Scarred Tsuna

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"You fucking nuts yet, kid?" Xanxus asked with a cruel smile.

"Maybe," Tsuna whispered to himself. He shuddered a bit, although he tried to hide it. Was the voice he heard a symptom of insanity? It could be forgiven when he'd been in the ice, but to hear it after he was free?

"Shit. Here," Xanxus growled, tossing a bottle into Tsuna's lap before going back and shutting the door. "Thought you might need a drink. Didn't think your memories would have already unfroze or else I'd have been here sooner."

"Eh?"

"You had your eyes open under the ice, brat," Xanxus replied softly. "I've been there. When you've been under too long, part of your brain freezes. It still don't remember everything from when I was frozen, but what I did remember is enough."

"I-I see," Tsuna mumbled. Not turning away the gift, Tsuna popped the cork and gratefully drank the V Special that Xanxus had brought. Gokudera and Sakura would probably kill him for it, but for some reason he couldn't stop shaking.

"Che," Xanxus spat. "What the fuck were you thinking, volunteering for that shit?"

"I-I don't know," Tsuna replied honestly in his own confusion. "It's like everything that happened before the Ninth encased me is all something that someone else did. I remember it, but it's like I was watching someone else. I-I don't understand..." Tsuna mumbled, clutching his forehead. "If you'd asked me before I fell asleep, something tells me that I would have been able to tell you...but now..."

"Heh," Xanxus shrugged noncommittally before sitting on Tsuna's bedside and grabbing the bottle from his limp hands. After a few long drinks, he handed it back. "But you remember what happened under the ice?"

"Ah," Tsuna confirmed with another shudder. "All too clearly. I thought I was going insane. Everything kept moving, but then it didn't move. Then it would move again. Then there was the way my mind was lurching around. I couldn't tell you if I was actually thinking or dreaming. It was all so..." Tsuna paused at Xanxus' hand on his shoulder and he realized he was heaving in panic.

"It's over, kid," Xanxus soothed. Tsuna blinked in surprise and took a long drink from the bottle Xanxus had given him. He panted, out of breath, when he finally put it down.

"You're being strangely nice," Tsuna said with a suspicious look in Xanxus' direction.

"Don't push it," Xanxus growled predictably. "I'm just doing what I always do. I'm putting your ass back together so I can personally break you. Although..." Xanxus looked at Tsuna's face with another cruel gleam in his eye. Tsuna gasped when the man grabbed his chin and tilted his head to the side. "We could pass as brothers now."