My Storm, My Cloud, My Sun, My Sky
Summary: Reborn met Fon, they became Arcobaleno and went separate ways, not seeing each other for years. Kyoya was born, Fon had to leave to protect his family and they didn't see each other for years. Tsuna met Reborn, the adventure starts. Hibari met Reborn, craziness starts. Dino met Kyoya, Fon returns and secrets are revealed. Better than it sounds, I promise! D18, RF, LalCol possible others.
Kawahira looked ready to murder them for a second when the returned to his doorstep four days later with a miraculous solution in their hands.
Reborn, the amazing man trapped in an infant's body that he was, had managed to fulfill his promise. He had spent two whole days without rest - because he'd become intrigued by the challenge Hibari Kyoya had brought him, a mathematical problem the likes of which he'd never seen before that required he brush up his knowledge in several advanced fields of science and mechanics that he didn't usually rely on as much - trying to figure out a proper equation, draw the right diagrams, fly through statistics, give five other variations for the problem's solution and solve the whole thing but it was done. He crashed afterwards to the point that he didn't hear at all when Bianchi asked him to marry her, but it was done.
The wedding debacle had been a nerve-wrecking affair all around, especially as Reborn had no intentions of actually marrying his 'girlfriend'. The wish for exchanged vows was one-sided at best, the hitman never even really treating Poison Scorpion as one would a lover, but rather a doting nanny, assistant and chaos-helper. Yes, Reborn clearly respected the dark pink haired beauty, but he also clearly had no intentions of being all that intimate with her.
He'd made a clever test of it in the end that might have just proved that although Bianchi held clear genuine affection for Reborn, their relationship was more based on her obsession with him. The situation with 'adult' Lambo showed that her old flame with Romeo, her dead ex-boyfriend she had probably killed herself with her poison cooking, wasn't exactly extinguished. That Kurokawa Hana was right to say that if she were getting married to the man of her dreams, an ex shouldn't matter in the least, especially not someone who only looked like said ex.
It was a disaster and a half, but Dino had managed to drag Kyoya along and dress him up in a suit that fit him far too well and the Disciplinary Committee Chairman had at least been amused by the end result, so he considered it a win. He, of course, owed Hibari ten training sessions for forcing him to allow crowding at the wedding without biting anyone to death, but he didn't mind. All the bruises and cuts and broken ribs in the world would be worth the chance he got to dance with his ('not') cute student. He'd been pleasantly surprised by how well Hibari had taken to dancing considering he had admitted to never having done something so 'herbivorous' before.
Kyoya had simply rolled his eyes. "If such simple footwork as in a dance like this could trip me up, I'd be dead a long time ago." True, given footwork was one of the most important aspects in a fight. If you trip, your opponent can easily finish you off, which means death in real battles.
Though Dino made a note to actually ask Kyoya if his 'uncle', supposedly the world's best martial artist, had been the one to teach him how to fight. Kyoya had mentioned it, but he'd only spoken about tonfa. Reborn, though, seemed confident Hibari could stand his own even without his prized weapons.
Anyway, the wedding had been a disaster and a half, as had been said before, but it had also somehow turned out to be a romantic reunion between two couples: Sawada Iemitsu and Nana, who all but recreated their reception, and Colonello and a female Arcobaleno called Lal Mirch that Dino had never met before but Reborn clearly knew. Colonello had heard of Reborn's wedding and had come to crash it for some reason. Lal had come along with Iemitsu with much the same intentions when Fuuta had revealed what was going on upon Reborn's request. Then, when Lal Mirch and Colonello met at some point, the blond had asked the blue haired infant for a dance and while she had punched him almost to a coma, they had danced the night away after he recovered before trying to hunt down Reborn for one reason or another, the Sun Arcobaleno avoiding them at all costs.
Lal Mirch had stopped to stare at Kyoya at one point, looking a bit stunned and nostalgic, before resuming her hunt with renewed fervor.
Kyoya hadn't known what was up with that when asked so they had both just brushed it off.
Though Colonello's words 'they could pass off as twins' from the Sky Match came to mind, Dino decided not to ask. Eventually, he will probably meet this 'Fon' and then he can decide for himself.
