Disclaimer: I own the OCs, the rest is Akira Amano's work.
Fratellanza
"Here," Shoichi told me, giving back my VARIA ring and Box Weapon, as well as this era's Federico's gun.
"So I read future Tsunayoshi's letter," I said idly, putting the VARIA ring on my right middle finger. "It is written in black and white I should go to you for explanations about you know what." I tried to ignore Kyoya, who was obviously listening even if he was pretending he was not. We were the first ones to arrive as he didn't want to wait for the others.
I turned my head and stuck my tongue at him, pushing down on my lower lash line. He narrowed his eyes at me and showed me his weapons. I snickered at him and leaned toward Shoichi.
"Once they're leaving for the base, I'm getting my explanations, even if I have to get them out of you by force." He stepped back, pale as a sheet of paper and grabbed his stomach. Spanner snickered and I went to him. "You have a lollipop?" He gave me one and I immediately put it in my mouth. "Sweet caramel..."
They arrived soon after. Tsunayoshi even started to sulk because we didn't show up and Kyoya walked up to him in all his demonic glory.
"What are you saying about me?"
"Hiiiee Hibari-san!" Tsunayoshi shrieked, turning around immediately. I waved at him. "Senpai as well!"
"Kyoya didn't want to wait for you guys and shot me," I told, pointing my lollipop at the guilty party. He shot me a brief look before giving his attention to Reborn.
"Next time I'll beat you baby." Calling Reborn 'baby' though...how romantic.
"Next time then," he replied, accepting Kyoya's challenge. Kyoya went back next to me.
While they were all talking to me, I took the ring I stole from the bully and gave it a more serious look. The wings clearly made it appear more elegant and standing out from other rings. I slipped it on my left middle finger.
Hum...maybe it was because I was not its rightful wielder but...it felt weird. Almost...lighter than the Vongola Ring. I lit it up and frowned.
Weird.
"What are you doing?" Kyoya asked me, staring at the purple flame dancing on my finger. Without tearing my eyes off it, I stretched out my other hand to him.
"Gimme your ring for a second please."
"Why?"
"Just do it, I want to check something." I didn't waste a second to put his ring on my ring finger and lighting it up. For the eyes, the flames were the same but…
It was totally different. The heaviness of the Vongola Ring was still there, the power inside still there but the Mare Ring...nothing.
It was almost like lighting up my VARIA ring. Great rings, sure but...it was not the Tri-Ni-Sette. There was not the same power laying in them.
I gave Kyoya his ring back and extinguished the flames, raising my head to Shoichi. The girls were no longer there.
"Shoichi."
"Yes?" I showed him the Mare Ring on my finger and he widened his eyes. "Where did you get that!?"
"I stole it from my opponent's once he was defeated. It's a Mare Ring, a part of the Tri-Ni-Sette just like the Vongola Rings, right?" He nodded. "There are six of them and the Sky one?" He nodded again. "How were you all deployed?"
"Well, Rasiel was sent to the battle in Italy, Gamma, Glo Xinia, Lorenzo, Genkishi and I were sent here." I cursed under my breath and Reborn appeared in front of me.
"Luciana, what is it?"
"I think we've been screwed over good. The ring on my finger is not a part of the Tri-Ni-Sette, I'm sure of it." Shoichi jumped out of his chair.
"It's impossible! What makes you say that!?"
"I've worn the Vongola Cloud Ring for ten months when Federico was alive and I've just tested it. It's nothing alike. The Mare Ring feels more like the VARIA ring than the Vongola one. And anyway, if Byakuran is so smart, it doesn't make sense for him to send out five Guardians to stop a bunch of kids who come from the past when there are the VARIA and the Cavallones in Italy. No offense, but Dino and Xanxus are bigger threats than us with the short amount of time we spent in this era."
The silence was deafening. Reborn turned around to look at Shoichi, who seemed to be frozen in terror.
"She's not wrong about the strategy not making sense." Shoichi shook his head furiously.
