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!
Thank you for reading ~
Target 1 - Eh? Is this my guardian of Lightning?
Good Morning to everyone!
The greeting resonates in a Namimori Middle School classroom as a girl with brown hair enters the room, ignoring the teacher who was shouting behind her.
Teacher: SAWADA! Do you know what time it is?
Nozomi: Oh, god, here we go again...
Teacher: How can you arrive this late? Lessons already began 10 minutes ago.
Nozomi: Mh...Well, see, I'm late because... an unicorn asked me to help him run away from an alien laboratory where he had been imprisoned.
Laughs.
There's nothing better than laugh and smile early at morning.
Most of the class laughs too, maybe not just because the story was fun and that's the problem. Sawada Nozomi is just the type of girl that enjoys making up surreal stories and puns; she is weird and with and uncommon reasoning, sometimes lost in her thoughts or humming to herself.
She's hard to understand at first glance, looks like a street thug because of wounds and bandages. They never know whether to laugh or be afraid of her. She's ... odd.
Although the school is started by a couple of months she is already known throughout the school, but her reputation is not really good. People have conflicting opinions, but generally prefer to stay away from someone like her.
That's why, as she heads for her desk, her classmates laugh. They laugh at her.
She perfectly knows what they think about her and she also knows her sad jokes are dull. She tells them anyway, because she enjoys doing so.
But it's so sad people only laugh to her weirdness, it's not a good reason to laugh. They should laugh because it was fun.
Immediately feels upset, again.
"So boring, everyone is so serious..."
She was genuinely happy that morning, but some stupid guys forced her to fight and she ended up with bruises and being late for school, and it was the only reason her mood turned bad. The fight hasn't concerned her too much, she obviously was the winner, those guys were inexperienced and enough clumsy, but knowing that people are still stupid and evil makes her really angry.
This is why she always tries to make people smile.
A long haired cute girl of the neighbour's desk is staring at her with a confused look, and the brunette paints a smile, slightly getting closer to her and whispering.
Nozomi: You know... I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.
It's really hard for that girl not to laugh, she has to put her hand on her mouth, but Nozomi can't help but love that mixed feelings about laughing or not. It's all she can obtain from her classmates, for now.
It's okay, she only needs their smiles. They aren't bad people, indeed they are really nice and fun, it's just that she couldn't fit in the group.
But she doesn't care.
The teacher voice is so boring, after some time she found herself scribbling the figure of a man on her notebook, as usual. She can't draw at all, but that silhouette is unmistakable, it's the man she loves the most.
A man she can only see in her weird dreams since her birth: Vongola Primo, Giotto.
She totally adores him, acting as a girl-in-love while thinking about the man. It's like her weakness.
This is also the reason she wants to become stronger and awesome like him, learning something that couldn't be learned anywhere: the legendary Shinuki no Honoo; Dying Will.
Well, actually there's someone who could teach her, but he always acted as he didn't know anything about it. After all he's a proud and protective father, she can't trust him.
At the end she can't help but try to learn it by herself, studying it from Vongola Primo in her dreams. He's always so cool, with that proud and orange flame on his forehead. He's really charming.
"...Aaaah what am I thinking about?" she's really confused about this, scratches her head nervously "Come on, he's also my ancestor! ...Well, I'm his ... uhm... how much generations..."
She counts again on her fingers: Ieyasu, Giotto is the first, then his descendants are Yoshimune, Yoshinobu, Ietsuna, Iemitsu and Tsunayoshi, her father. She's the sixth descendant, both will not be very connected by blood, they couldn't have genetic problems, she thinks. Well, in the past cousins also could marry.
Nods, satisfied. Yes, nothing incestuous at all.
Really?
Her smile turns in a hideous look.
"...AM I ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT INCEST?"
She quickly slams her forehead on the desk, under the confused look of her classmates.
Teacher: ... ehm, Sawada. Are you okay?
Nozomi: ... I don't think I'm okay. Maybe I'm really crazy!
She genuinely shouts it, with a disgusted look on her face.
- This was already obvious. - her classmates start laughing again.
Teacher: Well... why don't you come here to solve this problem, then?
She stands up and approaches the blackboard with a gloomy face, reading the problem and writing the solution after some seconds.
It's not something new, despite her weird look she at least has almost perfect grades.
She loves learning new stuff, she always read books since she was a child and also learned stuff they were going to study in next years.
This is why her social life was totally inexistent, when she was a child.
She returns to her desk with a depressed look, sighing.
