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Chapter 6

nix entered to see a sweet sight. Nichalos was curled up in the bed sound asleep with Hallow curled up right underneath his chin, purring loudly. Shadow was curled in the crook of his arm, watching the doorway with unblinking eyes.

She smiled and grabbed a piece of paper, scribbling a note on it before ruffling his hair carefully and gently picking up her kittens before exiting the room and following Alex out of the hospital.

She got into the car, listening to the older man talking on the phone, arguing with a man on the other side.

After several minutes he hung up with a satisfied smile. He pulled into the driveway of a big house and got out, walking to the front door where a man was waiting for him with a few folders full of papers. He scowled at the man, said something that made Alex laugh, and handed the papers over.

Alex handed her the folder as he got into the car.

"Should be all the papers you need to start this whole process," he said.

"Thank you, Alex," nix said with a small but happy smile.

"Anything for you, my dear," he said, shooting her a quick smile.

He dropped nix off at her house and waved goodbye as she juggled her two kittens and the folder of papers.

She opened the door and kicking it shut she called, "I'm home! Alien kitties, did you destroy my house?"

"We are not aliens, for the last time," kakuzu growled as he and the other kittens came around the corner.

"Erm, hi?" Nix said, eyes a little wide.

"It appears you are able to understand is now, Nix-Chan," itachi said, quietly as he leapt from her arms. He sat down next to listen and regarded her with dark eyes,tail waving slowly.

"Yay!Nixy-Chan can understand us!" A high pitched voice said in her ear excitedly.

Nix blinked and tugged the kitten of her shoulder.

"Hallow, you are noisy my dear," she said.

"Tobi is Tobi, not Hallow!" The tiny kitten whined,looking at her pitifully.

Nix smiled and hugged him quickly, "you are sweet," she said, releasing him and setting him down.

"What is that folder? Another case? Sasori asked suddenly, having spotted the folder.

"Nope. It's adoption papers for the boy I helped save. His parents were killed, and he needs someone to take care of him." She explained.

"That cannot happen. No-one else can know about us. You will have to tell him you can't." Pein said immediately.

Nix glared at him, "no way in hell," she snapped. "My house my rules, you don't like it you can sleep outside, got it?"

With that she whirled around and stomped up the stairs.

The group of kittens stood in a circle, looking up the stairs with uncertainty.

"I have to admit that Nix-Chan adopting this boy is not intolerable," itachi finally stated hesitantly.

"Yeah! Tobi liked Nicki-Chan! He was very nice!" Tobi agreed excitedly, wiggling wildly.

Pein just sighed before running up the steps, Konan following behind quietly. He walked to the room he remembered nix sleeping in and peered around the edge of the doorway cautiously.

Nix was seated on her bed, the entirety of the folder spread out before her as she held several papers, reading and signing, clearly ignoring the two spying kittens peering around her door.

Pein gathered his tattered pride and walked into the room, jumping onto the bed carefully avoiding the papers and sat on the pillow, konan following close behind.

"Nix-chan, I was not trying to upset you earlier. i simply do not think it wise to allow anyone else to know of us. It makes me uneasy, knowing I am in a world where I have no power to protect myself or my followers," he began quietly, not wanting to upset her again.

Nix was silent for several seconds before she slid off the bed and walked to the door. She shut it before coming back to the bed and clearing the papers off. she put them back in the folder and laid the folder on the desk. She walked to her closet and dug around for a few seconds before returning to the bed with a small box. She sat back down across from him and set the box down beside her gently.

"Do you know what a copycat killer is?" she asked suddenly, regarding the two kittens seriously.

When both kittens shook their heads she opened a folder that was on top of the box. She pulled out several photos and placed them between them on the bed. Pein and Konan stared at the gruesome photoes and shuddered a little.

"This is the crime scene at Nichalos's house. That is what remains of his family. They were brutally tortured to death, before the pyschopath kidnapped him and tortured him until we found and saved him," Nix said in a soft voice. She turned to the box and opened in, pulling out another folder and pulling out several photos, placing them side by side the other pictures. They could see the resemblance of the crimes, although the second photos seemed worse, more methodical and elaborate.

