Chrollo and the others looked as the rest of the troop besides Uvogin walked in.
A man who was bound in Machi's needles appeared.
Rosabella watched as he was dragged out of the room with Nobunaga and Feitan following Machi.
Chrollo could feel the girl shake as a few minutes later screams were heard.
"Machi, check on the prisoner?" Chrollo said while glancing at the girl sitting below him trying to ignore everyone.
The woman stood and left.
"Ah, Right. I'm supposed to meet someone today. I'll be leaving for a bit." Hisoka said while watching the boss.
Chrollo never glanced at him. "Sure, Go ahead. As long as your back by 6 p.m. tomorrow."
"Little Rose, would you like to come?" Hisoka said while looking at the girl.
Rosabella looked confused but before she could answer, Chrollo placed a hand on her shoulder. "Rosabella will stay right here where I can keep an eye on her."
The man tilted his head at the magician. "Up to no good, Hisoka?"
Hisoka smirked. "As you wish and of course I'm up to no good. Where's the fun in being good?"
The magician walked out with a smirk while the others watched. Chrollo tilted his head with a smile. He was no fool. It seemed the Zoldyck and the hunter organization were not the only ones interested in the little girl from the small island.
Two hours later
Chrollo was running his fingers through Rosabella's hair as she slept with her head against his leg. Who knew he would be able to steal the greatest treasure in the world from the mafia along with finding a powerful nen user who was a healer.
He glanced up as all but Uvo, Franklin and Shalnark waked in.
"Uvo is going after the chain user. Shalnark is helping him by finding information. Franklin is bringing the beer to their location." Machi said with a huff.
Feitan's eyes fell to the girl. "She asleep?"
Chrollo smirked. "It has been a long day. She was captured by the most notorious criminal band around, threatened into joining and I tested her skills."
Feitan raised an eyebrow in curiosity
"She will need some training but she is fast. Not as fast as you but very fast. I will take the lead on her training with each of you being pulled in for special parts. Feitan, I want her to be faster." Chrollo said glancing down at the girl.
"I will start my planning for her training." Feitan said with an evil smirk.
Chrollo shook the girl's shoulder until she woke up. She glanced up at the man in sleepy confusion.
"I'm going out soon. Get cleaned up as best you can and get me a list of some stuff you would like me to buy you. Once we leave York new city, I will take you out to other places." Chrollo said.
Rosabella nodded her head. "Yes, boss."
She stood and walked over to get her bag. She walked out of the room to the bathroom. Pakunoka followed behind her at Chrollo's look.
Feitan snickered. "You have her calling you boss, boss. How interesting."
Chrollo smirked and went to answer when Machi called out to him.
"Boss, we have an issue. The mafia has placed a bounty on our heads." Machi said with a putout look.
Chrollo sighed. "I will make a call."
He pulled out his phone and dialed a number. "Good evening, I would like to make a request for assassinations."
The man hummed before nodding. "I want all the heads of the mafia killed. Money is not a problem."
"Good to hear. I will make the payment once confirmation that they had all been killed." Chrollo said and hung up the phone. "Problem solved. Illumi Zoldyck will kill them for us."
Chrollo rose as Rosabella appeared. In her hands was a list.
He frowned at some of the items and raised an eyebrow.
"I feel gross. The baby wipes can be used to clean up some of the mess until I can get into a shower and some new clothes." Rosabella said with an embarrassed look.
The man nodded his head.
FEW HOURS LATER – Leorio's Hotel
"We don't have enough for Greed Island. What are we going to do?" Gon grumbled.
"Maybe we should ask Rosabella. She might have an idea." Killua said with a smirk.
Leorio smiled. "Let's give her a call."
The young man pulled out his phone and tried to call her but frowned. "That's weird. It went straight to voicemail."
"We will meet up with her later. Let's go." Killua said with a sigh.
The three boys went out to try to earn more money only to enter an illegal arm-wrestling tournament. Just when Gon was about to fight the lights went on.
A pale person turned and jumped into the ring. "Sorry to disappoint you, folks. The arm wrestling has been canceled but we are going to do conditional auctioning. All you have to do is play a game of hide and seek."
Flyers were handed out to the people standing around the arena with seven pictures on them.
"Take a good look and don't forget them. The seven guys and gals you see are your targets. All you have to do is capture a target and deliver them to us. You will walk away with 2 billion jenny for each target. Good luck." The man said.
The three left.
Gon pulled out his phone. "I'm going to call Rosabella. I think she should join us."
He hit the number on his phone but there was no answer. "Still no answer."
"maybe she is busy." Killua said.
