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Rainbow: Rewritten Chapter 2 Torrent
Tsuna closed the door to his room and sighed. He was tired, but he knew he wasn't going to get any sleep. He dropped his book bag on the kotatsu table and removed his uniform and dropped it wherever. He wasn't in the mood to do anything and he already completed his homework. He went to his desk and opened the bottom right drawer. He lifted up a stack of papers and pulled a body that read Zaleplon it was Sonata a sleeping pills. It was the only sleeping pills he was able to get his hands on from the doctor without them notifying his parents. They don't work. He was pretty sure he could get something more affective from over the counter, but people talk too much and he was sure that if he bought those pills, the next time his mother goes shopping, she will know about them.
Tsuna uncapped the bottle and swallowed down two of those red pills. They don't put him to sleep, but they do act as relaxants and that's what he needed to do. He closed the blinds to his room and crawled under the bed. Hopefully he would get some sleep tonight an hour or two would do, he just wanted some sleep.
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"Back when Tsuna was in elementary, Tsuna was exactly as Iemitsu probably describe him to you," Nana could see Tsuna as a young boy who was cheerful and so sweet. He had the biggest brown innocent eyes and he was smart as well. He wanted nothing more than to do well in school and make friends. "Tsuna was nice, smart, a little clumsy, but he made it up with his charm. I, along, with everybody else in town thought he had no enemies and everybody loved him, but that wasn't the case."
"You know jealousy can be vicious thing and if it goes on for too long it could turn deadly," Nana said in a melancholy tone. "I didn't realize that when Tsuna went to go play with a few of his classmates, that that was almost the last time I saw him." Tears started to flow down her face. Reborn pulled out his handkerchief and gave it to her. "Those boys had a hidden agenda and you know Tsuna was a bit on the naïve side, he refused to see the bad in anybody. So he ignored the fact that they weren't allowed to go and play in the forest without any adult supervisions, he was just so excited that he made friends." She sniffled. "They took him deep into the forest where the wells resided. They were dry for the most part, but the rainy season was kicking up and typhoon was approaching that day and the kids knew it. They deliberate pushed him into the well where he could've died from the fall alone and then they tried to bury him alive."
Reborn tilted his hat in disgust as if feeling his anger his pet Leon flickered his tongue out multiple times.
Nana took a breath, she was so angry when she thought about it and she wish she could take revenge on the kids herself, but those kids were still in jail for attempted murder thankfully they wouldn't see the light of day even when they get out of the Juvenile Detention Center.
"Those boys actually had the nerve to come back into to town laughing like they just didn't commit such a terrible crime," Nana snarled. "They went back to play with their friends until it was six o'clock and the weather was about to turn bad and Tsuna knew he had to be in the house by then. Six o'clock turned in to six-ten, then it was six-fifteen and I went to go find Tsuna myself and I searched all play areas in this neighborhood and I couldn't find him. I asked kids and parents if they have seen my son, but they all said no and I was getting more concern considering that Tsuna was nowhere to be seen and the typhoon was getting closer and closer. Soon I started looking for Tsuna and the kids he was playing with and they said that Tsuna went to go play with some other kids," Nana shook her head in disbelief. "And we believed it so then it was raining hard and we're looking for a bunch of imaginary kids until one of the men sons, the ones that organized a search party for Tsuna, said that he saw Tsuna and the boys, the same ones that lied to us, go went into the forest."
Nana cleared her throat, "To make an even longer story shorter, we found Tsuna in the well the boys pushed him in. He was drowning in all that mud and water that was in the well. He was just learning how to swim that year." Nana stopped talking for a long while before she got up to start cooking dinner. Reborn let the story sink in.
"Have you taken Tsuna to see anybody," Reborn asked.
"I took him to a couple of psychologist and they said he was showing that he was handling the situation well up until a certain point, and then he cracked." Nana said sadly. "His fears came to haunt him, he's too afraid to swim, his feet has to be touching the ground, he can't stand to be in small place, so closets and long car rides are pretty much forbidden unless we stop every so often, he doesn't like it when people touch his back unless he's warned, overall he doesn't trust anybody.
