Rebellious Sky
Summary and Disclaimer: Chap. 1
Beta-ed by Revoier
A/n: Please read the note at the end. Thank you.
Chapter 7
"WELCOME HOME, BOSS!"
Giotto may sound sentimental about this but he was touched at the surprising welcome party which especially made for him by his family. Although he noted that most of them already ate the served foods, he's still touched nonetheless.
"Thank you everyone," he said as he smiled softly. "I am home."
Right on cue, the self-proclaimed of the most faithful member of the family and the brother of G, Gokudera Hayato, literally threw himself forward before exaggeratedly bowing ninety degrees in a blessed and holy gesture.
"I am so glad for your safe return, Boss! As the appointed keeper of the house, I manage to keep these troublemakers in place!" he reported with such proud tone which makes G almost regretting his old self for letting him and Giotto met.
And still self-debating it even now.
Giotto nodded awkwardly, a little bit surprised at the sudden proclamation. "Uh-huh. Keep it up, Hayato. I am expecting no less from you." As if that wasn't enough, he just has to give the finishing blow, smiling oh so charmingly.
Gokudera otherwise barely narrowing his eyes at the dazzling and high intensity of that one bright smile could give. G glared at them and their absurd interaction. He bet that the blonde did not have the slightest idea how his smile can affect his brother so much.
So much that it put him in shame.
"Welcome home, Boss. Thank you for the hard work." The Japanese man greeted as he smiled at the blonde. The latter smiled back.
"Yes. To you as well, Asari."
Asari laughed. "Haha, even though all I done was just watching the house."
Giotto shook his head. "And that is more than enough, really," he assured.
"Gyahahaha! Too bad Gio-nii! Ore-sama ate all the goodies! Gyahaha!" A kid in afro said confidently as he laughed out loudly.
Giotto squatted down as the kid run toward him, the former smiled a little bit sheepishly.
"Haha, yes. It certainly too bad for me," he said with a hint of sadness. He was being honest, okay? He was looking forward for the food, to be frank. He kinda missed how Japanese food taste since he was fed up with Italian cuisines.
The kid stared at him before fishing something out from his afro, it was a grape candy. He then extended his little hand toward Giotto.
"Since Gio-nii looked so pitiful, Ore-sama will give you his favourite grape candy," the kid said before receiving a sudden light punch on his head.
"IT HURTS!" he screamed as he glared at the suspect. "Baka Hayato! Why punch Ore-sama?!" the kid yelled while pointing a finger.
Gokudera held up his fist that shaking visibly. "You, Ahoshi, dare to call Boss pitiful?!" he yelled in the same stubbornness tone before the two broke up into a childish bickering.
When Giotto was about to stop them, a pat on his shoulder prevent him for doing so. Turned out it was G's.
"Just leave them be. They will stop when they tired. I personally thought that was their own way to show their affection," he said slightly before rummaging his pocket in search for the cigarettes. "Ah, damn," he muttered to himself but it was loud enough for the blonde to hear him.
"What's wrong?" Giotto asked.
"I run out of cigarettes," G answered in annoyed tone while the former frowned.
"I really think you should fix that habit. Smoking is not good for your health," Giotto lectured smoothly, earning him a strange look from G.
"What are you? My mom?" he asked with an unbelievable tone.
Giotto smacked him on his back with an unnerving blank stare. "Ouch! I was just joking. It hurts you know," G said as he messaged his back.
"I intended it to be," the blonde answered menacingly.
Everyone was letting themselves enjoying the welcome party for an hour before a chubby man in black suit came to Giotto with laptop in hand.
"Excuse me, Boss. The head of Leichktman Family and five others want to have a private video conference with you, Sir," the man informed politely as his fingers kept typing familiarly on the keyboard.
Giotto put down his champagne. "Right, I almost forgot. What time is it again, Giannini?"
The man, Giannini, looked down on the monitor before looking up again. "Approximately 15 minutes from now, Sir."
The blonde sighed. Work would never give him a break, huh?
"G, sorry but I have to leave the party. I need to attend a meeting on the basement. Also, tell everyone I am sorry." he smiled in apologizing manners before receiving G's nod of approval.
"Sure. No worries. They certainly understand," the pink-haired man said reassuringly.
