A/N: Thank you for the reviews/comments, votes, and favs.

Story by: King-Elsa/KingYohannE

Warnings: OCCness may occur and this is a slight AU fic.

Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyoushi Hitman Reborn and the cover photo.

Previously

"You want us to waste our time with you!? You know we are always busy! When will you understand that, Huh?! You're just being a burden to us! Why did you have to be born in this world! You're weak! You can't even save yourself from your bullies! You can't even produce your own flame!" Giotto almost shouted in anger.

"Giotto-nii is right! We already had problems and you want to add! You're being a burden! We can't waste our time on something like you!" Tsubasa added back.

Tsuna lowered his head and clenched his fists "So.. I'm just a burden to both of you?" Tsuna asked trying not to stutter.

"If something happens to me in this race, please don't tell it to my family. I don't want to burden them more." Tsuna said with a weak smile. Kyuubei just nodded, feeling that Tsuna is making a death wish.

Kyuubei went to the audience side and watched his brother race. When the race is nearing its end and Tsuna is in the lead, someone grabbed Kyuubei's shoulder and when Kyuubei look behind him, it was Skull and he is panting very hard.

"Where is Tsuna?!" Skull asked.

Kyuubei was about to answer when they heard a gunshot and was followed by loud crashing sounds.

Both Skull and Kyuubei looked at the road and saw a very familiar car, roll on the ground for several times.

"TSUNA!" both of them shouted and ran to the crushed car.

Both of them saw an unconscious brunette and bleeding to death.

"DAMN IT! HANG ON TSUNA!" Skull said and shouted for help.

Chapter 3

Regrets

Asari's POV

Tsuna went out of their house and it seems like he has a depressing aura around him. He bumped into me, but he didn't look at me and continued to walk. To tell the truth, I really want to talk to him It's just Giotto will get angry at us if we talk to him. I don't know the reason why Giotto became like that to him. They're not like that before and as far as I can remember, they are really close to each other. Maybe the reason why Giotto became like that is because of what happened before, where in Tsuna accidentally trip and the lit candle he is holding fell to Giotto's paper works. That was the first time we've seen Giotto so angry. Well, I will also get angry, but not like that. It's not Tsuna's fault that there's a blackout and accidentally trip.

I was about to chase him when I saw a folded paper on the ground and pick it up. I opened it and from what it looks like, it's an invitation.

"Race wars? I didn't know Tsuna is into this," I said to myself as I folded back the paper and put it in my pocket before going inside the house.

Third Person's POV

[3 hours before the accident]

Skull waited for Tsubame at the airport and after several minutes, A woman with red hair came out and went towards him.

"Where's Kyuubei?" Skull asked as he helped Tsubame with her luggage.

"He went first. He wants to surprise,Tsuna" Tsubame said as she enters Skull's purple Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and she was followed by Skull.

"Can you stop at Yamada-san's bake shop? I need to pick up Tsuna's birthday cake" Tsubame asked as Skull starts the engine and steps on the accelerator.

"Sure" Skull replied.

"Oh! I forgot to tell you, We invented a new car, We still don't have a name for it and I want to give that to Tsuna as a birthday gift. Its horsepower is 1500. That car is not gas powered, but the dying will flame." Tsubame said with a big smile on her face.

"Speaking of dying will flames, his idiot family doesn't know that he can produce it and you want them to be surprised? "Skull asked, gaining a nod from his boss.

After getting the three layer cake for Tsuna, the two went to the Sawada Residence. Today is Tsuna's birthday and Tsubame wants to celebrate it at the brunette's house after their meeting with his brothers. She also wants to tell them that she is really close to the brunette. When they reached the house, they were welcomed by Iemitsu, Reborn, Tsubasa and Giotto. Tsubame and Skull were guided to a room where Giotto's and Tsubasa's guardians are staying.

Skull looked around the house, but didn't feel the presence of his student, even Tsubame noticed this.

