Authors Note: Hey Guys, This was just stuck in my head and had to get it down. I finally found time to do so while on holiday with nothing to do during one late night. I have some idea as to where I want this story to go but if you guys have any good ideas or characters you want me to bring in, just let me know :3 Also if you think of a better name for this, I would love to see them, I'm not the best with names and titles xP
Now on with the story, I hope you enjoy.
Summary: Giotto has a secret which he has sworn to keep, no matter what. His 'left hand man.' Hidden away, a young boy has grown up helping the Vongola as best he can. Using the numerous skills he has plus his obsession with computers and technology. He quickly became a hacker that no one has been able to rival, but there seems to be more secrets that have yet to come to light between the two.
"Hello" – Speech
'Hello' – Thought
Chapter 1: Little Brother.
A young man with short, spiky golden blonde hair and another man with messy red hair had just left a black car with tinted windows and were now walking together down a thin stretch of road which led to a small building at the end.
The blonde man was wearing a tailored black suit and what seemed to be a long black cape, not like one a child would play with, but was in actual fact a cloak, one that gave off a sense of regality. (A/N: Apparently regality isn't a word according to Microsoft word…) The red head was wearing a white collared shirt with loosely tied dark green tie and he didn't look nearly as important as the other.
"Remember what his rule is when visiting." The blonde said.
"Yeah, Yeah I remember. You don't have to tell me every time, Primo Giotto" The red head replied.
"I know but even when I don't you put up such a fuss over it. G, please don't do anything stupid." The blonde answered back, now known as Giotto.
"Stupid? Since when do I ever do anything stupid?" G asked.
Giotto just stared and gave him a 'Are you being serious?' look.
"Ok, Ok. That was a silly question to ask… but still…"
They both stopped outside a large metal door.
"I still think it's unfair" G started to pout. "Why can't I come too?"
"You know his rule G, No one other than myself is allowed to enter this building without a really really really good reason." Giotto placed emphasis on the last really as he reminded G of the rule.
"Mou..." G made a depressed noise. "No one but you even knows what he looks like and I don't like leaving you alone. Can you ask him to see if I can come in next time please?"
Giotto looked over at G. He looked like a kicked puppy. If you squinted you could probably make out a small tail and a pair of ears.
"Fine, Fine I'll see what I can do" Giotto sighed.
Giotto shook his head and looked towards the door.
"I'll be about 20 minutes, wait for me here." Giotto ordered.
"Hai, Hai. I know" G then moved away and leaned against the wall, left of the door.
Giotto quickly entered in a pass code in a small white box that was to the right of the door and looked up towards a small circle camera which flashed three times. Giotto pushed open the door which slammed shut behind him.
He was now standing in a narrow, white-walled corridor which had two doors on either side and a large door at the end of the hallway.
The door on the right side could easily be recognised as a bathroom due to the letters 'WC' on the door. The one to the left was harder to figure out as it was blank and if you wished to know you would have to take a look inside. Luckily, Giotto already knew that it was a large bedroom as he had been the one who helped put the furniture in there.
Giotto walked towards the last door at the end of the corridor. 'I wonder if he has missed me' Giotto thought to himself with a smile. He pushed open the door which was surprising light considering how heavy it looked at first glance.
As he entered the large room, he could clearly see that it was split into two different rooms even though there was no wall as a divider.
One side of the room was a kitchen, the sink overflowing with dishes and pans with numerous energy bar wrappers and sweets lying on the counter top.
Giotto walked down three steps while holding the railing and started heading to the other side of the room.
This side looked far cleaner unless you count the large amounts of empty energy drink bottles scattered around. There was a semi-circle of desks with computer monitors and it had three different keyboards and mice connected to them. Overall, there must have been around 10 screens, many of which showed code that Giotto could even begin to comprehend or even try to understand. Others had multiple languages scrolling around the screen. The last few had security camera videos and one had the game call of duty – mid match – running.
In the centre of it all was a large black – oddly comfy looking – swivel chair which housed a small body mashing the buttons on a controller.
"Hello, have you…" Giotto tried to talk to the small body sitting in the chair before being quickly interrupted by the boy holding up his index finger meaning to wait for a minute until he finished his work.
Around 5 minutes had past and the chair had yet to spin around. Giotto was getting impatient.
"HEY! Are you done yet?" Giotto thought shouting would work better to gain attention.
The body in the chair jumped as if surprised and the chair suddenly spun around knocking off two empty bottles.
