2.) Depression And A Choice

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Over the span of a year Nana started to notice things about her daughter.

Tsunahime started coming home covered in cuts and bruises. Tsunahime started to withdrawal from her mother and never smiled. She walked around with a dull look in her eyes and a frown curling her lips down.

Tsunahime wouldn't talk to anyone unless they talked to her first and when she did speak it was in such a small voice that barely anyone could hear her. Despite the teachers not caring to an extreme they did care and had contacted Nana and told her of their concerns of the small girl being depressed.

Nana had felt lost about it, she could see what was happening. Tsunahime was depressed and miserable and being bullied.

It was breaking her child. All that Tsunahime had been through in the past year is too much for a six year old.

She knew what she had to do even if she wasn't exactly happy about it.

It was when Tsuna came home from school on a Thursday that Nana called her brother.

He picked up on the third ring.

"Hello?"

"Spirit?" She asked. He sounded excited when he heard her voice.

"Nana!! My sister! It's so good to hear from you!"

"It's good to hear you to. How's Maka-chan?" She asked. She did want to talk to her brother a little big before she asked him.

"She good. Looks just like her mom, more and more everyday. Shes made a couple of friends so far too. Turning out be a real bookworm. How's Tsu?"

She sighed and he heard that.

"Nana?" He sounded concerned and worried. He had met Tsunahime and Tamasine as a baby and visited when they were both toddlers. He didn't care much about Tama but Tsuna had taken his heart, which was countered by his own child.

Nana had met Maka and Spirit had brung her when she was a toddler. She did have to admit that Maka was adorable.

She breathed through her nose as she replied. "In honesty not so good."

He was really concerned now. "What's wrong? What happened?"

"I'll have to tell you the whole story. Iemitsu left about a year ago and took Tama with him. He didn't leave permenatly but he is going to be gone a long time that I know for sure. Tsu didn't want him to leave and practically begged to stay but he still left. Over the past year Tsu has become increasingly more miserable and depressed. She thinks it was something she did that sent her father away. Even if I have told her that it wasn't. She has closed herself off from loving him and her twin she doesn't talk about. At school her teachers have come to me concerned about her because she barely interacts with the other children and rarely speaks unless spoken to. Spirit she comes home covered in bruises and cuts from bullies. She's miserable here."

"That's horrible. Why would- that's too much for a six year old to go through...What are you going to? Something needs to be."

"I know and that's one reason why I'm calling. She needs a change of pace, scenery, and different people. I was wondering if maybe she could come live with you in U.S, Nevada, and go to the DWMA to become a Meister. I want her to meet you guys anyways. Stein is her godfather maybe he can help and I also have a feeling that Maka might be able to get her to open up again. If that's alright with you?"

"Of course it's alright! Besides I was thinking about calling you to see if we could get the girls together anyways...I might not like it but I do think Stein could help and Maka, well, let's just say she has a good influence on people. So when is she coming?"

"Well I have to talk to her and see if she would like the idea, but then if she does I'll book a flight as soon as possible for us. I really do want her to be happy and I just have this feeling in my gut that she only will be happy there."

He chuckled a little, "Well I'd follow that gut of yours. It saved us couple times from blanking out for good." His voice changed a little bit to a more serious tone. "If she does come we will make sure she is happy. I won't forgive myself if she isn't."

Nana laughed. "Despite what people seem to think of you, you really are a good brother, father, and Uncle."

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean!?"

"Nothing. Nothing. I'll let you go and call you back if she says yes. It's probably pretty early over there since it's really late here."

"Yea guess so. I'll talk to ya later baby sister."

"Yea talk to ya later. Big brother." With that she hung up and thought for a moment before she hanging the phone back on the wall and climed the stairs to her daughter's room.

She gently shook Tsunahime awake and the small girl looked at her mother with groggy eyes.

Once she saw who woke her she snapped fully away and sat up. "Kaa-san?"

"Hey honey. I wanted to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"What do you think about going and living with your uncle and godfather?"

Tsuna blinked and tilted her head a little. "D-do you not want me here?" She sounded like if Nana didn't say the right thing she could break.

"No no thats not it baby. I do want you here. I just think that it would be best for you if you had a change of pace. You'd get to live with your uncle and godfather, your cousin, and you'd get to meet new people, make friends and get to see where I grew up. So what do you say?" Nana gave her a smile as Tsuna looked down to her blanket that covered her legs and bit the edge of her lip in thought.

After a while she looked up to her mother a smiled the first genuine smile she had smiled in months. It lit her mother's heart and already she knew that this would be the right choice.

"Yea! It sounds like fun!"