I am damaged

He was desperate and so with his last power he defeated the prince and got back the ring but he knew that it was too late to run as he was tired.

"Judaime... I am damaged... far to damaged but you're not beyond repair... you stuck around with me even after defeating me and made things better... even if it was just for a little I felt more happy than I could ever hope after my mother's death so let me do this for you"

These were the words Sawada Tsunayoshi heard from the large screen on which he was watching the battle.

"G-Go..." Tsuna was terrified, he had a bad premonition.

"Ju-no... Tsuna, stand back. Go further away... they said that after some time this thing will explode... I don't know its radius of explosion..."

"Gokudera..."

"I wish I could run up to you and kiss you just so you know how much I worshipped you, how much I loved you"

Tsuna hearing that started to tear up, he wished he could have stayed with him more, that he could have convinced that life was not a war, that Lavina was stronger and admitted that she was Hayato's mother, that...

"...I'll trade my life for you so please be happy"

"Hayato!!!" As he unconsciously started to run towards the school he suddenly was hugged by someone and before he knew, he was carried away by that person. With his belly on the person's shoulder he was still facing the screen when Hayato said his last words.

"Now it will be your role to protect him, baseball-idiot"

It was at that moment that the school exploded, shattering the glasses and breaking the walls as the flames started to go wild.

The screen blew away cutting away the signal and making it difficult to know the situation inside but it wasn't needed. Tsuna knew... his damned intuition told him what happened. How it ended.

After being put down he didn't move as he sat there staring at the flames as they burned, tears streaming down his cheeks. His gaze lifeless.

He didn't react when the Cervello declared his victory nor when Yamamoto called him. Reborn decided to leave him there as taking Tsuna away would have destroyed his psyche more. Reborn knew those eyes and he knew that if his student didn't see this trough it would come and hunt Tsuna back.

Tsuna remained in that position for hours and before he knew it was morning. All that remained of the school was its black skeleton. The fire was strong and the possibility that something interesting remained intact was near zero.

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"Aaand this is what happened in a parallel universe~ where just some some little things were different from ours but created a different outcome ~ Do you like it Tsuna~?"

Inside a quiet living room, a certain marshmallow-lover showed a Tsuna the memories of the brunette parallel self. But the brunette didn't reply as his gaze remained was unclear and his mind remained on those memories