5. Falling Into the Abyss
Word Count: 537
It was a funny thing.
"Oh my god, Takeshi-kun, what happened!"
"You broke your arm while practicing baseball?"
"Aw, dude, that sucks! Hope it heals soon!"
Their words echoed in his head as his feet carried him up the stairs.
"Dude, did'ya hear? Our baseball ace broke his arm!"
"What? Then what good is he to our team when he's healing?"
"Exactly! He's so useless right now!"
They contradicted their kinder words and each one echoed as his feet carried him closer to the roof. Everything was blank; everything felt empty; everything seemed black.
It was a funny thing.
As he trekked higher to the sky, he was falling deeper in the dark abyss that was his mind.
He was going to kill himself.
It was a funny thing.
"What? No! Yamamoto-kun, you can't kill yourself!"
"You still have your whole life in front of you!"
"That's right! Don't do this!"
All he saw was black; all he heard was a torrent of rain that soaked away their meaningless words. Were they saying something of comfort? Were they screaming for his life?
Weren't they the ones who said he didn't have a purpose, that he was useless at the only thing he's ever had?
"…I haven't had those kinds of intense thoughts."
Eh?
He stood before him in his world, his mind that was black and white, with normally colorful brown eyes dull brown that was the same color as his once chocolate colored hair, now plain brown.
Ah. So Tsuna was here in his darkness?
Can't he see that there wasn't anything he can say that can change his mind?
It was a funny thing.
"I mean, I'm just a loser… I only seriously evaluate my life when I'm about to die."
"When I face my own death, I suddenly realize all the things I've failed to do… The things I wish I'd done, if I knew my life depended on it."
"But something like this… It's not worth dying over."
Something cracked.
The world before him, stretching behind Tsuna cracked, a shard dissolving into the air.
And he felt desperate.
Suddenly he didn't want this.
'What am I doing?'
Was Tsuna his key to getting him out?
Was he the one that could pull him up from his abyss?
It was a funny thing.
Tsuna turned.
No!
Wait!
Don't leave!
Yamamoto reached, and suddenly they were falling.
They were in a world of dark, were the rain never stopped, where the sound echoed his peers words and was the rush of the wind as he descended down from the school roof.
The world was falling, shard by shard as Tsuna's words sunk in through the deafening noise of the rain, as he watched Tsuna fall down with him, blue peeking in from the cracked holes, light shining in-
"REBORN!"
"I'LL SAVE YAMAMOTO WITH MY DYING WILL!"
And the dark shattered.
And from where he was, the sky seemed to just envelop Tsuna as he rushed to his defense.
It was a funny thing.
It was as he fell from as high as he could get to the sky did he actually reach it.
"You're amazing, Tsuna."
'You're my sky, Tsuna.'
A/N: So... This fic was all over the place but it was intentional. However, I knew what I wanted to accomplish with it, and did if I may say so myself, but you guys might not have. So, my apologies to those that didn't understand. Don't think hard about it 'cause it really is all in the words.