Disclaimer: I do not own any of this cute characters. Absolutely, they are owned by Yoshihiro Togashi! No profits earned with this story, so don't sue me^^.
Note: Hullo!!! How's the day minna? Sure its great (If not, then its not my fault ^.~)! Anyways, since I'm becoming like a kuraneon rabid writer, and never tried to write about the others... I'd planned for this fic. This is a GxK story, not Gon and Killua but Gon and Karuto! This pairing is just a non canon couple, but other than that, I still like them both (Don't know why^^). Its kinda stupid but I hope you like this one, like the way you like my other fics, ne?
Guidelines to be follow:
Onee- san/Neesan means "Sister"
Juunigatsu means "December"
Sore ga? means "And so what?"
Daijoubu? means "Are you okay?"
Hai, wakarimashitta means "Yes, I understand"
Otouto means "little brother"
Onii- san/Onii- chan/Nii- san means "Brother"
Imouto means "little sister"
Itaii means "It hurts"
P.S Does anyone thought about Karuto being similar with Hotaru from SS (Sailor Moon)? The thought just hit me when I was watching a scene when Karuto appeared. Her smile reminds me of Hotaru, since Yoshihiro Togashi's wife is Naoko Takeuchi (The maker of SS), no wonder it would be, ne? Ja
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Secret Behind Memories
Chapter One: Call back
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The month of December is coming again. Those cold winds and ruffled leaves were heard all around the place, scattering every places they were destined to go. At the same time, the crisp white bliss fall from the sky, blending the month's hue. Every people are preparing for December, like building Christmas trees, putting colorful decorations, and buying gifts for their love ones. Since it was nearing. The Christmas day.
The young raven haired girl sat beside her window, as she counted every snows fallen in front of her. She sighed. December is nearing... she thought. She really hated it, especially this kind of month. Maybe, its because of the climate and the bliss given by it, or rather its because the memories that hurts her so badly is refreshing on its own again?
She shook her head at the thought, lifting her small arms around her body, enveloping herself to keep warm. I think because I really hate every moment I remembered to be hate She corrected to herself, and continued watching the outside's view. The silence covered all around the room, as if she was all alone in the dark.
"Karuto- neesan?" a tiny voice of a boy started, realizing the defeaning silence covering them. "Juunigatsu was nearing again" the silver head boy reminded, as if he wanted to signal something. The girl addressed was a little startled about the reminders, but then she hide it with her blank, cold reaction. "Sore ga?" Karuto answered back, though she didn't look at her otouto, looking at Aruka was like looking at her own enemy. He really looked the same as her onii- san. "Its just Christmas anyway" she continued, as she rubbed the snow away from her reddish kimono, coming from outside.
Aruka's mouth curved into upward, he didn't expect for that kind of answer. He walked towards his nee- san, and grabbed a sit beside her. He tried to sit like the way his nii- san's way... His idol's way. The 12 year old boy stared at Karuto. "Heart tells, Mind says" Aruka implied, grinning the way it would attract her. On the other hand, the 14 year old turned to him, with those quizzical brows and eyes. Karuto's otouto is mysterious at the same time, though they were both sister and brother and both have a bond one's family have, she still can't understand the way Aruka acts. Much hard to admit it, but its really reminds her of her Onii- san no matter what. The raven haired girl turned to the opened window again, and found herself coming back from her childhood past...
"Onii- chan!!! Onii- chan!!!!" the 7 year old Karuto called, as she tried to reach her older brother who smiles happily at her. It was December at that moment, and the snow are raining all over the Kukuruu mountain. Since it was Christmas, her onii- chan invited her to have some fun outside and also to enjoy feeling free rather than training in such a cold climate. The raven haired girl smiles. How she enjoy feeling her nii- chan's affection towards her. He loves her, and she loves him too, though they're family was indeed an assassin group. "Kirua~ niichan!!!!" she yelled, as she lifted her arms up. "I'm going to catch you!!!" Karuto dared, and continued to ran.
Killua, on the other hand, giggled on the way his sister called him as 'Kirua'. Karuto never stopped calling him like that, it sound kinda 'Japanese', much as he remembered the language. "Ka-ru-to, you'll never defeat Aruka when he gets older if you continued being like that!" the silver haired assassin teased his imouto, who in turn, accept it as an insult. The young girl then pouted, and became mad. Karuto runs faster than the last, she was determined to confronts her Kirua~ niichan's dare. A while later, when she was about to reach his cloth's collar, she never realize a hardened rock in front of her and suddenly tiptoed over it. Karuto then fall, lying in the snow, in a prone position.
