C 03: Rea-
Track: Snowpoint City (Mid-Day) - Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum OST
"How is it that I can see stars...?"
"Because you want to."
"Why do you always say that?"
"Because that's the answer you seek."
"Is that the truth?"
"It would be if you want it to be."
"Who are you?"
"What you want me to be."
"Are you... are you Giotto too?"
"No, Giotto is you. I am not you."
"Then... what are you?"
"I am... a friend."
And then it went silent.
Giotto frowned as he looked at the starry night sky, the only part of his walls that weren't covered with his own scribbles. The blond laid on the middle of his room, trying to make constellations.
"Ah, I see Taurus there, there's Gemini, and that's Capricorn, that's Libra... and what's that? Is that a new constellation?" The amber-eyed man jumped abruptly from his place to take a worn-out pen. He tried to find a space between one of his stories and the new branch of math he had created. The blond frowns. Maybe it was time to paint already?
No. Not yet. Not now.
A new star appeared next to Libra;
He then drew a rather distorted version of the human version of Libra he'd created. Smiling at his newest creation, Giotto continued the tale.
This new star is closely bonded with Libra, he wrote. But is extremely different. Libra represents balance, equivalence. This new star represents greed, favoritism. Its name...
Giotto sighed. He couldn't put the name if he didn't know what would suit it. The blond looked all over the walls for an answer.
The chemist and the stuntman is finally reunited, after years long of separation by nothing but a thin veil. Waiting for a clear answer to his plea. The gods will answer him. He will help him. "Please wake up," the boy whispers. "Please wake up, S-
He won't find the right name over there.
Dream a dream. Or do you dream of reality? I am but a mere dream, or am I the sheer reality? In the end, everything is nothing. It shall return to the Sea of Zero.
Zero...
Giotto smiled as he scribbled an archaic-looking handwriting next to the founding of his new star. Libra and Zero. He was looking forward to his new invention.
But first, he looked outside to the man with the red hair. He looked familiar, but Giotto couldn't quite place how he knew him.
Giotto stood, wanting to reach to the unfamiliar. But when he approached, flashes of red surfaced his mind and he fell to his knees. Giotto then went limp, silent, but then he resumed his train of thoughts.
Where was he again? What was he thinking again?
Nothing, again. He looked the surrounding walls and sighed.
Right, he was the 'Archiver', the one who archives the things around him so they won't be forgotten. Giotto laid down once more, trying to count the stars before it was time for dinner.
Track: Kingdom Hearts II - Roxas Theme
"There you have it, G-san." Doctor Fong declared sadly. "Giotto-kun is..."
"I know what happened to him."
"But you don't understand why he is like that."
There wasn't a word in doctor Fong's statement that weren't true. But G felt really sad nonetheless. In truth, G knew exactly why Giotto seemed content in a world where there was nothing but him and his fantasy. After all, Alaude's death...
No. He didn't want to talk about that.
"Fong-san..." G breathed out, desperately. "Please, please help him. I... I can't- I'm still trying to- Fuck." Doctor Fong didn't reprimand him for his language although he raised one eyebrow. "I can't even face him without feeling utterly guilty. I... Alaude was-"
"I know. But I'm not the person you should be explaining things to."
G shivered before awkwardly re-fastened his trench coat, courtesy of the CEDEF. "I... I'll send Ugetsu next time. He... understands Giotto better than me." Doctor Fong shook his head. "That simple statement you just made is the proof that you understands Giotto-kun. Nobody understands Giotto-kun better than you do, G-san."
"But if I can't save him, there's no meaning to it. The least I can do is to find Alaude's murderer and convict him. Maybe then I can face Giotto with a proud smile on my face. Good day, doctor." G then turned away from the room, from his friend, from the reality. He didn't want to face this. He didn't want to see Giotto who didn't remember about him.
It was really painful.
Track: Bad Apple! Music Box Version
It was awkward.
Today was the day all the inmates had a mandatory dinner together. Tsuna honestly didn't understand the point of the activity. Everyone seemed to ignore everyone, which Tsuna obliged to happily. He didn't want unnecessary attention at all.
Tsuna slumped backwards, noting that he was the only one who had a straitjacket on. He didn't trust himself without it whenever he was outside his room. The brunet didn't accept that he was crazy though, he was normal. As normal as a sixteen year old teenage boy could be. But his partner... on the other hand...
Tsuna shook his head, slamming it lightly on the edge of his table.
The person beside him flinched before sitting as humanly possible from him. Tsuna sighed, there went his chance to actually have a normal life in an abnormal place. But the person on his right chuckled. "Don't worry about him, Dino-san just have an anxiety attack." The redhead next to him smiled.
Tsuna thanked him awkwardly and the boy replied with a pleasantly smile. Tsuna was confused though. He looked so normal, but why...?
"I'd offer you my hand, but you can't take it, can you?" The boy's red eyes looked at Tsuna's straitjacket with an understanding frown. "But my name is Cozart Simon, nice to meet you." There was something in the boy's- Cozart's eyes when he said his own name. Tsuna nodded. "I'm Tsunayoshi Sawada, I go by Tsuna."
"Nice to meet you, Tsuna." He smiled. "So, um, why are you here, Simon-kun?" The boy let out a good-natured laugh before smiling. "Please, Tsuna, call me Cozart. I'm here because... apparently, I'm not who I think I am, ridiculous, right? But lots of us here are like that..."