"We need to hurry if we want to capture them before someone else does." Leorio said with a puzzled look.
"We don't need to rush. Even the mafia is having trouble finding them." Killua said.
Gon frowned looking at her. "What do you mean?"
"this conditional auction is nothing more than a bounty hunt. I overheard some guys talking. These seven targeted the underground auction. The mafia can't capture them." Killua sighed. "These guys must have a screw lose. Who do we know is crazy enough to do that?"
Gon and Leorio stared in shock. "The phantom troupe."
Gon frowned, "I wonder what Kurapika is up to. He should have called us by now."
The boy picked up his phone and called but Kurapika did not answer.
"No answer." Gon said.
"He's probably working at his bodyguard job." Leorio said with a sigh.
Gon shook his head. "I don't know. Something is wrong. I'm going to go to the charity shop to check on Rosabella. Hopefully she has heard from him."
The three nodded their heads and started walking.
"She better have a good excuse for ignoring us." Killua said with a huff.
The boys walked and joked about everything when they reached the charity shop Rosabella had sent them.
Walking in, Gon called out. "Hello?"
A large black man walked out with a frown. "Can I help you boys? We aren't open for lunch for at least another hour."
"Hello sir. We are friends of Rosabella. Can you tell her we're here?" Gon said with a smirk.
The man tensed, "You are the friends she went to see a few days ago?"
Killua frowned, "What's happened?"
Gon and Leorio stared at their friend confused.
"What do you mean what happened?" Leorio asked baffled.
The man before them sighed. "Rosabella never returned from your visit."
Gon and the others stared in shock.
"What?" Gon said in confusion.
The man stared at them and sighed before walking over to take a seat. "My name is Zabala. I was Rosabella's mentor here. She left to meet you all but never returned. No one has heard from her but a call was made to Rosabella's family saying she was killed."
Gon's eyes widened in horror while the others stared in shock.
"no. She can't be dead. She was fine when she left us." Leorio said in grief.
"There is no proof of her death." Zabala said with a frustrated look. "We are doing all we can to find her."
"You must have some idea on what happened?" Killua said in concern thinking of his family.
Zabala sighed. "The phantom Troupe is here. There is a chance she was captured by them. Cameras showed her outside with one of the identified members of the phantom troupe. We are not sure if she knew him before or not. All our evidence is showing that she probably did not know who she was talking to."
Gon stood with a determined look. "We are going to find them and get Rosabella back."
Killua and Leorio stood with a furious nod. They were going to find them and get Rosabella back no matter what it took.
They walked out of the door with Zabala watching them. He shook his head. If top hunters couldn't find them, there was little hope that those kids would find them.
Phantom troupe Hideout
The group was standing talking about someone called the chain user.
Rosabella kept her legs close to her body as she watched them while sitting on the ground by the boss.
"A chain user. Probably a manipulator or a conjurer." Chrollo said. "Uvogin can hold his own in a fight but one on one, he's the most vulnerable to those two categories."
Shalnark glared at the ground. "I knew I should have gone with him."
Chrollo looked up with a blank look, "If he fails to come back by dawn, we will be switching plans."
Rosabella shuddered at the look on Chrollo's face. Whoever the chain user was, he was a dead man walking.
Dawn rose and Chrollo stood. "I'm going out. Machi and Nobunaga, you two are on the wanted poster so go out and let yourself be seen. Try to lure the chain user or, if he has possible allies, into a trap. Shalnark, Pakunoka and Phinks with me. Feitan, keep an eye on Rosabella."
The man kneeled and lifted the girl's face in his hand. "Play nice with Feitan and don't cause him trouble."
Rosabella nodded her head but at the raised eyebrow, she whispered, "Yes, boss."
Chrollo lifted his other hand and ran it down over her hair. "Good girl."
He rose and walked out with the three members following him.
Feitan glanced at the girl. "Come. We will practice your speed while we wait for others to return."
The man pulled out a ball holding it up. "Don't let it touch the walls or the floor. If you do, I will punish you."
Rosabella sighed before standing up and joining him. A few seconds later the two were flying around the room hitting the ball back and forth between each other quickly.
Shalnark eventually returned but without the boss. He leaned down as a ball whizzed by his head and Rosabella appeared hitting it up into the air.
"Where is the boss?" Franklin asked while watching Feitan hit it right back at the girl.
Shalnark sat down with a sigh. "He left on a special mission. We are to take care of the chain user."
He watched amused as the girl missed the ball.
Rosabella stopped grasping her knees as she gasped for air. Feitan smirked as he watched her with his arms crossed.
"How…are…you…soooo…. fast?" Rosabella gasped at the man.