"Incredible," Kawahira breathed as he studied Reborn's detailed work on the problem they had passed on to the Sun Arcobaleno for him to solve. "Amazing. You were right. A semi-Perpetuum Fiamma Mobile is possible, but it requires for the Flames to rotate at near the speed of light," the ancient man mumbled to himself as he reviewed the papers Kyoya and Dino had brought back from Reborn. "Though everything except the device itself has to be done by Flames ... Hm, yes, the Flames of Night's warping ability should be able to do it. And I think I know where to find a blacksmith who can deal with this high an order ... Yes," he said with excitement, gleeful eyes looking up at his three visitors. "With this, I believe we can do it! Once the strain from maintaining the Pacifiers is dealt with, the infant curse will be lifted."
"I have to admit I really don't understand why turning them into babies was necessary or how this," Dino gestured at Reborn's papers. "Is going to help."
"The strain of maintaining the Pacifiers would kill an adult's body," Kawahira explained. "In an infant, the Flames are condensed, highly concentrated into a small form. As the human body grows up, the Flames have more space, so they flow through the entire body. Because the body is bigger, the Flames are less concentrated and thus not as condensed. The Pacifiers would draw more heavily on the body, taking much more energy besides the Flames themselves, which would ultimately result in the holder of the Pacifier's early death. The Pacifier requires less of condensed Flames than Flames that have been dispersed throughout the body and mingled with the natural energy we get from consuming food and water, chemical energy that we require to live. Such weak Flames and the insubstantial chemical energy would be consumed by the Pacifiers in the blink of an eye. Hence the Arcobaleno curse. The human body has the most condensed Dying Will Flames in infancy."
"When every breath can be a struggle, every move a battle," Hibari added almost absentmindedly. "The Arcobaleno curse actually protects them." He sounded disbelieving as he said it. Dino resigned himself to even more craziness and just let it be. Instead, he turned to Kawahira with the most important question that needs to be asked in this situation.
"How soon can we get this 'device' that will alleviate the strain from the Pacifiers?" Their plan was to close the circuit of Flames that flows between Arcobaleno and Pacifier so that the Pacifier draws energy on the Arcobaleno only after the Arcobaleno uses it. Even then, the energy drawn from the holder would not be as much as it would usually take every second of every day, thus it won't weaken the Arcobaleno. They have made speculations that there might be a temporary backlash from using the Pacifiers' powers, namely that the Arcobaleno might revert to their infant bodies if too much energy is taken while the Pacifier replenishes itself, but compared to the alternative, this was a far more desirable fate. The Arcobaleno will live normal lives, have normal lifespans. One day, when the strain becomes too much, the new Arcobaleno will be chosen and take on the Pacifiers. Both old and new Arcobaleno will feed the Pacifiers Flames, the old Arcobaleno will survive being separated from their Pacifiers and the new Arcobaleno will be infants for a week before they revert to their usual age. For now, that is their best solution but everyone was more than accepting of it.
They had a plan. Now, they just need the means to execute it.
"I know where Talbot was last seen," Kawahira answered, eyes once again glued to the impossible solution to centuries of his worries and guilt over the morality of his duty and his choices. "I'll be there by nightfall and I'm sure he will be eager to participate in something like this. The old cot always did like a challenge and he's been itching to have some insight into the Trinisette for over a century. If I say these are for it, he'll be on it in the blink of an eye." He seemed to think about it for a moment before looking up at them again with a smile, confident and relieved and happy. "Give me a week at most. As soon as it's done, I'll deliver the devices, but you know what will be needed for them to activate."
"We'll make sure all of the Arcobaleno are in a hundred meter radius from each other and wearing the 'devices'," Dino assured, though he wondered whether they can really make that happen. For Viper - Mammon - he just needs to pay a decent sum of money, Skull can be lured in thanks to Reborn and 'Fon' was already somewhere in Namimori. Reborn, Colonello and even Lal Mirch will be sticking around for a while, Reborn especially, but they had no idea who or where the Sky Arcobaleno might be, nor do they have any idea where Verde might have hidden himself. And that's just the location problem. Don't get him started on getting them to put strange 'devices' onto objects that are practically connected to their souls. He wouldn't do it and he was far less of a paranoid person with trust issues that have their own trust issues than the Arcobaleno were bound to be.
