**** The Mysterious Cases of Detective Hisoka ****
[Disclaimers/Note: I do not own any of the HxH characters. OOCness can be expected in the story.]
** Case 2 : The Case of the Missing Chocolate **
It had always been his custom to eat a bar of chocolate every night before bed, and this night, too, he'd sneaked into the darkness of the kitchen to get a bar of chocolate. The kitchen was big and had lots of cupboards and drawers, so the chocolate was hard to find. His friend who was in charge of things around the kitchen would have had lots of places to hide the chocolate.
No sign of Kurapica, thought Killua as he looked through the kitchen counters and the cupboards, but no chocolate was found. Not even one piece. Disappointed, he pushed over a chair so he could stand on it and opened the fridge to find something else to eat ---- something that tasted like chocolate, that is.
Just as he got his hands on the chocolate ice cream, a pat on the shoulder surprised him so much he dropped the box and jumped down the chair he had stepped on.
"Ne, Killua," it was his cheerful friend, "what are you doing here late at night?"
Killua put his index finger on his mouth, telling him to be quiet. Quietly, so quietly he couldn't even hear himself, he explained to Gon what he was up to, trusting that his friend wouldn't tell a soul. Gon nodded, indicating that he would help Killua with his 'Operation Chocolate'.
The plotter told his friend to go see if he could find any more chocolate, while he, himself would go get the ice cream. So Killua climbed on the chair again and opened the door of the fridge. Meanwhile, Gon crawled on the ground, hoping to find a secret trapdoor on the ground that would lead him to wherever Kurapica had hidden the chocolate.
Suddenly, the lights went on. The boys' eyes were blinded by the sudden brightness in the kitchen. By the intrance to the kitchen was a blond boy, who didn't look very pleased at what he'd found ---- what he didn't expect to find.
"Gon, Killua," said the blond, "just what do you think you're doing here?!"
"Well.... you see, we were trying to find some cho ---- ouch!" Gon was elbowed before he could finish his sentence. He looked over at Killua, and Killua glared at him, giving him that don't-you-dare-tell-him look.
"You were trying to find....?" asked Kurapica suspiciously. He twitched an eyebrow as he watched Killua whisper something to Gon. "Well?"
Gon nodded and started explaining. "Killua says he saw a cockroach so we came to chase it. So we were on the ground....," Gon paused as Killua whispered something else to him, "oh, yeah, and it got away! So we're going to bed now! Bye, Kurapica!"
Killua waved byebye to Kurapica and the two boys walked quickly out of the kitchen. But Kurapica's "Wait just a moment." stopped them from getting away. They turned with fake innocent looks on their faces as Kurapica, with hands on his hips, started telling them not to sneak out late at night again.
"Okay, Kurapica," said Gon. Killua said the same, but he didn't mean it. He knew he'd sneak out to get more chocolate every night. "Good night!" Gon had gone back to his bedroom.
"Good night, Gon, Killua," replied Kurapica in his friendly voice. Just as Killua stepped out of the kitchen, he added "Don't worry, you won't find any chocolate here."
Killua turned. "Huh?" he said nervously, "chocolate?"
"You can have some in the morning," continued Kurapica, "now go to sleep."
Kurapica stayed in the kitchen until Killua went out of the kitchen, and watched him as he went into his own room and closed the door behind him. The whole place was dark as ever without any light on, and Kurapica went to his room after making sure no one was there. It was hard to notice, but in his tight grip, there was a 'something' wrapped in shiver aluminum foil.
*~*~*~*~*
The next morning, the silver-haired boy woke up the earliest, hoping to find the hidden chocolates. He looked all over the kitchen, but still no luck. Just like the night before, he'd looked everywhere ---- from the cupboards to the drawers to the oven to the washing machine. As he decided to give up the search, wondering how Kurapica could have hid them so well, he pushed over the chair so he could stand on it.
Nothing was on top of the fridge, except for some dust.
He said to himself "I searched EVERYWHERE, but I can't find it!"
"Hi Killua!" It was Killua's cheerful friend again. "Any luck finding the chocolate bars?"
I'm not going to be fooled by your innocent look, Gon! Killua thought to himself. "No, Gon.... do you have any idea, say, where they could be?" He suspected his friend of taking the chocolate bars.
The boy with dark hair looked confused, but offered to help him find the chocolate. So Killua decided Gon wasn't lying, since the innocent expression on his friend's face was hard to imitate.
