Rin and Tsuna

Rin could not believe it.

She came to Fuyuki to save Kotone and other children, but this boy she just saved...

...saved her from tentacled things by using fire from his hands!

'W-wha...?!'

'Ever since you saved us, I somehow knew I have fire powers!' the spiky-haired boy cried. 'And I got back what was stolen away from me, my normal life no thanks to grandpa and my dad! This is the least I can do for you!'

'Uh I don't get what you mean but thanks anyway!' said Rin in relief. 'I have nothing to fight those things, I don't know any spells! We should go...' the two kids fled. 'So you're a pyrokinetic?'

'I think so? I never knew I had fire powers...last year when my dad and grandpa visited home, I remembered...they took me to my room and grandpa poked me in the head with a flaming finger while dad held me in place on his knees. Next thing I know...I became the dame-Tsuna in school. I became clumsy, weak, can't learn anything and do anything right. My life wasn't the same since.'

'Talk about criminal?!' Rin howled in anger on his behalf. 'Gifts should be nurtured, not sealed! They made your life hell!'

'I know. Why, was the question.' Tsuna scowled. 'They made my life hell by ruining my body, by taking my flames away. You somehow helped me get my powers back and my normal life back...thank you.' he said gratefully. 'Now where is this? This isn't Namimori...' he said, looking around.

'This is Fuyuki City.'

Tsuna freaked out.

'W-where is this place?! Mom's freaking out by now, oh crap...' he cried in horror.

'To the Police Station you go too.' Rin deadpanned. 'You got kidnapped by the Child Serial Killer in this city. I came to free my schoolmate Kotone. I had to help other kids too since that bastard got so many kids and now he's poaching from other towns over!' she swore, 'This city must be running out of kids for him to take and do who-knows-what...nothing good of course.' she pursed her lips in a harrumph. 'I'm Rin. Tohsaka Rin. You are?'

'Sawada Tsunayoshi, call me Tsuna for short.' said Tsuna happily. 'I got bullied a lot because of the consequences of my seal so I didn't have any one kind to me...you're the first girl my age nice to me at all.' he said glumly. Rin pitied him and felt sorry for his plight that wasn't even his fault.

'Your family's a bunch of twits.' Rin grumbled with an armfold.

'I don't think mom knows...wonder what she'll do if she did?'

'Er, bad idea...mystics are supposed to be secret from humans, so don't tell anyone you can do magic, OK? Pyrokinesis is a form of psychic powers and your ability is self-explanatory, you burn stuff.' Tsuna looked sheepish. 'You're not a Magus like me.'

'Magus?'

'Humans with connection to the supernatural that we can do magic. This is possible through the Magic Circuits in our bodies.' said Rin, making her Circuits glow in her body for Tsuna to see. 'Nobody can do magic without Magic Circuits while for psychics like you, power's all you need.'

'Heee...I guess I have studying to do when I get home...any advice though?'

'Not to burn your house down.' Rin joked before tittering.

'Rin-chaaan!' Tsuna whined as not far from them, Matou Kariya listened to the two kids talk. The boy turned out to be a recently-unsealed psychic thanks to exposure from Rin's mana...

"Rin-chan's OK, I'm glad." he thought. "Now what to do with that other boy, he's from next town over..."

He then showed up.

'Rin-chan.'

'Kariya-ojisan?' Rin looked up before the kids gasped in horror at his looks. 'What in the world happened to you?!'

He has a sickly pale complexion under his hood and he walks in a limp. On certain parts of his face, veins protrude. Rin compares his physical appearance to that of a cancer patient.

'The Matou Magic happened.' said Kariya sadly. 'I'm fighting to free Sakura-chan...her fate is worse than mine.'

'What do you mean? Father said she'll be OK with the Matou! I don't see that now looking at you!' Rin cried in distress.

'The Matou Magic...involves worms.' said Kariya. 'If a male host, it devours part of our brain and shatters our spine in exchange for magic. Matou men don't live long obviously. For Sakura-chan...a lifelong torment and doomed never to be a mother ever again unless Zouken controls the worms that somehow NOT to eat her womb.' Rin shook and sank on her knees in horror. Tsuna gaped at him in shock.

'Tokiomi's a goddamn idiot...he thinks Sakura has a future with the Matou? What a fool!' he spat. 'He just subjected her to misery and despair with worms crawling inside our bodies destroying both body and mind! I don't have long to live...but if I fail...its up to you to save your sister when you're strong enough, Rin-chan...right now, its impossible for you.' he said sadly. 'I'll do my best but I can't promise anything.'

