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Mortals in their animal form

Flashback

Pairing ; R27

Warnings : some characters may be OOC

Last time :

After two hours

The room was completely black, the TV had long ago gone black, and the world outside was slowly being covered in a fresh blanket of snow. The only sound in the room was slow breathing. There on the big bed, tangled into the blankets and pillows were two people. The short one was wrapped in the tallest persons arms as if guarding him. His head tucked under the taller black haired mans chin. It looked as if no one could reach them, not even the world.

Now :

"Hey, Dame-Tsuna! Wait for us, we only want to have a small talk with you!"

"Why is it always me?"

"You freak, wait!"

"Only two more. Two more turns and I'm there."

"Catch him! Don't let him get away!"

"Here it is. Yes!"

"That little shit sure knows how to run!"

Tsuna finally turned the last turn and there! At the end of the hallway was the door to his room. Now if he could lock them before these guys, who were running after him, catch him.

He turned the handle and pushed the door open. He then ran inside and slammed the door close. He fumbled with the keys and then finally he locked the door just as the handle started being pushed.

He slid down to the ground and sighed. He could hear the guys behind the door as they were pushing at the door and slamming their fists against it. He only thanked the gods that they made the door bulled proof. And this day started so good, too.

Flashback (This morning)

The morning was peaceful. Everything was quite, everyone was still asleep. As it was almost January, the winter was covering the grass with a thin layer of frost, as it's almost to warm to snow. The only white winter Tsuna could remember was 6 years ago. The first morning rays of the sun made their way into one of the many rooms in the building.

In the room, we can see a small bundle laying in the middle of a big bed, covered by a thick, dark brown and fluffy blanket. When the ray landed on their face a small nose wrinkled.

And then large, honey brown, doe eyes opened and sleepily blinked. The person slowly sat up and let the blanked fall down to gather around the thin waist. Milky white arms stretched up and a small back, snapped in satisfaction.

The blanket was pushed aside and thin milky white legs slipped inside brown fluffy shoes. The person, dressed in sky blue shorts and a baggy white long sleeved shirt which was falling from one shoulder, slowly made their way into the bathroom.

After brushing their teeth they went to their bedroom and opened the closet. Selecting some tight, light blue jeans and an orange sweater to put on, dark brown ankle high boots finished his outfit.

His gaze traveled to his table. There was the scarf that Reborn gave him. It was almost two months ago. Not that he was counting. No. Anyway he had to start walking if he wanted to be on time for his class.

His first and only one, at this day is with Jerald Robinson. Its about features of the pacts. He absolutely loved this class. Maybe even more then art. Even when he doesn't have any pacts himself, he will know which one his bullies will summon. With this on his mind, he picked his black cross body back up and started his way to class.

After class, because I'm lazy: P

"So don't forget, next week we will have a small exam from the different features that we find in pacts. Please have on mind that even one small difference can make completely different pacts."

And with this Jerald finished his lesson just when the bell ringed. Everyone started packing their things and Tsuna was no exception. All of his text books were throw back inside his bag and his pencil case too. "I have to hurry" he thought.

"Ah look if it isn't Dame-Tsuna. What are you doing here? You don't need this kind of class, because you don't have any pacts at all. Ha, pathetic!"

Was all Tsuna needed to hear before he started to run. He could hear their steps running after him. He turned sharply to the college part of the school.

"Hey, Dame-Tsuna! Wait for us, we only want to have a small talk!"

End of flashback :

They finally stopped slamming at the door. He didn't know if they left, but that doesn't matter now. He had some methods to leave his room besides the door. His bag was left next to the door and he walked to his closet to pick out his coat. Once clothed accordingly to the weather, the window in his bedroom was opened and he jumped out.

His arms caught the branch of the big tree just outside his room. Once, safe, on the ground he looked around if someone saw his way down. It wouldn't go well, if someone saw how he always ran from his bullies. Satisfied that no one was around to see him, he turned and ran to the transporter. Its a machine build to allow Travelers to travel to Denymeria.

To Tsuna's happiness there wasn't anyone except Emory Turner. Another professor at the Academy. His work was to active the portal each time someone wanted to travel to or from the Denymria. Tsuna only nodded to Emory and ran straight through the big metal circle.

The bullies POV :

"Say, Mochida. What we do now?"

"Its simple. That useless thing always come here so we just wait for him and then …." insert evil laugh.

Tsuna's POV :

Tsuna's breath was coming out in small clouds as he ran. His feet wading in the snow which is still falling and his arms circling the trees to help himself. He could clearly hear his bullies behind him. The only difference between them and him was that they all had their coats so the cold didn't bother them.

