Probably should've waited before posting this but i just couldn't wait and if u read u'll see why.
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Another day and still no one pops up for a fight. Things are as peaceful as they get when you got the strongest mafia family getting ready for the succession of yet another generation. Aside from the one assassination attempt everything's actually too quiet but nothing I can do about that.
"Hey Karen what's up?" Takeshi tried to surprise me. We had made a bet that if he can sneak up on me and give attack, than I would do all his shifts at Take-sushi for a month and do whatever he tells me to do for an hour after the heart attack. I wonder what brought it on though, it was just one those things that happened.
"Nothing really. That's what's bugging me," I felt my face go down in a frown,
"Really?"
"Yeah. Usually this is the golden opportunity for rival Families to end the Vongola but they're being too quiet. I wonder…" my thoughts branched out to a worst scenario possible: a powerful rival family had allied with all the other rivals and were waiting for one of the families to make a move.
"You know, you need to stop doing that," Takeshi frowned slightly,
"What?" I hesitated, unsure with the expression on his face
"You keep wrapping into yourself. You don't tell anyone everything. I know part of it is because it's somebody else's stuff but you don't share your own information."
I didn't say anything. This was out of the blue and it was frustrating. "Like what? I don't know squat about being a friend considering I've never made any,"
"Why not?" Takeshi clearly didn't believe I couldn't make friends,
"I don't relate to people! Most of the Italian boys I meet are old school and the girls are ditzy, shallow sluts. It's almost the same on every freakin' continent!" I threw up my hands, "So of course I don't know what it means to be a friend or to have one. Besides no one likes having kid who scores better than them on tests because of photographic memory. I never have to study and I get a perfect score while other kids are studying like their life depends on it and only get eight out of ten". The swish of the grass caused by a breeze was the only sound in the baseball field. Good thing for me there was no one in hearing distance. "Part of it's my fault", I turned around, "I choose to join the Varia and in there, you either grow up or die". Can't believe I'm actually saying all this but it's a relief to not have it all on me. "Superbi knows all of this, Takeshi. Even if I don't tell him he always figures it out".
"That's impressive," Takeshi commented, "I wonder if I'll ever be able to do that"
"Huh?" I heard him I just don't think I heard right,
"Nothing. Just…well, wish I knew you like Squalo does,"
"You'll never know me like he does," I shook my head,
"Why not?" I saw a flicker of panic in Takeshi's eyes as his body tensed,
"You are you, Superbi is Superbi. Superbi is the one who raised me. You're my best friend," I pointed out,
"Oh…right," he grinned, visibly relaxing. Why on earth did he tense up like that?
Dense, dense, dense, Mukuro started chanting,
Look at whose taking
"Hey Karen?" Takeshi waved a hand in front of face,
"Yeah?" I jolted,
"Did I win the bet?" he grinned,
"Dunno. Mukuro was distracting me," I shrugged, "So yeah. I guess you did," I smiled, wow he actually did it with Mukuro's help.
"Sweet. Then you got to answer all my questions for the next hour,"
"You're just drilling me?" I asked as I set the timer on my watch,
"Hey I'm asking the Q." he grinned.
"Start shootin' you're times tickin'" I placed my hands on my hips, wondering where the heck this going to go,
"Why did you join the Varia?" oh shit. This is going to be one of those. He was serious too.
"….I…um," I scrambled to get things straight, "It was just after Superbi came home from his journey. The one where he was 'absorbing' sword styles", I put finger quotations in the air for absorbing, "well, um. I was racing home to be the first one to see him," I couldn't help but smile at how enthusiastic I had been, "ugh. Well, when I got there, someone tried to knock him off because he had hurt their friend. I hadn't realized how dangerous our world was until then. I decided that I would do my best to keep him alive. He didn't want me in but once I promised him that he wouldn't regret it he allowed me and taught everything I needed to survive," I shrugged.
"Wow" was all Takeshi said.
"Mind if I get two questions in quick?" I glanced at Takeshi, who was lying in the grass beside me,
"Nope" he was still staring at the sky,
"Of all the things to get me to do for the bet, why did you choose this?"
"Guess I want to learn more about it you and this seemed like the best option?" he suggested, gesturing widely,
"Okay. You got half an hour to go," I glanced at my watch,
"What about the second question?"
"I already asked," I grinned, "you got twenty-nine minutes to go"
"Okay, umm, have you ever felt really stressed? Like you're going to coo-koo?" he twirled his fingers in the universal gesture of screws loose.