'No...Sakura...' Rin sobbed. Kariya could only look bitter at his own helplessness.

'Is there anything we can do?' Tsuna asked Kariya who just looked glum.

'The way you are now? No.'

Tsuna touched Kariya's hands and used his flames on him.

'Kid, what are you trying to do?'

'Saving at least your mind if I can't save your body as I can tell you still need your worms.' said Tsuna as he used his flames on Kariya. 'My psychic powers are back thanks to Rin-chan...so I'll connect your mind to your spirit so its not reliant on your brain. You'll keep your sanity even if you lost a bit of your brain. You're still you down to the bitter end if only for one more month. You can't fight for Sakura-san insane, can you?'

'Ahaha, guess not...thank you.' said Kariya gratefully. 'Come on you two, Aoi's looking for Rin-chan by now and Tsuna-kun lives next town over, I'll take him home with Berserker.'

'Can I tell mom?' Rin asked Kariya hopefully. This caused Kariya to stiffen nervously.

'I know your mother...you cannot tell her.' Kariya warned her anxiously. 'She will surely charge to the Matou Estate and just get killed. I cannot let you be an Orphan, Rin-chan. No telling your mother and this task is yours alone if I fail because I'll die before I even get Sakura-chan out of there. Zouken had the worms deliberately destroy my body knowing this.'

'That bastard...' Rin growled hatefully. 'I'll make him pay for this! Mark my words!' she swore revenge.

'I'll stay around here until I find a chance.' said Tsuna. 'I'll stay in this city for now. I won't go back home because my conscience won't let me sleep otherwise. My powers are telling me to stay and some stuff I had to do. Being a psychic is weird, but I'm heeding my instincts.'

'Tsuna...' Rin croaked out. 'Thank you!'

'What instincts?' Kariya blinked.

'Days from now when all hell breaks loose, Zouken will leave the mansion from the flashes I'm getting.' said Tsuna as he received flashes of visions. 'By then you're almost dead, so leave Sakura-san to me!'

'I see...thank you.' Kariya looked relieved and thankful. 'I can fight with no regrets now.'

'Tsuna...really?' Rin croaked out hopefully.

'Yeah. I need timing. That's why I'm sticking around! The timing...Shinto District will burn in flames, caused by a circle on the sky that spewed black mud that made the flames.'

'Circle...on the sky?' Rin asked him shakily.

'Yeah. Don't be anywhere in Shinto. All who die there died terrible cursed deaths no words of a grade one student can describe. Just horrible you won't wish it on you!' Tsuna shivered.

Tsuna must have seen horrifying things no grade schooler can describe indeed.

'I'll take your word for it, Psychics are never wrong about things they see.' Kariya gulped nervously.

xxx

Tsuna hung around the Western District, managing to earn the sympathy of an elderly couple. Food and sleeping on the couch in exchange for help in chores.

'I managed to get away from the child serial killer.' said Tsuna. 'But I can't go home on my own until he's caught. If he sees me free I'll get taken again for sure.'

'Oh dear, that's terrible...you can stay here until we get word from the police, alright?'

'Thank you very much!'

It so happens that this couple is the Mackenzies...unwitting hosts to their...grandson as well...

'So you're their guest too?' Waver Velvet, their grandson asked as Tsuna looked at him...and saw flashes as well.

'Ah, you'll meet a total brat one day and become Lord El-Melloi II.' Tsuna pointed at him.

'Haa?! What're you talking about?!' Waver sputtered incredulously.

'Lord El-Melloi II?' Rider blinked.

'Yeah. This guy here will become a very popular lecturer one day. But unfortunately, stuck to a family until he pays off a debt equivalent to a Hollywood Blockbuster!'

'How the hell did that happen?!' Waver freaked out. 'What ARE you?!'

'Rin-chan told me I'm a psychic.' said Tsuna cheerfully. 'I'm a Pyro and I see flashes of the future of anyone I look at! You see, this blonde dude borrowed a lot of stuff just to be in this city, and embezzled some spirits from his in-law's department. All unpaid! But he would lose them all to a biiig explosion because of a man in black clothes! So yes, totaling all that's lost is equal to 200 million dollars, the gross income of a future hollywood blockbuster movie the Titanic in year 1997! However, out of obligation to this blonde dude, you're bound to his family through his niece until the debt is paid off and Family Magic Embroidery fixed.'

