Disclaimer : i do not own hunter x hunter. i only own estelle with her mother
Chapter one : Misunderstanding
"I have no idea who you are anymore."
The week passed like minutes. Knowing my mother, most likely she doesn't even care to show up and picked me up from school since she knows that most likely one of her 'husband' staffs is going to pick me up from the school. My thoughts is interrupted when I heard the sound of the car in front of the school's gate. So they have come to get me earlier than usual. I take a deep sigh and turn my head towards the direction of the car. It didn't take them more than five minutes to actually notice me. In fact, as soon as they arrived at my school; a small woman get out from the car and approached me.
"Are you by any chance Miss Estelle White?" she asked, showing her soft smile to me.
The woman is rather short , she has brown hair and she wears a hat. I thought that my step father is joking when he told me about this woman's height. It looks like that he is not joking after all.
"Yes, that's me," I said to her, crossing my arms. " Who are you?"
" I'm Senritsu. Your father ordered us (the bodyguards) to pick you up. It looks like that we arrived on time." Senritsu answered. Again, with a smile.
He's not my father, I thought angrily.
It looks like that I don't have any other choice right now than go with this woman to the mansion. I take another sigh and followed the woman to the car. As I sat down, I noticed that the one who is driving is a muscular man with brown hair. And Senritsu takes a sit next to him, as the 'navigator'. In case something happened during the 'trip'. I made a frown as I tilt my head to the other side. Due my surprise, I see an extremely beautiful girl next to me. Well her hair is not as long as mine, it was rather short in fact. Her boyish features nearly fooled me for a boy. But I know that she is a female, since my instinct told me so. She has blonde hair just like mine. But she has a black cat like eyes which take my interest. Her skin is also as white the snow. I thought she is a model or something because of her features. But then my eyes fell on her outfit. It looks like that she is from the Kuruta Tribe. How do I know? It's simple, that's because my mother has one of the famous scarlet eyes in her possession. I also know from the books I read when I was a child.
"Let me introduce you ," Senritsu starts talking as the car began to move. " The one who is driving right now is Basho."
I could hear a faint 'Yo, kid.' as Senritsu introduced the muscular man . I just nodded in response, looking at him with my widened eyes. Call me overreacting, but I rarely see a guy who is this muscular. I mean, c'mon. Call me a pervert or whatever you want, but seeing a guy with muscles and abs made me to go to the heaven for several minutes.
" And the one who is next to you is our leader, Kurapika."
I looked at the blonde with my embarrassed expression. She is calm and quiet, but full of respect. As soon as I was introduced by Senritsu, she immediately looked at me and lowered her head. Usually I'm not that 'amazed' by a calm and quiet girl, but this time I made an exception. No matter how much I tell myself that staring to a complete stranger is rude, I just cant help myself. She is too beautiful that I cant stop staring.
Stop it Elle! You know that staring is rude!
I cursed myself. But that doesn't stop me for not looking straight to her black eyes. It's like they are hypnotizing me or some sort. I feel like I'm going insane. And each time I take a look to her eyes, she will be like looked at me again before I looked away. This continue for the last ten minutes before she actually caught my act.
"Do I have something on my face, miss?" Kurapika asked.
I blinked, completely embarrassed by her remarks. I can't believe that I am staring at her like a complete idiot! My face is flushed with deep red prints now, that both of the bodyguards in front would chuckle (or in Basho's case, he'd laugh his ass off). Basho told Kurapika about how sinful she was for making me to stare at her like that. But she just furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.
"N-No! Of course not," I said, laughing a bit. " I just thought that you're really beautiful, miss."
After my last statement, I could have swear that I see Kurapika's face tensed a bit before I heard a blasting laugh coming from Basho and followed with Senritsu who is practically hiding her smile.
Okay…..what did I do wrong this time?
"My apologies, Miss Estelle," Kurapika said, forcing a smile. " But I'm a male."
What?
Perhaps there's something wrong with my ears. Did I just hear that Kurapika stated herself as a 'male'? I blinked for a several times before tilting my head to Senritsu's place. I can't believe that I'm hearing things coming from the girl's lips. But what if she is telling me the truth about her gender? What if she is a he? My face went pale too quickly. Okay maybe not too quickly, but it's still went pale !
