I WROTE MORE INSTEAD OF DOING MY HOMEWORK I CANNOT BE STOPPED
(also be warned for like. Eating a person. Written in detail.)
Giorno's always been hungry.
Even on the rare occasions where he did have what should have been enough food, he was inevitably left unsatisfied.
He could eat and eat and eat until he was throwing up from gorging himself and he'd still be hungry, hungry for something else.
Hungry for something other than food.
Buccarati was the first person he'd ever told. About the hunger, or about why he had it. Sure, his mother likely knew- she was the one who told him what his father was- and she probably told his stepfather, but Buccarati was the first person he'd ever trusted of his own volition.
"What did you call me down here for?" Giorno asked.
Buccarati gestured towards Zucchero's body, his neck ending in a swirling void capped by zippers. "Do you need to eat? You seemed to enjoy Luca's eye, and I can tell you're still hungry even after getting a meal at Libeccio's."
He's always hungry. He's always been hungry. He's used to the constant pangs keeping him up at night, used to the heaviness in his limbs, the fog in his mind, the exhaustion and aches of his body lacking something it so desperately needed.
The prospect of finally feeling sated, for the first time in his life, overrides any reservations, and he nods.
Buccarati smiles, zipping Zucchero's form into separate pieces incapable of putting up a fight with a single flourish. "I'll keep the others out. Will you need any help with cleanup?"
Giorno shakes his head. "I can handle it with Gold."
"Alright then." Buccarati responds. "Let us know when you're done."
Giorno waits until he hears the trapdoor to the deck shut before he moves.
An arm, that would be a good place to start. With how thoroughly Sticky Fingers diced the body, it's a simple matter to slide the sleeve off of his upper left arm.
Giorno should be sickened by what he's about to do. Should be horrified.
But, well. He was never truly human to begin with, just a beast in human form.
Giorno bites into the man's bicep, sharp fangs extending from his gums to puncture the skin and make it easier for his other teeth to peel it apart.
Blood gushes forth, flooding his mouth like biting into a ripe fruit bursting with sugary juices.
His teeth slide too smoothly into the flesh, an instinctual jerk of the neck ripping out a chunk of bloody muscle, rivulets of gore dripping down his chin and onto his chest.
He swallows the chunk whole, ripping into the arm again with a frenzied hunger.
He's so hungry, he's always been so, so hungry, and he has a feast laid out in front of him, here for the taking.
Claws erupt from his nailbeds with a spike of pain that's gone before he can react.
He rips into another chunk of flesh, heedless of conscious thought, desperately gorging himself on the mouthwateringly juicy muscle and supple entrails and peeling chewy tendons from the muscle before swallowing them too and eating and eating until there's little left but bone but it's still not enough, nothing could ever be enough to make up for the years and years and years he was starving in slow motion.
He doesn't even have time to think before he picks up a bone and cracks it open with a sudden crunch, scraping out every bit of the deliciously rich and succulent marrow, swallowing shards of bone as well in his sudden desperation to feed.
It's still not enough his stomach aches now with the weight of his feast but it's
Still so desperate for MORE-
It's too much it's not enough all he knows is pain in his stomach, a horrible agony that he's never been free of-
Giorno turns and throws up onto the scattered remnants of Zucchero's body.
Part of his brain is processing, reasoning that his vampiric half might be made ill by a sudden influx of food after prolonged starvation just as his human half often was, made worse by the literal years his vampire half was starved.
Part of his brain is stuck on the fact that he lost control of himself, that once he sunk his teeth in he couldn't stop until he made himself sick with the sheer volume of human flesh he just consumed.
Another wave of nausea hits him and he pukes up another good portion of his meal, breaking out in a cold sweat.
Still, physically, he feels better now. His stomach still aches from the trial it just endured, but aches he'd assumed were inescapable drawbacks of his hybrid nature are starting to feel just a little less intense.
Giorno silently trembles for a few moments before summoning Gold.
The stand transforms the remaining fragments of bone and splatters of blood (there's so much blood he's tempted to try and lick it up even after all that) and the puddle of gore-filled vomit all into flower petals.
Giorno goes into the bathroom for a moment, quickly wiping off the few traces of the ordeal that Gold couldn't hide before heading up to the trapdoor.
"Giornooo!" Mista calls as soon as he pokes his head up. "Whatever you did, it worked amazing!"
"He was screaming so loud!" Narancia giggles. "Nice job man!"
Giorno smiles. "Thank you."
Buccarati smiles softly, pulling him aside for a second. "Feeling better?"
Giorno nods, hesitating for a moment as he decides what he can trust Buccarati with. "It did help a lot. But for the immediate future, it seems my... inhuman half, may need stricter portion control to help recovery go more smoothly."
Bruno nods. "We might be limited to trial and error to figure out what you'll need, but I'll do whatever I can to help."
Nobody ever bothered to do that for Giorno before. "Thank you Buccarati. That means a lot to me."
Buccarati smiles. "Of course Giorno. You're one of us now, no matter what."
Monster he may be, but at last Giorno has a place to belong.