Hi! This fanfiction was originally known as Gamma di Furia - English Version. After re-reading my work, as the whole story is on my profil but in French, I saw a lot I didn't like so I decided to rewrite it, but in English this time. It's not my mother tongue, keep that in mind if you see any mistake, it's possible.

Disclaimer: I own the OCs, the rest is Akira Amano's work.

Fratellanza

"Faster!" The two children kept running from the angry shop owner behind them, their bare feet hitting the damp sidewalk. The rain was pouring from the cloudy sky. "Faster Luciana!" The indigo-haired boy peeked above his shoulder to check if the girl was following. She was out of breath, her cheeks were red from the run and the weather and she was as soaked to the bones as him. His hand gripped hers harder. "Come on!"

"I...I...do my best Mukuro!" the little girl cried out.

"I don't have a choice then..." He closed his eyes for an instant and an indigo flame appeared on the right one. Once his eyes were opened, a blue and a red one, indigo mist appeared on them.

The shop owner yelled in glee when the children tripped and fell, unaware of Luciana looking back at him falling for Mukuro's illusion. Their run lasted for ten more minutes until they reached makeshift shelter in an old, slowly crumbling house.

"Are you okay?" Mukuro asked the girl, who was catching her breath, the bag of stolen food now at her feet.

"Fi...fine..." She caught the torn towel her friend threw at her and dried her damped, long raven hair as much as she could.

Her hair reached her waist and was a tangled, dull mess. A few locks fell across her face, hiding one of her ruby eyes from sight. Her skinny arms went around her to try to give her the warmth her moth-eaten dress, or big shirt, was not giving her but failed.

"Try to light a fire Ana," Mukuro asked her as he was sorting out their food. She nodded and picked some wood they kept inside. She threw them in the fireplace and took a deep breath, her hand stretched out in front of her. Quickly, a bright orange light appeared in it. Luciana used it set fire to the wood and the orange ball disappeared, under a sad ruby gaze. "Stop it."

"It...it killed them..."

"Do you remember what they did to us?" Luciana bit her bottom lip.

Yet no pain. Ever since she left that place with Mukuro, she could not fell pain at all after feeling it every single day for so long.

"That power you have awakened, it's nothing to feel ashamed of. If anything, it will protect you from that rotten Mafia."

"But I left Romain behind Mukuro!" she screamed at him, tears shining in her eyes. Mukuro looked at her in pity.

"He must be dead by now, don't cry over something you can't change. You wouldn't have been able to leave the lab if I had not found you." She lowered her eyes to the floor. Mukuro sighed and gave her a pear. "We said we wouldn't talk about, so eat something."

They ate in silence for long minutes, in front of the fire.

"Mukuro..."

"Hum?".

"You...do you think we have a family?" He set his eyes on her. "I mean...maybe there are people who are looking for us? And...and worry?" Her small hand caught her necklace, especially the pendant in the shape of an 'X'.

"There is a chance this necklace is a souvenir from your family but...we still ended up at the Estraneos Ana. They must have abandoned us, or maybe sold us."

"Oh..."

"Do you want to keep practicing illusions? To cover the scars?" She blinked her big, red puppy eyes at him and nodded.

They had been together ever since they left the lab. Yet, a few days later, when Luciana woke up, she was alone. Tears started to pour from her eyes as she hugged her knees against her chest on the sidewalk.

Mukuro had felt bad guys around and told her to close her eyes, that he was going to fix it. But now, he was nowhere to be seen. The little girl took her pendant in her hand.

"Mukuro, where are you?"

There was something warm running down my forehead.z

"Monster! Monster!"

"Only a monster has red eyes and do weird things like you do! The nuns even said so!" the other kid spat at me.

They both left and I got up as if nothing had happened.

I didn't feel any pain.

I would never feel pain again.

I had red eyes.

I did a weird flame with my hands.

But it wasn't my fault.

I snorted but a few tears escaped my eyes. I wiped them away and clenched my fists.

I looked outside. It was snowing and it would be the night soon. They were all eating right now, and then it would the nighttime prayers and the preacher's sermon.

I bit my cheek and walked closer to the window. There was the roof of the room below, I could...I gulped and opened it.

Nobody would come look for me anyway.