After going through all the things in the kitchen ---- occasionally knocking down pots and pans, creating sounds like CRUSH and SMASH and BANG ----- the boys got tired of searching and decided to ask Kurapica where he'd hidden the chocolate.
"Ne, Kurapica!" Killua shook Kurapica's shoulders, trying to wake him up, "wake up, will you?"
The blond murmured sleepily. "What....? What's going on, Killua? Gon?"
"Come on, tell us where you hid the chocolate bars!" demanded Gon.
Sleepily, Kurapica rubbed his eyes with his hands and got up from his bed. As the two boys dragged him to the kitchen, they asked him how he'd came up with good places to hide the sweets.
"I can't tell you how I manage to find places to hide them, can I?" Kurapica laughed softly as he led the two boys to front of a cupboard beside the fridge.
"But Kurapica, we went through that cupboard already," said Gon. "The chocolate's not in there."
Killua gave him a you-just-shaddup-and-watch look and Gon turned his attention to Kurapica.
After getting all the things out of the cupboard ---- with difficulty, since Gon and Killua had gone through all the contents of that cupboard and managed to mess it up completely ----, Kurapica peeled off part of the wallpaper which covered a little drawer behind the wallpaper.
"So that's where he'd been hiding the chocolate!" commented Killua, looking fascinated, "interesting."
But their faces fell as Kurapica opened the drawer. The drawer was empty ---- not even a trace of dust was in there! Kurapica looked surprised as Gon and Killua turned to him. "Where's the chocolate?" asked Gon curiously with a finger on his mouth.
Kurapica blinked, but didn't answer. Killua asked again. "Where's the chocolate, Kurapica?"
"The.... chocolate? I knew I put them in here when I hid them!" replied Kurapica.
"But why aren't they in here?" asked Killua.
"Maybe someone broke in here to steal them!" suggested Gon.
Whoever heard of breaking in to steal some chocolate? But the truth was, that the chocolate was gone.
Killua ran to Leorio's room right away to ask if he'd seen the chocolate, but no luck. "Why would I go steal chocolate? I didn't even know Kurapica hid them in there!"
"So Kurapica's the number one suspect, huh?" Killua gave him a suspicious smile. "Tell us, Kurapica, where you hid the chocolate this time."
"I told you I don't know!" defended Kurapica. "I'm positive I've hidden the chocolate here last time."
"And why aren't they here?" asked Killua.
"How should I know?!" Kurapica twitched his eyebrow.
Leorio sighed and thought to himself, 'here we go again....'. He wanted to turn his attention to something other than the argument, and that's when he noticed Gon's disappearance. "Where's Gon?" he asked.
Before anyone could come up with any answer, the doorbell rang and the four Hunters gathered at the door to greet their unexpected guests ---- The Great Detective and his assistant.
"Hi-Hisoka!!!!" screamed Leorio. "What do you think you're doing here?!"
The Detective smirked as he took off his coat. "A possible break-in was reported, and we're just here to investigate. Hehehe...."
"That must be a mistake! We were all in the kitchen.... Gon?" Leorio realized Gon's disappearance. "Do you happen to know who might have called these two.... er.... detectives to come?"
Gon backed off as Leorio approached him. With a nervous laugh, he admitted that he was the one who'd called the Detective. "I didn't mean to....," he added.
"What! Why did you.... How could you, Gon...." Leorio made a face and sank to the floor. Last time, Leorio had worked so hard to push the two out of their apartment room, and he'd never expected that he'd have to do it all over again.
According to Gon, he believed that there was someone breaking in, so he'd gone to search through the phone book. This time, the phone book was normal. Lots more private Detectives' names and numbers were listed in that thick phone book, which had came out only few weeks ago.
Looking through the lists, Gon came to find an ideal Detective ---- which he'd called, but what he didn't read was a small note on the bottom of the page: 'We apologize once again for your inconvenience, but a certain 'someone' had been threatening us to change all the organizations' numbers to theirs. Therefore, there is only one possible number you will find in this section.' And that 'someone', undoubtedly, was this Great Detective who happened to be in the Hunters' room.
So Hisoka and his assistant walked slowly into the room as Leorio glared at Gon, telling him how he should have never, ever dialed the number and Killua told him he should have been more careful.
"Soooo, let's hear the details, shall we?" said Hisoka, sitting down on the soft sofa in the living room.
They wanted to hear each person's point of view, and they wanted to sound professional, so one by one, the Hunters were called into the room.
The first person to be suspected was Killua. He begain his story from "Why would I be a suspect?!" Illumi thought it was likely, since he knew how much his little brother loved chocolate.
