Chapter 3 - Scene of The Past
WARNINGS!
= OOCs
= Wrong Grammars and Spellings
DISCLAIMER!
~ I DO NOT OWN KHR except OCs and THE STORY ~
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Italian"
Flashback
Author Note / AN
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Unknown the the three, Leon was looking at the flower field, because unlike Reborn, Leon remembered clearly and knew what Reborn was trying to remember.
The first meeting of his master
And
The mother of Giotto when she was young
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= 3rd Person's POV =
Tsuna was walking around in darkness, wandering alone while thinking where he was and why were he there.
It felt like hours had pass and yet nothing had yet appear before him like what he expected, but still he waited.
'This is boring' Tsuna pouted, rolling around the darkness.
After many times of rolling around in boredom, he was relieved when a hint of light appear making Tsuna looked up, before it got brighter and brighter, and shown a film of a familiar person in it.
"What's this? This doesn't look like my memory or something. Doesn't seems like future sight either, the scene looks kind of old" Tsuna muttered, narrowing his eyes at the scene played, before widening his eyes.
"Wait. I saw that man before from the memory of my future self's" Tsuna muttered. "...Reborn?"
Scenes played after scenes, though mostly Reborn shooting people's brains or any other fatal guts, making Tsuna easily put pieces together. "This is Reborn's past. It's d*mn gloomy. He's too cautious. Too serious. Too stiff. Too boring, unlike now" Tsuna mumbled, before narrowing his eyes in confusion. "...But why?" Tsuna couldn't help but asked, and when he payed attention at the next many scenes, he realized one thing similar other than Reborn in it.
There was a certain flower nearby in each one of the scenes.
The flower of death.
The red spider lilies.
And that made Tsuna confused. Again, he asked to no one in particular, seeing that no one was there with him anyway. "Why?"
Even so, Tsuna kept watching, though the brunet couldn't brush off the feeling that he was invading someone's privacy without permission. But oh well.. He was very bored and when a possibility of being an amusement appeared, why not? He had nothing to do anyway.
Tsuna blinked when a scene played. In a sea of red spider lilies, a woman with blonde hair and bright orange eyes in red dress as if trying to camouflage with the flowers appeared, talking with Reborn.
"That woman looked a lot like uncle Ieyasu. His mother? But that makes Reborn an old grandpa. Maybe she is uncle's sister or something?" Tsuna sweatdropped.
"Hello there.. Oh.. You ..look familiar"
Tsuna watched as Reborn widened his eyes when he heard the woman's voice. He looked around, with gun-Leon on his hand.
'Who's voice was that? Did an illusionist got me or something?' Reborn growled softly. 'I am the Greatest Hitman for rainbow's sake! There was no way for me to fall into an illusion that easily' Reborn thought, in which outloud in Tsuna's point of view, making Tsuna sweatdropped. "Wow, his ego is already there since a long time ago" Tsuna muttered.
"Ah.. You must be the hitman father used to talk about.. The one he called the Greatest Hitman, Reborn" The woman continued, which Reborn finally caught sight of yellow in the middle of the sea of red flowers.
"Oh? May I know who your father is, miss?" Reborn asked, with a smirk, though he was still cautious and hadn't lowered his guard yet, in case the woman was an enemy.
"Oh? Would you like to know?" She chuckled.
"I wouldn't ask if I don't want to, you know?" Reborn asked back with an arched eyebrow. 'And I amd the Greatest Hitman, I want to know everything' was left unsaid, which was probably a good idea.
"I would not deny that. Very well, since my father had deemed you trustworthy, I will tell you my name, Sir Reborn" The woman smiled
"My name is Vongola Rinaldo*, daughter of Vongola Timoteo"
Reborn widened his eyed when he heard the two names. "So you are the missing princess who caused those idiots running like headless-chickens?" Reborn's eye twitched.
Rinaldo chuckled at that sentence, which she didn't deny it. "This is the first time someone didn't comment my boyish name" She said with a smile.
Reborn arched his eyebrow, "I have a feeling your name is your father's fault. From all those knowledge he possessed, he's horrible in giving names, I remembered the first time he hired me, he thought of giving me a nickname, which was 'Rena' because it had the same meaning as my name" Reborn deadpanned.
