Chapter 12
She’d gotten out. She’d been born into organized crime, and Spain’s organized crime was not so kind as Italy’s was. She’d been the last daughter of the leader of one of the biggest Families. The last child. No mercy had been afforded to her, she had been in the nitty gritty of what it truly meant to be from a Crime Family from the day she was born.
She killed her first person at four. She’d been Flame Active as long as she could remember.
But her Family and family had gotten killed when she was around eleven, and it was by pure chance that she’d been spared. Everyone thought she was dead. The ‘correct’ thing to do would be to go to ground to gather resources to launch a counter attack and wipe that family off of the map too. It would probably spark another Crime War.
She didn’t. She just… left. She didn’t want to get revenge, she’d never much liked her Family or family and it went against her every nature as a Cloud to be ordered around. She went to one of the cities run by the Hibari where organized crime was always prickly and firmly kicked out, and settled down.
She didn’t make it her territory, because the second son of the main family already claimed it, but she didn’t much mind. She had her fake papers and had paid for fake memories to be implanted back home on the off chance she got caught and someone thought to check back home, and she just played at civilian.
She even enrolled herself at the local school. She was eleven, so she was in 5th grade at Namimori Elementary. She was in the same class as Hibari Kyoya, and they had the weirdest relationship anyone had ever seen. It was almost all antagonism, fights that nobody could prove were happening, but there was also sharing the school roof to eat on with minimal conversation, completely wordless conversation with minimal body language and looks that they both somehow understood. Times where they conversed in Spanish because nobody else could speak it and they both did, because it was fun to see everyone else twitch.
There were times she deferred to him, times he deferred to her. There were times they loudly and explosively argued in the hallways, times where she would beat up another kid for so much as looking at him wrong and vice-versa. They called each other by their first names with no honorifics the day they met, even as everyone thought it was overly casual and almost scandalous for him to call her Elena and her to call him Kyoya after knowing each other for such a short amount of time.
They were at each other's throats but also attached at the hip from the day they met. It’s not really a surprise when, upon entering middle school and going through puberty, they started dating too. Well, as much as two people like them could date. They were both very happy with the arrangement, although to anyone else she’s sure it’d be weird and totally un-understandable.
When they meet Reborn and find out he actually does have authority to be where he is because Sawada Tsunayoshi is apparently from that Sawada family, not Family, his dad is the head of CEDEF. The infuriating realization is tempered by the pale-faced horror on Reborn’s face when he realizes that they’re both very strong Clouds, sharing a territory, and dating. Honestly the funniest thing she’d seen in years.