Seeing his little sis lying in the snow, he suddenly run towards the raven head girl, and kneeled in front of her. Trying to wipe the snow on her kimono. On the other hand, Karuto tried not groan in front of her onii- chan, yet her knee was aching. "I- itaii..." she muttered, softly that she never thought Killua would hear it. The 9 year old boy then stared to his imouto's expression, and turned her lower kimono to find what's wrong. As to his expect, Karuto's knee was bruised because of the fall. "Mou, Karuto' tte ba" Killua said, as a smile appeared on his face. "You never learned, don't you?" he continued, and turned his back to her. Offering his back to Karuto. "So, don't cry anymore. Just climb on my back"
Karuto blinked innocently. She didn't get what the silver head boy wants her to do at first, but then understand what he meant. Her cat- like eyes turns wide, and slowly stopped to cry. She then nodded, and followed her brother's command. Karuto climbed on Killua's warm back, and leaned over the soft fabric he wears. She closed her eyes. The girl sniffed the boy's scent, and found it familiar. The acromic perfume, which their Otou- sama had given to his 9th birthday. Killua's birthday was really a nice and humorous memory for her, that made her face grinned.
Minutes later, the raining blizzards started to slow down, as Karuto's thought was suddenly cut by the cold liquid over her nose. Her eyes opened so quickly, that she already found out that the liquid over her nose was a piece of... snow. The 7 year old took the blizzard on her nose, and pricked it. She turned over her onii- chan, and saw him humming a beautiful, yet a lonely tune. But it doesn't matter, anyway. Her smile appeared again on her face. "It was indeed a nice Christmas day"...
"KARUTO- NEESAN!!!!" Aruka cried, calling his older sister for the fiftieth time. A slight worry appeared on his face, since Karuto turns blank when he said a rhyme. He really didn't intend to make his sister worry that much. He just wanted to make her happy, which didn't turn on that way.
For a moment, Karuto's reaction is still the same, but then, back to herself again. She found herself leaning on the nearby wall, and slowly turned to clock at the top of her window. It was already 6 PM. What's that suppose to mean?! she asked to herself, as her eyes turned wide. I've been day dreaming for almost 1 hour?!!
Aruka gazed at Karuto for a while, he felt a slight relief in that moment. He thought his sister is going to be crazy. "Karuto- neesan, mou daijoubu?" he asked, finding no way to test the raven head girl at the moment. She slightly nodded as a reply to her otouto's question, and stared to his eyes, directly. "Its not our fault for having him go..." she trailed, as she clenched her fist. Putting it over her heart. "Its because of the thief"
Innocent look appeared on Aruka's eyes. he doesn't know how he would react on the way his older sister says. Karuto never explained what's the topic all about, but he knew its connected with the rhyme and his Onii- san or rather about the thief also. But then, the little boy felt a slight urge inside of him. He vows to find it out, whatever the consequences is...
Before Karuto would turn weird.
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It was already midnight, yet the snows were still raining all over the Kukuruu mountain. The Zoldick family was already asleep in their respective rooms. Ready for a certain caller that would give some murdering jobs, that they would enjoy and also the money they would use.
A while later, at the steward's dormitory, the phone rang beside the main door. A phone call. It cried so loud, that made one of the steward get from his sleep and grabbed the phone. The caller murmured some greetings, and introduced himself. There's a long silence before the man reacts to the caller, as he felt tense about the news it given to him. He smiled for a while, "Hai, wakarimashitta, tomorrow I'll tell them about the plan" he answered and hang up the phone.
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To be continued...
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Ending Notes: So how was it? Good? Bad? I accept criticisms (but not to flare about the pairing, okay?) and also suggestion of how will I continue this one ^^. Since, my mind is empty right now... Before I go, there's some explanation I wanted to give:
- The set appeared 2 years after the series. So that is why Karuto's age is 14 (if you estimated it, or something like that^^.
- "Aruka? Who's Aruka?!" I know, what's in your mind. But hope you read this one, before you says something... uhhh, you know what I mean! Aruka was Karuto's little brother (And also the other's of course). It was originally 'Alluka' but, since I'm a japanese, I'm more comfortable of the name 'Aruka' instead of 'Alluka'.
- "Who's the idol, the enemy they are talking about?!" The idol, the enemy they are talking about was no other than... Killua, of course!!! If you remembered what Silva had said. "Killua is the only one I could placed in my position" So I preferred Aruka to imitate is older brother's path.
- And who's the caller??? Goooomeeeeeennnn, but I can't tell. Its a spoiler if I split it out! Figure it out! (But I think you already know who it is...)
Anyway, that's all explanation I could give for now, I hope it could satisfy your appetite. For my 'Love Poetry' fic... Ummm... Don't kill me, okay? I'm lost of thoughts. Maybe it would be left out for a while, but I'm not saying that I would leave it unfinished! I'm going to finish it, but I'll try to flex my time out! Ja, matta minna! (P.S I don't know if this would be my last update for a while, but I think I must say this before I go ^__^ And, oh! Before I forgot. This fic was inspired by kurapika- sama's 'Daikirai'. That's all).