yelped in surprise. Now, he really regretted that he didn't listen to his mother's words.
"So are you," the man sneered, he looked at Tsuna's surprise expression, he immediately knew that the child didn't know beforehand.
"You didn't know? Perhaps your mom never wanted to tell you. Well, let me fill you in. Even in human form, your demonic power radiates from you, calling out to us. But don't worry~!" The demon paused for moment, letting the tension rise.
"We'll only use it to demolish the Demon Village and get revenge on the king that exiled us." The demon threw back his head and cackled, the sound bounced around the clearing. It was almost as if he wasn't talking about slaughtering a village, to Tsunayoshi that was wrong -demon village or not-.
"No! I'm not a demon! Mama said I'm human and that is what I believe," Tsuna protested with confidence coloring his tone.
"We didn't need your agreement, all we need is to gain your power and that is by eating you," the demon started taking steps forward, which caused Tsuna to retreat backwards almost as fast as the demon came closer. When they were close enough, the demon's right hand morphed into large blade-like claw, reminiscent of a prey mantis.
"Your end is here," said the demon as he raised his hand up, ready to slash at Tsuna, to feel his limb cut through the young boy's midsection.
~Meanwhile~
Nana rushed through the trees of the forest, -the only forest within miles-, frantically searching for her baby boy, the only one she had. When she arrived at the destination her motherly instincts told her baby could be found in, her heart froze and her stomach plummeted. Nana was just a few meters from the demon group, her little Tsu-kun was in front of the one with the most human characteristic, his face frozen in fear.
Nana didn't think, she just moved.
The mother tackled her child to the ground, in the process getting a long, deep cut in her back. Nana, regardless of the searing pain in her back, quickly fired her treasured electric plasma at the leader which instantly disintegrated him. Seeing the other demons were shocked at their leader's death as an opportunity, Nana lifted Tsuna into her arms and running. When they were far enough, Nana collapsed near a partially hollowed tree. She moved her only child into the hole of a weeping willow, concealing him with leaves.
"Mama, you're bleeding!" Tsuna cried out as he saw his mother's blood seeping out, staining her light green t-shirt with her life fluid.
"I'll be fine, darling. My poor baby, they're going to continue coming after you. Take this… and don't be afraid of protecting yourself." a tearful Nana said as she
handed her gun filled with precious memories to her son. She wiped her son's tears before smiling painfully at him to reassure him.
"What about you, Mama? Why don't you come with me?" asked Tsuna. His tears are still running down his cheeks. Why didn't I listen to Mama?!
"I'm going be a bait so that you can escape,"
"No! I don't want to go alone. You have to stay with me," said Tsuna, pulling his body from the hiding place and clinging to his mother.
"You're not gonna be alone, Tsu-kun. I will always be with you, even if you can't see me. Remember these words, as you go through the hardships in life. Have
courage and be kind. Don't lose sight of your kind heart because you're a human, not a demon," said Nana. She kissed her son's cheek, forehead and nose before standing up and running somewhere into the forest. Her blood was the bait.
~Time Skip~
Tsuna clutched the pistol to his tightly curled body. Tsuna kept peering through the leaves that had been placed back on him, and looking for danger. After about an hour after his mother had left, he moved out from his hiding place. Just when he started to run, his heart screamed to look for his mother (yet this wasn't the voice in his head). He knew his mother was in danger, but unlike his heart, the voice kept telling him to get away.
Fearing for his mother's safety, he ignored the voice, and moved into the direction his mother had ran in. Just when he reached an unknown clearing (it looked so much more ominous than the one he had been in previously). His eyes landed on something a little farther away, his mother… she was lying motionlessly on the forest ground. Tsuna couldn't tear his eyes away, her mother's blood was dripping from the claws of one of the demons.
Nana's -not hers anymore- pistol fell to the ground as his shock made his tight hold loosen. The dull thud when the pistol hit the ground alerted the demons of the boy's presence. The demons were alerted of their target's location, and pounced with their demonic abilities about to fling out with the most powerful attack in their arsenal.
-Time seemed to pause a minute-
Tsunayoshi's heart seemed to slow down as he processed what the limp form on the floor meant. BA-THUMP.
His throat dried and his tongue was stuck to the roof of his mouth. BA-THUMP.
Tsuna's stomach churned and his eyes became unfocused. BA-THUMP.
The fluffy child fell to his knees as he lost the strength to stand.
I want everything to bUrN tO tHe GrOuNd.
He screamed as the weight of the world crashed down onto his young shoulders. Tsuna's body glowed burnt orange with rage seeming to fuel the brightness. The world could rot -it could burn- for all he cared. That mentality was all the permission his own power needed. Orange flames gushed from his form and devoured everything in it's path. It obliterated the demons that took the most important person in his life from him. It burned the forest that was caging him in. It scorched the earth the made it impossible to fly away from all his worries. But most importantly… it destroyed everything that had led to the tears spilling from his -now glowing orange- eyes. In the end, it only left his mother and himself.
Tsuna slowly pushed his legs to get up, to go to his mother's side before falling to his dirty knees. He buried his face on his mother's bosom searching for what he knew he wouldn't hear ever again. When he didn't hear any soft thumping of his mother's heart familiar heartbeat, he cried for the life of his precious mother he'd never see smile, or hear her voice. He'd never hear her say 'Welcome back Tsu-kun'. He'd never have his mother ever again.
He regretted the moment he ran away from home. Where would he go now? He has nobody. He was alone, nobody was there for him, nobody wanted him.
"You're not going to be alone, Tsu-kun. I will always be with you, even if you can't see me. Don't lose sight of your kind heart because you're a human, not a
demon."
"You have to run away from here! Run as fast as you can, my dear,"
Tsuna remembered his mother's last words. Using those words as motivation, he slowly walked away from his mother's body and started his long
journey.
~Time Skip~
The king abruptly wakes up from his dream. What a weird dream he had. He quickly summoned his soldiers to his side.
"Why are you calling the soldiers, Father?" Iemitsu asked to his father, the king.
"The child in the prediction has already been born, Iemitsu. I had a dream that he used his power but it's not at full power yet. How could I have been so careless?! I should have destroyed him from the day he was born, how did I not notice?" grumbled the king, shocking Iemitsu in return. He just hoped that Nana and his son were safe wherever they were.
=TO BE CONTINUED=