That I ever would see the day where Chrollo would be the one to pout. Vacation had come up, and with all the free time, he thought I'd be able to spend the entire week with him. He said he offered it so he could teach me some new skills, but I have this feeling it was more because he wanted an early honeymoon. I didn't have the time either way. It's been two weeks since he proposed, and now that I had holiday from school, I got extra schooling on our family's own, specific medical knowledge. My mentor was actually pretty excited to be finally teaching me this, so he got a little over-excited and planned the whole week. Well not the whole week, my weekend had been kept free for my birthday.

Chrollo'd asked me after studying from across the table, taking hold of my hands and looking straight at me. When he started pouting, I had to laugh a little.

'We've been spending so much time together already, do you even still take jobs?' He folded his arms under his head on the table when I let go of his hands.

'I don't have to do a lot of jobs, I just have to pick the right ones and I'm good for another couple of months. I've built up enough reputation on my alias to live this way.' How rich are you, really? 'What? Are you going to demand a bigger ring now? You have this look in your eyes.' He smiled back at me. I looked away when I was caught on the thought. 'I'm never going to spend big, it would kind of give away that I'm not just a teacher.'

'I'm not asking you to.' I still didn't look at him, but I leaned back in my chair away from my work, and I just let the little fantasies fill my head for a second. We're not a poor family, but we don't actually have a lot of money to spare with all the security we have to put and keep in place.

'You look too amused not to be imagining spending my money. And this after denying me the company next week. Someone's not being fair.'

'Yeah, well, this someone is going to make his own money if I keep my medical training up. So what do you actually prefer? Me gone for a week to learn to make my own living, or here for a week living off of your riches?' I turned my eyes back to him when I noticed his foot had made it to my side of the table, and he was making his way up my leg. 'Well, there's a shocking answer.' He smiled again, but stagnated when the length of his leg couldn't make it past a certain point. 'You're not going to let me study this weekend are you? I think I'm going to have to take my opinions of you as a teacher back.'

'Who said I wouldn't be teaching you anything new?' Well, alright, he caught my interest with that. I could accommodate him and shuffle closer against the table, but I didn't yet.

'I'll be learning new massaging techniques as well, I don't think you object to that, do you?' Last time that I actually succeeded in getting him so far as to actually undergo the massage instead of other activities, he'd purred like a kitten and slept like a baby even though he hadn't had any sleep deprivation. In the morning he'd appreciatively used his loosened muscles though.

'What else will you be learning?'

'Well, there's been some injuries while tracking, so whatever those are, I'm getting to learn how to heal more quickly. Nothing deeply surgical yet.'

'Anyone you know that got hurt?'

'Yeah, Pairo messed up this time. But tracking's not his specialty, so him visiting isn't exactly an exception.' I snorted, thinking about it. It hasn't exactly become better after his sister's death, but he was starting to pick it up again. I felt Chrollo's foot getting a little restless again, but noticing I wasn't going to give in, he just lay it down on the chair in between my legs. I gave him a triumphant look for that one.

'Your tracking has been taken over by him completely?' He didn't look like he'd given up just yet though.

'No, mainly by my aunt's side of the family. They're better at it either way.'

'I still want to take it over from all of you.'

'No matter how sweet and sensitive that sounds, it's never going to happen.' I sighed the words. 'Besides, we may not have your experience, but we do have a certain physical advantage.' Even though it was with Chrollo, I felt incredibly uncomfortable saying it.

'I noticed. Your eyes are superior, aren't they. But they will not help you with close combat, so I will still ask to take over with every chance I get.' I raised my hand and started listing off the reasons of why it was a bad idea finger by finger,

'One, I am by no means allowed to show my red eyes to anyone before I'm 18, and even then not until we're married. Two, I will be put in the position of having to choose between you and my family when they find out you're an assassin. Three, they will skin me alive when they find out you know the family secret. Four-' I wasn't allowed to go to four, he'd hooked his other leg behind the leg of my chair and shuffled me closer, making him able to reach his goal. 'Four! You play goddamn dirty!' I slammed my hand down on the table.

'At the least after your trainings, come home to me.' I could have shuffled my chair back.

'I hardly see my family anymore as is, you're goddamn monopolizing me.'

'You make it sound like that's a bad thing.' You're incorrigible, 'Plus you're doing training now with them, so you get to see enough of them.'

'That's not the family I'm talking about, you big baby.'

'They're welcome for dinner one or two times.'

'You- we are not having this discussion with your foot being where it is!' I lay my hand on my face, covering it while trying to hold back a little. This was a matter of pride.

'Then just distance yourself again, it's not difficult.'

'Or you can just take your damn foot away!' I dropped my hand and yelled back at him, a little exasperated, but not being able to be completely serious about it.

'Well I'm not gonna do that, so we're simply continuing the discussion.'

'…Fine! I'll invite them over for dinner here. Happy now?'

'Very.' I looked away from him, but that seemed to have been a mistake.

His foot retreated, leaving me not knowing whether I wanted to continue or not. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to just will it away for now. But the man that had crawled under the table seemed to have other ideas about that. My fist slammed back on the table when he slid his hands over the sides of my legs and his mouth found its way quickly enough over the still clothed area.

I shut my eyes tightly and protested for a very short moment, but eventually just hunched back over the table and let myself go. Whatever, it's not like there was anything left to discuss either way.

'You owe me for this.' I mumbled against the table. He gave me a short second of relief when he replied,

'I have zero problems with that.'

I still had to shake my head at this man's actions. Ever since he proposed he can't stay away from me, and I'm not complaining at all, am I.

A/N

Chrollo's just playing around now that he got what he wanted. I'm still thinking about when to make the turning point, because when I do, there's no returning to this carefree fluffy side, and mayhaps I have made myself addicted to it and I want it to last forever just as much as Kurapika does.

I have a very strong love/hate thing going on with myself xD