H x H Fraternal Twins- chapter 20: Practice

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A/N: WARNING- DO NOT READ THIS PART IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH, OR DO NOT LIKE THIS SORT OF THING! IT CONTAINS GROUSOME EFFECTS AND MAY MAKE YOU FEEL HATRED AND DISGUST!

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The scene shown Vince's feet walking, in side view. Gradually moving, Vince had his lab coat on with his mask as well. Anger clearly on his features, while his crimson eyes pierced through the shadows of the hall ways. He was at the Rebellion base, making his way toward his laboratory. Once he made it inside his lab, he rushed over to a desk that was nearly masked by the darkness, in his cave-like surroundings. He sat down, grabbed a pen and opened a book of records, which indicated the time and date of certain successful experiments and progression of their growth. He grabbed a note pad and began writing down the information, he had gained from the recent occurrences, including the time and date. "Unfortunately I couldn't ease drop on their meeting and see what all they had planned or discussed... The two spies that they have, are quite good at feeling the threat levels around them, I have to be extremely careful when I'm around Neon or Black Shifter. Ruby is still alive, which means she had endured the poison or someone cured her of it; It was to be expected that Hisoka was still alive, he does have pure immunity from negative bodily effects, after all.. Rui, I am quite surprised that Sikiyona had failed to kill her, she never tends to turn up unsuccessful from a mission; These twins may just be a huge threat to us, we'll need to discard of their lives immediately, if we are to issue a war... " He mentally spoke as he wrote; He paused in his writing and got caught in his own thoughts, before writing them down as well. "The man with long black hair... I have yet to gain information on him. I will have to send someone to follow the man around and collect Intel..." After he got done writing, he stood and faced a table behind him, which was covered with many scientific tools and chemical brewers.

As he stood there, his stomach growled and made him grumble a bit under his breathe. Not too far from him, a scream caught Vince's ears and made him peer up toward the entry way of the lab; A man stood in the door way, holding another man by the back of his shirt. The other man appeared as if he were dragged across the flooring, he was screaming and trying to get free from the others grasp. "just in time~" He said in his head as he gawked at the man, with eyes that one would see from a predator. "Sir... where would you like me to put him...?" The insignificant servant asked, as he held a face of pity and unease. He knew exactly why his leader needed the poor sap.

"Over there in the small room, I wouldn't want blood making its way into my lab." The servant man nodded, after seeing Vince point to a distant room. He drug the whimpering male in his hold, into 'said' room.

"NO- PLEASE, DON'T! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU ASK OF ME, PLEASE DON'T-" The door shut in the frightened male's face, then the servant left after bowing; Vince looked at the door, popped ear plugs in and a butcher knife in his grip. He took off his mask, showing his sadistic smile, before he started towards the door and licked his lips. As he shut the door behind him with a panicking victim asking for mercy, it was only a minute later when cries of bloody murder echoed through the lab and the halls. Sounds of flesh being ripped off and blood splattering, emitted from the door, as the scene zoomed slowly away.

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Ruby sat in a chair near a small table, she was in her bedroom that Illumi and his family had allowed for her to use; Soren rested amongst her shoulder whilst cocking his head at times. Staring out the window, she gradually moved her gaze over to her bird then began stroking her index finger on the side of his head. Her narrowed eyes said it all, she was in deep thought. "Soren... You're free to follow me anywhere I go but... once I get into a fight of some kind, I want you to fly away and hide somewhere safe..." She demanded, which caused the hawk to tilt his head and squawk once in reply. "No, you cannot join the fight, I don't want to risk losing you..." She closed her orbs then got closer to his face, she touched his beak with her own before a long yet soft sigh, left her red lips. "I've decided... I'm going to train... I have to get stronger if I want to protect my sister and everyone I care about... This means I'll have to train behind my sister's back as well, like I have many times before.. in SGSF..." She opened her hawk irises to peer into Soren's ogles; The bird softly bashed his beak on to hers in approval, making her smile gently with a soft look in her eyes. "Thank you, Soren.. for understanding..." She said with that same soft look in her orbs, until a knock echoed through the room. Ruby peered up toward the doorway and seen Hisoka leaning sideways, in the door's frame.

"So..~ You're going to train? How fun~" Hisoka mused with a grin, he wore an entirely different attire now. A black shirt with card symbols, white pants, pink arm bands, different colored star and tear drop; While a pink inner wrapping that masked his torso and stomach, shown underneath his shirt.

Ruby blushed heavily then averted her gaze to the side, her once soft expression had changed to a stoic look. Hisoka noticed this then smirked at her reaction; He made his way over to her and once he got close enough, he leaned near her cheek and crept closer to her ear. "You're face is red~" He spoke in a lowered tone, nearly into a whisper. Her eyes widened and the thing that came next was a soft kiss on her cheek, which took him a few seconds before detaching himself from her.

