N/A: So, finally the sixth chapter anyway thanks for all the support, and for giving out comments, reviews, and critics. I hope if I do or did any mistakes etc. etc. pls tell me…so the sixth chapter, Hermione had decided to tell them the truth about her, and what do you guys think, and basically this is Hermione/Mukuro pairing, but if any of you wish to see other pairing pls let me know…
Chapter 6: The Bizarre Vongola Family
It was two days ago when she revealed her secret to both Mukuro and Chrome about her being a witch, and since that day she's been thinking of choosing suitable time to tell the rest, and luckily both Mukuro and Chrome didn't tell a soul about it, not even to Ken and Chikusa.
And today Hermione sits in the Vongola 9th office, facing the old, kind boss who is trusted by every of his men and allies. She is pretty nervous actually, surrounded by people who had many experiences compared to her, a young woman who is going to start her journey of commitment and passion. The Vongola 9th looks at her, and she could feel herself tiny, with no experience whatsoever. Yet they but offers her a partnership to work with them, basically with the Vongola Decimo and his family.
"Miss Granger…"
"Hermione…just Hermione, please." Hermione speak softly, she would prefer to be called with her given name rather than used her surname. That would help her to feels a bit comfortable, if she is going to work or to collaborate with them.
"Okay, Hermione. So you already made up your mind, and you are pretty sure about it, am I correct?" the Vongola 9th gazes at her, and Hermione look at him in the eyes, her confidence is begin to build up back. From the gleams of her eyes the old boss knew that she is already made up her mind and positive about it. The Vongola 9th is but glad that Hermione has decided to be truthful with the Vongola 10th family, in order to build up trust among them. He remembered his acquaintance had told him that to give her time for her to build back her confidence, and slowly she will open herself to them in order to build a trust, and thus loyalty will form within them.
"Yes Sir. I am positive about it. Because I believe that this is the only way if we are going to work and train together. To have this collaboration then we have to build up trust and we need to know each other well, right?"
The Vongola 9th nods his head knowing that she got her points at the right place. The old boss believes that he could trust her to help the Vongola 10th and his family in becoming great successors of the Vongola bloodline.
"Very well, I too believe that you had made a right decision, it is wise for you to tell them of who you are and it will make thing easier for all of you in the future. And I can't say how much I appreciate this and I want to say thank you for you. It will be better if they hear it from you." The Vongola 9th all but smiles and nods his head to her, showing that he really appreciates her decision.
"And may I ask one more thing, if you don't mind?" Hermione had one more thing that still clouding her mind.
"Yes just ask anything that you wish to ask, and I will try to give my best answer for you." The Vongola 9th let her to proceed with her question.
"I just wonder, how did you find out about me, and I have to admit that it is really a surprise for me. I begin to think that it is not a coincidence that you know a lot about me, even as a witch. I would like to know whether you choose me of whom I am or by recommendation by someone who knew me well. And other thing that keeps playing in my mind is that I knew there is someone else, I don't know who but somehow I know that this person knew me quite well since you knew about me but I can't say if I knew or not who this person is." Hermione speak as her fingers fiddles with the hem of her shirt, she was pretty nervous but yet it has to be asked.
The Vongola 9th understands, but it is not the time to tell her yet. Slowly, he inhales as he looks at her who is eager to get her explanation from the old boss.
"Hermione, I wish I could tell you now, but it is not the right time yet. When the time's come, I will tell you everything. At the moment all we could do is to build a trust and commitment among us. And now most important is how you are going to break the news to them."
Hermione listen as she could only nod her head, understand of his explanation. Seems that she has to wait to get her answer, and till that time she had to work hard to earn everyone's trust.
It was late in the afternoon as Hermione and Mukuro are having their afternoon tea with the rest of the guardians while Tsuna is having some conversation with the Vongola 9th. Both of them are not yet to reveals their feeling for each other, they wait for it to bloom before they confess.
Hermione is a bit nervous; she plans to tell them after dinner. It would be easier though she is not sure how. Even though she knew that some of them are not that normal, but hers are way different from them because she is born with it, the power of a witch. And not any ordinary witch, she is one part of the Golden Trio who had saved the Wizarding world from the evil Voldermort and her talents and wits are seeks by others who wish to have her working for them, except the twins who for unknown reasons disliked and hated her, and they are even worse than the once evil Draco Malfoy.
