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Summary: Being Death's companion meant a lot of things. One of is being trapped in a the vicious cycle of rebirths. MoD Harry. Sky!Harry
Beta'd by Artemis-no-Subaku
Conquest of the Sky
- Chapter 2 -
The Lost Sky
1
Five months quickly blurred by, and it was during this time that Akira found out more than he should, but he did not care. It was all for the sake of protecting Tsuna and after what he found out, he really meant this.
The secret that Tsuna's father is hell bent on hiding from his family was told to him by Tsuna's kidnappers after he was done torturing them with magical curses. They had given up the information he needed very quickly and did not even last two minutes under his spells. This pleased Akira, as it showed how strong his spells had become after the last few centuries, but now he could need them more than anything if he wanted to protect Tsuna and his own family from the chaos that going to descend on Namimori. Even though it might not happen soon, Akira knew that it would happen some time in the future, he just knew it.
And did he find out? That Tsuna's father did not work in constructing buildings as his mother told him, but was apart of the bloodiest and most strongest mafia family in the world called Vongola.
This was also the reason why Tsuna's life will always be in danger of being assassinated and it was all because of him being related to that no good father of his who was putting his family in danger by keeping them in the dark about his job. Akira guess that he was the type of man that put his famiglia before his actual family because of the way he would be working all the time and rarely visits home.
Plus for the last month, Akira dealt with two more kidnap attempt and one assassination attempt, which were caused by hits being placed on Tsuna by other mafia families. It seemed like they knew of his existence, but some families were too scared to strike as to have the wrath of the Young Lion (Tsuna's father's nickname) brought upon them, while other families were looking for way to destroy Vongola from the inside starting with their family. Anyway, Tsuna was going to somehow get involved and Akira did not like this one bit.
So Akira spent most of his days training his body and mind for battles by practicing katas in his local Dojo. In one of his past lives, Akira had learnt to be a martial arts master by training day and night to perfect his different forms of fighting. This helped him when it came to relearning martial arts in his new body, but it was not easy. He had finished high school by taking the exams early with the massive amounts of knowledge he already had, which caused him to have a lot of free time as he chose not to go to university.
His parents were ultimately disappointed that he did not want to further his education, but they helped him find a job instead at a sushi bar called TakeSushi, which was run by a close friend of theirs. His first day on the job there was two months ago and his task was to deliver sushi to people, which was done with ease, as Akira never got lost because of his magic. The owner of the bar was also very cheerful and fair when it came to his pay. His name was Yamamoto Tsuyoshi and he had a son the same age as Tsuna. This made Akira wonder if Tsuna was friends with Takeshi (which was the name of Yamamoto-san's son), as they would made a good group of friends.
Focusing his mind on the present, Akira was currently sat in his room trying to concentrate on anything other than the thing that was hidden by him under his bed. After everything he learnt about Tsuna's father just made him remember what he really wanted to forget. So he tried meditating, clearing his mind of any negative thoughts, but this did not work. The object that he wanted to avoid like the plague kept on reappearing in his mind, as if it wanted him to know that it would always be there, waiting for him.
Unable to avoid the thing no longer, Akira got up from his seat at the window and walked over to his bed. Then he bent down on to the floor to grab the thing that was bothering him so much from under it. He had place a notice-me-not charm on this object so that his mother or brother would not notice it when they were cleaning the room, and that the object would be safe and protected.
Pulling out the object, Akira started harshly at the little wooden box with intricate designs in his hands which was a beautiful orange in colour that he could not help but admire, but at the same time, he had always hated what was in the box because of what it would make him see when he was wearing it.
With hands trembling with anticipation, he open the box slowly till it revealed a small orange pacifier connected to a piece of string, which made it look like the necklaces that children would wear to make sure that their pacifiers were near.
Akira carefully picked up the pacifier.
It's now or never.
Akira had to know the what was coming. He had to know the future now that meant he would take on his role as the sky with his will and determination because he had a dreadful feeling that horrible was going to happen. He has to protect his loved ones and to know the future was the only way.
Akira put the string around his neck and with a sudden flash of light from the pacifier that almost blinded him, colour drained from the world, filling it with different shades of grey. And the last thing Akira felt as his world turned dark was only the cold.
2
The week passed, and Akira was bedridden in hospital. He was told by the doctors that his father found him on the floor of his bedroom unable to wake up. This scared his father, causing him to bust into the hospital doors with Akira in his arms and his mother pleading for his life to be saved, as they could barely feel his pulse. The doctors said that it that took a while for his parents to calm down as they were using the defibrillator to get his heart back into motion.
