Hey... I am really really happy right now, just blooming. And here is a new chappie for you today. So please enjoy...
Chapter 3: Warmth
"I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything." - F.S. Fitzgerald
What really disturbed Aoi were the behaviour of Killua and the rest of the brothers. Except Gon, nobody looked too happy, but should it happen this way? Was it an old family tradition that was going on and on where she shouldn't interfere? Among the brothers Killua was the one who Aoi knew from beforehand and she was quite afraid not to poke her head to such a sensitive issue...
But then why was her heart saying otherwise?
Yes... it is of no hesitation. Aoi will soon be a member of the family, and it is simply absurd that she should sleep peacefully in her velvety bed when one of them is sulking empty-stomached at the back of their pit.
'Thank you for the meal' Aoi got up from the table, wiping her mouth with napkin and washed her mouth. She saw at the table and everyone was eating peacefully as if nothing happened, but when Aoi looked at Gon, her heart crumbled painfully; he tried his best to hide it, but he was so emotionally honest that it won't budge, his brown eyes looked heartbroken. His chilli-tofu laid aside, half eaten and he nibbled slowly the cheese smothered toast of the soup. Aoi waited no more and went to the freezer, fetching some milk. She heated up the pan and added some crushed almond, saffron powder and pistachio into it... Aoi saw many times Killua ordering pistachio-almond milk with double-cream in cafeteria. While she was stirring it on the pan Gon entered with a miserable face with his plate, and almost screamed to see Aoi making almond-pistachio milk.
'AH! Onee-san... you are-' he screamed and Aoi gestured him to shut up, and to hear his voice Illumi got himself out of the table and before he could come, Aoi hastily threw the milk filled saucepan into the microwave and slammed the door with her elbow, Gon was so stupified that he stood at the sided gaping. Illumi entered the kitchen with his hair swaying gracefully at the back of his teal dressing gown and his eyes, characteristically blank.
'What are you two doing in the kitchen?' Illumi asked and Aoi was frozen at her feet; if he finds out that Aoi disobeyed him and violated his ban then he wouldn't be too happy... No he definitely wouldn't!
'Umm... ano! I was...' Aoi looked around and found an empty jar, and suddenly the idea popped in her head 'was helping Gon to fill up this glass jar, with water... For room?' Aoi said nervously and to her surprise Gon nodded vigorously 'yes, yes... and I was about to say, 'Onee-san, you are filling the water, how nice!' Hehehe!' Gon smiled and silently sweat dropped. Illumi narrowed his eyes a little in suspicion but did not said anything further except mumbling some word of caution to Aoi and telling Gon not to strain Aoi's hand. With his exit both breathed a sigh of relief, and Aoi looked at Gon in a pleading expression. Gon's eyes burst with protest 'no, you won't nee-san, you heard what Illu-nii said-'
'Please Gon-chan; it's not for me... ' she threw a meaningful look and instantly Gon's eyes brimmed with tears of joy... man, this boy is one heck of a handful one. 'Hontou? ' Gon said and wiped his eyes and sniffed, 'I am happy... really happy...' and suddenly he jumped over Aoi, hugging her waist, burring his head between her breasts 'I am so happy... My big sister is so kind... so nice.'
This was totally unexpected to Aoi, Gon's reactions seemed a bit too much for this, but Aoi did not blame him for that, as much she saw of him, Gon was the most emotionally honest of the brothers, he practically wears his heart on his sleeve, and somehow he does not retrain himself for being him... What a kid! He raised his head and waited for Aoi's response, who kindly smiled.
'Okay Gon-chan, all you have to do is see if the coast is clear, okay...' Aoi said and Gon nodded strongly 'Onee-san, makasetoki...' he threw his fist on his heart 'meet me at the top of stairs in two-minutes!' and he stormed off at the dining hall. Aoi stood at the side of the kitchen door, carefully not to be seen, because a she had a creepy feeling that somebody was skimming at the sight of kitchen, about ten seconds, she heard a tremendous uproar at the dining hall; she hurried towards the room and saw the brothers were throwing each other up. Someone punched Feitan in the face and he lied square on the floor, Shalnark was on the table, posing like a samurai with a fly-flap, Kite stood petrified and Omokage and Milluki was trying to get rid of something at his back, Leorio jumped up and down and something wriggled inside his navy-blue dressing gown. To realise that she was just wasting time, she grabbed the glass of milk and rushed through the stairs, where Gon waited for her.
'Onee-chan, what took you so long, Gummie-nii almost got you' Gon said and pouted; Aoi apologising sincerely looked at Gon curiously and asked what have caused the tumult in the dining table and to her surprise, Gon whistled softly and three white mice climbed up to them and leaped at Gon's shoulder, Aoi was disgusted at first, but she had to admit they were the cutest ones she had ever seen; they even looked well taken care of.
