Title : Everything Is Going To Be Alright
Chapter 3 : Rescue

A month after the curse began, the visions grew frequent to the point of having them whenever he closed his eyes for longer than a few seconds. And each day, his love and admiration towards those people he had yet to meet swelled.

He knew their names by heart. Voices, faces, all of them.

Though his fears were just as great as his awe, his will never faltered. Not all of his visions were smiles and sunshine. He saw fights and blood-stained weapons, but before he saw actual deaths, the visions stopped, almost as if the pacifier itself protected its holder from getting too hurt.

Tsuna always woke up crying, be it from happiness or pain.

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Tsuna began to doubt the bond between him and his mother when a kindergarten classmate of his asked about his family. Sure, he loved her very much, but he couldn't help but to feel a bit bitter at the fact that Nana spends more time gushing about her husband's picture than actually spending time with her son.

The child often caught his mother daydream about the absent father and wondered if she loved Iemitsu more than him. Kawahira explained the different kinds of love; that they are all unique in their own ways. He really, really tried to accept the level of affection and care Nana gave him, but his blood sang to him that the love he received from his mother was 'out of place'.

When he confessed his distress to Kawahira, the earthling pulled him into a tight embrace, never once letting go of the other.

"Tsunayoshi-kun… I fear that the pacifier might had certain effects on you, one which wants you to crave for its needs instead of your own."

"What do you mean?" Tsuna asked, tiny hands pushing his mist away so that their eyes would meet. "Its own needs?"

"The other elements of the rainbow. You being fused with the pacifier, I believe it has warped your desires to fill-… Tsunayoshi-kun, are you even listening?"

A pat on his head snapped Tsuna out of his momentary blur. He blinked a few times before smiling sheepishly at the older man. "Ehehe… Sorry?"

Kawahira sighed. At times, he forgot that Tsunayoshi was a mere 6 year old child despite the same child knowing how the fabric of time and space worked. He tried to word his sentence in a way Tsuna would understand.

"You know how skies want to be together with their other 6 elements, yes?"

Tsuna nodded once, carefully listening to every word spoken out of Kawahira's mouth.

"You being one with the pacifier, it's only natural that you crave for your elements, so much that other bonds feels less important."

"So is that why mama's love feels wrong?"

Kawahira bit back his true feelings. He had seen how the woman acted around Tsuna, how she would gush over an absent man instead of tending to her son who was actually there and needed her, how scarily neglectful or plain dismissive she could be when Tsuna wasn't in any immediate death situations, and more down the list.

He hated Nana; hated how Tsuna would give so much love to someone who obviously didn't deserve it. If Kawahira could have it his way, he would snatch Tsuna away and keep the sky to himself.

But tearing away a large part of his sky's life was too cruel. He would sooner swallow poison than to hurt his dear Tsunayoshi-kun.

"Yes…" Kawahira answered. "But don't let it best you. Of course, as the holder of the sky pacifier, you'll have certain needs you can't ignore, but your human side have needs too. You need a mother's love, companions, so much more."

"Oh…"

For a short moment, it felt as if there was nothing around them, that only two of them existed in a space closed off from the rest of the world.

Tsuna smiled and leaned forward to engulf Kawahira in a hug so soft, so gentle, Kawahira felt like breaking there and then.

"Even if I have to lose my sense humanity and live solely to fuel the pacifier, I don't mind."

"Tsuna…"

"I became the sky arcobaleno to make the world right again, so that you can stop breaking. Everything else comes second. Besides…"

Kawahira held a breath in as he waited for Tsuna to finish his sentence, his heart pounding loudly in his chest.

"Wanting to be with my own elements doesn't sound too bad, though I'm pretty satisfied with just one element with me."

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Future vision wasn't the only ability Tsuna developed as a sky arcobaleno. He accidentally found out he could see the future of other worlds. He had seen worlds where he wasn't the sky arcobaleno, or a world where he grew up in a complete family, or a future of complete chaos. It was overwhelming at first, but he decided to put off this ability and focus on his own world's future…

… until he saw the terrors one person had to go through in so many different worlds…

Tsuna woke up with a splitting headache, screaming into his pillow as he begged for the nightmares to stop.

How could they do this to him?

How could they put one child through hell and back without any remorse, so long as they get what they wanted?

He needed to save him.

He needed to save Rokudo Mukuro.

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"Are you ready, Tsunayoshi-kun?"

"Mmm. I don't want to make him wait any longer."