"Then I'll get going immediately," Kawahira said and, in the next instant, he and the papers were gone, as though he had never been there in the first place. Kyoya grunted in displeasure on something about illusionists but didn't seem all that annoyed by it. Instead, he just got up and walked out of the little establishment, Dino following after him and Romario following his boss.
"Well, that actually went a lot smoother than I thought," Dino admitted, a relieved smile slowly gracing his lips. "Hey, Kyoya, you want to celebrate? I'll treat you to dinner, whatever restaurant you want!" This was probably the closest he'll ever get to asking his student out on a date. Kyoya was probably not the kind of person to appreciate something as 'herbivorous' as winning and dining someone you wish to date. He'd probably skip the wooing and go straight to the heart of the matter. And while that was usually one of his best traits, it terrified the crap out of Dino in a possibly romantic setting. He didn't like the thought of Kyoya as a one night stand and that was setting aside the all too likely possibility that Kyoya was a virgin.
"No," the black haired Cloud said sternly and Dino smiled sadly, though he didn't complain. He hadn't really expected any differently. "Not until after Fon is back to normal."
The blond's head snapped up in surprise and a glance at Romario from the corner of his eye showed that his right hand man was gaping at the teenager with equal shock. "Eh!? What-!?"
"I won't celebrate until we're finished," Hibari repeated, looking over his shoulder at his two shadows. "I won't mind a casual dinner before then, though." The younger Italian beamed. The oldest male there almost groaned because he could probably practically see hearts floating around his boss' head, not that Dino cared. He was sure all men looked like fools when in love. (Well, maybe not Reborn and probably not, should it happen, Kyoya, so almost all men but that was still good enough.) "I won't accept anything cheap."
"Of course!"
"I'll even allow for Italian cuisine."
"I'll find the best chef in Japan right away!"
"And no crowding."
"I know just the place! It's all intimate and there's no accidental bumping and it's quiet! You'll see, Kyoya! I'm going to impress those tonfa right off of you!"
"Let's see if you can live up to that promise, Bucking Horse."
Romario sighed in fond exasperation.
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"You look unusually sappily happy," Reborn commented a couple of days later, after he had called on Hibari for that training session with Tsuna and the other Guardians. Somehow, he had even gotten Chrome to come and participate and Lambo was sufficiently bribed and/or threatened into being good and training with them. Dino came to watch, as did Bianchi, Fuuta - who was curious on how much rankings he can get from watching the fight - the other Arcobaleno who were in town - save that Fon guy - I-Pin and even Iemitsu, the Vongola External Advisor. The training session was to take place down on the Namimori Middle School's sports field while the spectators were in the rafters like an audience.
To any outsider, it would look like an unfair fight, Kyoya on one side of the field, Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, Chrome and Lambo on the other and Kyoya didn't even have his tonfa.
To them, it still looked like an unfair fight because six were hardly enough to entertain Kyoya.
Though Dino was interested to see how his cute little student will fare without his signature weapon in his hands. Kyoya loved those things and they were truly ideal for his fighting style and 'biting people to death'.
Reborn poked him in the side with a stick. "Oi, wimp. What's with the sap?" The blond just sighs dreamily, all smiley as his eyes tracked Kyoya, who was, unexpectedly enough, wearing his gakuran and buttoning it up to the top. Huh, he looked kind of like a martial artist in those Chinese movies like that. In fact, that high collar seems to have brought out his more Chinese features that were usually overlooked, like how sharp his eyes were. Maybe he really did have Chinese ancestry, but would the features carry over so many generations? "Oi!" A mallet met his head and Dino finally snapped out of his daze. He looked at his former tutor and found he still couldn't wipe the smile from his face. Reborn only narrowed his brow and made Leon turn into a gun, but at least the blond finally answered.
"Sorry about that, Reborn. I guess my head was lost in the clouds." And, unexpectedly, that just made him sigh again. "Clouds." He nearly giggled at his own unintentional pun.
"What's with you today?"
"You'll have to excuse him, Reborn-san," Romario said with much amusement. "He's been going out on diner dates with Kyoya for the past two days and completely lost his marbles. Ah, young love. Makes me nostalgic."
That was perhaps the first time Dino had seen Reborn look like jaw might drop to the ground. "You ... went on a date ... with Hibari!?" The other Arcobaleno immediately swiveled around to stare at him incredulously as well, eyes wide. "Does he even know it was a date?"