"ahhh... Arashi's going to be upset again..." mumbles, waiting for the lunch break. Lately, her weird feelings were giving problems to her friends, and she couldn't forgive herself for that situation. But she's literally powerless, she's at "that age" after all.
She stretches, bored, then she hears the school's bell and almost falls from the chair. She stands up and runs over the door, happy to finally eat something with her friends. Unfortunately, as soon as she puts her foot out of the classroom, she collides with a red-haired girl, and both fall to the ground.
Arashi: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPP-
She immediately recognizes Nozomi and quickly stops shouting, throwing herself to her friend.
Arashi: AH, NOZOOOOOOOOO~
She hugs the confused girl, the brunette is still processing what just happened.
Nozomi:... Uh? Ah, Arashi!
Arashi: Hey, wake up you silly girl. Bored, huh? It's been a while that nothing happens. School isn't for us, we must conquer the world!
She looks up with dreaming eyes.
Nozomi: U-uhm... well... actually today I made a fool of myself...
Arashi: ... Oh? And why? Did you say something stupid?
Nozomi: I said I was crazy! ... I mean, I genuinely think I'm crazy, I was thinking about Primo-sama again, and-
Arashi: AGAIN?
Arashi's look is what's most frightening in the world, and the brunette trembles.
Arashi: WHY MY EFFORTS ARE TOTALLY USELESS WITH YOU IDIOT?
Nozomi: ...I-I'm sorry...
The red-haired girl sighs and finally stands up, pulling her friends and forcing her to get up too.
Arashi: Let's drop this, I'm hungry!
Nozomi: Yep! Let's call Haname and Kaito!
Both the girls hop and hum across the corridors, attracting the attention of students and the disciplinary committee, who returns their songs with death glares.
- Ohi, aren't those two Sawada-san and Fukada-san? They're crazy as everyone say... -
- Isn't it against the rules? I mean, hopping in corridors like that... Why the DC doesn't do anything? -
- Oh, you know, I heard Sawada-san hit Kazuno-senpai! He was always annoying underclassmen girls. -
- Eh? Now that I think about it, she even punched older guys, members of a gang from the eastern district. People said she studied martial arts when she was five... -
- Five? So she's like a pro? -
- Dunno, but she's kinda weird, she doesn't looks like a girl at all! -
The two can take everyone's attention, so they're able to listen to rumors and they can easily find interesting news and stuff to spend time, something like problematic guys or people with problems who's looking for help.
They don't enjoy being heroines but they hate when innocents are targeted, this is why Nozomi is always involved in fightings and such. She doesn't think she's stronger than everyone and many times she comes back home even with worrying injuries, but many guys around aren't really skilled and she can count on years of fighting lessons. It's just that her sense of justice is too strong, and she attributes this to the fact of being a Vongola, as Primo and her father.
But most people think their deeds are just to make them feel superior and that the girls want to fight because they enjoy it. This is why many people laugh at Nozomi acting as a boy, they gossip about her lack of femininity in comparison to Arashi's beauty and Haname's elegance.
Even if she doesn't want to care about it, those rumors are very annoying.
- That girl has the elegance of an elephant! -
-She has zero femininity, when she sits down she does it in a terribly boyish way... -
Sometimes, Arashi has to take the tomboy girl away before she hurts other innocent people because of her rough behaviour.
Even if she's the first who would like to punch everyone.
Nozomi: Sits down in a terribly boyish way, huh? I can sit down with all the elegance and cuteness in this world, if they wanted to know. I don't act elegant because I can seem more like a frail and frivolous girl.
Nozomi and Arashi are eating their bento, next to them there's an older black-haired girl with two braids, she's exchanging her lunch with a blond and blue-eyed boy.
Haname: You don't want to be listed as a frivolous girl, right?
Arashi swallows so quickly that she almost chokes.
Arashi: Who? Sawada Nozomi? Frivolous girl? Where?
The blond boy stretches a bit, giggling lightly.
Kaito: Ahahahah, our boss seems more like a vulgar and rude trucker.
Haname: Yandere girls are cool. You can pretend to be a sweet and cute girl, then you scare everyone with your secret strength.
Arashi: Surely you aren't moe.
Nozomi: I DON'T WANT TO BE MOE.
Arashi: Just so you know, I HATE moes.
Kaito: Wait, is this a meeting to decide boss's personality or what?
Haname: Nozomi... changing the subject, how's it going with Kimitaka-san?
When the black-haired girl changed the subject, everyone stopped giggling. Now they're talking about serious stuff and surprisingly they can also talk seriously.
