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APPOINTMENTS
Interlude : Leadership
Never did he dream of being an heir to the most powerful mafia family in existence.
He had been bullied when he was younger until his first year in middle school. He was the weakest amongst the students and was known to be the class dunce. He was the laughing stock of his class. He never did anything right.
Until a certain infant hitman declared that he was going to be his tutor and make him into a proper mafia boss.
His world turned upside down.
He began to improve. He met the weirdest people but he gained real friends, his family. He became content and happy.
But with that bliss came the consequences of being in the mafia.
He experienced hardships (or torture for that matter). He got involved in every dangerous situation he never thought would happen to him. He faced all the things he feared the most.
Who said he wanted to be a leader of an organized crime group? How could he risk his most precious people to face danger?
The underground world was darkness. It was a world full of peril and despair. That time when he had seen the sin of the Vongola, he swore he would never shoulder the burden and do those grave crimes.
He would rather destroy the Vongola than continue leading it to that path of destruction.
And then, he was accepted. Simply because he has in his heart the true will of the group.
The Vongola Famiglia was originally founded as a Vigilante group; a group which protected the simple folk from the evil ways of those people in power from that time.
And the mafia boss was the hero of the slums. The hope of the oppressed and the poor. He never really thought about it seriously like that, the first time his tutor had him read about it.
Little by little, he understood. The denials became less. And then, he had accepted whole-heartedly.
He was chosen to return Vongola to its true purpose.
He realized the things he could do and things he could change. To protect.
And he wouldn't do it alone. He knows he have his family to support him. They would always be there all the way.
The underground world may be darkness. But he knows he could start the change.
He was, after all, the sky that encompasses all.
The DOLLARS was founded on a whim. It was to entertain certain people out of boredom.
But when it got out of control, getting so many members joining and suddenly gaining a bad reputation due to acts of some people claiming to be members, the founders suddenly feared it and they quit one by one.
Except him.
He was the only person left who was responsible for making DOLLARS. He considered quitting too, but something in him refused to just abandon the responsibility.
He was one to start DOLLARS, isn't it his job to at least rectify the wrong impression to the group?
It wasn't a gang founded to be used for violence, he even envisioned it to help people even in little ways.
Which was a bit ironic, with the fact that DOLLARS got so many members because it doesn't have any rules. The members don't need to do anything.
But, well, it's not really prohibited to actually try and convince the other members with his idea yes?
And so, as just another member, he suggested some missions which helped the city in little ways and would at least make a good impression about DOLLARS. Like, painting a wall full of vandalism clean for example.
And he was just glad that there were people in DOLLARS who shares his ideals.
And then he came to Ikebukuro. The city known to be the heart of the color gangs and the group he had founded.
He pretended not knowing about DOLLARS, getting to know personally from people what they thought about the group in his care.
Despite the good acts of the group, the bad reputation gained more attention. DOLLARS was even feared by the residents and members were assumed to be the bad guys.
As much as it pained him to hear negative things about DOLLARS, it's not like he could just appear as the leader suddenly and give orders.
That would not fit into the nature of DOLLARS.
So he waited. He just waited.
His first attempt to act as the leader was when he had called for the very first assembly of DOLLARS to solve some mystery concerning the kidnappings in the city. He just hoped for the numbers for his plan to succeed.
It was successful, yes. But it just confirmed that there is really someone there who is the boss.
It was him.
Months passed and he returned to just keeping an eye to the group. Then, incidents concerning people getting hurt began in Ikebukuro.
The Slasher-incidents, it was called.
No one knew who the slasher was. The existence of the slasher, however, triggered a sort-of rivalry between the DOLLARS and the Yellow Scarves to become an unstoppable war.
The Yellow Scarves shogun was not pleased with the slasher as his friend got hurt by him. He hunted the perpetrator down.
The slasher was suspected to be in DOLLARS. It followed that DOLLARS wanted to fight with the Yellow Scarves.
It was a mess.
For his bestfriend, the reason why he went to Ikebukuro, was the Yellow Scarves shogun.
DOLLARS members quit one by one, fearing the assaults of the Yellow Scarves.
He couldn't do anything. He wanted to stop the war. He didn't want any of this things to happen.
He disbanded the group.
He confronted the impending war as himself, wanting to help his bestfriend.
But, when he was there, he saw that the DOLLARS, despite disbanding the group and not putting up the site for it, had helped and made a move to stop the Yellow Scarves.
The Yellow Scarves that was actually not in his bestfriend's control anymore.
After the fiasco, he had thought about what DOLLARS is really about.
And he thought, no, he knew that there is still hope for the group to become what he envisioned it to be.
He could become its leader without breaking its nature. As admin, he could just mingle with the members, share his ideals. Hope that it would spread to the members.
It was accepted. He was the admin, he was talking with the members, but he knew that the DOLLARS nature was not affected.
Members got more active helping in Ikebukuro.
It was everything he had hoped for.
Both wanted to make a difference for the better. Both had accepted the responsibility.
And both will do the best they can to fulfill what they had resolved to do.
Author's Rants:
First of, Merry (belated) Christmas and a Happy New Year! =D
Sorry if it took me a month to update. December is a really hectic month in our country, all celebrations happen (weddings, reunions, parties et al.) and I also admit that I'm having a writer's block because I figured I messed up big time in the setting and situations.
But I think I'm finally clearing up the details so I presented you first this very short filler-y 'interlude'. Nothing here that you don't know. It's not much but I think this will serve as reference to what would happen on the future chapters like why would they do such things and the likes.
So yeah... expect a chapter or more for the next days. And thank you for reading Appointments. =D