Chapter 4 - When Siblings Chat Together

May 18, 8:43 PM

Edgeworth's Mansion

Guest Room

"For now, you can use this room Hiko." the shinigami gaped at the room he entered in as Edgeworth was standing beside the door. The place was lavishly decorated with a large, light-ish yellow bed, a flat TV, a brown closet enough to fit Hiko himself in it (if he bended), a window stretching to the floor with a nice view of the garden, and a bunch of other stuff that would make you instantly believe whoever owned this room has money to spend. "Wow..! This is awesome..!" as soon as he said that, he jumped on the bed and bounced on it happily.

"Waah...so comfy...is this really my room Mr. Edgeworth?" Hiko asked as he glanced around the golden yellow walls of the room.

The prosecutor nodded. "For the time being, yes..." he gave a small smile as the boy stopped moving and stayed still on the bed, his eyes meeting Edgeworth's. "You must be tired Hiko, you better sleep soon."

"Mhm...okay." he turned and was about to leave the room when Hiko spoke up again. "Thank you Mr. Edgeworth..."

"...you're welcome." and then he closed the door. The shinigami exhaled a little while closing his eyes, and then opened them again as he stared at the flesh-orange colored ceiling. All of a sudden, he heard a small ring coming from his backpack. Crawling on the bed and touching the floor with his slipper, he picked it up and took out his light-blue cell phone from the dangling bag. Flipping it open, he pressed a button and placed the phone on his ear, waiting for whoever called to respond-

"Hiko! Are you okay? You haven't made contact for the entire day!" a voice screamed from the microphone.

"Nemu, please! You don't need to shout..." Hiko replied back. "I can take care of myself."

"Still...I want to know where you are and what are you doing."

"You don't have to know Nemu. Being my sister doesn't mean that you have to bug me all the time you know!"

"But I've researched about it and it said that's what they do..." she replied.

"...which is why little brothers don't like their sisters much." Hiko mumbled.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing!" he said a little too suddenly. "By the way Nemu...can I ask you something?"

"Yeah..? What is it?" Nemu said with a little suspicion in her voice.

"Gigai." Hiko uttered simply.

"What?" Nemu replied, slightly shocked as to why he wanted one in the first place. "Why do you want a Gigai?"

"I'm staying here for three months, I might as well enjoy myself here while it lasts..." the shinigami responded. "And...it might be easier to talk to Mr. Edgeworth that way." he murmured to himself. "So can you? Please?"

"You want me to sneak a Gigai..? Are you crazy?"

"Not really, I'm counting on you Nemu 'kay?"

"...f-fine...tomorrow, wherever you are, alright?"

"Yup. Thanks sis." and then they were disconnected. Closing the phone and dropping it in his backpack, he jumped on the bed and lay down, exhaling in relief. "I wonder...how Mr. Edgeworth's gonna react to this. Now that I think about it," his neutral face turned to a slight frown. "How do you use a Gigai anyway? I heard you can become a human but..." Hiko sighed again. "Never mind, I'll just ask Nemu tomorrow."

The shinigami yawned loudly, closed the lamp beside him making the room lose its light, and went under the light red blanket. The aircon was on pretty high, but the blanket felt warm all the same. "Good night." he mumbled to himself. And soon he was fast asleep.

May 19, 7:15 AM

Edgeworth's Mansion

Dining Room

"Morning..." Hiko mumbled as he wobbly walked inside of the large room. Grabbing the nearest chair he could see from his blurry vision, he swiftly sat down and rested his head on his folded arms. Edgeworth was watching him while he was eating his breakfast, which of course Hiko had no idea what it was since it was his first time seeing it, all he knows is that it's made of meat and something. The shinigami didn't bother asking anymore, since his body felt too tired to move much anyway. He didn't know exactly what was wrong with him, but he thought it may be the fact that he was on Earth now, in a completely foreign country. And the only way he's conversing with Edgeworth perfectly was the invention his captain's squad made to translate languages with a press of a button. Hiko was wearing that right now in his left ear, but why would he care about that now..? The only reason why he got up was because he was supposed to meet Nemu at the morning, and he can't miss that.

A small smirk appeared on the man's face as Hiko groggily lifted his head up to the prosecutor. "Couldn't sleep?" he asked the child.

"Not really...just tired." he replied with a stifled yawn. "Oh yeah, I'm going out for the morning." the adult didn't try to press him simply because he wasn't a normal child. If he was going somewhere even at this state, it must be important, and probably something out of this world. "Be careful then." he muttered in reply as he fork in the last piece of his meal. Edgeworth then grabbed the white plate off the clean table cloth and went outside of the dining room, leaving Hiko there to snooze for another few minutes.

May 19, 7:43 AM

Park

"Nemu..?" Hiko mumbled sleepily as he entered the area from a roof. The entire place was thankfully deserted, and as he scanned it more, he smirked when he saw the single person he wanted to see. Jumping down, he landed easily and safely on the ground and ran towards his supposed 'sister'. "You have the Gigai?" the girl nodded slowly and handed a boy's body to him. The gigai had all the features that Hiko himself had, except the clothes consisted of a simple white tee and jeans. "...you're more silent than usual."

"..." after staring at each other for a few seconds, the kid shinigami sighed. "Never mind, how do I use the Gigai?"

All of a sudden Hiko felt his whole body being drawn to it, like a vacuum. He couldn't explain it, but the next thing he knew, he was on the ground. Blinking twice, Hiko stood up, but strangely he felt stiff, like he had to put more effort to bend his arms. "Ouch...what happened?" the boy looked down, and then was shocked at what he saw. He wasn't wearing a black kimono at all; instead it was the clothes that he saw on the Gigai before-

"I'm...a human now?"

"Not exactly," Nemu suddenly spoke up. "Your functions are like a human, but you can always leave the body to go back to your original form."

"...for a second there I thought Captain placed some kind of mute spell on you." he grinned. The girl didn't seem that amused, which made Hiko's smile disappear. "What's wrong with you today?"

"Nothing." she responded bluntly.

"You were more active yesterday-"

"I'm leaving." she interrupted, which earned a shocked face from Hiko. He honestly had never seen her like this before, this cold...with no emotions at all. She has always seen her as an annoying person who cares a lot for him, more than the captain. Yet that was only what, a few months ago? When he first met Nemu, she was like this too...but she grew to him quickly, and really treated him like family.

Before Hiko could say anything, the gate opened right in front of them, and she entered it without another word. A few seconds later, he was left all alone in the park, with having no idea how he was going to use this body of his...and why Nemu suddenly became so quiet.

A/N : Yeah, I'm sorry for it being kind of short, I was supposed to make it longer, but I decided to split that into another chapter. ^ ^

And yes, if Nemu is really OOC, that will be explained in other chapters. Don't take it too seriously please...

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