Amethystgirl1943: I have no excuses for the lateness of this story. Haha…at least I'm updating right? I am so sorry for the lateness of this chapter, I originally sent it to my original beta, but she couldn't do it because of college; so I sent it to a great friend of mine. Thank you all for supporting this story and reading it! Please review!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NO OWN KHR!
Beta'd by: Sir March Hare
" " speaking of voice memories
' ' thoughts or Tsuna speaking in dreamscape
This is AU
"Tsuna, what are you holding?" Giotto slowly asked. He walked closer to Tsuna.
"It's nothing." Tsuna swiftly said. He backed away from everyone else by two steps.
"Tsuna, we need to know what you are holding, in case something is wrong with it," Natsu continued.
"It's not rigged, nothing's wrong with it," Tsuna raised his voice.
"Dame-Tsuna, you don't understand the troubles this can bring you," Reborn stated," We just want to know where you got the ring from," He said coolly. He walked closer to Tsuna, who tried to back-up, but his back was against the tree.
"Why do you all care now? You guys had the chance to care for me and gain my trust, but you lost that moment," Tsuna coldy stated.
"Tsuna, you know that's all in the past right?" Natsu said.
"Just in the past, in the past….." Tsuna's voice faded. His eyes turned blank,'Out of all times, why now?' His body fell to the ground and he heard distant voices shouting.
*Dreamscape*
"Do you know what I love about the sky?" He asked. Tsuna felt his head shake.
"I love it, because it accepts everyone and never leaves anyone behind," He said.
"Remember to care for the ones you love and don't let them go," He said. The background around them started to swirl and everything turned black.
Tsuna woke up with a gasp. He looked at his surroundings. He was in his room.
'How did I get to my room?' Tsuna wondered. He got out of his bed, his legs gave out on him and he started to cough again, 'Medicine, where is my bag,' the door swung open. He heard footsteps.
"TSUNA! ARE YOU OKAY!" Giotto asked, he checked Tsuna's pulse.
"M-M-Medicine, bag" Tsuna drifted off.
"GET HIS MEDICINE IN HIS BAG!" He heard someone shouting. There was rustling and running of the stairs.
"Tsuna, you're gonna have to open your mouth for me," A gentle voice said. He felt his mouth open and a familiar taste ran through his tongue, the taste disappear right as it came. The water was somewhat lukewarm. He opened his eyes. His vision was slightly blurry.
"Why-" Tsuna was cut off.
"Look, Tsuna, we all know that we were jerks to you in the past, but let's just forget all about it, okay?" Giotto said. He was smiling, but in his eyes, he wanted Tsuna to forget everything horrible they did to him.
"Yeah, and someone wants to apologize to you, right?" G said. He yanked Gokudera's collar," Now what do you say brat?" He let Gokudera down.
"Sorry for calling you useless and all that," Gokudera said. Tsuna looked at him.
'Why are they being nice now? Did I do something?' Tsuna was pondering.
"If you're gonna say something say it now," Gokudera snapped. He wasn't use to have this awkward silence.
"Gokudera, calm down," Giotto chided.
"You're forgiven," Gokudera looked at Tsuna, he gave him a disbelief look," It's not the like the comment bugged me or anything, I'm actually used to being called 'useless' or 'pathetic', I don't mind," Tsuna finished.
"Then, why do you have medicine? Are you doing drugs?" Yamamoto questioned.
"Oh, these are cough medicine I get from the hospital, I basically need it," Tsuna said. He was playing with his hem of his shirt.
"Okay, just a few questions," Giotto started," When did you find out you need medicine, why do you need it, and how did you get it?" He finished. He looked at Tsuna.
"Well, around the time of elementary school, we were given the check-up, the doctors found that there was something wrong with my blood, and so they took a blood sample," he took a breath," It came out positive that something was wrong in my body, they took me to the hospital and tried to figure out what was going to kill me in the future," he looked at his hands," They couldn't find out, so they gave me the medicine I have now, to stop whatever is trying to kill me from spreading any further, it helped, but I had started to cough up blood," he looked at them," The doctors told me I wasn't going to live long, unless I get the right treatment to find out about this disease I have," he chuckled," When they called Mom and Dad for permission over the phone, they just brushed it off saying it was a cold, the doctor said it could be life-threatening," a few tears ran down his face," they just brushed it off saying I would be fine and they," Tsuna stopped to stop the sobbing.
"They what, Tsuna?" Giotto gently asked.
"T-T-They s-said, t-they would let me die, if it got any worse," Tsuna burst into sobs. He put his face into his knees.
"WHAT!" Natsu and Giotto shouted. G, Asari, Yamamoto, and Gokudera were in shock.
"Wait, how come neither of us weren't told about you going to the hospital," Natsu asked. He was pretty sure that their parents would tell them life-threatening problems that involved their siblings.
