Chapter 3: Friends and Enemies (EDITED)
"So," said Kiba as they ate on the floor, "What do you do here for fun?"
"Nothing, really. The fun's all outside. But we're not allowed to leave the building until 10 am, which is in, hmm, ten minutes." Samantha said looking at her watch.
"Cool! I want to see how is this place!" said Kiba excitedly.
"Well then we'd better sign our names to say that we're going out. You guys stay here and don't open to anyone, we don't need to knock, so anyone who does, don't answer." Said Samantha, and she and Anne went out to sign their names. The three ninjas remained silent for a while, but Kiba took notice of Hinata.
"Ne, Hinata, Doshita?" asked Kiba, seeing that his teammate had a worried expression. (1)
"Ano, I-I don't think we should leave, Kiba-kun," Hinata said shyly.
"Nani? Doshite?" asked Kiba. (2)
"Ano, I feel something… something bad will happen…"
"Nah, don't worry, Hinata! Nothing bad will happen as long as I'm here!" Kiba said winking.
"All done!" said Anne coming inside the room followed by Samantha.
"Okay guys, if you go out through that window you'll land in an alleyway, so no one will see you. You wait for us there okay?" said Samantha, and the three ninja nodded.
"Eh, earth to Sam! We're on the second floor!" said Anne.
"Oh, I'm sure they don't mind! Right guys?" she asked.
"No, it's a really short distance! Check it out!" said Kiba, and he threw himself off the window. Anne muffled a shriek, and she and Samantha ran to the window and looked down to see Kiba grinning and doing the sign of victory.
"Show off…" Samantha murmured under her breath.
"Okay, Shino next and then Hinata," Kiba said framing his mouth with his hands so they would hear him. So without further ado, Shino jumped down followed by Hinata. Both girls headed downstairs (Anne being very impressed by the ninjas' abilities, not that being able to be on the roof was enough), but before they could go out, someone grabbed Samantha's arm. They both looked around and saw Mother Clavel looking serious. Both girls could feel their hearts beat on their throats. The only thing that was passing though the girls mind was: How did she find out! They had mental images of themselves being thrown out and living in the streets.
"Samantha, I need to talk to you, darling," darling, Mother Clavel said darling, this meant that she was not mad, but she was about to give some bad news, "let's go to my office, shall we?" Samantha followed mother Clavel to her office, but she started walking backwards to tell Anne in sign language that she'd be right there (Yes, they both speak sign language). Anne mouthed an ok and she went off to find the guys.
Meanwhile in Mother Clavel's office…
"Samantha, I'm afraid I have some shocking news," said Mother Clavel.
"Bad or good?" it was the only thing that was nagging her.
"Hmmm, both…"
"Both?"
"Yes, both, you see… of course you knew your family on your mother's side…"
"All too well…"
"Well, you see, there was another family that was close friends with the Riverti family,"
"Y-you're talking about the Lucciano(3) family, aren't you?"
"Yes, darling, yes. Well, after… after what happened, it was thought that there were no survivors, but there was one. Paulo Lucciano was the sole survivor of the whole thing, otherwise from you, of course, but he knew that as soon as the Colucci(4) family found out that he was alive, they would hunt him down, so he went far away for many years. Now, Paulo was a great friend of your grandfather, inseparable they were. But now Paulo has died of old age, but he never had any descendants, and as you know that you were your grandfather's only grandchild, therefore the heir to the Riverti family, and seeing as your grandfather and Paulo were the best of friends, Paulo has left everything he had to you." Mother Clavel finished. There was an awkward silence.
"Therefore you are the owner of more than 150 million dollars in mansions, properties, terrains and many other things I cannot remember right now, not to mention the millions and millions of dollars he left you from his multiple bank accounts." She added as an afterthought, not that Samantha needed it.
"So I'm… millionaire?" asked Samantha astounded.
"Yes. But…"
Outside…
"Hey, where's Samantha-chan?" asked Kiba.
"Mother Clavel, the woman that runs the whole orphanage, took her to her office," Said Anne.
"Don't tell me she found out—"
"No, no, I don't think she found out, or else she would've taken us both, I think it was something else…" Anne cut Kiba, who was looking slightly alarmed, But Hinata looked terrified.
"Hey, what's wrong?" asked Anne in concern.
"A-ano, it's just that… nothing," said Hinata looking at the floor. Anne was about to say something, but then Samantha arrived looking pale.
"What did she want, Sam?" Anne asked. Samantha remained silent and simply slid down a wall to the floor, not really looking at anything.
