Writing #23

○ Cobra • Chapter I ○

 

Since we are children a question is asked us that, growing up, become more important meanwhile we keep living.

The question had made us feel, in a certain way, already adults.

It’s rare to find someone that, during his existence, firmly and with dedication had maintained intact its choice.

It’s rare to find someone that it’s still the same, no matter what happened in its life, as when the question was asked the first time.

Someone that maintained the same clear mind.

Someone that maintained the same innocent mind.

Someone that maintained the same simple mind.

‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’

Here we are.

This is the question.

So simple in its grammar structure yet so devastating on psychological level.

During childhood the answers are the classics ones: teacher, doctor, singer, someone answer ‘model’, but basically jobs that pass in front of children’s eyes often or that move them deeply.

This is valid during primary school.

Than during middle school things get complicated because mind will be changed million times and the idea of going to high school doesn’t help.

At least, during high school, the student’s brain is focused on not fail classes and the idea of a job is under coma in a random dusty corner of the said brain.

But the years run fast.

‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’

Here we are.

It’s time to choose a college.

So the run for survive among all the roads it’s possible to choose starts again.

But at the end, what do you want to do when you grow up?

VONGORE TOWN. SUBURBS. END OF SEPTEMBER.

-Explain me why we ended up here.

It’s  starting to get cold and a girl with short and strangely purple hair tugs herself in her black comfy sweatshirt, clearly she has dressed up too light.

At her side, a boy a bit older than her with messy deep green hair.

-They offered me a chair.

It’s the boy answer. He has glasses. She doesn’t. He has green eyes. She has purple eyes and odd tattoos of her face. He has unkempt beard.

-You got plenty of offers.

Answers back the girl, sitting on her black suitcase.

-I can do all the experiments I want…here.

Explains the man.

-Oh~ sure

Says the girl sarcastically.

-And I have my own lab too.

Smiles the other one.

-Ah you’re right…you are a mad scientist. How could I forget it?

Keeps being sarcastic the purple haired one.

-You can keep going on with your jokes all day long but if it wasn’t for me you wouldn’t be here. I paid for your-

-Moving out, the room, my food and my debts, yes I know, Verde, I-know!

She interrupted him, with an exasperated tone, like this isn’t the first time she hears the other saying so to her.

-Then don’t make me repeat it, Viper, don’t-make-me-re-peat-it.

Verde says lowering himself at her level, grinning and mocking her.

-Fuck off.

Viper says between her teeth making him laugh victoriously.

-Watch your mouth, lil sis! This can looks like a town of happy families and cute magazine-like houses but there are more pervert and perverse souls here than in all the ‘adorable’ places you have been!

Verde’s laugh echoes without barriers, from that bus stop in the mountains and a city in the distance.

The sun is up but it doesn’t warm anymore like the previous months since the summer is basically over and because it goes away earlier up there in the mountains.

It is a while that the two were waiting: Verde standing next his shiny suitcase of a green so dark that you couldn’t imagine it was green and Viper, doing her best to keep all her body warm up to not freeze.

-How long does it long to those idiots to arrive?!

Snorts the girl, hitting her feet on the ground to lit up her frozen muscles that are covered only by black tights obviously not thick enough.

-Stop whining, a car is coming…

Her brother shuts her, better dressed than her since he is wearing a long white coat and a scarf.

-Gosh you are such a pain in the ass…thanks God I don’t have to live with you!!

Viper complains hitting her feet on the floor again, but this time for anger and not for the cold.

In that moment a shiny black car stops in front of them.

-Try to shut up and smile when you are with them…

Verde scolds his sister between his teeth.

-…the city is their property.

He ends putting on a serious face watching a young boy with brown hair coming out the car with a boy with silver hair at his side: the first one is shorter, with a white suit and an idiot smile on his face; the second one, taller, has, instead, a black suit with a bright red shirt and a clear pissed of expression on his face.

-Mister Vongola?

The professor asks, tilting an angle of his face just enough to create the illusion of a smile.

The Mister, that is more a young boy that a proper ‘mister’, closes their distance without wiping away that stupid smile.

-Oh no! Please no! My…my name is Tsuna!

The young boy begs the other offering his hand for a shake.

-Tsunayoshi Sawada!

Completes him with a too cheerful tone.

-And he is my right-hand man!

The young boy says pointing with a vague movement of his hand at the boy that follows him like a puppy, said boy who at hearing being called with that title blames a satisfied smile.

-Hayato Gokudera.

The silver hair boy introduces himself while Verde is looking at them with a serious and impassive face, Viper has an eyebrow lifted with her eyes clearly showing how much she finds them odd, even more of all the other people she had met in her life.

-Nice to meet you, Mister Sawada.

The scientist says lightly shaking the boy’s hand, giving a look at his right-hand man too.

-The pleasure is our!! Mister Arcobaleno, am I right?

The happy boy asks, making Verde nearly throw up.

-Yyyes.

The older one answers him, half hissing.

-Verde and Viper Arcobaleno, Mister Sawada.

That addition makes Tsuna fall from the clouds of his cheerful being, looking at the girl with a sorry look.

-Nice to meet you, Miss Arcobaleno!!

Tsuna says coming closer to Viper but Verde himself stopped him, making the young boss look at him but not questioning anything.

-W-well…you must be freezing! Let’s go in the car so we can bring you to your new houses!!

Rapidly says Tsuna going back to the car.

-You can leave your suitcases to Gokudera!

The boss adds smiling, than Verde first and Viper after, have done as they were said with great misfortune for Gokudera, that saw the girl’ bag right in the stomach with unexpected violence.

-Ladies first!

Chirped Tsunayoshi, opening the car door to Viper.

An explosive laugh escapes from Verde’s lips that died immediately after and his sister entries the car without looking at the young boss or at her annoying brother: after her, Verde follows and the younger of them for last, while Gokudera goes back to his sit as driver.

The trip lasts no more than 15 minutes while Tsunayoshi keeps talking to Verde of how much he was happy to have new people in the town, of how much he was happy that Verde was a professor, of how much he was curious of Verde’s work since the said scientist had accepted a job because it leaves him all the necessary freedom etc.

If Gokudera would had switched on the radio it would had been better for everyone.

No one said a word about Viper being there too.

I'm neither asking how much it took me to translate this.
I won't.
I even checked for errors.
Wow.
Professional.
But still i think there are 2 things that may be wrong.
But x2 im super happy to be back on working on 'Cobra'.
I hope someone on tumblr (or whoever will read it) will help me improving the grammar since i wrote this when i was 16/17/18 (and now im 24) and it was hard to work with it (it is terrible even in my language. I half fixed it while translating).
ALL HAIL TO THE CRACK PARINGS.

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