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ABC Series
H IS FOR HISOKA
"Big Brother, are we lost?" whined the baby of the group.
"Are we, Bia?" Said Big Brother turned to the Big Sister.
{No. Can you not tell?} Bia asked with a frown.
"Nah. You have the whole mountain mapped up with your Nen. You are practically the walking map! So practical and convenient!" Meta grinned at her, his fingers laced together on the back of his head.
{Tsch. One day I will leave you stranded in the middle of this mountain and see how you will find your way back home.}
"Aaaw, you won't do that to you, will you?"
{Want to bet?} She glared at him.
"Big Brother is so useless." Sarai giggled.
"Oi. You are even more useless than me, runt. Shut it." Meta poked the little girl on her forehead playfully. "You haven't even awakened your Nen yet."
"I will soon! You just watch it! My Nen will be waaaay more awesome than you!"
"Improbable." Noah mumbled beside her.
"Noah, you meanie! You are supposed to take my side!" Sarai slapped her twin brother on his forearm. The latter only reacted with a raised eyebrow.
"Hey, he's telling the tru—"
Meta stopped talking and whipped around to one particular direction. He bent his knees and widened his stance reflectively. Bia did the same, but with more grace and subtlety. The twins stopped walking and Sarai looked questioningly at her elder siblings. Noah, on the other hand, merely frowned as he read the drastic change of mood in the elder children. He promptly inched closer to Sarai, his stance the barest hint of protectiveness towards his twin sister.
"What's—"
"Stay behind us." Meta told them quietly, his voice firm and steady.
Sarai, being the smart girl she was, kept quiet and obediently stood behind Meta's much larger frame. Her elder siblings rarely turned tense like that, so this was enough warranty for Sarai to hide herself and fingered the daggers that she kept hidden in her belt. She glanced at her twin and saw that his hands were also ghosting along the hilts of the throwing daggers hidden along the length of his belt. Out of the four children, Noah was their father's best disciple in throwing knives.
It was common practice for the children to carry weapons on their person at all time. Meta and Bia knew why, but the younger ones didn't. They simply assumed that it was a normal thing to have hidden weapons in their belt, or to have hidden cache of weapons in their boots or in the soles of their shoes or under their sleeves. Meta suspected that Noah knew but kept quiet. That kid was just too creepy, with that I-know-what's-going-on look in that eyes that were so identical to their father's.
They didn't have to wait long until the cause of Meta's wariness emerged from the bushes ahead of them. The threat appeared in the form of a tall lanky man with flaming orange red that defied gravity, with pallid skin and gaudy costume. A flash recognition sparked in the man's narrow eyes, before the same happened to Meta.
Inwardly, Meta spluttered and cursed with languages that would make Buddha's ears bled.
"Aaaaaaaa! You're that paedophile who beat the shit outta Shalnark!" Meta screamed while jabbing an accusing finger at the man in question, and the latter raised a quizzical eyebrow.
Hisoka had been wandering around this mountain for a while. He remembered that there was a town around here, and that he had met a powerful man in that town. The sexy powerful man that had defeated him clean! He had been hoping to see that man again, to fight him again. Oh, the mere thought turned him on! But that aside…
This blonde Kurapika look-alike before him, with an entourage of strange children behind him, was acting hostile and distrustful towards him. For some reasons, the boy's behaviour reminded him vaguely of Gon when he was about the boy's age. Oh how time had flown. He still remembered that sweet adorable little apple of his. He wondered how he was now? Maybe he should check on him, after playing with these kids~~~
"Eee! Big Brother said the bad word! Ear muffler!" Sarai squealed excitedly while playfully covering her ears.
{When was that?} Bia asked calmly with a raised eyebrow, although she was preparing herself to run for the hills any moment now. This man was dangerous. They couldn't take him on.
"Who cares?! RUUUUUUN!"
So the children ran like bats from hell at their eldest brother's cue. Of course Hisoka didn't miss how coordinated the children were, how ready they were. They had been trained well. Very, very well. Hisoka licked his grinning lips.
"Mfufufufu. Children are just so adorable~~"
"Noah and Sarai, stay with Bia! Bia, cover them in your Nen! Hide their presence!"
{Roger that.}
The twins immediately ran to their eldest sister's side and Bia grabbed their sleeves. She immediately infused the fabric with her Nen, to conjure a kind of illusion by erecting a kind of hologram. The twins immediately vanished from naked eyes. This was a trick that only Bia could do, taught to her by Heen. The white-haired girl herself immediately went into Zetsu mode. She then threw a cool look at Meta.
{Are we separating?}
"Yeah. I've met him before. He'll definitely come after me. I'll lure him away from the town. You go home and warn Mom."
