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It started out pretty mild, but by now all the Arcobaleno had learned to read the signs and so they knew that the Don in front of them had fucked up.
He set Skull off.
Now Skull wasn’t a normal Cloud but rather an inverted one, which, coupled with his normal goofy behavior many took to mean that he wasn‘t dangerous, completely disregarding the fact that despite everything, he still was a Cloud.
The Arcobaleno had over the years that they knew each other painstakingly learned all of his triggers to make sure that they didn‘t accidentally set him off in an un-opportune moment. Because Skull had different responses to different triggers and not all of them included going into an unconsolable rage. There were several responses that were much more terrifying than that for them. They knew how to handle a Cloud in a rage, but they had no idea how to handle Skull in mother mode, a mode where he would mother them all into taking proper care of themselves and making sure that they were safe and all of that stuff. A state that was usually triggered by Verde when he didn‘t take care of himself during experiments, though he had learned to not let Skull find out after many, many times of being under his tender care.
But other than that there were other responses as well, some milder than others but most usually unpleasant. Because despite how much they teased him for being the „weakest“ he was still one of the strongest seven, the strongest Cloud.
Something that many others seemed to forget.
They just saw his title of being the weakest Arcobaleno and forgot to fear him, since he was the weakest after all. Completely disregarding the fact that he was still the seventh strongest as well as the strongest Cloud. An Element that many mafioso were wary of. Something that always amused the other Arcobaleno.
Watching the Cloud blow up at others was much more fun than being on the receiving end of it after all.
And so they just sat back and watched the Don in front of them dig himself deeper and deeper.
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The Don in front of them had called a meeting with Verde over an Alliance or something similar but had the bad luck of having done so while Skull was busy mothering Verde which caused the fussing Cloud to tag along since he wasn‘t going to let Verde out of sight currently, which prompted the others to tag along as well with a morbid sense of amusement.
Skull was already annoyed at the Don for calling a meeting with Verde while he was mothering him since it set off all sorts of protective instincts, while the Don was annoyed that Skull, and subsequently the others as well, had tagged along since he wanted to talk with Verde alone without others hearing what was discussed. The rest of them just wanted to see the coming explosion with all the morbid amusement of watching a train wreck as it happens.
The meeting had gone on for a while with subtle digs from the Don at Skulls presence which just served to tick Skull of even more, but he admirably held onto his temper, which was already frayed from his Instincts being in overdrive from one of his own, especially the one that he was currently mothering, being near someone else that wasn‘t an Arcobaleno. But that ended when the Don made one last comment that he shouldn‘t have made.
Slowly but surely the room was filled with the suffocating presence of oppressive killing intent that quickly shut the Don up and caused him to look wide eyed at Skull, the source of the killing intent that was blanketing everything else, while the other Arcobaleno just leaned back and watched with amused expressions.
And then Skull proceeded to verbally tear into the man until he was nothing but a whimpering wreck, all the while pressing the weight of his flames down onto the man, making it clear that there was no escape and there was nothing that the man could possibly do against him.
That went on until the man nearly passed out from it all and Skull finally pulled back and then proceeded to herd the others out of the office of the Don while still fuming a bit over the pretentiousness of the Don.
The others others indulgently followed him out with Reborn hanging back at the end to turn back to the cowering and whimpering Don who was close to passing out and saying with dark amusement heavy in his voice:
„Skull is a Cloud, you know“
Which caused the man to finally pass out with a last whimper under the concerned attention of the mans underlings and the highly amused gazes of the rest of the Arcobaleno, prompting Skull to scoff and complain about how he didn‘t even really do anything since he just cleaned his suit and didn‘t want to have to get blood out of it again.
After that statement the minions around them promptly fled, terrified, while the Arcobaleno just snorted and led Skull back to their car so that he could calm down again.
That incident hit the rumor mill hard, and spawned all sorts of stories, and whenever a poor sod was brave enough to approach them to ask them?
Well, the others all had a lot of fun retelling different stories of incidents where Skull was set off and getting the fun of seeing their faces pale and them running off all the terrified.
And the one time someone actually approached Skull to ask him to verify one of the stories all Skull did was blink, smile, say that he remembered that incident, snicker and finally cackle at the whitening of their faces.
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„Skull, what happened here?“ was all that Fon asked, looking around the alley at the blood splattered walls, the ripped off arms, the unconscious beat up and whimpering thugs and finally at the Cloud hovering and fussing over his motorcycle.
„Hm? Oh, them. They tried to steal my bike, Fon! They actually touched my beauty with their filthy hands and tried to take it away from me, their lucky that I have to get back to Reborn-senpai before his Espresso is cold otherwise I would have had more time for their punishment.“ said Skull pouting and dramatically waving his arms around while being careful to not dislodge the Espresso from the Cup holder.
„I see.“