"No no no! I mean, who else? I've seen every single Millefiores' files, and if it's true then...then..." He fell down in his chair with wide eyes. "There's no way Byakuran-san would have seen through my act, there's no…"
"Hey, what do you mean it doesn't feel the same?" Hayato asked me quite rudely.
"Well, they're a part of the Tri-Ni-Sette, it's a set of objects whose power is out of human comprehension. Your rings have that power, but not the one I stole. It's...lacking it."
I widened my eyes when someone clapped.
"What the..." Hayato started, but a red hologram of no one else but Byakuran appeared.
"I have to say, I was expecting you to notice earlier Lucia-chan, but it's still impressive. Noticing the difference between the rings...only you could do that, don't you agree?" I frowned. He was talking about Federico but...was he also implying something about the Mare Rings and me and the fact the Mare Cloud Ring...should be on Romain's finger?
"Byakuran-san...does it mean that..."
"Hum? Oh, yes, the rings I gave you are all fake." As if on cue, mine broke, like Shoichi's. "It was a lot of fun to watch you fight, in Japan or Italy! I mean, it was a great preliminary round! I could see the true strength of the Vongola Assassination Squad and the masquerade you were pulling in the Merone Base Shou-chan."
"So you knew what I was trying to..."
"Yeah, it was plain as day you'd be my enemy one day. I never thought you'd join forces with the Vongolas. After all, you've never approved of my actions."
"That's...not true..." Hum? Interesting.
"We'll see soon enough who's right anyway. You have curious taste though, putting the fate of the world on that boy's shoulders, isn't that cold of you?"
"Show the Tenth some respect you freak!"
"You know, I could easily throw my resources at you and decimate you easily, but you've showed being a great fun. Also, my pride as a leader is wounded my own second-in-command betrayed me. So I figured we should have a proper match." He opened his eye. "An official contest between the Vongola Family, led by Sawada Tsunayoshi, and my Millefiore Family, with, of course, the Tri-Ni-Sette Policy on the line. The timing is perfect for a farewell ceremony to Shou-chan and this world, and to introduce the new one." Well, that was not good at all.
"Can we see your real Guardians then?" Reborn asked him sternly.
"Ha, sure. There." Behind him, a screen appeared.
Obviously, when a red-haired guy appeared, whistling in a magma bath, it was no reassuring at all.
When our surroundings started shining and that Byakuran spoke about a Teleportation system, I gulped in spite of myself as the floor started shaking under my feet. I instinctively grabbed Kyoya's arm. I dropped on my knees and dragged him down with me as he grunted when his knees touched the floor.
Still, he was quick to grab me and keep me against his chest. The floor shook harder and harder and I closed my eyes when a white light shone too bright.
Then, it disappeared in an instant.
Kyoya, the kind soul he was, pushed me on the floor and jumped on his feet. I was about to say something, but the words were trapped in my throat when I saw the gaping hole where the base was seconds ago.
As if I had not been blinded enough, each Guardians received a Vongola Box and I seriously thought for a second my eyes would give up on life.
And Xanxus' encouragement speech to Tsunayoshi was moving. Superbi breaking everyone's eardrums was annoying.
I followed them when they decided to go to their old houses. We split up and now I was with Takeshi. His dad was dead so, even if he had taken the kids with him, I still wondered…
"I'm okay you know." I averted my eyes and he chuckled. "I really am Ana." We reached the park and I watched him play with the kids. If it wasn't his dad then what was it?
"Hey, I think I'll take a walk on my own. I'll go directly to the base." I put my hands in my pockets, a cigarette lit up between my lips.
Shoichi...explained things.
Basically, it was impossible to reach every single parallel worlds, even if Byakuran claimed to have done so. Each...decision made by any individual creates a new world. A decision could decide whether someone might live or die.
To sum up, parallel worlds were grouped according to the people in it. Because of this...let's take myself as an example. Because of this, if I were to be in possession of the Mare Sky Ring and use Byakuran's ability, I would be able to look in parallel worlds where I exist as well. If Dino could use this ability, he would see worlds where he's in it, but I might not exist, or Reborn, or Tsunayoshi.