They also said that his heart stopped for a ten minutes and were about to tell his parents the bad news when his heart suddenly started beating again. They called it a miracle that he was still alive, but Akira knew it was no miracle. It was because Death won't let him die just yet, as he had things to complete in this world.
In addition, Akira knew why he had such a bad reaction to the pacifier. It was because he had not worn it for a long time like he was meant to, which caused serious the side effects such as low pulse rate and even death. The strange man who had given the pacifier to him as a child had warned him of what would happen if he did not wear it, but Akira did not listen. Now he would.
Looking down, Akira noticed that the pacifier was still around his neck, which made him wonder how no one else noticed it because him dying should have canceled the notice-me-not charm. Curious, Akira tried to pull the pacifier off him, but it would not budge and glowed angrily as if it did not want to move off his neck. He sighed.
It was stuck with him now, and there was nothing Akira could do about it. Akira was pulling himself up into a sitting position on his hospital bed when his siblings ran through the door and heard his father's voice shouting after them.
"Hey! No running!"
This just made his sibling giggle, as they surrounded his bed.
"Hey Akira," exclaimed Daiki, "when are you coming back home? You've been in the hospital for a week now and you look perfectly fine."
"Yeah," said Haruka and Hideki simultaneously as they usually do. "You look fine."
But before he could reply, his father, who was standing at the door with his mother, said in a relieved tone, "Well, he's coming home today."
"Really?" Izumi burst out with excitement.
His mother nodded. "We just spoke to the doctor and he said that there is nothing wrong with him."
"But they don't know what cause his heart to stop, so we have to be careful with Akira, alright guys?"
"Yes Dad," all his sibling replied.
"Akira," his father called out, breaking him out of his thoughts, "are you ok?"
His father had a caring expression on his worn out face, as it looked like he had been having sleepless nights from the evidence of having bags under his green eyes. He must of been worried.
This made Akira feel bad for causing his father and mother so much trouble. Even though he made a promise to himself that he would not. So Akira give his father his brightest smile.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
His father's shoulders sagged in relief. "Good."
Akira was lucky to be born in a loving family in this world. It filled his heart with joy just to know that there were people who cared for him. In his past worlds he had not been so lucky and went through hardships that no child should ever go through, but those scars were buried in his heart and were healing bit by bit.
It was all a matter of time before that came crashing down, as he remembered his visions that plagued his mind.
3
It was the next day when Akira's parents decided that going out for a walk around town be good for him. Akira agreed, but went over to Tsuna's house to see if he would join him and his siblings, Haruka and Hideki, on the walk, as it was a saturday.
And what he found was Tsuna opening the door again, not his mother. Does the woman ever learn? Akira thought seething in anger, but he did not let it show on his face.
"Tsuna, do you want to come for a walk with us?" Akira asked softly.
Tsuna's eyes brightened and he nodded while quickly putting on his shoes. He then walked out of the door and closed it.
Akira blinked. "Tsuna," he said tentatively, "don't you need to ask your mother for permission?"
Tsuna stared at him with confusion. "Why?"
"Maybe because she will be worried about you if she can't find you." Akira replied, but he highly doubted what he said, but he just wanted to confirm how his mother felt about him.
Tsuna looked away upset. "Mummy does not care about me, so she won't worry."
So I was right. This annoyed Akira. He knew that in the world there were not many great mothers and he knew that from experience, as he had his share of horrible mothers in his other past lives. One mother that he had use to starved him, neglecting him as she hated his father. So he knew what it was like to be deprived of his mother's love and the effects it had. Akira clasped Tsuna's hand in comfort, making him look up at him.
"Don't be upset over people who don't deserve your emotions, Tsuna. We will be the ones who will worry about you, right guys?"
He turned to the twins who smile happily at Tsuna.
"We can be your family," announced Haruka with a gleeful expression, excited to get a new family member.
Hideki nodded. "So don't be sad, Nii-chan."
Tsuna stared at them wide eyed.
"Let's go," Akira said gently with a small smile on his face.
He knew that he could count on his siblings to accept Tsuna. It was their accepting nature that he loved about his family. Soon they all began their walk to the park.
4
The park was an interesting affair to say the least and it all started as Akira, the twins and Tsuna strolled through the front gate of the park. There they saw twelve year old boy beating the living crap out of five full grown men that surrounded him and from what Akira was seeing, the men were losing. This shocked him, as the men looked three times the kid's age.
