This is the second arc! If you didn't read the first one, you can't understand anything!

Hi everyone!
I'm italian and I'm translating my story in english because some not-italian people ask me to do it, so please forgive me for this poor and basic english!
I accept any advice because I really want to improve my english and I know there are many mistakes, SORRY!
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Target 2 - Middle East II

After an emergency landing and being lost in the middle of a remote region of Turkey, the poor passengers ended up in the hands of rebels who are leading them to one of their bases for unknown reasons.
The pilot is the only one who got close to the man who appears to be the leader, his mouth is wrapped in a bandana so it's not possible to look at his face. The man tries in vain to ask for the liberation of the poor hostages but no one listen to him.
Meanwhile the group is walking into the dense forest, the eleventh family is playing the part of the hostages and they are also quiet.

Shinji: Uff. My feet hurt.
Kaito: Uh? Already?
Luca: Well, he isn't used to walk a lot.
Shinji: ... yeah ...
Arashi: This is because you haven't trained and you didn't do anything for your flabby body.
Shinji: ...
Arina: Shinji needs a strong mind. It's okay if his body is not so strong ...
Masato: A magician has to be mentally strong, right?
Kaito: Yeah, but some resistance wouldn't hurt him.

Some armed men turn toward the boys, Kaito observes one of them with a puzzled look and stops talking.

Luca: Anyway ... What are we doing in Turkey if we had to go to Spain?
Nozomi: Pardonne-moi, it is a low cost airline found by chance.
Cloud: So if we are in this situation is because of you.
Arashi: Hey, shut up you. There is a reason behind it, you know?
Kaito: Uh? And what would it be?
Arashi: Who do you think have paid for your trip?
Nozomi: On my card there wasn't enough money to afford safer airlines and I couldn't ask my father without raising suspicion.
Arina: Well, this is obvious. However I don't understand why we're following these rebels instead of getting rid of them.
Jun: ...Can we get rid of them?

The albino's question confuse Arina and Masato, who are close to him. Young Jun hadn't opened his mouth since they had landed and had remained silent and scared all the time.

Masato: Are you serious? I think that with their current skills they can certainly knock out a few armed man. Simply count the characteristics of each of them: with Haname-chan and Sawada's dexterity and speed, Kaito's strength, Arashi's precision and fury... then, Shinji's disturbing illusions and Cloud's multiplication skills... also Luca's resistance and his protective barriers, useful in defending the poor unfortunates during clashes…

The young albino seems incredulous to hear those accurate descriptions of the individual skills of the boys, he hadn't realized that they are really powerful.

It's almost sunrise when they finally reach a dilapidated building.
They walked all night and Shinji, as well as Jun, Masato and the other passengers, are exhausted and they sit to the ground after they reached a large room. It is destroyed to half, dusty and full of debris but with chairs occupied by some men, who are discussing animatedly.
Some guards push the hostages toward the corners, dividing them into groups and demanding a strict silence.

The dark-skinned man takes off the bandana revealing his dark hair and aviator glasses. He grabs the pilot from the group and drags him before the other men.

- These are the people we have caught in the area of the fall. -

Two of them come forward and joined the man with the glasses, one of them is white skinned, bearded and has a scar on his right cheek. The other one is black skinned, with bandages covering his left eye and wearing a greenish band, tied around his head. His hair is black and bulky.

- Well, they could be useful for the communications, teh. - says the man with bandages.
- Are you sure that no one has seen you, Erol? - the bearded man is seriously staring at the man with the aviator glasses, who looks like the youngest of the group.

Erol: Why are you always so suspicious, Alp? No one was around.
Alp: I don't know, lately military are everywhere around Mirjad, those filthy bastards.
Erol: After they have taken the mall our freedom is very limited. They are looking for us but I prefer to crawl like a worm. Everything for the freedom of our city.
- Calm down, you two. - the dark skinned man approaches the pilot, now more than ever frightened, bending down to look into his eyes. - So. You are the pilot of the crashed plane, right? -
- Y-yes ... please, release the passengers, they are innocent ... -
- The more innocent, the better for us. Anyway I am Gazi, teh. - he gets up, adjusting the bandages that are covering his left eye.