Mukuro keep glances at her, knowing that her mind is now somewhere else, and he know how nervous she is for tonight. Yes, Mukuro and Chrome already know about her plan of telling the rest of them, and Dino is going to join them tonight to support her, that brother figure.
Tsuna glances at her, wonders of what she wants to tell them tonight, seems that it is important as she needs to tell all of them (Vongola 10th and the guardians). All, what he have to do is to wait for tonight, after dinner he presume, yeah he remembered she told him that. And his intuition tells him that somehow Dino, Mukuro and probably Chrome already know about this.
Dinner went smoothly as everyone didn't think much of the next event. Even Hermione seems to be much confidence now, and to everyone surprise, apart from Mukuro, Chrome, Tsuna, Vongola 9th and Hermione herself, Dino joined them for dinner, along with Romario and Bono.
And more surprisingly for all of them, includes Hermione herself, the Varia are also there joining them for dinner, as if they too had the intuitions of something is going to happen, even the Vongola 9th didn't mention anything to them.
Even how confidence Hermione was, being with Xanxus made her nervous, and that guy with scar somehow freak her out. His glares enough to make anyone freak and had a nightmare.
In a private hall
Hermoine is now confidence and a little nervous since the Varia are there, which she didn't expects that they plan to shows up at the very time.
She tucks her wand in her sleeve and make sure that none of them see it. She takes a deep breath as she tries to overcome the nervousness.
Dino, as being Hermione brother figure, pat her shoulder softly to comfort her. Mukuro could feel pang of jealousy hit his chest even he knows that Dino is her acting brother, but he couldn't help it.
Tsuna could feel tenses arise within the private hall, he could detects that most of them are eager to know of what Hermione wants to tell them, includes himself. But somehow the present of the Varia make him wonder if Hermione had planned to invites them along, but somehow he didn't remember her mentioned about them earlier. And since they were here arguments begins to form among them, no surprise at all.
"Calm yourself down, remember that you are a former Gryffindor, so use your Gryffindor courage, don't chicken out at the last minutes, it is now or never." Hermione thought to herself, she let her mind to think positively, and thus she is ready to proceed.
Hermione cleared her throat, but it was not loud enough for them to stop and look. Even their voices are much louder than hers, and it's not a surprise at all remembering who they are. Hermione had to give a second try, and she will try it hard. This time around, she clears her throat, much louder and as a result all of them stop from doing their current activities, like arguing, shouting, swearing and cursing and such, and all the eyes are focus on her. Silent hit through the hall, and sound of breathe can be hear clearly.
"Great, now you've got their attention, so what are you waiting for?" Her mind is now telling her to proceed.
"Mhmmm…hi everyone, I'm sorry to take your free time for tonight. I had something to tell you and it's about…who I am," Hermione speaks politely to them, if Professor McGonagall find out she would be very proud of her favourite former student.
"Hmmm…" Xanxus stares at her as he smirks, and it makes Hermione cringe as she is about to continues.
"Well, you might find it a bit odd, but as you see I'm not just any normal person…" Hermione stop, take a deep breath as she could see that they are now gives an absolute attention to her, and some of them even give her strange look.
"What do you mean you are not a normal, you look absolutely just like the rest of us?" Ryohei speaks as he is surprise with her statement.
"Well, of course I look just like the rest of you because I am human as well, just that I'm…well let me make it simple, I'm a witch." Hermione finally let it out, making almost everyone gasp at her, except for Mukuro, Dino and Chrome, and Xanxus looks at her in disbelief.
"You are a what?" Ryohei questioned again as he couldn't believe of what he had heard.
"I'm a witch, and I'm sorry for not telling you earlier," Hermione apologizes to them.
"Bwahahahahahaha…are you try to make a joke here?" Xanxus laugh as he taunts her and think that she is bluffing. Levi, as usual, follows exactly what his boss did, laugh at her. Hermione snaps, she narrows her eyes at them. She then turns her gaze somewhere else. Almost all the Varia, except for Squalo, laughs as if she had told them some funny jokes.
