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 3 - Eh? I'm so angry I could kill you!
She could recognize that scent anywhere.
She opens her eyes, sadly. She doesn't want to be there, she would run away. She wants to go back and not be forced into suffering.
Yet she cannot do anything when her consciousness comes back and she finds herself to be in a room, decorated in old western style. The smell of clean wood continues to poke her nose, until she notices the male figure sitting thoughtful on the couch.
The blond man is talking with a gentleman in his thirties. Due to her curiosity she approaches the two and sits down beside the blond man, who's wearing a suit and tie.
Her eyes are stuck on him, her blush growing.
Nozomi: Primo-sama …
He doesn't seem to pay attention to the girl, he doesn't see her. He doesn't even know she exists.
That's just another one of her usual dreams of Primo and the First Family.
It seems like some virtual reality but it's just a dream. Unachievable, as Arina explained to the girl.
How has she come so far? It would be impossible, but a man from a couple of centuries ago managed to make her fall in love with him. She also made a fool of herself, some days before.
His magnetic eyes, his warm smile, his kind voice. And his mysterious power.
It was him, the "Cielo". The only one who can save the girl from her darkness. The only one who can make her feel well and whole.
But she can't with him, he is dead.
Sighs.
There is one way. She should get her father's ring and find out if the legend is true, if really Primo's will is inside it.
She shakes her head, as she was thinking about disgusting things. She looks around her, ashamed, hoping that no one could see her.
It's only a dream, nobody can see her. So she sighs again, looking down.
Nozomi: No. ... I can't really think about it...it's wrong, I know it. I'm not like this...
The girl stands up, furious with herself for even thinking about such foolish things.
She has to succeed her father, she has to become stronger to prove she can protect everyone, also she has to inherit something bigger than a ring for the sole purpose of being able to bring back the man she loves.
Love isn't included in that.
"I'm so stupid."
When she opens her eyes that morning, she eats breakfast and gets ready with a vacuous look on her face. She doesn't express her joy as usual and she doesn't say her normal "HAPPY!". Her energy is low.
Luca and Arina watch Nozomi leave the house with that extremely depressed aura and they surely are worried about her.
She knows Arina is going to give up, it's been too long she has seen her in that look, she couldn't continue to help her with her weird complex and that "impossible mission".
She really hates having to share her worries with other people, since she was a child she never suffered so much. Is it really so hard being a teen in love? She should try to repress herself and not to speak about her love problems, keep it inside her and continue to pretend nothing is wrong and everything is alright.
For everyone's sake. Always for everyone's sake.
She hopes her grandma isn't worried about her, bad days can happen, even if rarely for someone as Nozomi. Usually she recovers her mood after some minutes in her warm bed.
Anyway, that day she feels down and, while hoping to recover her smile, she stops in front of two taller boys she tries to ignore, taking another route.
The boys end up blocking her way.
"...As if I haven't enough problems, today."
- Stop there, Sawada! -
The girl snorts, annoyed.
Nozomi: My stupid complex weren't enough for today? I don't need two tramps bothering me.
- Hey hey, Sawada's saying crazy stuff! - one of the two giggles in a stupid way. His breath stinks and the girl backs some steps, disgusted.
Nozomi: Here are boys nowadays. Crude, dirty, shallow, quarrelsome and they think only about stupid things. It's impossible to find someone like Primo-sama.
She turns in order to try another route, she doesn't want to be late for school again.
"Why the hell do I have to take another route because of these idiots? Geez, I want to hit them!"
- Hey, the slut is ignoring us! -
- This is the little girl without femininity that beat Kirisaki-senpai? Really? -
To stop or not to stop? This is the real problem.
Is she going to run away? No, she's just late for school. She has to go without another thought.
Anyway she couldn't, the two boys are already thrown on her. She doesn't understand their target, she just moves quickly behind them and the two almost don't trip, looking around confused.
- Hey, whore, let me hit you! -
One of the two boys throws his backpack at the girl, but she easily dodges it.
Enough, she is really upset now. She was already feeling awful and they want to make her day even worse.
She looks at them with a glare of death.
Nozomi: ... Okay, now you're dead.
- A woman wants to hit us? Ahaha! -
She can't control herself anymore.
The small Vongola discards her backpack and rushes at one of the thugs, she attacks him with a quick punch to the stomach then she falls back quickly and moves to the second, hitting him with a knee in his lower region.
"You damn men think just with 'that', you're like cancer."
The two boys fell to the ground, the second badly hurt but the first stands up and immediately tries to fight the girl back, he pulls out a knife from his pocket.
The girl jumps back to avoid the weapon, she lands on the brick fence of a nearby house and looks around for a stick or anything that can be used as a weapon. Nozomi is somewhat skilled with sticks and bats.
She rushes up the side of the house, continuing to walking on the fence and she soon gets closer to a tree in the garden of a another house. She jumps again and clings to a sturdy branch, with her force she is able to break the branch off the tree, she falls to the ground and rotates the wood until she hits the boy in the stomach with the long end of the branch. The boy staggers back but he manages to stay on his feet, straightens up and then tries to hit Nozomi who gains a wound on the arm from the knife that also rips the sleeve of her school uniform.