Gazi: Do you know why I have these bandages?
- ... No... -
Gazi: When they massacred my family, I tried to defend them. I was only twelve, teh. Then I fled because they wanted to kill me.
- ... Oh ... -
Gazi: I guess these things are quite rare in your country, teh. It's normal here, at least since that man came to power. Before him Mirjad was a quiet town, but the old man was killed and was replaced, now the poor are the same as the slaves.
- I'm sorry ... -
Erol: Anyway we need you as hostages. We're going to ask the Government for the release of Mirjad from the military and Raif in exchange for the hostages.
- But ... you don't want to hurt us, don't you? -
Alp: Well, this doesn't have to concern you. We just need to make them listen to us and eliminate that son of a bitch.

A tall and sturdy man approaches the three, puzzled.

- Gazi, where do we have to put these people? -
Gazi: I think it's appropriate to leave them in the room under supervision.
- Should we make a camp here? -
Erol: Who cares, we already sleep camped around the base.
Gazi: The important thing is that they are being watched, teh.

The sound of a rumbling stomach echoes in the group of hostages. They haven't eaten nor drunk and they're depressed and scared because of the situation in which they find themselves.

Kaito: ... Someone is hungry ... an alpaca told me that he heard a growling stomach ...

The sun swings as if in a trance. He doesn't seem himself because he's probably hungry too.

Arashi: ... I'm sure that the alpacas are your imaginary friends, Kaito.
Kaito: Ehhh ... don't you see them? They are hopping here in front of us, dancing the hola and the tallest whips the others ... that cruelty ...
Luca: ... Eh, hunger creates hallucinations.
Masato: Anyway I also have heard the grumbling stomach, it wasn't a vision.
Nozomi: It was mine.
Haname: Uh. When was the last time you ate something, Nozo?
Nozomi: Uhm .. I don't remember.
Arina: Lately you don't eat and sleep enough ... it's bad for your health, Undicesima.
Arashi: Hey, tell me the truth. Is it because your father?
Nozomi: ...
Haname: Stop hiding it, Nozo. We all understand that you're depressed.
Luca: What happened with Juudaime ... none of us expected it, it's not your fault. Don't blaming yourself.
Cloud: Let her alone, she's self-pitying. She just wants our attention and trying to be cool.
Arashi: If she wants to play the victim it's her fucking business.
Nozomi: Let him alone, he's right. That situation with my father left me speechless and I admit I also thought to be a total failure.
Arina: It isn't showing off confidence and arrogance that you can overcome this.

She whispers, but Nozomi doesn't listen to her.
The cloud turns to look at the brunette with a pensive look while others seem somewhat perplexed by his statement.

Arashi: ... What... are you really revealing your complex with such indifference? You have a fever.
Haname: Nozo, no, what are thinking? You are not a failure, it's your father who maybe doesn't understand your feelings and wants to impose his ones.
Nozomi: It's true, but I've always tried to be strong in order to obtain people's trust and forget about my gender.
Arina: Being a girl doesn't mean you are weak.
Nozomi: For you, maybe. But what about the others?
Arina: You keep listening to other people. Why don't you stop?

Arashi: People are fucking shallow.
Nozomi: Yeah, after all I have to be myself, right?
Haname: Precisely. That's why we're here with you.
Cloud: Tsk, we aren't here for hearing your whining and complex as a teen.
Shinji: ... he has quite right ...
Masato: ... You may say it in a better way.
Arashi: I don't like the way you talk to us. Who do you think you are, Mr. I-am-cool-and-you-are-lowly-and-dumb?
Nozomi: His honesty is the best thing.

She smiles, for the first time since she had returned from Italy.

Arashi: Oh Nozo! ... Okay, he managed to make you smile so I can forgive him for this time.
Nozomi: Ara ... guys ... forgive me. I was so devastated that I had to think a lot about it, but ... a complexed girl also wants to be the cool main character.
Arina: So what?
Nozomi: So ... let me take the lead. We are here to take a stand, we shouldn't waste time.
Cloud: Now you're talking. What do you want to do, miss Little Shell?
Nozomi: We make ourself cool, take the credits, gain their trust and do a nice departure from this place.
Arina: Of course, if first you don't make yourself hated by them.
Arashi: Oh, got it. So we have to help this people to take back the city in the name of the Vongola Eleventh family?

