10 years old Tsuna and Shizuko stood in front of the girl's house. They watched as an adult after adult came to put boxes into the moving truck. Neither of the duo said anything but watched for a while before they headed to the backyard. They remembered that day. Shizuko's father announced that they'd move to America, due to a transfer in the company. It had been 5 months since that dreadful announcement. The young girl would be leaving that day. It now wouldn't be that long before the young 10 years old girl would go. It might be another half hour, from the looks of things. Tsuna still didn't want to believe it. For the first 10 years of their lives, they were always together, whether they wanted to or not.

The two children sat on the wooden deck in Shizuko's backyard. The yard was bare of all the decorations that her mother loved to put out. But really, even though it was depressing, the children were glad that they were gone. Those things were creepy in their eyes. All that there was at this point, were the flowers and a small tree that sat there at the corner. It was in the middle of autumn. The leaves were all brownish and orange. They either lied on the ground or let the wind whoosh them away while they did their own little dance. As the wind made its own little hums, as if it played a forgotten melody.

Neither of the children said anything. They stared at the naked backyard with sad expressions. What was the point in exchanging words? There was no point in it, none whatsoever. Both sighed at the same time. Tsuna looked up at the reddish sky, which turned only into darkness as time went on. He didn't like this depression that sat in the air, especially between him and his friend. He frowned then thought of a way to get her to smile. He nudged her on the shoulder, which caught the attention of the black headed girl.

Tsuna looked down at his hands. He moved his hands in a circle motion and in the middle floated an object that took shape little by little. Soon enough, the shapeless small object turned into a glass-like snow globe. Inside were two little icy kids in the middle with snowballs in their hands. When he shook the object, little snowflakes moved around in an elegant and fun manner.

Shizuko looked at in awe. It was then that her friend did something surprising. He handed to her the glass snow globe. Her shocked dark blue eyes looked from the object to the brown headed kid. He grinned at her in encouragement while he nudged the item into her direction. With great care and gentleness, she took the snow globe from his bare cold hands into her warm pair. She was even more surprised when she found that it didn't melt in her hands when it was out of his reach. That didn't make any sense! Every time he created something and it was out of his reach it always returned to what it was before.

This time, it didn't.

Shizuko looked back at Tsuna in confusion. Had he practiced while she wasn't around? Well, it made sense if he was, when she thought about it. Tsuna grinned and looked back between her and the snow globe and did a nudge-like motion. The black headed girl frowned a bit at his nonverbal answer. She looked back at the snow globe in her hands. She brought it up to face level to take a better look at it. She then noticed the smallest of details that he drew into the base of the snow globe. The base was carved with very beautiful snowflakes that had their own unique shapes. It made her stare in pure awe. Not only that, but the base felt solid, and yet it was still see-through.

The two children looked back at each other. Shizuko put down the snow globe beside her then tackled him in a hug with her arms around his neck. His face turned red at the actions. What was he supposed to do? Was he supposed to hug back or stay still?

Fortunately for Tsuna, he didn't need to do either because Shizuko pulled away. A bright smile was on her face.

"Shizu-chan! We're leaving!"

Shizuko's mother yelled from the inside of the house.

"Coming!"

Shizuko answered back.

The happiness between the children disappeared in a second. Sadness replaced it. The duo got up, after the girl took the snow globe, then walked into the house and out to the front. A taxi parked at the front right behind the moving truck, which drove away the second that they walked out. Shizuko's father was inside the taxi while the mother motioned for her daughter to get into the car.

Shizuko looked down sadly for a moment before she looked back at her male friend. He stood beside his mother that looked as sad that her best friend was to leave to another country. She told Tsuna:

"Good bye, Tsuna."

She didn't wait for a respond. Instead, she ran to the taxi with the snow globe snuggled up into her chest in a secure grip. Tsuna watched her with wide brown eyes as she got inside with her mother. Then the family drove off into the distance. He ran to the front of the gate and stared down the street that the taxi disappeared to. His eyes traveled to the dark gray ground in front of him. There were wet dots that created a trail to where the taxi was. Slowly, he looked back up. He held back the urge to cry. He whispered to his friend that was long gone:

"Good bye, Shizuko."

Somehow, deep down inside, he knew that it would not be their last time.

-ooOOoo-

Tsuna sat in his dark room alone. It had been two hours since his best friend left. It was also two hours since he walked into his bedroom and hadn't come out for anything. No matter what his mother tried to do, he didn't budge. Not even the mention of his favorite food made him reply. The 10 year old sat in the corner and practiced his powers, which wasn't much. He had put all his energy into the creation of that snow globe. The most he did by then was creating small snowflakes, which weren't that impressive as before.

He was exhausted.

Tsuna looked at his desk where a few picture frames rested. One of which was with his mother. Another was with Shizuko. The last was the drawing that he made those few years ago. It took a while to get the picture frame, but after he begged his mother to let him put the picture in one she finally gave in. She got him a brownish frame that made the ink that he drew the white paper on pop out. The pencil markings began to disappear after the first year. It was because he always seemed to have that picture on him, so it was always exposed to the elements. After the child found out about the ink and the idea to draw with it, he redrew the whole thing.