Nana turned to Reborn and fixed him with a hard glare. "I don't know where Iemitsu is playing at, but you know what I'm willing to accept help from anybody who can make my son happy. Can I trust you to do that?"
Reborn smirked, "Of course."
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Reborn unlocked the door to his new charge room. The boy didn't even move when he came in all he was doing was staring dull eyed at the wall like he was drugged or something. Reborn frown and looked all over the room until his suspicions were confirmed. Reborn shook his head, this wasn't going to do. Reborn knew he had his work cut out for him, but something told him the solution to Tsuna problems wouldn't be that hard to fine.
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Tsuna glowered at the baby at the table. Nana thinks that was probably the first time Tsuna showed any true annoyance, in a long while. Tsuna huffed.
"Why is he still here," Tsuna asked staring at Reborn who just ignored him and kept on eating.
"Well, since Reborn travel all the way from Italy to Japan, we might as well see what he can offer us since Iemitsu spoke so highly of him." Nana said flippantly gauging Tsuna reaction.
Tsuna looked at her in disbelief, "So you're going to put your trust in a man that hasn't been home in years?" Tsuna had to stop himself from asking if his mom was stupid, but the unasked question hung high in the air anyways. Tsuna dumped the rest of his food and packed up his lunch and left the house.
The clouds filled the sky up, it look like it might rain judging by how dark they were. Tsuna groaned he wanted to get out of the house so badly that he forgot to bring his umbrella. He didn't bother to lament over that he was more irritated by who was following him.
"Is there a reason to why you're following me?" Tsuna asked looking at the baby who was walking on top of the walls of his neighborhood with unnatural ease. Tsuna took a closer look at Reborn. He is a baby right? No, he looks like a baby, but he wasn't was he? It's impossible for a one year old to be able to walk, talk, read, and climb up walls like that. There body isn't physically develop to do so, so what is he?
Said baby looked at him with a suspicious gleam in his eyes, "You want to know what I am."
Tsuna shook his head. The hell he did, he wasn't interested in selling his soul to the devil, but… "How do you even know Iemitsu? From what I can tell you two don't even look like you run in the same circle."
Reborn fixed him with a hard stare that made Tsuna shiver, but he didn't look away. "Do you know what your father does for a living?"
"Yeah he's a construction worker," Tsuna said sardonically.
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Yamamoto was sitting at the edge of his school roof bored out of his mind. He couldn't relax and he was just itching to do something anything but with his right arm in a cast he won't be doing anything until the doctor gives him the arm clear and his arm won't go numb just from bending it. Tsuna was right to demand him to go to the doctor. The doctor told him that if he kept playing baseball at the rate he was, he would've broken his arm. Thankfully he came in time to get x-rays on his arm to find that he had fractures throughout his arm. The doctor was angry that the coach had pushed him past his limits.
His dad on the other said he was going to have a word with the coach, but secretly he knew his dad was hoping that he would quit. Yamamoto did after all it was the right thing to do. If he stayed he might not be so lucky the next time. It wasn't like he couldn't join the neighborhood baseball team when he heals.
Yamamoto heard the door to the roof creak opened and he turned and saw his savior.
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Tsuna got to school at 7:15. After stopping a couple of times to talk or either stare down that annoying infant he ended up joining the crowd of students making it to school. It was actually very unusual to see this many students at this time. Sure some would be trickling in, but they came in droves. He had a bad feeling about what was about to possibly occur in class today.
His feelings were confirmed when he heard the whole class buzzing about the star baseball player Yamamoto quitting baseball. His ex-teammates were livid and the Yamamoto fan clubs were disappointed.
"I can't believe that bastard did this to us." It was the same boy who called Yamamoto pathetic yesterday.
"The tournament is in a few weeks, what are we going to do," asked the boy who called Yamamoto stupid.
Tsuna was so amused by the turn of events that he snorted drawing in a surprised audience. "I always knew people were trifling, but I've never met morons as dumb and selfish as you guys," Tsuna said referring to the class as a whole. "Here you guys are clinging on to the most popular boy in school talking about how cool he is, how great he is, how he's everything that you guys want to be, you guys broke the poor boy. You guys used him for your own selfish gain and you hurt him deeply."