Soon more that half of the men were out cold on the ground. The other two men still standing tried to catch their breaths, but the little kid did not allow them to. Instead he attacked them with metal tonfas in hand and the way the kid fought was harsh, brutal and quick, but without the kid noticing, one of the out cold men staggered up and pulled out a dagger. Seeing the man aim his dagger towards the kid, Akira gave a little flick of his wrist causing the man's hand to unnatural twist, making him drop the weapon and cry out in pain. This caught the kid's attention and he knocked the man out.
After the kid was done dealing with the men, he fell on to his knees. Akira started to walk towards the kid to see if he was alright, but something grabbed the back of his shirt. It was Hideki. He looked scared, they all did.
"Nii-chan, what are you doing?"
Akira smiled reassuringly at the twins and Tsuna who were hiding behind him.
"Stay here, OK. I'm just going to help the kid. He looks like he's in a bit of trouble."
The twins gave a silent OK, but Tsuna still looked worried.
"Don't worry Tsuna. Your Nii-san can take care of himself."
Akira then began treading carefully over to the fallen kid. The kid noticed him coming and tried to pull himself up, but he failed to. He was out of energy, so he sent glares Akira's way as if daring him to come closer, but Akira stopped a feet away from him with his hands up to illustrate to the kid that he was not going to harm him.
"Are you OK?" Akira asked the black haired kid with steel grey eyes.
The kid said and did nothing except staring at him with weary eyes, as if expecting him to suddenly attack. Moving closer to the kid and walking over the knocked out men, Akira kept his hands up and when he finally reached him, he bent down on to his knees so he was kind of the same height as him.
"Are you hurt?" Akira questioned, but he already knew the answer from what he could see.
The boy had been hit on the right side of his face causing it to swell and turn purple. His arms were filled with bruises like he had been beaten multiple times and there was a cut on the his forehead. This made Akira wince.
"I can help you," he said gently, as if he was treading on thin ice.
And as Akira moved his hand to help the boy, he collapsed and Akira grabbed him before he collided with the floor. He looked exhausted Akira noticed.
Akira picked him up and walked over to a bench to his left. Then placed the boy down so he was resting on it and started to heal him with his magic. Akira learnt strong magic spells over the last few hundred years which helped him a lot in a battle and when saving other people's lives. Now he was using it to help this unknown kid as it seems like he needed it, and after he was done, he called Tsuna and the twins over.
"Who is he?" asked Haruka, curiosity filling her eye instead of fear.
"I don't know, but we have to find out." Akira replied.
"I-I know him," Tsuna spoke up. "His name is Hibari-kun, but I've only seen him at school."
Akira turned to face him. "The Hibari's? Don't they live in the East of Namimori?"
"Umm, I don't know. Sorry."
"It's OK. At least we now know who he is."
Akira remembered what his parents said about the Hibari's; that they practically ran the town. This was because of the strong political power they had, even though they just ran the police force here in Namimori. They were also a prestigious family that was well respected for being the protectors of the town, but this made him wonder why a son of the Hibari family would be doing trying to fight older men.
Placing Hibari-kun on his back to hold him easier, Akira said, "Let's take him home."
5
The sun was setting by the time Akira and the kids found the Hibari household, but it was protected by huge wooden gates, so they could not see the actual house. Though the estate looked very large with walls that went on for miles.
Akira rang the doorbell that he spotted on side of the gate then waited. Hibari-kun was still asleep on his back, his head resting on Akira's left shoulder while falling in and out of consciousness for the last two hours. That's how long it took the kids and Akira to find his house, as they had to walk from the South of Namimori to the East making the kids tired and out of breath. Akira was the opposite of the kids as he was older and because of his training that made his stamina last longer.
"Hello?" Said a squeaky, childlike voice on the receiver attached to the electronic doorbell.
"Hello, my name is Fujikawa Akira," he introduced himself, "and I'm here with my siblings, but I also have Hibari-kun with me. I found him fighting in the park before he collapsed from exhaustion."
"You all must be tired from coming here all the way from the park," said the voice kindly. "Please come in. The gate is open."
"Thank you."
With the help of Tsuna and the twins, Akira used his hand to open one part of the gate while the other was holding Hibari-kun securely on his back, but as they walked through one thing that he did not notice was orange glow of his pacifier. Instead his attention was on the beautiful traditional Japanese styled house that lay in front of him and it was huge. Moving forward towards the front door, Akira found it to be open.
"Hello?" Akira called out.
He heard no reply, although he had a strange feeling that he was being watched and from past experience, Akira knew that his intuition was always right. But why would someone be watching him and not show themselves? It made no sense. That's when he noticed the glow of his pacifier and realised what it meant.