So far it was...logical. The only thing that remained unchanged in all worlds was the Mare Ring, it was the common point that linked all worlds, not its wielder.
If we followed this logic, then Byakuran could have seen this world where Tsunayoshi's gang's past selves were all brought to the future, right?
Well, it's where it gets tricky. From what I know now, the ring might be the one sending an SOS to me by forcing itself on me. Hence, it sent a dream to my future self where she didn't exist, which would be...impossible.
If I follow Shoichi's theory, Byakuran's group of worlds and my group of worlds have clashed. In a selection of worlds, although still uncountable, we are both alive, breathing the same air and potential wielder of the same ring. It created a split of power and the Ring most likely cut off our link to our other selves from worlds where the other didn't exist.
Don't ask me why, but Shoichi thinks that's why I was always present in all the worlds Byakuran conquered. I had a glimpse of a world I was never born in because the ring was sick of being used for ill intents. It was this, or the fact Byakuran seemed to have claimed the Rings in most worlds and said rings wanted me to balance things out.
It was a drag, I never asked to be chosen for the Tri-Ni-Sette!
My idea about raising alpacas was definitely my plan B and…
Wait, was someone calling me?
"Luciana!" I widened my eyes at the voice and spun around. "Finally! I've been calling you for fi..."
"Dino!" I yelled, crashing into him. He choked a little at the impact, the bear crushing hug I was giving him, and he embraced me back.
"I've never received so much love from you. It hurts." I hugged him tighter and he winced. "Ana...I need my spine..."
"Don't care," I said, releasing him. I smiled at Romario, who smiled back at me. "Still looking after my brother?"
"He still needs it." Dino blushed in shame and shot him a look.
"Hey!" Romario and I muffled a laugh and Dino sighed. "It will never change." His warm hand landed on my head. "So, how are you? I've heard you did good at the Merone Base, I'm proud of you." I smiled, blushing slightly and feeling all warm inside. If I were a dog, I would probably be flailing my tail around at the praise. "What were you thinking about though? You didn't hear me at all."
"Oh, that." I looked up at him with big eyes. "Would you be my first investor in my future alpaca farm? It's in Peru, I need funds." He stared at me, I stared back, he stared, I stared and he looked up at the sky.
"Well, it does seem more realistic than using global warming to grow grapes to make wine in Siberia." I opened my mouth but his finger on my lips stopped me. "No, it was a bad idea. I'm supposed to go meet with Kyoya anyway."
"Heh?" He wrapped an arm over my shoulders, Romario following us closely.
"Yeah, to train him for the Choice. Actually, you're all going to train with tutors."
"Who's mine?" He smirked at me.
"You'll see later baby sis." I snuggled a little more against him.
We reached the school as the sun was going down in the sky.
Was it obvious Kyoya would take his tonfa out once he recognized my brother's voice? Yes, yes it was obvious.
I wasn't expecting Kyoya to attack me though. I jumped out of range easily.
"But why?" I whined like a brat. He glared furiously at me.
"Yamamoto Takeshi calls you too familiarly." I tilted my head on my shoulder. "Why?"
"I told him to call me by my name or nickname, that's all. I mean, we reached a point where there's no point for such formalities." He clicked his tongue and averted his eyes. "It's...why are you laughing?" I asked my brother. He froze, knowing he was spotted.
"It's nothing, really! It's just...you look like a married couple bickering..." I raised a brow.
"Tell me something I don't already know." It made Dino pause. "We've been acting like a married couple basically since I arrived in Namimori. Well, maybe a little after but still."
"That long?" I heard him whisper to Romario, who was thoughtful.
"What, is there something I don't know?"
"Nothing you should concern yourself with Princess," Romario replied.
"Okay..." I caught the box thrown my way. "What's that?"
"Your future self found it and decided to have it fixed and use it. Basil gave it to me to keep it safe."
