Title: hidden spots
Characters: Haru, others mentioned in passing
Word count: 438
Rating: K+
Spoilers: none
Prompt: 30—slope
A/N: Do you know how difficult it was me for to get a good translation for the word 'slope'? xD
slope
Living as a friend to Vongola's Tenth Don is like living on a slope. You never have good footing, all of our favourite coffee mugs fall from the askeweating table, and your paintings and photographs look absolutely silly, hanging all straight on the walls.
Still, Haru knows that it's worth it. All the stupid kidnappers who think it's a great idea to abduct her because she's still considered a civilian (and a female to top), and is therefore a weakness to the Famiglia. All the silly fearful looks from Italian mothers who call their children away from her whenever she visits the play ground. And all the (gosh) respectful, understanding looks from the young women on the streets with their breasts on display, with their heavy make-up and sad eyes.
It's all worth it because she cherishes faithfulness and friendship and these people who try to change a world of bloodshed and cruelty, so she endures it all with a with a wave of the hand, Namimori-imported cakes, and shared smiles with Sawada Kyouko-chan, the beloved retired Vongola Nono, and Irie Shouichi who knows better better than anyone else how it is to be sucked in crazy situation after crazy situation and somehow realising that you're able to stand up again faster every time it happens.
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Knowing, though, doesn't prevent tripping over sticks and stones and maybe a few unconscious bodies.
Miura Haru is just very happy that there are always people who give her a hand when she most needs it.
Like when Gokudera-san quarterly decides to not be a jerk and admits, grumbling, scowling, that, well, maybe she is not that bad at strategy, and okay, she didn't necessarily cheat during their chess game just because she won.
Or when Hibari-san doesn't threaten to bite her to death when she borrows Hibird for an hour or two.
Or when Lussuria-nee-san visits—that in itself is a blast that highlights her month and leaves her in a good mood for at least another week.
And then, there is Yamamoto-kun (Takeshi-kun, Takeshi, Takeshi, Takeshi) who sets her head spinning, who treats her to her favourite chocolate bars whenever they walk by the only patisserie in Namimori that makes them, who bought her two beautiful charms for her bracelet (a sledge/hammer and a baby elephant) and who makes her fall in love with him everytime he smiles.
So maybe she will continue to trip and to fall—but the important thing, really, is that she will stand up again, time and time again, and there will be people who reach out their hands to help her stand up.
I don't really like this drabble that much. But with 64 ones, I guess, one or two mediocre ones are okay?