"No I'm not joking," Hermione retort back softly, she tries to calm herself.
"Ushishishishishi…you means, you are a witch, like a magician that can do tricks like taking out rabbit from a hat, a magic trick that only work for children." Bel begins to mock her as Mammon smirks.
"No, I'm not that kind of magician that performs tricks for children whatsoever. In fact, I'm not a magician; I was born a witch, meaning I was born with the ability to possessed magical powers. And I don't do magic trick that you think was meant for children. And the magic spells and charms that I can do, not all are quite suitable for children, especially to non-magical children. And if you want to be stun by this spell of mine then be my guest." This time Hermione told them firmly, she is quite angry as well and ready to draw her wand anytime soon. Well, back in the Wizarding world, an angry Hermione with wand in her hand means anyone who had angered her should run for their life.
Bel who is taken back, glares at her as veins are twitches in his head. "This girl…who the hell she think she is…"
Tsuna and Dino flinches, they had never seen her like this before. The rest of them watch her in awe and some are quite shock and surprise to see her retorted back at him, includes Reborn and Hibari.
"This is interesting, a witch in the family." The Arcobaleno hitman grinned as he thought to himself.
Tsuna walks toward Dino and asks him about Hermione's claimed that she is a witch, Dino nods with a slight grin as Tsuna gawk as his jaw drop to the floor and eyes wide open.
"Then how come you never told us about it?" Tsuna is now half whisper, didn't want to let the angry witch to hear them.
"Well, it is not my place to tell anyone about it, it is her to tell though I'm happy that she did," the Bucking Bronco replied as he slightly grin and turns his attention to the young witch who tries to control her anger at the moment.
"Dino-san, who else knew about this? What about Vongola 9th, does he knows too?" Tsuna is now curious as he moves a bit closer to Dino.
"Apart from myself are Mukuro and Chrome, they already found out about it about couple of days ago and they had promised her not to tell anyone about it. And about Vongola 9th, yes he did. In fact, he had known about her being a witch long before us and it's him that offered her to come here and join this organization." Dino replied solemnly, his eyes fixed on the gorgeous brunette in front of him.
Mukuro leans on the wall, he glances at the girl who had caught his interest and very fascinating, indeed. A slight grin appears in his face as Chrome stand next to him, gazes at the brunette who keeps her glares at the Prince of Ripper. "She really got some guts to stand against the Varia's knives-freak." Chrome thought to herself.
Hibari is quite surprise to see Hermione stand against the Varia genius. Yamamoto, Ryohei, Bianchi, Lambo and I-pin are surprise to see the other side of Hermione. Well, by right they didn't know much of the former Gryffindor Princess and the brain of the Golden Trio.
"Hermione, control yourself…don't let anger control you…oh come on, get a grip on yourself." Her mind is now half shouting at her.
Hermione finally manages to calm herself down as she slowly takes a breath. "Sorry about that, didn't expect that to happen."
"So much of a Gryffindor courage that is," she then thought to herself.
Belphegor is about to retort back when suddenly someone pats his shoulder, turn around in anger he could see Lussuria tries to calm him.
"There, there. No need to fight, come let's make friend with each other yea…" the Varia Sun Guardian said in his slightly annoying voice as Gokudera and Xanxus rolled their eyes.
"Tch…"
"…"
"Damn you freak, let me go."
"…"
Hermione watches the two Varia in awe, and she admits that they can be pretty scary too. She then slowly step backward, stand next to Dino and Tsuna as the three of them watches the two men argues.
"Trashes," exclaimed the Varia boss, shocked almost everyone in the private hall. Both Lussuria and Bel stop their little argument and slowly retreat back. He then turns his attention to the brunette witch, a smirk slowly appear in in his face.
Hermione did not like the look in his face, she know that he is up to something.
"So…a witch huh?" said Xanxus as he rise from his seat and slowly walk towards the trio. Hermione winces as she step next to Dino, feels uncomfortable when Xanxus approaches them.
Mukuro glares at the Varia boss, he knows that he have something in his sleeve and the illusionist did not like it at all. He then slowly walk away from the wall, tries to control himself from doing anything stupid and regret for not standing nearby her.