"Kind of feeling it right now," I admitted,
"Why?"
"Things haven't really slowed down a lot since the Varia came to town and I haven't really had time to unwind, like go through the routines of life for a couple days. Right after the Varia we were chucked into the future where we almost got our asses kicked and then we're back here with the inheritance ceremony coming up. I've also taken a couple nukes to the head,"
"You don't need to explain the scramble and future. I know you were all freaked because you were worried about Squalo," he grimaced slightly. Yeah, almost having your brother consumed by a shark and then having him loose his sword arm to a magma wacko definitely freaked me out. "But what are the 'nukes'?," he put air quotations around 'nukes'.
"Well, turns out I'm a Misty Rain Guardian," I handed him my ring, "and apparently, Tsuna is my cousin,"
"Whoa, back up!" Takeshi's body language indicated he felt the nuclear bomb as well,
"The Misty Rain Guardian is pretty much a ninja and diplomat, she has the qualities of Rain and Mist. Her duty is to support the entire family, whether it's obtaining information or filling positions or whatever".
"Cool! But why is there orange on the ring if you're mist and rain?"
I shrugged, "Dunno. I think it represents the positions I can fill, like Rain Guardian, Mist Guardian and….Boss".
"Okay, are you and Tsuna cousins, three times removed or something?" he sounded exactly like me when the Ninth dropped that bomb,
"My mom was Tsuna's dad's sister," I said slowly to make sure I didn't mess up,
"Holy Shit. Have you told Tsuna?" he cocked his head,
"NO! I don't want it public. I mean, well, it's hard to explain. I….ugh!"
"Is Squalo Tsuna's cousin as well?" his brow furrowed slightly,
"Nope. Just me. Our dad remarried after Superbi's mom died,"
"Oh,"
"Yeah that's how it goes," I shook my head again,
"Well, I guess I think I get how you feel. You're use to thinking of Squalo as you're only family and you're worried that Squalo will get replaced". Now that's what I call hitting the head of the nail."Don't worry. I won't tell anyone," he grinned, holding up his pinky finger. I looked down and hesitantly offered my own pinky, which he just grasped and shook.
"I feel like a little kid," for some reason I felt my eyes water and they have never, ever, EVER done that,
"What did I say?" Takeshi yelped. Before I could say 'nothing' Takeshi just suddenly hugged me. "Everything's gonna be fine," he whispered. I meant to just hug him back slightly, but I found myself clinging to him with my face buried in his chest. I guess I am physically identical to the average teen girl.
Two hours later, Tsuyoshi was aware of Takeshi's and mine bet. He just shook his head, "Should've come up with something better than that," he muttered. "Did you guys have fun?" he inquired, grinning,
"Yeah, the baseball game was fun" I answered as Takeshi missed the insinuation in his father's smile. Why do I get the feeling he knew Takeshi and I hugged earlier? Honestly people, there was nothing romantic about it!
Even though I took Takeshi's shifts he still helped out, mainly cleaning rice and soy drenched dishes. I'm not minding the extra shift; in fact I love it. All the stress from the term in the future is starting to catch up and it doesn't help either I'm still reeling from the nuclear bombs (one and only candidate for Undicesimo Vongola and Tsuna's biological cousin) are not helping me. Another thing that puzzled me was the attack on the Giegue Family. I don't know the location but the attack had to have been in a remote place otherwise someone would've noticed the battle. The other thing bothering me is that's the same day I ran into Adelheid by the demolition site. Had she known what happened? If she had, why didn't she tell anyone? Or did she tell someone, just not the Vongola? My thoughts started running from point one to point two and back to point one.
"What are you thinking?" Takeshi asked when I handed him some more plates,
"Eh? Sorry, I'm…"
"Distracted. You're all woo-woo, right?"
I couldn't help but laugh at that, the way he uses sounds and gestures in his speech, "You know me pretty well,"
"So what's up?" he turned serious,
"Just tired," I sighed, "Emotionally I mean. There's…been a lot of things going on,"
"Like Tsuna becoming a boss tomorrow?" he grinned, "do you want to come with me to the school? Kaoru and I are practicing for the upcoming game, so if you want to burn some steam…"
"No thanks. I got get to home after work to help Nana with making supper. Good thing she cooks a lot of food. She needs to feed an army," I grinned,
"Okay. Have fun, I gotta roll now,"
"Okay, see yeah tomorrow".