"Now, Let's start the meeting" Reborn started. Tsubame and Skull sat on vacant chairs and listened to them. The meeting went on until Iemitsu opened the topic about drag racing.

"As we are saying, we need the Armata Famigla's car knowledge and access to the underground street racing. Giotto and Tsuba's are being targeted by some of the mafia there and we need to stop that."Iemitsu said

"And what event are those?" Tsubame asked with a serious tone.

"The two biggest drag racing, the Drift race and Race wars" Iemitsu answered.

Skull froze as he remembered that Race wars is today.

"Don't worry about the Drift race, but we will get problems at Race wars" Tsubame said.

Iemitsu and the others made a questioning look at her.

"What do you mean?" Reborn asked.

"I don't have any connections to that race. Skull was a former racer there, but the higher ups there tried to kill him when they learned that he is allied with Vongola." Tsubame explained.

Silence filled the room, until Asari laughed, making the others look at him.

"Stop laughing, bastard! It's not time for you to laugh" G shouted at Asari.

"You don't have to worry about that. I know someone who can help us." Asari said with a smile on his face as he took out the invitation Tsuna left. All of them were shocked as they saw the invitation. The first one to speak up was Giotto.

"Where did you get that?" Giotto asked with wide eyes.

Asari scratched the back of his head "Well, I think Tsuna fell it when he bumped into me earlier."

Skull stood up from his seat, taking the others attention."Give me that!" Skull almost shouted and they can see a worried look on his face.

Skull was about to snatch away the paper when Tsubasa stopped him. "Don't you dare! It's ours! Not yours!" Tsubasa said in anger. Skull stopped and gave a scary look towards the Vongola Decimo.

"Fuck off, brat." Skull said in anger. Reborn tilted his fedora as he watches Skull changed attitude. It is the first time he saw Skull got angry over a paper.

Skull lowered his head "Just to remind you. It's not yours, but Tsuna's. I have the rights to hold that damn paper since I am his mentor" Skull angrily said.

"Mentor? HAHAHA! What a good pair! Both of you are useless!" Tsubasa mocked.

Skull grabbed his swiss knife and pointed it at Tsubasa's neck. Tsubasa's guardians immediately acted and points their weapons at Skull.

"Kill me and I'll your boss" Skull threatened and the Decimo's guardians stopped in their places.

"Now, give me the fuckin' paper!" Skull said and the angry look on his face is still there. Asari handed the paper to Skull and Skull immediately removed the swiss knife at the brat's neck and walks to Tsubame.

"Contact Kyuubei and please send their location to me." Skull said and went out of the room, leaving the other's in shock and anger. They then heard a loud tire screech and it was gone immediately.

Their eyes turned to Tsubame as she makes a call to his son.

"Kyuubei, where are you?" asked Tsubame.

[I'm with Tsuna, he said he has a race today and we are now heading there. By the way, mom. Tsuna's depressed.] Kyuubei replied and it was only Tsubame, who can hear him.

"What race?" She asked again.

[Oh! We're already here. Tsuna said its Race wa-] The line was suddenly cut off, but Tsubame knows what the second word.

'Race wars…' Tsubame said to herself as she frowned and made a call to Skull.

"Hurry up, the two are already there. The call was suddenly cut off"Tsubame said and the other watched her.

[Tch. It's their way. That place has no signal.] Skull said and the call was cut off.

Tsubame hid her phone and sat back in the chair she was sitting earlier and looked at Giotto.

"One mistake and our alliance will end here" Tsubame said with a stern look.

"What do you mean, Tsubame-san?" Giotto asked with a questioning look.

"Tsuna is like my son. You don't know because all of you don't give a damn. We hid our relationship to each other because all of you will get on our way and will stop me from talking to him. Now, I learned that he's depressed over something and if the both of you has something to do with that -" Tsubame said as she took out a paper.

"this alliance will turn into ashes." She continued.

[Before the race ends]

The higher ups of the race wars, watched and smiled when Tsuna pulled away from his opponent.