I almost yelped at the coldness of the roof, but pressed my hands against my mouth. I didn't want them to hear me. I was almost on the ground when I slipped and fell on my back.

I got up and ran in the street. I ran as fast as I could, as far as the orphanage as I could. Once I was out of breath, I stopped and leaned of my knees. I looked all around. Nobody was in the street.

I took a deep breath and straightened up. What was I going to do now? I was in Palermo. My name was Luciana and they told me I was around six years old. I looked down at my small hands.

What could a six years old do all alone in the world?

I was about to cry again when someone cried out in the street next to me. I walked up closer and peeked around the corner. I shivered in fear. A man was on the ground, beaten up, and another one had his weapon in his direction. I widened my eyes.

He...he was going to kill him? But...but killing was bad, wasn't it?

"Stop it!" I yelled. I stopped breathing when they both looked at me in surprise. The man with a weapon groaned and pointed his pistol at me.

"Fuck off kid."

I...he was going to kill me. But I didn't want to die. I didn't…

The flame was back in my hand and without thinking, I threw it at him. He screamed and was ashes in a second as I stared at what was a man just a second ago.

I fell on my bottom, tears in my eyes.

"I...I didn't want to...I..."

"Hey." I raised my head to the man. Or maybe he was a teenager. His lip was bleeding and his short purple hair was a mess, but his golden eyes were worried. "I'm sorry, I could have taken care of it but I was thinking of something else, I didn't think you would come out of your hiding spot." I blinked at him and he crouched. "I'm sorry you did this because of me Miss. My name is Alaric, what's yours?"

"Lu...Luciana." He smiled faintly.

"I see, Luciana then?" he whispered softly. "Where are your parents?" I looked down.

"...don't have any..." He petted my hair and took me in his arms.

"I see. I'm sorry but I have to take you with me. After what you did, I can't let you out there."

"Where?" He raised a purple eyebrow.

"You don't mind." I shrugged.

"I don't have anyone waiting for me."

I clung onto Alaric for dear life on the way, and after.

He was a hitman in a guild. It was a...an thing that reunited a lot of hitmen from what he told me. The chief was Simon. He looked mean and barely looked at me when we arrived. He just said I should make myself useful if I wanted to stay. So, I followed Alaric on his missions. He didn't want me to do anything and often used illusions to keep me from the reality, but sometimes I had to...kill too. I cried after each time, but Alaric taught me how to use illusions.

Even if I couldn't use them for anything but myself. I could throw them on myself only.

One day, we went to Naples. Alaric had a mission there, but I also knew there was a man named Silviano De Luca. He was a very talented weapon maker, also retired from the Mafia but his weapons were sold to mafiosi. I heard Simon mentioning he was on the killing list, so I stole his address. I would look good, wouldn't it?

I...I was used to killing people now. I knew it was not okay but...I wanted to survive in this world. Even if it cost other people's lives, I wanted to survive.

I was going to survive.

"Miss, what are we doing here?"

"It's going to make us look good!" Before he could add anything, I continued. "I want to do it alone!" He pursed his lips but sighed.

"Fine."

I rang the bell, an innocent smile on my lips, but nothing. I rang again, and again. Nothing. I tried to turn the doorknob and frowned when the door opened. It was weird.

I widened my eyes at the bloody sight in from of me. The man of the picture, the De Luca, was lying in a pool of his own blood. There was a huge wound on his chest and his eyes were still opened.

Someone had come before us. I turned around, ready to leave when I heard a sob in a closet. I walked up to it and grabbed the knob to open it, but I felt like an electric shock in my hand.

"Alright I'm leaving then..."

"We have to kill the heir of the Cavallone Family? Why?" Alaric shrugged.

"Someone is willing to pay for it."

As I was small, Alaric told me I would climb to the heir's window covered in his illusions. It was easy, and the boy was dead asleep and drooling. I looked at him as he hugged in pillow in his sleep, a leg out of the bed. He had messy blond hair and...didn't look like the heir of a Mafia Family. I pulled a knife from my pocket and put it on his neck when my eyes were caught by a picture on the nightstand. It was the boy, with a man and a woman. It was dark, so I squinted.

They all looked happy.

I looked back at the boy. He had a family. I heard it hurt when you lose family. It hurt when Mukuro left. I...I had to do it though, but...he looked innocent. He was older than me, but he looked innocent.