"Mom didn't want me to become a burden to the both of you, she told me I couldn't tell you guys anything, to keep it a secret," Tsuna muttered. His eyes were turning blank again. The melody came up again.
"TSUNA! OI! TSUNA WAKE UP!" That was the last thing he heard.
*Memory Lane*
"Hey Tsuna, what's your favorite color?" He asked.
"Orange! Why?" Past Tsuna replied.
"No reason, but orange is a beautiful color isn't it?" He said.
"Yeah, I feel like the color is an accepting color, like it won't leave anyone behind," Past Tsuna said, "I probably sound stupid saying that, right?" He rubbed the back of his head.
"Really? I don't think you sound stupid, in fact I think that's the first time I've heard that, I've never really thought of it like that," He said," It is an accepting color," He finally said. 'STOP! I want to know who you are!' Current Tsuna yelled. He immediately clutched his head. The melody got louder and louder.
*Reality*
"Where am I?" Tsuna woke up with a pounding in his head, he was in his bed again.
"Tsuna! You're awake, are you okay, hurt?" Giotto asked frantically.
"What happened?" Tsuna questioned, he looked at his room, Giotto was there so was Natsu, but G, Asari, Yamamoto, and Gokudera left.
"You passed out, after telling us what happened, not that I cared or anything," Natsu said, his Tsundera coming out again.
"I'm-" Tsuna was interrupted.
"Tsuna! Is it true you can ignite flames?" Iemitsu came barging into Tsuna's room
"Flames? What are those?" Tsuna asked.
"Should we tell him?" Giotto asked Iemitsu.
"If Tsuna wields flames, then he should know what flames are," Iemitsu said.
"Okay, Tsuna remember that orange color that came out of your ring?" Giotto slowly said, after he got a nod from Tsuna, he continued," Those flames are called dying will flames, there are eight different colors," Tsuna nodded as a gesture to continue," We'll start with the Black stands for darkness, purple stands for cloud, indigo stands for mist, yellow stands for sun, green stands for lightning, blue stands for rain, red stands for storm, and orange stands for the sky, got that?" Giotto said.
"Wait, all these colors are all part of the rainbow except for black right?" Tsuna asked.
"You catch on quickly," Reborn said," Do you know how to say rainbow in Italian?" Tsuna shook his head," It's Arcobaleno," Tsuna looked at him," The group arcobaleno protects the tri-ni-sette, the set contain the Vongola rings, the Arcobalen pacifiers, and the Millifiore have the Mare rings," Reborn said, he narrowed his eyes down," I don't know where you gotten your ring, but I know one things for sure, you've messed up the balance," Giotto, Natsu, and Iemitsu eyes widened.
"Balance? I messed it up? How?" Tsuna asked.
"You have that ring, that no one knows about, it has all eight elements, and it's an unknown collection," Reborn stated, he looked at Iemitsu," Let's talk for a moment Iemitsu," Both Reborn and Iemitsu left the room.
"Do you guys know what the balance is?" Tsuna asked his older brothers.
"Tsuna, we'll just let Reborn explain it to you," Natsu said, he folded his arms and waited for Reborn and their dad. They both came in, their faces were slightly gloomy.
"Tsuna, I just want you to know that I love you and I never meant to hurt you," Iemitsu said.
"Dad, why are you saying that?" Tsuna said, he was scared for what was to come next.
"I really don't want this to happen, but Tsuna, we have to kill you for the balance to not be misplaced," Iemitsu said.
"Kill me?" Tsuna trailed off, the though took a while to sink in," You want to kill one of your flesh and blood?" Tsuna finally said.
"Well, it doesn't really matter if we lose you; we actually only need Giotto and Natsu, they can easily replace you," Iemitsu said, his eyes immediately widened at what he had said.
"R-Replace?" Tsuna quietly said," You're willing to kill one of your sons and be okay with it," He edge to the door," Am I just something you can replace? Why was I even born if you were going to kill me off in the first place?!" Tsuna shouted, he ran out the door. He saw Giotto's guardians, Natsu's guardians, the Arcobaleno, some of Iemitu's colleagues and Nono and his guardians outside.
"Tsuna, you don't understand-," Nono started to say, but was cut off by Tsuna.
"No, I understand perfectly fine, I was just something you could use as a stress reliever, and after you were done with me, you'd just kill me off," Tsuna looked at them and gave them a painful smile," It's alright, I knew I was going to die young, but I didn't know I would die so soon," With that Tsuna ran away.
"What did he mean by 'He knew he was going to die young'?" Daemon asked.
"DON'T LET TSUNA OUT OF YOUR SIGHT!" Iemitsu, Giotto, and Natsu shouted. All three of them ran past the door and outside. They decided to split up, it would cover ground faster. If they found Tsuna, they would use the walky-talky's, Reborn kindly supplied them with.
