Resolution

Fandom: ZnT/KHR!

Summary: All that Louise wanted when she performed the Summoning Ceremony was to prove to her peers that she wasn't zero, but instead of a dragon or a griffin, she got a plebeian of all things. What she didn't expect even more was to got a plebeian familiar... who seemed to know her. AU Saito, Saito/Louise.

Keys: "French/Halkeginian", "Japanese", "Old English/Spells"

Chapter 2 | The Sacred, Beautiful, and Strong Familiar (2)

Hiraga Saito was ten years in the future from his own time, fighting off mafiosi with his modified gun that his dearest, note the sarcasm, master gave him (It'd be better if he had his sword though, but it broke).

Saito was the cousin of one Sawada Tsunayoshi. He got dragged into the whole mafia ordeal only because he came to visit the Sawadas at the wrong time. He had come to Namimori for his yearly summer visit, only for a certain baby hitman who was apparently his cousin's tutor taking an interest in his 'hidden hitman potential', as Reborn put it.

Saito never liked fighting, so he declined the offer to be the hitman's apprentice at first. But then, Reborn asked if he had anyone he wanted to protect, and his mind immediately flew to the thoughts of a certain pink haired girl he hadn't seen since he was ten. Knowing that if he took apprenticeship under Reborn, it would mean better chance in protecting Louise (once he found a way to go to Halkeginia), he accepted the offer.

But that still didn't mean that he wanted to get dragged to ten years in the future to fight a parallel universe travelling madman that had killed his cousin's future selves (Because he couldn't discount his cousin's future parallel selves) to save their future! Well, what happened had happened. He had no choice but to fight off the mafiosi that were targeting the rest of the Vongola.

They were in the forest right now, and Saito had suspected that this might be the final battle against Byakuran. After fighting off some of the enemies, Saito looked up to the sky and saw a ball of sky flame flying toward the center of the battle, inside the ball of flame was Yuni. 'Are the sky tri-ni-sette resonating with each other?' he wondered. He was going to run toward the center of the battle when he heard a familiar voice.

{I beg you}

He looked around, his gun still on his hand, his finger hovering over the trigger, ready to pull it at anytime. "Louise?" he called out. He tried to find the source of the voice, and when he finally could pin point the general area of the voice, he saw something green shining on the direction. 'Lightning flame?' he asked himself.

{ Oh sacred, beautiful, and strong familiar spirit! I desire and here I plead from my heart!}

"Louise?!" he called out again, approaching the shining object. It turned out that it was an oval shaped green portal that looked quite like a mirror. "What is this thing...? A portal? To where?" he asked himself as his hand reached out to the portal.

{Answer to my guidance!}

When the tip of his finger touched the surface of the portal, he felt himself being sucked into it. He tried to pull his hand back, but instead, he was sucked even more to it. knowing that he couldn't escape the portal, he closed his eyes and let himself being sucked into it.

When he opened his eyes once again, he was greeted with smoke. He also sensed someone on his proximity. After being trained over times by Reborn to always be on guard, his body reacted by itself and pointed his gun at the approaching figure.

The smoke started to clear out and his eyes widened when his eyes landed on a pink haired girl, who looked no older than fifteen, staring at him with a frown on her face. That oh-so-familiar frown he had missed for six years. He lowered his gun slowly, but made sure to grip on it tightly, not wanting this to be some sort of illusion the enemy created to catch him off guard. He then called out quietly, hoping that the one in front of him was indeed his beloved childhood friend. "Louise?"

The pink haired girl's rosette coloured eyes widened in surprise when she heard her name being called, as if she was surprised that someone she didn't know knew her name. That confused Saito a lot. Why was Louise acting as if she didn't know him?

"Louise, that's you right? It's me, Saito!" Saito exclaimed to the girl, who still looked surprised.

"H-How did you know my name, you plebeian?" the rosette eyed girl demanded an answer, scowling at him. That caught him off guard. Louise only acted like that on their first few meetings, which were when they were six. By the time before they couldn't contact each other, they were already inseperable. So why was Louise acting like this again? What happened in the past six years?

"I'm... your childhood friend? Or did you not remember me, Louise?" and even asking that hurt Saito a lot. If what he guessed was correct... Saito couldn't fathom how hurt he would be. It would probably be like thousands of arrows piercing through him. It'd probably even hurt more than Reborn's training. "Please tell me you remember me..." he murmured.

"I-I do not know who you are, plebeian! Do not call me s-s-so intimately like that!" Louise demanded again, her face flushing. "And do not utter such ridiculous lies! How could I, an aristocrat, have a plebeian as a childhood friend? What is the proof?"

