Hi ! That's the chapter 9 ! The manga is owned by Akira Amano, I only own the OC. I apologize for the OOCs and for the mistakes. the story has now 34 followers and 19 favorites, thank you so much ! And sharkswillruledaWORLD, thanks for the review ;D !
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"You're sure about this Reborn ? I mean, Shamal is also the Trident Shamal, so making him my sister's attending physician..."
"He is the best we can have, no-good student." Reborn cuts him.
I'm glad to be back home, but Dino don't stop asking Reborn if Shamal is really a good choice for being my doctor. It's starting to piss me off. So without a word, I stop walking, turn around to face my brother and punch him in the stomach. Well I bet he didn't feel it because he's starting to have abs, abs dammit ! But anyway, it's the feeling we put into our actions that matters, right ?
"What was that for !?" He complains, putting a hand where I punched him.
"You're pissing me off, you should know Reborn wouldn't put my life in danger."
He opens his eyes wide, and Reborn smirks. Happy I took his side, heh ?
"I guess you're right." My brother mumbles, looking away.
"Dino, you're fifteen, I'm nine, but compared to you I'm always right, you're sure it's normal ?" I tease him, tilting my head on my should with fake innocent eyes.
"What are you implying !?"
"If you're looking for me I'll be playing !"
And it's ignoring him and the fact Reborn's staring at me that I go to the piano in the ballroom. As soon as I start playing, I think about all the things I've learned in only one day. I'm gonna die. Probably around twenty-four. Only a miracle could make my organs work properly. Damn, all of my organs will stop working ! No disease do that ! They really...turned me into something completely inhuman, didn't they ?
And there's Reborn. Reborn and his knowledge given by the Ninth. His explanation, like what the first time he saw me, The Ninth had recognized me because he'd seen my picture in the Immortal Project file sounds weird to me. I don't remember them taking picture of me. The baby also said they found my trace before I became Dino's sister thanks to Vongola's modes. Fucking Mafia.
Now I think about it, if Reborn knows, should I tell Dino ? Argh, too complicated, don't wanna think about it for now !
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It's extremely hot for a day in May. But, with Dino busy with paperwork, I'm now with Ivan in the swimming-pool, in a purple swimsuit. It feels good..until Reborn appears from nowhere on the edge of the pool. Okay, bad feeling, very very bad feeling.
"You did ask me to be trained, didn't you ?"
It seems like it was an eternity ago. Now he talks about it, I realize that, if I want to avenge myself from the red-eyed man, I don't have the time to play around. I'm terminally ill. I've got to do all I want and can before dying, no ? It's probably because of that I've started to take various electronics objects in the mansion to pieces to know how it works. Even if Dino and Romario lectured me, they said nothing when I showed them I had managed to change the colors of the numbers on my clock radio. What, I've never said it would be useful !
"Hey Reborn, why are you aiming your gun at my sister !?" My brother's panicked voice says from the window of his office.
Fuck, he's right. Gun-Leon is aimed straight to my face. And fuck, Reborn's smirk is giving me the creeps ! That's the kind of smirk he has when he has something in mi...
"Find a training place with your Dying Will !"
And he shoots. I hear Dino and Ivan screaming my name when the bullet digs into my head and makes me sink in the water.
Damn...why did I wait for Reborn ? Why didn't I search for another tutor ? I regret doing nothing about it. But now it's too late.
Hum ? I feel energy, so much energy and power in my veins. So much that I get out of the water, eyes open wide and gritted teeth. And...there's a warmth on my forehead.
"REBORN ! I'M GOING TO FIND A TUTOR WITH MY DYING WILL !"
Well, I lose control over my own body. So I totally ignore Dino when he goes out of the mansion. Well, I always ignore him. Anyway, for the moment, the only thing I can do, is to watch people get out of my way until the town. And I keep running until a...travel agency ? I take two papers and I'm back to normal. I glance at the managers of the place, who are completely terrified. I kinda get why.
"Luciana !"
Dino is at the door, breathless buts less that he would have been without Reborn. He walks to me and put one of his sweatshirt on me. I slip it on properly while my brother's apologizing to the agency's managers.