Right, our time's Basil was there as well. Honestly, when they brought him back, I saw he was starving and took my dinner and left, knowing fully well how much Basil could eat.
The box was indigo, the sides lighter than the edges and 'CEDEF' was written on one of the sides. Was it...a Mist Box Weapon?
"You'll learn how to use it, don't worry. Now go back to the base, Arro might know more about the box." I nodded and left them.
"Don't kill each other!" I caught the tonfa aimed at the back at my head and threw it back to Kyoya. "Fuck you Kyo-chan! Dino's going to destroy you!" Dino paled and stared at me with wide eyes, barely avoiding a very dangerous blow from the angry teenager.
I laughed at Dino whining my name.
Once I was back at the base, I found Reborn in the meeting room.
"Where's Arro?"
"Infirmary." I raised a brow and Reborn smirked. "And he's not alone." Now it was suspect.
I went to the infirmary and, without trying to hide it, eavesdrop. There was Arro's voice but also a woman voice.
A woman? Didn't Arro lose his fiancee and never really recovered from it?
"Come in instead of eavesdropping Lulu!" I opened the door and set my eyes on the pair.
The stranger totally left my mind as I widened my eyes and the sight of Arro's right arm. There was an open wound, the cut looking so recent and so red and...inflamed, on the bicep. It spread way further than the cut, his forearm may not be touched yet but it was maybe an inch or two from reaching his elbow and shoulder.
"Shit, I forgot," he cursed, about to put his shirt back on. I couldn't even focus on the entirely tattooed arm as the wound was…
"I'm not done yet!" the woman yelled at him and he winced, looking almost...scared. "It's not because Luciana is...is..." she trailed off, turning around to face me. She most likely knew my future self.
"I'm sorry, you seem to know my future self but I don't know you. My name is Luciana Cavallone, and you?" I introduced myself, walking in front of her to stretch out my hand. She immediately teared up, holding her hands against her chest.
"My...my name is...Katryna Przybyski...I'm from Poland." Her hand was shaking when she shook mine and I fought the urge to sweat drop.
"Thanks for tending to Arro."
"Hey, when you say it like that you're making me sound like a kid." I smiled sweetly at him.
"Want me to cut off that arm?"
I looked at the woman up and down. She looked to be in her early twenties, so she most likely was younger than my future self by a few years. She had pale skin, almost porcelain-like, with big pine green eyes. She had a turned-up nose, a small mouth with full lips and long, wavy dirty blond hair, the long lock going across her face pined on the side by a yellow hair clip with a penguin on it.
The clip was adorable.
Other than that, she was easily as tall as me, maybe two or three centimeters taller. She was not thin as a model, but not fat either, she had curves just where it was nice to have them, with a thin waist. However...she was wearing a suit with a skirt and boots. Her jacket put her boobs in the spotlight and my B-cup and I felt very small.
It was probably a D-cup or more…
"It's nothing, it's my job to take care of Arro!" she said immediately, waving her hands in front of her with an embarrassed blush. "And...are you hurt anywhere?"
"No, I'm good."
"Katryna is working for Dino and has been for a few years, you're friends so that's why she was weird when you entered the room Luciana," Arro filled me in.
"Oh." I looked at very apologetically. "I'm sorry for anything my brother might have done because he's a klutz, I did my best when we were kids but..." She giggled.
"It's fine, the Boss is very kind, it balances the clumsiness." I laughed.
"You're a doctor then?" She nodded.
"I've never graduated med-school with the situation with the Millefiore, but training with Doctor Shamal made up for it." I paled.
"Wait...but you're a pretty girl and..." She smiled gently at me.
"Don't worry, I know where to kick." I briefly had a sympathetic thought for Shamal.
Briefly.
"Anyway, anything you can do?" Arro asked her, and the smile was wiped off her face, replaced by a serious look.