His eyes narrowed in suspicion, but he stepped through the door and took off his shoes, as it was a polite thing to do. He did not want to dirty this lovely house. The other followed in his footsteps.
There was no one to greet them at the door though Akira felt two presences in the house, but he could not pinpoint where, but with the help of his pacifier he will find these people.
Akira then started to wander around the house silently while checking his pacifier for where the strongest glow was. The kids were strolling behind him quietly as if they sensed something was wrong, too. He thought about leaving the kids outside, but thought against the idea, as having them close to him made it easier to protect them from what was watching them.
After a few minutes of walking Akira was now standing before a door that most likely lead to the garden as he could feel the air currents room behind it. His was also pacifier was glowing the brightest he had ever seen it, which made him guess that the person was standing in the garden.
Opening the door, what he saw made him blink in shock. Before him was a small - what looked like to be - a two year old child with a glowing red pacifier around his neck, who was staring intently at him as if examining the orange pacifier around his own neck. This made Akira stare back with the same intensity causing silence to fill the air, as none of them said a word.
Akira decided to shatter it.
"Hello," he said, cutting through the silence and making the kid snap out his thoughts. "Where you the one who let us in?"
"Yes," he replied in his childlike voice, "I am."
"So is there a place I can place your brother down?"
"My brother?" He questioned, then his eye glanced at Hibari-kun resting on his back. "Oh yes. Please follow me."
The toddler lead them to a room with a futon prepared on the floor, and with care, Akira place Hibari-kun beneath the covers. He also placed his metal tonfas next to him.
"Thank you for bring him," the kid said with genuine kindness into his tone.
"You're welcome."
"Come, you all must be exhausted. Have some drinks before you go."
Akira looked at Tsuna and the twins who brightened up at the mention of drinks and looked at him with pleading eyes.
"I guess we'll stay for drinks."
This caused the toddler to move them into the living room to sit down while he went to get the drinks. This was a very strange experience indeed. A two year old child serving them drinks was very weird in his books, but Akira knew he was not an ordinary child because of the pacifier he had and the aura he was admitting. Plus Akira still felt eyes watching him from somewhere. He remembered feeling the presence of two people, but he had only met one.
Having enough of this constant feeling, Akira coaxed out magic from his core and seep it into his surrounding. There, he felt it. The person was to the right of him, hiding behind the door, but for what reason he did not know. Soon the toddler came back with a large tray of drinks.
Akira, the twins and Tsuna all took their drinks, but before they drank them Akira did a quick spell over them to check if there was any dangerous substances in them and there was not.
"Can you tell me once again the situation you found Kyoya in?" Asked the chibi.
Akira told him and the kid was listen to his every word. So was the person outside the door.
"-that's when I brought your brother there." He finished.
The kid mulled over his words before say, "You got something wrong."
"Huh?" Was his answer.
"Kyoya is not my brother. He's my nephew."
Akira blink in shock once again.
"And one more thing, if he was fighting should he not be injured?"
Akira's eyes narrowed at the tone. He does not believe me.
"That's because Nii-chan healed him, right Haru?" Hideki broke in.
"Right!" She exclaimed, and Tsuna nodded.
The chibi stared at the kids with curiosity. "Did he now?"
"Yeah. Nii-chan put his hand on Hibari-kun's bruises and woosh it was gone." Explained Haruka.
This made the chibi smile. "Thank you for healing him."
"It's OK," Akira said politely, "but can you tell the person outside the door to either come in or stop listening to our conversation."
The smile dropped from the chibi's face and the person outside froze.
"Well, it looks like I have been found out," said a voice from behind the door.
The door opened to reveal a man who looked an older version of Hibari-kun and he went to sit down next to the chibi. The man wore a sheepish expression on his face as he faced Akira.
"I'm Kyoya's father, Hibari Kiyoshi, and one thing my brother here forgot to do was introduce himself."
The chibi looked like he realised his mistake and smiled in embarrassment. "It seems like I did. My name is Fon. It's a pleasure to meet you."
Akira hummed in acknowledgment.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, too."
"Now that we have gotten passed the formalities it's best if you and my brother talk alone, as..." Hibari-san glanced at the kids in the room. "Well, it's best that you just talk."
"Sorry, but no thank you. It's best that we leave now. It's getting late. Our parents would be worried."
Hibari-san glanced at the watch on his wrist and nodded. "You're right. Maybe we should carry on this conversation another time."
Not likely.
"Sure," Akira replied then turned towards the kids. "Say thank you for the drinks."
"Thank you," they said in turn.
Fon smiled again. "You are welcome."
