Gods and Monsters
Chapter 4:
Edit 8/31/19
It was about four in the morning when Kusakabe was pulling up to the Foundation HQ. Allegra was passed out in the backseat with Hibari looking at her with distain. The woman clearly couldn't hold her alcohol or was it just the Saki. The only reason she was even able to get drinks was because Hibari scared the bartender. She wasn't twenty-one and the bartender didn't want to give her any drinks. So when she came back to the area the bouncer escorted them to empty handed Hibari questioned her. She explained that because she was under aged he wouldn't give her any drinks and even though she said she was part of the Vongola he just laughed at her. Hibari quickly got up and walked up to the bartender, he almost pulled him across the bar. When the man realized who Hibari was he began to apologize and said Allegra could have anything she wanted. About an hour or so into them being there the owner of the club came around and told Hibari that all their drinks were on the house. And that the next time Allegra came in she would have no problems getting drinks.
While Allegra spent the night dancing Hibari and Kusakabe watched and drank. And every time the Foundation leader thought someone was getting too close or too touchy with her he wanted to intervene. But Kusakabe told him not to, to watch and wait. With most of the guys Allegra was able to shake them off, and if she couldn't all she did was mention Hibari and point to him. The guys would go pale and run off. No one wanted to mess with the monster of Namimori.
Kusakabe finally pulled up to the mansion he turned to look at the two in the backseat.
"I can get her Kyo-san."
"Its fine just open the door."
The much taller man did just that first he opened the car door to let out Hibari who had Allegra in his arms. He watched for a moment and saw how Hibari looked at the woman he was carrying, there was a look a recognition in his eyes. And Kusakabe had supposed she was someone he had meet from that time they went ten years into the future. Kusakabe went to open the front door while Hibari followed after him.
"I can't seem to fathom a reason as to why people drink to the point of passing out."
Hibari said to himself as he walked down the hall to Allegra's room. The smaller woman shifted in his hold and opened her eyes slightly.
"Do you have to walk so fast? The world is spinning."
"If you throw up I will drop you here on the floor woman."
"That's not very nice Kyoya, and no I am not going to throw up. Put me down I can walk on my own."
The man did, he set her down on her own two legs and watched her wobble a little before nearly crashing to the floor. Hibari was quick to put his arms around her and lift her up once more. This caused Allegra's head to begin to spin again.
"What did I say about moving so fast? I can't even see straight."
"Nor can you walk or stand. Now stop moving around or I will drop you to the ground."
"You're so mean."
"And you talk too much."
They continued on in silence to her room. Hibari came up to the bed and tossed her down onto it. She fell with a huff and rolled onto her side to look at Hibari.
"I feel like I've met you before. But my drunk brain can't really remember."
"Go to sleep."
Hibari turned to leave the room but was stopped by Allegra grabbing a hold of his sleeve.
"Kyoya,"
"What?"
He said as he looked over his shoulder to her.
"Nothing,"
She said and hung her head low to not meet his eyes. Instead of pulling away from her Hibari turned back around and put his hand on her face to lift it up so she was looking at him. He leaned down and was very close to her face.
"You're just drunk. You wont even remember any of this in the morning."
She just stared at him and watched as he stood completely and walked out of the room, surprisingly the door was shut with a gentle sound as to not add to her forming headache.
Hibari entered his room and walked to his closet. Once inside he opened a drawer from the chest of drawers within and pulled out an envelope. Inside where pictures that he had taken from the time he went ten years into the future. He looked at them and once more they told him what his mind was trying to remember. She was the woman standing with him in these pictures, the one so close to him and looking at him lovingly. Hibari put the pictures back and slammed the drawer shut, he wasn't going to think any more about this. Right now he was going to go to bed. He had way too much to do first thing in the morning.
