Aug 15, 2008 22:19
Title: Relationship
Characters: Squalo, Dino
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG 15 at the most
Disclaimer: All characters belong to Amano Akira.
Notes: ♪ Spoilers for the TYL arc.
♪ *totally in love with SD*
#01 Motion
Dino had always been jealous of Squalo’s feline motion, when all he could do was tripping and embarrassing himself with each of his steps.
#02 Cool
Bad mood, anger, frustration, Dino accepted everything from his friend in silence; behind his obvious dislike towards him, Squalo needed Dino’s presence to cool him down.
#03 Young
They didn’t know, then, young and arrogant Mafioso, what they really were for each other: a friendship for him, an annoyance for the other, but nothing more… until they realized they may never meet again.
#04 Last
Squalo didn’t remember the last time he said something nice to Dino, he even had a hard time remembering if he ever had done it once.
#05 Wrong
Dino’s body was screaming it was wrong, so wrong, but his mind went blank and he didn’t care that much anymore when Squalo’s lips hit his own.
#06 Gentle
Squalo was everything but gentle and didn’t even think of being, but at his own surprise, it’s with delicacy that he helped Dino to get on his feet after a very rude fight.
#07 One
A long time ago, they really had seemed to be stick together: when you saw one, the other was never too far away; they were as close as two friends can be, but that was a long time ago.
#08 Thousand
“How many guys did you kill outside?” asked Dino to Squalo, who just broke in the Cavallone’s hideout for fun, and who answered proudly “Just a thousand, there’s still plenty of them for you”.
#09 King
Squalo sometimes envied Dino for having his own huge family, for being the head of it and for commanding everyone; a boss’ position, for Squalo, meant being a king, and he would never be one.
#10 Learn
He was furious, and maybe a little jealous -but he’d never admit that, when he learnt that the Cavallone were involved in the Rings’ conflict; it was not even the fact that a powerful family was standing side by side with the Vongola, but why did Dino accept to train one of the kids?
#11 Blur
Everything was so confused, the blood, the screams, the bodies falling, the fear, the battle was fierce and victory unpredictable, but Dino relaxed for a while when he noticed Squalo’s sword claiming lives through the blur.
#12 Wait
Too long and too hard had been the wait, and Squalo had never been patient anyway, but Dino wouldn’t have wanted to slow down now.
#13 Change
He had been beaten up, insulted, ignored by Squalo, but what hurt the most Dino was not their ambiguous relationship, but the sudden change: they were not friends anymore.
#14 Command
“Command and I’ll obey”, said once Squalo to Xanxus, and he truly meant it and is still meaning it, even if he knows that Dino might be on his way someday.
#15 Hold
Since that fateful day, the day he lost to Yamamoto and had his life saved by Dino, Squalo felt deep inside him and unwillingly that the Cavallone will never give up his grip on him.
#16 Need
Squalo kept pestering again this feeling, screaming loud that he was not that type of man, but he never really made efforts to get rid of the need to be acknowledged by Dino.
#17 Vision
His vision went blur and he had to lower his eyes to hide his trouble when Squalo disappeared between the shark’s teeth.
#18 Attention
Squalo couldn’t stand Dino’s personality for a long time, he was too loud, too nice, too touchy-feely, too longing for Squalo’s company; Dino was just an attention whore, Squalo thought.
#19 Soul
Dino liked Tsuna as his little brother, because the young boy looked like him a lot: too afraid of being a part of the mafia, too moral to kill people, but wanting desperately to protect his family and friends; Dino was like that when he was young, and he wondered now, nostalgic, if he or Squalo had already lost their souls.
#20 Picture
Dino knew an anger without limit when the Millefiore destroyed his old school, the school he attended with Squalo; the floor smelled like fire, and when Dino’s feet went across old pictures almost all burnt, he broke the last standing wall with his only whip.
#21 Fool
He must be the last kind of fool on earth, to think that Squalo would keep his promise to always stay ally to the good side; he should have known that the glittering eyes of the shark and his dark smile were breaking the promise the moment he said it.
#22 Mad
Many people thought that Squalo was a beast, not caring about anything but himself and his glory; Dino knew better, but he had to admit that there was a large part of madness in his friend.
#23 Child
The first time Dino saw Squalo, he was impressed by the other, so impressed that he tried to win his friendship; a child’s first impression is not easy to forget.
#24 Now
Now Dino still admires Squalo, for being able to live his life as he wanted to, for being able to get up after humiliations and fails, for making difficult choices and still being here.
#25 Shadow
After the Rings’ conflict, Squalo was just the shadow of himself, wandering like a lost soul, and it asked all of Dino’s cheerful personality to make him the man he had been again.
