Mafia Takeover
Chapter Eight: King of the Rain Country
Celeste and Tsuna walked together through the Fortress's halls, both dazed over the failed meeting.
"Is it always like this?" Celeste said, rubbing at the small bump on her head, due to Lord Kyoya hitting her with his tonfa.
"There are better days, but majority of the time it's like this" Tsuna replied, holding an ice pack to his jaw from the heavy blow Lord Xanxus delivered.
"How do you get anything done?"
"By handling it myself of course. You know you're the lucky one. Lord Kyoya actually takes his duties seriously, but I think Lord Xanxus could care less" Tsuna said adding a weak chuckle.
"What are you going to do about the storm country? I don't think Xanxus is remotely interested in handling it"
"Ah yes, I was hoping you could help me with it" Celeste stopped.
"Eh? How?" Tsuna stopped as well, and looked all around him making sure no one (specifically Lord Kyoya) was around. Then he turns to Celeste,
"I was hoping you could go to the rain country and ask advice from Yamamoto-san, err I mean King Yamamoto-san. I think he'd know how to control the sudden flood in the storm country"
"But can't you just go?"
"Well I would, but sadly the rain country isn't apart of the countries I look after". Was that really how uncooperative the emperors of Namimori are? Celeste thought. Shouldn't they be leading this country as one instead of in halves?
"Alright leave it to me" Tsuna smiled and relief and they continued down the halls discussing other matters they would have to handle themselves.
The rain country was just as it states. Everything was wet and the ground was mushy from the copious amount of rain that came every day. The rain country had so much rain, matter fact, that they even kept a schedule of when it would pour and the hours when it would be sunny. There were many tall thick trees that grew throughout the land, and rivers were constantly monitored incase of overflowing. Even the rain seemed like a bad thing the pure droplets actually is what beautified the country. It created an artistic sparkle among tree leaves and grass, so artistically, in fact, that the plants could've been mistaken for expensive rare crystals. Celeste was becoming more and more amazed by Namimori's continent every second she was there. The pilot that Celeste asked to bring her to the rain country landed his helicopter on the rooftop of a glass building.
"Thanks" Celeste said before hopping out the chopper and headed into the building. Two attendants greeted her. And they bowed to her and began to lead her through the Rain Fortress's halls to meet the King. Takeshi Yamamoto. Celeste was brought to a large room surrounded completely by walls made of glass. There was a simple brown round table in the middle of the room and four tall antique chairs. A few tropical plants decorated the room.
"The king will be here soon Miss Conello" One attendant said as the other pulled out a chair for her to sit. She thanked him and they both left. Celeste stared out a glass wall only to see rain. But it wasn't gloomy at all; it actually made her feel relaxed. It was faint but she could her the sound of it falling onto the ground and so much was coming down from the sky that it reminded her of the sound ocean waves make. Her sister especially liked those kinds of sounds, she would've like this country; Celeste sighed heavily, she missed her sister a lot.
"Oh, your the new advisor for Kyo-san yes?" Celeste looked towards the speaker who was a tall man with ruffled black hair and light caramel eyes wearing a plain t-shirt grey sweat pants and white socks that covered his creamy light tan skin. She felt overdressed now, since Lord Kyoya forced her to wear their continents uniform again.
"Y-yes, Celeste Conello" Celeste answered standing from her seat and bowing slightly,
"And I assume you are Takeshi Yamamoto" the said king chuckled,
"Yeah that's me!" he walked over to the table and sat in one of the chairs closer to Celeste and she also took her seat.
"So-what can I do for ya? Conello-san" "I was hoping you could help with the situation in the storm country, it has flooded and we're not sure how to deal with the problem"
"Oh, another request from Tsuna-san, eh" King Takeshi chuckled. He's way too cheerful and innocently gaudy, Celeste thought, reminds me of Elodia.
"Knowing Gokudera-san he would never come to me directly for help, but I definitely don't want his country to be underwater" he laughed at this
"How many days has it been flooded?"
"Err, from my knowledge about a month" King Takeshi's eyes widened.
"A-a month! Whoa I gotta go right away!" he jumps up from the table,
"Thanks for coming here Conello-san, I know Xanxus is a bit... err, well you should know by now, and Kyoya doesn't want anything to do with him so it makes me feel happy that I can help out a friend" with that said the King flashed a gentle smile and left the room. Celeste lightly blushed from his smile; it was so carefree yet so caring.
Elodia followed her lord out of the meeting room with Yuni beside her. That had begun a small conversation while Lord Byakuran was plotting how he would get his precious foxglove to succumb to him. He remembered what she had said back in her room and it worried him a bit that she could see through his facade. Most likely Lord Mukuro had told her the games he likes to play, but that wouldn't stop him from taming her.
"Lord Byakuran, would you like me to handle the problem in the Daisy Country?" Elodia spoke, grabbing onto his sleeve gently to catch his attention. He stared into her chocolate eyes for a moment, trying to figure out the type of game to win this girl. Yet oddly he could find not even a hint of what he could use, even though she appeared as this angel she was a master at secrets. But that only made his heart beat a bit faster and he licked his lips in delight.
"Actually I need you for a few other things, Yuni-chan you take care of it" the said advisor bowed and left.
"What other things?" Elodia asked tilting her head cutely to the side.
"I want to take you to a certain country, I'll mention details when we get there".