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This is a G27 story, rating is K for now, but may rise according to the story progress.
Chapter 8: Curse
Reader's POV
''School, huh…'' Tsuna sighed loudly as he slouched onto the comfy sofa, rubbing his temple where the shots of pain decided to appear. The sickly grouchy feeling in the stomach from the bumpy rides was like a stubborn prick paling Tsuna's face.
''You really hate school huh?'' Giotto smiled as he handed some bills over to the cashier in charge of the uniforms.
''My nickname is dame-tsuna… I have never ever done well in any tests you can name nor sports. I'm clumsy and no good.'' Tsuna's face turn pink and a grimace formed on his lips.
''Do you not have a tutor?'' Giotto asked as they left the shop, heading for the bookshop to purchase textbooks, with him leading.
''Well I do…'' Tsuna shivered a little as thoughts of Reborn's Spartan trainings flashed through his mind, the injuries, the tears, the BOMBS, that metal hammer that loved his stomach to bits, and once in a while, Bianchi's poison cooking comes into the scene as well. ''Not exactly the most pleasant tutor you can find.'' If Reborn heard what he was saying now, he would have been beaten to a pulp by now.
''Sounds interesting.'' Giotto grin broaden and proceeded to talk to the blushing cashier about the textbooks.
''No way would that be if you actually experience it for yourself.'' Tsuna groaned as he gestured to offer to carry the books but was rejected.
''Really?'' Giotto shrugged and handed over a stack of bills.
''This campus is pretty big for a Japanese school…'' Tsuna looked around at the campus. It seems pretty big and clean. There were hardly any students since it's a day off, but it was good since it allowed Tsuna to have a better exploration of the place.
The campus is called Rimomina(Anagram of Namimori actually, though it sounds weird) Campus, with students ranging from Middle School students to University students. It's quite the prestigious school, the dream school of many living in good old Japan. Besides excellent academic results, the school is known for its athletic ability as well, and its size… There is also a rather not so obvious reason that it was a dream school of many girls. This school contained lots of handsome guys who mostly had too much money to spend. If you are lucky enough, you might not have to work for the rest of your life. A classic example would be our dear Giotto himself. Every time he was at school, girls would swoon over his looks. Guys looked up to his athletic ability. Teachers looked up to his academic achievement. Isn't he quite the perfect being?
The campus stretches about an eighth of the size of Namimori, with two full sized courts with adequate and decent equipment and a running track. The design of the school were exquisite and simple, yet bringing out the elegance and beauty of the students as well. The materials used to build the school were of the finest quality we can find back then. There are rows and rows and rows again of classrooms neatly spaced out, a spacious court for running etc, a two-story library with oak bookshelves filled with jaw-dropping number of books and fantastic knowledge. There are various other features, but if I were to list them all down, there wouldn't be an end to it and its getting too dam long to introduce the school features.
''Well… The government did place quite the investment into this school after all, and with the help of some mafia family as well…'' Giotto tossed half the stack of the fresh new textbooks into G's hands who agilely caught the books while giving a glare to Giotto who carried the other half himself.
''Mafia?!''
''Yeah, if not, how do you think a government school can be this extravagant? It had a monetary value similar to the mansion we have back in Italy. The mafia is actually richer than the government itself.''
''It took all our combined money to build that mansion though.'' G said quietly as he trailed along beside them, barely sweating at the heavy weight of the books in his hands, and not even panting at all.
''Jackson Pasteries!'' Giotto zoomed out like a lightning bolt without warning to the shop with a sign board in large silvery writing and dropped the books he was carrying into G's hands who groaned at the sudden crushing weight. An array of ambrosia laid in rows, waiting patiently for gourmets to buy them and taste them down to its very sweet core. The cakes were so well done, it looked like really well made toy cake. His hands rest hungrily on the glass panel separating him and his beloved cakes, his eyes sparkling at the sight of each individual irresistible delight, taking in the delicious sight.
''Ah~ There he goes again, that cake-brain freak.'' G face palmed before walking over to the shop, Tsuna scurrying after him, confused and amused.
''Shall I take the books for you back to the base?'' A person suddenly appeared in front of G. Tsuna recognized him; he was like the butler of the family, taking care of the domestic issues in the family. A short dark-haired guy with mysterious black eyes and always dressed formally in a suit.
''That would help a lot, Geno.''
And he was the one who had brought along with him that horribly lacy dress stuffed at the back of Tsuna's cabinet back in Italy.
Geno took the stack of books and left as quickly as he appeared.
