faerieblaze | --Swapped--

[No one's entirely certain how Haruno Shiobana--now Giorno Giovanna--fell in with Passione. He's one of their youngest, having joined when he was just twelve years old, but he's also in a way one of their best. No one assumes a kid so young, with such angelic blond hair and pretty green eyes, could be in the mafia, so if police ask him questions, they take it as face value. Sure, he still struggles with Italian at times but that's charming. It's cute. It makes him all the more endearing to the lawful types!

It also makes for an almost hilariously horrific moment when some rivals start trying to pull shit only to find themselves on the other end of Giorno's knife that until a second ago was just a flower in his lapel.

(No one knows why he has a Stand without being stabbed by the arrow. He just does.)

But Giorno has a dream. A plan. He knows that the boss of Passione is the one behind most of the drugs he's seeing on the streets, and he wants him gone. It's going to take time, but it's time he has that the boss doesn't. Giorno's started a lot earlier, after all.

One day, as he's running an errand for Polpo in the richer part of Napoli, he notices something happening at one of the houses. Two adults heading back in as a servant escorts a boy around his age off the property. The adult male--the kid's dad? They look similar--has a black eye, and the boy's knuckles are bloody.

Hm. Giorno doesn't like that. He gets closer and tucks himself behind some bushes to listen.]

--you understand, don't you? They don't want you anymore. To be fair, I don't think they ever wanted you at all. At least they were kind enough to get you out of jail and your record cleared before throwing you and that nasty temper of yours out.

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From:

infezione

I understand.

[The kid's practically spitting venom at the servant.]

Let go of me.

From:

esperienzadoro

No. Not until you're safely off the property.

[And he keeps a tight grip on the kid's shoulder until he all but throws him out the gate.

Giorno summons Gold Experience, sending it to turn the servant's buttons into bugs while he watches the other kid to see what he does.]

From:

infezione

[Before the boy's thrown out of the gate, he's shaking from barely contained rage, but his mouth twitches a bit in what's almost a smile when he suddenly sees bugs instead of buttons on the servant's clothing. He says nothing.

Once he's thrown out the gate, he just... doesn't move for a while. Eventually he pushes himself up and just... sits there, staring down at his bloody knuckles. He doesn't even smile when the servant starts screaming because of the bugs.]

From:

esperienzadoro

[Okay, it's safe. The servant is distracted and the boy is sad and Giorno knows which he cares about more.

He comes out from behind the bushes and goes over to the boy.]

Do you need some gauze? I have a first aid kit with me.

From:

infezione

[The boy startles a little when Giorno approaches, but then he nods.

That'd be helpful.]

From:

esperienzadoro

Let's go over here. I don't wanna stick around here if I don't have to.

[And it'd be bad for the other kid. He takes the boy's wrists and gently leads him further down the way, where there's some benches and they can't see the house. Once the boy's seated, Giorno pulls his first aid kit out of his messenger bag and starts to clean and wrap his knuckles like Amaretto taught him to.]

Does it hurt?