Hey, guys. 3 days since I started To Save The Sky, and I'm writing Chapter Four.
Chiseki: You literally wrote two chapters in one day, though...
Shut it. So I'm actually writing this at... 7.20 in the morning, but I might have to continue it at a different point in time today because by 7.45 am I have to go to *muted because I'd like to keep my fucking privacy, sorry...*
Zoe: Isn't that something... A bit private to give?
*raises eyebrow* The profile already tells my country, so...
Zoe: I mean your age.
La di da di da, I'm not listening~
Zoe: (Speaking of which, why'd her parents let her and her siblings watch something that included cutting off someone's head two years ago? ... Ugh, that was rather graphic *twitches*)
Anything wrong, Zoe?
Zoe: ... NOOOOPE.
Summary: Tsuna's family neglects him. His twin abuses him, both verbally and physically away from public's eye. The public itself avoids Tsuna. He would've fallen into depression, had Byakuran and Yuni not decide it would be a fun idea to kick down the Sawada's front door and freeload. ... Wait, what?
Warning: AU, OOC (both intentional and unintentional), some people's ages may be tweaked, un-Beta'd
Pairings: None. Zilch. Zero. THIS WILL REMAIN EMPTY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Inspired by Triple Layered Sky and Achromatic Sky
Chapter 4
In Which Yuni Sneaks Into School
Byakuran took a bite out of his scrambled eggs.
His cooking isn't as good as what 'Maman' makes but it's at least above average after three years of cooking for himself (and Yuni, though only for one year).
It's too bad 'Maman' doesn't really pay much attention to Tsunayoshi though...
Byakuran frowned.
"Byaku-nii, anything wrong?" asked Yuni as she took a spoonful of cereal.
"Ah! Nandemonai," Byakuran reassured.
"But you've been frowning a lot lately, Byaku-nii," Yuni stated matter-of-factly. "That isn't like you."
Byakuran sighed. So Yuni noticed then...
"It's complicated, Yuni-chan," Byakuran admitted, ruffling her hair. "Maybe another day?"
Yuni frowned, but didn't comment.
"W-w-what's c-complicated, B-Byakuran-s-san?" Tsunayoshi stuttered out.
"I'll explain another day," Byakuran answered. "For now, shouldn't we finish eating? You said you usually go to school about two hours before it actually starts. Look, you've only got 5 minutes before seven-thirty!"
Tsuna glanced at the clock, and blanched. Byakuran was right. Tsuna always went to school around six-thirty in the morning because then he'd have a glorious hour and a half of privacy before having to go to class for the last 30 minutes.
"Why do you always go early anyway, Tsuna-nii?" asked Yuni.
"W-well, that's because..." Because then he'd have an hour of a half of safety.
"Ara! Byakuran-kun, Yuni-chan! You're both awake!" said Kaa-san as she came down the stairs.
Tsunayoshi clammed up.
"Good morning, Maman," Byakuran greeted politely.
"Oh, did you make yourself your own breakfast?" asked 'Maman' as she noticed that they were already eating.
"Why, yes. I always had to cook for myself, and eventually Yuni before I came here," Byakuran replied with a kind smile.
"Sou ka?" Maman headed to the kitchen. "I'm going to make breakfast for Na-kun then!"
There were a few moments of silence before surprisingly, Tsunayoshi was the one to break it.
"W-what are you two g-going to d-d-do today?" he asked.
"Eh," Byakuran shrugged. "I don't know. But we'll find something to do. Right, Yuni-chan?"
"Yep!" Yuni gave a toothy smile.
Despite the fact that Byakuran was proud of Yuni for doing what she did that day, he'd prefer it if she had gotten him to join her in doing so instead of leaving him running around like a headless chicken trying to find her.
"So that's your school, Tsunayoshi-kun?"
Byakuran inspected the school.
"H-Hai..." Tsuna scratched the back of his head.
Byakuran and Yuni had decided to follow Tsuna to Namimori Elementary. Tsuna didn't really mind it much at all, but...
"B-Byakuran-san, p-p-eople are st-st-staring..."
"Who cares about that?" Byakuran stated, sparkles and all.
Tsuna resisted the urge to shield his eyes. He glanced at Yuni-
... W-what? Is she wearing sunglasses?
Yuni was indeed wearing sunglasses.
Tsuna sweatdropped.
"Anyways, you should go in now, otherwise we might end up staying here until eight-thirty and the head prefect comes to kick your ass."
