I. Giorno

Giorno Giovanna was a handsome young man in his mid-twenties. He had lived with his mother all his childhood and hadn´t got to know his father Dio Brando - mob boss of one of the greatest and most feared mafia families in London - until much later. Unlike his three older brothers he hadn´t gotten into the family business, although you couldn´t fault his father for not trying. Of all his brothers he felt closest to Donatello, who just like him had been raised by another man and hadn´t known his inheritance until in his teenage years. Unlike Giorno however, Donatello had started to work for their father and because of one failed mission was now sitting his time in jail. Upon his mother´s succession Giorno had left to Rome to study medicine and was now returning back to London after completing his studies.

Giorno sighed as he walked down the stairs of Heathrow airport. He hadn´t been in London since couple years ago when he came to his brother´s funeral. Ungalo had had long history of drug problems and in the end killed himself with a shot to his head in one of the mansion´s bedrooms. His other brother Rykiel was the one who found him lying on the floor on the pool of his own blood. Understandably Rykiel had been very shaken about it and had taken very long time to cover back to normal - or whatever was considered normal in their family. The room that Ungalo had been found had been locked ever since, not that anyone wanted to go there anymore anyway. Giorno had hesitated for a moment, but in the end had decided to fly back to Italy to continue his studies after getting both his brother´s - and to his surprise - his father´s approval.

Giorno was still doubting his decision to come back as he walked towards the car that was waiting for him. Tall man with long wavy brown hair stepped out of the car to greet him.

"Giorno-sama. Dio-sama sent me to pick you up". The man walked around the car and opened the backseat door for him.

"Thank you Vanilla". Giorno smiled and got into the car.

The drive from the airport to the mansion wasn´t long. The familiar scenery that passed out the window made Giorno feel somewhat nostalgic. He wondered how everyone were doing. He had been in contact with his mother, but he knew he was still missing lot of information. Despite everything he had still missed his family and his friends. A small smile appeared in his features when he remembered the loud pompadour haired man that he called his best friend. They had gotten into lot of trouble with Josuke and Koichi as little boys and all three of them had spent lot of time in the Joestar mansion. So much that at one point Johnathan Joestar had become like a father to him. The problem was that, just like his father, Johnathan was also a boss of very big and respected mafia family. A family that had been in war with his father´s family for decades. Nowadays the two rival families were in peace, but it was very fragile one and the animosity towards the members or anyone associated with either family still existed. So when the truth about who his father was came out, obviously his time at the Joestar´s increased rapidly. And soon after that he left to Italy.

Vanilla´s voice informing that they had received their destination pulled Giorno out from his thoughts. He stepped out of the car and looked at the mansion in front of him. Nothing had changed since he had been here the last time. The mansion still looked huge and intimidating as ever. He couldn´t shake the feeling that he was entering in the lion´s den.

Giorno was unloading the contents of his bags, when he heard steps at the door. He slowly turned around and saw a tall man at the door step, dressed in a white suit that had small blag dots around it giving it a cow-like feel. The man closed their distance with couple steps and hugged Giorno tightly. "Welcome back, little brother". Giorno chuckled "Thanks Rykiel". Couple manly pats to the back and the two ended their embrace.

"So have you been?"

"I´m good" Rykiel answered and sat on the couch at the edge of the room. "Dad isn´t home" he continued knowing that it was exactly what his little brother had been thinking. "He is in the business meeting. Some problems with the gun shipments that he had to check out personally"

"So Kars is still giving father rough time is he?"

"Pretty much. Dad complains that the man has really bad god complex"

"He is one to talk" Giorno commented dryly. Rykiel was quiet for a moment until their gazes met and they both burst out laughing.

Their joy was interrupted by a small voice that demanded to know what the hell was so funny. The owner of that voice was their little brother Diego - 10 years old. He was holding a little dinosaur in his hand - the boy was obsessed with them. Diego was their father´s spoiled baby boy. You didn´t need to be a family psychologist to see that Dio was trying to make up the lost time and failed relationships with his other sons, by giving Diego anything that his little heart might desire - and spoiling him rotten in the process. Giorno noticed that the boy had a big plaster on his right cheek. Probably had another fight with Johnny or Gyro - or both.

"Nothing. Giorno just said something funny" Rykiel managed to say between fits of laughter.

Diego rolled his eyes at the comment "Whatever. So you have come back"

"Yep". Giorno nodded. It wasn´t that their relationship was bad per se, it was just that he had been in the other country for majority of the little boy´s life. And considering in what kind of environment the boy was living, it was only natural that he was little suspicious around his older brother.

"I hope you are not planning to meet that Joestar trash" the boy snarled "Papa wouldn´t approve of that".

Giorno sighed "I´m sure he wouldn´t, but I can see my friend if I want. Nothing wrong with that".

"You know he has started to work for his father right? " Giorno looked his older brother stunned. No, he did not know that. Damn, what had happened to make Josuke join in after they both had loudly proclaimed to never work for their father´s.

"It doesn´t matter if he is, I wasn´t talking about him" Diego said with a smirk. "I was talking about Jolyne". The mention of Josuke´s little sister had stiffed Giorno in mid movement. Right, Jolyne. He had forgotten all about her. No, that wasn´t right. He had forgotten everything but her. There hadn´t been single day, not single moment that he hadn´t thought about the girl that he once - still loved.

Noticing his brothers change of mood Rykiel decided to take matters into his own hands before something else happened and exited the room, pulling his baby brother with him. Before closing the door he informed that the tea would be served in one hour to which Giorno nodded to show that he had heard and understood.

After the door closed Giorno threw himself on the bed and stared the ceiling. For the second time that day he started to second guess his decision to come back. The things had gotten so much complicated while he was away.

He didn´t know how long he had laid there staring the ceiling and contemplating things, when he heard knock on the door and the maid informing him that tea was ready. He told her that he would be right there and got up from the bed. First he would have to talk to his father and after that he would go and find Josuke and have a talk with him. With his new found resolve he took a deep breath, opened the door and walked downstairs to join his brothers.