"Senritsu… is it true?"
Senritsu nodded. "Unfortunately miss, Kurapika is a male."
Oh damn.
Now I bet that my face is as red as the tomato right now! I am so embarrassed with my own thoughts about the guy next to me, that i can't even look at him right now. He probably thinks that I'm so stupid for judging him because of his appearance. I purposely plugged my ears with my earphones and settled the volume on my ipod to the highest. After that I guess I lost track of time, and still avoiding to look at Kurapika straight to his face. What am I going to do once I arrived at that mansion? I can't avoid him for the next two months! He practically lives there! I sighed heavily as the car started to move into the mansion. I frowned as the car moves faster and faster. This winter break mentally sucks. It's like my mother is digging my own grave inside this mansion. In a blink of an eye, I already forgot the fact that I 'mistook' Kurapika as a female earlier today.
When the car stopped, I hurriedly take my belongings with me. I knew that they are going to take me to Neon immediately. Since Senritsu told me that Light Nostrade is away for another month or so, I'm guessing that I'm going to be free around here. Well except if Neon is going to bother me again. But I doubt that, our relationship is cold enough.
As the bodyguards take me to Neon's room, my eyes started to wonder around the mansion. I used to come here when I was like eleven. I never thought that my mother would have an affair with that disgusting old man. I never liked that guy. I prefer my own father , even when he abandoned me and my mother. But at least he is not this cheap. I continue to walk straight to Neon's room. A little that I know that we already arrived in front of Neon's room.
"We bring Miss Neon's friend," Basho said to the maids.
Okay, correction. I'm her ex-bestfriend. Basho's words made my mood to drop . Hell, everything about Neon pisses me off. Like when my mother compare me with Neon. Like, hello ? We're two different people! Argh, thinking about that pisses me off. I made a frown as I entered the 'big' room who is covered with pink sheets.
"Elle!" she cheerfully greet me.
I just stood there, giving her the silent treatment and looked away. Nobody said a word, except Neon who is trying to gain my attention back. She starts with screaming and showing me a bunch of stuffs. But I don't budge. I hate to say this, but Neon is desperate.
"Still trying to get my attention?" I raised an eyebrow at her. "Puh-lease, you're so desperate!"
Neon pouted. " What is so wrong with trying?!"
I scoffed. "I never said that it was wrong, but you're totally hopeless!"
Neon is about to tell me another thing, but I shoved it off as I turn my body and headed to the door. I am so pissed off right now that I might kill somebody. Neon is so childish. I can't even look at her right now since she is getting on my nerves. I'm not saying that she is deserved to be treated that way, nor that I'm acting like a real jerkass right now. But Neon needs to understand that I'm angry at her because of her own actions. And she keeps thinking that I'm angry because I'm jealous that my mom loved her more than me. No, I was never jealous of Neon. I sighed as soon as I reached outside.
Why can't she see that I still see her as my closest friend? Why is she so blind with assumptions that I'm 'jealous'? I thought she can see through me. It looks like my hell is already started because of my 'meeting' with Neon. This literally sucks. It's the first day and Neon is already pissing me off. I looked over the mansion's garden and started to walk around. You know, to lightening up the mood. At first I was walking aimlessly around the garden where I can see the dogs are being fed. But as the time progressed , I found myself got deeper and deeper. Who knows that this mansion is this big? Right, nobody. I rolled my eyes in annoyance and actually found a lake nearby.
When I arrived, I get to see one of Neon's bodyguards, who I thought is a 'she' earlier is there. He is wearing the same exact outfit as earlier today. And he seems like staring to the lake. Probably he is looking at his own reflection. But who knows? I was staring from afar for several minutes before his hand motioned to his eyes and takes out his black contact lense. I blinked in surprised. So he's wearing contacts! His real eyes are brown. And I actually admired his cat-eye like eyes. It's so beautiful that I can't stop staring at him.
"staring is rude, you know?" He finally opened his mouth as he turn to me.