... Wait, how does he know about Hibari-san?!
He didn't bother asking, though, because he knew it was true, and rushed in, waving goodbye to Byakuran and Yuni.
"... Let's go, Yuni!" said Byakuran, walking away. "We're gonna find something to do while Tsunayoshi-kun's in school, 'kay?"
But Yuni didn't hear him. She was still staring at Namimori Elementary.
... Hm... I've never been to a school before!
Yuni has always been curious about what school is like. As she, Byaku-nii, Kaa-san, Tou-san, Uncle Reborn and the Giglio Nero were in the mafia, they all feared that an enemy famiglia might target and kill her if she was sent to a school.
She had heard from Byaku-nii that when it comes to school, it's all a matter of opinion. Some like school, some downright hate it, and some are neutral.
But she's never seen it firsthand.
So of course she was curious!
She wasn't sure if she should enter, though.
Should she?
Should she not?
She stood there, by the gates, musing whether she comes in or not. It was only thirty minutes later, eight-fifteen, that she made her decision.
I'm going in.
Tsuna sighed as he sat on the roof.
Assembly had been boring, glares had been sent his way, and Ienari somehow managed to find him alone.
Tsuna was sent tumbling to the ground as he tripped while trying to dodge something that was sent his way.
He looked up to see Ienari standing there, with his brass knuckles.
"It's enough that you're in our house, Dame-Tsuna," he bellowed. "But now you brought in a pair of homeless street rats?"
Tsuna wanted to retort. Byakuran-san and Yuni aren't street rats!
But before he could, he had been punched in the chest. Before he could heave out, he had been kicked in the stomach.
He bit back a scream when Ienari grabbed him by the neck and flung him across the yard, hitting against the school wall.
The brunet closed his eyes. This was going to be painful...
Tsuna sighed. It seems it's not safe to eat in the school yard anymore.
He winced when he shuffled, the bruises given to him stinging.
I'm surprised I even managed to run away from him and get here in the first place...
"Tsuna-nii?"
The brunet's eyes snapped open and looked up.
"Y-Yuni?" he muttered. "W-Why are you-"
"Tsuna-nii, what happened?!" Yuni touched Tsuna's cheek. Tsuna winced at the contact.
"A-Ah! Gomen!" Yuni retracted her hand.
"M-Mou... It's alright..." he said softly.
"But-"
"It's alright," Tsuna repeated. "D-Don't worry..."
"But you have bruises all over!" Yuni had tears in her eyes by then.
"It's n-nothing," Tsuna assured.
"I don't call that 'nothing'," stated Yuni.
"I-I already t-t-told you," Tsuna said with a smile. "I g-get bruises l-l-like these e-every d-day."
"And Byaku-nii already told you," Yuni retorted. "Getting bruises like these everyday is not okay."
Yuni locked gazes with Tsuna. He could see that she was really worried.
Tsuna sighed.
"I-If I leave t-t-the r-roof," Tsuna started. "Nari m-might f-f-find me, a-and I c-c-could get m-more b-b-bruises than I a-already have."
Yuni's eyes widened. No doubt she remembered Kaa-san mentioning Ienari yesterday. It's a stroke of luck neither Byakuran nor Yuni have actually encountered him so far. Tsuna still remembered the tense atmosphere between Byakuran and Ienari that time.
"T-Then what do we do now?" asked Yuni.
"I'm n-not s-sure," Tsuna replied. "No o-one would h-h-help me..."
"What? Why not?" Yuni looked confused.
"B-Because I'm D-Dame-Tsuna," Tsuna stuttered.
"But Tsuna-nii's not 'dame' at all," Yuni stated, even more confused.
"I-ie." Tsuna shook his head. "I-I really am useless..."
Yuni shook her head in response.
"You're not," Yuni argued back.
Tsuna was about to say something back, when he felt a presence nearing.
"S-someone's coming."
The greenette wanted to ask why Tsuna thought that, but before she could ask a dark figure suddenly dropped onto the roof.
"Herbivores," the figure stated, inspecting the two.
Tsuna blanched. "H-Hibari-san."
Hibari stared at Tsuna. "You should be in class."
"E-eh?" Tsuna realized that the bell may have rung earlier. "G-Gomen. I'll get back to class right now."
The prefect raised an eyebrow. "Why are you injured?"
Tsuna stopped.
Shit.
"Explain or I'll bite you to death," the boy threatened, raising his tonfas.
"M-Matte," Yuni stepped in. "What do you mean by 'bite to death'?"