Dino rubbed the back of his head a bit bashfully. "I was going to outright tell him tonight at dinner, but he doesn't seem so opposed to it like I thought he might."
"You've got guts," Lal Mirch said, sounding impressed. "That kid is Fon's nephew, right? Seriously, guts."
"And similar taste to your tutor, kora!" Colonello added with a teasing grin and a sly chuckle as he nudged Reborn with his elbow. "Right, Babyborn? It feels like you and Fon all over again, kora."
"Fon's going to kill you," Reborn said, not even having heard what the blond Arcobaleno had said or giving the Cavallone time to properly register what the blond baby had just said and why it might be of importance, instead still staring up at Dino as though he'd said the most suicidal thing in the world. "And then he's going to kill me for good measure for introducing you two."
"Come now, Reborn, Fon's more rational than that," Lal cut in, giving Dino her version of an encouraging smile. It looked more like she wanted to take out his viscera and chew them up than anything. Or maybe Dino was exaggerating, because he had just realized that Kyoya had an uncle who's permission he should have asked for before starting to, well, court the skylark, especially given what he knew about their (formerly) clan. Kyoya lived in a traditional house, for goodness sake! There was probably even a proper, traditional way to ask for permission to date a Hibari and to ask a Hibari out on a date, which is probably why Kyoya didn't realize that it was dates they were going on! He felt like he could drop into a dead faint on the spot from stress.
"Are you quite done?" Kyoya called out from the field, staring at them with a suspicious raised eyebrow and an utterly bored expression. Dino for a moment wondered if he'd heard what they were talking about and was as unimpressed as ever when someone acted 'herbivorously'.
"You can start," Iemitsu was the one to say, shooting the Arcobaleno and incredulous glare because he had never seen them act like that before. All three glared death right back at him.
"If we want to tease Babyborn about his crush, we can, kora." Before Iemitsu could give back an offended reply for being talked to in such a manner, Lal let out a low whistle and the former COMSUBIN instructor turned to see what had caught his own instructor's attention.
Dino turned as well and gawked.
Because Ryohei had charged at Kyoya right away, engaged him in a swift but short attack-and-dodge dance, Kyoya doing most of the dodging before he had grown bored of the boxer, broke under his guard, placed a hand on his right shoulder and used it as leverage to hoist his body up into a one-hand stance on Ryohei's shoulder. Sasagawa was so surprised he held still, just about long enough for Yamamoto to rush in to help, Shigure Kintoki transforming from a bamboo sword to a steel katana. Kyoya seems to have been waiting for that, because he used Ryohei's shoulder to turn, bringing his legs almost into a split. As he turned, his hand gripped onto Ryohei's shoulder and twisted, wrenching it right out of its socket with a painful-sounding crunch. To Ryoehi's credit, he only gave a loud, manly grunt but his dominant arm was now useless.
Kyoya finished his twist and turn by connecting his foot with the incoming katana, deflecting the attack. He then pushed himself off of the boxer, landing silently on his feet and taking up what looked like a kung fu stance but clearly wasn't, because Kyoya's movements seemed almost as if created with the thought of fighting a swordsman in mind. Yamamoto was simply not fast enough to land a single blow and before long, Kyoya was up close and personal and Dino knew from experience that Takeshi was down even before the prefect delivered an open-fist blow to his jaw, sending him all but flying backwards, catching the hilt of the sword so that even if the baseball star gets up, he'll be unarmed.
Kyoya tossed aside the sword out of reach and spun around to roundhouse kick Ryohei when he tried to deliver a punch with his left arm after getting over the initial blinding pain from his shoulder. The boxer went down like a tree and Kyoya once again spun around in time to swipe away the incoming dynamite sticks Gokudera had thrown his way. The rocket ones followed soon after, but Hibari seemed to have a good read on their movements even if they were utterly random.
"Tch," the Hurricane Bomber glared. "What the hell was that just now, Hibari?"
The prefect tilted his head to the side, looking almost incredulous for a moment. " ... You cannot tell me you truly expected me to be incapable of fighting without a weapon."
"But you have moves like adult I-Pin!" Tsuna half protested, looking shocked out of his mind.