Dino, Tsuna and Reborn, who is sitting on Yamamoto's shoulder, watch Xanxus with frown in their faces. Even Yamamoto, Chrome and Hibari had the worried looks shown in their faces.
"What are you trying to do, Xanxus?" Dino demand some answer as the Varia boss who is now stand in front of them, or more precisely in front of Hermione.
"Hmmm…" Xanxus didn't bother to answer as he looks straight at Hermione.
Hermione somehow couldn't get herself to face Xanxus. She couldn't look at him straight in the eyes.
Xanxus smirks as he brings his hand to her face and lift her chin, force her to face him, much to Dino, Reborn, Tsuna and the Vongola 10th Guardians dismay.
Hermione is now beyond panic, her heart beat fast and she couldn't breathe properly. She grips tightly on Dino's shirt. Somehow she feels weak and couldn't move a muscle as Xanxus stares at her straight in the eyes.
"XANXUS." Dino somehow managed to snaps them as he grasp Xanxus' hand, demand him to let her go.
Xanxus glares at him as his hand slowly left her face. Hermione takes a moment to calm herself as she slowly loosens her grips on Dino's shirt. Xanxus is still standing in front of her, but now he is looking straight at the Cavallone Decimo who slowly loosens his grip on Xanxus' hand and let it go.
"Is there a problem, Bucking Horse Dino?" Xanxus mocks him. Dino say nothing but stare at him. Squalo and the rest of the Varia stare at their boss and the trio.
"Are you afraid that I will do something to her? I just want to welcome her to the family." The Varia boss is now speaking a bit harshly at him. He then turns his attention again to Hermione and slowly grins at her. "Welcome to the Vongola family."
Hermione nods her head slowly when out of the sudden Lussuria approach them.
"Welcome, welcome. I'm so happy that you could join us," Lussuria speaks as he put his arm around her shoulders which makes her shock and blushes pretty badly. Dino and Tsuna are too shocks to say a word while Mukuro flinches and glares at the Varia Sun Guardian in hatred.
Reborn who already jump down from Yamamoto's shoulder, walks toward Dino and them.
"Damn you bastard, let her go," Gokudera yelled at Lussuria. The Varia fighter simply pout his mouth as he mock the Vongola 10th Storm Guardian. "Are you jealous because I can hug her?"
Gokudera, Dino, Tsuna and Hermione gawks as they stared at him. Yamamoto simply laughs heartily. Ken and Chikusa are both speechless, and a tint of blush appears in Ken's face.
"What the hell are you talking, you freak?" shouts Gokudera, his face is now red.
"Aha…you are indeed jealous, aren't you?" teased Lussuria again as he tightens his grip on Hermione's shoulder and wink at Gokudera (if they can see since he's wore a sunglasses, at night?) Hermione is now redder than a tomato and she was speechless and her mind went blank. Bel and Mammon smirks as Gokudera scowls at them.
Soon the private hall is filled with noises and shouts as some of the Varia and the Vongola 10th Guardians engaged in small arguments, as usual. Hibari simply enjoyed himself watching the commotion while I-pin and Lambo playing tag around the hall. Hermione managed to free herself from Lussuria and walk away from the commotion that happens in the middle of the hall. She proceed herself to one of the empty sofa and sit down, watches the commotion among them.
"This is going to be a long night," she thought to herself. She then realizes that each and every one of them are indeed special in their own way, and like her, some of them are not that normal, indeed that the Vongola is a bizarre family, includes her.
Mukuro sees Hermione is now alone, walks toward and stand next to her. Chrome follows from behind and sits next to Hermione. Ken and Chikusa slowly follow them as they stand next to Chrome.
"Are you alright?" Mukuro asks her, he is clearly worried about her. Hermione shakes her head and smiles at him. And Mukuro swear that Hermione's smile was indeed very beautiful.
Later they are joined by Lambo, I-pin, Bianchi and Reborn, and even Hibari stand nearby them. "Welcome to the family, I'm glad that you take the courage to tell us about yourself," Reborn welcomed her again with a smile as he sit between Hermione and Chrome. Lambo and I-pin managed to squeeze themselves between the three (luckily the sofa is big enough for them).