'Magic Embroidery?'

'Yeah, a glowing tattoo somewhere on a magus' body.'

'Don't you mean Magic Crest?!' Waver sputtered out in exasperation. Then again a child's comprehensive ability is limited...

'Looks like embroidery to me.' Tsuna shrugged, causing Rider to laugh.

'Gahahaha! So what's my future kid?' Rider asked him. 'So do we get to win?'

Tsuna looked at him, his eyes glowing amber briefly, as if his eyes itself was on fire.

'I cannot say what I saw. Otherwise Waver will fail at something and that will get him killed when he's supposed to live a long life, an accomplished teacher.'

'Ah...so why are you here though?' Rider asked while Waver was in disbelief, that he became a teacher in his future and he played several crucial roles.

'I made a promise.' said Tsuna. 'As a psychic, no magus can detect me cuz I don't have circuits or magic energy. I promised Rin-chan I'll save her sister. But I needed to wait for a certain day to do so when its safe for even me to infiltrate. So I needed a place to stay. This is the nearest place to enemy territory. After that I'll run like hell and take Sakura-san to my hometown and tell Rin-san she's safe.'

'Heee...but which magus are you infiltrating?' Waver asked.

'The Matou Mansion.'

He had to tell why...

Stunned silence.

'I see...so you owe Tohsaka's daughter and this is your way of repaying her, life for life.' Waver mused thoughtfully. 'Though I gotta agree, why seal instead of train you? You've got potential and they'll just waste it by making you a clumsy joke all your life?'

'Beats me.' Tsuna grumbled. 'They ruined my life!'

'Psychic powers are connected to one's spirit, the source of a psychic's power. By sealing your most of your spirit away to prevent usage of your powers, that's basically leaving you partially alive and not connected to your body, hence you're so clumsy and unable to learn or even do the simplest of tasks.' Waver concluded, upset about the matter. 'What will you do if they come back and find out you got your powers back?'

'Oh I'm sure Rin-chan will let me stay with her for a few days...a magus is stronger than a psychic, she'll help me for sure!'

xxx

Days later...

Tsuna followed his instincts and barged into the Matou Mansion. It was easy for him to as its not guarded against his kind. He can see what WILL be tripped! He avoided it all...avoided the drunk in the living room...and upstairs where a girl just got dressed. He quickly knocked her out and took her out of the mansion the hard way...and burned all the worms in her body.

He knew losing all the worms in her will alarm his enemy into returning back quickly, so he acted fast, going for the safest routes where they won't be found and caught.

They were successfully back at the Mackenzie Residence and he hid Sakura in Waver's room. Under his bed to be exact, but snuggled into a futon while he took the bed.

Soon, Waver was back, despondent.

'The bridge incident happened then, Lord El-Melloi II?' Tsuna asked him as Waver looked at him. 'I didn't tell you otherwise, had you known, you'd have done something different that blondie will kill you for it. You are needed in the future...by students who have nowhere to go, rejected by all simply for being have-nots in the heritage and circuits department, yet you managed to make Brands and Prides out of the kids mocked by others.'

'Is that so...but I got something. A legacy.'

'Do him proud.'

'Yeah...did you get the girl?'

'Yeah. I need your help taking her to my hometown, Namimori.' said Tsuna. 'Mom will gladly take her in but I need your help in...convincing her.'

With the help of Glen Mackenzie, Sawada Nana learned that the Child Serial Killer next town over kidnapped her son, hid with the Mackenzie Family until police caught him and then managed to escape with a young girl whose family was killed so Tsuna couldn't leave her alone...

'Oh dear...I wouldn't mind taking Sakura-chan in but to think such terrible things happened...' Nana said in dismay. 'You're a hero, Tsu-kun!' she smiled, hugging her son. And she was grateful to Glen Mackenzie for protecting her son as nobody can find him in Namimori for nearly a month now she was frantic and helpless.

Tohsaka Mansion...

Rin was glad Sakura's safe as she now lives with her mother.

She read the letter addressed to her that her mom found in their box.

Problem was, she could never tell her that Sakura is indeed, very OK. Just that, as long as Matou Zouken lives, Sakura cannot come back home. She is unsafe in Fuyuki and as far as the old worm is concerned, he was pissed that his heir was kidnapped in the war and signed Sakura for dead according to Kirei since Sakura could not be found by magus means somehow she wondered what Tsuna did. And she had Kirei NOT tell her mom about what the old worm said.

The less she knew, the better.