As Youve Suffered

Before Reborn came into his life, before he met his friends and his family, he was just a boy who was bullied. And like with any bullied child, he had his fair share of scars and the stories that came with each one.

The first time anyone really notices them, sees them, is when Tsuna is first hit by the Dying Will bullet. The moment his clothes had shredded from his person, Reborn had instantly picked out the discolored patches along his student’s arms and torso. He had instantly counted twelve scars caused by a knife and a long number of pink cigarette burns snaking up and down his arms and around his torso and lower under his waistband. Reborn took in the slight way some of his ribs just seemed to stick out, as if they had been broken and never properly reset.

Before any of the students could really get a glimpse of the almost-nude teen, Hibari Kyoya himself had swept in like a hurricane, smacking Tsuna upside the head and throwing a overly large uniform jacket over his body. Tsuna had woken in the Reception room in only his underwear and covered in a gakuen blazer.

“Dame-Tsuna,” Reborn’s squeaky voice spoke up and Tsuna looked over to Hibari’s desk, where the prefect was sitting with Reborn staring at Tsuna, “what is with your arms?”