#26 Goodbye
There was a silent pain in Dino’s eyes, his forced smile seemed to ask if the fight was worth while he perfectly knew it was, but his hand was strong when he shook Squalo’s fingers on an unspoken goodbye.
#27 Hide
The Bucking Horse wondered how many things a man like him could suffer before losing his nerves; someone like Squalo would have already broken the hideout and killed two or three guys, but Dino knew even he was going to reach his limits if he had to hide longer.
#28 Fortune
Squalo let out an angry groan when he read the message in his fortune cookie and quickly threw it away; ‘ride a horse to find true love’, what kind of fortune was that?!
#29 Safe
They were tired, sore, hurt, and some of them were even totally numbed with pain, but at least they were almost all safe behind the walls of their hideout; Dino was happy about that, but couldn’t help being worried about Squalo still outside.
# 30 Ghost
Squalo sighed, discontent, when he opened his eyes and saw Dino at his side; this guy would never let him alone, even dead, he would come again as a ghost to be sure Squalo is doing fine.
#31 Book
Dino wondered if he should set a book of his family, like other families were already doing for centuries, with the history of the Cavallone, their actions, their projects, their allies and enemies; and then he wondered where he would put Squalo.
#32 Eye
They were only a few capable of troubling Superbi Squalo; he didn’t know it, but Dino was among them: when the grey eyes met the golden gaze of the horse, the shark was barely able to think of something else.
#33 Never
Squalo never really thanked Dino, for anything, in the twenty-five years they knew each other; not that Dino was waiting for it, but the Cavallone knew, and Squalo knew he knew: they were friends, they just never took the same path.
#34 Sing
He would never admit it, but the sound of Dino’s whip singing in the air and hitting bodies was one the most erotic sounds Squalo ever heard.
#35 Sudden
Millefiore’s attack against the Vongola was too sudden; even Varia and the allies of the family didn’t have the time to cover themselves properly, so to think about saying goodbye was out of their mind, until Squalo and Dino realized that they were all more or less alone.
#36 Stop
There was only one way to stop the murders among their families, one way to stop the destruction of the Vongola; a way Squalo loved and Dino assumed necessary: to fight.
#37 Time
“We don’t have time for that!” protested Dino, trying to get free from his friend’s grip, but his words didn’t sound so determined at his own ears when the other hold him closer.
#38 Wash
Dino tripped and fell head over heels on the dirty floor, making Squalo laugh hard at his clumsiness and swear that he would need a good wash when they’ll get home.
#39 Torn
Nothing could make Squalo uncomfortable, he was one of those who could do anything without feeling ashamed or regretful; but when he woke up in the hospital after Dino saved his life, he didn’t know if he should be afraid of Xanxus’ anger or thankful to his friend for always being here.
#40 History
The Mafia History had always been tainted with blood and betrayal, a fact that all little kids learnt at school; but what will they say about the Cavallone’s boss and the scary murderer?
#41 Power
Will they think that Squalo had between his hands the power to change the Vongola’s fate?
#42 Bother
Or that Dino’s mercy was useless when he decided to save his old friend, allowing him to bother the world again and to live when he was condemned to die?
#43 God
Dino never saw his gesture as pointless; he had the power to save Squalo’s life, so he did it: who was he to decide who should live or die?
#44 Wall
While Dino was telling his life, comfortably sitting in his large chair and deliberately ignoring his friend’s angry looks, Squalo thought that had he been able to, he would have hit that pretty face against a wall to make him shut up.
#45 Naked
Squalo was angry to have a nurse cleaning him up like a child, but he didn’t say anything and let her staring at his naked body; when a grinning Dino burst in the room like a storm, he couldn’t refrain himself and wished farewell to the Cavallone with a stream of insults.
#46 Drive
According to Squalo’s opinion, Dino looked dumb a lot of times; but there was nothing more stupid than the huge grin fixed on his face when he was driving his Ferrari.
#47 Harm
It took a lot to hurt Dino, he was strong and so cheerful that nothing could break his good mood; when Squalo pushed him away and told him he didn’t need him, Dino’s eyes faded; Squalo noticed it, but the harm was done.
#48 Precious
That day, Squalo lost the precious friendship he and Dino had slowly built since they were kids; nothing was the same after that.
#49 Hunger
He had never felt the pain of losing someone before, and the pain was too real to just ignore it; he’d show Dino that he could do something big with his life, and his hunger to win his friendship back led him to become a frightened murderer.
#50 Believe
“Believe me”, he said to Dino, “one day, we’ll be able to fix us.”
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