"Well, last night, I went to try to find a chocolate bar with Gon, but all we found were some chocolate ice cream. Then Kurapica came in, telling us we shouldn't be up late and we could have some chocolate in the morning, so we went back to bed." Killua paused to think for a moment. "This morning, I woke Kurapica up so he could tell us where the chocolate is, but then when he opened the drawer, it was empty."
"Interesting.... invisible chocolates, huh?" remarked Hisoka, rubbing the tips of his fingers together, showing his interest in the case. "Continue please."
"Well, I don't think it's invisible." Killua sweatdropped. "There was no sign of a break-in, and no sign of the wallpaper that covered the drawer damaged."
Hisoka continued thinking through Killua's story as Illumi took notes. Outside in the waiting area ---- the corridor, the three other Hunters were waiting patiently. However, their patience did not last long, for Leorio started yelling at Gon about how it was all his fault the two so-called Detectives had gotten into their house once again. Kurapica shook his head and tried to stop Leorio from yelling at the poor Gon as Illumi came out, asking for the next suspect to go into the room.
The next one was Gon. With a shrug, he entered the room and found the clown.... er.... Detective sitting on the sofa, waiting for the next person in question. "Ooooh, look, it's Gon-chan!" smiled Hisoka happily. The boy sweatdropped as he sat down on another sofa by Illumi.
"So tell us your story, Gon," said Illumi, ready to take some notes.
The black-haired young boy looked uncomfortable as he started explaining what happened. "Last night, I saw Killua going out of bed so I followed him to the kitchen. Then he asked me to help him look for chocolate, for some reason, but Kurapica came and told us to go back to bed, so I did."
"You don't know what happened after that then?" asked Illumi as he took notes of the important points from what Gon had said. "I mean, Killu and Kurapica were alone in the kitchen after that?"
Gon shook his head. "Then this morning, Kurapica promised we could have some chocolate, but the drawer that he kept the chocolate in was empty, so I called you guys to come investigate if someone had broken in." Hisoka licked his lips and let him go after a hug and "Byebye, Gon-chan....!" which made him feel even more uncomfortable. Illumi came out of the room with him so that he could call in the next suspect, which happened to be Kurapica.
"Ooooh, so we meet again, Kuruta boy," smirked Hisoka, followed by that weird laughter. Then he stopped suddenly and became serious. "Tell me. How did you steal the chocolate?"
Kurapica took a deep breath to keep him calm. "First of all, I did not steal the chocolate. Second, I don't even want you two here, and third, STOP CALLING ME KURUTA BOY!"
"Interesting." Hisoka was not listening to a word he said. "Continue please."
"Okay!" Kurapica groaned. "So last night I heard something in the kitchen so I got up. That's when I saw Killua and Gon sneaking around the kitchen, trying to find chocolate. I hid all the chocolate in this drawer behind the wallpaper in a cupboard in the kitchen, because I was in charge for all the foods, for some reason."
"Yeeees." Hisoka shot him a weird grin. "The scene of the crime...."
"Anyway, I promised I'd let them have their chocolate in the morning, but when they woke me up this morning, the chocolates were gone," continued Kurapica. Apparently, he was annoyed. "Now can I go?"
"Look!" Killua burst in suddenly. "I found 'this' in Kurapica's bedroom!" In Killua's hand was a piece of aluminum foil. Illumi examined it, and it happened to be just a candy wrapper. Kurapica glared at Killua and Killua smiled at him nervously, and out he went.
Hisoka whispered something to Illumi and he nodded, then they told Kurapica to bring in the next suspect. Leorio was the fourth and last suspect, and he was not pleased with it. "Why should I be a suspect?!" He groaned.
"You did go near the kitchen, didn't you?" asked Hisoka suspiciously.
"Yes, of course," replied Leorio confidently.
Hisoka continued with his questions. "When?"
"Half a year ago, when we moved in," said Leorio, his hand on his head, trying to remember. "I remember having to bring in all those cardboard boxes and stuff...."
Illumi cut him off, assuming that they had no luck trying to get any clue out of this guy. The Detective then asked him for what happened the night before and this morning.
Leorio, his hand still on his head, started thinking about the whole thing. But the sad truth was, that he had no clue what happened. "Let me see.... last night, I went to sleep right away and didn't wake up till the time when Killua came to bug me about some stupid chocolate of his missing...." To that, Hisoka and Illumi looked at each other and sweatdropped.
