Vita Nuova.
Love?
Is it merely just a word or what exactly does it mean?
Can someone show me what love is?
My death wasn't that thrill riding, it was just a plain, cliché hit and run.
They probably didn't even find the culprit and it's not like anyone is going to attend my funeral.
In this world, I am a loner, a rejected, something that is just living. So my last wish is that someone will be with me and love me if I ever get the chance to see the light again.
June 10th 199X
"Congratulations Miss, you have successfully delivered a healthy girl."
A nurse handed a bundle over to the lady sitting on one of the hospital beds with sweat pasting her dark blue hair to her forehead.
"H-Heh…" The lady looked down at the bundle.
A pair of narrow but doe eyes peered at her in a color between a mix of blue, black and grey, the child have a heart shape face, plump, pouting lips and a tuff of black tinted blue hair on the top of her head, over all, the girl was quite cute but the lady didn't think that.
Week 4
"…how the f**k do I do this?" The dark blue haired lady cursed as she held up a diaper.
"… I need a manual…" She left the child as she went to find the box for the diapers, looking for instructions for the item. She messed up her hair with her hands as she looked through the instructions.
"Why the hell are there so much damn steps! It's diapers for goodness sake!" She came back and stared at the child before trying to put on the diaper. She sighed before taking a cigarette and lighting it up.
Week 16 (4 months)
"Oi! Ao-atama, come 'ere." A lady said as the child's head's perked up and started to crawl to the lady.
"I need to go to… work… stay here 'kay? Don't mess anything up." The women slurred out while the child merely just tilt her head to a side.
After awhile, the woman's phone rang and so, she proceed to leave the child and pick up her phone, screaming and frowning all the while she was on the phone.
"Ha? Boss is having a fever and there is an attack? WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU GUARDIANS DOING? …. I'll be there in 5. Protect boss."
The woman ran out of the house after she hanged up, not caring of her messed up hair, smudged make-up or shirt un-tucked.
'Are? Isn't it obvious that Kaa-chan is in the mafia as well? How else would they have found me? Hmm? Guess I can blame Kaa-chan as well but we all know that it isn't just her fault, now is it? But I must thank her, after all, without her, how else would I have met you?'
Age- 7
"… Miss?"
""ey! Why don't you call me Mama? I'm the one who gave birth to you!"
The woman placed her hands on her hips, bowing down low enough so the child can see her eyes.
"…Mother…"
"… I ain't got time for this! Hold on." The woman rushed to her phone, flipped it open and typed for a while before rushing back to the child, bending down once again.
"Now, where was I? Ah. My boss wanna meet you. Get ready." She stood up, walked to the sink where the water was, looked at her reflection and fixed her tie as she watches from the corner of her eye as her child walked to her room and got ready, black tinted blue hair flowing behind her.
The child is around 7, having her 7th birthday only a while ago, she had black tinted blue hair cut short to her shoulders and a fringe just brushing the top of her eye, close to covering the eye that is either of blue, black or grey, maybe it's just one of those choices, maybe it's all. She is one of the anti-social kids in her class, no friends, straight A+'s and never speaks up. Strange girl?
"… Mother…? I'm… ready…" She came back out wearing a light grey jumper with a sown on felt bear holding a red balloon and black shorts.
"'kay, lets go." The woman said before pushing the child out of the house, locking the door and going in the white car parking just outside the house.
"Get in."
"…" The girl climbed in the car with a slight jump just to reach the seat before pushing her leg onto the seat, setting her body in the seat before grabbing the door and closing it with a silent 'thump'.
"We're gonna meet my boss. Be in your best behavior."
"Yes mother…"
Ah. Yes. Now, why did the woman went to the sink and look at the water instead of a mirror? Are you questioning that fact? Very well, I shall tell you the answer for that very question. That woman is a very strange woman, oh no no no, I don't mean strange by magic and curses, oh no no no~ I mean strange by she believes in many strange things that a boss has told her, but the fact is that she took it the wrong way. Mirror is certainly not going to do with anything about how strange that woman is but she is scared. Scared of what? She is scared because every time she looks in the mirror, she sees the dead looking eyes of the children she…..
"We're 'ere."
'… Love noun 1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. 2.a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend…'
'Is that so?'
'That's what the dictionary says.'
'Does that mean you love me?'
'Eh? Un!'
'Promise?'
'Pinky promise!'
Just standing in front of the large house-like mansion, the woman bent down facing the child while gently holding the child's hands while the child blinked, shock at how her mother is acting.
"Aoyomi. Mama… is in the underground world, the mafia." The woman said, waiting to see the child's reaction but widened her eyes when she realized the child hasn't done anything more than blinked at the woman. The woman decided that it is either the child doesn't know what the mafia is or that the child is just (surprisingly) calm at the confession. She ends the thought, thinking that is the former.
"Aoyomi. Do you know what the mafia is?" She said once more only to be taken back when her child calmly replied.
"… Mafia… An organized international body of criminals, operating originally in Sicily and now especially in Italy and the U.S. Having a complex and ruthless behavioral code… Is it not?"
Aurora knew the moment she looked at her child, that her child isn't exactly normal. How? Her child barely cried once it was born into this (cruel) world but Aurora had much more on her mind than to think about this. She had, after all, just finished a mission before feeling a stab-like pain on the side of her stomach and realizing that she is about to be due. When she had look at her child, she had a flash of annoyance passing through her when she realized that her child has the exact same mysterious eyes as the one she loved (-ed.)
She had only to decided to name her child with the Japanese name to bring respect to the country she met her boss.
Her daughter was never normal and she will never change that thought even if her child being normal or not is good or bad. But that thought slowly changed when she felt a pang of guilt pass through her when her child barley acknowledge her. (Maybe I did a bad job as a mother?) She decided to bring her child to meet her boss that she is ever so loyal to.
"Aoyomi…How?" She barely managed to breathe out due to the fact that her child knows what mafia means when she thought she hid the fact that she was a Mafioso pretty damn well.
"… Should I not know?" The girl, or is now known as 'Aoyomi', tilt her head to a side.
"That's… not it…I should've explained it earlier…"
"…Mother… what famiglia are you in?"
Aurora should've known from the start that her child is not normal and should have taken more care with that fact yet she threw that thought to the back of her mind. She should've known that she shouldn't have answered her child or bring her to meet her boss. If only. But only never really happened, did it?
"Estraneo… Estraneo Famiglia…"
Yet, she never realized when she told her daughter her famiglia that her daughter's eyes widened, she should've realized and because she didn't, things messed up.
'KHR belongs to Akira Amano.'
(This is a re-written version of the candle is still burning~)
The name 'Aoyomi' is just a temporary name before she'll get the name that is in the other version of this story.
Aoyomi (炎青) basically means ' blue flames' which came from the two kanji -
炎 and 青.
炎 stands for 'flames' (Kunyomi) while 青 stands for 'blue' (Ao)
There is little to no reason why I chose this name or kanji for her but to make it simple, I guess it's because of her hair and flames just sound nice.
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