Owner of a lonely heart

"Could you please stop staring at Y/N all the time? It will only bring you trouble" Trish told her friend with an alarmed tone

"What do you mean? I'm her guard, this is exactly what my job requires" Abbacchio looked extremely surprised. He knew he was caught red-handed, but he didn't think it would be that obvious. Besides, so far only Trish confronted him about it, thus maybe nobody else noticed. Well, that's what Abbacchio hoped at least.

"Leone, don't think i'm stupid. I can recognize the difference between looking after and looking at" Trish teased, knowing that she was right.

"I don't know what you're talking about Trish, stop with this nonesense. I need to get back to my post" Leone said and was about to leave the room, but Trish stopped him, grabbing him by his arm

"Look, you can feel whatever you want. But at least be subtle about it! If noone realised so far it doesn't mean that they will never realise. Plus, Giorno will come back soon and he will certainly understand that, and very quickly too. Do you really want to risk so much? And for what? Unrequited love? I thought you were smarter..."

"No, you don't understand... It's not unrequited, it can't be" Leone stated, almost as if he was trying to convince himself, to what Trish just pitily looked at him

"Just- just mind your business from now on. Whatever the case between you two is, it doesn't have a chance to survive. Find yourself someone else and spare your time and hers" she said and left the room, soon followed by the sulking guard.

The days after that incident, you felt as Leone was glued to you, which made it awkward for you: remembering that time when you almost cheated on someone who can easily kill you all and then participated in the death of a witness... Well, you didn't really want to remember it.

But apparently the guard did! You started receiving subtle gifts from him such as flowers, treats, something that he thought was special and so on. As flattering as it was, you knew you couldn't continue like this. Thus, about a week and a half of this courting, you decided to confront Leone and talk your situations out.

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You knocked at the doors of your chamber so that the guards would open it, as always it was Mista and Abbacchio outside

"Leone, can i talk to you for a second?" You asked while keeping your eyes to the ground, as you were too embarrassed to look at Abbacchio. Whereas the guard looked at you with a quite concerned stare, especially after getting flashbacks from his talk with Trish

"S-sure" he muttered and entered your room.

"So, would you like to explain yourself?" You finally looked at him and slightly bit your lip, absolutely clueleds of the answer you could reveive

"What part of me exactly is of your interest?" He smirked and winked at you, chuckling a bit after seeing the surprised expression on your face

"I'm being serious. You can't just buy me presents and give me the flirty eye! You understand that we will have a lot of problems if you continue to do so?"

"I do. But what's wrong with that?! I LOVE-

" keep it quiet!" You silenced him and put a finger on top of his lips, but he gentlh took your hand and moved it so he could speak again

"i love you Y/N. I can't fight my feelings"

You looked at each other for about a minute, his eyes softened while yours, on contrary, hardened

"You can't but Giorno certainly can and he will, so you better stop" you said, breaking the softness in Leone's yellow-violetish tinted eyes

"So what happened back then... You lied" his jaw clenched together with his fists, as he looked at the ground

"What are you talking about?"

"That only time when you showed me some of your love, when we were about to mix our feelings and put them together... I felt so happy for once and all you did afterwards was breaking my heart. Continuously breaking my heart"

"Leone... I'm sorry, but our feelings mean nothing in our cases, as a royal guard you should've known and understood it. Even if i loved you back, we couldn't be together"

"Nonsense! Your existence here shouldn't have been real, but here you are! Such a miracle from the Gods has happened, so our loves can be real too. If you fear for Giorno's wrath we can keep it lowkey, but don't deny my feelings and don't ignore me. If you love me stay with me." He pressured you with a hurt yet stern voice, similarly to the one he had moments before the 'event'

"Why are you so STUBBORN" you seethed, getting annoyed at the guard's attitude and at him not understanding the mess you two have created

"YOU'RE THE STUBBORN ONE HERE"

"Look... Just stop, please. Do it for me at least. I don't want to cheat on Giorno and i'm not going to"

"You already did" he crossed his arms, ready to remind you again

"We did not fuck, if that's what you mean" you mirrored his movements and huffed

"I don't mean this. You like me, hopefully even more, you're just denying it. If it wasn't like that then i wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be talking about it right now" he smirked, thinking he got the right path into convincing you to stay with him

"Well, it's your right to think so. But that just adds a reason for us not being in a relationship" checkmate for you, you could literally see the guy's face breaking

Leone audibly gasped, anger and sadness mixing in his body as his eyes wandered around the room, in search of his inner peace

"I'm sorry" you decided to break the silence, but he was quick to talk back

"No you're not"

"Believe me, i didn't want things to end up this way-"

"Show me it then. Show me you don't love me, show me you're sorry for all of this"

He came closer to you, pinning you on the wall.

Suddenly, a lot of noise came from outside: people started cheering and a parade started with various dances and singing, all of these accompanied by the folks chanting about victories and Giorno: the emperor has arrived back home.

The door opened and Leone quickly backed away from you as Mista cheerily entered

"Hey! You two! Stop arguing, let's go meet the others!"

You two nodded and followed the brown haired, who led the way until the downtown.

There, you saw almost the whole city parading and accompanying the army with cheerful chants and motifs, declaring the glory of the romans and the emperor's greatness. Speaking of which, he was in the center of the army waving at everyone and showing off his soldiers and his strenght.

That was, until he managed to notice you; he immediately recognized you, even from afar, and his proud smirk turned into a soft, lovesick smile while you reciprocated with a happy expression, glad that the guys were back home.

Then, you saw Giorno whispering something to Bruno, who was right beside him, who also whispered to some other guards and in the end you saw a little boy from the crowd approaching you

"Are you Y/N?" He said with a clueless expression

"Why yes, i am"

"They told me to tell you to wait for a big surprise right after the ceremony ends" he said and ran back to the crowd.

You eyed Giorno again, who was now smirking and winking at you, which made you smirk too

"Oh dear, what am i gonna do with you?"