After asking Leorio and the others to wait in the waiting room ---- this time, the bathroom, since the Detective had suspected some of them might have gone by the door to listen to them talk. Then Hisoka and Illumi had a very secret conversation. So secretive they came out of the room every two seconds you'd doubt if they're really having a conversation.
Finally, after few hours of waiting, the Detective and his assistant finally came out of the living room. They then went to the bathroom to call all their suspects to go to the living room, where they'd announce what they've came up with.
"You'd better be right," groaned Killua.
They all seated on the living room sofas, waiting for the Detective to announce their findings. "Lady and Gentlemen," began Hisoka. He stopped as he felt a sharp glare from the blond. "What! I didn't name any names, did I?" said Hisoka, pretending to look hurt. But Illumi elbowed him, telling him to continue on the announcement.
"Where was I?" Hisoka pretended he forgot, but all the others glared at him and he started again. "Oh, yes.... the important announcement is that ----" The four suspects had their undivided attention on the Detective, and nervously, they waited for his next words. "....we have noooo idea what happened!"
Gon, Killua and Kurapica fell over and Leorio walked furiously over to the so-called Detective. "Hey! Are you a detective or not?! You're not supposed to give up, are you?!"
"And I thought you wanted me out of your apartment?" asked Hisoka.
Leorio banged his head on the wall, yelling to himself "What am I saying?! Of course I want him out of here!"
"Very well," smirked Hisoka. "Come, Illumi. Let's go back to the office. I want some more of that hot chocolate you made this morning."
"Okay, Hisoka," replied Illumi. "It's really interesting what you can find in a cupboard."
Suddenly, everything became crystal clear to the four Hunters. 'Chocolate'? 'Cupboard'? Yes. It all made sense. Leorio demanded that they take a look at Hisoka and Illumi's office to see what they can find. "Sure, be my guest," said Hisoka.
*~*~*~*~*
"....what!" Leorio's eyes became large as golf balls. "You never told me your office was right beside our room!"
Yup, it was true. The Hisoka-and-Illumi Investigations Office was right beside the four Hunters' room, and just as they thought, the kitchens were right beside each other ---- only a wall in between.
"So it was YOU!" Leorio glared at the Detective and his assistant. "You drilled a hole in the drawer and took the chocolate from the hole!" He went over to the garbage can and found some chocolate wrappers. "Ha! I knew it! It really was you two!"
Illumi thought for a moment. "Oh, yeah. I remember getting the chocolate from the drawer on the wall in the cupboard. But I didn't know it was your chocolate." Killua did not seem satisfied, for the fact that his cold-blooded brother had taken their chocolate. Illumi seemed to have noticed Killua's expression. "Killu, you want your chocolate back?"
"Of course I want them back!" was Killua's not-too-happy reply. "You do know how much I love chocolate!"
"Okay then," said Illumi. "You can have them back, but you four will have to wait for few minutes."
The four Hunters were confused. Wait for few minutes? Brining back the chocolate won't even take a minute. What was Illumi going to do? However, Hisoka told his assistant to go while he explain to their neighbours. "We made all those chocolate bars into hot chocolate this morning, you see.... so it might take a while before Illumi could get the machine going."
"Machine? What machine?" asked Kurapica, assuming that 'the machine' was something they shouldn't know about.
"Ooooh, don't worry," laughed Hisoka. "It's just his brother's invention. Milluki what's his name.... he made a water purifying machine, so we can easily take your chocolate apart from our special hot chocolate containing sugar, salt, soy sauce, dish detergent, herbicide, fertilizer ----"
Leorio backed away slowly, dragging his friends along. "Nah, that's ok.... don't worry about the chocolate...." It'd probably contain some kind of poison, anyway, he thought. "Just remember.... please God please don't ever come to investigate any of our case, okay?" With that, Leorio dashed madly out of their office and back to their room ---- to safety.
"So are we free from those two now?" asked Gon after they'd gotten back.
"Hopefully," sighed Kurapica. "I can't stand even one more visit from them ----"
Ding-dong! The doorbell rang again. Instantly, the four Hunters hid behind the chairs and the tables, and together, they said "You go!", pointing at each other. Shivering, Leorio walked slowly to the door and opened it.
"Hi," came the Detective's friendly face. "I've got your ---- " Leorio shut the door in his face. "....chocolate.... oh, well."
So another case was solved by the Great Detective Hisoka and his assistant Illumi ---- or so they said. But after all, the Hunters did find their chocolate, didn't they?
*tsuzuku....*
[Must find someone other than the main characters for Hisoka and Illumi to bug.... ^^;; Well, please tell me what you think of it but don't flame, okay? ^_^]
[Disclaimers/Note: I do not own any of the HxH characters. OOCness can be expected in the story.]