But Tsuna doesn't have his coat. They took it and it was torn into pieces right in front of him. As he was running he could feel the cold in his bones and he knew that his fingers and nose were getting slightly blue.

But he knew too, that if he stopped running now it wouldn't end good. At all. So the only option that he had was running and hoping that they will grow bored. He could hear them getting closer to him and willed his legs to run even faster.

He just turned sharply in hope that it will confuse them but he knew that it wasn't possible as he leaves tracks in the freshly fallen snow. Hey, but he could hope.

"AH!"

He just turned for the second time when he ran straight into someones chest. Of course, the first thing he did was start panicking and struggling. His hands hitting the persons chest. His eyes widened in unhidden fear and his legs started trembling.

"No! Please, let go of me! Please!" he cried and could feel hot tears leaking from his eyes and down his cold cheeks. The person took a hold of his arms with one of his and the second one came around Tsuna's waist to hold him upright.

"Tsuna? What happened? What are you doing here?" at the sound of the mans voice Tsuna lifted his head and locked his eyes with endless black ones. He could feel as something in his chest started warming up and his whole body started trembling from the endless happiness he felt.

"R- Reborn?"

"Yeah, Tsuna what happen. Why are you running? And where is your coat. " Reborn asked just as he slowly lowered both of them to the ground and started stripping off his coat. (A/N:Nope. Nothing is gonna happen. You have to wait a little longer :D)

Tsuna just trembled with his arms wrapped around himself in hopes to somehow warm himself up. Reborn then put his coat around Tsuna's shoulders and stood up. Tsuna looked at him, not understanding why he stood.

Just when he wanted to ask he heard a crack. He jumped up from his position and turned sharply to where the sound came from. He accidentally clenched onto Reborns sleeve and Reborn positioned himself only a half of Tsuna was seen. After some tense minutes, finally, Tsuna's bullies come out of the trees.

Tsuna's breathing slightly hitched at the sight of them and Reborn knew that this was from what Tsuna had run. His eyes narrowed at the sight of the boys he once rescued Tsuna from before. It was when they meet, too. And, from the looks he was getting from them, they remembered him too.

Mochida's eyes widened when he caught sight of the man from before. The Arcobaleno. „What the fuck is he still doing with that thing." He thought angrily and snarled. Tsuna seeing this, whimpered and stepped closer to Reborn, clinging to his arm even more.

Reborn growled and made a step forward. The bullies, all smirked, thinking that they had an advantage. They were three against one, because Dame-Tsuna can't do anything. „Hey, you, Arcobaleno! Step away from him. We have the advantage, it's three against one. If you step away we will leave you alone. We only want Dame-Tsuna here."

One of them said and then smirked. Reborn hearing this, could feel the rage inside him. The wind around them started swirling, creating strong gusts of wind that were slicing the trees and flowers, birds flying away, not wanting to be hit with the deadly gusts of wind.

The bullies were looking around them, now slowly seeing how stupid they were, when they angered the strong Arcobaleno before them. But when they looked at him they could see their lives flashing before their eyes.

Reborn's eyes became red in his anger, his nails changed to the form of claws, you could see fangs peeking from his mouth and if you looked really closely you could see two black horns on his head. Both of them started from his forehead, then curling and pointing into the air over his head.

They could feel their knees shaking and before they knew it, all of them ran away screaming.

10 minutes later :

Once Reborn calmed down he looked at Tsuna, who was still shivering but was slowly getting better, thanks to Reborn's coat, which was a good three sizes bigger and it looked like it ate him. It was also a special kind of coat, made from the best quality Mortal silk. Which is fabric made from the hairs of one specific kind of Mortals, who had the form of gigantic spiders.

Reborn slowly made a step forward as if waiting for some kind of rejection, but when Tsuna made no move he moved so he was directly in front of him, hiding him from the wind and snow which now started falling again.

„Come Tsuna. We should get you somewhere warm. Before you catch a cold." Tsuna nodded and shivered just as a strong gust of wind blew by them. They both turned and started their walk to the Circle so Tsuna could go back to his room.

The walk was getting awkward as none of them had anything to say. Tsuna was just thinking what he had done to have such an unfair life, while Reborn was thinking about something that he should have done long ago now.

They were both deep in thought so Tsuna didn't see the old branch on the ground and tripped. Just as he was about to make contact with the cold earth a hand caught him around the waist and held him upright. He looked up at Reborn and smiled gratefully.

Reborn smiled back and pulled his hand back, but his other hand took a hold of Tsuna's and only then did they continue with their walk. It wasn't long before they could see the circle.

„Tsuna, how do you open this thing from this side?" Tsuna chuckled and stepped forward, not minding that Reborn came with him. He then pressed a big red button on one side of the Circle. After a minute the big thing started glowing with bright blue light.

