Chapter 7 - Found Out
WARNINGS!
= OOCs
= Wrong Grammars and Spellings
DISCLAIMER!
~ I DO NOT OWN KHR ~
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Italian"
Previously / Flashback
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Stopping infront of Giotto, "Even if I am your mother-in-law, I am also a mother, Giotto. You don't need to act strong when you don't need to" She chuckled, patting Giotto's head, which made Giotto blushed, before she continued with a serious face and Giotto's eyes widened. "Would you like to know why she, my daughter Rain, your wife left, Giotto?"
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Passing through the kitchen, he stopped infront of a certain familiar door beside said kitchen. "Why ...here?" Ietsuna murmured, eyes widened, as he stared at his late mother's room.
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= 3rd Person's POV =
"Why ...Rain left?" Giotto murmured, eyes widened while staring at his mother-in-law, which the aged woman nodded at him. "I did promised her not to tell anyone but I think you deserved to know, Giotto" She replied.
"Yes.." Giotto whispered out. "Yes, please! Please tell me! Was it something I did? I mean I probably did something that she possibly disliked. Was she angry because of that? Was it that bad? Did she hate me to the point she left me? Did she-" Eleanor patted Giotto shoulder, cutting his panic off.
"I assure you, Giotto. The reason she left was not related to anything she disliked you did, and no, she did not hate you. It's another different reason" She said, calming Giotto down a little and slowly nodded at her.
"I will tell you everything when we are at my place, Giotto. Come. There's no telling who will be listening, after all, with us related to the other side, trees are able to grow ears" Eleanor said, which Giotto nodded at her again. Being in the mafia, there's no telling if anyone was evedropping them or not, especially if by any chance, a Mist was nearby.
They then left the graveyard after making a short prayer for Rain.
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'Why mama's room? Did she hide something important no one knew? But I didn't found anything when I sleep here' Ietsuna thought, grabbing the door handle, and opened the door.
Entering the room, Ietsuna couldn't help but looked around. The state of the room were still the same as how he remembered when Nana was still alive and when he sometimes slept in when he was too tired to go upstairs to crash onto his own bed.
The only difference between previous Nana's room and the current Nana's room was the large photo hanging on the wall right above the study desk that he took off and burned away. It was a photo of Iemitsu and Nana's wedding, that was replaced by an equally large photo of a happy Nana hugging an equally happy Tsuna and him, the photo that was taken few days before Nana's death.
Ietsuna stared at the large photo for a while, eyes turned glassy, which he hurriedly wiped them off. How he missed his mother, before he laughed humorlessly, as he recalled a promise he made with his mother. What happened to the promise he made with his mother to protect Tsuna as an older brother. Tsuna was taken twice! Right in front of him too!
'Some brother I am' Ietsuna scoffed softly at himself, before he walked towards the study desk, pulling out one of the book and flipped it open, then take something out.
Though as much as Ietsuna despised Iemitsu, the man was still his father. The man who loved to shower his annoying kisses to his small cheeks, used to play with him, giving him stacks of presents whenever he came back from his so-called 'digging oil in north pole' work, which Ietsuna shared those presents with Tsuna later on.
From all those burned photo with Iemitsu inside, Ietsuna left one usual size photo behind, the only one he couldn't burn, which he kept and slipped it in the book he was holding.
Ietsuna stared at the photo longingly. A complete family photo that they took few months before Nana's death. Iemitsu and Nana were hugging each other wearing large smiles on their faces, with him and Tsuna in front of them also hugging each other, mimicking the two adults.
Staring for another while, Ietsuna snapped out of his thought when he remembered why he came in to the room. Slipping the photo back to the book, he shut the book and put it where he picked it up.
Ietsuna then looked around. 'Where should I look first? ...What should I look for seems like the correct question' Ietsuna sweatdropped at that. What was he supposed to search? His intuition only guided him to his late mother's room, and that's that. Everything was on Ietsuna alone.
So in the end, he looked for whatever he was searching for at places people liked to hide secret things he saw in movies. After all, Tsuna did hide his thick dictionary-like diary behind his study desk.
And there. Ietsuna paused searching from desk. Maybe he was supposed to look for a diary? Did his mother even wrote a diary though? That thought flashed through his mind.