Cozart then pointed to the blond-haired man who was scribbling on the table while mumbling things like 'constellations'. "That's Giotto-san, he is here because he is too much of a genius to function normally, just like the one over there with mismatched eyes," he pointed to a boy who was hugging a doctor who looked like him. "That's Spade-san, and the one on his lap is his supervisor, Nagisa-chan."
Cozart frowned a little. "The three of them... look like my friends. Giotto-san is identical to a friend of mine, his name is Ieyatsu and he's-"
"Stop it, Enma." A stern voice interrupted their one-sided conversation. A lady with ponytail, large bust, and red eyes towered over them with a sad look on her face. "Adelia!" Cozart (Enma?) beamed happily. "I'm sorry, honey, but I'm talking with a guest. Meet Tsuna, by the way, he sure resemble Ieyatsu a lot, doesn't he?"
The doctor (Adelia?) sighed before smiling a sad smile to Tsuna. She ruffled Enma's hair before telling him to eat his food. "You know that you aren't Cozart, right Enma?" Tsuna was getting confused. Who was the redhead anyway? Was he Cozart? Or was he Enma?
Tsuna sighed, but then he turned away, looking at the other inmates. The mismatched-eyed one then caught a glance at him then started to babble away in... was that French? His doctor (Nagisa?) smiled at him before then smiling to Tsuna pleasantly.
But then Tsuna couldn't help but stare at the loudest couple in the room. Even Tsuna knew what the red-eyed and scarred man insanity was. Anger management didn't quite cut it anymore. His doctor was also violent though. And when he caught Tsuna staring at him, the scarred man roared.
"What's your problem?!" Tsuna blanched. He bolted away from his seat before tripping over his own feet. Nobody laughed, all too frozen in fear to do so. But then when the scarred man hovered over him, Tsuna shivered like a frightened child.
"S-s-s-sorry...!" Tsuna didn't know what exactly he needed to apologize for, but if it placated the man, he'll do everything. The red-eyed man then snarled. "You are a fucking idiot!" He growled. "Why are you looking at me, huh?! Feeling superior just because you're Iemitsu's son?!" How did he know that? "You think you're excused here because you're Iemitsu's son? Well guess again, runt. I fucking rule this place." He was too shocked and too terrified to move. But then when the man punched him on his face...
Tsuna shrieked.
Track: Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep OST - Enter the Darkness
Pain.
Pain. Suffering. Hatred. Anger. Painpainpain!
"Ksssshiiiii!" Just before the bastard could punch him, he kicked his legs upwards, kicking the fucker on his cheek. It was at these times that he loved having a slender and flexible body. Not that he'd want to change anything in Tsuna's body. He grinned.
He. It was a he now. Tsuna had acknowledged him! He felt euphoria seeping through his entire body as he smiled.
P-partner, um, Zero, whichever! He's going to kill us!
Tsuna was cowering in the deep recesses of their mind. Zero saw red. Redredredred!
"Who is it?!" He asked, cruelty dripping like a venom in his layered and distorted voice. "Who's the fucker who dared to make my Tsuna cower?!" Zero's eyes flittered from one person to another, frantically searching for the one who made Tsuna felt threatened. When he spotted nobody in the background, he looked towards the man who he had kicked earlier.
"VOOOOII!"
"I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU, SAWADA!"
Save me. Please, please, whoever you are! SAVE ME!
Zero bit his own lower lip before he jumped on his left foot and used his right foot to kick the silver-haired man on his jaw. He could hear Tsuna's uncomfortable whimpers. Normally, he would have liked to hear his purer half's desperate whimpers and pathetic neediness, but he hated hearing Tsuna's whimpers of fear.
"AHAHAHAHA! That was sooooo fun!" Repulsiveness, anger, desperation, helplessness flooded his entire body like some sort of adrenaline. He felt powerful. He felt like he could destroy the world. He felt like he could just lock Tsuna within the small space that was their mind and never let him out. He will protect him, all the while satisfying his own bloodlust.
But the scarred man he'd kicked earlier rose from his rightful place on the ground, his hands curled up like a ball. Not a problem. He'd killed Mochida, he could kill this guy even if he had a broken rib or two.
"VOI Xanxus! Stop!"
The shouts of plea from the white-haired man went unnoticed as blazing ruby met with unrelenting amber. Tsuna cowered even deeper as the ruby-eyed man peered at his entire body, but Zero shrugged him away with a laugh.
He can always return to comfort his beloved, later. For now...
"Obstacles should be eliminated, don't you think?!" Zero cackled hysterically before breaking away from his straitjacket, lounging at the red-eyed man with a ferocity comparable to that of an wild beast. He punched, kicked, thrashed, but the man was equally matched to him.
"Don't fucking think that I can't do it, brat!"
He fought back, but that wasn't a problem, because-
"NOOOOOOO!"
Zero stopped his hands before they could actually reach Xanxus' neck, ready to strangle him. But he could see Tsuna's trembling hands on his wrists, all the while shaking his head fearfully.
"Why...?" Zero asked, startled. "Why, love? He tried to kill you..." Zero touched his transparent other as he cried. He... they'd killed Mochida. Sure it would be easy enough for them to...?
But I don't want to kill. Because killing is wrong. And naturally, I don't want you to kill anyone too...
But killing was his reason to exist! Wasn't that right? Weren't that what Tsuna wanted?
I wish everyone who's mean to me would just... drop dead.
That had been his reason to exist. Was he wrong?
Before Zero could mull over it for a little longer, a man with golden hair touched his shoulder with a smile.
"That's enough, Zero."
C 03 End: -son.
Giotto's theme: Card Castles in the Sky - Alice Madness Returns OST