Guardians undercover(Katekyo Hitman Reborn FanFic)

Chapter 34: Memories of The Past I

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"Hana-chan!" The small brunette exclaimed as soon as she opened the door to her small home.  She quickly hugged Hana.

Hana pats her back gently, "It's good to see you again Nana." She lightly laughed at her friend's overreaction.  After all, it had only been a week since they had last seen each other.

Nana pulled away as she noticed the two other people with her friend.  One all too familiar, being Asari.  Considering that she had always seen Asari and Hana together.

"Who might this be?" Nana asked as she now stood beside Hana, looking at the unknown man.

Bowing his head slightly the man introduced himself, "Good afternoon, I'm Giotto.  I'm a friend of Asari's.  Nice to meet you."

"I'm Ichico Nana*.  Nice to meet you." She introduced herself, "Oh, where are my manners.  Please come in." She quickly stepped aside and ushered the three people in before entering herself.

They didn't spend much time in Nana's house, though Hana decided to stay behind with her when Giotto and Asari decided to leave.

"Nana-san lives by herself." Asari told Giotto after they had left the house, "Hana often stays with her since Nana lives alone.  The neighbors watch over her."

"Seems like the neighbors are very nice." Giotto replied as he squinted against the breeze the brought up a few leaves and dust up to them.

Asari hummed, "Yes.  From what Hana mentioned, the neighbors were on really good terms with Nana-sans's parents, and since Nana is barely nineteen this year, and hasn't married yet.  They take watching over her very seriously.  Now that there are many young girls taken as brides from other towns." He confided in Giotto.  He knew Giotto was a good man, one that he could trust with such things.

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He had spent close to three months in Japan, much longer than he intended.  In that time he was able to meet and get to know his cousin much better, and was even able to get him to agree to watch over Nana for him.

In just these short months that he had got to meet Nana, she had managed to make her way into his heart.

He, at first thought that they could be considered as friends with how he felt.  He cared for her, in what he thought he would as his friend, as an acquaintance.  But he was wrong, he had realized that he had different feelings for her when he met a man, obviously older than Nana, asking her to marry him.

Rather than asking her, it seemed like he were demanding her to.

"Leave her alone.  She's still too young for that." One of the neighbors said as she pulled Nana behind her.

The man scoffed, "Young?  She's already at an age where she should have already been married or engaged.  But she still has no one.  And shouldn't she be married now that she has no family." He countered back.

The neighbor, a few years older than Nana frowned, "I'm her family.  I've known her since she was younger.  If I and all of the others .... " She tilted her head towards the houses of the other neighbors, "don't agree to this, then she won't get married.  We'll decided a good marriage partner for her.  And you're not it."

There was no doubt in their mind that man was anything but a good man.  One shouldn't judge a person by their appearance, but the man, the way he spoke and acted and demanded for Nana to marry him were enough for the neighbors to intervene.  And it seemed like he wasn't the only one.