"Sam, what is it? What did she say!" Asked Anne worriedly as she crouched down to be level with her friend.
"Ka…" Samantha started saying.
"'Ka' what?" asked Anne.
"Ka…"
"'Ka' What!" Anne and Kiba asked simultaneously.
"Ka-ching! Money!" Sam blurted out and grabbed Anne by her shirt so their faces were 2 inches apart, "I got a heritage, Anne, I'm rich, I'm filthy rich, I got money from the mob, Anne, the mob!" Samantha yelled in one breath shaking Anne violently.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Kill the motor, Sam!" Anne said breaking free from her crazed friend's grasp, "Now, you're trying to tell me that you just got money from the mob? And that my best friend is filthy rich?" Sam nodded forcefully.
"No… no way……EMAHGAWD, SAM! HOW! HOW THE HELL COULD YOU GET RICH IN 8 MINUTE'S TIME, AND FROM THE MOB! YOU BIN FROM THE MOB ALL THIS TIME AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!" Anne shrieked, this time being her who shook Samantha violently. The two friends looked at each other with wide eyes, breathing rapidly.
"Mob?" Kiba asked. The two girls came back to reality, noticing that their ninja friends had no idea what mob was.
"C'mere, Kiba-baby, I'll make you a map of what the mob is," said Anne taking Kiba aside.
"Ano… I do have an idea on what the mob is," Said the shy little Hyuuga. Of course, her family being one of the most influent in all of Konoha simply had to have contacts, "and from what I've heard, i-it's not… very clean—"
"Say it, Hinata, it's perfectly illegal," said Samantha
Th-then why are you getting money from them?" Hinata asked shyly, choosing well her words, making sure that she didn't insult her in any sense. Samantha sighed.
"It'll be lunch soon, let's find somewhere to eat and I'll explain everything there," Said Samantha, "Anne, let's move it."
"Gratzie, Molto Gratzie, that is why you are the godfather—what? Oh, right, move out," Anne regained composure as she was imitating an Italian man talking with Italian accent and moving her hand back and forth with her index and thumb connected.
They got to a nearby pizza parlor and ordered a half-pepperoni half cheese pizza. They all saw it arrive with hungry eyes.
"Itadakimasu!"(5) said Kiba rubbing his hands gleefully.
"Doumo!"(6) said Samantha taking a piece of cheese pizza. Kiba stopped in his movement to grab a pepperoni piece when he heard her.
"Nihongo o hanashimasu ka?" (7) Asked Kiba.
"Hai, sukoshi,"(8) said Samantha, and then Kiba started blabbering in Japanese at full speed.
"Yukkuri hanashite, kudasai!"(9) Samantha said, lifting her hands, telling him to halt.
"Ano, Gomen…"(10) she added
"Daijoubu desu,"(11) said Kiba and Hinata simultaneously. Samantha smiled and Anne looked something like this 0.o?
"Could you pass me the powdered cheese, Hinata?" Asked Samantha.
"Hai," Hinata passed her the cheese.
"Arigato."
"Dou itashimashite… a-ano,(12)"
"Hm?"
"You were going to explain something," Hinata said, hoping that she was not pressuring her. Samantha sighed.
"Well, lets start out by telling you my name. Even though you know that my name is Samantha, my full name is Samantha Antonella Mane Riverti. The last name Riverti comes from my mother whose name was Leonela Riverti, daughter of Federico Riverti, head of the Riverti family and one of the biggest Italian gangsters, my grandfather. There were only two more families that were as powerful in the mob as the Riverti family, which were the Lucciano family and the Colucci family. These three families were once united, forming the most powerful and feared society in all of Italy. But there was a situation that made the Colucci family separate from the others, so they became enemies. Therefore, the two remaining associated families moved to America. But one night, there was an assault on the Riverti mansion. Both the Riverti and the Lucciano family were there, and both families were killed. I was 5 years old when that happened…"
Flashback:
"Mama!" Little 5-year-old Samantha screamed in the middle of all the chaos. Everyone was running around, many gunshots could be heard and the house burned on fire. But suddenly someone grabbed her and carried her away; it was her father. They ran for a few seconds, but her father tripped and fell, but he didn't get up again. Her father's weight made it difficult, but she managed to get him off her, and she saw that he had been shot. She didn't move from the spot. She just stood there, crying in the midst of all the havoc; she looked like a little angel out of place. But then she was picked up by her grandfather. He went upstairs and met with another old man.
"Where can we put her to keep her safe?" asked Federico Riverti.
"They know the house, where ever we put her they'll find her!" answered Paulo Lucciano. Samantha was still crying out of fear.