*Natsu's POV*
I didn't want my twin little brother to die, but we had to keep the world in balance. If only I knew that he was going to die around this age or younger, I would've been kinder to him and try to cherish memories with him. All the memories I have that has Tsuna in it, isn't a kind memory. It would either be Tsuna begging the bullies to stop and crying out for help from us, or it would be us ignoring him and bullying him around.
"Tsuna, wherever you are, you better be safe you idiot," I said. I immediately picked up my walky-talky and listened to Giotto-nii.
'Tsuna, I am so sorry, you better be safe when I get there,' I thought before running to Namimori Forest.
*Giotto's POV*
"Tsuna! Where are you?!" I shouted. I ran as fast as I could, there I saw a spikey haired brunet run in there, I turned on his walky-talky," I found Tsuna, he ran into the Namimori forest! Hurry up so that we can clear this up!" I shouted. He ran into the forest to catch up to Tsuna.
'I didn't know you were going to die, if I did I would want to spend more time, if I only knew better than to bully you around, but help you instead,' I thought.
*Tsuna's POV*
I ran, as fast as my legs could carry and the amount of oxygen in my lungs would give me. I ran in to the ,forest, I wanted to be alone. I knew I was going to die, but I didn't want to die by my families hands. It's bad enough that I had to go through all this. I brought my hand to my face and tried to rub the tears that were in my eyes, but they wouldn't stop.
"Why am I crying?" I asked myself,"I shouldn't be crying," I rubbed my eyes again. I took a deep breath, and looked for a tree to lean on. I found one with shade, and I slide down to the ground. I felt my eyes close slightly.
*Third Person POV*
Tsuna was slightly asleep, he was emotionally tired and had to get some rest. Giotto and the rest were close to finding him, until Lambo started to complain about not having any candying. That woke Tsuna up immediately, he got up and ran. Giotto, Natsu, and Iemitsu saw the brunet run and started to chase after him. Tsuna turned back to see if they were chasing him, and they were. Giotto and the rest saw that. Iemitsu decided to try to talk to Tsuna to make him stop running.
"Tsuna come back here!" Iemitsu called out.
"Tsuna, we really didn't mean it! We're sorry!" Giotto yelled. Tsuna ran as fast as he could.
'Lies all lies, just leave me alone!' Tsuna thought, 'Why would they want me, if they knew they weren't going to notice me!' He ran inside the forest and hid behind a tree.
"Tsuna where are you?" Natsu yelled out.
'Just ignore them, like how they ignored you,' Tsuna thought. The Sky ring around his neck, started to glow. He looked at it.
"That means there is another Sky flame user," Tsuna looked up to find the voice. It was the same as the one in his memories. He had one hand on the rope ladder, that was connected to the helicopter. The helicopter slowly descended and he stepped off on to the ground.
"Long time no see, Tsuna," He said. Tsuna's mind went blank. He didn't know what overcame his body. Tsuna jumped and hugged his childhood friend. He started to cry and mutter incoherent things.
"I-I-I thought you left me," Tsuna's voice was somewhat muffled, but you could understand him.
"There, there," He said, while patting Tsuna's head.
"TSUNA, GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Iemitsu's voice rang throughout the woods.
"Really?" He sighed," Tsuna get behind me," Tsuna complied to do so.
"Why are you here Byakuran and how do you know Tsuna?" Natsu asked harshly. Byakuran's eyes darkened.
"They ask why I'm here, funny right?" Byakuran said slowly," I'm here to take Tsuna away from you people, who just want to kill him," Byakuran bluntly stated.
"You didn't even answer Natsu's second question," Reborn growled, his eyes flashing dangerously.
"Hm?, I've known Tsuna for a while know, because I was the one who gave him happiness for his childhood, unlike his parents, I celebrated his birthdays, supported him to do his very best in school, and helped him with things he need help with," Byakuran growled at the Sawada family," You all had the chance to gain Tsuna's trust when he was younger, but you just ignored him and use him to your advantage, he didn't deserve any of it," He said, he brought Tsuna into another hug," If you were planning to kill him at birth, why didn't you give him to the orphanage, make life better for yourselves and Tsuna," Byakuran took a step forward with a sleepy Tsuna in his arms," No, instead you decided to break Tsuna, emotionally and mentally," Byakuran said," You don't even know that Tsuna's going to die, because of your mistake of not caring for his health and refusing to care for a child," Byakuran said, he turned around and started to walk away, Tsuna was on his back sleeping," I'll be taking him and caring him from now on," He finally stated and walked away to his helicopter.
"He was going to die soon because of his health?" Iemitsu repeated. He remembered getting a call from the hospital,"I was informed of this, but I didn't do anything," Iemitsu said, his voice had regret and sadness in it.
