I kissed her under the immense light of the Milky Way. Her eye glimmered with the mysteries of the universe and wonders of the stars. I promised myself that we would come back here... And that I would get her a gift as endearing as her violet orb of honest emotion.

"Thank you Gokudera-kun, but I'm fine from here." The Tenth did his best to convince him.

Gokudera-kun agreed, only because he insisted. "Okay, I'll start my patrols, Tenth!"

"Yeah, you do that." Tsuna exasperated. 'He's a great friend, but takes his duties too far.'

He walked inside of the house hold. "Reborn?" No answer. "He wasn't at school either." He sighed, walking up the stairs, to his room. "Where is he?" His hyper intuition already knew... It kept him restless. "But c'mon, Reborn wouldn't leave like that?" His eyes were shadowed by his hair. "He wouldn't..."

He leaned against the door, once inside his room. He didn't want to admit the harsh truth.

A ring of his phone.

He snapped out of his zone out, and pulled it out of his pocket. "Hello?" Not focused enough to check the name on his screen.

"Boss,

He actually asked me out!" She never sounded so happy.

His brown eyes grew into a sad gold. "M-Mukuro did?" He bit his lower lip after trying to sound like, 'Boss. That's right, it's all I am to her.'

The night they shared was nothing more than an illusion.

"Yeah." It was quiet, like she finally accomplished something for herself.

'I should be happy for her. We're friends right? I've known how she's always felt... So why am I now...?'

He slumped down, sliding on the door, elbows to knees. He stared at the ceiling, his eyes not able to gaze at the sky.

"I'm going to confess to her, Chrome." He didn't let her hear how fractured he was. His knuckles were white from the grip on his phone. 'I don't want to let go...'

Her voice perked up. "Really! Good luck Boss!"

"Yeah! Thanks Chrome. And good luck with your date."

They both said their goodbyes.

Click.

He held his depressed hair, and defeated face. He had mindlessly dropped his phone besides him. "What do I do now..." He hugged himself, thinking of his first kiss. It was under the constellations with a summer cool breeze. Her skin illuminated the moonlight, her lips whispered passionate love against the taste of her tounge. "We didn't go back till dawn..." He mumbled. They had held eachother's hand walking back down the dirt road, before anyone woke up.

It was real.

'But that's all gone now.'

Tsuna didn't realize he passed out. He groaned, but pushed himself off the floor, and rubbed his eye. He was awoken by the sound of shuffling footsteps.

He instantly perked up. He yanked open his door and ran down stairs. "Reborn!" He paused mid-excitement.

There she was in the kitchen, having a pretend tea party.

"Yuni?"

"Onii-chan!" She lept off the chair and tackled him into a hug.

"Onii-chan?" He replied, caught off guard by the words she chose to use for him.

She smiled up to him all giddy. She stopped and remembered. "That's right, uncle Reborn insisited I give you this letter, after I came back from my trip in Italy!" She rummaged through her schoolbag. She triumphantly gave him the note.

He was so confused. Yuni was the sky Arcobaleno, what was she doing here? He reached for the note, a sudden surge of anxiety hit him. He gulped. 'A note from Reborn?'

Tsuna's eyes scanned through the paper, with each passing second, his grip on it grew tighter.

'Reborn really is gone... Yuni and her mom asked to have Yuni's memories altered by Mamon's illusions so she could live a normal life with me? How is any of this okay? But I can't tell her, if this is what Yuni really wants then...'

"Onii-chan, what's it say?"

Tsuna stuffed the paper into his back pocket. "N-Nothing Yuni. So are you hungry, what do you want to eat?"

"Hamburger steak!"

Sawada-kun asked me out, but after what I saw him and Chrome-chan doing... I was torn.

I wanted to hurt him, how he hurt me.

But I felt guilty when I rejected him, I tried talking to him. I wanted to tell him that we were still friends, but my words slipped and I told him how I had felt, but that I just couldn't be with him.

And he decided to kiss me.