"Give her to me, Federico, I'll take her outside while you manage everything here!" said Paulo. Federico gave Paulo the sobbing girl and he went off through a secret passage behind a painting to the backyard. Paulo ran through the darkness and went far away from the house, but he never returned. The next day, the success was all over the news, claiming that there were no survivors except two of them whose bodies had not been found. There was nothing left from the majestic mansion except a huge pile of black ashes. Paulo knew that the Colucci family would be looking for him, and that Samantha would be in danger if she traveled with him, so he decided to leave her in the safest place he could think of.
End of Flashback…
"And that's how I ended up in the orphanage. But the thing is that now Paulo has died, and he left everything he had to me. But the real thing is that I can't touch that money until I'm eighteen. So basically, the government has a hold of the money until I become of age and claim it," Samantha finished, but she noticed that now, not only Hinata was listening, but Kiba, Anne, and Shino were looking at her like this 0.o no way… Kiba was with his eyes wide open; Anne was holding a pizza that was halfway to her mouth, and Shino… well, he was showing no signs of life.
"So, that's what mother Clavel told you?" Said Anne.
"Mh-hm" Samantha nodded.
"But why didn't you tell me all this before?"
"Mother Clavel said that it was better if no one else knew of my linage, I'm still in danger you know. So if the Colucci family knew where I was…" Sam drifted off, though she didn't need to finish the sentence. But suddenly Anne's eyes went wide, then, at least for Kiba and the team, Anne started doing signs with her hands rapidly.
"Don't look now, but there're a bunch of reporters outside and they're looking at us," Anne said in sign language. Samantha held her breath and looked back slowly. Indeed there were more than a dozen reporters with cameras and notebooks trying to get past the pizza parlor entrance.
"There she is! It's her! The long lost Riverti heir!" screamed one of them, (A/N: whoa, that was dramatic) and all the reporters went into a stage of rabidness, like a bunch of Neji fans spotting him naked in an alleyway. Then they simply ramped inside like a stampede of elephants, all of the asking questions that no one could understand.
"Run!" yelled Samantha, and the five kids all ran for their lives. They ran and managed to get out through a back door, but the reporters kept on following. Anyone would've thought that it was a small marathon. The teenagers ran with all their might, but then they heard a shriek.
"Eeek!" Anne had twisted her ankle and fell down.
"Anne!" Samantha yelled, then Shino ran towards their fallen friend and quickly got her on his back and they resumed running at full speed. Kiba then looked inside his pockets and threw at the reporters a few smoke bombs, which gave them a few seconds advantage to run away. They turned a corner to find themselves on a dead end, but then they realized that this was the alleyway that was next to the orphanage. They could hear the reporters approaching. Then suddenly, Kiba grabbed on to Samantha tightly and he made a super jump to the window. She let out a shriek when she felt Kiba jump, but she felt as if something propelled them from the start. She figured that they must use chakra to impulse them to jump higher. Once they were all in, they were gasping for air, catching their breaths they had lost on the persecution.
"Are you okay, Anne?" asked Samantha when she had caught her breath.
"Yeah, but I think our things aren't," she said looking at their room. When the others looked, they saw that it was all trashed, the beds were undone and the bed sheets and all of their clothes were lying on the floor, completely destroyed. They all looked wide-eyed at the destruction. Samantha felt like she weighed a ton, and her legs gave away. She fell on her knees, blank of expression.
"Who could've done this?" whispered Kiba.
I'm soooooooooo sorry for the mistakes of this chappie. But I edited and its rearin' to go (thanx to one of my fav reviewers NarutosMego, luv ya lots XD)! i wanted to give things a twist, so i hope you like it. Here are what the numbers mean:
(1) it means "Are you OK?"
(2)"What?" and the other word means something like "What are you saying?" or "What do you mean?"
(3) its pronounced Loo-chee-ah-noh
(4)its pronounced Ko-loo-chee
(5)something like"Time to eat" or "Bonneapetite"
(6)"Thanks" (Arigato is more like a thank you and Doumo is more like a Thanks, thats for you Achillea ;))
(7)"Do you speak Japanese?"
(8) "Yes, a little"
(9)"Speak slowly, please!"
(10)"umm,sorry..."
(11) "It's allright"
(12)"You're welcome... umm"
i think the rest you might have heard it. If i have any mistakes, please do inform me. And if any of you have seen "The Godfather" id really apreciate a summary on what its abut (I havent seen it, silly me :p) and thank you all for all those lovely reviews! They really lift my spirits up!