Haru has spent much of her life watching, observing. Now, it serves her very well. The Famiglia must be protected, and if her ability to tell things about people protects these friends that she's come to hold dear… Well, it is in her nature to strike quickly and true, even if her flame isn't the strongest in the Famiglia.
It is not only from people outside the Famiglia that she gleans little tidbits of knowledge from. She knows the value of information and knowing your own limits and so, she is painfully aware of the little weaknesses inherent in all the members of her family.
She sees how Yamamoto turns his head away just a little too quickly after glancing at the gleaming edge of his sword.
How Lambo grows very quiet and still in the dark.
She knows that Tsuna spends a long time staring at nothing after incinerating Byakuran and that it takes a long time for him to stop staring at fires hungrily.
Haru sees all the aborted touches between Bianchi and Gokudera.
How Hibari surrounds himself with soft things when possible.
However, Miura Haru is human. She does not see all, and does not pretend to. So, she is taken by surprise when Ryohei plants little weeds and tree sprouts around the base in little pots. She waters them very carefully when Ryohei isn't there nonetheless. She is taken unawares when she finds out that Gokudera plays the piano. She polishes the little baby grand in one of the back rooms in spite of how unlikely it is to be used.
Just like how she sews suits that fit like a glove, knowing that they're going to come back torn and bloody, she keeps quiet about the little moments filled with a silence so profound it hurts. This is a family that reaches for once-upon-a-times and firework-bright futures, and it is not her place to shine light on the shadows of the Famiglia's burden.
Okay, so this chapter might be a little confusing. For those of you that haven't realized this, Reborn! characters are a bunch of young adults, teens and preteens who kill people, who've had abusive or borderline so pasts, who've more than likely lost people in tragic and scarring ways, who have to constantly be on guard… You get the idea. They're not the healthiest kids ever. And this chapter was mostly born out of my annoyance with how the manga/anime tends to ignore this aspect of their characters most of the time, and that none of the healthier/more normal characters ever call the obviously more fucked up ones on it. Rant end.
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