It all happens so fast. Tsuna had been squeezing his eyes shut for the impact (he's a coward, after all) until something ringing in his mind tells him that something is wrong.

Very wrong.

He carefully opens his eyes and stares in horror as a single dynamite slips from Gokudera's fingers. Herdier ceases charging for his super attack and freezes, much like his partner. Gokudera is staring, fear flashing across his face. It lands on the ground with a thump and starts fizzing and-

I need to save him, something in Tsuna thinks, eerily calm. He feels his feet moving and disregards Eevee trying to pull him back by tugging at his yukata, he keeps moving and he sees his hand stretch out, his mouth forming words that he can't hear and looks at Gokudera's terrified green eyes and-

Time's up.

Bright light dances and heat expands, but Tsuna isn't done. Yanking the other boy's shirt, he manages to pull Gokudera to safety while kicking Herdier to the side (Sorry, Tsuna thinks guiltily). Thankfully, Eevee hadn't followed him to his mad dash so he's safe too. Hopefully. Tsuna would never be able to forgive himself is Eevee got hurt because of him.

Tsuna can feel himself losing consciousness. Black dots flicker in his vision and this time, he allows it to. He finished his main goal, after all. The flaming orange in his eyes dies out as he closes his eyes. The enveloping darkness is comforting, wrapping him in its warm embrace (that's probably the fire burning him inside-out but that's not the point).

For a second, though, he sees a dash of red flying towards him.

"Fon," Reborn says evenly. "What a surprise."

"Hello, Reborn." Disguised as being six, the not-child bows his head slightly before narrowing his eyes. "Tsuna would've died." It would've been your fault hangs in the air like a million-pound weight. Reborn doesn't dignify that with a response.

"Don't try to not dignify that with a response."

Reborn huffs. "Nono wants him to be the warlord of Aurora. If he dies from something like that, he's not fit to be the warlord of Aurora."

Fon turns and stares at him with an unimpressed look. Reborn suppresses the urge to fidget. He always has been unparalleled at making people feel guilty, he thinks sourly.

They both hear a groan of pain before Gokudera stirs with hands on his head. He blinks dazedly and after remembering the prior events, rushes over to say in one breath, "Is he okay is he going to die oh my God it's all my fault isn't it-" before Reborn knocks him out with a swift chop to the head. Herdier falls to the ground like his strings had been cut. Eevee, meanwhile, is trying to maul Reborn which doesn't really work despite them being similar sizes.

"So," Fon begins, "my point is this; you hurt Tsuna and I'll end you."

"Protective, aren't you," Reborn replies dryly. But nevertheless, he agrees grudgingly. The other child (baby? man?) bows his head and disappears in a flash, only leaving dust trails in his wake. Reborn turns to look at the slumped bodies of Gokudera and his partner and the Pokemon biting into his arm.

"I don't suppose you'll help me drag them back, will you?" Reborn asks Eevee.

'No,' Eevee says.

Figures.

Tsuna wakes up to see a red-eyed face with horns looming over him. Great, he thinks. I'm in hell.

"Silly Tsu-kun!" Nana says cheerfully. "Mu-chan is a Houndoom! Isn't your father so nice to get you another Pokemon?"

"I already have Eevee!" he protests loudly.

"You can have more than one partner, you know." Nana pets Cottonee lovingly before saying, "Rest up and get better soon! Maybe next time you'll learn that you shouldn't run near fires!" She exits the room, the door slamming ominously. He turns towards Houndoom who is currently staring at him with a creepy smirk.

Isn't your father so nice to get you another Pokemon?

"Dick," Tsuna says feelingly. He vows to never forgive Iemitsu (this goes right under abandoning Nana on his list of 'Iemitsu Screwups') and flops back on his pillow, narrowly missing his new partner Pokemon. Tsuna barely manages to stop his voice box from screaming until it breaks from frustration. Why, he bemoans.

'Mu-chan' laughs. 'What a funny little bunny you are, Tsunayoshi.'

Tsuna really does scream this time.