** Case 2 : The Case of the Missing Chocolate **
It had always been his custom to eat a bar of chocolate every night before bed, and this night, too, he'd sneaked into the darkness of the kitchen to get a bar of chocolate. The kitchen was big and had lots of cupboards and drawers, so the chocolate was hard to find. His friend who was in charge of things around the kitchen would have had lots of places to hide the chocolate.
No sign of Kurapica, thought Killua as he looked through the kitchen counters and the cupboards, but no chocolate was found. Not even one piece. Disappointed, he pushed over a chair so he could stand on it and opened the fridge to find something else to eat ---- something that tasted like chocolate, that is.
Just as he got his hands on the chocolate ice cream, a pat on the shoulder surprised him so much he dropped the box and jumped down the chair he had stepped on.
"Ne, Killua," it was his cheerful friend, "what are you doing here late at night?"
Killua put his index finger on his mouth, telling him to be quiet. Quietly, so quietly he couldn't even hear himself, he explained to Gon what he was up to, trusting that his friend wouldn't tell a soul. Gon nodded, indicating that he would help Killua with his 'Operation Chocolate'.
The plotter told his friend to go see if he could find any more chocolate, while he, himself would go get the ice cream. So Killua climbed on the chair again and opened the door of the fridge. Meanwhile, Gon crawled on the ground, hoping to find a secret trapdoor on the ground that would lead him to wherever Kurapica had hidden the chocolate.
Suddenly, the lights went on. The boys' eyes were blinded by the sudden brightness in the kitchen. By the intrance to the kitchen was a blond boy, who didn't look very pleased at what he'd found ---- what he didn't expect to find.
"Gon, Killua," said the blond, "just what do you think you're doing here?!"
"Well.... you see, we were trying to find some cho ---- ouch!" Gon was elbowed before he could finish his sentence. He looked over at Killua, and Killua glared at him, giving him that don't-you-dare-tell-him look.
"You were trying to find....?" asked Kurapica suspiciously. He twitched an eyebrow as he watched Killua whisper something to Gon. "Well?"
Gon nodded and started explaining. "Killua says he saw a cockroach so we came to chase it. So we were on the ground....," Gon paused as Killua whispered something else to him, "oh, yeah, and it got away! So we're going to bed now! Bye, Kurapica!"
Killua waved byebye to Kurapica and the two boys walked quickly out of the kitchen. But Kurapica's "Wait just a moment." stopped them from getting away. They turned with fake innocent looks on their faces as Kurapica, with hands on his hips, started telling them not to sneak out late at night again.
"Okay, Kurapica," said Gon. Killua said the same, but he didn't mean it. He knew he'd sneak out to get more chocolate every night. "Good night!" Gon had gone back to his bedroom.
"Good night, Gon, Killua," replied Kurapica in his friendly voice. Just as Killua stepped out of the kitchen, he added "Don't worry, you won't find any chocolate here."
Killua turned. "Huh?" he said nervously, "chocolate?"
"You can have some in the morning," continued Kurapica, "now go to sleep."
Kurapica stayed in the kitchen until Killua went out of the kitchen, and watched him as he went into his own room and closed the door behind him. The whole place was dark as ever without any light on, and Kurapica went to his room after making sure no one was there. It was hard to notice, but in his tight grip, there was a 'something' wrapped in shiver aluminum foil.
*~*~*~*~*
The next morning, the silver-haired boy woke up the earliest, hoping to find the hidden chocolates. He looked all over the kitchen, but still no luck. Just like the night before, he'd looked everywhere ---- from the cupboards to the drawers to the oven to the washing machine. As he decided to give up the search, wondering how Kurapica could have hid them so well, he pushed over the chair so he could stand on it.
Nothing was on top of the fridge, except for some dust.
He said to himself "I searched EVERYWHERE, but I can't find it!"
"Hi Killua!" It was Killua's cheerful friend again. "Any luck finding the chocolate bars?"
I'm not going to be fooled by your innocent look, Gon! Killua thought to himself. "No, Gon.... do you have any idea, say, where they could be?" He suspected his friend of taking the chocolate bars.
The boy with dark hair looked confused, but offered to help him find the chocolate. So Killua decided Gon wasn't lying, since the innocent expression on his friend's face was hard to imitate.
After going through all the things in the kitchen ---- occasionally knocking down pots and pans, creating sounds like CRUSH and SMASH and BANG ----- the boys got tired of searching and decided to ask Kurapica where he'd hidden the chocolate.