"Y-You l-look...nice..." She stuttered but, expressed her thoughts none the less; Feeling him back up a bit with a smile of accomplishment plastered on his face, she stood up and watched as Soren switched shoulders on her, with that same flushed feature.

"Why thank you, dear~" He thanked before wrapping his arms slowly around her frame and nuzzling his head in her neck. Ruby's face grew far brighter than before, once she felt his warm breath on her; She shifted In his hold but failed to get free.

"H-Hisoka... Please... Let go, there is no time for this- I have to go train." She stated, with those words, he let go and grasp her jaw line. He made her head turn to face him, as she looked into his orbs, he kissed her softly then let go with a few chuckles escaping his mouth.

"Let's go spar then~ I've been dieing to fight you for a long time, Ruby-gem...~" He mused, with excite building its way on to his features sluggishly. Ruby smiled gently, then nodded once in reply.

"Thanks, training alone doesn't exactly help a ton." She said with a neutral expression; Lowering her gaze in thought, she looked back up at Hisoka with stern ogles. "Hisoka, there are a few things you could help me with. I'll need help testing this idea out, instead of that diamond theory, I'm going to try and make a physical shield. The shield is going to be made of crystal, I have heard of crystals being stronger than diamond so.. I'm going to use a crystal shield. That way if I'm being attacked by some kind of beam, that goes through physical defenses, I could rely on my light barrier; Which I've used against Mr. Kane..." After she spoke her thoughts, she noticed how Hisoka was gawking at her with a distant look to him. "Anyway... There's also an electric discharge and a lightning blast, I wish to try and figure out... but, I think they will take a lot of nen to conjure... If the rebellion goes into war with us in the future, I want to be prepared. Making a few nen skills that envelops a whole field of enemies, would be useful and would help take out quite a lot of mutants." She mentioned, only to see no changed in the joker's dazed face. She cleared her throat to gain his attention, most likely in his own fantasy world.

"Sorry, I was too entranced by your way of thinking~ and yes I agree, it would be useful." He agreed, a few moments passed until he turned to leave. "Let's go dearie, I want to fight you, hm-hm-hm-hm-~" He laughed to himself under his breath in delight, making her shake her head and trail after him.

After a while, Ruby decided on a secluded place; A place where no one would be at or ever go to, an old abandoned training ground that warriors used to go to. It was covered by weeds, grass and surrounded by trees. Ruby walked over to a long log and stared at it, noticing insects crawling all over the bark. "Well, I WAS going to sit down... Looks like that's not gonna happen..." She mentioned, as she sweat dropped with an annoyed look to her. "Alright..." She started and turned to face the red head behind her, seeing him stand there in the weeds. "Let's start with the crystal shield." She moved her gaze down to the palm of her hand, before narrowing her eyes in thought. "I won't be able to summon the crystal shield, if I try to conjure it the same way, as my light barrier... Maybe... I-" She failed to finish, when Hisoka interrupted her.

"Why not make a fist, then summon it from your knuckles?~" He suggested muscly; He had his hands in his pockets and a smirk plastered on his porcelain face. Ruby's face lit up a bit and had widened orbs, clearly embarrassed to why she hadn't thought of that and it was so simple!

"Y-Yeah...that's a good idea." She agreed, as she tried to keep her stoic face as unchanged as possible. She balled a hand into a fist and rose it in front of her; Focusing on her nen, she channeled it into her knuckles and was surprised. Crystal began to grow out of the tips her knuckles, but were barely there; She smiled at her accomplishment and looked up at the red haired male. "Thanks, now I just need to try and make it bigger, as well control how it grows..." She stated while staring at her fist, she blinked in realization; Noticing how abnormal the color of her crystal is. "That's odd... Why on earth is my crystal yellow...?" Asking herself in her mind, she felt Hisoka's presence closer than before; She looked up and seen him nearly inches from her nose...smelling her?

"Y-...Yes...?" She asked with a low tone; Seeing him look at her with a mischievous grin, made her grow a puzzled expression.

"When did you start wearing my Cologne?~" He asked muscly, making her twitch and step back.

"What?!" She rose her wrist and sniffed it, smelling Hisoka's musk spray. Her features went from confused, to dead angry; Her face got masked by shadow, her lips were gone and squinted white eyes glistened through the shadow out of pure rage, making Hisoka hold back laughter. "Ruuuuuuieeeeeee..." She spoke her twin's name dementedly, knowing full well that her own sister did this to tease her.

"hm-hm-hm~ Alright I get it, you wanted some attention~" He teasingly stated as he went to pull her in a hug, with the most goofiest grin ever. She put her palm on his face, to stop him in his tracks, only to make him pout childishly.(Much like the times when he had those chibi faces in the anime xD )

"Can we just pleaaaase, get started on this?! Rui's going to get it good, when I see her.. but for now, I have to train." Seeing the joker nod with his expression back to normal and his smirk plastered, she rose her fist again then focused her nen. The yellow crystal that was still on her knuckles, grew larger; She tried shaping it but failed, it's form looked like the shape of mashed up play dough... "Damn... ok, again..." She said with annoyance, clearly trying hard to manipulate it's appearance.

