His back finally healed after about 3 hours of work, Tsuna was ready to curl up on his bed and fall asleep, and was about to do so, when Reborn came in. Tsuna had been expecting this, but had hoped that, as Dame-Tsuna, he would be overlooked as a suspect.
"Dame-Tsuna, where were you after school?"
"I-I was here, l-like usual." Tsuna forced the stutters, hoping it would help throw him off. He didn't like acting weak around Reborn, but it was better than having people know that he wasn't Dame-Tsuna. Reborn walked around Tsuna and kicked his back. It was good logic. If Tsuna had been the mystery kid, his back should still be injured from the explosion. Tsuna let himself fall foreward and hit the ground.
"What was that for?" asked Tsuna, pulling the bambi eyes. They always work. Reborn just left the room, looking a little angry. He would probably take his anger out on Ieyasu during their evening tort- I mean tutoring session. Tsuna didn't really care. Sun flames can really take it out of you if you're not good with them. Tsuna flopped down on his bed and passed out.
The next day, by the way Gokudera followed Ieyasu like a lost puppy, Tsuna could guess that things went well. Gokudera probably chopped the stranger saving him to somehow part of being the awesomeness of Jyudaime.
Today during P.E., something unexpected (to everyone but Tsuna) happened. Yamamoto chose Tsuna to be on his team. Although Tsuna was happy not to be picked last, he was afraid of what would happen tomorrow.
Tsuna was left to sweep the field again. He was pretty good at it after all the years. Ieyasu was stuck helping him, trying to show everyone how 'nice' he was to his twin. Tsuna had been hit at least 5 times already for being so dame, but it was nothing he couldn't deal with. He was just wondering how long he would need to put up with Ieyasu when they heard someone coming toward them.
"Yo!" the twins whipped around and saw Yamamoto running over to them, holding a broom. "Help has arrived!"
"Hey Yamamoto!" smiled Ieyasu, shooting Tsuna a glare that said to keep quiet. Tsuna was a bit interested in what would happen, so he obliged. After a couple minutes of sweeping, the fatal question was asked.
"Hey, Ieyasu, you're really good at sports, so I think I can come to you about this." started Yamamoto. "Lately, I keep doing worse and worse in baseball, and I don't know what to do. What do you think I should do?"
"I think you should just give up on it. If you keep getting worse, what's the point of continuing to try?" Yamamoto went silent for a moment, letting what Ieyasu had said sink in.
"Thanks, I'll see you tomorrow." said Yamamoto forcing a smile that was in no way sincere and walked off. When Yamamoto was out of sight, Tsuna dropped his broom and left.
"Hey, where are you going, Dame-Tsuna?!" yelled Ieyasu.
"Anywhere you aren't. I can't stand being near someone so revolting."
"What did you just call me?!" Ieyasu threw his broom at Tsuna. It hit the back of his head, but Tsuna didn't flinch.
"I called you revolting. You'll see why tomorrow." Tsuna just kept walking, dreading the next day.
Tsuna locked the door to his room, a note in the front saying he was studying and no to bother him. He then snuck out through the window and headed toward the forest where he had learned zero point breakthrough. There, he let it all out, his anger, his sadness, his want to no longer be dame. Flames of every color swirled around him, burning the trees around him. Why had Byakuran sent him here? He couldn't see anything different here except for him having a twin. Now he would have to go through all the pain he had experienced again, and there would be no friends there to support him.
After about an hour of letting loose the flames he had held in, he finally stopped them and returned home. No one seemed to notice he had been gone. Even without the note on his door, nobody probably would. He sighed and went down stairs to get his dinner. He returned to his room and flopped onto his bed, letting sleep over take him, dreading what would happen the next day.
Reborn sat bolt upright as Leon started changing colors. Leon rarely did this, only when unknown flames were being used nearby. Reborn focused on what the colors were. Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Purple. Some unknown people were nearby, using each of the flames.
It took a while to find where the flames had been used, and when Reborn got there, whoever the people had been, it was too late. The unknown people were gone, but they had left a huge sign they had been there. Deep onto the forest, there was a crater the size of a large house. Everything within its perimeter was burnt to a crisp, still hot from whoever had burned it. There was even some dying will flames still burning.
"Looks like we've got a new player in our mafia game." said Reborn with a smile, returning back to the house.
The next day during lunch someone ran onto the classroom. "Yamamoto's about to jump off the roof!" Ieyasu, who was walking by with Gokudera near him, just snorted.
"Serves him right for letting himself slip!" Tsuna, on the other had bolted out the door and ran to the roof. Up there was a multitude of people gathered around where Yamamoto was, yet there was a large space between him and the crowd.