Giotto smiled in relief. "Yeah. Thanks, G." The blonde then left with Giannini following behind him.
The two then went to basement and it took 10 minutes to reach the private meeting room. Giannini opened the room and let Giotto enter first before him. Putting down his laptop, the chubby man went to the control monitor before doing his job to connecting the site to the others families. He finished in putting up a firewall and others necessary protection beforehand to avoid any interruptions from outsiders.
As the bar of loading process popped up on the monitor, Giannini bowed slightly. "I have finished my job. Please excuse me, Sir," he said politely before Giotto gave him a nod.
"Yes. Thank you, Giannini." The man quickly took his laptop before exiting the room quickly.
Hearing soft noises of click, Giotto inhaled slowly as he closing his eyes.
Today was one of those days where Giotto just wish to lying lazily on his bed. He was dead tired, exhausted, and desperately in need for some relaxing sleep for 18 hours straight. But of course, as the head of the family, it was his job to handle matter such as this.
After all, he couldn't possibly afford doing things half-assedly if it's for the sakes of his family.
A spark of blazing fire burning just a little above his forehead before his entire being emitted domineering auras. His body straight, every hints of restless was nowhere to be seen. His soft clear blue eyes were replaced with sharp orange blaze instead that can see through one's soul.
The monitor then show six faces of the head of each families. Every one of them showed the face of professionalism and the weight of all their family's member's fate in every decision that they agreed.
Weighing the same responsibilities, Giotto felt a little relief…. and anxiety.
His intuition told him there will be a storm after the calm.
"Good evening, gentlemen. Shall we begin the meeting?"
[000]
Today was a special day.
His boss was finally came back after gone for about 3 months to Italy after received a short notice from the ninth. Thanks to that, he got to learn the importance of existence, that someone's absence indeed can make such big impact to other's daily lives.
Oh, and don't forget the unforgettable experiences too. With all the credits goes to the guardians and their brothers.
But then again, the ruckus in Vongola Family was widely-known and become a trademark of their own.
Giannini was just glad that his boss safely came back.
Truthfully speaking, he was a little worried that the Boss might be caught in trouble for going to Italy by himself since he did tell that he will be fine on his own and they shouldn't have to worry.
But still, not just he, everyone (especially his right-hand man) is still worried.
Giotto was the best Boss he willing to serve with his live but then again, when sweets was include in the equation, nothing good will happen. The latter should really fix that before the whole family ended up vanish because of ridiculously reason such as sweets.
Fingers kept busy with the keyboard, a noticeable vibration caught all his attention.
Drrt, drrt!
"Hm?" Giannini looked back at his computer and clicked a minimize window which flickered in yellow colour. His eyes widened at the caution that popping out on the screen.
"Infiltrator?! How did—?!" he gasped and automatically looked at one of hundred CCTV he put in the mansion and stared in shock at a certain one where a rather small-built person mutilated his handmade mini Moscas.
After swallowing his anxiety, with a shaking finger, he then pressed variable keys before he was connected in line with any of the family member. Looks like they also cannot slack-off today.
[000]
BAM!
After a quick warm greeting event, everyone was letting themselves enjoying the party for an hour before sudden loud explosions alert them instantly. G was the first one to take action.
"Giannini, what's happen?" he said through the mini headset on his right ear. The answer came in the form of caution that coming from the speaker.
"Attention! An infiltrator has been detected! Repeat, an infiltrator has been detected!"
"Those people got guts to blatantly attack us, huh. They sure are underestimating the Vongola." Gokudera tsk-ed before dashing toward the entrance.
"Hayato! Wait!" G tried to stop his brother but to no avail.
"Tch, that kid," he muttered in a slight distress before turned to Knuckle.
"Knuckle, bring Lambo to a safe place. Asari, come with me." The both nodded before Knuckle went to take the kid and Asari followed him to catch up to Gokudera and stopped him before doing anything reckless.
Tut! Tut!
G pressed the device on his ear and instantly in contact with Giannini.
"Giannini, what the hell happened?" he asked in a bit rush. G then glanced back at Asari and motioned him to go ahead of him which Asari nodded of before raising his speed. G focused back to the line.