Silence for a few seconds, Ietsuna then shrugged his shoulder. 'Worth a try. Maybe mama did has one' He thought, and immediately looked for anything that looked like a book, didn't matter if it was as thick as a dictionary or as thin as children's bedtime story book.
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Eleanor led Giotto through the market district, while ignoring all those with-and-without-partner women swooned at 'that handsome blond foreigner leading his mother home', which made Giotto sweatdropped. It was the mother leading the blond foreigner, not the other way around. He wondered what they would think if they were to realize that he was at the age of a father. He was at the age that could be those younger women's father. A young father, but father nonetheless. Being good looking was not always pleasurable. Well, mostly not.
Sighing, Giotto made a glance at his mother-in-law, and sweatdropped again. The elder was perfectly ignoring those women, while maintaining a kind smile on her face. She looked at Giotto and even asked "Is there something wrong, son?" to him, which he immediately shook his head, while softly murmured "nothing, mother", before turning his attention in front, making notes on which ways to go.
What Giotto didn't know was that while his mother-in-law smiled pleasantly, she was actually thinking on how to get rid of those annoying women who were trying to take her son-in-law, especially to those who already had partner for their own lives. They annoyed her the most.
Walking for another while, making sure none of the women following them after they turned here and there, much to Giotto's confusion and thankfulness of getting rid of their stalkers, Eleanor stopped in front of a plain house that people would miss if they didn't know what to search, making the blond blinked questioningly at her when she tapped the door few times with her Rain flame after entering the gate, before he made a soft "aah.. The power of mafia technologies" when he saw door slided open.
"Come inside, Giotto" She said, and Giotto nodded, which she then tapped the door again to slided back, shutting the door.
"You can wait at the living room while I go prepare some tea" She said, pointing on where Giotto should go, who nodded at her.
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Ietsuna yelped as he accidentally kicked the corner of the bed frame when he was planning to seach on the other side of the room once again. Clutching his poor toes as hard as he could, to stop himself making a louder scream of pain.
Ietsuna turned around and widened his eyes when he saw the part he kicked came off. "Aaah! Don't tell me I kicked it too hard. Don't you dare go broken on me!" Ietsuna panicked, immediately went to pick the part and was about to put it back when he suddenly paused.
He blinked when he saw a book, a single photo, and papers inside. Ietsuna stared at those items, then at the part that came off and back to those items again. "Huh. Didn't see that one coming. This is actually a drawer? But instead of pulled it, you need to pluck it to open it" Ietsuna murmured, as he put down the fallen part, and took those items out.
After taking them all out, Ietsuna looked at the normal size book, and flipping a few pages before he shut the book, examine it. "Huh. A diary that didn't look like a diary book. This look more like those reference book on how to use a brand new phone" Ietsuna murmured, as he put it down and picked the photo up, which Ietsuna then smiled.
It was a photo of a smiling Nana and two newborn in her arms. Iemitsu though, was nowhere in the photo, making Ietsuna scoffed. Must had gone back to Italy for CEDEF. He did remember his mother once told him something like "On the second day you and Tsu-kun was born, your papa had to go back to work because he was very busy" she said with a sigh.
Shaking his head, Ietsuna stared at the photo for a while, before he blinked, realizing something amissed. He recognized the baby on the left was definitely him, but the baby on the right ...didn't look like Tsuna. Well, similar but different.
He narrowed his eyes at that, before shrugging it off. 'Well, I have seen Ryou-nii's baby photo by accident, and that baby didn't looked like Ryou-nii at all' Ietsuna snickered as he remembered the photo of the adorable baby's photo, Ryouhei even turned red from embarrassment when Ietsuna saw it as the older boy hurriedly snatched the photo away from him. 'Maybe that also happened to Tsu-kun' Ietsuna thought.
Staring at it again, as he kept frowning everytime his eyes went to Tsuna's baby photo, he finally put down the photo and went to pick up the scattered papers.
"Wonder what these are?" Ietsuna murmured as he picked one up.
Ietsua blinked when he saw the first paper. "Oh. Tsu-kun's birth certificate. But why mama put it here? Did she not want someone finding it?" Ietsuna murmured questioningly.
