Pairing: 59Luche

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Skies Abroad

Time travel absolutely sucked.

Especially when it was travelling fifty-some years into the past because the Black Spell leader needed something from her grandmother who was alive fifty-some years in the past.

He stubbed his cigarette on a brick wall angrily. "Goddamnit, that stupid cow... when I get back, I'm blowing up all his candy," the man grumbled, beginning to walk the dusty street he had appeared in.

People were looking at him curiously; such a small town in the countryside of Italy barely ever had any visitors wearing fine clothes such as this man. Some girls batted their eyelashes at him, men looked at him expectantly, and the town simply paused and looked.

Hayato Gokudera grimaced at the attention, running his fingers backwards through his hair. "You there," he snapped, growling at a nearby boy who spooked at the tone. "Do you know a girl named Luche?"

According to calculations, he was sent back in time (and space, apparently) to the original Sky Arcobaleno of Reborn's generation to her hometown when she was approximately 17. She moved out and began using her gift as a leader when she was roughly 19, according to the general consensus.

The boy shook his head fearfully, and Gokudera sighed. Of course he wouldn't be able to find her off the bat so then he could just go home. "You know no one?" he asked carefully.

"Why are you asking for Luche?" the child whispered. "No one like Luche. Even though she's a great person and takes care of the kids like me."

Gokudera examined the state of the kid's clothes. True, they could be better off with less holes, but the state of the kid indicated that he was an orphan and it was easy to conjecture that Luche took care of the town's orphans. Just like a Sky, he mentally remarked. "I know she's a good person," the silveret whispered to the kid, squatting down and patting his head. "I just need to talk to her. I'm not going to do anything to her. I promise."

The shrimp hesitated again, then took off through the streets, Gokudera's long legs keeping up easily. They eventually came to a house set apart from the rest, a bit ramshackled and homely, bursting with kids that were running around everywhere, and in the yard several of them were engaged with the task of washing clothes. By hand.

Leading the children, sitting on a stool and scrubbing at a stubborn spot in a shirt, was one soon-to-be Sky Arcobaleno, minus the hat he was so used to associating with the Giglio Nero bosses. "Luche! Luche!" the boy ran straight up to her, tugging her sleeve. "Some'un wants to talk to you!"

Hayato lingered by the gate, watching her eyes dart to him and then as she issued orders to continue doing chores as she talked to someone. She took off the apron she had been wearing over a plain brown dress, and approached with caution. "Good morning, Signore...?"

"Gokudera," he introduced easily, too easily. Already he was disarmed in front of a person he had never met before, if only because he had already heard about her. "I'm not intending to stay for long, I just need to ask you for something and I'll be on my way."

Luche nodded politely, reaching for her neck and pulling on a cord to retrieve and small bag that she had been wearing apparently. "Do you mean this...?"

Judging it by size and shape, Hayato spluttered, "Not that!" he wasn't here for the Sky Pacifier! "I know that you can see the future, correct?"

The teen froze, shock crossing her features abruptly before calming. "Where did you hear that from, Signore?"

"Your descendant. You probably had a vision about me, so I'm here to pick up what you saw in your vision from you," he explained bluntly, crossing his arms. "You know I'm telling the truth."

She nodded breathlessly, bowing shortly, "I'll be back in a moment," she promised, turning away and running inside the house. The kids in the yard suddenly silenced, observing him. It was slightly disturbing.

Luche came running out of the house, clutching a ring. "Is this it?" she panted.

Hayato looked it over in her hand. "Yeah. Fits the description Yuni gave me to a T." He took it from her, turning it over and examining it. Satisfied, "Thank you, Luche. It was nice meeting you. It is time for me to go."

"Back to your time?" she asked, bemused. He nodded curtly, and was about to shift his ring to send the Flame time signal, when she stepped near him and went on her tiptoes, pecking the side of his mouth with her lips.

He paused. "What was that for?"

She smiled brightly, with her whole heart. "I found something while retrieving that ring. It is very important, and your request helped me find it again," Luche clarified.

His lips curled into the tiniest of smiles. "Don't thank me. I'm only here at my Boss's behest to get the ring for Yuni." Finally done fiddling with the Vongola Storm Ring and waiting for it to yank him back in the present, he leaned forward and cupped her chin. "By the way," Gokudera said conversationally, "This is how you kiss someone."

All the kids in the yard had their eyes wide open, staring at the scene of the handsome stranger kissing their Big Sister Luche full on the lips. Some of the older little girls squealed, and everyone suddenly felt exceedingly happy.

Luche stood there for several heartbeats, feeling the warmth of him standing so close to her. She squeaked in surprise, and he pulled away. "Signore G-Gokudera!" the teen stammered, "What was that-"

He smiled lopsidedly. "Well, I see where Yuni got her charm from," he chuckled. Hayato abruptly felt a pulse of heat down his whole arm, a signal that Shoichi was preparing to pull him back to their time. He leaned in once again, "You are a natural leader. Someday, you'll need to spread your wings. Be like the Sky, open and compassionate, and you will find your companions for life."

Her cheeks were slightly red. "Will you be one of them?"

His face lost its humor and Gokudera disappeared in a cloud of pink smoke.

"You knew what would happen," he accused, standing in front of Yuni's desk. "That's why you told Jyuudaime to especially send me."

"Luche-baachan wrote an entry about you in her diary. I had to send you back so the event would happen," she explained brightly.

The Storm stared at her in disbelief. "Was it really necessary?!" he demanded.

Yuni nodded. "Yes, it was. Your last words to her inspired her to become a full-fledged Sky, and she left the village when someone else took over the orphans and she managed to make friends with the current Arcobaleno. It was necessary."

He scoffed, then began walking away. "Wait!" Yuni cried, rummaging through her desk. "She would have wanted you to have this!"

It was a faded photograph of Luche, probably at age twenty, five years younger than he was presently. She was smiling brightly.

His heart hurt for that brief moment in love.

"Time travel absolutely sucks."

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