"nee-san" the voice caused him to stop and turn, "why can't she sleep by herself anymore?"
Illumi pondered this a moment before responding, "I do not know"
chapter 37
The next morning Mari awoke to a different body besides her. She frowned slightly looking at the young boy, her nightmares still brimming on the surface of her thoughts.
So that's what he wanted…
Illumi wanted to know what would happen if she slept alone. To be honest, she had been expecting that to happen even with illumi next to her, those horrors still haunting her every step, that wouldn't allow her to sleep naturally. "Well… I haven't gotten over that incident obviously..." she mumbled still studying the small child in her arms.
Kalluto was fast asleep, sleeping peacefully besides her. Still in his kimono, which was crumpled from sleeping, he shifted slightly as the girl continued to watch, her thoughts whirling about her head.
Stupid illumi.
Ten minutes later kalluto drifted awake, to discover Mari staring down at him. "Morning sweetie" she smiled. But there was something off about her features, something that unnerved him even though he couldn't put the finger as to what.
"Morning Mari-nee-san" the boy yawned sitting up while rubbing the slept out of his eyes, "last night yo-"
"I know what happened, I can guess Hun" she cut him off before getting out of bed, the red jumper slipping over her head while kalluto watched with tinted cheeks.
"I see," he turned away trying to get his composure back, "does that happen often?" the boy young questioned.
Mari turned towards him, a dark expression turning to a sly grin plastered on her face, "it doesn't, I haven't exactly slept properly in four years…" she turned towards the door, "and kalluto?"
"Yes?"
"Your questions will go unanswered, some things are better left unsaid" she stated before walking out the door, leaving the confused boy to his thoughts.
As she plotted revenged.
"Illumi~ you're in my bad books" she purred, almost making the male jump. Almost.
Illumi sat on the sofa, opposite Zeno who had a slight smile on his face while drinking his tea. She leaded over the back, next to the long haired male.
"Whatever to you mean?" the male asked, innocently.
"oh you know what I mean dearie," Mari stated with an evil grin which zeno caught the slight of, before the girl ran a hand along the males board shoulders, leaning into his ear she whispered, "you need to be punished…"
She moved away, as zeno started to chuckled, at the sight of his grandson. Illumi heard the rustle of fabric, then felt the tightness around his crotch area. Looking down, his discovered. Pink, a lot of it.
Frowning in distaste he examined his new clothing entire. Everything was pink, a bright blinding pink. His clothes had changed into a pink leotard that was digging into his skin, making it uncomfortable to move it. Around his waist was a bright pink Toto, leaving the rest of his legs bear. Even his hair for some reason had changed to a bun with pink ribbon entwining in it.
"Mari," growled illumi with distaste lining his voice, "change me back"
"Nope" the browned hair girl grinned mischievously, sprawling herself out on the sofa next to him.
"Change me back now"
"Make me, bitch" she growled back, her nen changing dark and dangerous, as if threatening him to make the first move.
"Illumi" zeno spoke, breaking the tense atmosphere. "Deal with it for now"
Internally she grinned, knowing full well that she had won the battle. And for bonus points she got a reaction out of the male. At the same time, the door opened reliving sliva, who stared at the scene. A pink totoed up illumi next to a grinning Mari and chuckling zeno. He signed shaking his head in shame, what had he done to deal with this?
"I am not going to ask" he stated throwing a file onto the table in front of the girl who eyed with interested, "this is a name of a family we know has had dealing with J.A genetics, we thought this would serve as a peace offering"
Mari smiled slightly picking the folder of the table flickering thought it, "interesting proposal. Though a peace offering whatever would we need that for?"
"We won't target you, you won't target us" sliva stated.
"Ahh~," she nodded, in actually fact she wouldn't actually target them. The family was too interesting to kill off at that moment, and killua would be upset with her. She couldn't have that – though… it would be entertaining, god she sounded like Hisoka. "Fine by me"
"Good, and as from that medication, were having trouble finding out what some of the ingredients are, so we will get back to you on that"
She shrugged, not actually caring to much about those drugs anymore, she had come up with a sort of solution…
"That's fine" sliva nodded, before leaving the three behind.
