Chapter 1 : Past
"Brother, I want to be a hunter, can I take the exam?", said a boy with his puppy eyes, his hand was on a position to plead his older brother,
"No", he answer,
"And if you ask me the reason, I might say because it dangerous for you", his brother told him with serious tone, while his eyes wandering around the room, until it was stop at a sandy-blond haired boy,
"But it'll be different if you let Shalnark acompany you, besides, I've heard he also wanted to take 'this' exams ", he said. The young spider look back at his Danchou and his little brother,
okay, now this is what I called misfortune, he thought.
Later when Mocha, the little boy, finally gave his wave towards his older brother with Shalnark walk beside him, Chrollo look at the jester near him,
"Hisoka, I want you to watch over them, that's an order", said him with his eyes still locked at the little boy,
"Oh, Danchou, you don't need to asks me", answer the jester before the moment when he was dissapeared and so does the two from earlier.
At the disappearence of the young spider and the jester, he just gave the others the signal to leave him alone, and just as he can expected, they're gone in a blink. He rest himself in a couch as he was finally alone, what a day, he whispered to exactly no one but the air. He then began to remember the first time he's running away from his home with Mocha in his hand, badly wounded that only miracle could let him alive until now.
He was there with his mother while his father was out for work, his mother playing with his hair to endure the pain of bearing an-almost-born-baby in her womb, she looked suffer much, but she still trying her best to gave him her best smile,
"Mommy, is it that hurt?", ask the young boy, he looked worried and curious,
"I'm okay Kuro-chan, don't worry", she smile widely as to not caused any worry to the boy,
"Will you take care of him in my absence?", she asks the boy, hiding her worry of her life with her charming gentle smile,
"I'll do it with pleasure mom, you don't have to worry, I won't let any scratch on him in my care", said the boy with smile, as if he want to assure his mother that he'll even put his life in line to protect his uncoming little brother,
"His name will be Mocha Perseus Blatchford, your little brother", she said with once again her charming smile,
"Excuse me, could you get out of the room for a moment little boy, we will begin to help your mom give a birth", the nurse entered the room and gave her hand for little Chrollo to take to let her lead the little boy to the door near her, but the boy's not even move, until his mother look at him and said,
"Wait outside, she will let you know if he's already born and I also want you to buy me something sweet, dear", and gave him her smile (again) to let him felt assured of her words, and so he left the room in curiousity of what will the doctor and nurses do to let his brother born.
So he let himself rest a while with a bucket of sweets in a basket in his hand, he took a seat just in front of the door, eating his food slowly, like a child should. When a nurse finally came out of the room with his baby brother in her hand, he asked her slowly,
"Where is my mother?", but the nurse just shook her head and said in condolences,
"I'm sorry, she just can't make it", which only turn the boy into confussion, and that was when his father finally arrived,
"Where is my wife?", he asked, the same question with the boy but in different way,
"She can't make it sir, I'm terribly sorry for your lost", answered the nurse, the boy look at his father with quizzical expression,
"Mom's already gone for the sake of your brother", he said as he let the nurse to clean the baby up and gave it to him, after an hour of silence between the father, the son, and the baby in the father's hand, the little boy finally broke the silence,
"So this is why mom asked me to take care of him in her absence, she will never here to take care of him", he said while pointing at the sleeping baby in his father's arm,
"Oh, I guess she's already know her time is running out", he answered.
It's been a year since the birth of the baby, now that the little boy has a step mother and had his first time going to school. The said family has moved to another country to their sake of no longer grieve over the mother's deceased. The boy quickly make some friends to know that his classmates was also his neighbor, so he found no difficulty of having friends. But then one day, the day when he supposed to stay overnight in his friends pretended-to-be camp, he decide to going back home early only to found that his step mother is about to killed his baby brother because he was crying loudly and she might couldn't handle it, he was put in a horror to remember the promise he made to his deceased mother, and to her surprise, he's jumping at her and made his way to take his brother away with him.
"I'm not gonna let you do something bad to him", said the little boy angrily, his step mother however, only grew some laugh at it,
"Well I do want to know what you can do with this", with just that statement, she throw the boy with his baby brother outside with also their belongings,
"You and your little devilish baby brother will never allowed to come back to this house, never", said the woman while landed a smirk on the boy,
"Don't worry Mocha I swore I will protect you, we will found a place somewhere, just for us", he said as he take the belongings and started to walk away, leaving the woman in awe and shocked to know that a child could carry the baby and their belongings away with no fear.
Traveling with a baby in hand must be difficult, but he doesn't take it in his mind whenever he remembered his promise to his mother, and after a long way journey that felt like walking to no ends, he decided to stop at a place that he himself doesn't really sure if there is anyone alive in such an area.
"Hello there, newcomer?", said some voice which made the little boy turn to the speaking person, a boy above his age that appearently look much older that him,
"Yes, indeed. Anyway, what is this place?", asked the boy curiously,
"Ha! You must be a child that thrown away by their parents, judging by your appearance, and that baby you carry must be your little brother", answered the older boy,
"Yes, that is absolutely correct, but it's not the answer to my question if you understand", he said again, this time in serious tone that look like he was quite angry,
"Ow, I'm sorry, but I'll answer it if you willing to come to my place, you look so dull and that poor baby brother of yours looks even more terrible, how would you feed him anyway I wondered?", said the older again leaving the little one glared at him seriously,
"Okay, okay, at my place, now follow me", he said as he lead the way to a simple house near to the place were they talk before,
"Hey Uvo, newcomer?", said a person that look-a-like of a japanese samurai, jugding from appearance,
"Yes, by the way?", he said as he turn to the little boy,
"What's your and the baby's name?", asked the boy who called Uvo,
"Its Chrollo, and this is Mocha", he said in cold voice, like he won't let anyone know his true emotions.
That was the first time he ever met someone that look friendly to both him and Mocha, the other person he ever seen might like him but they called Mocha an evil, which make him grew his anger and leaving the house that was about to be his.
Back in the present time, Chrollo himself getting bored about the situation he was around so he decide to go to a bookstore that located among the area.