"Ne, Kurapica!" Killua shook Kurapica's shoulders, trying to wake him up, "wake up, will you?"
The blond murmured sleepily. "What....? What's going on, Killua? Gon?"
"Come on, tell us where you hid the chocolate bars!" demanded Gon.
Sleepily, Kurapica rubbed his eyes with his hands and got up from his bed. As the two boys dragged him to the kitchen, they asked him how he'd came up with good places to hide the sweets.
"I can't tell you how I manage to find places to hide them, can I?" Kurapica laughed softly as he led the two boys to front of a cupboard beside the fridge.
"But Kurapica, we went through that cupboard already," said Gon. "The chocolate's not in there."
Killua gave him a you-just-shaddup-and-watch look and Gon turned his attention to Kurapica.
After getting all the things out of the cupboard ---- with difficulty, since Gon and Killua had gone through all the contents of that cupboard and managed to mess it up completely ----, Kurapica peeled off part of the wallpaper which covered a little drawer behind the wallpaper.
"So that's where he'd been hiding the chocolate!" commented Killua, looking fascinated, "interesting."
But their faces fell as Kurapica opened the drawer. The drawer was empty ---- not even a trace of dust was in there! Kurapica looked surprised as Gon and Killua turned to him. "Where's the chocolate?" asked Gon curiously with a finger on his mouth.
Kurapica blinked, but didn't answer. Killua asked again. "Where's the chocolate, Kurapica?"
"The.... chocolate? I knew I put them in here when I hid them!" replied Kurapica.
"But why aren't they in here?" asked Killua.
"Maybe someone broke in here to steal them!" suggested Gon.
Whoever heard of breaking in to steal some chocolate? But the truth was, that the chocolate was gone.
Killua ran to Leorio's room right away to ask if he'd seen the chocolate, but no luck. "Why would I go steal chocolate? I didn't even know Kurapica hid them in there!"
"So Kurapica's the number one suspect, huh?" Killua gave him a suspicious smile. "Tell us, Kurapica, where you hid the chocolate this time."
"I told you I don't know!" defended Kurapica. "I'm positive I've hidden the chocolate here last time."
"And why aren't they here?" asked Killua.
"How should I know?!" Kurapica twitched his eyebrow.
Leorio sighed and thought to himself, 'here we go again....'. He wanted to turn his attention to something other than the argument, and that's when he noticed Gon's disappearance. "Where's Gon?" he asked.
Before anyone could come up with any answer, the doorbell rang and the four Hunters gathered at the door to greet their unexpected guests ---- The Great Detective and his assistant.
"Hi-Hisoka!!!!" screamed Leorio. "What do you think you're doing here?!"
The Detective smirked as he took off his coat. "A possible break-in was reported, and we're just here to investigate. Hehehe...."
"That must be a mistake! We were all in the kitchen.... Gon?" Leorio realized Gon's disappearance. "Do you happen to know who might have called these two.... er.... detectives to come?"
Gon backed off as Leorio approached him. With a nervous laugh, he admitted that he was the one who'd called the Detective. "I didn't mean to....," he added.
"What! Why did you.... How could you, Gon...." Leorio made a face and sank to the floor. Last time, Leorio had worked so hard to push the two out of their apartment room, and he'd never expected that he'd have to do it all over again.
According to Gon, he believed that there was someone breaking in, so he'd gone to search through the phone book. This time, the phone book was normal. Lots more private Detectives' names and numbers were listed in that thick phone book, which had came out only few weeks ago.
Looking through the lists, Gon came to find an ideal Detective ---- which he'd called, but what he didn't read was a small note on the bottom of the page: 'We apologize once again for your inconvenience, but a certain 'someone' had been threatening us to change all the organizations' numbers to theirs. Therefore, there is only one possible number you will find in this section.' And that 'someone', undoubtedly, was this Great Detective who happened to be in the Hunters' room.
So Hisoka and his assistant walked slowly into the room as Leorio glared at Gon, telling him how he should have never, ever dialed the number and Killua told him he should have been more careful.
"Soooo, let's hear the details, shall we?" said Hisoka, sitting down on the soft sofa in the living room.
They wanted to hear each person's point of view, and they wanted to sound professional, so one by one, the Hunters were called into the room.
The first person to be suspected was Killua. He begain his story from "Why would I be a suspect?!" Illumi thought it was likely, since he knew how much his little brother loved chocolate.
