Ours Lives Make a Beautiful Bouquet
Prompt: Peony
Pairings: Ipin/OC
Characters: Ipin, Lambo
"You should stop staring at him," Lambo drawled out, tone lazy and bored.
"I'm not staring!" Ipin hissed. She could feel her cheeks turning bright red as she dragged her gaze away from the boy across the room and looked at her brother.
"You were staring," Lambo stated. He had his elbow propped up on his desk, his hand cradling his jaw as he met her eyes. "And you were being pretty obvious about it. His girlfriend isn't gonna like it very much."
She flushed hotter at his words, with shame more then embarrassment. She ducked her head. She mumbled, "I can't help that I like him, Lambo."
There was a moment before Lambo let out a soft sigh. She glanced backup at him, watching as he raked a hand through his hair.
"I know, I know." She knew that was as close to an apology as she could get from him. "But, I don't like seeing you hurt. He's got a girlfriend and, even if he didn't, he's kind of a douchebag. You could do better."
"With who exactly?" Ipin questioned. "Because I don't exactly have a line of people waiting to date me like you do."
Lambo's gaze focused on her. A small smile fluttered across his lips, "You are much too good to be sleeping around the way I do, imouto."
Her heart clenched a bit at the Japanese at the end of his sentence. When they'd first moved to Italy they had almost exclusively spoke Japanese to each other, but the longer they were there the less of it they used until the two high schoolers were rarely using it.
"Otouto," she said at last, "you shouldn't say that as though you aren't good."
"Mm." His gaze fell away from her and focused on his hand. He twisted the lightning ring on his hand.
Sensing his train of thought, she said, "You aren't the only one whose killed people, Lambo. And you do it to protect our family, it doesn't make you a bad person."
"I'm glad you don't think so."
Overhead the bell went off and people began flooding back to their seats before the teacher came in.
She wished she'd had a few more moments to say something else to her brother, but the girl sitting in front of him had already drawn him into conversation.
Ipin decided just for now, she would let him slide out of the conversation.
It would be better to confront him with Tsuna by her side, anyway.
E/n: Maybe it's a little cliche to use the teenagers with the flower that means bashfulness, but I really only used the prompt as a stepping stone.
For anyone who doesn't know: imouto and otouto mean little sister and little brother respectfully. Onee-san and Onii-san would be big sister and big brother. Since Lambo and Ipin are the same age, I left them calling each other 'little sister' and 'little brother' as a sort of teasing/playful thing, but I imagine which ever one of them is older probably gloats about it a ton.
Lambo acting promiscuous is one of my favorite headcanons even though it makes me very sad. I see it as happening because he honestly is just a teenager but I am absolutely certain he has killed people by the time he's in high school when this takes place. I could see him coping with that by sleeping around, assuring himself that he can have a positive effect on a person's body.
Let me know what you think!
