Sunset Hue (KHR Fanfiction)

Special Chapter: Skyward Sword

When Tsuna had been young, his parents died from air raiders. He thought he would be all alone since he had no family. That is until he met a blonde girl his age. She wasn't from the island, he knew. He didn't recognize her and he knew almost everyone. He remembered all too well how she looked like. They had just been introduced to each other then. She was thin, her hair was the color of the sun, she had a small but stubborn chin and her eyes, which were red from crying, were strikingly blue. The first thing she did when they met was smile.

He looked at it and wondered how she could smile when the world was so bleak.

They told them that they would be living together at the Academy and still she continued to smile. At first they didn't talk much. That was okay with him. No one ever wanted to talk to him. He was the resident clown of Skyloft. But then Mia began probing him to explore and play around the Academy. Even if he thought it was pointless, he went anyway. Slowly, he started to feel less lonely. He started to smile again.

However he felt that Mia was keeping her distance. It wasn't just him, it was everybody else too. It worried him because he had grown to care for her. One night, he caught her crying and thrashing in her sleep. Scared, he woke her up. The look she had given him was so sad he started crying too and he wasn't a pretty crier. For the first time, she opened her heart out to him. She told him that she hadn't been born on Skyloft; that she had grown up in one of the smaller islands. When her parents had been killed by Raiders, she had been left all alone to take care of herself.

Her parent's loftwings abandoned the small island shortly after they died and she was too young to have one of her own. She told him that it had been hard being alone. She had even eaten a poisonous mushroom by mistake once and nearly died if it hadn't been for a group of knights passing by. They saved her and brought her to Skyloft. She told him how much she missed them. Even though she had food to eat and a bed to sleep in, she didn't feel like she fit in. She was an outsider. Tsuna wanted to argue with her, tell her that it wasn't like that all when she suddenly thanked him. Startled, he asked her why and she replied, with that pretty smile of hers,

"For being a friend."

From then on, they were inseparable. If he had known then he was going to suffer so much in the future, would he be still friends with her?

The nightmare began when she fell down the sky.

He would remember it every time he closed his eyes. They were gliding through orange tinged clouds, laughing until it faded away with the wind. She looked to him, her expression so tender his insides were bubbling inside, ready to burst.

"I wish we could always stay like this." She said, sounding almost like a prayer to the gods. He was going to tell her how he felt. Honest to the Goddess that he was but she interrupted him. "Tsuna..." It was her nickname for him. She called him that ever since they were children. She always said it as if his name was filled with light but at that moment it carried heavy foreboding. She never finished what she was going to tell him. A great and terrible cyclone ripped her away from him.

When he woke up he was told that she was gone.

He thought it had been a nightmare. It was too terrible to be true. But when his peers continued to look at him with pity, the harsh reality crashed down on him. He was so numb. No one could console him. Not his other friends or anyone else. He sat on his bed and hid in the shadows hours. He had even stopped speaking. Mia had no family to grieve for her except for him. They were orphans. He was all she had to call family and he couldn't save her. When he was asleep he would relieve their last moments and when he was awake he would remember all the times they've spent together.