Kaiketsu of Zorro - Diego x reader

Chapter 9

You, Diego, Lalita and Bernard were taking a walk through town peacefully and relaxing under the sound of people in the market, buying food and clothes. But that's when you saw 5 people beating up another man. You nudged Lalita's shoulder to go and look. Lalita saw the kids beating up the man and nudged Diego to look. Bernard ran ahead and you three followed.

"What's happening?"

Diego asked a man that was next to you.

"This guy was harassing a poor girl that was selling flowers at the market. The kids stopped him, that's a good thing. But then they started beating him up and I think they went too far. He's already had enough." "We need to stop them!"

Lalita exclaimed from behind you. But the man next to you, shook his head.

"It's better not to. The leader of this gang is the son of Ferrano." "Ferrano?"

You asked.

"Yeah. Signor Ferrano from the Land Company."

Lalita answered your question.

"I don't know him."

You commented as you crossed your arms at your chest. 

"If we get in bad means with the Ferrano family, our business will be doomed."

The man added and turned around, walking away. You four stood there, quietly watching, when a young 12 year old girl ran up to the leader of the gang.

"Keith! Please Stop!"

The orange - head girl yelled as she ran up to the boy.

"Stay away!"

He yelled back as he pushed away the girl. 

"Hey, let him go!"

You yelled to the leader of their gang as you caught the girl from falling. The boy pushed her so hard that she started falling. 

"More over, you shoved an innocent girl that didn't do anything wrong, towards you!"

The boy turned around and looked at you.

"None of your business lady. We're doing it for everyone in this town. We're trying to clear this city of criminals and perverts like this guy. We're doing everything just like Zorro! And it doesn't matter to us if we'll do it with him or no."

The rest of the gang nodded and left with their leader, leaving behind the beat up man and the girl he shoved aside. Later on, you found out the girls name was Rosa and you four took her to Diego's house. Bernard had to do some errands for Maria, so he soon left. You sat on the big couch in the living room listening to the conversation between Lalita, Diego and Rosa. 

"Who does he think he is? Acting as if he was Zorro! Do you agree with me Y/N?"

She asked you as she turned your way. 

"Yeah."

You nodded.

"I'm sorry."

You heard Rosa apologize.

"It's ok. It's not your fault after all!"

Lalita told the girl.

"I think I understand how they feel but-" "They went a little too far!"

Lalita added to Diego's comment. 

Rosa lifted her head up to meet Diego's eyes.

"My dad has the fault for this."

She quietly whispered. 

All of you looked at her with a confused face, since you didn't understand what she meant.

"Keith is mad because he got in a fight with our father. Our father is working with the government officials because without them, business owners can't survive in town. Keith was fed up with my father helping them, so he got in a fight with my dad about the fact that he helps the army. After that, he stopped talking to our father. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm so worried for them both...... I'm so worried that Keith will get in serious trouble......"

The three of you looked at each other and didn't know what to say. But that's when Diego offered a plan of his, in order to get Keith back into good means with his family. The next morning, Diego dressed up as a gypsy and left the house, walking through town and squarely looking at everyone. You and Bernard were watching from the side and nervously sweating since it was just too emberessing to watch. Everyone were laughing at Diego. You had no idea how he still wasn't crying from the emberessment. You followed him from a distance to a bar, where the two of you stood outside by the entrance and carefully watched. He seemed to get along with the group well, even though he got in a fight with 2 of them. Nevertheless, they got along and left through the back door of the bar to a cliff by the ocean shore. You followed them to the cliff and the two of you hid in the bushes and watched. You suddenly heard a noise behind you and saw Lalita.

"Lalita?"

You both asked in surprise. She giggled.

"Don't worry guys. I've come to check up on him. How's he doing?"

Both of you looked at each other and then back at Lalita.

"Hey. Don't worry. I've known Diego for a long time now. I can tell when he's got something on his mind. So, how's he doing?" "I guess they're doing some kind of competition or something."

You answered and continued looking at what the gang was doing. The competition started when a short haircut girl waved a white flag to the ground. Keith and Diego started riding their wooden skateboards to the edge of the cliff and they were really close to the edge after about 10 seconds. Keith started getting nervous and jumped off but barely caught the edge of the cliff as he was about to fall. Meanwhile Diego, stopped right on time and didn't fall off the cliff. Lalita was trying to get up and check on Diego, if he was okay, but you quickly pulled her back in the bushes, so that nobody figures out you were there. You and Lalita toppled over and fell in the bushes, making a loud rustle in the bushes. Bernard ducked under the bushes and held you two down from the group's eyesight. The gang quickly turned around and tensed their bodies when they heard a rustle in the bushes. The three of you laid quietly in the bushes, not knowing what to do. But that's when luck came to your side and a very fortunate bunny came along and jumped through the bushes and out to the group of people that were tensed up about the rustle you caused. Once the bunny came into view, the group relaxed and turned around to continue what they were doing before. As soon as they stopped focusing on you three, you quickly got up and crawled out of the bushes and back home. That evening, Diego wasn't home and it was quiet in his room all night and it made you feel kind of lonely because your room was next to his and it made you feel calmer to know there is someone who can protect you if anything goes wrong. Maria and Alejandro Vega worried the most though. After all, they don't know his plan and they were worried about him. While you were laying in bed, you could hear people's footsteps in the hallway at night. Someone also turned on the light in the hallway a little bit. You clearly knew it was Don Alejandro Vega scared for his son as he thought that Diego actually left the family. Maria was probably also having a sleepless night because of Diego. You quietly laid in bed and tried to lull yourself to sleep. The next morning, you were in town with Lalita and her friends when you saw Keith and his gang, riding on horses, throwing around money and food to the people of San Tasco. From the entire gang that was there, you could see Diego from afar. He was wearing a long white cape and a blue mask around his eyes. He didn't have a smile on his face. You wished his dad knew of his true goals and what he truly did and wanted. Lalita didn't quite recognize him though and just wanted to go home after the gang showed up. The rest of the day, you spent drawing with Lalita in Diego's mansion. The entire day while drawing, you thought of how similar Diego looked in that outfit to Zorro. The next day, Diego came back and apologized to his father and Maria. Everyone was very happy and excited to see Diego back to normal. Maria, as always, got really excited and then playfully yelled at him for leaving the family. You laughed to yourself and smiled. It was nice to see that everything went to normal.