''Let's go, Primo.'' G said in a monotone voice as he tried to pull the leech off the glass panel. Being the leech he is, it's tough to pull them off.
''Haha…'' Tsuna haplessly stared at the duo that were moving back and forth, G pulling Giotto's cloak and Giotto pushing forwards stubbornly. The shop owners were so stunned, they could only stare while sweat dropping at the situation like Tsuna.
''You don't have the money, Primo.'' G gave up and crouched down beside Giotto, whose face had been super glued to the glass panel.
''Anymore and you would be stuck permanently on that glass.'' G nonchantly took a smoke out of his pocket, ignoring the crowd that was starting to gather at the sight of the foreigners with striking hair colours.
''Don't smoke in the shop…'' The owner began weakly but was given a glare by the red-head.
''I wouldn't mind…''
G rolled his eyes.
Primo suddenly plucked his face off the glass panel with a loud sound of suction being plucked off –that was an exaggeration of course- and pushed G and Tsuna down into a flat landing before they could even react just as a bullet flew straight at the place where Giotto's head was a split second before. Glass shards flew everywhere and bulks of the cream cakes were splattered all over the small shop's interior, the owners ducking for their dear life, hands over their head.
Screams reverted throughout the still afternoon air as people ducked down instinctively; stopping in their tracks with hands over their head.
Giotto was sprawled on top of G and Tsuna's body, who looked up when the light suddenly seemed to grow dimmer, to find a bulky tall figure. His muscles were like huge balls of meat stuck by a toddler onto his body, his face features distorted in such ugly fashion, a huge scar running down the side of his face through his eyes.
''Found you, Vongola Boss.'' The guy spoke in a nasal voice, his voice like the sounds of metals rubbing against each other. Unpleasant and rough.
''Kerl Family!'' A look of shock pasted onto Giotto's face as he got to his feet, dusting his clothes slightly of the glass shards.
''So you do remember us, scum.'' The guy smirked, which actually, if possible, made him looked ten times uglier.
''So there was a survivor after all.'' Giotto's leg spread slightly in preparation for a battle, while putting on his gloves, his eyebrows furrowed.
''Primo, what happened…'' G said in a rather sleepy voice, his hands reaching for his head and rubbed it. Tsuna was knocked unconscious by the impact.
''G, I would like you to take Tsuna to a safer place, preferably the campus. I have unfinished business to settle.'' Giotto whispered, as his eyes closed and went into hyper dying will mode, his golden eyes now sparkling with some form of fire. His hands scrunched up as his eyebrows grew more furrowed as he looked at the man in front of him.
''Be back soon, okay?'' G said as he took in the situation before he carry Tsuna on his back without a second word, Tsuna's head hanging over G's shoulders and ran outwards through the bakery kitchen. He turned around at the last moment, gave a curt nod which he was returned with one as well and tottered out.
''So you would allow them to escape like that?'' Giotto asked as his attention came back to the muscled man.
''After I get rid of your cursed blood, I can just get them later on.''
''Cursed blood… Huh.'' Giotto's face grew a sardonic grin, while his hands go into battle-ready position.
The muscled man rushed forward with menacing intent.
''Dam.''
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G slowly placed Tsuna on a wooden bench in the garden used for student's leisure reading under the bright sun, while his fingers twitched, but didn't take a smoke. It wasn't exactly a good idea to be smoking on school's ground.
''This little guy who appeared out of nowhere that looked suspiciously similar to Primo with the same ability… Half-brother huh… I don't know you for years now for nothing you know, Giotto…'' G lips twisted into a small smile as he brushed the bangs out of Tsuna's peaceful sleeping face. G's eyes looked up into the brilliantly blue and white sky, the sun light shining into his eyes without mercy. G's hand went up to shield his eyes from the light.
He felt the brunette stirred and looked down. Tsuna's eyes scrunched up for a moment before slowly opening and closed again in shock at the sudden brightness.
''Are you awake, Tsunayoshi?'' G asked as he propped Tsuna up against the bench.
''G-san?'' Tsuna rubbed his eyes sleepily before opening them to their full size. ''Where's Giotto?''
''It doesn't matter. Are you injured anywhere?''
''No… I have a tolerance for pain. But it does seem like I never suffered any damage.''
''That's good, less money can be wasted on medicine.'' G stood up, letting Tsuna have the entire bench to him, and walked to the lawn surrounded by similar wooden benches.
''Hah…'' Tsuna scratched his head slightly.
''Are you really Giotto's half-brother?'' G's back was turned to Tsuna, but his head was half tilted to the back to look at Tsuna's reaction. Tsuna's face became red and seemed to find a keen interest in his canvas shoes.
