fleeting rainy night

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It be another rainy night, another day after work.

You yawned stretching your arms a bit before walking, since your cousin is currently trying to fix your car, you take taxis to get home.

The cell phone buzzes, you pick it up, "Hello? This is [Y/N]."
"Ah hi hi! It's Haruno, I wanted to ask if you'd like to join me and the others tonight at the new bar." The sweet voice that anyone would fall for. You knew better than Haruno, his true is persona, everything.

"I'm sorry I can't tonight." You faked a sad voice on call, "Aww man... Okay then, good night [Y/N]!"

You hung up putting the cell phone back in your bag, now standing and watching in case a taxi drives by.

Diavolo woke in yet another death loop, he sat in the middle of the road, shivering of fear.

He appeared out of nowhere, "How weird..." You mumbled glancing at him before looking at your watch.

In these streets, it's common for a car race to start completely out of the blue! No wonder Diavolo is now a victim of the cars.

You heard the cars coming near on your left, "Hey Mister! Get out the road, you're gonna get crushed!" You shouted, Diavolo looked at you with pure fear, he couldn't move, he couldn't do anything.

The two cars were there, just seconds before hitting the pink haired man.

He closed his eyes screaming hoping for it to end, surprisingly it didn't.

What you have is a specialty, if not a gift from God himself. A Stand.

The Stand was humanoid with card patterns, the usual diamond, heart, clover and spade. It was standing with the man, slowly disappearing making it so you held the man.

He stopped immediately as he stared at you with a shocked expression, his pink hair seemed to slowly go away from his face, he stared at you like deer in headlights, not uttering a word.

Your umbrella went away, the rain poured both of you, you nervously while staring into his oddly green eyes.
"Mister?-"

Diavolo collapsed onto his knees as he quickly wrapped his arms around your legs and began to weep like a child, you weren't exactly sure what to do, this isn't common to happen, especially at night.

"Don't leave me don't let it affect me again please! Please!"

He sobbed as he pressed his face against your legs and hugged tighter, you weren't able to exactly get away from him right now.

"Mister, what's wrong? Is everything alright?" You asked him, he whipped his head up as he took a hold of the hem of your suits jacket and tugged it towards him, "Please no, don't, not again, no."

Your expression was that of pity and confusion, Diavolo looked like he had seen death all over again, that look in his eyes, just where did he come from?

Tears were streaming down his face as he looked at you, he was begging for mercy, slowly you moved your hand over to his face, he tensed up for a moment as he let out sniffles and small sobs, "What's wrong? Are you hurt?" You asked him as he stared at you like a lost soul.

You suddenly felt him pull you into a hug, making you fall to your knees as he held you in a bear hug, "Please is it over? Can it be over?" He asked you as he sobbed, "What are you talking about?" You asked him as you were unsure as to how you should comfort this stranger.

"What can be over?"

You felt him tense up, his entire body became tense as he stayed absolutely silent, you slowly pulled away from his tight hug and glanced at his face, it was pale yet there was a small glimmer of something in his eyes.
"Mister?" You asked him as the feeling of uneasiness started to grow.

"it's been over... ten seconds..." He said under his breath, "It always happens on the tenth second..." He said slowly while gazing through you, not sure what to do you slowly stood up. "It's isn't so common to happen here, I'll go call someone who can help you properly-"

"No! Don't leave me!"

He yelled suddenly in a rough voice, "You are not to leave me!" He yelled again his voice becoming rougher and rougher, almost what one would think a devil sounded like.

You stared at him for a moment, before taking steps back, "I'll return... In a moment..." You slowly stated before turning to leave, quickly picking up your umbrella as you heard him get up from the ground as well.

"NO! MY WORD IS THE ORDER; DO NOT LEAVE ME! DO NOT LEAVE ME! I AM THE EMPEROR-"

Your hand touched the screendoor of the telephone booth which you quickly slid off and then closed right behind you with a thud, your face met his which hit the oddly strong glass, he backed away as he held onto his nose, clearly whining about it.

You locked the screen door, and quickly made your way over to the phone on the wall, picking it up with no hesitation and then glancing back at the man who was running his fingers against the glass and sobbing, you stopped in your tracks as you watched the big fat tears roll down his cheeks.

You held onto the phone with a firm grip while watching him, he slid down onto his knees and sobbed into his hands.

The grip on the phone eased slowly as you watched him. You didn't know why was it your nature or something else but you didn't call anyone.

You watched the broken so-called 'emperor' sobbing and grieving through the glass, you put the phone back on its place as you slowly moved away from sight.

Did you feel bad for him? Did you feel bad for the things he must have faced to end up like this? A crying mess?

Maybe you did.

You slowly went to unlock the screen door, pushing it open as silently as possible you glanced at the man. You could hear his heartbroken cries, with careful steps you slowly approached him, he lifted his head up as he kept on crying, his vision was drowned by the tears on his face.

You held the umbrella above him as you stared at him with a calm yet concerned expression.

"It's okay now, whatever happened isn't going to happen now." You told him as you watched his expression ease, "Please, you have to tell me your name." You told him he stared at you silently for a moment before he slowly opened his mouth, his lower lip was slightly shaking.

"Diavolo."

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