Ame wa Furu, Ai ga Hajimaru
(III. Ame no Chikai)
By: Riku
Pairing: Yamamoto x Reader
Disclaimer: I don't own Reborn! and you~ only the plot~
Warning: OOC~, grammar error
A/N: .. sorry nee, to not reply to all the reviews, I forgot to do it QAQ but I'm thanking you guys for reviewing~ so I'm updating now, chapter three on the way, douzo~ XD
The tanned man secretly staring at your empty seat, longing for your presence. But he felt strange, he didn't know what he truly felt about you since the first he found you in the rain's shower, the tall man liked to see your cheerful expression as you heard eagerly about the mafia. In his heart, he felt empty for not seeing your since four days ago, MIA for no reason and no information, even Hibari who seemed to had a 'strange' relation with you didn't know and just ignoring him who asked.
"Yamamoto, do you hear me?"
Tsuna's voice took him head back to his friends who now staring at him strangely. The tanned man laughed nervously, hiding his loneliness. He didn't get to walk you home these days, and he felt loss somehow.
"Ahh, my bad. Hahaha, sorry, I guess I don't hear you Tsuna! Haha." He rubbed his back head like he usually done.
"You idiotic baseball freak! How can you not hear Jyuudaime's enthralling voice!" Gokudera scowled, suddenly standing and lifted his right foot on the chair which he sat before and lifting his fisted hand.
Tsuna who only had those usual 'What the…' expression at Gokudera only sighed and tried to made the silver-head sit back. Then he turned his head to the class' door, hoping it was you. His hyper intuition really helped him to guess since it was really you who enter the class, but one thing seemed to wrong for him.
"(s/n)! What happened to you?" Tsuna stood up from his chair, concerned about your condition since you finally showed up but with many bandage covering your body, from head to toes.
You gave Tsuna a hesitant smile, "Ng…n-nothing. Well, I fell from the third floor, so yeah, you can see. Ahahaha." Then you proceeded carefully to your seat, passing Yamamoto.
Just like in the basic thing would happen in Shoujo manga, your swollen knee limped and you almost fall but Yamamoto caught you, preventing you from falling. With concern he reminded, "You should be careful (s/n), hahahaha!"
You missed his laugh so much, but you quickly returned from the lala-land and maintaining your balance, "Thanks." You didn't say anything else and quickly sat down, not even glancing at the athlete even if you wanted to see him so much.
"J-jyuudaime, don't you think she's a little weird?" Gokudera whispered carefully at Tsuna, but then suddenly got energetic, "Maybe she was abducted by alien? If that's right, I should check on her Jyuudaime!"
Tsuna sighed, then tried to calm his right hand man down, "G-gokudera… I think its not that… Maybe she isn't in the mood to talk with us, just let her be."
"Hahaha! But Tsuna, what do you think she do? I mean, fell from the third floor, whoa, maybe she's playing stunt?" Yamamoto became excited and started to imagining some incredible hero's scene.
Tsuna knew that both of his idiotic friends were hopeless, so he glanced at Reboyama, eek! Since when he's been standing there? Oh, you knew that Reborn was…good at popping somewhere suddenly. Unfortunately for Tsuna, before he could get some word of wisdom from his tutor, he got a deathly chalk being lunged to his forehead with full power which was thrown by no other than his tutor himself.
-o-o-o-o-o-o- Break Time –o-o-o-o-o-o-
You lifted your buried face to Tsuna, who was now standing in front of your table with his two friends.
Tsuna asked sheepishly, "E-ehm, well, are you alright…? E-eh, I mean, that wound and bruise…ehm…" He rubbed his nape and looked away from your eyes which were staring to his.
You sighed and closed your eyes, "I'm okay… Don't worry about me too much…" Then you stared at the bandage on your knees to leg, slightly remembered the wounds at your back, stomach and right arm.
Yamamoto added, "I was wondering why you didn't come to school, hahaha! And here I found you fell from the third floor from your house!"
You only smiled a little and quickly said, "…By the way… Can I quit that mafia game?"
Gokudera yelled, feeling you wasted his Jyuudaime's offer, "You dare to resign from Jyuudaime's family? You must be thankful that Jyuudaime choose you to be his family member, butthead!"
"I'm so sorry… I must focus on the upcoming exam, so I can't play…and that's too childish for me… Well… if you'll excuse me." You stood up and walked pass by them, ignored every word they said to you and only walked away from them, heading to somewhere which might made you forget about yesterday's incident.
You knew they didn't follow you, so you stopped at the quiet corridor. A wasted breath came out from your mouth as you sighed, but being aware as you sensed someone appeared.
"I thought I said it clearly… I'll crack your head…"
"I'll let you do it, but at least let me be for a while since I have some business." You closed your eyes, feeling Reborn's presence behind you and he was ready to shot you.
"Hmm… And did they say their family name when they attacked you?" He pointed down his gun and changed the topic.
"…They didn't say anything…but I was sure they were a mafia."
"Hmm…but you really did well, normally people would die after being attacked like that." Reborn smirked.
"I'm lucky I brought my wooden sword… But I'm still too weak… to think they managed to injure me like this….it was humiliating…" You gritted your teeth and clenched your fist, feeling pathetic.
"I'm afraid they'll attack you again, I'm just hoping for you to be prepared yourself."
"I understand, I've been learning much in my absent…" You walked away, leaving Reborn who was smirking again, amused by your determined thought.
Yamamoto couldn't believe the thing he heard as he kept listening behind the hallway corner. He knew something was wrong with you…having some flashback in his head when you informed him to not walk you home anymore, feeling a little sad by the fact that maybe you hated him.