"Tsuna just told us today, we didn't know," Giotto said, "He also told us that you would let him die, if his condition got any worse," Giotto looked at his dad," Did you really say that or was it Mom?" Giotto's eyes pleaded for the answer.
"Giotto, I think it was your mom, who said that, I just remember getting informed by your Mom," Iemitsu said," I'll talk to Nana, when we get home," He said, he lost a son, he didn't know that Tsuna was going to die, even without the whole mixing up the balance of the tri-ni-sette, Tsuna would die.
"I lost a younger brother, I should've care for him, I should've done something that was treasurable to him," Natsu said, he was crying slightly.
"Juudaime, it's not your entire fault, it's also our fault too," Gokudera said. He wanted to comfort his boss/friend, but deep inside he was guilty for belittling Tsuna.
"Yeah Natsu, we saw him get bullied, but we didn't do anything about it," Yamamoto said. He had the power that could have stopped Tsuna from being so distant with his family, but he didn't use that power. Instead he did nothing and let the rift between a Tsuna and Tsuna's family get even bigger.
"Let's just get home and try to come up with a plan to get Tsuna back home where he belongs," Iemitsu said. He was walking away, until the Arcobaleno stopped.
"Aren't you guys coming?" Giotto asked. They all shook their heads.
"We have a meeting to go to," Yuni said.
"A meeting? Were you informed like weeks or is it just now?" Nono asked.
"It's just know, we need a plan to know what to do with that ring collection Tsuna has," Reborn answered.
"Don't worry, we won't be gone for long," Fon said.
"It's alright, we'll be alright,"Colonello and Lal said.
"Muu, I have no use to be here, but I am forced to even though there's no money involved," Mamon said.
"This has no scientific use to me, but I am also forced to go," Verde said.
"We'll see you guys later!" Yuni waved to say goodbye. The Vongola group waved back.
"We better get home, and start planning," Natsu said, he looked at his guardians. Giotto did too.
"Giotto/Juudaime, we're sorry, we have to go stock our weapons," G and Gokudera said.
"Haha, sorry, but we have to help pops out," Asari and Yamamoto said.
"EXTREME TRAINING!" Ryohei and Knuckle shouted.
"I just wanna go to sleep," Lampo said.
"CANDY! LAMBO-SAMA WANTS CANDY!" Lambo yelled.
"Nufufu, Chrome, Mukuro, and I have to take care of something at Kokuyo Land," Daemon said. All three disappeared in the mist.
"Hn," Was their only reply the got from the two skylarks.
"I guess, it's just Me, Natsu, Dad, and Nono, right?" Giotto asked.
"Don't worry I am fine, nothing has my schedule blocked or anything," Nono said, he smiled and started to walk to the Sawada house, with his guardians.
"Let's go home, we need a good night rest after all that has happened today," Iemitsu said. They walked home.
*With Byakuran*
Byakuran looked at his lap, there was Tsuna sleeping peacefully. He managed to sneak into Tsuna's room and collect the things, Tsuna dubbed as precious and a treasure.
"I want to protect, I wish I could've been here sooner, I didn't want you to suffer," Byakuran started to say to Tsuna.
"Byakuran-sama, we have landed at our base, do you want me to carry Tsuna-sama?" Kikyo asked. Everyone in the Millefiore famiglia had acknowledged Tsuna as a worthy person. He had endured the somewhat of the same things they had in the past, but it was more harsh.
"No no, I'll carry Tsuna myself, just get a room prepared to him," Byakuran ordered. Kikyo bowed and left the helicopter. Byakuran slowly got out, careful not to wake Tsuna.
"Mhnm," Tsuna moaned in his sleep, and shifted a little bit. Byakuran chuckled a little bit at that.
"You really are amazing," Byakuran softly said. He cared for him. When Tsuna had somewhat saved Byakuran from darkness, Byakuran had sworn to protect him. Tsuna was someone who was already broken, but could be broken further.
"I swear this time I'll protect you, I promise," Byakuran whispered to Tsuna. He dropped Tsuna in his prepared room and off he went to greet his family members. Unknown to him, three rings on Tsuna's necklace started to glow. The rings were Sky, Cloud, and Sun. It meant Tsuna could use those flames. The rings's flame got bigger and bigger. The Sun and the Cloud ring, were producing a flame, while the Sky ring produce a pure flame. In matter of time, this would be useful in the future, the ring could save Tsuna from dying too young.
Amethystgirl1943: I finally got it done! YAY! Haha, I sure am crazy, staying up till two in the morning finishing this! For all those people who guessed Byakuran, you're correct! All of you are all so smart, but I guess it was pretty obvious right? Anyways thank for reading this and if you guys could, leave a review! Thanks for all those you favorite and followed this story!