The next morning Allegra woke with a pulsing head and a very dry mouth. She sat up and realized that sometime in the night she had removed her clothes and was now lying in bed in just her bra and panties. Lifting herself from the bed she went to the bathroom to pee and brush her teeth. While she was in there she hadn't heard the door open and close behind the person who entered. Said person was sitting at her desk when she walked out of the bathroom and saw them.
"Have you made it your personal mission to always walk in at the worst time?"
"I don't know what you're talking about?"
"I'm half-dressed Kyoya, last time I was in the shower."
"I don't see what the problem is."
"It's called privacy you jerk."
Hibari stood from the chair and walked to stand right in front of her. Now instead of looking down at him she had to crane her neck up se meet his eyes with defiance.
"You are an outsider from another Family. So get used to not having any privacy."
"Is there a reason why you're here?"
"Shoichi Irie will be here soon. So you have two options either stay in your room till he leaves or you can go down to the shoot range we have in the basement. And the third level is completely off limits to you."
"You're really not going to let me meet him?"
"Did I not make that clear enough yesterday or do I have to bite you to death to make you understand?"
"You're going to what me to death?"
Hibari ignored the question.
"Hurry up and get dressed."
He told her though to be honest he really didn't mind the way she looked. But he'd never tell her that at least not yet.
"Are you going to get out so I can get dressed?"
"Hn,"
The Skylark began to walk out of the room before turning back to speak once more.
"Do not take my threats lightly woman. There will be serious consequences to your actions."
As the door closed behind him he heard something hit the door.
'That stupid asshole of a man. Who the hell does he think he is? Well if that's what he wants then I'll just have to show him that I'm not someone he can handle.'
Still very peeved about what had just happened she went to get her phone so she could angry text Dino about making her do this. After sending a few hundred texts Allegra finally got dressed, when she looked out her window she noticed a car pull up and a tall man wearing glasses get out of the car. She assumed he was Shoichi Irie, a smile broke out onto her face.
'Kyoya said I couldn't go near him. Well we'll just see about that now won't we?'
Finishing up with getting dressed Allegra made her way down stairs hoping to meet Shoichi at the door only to come face to face with Hibari. She stopped before ramming into him.
"Where do you think you're going?"
She thought for a moment and remembered she had put on her gun holster.
"I was going to get something to eat."
"Make it quick, I don't need you poisoning the nerds mind."
"Ah, Hibari-San sorry I'm late. I slept pass my alarm this morning."
A shy voice said from behind Hibari, he was smiling nervously and scratching the back of his head.
"Hehehe, oh hello."
Irie noticed Allegra standing in front of Hibari.
"I hadn't realized you had company Hibari-San."
"She's unwanted."
"Uh, oh."
Allegra kicked Hibari in the leg, to which he turned and grabbed a hold of her by the neck. She began to claw at his hand but the man's hold only grew tighter.
"Kyo-San please let go of her."
Kusakabe tried to get in between them but was not having any success.
"I can't fucking breath you fucking shit."
Allegra said to him, Hibari made a face but released her none the less.
"Irie-San this is Allegra Rossi, she is from Dino-San's Family. Allegra-San was sent to help with finding more stable information on the Box Weapons."
Kusakabe was the one to speak because Hibari was not going to.
"Oh I see, so I'm going to guess we will be working together often."
"No, she will be doing field work at the University."
This time it was Hibari who spoke as he sent a glare to Allegra to make sure she knew to keep her mouth shut on the subject.
"Yeah like Kyoya said I've transferred into the local University to keep an eye on one of the Leaders to a group I've been following for a while."
Allegra spoke while rubbing her now sore neck.
"Irie-San why don't I take you up to the third floor and get you settled in to start setting up the fire wall for our system."
Kusakabe began to re-direct Irie to the stairs so they could get started on what he was here to do.
"Sure, I guess I will see you around then Allegra-San."
Allegra waved with a smile at Irie as he walked away with Kusakabe. When they were gone she turned to Hibari and glared harshly at him, then proceeded to punch him in the shoulder a few times.