Hibari stared at the little girl. "That is not in the school's dress code."
"E-eh?" Yuni inspected her clothes, which consisted of a plain white t-shirt, a pink jacket, yellow skirt and sea green slippers. "I'm not from this school."
"Then why are you on school grounds?"
"I wanted to know what a school was like," the girl admitted, rubbing the back of her head. "I've never been to a school before."
Hibari sighed. "Leave the school grounds, herbivore."
"Herbivore?" Yuni tilted her head. "What's that?"
"A-ano..." Tsuna interrupted.
Hibari glared at Tsuna. "You still have not explained why you're in such a condition, herbivore."
Tsuna flinched. "E-eto..."
Hibari raised his tonfas.
"H-hey!" Yuni stepped in front of Tsuna. "Tsuna-nii's still injured!"
"Move out of the way."
"No!"
Hibari was going to simply push past the little girl. Violence-prone he may be, but he does not hit children.
But it appears the injured herbivore actually thought he was going to bite her to death.
"M-Matte," said the injured herbivore, standing in front of the girl. "P-please don't b-b-bite Yuni to d-death."
The prefect raised an eyebrow. Wasn't the herbivore thinking about his own safety?
"S-she's only s-six," the herbivore continued. "A-and she didn't know the rules. This is her first time being in a school. S-so..."
Caramel brown locked gazes with cold grey.
Hibari's eyes widened slightly.
No one, no one except his own family has ever been brave enough to do such a thing before.
"Please don't bite her to death," he said, clearly and without any stutters, his caramel brown eyes shining a faint shade of orange.
"Who said I was going to bite her to death?" Hibari asked, amused.
"Y-you weren't?" The orange was gone, and the herbivore went back to stuttering. Hibari sighed.
"I'll let you off this once," he grumbled. "Get the girl off school grounds and go to the infirmary."
"I-I can't," the herbivore retorted.
"Oh? Why not?" Hibari raised an eyebrow.
"B-Because I don't kn-know where B-Byakuran-s-san is and I c-can't leave Y-Yuni alone," he answered. "Not to mention the infirmary's never bothered helping before," he muttered.
Hibari raised an eyebrow, but didn't comment and simply sighed. "Make sure the girl doesn't break any rules. Now get back to class." He didn't think the herbivore'll actually bother going to the infirmary.
The herbivore nodded hurriedly before he and Yuni headed to Tsuna's classroom.
"Tsuna-nii, who was that?" asked Yuni.
"T-That was Hibari K-Kyoya, the h-h-head prefect. Don't b-break any r-rules, otherwise h-he'll bite you t-to death," Tsuna warned.
"What do you mean by 'bite us to death'?" Yuni tilted her head. "You can't bite someone to death, can you?"
Tsuna mentally slapped himself. Of course Yuni wouldn't know!
"T-That's his way o-of saying h-he'll beat us u-u-up," he stated.
"Oh." Yuni was silent for a few seconds. "Why would he beat us up just for breaking a rule?"
Tsuna sweatdropped. "H-He really l-l-loves his s-school..."
"Okay..."
Tsuna slid the door to his classroom open.
All the students in his class, as well as the teacher, stared at him.
Then everyone started laughing.
"Let me guess, Hibari-san beat you up?"
"Or did you trip on your own feet so many times you ended up in that condition?"
"You really are Dame-Tsuna after all!"
Tsuna's face burned bright crimson.
"Stop laughing at Tsuna-nii!" Yuni cried out, actually managing to glare at the entire class.
The class stopped laughing and stared at Yuni. She started fidgeting.
"D-Dame-Tsuna, that's your little sister?" a classmate asked incredulously.
"Tsuna-nii's not 'dame' at all!" Yuni complained.
"But why is she here, of all places?" another classmate questioned.
"Silence!" the teacher barked. All chatter died down.
"Sawada!" The teacher pointed a wooden ruler at him. "Why are you late and why would your little sister be here?!"
Tsuna didn't answer.
A vein popped. "Sawada, if you don't answer I'll-"
"I wanted to see what a school was like!" Yuni exclaimed. "I've never been to a school before, so I snuck in!"
The teacher raised an eyebrow. "Alright, but that doesn't explain why Sawada was late."
Yuni was about to answer, but Tsuna shot her a look.
"Gomen, Tsuna-nii doesn't want me to answer that," said Yuni, rubbing the back of her head.
The teacher sighed. "Sawada, sit down. You, what's your name?"