The brunette turns to the red-haired girl, smiling.

Arashi blushes, smiling too. She's happy that Nozomi is now smiling again.
After all Nozomi's smile and her brightness are the basis of their family, based on madness, harmony and vitality.
Those shady days when she was sad and serious, as if she was possessed by some kind of demon, had darkened the other elements of the sky, forcing them to the same sadness and darkness of their boss.
But Nozomi knows she can not be sad, even if her problems with her father and her inferiority complexes are now an integral part of her being. She has to sink her melancholy in her heart, as always, pulling out her joy to be able to reassure everyone as she always does.
She is the sky and she has to be like that, everything else should be hidden inside her.
Willy-nilly she continues to play as she has always done and she can't listen to Arashi and Haname's words.
They can only be happy that Noun is now asleep and Nozomi is free to act as she wishes, but they have to accept that she keeps pretending to be fine and to show herself strong and resolute, despite her complex and her many concerns.
For the latter, there is no hope.

The brunette stands up, her guardians are confused because they haven't expected a rash and sudden move, while the other poor unfortunates turn to look at her, astonished.
Some rebels, who are guarding the group, are rapidly approaching her and ordered her to sit down.

Nozomi: I ask to speak with the leaders of this organization.

The three men, who are discussing with the pilot a little farther on, ignore her and one of the guards try to touch her with the handle of the gun, in order to force her to sit down.
Anyway the girl dodges it.

Nozomi: Again, because you seems to be deaf: I want to talk with the leaders of this organization, NOW.
- Sit down and shut up! -

Arina wonders what she's trying to do, even though probably already knows it.
The brunette sighs, shaking her head because the men keep ignoring her talking to the pilot. Only Erol yells "make her sit down." before returning to the discussing.
- Come on, sit down. If you have to go to the bathroom just wait, soon we bring you in the other room. -
Haname: ... That sucks, we should do it in front of everyone or what?!
Arashi: Hey, we're women, not animals!

Arashi is going to get up, but Masato blocks her.

- There are rooms separated for males and females, so shut up now! And you, sit down. -

The Vongola, visibly annoyed, puts a pout for a few moments, before returning to speak.

Nozomi: You fools people, now listen to me and shout your mouth.

She starts speaking quickly, this is why the words seem confusing.

Nozomi: I'm Sawada Nozomi, you of course don't know my name but it's obviously not my problem. I'm here because I offer my help so don't ignore me and move your ass, come here and let's have a leader's talk because I'm annoyed being sit like a jerk in this smelly room and you aren't much better, for God sake, wash yourself!

The guards seem confused as the hostages themselves, looking at her.
The sun seems to wake up from his visions.

Kaito: Huh? Uh? The boss has started to confuse people with her fast-talking! ... What happens?

The three men stopped the discussion and turn toward the girl.

Nozomi: Well, now that I got your attention let's talk about business. I am the future eleventh boss of the Vongola family, I offer my help and the help of my guardians in exchange for the protection of passengers.

Alp's laugh echoes in the room.

Alp: Who is this crazy girl? Her help? Let her sit, now.
Erol: Maybe she is hungry and she's looking for some attention!

Meanwhile Gazi is staring at her with concern, brooding. He gets up from his stool and approaches the girl.

Gazi: Vongola Family ... I've heard that, teh. And do you think you can help us?
Nozomi: We are the solution to your problems.
Erol: Come on Gazi, are you really taking her seriously?
Gazi: Mh.
Nozomi: Well, why don't you test me?
Erol: Uh, a test?
Nozomi: I want to be a little full of myself, today.
Arina: ... Only today? Don't do anything rash. Stay down to the earth.

The brunette looks at her tutor, she's staring at her with an expression of resignation.
Bites her lip, annoyed, turning back to Gazi.

Nozomi: A fight, yes. Everyone versus me. If I'm all talk and no action you can put me a gag and I'll go back sitting down, otherwise you will accept my deal.

Arina sighs again, she knew that her student wouldn't have listened to her and would continue to do stupid things just to show herself strong.
She is once again masking her fears flaunting a false security and infinite arrogance.
She isn't the Nozomi they know but a character invented by her and performed perfectly.

Erol adjusts his glasses again, it seems to be his habit.
Finally he starts giggling.