Like water to a Drowning Man

A/n at the bottom

Warnings: gore, implied panic attack, implied PTSD, Throwing cannon events into a blender and pureeing them, Oc's for Hide guardians


Tsuna saw the true face of the Naitos when he and Nagi were thirteen. Nagi had found a cat on the street the year prior and they had taken it home to nurse it back to health. The cat, a long haired calico, became a permanent resident of the house and was named Kabocha. Tsuna liked Kabocha a lot, certainly better than any dog he'd ever met. Nagi love Kabocha; she would've died for the cat and she nearly did.

The had been coming back from a visit to the vet. Tsuna had been carrying Kabocha. The cat must have seen something because he had begun to scratch a Tsuna arms causing Tsuna to let go of him. Kabocha had run across the street; Nagi had chased him. A semi-truck had come barreling down the street. It ran straight into her. It kept going and Tsuna was…

A carpet stained with blood…

Brain matter leaking out of his mother's head

A gun in her hand…

Blood everywhere…

Everywhere...

It was coming out of Nagi...

It took fifteen minutes…

Nagi couldn't wait that long…

...not okay. He ran to her and scooped Nagi up into his arms. There was a hospital down the street. Tsuna didn't bother with Kabocha he just ran to the emergency room. He burst into the room like a mad man tears streaming down his face. Almost immediately there were people there helping him. A doctor asking what happened, a nurse ushering him to where Nagi was, everything was blurring together.

"Sir! Calm down you need to breathe!"

Tsuna tried to follow the instructions. Slowly, slowly, slowly, his breathing was back to normal and his vision was cleared. He told the doctors what happened. Tsuna called Osamu and told him what happened. Osamu said he'd be there soon. Tsuna looked down at his clothes the were covered with blood. His gakuen jacket that had been buttoned up was cover in Nagi's blood.

Tsuna ripped the jacket off of him, but blood had seeped through the jacket on to his white shirt. There was only a few small stains, but to Tsuna it felt like his shirt was drenched in blood. He felt like he was going to throw up. He didn't but he felt like it.

Osamu arrived ten minutes later and the doctors told he and Tsuna that Nagi a organ transplant. Osamu called the both the Naitos. Setsuko was a match, but she refused to give Nagi anything

"My life is more important than her's. She's only a thirteen year old student. I'm a working actress. It should be obvious who's more important."

Tsuna wanted to scream that Nagi was.


Hide received a text from the Natio household, where Tsuna had been living at for four years it read:

Sawada Tsunayoshi ran away from the house some time between 6:30PM and 6AM. We believe this is because Nagi, his friend and playmate was hit by a semi-truck in front of him. She requires organs and the only known viable donner had declined. We are unsure on how to proceed and wished to inform you.

-The Natio Household

Four years ago Hide would have had a panic attack now, after Reborn's training he only took a deep breath and called in Zeno Burno, his lightning guardian. He was the most adapt for what Hide wanted.

"Zeno I need you to go to Japan for me."


Tsuna didn't know what compelled him to run away. He wanted to make sure Nagi was safe, but he didn't want to see her die. Tsuna didn't want to think things like that, but he knew it was possible. That Nagi would die; that Tsuna would be all alone again. He could go through that again so he left. Well he packed a few things first, the money his brother and father sent for his birthday and Christmas, some clothes of a more plain variety so he wouldn't stand out, any canned food or if it had a far off expiration date, and of course his mother's locket.

Tsuna didn't know where to go. So he headed to the first place that popped into his head, Namimori.


Zeno Bruno was a large man and he stood out like a sore thumb in Japan. He really didn't know why he was the one who had to do this. Checking around for the not-quite-yet-Decimo's younger brother. Not that he wasn't glad his Sky trusted him to find the brother. He just felt like the mission was a waste of his talents. After three weeks he headed back to Italy empty handed.


Yeah… super short. Sorry, but I got a chapter out after what? Three weeks I think.