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“How long do you think this is going to last?” Kakyoin asked.
“Hopefully for only an hour” Jotaro replied
How did we get here? Jotaro remembered how they got here
(Flashback)
Jotaro put down the phone as he turned to his husband Kakyoin.
“Who was it Jotaro?” Kakyoin asked paying a little more attention to the Gamecube they got awhile back.
“Jonathan,” Jotaro replied “He is going out of town this weekend, so is Dio. They needed someone to take care of Giorno. So they ended up picking me and you.”
“Can’t Giorno take care of himself? He is 15 after all.” Kakyoin stated, pausing the game
“I said the same thing, they said it was for the better if he stayed with someone this weekend while they were out of town,” Jotaro said sitting next to Kakyoin.
“Ah, well. When is he coming?” Kakyoin asked, unpausing the game.
“Tomorrow afternoon”
The next day Kakyoin and Jotaro cleaned up the house and guest room for Giorno. Jotaro has heard of him but only seen glances of him now and then. All he knew that he was a black-haired 15-year-old who was Jonathan’s and Dio’s biological child somehow that came from a shitty family because he got lost somehow.
When tomorrow afternoon came the two heard the doorbell ring. Jotaro opened the door to see, a blonde 17-year-old looking kid standing in front of Jonathan.
“Jotaro!” Jonathan exclaimed “I believe you two haven’t met before. GioGio can you introduce yourself?”
Giorno looked up and nodded before bowing “I am Giorno Giovanna, I take the pleasure meeting of you”
“Jotaro Kujo, this is Noriaki Kakyoin. We’ll be taking care of you” Kakyoin gave a wave.
“Good, good.” Jonathan gleefully said “Will you be alright by yourself tonight?” the blonde nodded.
“Alright, by the way, Jotaro” Jonathan started “Dio will be picking him up on Sunday in the afternoon,” he said before leaving with a wave to his “darling child”
Jotaro and Kakyoin stepped out the way for Giorno to come through into the house. Kakyoin showed him where the guest room was and strangely enough. Giorno decided to sleep right then and there.
Kakyoin walked back into the living room where Jotaro was doing paperwork for his job.
“Kid’s out like a light,” Kakyoin told Jotaro, starting up the Gamecube and then sitting down next to Jotaro, resting his head on his husband’s shoulder
“I would expect so, it seems he came a long way” Jotaro replied, shuffling through papers.
The two sat for about an hour doing their respective things until the noticed strange sounds coming from the hallway. It drew away Kakyoin’s attention but not Jotaro’s as expected.
Kakyoin got up from the couch and called out Hierophant green as he headed into the hallway. Getting closer he noticed that the strange noise was scratching, frantic scratching.
Kakyoin got closer to the door when out of nowhere a hand on his shoulder appeared. His nerves jumped. He turned to see that it was just Jotaro concerned because he noticed that Kakyoin was gone.
Kakyoin and Jotaro shared a slight head nod before opening the door and heading inside the guest room.
The pair had expected some random stand user trying to kill Giorno. But instead, they saw a heavy breathing, fanged, feral Giorno Giovanna. Giorno lunged at Kakyoin and Jotaro, Star Platinum manifesting and pulling them out the way in the nick of time. Giorno was on all fours like a feral cat in the hallway while Kakyoin and Jotaro were panting from adrenalin in the living room
“Goddamit, Jonathan never said anything about the kid going fucking feral” Jotaro exclaimed
“Who would know?” Kakyoin replied with frantic in his voice
Giorno hissed as he paced around the entrance of the living room. Kakyoin used Hierophant green’s string to keep Giorno in place, Giorno writhed in his restraints. Trying to get out but the strings tightened as he struggled.
“Jotaro, what are we going to do?!” Kakyoin panicked
“Hold on” Jotaro replied, sending out Star Platinum to do... Something
“Jotaro Kujo, what are you doing?” Kakyoin said firmly.
“I remember we had something somewhere so I sent Star Platinum to find it” He’ll find it easier than I would.”
Right as Jotaro was done talking Star Platinum came up with a coffin in his arms.
“JoJo. What the Fuck are you going to do with that?” Kakyoin exclaimed, losing grip on the now feral Giorno.
“Chuck the kid in here” Jotaro pointed to Star opening the coffin in front of them
“Chuck him?! He’s gonna get hurt and were gonna be dead by Sunday” Kakyoin exclaimed
“Your less durable than him and have been thrown hard than that. He’s gonna be fine” Jotaro responded in his usual “yare yare” attitude
Kakyoin shook his head in annoyance than used Hierophant and threw him inside the oak coffin. Giorno’s back hit the lid of the coffin before sliding to the bottom of the coffin. Star Platinum immediately closed the coffin and pushed down on the lid to keep it closed.
Kakyoin and Jotaro copied Star’s actions and sat on top of the coffin. Letting Hierophant wrap around the coffin to ensure that it’s closed
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“How long do you think this is going to last?” Kakyoin asked.
“Hopefully for only an hour” Jotaro replied
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“He is really trying to get out,” Kakyoid said in half awe half worry
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A foot stuck out of the coffin and then Jotaro screamed a high pitched scream. Tumbling into Noriaki almost making him fall off. Hierophant used more of its string to wrap around the newfound hole of the coffin. Then Noraki felt a hand touch the strings of Hierophant.