You dodged as the bullet flew towards you, quickly unsheathed your wooden sword from its cover and changed into offensive stance. They sure were persistent, to spied and hunt you for several days. You knew for sure that today they would attack you again in order to have information about Vongola's Tenth.
"Just be a good girl and tell us which one is the candidate of Vongola Tenth!" One of the black suited man said, pointed his gun towards you while the other men surrounded you.
From the first time they attacked you, you had this strong feeling that it might be had some ties with Sawada and being a good friend, you won't talk about him even it cost your life.
"I've said that I don't know! What is Vongola anyway? Pasta's name?" You yelled, tried to not become suspicious but still in your offensive stance.
"If you don't know then why are you so persistent as if you are protecting something?"
The man which was behind you pulled the gun's trigger and was ready to shot you, "Yeah right! Tell us who the Tenth is! Or we must kill you here!"
You closed your eyes, concentrating and mumbling loud, "My father once said… As the sky engulfing in above, all the elements will protect it like a sacred being…"
You understood your words very much as you've pledged yourself to protect your sky and Reborn seemed to know this as he left you while he was observing from somewhere far to test your loyalty. There was no way you could lose here, not until you finish the game, no game over for you. So, as well as showing your serious side to Reborn, you decided to grew stronger.
"What the hell are you talking about, b***h?" All the men now finished pulled their gun trigger and was ready to shot you with no way to escape as they were surrounding your escape path.
A smirk appeared for a while on your face and suddenly it changed into a serious face, "…Mugen no sakuhana…The deadly third stance: Yudoku Ajisai [1]…"
Right after you finished your sentence, a purple colored gas came out from nowhere and spreading to the road. You silently watched as all of the men became limped because of the poisonous gas, began to vomiting and kneeled down.
You gripped your sword tightly and began to mumble, "The deadly second stance: Kaika Hachisu [2]…"
You quickly swung your wooden sword and lunged into each of the mafioso's men, and then like a blooming lotus you stood in the ground which suddenly become watery and penetrating the ground with the top of your sword. A fierce amount of water appeared from nowhere like an illusion and drought the men around you, then you left the watery road which many mafioso's men laid there and surrounded by many Lotus' petals.
"VOIIIIIIIIIIIII! YOU SCUMS REALLY ARE USELESS!" A loud voice heard from above and when you saw a long haired man lunged into you, you didn't fast enough to lift your sword.
Strange, you didn't feel anything hard stabbing your body or even feel pain, so you opened your eyes slowly and saw him in front of you, protecting you with a steel sword with a swallow symbol right on the lowest steel near the holder.
"Y-yama…moto?" You called with disbelief in your voice; he blocked the white haired man's sword from attacking you.
"Hahaha, looks like I'm on time, right, (s/n)?" Yamamoto turned his face to you, still blocking the enemy's sword, but that face… he was smiling to you, with a…sad smile?
"VOIII! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TRASH?" The strange man yelled again, pulling his sword but still in his offensive stance.
Suddenly, Yamamoto felt someone pushed him aside and it made he fell to the ground. He saw knifes fell to the ground and you who were blocking it from cutting him with your wooden sword.
"Whoa! Thanks (s/n)! hahahaha!" Yamamoto laughed cheerfully, rubbing his nape while maneuvered himself to stand up then joining you in front of the enemies.
"Ushishishi, so these peasants are our next plaything?" A blonde boy who wore a small crown on his head popped out and was sitting on the roof, twirling his knife at his finger with a big wide grin carved by his lip.
You gulped, knew that both of the men who appeared were at the different level from the men you've been fighting. So you lifted your wooden sword and positioning yourself to your defensive stance, ready to block whenever the enemies attack even if you were not sure that it would be a successful blocking without any fatalities.
"Stop right there!" A voice of a little kid appeared and you guessed right when he jumped then stood between you and the long haired man, lifting a letter with a flame embedded there.
Reborn continued, "As the order from Ninth, the battle for Tenth's candidate will be informed in two days and for the succession of the battle, a battle between two sides is strictly prohibited."
After hearing Reborn's words, the enemies nodded and didn't say anything but only left. Reborn turned back and saw you staring at him intensely, and then he smirked after putting back the letter.
"You did a great job, (s/n). You do grow stronger in this last four days, congrats." Reborn praised, but his face suddenly got serious, "But you are still weak… I advice you to train harder, especially those sword technique…it might help the family."
"I understand… I'll complete the…tech…ni...q…" your voice vanished as your body almost fell to the ground before Yamamoto caught your fainted self, calling your name continuously in panic.
"She's just fatigued from leashing her power, take her home." Reborn coldly said.
Yamamoto's body twitched a bit, still remember Reborn's word after his lost to the same man which he prevented to attack you before, but he hesitantly nodded, "A-ah, I understand!" he gave you a piggy-back ride and carried your wooden sword.
"And remember Yamamoto….about your lost with that Squalo before… don't come back to the family before you get stronger, if you…dared to come back in a weak state… I'll crack your head." Reborn jumped to the house border and quickly jumped again to the roof, vanished in a second glance.
In the way home, your sleeping self mumbled something, "Must…get….stron…ger… For….him…"
Yamamoto who heard that mumble clearly on his ear surprised, feeling somewhere at his heart hurt a bit when he heard you mentioned someone who clearly was a man and didn't even realized his feeling towards you. He knew you wouldn't hear this, but he forced himself to say it in whisper for you while stopping for a minute.
"I'll get stronger for you too…" He gave you a sad smile and then continued to ride you home.
~TBC~
[1] Endless petals… the deadly third stance: Hydrangea of Poison
[2] Second stance: Blooming Lotus
A/N: Gah! Yama-kun! Yama-kun…. You…re….so….AWESOME! O/O kuhh, me has to stop fangirling now~ but, review nee~ and thanks! :D
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