Quando le Piogge Protegge il Cielo

Chapter 3: What she decided

Lal Mirch kept waiting in the apartment for a certain blond idiot who she knew so well. That certain idiot was her husband; Colonnello. The man had gone out to practice archery out of boredom with his feathery companion; Falco. She on the other hand continued to wait in the apartment they currently live in during the duration of the mission she was sent to.

The mission wasn't hard, it was that she needed to spy on a certain Famiglia from time to time, earlier that day she had gone to spy as well but now she had some time to wait. While in this topic she began to wonder still couldn't figure out why the Nono had picked her of all people to spy on the famiglia as the Vongola clearly had plenty of qualified spies who could do something as easy as spy on the different famiglia.

She could still remember everything that happened.

Lal walked through the hallways of the grand Vongola Manor. She had suddenly been summoned by the Nono for some reason and had come for just that. Strange enough she could tell this was a mission but wasn't quite sure why they asked her to meet him when he could simply send a letter to request a job from her. Either way she continued on inside the mansion until she approached a pair of great oak doors. She stood there for a while before lifting her knuckle up and knocked on the door.

"Come in" she heard a muffled voice from beyond the door and so she opened the door and came inside.

Lal looked around and found the guardians all around in the room as Timoteo sat on the chair behind the desk seeming to have been signing paper works but as far as she could tell the elderly men were simply having a pleasant time talking with each other as they ignored the small pile of paper works right on the desk. She took five steps forwards in a respectable distance from the Nono and his guardians. "Did you need something Nono?" she asked in her professional voice.

Timoteo nodded with that ever so gentle and warm smile on his face, the smile that made people think that he was merely an old man when he could possibly come at you and bring you to your knee with just a flick of his cane. "Yes, Lal Mirch, I know you and Colonnello just came back from a funeral and all but I want you to go back to Japan and spy on a certain Famiglia for me." he said.

Lal had blinked at the news. "Why me? don't you have other people to do something such as spying on a Famiglia?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.

Timoteo nodded and placed his elbow on the table and placed his hands together before looking at Lal. "We do...but Lal Mirch I am so sorry that I will be sending you of all people to something so simple...but my intuition would not let me rest until you would go..." he said. "I understand that if you are too busy or tired to go and if you are I will send someone else-"

Lal shook her head. "No, its fine...I'll go on the mission" she agreed.

Intuitions was something the Vongola had. It was a feeling, a sort of sixth sense of theirs. She knew that Timoteo's intuition isn't nearly on par with the famed Vongola Hyper Intuition during that of the Primo's time but it had been said that Timoteo's intuition was the strongest among those of the Secondo's generation and after. The elderly man had been blessed with the intuition and because of that he has been the one to have lasted longer than any of the other generations who all died in a younger age. Lal had learned when she had first joined CEDEF that she should not question his intuition and just agree with him if it was involved in this whole matter.

Timoteo smiled. "Thank you Lal Mirch...and as I have lived this long with my intuition, I can assure you, there is something waiting for you in this mission. I do not know what but I am sure that there is something waiting for you in this certain mission." he said and watched as Lal bowed before turning around and walking out of the room.