'This is David' he pointed at the mouse on his right shoulder which had purple eyes, 'this is William' he pointed at the one at left, with red eyes and lastly he raised his palm and showed the last one with green eyes 'this is Thomas' Gon smiled 'they are my buddies, they always help me in trouble... they are smart, obedient... ' then seeing Aoi's stupified face, Gon grinned nervously and let his mice on the ground and straightened up.
'There you go... now they will go to my room and sleep in their bed.' Gon said and silently led Aoi through the corridor. Aoi had no idea why would someone allow letting Gon keep his mouse pets, but then she suspected that he wasn't allowed but he was so attached to them that he can't let them go... Such a lovely person!
Gon and Aoi stood in front of the door labelled 'Coco' and Aoi softly knocked at the door. After some moments the door was opened by the familiar Ginpatsu-boy who was just awestruck to see the new face at the door 'Onee-san brought you milk, Killua-chan, open the door!' Gon piped up and silently acknowledging them Killua opened the door.
Aoi silently entered the room and with a sudden burst of light her eyes crinkled. The walls are all white including his furniture with occasional dabs of royal-blue and purples which appeared in Aoi's eye, simple, pleasant and fantasy-like. She sat down and skimmed her eye over the room. It was filled with posters of Cars, robots and latest posters from Transformers... She looked at Killua who was looking away from her.
'You haven't had anything in the night, so I have brought some milk for you... please have it!' Aoi raised the glass to his face and Killua looked at her awestruck, his eyes glistened with moisture. 'How... did-' he managed to mumble at the slightly yellow fragrant milk and being stupified at Aoi's face 'you order this always in the cafeteria...' then Aoi realised what she had said and blushed 'I mean everyone-'
'EE oo, Killua-chan, Onee-san made this herself! Tanomu kara, tabete yo!' Gon implored and Killua snatching the glass from her hand downed it immediately, and Aoi weakly smiled at Killua. 'You know what; my dad always says one thing...' Aoi took the empty glass from Killua and placed it on the night-stand, 'get angry to anyone you know, but never get angry on the food...' Aoi smiled soothing and Gon nodded at her back 'I don't know what is in between you and other brothers, and I don't want to intervene... but Killua-' she held Killua hands in her small palm and at her touch Killua gave a start and blushed brilliantly red 'remember, from this time we are family, and if there is something bothering you, I'll always be there to listen, okay?' Aoi said and wishing him good night left the room.
Aoi's heart lightened instantly; and even though she was at Gon's back, she could sense Gon's happiness, he was almost dancing on his feet. Aoi never felt such joy that giving someone a reason to smile could be this blissful... being a family is heavenly...
Gon did not said anything but smiled again at Aoi and dissolved in the darkness at the end of corridor. Aoi smiling to herself ascended on the stairs to her room, perhaps she was almost humming 'Nagareboshi Kirari' playing with her dark locks then her song was instantly jabbed to stop when she realised she was not walking on the stairs but pinned against the gothic wall right beside a nude marble statue of Eve, holding an apple while a ominous snake encircled her features, and the head of the serpent covered her camel-toe. Her breath stopped at the caramel scent and ominous serpentine eyes that glowed golden in the dark.
'Ah, what a naughty girl you are eh?!' He seductively breathed on Aoi's skin 'despite Illumi-chan's prohibition, you violated the ban and delivered milk to someone?' He suddenly sniffed her hair at the crook of her neck 'you are... a very... very...' He trailed upwards to the chin breathing over Aoi's skin 'Very naughty girl... indeed'
Aoi's skin curled over her flesh but something in her feminine heart protested over the unfamiliar attitude of Hisoka. 'Stop teasing me... Hisoka-san' she quietly mumbled and Hisoka straightened his face at the very instant 'I know what I did was wrong but, I can't help it if one of my brothers are sitting hungry at night' She budged her way to free and crossed past the Eve statue 'I hope you will understand that' she mumbled shamefully after the bravado and half-expecting Hisoka to disappear and the other half told otherwise.
'Your dad has not even married our maman, you already consider as brothers?' he playfully asked, but it was not as poignant was before, instead somewhat close to sincere 'what a wonderful person you are... Aoi-chan.' Hisoka steered her gently towards him from behind and seizing her chin with his long baton-like fingers, he chastely planted his lips over her pink petal-like ones, he breathed in her lips, his eyes looked as if he swallowed a love-potion, whirled and dreamy 'it is hard not to love you...'
Aoi's knees went weak and for support she grabbed a hold of Hisoka's luxurious maroon dressing gown and taking the advantage of the situation, Hisoka hugged her close, then abruptly, he let go. The moment Aoi opened her eyes, she was alone in the dim-lit corridor and an owl hooted outside the compound.
'What was that about?'
...