"Thank you. I just don't know how to break the news to all of you," Hermione replied as she slightly smiles at them.
"Nee sister, can you show us some magic?" Lambo asks her as both I-pin and he looks at her. She simply smiles and nods her head. This has creates a little attention from those who are nearby them, and soon they are joined by Yamamoto, Ryohei, Hibari (surprise) and more surprisingly Lussuria, and even Levi glances at them with curiosity. Squalo stares at them from afar, he too curious about the group, which include two of the Varia members.
Hermione draw her wand from her sleeve as the rest watch in amaze.
"What's that?" asked Yamamoto as he looks at the wand in awe.
"This is my wand, I can conjures spells and charms with this," Hermione explains to them as they nods their head understandingly, includes Lussuria and Levi, well except for Hibari as he stares at the well-crafted wand in her hand.
"Let's see, which magic I can show to you." Hermione pout her lips, thinking of a suitable spell and charm. At that time both Lambo and I-pin had canned juice with them and as Lambo sucks his drink, he realized that his can is now empty.
"Alala, mine just finish," Lambo said as he hold his now empty can.
"Mine too," said I-pin as she hold hers.
"I think there's one charm I can show you," Hermione said as she conjures a refilling charm on both Lambo and I-pin's drink can. They both amaze as their drink cans are refilled back.
"More, more," both Lambo and I-pin speaks simultaneously and grin at her.
"Hmmm…" Hermione is thinking of a spell or charm when Dino interrupts her.
"What about that charm that you had showed me, the one with the otter?"
"Otter?" most of them speaks simultaneously as they looks at him, except Hermione, Mukuro, Chrome and Hibari. Dino could only laughs as he put his hand behind his head.
"You mean, the one that float above us?" Chrome now attracts the attention to herself, when she realized it she blushes as Hermione giggles. Dino smiles as he hear her giggles, it sound very beautiful. Mukuro who never hear her giggles, thought it as charming and sweet.
"What are you two talking about?" Ryohei couldn't understand as he scratch his head, tries to figure out what they mean.
Hermione remembered it well, the Patronus Charm. Taking a deep breathe, her attention is now towards her wand in her hand. The rest of them wait in anticipation.
"Here goes…Expecto Patronum." Hermione conjures the charm after she thinks of one of her happiest memory, the memory of her with her best friends. Those around her, includes Squalo, gazes in awe as a silvery mist suddenly appear from the tip of her wand and slowly it begins to form a shape. Then, all of them (those who are around her, of course, with the exception of Dino since he already knew about it) gasps when a silvery mist otter is formed.
Since Hermione had determined to master the complex charm, she had succeeded in it when her Patronus had completely formed, a corporeal Patronus, and no longer in the appearance of a silvery mist, her Patronus is now fairly solid-looking otter and its glow more beautiful than ever.
"I've done it, I had cast my Patronus charm perfectly," Hermione is now beaming with happiness as she watches her Patronus float and 'swim' above them, circle itself among the mafia and even swim in faster speed. Even Dino watch in awe as this time around the otter is no longer in the form of silvery mist, but it is in a complete form of an otter, just like real except its glows.
The commotion stops as all of them turn their gazes to the glowing otter that float above them. It even goes nearer to the mafia and twirls itself around them before swim away.
"It's beautiful," I-pin and Chrome said simultaneously as Lambo and Bianchi, and even Lussuria nods their head, agree with them.
Tsuna was amaze when Hermione's Patronus swim nearby him, even Xanxus shock to see the glowing otter float around them. And Gokudera's eyes widely open as he found himself astonishing with the floating, glowing otter that 'swimming' around them and even making a noise like the real one.
Bel's mouth is widely open, but somehow Mammon thinks it is just a trick form from a mist.
"I bet it just a formed mist, I'll crush it like nothing," exclaimed the Varia Mist Guardian proudly as he taunted towards the charm. Well, since he's floating in the air he tries to knock down and destroys the charm, not knowing of what he's been dealing with.
Most of them are shock to hear his arrogant exclaim, even Lussuria asks him to stop, but well liked he's going to listen.
