Dream

"Hey, Sora! Don't touch that!" Irie cried. Sora was just innocently plucking at the wires of what seemed like a really high-tech robot.

"Hmm?" Sora tore the wire out.

"NOOOOO!"

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"Where is this?"

Ten looked around to find himself in a somehow familiar, white landscape, with nothing but himself in the horizon. He wore the same clothes as he did before, a silver hoodie over a white t-shirt and blue jeans above sneakers.

"Long time, Ten."

He snapped his head back to see someone identical to him. Not exactly identical, because his eyes and hair were pitch black. A dark silver hoodie over a black shirt and jeans, he was almost as if a black mirrored counterpart of Ten.

"Please, don't tell me you've forgotten who I am?" He laughed. A wide Byakuran smile plastered on his face. Ten gulped. His usual cheery expression was replaced by a glare and frown.

"What on earth are you doing here..." Ten muttered.

The black one laughed again. "Well, that's my question!"

"Where on earth am I?" Ten demanded.

"I wonder?" he sang. His expression changed and he looked at Ten quite softly. "Remember last time we met?"

"It was horrible." Ten spat.

"Of course it was, Ten." he chuckled, "That's what happens when darkness delves into the light too desperately."

"Shut up, Sky." Ten snapped.

The black one, now called Sky smiled wider. "That name...I really like how that name you gave me sounds, Ten."

Ten gave no reply.

"Was that how you gave him his name too, Ten?" Sky mused, "To Sora?"

Ten was silent.

Sky walked over and flicked Ten's forehead. "Don't look at me like I almost killed you or something."

"You practically did."

"I did not!" Sky denied strongly, "Not my fault my flame consumes people!"

"Indirectly." Ten corrected himself.

"The hell was that supposed to mean?" Sky sweatdropped, "That doesn't even make sense."

"Figure out yourself." Ten growled.

"Dammit. You should know that no matter what I do, I can't kill you, y'know." Sky sighed, "So don't make me want to kill you."

"Really?" Ten asked, sarcastically.

"If I kill you, I'm dead too. Because I'm a part of you." Sky laughed.

"A part of me that's not in me." Ten spat as if it was the most disgusting thing he's ever said.

"Haha! Well then, it's my leave." Sky suddenly said, "Take care of my unawakened self on the other side!" he called.

Ten looked at Sky's retreating figure. "Your unawakened self?"

"Oh my, how could I forget. You still don't know." Sky hit himself lightly on the forehead, "How stupid of me." he muttered, but his smirk made it seem like he did it on purpose.

But Ten didn't know which was real. Wait! Answer me!"

"Don't worry! I'll be awakened pretty soon!" Sky reassured, "You focus on your own 'other self'!"

"What the hell..." Ten was ready to shout, but he soon realized the world had turned completely dark, and his eyes were closed.

He opened them. The ceiling was dark, seemingly telling him, breaking it to him that he lost his chance to inquire more information. He opened his mouth to finish his sentence,

"...does that mean?"

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Ten snapped out of his trance to see he was in Tsuna's room. Tsuna himself was still working on the laptop. Tsuna had turned to spare a glance at the younger sleeping on the stack of pillows on the floor.

"Dream?" Tsuna asked.

Ten clenched his fist before nodding. "Tsuna-nii, who is Sky's unawakened self?" he asked.

Tsuna dropped the pen he was holding. He picked it up and shut down the laptop, then proceeded to the bed. He lay down and didn't talk anymore.

Ten took it as a sign that he wasn't going to get any answers and fell asleep.

Tsuna clenched his fist, still pretending to be asleep. [Damn you, Sky. What are you going to do if he finds out? Didn't we promise?]

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"If one plus one is two, is light plus darkness despair?"

Tsuna turned at the weird question. Ten was looking out the window, a faraway look on him. "How on earth did you get that answer?" Tsuna asked.

Ten didn't look at him and answered, "Nothing good comes out of the light being with the darkness, just like how bad things would be if me and Sky were one again."

Tsuna sighed and stood up. He walked over and placed his hand on Ten's head. "Don't be stupid." he said, reassuringly, "If light and darkness were joined together, why would it not be hope?"

"If it was hope, why would they be separated?" Ten looked at Tsuna.

Tsuna looked at the sky. "Whoever said they were separated?"

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"My name is Oozora Ten. I'll be in this class from now, so nice to meet everyone!" he beamed as Nezu-sensei wrote down 大空 天 on the board.

"Oozora here is a grade skipper, so he's actually a few years younger than the rest of you. No bullying, got it?" Nezu-sensei continued, earning a silent scowl from Ten.

Then Nezu cleared his throat. "Now, your seat is...beside Dame-Tsuna..." Nezu scouted around but unfortunately the only seat available was that one.

"Dame-Tsuna! Wake up!" he yelled, and Tsuna woke up with a start. He looked up and saw Ten glaring at Nezu-sensei, ready to murder at any time with a single call. He ignored Nezu and rested his chin on his palm, with a silent glance telling him to stay down.

"Dame-Tsuna! Raise your hand so Oozora knows who you are!" he yelled again, to be stopped by a harsh grip on his shoulder.

"Sorry Nezu-sensei, but I know who he is, so I can go to that seat myself." he replied with a bright smile. His bone-breaking grip didn't loosen. Sensing Tsuna's glance again, he let go and walked to his seat.

"O-Okay, and so then, um, Yamamoto, can you take Oozora around school later?" Nezu started.

"No need. I'll just ask Sawada-san to show me around later." Ten interrupted, "We're seatmates, so it'll be easier, right?"

Nezu inwardly groaned at another troublesome student.

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"Have a bodyguard now, Dame-Tsuna?" Kakeru growled. "Lunch."

Tsuna handed his lunch but stopped when he felt Ten glaring daggers at Kakeru. He was ready to murder even if Tsuna told him to stop. Tsuna shook his head at Ten and Ten slowly resigned...or did he?

Kakeru smirked and took the bento, but said bento was snatched away by none other than the albino Ten.

Ten opened it and gobbled it up quickly, then handed the empty box to Kakeru. "Don't you have better things to do than steal your brother's lunch? You're nothing but a coward!"

Kakeru and his few underlings scowled and glared.

"Now that he has no lunch, scram!" Ten growled.

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"Sorry, I'd like a word with Tsunayoshi-san in private." Gokudera suddenly said, interrupting their lunch.

They were stunned by the appearance of the silverhead bomber.

"What do you want with him now?" Ten started. Tsuna stopped him and tugged the silverette away, glancing at the albino, asking him to follow.

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"Tsunayoshi-san, no, 27...why are you acting like this?" Gokudera asked.

Tsuna sighed, "Tsuna," he said.

"T-Tsuna...-sama."

"TSUNA."

"Tsuna-san."

Tsuna sighed and gave up, "I'm Dame-Tsuna."

"But that doesn't mean you can just let the copy do whatever he wants!" Gokudera raised his voice. Tsuna was quite impressed that Gokudera went from calling him a copy to calling Kakeru a copy in such a short time.

"No choice." Tsuna said.

"But-"

"Someone will find me easily if I act like 27 all the time." Tsuna decided to speak a long sentence in attempt to shut the bomber up.

"But-"

"Shut up!" he snapped.