"Oh ?" Reborn says, jumping onto my head. "So that's where you want to go ? I know the perfect people then."
"Huh ?"
I glance at the papers in my hands. One for China, the other one for an amusement park. Gosh, what did I get myself into again ?
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"Why would Luciana need to train Reborn !?" Dino yells at Reborn as if I wasn't there. "I'm sick of you taking decisions for my sister ! You have no right to take decisions for her, you hear me !?"
"Are you yelling at me Dino ?" Reborn darkly asks him.
"YES I AM ! She's fucking nine dammit !"
Of, first time I hear him cursing.
"And I know you, your acquaintances are a part of the Mafia ! She's my sister, but she's not a part of the Cavallonne, and it will stay this way ! She won't be a part of the Mafia !
Should I tell I'm already deeper in that shit than I should be ?
"You truly are a no-good student after all Dino." Reborn tells him calmly, too calmly. "Didn't you notice that, when she got kidnapped, she didn't panic and even manage to tell us where she was ?"
"And your point is ?"
"She's a natural-born assassin, that's why I want her to train."
"Why don't you do it yourself then ?" My brother asks him, calmer than before, maybe even shocked from what Reborn just said.
Like me. I mean, yeah I've been a hitman, but to say I'm a natural, it makes me...proud. Especially because it's said by Reborn. No but, Reborn ! For him to recognize someone's talent...
"I already have a no-good student, my hands are full. But once I'm done with you and her with her trainings, I'll personally train her."
"What !?" We shout in perfect sync.
"But when I asked you..."
"You asked him !?" Dino almost shouts at me with his eyes open wide. "Why would you learn how to fight !?"
"I don't want to be weak and ask for your help every single time I get in trouble."
I want to be strong to kill that red-eyed trash, but to know I couldn't do a single thing to help Dino when I was kidnapped had seriously pissed me off. And it still pisses me off. I know I don't need to be protected.
"But that's my duty as your older brother." He slowly tells me, staring at me with his cute chocolate eyes.
"Your duty is also to protect the five thousands men of the Cavallone Family Dino." I answer him as softly as I can. "You've got responsibilities, I want to be able to protect myself and not be burden to you bro."
"But you could train nearer, not in China..."
I get closer to him and hug him around the waist. So that's what really scares him ? Me leaving ?
"She'll come for a month each year." Reborn tells us.
"So while I won't be here, you will fix the financial issues you have."
He nods et hugs me back. Even if he is taller and older than me, I have the impression it's my job to console him and give him advices. Weird feeling, don't ya think ?
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"You took everything heh ? And you've got the money I gave you ? You call when you land and..."
"Dino, you sound like a mom."
"You're my baby sister, it's normal !"
"The flight 234 for Beijing will leave in twenty minutes. The last passengers not on the plane yet have to get to the gates B12."
Dino hugs me one last time and uses so much strength that I start losing my breath. I move my arm around like an idiot and the only thing I see is Reborn's mocking smirk.
"Help me !" I beg him, stretching my arm to him.
He stares at me for a couple of seconds and a bubble appears from his nose. He has just fallen asleep that...
"Boss, she has to go." Romario finally says, moving Dino backward.
"Be proud, when I'll come back I'll speak Chinese fluently."
With that said, I wave at them and leave. China and Reborn's friend can't be that horrible. Reborn even said his friend was nice. But...now I'm thinking about it...what the definition for "nice" in Reborn's dictionary ?
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The flight was boring as fuck. So I've read my Chinese book, watched the movie they've broadcast, so "Titanic", and I've gone back to my book. In the end, I've fallen asleep and an old man has waken me up. It honestly surprises me they let me get into the plane whereas I was alone. I mean, who let a nine year-old kid get in a plane alone ?
Anyway, it's not the most important thing for now. I take my suitcase and glance at the crowd of people. Someone should be here waiting for me. Reborn told me he should be wearing sunglasses and have a monkey on his head.
"Lucian I guess."
I turn around to find someone half a head taller than me, sunglasses on and a monkey on his head. It should be him then.
"Depends who's looking for her." I reply, on my guard.
We never know.
"I am Reborn's friend."