Both Tsuna and Rinaldo blinked at that, and the woman laughed to the point her stomach hurt. "Oh my goodness, you are correct that it was my father who named me. Mother and father made an agreement after all, when they got a son, mother would named him, when they got a daughter, father would named her" Rinaldo laughed.
Reborn chuckled softly, before looking around. "What are you doing here though? Alone, might I add. What if an assassin appear? You are after all the daughter of a powerful mafia famiglia's head" Reborn arched his eyebrow, he couldn't help but asked.
"Actually, I am not sure myself" Rinaldo smiled, plucking one of the red flowers off the soil. "When I first saw this field when I was wandering around, I immediately became attached to this place, and have been coming here ever since when I wanted to be alone"
"Honestly, you are basically inviting assassins to kill you" Reborn huffed, softly petting Leon who walked and rested on his shoulder. "And what if..." Leon turned into a gun- "...I am one of those assassins?" -and Reborn pointed the green gun at the blonde woman.
Instead of panicked or scared, ignoring the gun pointed at her, Rinaldo just smiled at Reborn, who arched his eyebrow with a hint of confusion. "Not to worry, I know I am in danger when I really am. That's the good thing when you received hyper intuition from your Vongola blood running in your vein and is very much active" Rinaldo smiled. "And not to worry, I am confidence in myself when in comes to speed running" She added.
The place went silent for few moment, before Reborn huffed and Leon turned back, walking back to his owner's shoulder. "Well aren't you bold. I am the Greatest Hitman for Sun's sake, she should at least trembled in d*mn fear" Reborn grumbled the last sentence, almost pouted.
"But truth to be told, I wonder why I don't mind if I were to die here" Rinaldo said softly, caressing the red flowers infront of her. Reborn heard that, but didn't say anything though he did narrow his eyes at her.
"Maybe it's because these are the flowers that symbolize death? That if we were to die here, we will become part of them?" Rinaldo continued, but Reborn still didn't say anything.
Reborn listened what she was saying about her attachments to this sea of red flowers for a little while, before joining back to the conversation when she decided to change the gloomy-like topic to a much brighter ones.
And the hitman and Vongola princess talked for a little while longer before Reborn left for his fortune-maker job.
Tsuna watched and listened patiently, from that first meeting, led to another and another, to the point Tsuna realized Reborn's shoulder wasn't as stiff as he first saw him during the boring (dubbed by Tsuna) first many scenes.
And when a certain scene appeared, Tsuna's eye twitched.
In that scene, both hitman and the princess were drunk, complaining about the unfairness of their lives, though those complaints mostly came from the woman, where her father kept on throwing men at her hoping her to meet and hopefully marry one of them, though it was a good thing that her brothers kept interfering most of said meeting with those unknown brats (dubbed by her all three beloved brothers (Enrico, Massimo, and Federico)).
The conversations kept on for almost an hour, to the point Tsuna was already sitting while eating chocolate cake, courtesy of him being in most probably his mind, that the scene finally change after the two suspiciously entered a hotel room together, that made Tsuna spit his cake out.
"Aaahnn..~" was heard, and the respond was instant.
"I AM STILL UNDERAGE!" Tsuna shouted, throwing his chair at the 'screen', which it then immediately change to another scene, as if trying to test if the brunet was a pervert or merely making fun of the brunet.
(AN : In case you forgot, he is 17, and okay, horrible joke is over)
Tsuna huffed, sitting down on another chair that appeared out of nowhere, and watched the scene again.
"Huh?" Tsuna blinked then looked around said scene.
It was weird since Reborn was nowhere in sight when he was supposed to as that was the hitman's past. Only the blonde woman was there and was her abdomen looked bigger than the her on previous scene?
"Is she looking for Reborn?" Tsuna asked no one in particular. Seeing that he was looking at Reborn's scene of his past, he figured that she was looking for the disappeared hitman.
"Where are you, Reborn" Rinaldo teared up, hugging her slightly bloated abdomen. "When can I tell you that I am carrying your child" She continued, until she reached on the red flower field, only when he realized she wasn't alone at that field.