After what felt like forever, to Ruby; She finally managed to get the hang of it, it's shape seemed similar to a knight's shield. Though it wasn't round, it was rather large and wide with it being pointed on the top. Grinning at her achievement, she looked up at Hisoka and nodded while raising her crystal. "Alright... Hisoka, I need you to fire as many cards at my shield as possible, I need to see how thick my crystal shield is."

"Sure~" He replied; He was over joyed at the thought of FINALLY getting to fight her; Unfortunately so far, it was just a test until the real fight begun. Ruby stiffened her arm, held out her fist that had her crystal shield attached, then prepared herself for impact. Hisoka smirked and tossed three cards, only to have them stick into the crystal's surface. Several large cracks formed from the contact of his cards, giving Ruby the idea of how much thicker it needed to be.

Ruby squinted her orbs a bit with a stoic expression, focused her nen more into its thickness and made it tougher. The crystal shield's width grew, making the outer rims of it a bit more see through, and the inner thicker in its yellow color. She nodded and prepared herself once more, signaling him to go again.

The joker tossed the same amount of cards as before, having it stick in the shield but not leaving a large crack. As more time passed with Ruby constantly fixing the weak points in her crystal, she managed to get it stable enough to old off his cards without them sticking. "It's getting late..the sun's setting and Rui would be wondering where I went." She stated with her usual stern look; She gazed toward the sunset and watched as it slowly fell "Finally, now all I have to do is practice with it... I need to be able to form my shield quickly, instead of taking my time to form it; I can't jump into my next skill right away." She spoke in her mind as the beautiful rays from the sun, kissed the land before her. She moved her attention to see a day dreaming Hisoka, which made her sweat drop.

"I'll be more than happy to help you train, dearie~ and who knows, I might even grow some ideas I could use, for future fights." He mentioned, which earned him a scoff from Ruby and a smile.

"Heh- Hisoka... I've already got a few ideas that you could try, something I'm sure that you haven't thought of yet." She smirked at him, which earned her a grin in return from the joker.

"Hmmm...?~ And what might that be?" He muscly asked, with a mischievous grin and a quirked brow. He stuffed his hands in his pockets, then waltzed toward his birdie.

"Why don't you try acting like a sniper? I've heard from Illumi that your nen ability is called bungee gum, then explained to me what it was and what it did. So how about this... Hold your index finger and middle finger up, form a line of bungee gum in between and put a card in the middle. It'd let you shoot much farther out and deal more damage due to its velocity." She explained. Her second theory would have to wait, until he's ready for it.

"Hm-hm- alright~ I'll give it a...'shot'..." He tried to stifle his laughter from his joke but, none the less he tried it anyway. Once he pulled his card back, (much like a sling shot) he released it after selecting a target. It cut through countless trees and make a boulder in the far back, crumble to pieces. Ruby's eyes were slightly wide from the view and Hisoka looked quite satisfied with the new idea, she gave him. "hahahahaha...~ This will be quite amusing to use, thank you Ruby-Gem~" He cooed before moving his orbs toward her, they held thrill. "Now... what's your next theory?~" He absolutely loved how she came up with things, it entertained and excited him.

"W-Well... Um..." Once he had said something, it snapped her out of her shocked daze then began to explain. "This one's...a bit more dangerous." She turned to face him with her normal strict features, but seeing him gesture for her to continue, she nodded and did just that. "First of all, you know how you're able to form shapes with your nen?" She asked.

"Yes~" He replied, wondering where she was getting at with this.

"Try forming a large bungee blanket. Planting your hands in front of you, running to a far distance and putting your hands down again, exactly in the same direction; Then flipping it up as if you were pulling a huge rug, out from under people." Ruby described and hoped that he understood, in which he did. Hisoka nodded, doing as she explained and unfortunately he used it on her... "WHAT THE HEEELLLL?!" She comically screamed as she got flown high into the air, she caught herself by flapping her wings and gazed down at him angrily. "Sure you had to test it out..- but couldn't you have done it on a tree log or something?!" Yelling from above, she seen him grow a devilish grin. She hovered down safely with her wings, then gazed up at the man after landing and glared her hawk orbs at him, anyone that would look into her fierce hawk eyes would feel fear but no- not Hisoka.

Hisoka shrugged with shut ogles and a teasing grin. "I wanted to sweep you off your feet~" He opened his eye lids to see her reaction, which was a tomato face.

"B-Baka..." She stuttered in her reply, while holding her golden irises to the side, knowing the joke he just pulled there. "Let's just get back to the mansion..." Her face being as red as ever, Hisoka felt satisfied with the results of his joke and smirked real big; They took their leave with him following behind. "Underneath all the tough skin, is her big and squishy side; She's quite adorable when she tries to hide her embarrassment~." He mused mentally as he watched her walk in front of him, on their way back.