"The next time you want to choke someone out, don't make it me asshole."
She continued to punch him a few more times before he grabbed a hold of both her wrist. She turned her head away from him and in doing so Hibari could already see the light bruise that looked like his fingers. Not realizing it his grip became tighter around her wrist and she hissed in pain.
"You bruise too easily."
"I'm anemic, and now thanks to you I will have finger like bruises on my neck and wrist if you do not let go of me."
"You have health problems."
"Yes if you must know, it's one of the reasons why I work inside with a computer rather than going around chasing after people the way most do in the Mafia would. My health does not allow me to have that kind of lifestyle. Will you let go of me now."
Hibari let go of one of her hands bit kept a hold of the other. He walked to the kitchen while dragging her along. He sent her to the counter that over looked the stove and made her sit down.
"What are you doing?"
She said as she shifted in her seat.
"I'm cooking,"
"Really? So I'm going to witness the great Kyoya cook."
"Shut up before I change my mind."
"Can I help?"
He looked at her.
"Hn,"
Allegra took that as a yes and got up to help him cook something to eat. While they were eating she began to notice something.
"Hey Kyoya who does the grocery shopping around here?"
"One of the guys I sent to Italy with Sasagawa this morning."
"So no one is going to be buying the groceries any time soon."
"No I would assume not."
"Well wouldn't it be wise to buy more food before we run out."
"What are you saying?"
"Well you could let me do all the food buying till your guy gets back."
"So long as the food is edible it should be fine for you to do it."
"Are you trying to say that I would poison everyone here?"
"You said it not me."
Allegra stared at him shockingly with her mouth slightly open while Hibari continued to eat his food. She went back to eating her food and once they were done she picked up the plates and put them in the sink to clean them and not leave a mess.
"So does this mean I can leave and buy some food for this place?"
"I'm going with you."
"What, why?"
"So you don't do anything stupid."
"Like what?"
"Like get into a fight with someone just standing next to you."
"Oh, that was an accident and I was drunk. And that guy was more of an asshole then you, he totally deserved the broken nose and black eye he would have today. Besides you're the one who finished him off and paid off the cops so I wouldn't get arrested."
"This conversation is over, are we going or not."
"Fine but I'm driving."
"Whatever,"
Allegra ran out of the kitchen to get her bag and the keys Hibari had given her. He was already waiting at the door for her to return. They walked out to the driveway where the car Hibari had sent over for her was waiting to be used. It was a beautiful deep purple Maserati Ghibli. The color was almost matching to Hibari's dress shirt.
"I thought it would be easier for you to drive a car from your country."
"It's beautiful, thank you."
They both got in the vehicle.
"So how do I get back into town from here."
"The vehicle has a GPS system,"
Hibari said as he switched the screen to show a map. He punched in their destination and the car began to talk to them.
"Right, right. That's a handy thing since I am bad with directions."
"For a genius you sure are dumb."
"Better than being a brute who runs into a fight head first."
"Just shut up and drive, don't forget your seat belt."
"Oh, that's a good idea."
The rest of the drive to the nearest grocery store was done in silence. When they got there Hibari almost didn't want to go in because of all the other cars he saw there, which signaled that there were a good amount of people there and judging the type of cars they were mostly families.
"You really need to get over this claustrophobic problem."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Look just type away on your phone like you always do and you won't even notice the amount of people around you."
Instead of answering her he got out of the car and headed for the door. Allegra quickly followed after him so he wouldn't leave her behind.
"Lock the doors."
Hibari was treating her more or less like a child and normally Allegra would have said something but considering she was stealing information from the man next to her she kept quiet about it. She went to get a cart while Hibari began typing in his phone.
"So do I like pay for the food and you just reimburse me or how is this going to work?"
"You provide the food I will provide the money."
"Good to know. Is there anything in particular you like to eat? You know like fruits or vegetables, types of meats."
