Noriaki Kakyoin watched as his younger brother bolt out the door, wondering if he really made the right choice letting him leave. Their hotel was a little way off from the town and it was technically the school year so it would just be himself pulling pranks on random people, which is one of his favorite things to do.

The last thing he'd ever want is for Manny to pull a prank on the killer they were on the hunt for.
Then again, Manny was a smart kid with a pretty strong will and in turn, stand.

---

Kakyoin thought back to when he first arrived home from the hospital after Jotaro had defeated Dio. Walking through the threshold of his childhood home.

Joseph had reassured him that his parents had been alerted to his recovery and vaguely glossed over the circumstances that lead him to be hospitalized. He didn't know how Joseph had gotten his family this information without them getting hysterical. That was he didn't understand till he saw the familiar dark skinned snaggle tooth 1 year old.

Orginally his fight or flight instincts started kicked in, and he wasn't sure what he would've done If his mother didn't go and pick up the baby and explain that they had been trying to adopt for awhile, and that Manny had come into their life while he was away. Only a week after he had threatened the baby's life while in India.

Initially Kakyoin didn't believe it.

He had called Polnareff of all people. and it triggered his own dream memories, but it was almost messier telling Jotaro and Joseph. He was happy everything turned out alright, though Noriaki still had some suspicions lingering for a while, but those were put to rest as well as time passed.

---

"Kakyoin." Jotaro said bluntly pulling the redhead from his thoughts and back to the breakfast table.

"-We have to continue to document all the stand users, and stand abilities while we work, and we need to be vigilant in case we come across the killer, without recognizing it's them."

"Of course Jotaro." Kakyoin said in agreement hoping that he heard everything Jotaro said. "I've also gone over all this with Manny. I've even looked at the files, and I think that we could also enlist the help of Tamami Kobayashi, he's a guy with an ear low to the ground. he can bring us any information, anything at all that could be helpful that he hears." Kakyoin smiles widely. 

Jotaro crossed his arms in thought. "Mmmmm, perhaps, he seems like a shady person, but you're right. If we learned to trust someone like Hol Horse we can at least try to have him work with us. After all, he mostly likely wants this killer out of his town as well."

Jotaro sipped his coffee and sighed as Kakyoin looked over their research again. He knew it was inevitable to run into the killer, and with a high chance that any of them could've already passed them on the streets.

This guy wasn't like Dio, radiating an aura of pure evil, commanding fear and respect with his very presence.

Shizuka started whining from the other room, Avdol then picked up the bundled baby before she could start to turn her surroundings invisible. He bounce walked over to the younger men looking over their shoulders at the papers in front of them. Avdol had been living with the Joestars before Roses passing but after, he helped even more taking care of Joseph, and Suzi as well, and now Shizuka as well. He was as much a part of the Joestar family as anyone else at this point too.

"When you guys leave, I was going to go over those files too with Joseph. We don't plan on doing much today other then that really." He said still rocking the baby.

"Sounds good." Jotaro replied

---

The first conversation that Kakyoin actually had with his new brother was interesting to say the least.

For the first week and a half Kakyoin refused to sleep at the house and only slept at Joatro's or at school, this made the redhead quite tired, to say the least.

After a particular rough day at school Kakyoin came home and walked into the common room where Manny was on the rug with a few toys around. Kakyoin huffed at the baby.

Manny gave a creepy wide grin before he started to just talk. "Are you going to keep shit talking me buttface?"

Kakyoin's heart dropped into his stomach, he had been talking at Manny when his parents were out of earshot. telling him he didn't trust him and sometimes hurling more threats and insults.

"Yes I can talk, but also, I'm not right now. You are nearly asleep and I'm using my stand." Manny continued.

Kakyoin clenched his fists and tried to step towards Manny but his feet felt welded to the ground. his eyelids even felt heavier then before he walked into the room.

"I've been pretty patient, when are you gonna trust me? I've been doing my best to try to give you your space. Mom and Dad are the only ones who've been making you spend time with me."

"Don't call them that! they are my parents!" Kakyion spat back.

"Wow, ok, Joseph said that might upset you but I didn't believe him." Manny sighed sadly "Look, My mother died trying to give birth to me. There wasn't a father on record for me, or on my birth certificate, that also remained unnamed I might add. Death 13 didn't have a name then but he's the one who freed me from my dead mother's womb. Some time after that Enya and Dio came to me and gave me and my stand names. Only after I failed my mission did I realize I didn't have the guts to off myself before one of his goons got me, and there was no way I was going to try a second time to prove myself to Dio. He was the actual Devil as far as I'm concerned. regardless if I found your family on purpose or on accident, your parents are my only parents, regardless if you see me as your brother or not."

Kakyoin unclenched his fists. Somewhat from expressing sorrow, but mostly because he was feeling sleepier. "-But how do you expect me to actually trust you?" he questioned the baby.

"I don't know, that's up to you now. I might've not had a fleshbud to shift the blame of trying to kill you and your friends, like some people. Regardless I'm doing my best now. If Joseph and all those other old people believe me, maybe you should too. Honestly you seem to trust others that defected from Dio's command, who've arguably done way worse."

Kakyoin thought to himself that maybe Manny was right, even though his most paranoid thoughts told him it was another trick. That was before he faceplanted on the nearby sofa.

---

"Kakyoin- I wanted to do some one on one bonding with Josuke in the next few days. I'm going find out what day hes free, that way he can get some stand training under his belt." Jotaro said before grabbing the phone to call a cab. "I feel like he really needs to be caught up to speed on stands and stand users, things happened so quickly for me. I remember how it feels to suddenly be thrown into a, crazy adventure and have to stop a standuser that you don't even know anything about."

Kakyoin nodded, seemed like he wasn't the only one feeling nostalgic. "It's kinda exciting yeah?" Kakyoin prompted "This whole thing reminds me of our first time, headed out on our first expedition! it was crazy sure, but also exciting!"

As Jotaro finished on the phone he gave a glare at the redhead. "Yeah right,  you almost died last time." He said low and unamused, as he put on his large thick white coat.

"Correction, I did die! the paramedics said just like Joseph, my heart stopped for at least 3 minuets!" Kakyoin responded holding up 3 fingers.

"Good grief, lets just get going. or do you think that we should leave your darling little brother unsupervised for a little longer?" Jotaro joked, still using his normal voice before heading out the door.

"Alright Jojo, wait up!"