I widened my eyes when a gun was pressed against my head.

"Drop your weapon now." The voice was high-pitched, but dangerously threatening. I gulped and did, the boy waking up.

"Hey Reb...what!?" he yelled when he saw me and my knife. Then, even if I had dropped it, in his panic he managed to fall from the bed and hurt himself with it. "It hurts!" The person sighed behind me.

"Pipsqueak Dino."

"But what's happening!?" He turned on the light. "Wait, it's a little girl Reborn!"

"Who almost killed you in your sleep. You know hitmen can be young."

"But it's still a little girl! Lower your gun!" Eventually, he did and the boy, Dino apparently, went to me and grabbed my shoulders. I tensed, which he noticed and he removed his hands, settling for crouching in front of me instead. "Hey, it's okay, my name is Dino, what's yours?" I looked at him weirdly.

"I tried to kill you." His smile stayed.

"But you didn't, did you?" I furrowed my brows, not getting the situation. I looked at the other person and blinked in shock when I realized it was a baby with a pacifier. A yellow one. He was staring coldly at me. I think. I couldn't tell because of his deep, black eyes. "So, would you tell me your name?"

"I...Luciana..." I whispered in confusion. Where was Alaric?

"Just Luciana? No last name?"

"I don't know it." He blinked and offered me a comforting smile.

"I see."

"Young Boss, are you alright!?" A man asked in a hurry as the door was opened violently.

"Yeah, don't worry Romario, Luciana didn't do anything." Mustache man shot me a wary look.

"Baby, did he hear me when I said I tried to kill him?" I asked the baby, who sighed.

"Yes, he did."

"Wh..."

"Romario," the baby interrupted him, "I need to talk with Vicenzo. Please lock the girl in an empty room and lock everything. She can't escape."

"Understood Reborn."

I was locked up. I waited. And waited. Until someone came in.

"Hey, you're hungry? You're kind of on the skinny side so I brought you food. I didn't know what you'd like so I just grabbed stuff in the kitchen." I stared at the tray filled with food in awe. I don't think I had ever seen so much food in my life. My hand started to reach for it but stopped. "Something wrong?

"It's...is it really okay if..." Dino took a chocolate bar, opened it for me and put it in my mouth, before doing the same for himself. Slowly, I chewed the food.

"Is it good?" I started, and nodded avoiding his gaze. I knew he grinned though. "Good!"

"Where's Alaric?" He raised his brows up to his hairline. "Did...did the baby kill him?"

"Reborn? No, he saw him but didn't kill him. Your friend left before." I widened my eyes.

"He...he left without me?" I mumbled, tears coming up. It made Dino panic.

"But...but it's not as if he didn't care about you. Apparently, he told Reborn to take good care of you! He must have thought this place was a better one for you to grow up!"

"So you did eavesdrop." Reborn hit Dino on the head, enough to make a bump.

"Sorry Reborn, but I had to!"

"Seriously..." he sighed before looking at me, his small arms crossed on his chest. "Now, the courtesy when you're in someone else house would be to introduce yourself Luciana. Your friend left you in our care thinking we would take you in immediately." So he really left me behind?

"My name is Luciana," I started quietly, playing with the edge of my shirt. "I kill people for someone called Simon. We had to kill the heir to the Cavallone Family."

"Why didn't you?"

"I...had doubts." I admitted to the baby. "Mafia people are mean people, but Dino didn't look mean and the picture showed he had a family and...nobody I killed so far had a family...that I know of at least."

"We are mean people huh..." Dino repeated with a sad smile.

"You're not...you don't seem...you're different I think," I mumbled weakly.

"And? Why do you have that picture of the Mafia as mean people?"

"Because of the Estraneos." Reborn froze and he walked closer to me, who was sitting on the floor.

"You have a tattoo?" I kept my mouth shut. "We won't hurt you."

"You wouldn't be able to anyway." I gave in under Reborn insistent gaze and raised my pants, enough to show my left ankle.

"P.I.02," Dino read slowly. "Reborn, what are the Estraneos?"

"A Family which was destroyed barely a month ago. They were forbidden to use the Possession Bullet and were seen as pariahs, so they started to experiment on children."