No doubt, Kawahira would follow his sky wherever he goes, that includes an infiltration into mafia territory. He disliked the idea of meddling into human business, but Tsuna felt strongly to save Rokudo Mukuro, strong enough for this person to appear in future visions.

He figured things wouldn't be too difficult given his superior mist flames. Normal humans couldn't stand a chance against him.

"Then let us pay a visit to Estraneo."

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Things didn't go as smoothly as they hoped.

The Estraneo sprang into action as soon as their flame-detection alarm sounded off. The alarm was in fact not a machine, but a human screeching at any changes in flame reading throughout their base. A little girl with both eyes sewn shut was a horrifying sight to see. What had they done to her?

She wasn't the only one. The further Tsuna and Kawahira fought through the base, the more humanoid creatures with bizarre powers they met. As if mind-controlled, those humans attacked the two on sight.

It didn't take long for Tsuna to put the pieces together. He had guesses as to what kind of place Estraneo was, but seeing it first hand straight out confirmed it to his face.

"Kawa-nii… These human experiments…"

"Worry about that later, Tsuna. You have a friend to rescue, yes?" Kawahira said as he made a clear pathway by making the walls swallow their enemies. It seemed harmless, but he was downright killing them inside of the unseen spaces. Tsuna didn't need to see any of that.

"Right…" Tsuna mumbled. He knew what Kawahira was hiding from him. He could smell the blood in the air, but made no effort to voice it out. He had a mission, and if that mission required death, so be it.

In a place as awful as a den of inhumane experiments, he didn't mind destroying this hellhole, with his own hands or not.

The further they breached to the core, the louder his blood sang.

The song in his blood guided him all the way- left, right, right, a hidden door, 'This way…'

He lost count of how many of those human experiments they encountered. He wished he could save them, but even his blood told him that they were too far gone for salvation. Now they were nothing more than just mindless vessels attacking friend and foe alike.

'Just one person…! If I can save only one person…!' Tsuna's heart screamed in agony, though his face showed no emotions. He didn't need to make this any more painful for his mist. An expression of distress would break the man, and by his book, that was unacceptable.

They ran and ran, until they found a black door.

His blood sang again. 'He's in here.'

"I know…" Tsuna whispered back.

From there on out, he had to do this alone. He had a feeling if he were to bring Kawahira in with him, things would turn out different than that in his visions.

"Kawa-nii. Please wait here for me?"

"What? Why?" Kawahira protested, but he didn't raise his voice. "I can't leave you alone in a place this hazardous."

Tsuna gestured for his mist to come closer. No questions asked, Kawahira kneeled in front of the child, hands slightly trembling with the chilling dread of having to let his sky walk blindly into whatever hell hidden behind those black door. Tsuna of course saw the tears hiding behind the other's eyes. Tiny hands gently pulled the face in front of him for a kiss on cheek.

"I promise, everything is going to be alright, Kawa-nii."

"How? How can you be so sure…?"

"Visions don't lie."

And that was enough.

"Alright…" Kawahira sighed, finally convinced, though still reluctant. As a final effort to keep his sky safe, he created an illusion of a short sword, one powerful enough to be real, and held it up for Tsuna to take. "You know how bad reality can be. Do what you have to do, Tsuna."

Tsuna grabbed the sword and walked into the black-doored room without another word to the earthling. He didn't want to let Kawahira see the tears running down his cheeks and fear screaming in his eyes.

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If only he knew what waits behind those doors were too much for a 6 year old child to bear.

If only he knew of the trauma the child would have for years and years later.

If only he knew how much his sky's heart screamed after receiving the knife...

... he wouldn't have let him go in there alone.

To Be Continued

A/N : A huge THANK YOU for those who took the time to review! I REALLY needed those, especially when depression hits harder than usual. ( I really want to reply to you guys but I'm shy as fk. How do you human with other humans? )

Before I start the next part of the fanfic, I would like to give my sincerest apologies to Mukuro. I'm sorry, but I'm going to take away a lot of things from you. I hope you can be a fully sane functional individual after this. ( though I'm sure you can! Fight on, Mukuro! )

[ I promise things will be happier once Mukuro is saved and Byakuran accepted reality. Yes, Byakuran will make an early debut. ]
[ Contemplating whether to give Tsuna different sets of guardians, or just Kawahira ( and another sky eyyyyy ) will be enough. Any thoughts? ]

Reading this as smaller chapters is still so weird to me. I can't wait to see it this thing finished and edited into a proper one-shot!

Cheers.