Disclaimer: I don't own anything at all but the voices in my head~!
Btdubs: There may be a bold and italic issue in here. Just know that the speaking in the whole first chunk is all Shin and the parts between the speaking is Tsuna.
'It's dark…'
'Where is everyone?'
'Are they still alive?'
'Why can't I wake up?'
'How long have I been gone?'
'When will it end?'
Thoughts rampaged through Tsuanyoshi's mind as he tried to gain stability in the vortex which was his mind. Every time he tried to go towards a small shred of light the screaming that resounded quickly blew him back. Whatever was happening outside of this dark abyss terrified him.
The only memory Tsuna held was that of him being locked away in the aquatic prison. He had thought that if he were locked up with constant surveillance by scientists they would either cure him or be able to keep him under. Shin, however, quickly shot that theory to hell.
"Don't worry Tsuna~"
What are you doing?
"I only want to play with them~!"
No… No. You'll hurt them! Just like everyone else! You'll kill them!
"Ehh~? How could you be so cruel Tsuna~? I only killed those other people because they got in between us~!"
You're a monster…
"…"
You're nothing more than a monster. I wish you never existed! I wish that you had never been created! I wish that you would die already!
"Hehe~ say what you will Tsuna~ I only have one question.
If I'm a monster, what does that make you?
You created me Tsuna~!
Don't you remember?"
….
"You do~! How you were so weak and needed saving!
I saved you Tsunayoshi! And now you DO THIS TO ME!? TRY TO ERASE ME!? AFTER ALL I'VE DONE FOR YOU! I WON'T ALLOW IT! I'LL NEVER ALLOW IT!"
Stop…
"YOU LITTLE SHIT! I SAVED YOU AND NOW YOU'RE LEAVING ME FOR THEM!? WHAT MAKES THEM SO GREAT!? I SAVED YOU AND WHAT HAVE THEY DONE!?"
Stop it Shin…
"THEY TRIED TO LOCK YOU UP! THEY LEFT YOU! THEY NEVER LOVED YOU LIKE I DO! AND YOU'RE WILLING TO KILL ME FOR THOSE BASTARDS!? I WON'T ALLOW IT!"
Shin it's not like that…
"THEN WHAT IS IT LIKE!? YOU'RE JUST KILLING ME BECAUSE YOU'RE TIRED OF ME NOW?! YOU DON'T LOVE ME ANYMORE?! WHAT IS IT?!
Shin…
"… hehe…"
…
"I'm off Tsuna~! Don't be sad I'll be back soon~!"
Shin! Don't! This is my body!
"Bye bye Tsuna~!"
That was the last that Tsuna heard from Shin, since then he was surrounded by nothing but deafening silence. The screams that echoed when he approached the light… Shin was killing people or, if they were unlucky, torturing them. Shin was hurting people and Tsuna was scared to see who Shin managed to get to before Tsuna was able to regain control.
'This is my fault…'
People were being injured because he wasn't strong enough to control Shin. Shin was his responsibility, his first priority and he had failed everyone.
'I need to escape. I need to stop him.'
With that resolute thought in mind Tsuna began to go towards the light which had appeared moments ago. This time, however, there was no screaming to deter him from his escape.
Coming closer to the light, he was soon blinded by the sheer intensity of it. Silencing every part of him, which begged for him to turn back and return to the darkness's comforting embrace, he pushed forward until the light consumed everything.
Two honey toned eyes snapped open as the owner shot up into a sitting position. Tsuna was breathing heavily as he finally regained awareness. Looking down at his body he began to flex his fingers, unbelieving that he managed to regain control.
"Neh Tsunayoshi~ is it you this time?"
Tsuna's head snapped to the source of the voice which held a familiar chiming quality to it. Sitting in a chair next to his bed was none other than the first man he had ever killed, albeit it was in a different time it was still a real kill.
"Byakuran… What happened?"
A saccharine smile graced the older man's face as he assessed the other man seated in bed. Lavender eyes seemed to dig into his very soul the moment they met Tsuna's own honey toned orbs.
"It's good to see you back to normal Tsunayoshi~! But did you really think that you could escape Shin that easily?"
Byakuran's eyes closed as he twirled out of his chair and towards the jug of water located on the other side of the room.
"What—"
"I've seen this fight play out before Tsunayoshi-kun~"
The man handed Tsuna a glass of water before carefully pouring himself one as well.
