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Viper had decided that once she had bought land in Liechtenstein she would then make the call to the Vindice for an actual meeting with them, it took her a week and through the whole seven days she flipped back and forth on how she wanted to handle having relatives again. Even if they were technically dead.
She was mildly uncomfortable with the idea of having anyone older related to her by blood even in the most obscure way, but she would use the Black’s at least to find a ritual or the best way to adopt Xanxus fully as her child, she also needed to remind herself over and over again to ask both the boy Sky and Skull if they wanted to be bonded as parent and child as well.
Giving a shake of her head Viper growled at herself, she was in Luxembourg wandering in between alleyways when she felt the familiar crackle of Lightning Flames brush against her skin.
Spinning on her heel, Viper was suddenly face to face with another face that was both younger and older than she was used to seeing it.
“Verde.” She greets him flatly.
The physically teenager stiffens and his hazel eyes widen in surprise. Viper takes the moment of the Lightning being frozen in surprise to look him over, he looks older than Fon does, his hair is very pale blonde that almost reminds her of Malfoy, he is taller than she is but that isn't much of a surprise.
“Viper?” Verde asks weakly.
Viper nods at him for confirmation.
“Oh dear, I was planning on starting a search for you once I was able to hack into facial recognition.” The Lightning tells her.
Viper cocks her head to the side and looks him over carefully.
“Well you found me.” She says with a shrug. “Now the question is what you want to do.”
Verde blinks at her in confusion, his square framed glasses slipping down his nose a little.
“I can send you to Fon, Reborn, and Skull; or you can accompany me as I finish my business in Luxembourg.” She gives him the options to pick from.
“What exactly are you doing here?” He asks her with an inquisitive look.
“Buying land.” Viper answers bluntly, not really wanting to explain.
"Oh, you are building those apartments again?" He asks lightly as he falls into step with her.
Viper gives him a single nod in answer.
"Hmm, are you living with the others?" Verde asks after a few moments of silence.
"Yessss." Viper hisses with more Parsletounge slipping into the word than she had ment.
"Are you still angry that I tried to kill us all?" Verde questions bluntly.
Viper does actually hiss at him this time as she spins on the ball of her foot to face the Lightning.
"Pisssssed, and I will kill you if you do ssssso again." She tells him flaring her Mist flames only.
Verde takes a step away from her and raises his hands in the universal sigh of surrender, Viper makes eye contact with him and skims through his surface thoughts. Finding that his only thoughts are of how he can recreate the technology of the future, mostly for his own gain, and hopefully earning the forgiveness of the other Arcobaleno.
With a huff of aggravation she turns against and starts to head the way she originally had been before being interrupted.
"Come, I only have one last city to go to before going home, you'll have to face the others on your own." Viper told him flatly.
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Skull raised his eyebrows in surprise when Verde came through Viper's portal, he didn't seem to be trying to hide his sheepishness or guilt but Skull would be damn sure to dive into his mind later or find a curse later to make sure he couldn't betray them again.
"I guess it's a good thing we already bought the other house." He said loud enough that he knew it would catch the others' attention.
"The fuck!" Reborn almost screeched from the doorway into the kitchen.
"He found me in Luxembourg." Viper told them before moving to sit next to Skull.
He threw his arm around her shoulder and tugged her to lean into him as he pinned Verde with a look of distrust.
"Ah, I guess I owe you all an apology. I don't know why I lost my sanity as I did but I regret killing you." Verde said nervously.
Skull made sure to catch his eye and dive into his thoughts deep enough to verify that he actually didn't know why he went bugnuts and that he actually regretted his actions, then he pulled out and gave a nod to the Lightning.
He turned enough to catch Reborn's eye and push what he had found into the Sun's own mind, he knew that the three of them would be the most wry and distrustful, that Fon and Colonnello would forgive Verde easily enough.
Reborn snorted before he went back into the kitchen.
"You're explaining it to the kid." Reborn told them over his shoulder.
Skull groaned loudly and dramatically as Viper snorted beside him.