Putting Tsuna's birth certificate down, Ietsuna was about to pick the second one with his free hand when his eyes caught another paper with the word 'certificate' on it, and proceed to pick that one up instead. "Another one? I am pretty sure mama didn't put mine ...here" Ietsuna trailed, as he stared at the paper with wide eyes.
"Wha- What? What is this?" Ietsuna stuttered, as he let go of Tsuna's birth certificate and gripped the other paper with both of his hands.
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Giotto, while holding his cup of tea, was awkwardly staring at his mother-in-law, who was sipping her tea slowly, as if trying to drag some time.
"...Um, mother?" Giotto called her hesitantly, and jumped when the elderly put down her cup and stood up, immediately went out from the living room.
That effectively made Giotto panicked, fumbling his cup which he immediately put it in the table, else he would risk dropping the cup thanks to his own panic. 'Oh noo! Did I say something wrong? But I was just calling her!' Giotto inwardly screamed, tugging his hair.
Eleanor entered the living room again when she blinked at the scene of her son-in-law forcing himself to go bald by tugging his blond hair.
"Giotto, what did your poor hair did to you for you to do that?" She asked with a chuckle, and Giotto jumped again, before he turned around. Seeing his mother-in-law came back again, Giotto let go of his hair and his eyes went to the object she was holding. "Mother, what is that?" He asked.
"I think you might want to see this" She said, without answering his question. Giotto stared questioningly at the woman as she handed him the book. "An album?" Giotto murmured as he stated at it, but before he could open it, Eleanor spoke up.
"Inside were the pictures of Rain that I took whenever I came to visit" Eleanor smiled sadly, taking Giotto's attention who stared at her with a slight frown, before he turned back to the album.
Flipping the cover, ignoring his mother-in-law taking the seat in front of him, Giotto widened his eyes when his eyes landed on the large photo that covered half of the page of Rain standing in the sunflower field.
Giotto smiled sadly, seeing that bright smile on the photo, Giotto couldn't help but think she was actually happy without him being by her side. That thought did put a larger crack on his heart after he found our she already passed.
Staring at the photo a little longer, his eyes trailed to another photo, to another, and another, and another, flipping each pages slowly. He looked at the photos slowly one by one, as if trying to memorize Rain's smiles in the photos.
Eleanor smiled softly as she watched her son-in-law stared and flipped around the pages. She was silent. She let Giotto took all the time he needed, as she filled her tea to her cup and picked the cup up.
Flipping pages by pages, Giotto stared at photos with smiles sometimes appeared on his face and sometimes chuckles escaped his lips, but he suddenly paused mid-way flipping to another page as he stared at the last photo on that page.
Giotto stared at it with wide eyes. Expression full of surprised and confusion. Slowly lifting his head, facong his mother-in-law who was staring at him as if she was waiting or him to ask a certain question. Giotto spoke up.
"..Rain was pregnant?" Giotto asked her in wide eyes.
Eleanor nodded, putting down her cup of tea. "Yes, she was. And that is the reason why she left" She replied, and before Giotto could ask his next question, she held he hand up.
"Three days after you two's marriage, I know you told her about the life you lived in, about the mafia" She stared, and Giotto was silent, letting her to continue. "That of course, made her thinking, especially when five days later, she was taken hostage. Even if you and your Guardians did managed to save her, she was terrified" She said.
Seeing Giotto's hurtful expression, Eleanor spoke up again. "She wasn't terrified of you or the mafia, by the way" She said, making her son-in-law blinked. "She was terrified for being a hindrance to you and your friends during the fight. Being a burden for getting kidnapped and turned into a hostage"
"She's never a burden to us" Giotto said.
"I know, Giotto. I know that when I saw your and your friends' expressions, but that was not what she thought, no matter what I said that you all didn't thought of her as one" She smiled sadly.
"So she made a decision. Either stay and take self-defence lessons from you and your friends, or left and disappeared from you and your friends to prevent anymore kidnapping and being a hostage. She took the second option" Eleanor smiled sadly, wiping away the tears that was gathering in her eyes.
"But why didn't she told us? We could have help. I could have help" Giotto asked sadly.