Next day, Aoi was not in herself, she dressed up in her uniform, and tied all of her waist-length hair into a ponytail and then added a red ribbon at the top. She went through all her books and set off for school. The weather was nice as usual, in the midst of July, just a moist cool wind breezing through the trees, but the light breeze couldn't help the weight which overlapped her heart.
'Ittai, nandakke, kore wa?'
But then again, she chucked the feelings out. It would be too preposterous; it's been only two days...
But it was really strange that the most wanted person in the school was her brother, if the news came out she will no doubt be the princess of the school and-
'You have a really bad hangover, or you're lost in your head' a familiar impatient voice slapping at her back 'what happened Blueberry, you seem lost today.' Menchi asked. To her reply, Aoi abruptly stood up and dragged her into the girls' toilet without acknowledging her impatience and complains.
'What the fuck, Aoi... Why are you dragging me into the ladies' washroom?' Menchi asked her. Aoi took a deep breath and turned to her. 'Menchi-chan, do you know... Killua is my brother.'
'Who?' Menchi asked and Aoi then whispered into her ears and giggled, to which Menchi responded in a tremendous uproar 'heh?! Maji? Him?' Menchi gave a comical fit and tumbled over the basin 'Ah! That means I can goggle at him... What a pity! I can't break the "Girl Code"' She sighed and Aoi nervously laughed, 'No I don't mind that, you goggling at him... After all it's you.'
They both got themselves out of the washroom, Menchi swinging in front of Aoi, almost giving her the view of her lacy g-string under her flipping skirt, to which Aoi nervously sweatdropped. 'Then Aoi, save your breath already...' Menchi adjusted her turquoise sausage-twin-tail 'I heard there is a new guy already in the campus... probably replacement faculty stuff...' Menchi turned to her and gave a flirty smile 'ne, how do I look?'
Before Aoi give her an answer she had a mental image popping inside her head, with she wearing a blue g-string and lingerie gown and thirteen tall dark fallen angels surrounding her humming 'little sister' all over and each of them indulged himself with a specific care of Aoi, like one braiding hair, one fanning her, one feeding her strawberries...
'Aoi Isabelle Tanaka! Did you hear me?' Menchi clicked impatiently in front of her eyes and she snapped back into the reality and nodded to Menchi, but before they could regain a normal composure, the class-bell rang and Menchi dragged her into the classroom but when she was near in class 1-A, the homeroom teacher was already in the room, but Menchi learned from her manner of talking that she wasn't giving the usual lectures about the history of the Edo period, but it felt like she was introducing somebody to the class...
'Kyoukara, he would be your new English teacher, keep this in your mind that he was kind enough to enter our school from his busy research job and educate you lot-' the teacher spoke and Menchi closely studied the man with black pinstriped suit and a 'Shakespearean Sonnets, vol. I' in his hand.
'Heh? What a looker... Cool' Menchi mumbled as she peaked through the door and as she studied the faces of the young girls looking at his face and admiring his smooth voice, almost engrossed in him, feeling curious suddenly, Aoi pushed her way through and saw the man bowing to the students...
He had pale skin,
His hair was dark,
His eyes were big, shiny and obsidian
He wore a crooked smile in his perfect pale lips
And he held himself the same way Aoi saw him in the first day
'Menchi-chan, the man you are praising is my would-be brother... Chrollo Lucilfer Matsuhashi' Aoi exclaimed and Menchi swore that Killua's face was worse than Aoi's. He looked vandalised and insulted. Menchi closely studied both of their faces, Aoi's exclamation was much of the surprised one, but Killua's one looked like pure hatred, his clear amethyst eyes glinted such a way which felt like someone was invading his privacy.
'This will keep me interested for some time... Being with Aoi-chan is not that boring after all...'
So why Killua hates his brothers and why the brothers do so too...?
What is the secret of the Matsuhashi brothers, that is yet to discover?
Why Chrollo is in Aoi's school, is he spying on his younger brother, or he is marking closely his new younger sister?
Lots of questions are ringing into your mind, isn't it... and not to forget, I have already announced two more of the brothers nicknames, that is Hisoka= Gummie, and Killua= Coco, actually I was quite lost at their names, my first initial of Killua's nickname was 'Fluffy' 'cause he has a fluffy, cuddly hair and it was too awkward to give a psycho-hot-badass guy nickname, but-
Thanks to AnimeFreak1145, who gave me suggestions of Hisoka naming Bungee Gum, and Killua Choco so I came up with the names inspired by those... thankyou so much.
so did you get the hint of Aoi pinned against next to the nude-eve statue... yes you guessed it right, they was doing something what they were not supposed to do... breaking into the forbidden... and of course you got what is a camel-toe right? hehehe!
So Hisoka has already made a first move and so the youngest brother... so who's next?
And what is left to say...
Stay tuned, and R&R