A week had passed.

She was out in the woods.

Kuroro was busy doing the chores.

He seemed normal.

Every once in a while she will talk to her trying to get to know her better.

Once in a while he will ask her nen abilities but she always chose not to answer him.

He is too smart.

Too calculative…

Just like Nympha.

The difference is she knew Nympha will never hurt her or put her in any harm but Kuroro she does not know.

Her instincts are telling her there's something he is hiding.

Something that makes him dangerous for her.

She exhaled.

She hates thinking too much.

If only Nympha was here.

She could have done all the thinking

She bitterly smiled.

Slowly, her visions becoming blurred.

What's happening?

She was about to fall in the ground when a set of arms caught her weakened body.

It was Kuroro's.

She was breathing heavily.

Everything is running in circle.

What is he doing here?

Kuroro's face was full of concern.

"Hey, are you alright?"

He carried her.

She can vividly understand what he is saying.

He brought her to their cabin.

She lied her in her bed.

When she felt a little bit comfortable, she used an enhancer ability.

Slowly, she feels a little better.

She sat.

"I'm fine, now." She said.

Although, her body still feel weak.

He stared at her.

"You're a conjurer but right now did you just release an enhancer's aura?"

This time she stared at him.

Why? Why does it always seem that he is studying her?

"I need rest."

She then lied in her bed.

She needed the time to think.

Kuroro. There's something about him that is not right.

Kuroro's POV

He stared at Raven lying on her bed.

It took him a while to find that spider.

The Garghantular Spider, one bite and your dead.

It takes a second for the spider's poison to infect every organ and kill a normal person instantaneously.

But for a nen-user it takes a minute for him to go numb and eventually die.

But Raven, it took her five minutes before the poison had infected her body.

When, she released that aura. She was better.

After a week, he had deduced that it will be impossible for him to let her tell him her ability.

So, he decided to test her and decide for himself.

If she dies in the process...

That simply means, she does not deserve to be a part of the spider.

He looked at Raven.

She was sweating.

Sweating too much.

He immediately approached her.

She was hot.

He looked at her.

"Use that again." He stated.

She looked at her.

"What?"

"Use the nen-ability you've used earlier or else you'll die."

Her eyes widened. "What do you mean?"

"I think you were bitten by a Garghantular Spider."

Her eyes widened.

Looks like she've heard about the Garghantular Spider.

She exhaled.

She used it again.

He can feel the warm aura of an enhancer.

"This nen-ability will just be a temporary solution. This ability does not heal the infection of the spider's bite. It merely delays." She sighed.

Her cheeks already red due to the fever turned redder.

"Kuroro." She said.

Her intonation changed. She will ask him a favor.

"This ability has one condition. I must not move the entire time."

An ability to delay the body from being infected or harmed but you must not move?

What a stupid ability.

He smiled like usual. For years, he had mastered a genuine smile.

Even if he feels a little annoyed as of the moment.

He was expecting very powerful nen-ability from her not like the stupid ability she's executing now.

"Do you need any help?"

Her eyes stared at anything except him.

What will she be embarrassed about?

"Can you search where the spider bit me?"

He maintained his poker face.

What?

So that is why she was embarrassed.

He suppressed a smile.

He was no virgin and he was an expert in the field.

He tried it and learned it because he found it as a skill he needed to know.

Everyone knows about it. If he, the leader of the spider, does not know about it…

He will be unworthy to be their leader.

As their leader he must know everything.

He had to do this fast.

He smiled. "Sure. No problem."

He took off her pants first.

That was where he saw the spider went.

Raven's POV

Whyyyyyyy? Why do I have to experience this embarrassing state?

She was grateful her undergarments were presentable.

Not that it matter to Kuroro who had his poker face while inspecting her body.

"Would you mind if I cut your shirt?"

She just nod.

She can't move so basically cutting her shirt would be ideal.

She gulped. He was now inspecting her boobs.

They were not big nor small.

"I'm sorry. I'll do this fast."

Was all he said.

Then, he unstrapped her bra.

"The back part's clear. Should I look in front (referring to her boobs)?"

He made it so casual.

"No, thank you. I don't think that's the place where the spider bit me."

She was stuttering.

He nodded.

He then approached her face.

His face was so near she can feel and smell his breath.

She can't look away.

She can't move.

His eyes. They were black. Just like Marcus.

His nose. They were high.

His lips. They were full.

His face. It was handsome.

"I found it." He said that snapped her out of her trance.

Just what was that?

"It's at the back of your neck."

She closed her eyes. Irritation is surging from her body.

Later. You can deal with him later.

With her ability she healed the bitten area and suppressed and contained the poison.

"You can heal yourself?"

"Only after I know where I've been hit and by what."

"Wow, then that makes you invincible in a battle."

"There's a limit as to how many times I can heal myself."

She exhaled.

"But first things first."

He looked at her.

He was confused.

"Why in the world did you not check first the exposed areas before stripping me naked?" she shouted.

When she learned that it's at the back of her neck. She just controlled her temper. She must heal herself first.

And now she's healed she can kill this man who made her experience the most embarrassing day of her life!

He laughed out loud.

She was dumbfounded.

This was the first time… the first time… she felt Kuroro was being his true self.

"Sorry." He managed to say while laughing.

She smiled and before she knew it.

She hugged him.

He stopped laughing.

She felt his body stiffened.

"Thank you." She whispered in his ears.

I owe him my life, after all.

She let go when she remembered that she had nothing on but an unstrapped bra and a panty.

She immediately covered herself by the blanket she grabbed from her bed.

She turned to Luke.

He was going to the kitchen.

She can't see his face.

She smiled.

Finally, gradually I can see the real Kuroro behind those fake smiles and poker face.

A/N: The garghantular spider was created by the author's wild imagination. so please don't search it on google. =)