Bia gave him a measuring glance. Under normal circumstance, she would question all his decisions and judgements to make sure that he had considered everything and thought things thoroughly. This time, there was no luxury for that. The man was dangerous. Her priority was to get the smaller children away from that psycho. She would have to trust Meta's judgement now.
{I'll leave him to you.}
Meta threw her a confident smirk that was reminiscent of their father.
"See you at home."
Tightening her grip on the twins, Bia boosted her Nen and speeded away from Meta to the direction of the town. Meta immediately veered to the opposite direction. He kept his Nen at reasonable level, so that the psycho would follow him without suspecting that he was being led away from their home. His plan worked as soon enough he could feel the psycho's bloodthirsty Nen making a beeline towards him. His Nen sent chill down Meta's spine. At his current level, he couldn't survive fighting that psycho without using his daemons. He didn't want to reveal his daemons to that man. He'd heard of him from his parents. They told him never to reveal his potential to that man, and told him why.
Shit, shit, shippity shit! He's coming closer! Meta screamed mentally.
"Come here, boooy~~~ Play with me~~~"
GAAAAAAH!
Meta didn't even dare to look over his shoulder. He could feel that thing (no, he refused to call him a person anymore) several metres behind him. He could virtually felt him breathing down his neck.
Suddenly, the bushes ahead of him shook and he could hear footsteps of someone running towards him. Meta allowed himself a gigantic grin. He would know that Nen signature anywhere. Lucian might be a vampire, but his presence was equivalent to Nen signature. It was probably the same thing anyway.
With enthusiasm, Meta put more power into his legs and juuuuuuumped….
"Hey, squirt! Your crazy mother sent me to—"
…over Lucian's head while going into Zetsu state—allowing said vampire full view of a charging Hisoka; who promptly skidded into a full stop and started ogling Lucian like he was a fresh piece of juicy meat. Lucian's pale face turned white beyond white (if that was even possible) at the sight of him.
"—AAAAAAAA!" Lucian immediately turned around and ran back the way he had come from. "YOU ARE THAT CRAZY MOTHER OF ALL PSYCHOS!"
Hisoka, unsurprisingly, lunged after the fleeing man. The blond boy had gone into Zetsu state and so it would be too troublesome to track him down now. Nope, he had better things to chase after, i.e. that nice piece of ass that was running in front of him. Oh just his luck! Not only that he had encountered four promising little children, but he also got to meet that powerful sexy man! Life was so wonderful 3
"Come now~~ I'm pretty sure my reproductive—"
"IT'S A FIGURE OF SPEECH! AAAAAAAAAH! RUUUUUUN!"
"Oh don't be such a tease! Come play with me~~"
"YEAAAAAAARRRGH!"
"Meta!"
Said boy whipped his head around, only to find his mother landing on the ground a few feet from where he was. Meta immediately redirected his legs to run towards his mother. He did wonder how his mother usually could find where he was even when he was in Zetsu state. He wondered if it was the work of her dowsing chain? That stuff is wicked.
"What are you doing here?!" Kurapika put her hands on her hips.
"The pscyho is here, Mom!"
"Which psycho exactly? There are a lot of psychos out there."
"Mom!"
"I know, I know." Kurapika rolled her eyes. "That's why I'm asking you: why are you here?"
Meta gasped with a scandalised expression.
"What do you mean?! Are you saying that I'm supposed to go with that psycho paedophile—"
"I sent Lucian to help you get rid of him." Kurapika deadpanned, while eyeing her oldest son critically.
"Oh." He relaxed, only to immediately perk up. "…Can I kill him?"
"GOD NO!" Kurapika couldn't help but to pinch the bridge of her nose. "Just use one of your daemons to erase his memories or something while Lucian distracts him!"
"Oh. Right." Meta smacked a fist to his palm with a comical 'light bulb!' expression.
"Now get going!"
"But Moooom… Can't Lucian just take care of him?" Meta whined. He was just too lazy to go back there.
"Young man." Kurapika started threateningly. "In five…four…"
"Yes, ma'am! Understood! Consider it done!" Meta gave a military salute before vanishing among the trees to track down Lucian.
Kurapika stared to the spot where Meta had vanished to, before she turned around and began walking back to the general direction of the town. She shook her head with a fond smile on her face.
"Tsk. Killua influenced him too much."
Suddenly, she heard a really loud and shrill shriek in the distance. She contemplated it, before shrugging. She might have neglected to tell Lucian about Hisoka but oh well. The Lord of the Cockroaches would survive.
Author's Note: Meta was behaving like Killua, Bia was a walking map, Hisoka made his appearance again (finally), Lucian was tricked by Kurapika, and Kurapika had absolute faith in Lucian's survival. Review please!
Oh, and check out my deviantart (name is funchan there). I did a sketch on an adolescent Noah.