Passionfruit

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The next day

You slowly started opening your eyes and found the body of your boyfriend right in front of you. He was still sleeping with a small smile on his face and his arm still on your waist. As you turned your head you had a glance at the window, in order to try to understand what time was it; after thinking a bit you concluded it was somewhere near 11 am.

When you turned your head back to your previous position, you were met with a soft kiss followed by a rough, morning voice

"Good morning, my love. Did you have a good sleep?" He asked you, with no intention of getting up from the bed

"I did thanks to you. What about you?" You answered while rubbing your tumb to the soft skin of his hand

"I had an amazing sleep, thank you" he kissed you again and then continued speaking

"I needed to talk with you about something important"

"What is it?" You worriedly said, clearly showing some concern while your boyfriend's face remained the same sweet one

"In something like a week i'll be needing to have an important battle with the northern barbarians, so i will leave you here for a few days" Giorno calmly said, not noticing your alarmed face

You just heard that your boyfriend was going to a war, obviously you couldn't think about something else but praying for him to stay safe. You didn't want to lose him; your situation was already not one of the best so thinking about your man being injured was heart-wrenching.

"W-what? I mean... what?" You were truly speechless. You couldn't tell him not to go for obvious reasons, but at the same time you wanted to tell him this so badly. You only opted to hug him the tighest you could which made him surprised a bit, but in a good way

"Don't worry sweetheart, i'll come back safe and sound. I can't die there while having my beautiful princess here, waiting for me" he smoothly said and caressed your cheek

"Please....be safe" these are the only words you could master, but they were enough for him. Just the fact that you cared and loved him was enough, he didn't need your words. And yet, hearing you, your love and your worry made his heart beat faster every time, it made him euphoric.

"Damn, how am i gonna find out about his outbursts now? Im risking to both lose my man and my guards' trust. I need to hurry up or otherwise i might have a lot of problems now that Giorno will go to the battle" you started thinking about yourself too, separating your emotions from common sense and logic. Sure thing you liked Giorno and truly believed that he wouldn't hurt you, but what about the others? He killed a man and for now all the suspects were still on you. Yes, they said they trusted you, but would an enemy straight up tell you his plans against you? Your mind was sceptic on all of those sugar-coated words when even logically Giorno's outbursts could've been your fault, since they started only after your arrival. Besides, with the emperor on your side, they would've been stupid if they started treating you as a threat without hiding their dislike towards you. Well, except for Abbacchio...

You couldn't live only near Giorno, you had to think about yourself when you'll be without him, even if just temporarily.

"Is something bothering you?" The blond asked after seeing your conflicted and absent face

"Oh... No, no i'm just sad. I didn't expect you to go so soon. Not to a battle at least" you said, to what the emperor just sympathetically smiled at you and said

"My dear, i promise you that i'll come back as soon as possible. I'll conquer them all, i'll do this for us. I'll dedicate you the victory!

Besides, we still have some time to spend together before i go and i'm planning to spend it with you" he winked after telling you the last sentence, making you blush a bit.

He never seemed to be nervous when flirting; he was always as smooth as silk, the words just rolling on his tongue and out of his mouth and this confidence of his is what made you like him even more.

"Actually, would you like to come with me to my country-side cottage? You'll get to see the beautiful landscapes of my land, plus we won't be bothered by anyone else since it's a pretty reserved place" he offered with his typical slight smirk.

The word 'countryside' gave you bad flashbacks of your conversation with Bruno

'Giorno told me that Jack wanted to live in the countryside so that's why i haven't seen him around'

'Oh... No, it's not how it went. Giorno killed him before the concert, because he knew about Jack's plans with you'

But anyways, you decided to accept his offer. It was a great possibility to get closer to him and find out about his behaviour now, about his past and about him overall. With his intentions interesting you the most.

"Can't wait to spend some time with you then! Will we be the only ones there?" You adorably batted your eyelashes, actually hoping for the answer to be positive

"Well, we still need some security. But don't worry dear, we'll bring just a few guards that will be out of our business. We can be together the whole time without having to worry about anything" he spoke as he got closer to you and lifted your chin so that you could look right at him. The distance between you two started getting smaller and smaller, with his face getting closer to yours in order to give you one more kiss, this time more deep and passionate. Your first real kiss with Giorno.

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You started packing your 'stuff' which was some clothes for a few days and all the devices you managed to bring from your universe. You still didn't know whether the clothes you arrived with were still a thing, but you weren't going to get them back for different reasons so you decided to forget about them. Too bad though, they weren't that cheap.

Meanwhile, your boyfriend hurriedly prepared his luggage and called the only guards he still didn't suspect in hitting on you: Fugo and Abbacchio. These two were coming with you and Giorno, while the rest of the guards were left guarding the mansion and resting before the battle.

You weren't really happy to know that Leone, the one who apparently hated and despised you the most, was coming with you for guarding you and your boyfriend, but you certainly couldn't tell this to Giorno or there would've been a lot of questions rising. You didn't want to risk it all just because of your preferences in guards, so you simply pretended that choosing Abbacchio didn't affect you at all.

Later that day, after all the preparations for the trip were done, the four of you started the ride to the cottage. In the carriage your and Giorno's sits were divided from the guards' ones, which were one in front of and one behind yours to secure protection from both sides. You were thankful to this model of the transport, because that way you wouldn't have to have awkward conversations with the guards under Giorno's presence. Your boyfriend was glad of it as well, that way he had all the time with you only and noone could steal it with annoying and useless conversations. Only he could talk to you.

The day before

"Ok, i gotta immediately tell the others about Giorno's problem" Bruno thought as he hurriedly went to find his friends, the closest ones being Mista and Narancia because they were on watch.