There are no coincidences, Tsuna learns this when he's seven-years-old, the very day his father brought home a man that pulsed with a familiar heat that his mother - their kind - didn't have. He had touched, had intruded, had let loose a seal that would freeze even the bluest of fires but Tsuna is different, he is a carnivore from a carnivorous mother, a cannibalistic, flesh-eating monster, a ghoul, and the son and descendant of flames, and that man cannot take away what has been given to him by the legacy that sings in his father's veins.
He had taken one look at his mother, at the sickly complexion of her skin and the anger in her deceptively calm smile as that man pulled him aside to press a blistered finger to his forehead where the shadow of fire danced on his being to seal, to conceal, to protect, and it's nothing but sickening. He felt his blood rage in indignance, felt his eyes burn the way they would when there is blood on his tongue, and it takes everything out of him to hide what he is, everything that he truly is. Never to that man, he resolved himself to think, never to him or his father, because they are corrupt with power and ambition, they are dripping red from blood that is not of a prey's but of sinless beings that had done nothing wrong, and they are a part of it, of the pile of would-be corpses that their polished shoes will soon step on.
They are more of a monster than Tsuna can ever be, and judging by the irritated welts on his mother's ring finger, he isn't the only one who thinks it.
Kensuke grips his hand and scowls when they leave not even two days after the sealing, the expression the darkest he's made ever since the day he killed a child.
"I don't like them," he says, plain and simple, but there is more to it, there is always more to it, because there is a defeated slump to his shoulders. "I don't like them, but they'll be back for you, won't they?"
Tsuna fights not to grip Kensuke's own in fear of crushing his fingers and making him scream.
He knows they will, the voice in his head tells him every night, and when the time comes-
When the time comes, Tsuna will burn them all alive.