Tsuna yawned loudly. He was dead tired after this long emotional day. He slowly got up and simply collapsed onto his bed.

-ooOOoo-

Tick... tock...

Tick... tock...

Tick... tock...

The clock ticked and tacked every second. The short hand inside the clock pointed towards 12. While the long one moved towards the number. Soon enough, it hit the number 12 and the second hand continued to go clock-wise.

A small noise of discomfort came from Tsuna. He moved from his previous position, which was laying on his stomach, to flip onto his back. His eyebrows knitted together while his head moved from side to side.

"Jack!"

A deep Russian accented voice shouted. Tsuna snapped his eyes open and watched as a shocking scene took place in front of him. He wasn't sure where he was- okay he did know. He was in the middle of a town, but which one was debateable. He took notice that the boards on the shops were written in another language that wasn't Japanese.

"Watch your back!"

A teenage voice replied frantically. Tsuna looked at the directions of the voices only to meet with five strange individuals. There were four males and one female. The woman was a lot like a bird, a colorful one at that, with how she flew around with the use of her wings. The biggest man had a white beard and double swords, one in each hand, and a heavy red coat. The third person was small, about Tsuna's height, maybe, and was covered in gold. The fourth person wasn't even human, but a giant rabbit with a boomerang in his hand. Finally, the last person was a young teenager with white hair, blue eyes and a shepherd's cane. What was even more surprising, about that teenager, was that he used the same frost magic that he used in his life.

Tsuna simply stared at the group in shock. It was impossible! What was going on?!

Boom

Tsuna jumped and looked up at the direction of the blast. His eyes widened as he saw an army of black horses that rode towards the group in high speed. The group of five people fought against them with all their power and strength as they moved forward. It was as if they tried to get to someone. The child tried to follow them, but found that for one he couldn't and for two that the scene moved for him. He continued to watch until the team got to their destination. That destination was a scary looking tall pale man that dressed in all black.

Unfortunately, during the whole fiasco, the team was separated.

The pale man attacked forward with a huge weapon of his towards the white headed boy. A group of voices shouted at the same time:

"Jack!"

-ooOOoo-

Tsuna gasped loudly as he jerked awake. His brown eyes widened in shock at the ceiling.

W-What... what was that?

His thoughts were on hold when he felt another presence in the room. With his body shaken to the core, the boy tilted his head forward until his chin met his chest. He saw the sight of a tall lean man in a black cloak stood in front of his desk. The man held a picture in his hand with a look of great interest in his frightful yellow-silvery eyes. Tsuna lost his voice at the sight of him. Fear washed upon his body to the point that he frozen to the spot.

The man looked at him and Tsuna's heart simply stopped at that point. A smirk appeared on the pale skin. The mysterious man placed the picture with carelessness onto the wooden desk and walked over. Tsuna felt the urge to scream, but it was caught in his throat.

"Look what we have here. Isn't this just precious?" The man cooed with his deep slithery voice. He rubbed his hands together as if he had just won a grand prize. "I knew that MiM did something big. I felt it. But never in my life have I thought that you'd be turned into a human." He parted his hands only to grasp them behind his back. "You know, the guardians are looking for you. They've been making quite the ruckus lately."

It seemed that finally his voice was back. When it was, Tsuna asked nervously:

"W-What do y-you mean b-by that? W-W-Who are you?"

The mysterious man tched-tched a few times while he shook his head in mock disappointment. The look of delight didn't disappeared once. In fact, it only increased.

"That just hurts Jack, but you'll find out soon enough."

The light from the moon stretched into the bedroom through the open window. The man jumped back before the light touched him. He sneered at it, as if it was alive and had offended him. He threatened both him and… the light?

"I'll be back."

Next thing Tsuna knew, the man walked into the shadows and disappeared.

Tsuna found the courage to get up. He got out of bed in a flash and made his way to his desk where the picture laid there where that thing put it. He stared at the picture with a wide expression. It was all clear now what he drew.

He drew those people from the dream.

Little did he know, Tsuna was about to experience a series of common dreams within the near future.

-ooOOoo-

The guardians, even after MiM told them not to, continued on with their search. They had a fellow guardian to search for. They couldn't just seat back and wait for him to reappear.

After so long, the guardians were left with no choice but to ask a human for help. That human they knew since he was a child. He helped them defeat the dangerous Boogeyman, Pitch Black, 13 years ago. They haven't kept in touch with the children since that battle. The only one that had kept in touch was Jack, but the winter spirit would talk just with his first believer, Jamie Bannett. That was their ticket to discovering what happened to their fellow guardian.

Unfortunately, let's just say that they went to greet him in the old fashioned way.

Bang!

A red large bag landed in front of the four anxious guardians. Whatever that was in the bag, had moved around in extreme with the determination to get out. Finally, the rope around the opening of the bag was undone which, in return, opened the entrance. The thing that was inside the bag quickly made its way out. The sight that met them nearly stopped their beating hearts. What they expected was what they got, but with an extra something that they weren't prepared for.