''Y-Yeah… Why would you say that?''
''You lie in exactly the same way Primo did when he was younger, though he got better at it.''
''… Must I say?'' Tsuna asked, testing the water.
''If you don't want to, I wouldn't force you.''
''…''
''Now…'' G turned around and reached his hands out to Tsuna. 'Let's get back to Primo shall we?'
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''Primo!'' G cried out, as the blond stood motionlessly in front of the ridiculously muscled man sprawled on all fours on the floor.
''Huh? Ah G, it's you.'' Giotto turned his head around, much to the shock of the two.
His face had red liquid splattered on it, like a canvas a painter used to dry the red colour off his paintbrush before he changed to another colour. His eyes showed no sign of any form of remorse, or more like, he doesn't looked like he knew that he had blood on his face. Even his gloves also had some blood dripping from it onto the corpse on the floor.
The corpse was murdered brutally, the limbs pulled from its joints, the head twisted grotesquely, with a pool of blood underneath the body. It was an unbearable stench of blood. Even G crinkled his nose and looked away from the scene. Tsuna was stupefied, his hands immediately reaching out to cover his ajar mouth.
''Ah…'' Giotto said softly and a look of understanding crossed his face. His voice was so soft; he could have been talking to himself. His fingers licked across his face, the blood being rubbed off on his face and onto the floor, joining the blood pool.
It was that the Tsuna's eyes turned wide with fear. The blond usually had such a calm and kind aura around him… The sight of blood doesn't affect Tsuna that much, after the many battles he went through, but it was the aura and the attitude the blond had shown that scared him.
''Tsuna?'' Giotto stepped forwards, reaching his hand outwar-
''Get away from me!'' Tsuna cried out without thinking twice, and the hand stopped mid-way. Golden eyes widen in surprise as he looked at the young brunette with fear clearly inscribed in his eyes, his hands covering himself as though to protect himself from the unknown. Tsuna looked shocked by his own action.
''Giotto, I-I…'' Tsuna looked at his own hands in fear.
''Tsuna…'' Giotto retracted his hands, painfully and slowly.
''Primo, I will take care of him, why don't you head back to the base first?'' G quickly said in an unusually gentle voice. He had started to get used to seeing his childhood friend in that state. Whenever he had been agitated, his switch will flip and his other hidden personality rise to the surface, the cursed blood that ran in his veins activated and granted him with power, but also with a cruel burden.
Giotto turned around and left without another word, his bangs covered his golden eyes, but G was sure he saw the ghost of sadness on the blond's eyes. Not that he could blame him. That rather slow in the head childhood friend of him had grown vastly attached to the kid over the span of a week.
''Tsunayoshi?'' G shook the brunette who was still in the state of shock, trying to bring the pitiful soul back to the brunette.
''G-san?'' Tsuna spoke like a baby learning his first words.
''It's okay, Tsunayoshi, Giotto isn't as scary as you think.'' G carried Tsuna up into bridal-style. Tsuna blushed a light colour.
''I thought Giotto was kind… But why did he have to kill that guy, and in such brutal fashion? Even if he's an enemy…''
''There are various reasons you know.'' G said as they travelled down the empty street where the people had already fled back to their safe homes. The wind gently blew wittered leaves at the lonely duo walking down the path.
''Reasons?'' Tsuna looked up into G's crimson eyes that looked stunning similar to Gokudera's ones, except they weren't green. Fiery orbs stared back at him, weighing his options.
''You have the Vongola blood in you as well, don't you?'' G looked into the horizon that held the same colour as Giotto's eyes. Eyes of a brilliantly bright golden that never failed to capture anyone's attention. His charisma and charm were unrivalled to no one.
''Yes…'' Tsuna said after a short pause.
''He's called the cursed one… Throughout his lineage, he had been descended from a family of vampires. Vampires had died quite some time before human race became dominant due to some strange illness that infested the vampires' bodies. During the Vampire reign, it was forbidden for them to meet the humans which existed in small numbers at that time. The humans disliked the Vampires, after some accidents where humans were killed by the vampires, or rather, eaten. Giotto's great grandparents were a couple of vampire father and a human mother, who gave birth to an extraordinary human with some powers of vampires. The father came from a noble pure blood vampire family named the Vongola family. The couple died soon after that, a curse that came from the forbidden love between human and vampires. However the child couldn't live very long as well, the vampire blood dominated the human blood and the human body couldn't withstand the destructive vampire blood. However, that child had several children before he died alongside with his human lover. The vampire blood slowly gets mixed with the human blood and with each generation, the descendants could live longer and the vampire blood slowly grew accustomed to the human body, granting more of the power of the accursed vampires to the cursed humans. Giotto is one, with his Vongola blood. The hyper intuition was part of the power of the vampires. Of course, the vampires don't exist anymore. However, being the partial vampire he was, he sometimes have this urge to kill people when provoked and feed on their blood. Thus, the people called him the cursed one. Of course, Giotto has it under control, but it will surface at various times. His other hidden personality that he loathed to the core.'' G explained, barely stopping in between to catch some breath.