Why out of all the times I had wished he done that, did he chose now. I fell into my infatuation with him during a moment of weakness. I closed my eyes and could only picture Chrome-chan's lips embracing the same ones mine currently were.

No, I couldn't do this! No, no, no...

I'm so sorry.

Tsuna was staring across the stage, recalling how everything started to fall apart between his old family. He still kept the Vongola ring. 'I want to protect them, even now.'

"Tsuna-san, I can't believe the play is tomorrow! Are you excited?!"

"No, I was tricked from the start. I resent this, it goes against my Dame ways." Tsuna let out monotone.

"Hahi, but Tsuna, it's been so long since all of us have acted like this!" She grew sad eyes. He caught her slip up. "I'm just excited!" She forced out with a laugh.

His eyes lingered on hers for a few more seconds. He shifted them to the group of friends on stage. "I guess so." He replied.

They drifted to Hibari.

Tsuna quickly averted his gaze, because he knew Hibari would of smiled innocently, and probably raise a few fingers for a gentle wave. 'It wasn't his fault. I thought he was Nagi... Fuck, how was his body figure the same as Chrome's, just as petite and tender? His uniform is a deception! I know the scary(sexy) truth!' And it kind of made Tsuna smile, in a way Hibari was still his adorable crybaby Hiba. It dropped slightly as he finished thinking of the rest of the night. 'I don't know where I stand with him anymore. I want us to be friends, but he has wanted something more the whole time? I have been hurting him this entire time, without even knowing it. I don't want to hurt him anymore than I have.'

"Tsuna-san. Tsuna-san? Tsuna-san!" Haru finally got his attention.

"Huh? Oh Haru, how long have you been standing there?"

"Hahi, I've been next to you since we came on stage?" Sounding concerned. His eyes had purple bags under them, he was sleep deprived, more so than usual. He had simple signs of it before, but never as severe as now. "Tsuna-san have you been getting enough sleep."

"Huh? Oh Haru, how long have you been standing there?"

"I can't tell if he's being sarcastic?" She cringed.

"I am." He answered.

"Be more considerate, when people show signs of concern for you!" With a flustered yell.

"Sorry." He laughed, "but I can't help it! Teasing you is too easy." It calmed down to a small smile. "And fun too, ne?"

She pouted, but it was hard to be angry, she liked being teased by him too. It meant he cared right?

"Don't worry though Haru, I've just been busy at night." He ruffled the back of his head with an uneasy grin. She obviously didn't believe him, 'even though it's the truth. Aria keeps me up for crazy hours through the night.' For business... 'Yeah business between families.'

Tsuna sighed, giving into her impatient stare. "I have alot on my mind Haru." His eyes glanced away, as he said her name.

She felt the connection between his look away and the intimacy they shared in the club room. "Oh." Her hyper attitude hit a speed bump. That wouldn't knock her down. "Tsuna-san, I'm not," Her puffed up cheeks of determination, gave in to insecurity. "Going to back down..." 'From my feelings...' She couldn't finish.

"Haru, I'm not going to back down from my feelings either, no matter how hard." He finished for her. He lowered his head, resolved to keep eye contact with her this time.

"Yeah." She agreed whole heartedly, sneaking a quick kiss before anyone saw, and catching him off guard. She giggled at his surprised face, before running to join the group of friends in the middle.

Tsuna could only stare, with one thought.

Hibari... Who am I?

Hibari resolved himself to be strong for Tsunayoshi-kun. He gulped and stepped off the bed. His only friend needed him.

Tsuna's puffy, bloodshot, eyes were begging for an answer.

Hibari bent down and embraced him. He felt Tsuna tense, before relaxing into it, burying his eyes on Hibari's shoulder, letting a few more tears come out, damping his uniform.

Hibari whispered the kindest words he could. "You're our sky."

Hibari, I knew you were trying to comfort me, but I didn't want to hear that... I really didn't. I'm so tired of being everyone's sky.

What I wanted for you, for someone, to say was-...

I guess it doesn't matter.

I don't belong to myself.

I'm only a shattered sky, desperately trying to keep us all together. Breaking, piece by piece. Dropping, shard by shard.