Sitting cross-legged in the chair was a young boy around the age of 15, who had brown gravity-defying hair, which was as spiky as Giotto's. He was wearing comfy black jeans and black socks without shoes. He had a plain black t-shirt underneath an orange and white hoodie with the number '27' at the bottom.
"Holy mother of…" He quickly stopped speaking before placing a hand on his chest to help calm down his breathing. "You just scared the life out of me. When on earth did you get here?" The boy asked, though he quickly gave a small sigh relief after finding out who had spoken to him.
"I've been here for about 5 minutes already… Did you forget I was here that quickly?" Giotto replied with a teasing smirk.
"Ah… of c-course not…" The young boy scratched the side of his cheek and looked away slightly embarrassed. He quickly changed the subject of the conversation.
"So, what's the reason for this visit?"
"Aww" Giotto pouted playfully "Am I not allowed to visit a friend every once and a while, ts-…" Giotto started to answer while mocking being hurt when he was interrupted as the small boy sprung from his chair and placed a hand over Giotto's mouth to stop him from talking.
"What did I say about calling me that…Even if we are in 'alone.' The walls have ears… And I may also have left the microphone on for the Call of Duty game... Please just call me like you normally would." The boy pleaded and removed his hand from Giotto's mouth.
He then headed towards the screen that had the game on and turned it off and unplugged the microphone.
"Hai… Cielo" Giotto had a weird feeling that he was a child being scolded by their parent in this odd situation.
"Much Better" Cielo had a large toothy grin as he spoke.
"Anyway… as to why I am here. Have you found out about what the you-know-what has to do with the you-know-who?" Giotto made it sound like a riddle to be solved.
Cielo held up his index finger and said "First of all… What the hell are you even saying? Learn how to make correct sentences, plus it sounds like you're talking about Voldemort." Cielo now put up a second finger. "And second, although I have actually have an idea about what the hell you're talking about, I'm going to say I don't and have you explain everything properly… preferably in a language I understand this time." Cielo went from confusion to a scolding parent throughout his little speech.
"Err…Fussy" Giotto pouted. "It's about the supposed experiments that the Est-…" Once again he was interrupted but this time by a loud continuous beeping noise. 'OH…What now!?' he shrieked internally.
"SHOOT!" Cielo shouted and ran towards his computer chair landing on it slightly awkwardly – almost missing it - and quickly span it around to face the screen that was making the beeping. Giotto watched in amusement as Cielo began working away.
Furiously typing away and after a minute the beeping had stopped and the screen returned to normal.
"Ok… Now that's over." Cielo let out a relieved sigh.
"Now what's over?" Giotto questioned.
"Nothing… That you need to worry about..." Cielo quickly replied and turned his head away from Giotto.
"Whatever you say Mr Energy drink addict!" Giotto teased, quickly forgetting what had happened just moments before.
"Hey! It's your fault I need this amount of sugar with all the work you have been giving me lately… but then again I get a good salary so I can't complain." Cielo said, silently glad Giotto had forgotten about earlier and opted to tease him instead... though he was also slightly annoyed. "Oh, wait. I can and have one big complaint to make while you're here." Cielo glared at Giotto.
Giotto flinched at the rare glare from the boy. He instantly knew he was in trouble.
"You forgot them again! I ran out of energy drinks last week. Seriously, do you not remember what happened last time?"
Giotto would of sweat dropped if he didn't realise that Cielo was being serious. Giotto really needed to help him with that energy drink addiction, no matter how weird it may sound.
Cielo continued to speak. "Well, at least it's not as bad as last time when you made some idiot that didn't even know what he was doing bring them to me.." Cielo shook his head back and forth.
Giotto shivered. He remembered what had happened last time…
Flashback Start
Cielo had one hand on a mobile phone next to his ear and the other across his body while tapping his left foot. There was a large scowl on his face. As the phone connected he spoke.
"Hello, Can you put me through to Giotto please?" He was trying to sound polite but there was still a hint of anger there.
"Unfortunately, he isn't available at the moment. Would you like to leave a message?" There was a women's voice who seemed to be a secretary.
'Leave a message… Not Likely.' Cielo deadpanned internally. "Oh, I know he's in a meeting. Tell him my name is Cielo and that it is an emergency. Also tell him to put me on speaker phone!" Cielo had a small evil grin as he spoke.
The women had obviously heard his name before as she quickly put him on hold and ran into the meeting room to tell Giotto.
Once Cielo was connected through again, he instantly knew he was on speaker phone.
"Cielo?" Giotto questioned rather confused.