"Like you would know, you never talk to him, you never talk to anybody," said one of the students. Everybody snapped out of their dazes and half heartedly tried to defend themselves.
"I might not talk to you guys, but my hearing is just fine," Tsuna said glaring at them with disgust. "I hear the things you say about him and you know what Yamamoto does too." The class blanched at the same time it was too funny, but Tsuna held it in. "You guys treat Yamamoto like he's an idiot. He might not be book smart, but he understands people, but he was too busy trying to please you selfish bastards that he ran himself into the ground and you never once said thank you for his kindness." Tsuna said walking to the front of the classroom to leave out the front door and lo and behold Yamamoto was again standing at the door. That guy had to have the best/worst timing ever.
Tsuna brushed pass him. Yamamoto stared at the class who stared at him with a mixture of shock and embarrassed faces. He walked away from the classroom to go after his "Savior" as he like to call Tsuna. He ran down the hallway to catch up with him, Tsuna was going to the roof. It was the perfect place for the two of them to talk.
The two of them made it to the roof Tsuna walked to the fence and muttered something to himself. Yamamoto heart was thumping so loudly he sure his Savior could hear it, but alas he didn't, so Yamamoto had to speak first.
"Excuse me," Tsuna turned his head towards him and sighed. He looked up and muttered something again and it looks like he was talking to somebody this time. "Thanks for sticking up for me back there, I sorry if I put you in a bad position in that class."
Tsuna shrug nonchalantly. "It's no big deal and I don't consider myself as part of that class." Tsuna nodded his head towards Yamamoto cast, "I see you went to the doctor. How do you feel?"
Yamamoto put his left hand behind his head awkwardly and laughed, "Oh this," he lifted up his cast slightly, it was being held in a sling that made it kind of hard to move it, but he hardly paid attention to since he was more concern about when the actually caste would come off. Yamamoto laughed, "This is nothing."
Tsuna fixed him with baleful look and 'tsk'ed', "I'm not your friend Yamamoto so you don't have to pretend to me."
Yamamoto eyes narrowed, he felt unreasonably angry, so he snipped back coolly, "You're not my friend so I don't have to be honest with you either." Yamamoto put his hand to his mouth and shot Tsuna an apologetic look.
Tsuna raised his hands in agreement, "True."
Yamamoto walked up to the gate that Tsuna was standing at and leaned on it. Tsuna right eye twitched like it was in pain and he rubbed his forehead, but Yamamoto decided not comment on it afraid he would make Tsuna angry for being nosy. "I'm sorry I have no rights to get angry with you. You stopped me from hurting myself and save my future goal."
Tsuna nodded not really caring. "Why did you defend me?"
Tsuna raised an eyebrow in query. "I mean you said so yourself, we're not friends so why did you defend me? Why did you help me?"
"It was the right thing to do." Yamamoto looked kind of disappointed in the answer.
"So you don't consider me as a friend?"
Tsuna scoffed, "Yamamoto we have been classmates for years surprisingly and we never once talked to each other, if not just a passing greeting, so are you seriously asking me that question?"
Yamamoto raised his hand to calm Tsuna down, it was rare to even get Tsuna to even talk to people so he wasn't about to blow it by asking stupid questions. Tsuna cursed. "Why am I even talking to you?" Tsuna leaned on the gate that Yamamoto was leaning on and breathe out a heavy sigh, but it quickly turned into a gasp when they both felt and heard a creek. The gate that they were leaning was moving backwards slowly. On instincts, they both tried to move away from the gate, but the gate caved under their weight and they were left freefalling towards the school ground.
At that moment, it felt like everything went into slow mode when Yamamoto's and Tsuna's hand touched. Their thoughts resonating as one, "I don't want to die." A flash of blue and orange light illuminated their bodies slowing their fall. When they both landed safely on the ground they let go of each other and said nothing for a long while. It was quite until Yamamoto started laughing hysterically. Tsuna just stayed quite; his heart after all was in his throat.
"You know this might seem out of place, but would you be my friend?" Yamamoto asked still laughing, tears were pouring down his face. Tsuna could only believe he was going into shock by then. There was loud clap of thunder and rain started to pour down.
Tsuna suddenly felt at ease as he extended his hand his left hand towards Yamamoto, "Sure why not."
