A/N: Italized paragraphs are for flashback seen in Tsuna's perspective. This is set the night after Chapter Three.

Four

Bang.

A man fell to his demise and the killer who took the man's life looked ruffled. The raven locks sticking on every direction and the signature fedora was lost among the fight. Reborn still looked immaculate despite the fight that they were in that seemed never ending that the brunet could feel the fatigue getting to him starting from his short breath and the flickering of his sky flames. Still, the brunet knew that the hitman was getting tired of this fight, seen as how his sleeve has a bullet graze.

Bang. Bang.

Reborn moved fast, leaping and jumping from one place to another to shot down their enemies on the heart, and if some lucky person managed to dodge, they still received a second shot directed to their heart. The hitman's accuracy was perfect, every vital point was calculated to incapacitate and kill or kill. Tsuna could trust his back to be protected, despite the exhaustion, he gathered his sky flames on his hands and propelled forward, incapacitating his enemies with strong blow that would knock the breath from their lungs.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

The brunet jumped, protecting the not protected back of his tutor, blasting the enemy with his sky flames distance away from them and obviously knocked cold at the impact. He received a bullet graze on his cheek that he managed to sidestep at the last second upon noticing his intitution acting up. Still, Tsuna's intuition continued blaring that his heart skipped up in bad premonition. He turned at the snipper and saw the man shot down at the exact moment he turned courtesy of a bullet from Reborn's gun. Reborn shot the man from the back that the bullet left a bloody bullet hole on the body where the heart was once located and whole. Tsuna's eyes widened with horror that he immediately bolted forward, willing his sky flames to propel him faster, towards Reborn.

Re-

"Reborn!"

Everything happened so suddenly and so fast that he couldn't process what happened after that. No, that was a lie; he knew what happened but he chooses not to relieve it.

"Dame-Tsuna, no. Tsuna, I-"

The brunet didn't want to relieve the bittersweet words of confession. He didn't want to. He didn't want to!

The brunet twitched from the pain and scrunched his nose from the disgusting smell of charred flesh...

Tsuna couldn't say, do, or move at all but he could feel, that awful feeling of coldness and pain around him, smell the metallic copper of blood filling his nostril, feel the once strong arm cocooning him in a protective embrace and hear the silence of the once beating heart.

The brunet could only scream inside his mind.

"REBORN...!"

The brunet woke up with a breathless gasp and thundering heart. He sat up on the bed, feeling his aching body at the same time. He whimpered, his body wanting to curl into itself, his eyes oddly misty that Tsuna wanted to cry no– he was going to cry.

Reborn... Reborn...

He sniffled, arms crossing on his legs and head pressed on his kneecaps.

All the while, his heart beated so fast next to his ears, his shoulder quaking as his sniffles turned into low tremor through his body. His heart was bursting with overwhelming grief and regret at the same time.

Reborn...

"...no, Tsuna... I... lo—"

Immediately, there was a hand clamped on his mouth trying to contain the scream threatening from his throat to his mouth and teeth biting onto his own lips as another prevention, the action draw blood. The coppery taste of metal, of blood reminded him of another memory that he felt like he was drowning once again this time with hate.

I will burn them, them, them!

Caramel brown eyes turned into full blown orange eyes, it oddly burns with tears and sky flames from its owner. Because of the hate on his heart, the scream – no a sob trapped on his mouth escaped that he was crying once again. His eyes turning back to caramel brown color as the brunet sobbed.

His mind, ears and heart replaying back to the word of confession from his beloved Reborn.

"Tsuna... I... love you..."

Tsuna was shaking so much, he couldn't control his body, his emotions, and tears that ran through his being. He was moving his mouth, mouthing breathless and hoarse words of, pleas, regrets, and love, forgiveness, regrets, and pains. He was almost stumbling on his words, there was no coherency and he continued speaking at the silence of the dark night.

"...Reborn. Please don't leave me, come back to me, please, please...please, I'm sorry... It hurts... I... love... you too... I should have told you sooner... Please... I'm sorry..."

He couldn't think on where he was, that he had returned back in time, that he had another chance to save his advisor. All he could think was how everything hurt so damn much, felt the hole on his heart like it had been freshly carved.

The brunet cried.

Time had passed and eventually Tsuna's heartbreaking sobs died down and replaced by wheezing of air. It made him clutch his heart, feel his fingernails digging through the fabric to his skin as he tried to calm down. He did it like routine then he was gulping air through his parted lips.

I have to stop and breath.

Tsuna thought back of the minor stinging pain of nails digging on his flesh, it grounded him back to the reality instead of the memory playing on his head.

One...Two...Three... Inhale...

Tsuna's heart slowly evened out, but he counted once more.

One...Two...Three... Exhale...

His shoulder sagged as he let out a long shuddering breath. There were still tremor but his emotions wasn't brimming by the lid anymore and it made him aware that there was a sticky feeling on his face. That he had to clean up the dried tears and snot.

He raised his arms to his face, only to come face to face that it was... small. With wide eyes, he looked around him and saw that he was in his room back when they were still residing in Namimori, the sight made him remember that he was in the past, that he could save his advisor this time and he have no time for breaking down just like he did earlier.

He immediately cleaned his face with his arms, there was still the feeling of tacky wetness under his eyelashes, on his eyes but he was relatively calm now. He inhaled through his nose before he spoke.

"That's right, I am here in the past."

He stood up on shaky legs, slightly trembling arms moving towards the foldable mobile phone on his desk. The sudden brightness of the screen made him squint but it gave him the information he needed, it was almost morning and knowing what he had awokened into. Tsuna didn't think his mind and body could fall asleep after that.

He walked silently towards the window and slowly opened to make it noiseless. Then without using dying will pill had ignited his sky flames.

He could do with an early morning excursion to gather his bearing. And when he had that bearing, he would gather informations and visit friends for help.

It was about time he make his move.

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A/N: Kindly leave a review on your way out