Reborn was getting ready to step through before Tsuna when the light died off and the portal ended glowing in that peaceful white light. Tsuna clenched the arm around his and stepped inside.

Reborn instinctively closed his eyes and when he opened them he could see a big campus, full with many different trees, flowers, ponds with fishes and, of course, many students. Across the big park thing, could be seen a big light brown building which he knew was the university.

Next to it was another building, this one being dark orange. This were the dormitories of the Academy. Once Tsuna reclaimed his footing they both started walking across the campus, towards the orange building. When they were walking by the students many turned to stare at them. If it was because Reborn was handsome and no one ever saw him before, or that The Dame-Tsuna was holding hands with a very handsome and sexy man.

As it seemed Tsuna noticed it too, because he blushed bright red and yanked his hand back so he wasn't touching Reborn, thinking that Reborn shouldn't be seen holding hands with someone like him. Reborn on the other hand frowned, and when he noticed that Tsuna was shying away from him, he stepped forward and took Tsuna's hand back in his.

Tsuna's heard jerked up to meet Reborn's smirk before he was being pulled after Reborn. He could see many girls glaring at him and thus made a move to pull his hand away, but before managing to do so he was pulled into Reborn's side.

His eyes widened when he felt Reborn's arm around his shoulders. His arm automatically came to rest on Reborn's strong chest and he blushed yet again at the feel of the strong muscles and when he heard Reborn's deep chuckle he looked down at the ground.

In Tsuna's room (Room number 27, Block R)

Once they were in the hall where his room was, Reborn noticed the plates of other peoples rooms had even numbers on them and looked fairly new. Only there at the end of the hall was one door and that one had seen better days. But when they came closer Reborn's eyes slightly widened. No this door wasn't old, it was vandalized.

Many names and bad words were engraved into the door. Reborn slowly exhaled so he didn't do something he would regret later. Tsuna reached inside his pocket and pulled simple gold key with little bear key ring out. Reborn chuckled at the cuteness.

Once inside, Reborn turned Tsuna right to bathroom with the order to bath or he would join him. Tsuna, blushing a deep red, ran straight into bathroom where he ran himself a bath while locking the door.

Tsuna got into the tub, once satisfied with the water, and breathed out.

The hot water was doing the impossible to his frozen body. He didn't even want to think what would have happened, if Reborn hadn't shown up. He shivered only thinking about it. His thoughts went astray when he washed himself and when he walked to his room, not minding that he was clad in only one small towel, and when he dressed.

Once dressed in a loose shirt and skinny white jeans, barefoot, he walked to the wall mirror. There, he saw a skinny boy with wild hair and wide eyes. Nothing that would someone find pretty or even interesting, according to him that is.

Just when he was about to turn back, something shiny caught his attention. And when he looked better his eyes widened. There, on his forearm, was a big beautiful shiny black, red and green gem. Around him were smaller orange and black gems and the big one had the shape of a howling wolf.

„Oh, who could know that it would be this interesting." Tsuna turned and found Reborn looking at the gems on his arm. „The big one is called bloodstone. Its know for its rarity and unusual coloring.

Its unique green color is a result of dense chloride or hornblende needle inclusions, often accompanied by red to yellowish blood-like inclusions that are owed to iron oxide. Bloodstone, sometimes referred to as heliotrope, is one of the more unusual gemstone varieties of chalcedony quartz." (#1)

„And the small ones are diamonds. Very interesting. The bond looks like it's very strong."

„Wha-...What?" Reborn chuckled. He walked until he as directly behind Tsuna and rolled his sleeve up to show the same kind of gems on his arm, in the same arrangement as Tsuna's. Tsuna touched the one on Reborn and flinched. „It's still warm. But when?"

He looked at Reborn with questioning gaze. „ Are you sure?" he asked in his mind and then jumped when Reborn answered. „Of course, I am. I wouldn't have done it, if I wasn't, would I?"

Tsuna nodded as he could feel tears rushing into his eyes. He lifted his hands to hide, but another pair stopped him. He looked up and saw Reborn smiling down at him. „Don't worry. You won't be alone anymore. When you will need me I will come."

That was all it took for Tsuna to break, letting his tears run down his cheeks just as Reborn pulled him closer to himself, into his arms. Reborn smiled and pulled him even closer when he heard Tsuna „Thank you" all over again.

To be continue

So here is it. I Finally finished. There were same parts when I thought I would never finish it but now I think it's good.

So if you think the same please let me know, or if there's something you would like to see in the next chapter.

Please review and read!

By Lenus

Beta'ed by Dawnsty

(#1): This context is from this web page : www. gemselect other-info / green-gemstones. php and is slightly changed