Getting up, Akira and the kids made their way out of the house and pass the gates. There the glow of the pacifier did not die out, but still glowed brightly even though the journey home.
6
For the past few days Akira felt a constant presence following him around. At first it was this little tickle at the back of his mind that alerted him of being watched, then it was his pacifier glowing continuously wherever he went. It had gotten to the point that he had felt this feeling even at home, which just annoyed Akira. This just made him want to curse the toddler following him. Yes, he knew who it was. It was obvious since their first meeting, but that did not help the situation. So now it was time to deal with the problem.
Akira was presently walking towards the forest he loved very dearly though the park in the middle of the day. This was his last resort. His only option. He must speak to the toddler face to face and get some answers. And as he reached the lake, he looked down at his pacifier which was still glowing then turned to face the forest.
"Come out Fon. I know you want to talk to me." Akira called out.
There was a few moments of silence as if the toddler was hesitant to show himself, but soon a little figure jumped out of the trees and landed right in front of him.
"Is there something you want?" Akira asked annoyed at the toddler. "Because there must be a reason that you keep following me around."
Truth is Akira already knew the reason, but he wanted to hear it from the small kid to make sure.
The toddler stared at him for a while, then finally spoke up. "Do you know how long I've spent looking for you?" His voice sounded pained making Akira blink at the tone. "Do you know how scared I was when I felt you dying? Well, do you?"
"Look, I'm sorry for the trouble tha-"
"Trouble is not even the word for it." Fon retorted then sighed. "You have caused so many pain without even knowing it and lived in ignorance and bliss while doing it."
Akira felt his annoyance grow.
"Hey, listen," he said harshly, catching Fon's attention, "we both never wanted this curse on us, so let's not pretend that we care for each other when we don't even know each other. I'm guessing that I'm just a brat in your eyes who's caused you trouble, but don't you think I have other things occupying my mind like how to tell my family that I'll die before any of them because of this curse. You think that I have lived in bliss, you're wrong. I know how harsh the world really is." His voice started to shake. "You have been looking for me. Well, I've been waiting for you to turn up. I've been waiting even since that day. The day when I was kid..."
Dark memories assaulted his mind.
Blood... Screams... Cries of pain…
"Hey!"
Screams... Blood... Kill them... Kill them all…
"Snap out of it!"
Can't breathe... Blood... Cries... Can't breathe…
"Akira!"
Akira took a sharp breath when he felt himself hit with the floor. A small hand grabbed him.
"Breathe!"
Akira listened to the voice and started to breathe deeply, filling his lungs with as much air as he could and began to choke. Black spots covered his sight and soon his world turned dark, but with his last few breaths he tried to take control. Tried to fight back, and he did. He shortly stopped choking and colour filled his world. When his breathing rate was normal Akira noticed he was on his back facing the sky, but a small worried face blocked his view.
"Akira, are you okay!?" Fon asked with panic in his voice.
"Yeah... I'm fine," Akira respond tiredly. "Just an attack."
He tried to pull himself up, but was too worn out. Instead he just lay there on the floor for a few minutes in silence. He saw Fon sit down next to him.
"When did the attacks start?" Fon questioned in a soft tone.
"I can't remember... Maybe a few years ago."
That was the truth. He could not remember when his attacks started.
"How did they start?"
Akira gazed at Fon. "You're awfully curious, aren't you?"
Fon said nothing obviously expecting an answer.
"Fine," Akira said, "I'll tell you. I was kidnapped as child."
Fon opened his mouth to ask another question, but Akira beat him to the punch.
"And no, I can't remember much of what happened. All I know was that I was found in Italy covered with blood, but it was not my own. There are gaps in my memories and every time I try and remember I have an attack."
"I'm sorry," Fon suddenly apologised. "You said that you were waiting for us. The arcobaleno and I, but we were too late."
"You're right. I had to save myself, but I can't even remember how I did it."
"Well, I'm here now and -"
"No," Akira remarked. "I don't need you now. Any of you. I found my own way out without your help and I can carry on living like that."
Akira pulled himself up ignoring the hurtful expression on Fon's face and began to walk away.
"Wait!" Fon called out from behind him.
Akira did not listen, but was then forced to when Fon appeared in his path.
"Let me help you."
Akira raised an eyebrow. "How would you 'help' me?"
"I don't know, but please let me. You're my sky, so please."
Akira stared into Fon's pleading eyes. Am I being too harsh?
Akira sighed. "Fine. Meet me at here at 12 in the night."
Can he really help?
AN: So secrets have been revealed. What do you guys think of them?
