Chapter 000: The Rolling Stones
"Please give everyone my regards." the final part of that statement was left unsaid… there was nothing to say to Giorno that he did not already know. As I flew off to my eternal slumber in the golden clouds I wept tears, tears of joy as I knew what was to come. I was going to see my father again. I was going to tell him that I made something of myself and made both him and mother proud. I could tell Abbacchio and Narashia that we did it, we found the boss. I look back down to where Giorno was holding his hand out in the air, I reached mine out on instinct, it was meant to be, wasn't it? With angels surrounding me with wreaths in their hands, ready to bring me into heaven, I say one final thing, "Don't worry about it, Giorno. I am only going back where I was supposed to go. I am simply returning to how I once was. That's all…" he never got to hear my final goodbye as before I went into the eternal golden clouds, I saw the arrow in his hand and a look of hardened determination on his face, that was all I needed to see as I faded into the eternal light… where I was supposed to go a long time ago.
The light showed up on my face and it was for lack of a better term… annoying, it was not the light i expected from heaven, it was more like the city lights in the night of a big city. I opened my eyes to see a lamp-post above me, with the light shining straight into my eyes despite it aiming toward the road. I raised my head up to look forward to seeing that it was on what seemed to be a park bench with all my earthly possessions on my body at the time of my death with two bloody bullet holes where my body was shot by Mista back in the colosseum. I stood at my feet and walked down what I could tell was a street, but it was no street I have ever seen in my lifetime like I was in another place entirely… which would make sense because I am in heaven… I think. The more streets I moved past the more and more my suspicions changed from what I was suspecting, with it being heaven, and more like I was moved somewhere, but I could swear I was dead, I destroyed my soul orb to stop Chariot Requiem and to seize the arrow for Giorno. That was not the only thing that tipped me off, my steps felt lighter as if I had a bit more pep in every step I took, I may need a mirror to confirm it but I think that I look younger as well FEEL younger.
I was not paying attention to my surroundings as I was fully in though before I could feel my shoulder collide into something, I look to my side to see if it was an object of some sort before realizing that it was the shoulder of an inebriated Japanese man who was bald, he was holding a woman down inside of a car he dresses was disheveled and wrinkled with what looked like blood trailing down her lip, Like she bit it recently… or she was hit across the face.
"Anata wa dare no seikōdesu ka?" said the man in pure Japanese, he must have thought I was native here at the time so I could not understand him at first before my mind finally translated what he said into my mind.
"I don't know where I am, sir," I said in patchy but effective Japanese, my Italian still thick within my voice
"This is none of your fucking BUISSNES PAL! NOW GO AND FUCK OFF BEFORE YOU-" with every syllable her walked closer to me before finally falling onto the ground, not because I summoned Sticky Fingers but because he simply fell on his face and hit the sidewalk right on his forehead. After the collision, he looked up at me with hate in his eyes and said this one thing to me, "DAMN BRAT I'LL SUE!"
And the rest was a blur. For the past three days, everything has been a blur but I made good use of the time I spent in jail and figured out what happened to me in order to get here. I was younger, much younger, in fact, I was at least 15 or 16 years old, and I wanted it to be that way. In the eyes of the world, I was an amnesiac who barely even knew who or what he was… which was not entirely false, but I could not trust them with the information that I had in my brain. I wanted a crew of my own again but I knew it would take time for me to trust anyone to form one.
He could hear the door to his cell and out of the corner of his eyes, he saw two women come into the cell. Both of them were likely siblings with the older one having natural silver hair, the younger one having brown hair (which was likely dyed because of Japan's standards for hair) and both of them however had red eyes. The one that stood out to me when I first saw her though was the younger one especially with the fact that I could just about see a second left arm come out of her own left arm.
"Are you Bruno Buchilati?" asked the older one
"As hard as that is for me to believe that is my name," I said, "I am still getting used to it myself."
"Considering you only figured out your name yesterday, it is easy to believe that you would be getting used to your name." Said the woman, "Anyhow I am going to be your guardian until you turn 18. My name is Sae Niijima and the person behind me is Makoto Nijima."
"Pleasure to meet you, Bruno-Kun," said Makoto as she bowed slightly
"We will be watching you over the course of this year until your criminal record is sorted out, and until that happens we want you to at the very least be on your best behavior over the course of this year and the foreseeable future," said Sae
"Or else I will be tossed back in jail where I will be for the rest of my days?"
"Yes, that is the deal that we have set up." said Sae, "but considering how you have been while you were here I think it won't be much of an issue for you to go by the rules."
"I agree. Although I think that you should know about the bizarre occurrences that seem to happen around me."
"We have already been informed about your magic tricks." said Makoto, "Like how a pile of books was suddenly found in your room."
"It is impressive how you were able to do that. I think it is only fair that you at the very least get a chance at a normal life." said Sae, '' The fact that you are somehow able to do these tricks is a sign that you are gaining at the very least your mussel memories left."
"Yes, I believe so too." I said with a smile on my face as I stood up and walked out of the cell for the first time in a few days, and turned back to them before giving them a smile and saying, "So shall we go?"
"I believe we should," said Sae before she turned to Makoto with a smile which she reciprocated and we all went to her home.
