Silent Sky

The Falling Rain

Silent Sky

Title – Silent Sky

Chapter Title – The Falling Rain

Author – Megan Riley

Rating – T

Warnings – Slash, Language, Sexual Themes and Alternate Universe

Pairing/s – Eventual 8059 and 1827

Summary – Takeo is the younger twin. He is sporty, popular and intelligent. As far as anyone can tell he is perfect, but behind closed doors, he elder brother constantly torments and abuses his older brother, punishing him for any slight: real or imagined.

Disclaimer –The voices told me I owned Katekyo Hitman Reborn and I was so excited, but then reality kicked in.

It had been a week since Takeshi had found out that his father was training Tsuna in hand to hand combat and the idea of learning something similar, preferably the sword was eating away at him. That morning at breakfast he made his decision.

"Tou-san, would you teach me the Shigure Soen Ryu?" He managed to keep his voice calm as he asked the question. He didn't want his father to know how desperate he was for something other than baseball to focus on; his game was deteriorating, and without baseball he was nothing.

As he slowly put down his chopsticks and a thoughtful look crossed his face. "Why do you want to learn?" It had been years since his son had shown any interest in learning the sword, so Tsuyoshi immediately wondered what happened, and son or not, if he didn't have the right frame of mind, he wouldn't be learning.

"Oh… No particular reason, I just thought it would be pretty cool to learn how to swing a sword. Ha, ha." Knowing that was the wrong answer, but not wanting to tell the truth, Takeshi was not surprised with what came out of his father's mouth next.

"No. I will only teach you to use a sword if I believe you are ready, and I don't think you are. The Shigure Soen Ryu, is an art, that requires practice and dedication. You have to have a good reason for learning, and thinking 'it would be pretty cool to learn how to swing a sword' is not a good reason. Ask again when you can answer this question; what is worth your life?" After making his speech, he stood and placed his plate in the sink, before leaving the room, and unknowingly mimicking his son by resting his head against the nearest flat surface. I hope you never find something you would be willing to pay your life for, Takeshi.

Watching teams get chosen in PE had stopped bothering Tsuna long ago. It wasn't as though it would ever change, so why worry about it? He was beginning to think this would be one of the days they forgot him, when the red team's captain spoke up.

"Are we done choosing teams?"

The blue team captain spent a dirty look his way, as though it were his fault the boy had asked, "Just one left, and you can have Dame-Tsuna on your team."

"No way! We don't want to lose. Everyone knows he sucks at baseball." An all out glaring war erupted between the two captains and their teams, before Yamamoto, who was on the blue team, spoke up, sending a smile in his direction.

"Is it alright if he joins our team? I'm sure he doesn't mind standing somewhere that not many balls go, that way he can still play, but in an area where not many people hit." He said, noticing Gokudera wasn't there, and feeling that as one of the few people who understood Tsuna, he should speak up for the small brunette

"Are you serious Yamamoto-san? You don't have to let that loser in." The captain of the blue team said in response.

"Don't be so silly, I just have to keep them from hitting, right?" He sent Tsuna another grin and a subtle thumbs up, causing the smaller boy's lips to twitch upwards.