Tsuna's Magical Friend

June 2007 - 6 Years old

Tsuna stood at the school gates, he ignored the crowd of curious students, as his best friend was taken to the hospital. She was pale, her hair sticky. She coughed, and coughed, and coughed, red splotches of blood hit the ground as she did. The nurse who was escorting Ayame to the hospital was obviously worried, and as Ayame swayed, a second nurse jumped out of the ambulance with a wheelchair. Tsuna hoped she would be okay, he didn't know what was wrong, but knew it had to do with her unstable magic. He hoped Ayame's Magic Sensei would find a way to make Ayame better.

Tsuna went to visit Ayame at the hospital every day after school. On Friday her Sensei was there. The young man with brown hair, and brown eyes, sat on the chair by Ayame's bedside. Tsuna sat next to him when he was waved in.

"Ayame, I'm cutting back your martial arts training," He held up a hand to stall her interruption,

"You need to focus on your meditation and music. If you can channel your magic through your voice as Yuki-Sensei has been teaching you then it should give your magic another outlet. I've got you a new Staff as well, the crystal on your other one burned the wood to ash. Your magic core is growing faster than we thought. You'll take more dance classes and join the gymnastics club after school. Do you know why I'm changing your schedule?"

Ayame sighed as she dropped back to her pillows. The green eyed girl nodded and Tsuna was glad, because she was awake. She had been sleeping all week.

"Meditation to build my connection to my magic. So I can control which of my four types I use when casting. So I keep my magic calm, and steady." Ayame's voice was soft, and tired as she spoke.

"Music because of the different branches of magic, I need to learn Sorceress Magic, and of that power class I chose intent based mental, and spiritual type magic. I chose to channel my magic through my music. Dance and gymnastics is to keep me active and work on my control while multitasking. Dance and gymnastics also help with my speed, flexibility, coordination, concentration, and strength among other things."

Tsuna was surprised that dance could do so much for someone's personal fitness.

"-... if Tsuna-kun here joins you."

Tsuna blinked at the sound of his name having gotten lost in thought, to see bright, hopeful, emerald green eyes gazing at him.

"Um, Sure!" Tsuna agreed, judging by Ayame's squeal of thanks, he made a good choice, but judging by Xander-sensei's sympathetic look Tsuna had made a very unlucky choice.

"So I'll stop by your house at 5:30 in the morning, first breakfast is really light, then we'll run around town for an hour, after that is second breakfast which is also light, then we go to school or we'll go to Jenny-sensei's gym. Lunch, then after a visit to the gym we'll Meditate, after an hour of meditation I'll go to Music lessons, and you will go to Martial Arts lessons, then we both have Dance, then.."

Tsuna was wide eyed and worried. When will I sleep?

Monday

5:30 am

Nana smiled as she let Ayame-chan inside. The ebony haired girl smiled and requested two bowls of oatmeal.

"One for me and the other for Tsuna-kun please. Tsuna-kun has promised to spend everyday he can as my training partner. I'm on the dance team you know, and it's a lot of fun!" Ayame laughed.

Nana was so happy, her little Tus-kun was learning how to dance and had such a sweet friend.

Ayame grabbed a few ice cubes from the icebox and dropped them into a glass of water. With a cheerful, "I'm going to wake Tsuna-kun! I'll be right back.", she was skipping up the stairs.