"I'd be a disgrace to my ... uncle if I didn't know some of his basic martial arts forms." Dino frowned at how Kyoya had hesitated to say 'uncle' just then. What was wrong, all of a sudden? Kyoya loved his uncle.
"Yeah, you're dead, kora," Colonello commented to the blond Don almost absentmindedly. "It's seriously almost like watching Fon and Babyborn sparring for the first time, only much more one-sided, kora."
"Right?" Lal asked in agreement.
"Why do I feel the sudden urge to give you a shovel talk?" Reborn said, seemingly to himself, and Dino shuddered because he had sounded dead serious.
"Ah, that sounds like a family to fear, kora."
"I'll bite you to death if you waste my time," Kyoya said to his opponents, bringing the attention back to the fight.
"You asked for it, tonfa freak! Triple Bomb!"
"Good grief, this looks like a massacre," Trident Shamal commented as Kyoya evaded the bombs, let them blow up to raise a smokescreen and then more easily take down the Storm. Suddenly, a decorated trident was coming at the prefect, followed moments later by explosions of lava from the ground. In other words, Chrome had joined the fight. Kyoya didn't seem to fall for the illusions, walking right through the pillars of fire so he can get to the girl, but she didn't seem to be too shabby with her weapon of choice until Kyoya kicked it out of the way and went for a punch to the - thankfully, considering Chrome's delicate medical condition concerning her organs, or lack thereof - face. Only there was an ominous 'kufufufufu' before Chrome was briefly surrounded by mist and in her place stood a male who bore her a great resemblance but was obviously not her.
"Well, this can't be good," Reborn mumbled to himself as Rokudo Mukuro smiled at Hibari.
"Oya, oya. I can't let you hurt my darling Chrome, skylark," he said as he caught the incoming fist into a black-gloved hand. He seemed awfully pleased with himself.
Kyoya gave him a bored look, allowed for his fist to bend a bit backwards so he can free his thumb and then that free thumb suddenly twisted down just to the underside of Mukuro's wrist and pressed hard onto a pressure point. The Mist crumbled like a house of cards, a pained grimace on his face. Kyoya didn't do much more than whack him over the head before he turned his attention to the last two of his opponents while Mukuro faded away and left a panting and confused Chrome.
"Mist?" Lal mused with a frown. "That's a rather unusual secondary for Cloud."
"Says you," Reborn snorted.
"Hey, I used to be a pure Rain! If it wasn't for this curse, I'd still be a pure Rain!" Dino started at that, tearing his eyes away from where Lambo had started throwing grenades at Kyoya while cowering behind Tsuna to stare at the Arcobaleno. If he hadn't agreed to embark on this crazy adventure with Kyoya to break the curse, he'd have no idea what Lal was talking about. Now, every time he heard the word 'curse', the Arcobaleno were all he could think about.
Kyoya evaded the incoming bombs with ease, rushing forward so he could end the training session. Lambo apparently got scared because he took out machine guns from his hair and started firing left and right. That brought all of the attention back to the fight once again, as well as raised a bit of a panic among the spectators. Hibari managed to stay out of the way of the guns, but the torrents were erratic at best and absolutely crazy, unpredictable. Dino jumped to his feet when one actually grazed Kyoya's left leg, too close to his injury from the Cloud Battle debacle for it not to have hurt quite a bit, but Kyoya kept moving and Reborn commanded him not to interfere.
"Maybe we should stop this before someone gets seriously hurt, kora," Colonello suggested, but Reborn just frowned and kept observing as Hibari took it upon himself to retrieve Yamamoto's fallen sword and actually take up the proper Shigure Soen Ryu stance and cut through a few bullets as he charged at the little Bovino. "So dead, Cavallone, kora."
"I'm actually a bit more worried about Kyoya's reaction than his uncle's," the whip user admitted as he watched Kyoya kick Lambo away, making him drop the guns. Kyoya didn't seem to know any of the stances of the Shigure Soen Ryu, just the basic one that would allow him to transform the sword, so he dropped the practically useless weapon and turned to Tsuna, only for there to be a loud 'Poof!' from behind him and a thick wall of pink smoke, which drifted away and revealed Lambo from ten years in the future.
"Eh!? Adult Lambo?!"
"Yare yare, what are you up to today, Young Vongola?" The teenager asked casually as he took in his surroundings, only to pale when he saw Hibari. "Yare yare, not this again."
