+ Hisoka's Property + [revised] +
+ Chapter 05 +
+ Chillin' +
Several months passed.
Michiyo and Hisoka were in the lake, doing their usual midnight bath routine once again. They developed this habit of bathing in the pond after their everyday training.
"Hime–chan, I'm just wondering, do Zoldycks are really like that?" Hisoka suddenly asked while his body was dipped in the cool lake water.
He was on the other side, while Michiyo was on the other end.
"What do you mean?" Michiyo asked, not moving from her spot, eyes were closed.
"I haven't seen you smile since we met, never. Do Zoldycks didn't know how to smile? Is it because you keep on killing people that's why you do not smile anymore? How about me? I can always smile even when I'm killing people." Hisoka uttered while he made his grin on his face even wider.
Michiyo just gazed at Hisoka.
She was with him for almost four months now, and she still couldn't decipher his weird attitude.
He was surely unique and so weird that he will just sit on one place, stacking up his deck of cards while she practiced and meditate. Sometimes, he will just laugh by himself without having any reasons at all.
That's the same scenario every day, for four months now.
"We don't need emotions. Those emotions were taken away from us since our training started." Michiyo plainly answered.
"So, you're all sad? Or you're just like killing machines that don't know how to chill sometimes?"
"As I've said, my family doesn't have any emotions at all."
"Fine! But can you smile just for once?"
"For what?"
"For me."
"And why?"
"I just want it…"
"I don't want."
"But why?"
"It's unnecessary."
"Hmph! I'm teaching you Nen. I'm just asking for your smile, and you can't give it?" Hisoka raised an eyebrow at her.
Michiyo couldn't help but to stare at Hisoka with an implausible look on her face.
'What's happening on this weirdo?' She couldn't voice it aloud, as she grew some little respect for being her Nen sensee* as well.
Hisoka kept his arms folded in front of his bare chest.
He humped deliberately, obviously making it loud for her to hear.
Michiyo rolled her eyes in mock disbelief.
Hisoka was more childish than her youngest brother, Kalluto, in times like this.
She sighed in exasperation and confusion on what to do with her childish mentor.
She remained in her spot in the lake while she turned her back to look at the other direction.
"Hisoka, stop that." She said as if giving a word to a three–year old kid.
Hisoka just loudly humped once again.
Michiyo sighed once more, ignoring her weird mentor.
Then all of a sudden, a big splash of water hit her square in the face.
She snapped to retrieve her poise when she saw Hisoka splashing water waves towards her.
"Hisoka!"
Her mentor didn't pay any heed. Instead, he gave her a bigger splash.
She didn't dodge it. She managed to create a big splash as well and it hit Hisoka.
They kept on throwing big splashes of water to each other while Hisoka laughed and Michiyo frowned.
In four months' time, Michiyo already mastered Ten.
She's now practicing the next phase of her training, which was called Zetsu*. She's been doing this for almost a week now.
'Hisoka said that I should try to close all of my aura node to stop the flowing of my aura. In that way, if I can successfully do that, I can conceal my Nen perfectly and I can also sense other's aura. Then it will be good for spying.' Michiyo muttered under her breath.
She grinned while she kept on thinking of ways to maximize this Nen that she's learning. It seemed that she could really make a use of it, especially in her missions.
On that way, maybe his Grandfather can at least appreciate her more and her mother might allow her into trainings.
She was in the middle of meditation when her phone rang. She frowned when she saw that the call was from her mother.
She fought the urge to ignore the call, but she still answered it.
"Yes, Okaa-sama?"
"Michiyo! Where are you?! When are you going back home?! It's been four months and you're not yet coming back! Do you know that you still have a family and job here?!" Her mother's usual screeching voice seemed to crush her phone screen in its intensity.
She just rolled her eyes in irritation. "I can't go home yet, Okaa-sama. I'm in the middle of an important training."
"I already told you that you don't need that! You still have pending lessons here! And you still have many external gatherings that you needed to attend to! That is your job, nothing else!" Kikyo exclaimed from the other line.
'But I don't like those jobs! The hell I care!' Michiyo muttered under her breath. "I know. But this will only take more months maybe. I'll go home soon."
"I want you to go home as soon as possible, Michiyo! Or I'll hunt you down wherever you are and drag you back here in the mansion!" Kikyo warned her in a dangerous tone.
'Like if you'll find me.' "Yes, Okaa-sama. I'll go home soon." 'Maybe next year.' Michiyo added to herself. Then they ended the call.
"Darn it! I need to learn this Nen fast, so I can have an excuse not to go to social gatherings and take my piano lessons." Michiyo murmured. "God, I hate those lessons and parties!"
"So, are they already missing you?" The usual playful voice of her mentor asked from her back.
Michiyo turned to look at the owner of the voice. "Not really. They're just disturbing me."
Hisoka snickered on her pissed mood.
"Do you want to go home? You can go home for a while and let's just resume this training afterwards." He uttered casually while he sat under a huge tree.
"No! I don't want to go home yet. I needed to learn this Nen before I can go home." 'I'm afraid I can't go out again if I will go home this early.' Michiyo added to herself.
"So you should train better. Practice Zetsu perfectly so you can advance to the next phase. You haven't reached halfway, hime–chan."
Michiyo didn't answer. She returned to her meditation while Hisoka went back to his own world once again, sitting on one spot and piling up his cards into a pyramid.
Hisoka still had his grin on his face as he piled up his cards.
'That's it, hime–chan. I know that you will never leave because you haven't had yet the power you're dreaming of. Let me control you for a while. And when you're already resilient, then, maybe that's the time that I can kill you myself.' Hisoka giggled in his own thoughts.
Meanwhile, at the Zoldyck mansion, Silva was in his office, when his father, Zeno Zoldyck entered his receiving chamber.
"Can I come in?" The older Zoldyck uttered.
"Yes, father?" Silva answered as he turned his gaze to his father who already came inside.
"I heard that you let Michiyo stayed in Mt. Mori to have training with someone. Is that true?" Zeno asked straightforwardly to his only son.
"That's true."
"We already know that she doesn't need it, Silva. It would be useless. In the first place, Kikyo wanted her to do piano lessons and attend social gatherings to attract more clients." The older Zoldyck said as he stood at the middle of the room. "And we already knew that Killua will be the heir, not Michiyo."
Silva dropped the paper he was reading a while ago to answer his father.
"I know. I allowed her this time because it will be the last. Maybe I'll let her focused on those things after this training she had. I also think that she still needs those training so it will be worthy to call her a Zoldyck."
"I knew that you wanted Michiyo to be the heir, Silva. However, she wouldn't surpass Killlua in terms of potential. Even if she train all her life, it would still be impossible."
"I understand."
"So after that training she had now, I'm expecting that she will go back to the jobs that she needs to accomplish." Zeno uttered.
"Yes."
Zeno gave another knowing glance to his only son before he left the room.
'No doubt that my son, Killua, is the heir. But my daughter also has potentials that I can only see.' Silva thought as he watched his father vanished from his sight.
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Author's Note:
*Sensee – mentor, teacher
*Zetsu – explanations from Wiki.
Mitara – Yuki