Kakyoin looked up to see a stand trying to weave its way into the hole, one hand gently moving the strings and the other hold mice and other small animals in its hands. The stand noticed Kakyoin and looked at him with intrigue.
“What’s your name?” Kakyoin asked, hoping to make some small talk between him and the stand trying to get into the coffin.
“Golden Experience” It replied monotone and softly
“Who’s your user” Kakyoin question it again
“Giorno Giovanna”
“What are you trying to do?” Kakyoin prodded
“I am trying to feed my user, he’s hungry”
“What happens if he gets fed” Kakyoin continued his question, tightening the string around the hole
“If he gets fed, he will return to normal. If he doesn’t get fed he’ll stay this way until he does”
Kakyoin let the strings uncover the hole as GE dropped the little creatures into the hole. The creatures let outcries from their tiny mouths just to be silenced by noises of hungry feeding. After feeding Giorno, there was no noise except for two or the small squeaks. GE reached into the coffin and pulled out the mice. GE stayed still for a minute until the mice turned into the fake rocks that were in the bowl in the living room.
“So you can make things into living things.” Jotaro guessed. GE nodded
“I believe you should you take… Giorno out” GE suggested trailing off on its words.
It made sense to Jotaro and Noriaki. The two got off of the coffin and had Hierophant unfurl its self into its human form and then opened the lid. They were surprised again to find a trembling Giorno. Hunched and biting his nail almost to the point of bleeding. Jotaro slowly reached down to the 15-year-old, slightly nudging him like Jotaro was trying to wake him up. Giorno unusually grabbed Jotaro’s sleeve, using Jotaro’s sleeve to pull himself up Giorno emerged from the coffin. His neatly done curls were unfurled, drooping in his face. He used his other free hand to grab onto Jotaro’s other sleeve as tightly as he could. He had finally looked up at Jotaro. His eyes begged for something to stop, combined with his heavy breathing. Jotaro knew something wasn’t running correctly in his head.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry” Giorno heaved “I didn’t mean to, I didn’t mean to be here”
Jotaro shook Giorno a little “Kid your not there anymore”
Giorno mumbled a little before flinching at something nonexistent. Before heaving harder, Kakyoin noticed that GE was kneeled and covering its head.
Giorno became hard and heavy before yelling “I’M SORRY DAD! I’M SO SORRY” Giorno screamed, tears running down his face, shaking uncontrollably.
Jotaro wouldn’t admit it later but at this moment his fatherly instincts kicked in and pulled the small, tortured boy into a hug. Giorno’s heaving stopped as his arms shakily wrapped around Jotaro’s neck. Giorno’s breathing trembled as his sobbing turned into small cries before his body became limp.
Jotaro picked him up bridal style as he and Kakyoin noticed that GE was offering to take Giorno back despite it not being in the best shape. Star “replied” by picking up GE and swinging him over the shoulder, somehow knowing that GE would be reasonably fussy and willing to do things it's way to make sure its user was okay.
“You want me to clean things up out here?” Kakyoin offered
“Yeah, I’ll be back to help in a second” Jotaro said in response
Jotaro and Star Platinum went back and place Giorno back to bed and GE right next to him before helping out Kakyoin and Hierophant Green clean up what went down in the living room. Once that was done, the married couple went to the back and practically passed out in their bedroom.
An uneventful Saturday happened with Giorno going out with his friends. An uneventful morning also passed by the three. Three knocks came at the door while Giorno was finishing up packing his overnight bags. Jotaro opened the door to find the over-exuberant, flashy Dio Brando coming to pick up his son.
“How was my little angel?” Dio asked or cooed
Jotaro was about to ask about the first night when Kakyoin came in the doorway with Giorno right in front of him. Giorno’s bag swung over his shoulder
“Giorno was just lovely Dio, but we need to talk about something,” Kakyoin said
“What? About Friday night?” Dio said somehow already knowing about some things “I guess dear old Jonathan forgot to tell you that he’s half-vampire like me! I guess you had some issues because it was the full moon last night” Dio spoke like they didn’t “You know my dear child get wild and hungry”
“No, he said something last night that concerned us” Kakyoin firmly said to Dio
“I’ll call you later about it when my dear and I go home” Dio replies beckoning Giorno to come out to the car.
The two leave and Dio, surprisingly keeping his promise. Dio told Jotaro about his abusive father and his deadbeat mother. Specifically when Giorno was developing his stand and went to tell his father about his fever his father was particularly mad that day and beat Giorno senseless causing his stand to lash out and punch his father knocking 3 teeth out.
“What did Dio say?” Kakyoin asked
Jotaro explained the backstory that Dio told him to Kakyoin “Giorno’s parents should rot in hell after hearing that”
“Don’t pity the kid too much, I don’t think he likes that very much. I know I wouldn’t” Kakyoin replied, writing down more things on his paperwork
Jotaro sat next to Kakyoin and leaned his head zoning in and out of conciseness.
And that’s that Jotaro thought to himself before falling asleep.