DISCLAIMER : Following the word itself "fanfiction", I do not own anything in this fiction and credits belong to the rightful creators of the manga: TOGASHI YOSHIHIRO, the publisher, the broadcasting companies of the anime both 1999 original version and 2011 remake - Nippon Animation and Madhouse, respectively and etc.

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Guest : I dont write Yaoi, sorry. But if I will, I can only do write a HisoxIllu one

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Milye6: Well Kil does swear a lot within the series xD I mean, he speaks loosely unlike his brother who speaks and behaves in a well manner xD

4 CHAPTERS TO GO AND WE'LL BE MOVING ON TO THE SEQUEL...! YAAAY!

CHAPTER 25

- RESPECT -

"Acckk!"

He clenched his teeth as he went flying in the mid-air right when I pushed his back with the palms of my hand after dodging his attack.

"Too slow!" I hollered out as I went back to my stance, with my feet on the ground getting ready for another attack when he darted towards me by bouncing his legs on a tree then disappearing into thin air.

I aniticipated him to attack me from the back. I tried to sense him around. He went sideways!

I quickly faced to the left to see him flying towards me as I prepared myself to dodge him upfront, however

SWISH SWISH SWISH!

A number of needles rained in front of me right when he disappeared again in which I swiftly bent backwards, doing a series of backflips to dodge all of them completely until...

"GOTCHA!"

He screamed as I realized if I actually bent once more backwards for another backflip, I'd get my heart ripped out of my body by his sharp baby claws. I stood a few centimeters from getting a hole pierced right through my chest. "WELL DONE!" I straightened myself up then raised both hands to acknowledge defeat.

He retracted his claws and put his hand down as I turned to face him. "You're improving!" I told him. "So far you made your whole 5 hours for today worthwhile!" I placed my hand on his head. "Making up for your screw up this morning huh... You even did well during your private classes a while ago hahahaha!"

He blinked his eyes looking right through mine as if he wanted to ask me something.

"What's up with that look? You should be happy, training's over. You can finally have your snacks or go to the playground!"

"You once told me your big bro also uses needles and can do a lot of things with it..." He asked.

"Well yeah... and what about it?"

"I am questioning the originality of the techniques I came up with... He is a manipulator just like me and you said he manipulates people using needles."

Ohhkay... I am not so sure on how to react about this one. I am not certain if his Nen has got something to do about his vile personality and if preventing him from coming up with such abilities would stop him from turning into the devil...

I wanted to make a change. I wanted him to be more considerate of a person's emotions specially mine. This is where he started. I can stop him from being an overly attached control freak If I start from here...

"Ahh, well, yeah he does manipulate people using needles..." I scratched my head sheepishly. "But I'm pretty sure as what you have told me, you prolly also had something else a bit more creative in mind...!"

Right. I can care less about his Nen. He can pursue his manipulative powers as much as he wants without being a monster. Im here to stop him from being one. The most important thing here is to show him the real value of emotions, having people who care about you, and people you care about. With the right kind of attention, he surely won't turn out into the monster he was in the present. It's for everybody's good. If I can't stay for long, at least I can leave him an impression and good memories he can hold on to... It's gonna be a huge factor towards change.

"How does the ability Im planning to achieve differ from your big bro's?" He asked further.

That was difficult. I just can't tell him that it was all the same! I somehow feel bad if I would change further his abilities... Telling him that my so called big bro's Nen, which was actually him, is just the same as the ability he plans to achieve would surely convince him to change it and might even result into an uncontrollable situation. Somehow, if I do that, I am exactly being the control freak he used to be. I dont wanna be like him. I have to change his perception about the world without changing his identity...

"Well..." I feigned ignorance, scratching my head. "I am not really familiar since I've never seen him battle... so I can't tell..."

He gave me a dissatisfied look like he thinks I wasn't yet done explaining and that I might even add up something useful...

"OOHKAY! Youre sneaking on me!" I poked his head making him flinch. "Trying to get advance Nen lessons huh?" I poked once more harder. "You can't outsmart me!" One more poke. I can't get enough of it!