"It is a Flame-based wound Arro. The Storm Flames inside of it keep the cells from regenerating and my Sun Flames won't be able to heal it. I would need Rain Flames to keep the Storm Flames at bay while I heal you, and even then it's deep and I might need to remove a lot. My opinion is the same as everyone else's, amputation." She took a box of pills from her breast pocket. "I made them with Squalo's help, they're Rain Flame-based and share similitudes with yours thank to your blood tie, it will slow down the progress of the flames in your arm and ease the pain."
"Thanks," he whispered, accepting the pills.
"You know Superbi as well?" She nodded.
"We have to work closely with other Families. I'm friends with Arro and you so I came in contact with the VARIA more often than not." It made sense but...she seemed way too pure to go to the VARIA or even work with them. "I'll be your doctor until the Choice is over."
"You'll have to patch up Dino and Kyoya more than any of them," Arro snickered.
"Chrome was not eating?"
"No, but Tsuna managed to solve the situation with a little help from I-Pin," Reborn explained to me with a smirk, holding his cup of espresso in front of his mouth. "It seems like he knew of a particular fear Chrome has and he found the right words." I took a bite of my onigiri.
"That's good." We were at Basil's welcome party.
There was something wrong with Takeshi. Seriously, he was acting all cheerful, basically his usual self, but it was fake and from the worry in Tsunayoshi's eyes, he noticed too.
"Unless Tsuna comes to you, let him deal with Yamamoto. It's his job, as a friend and as a Boss."
"Sure." I stood up and went to Basil, my plate of meat and chopsticks in hand. "So, you landed in Spain sure but how did you even get shot?"
"Well Master sent me in Namimori to give you some information in person but when I exited the airport I was shot." Lal sighed.
"It's disappointing Basil."
"Sorry Lal-dono." I put a piece of meat in my mouth. The girls were quite good cooks by now.
"By the way Lal, do you know about a Mist Box Weapon my future self found?" She crossed her arms.
"Not much I'm afraid, Luciana just said it complemented her illusions pretty well."
"What does that mean?"
"As if I knew what goes through your head." I rolled my eyes. As if I knew what was going on in my future's head.
Ultimately, Tsunayoshi came to get me because he didn't know what to do with Takeshi.
"I mean, it's like before you know? He's faking it and I can't get him to open up!" he lamented, flailing his arms around. I caught his wrist when he almost smacked me in the face.
"What do you want me to do about it?"
"I don't know...maybe if I fail once again you can take a...a more direct approach?" I deadpanned.
"Grow a pair." He blushed in shame and I opened the door to Takeshi's dojo room.
We broke his focus, but I still felt bad for the straw falling softly on the floor.
"Hey guys, do you need something?" Yeah, his smile was fake.
"Yamamoto, what's going on?" He blinked in confusion and laughed.
"I don't see what you mean Tsuna!"
Tsunayoshi yelled and Takeshi jumped back.
I may or may not have shot him at his foot.
"Senpai!"
"Sorry, but he's lying straight to our faces and think we're dumb enough to believe him."
"I don't think you're dumb," Takeshi denied vehemently and I aimed for his knee.
"Then talk." Now the smile was gone and a harsh, guilty glint was in his eyes.
"I...I failed everyone." I frowned.
"What?" Tsunayoshi said in astonishment. "When?"
"Back at the base, against Genkishi, I completely blew it! I was overconfident and then I..."
"So win next time. Nobody died." I almost stepped back at the anger in his eyes when he looked at me.
It was very unusual.
"It almost cost you your life Luciana, and if Hibari had not showed up then..." I sighed.
"You're allowed to sulk with your guilt if someone die. Until then just make sure not to lose again. Get your shit together Takeshi." I turned around and left.
"They're trying out ways of transportation for the Choice?" I nodded at Arro.
"I saw one of the prototypes, I'm not getting into that mess." I threw my Mist box in the air and caught it once again, Cloud laying down next to me. Arro was kneeling next to him and giving him a belly rub. "It's a wolf, not a dog, you're aware of that?" He snickered.
"But he loves it!" He made Zoro come out as well and, much like Cloud, he laid down next to his friend. They were as bad as the other these canines. "So, you open it?"
