I'm finally able to link up some foreshadowing I did back in S1 special if anyone had noticed. The background stories of the characters will eventually be revealed. I have some interesting reviews when I first posted the original version of this chapter. I wonder if I will get it here.

Reviews are always appreciated.

Chapter 13: The Real Memories

"Ahh! I'm pissed! I can't believe the two of them. They actually have a background which only can be found in novels...! Kind of! Why does Brother-in-law have to go through all this?! What will happen to you if anything happens to him? I don't want my sister to lose her love like me!" Lucy was ranting and screaming in the hotel room as soon as the twin sisters got back.

Ciel was grateful that her sister was here to share her burden. She gave her a small smile. "Thank you Lucy, thanks for the concern. I believe in Tsuna. It's just that I wonder how I can help him. Unlike you who is a mage. I'm just a good-for-nothing. I fought with our dad and ran away from home. I even caused you trouble because of that. I should be ashamed of myself." Ciel looked down in shame.

"But sister…!" Lucy refuted. She paused a while as she suddenly recalled something.

"What was it?" Ciel asked in concern.

"No, it's nothing." Lucy sat down deep in her own thoughts. The black-haired boy she met at Cait Shelter suddenly occurred to her. She just couldn't accept that he was the one behind the destruction of the towns and village. His magic was the cause. Lucy found herself pitying him her surprise. And what surprised her even more was that her heart ached. But she brushed aside that thought and returned to the important things. Why did the magic, Zeref have to exist? It was the Magic council's fault for creating this magic. If it wasn't for them, the mages of the Dragneel Clan wouldn't need to burden themselves in sealing and watching over the magic and Tsuna would not have to take it upon himself to even think of perishing with the mage possessed with Zeref. [How did she know that he would go as far as perishing with the boy.

"Why is it that the black-haired boy is always on my mind? I can't let Natsu down."

Natsu, on the other hand was deep in his own thoughts alone under a tree. He was always wondering what he had done wrong?

"I'm being rejected by the world. Can anyone tell me what have I done wrong?" He raised his hand to reach for the sky.

A mysterious voice was heard in his mind all the sudden. It was the same voice who tempted him to accept his power. "Natsu, remember, this is the power you always had. You have always wanted to defeat your younger brother who always have been stronger than you are! Have you ever regretted having that feeling?"

Natsu clutched his head which was throbbing in pain. "Who are you?"

Tsuna was crying alone by himself. He was finally releasing all his pain and resentment for the past nine years. How he wished he could forget everything like his twin who was spared with his memories sealed.

"Mother, please tell me how can I save my brother?"

Tsuna reminisced about his past which was something very different from Natsu's memories as his was rewritten by his mother before she passed away. True, the mages back in Dragneel Clan had high expectations of him because of his potential whereas Natsu on the other hand was likeable for his innocence. Tsuna was just too serious.

Nine years ago, when they were just young and ignorant, Natsu saw Tsuna as his rival whom he swore to defeat. Tsuna never studied magic despite having magic power in his body but he was always able to thwart the challenge coming from his elder brother.

"Stop playing, Brother! You still have a long way to go if you can't even defeat me when I'm not using magic at all". Tsuna was flipping his book after dodging an ambush attack from Natsu and landing a punch on top of his head when Natsu tripped and fell.

"I swear I will defeat you one day, Tsuna. You just wait!" Natsu declared with his head spinning. Falling flat on the ground.

One day, Natsu discovered a magic sealed in the underground chamber of the Clan. It was said to be the strongest magic Dragneel Clan was watching over. Natsu felt that if he could master it, he would be able to defeat Tsuna.

"He is better than me both academically and fights. People dote on me just because of my clumsiness and I really don't like it…"

And so, he activated the magic. That was the fated day when the Clan was eradicated. Natsu was being controlled by the magic instead resulting in a series of bloodbath happening in the Clan itself because he could not control the dark magic, Zeref.

Tsuna ran off after his fight with Natsu. By the time, he returned home, it was too late. Everyone including his mother was unable to escape from his clutches. Natsu seemed to have realised it by the end of the incident which was why he killed himself by slitting his own throat with a sword he found on the ground. Their mother was noble enough to sacrifice her life for Natsu by sealing his memories as well as the power of Zeref. Tsuna could not accept it even now.

He used to hate Natsu. He hated Natsu for destroying their happiness but he could not bear to hurt his brother. That was why he acted as his cowardly brother who had a split personality relying on his elder brother leading the most normal life as much as they could. He was really jealous of Natsu who had forgotten everything. It was all for his own good. He changed his perspective of his elder brother after learning of his growth via regular contact with the pink-haired old healer on the regular basis.

One fact that Jellal and Wendy did not realise that the magic power possessed by Natsu before Zeref was awakened belonged to him originally. Tsuna never used magic or even tried to learn it as he was not interested at all. With the help of Makarov, he transferred parts of his magic power to Natsu.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Makarov asked him. "You understand that you will no longer be able to achieve your top form if you do this even if you are talented." The pink haired healer, Porlyusica frowned as she continued to work on her medicines.

"I will do anything as long as my brother can live and be happy." Young Tsuna replied decisively raising his voice while looking at the sleeping form of his twin brother with his neck bandaged up. Spots of blood could still be seen on the bandage. "I never wanted to become a mage anyway. After this, I will leave here and the truth will never be discovered as long as he never regains his memory! " Tsuna brushed locks of hair from young Natsu's frail looking face.

As long as Natsu could keep up a façade as a capable mage, he would be fine. How wrong Tsuna could be? It was when Natsu almost lost his life from the Kingdom Empire, he realized his mistake. Natsu could no longer master magic and his body could no longer accept his magic power.

Part of the remnants of his own magic power was returned to him through his teacher, Jellal during his battle against Zero when Natsu was in coma back then enabling him to master the "Magic of the Double Dragon". Natsu released the remaining power which remained trapped in his body during his battle against Jellal's clone.

Zeref was a magic with a mind of its own. Not everybody could control its power and it was the one who would select his user. Natsu happened to be selected to be its user.

Now, the power which had been asleep in Natsu's body had been awakened by the power of Etherion.