As he approach the Patronus tries to crash it, the Patronus somehow begin to 'swim' much faster as he crash on the Varia Mist Guardian, and because Mammon first thought that it just a mist it won't likely to hurt him, that was his biggest mistake.
The crash, since the Patronus is capable to interacting with physical objects, had knock Mammon down and he fell to the floor, leaving all of them to watch in shock and some even give a surprise looks. Even Xanxus, Squalo, Hibari and even Mukuro watches in surprise, and amaze of what the charm is capable of. The private hall is now become silent with no single sound come from any of them.
"Ow…that's hurt," cried Mammon as he still lies on the floor and break the silent.
Hermione then decides that she had enough with her charm for now and slowly her Patronus begins to fade away.
"Serve you right," Lussuria mocks Mammon who is still lying on the floor.
"Ushishishishishi…how's it feel?" Bel is stares down at Mammon and mocks him.
"Damn you," all Mammon could say at the moment as he slowly lift himself up and float back.
Hermione is now tired and she feel sleepy, and she could see that some of them begin to yawn, well today was a tiring day and all of them decides to call it a night.
Xanxus stares at the gorgeous brunette as she left for her room, watch her with interest.
Within minutes, the Varia left the Vongola Headquarters, head back to their own headquarters.
After saying their goodnight, Dino and his men decides to go back to their own family manor.
Back in her room, Hermione is about to change into her nightgown when suddenly there's a knock in the door. As she opens the door, she could see Mukuro stands outside her room. She lets him in as he wanted to see her for a while before going to bed.
"You've did a great thing today, you're being honest with them," Mukuro said as he lean on the door.
"Thank you," Hermione said with a smile in her face.
"Well, I just stop by to say goodnight, I know today is a tiring day and hope that you'll have a good night sleep," said the blue-haired illusionist, and as he looks around he saw Hermione's photo frame next to her bed. And what surprising him more is that the photo seems to be, alive.
"What's that," he asked as he pointed at the photo. Hermione follows his gaze and see what he saw.
Rather than freak out liked last time, she go and take the photo frame and shows it to him, which he watch in amaze and in the photo he could see four teenagers waving their hands and smiling happily, and even playfully push each other and one of them he could recognize as the beauty in front of him.
"This is wizard photo. This is the photo of me and my best friends. This is Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Ginny Weasley and we took this photo before entered our final year at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Wizarding world in England. I haven't seen them for a year now and I've missed them so much. Ron and Ginny are brother and sister. Harry, Ron and I are at the same year, and Ginny is younger than us by a year." Hermione explains to Mukuro as he looks in awe at the photo.
"You must have been a strong person to be all by yourself since you didn't see them for a long time," Mukuro replied as he handed back the photo to her. She put the photo frame on the bed as Hermione could only nod her head as she could feel tears in her eyes. Mukuro is almost right, she tried to be strong.
Mukuro lift her chin and wipe the tears that fell from her eyes. Hermione couldn't help but blush. Mukuro lean towards her and do thing he never thought he would ever do, he kiss her. And the moment their lips touch they could feel a spark as they begin to devour each other's lips. Their kiss was slow and full of passion as Mukuro's hand lingers around her waist and pulls her closer to him while Hermione had one hand behind his neck as she too pulls him closer to her and another hand play and grip his hair. They both moan in their kiss as Mukuro's tongue licks her upper lip and ask for a permission to enter her mouth as Hermione granted it. Their kiss become more deeply and passionately.
After a few good minutes of kiss, they pull away as they both gasp for air. Both of them had never feels liked this before. There's an awkward silent between them for a moment before Mukuro decides to break it off.
"Think I should go to bed now, it's getting late," said Mukuro softly as he pull away from her as Hermione nod her head slowly, blushes in their faces. And before he left he give her a short, sweet kiss and wish her goodnight before left her bedroom and heads to his own.
Alright people, sorry for the delay because I took a long time to think for an idea and also because of my laziness, sometimes I already got the idea but too lazy to type and then I forgot what I want to write…well next chapter is coming up though it might take some time as well. So Hermione and Mukuro already had their first kiss, so what do you guys think, I know it's a bit early but I can't help it and I think that this is the longest chapter so far…and sorry for any grammatical error.