In front of them stood 23 years old Jamie. He looked like a fully grown Jack, except that he had the brown hair and eyes and a taller built body. The adult human looked at them in displeasure. He barked:

"What was that for?!"

The first guardian that was snapped out of their mind was Tooth. She looked ready to cry.

"We're looking for Jack, and we thought that you might know where he is."

Jamie looked at them surprised.

"Jack's missing?"

He whispered in shock. Aster frowned a bit in confusion.

"You... didn't know?"

"Know? Of course I didn't know!" Jamie replied with a glare. "13 years ago he told me that he'll be back by next winter but he never showed up."

"Oh my moon..." North breathed out with wide eyes as he looked at the adult. "If you haven't seen him for 13 years, how can you still see us?"

The human adult snorted at the question. He answered with the same harsh tone as before but with a touch of coldness:

"I always believed in Jack. If it wasn't for him I would have forgotten about you four." He paused for a moment. "You know what? I'm actually am glad that he's gone. I hope he's happier wherever he is now, away from you."

Jamie has grown up a lot throughout these 13 years. He was an adult and saw the harshness that life threw at him. As the years went by, with no signs of his friend Jack returning, the male came to a realization. He realized how miserable his friend was for the past few years that they had known each other. That was before his disappearances. After all, as a child he never noticed it, since he was so innocent at the time with no experience of the harsh reality. Now he knew better.

Jamie also realized who the source of Jack's misery was.

He watched with satisfaction how put down the guardians were when they found out the reason behind his belief in them. They looked miserable. Good, he thought, that should teach them a lesson. Especially since they only now, after 13 long years, came to him with the news.

Sandy tried to be the most rational one among the group. The other men looked rather angry at what was being told to them while Tooth looked shocked. This was not what they expected of the once upon a time innocent and sweet child. The golden man made a question mark out of sand above his head. Jamie rolled his eyes in disbelief.

"You don't get it do you? You're the reason why he's gone! He has been so miserable ever since I've known him. I had enough time to look back to my memories and reflect on his behavior. He was most miserable whenever he visited all of you."

Tooth could not hold it back any longer. She began to cry.

"How dare you-"

Aster hissed in rage while he took out his trusty boomerang off of his back. His 6'1'' height did not intimidate the 5'11'' man. In fact, the human stood taller with his fists on his waist and he glared with his brown raging eyes. Jamie scowled right back:

"I dare because it's the truth!"

Right before Aster's rage took over, North stood between the two. The two men looked at Father Christmas. Their attention on each other mixed with rage was still there. The white headed man spoke in softness in his Russian accent towards the human:

"I see. Thank you for telling us." He signalled to one of the yetis. "You'll be sent home now."

Jamie stared at the man for long few moments then nodded in acceptance. He followed the yeti. All the other yetis left, since they weren't needed anymore. The elves already left since they feared the might-soon-to-be-fight between the human and the guardians. Soon enough, only the guardians were left.

Sandy tried his best to comfort the heartbroken Tooth.

Aster had other things in mind.

"Aren't you bloody mad that he insulted us like that?!"

"Of course I am, but there's no point in fighting. We got our answer."

North replied while he walked up to the globe. The globe was the same as always, except that, this time, there were far more bright dots. Those additional dots were the believers of Jack. They were far and few in between, but they were still there. Aster hopped to keep up with the man.

"That doesn't make any sense. You were right beside me ready to punch the lights out of that brat."

"How can I hurt him when he might be right?"

North spoke in sadness, his shoulders heaved down at the thought.

"Awww, is someone sad?" A familiar mocking deep, slithery voice was heard from all around them. The four guardians' heads snapped towards all directions in search of the source of the voice. A black clothed figure appeared on top of the globe. A dark smirk plastered on his face. "Do you need a few tissues?"

"Pitch!"

Aster hissed lowly, his body leaped over to the top of the globe only to discover that their enemy disappeared.

"Now, now, is that any way to treat a guest?"

The Boogeyman asked while he appeared in another high place.

"Why are you here?"

Tooth demanded of him. Her little helpers that appeared with the usual reports hid behind her in fright.

"Hm, nothing much really. I simply came to drop by for a small chat. But I guess that it won't happen." He mocked a sad look. "I see that you're too busy looking for little old Jack." At that, a smirk replaced his sad look in an open mocking manner. This time Sandy tried to attack him, but the Boogeyman did the same as he did when the giant rabbit attacked him. He disappeared then reappeared in another spot. "I'm afraid that he is not who he once was."

"What have you done to him!?"

North roared. He took out his double swords that rested on his back. Pitch laughed at them.

"I haven't done anything to him... yet. However, let's make this interesting. How about we have a race against time? You have 4 years to find Jack, or else I'll get to him before you do." He paused for a delicate moment with a thoughtful look. "Don't worry. I won't do anything to him as long as MiM is watching. After those four years, he's mine."

He slithered into the darkness and disappeared.