BLD13
(A/N: I was going to have this ready a day ago but I was alone and there was a bee in the room where my laptop charger was…and then I had a math test AND a science test.)
Ch.13: messages
"We're back!" Gon calls as the three of them rush in the doorway, "what'd we miss?"
"Well Mrs. Zoldyck showed up! She's showing us everyone's baby pictures." Kurapica replies from the kitchen.
"MOM!" Killua screeches, "No, that's not okay- is that Milluki? He was even chubby as a baby! Haha!"
Alluka crawls up into Leorio's lap to look at the pictures. She started to organize them into little piles, giggling at the ones where Illumi was older and trying to keep all of his younger siblings still for a group pic.
"Where are mine?" she asks finally, "Was I an ugly baby? Or did you just leave them at the house?"
Kikyo scans the piles, "hm, I know we didn't take many of you, but there must be some here… Ah, Killua, hand me my purse please?"
Kikyo pulls out a small envelope, pink and yellow in color. Inside are only a few pictures.
"Why is this one black and white? And why do I look so weird in it?" Alluka asks.
"That's not a photograph, that's an ultrasound. That's you while you were developing, in my stomach."
The others were in the hospital, or being held by the older siblings. None were really new.
"I guess Nanika showed up really early huh, I'm pretty much bald in all of these."
"Yes, you began to get rather fussy around four months. It was concerning; we thought you were ill! So we didn't give you any early training, in case something would develop. But then you started spewing nen and screaming all the time… not a lot of things scare your father, but seeing one of his children lash out the way you did…"
"I'm sorry mommy, and Nani is too. We didn't mean to hurt anyone!"
Break
Kalluto and Feitan had fallen asleep in the library a few hours before, and still had no idea the other Zoldycks and Gon had arrived. But the afternoon sun had peaked into a window, rousing the little assassin.
Kalluto turned into Feitan, scrunching his eyes shut. He didn't want to wake up; that would mean leaving Feitan's lap and he didn't want that. The petite torturer made a rather comfy pillow.
"yeah… I could get used to this… I guess I'm gonna have to."
"Kalluto, it's getting late. The others should be here now," Feitan murmurs, "come on… we'll e up late if we sleep more."
Kalluto shakes his head and burrows deeper into his chest. Sighing, the spider hoists his fiance up into a princess hold and heads back downstairs.
"Sleeping beauty's lazy." He announces, dropping him onto the couch, "not even up now."
He pokes Kalluto on the cheek, but Kalluto just rolls away.
"Shut up Fei. I'm tired."
Feitan rolls his eyes, and begins slowly stroking Kalluto's hair.
Break
Machi was slung over an armchair, limbs falling haphazardly over the arms when it happened. She was scrolling through her food, an apathetic look on her face.
"boring… boring… stupid… annoying… Mi- wait what?" she attempts to sit up, and ends up falling out of the chair, "Kalluto! Can you come read this? It's from the fat one!"
Feitan shoves Kalluto awake, who lazily yawns and grabs the phone.
"… Illumi's gonna kill us all at the wedding." He murmurs before flopping back on the couch. A few moments pass before he jolts up, "wait… WHAT? ILLUMI'S GONNA KILL US AT THE WEDDING?"
Kuroro peaks in from another room, "what?"
Kikyo and the siblings come rushing in, "what?"
"yeah," Kalluto explains, "Milluki just sent Machi a coded message saying that Illumi and dad are going to kill us all."
Kikyo grabs the nearest phone, enraged.
"I swear when I get ahold of him… there's gonna be hell to pay!" she grumbles under her breath, "the least he'll be getting's an earful… yes Silva it's me, your wife."
…
"Oh is that so?"
…
"Well that's interesting…"
…
"Hah. Bullshit. You stay away from Kalluto and Feitan, or you're the one who's in trouble. I've put up with you for years, and I'm done."
She slams the phone down onto the receiver and turns to her children. The three of them look at her, eyes full of surprise and expectancy.
"Well. I think we need to speed up the process, and hire some extra security. Killua, you're friends with some higher-ranked hunters, yes? Call a few of them, especially that nice girl who tutored you and Gon way back when. I'll get ahold of Canary and a few other butlers."
She gently grabbed Kalluto's hand and led him to the kitchen. Alluka tottered after her, little hand clutching Feitan's sleeve. The man pets her head softly and sits her down at the kitchen island on a stool. The couple then turn to face the woman, somber looks on their faces. She looks them up and down, and smiles gently.
"Well. What work needs to be done? We need a place to have it, but a place we're familiar with, and a place that's easy to protect."
"Well," Kalluto replies, "I wouldn't mind having it out in the garden. It's really beautiful…"
He looks to Feitan, who nods in agreement.
Break
The rest of the afternoon was spent planning, and most things were all ready by dinner. The only things preventing them from a date was the dress. But they couldn't rush her any more than they were already.
Kuroro already had most of the things they needed readily available. He knew people for invitations, cake, even a man who could get him a license to marry people. Why he knew these people, Kalluto wasn't really sure. And he wasn't too keen on asking.
There was still Illumi to worry about, but with literally everyone Killua knows coming for security, there couldn't be too much to worry about. Silva was strong, but he wasn't able to take on thirty hunters at one time, that just wasn't possible. And if he had half a brain cell to his name, he'd run in fear from his wife… if they're still married by the end of this anyway.