'My own stupidity got me into this situation...now my smarts have to get me out...'
Chapter 3: Left to the Cold
Tsuna could feel the cold creep up his fingers, almost like he was being pricked by it. The kid tried to move and pull himself off of the ground, his body was sore. Part of his mind had no clue what had happened, and yet another part of it knew all to well what happened. 'Enma...he left me here...didn't he...' The kid sighed, and tried to pull himself up again, his body hurt and as he moved blood dripped from his body staining the ground. Stumbling against the wall, he looked up, it was dark out the moon was blocked by the clouds. It looked like rain was on the way at this time. 'have to get home...have to find Giotto...tell him...it hurts...' Tsuna stumbled and fell down onto the ground, hitting his head on the rock. It hurt, and he could feel something warm dripping down his face.
"Gio..." His voice sounded hoarse, like he had worn it out while screaming during Enma's little torture moment, the boy fell forward again into strong arms. The arms he didn't recgonize but he knew it was someone that he could trust. 'Boy you shouldn't be out here...Gio...is worried about you...' The fox like creature held the boy in his arms, sniffing out Gio, they were both out looking for Tsuna. After it had started to get dark, they had gotten worried, and it was just that way. "Hm...Gio...you can stop looking.." He looked to him, holding the sleeping boy, he had wrapped him up in his jacket and was trying to keep him as warm as possible.
"Tsuna...where did you go...?" Not that he needed to ask, he already had some sort of idea why he had gone there, or where he had gone. To keep them out of harm's way but what had happened to him there. The kid coughed and squirmed a bit when he was handed over to Giotto, he wanted the warmth and it felt good to him, but then he didn't have any idea where he was. "Gio...have to warn him...have to tell him...Enma..." He coughed again, and let his eyes flicker open, they only stayed open for a minute and closed again as the cold started to attack his body again.
He could hear a whisper in his ear, and the warm hands that reminded him of Giotto. "I'm right here...just rest kiddo...you need sleep..." The kid nodded and seemed to drift off, he was cold and tired but he wanted to make sure his family and friends were safe. 'I have to save them...but what am I supposed to do...there is nothing I can do...' He was asleep and yet he could feel them move him, and he could hear the things going on around him, the voices. People touching him, warm hands that reminded him of his friends, and he didn't want to open his eyes thinking it was a dream.
"Tenth!" Gokudera was sitting at his side, with the other guardians even Hibari was here. He was sitting in the corner, leaning against the wall, Hibird sitting on his shoulder. Tsuna could feel the clothes were loose on his body, and he was bandaged. His head hurt, and he reached up feeling the bandages around it, he had hit his head on the rock that he could remember. "What happened...my head hurts...water..." He groaned, they wouldn't let him sit up, the bandages around his wrist had been redone. By now it probably looked like Enma had been the one to hurt him, not himself. He didn't like that, but Enma had been the cause of him doing that to himself, and now his body was sore for reasons similiar to it.
"Gio said that cat curled up in the corner helped him find you...you were laying in the snow bleeding...what happened?" he heard a door open, and looked around. Gokudera and the others minus Hibari were all looking at him, wondering what had happened to him. And why he hadn't talked about it before, why had he waited this long to tell them about Enma. "I just got into trouble...but I'm alright...he didn't get to any of you..." He wouldn't let him, he would keep pleasing Enma to keep his friends out of harms way.
If he told them to much they would get into trouble, and he didn't want that to happen, he had to make sure they were fine it was his job as the boss. "I'm alright...just tired...okay..." He smiled and acted like it was nothing, putting his hand to his forehead again, he was way to tired. But he wouldn't be able to rest they probably wouldn't let him. "Tenth tell us what happened! We can't help if you don't..." Gokudera was overly concerned the way he was looking at Tsuna. If something was happening he wanted to know the best thing he could do, and at least try to keep him out of harm's way.
Make sure no one hurt him again, that was what he was supposed to do. "It's nothing Gokudera Kun...Just...I can't talk about it..." He looked at him, his eyes wandering to Giotto who was not looking to happy about this. "Can you guys leave for a little bit please? I would like to talk to Tsuna alone..." They nodded, well most of them as they walked out of the room, Gokudera was still sitting at Tsuna's side looking at him as if trying to get him to speak.
"Please Gokudera...I will bring you back in here before everyone else..." He hesitated but looked at Tsuna who swallowed and nodded, knowing he was going to get a lecture from Giotto about all of this. The door was shut behind Gokudera as Giotto moved over to the bed, he raised his hand and slapped Tsuna across the face. The sound of him being hit echoed across the room, but the door was sealed so no one could get in even if they tried to do so. "You should have told them! You can't keep things to yourself that wound on your wrist speaks enough for it...you want that to happen again..." Giotto growled, and moved to make Tsuna lay back down, he needed to get the kid healed again before he let him get into trouble or do anything. "You will not be going to school alone...I will tell them about Enma if you don't...think about that..."