Tsuna walked straight through the crowd and over to Yamamoto. Each of his steps seemed to echo through the suddenly silent crowd, murmurs of Dame-Tsuna being idiotic running through the crowd. Then he climbed over the fence and joined Yamamoto on the other side, and even those small whispers were silenced.
"The sky's beautiful today." Tsuna stared up at the sky, leaning relaxed on the railing, as if he wasn't about to fall off the top of the school. The roof was dead quiet, yet even then, no one could hear what the two suicide's were saying. Yamamoto looked surprised at this, and looked skyward too.
"Yeah, but I've always kind of liked the rain." Tsuna gave a smile at this.
"So, why are you doing this anyway?"
"You heard what your brother said, I'm finished. Everything I worked for has come to nothing."
"What about your dad? What will he think?" Yamamoto tensed at this. Tsuna got into a less relaxed position. Rule #1 to negotiations and debates: always show that you mean business
with both your voice and body language.
"Yamamoto, I didn't come here to lecture you. I just wanted to tell you this before you jump." Tsuna looked directly into Yamamoto's eyes, and later Yamamoto would swear that Tsuna's eyes became orange. "If you jump, I'm jumping with you."
Yamamoto's shocked brown eyes met the burning orange. Someone would jump for him? He had had 'friends', but none of them would do this for him. After a minute, Yamamoto started to climb back over. Although they didn't know what exactly had happened, the crowd cheered. Then the fence broke, falling backwards, and the crowd screamed.
Desperate not to fall, Yamamoto grabbed Tsuna's arm, pulling them both down. Tsuna grabbed the ledge with his free arm, both of them suspended there.
Reborn readied a dying will bullet as the two boys hung there. Perhaps Dame-Tsuna could prove that he did have flames. But before the hitman could shoot, Dame-Tsuna threw Yamamoto back onto the roof and seemed to effortlessly flipped high into the air. Gasps could be heard from the crowd as Tsuna landed easily on the roof. Reborn must have imagined it, but he could have sworn that, just for a second, that an orange flame had burned on Tsuna's forehead. Tsuna looked around for a second, as if just realizing what he had done, and darted down the stairs, Yamamoto following after.
Reborn made a mental note to keep an eye on Tsuna and Yamamoto before leaving to go find out what Baka-Ieyasu was doing. That boy couldn't be left alone for 5 seconds without messing up something. After all, he had just missed the perfect chance to recruit someone else for the Vongola.
Tsuna sighed as he walked home. He hadn't meant to release a small flame when he saved Yamamoto, but the sky flame was practically begging to be used. As a matter of fact, all of the flames seemed restless from not being used. In his world, there was usually an assassin every day or so, always keeping him on his toes. Here, there was nothing to do. He figured he'd have to continually release flames in the forest. Tsuna gave another sigh.
"Why are you sighing so much?"
Tsuna jumped at the unexpected voice and saw Kyoko walking next to him. "K-Kyoko, when did you get there?"
"Just now. Hey Tsuna, did you hear your twin saved Takeshi from commiting suicide?"
"What?" Tsuna couldn't believe his ears.
"Yeah, apparently people thought it was you at first, but later decided it was your brother." Kyoko smiled, not seeing the look of surprise on Tsuna's face. Tsuna got a hold of himself again to ask a question.
"Um, Kyoko, why did you agree to go on a date with my brother?" Kyoko blushed at this, and Tsuna thought of the Kyoko of his world, now a personal hacker for the Vongola.
"Well, I was in a bad relationship with Mochida, and I couldn't just dump him, so I though the easiest way would be to go out with someone else. I was going to only go out with Ieyasu once, but he's so… nice."Tsuna quickened his pace. He couldn't listen to this anymore. "T-Tsuna, where are you going?" Kyoko's voice was so sweet and worried, but Tsuna just kept walking, a single tear running down his cheek.
Tsuna had the weirdest dream that night.
He was standing in a meadow. In the middle of it was his house. he tried to see how far the meadow went, but it seemed never ending. After a while, he returned to the replica of his house and found a boy standing outside of it. The kid had chocolate brown eyes and gravity defying brown hair. At first, Tsuna thought it was Ieyasu and that this was really a nightmare, but as he got closer, he saw it was himself.
The other him, was gazing straight forward and took a while to notice Tsuna walking over to him. When he did, the copy jumped up and ran over to him, tripping five times in the process.
"You're finally here!" The other him sounded over joyed. "I've been waiting for a few days now. The weird white haired man said you'd come soon!"
"W-what are you talking about?" asked Tsuna, but before his other could answer, the world around them fell until they were in complete blackness.
"C-come back s-soon!" yelled his double before he too vanished and Tsuna found himself lying in his bed. He looked around to see why he woke up, then remembered his stupid habit of waking at the strike of five to get ready from school (the habit came from a bullet every morning at this time from Reborn), gave a groan, and got ready for school.