"Oh right." I lit up my Mist ring and put the flames in the box. It opened and shot an indigo flame in the air that made Cloud and Zoro got up on their feet. Paws. Whatever.
I was mesmerized by the raven black raven flying above us. Its eyes were indigo and the side of its wings were coated by Mist Flames. I raised my hand like I saw falconers do on TV. I knew a raven and a falcon were different but…
It flew away.
"Lulu?" I turned around to look at Arro, who had his arms stretched out in front of him, almost as if he was trying to locate obstacles.
I frowned at his moving lips. I couldn't hear a thing.
The next day, when I had to go learn how to drive a motorbike, whereas I had learned it in CEDEF by the way, I was still a little freaked out by Hugin's, yeah that was his name from what Arro told me, ability. Zoro managed to save us all by sending enough Rain Flames around us to counter the Mist Flames blocking our senses.
Yes.
Hugin couldn't create illusions. He could basically block out senses in the zone where he was spreading his flames, and use them to hide his presence as well. We would need to work on the...fact the sense blocked was completely random.
The fact he was shy and scared of anyone and anything was a problem as well.
Things started to change when I was working with Hugin with Arro and that an explosion shook the base.
"What the hell?" I wondered out loud, Hugin going back to his box immediately.
"It came from the living-quarter area I think." The floor shook again and I followed Arro through the hallways. It was easy to spot the problematic area.
There was a crowd in front of it.
"Tsunayoshi?" I whispered, seeing him fighting and orange...thing. Arro gritted his teeth next to me.
"Shit, Sawada just had to open his box?" Hayato turned around.
"Hey, don't bad mouth the Tenth!"
"He was told not to open it but did anyway, didn't he?" Arro replied, shrugging. Hayato was about to say something else, but Basil and Takeshi used their boxes to calm the orange thing down. "Sky Box Weapon are tricky to open, Sawada messed up, it's a fact."
"It's true," a new voice said behind us. I turned around and whistled quietly.
On his Box Weapon, a beautiful white horse, my brother looked like Prince Charming. Well, you had to picture him wearing something more...noble, but the intention was there.
I felt Arro tensing next to me. As my brother talked to Tsunayoshi about how he could damage his box forever, I looked up at him.
"What's wrong?" Arro averted his eyes.
"Nothing...I haven't seen him since..." He didn't need to finish his sentence. His fist clenching by his sides were enough.
The horse, once Dino was on the floor, yeah he fell down, nuzzled his nose against my cheek. I scratched his jaw and kissed him on the nose. He was beautiful.
"I see Scuderia is asking for cuddles again," Dino noted and I noticed Reborn here as well.
"He's adorable." I blew a raspberry on his nose and narrowly avoided his tongue against my cheek.
Then, as the kids, yes kids, were leaving, I climbed onto Scuderia and started leaving.
"Ana! You can't steal my horse!"
"It wouldn't be the first time!" I shouted back, smirking at Arro who looked totally betrayed I left him alone with my brother.
Brother who told him a word and they left the opposite way.
"Ciaossu!" I narrowed my eyes at Reborn.
"Well, this feels like a deja-vu. Do you need something?"
"I'll train you again."
"Yay." Reborn didn't move from Scuderia's head. "What?"
"I've read Tsuna's letter." He gave it back to me. He had asked me if he could read it when we came back and I said 'yes', knowing Reborn would notice if I did something.
"I can't disobey a direct order from the great Decimo, can I?" I replied with sarcasm. I sighed under Reborn's scrutinizing eyes. "I claim it in this era and I'm done with it. Aria may have said it could...put my dreams under control but..."
"They could be lethal Luciana." I frowned. "I asked Bianchi. It seems you kept having some but you were ill and exhausted each time and it kept getting worse because of your condition." He stopped for a second. "Using so much flames hasn't done anything yet?"
"Well, even if it fastens the process, I don't have any other choice but to fight with flames like every one else." I pursed my lips, knowing fully well that I would pay the price for fighting like I was doing since I arrived in this era later on. "It's my body, I get to decide if I want to put it through this." I furrowed my brows and lowered my head. "Is it my...her fault?"