Tsuna looked down at his hands, he was scared he didn't want to deal with this. "Giotto I...he won't stop...what he did tonight...was just the beginning..." Tsuna grabbed onto his arm, and didn't want Giotto to leave. "Please don't go...please..." Tsuna let the water fall onto the bed, he wasnt' one for showing anyone his pain, and yet he couldn't hold it back this time, it was like Giotto was dragging it out of him. "Tsuna..." He sat down next to the boy and held him close, he wanted to make sure he was alright. "Look just take care of yourself...and me and you can talk to them tomorrow...for now it's time you got some rest..." He nodded and closed his eyes leaning against Giotto, he was tired.
And he wanted to try to rest some, there was just no way that things would work out again. He felt someone run his hands over his mouth, and lick some blood off of his cheek. "Too much for you to take care of on your own Tsuna...you should really let all of us help you..." Tsuna was fast asleep, he wouldn't wake up for the rest of the night hopefully. It was better that way if he just kept in bed, and relaxed.
He pulled away from Tsuna after putting him against the pillow, he could see Gokudera was still sitting out there, the others had gone home. "He's resting now...you can stay here if you wish...he has some things to tell you when he awakes..." He moved to walk up the stairs, leaving him there, to do as he pleased. He was worried about Tsuna, they all probably were at this point.
Sitting on Giotto's window when he got into his room was a smaller figure, the ears twitched, fire seemed to light up the room. It was Gokudera's cat thing, or at least a human form of it, and it just sat there watching him. "You want to go see your master? in that form it's not a smart idea you should change back..." The cat hissed and jumped off the window, his form shifting back to his smaller form. 'Not happy...not happy...' The cat was thinking, as if sending his thoughts to Giotto, he didn't mind being a cat. It's just keeping secrets was not his thing, and he didn't like being used by Giotto either.
"Go see your master he's bound to be looking for you..." The cat hissed again, and rubbed up against Gio's leg before bouncing out of the room. He was confused about all of this, and he saw the sad look on Gio's face as he fell onto the bed. The door was shut as if by someone else, and the cat felt someone else was there, but the energy wasn't a threatening one. "Where were you cat?" Gokudera leaned down and picked the cat up, placing it on his shoulder. The cat was shivering, hissing almost like it was mad about something, but it just forced itself to calm down clinging to Gokudera's clothes.
"What happened...hm...whatever let's get to bed..." He walked up to the room he was staying in, and set the cat down on the bed after shutting the door. 'Tenth...what happened...you have to be alright...' Gokudera slipped off his shirt and tossed it aside, falling back on the bed, as the cat moved to avoid being hit. The cat crawled onto Gokudera and curled up on his chest, flicking his tail back and forth, almost like he was tense and wanted to get out of this place. 'Hm...the cat feels it too...should be careful...' He didn't want to set the cat off or annoy him for some reason, which he did off and on lately.
The cat seemed to settle though he was looking at the door, as if he was waiting for something to walk through the door. He was being overprotective of his master, and the others in the house, keeping himself calm and acting like he was asleep. Though he was not at all.
~Giotto's room~
"You are worrying too much for that child...he is not pathetic...getting involved now would just cause problems for all of you..." Sitting on the bed next to him was two people, a form of a small child that was playing with a car. The child seemed to be doing more of the talking then the red haired man, it was like he would or could read his mind. But the child was just speaking this way because of his power, he could sense people's thoughts from the emotions, and the auras. It was why he talked the way he did. "I worry about him...and so do you in your own little way and you know it..." He looked over to the pair, they were silent, the kid more focused on his toy then anything else.
"He needs us...that Enma...I want you two to find out what he is up to...and why he is hurting him like this..." The kid stopped playing with the toy, as it glowed and turned into a gun, he didn't know what he was supposed to do. But he would figure out what he was up to. No matter what he had to do, that was his task. "As you wish...Keep him far away from him...the guardian in that ring of his...awaken it..." That was all the child said dropping the ring from Tsuna's hand, he had taken it earlier and was working with the guardian. It would at least keep an eye on him once it was awakened. That was up to Giotto to do, he had given it his blood, and now Gio just had to connect it to Tsuna.
The kid stood up and vanished once he neared the window, leaving the red head, and the crystal that stored them there. He would be fine without either of them for awhile, but even his body had limits. It was kept alive till he could be released, and that was that. 'You will not be able to hide from me Enma...' He sighed remembering Tsuna's face, he didn't want to let anyone hurt him, or anything get in the way again.
Giotto had fallen asleep in his bed, the house was quiet, not like anyone was there. All that could be heard was footsteps and Giotto was covered by the blanket. No one would be able to see who had done that unless he wanted to be seen. With half of his power, tracking down Enma he wouldn't be able to do that without some problem now. 'Hope you know what you are doing...Giotto...'With that he leaned against the wall, closing his eyes to keep an eye on them, waiting until his other half found what he was looking for. And they could finally get some rest after all day.
Author Notes: End to that one~! so yea that was fun, and now to work on next chapter soon.