"If she were to tell you, you would have stop her" She said, and smiled when Giotto said "Of course I would" to her. "If you were to stop her and she stayed, your enemies would take of that again, your child included in the package with her. To take your Famiglia down. You all might try to train her, the basic at least, but Rain would never the fighting ones. Her stamina won't support her, so she left without telling any of you"
Silence surrounding them, before Giotto asked another question. "It was only a few days passed. How.. How did Rain know she was pregnant?"
"My line has an interesting bloodline. We can detect presences when they are within certain distance, and in Rain's case, the presence was in her abdomen" Eleanor said.
"...I see" Giotto sighed softly. "I still hope she told me though" He murmured, slowly going back to the album, and few seconds later, his head snapped back up. "What happened to the child?" He asked. If Rain gave birth to the baby and passed away, then the child must be in his mother-in-law's care.
Judging from the frown the elderly woman was making, Giotto was sure he wouldn't like what his mother-in-law would say next.
"I don't know. I was there when Rain gave birth to a baby boy, but on the next day, when I reached the hospital to visit them, the nurse I acquaintance with told me that..." Eleanor trailed, and Giotto could see the pain in her eyes.
"...That Rain was murdered" Giotto's eyes widened at that.
"The hallway Rain's room was located at that time was empty, so no one knew what happened, except patients' rooms nearby, who claimed they heard that there were loud crashes and shoutings of a woman for her son but they were too scared to do anything. Only when it went quiet that one of the patients pressed the assistance button" Eleanor frowned, and Giotto followed after.
"What about the security cameras? Did none of the cameras catched anything?" Giotto asked with a frown.
"No. There was no one in the hallway, except nurses occasionally walked there to assist their patients" Eleanor frowned again. "Which was why I thought and still do think that it was a strong mafiaso who took Rain and your son away" She continued, as Giotto bit his lower lip, and fists tightened at that.
Taking a deep breath, Giotto faced his mother-in-law. "I swear I will find whoever was responsible, and I will find mine and Rain's missing son" Giotto said, fists still tightened. "Until then, mother.. Will you be willing to wait?"
Eleanor stared at Giotto, which was returned by Giotto himself.
After few seconds of silence, Eleanor broke into a smile. "His name is Reito" She said, which made Giotto blinked and looked at her questioningly.
"The son Rain gave birth to. He was named Reito" Eleanor smiled softly. "'Rei' from Rain*'s name, and 'To' is from your name"
Giotto smiled at that. Rain had once asked him if they were to have a child, what name would they give their children. After many discussions later, they decided if they were to have a boy, he would be named "Reito" and if it's a girl then it would be "Raisu".
"You can continue looking at the album, Giotto" His mother-in-law said, which he did go back to the album. Flipping pages after pages, when he reached the last page, which only contained two photos of Rain and Reito sleeping together in one photo, and Reito opening his eyes in another.
Giotto stared at his son's photo with wide eyes. His brain seemed like it just stopped functioning all together. Even though Giotto only knew him for few years, he was able to recognize the boy even if he were in a disguise, just like when he dressed himself as a princess during their highschool festival.
Gulping down his saliva, Giotto murmured something under his breath that his mother-in-law couldn't catch, not that she payed attention to him as she was focusing more on her tea.
"Tsunayoshi?"
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Ietsuna stared in disbelief at the paper with trembling hand. Lips quivering as he didn't know what to think about it.
"Mama signed this. But.. But if this is a real certificate then..-"
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Certificate of Death
This is to acknowledge the death of
Sawada Tsunayoshi
On the 14th of October in 19XX
At: Namimori Main Hospital
Signed: Sawada Nana
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"..then who is Tsu-kun?"
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I know Birth and Death Certificates are not produce by hospital but here, I am making the Main Hospital is the one responsible of it.
* "Rain" is read as "rein" soo.. Yeah
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...Uuh..
Surprise! Surprise!
Did anyone see that one coming? :3
(Actually I really think some of you did)
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And also
I wish you
❀ (Belated) Happy Valentine Day ❀
and
✧ Happy Chinese New Year ✧
for those who are celebrating!
。* ✧ ヾ(^﹏^)ﾉﾞ ✧ * 。