"Oh dear Giotto" Cielo's voice was sickly sweet and caused Giotto to shiver slightly and gulp.
"YOU ASSHOLE!" Cielo shouted through the phone.
The words echoed throughout the meeting room. Giotto jumped and flushed crimson quickly understanding what had happened…He knew Cielo the best after all. The others in the room either had a look of shock, a smirk or anger.
"Make sure it does not happen again! That's all I had to say. Goodbye!" Cielo quickly slammed the end call button to hang up. Just before he hung up he heard an angry shout from the obviously 'over-protective' red head, G.
Giotto could practically see the evil smirk across Cielo's face even though he wasn't there. The meeting couldn't continue after that as many of the occupants teased Giotto and joked about what just happened, while G kept shouting at those who insulted his boss.
Giotto was so embarrassed by that and the meeting was with his guardians which made it even worse.
Flashback End
"Sorry, I'll bring them over myself this time!" Giotto quickly answered before it got any worse.
"Anyway, back to the reason you're here." Cielo lazily started spinning his chair left and right with his foot pushing along the floor. "I believe I may have found some evidence as to a number of experiments happening within the Estraneo Famiglia, their security was fairly easy to crack into."
Giotto stared at Cielo for a couple of seconds…'Fairly easy? They have one of the most difficult security systems within the mafia families!' He was astonished but didn't let it show.
"Do you realise I gave you that information about the 'suspicious' activities just over an hour ago right? And you spent some of that time 'playing games'…" Giotto chuckled to himself. "Even some of our better hackers couldn't find anything for at least 10 hours and it wasn't even evidence at that."
Cielo grinned widely. "Well, I'm the best hacker aren't I?" Cielo stuck his tongue out.
Although what he just said sounds smug and slightly big headed, it was recently proven by Fuuta de la Stella and his ranking book to be correct.
Cielo handed Giotto a folder of paper. "Was there anything else you needed?" Cielo asked.
"Hm…" Giotto made a thinking noise. "Ah! Yes. I have two things I wanted to talk to you about." Giotto suddenly remembered.
"The first is about G. He asked me to ask yo-.." He was interrupted once again. Giotto huffed as Cielo spoke.
"Ask me to let him come with you next time. I know I heard you when you were at the door." Cielo innocently answered.
"Huh? If you remembered that…why didn't you remember that I was standing behind you for 5 minutes!?" Giotto wasn't sure whether to be confused or angry.
"I knew it! You don't like me anymore do you!" Giotto had fallen to whining now.
Cielo sat there and just sweat dropped as he watched Giotto. 'I swear he is so childish sometimes…' Cielo remained silent.
Giotto pouted and crossed his arms and stamped one of his feet.
"Sometimes I wonder how you're even a Mafia boss." Cielo deadpanned.
"Ah! Sorry…" Giotto was embarrassed and stopped his temper tantrum.
"Since G has asked so many times. I don't see why not. But don't tell him the code to enter, that's for you and you alone." Cielo spoke with a slight authority even though he was the younger of the two.
"Thank you!" Giotto smiled. "Oh and the second thing I wanted to talk to you about was your da… Iemitsu."
Cielo's mood quickly plummeted. "What about him?" Cielo's tone was harsh and cold.
Giotto suppressed a shiver and felt the temperature in the room drop dramatically. "It seems he's trying to find you again…" Giotto forced himself to keep his gaze on Cielo.
"That stupid man… Is he ever going to learn? How many times has he done this?!" Cielo hissed out, he abruptly stood up knocking over the chair he had just been sitting on.
Giotto knew this was a rhetorical question and stayed silent knowing what could happen if he interrupted, especially when Cielo was angry. He hated seeing Cielo upset.
Cielo took a deep breath and shouted, "HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR HIM TO LEARN THAT HE WILL NEVER FIND ME! HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE BEFORE HE REALISES THAT IT WAS HIS FAULT! HE'S THE ONE WHO LEFT ME ALONE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!" Cielo feel to his knees, breathing heavily as tears were now streaming down his face.
Giotto quickly seen this and ran to Cielo's side and pulled the boy into a tight hug, placing his chin on top of Cielo's head. He whispered comforting words to help calm the shaking boy down.
After several minutes of this, Cielo had finally calmed down and pushed himself into a sitting position on the floor allowing Giotto to let go of him, wiping any tears away that remained.
"Sorry..." Cielo's voice was slightly hoarse, not looking Giotto in the eye.
"No… I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up." Giotto felt extremely guilty.