"If we kill him now, will his brother will appear?" A white haired man in his 30's asked.

"Let's see." A man black haired man in his 50's smiled evilly as he sends a signal to his men.

"Shoot him" The older man said and the message immediately was sent to the gunman.

Tsuna looked at his side mirror and saw his opponent point a gun towards him . Tsuna increased his speed by using his turbo to avoid his opponent, but his opponent shot the gun and the bullet went to his car's tire, making him to lost balance to his car and roll on the ground. As the car rolls on the ground, the world seems to stop to Tsuna.

'Am I going to die?' Tsuna asked

"You want us to waste our time with you!? You know we are always busy! When will you understand that, Huh?! You're just being a burden to us! Why did you have to be born in this world! You're weak! You can't even save yourself from your bullies! You can't even produce your own flame!"

"Giotto-nii is right! We already had problems and you want to add! You're being a burden! We can't waste our time on something like you!"

Tsuna remembered their words and he found himself smiling bitterly.

'Then, If I die today, their problems will decrease. Hahaha.. This is awesome. Today is my birthday and will be my death anniversary.' Tsuna thought and the world went back to its original time and Tsuna lost his consciousness when his head hit the steering wheel.

When Skull reached the old airport,he went out of his car and looked for Tsuna and Kyuubei. Skull went to the audience place and there, he saw Kyuubei alone. Skull ran to where the teen is and grabbed his shoulder. Kyuubei looked at him in shock.

"Where is Tsuna?!" Skull asked.

Kyuubei was about to answer when they heard a gunshot and was followed by loud crashing sounds.

Both Skull and Kyuubei looked at the road and saw a very familiar car, roll on the ground for several times.

"TSUNA!" both of them shouted and ran to the crushed car.

Both of them saw an unconscious brunette and bleeding to death.

"DAMN IT! HANG ON TSUNA!" Skull said and shouted for help.

Medics immediately went to where they are and helped the trapped brunette. The car was really crushed and it took them several minutes before successfully taken out the bleeding brunette from his car. They gently put first aid, but the bleeding on Tsuna's head won't stop.

"Go with Tsuna, I'll follow you." Skull said to Kyuubei before running to his car. Skull followed the ambulance and when they reached Hospital, Tsuna was immediately sent to the emergency room, leaving Skull and Kyuubei outside the room.

"Damn it!" Kyuubei cried as he put his hands over his face. Skull looked at him wearing a worried look..

"Damn it! Damn it! I already know it's a death wish?! Why didn't I stop him?!"Kyuubei cried, remembering the last time they had a conversation.

Skull frowned "What do you mean?"

"Tsuna said 'If something happens to me in this race, please don't tell it to my family. I don't want to burden them more.' It really did sound like a death wish, but I didn't stop him!" Kyuubei cried.

"Kyuubei." Skull called the teen with a venom."What happened?" Skull asked while wearing an angry look.

Kyuubei told Skull what Tsuna's brother did to the brunette, making skull punch the wall. After telling the whole story, Skull made his way out of the hospital and drove back to the Sawada Residence.

When he reached the house, he slammed the door and went to the room where the Vongola and Tsubame are. Everyone look at Skull who has a furious look on his face and he seem to look for someone And when he started walking, they really shock on what happened next.

"Fuck you, Reborn!" Skull angrily shouted as he punched the sun Arcobaleno and grabs Reborn's collar.

"I'm disappointed in you!" Skull continued. Reborn looked at him with a frown while the blood started to drip from his lip. "Who are you to say that to me?" Reborn asked.

"Listen to me, bastard. I'm really disappointed in you! You're a disgrace as an Arcobaleno! You failed as their teacher! How can you just watch these two brats say hurtful things to their brother?" Skull asked in anger.

"What the hell do you know?!" Tsubasa interrupted and went to his Hyper dying will mode.

Skull lets go of Reborn's collar and looked with an unforgiving look at Tsubasa.