The room descended into silence, as Mari silently read though the file. The family was the Ashcroft family, a small but wealthy mafia family it seems and hopefully someone she needed to have a word with. There was after all only two mafia families involved in the company left that she knew off.
Maybe after this there would only be one…
"Will you change me back now?" asked an annoyed illumi.
"Nope~" she purred, popping the 'p'.
Signed the male stood, as gracfully as he could in the tight toto and leotard. Before gingerly making his way out of the room. Quickly she snapped a photo of the males' arse - sending the photo to a red head who would love this. With a caption, revenge is sweet.
"He can just change out of that…" zeno pondered, before realisation stuck, "what else did you do?"
Mari smirked before standing herself, "I may have or may not have changed his entire wardrobe, bettering get the camera ready~" she purred. Leaving the man chuckling.
The phone rang. Digging into her pocket she took out the device, grinning as she spotted the ID caller was. Currently, she was skating thought the town at the bottom of the zolydck residence, picking up a few things. "Hello, my dear magician~" she purred, "like the photo I sent you?"
Hisoka chuckled down the phone, "little thief you cease to amuse me. How, may I ask, did you convince him to wear that?"
"What can I say, a magician never relives his secrets~" she giggled. While the male at the other end chuckled, "you certainly got a reaction out of our emotionless male…"
"What?! no I haven't every time I try to get him to react, it doesn't work" she scowled down the phone, "I only really been able to get some emotions out of him and spot little actions on his face but his still a stone-face male" she pulled a face, "but I must say this game it fun~"
"Little thief, you made more of an impact that you believe~"
"Hmm~ have you and illumi been talking about me behind my back. That's not nice you know" Grinning she sat on a park swing, head tilted as she listened to the male down the phone chuckled to himself, she could hear the smirk on those painted lips of his.
Even though the phone he made her blood boil, and nose curl. "You know I can't tell you that, only that maybe you should try being more blunt~"
"Hmm" she hummed to herself before changing the subject, "not that I mind talking about having a stone-face male break, what do I own the pleasure of this call phone Hisoka~"
"On to the main topic at hand I see. Well, Mari~ I have a proposal"
"I'm listening"
##time Skippy##
Illumi scowled at his predicament, all of his clothes, ALL of them. Even ones he didn't think anyone could find had been turned bright pink and into toto's of serious unwearable sizes, what's more is that he couldn't fine the brown haired girl anywhere.
"il-lu-mi~!" a voice sung at the top of her lungs before he felt a weight on his back.
"Mari" he responded back blankly. "Did you turn all my clothes pink and unwearable?"
"Nooo, not all of them" she giggled resting her chin on the males shoulder, while illumi paused mid-step.
"Where are the okay clothes then?" he started Causley,
"In my roooom~" she purred. He turned on his heels quickly heading towards the girls room, with her still clutched to his shoulders legs swinging, like a child, around his waist. The long haired male not even questioning the slight change in her personality, he was more interested in his clothes.
Swinging her room door open he stopped end. On the floor empty bottles lay scattered. "What happened here?" he questioned.
She giggled jumped off his back, before spinning on her heels a large grin plastered across her face. "It's my last night here! I got work else were Sooo~ I'm celebrating!" she grinned even more if possible, she dragged the stunned male into the room, before slamming the door shut, breaking the handle in the process.
"My clothes?" the stone-face male asked.
"There~" she pointed to the bed, were a signal pile of normal looking clothes lay. He moved towards them, but the girl got to them first hugging the pile to her chest.
"Mari…" he warned in annoyance. The warning falling on deaf ears.
"Noo, just coz their here doesn't mean you can have them, your being punished remember?" she giggled, laying on the bed, hair spread out behind her.
It clicked in illumi's head, "how much have you had to drink?"
