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Chapter 5: Storm Watch

"Jack!" Tsuna yelled as he stood outside his house. "I need to get to…um… wherever one of my guardians is!" Tsuna had been worried for his Family eversince he learned that he was dead. In a matter of minutes, Jack stood in front of him with a scowl on his face.

"This better be good. I was watching…extremely educational documentaries." He stumbled over his excuse.

"Right…" Tsuna said, his eyes showing that he didn't buy it. "Can you take me to wherever my right hand man is?"

"Was there a please in that sentence?" Jack muttered, but he snapped his fingers and the world started to blur again.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The woods~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When Tsuna finally managed to reorient himself, he found he was standing amongst hundreds of trees. No one else was in sight. "Jack!" Tsuna yelled at the sky. "Is this a joke? It's not funny!" Tsuna was interrupted by a large booming noise behind him. That could only mean…

"Damn it!" Gokudera yelled as another stick of dynamite nearly blew him off his feet. He pulled out another and threw it with all his might into the middle of the clearing. Trees exploded into splinters and he had to cover his eyes to avoid getting dirt in them.

"Gokudera, stop!" Tsuna yelled, forgetting that his guardian couldn't hear him. 'Hiiiieee how do I stop him?' Tsuna mentally panicked.

Gokudera continued throwing dynamite. 'Damn, damn, damn! If only I had been faster. If only I had been stronger! It wouldn't have happened! It's my fault.'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback! Yay!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Gokudera, Tsuna and Yamamoto had just been walking back to Tsuna's place from school. Yamamoto was laughing as per usual and Gokudera was yelling at him to keep his hands off Tsuna. Tsuna was attempting to calm Gokudera down (it wasn't working) and put away his dynamite ("Woah cool firecrackers!" "They aren't firecrackers, baseball idiot!") It was a perfectly normal day.

They were almost home. Nothing eventful had happened. Then, as they were crossing, there was a squeal of tires. Shrieking pedestrians. Someone yelled Tsuna's name. Gokudera was suddenly shoved out of the road by someone. Was it Tsuna? Suddenly, there was a crunching noise of metal and a sickly thud. When Gokudera managed to open his eyes, his boss and best friend lay in the road, eyes closed, as if sleeping. Gokudera was begging him to open his eyes, to tell him everything was alright. Yamamoto stood behind him in a state of shock.

The rest of the memories passed in a blur. The paramedics came. They said comforting words, not that any of it ever reached Gokudera. The rest of the guardians gathered at the hospital, but they all knew it was hopeless. His sister called from Italy and tried to talk to him, but he didn't feel better in the least. All that he could comprehend was that his beloved Sky was dead and he couldn't do a damn thing about it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback over~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Gokudera tortured himself wondering if Tsuna pushed him out of the road as the car was coming. What if it was his fault Tsuna died? If Tsuna hadn't risked his life for his, would he still be alive? 'Why?' Gokudera asked. 'Would he save me when his life is so much more important?' But deep down, he knew the answer. Tsuna would've saved anyone from the car, that's just the kind of person he was. He would've gladly given his life for a stranger, even an enemy.

Tsuna watched sadly as Gokudera beat himself up both physically and mentally. 'I have to do something…' He ran over to Gokudera and managed to snuff out the flame on the stick of dynamite he was preparing to throw.

"What the hell?" Gokudera growled. He relit it, only to have Tsuna snuff it out again. "This is ridiculous…" No matter how many times he lit the dynamite, it appeared to be blown out by the wind. He cursed and finally dropped his lighter and the dynamite. "Hmph. That annoying girl would say that it's a sign, but I don't believe in all that spiritual crap." He sat down on a rock. "Tsuna… what would you say if you saw me now? Would you be disappointed in your right hand man?" he laughed hollowly. "Although, I don't deserve to be your right hand anymore."

"That's not true, Gokudera!" Tsuna protested. Of course, Gokudera didn't respond.

"I'm weak. You had to save my life twice! I truly am a failure as your guardian. I was supposed to protect you." Gokudera said, clenching his fists around some dynamite. "What do I do now? Can there be a storm without the sky?"

"Gokudera…" Tsuna said, gazing sadly at his best friend.

"Why can't I ever protect the things that matter the most to me?"

Tsuna cursed his condition. Cursed that he could not comfort his friend when he was hurting. He sat down on the rock next to Gokudera and picked up a discarded stick of dynamite. He lit it with his sky flame and set it down on the rock before getting up and walking away. "I'm sorry Gokudera…Sorry I can't tell you how much I care about you guys, at least not yet."

Gokudera looked at the spot next to him in shock. A stick of dynamite had appeared there and was lit, but it wasn't burning down the wick! The flame looked familiar… almost like his boss'. He hesitantly reached out towards it.

The flame flared up to touch his fingers and suddenly Gokudera felt a sense of calm and happiness build up in himself. The flame continued to burn brightly for a few minutes, filling him with a sense of peace he hadn't felt since before the accident, before extinguishing and leaving only wisps of smoke. "Are you telling me not to be sad Juudaime? Maybe I'll believe in signs just this once…"

A/N: And Gokudera! *applause* okay so I don't usually write touchy feely stuff. You can probably see that in this chapter. Anywho, I'll follow that suggestion to write all the guardians in the order they were introduced (or close to it) so Yamamoto will be up next. Also, this marks the end of Tsuna's first out of seven days. Only six days left and I have so much stuff to put in! I'm not even sure how many of the characters I should include... I mean, I doubt I could do much with the Varia and all that jazz.

Anyways, enough rambling. Please, please review! Thanks to everyone who has reviewed/followed/favorited my other chapters! You're all awesome! :D