"You're normal pacifistic style will not beat him you know~?"
"How-?"
"I know everything about you Tsunayoshi. Everything."
Byakuran's eyes leveled Tsuna. His eyes conveyed a hidden knowledge, which terrified the younger man.
"You… know about Shin?"
Tsuna bit out cautiously. Not many people know how Shin was born and those who did were in no condition to speak about it anymore.
"Like I said, I know everything. Including that if you continue to run he will kill everyone. Including me so as you can see I'm at a little bit of a crossroad~! I can either trust you to take care of Shin yourself or…~"
Byakuran quickly pinned Tsuna's hands to the bed with one hand before swinging his leg to straddle Tsuna. Bringing up his other hand to Tsuna's throat he began to apply pressure.
"I can kill you before you have the chance to kill everyone."
"That bastard! Where's he hiding the tenth!?"
Once Byakuran had hung up all of the guardians, Reborn, and Chrome made their way to Kokuyo land as fast as they could. However, once they made it there all they saw was Ken, Chikusa, and M.M. sprawled out on the floor, unconscious. Once they had woken up it was M.M who verbally expressed her displeasure at the holder of the sky mare ring.
"That bastard! Who does he think he is?! Knocking us out and leaving us here! When I get my hands on him I'm gonna—"
At that point she began to describe in detail exactly how she was planning to kill the white haired man. While she did Reborn and the guardians began to search for their missing sky.
To say that they were unhappy upon not being able to find him would be an understatement.
"Mah, mah, Dera-kun calm down. I'm sure Tsuna's all right! It's Byakuran we're talking about, we all know that Tsuna's already beaten him once."
"Shut up you baseball idiot! Who knows what that sadistic marshmallow bastard's done to the tenth since he took him!"
Hibari, quickly becoming annoyed by the noise, made a swift departure followed shortly by Mukuro, who still seemed annoyed at the presence of his old gang. Ryohei began to yell back at Gokudera in an attempt to calm down the storm guardian, while Yamamoto tried to calm them both down. Chrome had quickly regrouped with the Kokuyo gang and seemed to be clinging to Ken's side, much to the man's chagrin. Finally, Lambo followed his old rival as Reborn investigated the building thoroughly.
"Hey Reborn… Do you think we'll find Tsuna-nii?"
Lambo's quiet voice was only heard by the hitman, however Reborn pretended as though he didn't hear the question. At this point Reborn wasn't even to sure if they'd be able to find his student. He wasn't even to sure if he wanted to find him at this point, there was no telling what would happen if they actually did find Tsuna.
A beep gained Reborn and Lambo's attention before the cow teen could pester Reborn for an answer.
Flipping open his phone, Reborn stared at the contents of the message he just received.
'To: Reborn-san
From: Fon
Tsunayoshi-san is missing?
This cannot be correct, Reborn-san.
I-pin and myself have seen Tsunayoshi-san three times in the past hour with a white haired man.
-Fon
Received: 1 minute ago.'
'To: Fon
From: Reborn-san
Keep an eye on him and tell me your coordinates. I'll be there soon.
-Reborn
Sent'
Reborn quickly sent his reply before waiting impatiently for a response. Within seconds Fon had given his exact location along with a confirmation that he and I-Pin would follow Tsuna. Having Leon morph into a gun Reborn fired three quick rounds into the air, effectively gathering everyone's attention.
"We're going to China."
A/N:
Waaahhhh~~!
Is there still anyone who's reading this?!
I'm sorry it took so long!
I'm sorry this chapter didn't have a ton of action!
;m; Imma terrible human being...
I'm sorryyyy ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽
But you can thank Thali9978 for dragging me from my slump and listening to my petty issue with this story~!
(⁎·́௰·̀)◞ ͂͂(˒̩̩̥́௰˓̩̩̥̀⁎)
Such a nice person~!
Btw: I'm having major troubles with the Bolds and Italics, like it's only half showing up. I dunno if this is a site issue or an issue with my laptop so I'm gonna upload this and then try to fix it if it's still busted once I get back to my precious baby desktop. Basically all of Shin's speak was supposed to be in bold italic so it would stand out from the rest of the paragraph but I think that I've managed to separate them neatly enough so that even if the bolds and italics don't show up you'll know where the conversation between Shin and Tsuna begins and ends.