"If you didn't I would have found out eventually… It was better coming from you." Cielo's voice had cleared slightly and now became more understandable. "If he gets close which is highly unlikely, I just make him change direction."
"Huh? How?" Giotto was really confused.
"I have my ways… I'm not a hacker for no reason you know" Cielo's mood brightened slightly and a small smile graced his lips.
Giotto laughed, he was happy that Cielo wasn't depressed or upset anymore. Cielo quickly joined in laughing.
If a picture was took of that moment it would look like two brother's having fun… even though there would be some odd screens and objects in the background.
"Anyway, Next time I visit I'll bring lots of energy drinks, which by the way I think you need help with" Giotto ignored Cielo's shout of Hey! "And I could bring in G to show him around the place so he doesn't become to over-protective of me."
Cielo giggled as Giotto spoke about G. "Over-protective? I think it's a bit more than that. He had that puppy syndrome thing where when you tell him off or he has done something wrong he looks like a depressed puppy."
"Oh… Now that you mention it, I have noticed that… it's really creepy at times but what can I say. He's one of my best friends and Right hand man!" Giotto replied while grinning at the boy.
"So what am I then?" Cielo smirked as he waited for an answer.
Giotto was slightly unsure as how to answer this but figured that this would be the most reasonable answer.
"My little brother"
Cielo smiley happily at the answer. "That's fine as long as you don't start having a brother complex… then we would need to get you help." Cielo laughed at Giotto's reaction.
Giotto stared at Cielo… 'I don't have a brother complex…Right?' He thought to himself, though for some reason no answer came to him which confused him even more.
Cielo quickly remembered something, as he was helped up to stand by Giotto who seemed to be thinking deeply about something.
"Oh Yeah, before you go. I found out that Reborn is visiting soon, tell him I said Hi!" Cielo gave a toothy grin.
Giotto was snapped out of his thoughts; he shook his head and smiled. "How do you find out these things before me?" He asked a rhetorical question. "All you're doing is teasing him by doing that. You know maybe I should introduce you some time."
"But then that would spoil all the fun! I like seeing Mr Hitman have a hard time trying to figure out who I am. It makes the world more fun. I think I might start giving him hints to help the poor man along." Cielo's face held a sadistic grin.
"I swear you're worse than him sometimes." Giotto chuckled.
Cielo chuckled and turned towards the security camera video that was looking outside of the building. "It seems that G has started getting restless. His owner has left him alone for too long" Cielo smiled at his little joke.
Giotto smiled at the joke but spoke nothing of it. "Hai, Hai. I did tell him 20 minutes. And it's been about" Giotto looked at his watch.
"26 minutes and 24 seconds. 25 seconds now." Cielo answered for him.
"I should be off then. Meetings to get to and… Paperwork to get done…" Giotto saddened slightly as he remembered all the paperwork he had to do. Cielo just laughed.
"Okay, then I'll see you next time Onii-sama!" Cielo smiled innocently.
Giotto's mind completely shut down and he stood there opening and closing his mouth like a fish. Cielo giggled and moved towards Giotto and pushed his mouth shut.
"If you keep doing that you'll catch flies." Cielo grinned.
"Ah…Oh right. Good Bye then" Giotto replied. He started walking towards the steps which led the door. "You really should tidy this place up… It's like a pig sty in here"
"Hey, I can do what I want." This time Cielo was the one who pouted. "It feels more homely with a mess"
Giotto reached for the door. "Bye again."
"Bye… Wait! Remember to bring the Energy drinks. Any flavour will do!" Cielo shouted as he sat down in his computer chair again.
"I will… As long as you actually get some sleep! And not just survive on sugar." Giotto responded as he walked out the door and smiled to himself.
Giotto left the room and headed to the exit. Cielo was imitating what Giotto said as he walked out while making a funny face but quickly went back to his work as more coding popped up on the screen.
Giotto exited the building and could see G pacing back and forth.
"Finally… What took you so long?" G asked, he was generally curious.
"Not much. Just lost track of time is all." Giotto said. "Having fun with my little brother." Giotto gave a hearty laugh.
G just stared in awe. Giotto didn't laugh like that often, only when he was truly happy. This also made G happy and caused him to smile, though it didn't come out right and looked more like a smirk.
Both G and Giotto headed back up the street to where their car was parked.
"Oh, By the way. Reborn is coming to visit us soon so we need to make preparations for that. I'll also give you the information I found about the 'suspicious' activities when we get back too." Giotto told G as he grabbed the handle of the door, opened it and got in. Quickly they drove away heading for the Vongola Mansion.