Now her uniform is ruined. The day's just getting even worse.
She re-spins the branch and jumps, grabbing the shoulder of the confused boy, then she leaps through the air and lands behind him, she turns quickly and strikes him violently on the head, causing him faint on the spot.
Both boys are on the ground, so she can throw away her weapon and stares at them furiously.
Nozomi: Fuck you... I'm not a woman.
"Women are weak."
She really hates being considered a woman, many men pronounce that word with scorn. Men as the ones who verbal abused the new born girl, chatting animatedly in corridors, they were also shocked when Decimo said he didn't want to have more children. They were waiting for a boy, a powerful future boss, but they obtained a woman instead.
Who knows where they are now, if they still work for her father.
Anyway she doesn't want to care about it, they weren't the only in the world, she knows she will
often clash with people who define her as a woman in a derogatory manner.
And, every time, she replies to them "I'm not a woman, I'm a vigilante."
She should be strong and resolute, able to protect them and become the new Vongola boss.
"Vongola Undicesima."
Even if Undicesima is a female word, but grammatically incorrect in that context. An intentional mistake she has done when she was a child, she wanted to point up her being a girl.
But she was a fool, she couldn't understand how much dangerous was showing her weak points, even if she'd like to be proud of herself.
Anyway, she couldn't be herself, or she would be naked to people's impartial judgement.
She has to be what they want her to be, even if that means going against her own wills.
Her existence is subjugated by her deep desire to be what everyone expected her to be, a future great boss.
Not a woman, not a common girl, not a girl in love.
It's so hard to repress herself.
She has teary eyes, feeling even more depressed. She leans against the wall and takes a breath.
- You've made a mess, Nozomi. -
The girl turns and sees a boy with brown hair wearing a long dark jacket. His dark red eyes looks like shining of a strange light.
Nozomi: Oh ... Shinji. Why are you here?
Shinji: I was walking... and I thought... since I'm your guardian of mist... I think... I should spend more time... with you...
He smiles a bit, he's known for being very shy and he can be silent all day without saying anything. No one can believe he totally loves macabre or monstrous movies and games, but he plays and watches all of these things.
Nozomi: Um, thank you. It's already been some times since you joined us... now we have the final guardian, though he isn't a brat, he's older than you and Cloud.
Shinji: Uh, we have the lightning...? We're all set then.
He glances at the two boys, lying unconscious on the ground.
Shinji: They're badly injured... you could have killed them...
Nozomi: I would have done it if I hadn't thought that papa would have hated me for it.
She doesn't even know if she's telling the truth or not.
Shinji: ... Are you sure is it the only reason?
Nozomi: ... Even Primo-sama ...
Shinji: And you? Did you want to kill them?
Nozomi: ... Sometimes, if you don't do it, you can lose the ones you love...
She closes her eyes, thinking about a child with red hair.
Shinji: Oh... It's rather late, run to school. I'll fix this mess.
Nozomi: Don't worry, leave it to me. I don't want to give you this kind of task...
The boy shrugs.
Shinji: It's ok, you're late. Don't worry about me.
The girl sighs, gives her goodbyes to the Guardian of Mist and runs quickly towards the school building, throwing herself in the corridors and opening the door loudly, preparing herself to hear the annoying teacher.
However, he immediately notices the girl's look and stands up.
Teacher: You got into another fight, Sawada?! Go immediately to the infirmary, your arm is bleeding!
Nozomi: ... it's just a little cut...
The man doesn't want to listen to any excuses and escorted the girl to the infirmary.
- Look at her; again she's all beaten up... -
- What's wrong with her? Is she a masochist? -
Arashi, Haname and Kaito open the doors of the infirmary while the nurse finishes putting bandages on Nozomi's wounds.
Arashi seems furious; she approaches the girl while Haname tells to Kaito to go to get a drink for her.
Cola, of course, it's the only thing that can make her happy. Nozomi can't live without her cola.
Arashi: What happened? Who attacked you?
The red-haired girl hugs Nozomi. She's so warm and she can listen to her breath, this is why she couldn't push her away, her best friend and partner.
Nozomi: Two idiots, while I was heading to school.
Haname: You couldn't just leave them alone, could you?
She says, caressing her hair.
Nozomi: Yeah, I tried to leave them alone but they attacked first. It was just self defense.
Haname: Did you beat them?
Nozomi: Of course. I could kill them because my bad mood, but I restrained myself.
Haname: Nozomi ... this isn't right, you know.
She's watching her with a sever look, she glances to Arashi but she shrugs.
Nozomi: No, Hana. People like them should just disappear.
She trembles. Why can't they understand that? Thugs could become killers.
Haname: Everyone needs to be given a chance, do not judge them so quickly.
Haname explains it while caressing her, she's sweet and caring so the brunette can't be angry with her.
Arashi: What kind of chance do you want to give to those kind of people?
Haname: It's called mercy.
She doesn't seem to want any more objections. She is always mature, just like Arina.
Nozomi: They had no mercy when they killed Claudio.
She looks down and the room goes silent, followed by a few tears.
"I will avenge you."