''That can't be…'' Tsuna's eyes widen to the size of sauce plates with a mixture of fear, concern, and various others feelings. His eyebrow furrowed to its maximum, his hands swayed into their usual praying pose.
''So I'm also a partial vampire?'' Tsuna could barely hear his own voice in the whistle of the wind.
''Yes.'' G replied.
''… That's …'' Tears sparkled at the rims of the chocolate orbs. Tsuna couldn't control the shivering evident in both his voice and body.
''I got a dam shock when I first saw him on a rampage as well. That was the first time I ever saw him snapp-''
''G.'' Giotto's calm voice reverberated with sadness as the duo reached the Japan base's entrance.
''Giotto! I'm sorry!'' Tears were flung into the air without care as the brunette jumped into the arms of the blond, hands clawing onto the blond's shirt, head snuggled up against his chest, legs barely brushing the floor.
''Tsuna, I'm sorry you got a scare.'' Giotto's face broke into a relived small smile as he patted Tsuna's back.
''It's okay.'' Tsuna looked up and shook his head, eyes still with some evidence of the tears leaking.
''Baka-Tsuna.'' Giotto chuckled softly as he wiped the tears out of Tsuna's teary orbs. ''Tsuna, I'm real-''
''Yeah, yeah, have your sweet reunion inside, people are watching.'' G whizzed past them, speaking in a monotone voice that could be on par with Fran.
''Let's go in, Tsuna.''
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Giotto's POV
Flashback
''That kid, is he someone related to you?'' The Kerl Family's grunt asked as he sent a flying kick right to my face. I blocked it with all my might; those muscles weren't for show after all.
''Don't you dare eat him.'' I hissed dangerously as I managed a successful punch to his stomach, and a sickening crunch was heard in the air as he flew backwards from the impact and into the brick wall. He made a huge hole through and landed somewhere in the middle of the empty road.
''Who knows, he looks delicious.'' He stood back up as though nothing really happened with a huge smirk on his face. Oh how I would love to wipe that smirk off him with some sandpaper. ''I might even present him to my master for some lovely experiments.''
At that I snapped. I don't really remembered what happened afterwards, a common sensation that wasn't all that unfamiliar. But all I remembered was that I beat the daylights out of him with barely any injury on me except blood splattered everywhere on my clothes, and that the next thing I registered was Tsuna looking dead shocked at me and G crinkling his nose.
I have never known myself to lose it so easily.
Had I really fallen for him?
''Giotto…Don't tell me…You have fallen for him?'' G asked me with a serious face.
''I don't know…'' I could barely register the turmoil happening in my heart. It would be wrong, very wrong, to fall for your own descendant. He's my descendant! How could this happen!
It can't be… Right?
G looked at me with an evaluative look and then remained silent.
''Give yourself more time to think it thoroughly.'' G finally said with carefully chosen words after a long silence.
''But…'' I began weakly.
''No buts.'' G said firmly.
The rest of the journey was dead silent, with G falling asleep somewhere along the road while I was left to sort out my own feelings. A bittersweet warm feeling engulfed my heart in its vice claws every time I looked at the cute brunette sleeping. A soft sleeping sound came from him and I couldn't resist the heat creeping into my cheeks.
Could this actually be love?
Me who had never experienced this feeling before?
End Flashback
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I really liked how this chapter turned out somehow.
Yeah! A long chapte! The vampire thing wasn't actually meant to be in the original story plot, but I added it in. It was a sudden struck of inspiration after seeing some vampire books at the library and I thought, why not?
Angelic Fluffle, okay, thanks a lot for the encouragement! :)
Pure Red Crane, hehehe~ Giotto in love would be cute.
Ilover145, actually Tsuna is Giotto's ''half-brother'', but in actual fact, Tsuna is Giotto's descendant! Poor Giotto *Sigh* I'm glad you think it was well-made!
Franzis-chan, haha glad you think it was good :) Tsuna and Giotto do have more similarity than the people around them think hehe.