There was another woman, a young one at that, with sandy brown hair and bright green eyes looking at her.
Though what made her widened her eyes at the young woman was her bloated abdomen that was larger than Rinaldo's.
Realizing what Rinaldo was looking at and seemed to know exactly what she was thinking, the young woman smiled. "Yes, just like you, I am pregnant, and not to worry, I am old enough to be a mother" The woman chuckled. "I may looked young but I am already 25 if that's what you are wondering" she added, making Rinaldo widened her eyes and slightly dropped her jaws. She was older than her?! She was 23 and the woman who looked a lot younger than her was older?!
"By the way, you came back to my garden again" The woman smiled, snapping Rinaldo out of her thought.
"Your ...garden?" Rinaldo blinked, in which the brunette nodded before pointing a cottage behind her, camouflaging with the trees and their shadows.
"I saw you a lot, and in all of those days, showed me how tired you are, showed me how much you wanted to give your life up" The brunette said, making Rinaldo widened her eyes.
"But that slowly disappearing when the man in black approached you one day. He must be a special man that you now looked a lot healthier and seemed to be looking for him. ...That child you are carrying is his, isn't it?" The woman smiled at Rinaldo.
Narrowing her eyes, Rinaldo didn't answer at first and wondering if she should leave because not all enemies and assassins had horrible faces, sometimes innocent ones were one either.
The brunette didn't seem to mind at the suspicious look directed towards her, she just waited for the blonde to make decision to leave or to stay.
After a few moment, Rinaldo walked forward and sat beside the brunette, though not fully trusted the woman yet, but her hyper intuition said it's fine, so it's fine. "Forgive me for being suspicious towards you, I couldn't help it, and yes, this child is his" Rinaldo replied, which the brunette smiled at her.
Making a glance at the brunette, contemplating whatever or not she should tell her her name, before shrugging her shoulder, again her hyper intuition said it's fine but not full name. "My name is Rinaldo, nice to meet you. May I know your name, miss?" Rinaldo smiled, offering a can-we-be-friends? handshake.
As if knowing what it meant, the brunette smiled, accepting the offered hand. "Pleasure to meet you too, Miss Rinaldo. My name is Eleanor" She replied, before looking at her bloated abdomen. "I hope our babies would meet and be friends too" Eleanor chuckled.
Rinaldo chuckled, patting her slightly bloated abdomen. "I agree. Have you decided what name you will give to your baby?" She asked.
Eleanor smiled and nodded. "Yes, boy or girl, both will be 'Rain', unless I have an unexpected twins, as both me and my husband are a rain, which I am sure you understand what I mean" Eleanor smiled, alarming Rinaldo at the last part.
Before Rinaldo could jumped away from the brunette, said woman raised her hands. "I assure you that I am not an enemy or some sort, Lady Vongola" Eleanor smiled. "Yes, I know who you are when you told me your name. And again, I assure you that I am not an enemy. The reason why me and my husband lived here is to escape and hide from our dangerous lives. We were heirs to each of our famiglias after all and the fact that both our famiglias are enemies make things worst, thus the hiding" Eleanor smiled.
Rinaldo slightly dropped her jaw. Two opposing famiglias' heirs got attracted with each other? Now that is a very rare occurrence, and they even willing to leave their famiglias they grown up in for each other.
Decided to change the topic, Eleanor asked her, "what about you? Have you decided a name for your unborn child?"
Rinaldo waited for a moment for her intuition to scream danger, but when nothing happened, she sighed in relieve. "I wanted to discuss this with him but I couldn't find him anywhere. Guess I won't meet him in a few years, seeing that he is a freelance hitman" Rinaldo grumbled at the last part, before continuing. "If it's a girl, she will be 'Azzurra**', the sun that illuminates the sky to show everyone the bright sky blue that painted the sky" Rinaldo smiled. "If it's a boy, I will named him after our Primo that protected his precious people, the weak and innocents, 'Giotto'"
When Tsuna heard that, he dropped his jaw. "What?! She is uncle Giotto's mother?! But.. But that means he is Reborn's son?! I should have realized who she is when she told Reborn who her father is.. But still! What?! Reborn is ancient!" Tsuna babbled everything that came to his mind that was related to Giotto and Reborn.
