A sky within the night -KHR

106. Failing, Anxiety, Mystery

1018 Words excluding (A/N)~ I no own KHR~

Written December 21 2020
Posted December 23 2020

NEXT UPDATE is on January 6 2021

Normally by now Tsuna would be taking a break or even calling it a day for his training, however the young sky had become excited at the prospect of being able to fly. Most people wished they could fly at least once in their lives, Tsuna wasn't any different. He wanted to find out how to fly with his flames. He'd actually been trying for quite a while already, though unfortunately the only results so far had been the teen flinging himself into the trees.

"While watching you continue to face plant into trees is amusing, I think that you should at least take a break" Reborn sighed, eyeing the other. Tsuna looked filthy with how much he was covered in dirt, sweat, and blood courtesy of twigs and repeatedly breaking his nose and having it heal "Go take a dip in the river to cool down and clean a bit up" He suggested.

'I'm surprised his nose isn't crooked by now with how many times he's broken it today'

Tsuna contemplated arguing before deciding that it wouldn't be worth it "Fine" Maybe some rest could help him. He headed towards the river, wondering how he could control his flames enough to stop him from flinging himself around. His output control wasn't all that refined unfortunately, he either put in not enough flames or too much. It was annoying.

Reborn watched Tsuna hop in the river, contemplating his sky's lack of progress. It seemed like he'd overestimated Tsuna's flame control, it made him wonder just how much flames had been packed into the spheres the other had been training with. He'd assumed that it had been the normal amount required to make them, but now he was wondering if Tsuna had just been squishing his flames together without measuring them since they hadn't been volatile like Ie's had been.

'We might have to give up on flying for now in favour of practising output measurement'

There were only so many times he could watch Tsuna face plant before becoming bored after all.

*

Shoichi's stomach hurt, a lot. Why did he have to be home alone when a crazy winged person knocked on his window before falling? The wings were gone now, but he knew that he had seen them, that they'd been real. Another bout of anxiousness ramped up his stomach pain, he could be wrong, what if he'd actually snapped and had just imagined the wings? He had been doing rather poorly in his music lessons lately, maybe his teacher telling him that he was a failure had been the last straw? Having your dreams crushed by the person meant to help you was traumatizing right? Oh no, the teen clutched his head, sinking down to his knees.

'I have gone crazy, but I don't feel crazy. Isn't that the worst kind of crazy? Or was it the knowing but hiding it the worst kind?'

He wasn't sure how long he'd been freaking out, but by the time he was able to calm down enough to get up off the floor, the sun had already started to set. Okay, he had to stay calm, going back into a panic would only make his stomach hurt more. It was at a bearable level right now and he didn't want to make it start hurting too much like before.

'My parents have yet to come home, and I currently have a white haired teen passed out on my bed. There's nothing wrong with that'

Oh who was he kidding? That stranger had known his name, had called him by a cutesy nickname. If that didn't scream stalker, nothing would. Shoichi was pretty sure that he'd remember meeting someone so odd, so the other teen was probably a stalker.

'I've brought a stalker into my house!'

He crumpled to the ground, taken down once more by his stomach pain.

*

When the white haired teen awoke, he didn't recognize his surroundings. He blinked, sitting up in confusion, noting that he'd been placed on a bed. His ring was also strangely warm. Lavender eyes curiously turned towards the other occupant of the room, it was a red haired teen that looked to be about his own age "Who are you?" He inquired, even though the other felt very familiar.

'I don't remember why I'm here, though I know that coming here had been important'

His hand absently ran over his Mare ring, giving him a tingly feeling. The ring had never felt like that before.

The redhead paused in his muttering to himself, eyeing the other warily "You said my name before you fell"

He did? Well he didn't remember that. He tilted his head, wondering why the other was clutching his stomach while on the floor "I'm Byakuran!" He smiled "What's your name?" For some reason, he felt that the other would be fun to mess with.

'I gave my name so it's only fair he gives his'

Shoichi buried his face in his hands, he'd brought a brain damaged stalker into his house! What would happen to him if he made the other angry? "I'm Shoichi" Giving just his first name was better than his family name right?

"You're a funny person Sho-chan!" Byakuran grinned, not understanding why the other was acting so funny "I'm going to stay here since I can't remember why I'm here" It only made sense after all, he was already here. There was no need to find another place to stay. He ignored how Shoichi seemed to pale at his words.

'I wonder if he has anything good to eat'

*

He'd never intended to interfere so soon, but the Mare ring's owner had somehow become a potential disruption to the balance. Thankfully the matter had been an easy fix to solve since the problem was more related to memories than anything physical. It wouldn't be perfect since not even he had the power that Byakuran held, but he'd managed to obscure things enough to prevent too many problems.

This world was already too distorted as it was, the owner of the Mare ring's memories had been too dangerous. Even himself, who shouldn't even have the power to do what he'd just done would be a threat if discovered.

Me: Lambo never brought this Shoichi into the mafia life via bazooka ammo... So he's a nervous wreck at meeting a strange winged person

So Byakuran was apparently a threat... Tsuna did attack quite readily after all...

And I highly doubt you'll be able to guess who the mysterious person is XD

Hope you enjoyed~

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