"OWWW!" He scratched his forehead and furrowed his eyebrows, squinting his soulless fish-eyes on me. "You've been picking on me since a while ago!"

drip...

drip...

We both looked up at the sky the moment we felt droplets of water hit us from above... It just started to drizzle.

The sky was pretty strange since this morning, and maybe because it was bound to rain right now.

I glanced at him who automatically did back at me. "You can claim your second ride now..."

"Sorry it took me long...!" I came in to his room to find him staring at the window, his hands touching the glass while watching the droplets of water splatter on it. The rain was pretty hard, you can't see anything clearly through the glass at all. It was accompanied by lightning and thunder that occasionally brightened up the sky for a few moments before going back to its dark, cloudy state.

It's almost evening.

He eventually closed the draperies and turned to me. He was finally wearing his pj's and his fuzzy slippers, ready to go to rest.

I brought him another blow dryer because the ones in his room just stopped working. And I had to change too myself after we got caught in the rain before I could even lift him up and dash back to the mansion. Had I been unable to use Godspeed, we'd definitely get soaky wet! Lucky day today aye? I had to change twice just because of this little brat, pfft!

"Come over, we need to dry your hair." I sat down by his bed holding the blow dryer. He followed and sat on it with his back facing me.

"Dinner will arrive in a few as you requested..." I spoke as I dryed his hair with the blow dryer while occasionally rubbing the strands of his hair against each other to make it quick. "Shouldn't you eat at the dining hall?" I asked him.

"Nah..." He shrugged. "No one's gonna eat there anyways. Dad and Gramps are away, mom is inside her room and must never be disturbed and great ol'gramps is just always in his room and comes out once in a blue moon... We rarely to almost never get to eat together..."

Indeed. As far as I noticed, by the whole time I was around, I never get to see them eat together. It wasn't too different from the present however, at least it was most likely that some of us get to eat together except Milluki that fat-ass who locks himself in his fantasy world far far away from reality. That WAS when I was very little though. As we get older, the lesser it happens. I dont mean it in a bad way and like I actually enjoyed eating together with them hah! I actually hated it, specially when it happens that THIS GUY is around, 'Kil' this and 'Kil' that. Psssh.

"There!" I turned the blow dryer off, his hair in a huge fluffy mess covering his eyes.

He hopped off the bed and went to the dresser to comb his messy bangs away from his eyes, fixing it. Vain much? He really cares so much about his hair since childhood huh? No wonder he never complained no matter how hard I clawed his head this morning just to get rid of the sticky mud all over his hair!

"That Godspeed thingy is awesome..." He plainly spoke to me with a subtle gleam of delight in his eyes. "We actually ran at exactly the lightning bolt's speed. Other than Gramps dragons, this was one of the bests..."

Although even as an adult, he has this habit of complimenting stoically and bluntly when worth it, this one somehow felt rather different. This one sounded much more real, and honest. I had to admit that I somehow felt a little good inside to know that. He is a child after all. He is much more vulnerable than he used to be in the present. I can feel that he is looking up to me, and that I've finally gained his respect. This was supposed to stroke my ego and make me feel glorious. That I can finally brag to myself that I have somewhat 'defeated him'. But it doesn't seem to go that way right now. I felt none of those malicious notions.

"Oh believe me! His dragons ARE awesome! My Godspeed is no match to it. It's even more fun at night!" Can't agree no more! As a kid, I would never forget when he once gave me a ride above the whole estate! Oh the good ol'times...

"You've seen it?" He gave me a puzzled look.

Shit. I should be more careful when I talk! How can I be so careless?

"Umm... yeah? Yknow, fortune teller here? HAHAHAHA!" I let out a loud guilty chuckle trying my best not to arouse suspicions.

Knock knock!

His attention got diverted by the knocking on the door. Phew! I can finally cut the awkward laughter. "I'll get it!"

I rushed towards the door to open it.

"Good evening Young Master! Here's your dinner as you requested..."

END OF CHAPTER 25