Destroyed? Mukuro...Mukuro, was he…

"That's inhuman," Dino said with horror, before looking at me in realization. "Oh God, you..." He was about to hug me, I saw it, but he stopped and rubbed the back of his head in confusion. "I'm sorry...earlier you tensed when I touched you, so you don't like to be touched maybe?" I nodded.

"Alaric took me in his arms when we met, but I had just killed someone and was in shock."

"That's okay Luciana, it's okay if you don't like people to be too close to you when you don't know them."

"What...what are you going to do to me?"

"For now, you will stay here. You clearly can't go back to that Simon, and from your appearance, you need to have a proper roof above your head, and regular meals to gain some pounds."

"Don't...don't send me back to an orphanage please. People are mean there...everywhere actually, people are trash." I looked at Dino and tilted my head on my shoulder in wonder. "Maybe not you." He looked happy about that.

"See that Reborn, I'm not trash!" Reborn kicked him in the forehead.

"Trash no, but she didn't say anything about stupid."

I...was going to stay with them?

"So Reborn is tutoring Dino sir?" I asked Dino's dad, an old looking man with brow hair turning gray. "And Dino really is going to succeed you?"

"Indeed."

"But he seems too nice."

"He is. But he's also clumsy and not good at school, he can't really defend himself so Reborn is here to take care of it as my health is not as good as it used to be. I'm sure Dino will be good though. You'll see we're not all mean people." I pouted. "I'm sure of it. So, how have you liked your room so far?"

"I know Dino said drawing and reading were things kids do but...I can't draw sir. It's ugly every time."

"I'm sure it's not..." I pulled the paper from my pocket and put it on his desk. Once unfolded, he looked at it without saying a word. "Romario, come here." I pouted even more as they stared at the drawing.

"It is abstract, not ugly. Not everyone can understand it," Romario stated. I raised my brows.

"It's ugly."

"Of course not, and to prove it I'll keep it, here." Vincenzo put it in his drawer. "See? I wouldn't keep an ugly drawing."

"Obviously," I said flatly.

"Is that sarcasm?"

"What's sarcasm sir?"

"When you say something but you are secretly making fun of the other. And I think you just proved you were a sarcastic young lady." I averted my eyes and moved from one foot to the other.

"It's called sarcasm then?"

"So, the books?"

"Oh, I finished them. Alaric taught me to read and they were interesting."

"You understood all the words?"

"I asked Dino to give me a dictionary. I don't like not understanding, it's annoying." He smiled at me and exchanged a look with Romario.

"If you want, I can take you to the library Luciana, there are a lot of books," Romario suggested. Romario was kind, I liked him, so I nodded enthusiastically.

"Who's this?" I whispered to Dino.

"This is Doctor Shamal. He will examine you," Reborn said from Dino's shoulder. I winced.

"Do I have to?"

"It's important to see if you're in good health or not," Dino reminded me. I had been here for a month.

"But..."

"I understood the young lady did not like to be touched," the doctor said, searching something through his pocket. He pulled a lollipop from it. "But I also heard the young lady liked sweets, so if she's nice and lets me examine her, she'll get a lollipop."

"Really?" I asked immediately, my eyes not leaving the candy. He shook it in front of me.

"Yes."

"Okay!"

"Wait, that's it!?" Dino screamed behind me.

"Reborn wouldn't bring someone bad, would he?"

"Yeah, do you think I would do such a thing?" Reborn asked with a dangerous glint in his eyes, which scared Dino.

"N...no of course not!"

It was long. Shamal examined my heart beat, my reflex and stuff like that, and then took blood samples.

"Asthma!?" Dino yelled and I winced. "I mean, I know she can't feel pain, but asthma!"

"Get her this, it should be okay. I'll call you with the blood result"

"Thank you for coming on such short notice Shamal." Him and Reborn exchanged a meaningful look and Shamal left.

What was that all about?

I had candy anyway.

"Humph, if you eat so much sweets you might be taken to the dentist next." I froze, my lollipop in my mouth.

"Don't scare her like that Reborn."

Just a few days later, I was officially adopted by the Cavallone. I still didn't know why. Adopting someone was something big, they might had taken me in so far, Dino might have wanted a sibling forever, I was still a stranger.

There was something else.

I just knew. It was what my intuition was telling me.

Fratellanza

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