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[lapidarius]

"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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[lapidarius]

...Are you serious?

[It didn't sound like he actually doubted it--surprised as he was by that, Kakyoin brightened up almost immediately.]

Does he know yet?

[silvercrusader]

Nah. Maybe. We keep--

[He shook his head.]

If he doesn't, he's gonna soon, the way I keep acting around him. But I think he's flirting back, so it works out. We keep making excuses to see each other.

[lapidarius]

That sounds like a good start.

[He squeezed Polnareff's hand lightly, in silent reassurance.]

Buccellati's clever and pretty perceptive, though. I think you're right to suspect he might know already.

[silvercrusader]

[That assurance was worth more than he could say. The fear hadn't faded, not one bit, though it was easier to say to Kakyoin than it had been to Giorno or Jotaro.]

He's learning French for me. I didn't even ask him to, he just-- he said, I want to learn it and two weeks later he's got some basic shit down already.

[lapidarius]

[...oh no, that was really cute.]

Seriously? That's pretty cool--at this rate everyone in the house is going to end up with at least three different languages.

[silvercrusader]

By the end of the year we're gonna have CVs like nobody's business.

[A beat, and then, with a little grin:]

You wanna know what else he taught me how to say in Italian?

[lapidarius]

I absolutely do. What'd he teach you?

[silvercrusader]

Ti voglio. But he prefers how you say it in French, which is j'ai envie de toi.

[Remember when Bruno was like don't tell anyone I preferred it in French? Oh, well.]

[lapidarius]

I learned ti voglio bene and ti amo from Giorno, but what does it mean when you say it like that?

[silvercrusader]

It's a really direct, sexy way to say I want you. Or at least, it is in French-- you wouldn't say that unless you were trying to sleep with someone-- and he said that was the equivalent, so.

gdit html

[lapidarius]

...Really? Giorno told me ti voglio bene was the friendship equivalent of 'I love you', while ti amo was the romantic variant. What a weird minor detail.

[kakyoin your first language is japanese you are not one to talk]

[silvercrusader]

Is that seriously what you've picked up from this? The grammar of Italian, that's really what we're going to talk about?

[lapidarius]

...That's clearly the wrong thing to be interested in here, isn't it?

[he's trying.]

[silvercrusader]

Yeah, kind of. I'm not telling you it because I think it was interesting grammatically.

[lapidarius]

Okay, okay. Sorry. I'm not always...the best with this.

S-so if that's the phrase he focused on...that's good, right?

[silvercrusader]

Probably? I mean, it wasn't like he said it out of nowhere, but it sure wasn't a bad thing.

[A beat, and he nudged Kakyoin again.]

Nearly a year with Jotaro and you haven't learned how to talk dirty in Italian? What's the point of all those language lessons?

[lapidarius]

I know a little--Caesar mostly taught me bad pickup lines.

[silvercrusader]

[His grin grew.]

Like?

[lapidarius]

...If I tell you and you use one on Buccellati, I'm not going to be held responsible.

[Listen to this long-suffering sigh, Polnareff. The things he puts up with.]

He taught me 'Posso offrirti una bevanda calda per sciogliere il ghiaccio?' Can you guess what any of that means?

[silvercrusader]

[OBVIOUSLY he's going to memorize all of these. Whether or not he uses them on Bruno remains to be seen.]

No idea.

[He admits it cheerfully. There are occasions when French and Italian are similar enough that he can guess at meanings, but not this time.]

[lapidarius]

'Una bevanda calda' is 'a hot drink', and 'ghiaccio' is 'ice'. So, it's 'can I get you a hot drink to break the ice?'

[thanks, bubble brother]

Here's one I got from Jotaro: 'C’è un aeroporto nelle vicinanze o è che solo il mio cuore decollare?' And that's 'is there an airport nearby, or is that just my heart taking off?'

[silvercrusader]

Oh my god--

[Both of them were equally awful and wonderful, and he was definitely using both at some point. Maybe to Bruno; maybe to Jotaro. Maybe to Kakyoin himself, someday in the future when he'd forgotten about this.]

Don't tell me he was charmed by those. Ugh, he probably was, wasn't he?

[lapidarius]

Jojo sent me that before I started learning, Polnareff. I had to ask Giorno what it meant, and do you know how hard I got laughed at?

[HOW DARE HE]

He also included 'Posso prendere in prestito un bacio? Prometto che darò indietro,' which is 'can I borrow a kiss? I promise I'll give it back.'

[silvercrusader]

Kakyoin, my son cornered me in his cafe in order to confront me on my crush. I don't think anyone gets away unscatched when it comes to Giorno and romance.

So, better question: were you charmed? Did he get to borrow that kiss?

[lapidarius]

Polnareff, you have no idea the kind of havoc Giorno has wrought in that department.

[hoo boy.]

I was not, to say the least, impressed when he burst into hysterics in front of me.