"Uh... you could always ask Rietta-chan to see if I'm saying the truth or not!" Saito exclaimed. "If she doesn't forget me like you did, she could confirm it! The three of us always play together when we're young! I don't know what happened in the past six years, and I don't know how you could forget me, but Louise, I'm serious. I'm not lying. We knew each other before. We're childhood friends!"

Louise wanted to retort, but she didn't know how. Instead, she chose to turn toward a middle aged man and said, "Mr. Colbert, I don't want a lying familiar like this plebeian as my familiar! Please allow me to resummon!" she asked, though it sounded more like a demand.

"There is no way I can allow that, Miss Valliere. The Summoning Ceremony is a sacred ritual that decides the fate of a mage. Allowing you to resummon would be a desecration of the ceremony itself." Mr. Colbert replied, shaking his head in the beginning. "Regardless of whether you like it or not, or if this plebeian is lying or not, he has been decided as your familiar spirit."

'Familiar...? Eh, so this is the sacred famliar summoning ritual that Louise always told me? She said she wanted a powerful familiar to prove herself to others that she have a talent in magic...' Saito thought. 'A familiar is summoned to be the loyal companion to the summoner, to help them in time of needs... that means... that means I could protect her, even if she didn't remember me or our promises...' he said, looking at his clenched left fist. A small smile crept up to his lips. 'I'll do my best in protecting her.'

"But I've never heard of taking a human, much less a plebeian, as a familiar spirit!" Louise argued, glancing at him with a conflicted look.

Saito smiled and kneeled in front of Louise, his right hand resting on his left chest. "Louise, let me be your familiar. I promise I will protect you from any dangers you may encounter in your life as a mage. I will fight off anyone that dares to attack you." He declared sincerely, looking up at Louise's rosette eyes with his own dark blue ones. "Let me, Hiraga Saito, be your sword, your familiar."

He could see pink hue on her cheeks. "Hmph, you'd better be grateful. You'd normally never get this from an aristocrat." She stated smugly. She raised her wand and started to chant a spell. "My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de la Valliere. Pentagon that governs the five powers, give this person your blessing and make it my familiar spirit." She then looked up and whispered. "Bend down, idiot. I couldn't reach you."

"Eh, what are you going to do?" Saito asked, surprised.

"Ugh, when I tell you to do something, do it!" Louise grumbled as she pull Saito down by the collar and kissed him on the lips, which surprised the boy a lot. Louise never told him about how the mages sealed the contract in the past! The kiss was chaste, but it was still a kiss anyway, his first kiss in fact.

Saito was a bit happy that his first kiss was with Louise, but was also a bit put off because it wasn't under the circumstances he wanted. 'Wait, wait, wait! What the hell am I thinking?! Louise is just a friend! Nothing else! Why would I want to be kissed by her?!'

Louise pulled away soon and Mr. Colbert approached them. "Looks like the Contract Servant finished without any problems." He said, smiling in relief.

Suddenly, he felt pain coarsing through his body, and it was centering on his left hand. He felt his flame getting out of control, doubling the pain. And not to mention the cuts and bruises he got before he was summoned to Halkeginia. It was becoming too much for him. "Wh-what's happening?" he asked, his voice hoarse as the pain intensified even more. "My body feels hot..."

"It'll be over soon. A familiar spirit's rune is getting carved onto you." Louise replied

Saito was about to ask more about these runes, however, it seemed that he reached his limit, and when the pain hit max, all he could see was black.

To Be Continued

TWGA: Hello everyone! Thank you for taling your time to read, follow, favourite, and review this fic! It means a lot to me. I never thought that many people would read this, but I'm glad you all did. As always, I'm sorry if I made any mistake in the story, I've proofread it, but since English is not my first language, there are bound to be mistakes in spelling and grammar.

Anyway, you guys would probably complain about Saito so willingly giving himself to be Louise's familiar, but remember, he promised to protect Louise, and being a familiar fills the deed... well, not to mention that Saito doesn't know the other... jobs he's going to have (washing Louise's clothes, practically being her servant, etc).

Fun fact, at first, this AU Saito was originally intended to be Hibari's cousin, not Tsuna's, however, that would put too much complication, since I have the headcannon that every Hibaris trains in combat since they were young. Saito doesn't like fighting though, whether in cannon or in this Au, and I wanted Saito to be as IC as possible, despite being an AU Saito, so yeah, I changed the family relation around.

And the kiss... Saito went from being happy being kissed by Louise to denying that the kiss was good. Why? Because even after six years, Saito is still denying that he has a crush on Louise. This denial will be explored more on later chapters.

Long A/N is long. Anyway, see you on the next chapter!