"Well, last night, I went to try to find a chocolate bar with Gon, but all we found were some chocolate ice cream. Then Kurapica came in, telling us we shouldn't be up late and we could have some chocolate in the morning, so we went back to bed." Killua paused to think for a moment. "This morning, I woke Kurapica up so he could tell us where the chocolate is, but then when he opened the drawer, it was empty."
"Interesting.... invisible chocolates, huh?" remarked Hisoka, rubbing the tips of his fingers together, showing his interest in the case. "Continue please."
"Well, I don't think it's invisible." Killua sweatdropped. "There was no sign of a break-in, and no sign of the wallpaper that covered the drawer damaged."
Hisoka continued thinking through Killua's story as Illumi took notes. Outside in the waiting area ---- the corridor, the three other Hunters were waiting patiently. However, their patience did not last long, for Leorio started yelling at Gon about how it was all his fault the two so-called Detectives had gotten into their house once again. Kurapica shook his head and tried to stop Leorio from yelling at the poor Gon as Illumi came out, asking for the next suspect to go into the room.
The next one was Gon. With a shrug, he entered the room and found the clown.... er.... Detective sitting on the sofa, waiting for the next person in question. "Ooooh, look, it's Gon-chan!" smiled Hisoka happily. The boy sweatdropped as he sat down on another sofa by Illumi.
"So tell us your story, Gon," said Illumi, ready to take some notes.
The black-haired young boy looked uncomfortable as he started explaining what happened. "Last night, I saw Killua going out of bed so I followed him to the kitchen. Then he asked me to help him look for chocolate, for some reason, but Kurapica came and told us to go back to bed, so I did."
"You don't know what happened after that then?" asked Illumi as he took notes of the important points from what Gon had said. "I mean, Killu and Kurapica were alone in the kitchen after that?"
Gon shook his head. "Then this morning, Kurapica promised we could have some chocolate, but the drawer that he kept the chocolate in was empty, so I called you guys to come investigate if someone had broken in." Hisoka licked his lips and let him go after a hug and "Byebye, Gon-chan....!" which made him feel even more uncomfortable. Illumi came out of the room with him so that he could call in the next suspect, which happened to be Kurapica.
"Ooooh, so we meet again, Kuruta boy," smirked Hisoka, followed by that weird laughter. Then he stopped suddenly and became serious. "Tell me. How did you steal the chocolate?"
Kurapica took a deep breath to keep him calm. "First of all, I did not steal the chocolate. Second, I don't even want you two here, and third, STOP CALLING ME KURUTA BOY!"
"Interesting." Hisoka was not listening to a word he said. "Continue please."
"Okay!" Kurapica groaned. "So last night I heard something in the kitchen so I got up. That's when I saw Killua and Gon sneaking around the kitchen, trying to find chocolate. I hid all the chocolate in this drawer behind the wallpaper in a cupboard in the kitchen, because I was in charge for all the foods, for some reason."
"Yeeees." Hisoka shot him a weird grin. "The scene of the crime...."
"Anyway, I promised I'd let them have their chocolate in the morning, but when they woke me up this morning, the chocolates were gone," continued Kurapica. Apparently, he was annoyed. "Now can I go?"
"Look!" Killua burst in suddenly. "I found 'this' in Kurapica's bedroom!" In Killua's hand was a piece of aluminum foil. Illumi examined it, and it happened to be just a candy wrapper. Kurapica glared at Killua and Killua smiled at him nervously, and out he went.
Hisoka whispered something to Illumi and he nodded, then they told Kurapica to bring in the next suspect. Leorio was the fourth and last suspect, and he was not pleased with it. "Why should I be a suspect?!" He groaned.
"You did go near the kitchen, didn't you?" asked Hisoka suspiciously.
"Yes, of course," replied Leorio confidently.
Hisoka continued with his questions. "When?"
"Half a year ago, when we moved in," said Leorio, his hand on his head, trying to remember. "I remember having to bring in all those cardboard boxes and stuff...."
Illumi cut him off, assuming that they had no luck trying to get any clue out of this guy. The Detective then asked him for what happened the night before and this morning.
Leorio, his hand still on his head, started thinking about the whole thing. But the sad truth was, that he had no clue what happened. "Let me see.... last night, I went to sleep right away and didn't wake up till the time when Killua came to bug me about some stupid chocolate of his missing...." To that, Hisoka and Illumi looked at each other and sweatdropped.
After asking Leorio and the others to wait in the waiting room ---- this time, the bathroom, since the Detective had suspected some of them might have gone by the door to listen to them talk. Then Hisoka and Illumi had a very secret conversation. So secretive they came out of the room every two seconds you'd doubt if they're really having a conversation.