Tsuna finally then calmed down, before continued watching the past scenes as his curiousity was strong, while he was thinking about when he looked the relationship between Giotto and Reborn, they were mostly on tutor-student relationship, maybe a little more but that was it. None of the recognition of them being father and son.
Tsuna watched as Rinaldo's abdomen grew bigger and bigger on each scene. It seemed that her father and brothers knew of the baby and sometimes looked pissed when they saw the blonde's bloated abdomen. Well, who wouldn't? An unknown man took their daughter and sister without their permission . At . All. They looked like they were going to turn Italy upside down to look for the man. And Rinaldo not telling them who the father of the unborn baby was wasn't helping either.
Tsuna gasped and widened his eyes when it switched to another scene. Vongola mansion was burning, members were fighting enemy forces, Vongola Nono and his Guardians were there in pairs on different locations.
The fight goes on until few minutes later, it switched again, which showed an injured Rinaldo, who seemed to be dying, surrounded by her equally injured father and his Guardians, and her brothers, though them not as bad as them. Then Tsuna noticed something on Nono's arms, but before he could narrowed his eyes to have a better look, it kind of zoomed in, showing Nono handed a blond baby to his dying daughter.
"Father, brothers.. Forgive me" Rinaldo said softly, hugging her sleeping baby that was born two weeks ago, as tears starting to gather on the corner of her eyes.
Her father and brothers didn't even bother to wipe their tears. "It's okay, my dear. You did what you could to protect yourself and your child" Nono smiled sadly as he caressed his daughter's cheeks, wiping her tears, and gave a kiss on her forehead. "I love you, my child and I am proud of you, Rinaldo, daughter" Hearing that, Rinaldo's tears flowed down her cheeks again.
Her brothers one by one patted her head and kissed her on her cheeks.
"We love you too, Rina. Say hi to mom for us, okay? I hope you will be happy there" Enrico smiled sadly at her, which Rinaldo weakly smiled back.
"I really am not willing to let you go, sis.. I am sorry I couldn't do anything.. Please be happy there ...and love you, sis" Massimo sobbed.
"You know I am not good with words and would sometimes hurt people with them, but I hope you don't and hope I wouldn't mess up. Thank you for everything, sis, though sometimes you pissed me off when you pranked me, but you are still my sister, my beloved sister. Which is why, I won't forgive you if you are not happy in heaven with mom" Federico said, biting his trembling lower lip. "I love you, sis, please watch over these clumsy brothers of yours from there" Federico choked out.
Rinaldo smiled at her brothers, before Nono's Guardians gave her a last greeting at her too. "Thank you ...for everything ...you all did for me too ...and ...I hope you forgive me for all ...the troubles I gave you. ...I love you all too" She said softly, and turned her attention towards her sleeping baby. "Gio baby.. Mommy is sorry ...Mommy will be going first ...Mommy promised ...will look ...after you from ...the sky" Tears flowed as she said that, the thought of her leaving her baby parentless and his father didn't know about his existence yet.
She kissed her baby multiple times, before turning to her father. "...Father.. Giotto.. Please..?" Rinaldo asked her father, who nodded sadly at her, before taking the baby from her.
"Are you still determine not to tell us who his father is, Rinaldo?" Nono asked softly, and Rinaldo nodded her head, smiled sadly. "Forgive me, father ...As I can only assure you ...that he is a hitman ...and not an enemy" She said softly.
"Oh. I am getting sleepy.. I haven't said ...everything I ...wanted to say to ...Gio yet" Rinaldo said softly, eyes starting to close, but still attempting to stay awake.
Nono caressed her head. "I promised Giotto will grown up as a fine man. You can rest now, we will meet again in a few years" Nono smiled sadly, as Rinaldo's eyes slowly shut and breathe her last breath.
As if sensing he lost his mother, baby Giotto wailed at the lack of his mother's presence. Nono, who was a father of course had an experience with a baby, thus him trying to calm the wailing baby in his arms.
