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ADVENTURES OF A NINE LEGGED SPIDER
by Onkiu!
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Author's Note: Hi, I'm back from a long hiatus. Thank you for all your comments, it made me feel guilty to not put these chapters up (which I wrote many months back.) I am currently busy keeping up with commitments, but I will try to upload as many chapters as I can.

This is the fifth part of who knows how many parts of Chapter Two. Like I said before, this chapter was an unexpected 10,000 words + long, which would make this quite a long two chapter fic.

Also, I felt that it would be too tedious, long and boring for people to read such a long page.

So, Chapter Two has now been separated into 2000 word long sections for easier reading!

Enjoy!

Legal Stuff: Please refer to Chapter One - I do not own HxH!

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Onkiu presents:
ADVENTURES OF A NINE LEGGED SPIDER
Chapter Two Pt 4: Kurapika x Undercover x Behind Enemy Lines
A game of pretence.

Original title: The bouncer x angry young man x clashes
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As a result of the report on the incident, Sharlnack had sent cool headed Machi and calm Shizuku to Funky Cows to keep an eye on things. Safety in numbers, he had said. Sharlnack also had the feeling that if Machi and Shizuku were not there, Phinx and Nobunaga just MIGHT be inclined to do something rash, idiotic and stupid. Machi's cool headedness and Shizuku's calming prescence would definitely be helpful.

The club had long since finished its business for the night, and all of the patrons had left. Except for a certain beautiful girl who was in fact a man underneath the layers of makeup, the rather realistic wig, the stilettos and the pretty little outfit. The certain beautiful girl,Kurapika, was waiting for a certain little bouncer to finish packing some chairs up and leave.

Across the road from the club, hidden in the shadows were four shadowed figures watching all of this. The lights flicked off, and a small man and a slightly taller girl left.

One of the figures was Machi.

"Follow them," said Machi. "If there are any links between him and the chain guy, however minor, we retreat, pronto."

They followed silently and swiftly, as is the manner of the spiders. Every step that the girl and Feitan took, they took one too. If the girl and Feitan stopped, they stopped also. The girl had been following him for quite some time now, insisting that she was very scared of all the nasty people that lurked in little alleys and offered her candy and a lift home. She kept asking him to take her home, to which Feitan had either refused or ignored every time she did.

"Please take me home, Mr. Bouncer!" she cried in such an innocent tone that was very uncharacteristic of Kurapika, whose innocence had been destroyed when he witnessed a massacre of his people.

Feitan made no reply.

"Please? I'm really scared... I shouldn't have stayed so long!"

"Yes. You shouldn't've." said Feitan unsympathetically. Feitan continued walking and the girl followed him, much to his annoyance (though he hid it well). The girl really didn't know when to stop. She just kept bugging and bugging him, and Feitan felt that he was about to reach breaking point when his phone suddenly rang.

"Hello?" said Feitan.

"Feitan," said Machi, ringing him from across the street, speaking in a no nonsense kind of voice that was typical of her. "It's Machi. Shizuku, Phinx, Nobu and I are across the street from you. We've been watching you, and it seems that the girl has been following you. What is your situation?"

On a sudden stroke of genius, Feitan said, trying to put some emotion into his voice, "Oh, honey. I'm sorry I'm so late. I know I should've been home a few hours ago, but there's this girl I have to take home."

He really, genuinely, hoped that Machi would catch onto his idea. Kurapika felt himself twitch and his nose wrinkle. This guy has a wife? Wait... is he even a spider? Did I get the wrong guy? Is he just someone that I didn't like?

"Huh?" said Machi. It was obvious that she hadn't. "Are you alright, Feitan?"

"Look, honey. Please don't shout at me! How about I take her home before I come home?" Feitan desperately tried to find Machi hidden in the dark, and when he did, he kept trying to send her eye signals. Machi blanked out for a bit before an expression of realisation dawned on her.

"I get it, Feitan. The girl's been persistently following you and refuse to take no for an answer. She won't leave you unless you follow her wherever. I see. I think there's something wrong with her because she refuses to let this matter drop. It's very suspicious. I think we need to take her back to base, and tell Sharlnack. There may be something interesting about her, and possibly something about the chain guy."

"Do take her back to headquarters!" nodded Phinx enthusiastically, pretty much agreeing to the idea of taking a beautiful girl home.

Feitan felt himself breathe a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but thanking God that Machi was such a logical and brilliant decoder of encrypted messages.

"Oh alright... so, how am I supposed to do that?" he said, trying as hard as he could to keep up his fake, one-sided argument with his supposed wife while still being able to communicate efficiently with Machi.

"It's not safe for you to travel alone with her. Remember, there's still the possibility that she may be the chain guy or may be linked to the chain guy. I suggest you find our car, and we'll travel with her to be safe. When we get back to base, we'll get Sharlnack to question her."

"Didn't Sharlnack said to stay away from him?" said Nobunaga, listening onto Machi's side of the conversation.

"But we can't shake her off. If Feitan follows her, he may get killed." said Shizuku. "If Feitan doesn't follow her, she'll persist until he does, or worse, follow him back to HQ. So our safest option now is for her to travel with 5 of us."

"Listen, Feitan." said Machi, "Our car is parked on the corner of Grand Central Parade and Tiger Street. Take your time getting there, I have to call Sharlnack so he can prepare."

"Bye, honey," said Feitan, not giving up on his facade.

Kurapika was now fairly confused. This guy just had an argument with his wife, even if it sounded quite odd. This argument was caused because of him. Maybe I've got the wrong guy. Maybe this bouncer is in fact not a spider, just someone whose appearance I despised. Maybe he's a normal guy, living a normal life which may be shattered because of an argument with his wife who thinks he's having extramarital affairs. Maybe I've just broken up a happy home!

He was now pretty unsure of himself. He was now torn between his judgement and the real facts that had just been presented in front of him. Kurapika was wondering whether to give up on investigating this very suspicious looking bouncer when the aforementioned bouncer turned to him and said-

"Ma-, I mean, my wife just yelled at me." said Feitan flatly, "She refuses to let me take you home, but has given up and will let you stay at our place for the night."

"WHAT!" Kurapika was caught off-guard by this sudden submission on the part of Feitan. This is wrong. He suddenly offers to let me stay at HIS home? If he is a normal guy, then I've just broken up his home. But then, if he was pretending to speak to his wife, and that he really may be a spider, then I've just walked into a trap. I've worked on this for so long, I cannot just give up... no, I have to give up. It's to dangerous. I... but if I refuse now, it would be very suspicious and they certainly will not let me go now.

After weighing his choices, in which his desire to crush the spider far outweighed the breaking of a happy home or his own life, he meekly answered, still sounding surprisingly like Neon, "Ah... alright... um. Thanks..."

Feitan stared at her, trying to find answers to his suspicions. Dissatisfied by his lack of results, he turned to head to the car when he remembered Machi's order.

"How about... window shopping?"

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Next Chapter: What will Kurapika do? Walking straight into a trap, how will he get out of this one? Find out in the next chapter ;)