No way! He actually noticed me from the very beginning? That is just,… wow. As the result, I can only just show him my awkward smile and shrugged. Kurapika sighed as he continue to look at me with his raised eyebrows.
"I'm so sorry!" I said as I chuckled. " I'm just…admiring you from afar."
Smooth. Real smooth, Elle.
I would curse myself if I had the time, but right now is not the good time to curse myself because of my lame 'pick-up lines'. Instead cursing myself, I skipped myself to the blond without even bother of what is he going to say to me.
He looked at me. " What is it to admire? I told you Miss Estelle, I'm-"
I don't let him finished his words.
"A male ," I said. " I know, Kurapika. I'm just admiring your eyes."
For a second there, I could've swore that I saw his gesture tensed a bit . He seemed a bit shocked before realizing that he hasn't put the contacts back. He immediately covered his eyes with his right hand and looked away. His face turns into a horror reaction. It's like he is worried about his eyes. Or something.
"My eyes aren't that special." He replied.
I crossed my arms.
"You have beautiful eyes, Kurapika!" I smiled. "I really like the natural brown color of your eyes. It suits you."
Slowly, the blond began to uncover his eyes who is now turns softer. I could hear that he is kind of relieved now. Maybe he is relieved that I didn't read him like a book? Or the fact that his secret is safe made him to sigh in relief? Man, this guy is so mysterious that he made me to itch with curiousity.
"Brown colored eyes are pretty common." He replied.
I laughed. "Well yeah, but your cat-eyed like eyes are pretty interesting. "
He didn't say a word once he is done listening to my lame reason about his eyes. Kurapika slightly looked irritated as I kept talking. Maybe he is pissed off with the fact that I don't even let him talk in response. Or the fact that I'm stalling him with my 'chats'. Well, it looks like that I'm holding him back to proceed with his 'contact lenses ' activity .
"Excuse me , Miss Estelle," Kurapika said. "I really need to go back to my job."
I smirked. "Then go back already. You know the way back right?"
There's no way he's going to go back to the mansion without his contact lense. It's kind of obvious that he's hiding his natural eye color from the others. That's why he is changing his contacts near the lake. It's pretty far away from the mansion, plus nobody even goes here anymore.
Kurapika immediately bends down to the lake again and quickly wears his black contacts . He then looked at me before observing me. Wait, why is he observing me? Well, well, well ! Looks like I finally found a hypocrite who is working for Neon's family. I giggled when I thought about this. But of course, Kurapika doesn't really care about it anyway.
"I suggest you to come with me , Miss Estelle."
Upon hearing that, my mood has dropped down to the lowest level.
"Why? So that you can bring me back to Neon again?" I snorted.
Kurapika said nothing except taking a look of me once again. Now, who's staring? If he's going to force me to go back to that mansion; I'll kill him with my bare hands. He's not going to take me back to Neon. And that's final!
"Don't be ridiculous," he told me. "I'm going to take you to your room."
Wait. Did I hear him right? Or are my ears playing tricks on me? But after knowing Kurapika for almost a day now, I came to know that he's not kind of person who would bother making more problems. No, it's more like he doesn't want to make any contact with anybody. But if that's the case, why is he so friendly with Senritsu? Out of all people, he only showed his smile to Senritsu. That's what made me to be so curious about him, and his relationship with Senritsu!
"Why bother? I can get back by myself."
He looked at me. "Because it's my job."
Errrr…what?
I hope he's not high or something. His job is to guard Neon, not me. And even if it's his job. I would gladly told him to get his ass back to guard Neon. I am not as weak as Neon. I can fight, I have the ability to do that compare to Neon.
I made a face.
"Miss Neon made it clear to me that I need to protect you at all times."
I feel like all my pride is just ripped out from my body in seconds. Neon has no right to tell Kurapika about his job. And I certainly don't want to be guarded. I am not a baby who needs protection! I have been running into troubles ever since I was young. And I feel okay, until now! I can't imagine what Neon thinks! How her mind works, and how she is able to make that decision within an hour!
"That spoiled brat!" I yelled, gritted my teeth.
I don't need her to do this for me! I don't need protection! If this is the way she's going to take my attention, she seriously needs a medicine!