"Yuni!" she answered cheerfully.
"Alright. Please sit behind Sawada, Yuni."
Yuni cheerfully skipped as she and Tsuna went to their seats.
Yuni didn't like school.
The ultimate conclusion.
The reason?
No one was being nice to Tsuna-nii.
The teacher always picked on him, making him answer questions and she could tell the teacher knew he wouldn't know the answer. All the students laughed every time he made a mistake. The teacher didn't even explain what he got wrong when he made a mistake. And when school finally, finally ended, someone had tripped him on his way out even though he was still injured.
Yuni had a feeling it's usually worse than this.
That's the scary part.
"I don't like school," she declared as they left the compound.
Tsuna-nii nodded in response.
"TSUNAYOSHI-KUN! YUNI-CHAN!"
They both jumped when they saw a certain albino running full-speed towards them.
"B-Byakuran-san!" Tsuna-nii exclaimed.
"Tsunayoshi! Why are you so injured?!" Byakuran asked frantically. "And Yuni! Where were you? I've been looking everywhere, running around like a headless chicken just because I couldn't find you!"
"G-Gomen, Byaku-nii," Yuni stuttered. "I wanted to know what school was like, so I snuck into Tsuna-nii's school-"
"You what." Byaku-nii was giving her a stern eye.
"I think I found something you might have to know," Yuni continued.
Byaku-nii's eyes widened slightly. He nodded, and proceeded to attempt to interrogate Tsuna-nii who wasn't giving up any information.
"Yuni-chan, Byakuran-kun."
"Yes, Aria-san?"
"Hai, Kaa-san?"
"I think I need to tell you the difference between 'want' and 'have'..."
Yuni smiled slightly at the memory.
Byaku-nii sighed. Tsuna-nii still didn't tell anything.
She's pretty sure she has the info Byaku-nii's looking for, though...
"We'll talk about this when we go back," said Byaku-nii. "Let's go!"
"Hai!"
"H-Hai..."
As they walk back towards their 'home', Yuni realizes that Tsuna-nii may have been living like that his whole life.
Yuni's eyes widen at the revelation and looks at Tsuna-nii, who doesn't realize that she's staring.
Even though she only knew Tsuna-nii for three days, she knows that Tsuna-nii doesn't deserve such treatment.
His world shouldn't be all black and white like that.
And Yuni vowed that day.
Me and Byaku-nii will do our best to paint your world into a myriad of colors from now on.
As the sunlight penetrates the deep blue, an underwater rainbow is formed, the colors reflecting on the clam's shell.
Tada! So how did you like it?
Also, in case if you're wondering what the fudge is Yamamoto doing, Yuni wasn't looking properly. I mean, seriously, it's like as if everyone would laugh at Tsuna like that, right? Yamamoto's row is somewhere behind Tsuna's row.
By the way, going to try this;
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Chiseki: ... What happened to the fez?
Zoe: She got rid of it last chapter.
When the door opened, the waiter was surprised to see the albino from yesterday here.
"Oh, have you come to-"
"Have you seen the little girl from yesterday?" The albino asked, worry written all over his face.
"Um... No," the waiter replied.
"Sou ka..." The albino ran off.
"... He still didn't take his fez back..."
Suddenly, the albino rushed right back in and took the fez from the counter.
"I'll be taking this back, thank you!"
And the door closed once more.
The waiter sweatdropped.
"... At least I don't have to deal with the fez anymore..."
Actually, some people requested for the fez's return, so...
Zoe: HOW IS THIS RELEVANT TO THE PLOT?!
...
Zoe: ... Fali, are you telling me the fez actually has relevance?
... Not telling.
Zoe: HEY! COME BACK HERE!
Chiseki: While Fali's leading Zoe on a wild goose chase, I'll be the one to end the chapter here. Tata, guys!
Ta... ta? WAH!
Zoe: STOP RIGHT THERE!
A figure stood on the roof of Namimori, watching over the students.
A particular boy with untameable brown hair caught his eye.
Hibari sighed; he was right, the boy didn't go to the infirmary.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi..." he muttered.
He still remembered on the rooftop, his posture, the look in his eyes; he looked like a weak herbivore at first, but when the herbivore thought Hibari was going to attack the little girl he had looked Hibari straight in the eye with no hint of fear to protect her.
He was... Interesting.
Hibari turned away, the caramel eyes with a tint of orange still in his thoughts.
"I will have to look out for him."
Next Chapter: The Solitary Cloud