"You asked me 'what the hell do I know, huh? Damn it! I know everything!" Skull shouted in anger.

"Giotto! Tsubasa! How dare you tell him that he is a burden to you? As far as I can remember, Tsuna was your stress reliever! He's the one who helped the both of you get back on your feet when you thought of giving up when your training started as the CEDEF and Vongola Decimo! That was three years ago and when both of you officially became a boss, you started ignoring him! Why? Because he's weak and can't produce flames? Damn it! His flames are much purer and stronger than the both of you! You said he's a burden! All of you don't know what he went through! When you had problems with other Families, he's the one who went to them and talked to them! He can't stand seeing the both of you cry because of those problems! How did he do that? He asked me to train him! Helping me with my very dangerous missions, he went back alive! Now your telling him he is a fuckin' burden?!" Skull almost screamed making the listeners in silence.

"Fuck this shit! You! Reborn?! You just watched your students badmouthed their brother! ARG DAMN IT! HE JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE HIS EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY WITH HIS BROTHERS AND THOSE TWO FUCKIN' BROTHERS TOLD TSUNA THAT HE IS WASTING THEIR TIME OVER SOMETHING LIKE HIS WISH!?" This time, Skull shouted at them and after that, he kicked the nearest chair in frustrations.

"Skull" Tsubame called and the cloud Arcobaleno at her.

"Where are they?" Tsubame asked in with a worried tone.

Skull gave her a pained expression and the others saw this, giving them a pang of hurt in her chest. Doing what the brunette asked for, Skull typed on his phone and showed it to Tsubame.

[He got in an accident and told Kyuubei this word If something happens to me in this race, please don't tell it to my family. I don't want to burden them more.]

Tsubame clenched her fists and calmed herself. After calming herself, she took out the alliance paper and ripped it in front of them.

"I told you. One mistake and it will end here" Tsubame said with a venom in her voice before going out of the house.

Before Skull made his way out he was stopped by Alaude's question "Where is he?" Skull looked at Alude and shrugged his shoulders.

"Tsuna wished not to tell his fuckin' family where he is because he doesn't want to burden them more" After saying that, Skull followed Tsubame and they went to the Hospital.

After the two left, the Sawada residence remained silent and it seems like they were regretting their actions in the past three years. Lambo, being himself; he opened theTelevision. When it opened, the program is new, Lambo was about turn the channel when they saw the word 'Race wars' on the breaking news.

"Wait, Lambo" Giotto said as he went nearer the Television.

[Reporter: The very known Drag Racing called Race Wars got into trouble. Before the first race ends, the opponent of the winning side, shoots his opponent.] the reported said and they saw a crushed car which belongs to Tsuna.

[-The owner of the orange Nissan GT-R was immediately sent to the hospital, but it took them 45 minutes before they successfully remove the driver inside his car.. They said that the driver is still in the Emergency room and the family of the driver doesn't want to tell who the driver .] The reporter continued.

Alaude saw the crushed car and it looks familiar to him, but he didn't tell anyone. On the other hand, Giotto's intuition told him that Skull knows something about this news.

After two hours of waiting, Tsuna is now out of the emergency room and now place at one of the private rooms. The doctor talked Skull and Tsubame.

"The damage in his head is severe and there are some fractures bones. If he will not wake up in 24 hours, we will declare that he is comatose."The doctor said. Tsubame and Skull thanked the doctor and went inside of Tsuna's room, there, they saw the brunette sleeping with a respirator and IV connected to his body. His whole head has a bandage and there are lots of bruises on his face. His two left legs and left arm has a cast a cast. Tsubame wanted to cry at the sight, but choose to be of them sat near the brunette's bed.

"Happy birthday, Tsuna-kun" Tsubame said with a smile, trying to stop her tears.

TBC

A/N: And I thought this would be the last chapter. I'll make sure to finish this in the next chapter!.

By the way, Thank you for supporting my new short story "Burden".

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