Silent Pain

Chapter 7

Takeshi noticed something seemed off the moment class started. Tsuna seemed out of it and his eyes seemed lifeless. No, lifeless wasn't the right word. His eyes seemed lifeless normally. This was different. His eyes seemed blank and empty, like he wasn't there at all. Takeshi had been watching Tsuna for a while and knew this wasn't like him. From what Takeshi saw, Tsuna surprisingly paid more attention to class than most of the other students.

Knowing the math teacher, Takeshi knew it was only a matter of time before she called on Tsuna to answer a question. He swore that if she mocked him today, no force on the planet would save her from him.

Sure enough, the teacher looked straight over to Tsuna after writing the first question on the board. "Tsuna, why don't you answer this one?" she said. "Show us that you actually improved and that yesterday wasn't a fluke." Takeshi twitched and was about to act before he noticed that he wasn't the only one mad. He saw Kyoko try to get up and Hana have to hold her back. Takeshi decided to check how Tsuna was doing and noticed that he hadn't moved since that last time Takeshi checked.

"Tsuna..." the teacher called on him again noticeably annoyed. Tsuna didn't respond and the teacher's patience evaporated. "Tsuna!" she shouted. Again, there was no response. "Tsunayoshi!" Still no response. Tsuna didn't even blink. "Tsunayoshi Sawada!" Tsuna suddenly blinked and looked towards the teacher. "You have some nerve to daydream in my class!" The teacher took a deep breath before she smiled. "Now that I've got your attention, how about you answer this question?" Tsuna looked over to the question, but Takeshi noticed that he still seemed off. He blankly stared at the question for a while before shaking his head. The entire room froze as everyone realized that Tsuna just refused to answer the question. "What?!" The teacher twiched and looked ready to kill Tsuna. "Let me rephrase that. Get up here and answer this question, now!" Tsuna shook his head again and the looks of shock covering the class' faces grew. "Let... me... get... this... straight. Are you disobeying a direct command from your teacher?" Tsuna nodded. The teacher slammed a fist against the chalkboard and Tsuna jumped backwards and fell out of his chair. He suddenly seemed terrified but he didn't seem to be looking at the teacher. His eyes seemed like they weren't seeing anything at the moment. "Principal's office! Now!" Tsuna suddenly calmed down after hearing that and nodded before getting off the floor. He walked towards the door, but he walked right into the wall next to the doorframe and fell backwards onto his back. However, despite having crashed into a wall and falling rather hard, Tsuna didn't have a single reaction, not even a wince of pain.

The class erupted into laughter and one student shouted, "He just walked straight into the wall!"

"You're becoming even more of a klutz, Dame Tsuna!"

Takeshi jumped out of his seat, "Are you okay!?" he shouted as he ran over to Tsuna. He kneeled down by Tsuna's side and saw Tsuna breathing heavily and his eyes glazed over, not responding to anything. "Tsuna! Can you hear me!?" Tsuna made no response. He just kept staring forwards with his glazed over eyes. "Tsuna!" Takeshi started shaking Tsuna, but Tsuna didn't seem to notice anything. From the laughter, to the shaking, Tsuna didn't seem to see, hear or feel anything that was going on. "Sensei! Somethings wrong!"

"What's wrong is that he's not in the principal's office yet!" the teacher yelled back. "I don't care what he's trying to pull! He's going even if I have to drag him there!"

Takeshi twiched. He wanted to beat the life out of her, but he had more important things to worry about. "I'm taking him to the nurse right now."

"No you don't! There's nothing wrong with him other than his utter refusal to respect his teachers! He is going straight to the princi..."

Kyoko tore herself free from Hana and ran over to the teacher, getting in her face. "What is wrong with you!?" she shouted. "Do you see what's going on right now!?"