"None of you chose to have changing flames. But awakening your Sky Flame will be hard and your body will suffer the effects of it."
"I just need to pull through until the end of the Choice, right? Then...will happen what will happen."
"Getting the ring could really help you." Should I tell him Byakuran had seemingly found a cure though?
I got off Scuderia and let him go back to Dino once at the entrance of Kyoya's base.
"I'm...figuring everything out Reborn, it's a lot. However, I'm kicking Byakuran's ass, that's for sure." As I was walking through Kyoya's base, I let a grim look cloud my gaze.
Byakuran...I mean, in total honesty, I knew what he did in this era was wrong but...he never did anything to me personally. Even my future self...she was locked up in his HQ but...it was a golden prison, really. The clothes there were in the closets were all expensive and...and even if what he did to Romain was wrong, he was looking for a cure for me, wasn't he?
I wondered what went down in other parallel worlds between him and I.
In the end, the only thing I was resenting him for was treating Romain as a guinea pig for my 'sake'. He killed so many people in Arro's life, including his fiancee, but...it wasn't in my time so…
It would be so much easier if I could just blatantly hate him.
"Just try not to be hit in the ribs too hard, okay?" I heard Katryna say in Kyoya's room. I walked to the door.
"Hn." I leaned my head in the opening, enough to see the blond woman sighing in resignation at Kyoya's behavior. Kyoya noticed I was there by the way, and he had his shirt in his hand, a big white bandage on his ribs on his right side.
I put a hand on my eyes immediately.
"I didn't see anything!" He was smaller than his future self, obviously, but...he was clearly fit already. From all the fighting he was doing anyway, it was no surprise really…
Katryna chuckled.
"If you feel any pain, I gave Kusakabe-san some painkillers. Please rest for the rest of the day Kyoya-san." She sent me a beautiful smile and left.
Kyoya was closing a drawer, his shirt back on. I raised a brow at him when he gazed at me.
There was something weird.
"Do I have something on my face again?" I asked him. He inched over the wooden floor of the room and stopped in front of me. "You're being weird Kyo..." With one finger under my chin, he raised my face toward his. "...ya?"
"Stop acting." I tilted my head on my shoulder. "You're acting as if everything was fine and keeping information to yourself to keep the herbivores from losing it because of the situation. Stop doing that in front of me." I looked down and smiled tiredly.
"I'm tired."
"I know." He took my hand and pulled me in the room, which I had never seen before. TYL Kyoya never accepted I came inside for some reason.
I was soon trapped between the wall and Kyoya, his hand still holding mine and his forehead against mine. His free hand took my collar and pulled it down on my left shoulder. I shivered when his hot breath was against my skin, and then his lips. I bit my lower lip when he sucked on my skin, clearly intending to give me a hickey.
He was done after a few seconds and seemed satisfied with his work, a smug smirk on his lips as I was completely done with his behavior by now.
"You have worst mood swings than a pregnant woman," I told him as he took me to the bed, pushing me on it. He snorted, laying down next to me.
I immediately put my head on his chest, my arms wrapped around him.
"If I ever get too clingy, just tell me or push me away."
"Hn." His arm was around my shoulder, keeping me close to him.
"Are you okay by the way?" I asked him in a whisper. "With everything that's going on, you..." His hand on my mouth kept me from continuing.
"Just sleep already."
Knowing I wouldn't get anything from him, I closed my eyes and removed his hand.
"You're not trying to make me talk?"
"If you're not telling me you have a reason."
"You could force me to..."
"Making you angry at me seems too much troubles for what it's worth." I smiled faintly, my nose buried in his shirt and a faint blush dusting my cheeks.
He didn't want to make me angry.
At him in particular.
Damn, developing romantic feelings was never on the table and yet here I was, acting like one of those girls in teenage romance movie.
I wouldn't trade my spot with anyone though.
Fratellanza
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