Mari cocked her head, "not that much~ their only twenty or so bottles – all the one the floor. Us monster can drink plenty"
"is that so," he spoke quietly before reaching for the girl, who grinned rolling backwards to the other side of the bed.
"no, no, no, my dear illumi~" she purred disappearing over the other side, illumi peered over the edge spotting the brown haired girl as she stood, gone was the red hoddy which lay on the floor. She wore an oversize shirt and shorts, his clothes, he realised. The only clothes he could wear left, till he ordered more. "You have still to be punished~" she hummed, a devilish smirk on her face.
He stepped around the bed towards the demonic girl, "this isn't a game Mari" he stated simply, face blank as always.
She chuckled, a gentle tingle to his ears as she looked at the male, blue eyes flashing slightly. "But it is! Life is a game we all play~ we're all just a piece in the puzzle. I just want to make it more exciting"
The male signed, a hand rubbing his head – he could feel a heartache coming along but also a twitch in his heart as he saw her before him, in his clothes no less. He mind drifted back to a conversation he had with Hisoka earlier.
"What do I know the pleasure illumi?" Hisoka smug voice spoke.
"When are you going to kill Mari?"
"Hmm~ the little thief? Not anytime soon why?" Hisoka asked interested in the sudden change of events.
"She's a distraction"
"A distraction? Eh? Don't tell me that the great zoldyck got distracted by Mari during a job?"
Illumi was silent in response while Hisoka chuckled, "I take it I hit the nail on the head then, what happened do tell?"
The long haired male signed, before telling his red headed friend what happened. Hisoka chuckled in delight at the outcome, he hadn't expected the women to be able to start to break away the stone face male's emotionless mask. "So basically, during a job you two had together you killed the target than while escaping you got distracted due to the girl acting skill?"
"Correct"
"Hmm, was there a twinge in your heart? When you look at her is your breath sometimes taken away?" the magician questioned.
"My heart does have some palpitations when she's around. I do believe she's bad for my health, but the family doesn't want her killed, calling her a good ally to have. Hisoka you should kill her sooner rather than later."
Hisoka chuckled mercilessly at the emotionless male, "illumi~ that isn't the reason for your heart to react that way"
"What do you mean?"
"Ever hear of love?"
Love is something assassins did not have, they had no need for it. It makes them weak and easy to manipulate. Though looking back on the conversation with the red headed male, maybe he was onto something, not love but something of a similar nature….
Her speaking brought him out of his thoughts, "my dear illumi~ I hear an interesting rumour" she stepped closer, her face inches away from his own, "I heard that when you come of age you get trained it the arts of seduction. So that you can have great sex and kill when the targets guard is down? Is that true?"
He nodded, not knowing how she manged to get hold of stuff information.
"So is it also true that the zoldycks are trained by the best in the world?" he nodded again, she moved onto her tip toes, her lips parting by his ear "shall we test out that theory? I still have not made you scream yet"
"You will not make me scream, Mari. Now please return my clothes" he stated simply.
The girl pouted slightly in defeat but there was a flicker of something else in her eyes that told him otherwise, "you will have to undress me sweetheart~" she purred, lust pouring into her voice as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Like a snake louring in the spider.
Hisoka had been onto something, but it was not love. Assassins did not feel the thing called love. More like a never-ending need for blood, the girl had taken his breath away when she was dressed to perfection, splattered in blood which just added to her fake features. It was the lust that seemed to seep into the room, lust he had to control when she was round, pulling at him, torturing him. He wanted to be control - to control.
"Fine" he stated simply, the little control he had left snapping as he put his lips onto hers.
Mari's eyes widen before she herself let herself be taken in by the heated kiss.
to be continued...
Hey all!
This is soo hard! Im trying to keep the character to the original idea but I didn't know how to write illumi properly…
So he may be completely out of character on this... Sorry! DX
Gonnna be one more chap, that back to the original story but don't worry I haven't forgotten about updating, just drowning in work and uni!
Please review, I love hearing your comments and advice is always welcome!
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Happy hunting xx