"So you found the good girl. What's your name ?"
"Fon."
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Fon's house is average, in the middle of a bamboo forest, near Beijing. Typically Chinese house. So after a good night of sleep in my new room, I go outside, where Fon's waiting for me. He turns around when he hears me coming.
"Good morning." He salutes me in a perfect Italian. "We are going to start the training today."
I don't really know what's happening, butt in an instant, there are clothes on the ground and a baby on them. But what catches my attention is the red pacifier around his neck. The same Reborn has, but in red. Heh, it reminds me of one of my classes at school, where they were talking about strong babies with pacifiers called Arcobaleno. It's probably the reason.
"So you're a baby, like Reborn."
"I am."
"Okay, I'm listening to you."
"Fine. I am going to train you for martial arts.
"Martial arts ?" I repeat, blinking.
"Yes, this and I am going to help you to control your flame. Reborn told me you possess the Flame of Wrath ?"
"Yep I do." I affirm, showing my flame.
"Let's start then." He says, smiling. "Oh, by the way, for the first two months, I will be your translator but after you will be on your own."
"WHAT THE HECK !?"
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Note to myself: somebody Reborn finds "nice" are definitely not ! At least, not when they're training their student ! No but seriously, what kind of baby can give blows so fast and know so many martial arts !?
Reborn is strong too. Yeah, thinking about it, he's super smart too. Yep, Fon and Reborn are strong, talk and act like adults whereas they're only babies. I peek at my tutor's pacifier and barely dodge a blow. A month I've been here, and I can say Reborn is not a lonely case. Those pacifiers give them superpowers. Why would they know how to fight otherwise ? Maybe it's for a special and secret mission, and the colors of each pacifiers match their...
"You are not concentrated." Fon reprimands me, kicking me in the stomach, which makes me fall on the butt.
"Fon." I start, sitting crossed legs in the grass as if I've never been hit. "Are you a real baby ?"
He freezes, his eyes a little bit open wide from the surprise, and stares at me. Is it that surprising or does nobody realize that a baby talking like an adult is no fucking NORMAL !?
"What do you mean ?"
"Well, I mean that I can believe Reborn is an exception, he's a prodigy and some other thing but now with you...If you truly are a baby, then it's those pacifiers which give superpowers and make you strong and super smart. So, or you're an adult turned into a baby, or your parents didn't like you very much and screwed your baby years when they gave you this pacifier." I explain, a kinda proud of my theory.
"If it was the case, why would we have powers through the pacifiers ? Why would we wear them ?" He replies calmly, his hands in his sleeves as he sits in front of me.
"Well, your's red, Reborn's is yellow. So...if they're different colors, maybe you have a super top secret mission and you can't tell anyone ! The colors match your part in the mission ! That's it, that's the role of the Arcobaleno ?"
He gives me a faint smile. Yaye, I made it, didn't I !?
"I didn't want to believe him, but Reborn was right after all. You truly discovered the secret of the Arcobaleno just with your observations."
"So I'm right ?"
He nods.
"Hold on a second, you mean no one, really no one ever found that weird a baby speaking fluently ? I'm too smart of people are just too dumb !?"
"Language." He lectures me, frowning.
Oh, and I though I could curse as much as I would want without Dino around...
"Your theory has some childish points, but you are right. We are not true babies. I am going to explain it to you, the secret of the curse, and why we do not have our real bodies anymore. Listen closely, because I am sure you have never heard of the Tri-Ni-Sette before today.
That's how I discovered who were the Arcobaleno, their mission, and what was the Tri-Ni-Sette.
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Hey ! Thanks for reading the chapter and I hope you've liked it ! Arcobaleno time ! Yeah, I know what you might be thinking. Training with the Arcobaleno might be the period where Luciana appears a kinda Mary-Sue. But ! But, even if the action is fast, she's training for months, keep that in mind. Plus, she has nothing to do except training, and with Arcobaleno so it's not nothing. And yeah, for the Arcobaleno curse...sorry, but seriously ? It amazed me how in the manga nobody thought "Oh yeah, a baby stronger than me, it's not normal there's something". Anyway, leave a review if you want to and ciao~!