"Giannini, you there?" he asked, a bit of worry.
"Y—yes, G-dono. I—I have located the infiltrator. He was in the south backyard on the main building!"
"What?! Here?!" G asked, a bit shocked at the news. "How come?! Aren't there 50 mini Moscas protection system on that area? How many of them exactly?" G tsk-ed. The infiltrator seems to be skilled if they managed to get on the main building.
"Uh, I am sorry, Sir, but…."
"There are only one person and all of 50 Moscas were annihilated."
G widened his eyes and halted before narrowing his eyes.
"Inform the Boss immediately."
[000]
Bzzt…. Bzzt…. Bzzt….
The phone buzzed at his pocket, silently disturb him in his rarely peaceful day. A four intersection visibly shown on his forehead as he took out the annoying device. He will certainly granted the death wish of whoever this person is.
"Kyouya, where are you?" A familiar voice was coming from the other line, making Hibari took hold of muttering his catch phrase.
"School," he answered belatedly.
"Isn't the school time over an hour ago?" The other line asked again, in which making Hibari's eyes narrowed. "What do you want?" he asked rather rudely.
The other line sighed. "Well, I need you to tell him about something."
That certainly caught the raven's attention.
"Him?" he asked back.
"Yes, him." The other answered firmly.
"Why don't you tell him yourself?" he asked as he stood up and walking toward the window.
"It's a perfect job for someone who has nothing to do besides watching his school all day straight," the replied was did not pleasant. "…. and playing with a bird."
Hibari gripped his phone a little too hard. "I will bite you to death." he finally said it menacingly.
"Yes, of course." The other dismissed it instantly, making Hibari went tch-ed. "Anyway, you better get going. I will give the detail on the way."
With a huff, the black haired lad jumped out of the window.
[000]
"We will continue in the next meeting. Thank you," Giotto said before the screen went off. He then closed his eyes to switching into normal mode and sighed.
'Another task finished' he thought as he leaned on the chair. 'Aaaand I still has to write the report,' he protest as he sighed again.
Knock! Knock!
A hurried knocking put Giotto on alert as he immediately stood up and rushed to the door. He was met with a slightly looking pale Giannini which making him more alerted. "What happened Giannini?" He asked calmly.
"The—there is an infiltrator, Boss," the cubby man answered, panicking.
The blonde put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Calm down, Giannini. Where are the others?" he asked, still with the calm demeanour which is contagious since the man didn't look pale anymore.
"G-dono, Asari-dono, and Hayato-dono are going to the location while Knuckle-dono went to a safe place with Lambo-kun."
Giotto nodded. "Alright, tell me the location."
[000]
"YOU BASTARD!" Gokudera yelled as he struck forward with bombs in hands. He then threw them at the target.
BAM!
Gokudera smirked in satisfaction before realizing that the target gotten away effortlessly. He tch-ed as he lit another bombs and come running toward the infiltrator. He threw the bombs and then casually pulling out a knife. When the target landed on the ground after avoiding the bomb, Gokudera came straight from behind to strike him with the knife.
"Got you!" he yelled but gasped as a shinbone met his face, hard. Not putting any guard whatsoever making his body flung freely. The grey-haired teen gritted his teeth in pain and ready to feel the impact on meeting any hardness surface but it was never came but instead a strong pair of hands supporting his body from collapsing.
"You okay?" The familiar voice asked him.
With such difficulty, he opened an eye to look at G's slightly worried face. "A…. aniki," he muttered weakly.
G sighed in relief as he turned to Asari. "Asari, please look after him," he said as Asari came closer to them and nodded.
G walked slowly as he smirked.
"Why, hello, Mr. Infiltrator. Having fun?" he greeted before in a split second, disappearing. The other obviously caught off guard as he looked around for his opponent.
"Where are you looking?" G asked in a low voice before delivered a kick, sending the opponent away.
"Oh," the former said, tone vividly hide his amusement.
The infiltrator lowered his defensive hands before straighten his posture. The two stared at each other before simultaneously attacked one another.
From the side lines, Asari knew that they were on par. Their speed in attacking increasing little by little, making the Japanese man feel a little bit worried at his friend.