"Are you going to ask me questions the whole time we are here or are you going to find the foods necessary to supply the Mansion with? We will go to the butcher shop after we are done here."
"Just wanted to know if there was anything you wanted aside from getting things everyone could enjoy."
Hibari stopped walking for a moment to look up from his phone at where they were in the store. Went to grabbed a carton of strawberries and put them in the cart.
"I love strawberries."
She said with a smile. He already knew that, he did some research on her in the morning before he walked into her room unannounced. He only got them to try and satisfy her need to ask him questions about the foods he ate and what he would like to have around. In all honesty he wasn't much for eating fruits or vegetables. The man was a carnivore who ate meat as most of his meals, ever so often he would eat the red berries but he couldn't say they were his favorite. His men always had them in stock at the mansion so he came to have a slight liking to them. As they continued on with the shopping he made sure to grab a large carton of eggs, they were a type of meat to him so he had to have them. They were coming to the end of their journey through the grocery store when Allegra grabbed a hold of Hibari's arm and pulled him to walk closer to her. He stopped typing on his phone and looked at her with questionable eyes.
"You almost walked into that very pregnant woman."
"Hn,"
He turned to look at the woman who had seemed to have dropped something and was attempting to behind over and pick it up. Hibari went to get it for her and handed the woman her bag of apples.
"Oh thank you. It's a little hard to move around with this belly in the way."
Allegra stepped in so to make sure Hibari didn't say something insensitive.
"Very happy to help. My goodness you look about ready to pop."
"I hope so, should be any day now. Oh she's kicking would you like to feel."
"Ah, yes please."
Allegra put her hands on the woman's stomach and felt the kicks from the baby inside.
"Such strong kicks, she will be a very healthy and happy baby."
"Thank you so much. I'm sure you will have one of your own someday. You two make a very beautiful couple, you will have beautiful children someday."
"Oh no we're not,"
Before Allegra could finish the woman had already left them standing there. Without looking at Hibari she turned to the cart and started walking.
"I think I found everything we need from here."
With that said she started for the check out, hopeful to avoid another awkward encounter with anyone else. But with no such luck the cashier was looking at the two as if they were a couple and addressed them as such. It didn't help that they both put the food onto the counter and then while Hibari paid Allegra just watched as if any wife would while he husband paid for their food. When they were done Allegra walked very quickly out of the store and to the car, with the help of Hibari the groceries were put into the car. And they left to the butcher shop that was close by. Again they both got out, but Allegra did not have to endure what had happened at the groceries because this man knew Hibari. And the fact that he was in the Mafia so he assumed Allegra was one of his men so to speak. The Butcher had been providing for the Vongola for years, he knew who they were before they did. He had known Yamamoto's father for much longer, both men were ex-Yakuza. They chose to raise a family and leave a life of crime, but when the Sushi making man had noticed what was happening with them as kids he went to his friend and ask that he help keep them safe.
Hibari said a quick thanks and good bye before they left and headed back to the mansion. This time he was the one driving as he could no longer deal with her slow driving.
"Aren't you driving a little fast? We're going to get pulled over."
"My father is the Chief of Police. The cops will not interfere with anything we do unless told to."
"So the Vongola really do run Namimori?"
"We protect it."
"Kyoya I think there's something we need to talk about?"
He ignored what she said as they pulled up to the Mansion. He had a feeling about what she wanted to talk about.
"Meet me in my office in an hour. We will talk then."
"Okay."
With her now sober brain, she felt it was important to tell him about the dreams she used to have when she was about sixteen. She needed to know if he really was the one from them. She didn't know what those dreams meant and for a long time she had been trying to find the face she saw and put a name to it. Allegra was somewhat shocked when she had first seen him, Hibari looked so much like the face she saw almost every night in her dreams. They had been just images, never any words spoken or names heard, just his face and the faces of others she hadn't met yet.