Kyoya, though, ignored how the fifteen year old seemed to be trying to back away from him. "You're that cow child, somehow," he observed, taking a step after the retreating Bovino. "But older. From the future?"
"Kyoya," Dino called out warningly, already able to see where this was going. But the prefect ignored him, as usual, and was upon the other in the blink of an eye.
"Does it work?"
"Does what work?" Lambo asked nervously, trying to find an escape route. "I really shouldn't say anything concrete about the future or things might change and then Reborn will actually go out of his way to find the time to torture me again-" Kyoya, in much the same way he had with the Cervello when she hadn't been fast enough to cough up information, slapped the time traveler hard enough for it to echo. Several people cried out in protest to the treatment, but Lambo, surprisingly enough, didn't wail at all. In fact, he looked a bit too used to such treatment and though there were tears in his eyes, he seemed to know better than to cry and annoy the prefect further. Dino figured it was years of being exposed to first Reborn and then most probably Hibari himself later on, as they were fellow Guardians. "Yare yare, if this is how you hit her, no wonder that Cervello spilled like a broken pipe- I'll talk! I'll talk!" He called in a panic when Kyoya made it clear he was about to hit him again.
"You know about the Cervello, so obviously you know what I am asking about. Does. It. Work? You'd better tell me now so I know whether I should go hunt Kawahira down to kill him."
Reborn whistled. "Not 'bite to death', but outright 'kill'? What did this Kawahira person do to piss Hibari off that much, wimpy Dino?"
The blond sweatdropped. "It's a personal matter I'm not at liberty to discuss if I want to keep my head where it is." A gun was pointed at him in seconds but, for once, it wasn't the most intimidating factor of a bad situation. He'd rather die a swift death at Reborn's hands than face Kyoya's wrath and whatever that might bring if he somehow messes up his plans. "Sorry, Reborn."
"Hmph. Maybe you're not such a big wimp, after all."
"It works! It works! I don't know how, nor do I understand where you got it from, but it works! It's why Reborn doesn't have much time for me anymore! He's got five more years to make up for before he bothers with 'insignificant' matters like checking in on I-Pin, Fuuta, the girls and I!"
Kyoya frowned. "What do you mean? What does he have to make up for? I rather doubt his ... current predicament disallows him to be a hitman."
"It's a personal matter I am not at liberty to discuss. For more reasons than one!" Lambo added on, panicking again when an annoyed glint entered Kyoya's eyes. "I don't want to die twice at the same time and that's what will happen if the you from ten years in the future learns I told anyone about it! Even if it's his younger self! And Reborn will be no different! And I-Pin's shishou won't be merciful enough to save me! He doesn't like it when his family matters are being disclosed to outsiders!"
Kyoya actually looked blindsided by that. Dino was a bit perplexed, though. What does I-Pin's mysterious master who none of them has ever met have to do with anything? But before any more questions could be asked, the five minutes were up and Lambo returned to his five year old self, only to promptly fall into a dead faint when he saw the Disciplinary Committee's Chairman standing over him, mumbling something about 'demonic families from hell' as he went straight into a nightmare.
"Are ... Are you okay, Hibari-san?" Tsuna asked uncertainly, inching closer to the frozen black haired teenager, but freezing himself when Kyoya's eyes flashed dangerously towards him. Then came a terrified "HIIIEEEE!?" when Kyoya's Cloud Ring suddenly lit with purple Flames, the brunet scrambling to escape the pissed off prefect.
"I've had enough. I will now bite you to death, Sawada Tsunayoshi."
"Someone save me!"
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"What was that about, Kyoya?" Dino asked hours later, as they dined at a local BBQ house that sold the best pork in town. "What did Lambo mean?"
"I don't know," Kyoya admitted, almost sounding lost. Dino frowned sadly but dared to place a hand over his student's, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
"We'll find out," he said with conviction, skipping any useless reassurances he knew Kyoya would not want anyway.
Silver blue eyes studied him, searching for truth, before softening just the tiniest amount. "Yeah." Then he looked away and returned to his meal. Dino smiled and let the topic go, enjoying his own food.
Their hands remained as they were for the rest of the meal, much to the bliss of the blond Italian.
Dino didn't need words to convey his intentions, after all.