Shatterdome Sky

by Soul Sky

Tsuna is looking at his mother, his grin strained and a little sad "At least I got to be what I've always wanted Mama" he told her. "A giant robot." Nana choked on a half-sob half-laugh, hand over her mouth. "Just- just come back alive Tsu-kun." (AU)

12. Chapter 12

When pilots Drifted they tended to develop a…dependence on each other. The two partners become almost like extensions of each other.

They develop a sixth sense about each other.

One will always know where the other is if they're close by. Reacting to the partner becomes instinct. They begin to think in plurals- 'we will' instead of 'I', 'for us' instead of 'for me'. It's a natural reaction, when sharing not just experiences with a person, but sharing minds and going out together regularly to face death head on and win.

Protective doesn't even begin to cover it.

The rest of the world doesn't seem to understand though- not really. Not even the people who try.

Strike at one of them and attack the other. It's that simple.

Unfortunately (for those fools) no one seems to understand that this concept applied to Tsuna and Hibari as well. Perhaps especially so, since Tsuna knew Hibari considered Tsuna to be a part of his pack (And Tsuna returned the sentiment, finding himself-much to his own horror/amusement- thinking in pack animal terms after sharing Hibari's mind so much).

They didn't seem to realize that Tsuna was perfectly capable of defending himself (thank you drill sergeants) and (thanks to Hibari rubbing off again) was perfectly willing to be mean about it if the initial attempts failed.

Personally, Tsuna was of the opinion that anyone who messed with a Jaeger Pilot (a person who went out and professionally killed real life versions of Godzilla) was being stupid and deserved to get hit (Hibari was making him violent ohgod) at least once if only to learn not to do it again. (Because Hibari was not Tsuna and Tsuna may hit them for it, but Hibari would decimate. Plus the other Pilots were nowhere near as laidback as Tsuna about someone messing with their partners- of course none of the others had Hibari as a partner who would be perfectly willing to destroy the aggressors on his own.)

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-whispers into the night- Sorry. Stuff happened. (Ranging from Grandpa going into the hospital because of a tumor in his brain and a few other things including work and a car accident.)