Arashi: Seems we can trust him, he is confident and he has a dream.
Haname: A dream, huh?
Nozomi: Anyone with a dream can join the family! I really love people with dreams!
Arashi: Nozomi, stop it- you can't betray me with everyone with a dream, it's unfair!
She wipes her bitter tears.
Kaito: After the Guardian of Cloud and his obsession about the music, I think Kimitaka Shinji can be ok!
Haname: Oh, Cloud- He's weird, but also awesome!
Arashi: Oh my God. Kaito, please, don't speak about that one, I really can't stand him. He's cool just because he can play the piano, and I love music.
Haname: Almost all of us love music.
Kaito: Uh, wait wait, don't lose yourself in these alpacas' discussions! We were talking about the Guardian of Mist, right? The one who looks like a failed magician.
Arashi: And here he goes again with alpacas...
Nozomi: He isn't a failed magician! Indeed, he is very good...
Haname: You should still tell us how you catch him!
Nozomi: Ehm ehm...
Arashi: I bet it was something that has to do with Primo.
Nozomi: Ehm...
Arashi: I'm so good in guessing stuff I should try my luck with the lottery.
Haname: Anyway, Kaito remember that we are making this family with only our strength... so don't be harsh with the members, please!
Kaito: Oh, it was only a joke, don't worry!
Arashi: This isn't the point. We have to be stronger but our family has only kids... well, Cloud is the older one, he's in the eighteen I guess?
Nozomi: In my dreams, I heard Giotto-sama saying that resolution is very important. I want to be able to use my Vongola power too!
"I have to become stronger."
Arashi: Here she goes with Primo again.
Kaito: If your father listens to this...
Haname: Well, Decimo doesn't know about Nozomi's dreams and he can't know his daughter already knows everything about the Vongola and their Guardians.
Nozomi: I don't think so, papa isn't so stupid. He also own Vongola's hyper intuition.
Kaito: Then why he didn't stop you? He always try to keep you away from mafia and stuff...
Nozomi: Surely he's turning to the other side.
Actually, the brunette is sure her father already knew everything about her weird and unexplainable ability to dream only about the First Family, she always talked about Vongola stuff when she was a child, even if he acted as he didn't know what she was talking about. Anyway, after growing up, she never confronted him directly.
Only her friends know openly about it, she never said anything to anyone else.
Nozomi: He always pretended to nothing. That's typical of him, since he is happy if I stay out of the mafia, constantly ignoring my wishes, and this is what hurts me to the most... but I'm positive he's going to accept it when he'll see how much I'm working hard on it!
Arashi: I'm also sure about it! Even if Arina doesn't seem to be really happy about your behave, but she kindly explained the guardian's stuff to us...
Nozomi: Arina has the Lightning flame but she doesn't want to join "my family". And I need exactly that flame, it's the last...
She sighs, bowing her head.
Nozomi: It's obvious she doesn't want to be my guardian because papa asked her to be my "tutor", and she's so loyal and reliable...
Arashi: Don't be so depressed! She only does what it has been ordered.
The red-haired girl embraces Nozomi.
Nozomi: Well, nothing will happen if she doesn't listen to my father for a bit...
Arashi: We can persuade her.
Again they can hear the school's bell, they must quickly return to their classrooms for the next period.
Haname: Now... the only thing we have to do is wait to meet again this afternoon.
Nozomi: ...Can I skip the afternoon's lessons...?
She is looking at all her friends with a cute imploring gaze, Arashi wants to help her but she is forced to join the 3-guardians-chorus of "NO!".
Nozomi:... Fuck you.
That afternoon they're so tired they can't even speak, so their return to Sawadas' is quiet and thoughtful.
When the four kids enter the home they find Arina sitting down in the living room.
Arina Luccini is Nozomi's childhood friend, she's in her twenties and is very smart and knowledgeable, this is why Vongola Decimo asked her to keep an eye on Nozomi in Japan. She has dark green eyes and long blonde hair, also she has a mole under her lower lip.
On the opposite side of the table there is a boy who totally looks like her but taller, with green eyes and blonde hair in a ponytail.
The boy is wearing what looked like some kind of a military uniform and he's drinking a cup of tea.
Nozomi: Wh... What's happening here?
Once Arina notices the guys' presence, she turns to them with a smile.
Arina: Oh, welcome home guys, Undicesima! Finally I can introduce you to my twin Luca. ...Were you looking for your guardian of Lightning, right?