Tsuna had to wonder where Reborn was, and as if answering his unsaid question, the scene suddenly went backward, before it went black. Tsuna waited for a while before a small light appeared, in which he then realized it was showing a dark room where one light illuminated a round table, surrounded by seven people, including the hitman in inquiry.
Tsuna looked at each of them, and much to his surprised, he recognized them all, except the woman who looked like an older version of Yuni that went to the kitchen. "What.. Why are all the Arcobaleno there? And where is Colonello?" Tsuna muttered.
The tense air surrounding the adults was for some reason making Tsuna gulped, nervous as he wondered what would happened, before it was broken when the Yuni-look-alike stepped into the room, carrying a tray of cookies, which of course, that action made them wary.
A few cautiousness and wariness here and there, Fon was the one who accepted the cookie, and Mammon followed after, though Reborn just accepted the coffee the woman handed him over.
A short pleasanties and introductions were exchanged, and Tsuna finally knew who that woman was. She was Yuni's grandmother, Luce. And few minutes later, all of them went quiet, as they sensed someone nearby.
Tsuna looked at the newcomer, before widened his eyes. That man, the one who gave the Sky pacifier to him! He watched as the man gave each of the Arcobaleno an envelope of the detail of their last jobs, which somehow Tsuna didn't like how it sounded. The mission was just to reach at the top of the designated mountain? That was way too suspicious, and the weird thing was, they still going to do it, making Tsuna deadpanned at their decisions.
Upon reaching the top, all of them, including Tsuna, looked around. There was nothing but air. Tsuna raised his eyebrow, "What are they going to do in an isolated location up here?" Tsuna couldn't help but asked.
Before Tsuna realized it, a bright light shone down to the seven people. Tsuna looked up and saw seven shining pacifiers flew towards each adults. He watched as Colonello, who had been following them, jumped infront of Lal and when the light died down, all the adults were now in the forms Tsuna first saw them, in their toddler forms.
Tsuna widened his eyes at the sight, and the scene went black, and it doesn't seemed like going to show him anymore shocking.
That was when Tsuna heard familiar voices. 'Tsu-nii's voice?' Tsuna thought, closing his eyes for a while, he sighed, and when he opened them again, he saw a white celling, with Ietsuna, Giotto, and the babyfied Reborn, were there, who turned to him when they heard him groaned.
"Tsu-kun, are you okay?!" Ietsuna immediately rushed to his side, as Tsuna forced himself to sit down.
Tsuna nodded, his mind were still stucked at the past scenes. 'Why were they shown to me? More than that, why did it show me how Reborn became a toddler?' Tsuna thought, which he snapped out of it, when he felt a hand on his forehead.
"Just as I thought, your fever is still there, you should rest, Tsunayoshi. I'll go get Knuckle" Giotto said, gently pushing Tsuna back to laying down.
"Fever?" Tsuna asked with his for some reason, hoarse.
"Yes, an hour after you were brought here from fainting, you ended up in a fever, and you had been asleep for 3 days if you are wondering" Giotto replied. "Now rest, I don't want Knuckle to chase after me if I didn't let you sleep"
Tsuna didn't say anything, just slowly nodded at the blond, who left for Knuckle after he saw the nod. '3 days? That long' Tsuna thought. 'Yeah.. I feel kind of tired.. I should sleep' Tsuna's eyes slowly dropped, before he fell into slumber.
But unknown to the three Skies though, Reborn had been staring with a slightly narrowed eyes at Tsuna since the brunet woke up. He didn't know how Tsuna did it but Reborn couldn't brushed away the feeling of Tsuna had found out something about him that he kept secret.
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AN : If you asked me "are these meaning correct?", I don't know, thus Google.
* RINALDO: Italian form of Latin Reginaldus, meaning "Wise Ruler".
The reason why I chose this one is because Nono's sons' names are related to rulers.
Enrico - Home-Ruler
Massimo - The Greatest
Federico - Peaceful Ruler
And don't asked me why I chose to give her a male's name, because I don't know why either.
** AZZURRA : Sky blue