Summery: A darker AU of Reborn's and Tsuna's meting in Chapter 8.
Baby, You're Drenched in Blood
Chains rattled and creaked and groaned as a figure smirked under the shade of his fedora. It stood tall, even if it was hazy and indistinct, wrapped up and tied to the small body in front of it.
"Ciaossu," the child said, seemingly unaware of the spector chained to the pacifier he wore, wrapped around his neck like a nose growing ever tighter, "My name is Reborn. I'm your new home tutor."
And how the words seemed to croon sweet whispers at him, unspoken promises of blood and death and gore. It sung of shadowed hunts and days spent bathing in crimson, of bones rattling in the child's head.
Tsuna stared at the child, horrified and awed in equal measure. It was beautiful and terrifying, exhilarating yet oh so deadly, a slow waltz with a shinigami.
"All that death…" Tsuna breathed, feeling bile rise up in his throat. But he swallowed it down and forced himself to smile, nodding to the child and leading him up to his room.
(And with each step he took he could feel the approval of the whispers, shadows giggling and singing and twisting and- He was going to be sick)