Don't get him wrong, he trusted his friend's ability in fighting and he wasn't a right-hand man for nothing but, as he observed the opponent's moves, the other mainly avoid or defend any attack thrown at him, like he was—
"Asari!"
Asari gasped a little as he turned to see Giotto on his side, inspecting Gokudera's condition. "Giotto-dono!"
The blonde turned at him. "I am glad it's only minor injuries," he said before continuing. "How's the condition?"
Asari then motioned his head to the two. "G is facing the infiltrator…." he trailed a bit.
Giotto observed the fight in silence. Focusing his sight on an unfamiliar silhouette.
'Wait a minute. That appearance... Where did I...?'
He squinted his eyes before he widened in realisation.
"AH! G, STOP!" His sudden shout made Asari jumped before staring at the blonde.
"Uh... Giotto-dono. What's the matter?" Without answering, the latter suddenly went into a hyper mode and dashing forward.
[000]
Tsuna was indeed enjoying this. Never did he thought that he ended up having an exciting fight with such high skilled people.
He were still much or less avoiding without attacking back. He waited for a perfect opening.
'There!'
As he was just about to give his best punch, his institution suddenly screamed but before he could respond, hands caught both his wrist.
"Wha..." he whispered before glaring upward but stopped once his eyes looking directly into those amber eyes.
G instantly jumped back, making save distance between Giotto and the other party. Taking the matter into his hands means that there is a serious matter than just an infiltrator.
A sudden kick from the other caught Giotto off-guard. He instantly release the grip and the former immediately took the opportunity to escape.
What Tsuna didn't expect was that the blonde suddenly appeared in front of him and lock him on the ground. Tsuna tch-ed.
'Damn!'
[000]
Holding the handcuffed hands securely, G gave a light push to the small body. "Now, move." He commanded before turned to Giotto, silently changing looks before the latter shook his head and G nodded. The two began walking while the rest followed closely.
As silence filling up the atmosphere, G stared at the stranger in front of him.
Upon seeing closer look, he noted that his built was rather small.
'And he is short,' he added thoughtfully.
He looked skinny, even with the over-sized jacket that he wore. He was really itching though, to pull off that hoodie to see just how was the brat—that dare enough to infiltrate the resident of one of the most feared mafia family, look like.
G then smiled in amusement. To think that this brat did actually fight on par with him….
'Interesting,' he mused inwardly.
They kept walking in the hallway before slowly to stop in front of a metal door. Asari then opened it, intended to let everyone comes first but stopped when a familiar figure greeted his sight.
"Oh well, it's rare to see you here, isn't it?" he asked in friendly way.
"Asari, who is it?" G asked as he sneaked at the Japanese man shoulder to look who he was greeting at.
"Oh... What's up, Kyou-WAIT!" he yelled as the other suddenly come straight at him and struck him with the tonfas. Full force.
The impact was making G almost hit the wall but Giotto saved him in time.
"Woah. What did you do to make him that upset?" The blonde asked innocently while G gave him his best glare he can proceed.
"…. Seriously?" he asked incredulously.
Giotto eyed him. "Well, you are a jerk so it's given," he said before noticed something.
"Hey, where is the infiltrator?"
"If it's him..." Asari provided as he pointed at the two silhouettes that engaging in the staring contest.
One was of course belong to the brother of his Cloud guardian, Hibari Kyoya, in which staring with so much interest that making Giotto slightly shiver because he resembles a psycho on loose.
He was just so used to see that disinterest-looking face the kid always wore so it was actually quite a sight.
He then bring his gaze to look at the other and when he took a clear look...
His heart skipped a beat.
.
.
.
'…. Wait. Huh?'
-[000]-
A/n: Sorry for the (really) late update. I am having severe author's block. I wonder if people still read this. Haha. No worries, I'm still planning to continue it but due to lack of motivation and college stuffs, expect me to update every…6 months.
Yeah, I know.
Therefore, I am so sorry (_ _)
Truth to be told, I am planning to have 32 chapters but seeing how slow I am updating this, I decide to go to 15 or 18 with 2 extras so, maybe 20 chapters. Still looong way to go~ #sobs
Okay. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and will gladly appreciate it if you drop some of your thoughts :D
Thanks for the support and see ya soon :*
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