"Seven years ago, on Christmas Eve, a family was sitting together in their living room, opening presents and laughing, having a good time. It was a cold, snowy night and then someone knocked at the door. The parent's oldest child, a thirteen year old girl, went and opened the door, inviting the stranger in. He seemed nice at first, as he talked with her, following her to the living room where the rest of her family was. She stopped in the kitchen to get a cup of hot chocolate when the first gunshot went off. She had never heard that sound before and didn't know what it was but she could hear her mother scream and, terrified, she ran into the living room. inside was the man, standing over her father with an odd smile on his face. He looked up at her and smiled, looking so pleased with himself. She remembers hearing her mother screaming for her to run away now, but she's frozen in terror. Before she can make herself move, he is in front of her, he grabs her and easily twists her arms behind her back and ties them with duck tape before setting her on the ground and securing her feet. He pats her on the cheek, tells her to be patient and watch the master at work before he turns to her family, her mother trying to protect her two year old brother who is crying and trying to get to his daddy, not understanding why he has a hole in his head or why his brains are leaking onto the carpet. Over the next few hours the girl sits in the corner of the room, sobbing, screaming, and begging him to stop and he tortures and dismembers her family in front of her eyes. After he's done, he comes over to her, covered in blood and worse, runs a sticky hand through her hair and picks her up, and tells her that she should be honored, that she is to become his masterpiece." Nix narrates with a dead look in her eyes.

"Several weeks later, she along with nine other children are rescued, but while all the other children are able to return home to their families, she is the only one all alone, no one willing to take in a broken girl who is a little strange, no longer a child with no patience for adults or their babying. Then one day in the hospital an older man comes in and she recognizes him as the one who carried her out of that hell. For the first time, someone looks directly into her eyes and doesn't skirt around what happened to her. just states that he and his wife will be taking her in and if she has an issue with that she can stick it where the sun don't shine. he realizes she's had it rough, but she can decide to let it control how she acts and hold her back from living or she can stop being a menace and treat the adults trying to help her with the respect they deserve. Because of him, she goes goes back to school, graduates at the age of sixteen and to graduate from college at eighteen. She gets put on the same team as the man who rescued her and soon, she is saving lives, eventually leading up to a case that is terrifyingly familiar and solving it with the help of an alien kitten and saving an innocent child from having to experience everything she had to. Now she has a chance to help him like I was helped back then and I'll be dammed if I leave him alone," Nix finishes, breathing heavily, tears sparkling in her eyes and making streaks down her cheeks.

She gets up and walks to the door, opening it, ignoring the guilty looking kittens that tumble back as she opens it and exits the room.

The rest of the kittens slink in to the room after she's gone, and jump onto the bed, looking at the pictures silently.

"That's really fucking sick man. That bastard did all that for no reason? Even I wouldn't do something like that, all deaths have a reason to me, I wouldn't make a little kid watch either, that's really messed up," Hidan said, grimacing.

"if Hidan thinks it's wrong, then it really must be," Sasori said with a sigh.

Everyone was silent until Tobi piped up, "So, are we going to be having a new friend soon? Nicki-chan is really nice!"

Pein sighed heavily, "I don't think we have a choice, but I suppose he has no where else to go and we cannot make her abandon him, i think it would probably break her, and she is rather fragile as it is," he says seriously, eyeing his minions.

"I can hear you brats, you know," Nix says from the doorway, her expression halfway between exasperated and amused. She walks past them and opens the window, crawling out and hauling herself out onto the roof awning, she leans back against the house, gazing up at the stars quietly, and smiling a little when the kittens follow her out to drape themselves over her.

"It'll be okay, it'll all work out, just watch," she said to Pein quietly, brushing a gentle hand over his head.

Pein looked away, hoping she was right. As they were, they were worse than useless, if anything were to happen, he wouldn't be able to keep anyone safe. it was not a feeling he liked.