Finally, after few hours of waiting, the Detective and his assistant finally came out of the living room. They then went to the bathroom to call all their suspects to go to the living room, where they'd announce what they've came up with.
"You'd better be right," groaned Killua.
They all seated on the living room sofas, waiting for the Detective to announce their findings. "Lady and Gentlemen," began Hisoka. He stopped as he felt a sharp glare from the blond. "What! I didn't name any names, did I?" said Hisoka, pretending to look hurt. But Illumi elbowed him, telling him to continue on the announcement.
"Where was I?" Hisoka pretended he forgot, but all the others glared at him and he started again. "Oh, yes.... the important announcement is that ----" The four suspects had their undivided attention on the Detective, and nervously, they waited for his next words. "....we have noooo idea what happened!"
Gon, Killua and Kurapica fell over and Leorio walked furiously over to the so-called Detective. "Hey! Are you a detective or not?! You're not supposed to give up, are you?!"
"And I thought you wanted me out of your apartment?" asked Hisoka.
Leorio banged his head on the wall, yelling to himself "What am I saying?! Of course I want him out of here!"
"Very well," smirked Hisoka. "Come, Illumi. Let's go back to the office. I want some more of that hot chocolate you made this morning."
"Okay, Hisoka," replied Illumi. "It's really interesting what you can find in a cupboard."
Suddenly, everything became crystal clear to the four Hunters. 'Chocolate'? 'Cupboard'? Yes. It all made sense. Leorio demanded that they take a look at Hisoka and Illumi's office to see what they can find. "Sure, be my guest," said Hisoka.
*~*~*~*~*
"....what!" Leorio's eyes became large as golf balls. "You never told me your office was right beside our room!"
Yup, it was true. The Hisoka-and-Illumi Investigations Office was right beside the four Hunters' room, and just as they thought, the kitchens were right beside each other ---- only a wall in between.
"So it was YOU!" Leorio glared at the Detective and his assistant. "You drilled a hole in the drawer and took the chocolate from the hole!" He went over to the garbage can and found some chocolate wrappers. "Ha! I knew it! It really was you two!"
Illumi thought for a moment. "Oh, yeah. I remember getting the chocolate from the drawer on the wall in the cupboard. But I didn't know it was your chocolate." Killua did not seem satisfied, for the fact that his cold-blooded brother had taken their chocolate. Illumi seemed to have noticed Killua's expression. "Killu, you want your chocolate back?"
"Of course I want them back!" was Killua's not-too-happy reply. "You do know how much I love chocolate!"
"Okay then," said Illumi. "You can have them back, but you four will have to wait for few minutes."
The four Hunters were confused. Wait for few minutes? Brining back the chocolate won't even take a minute. What was Illumi going to do? However, Hisoka told his assistant to go while he explain to their neighbours. "We made all those chocolate bars into hot chocolate this morning, you see.... so it might take a while before Illumi could get the machine going."
"Machine? What machine?" asked Kurapica, assuming that 'the machine' was something they shouldn't know about.
"Ooooh, don't worry," laughed Hisoka. "It's just his brother's invention. Milluki what's his name.... he made a water purifying machine, so we can easily take your chocolate apart from our special hot chocolate containing sugar, salt, soy sauce, dish detergent, herbicide, fertilizer ----"
Leorio backed away slowly, dragging his friends along. "Nah, that's ok.... don't worry about the chocolate...." It'd probably contain some kind of poison, anyway, he thought. "Just remember.... please God please don't ever come to investigate any of our case, okay?" With that, Leorio dashed madly out of their office and back to their room ---- to safety.
"So are we free from those two now?" asked Gon after they'd gotten back.
"Hopefully," sighed Kurapica. "I can't stand even one more visit from them ----"
Ding-dong! The doorbell rang again. Instantly, the four Hunters hid behind the chairs and the tables, and together, they said "You go!", pointing at each other. Shivering, Leorio walked slowly to the door and opened it.
"Hi," came the Detective's friendly face. "I've got your ---- " Leorio shut the door in his face. "....chocolate.... oh, well."
So another case was solved by the Great Detective Hisoka and his assistant Illumi ---- or so they said. But after all, the Hunters did find their chocolate, didn't they?
*tsuzuku....*
[Must find someone other than the main characters for Hisoka and Illumi to bug.... ^^;; Well, please tell me what you think of it but don't flame, okay? ^_^]