"Practice. 1000 pushups now." Feitan said before walking over to take a seat on a concrete block.
Rosabella glared at him and went to take a drink of her water.
"No healing. Need to go stronger. Now, pushups. 1000. Count them out." Feitan said while pulling cards out of his pocket.
Rosabella sighed and began doing the pushups. Pushing down and up, she gasped "One."
"Louder." Feitan said while shuffling the cards.
Rosabella glared at him before dropping down and back up. "TWO."
Over an hour and a half went by before the girl finally finished. "One Thousand."
She dropped on the ground breathing heavy. Her arms hurt and all she wanted was to sleep.
Footsteps sounded and she looked up to see Feitan standing there with water. "Plain water. Drink and rest."
Rosabella shakenly got up and took the drink. She swallowed some when a second package was held out by Shizuza.
"The boss told me to get clothes for you. We're about the same size so this should fit until a couple of new outfits can be bought. Come on. I'll show you were you can get cleaned up." She said with a smile.
The two left. Shizuku pointed it out. "hurry back. The others should be back soon.
Rosabella sighed before going into the room. She was tired and wanted to sleep. Her thoughts wandered to her friends. Were they missing her as much as she missed them?
"Welcome to our hideout."
Rosabella heard Panokua say as she moved to where the others were. Walking in her eyes widened in fear on who she saw. This could not be happening.
"Do you know these guys, Shizuku?" Phinks said with a frown.
"No, I don't." She said with a frown.
Feitan was the one who sat up. "I remember now. You arm wrestled with the boy in green and lost."
Shizuku seemed offended. "HE beat Me. That's a lie."
Franklin turned to her. "It's because you were using your right hand."
Shizuku looked offended. "Why? I'm left handed."
Feitan sighed. "Don't bother. She never remembers anything. Once it's forgotten, its gone."
He tilted his head to the left. "Come out here now and sit down."
The others glanced that way as Gon and Killua turned to look. Their eyes widened when they saw Rosabella.
Feitan motioned to the girl and she slowly walked over taking a seat by the man. "Stay."
Rosabella did not look at him but her eyes were on Killua.
Nobunaga turned to Gon. "Did you really beat Shizuza?"
Killua sighed. "Never though she would be part of the phantom troupe."
"Show me what you've got." Nobunaga said while pulling back his hair.
The next hour consisted of everyone watching Nobunaga beat Gon again and again in arm wrestling. His hand was bruised and red from the pain.
"One more time." Nobunaga said.
Rosabella moved forward. "Let me heal his hand."
Feitan grabbed her arm and pulled her back. "No."
Gon moved his hand forward and took Nobunaga's hand.
"Ready. Go." Nobunaga said with a blank look.
They watched as Gon tried to push back but it was obvious he was outmatched in strength.
"So, do I stack up against all the other spiders." Nobunaga asked.
"Probably seventh or eighth," Franklin said
"You're not the weakest or the strongest." Machi said with a tilt of her head.
"The strongest member was a guy called Uvogin. But it's starting to look like the chain user killed him." Nobunaga said in annoyance.
Killua huffed. "We told you. We have no clue who that is."
Nobunaga slammed Gon's hand down harshly in anger. "Hey Kid. Speak without my permission again and I will kill you."
He turned to Gon. "One more time."
The two locked hands.
"Ready. Go." Nobunaga said.
Blood dropped onto the table before them.
"Uvogin was an enhancer. He was simple minded straightforward guy who loved a good fight. One thing about him was always being on time. He gave hell for those of us who were late. I knew him before the troupe and he would never lose in a fair fight." Nobunaga said, "That chain user must have cheated someway to kill him. I'll make his killer pay. He is a bodyguard to the Nostroff family. Once he is found, he will wish he had never been born."
Rosabella was standing behind the others when she saw Killua tense. His eyes went to hers and she realized he knew who the chain user was. Fear filled her eyes. If they found out he knew, who knows what they would do to them.
"You might not know him but if you heard any rumors. You better not hold anything back." Nobunaga said.
Gon glared. "I don't know him but even if I did I would never tell you. I thought you were a bunch of cold-blooded monsters. I can see you care for your friends. You have killed so many people yet don't show empathy for them. What is wrong with you?"
Everyone watched in shock as Gon slammed Nobunaga's hand onto the table. He had won the round.
Feitan suddenly appeared and had Gon's arm behind his back. "Careful. You're too cocky."
"Gon." Killua said stepping forward only to stop as Hisoka appeared behind him with a card to his neck. A drop of blood fell to the ground.
"Move and I'll cut you." Hisoka said.
Rosabella licked her lips. She had to do something. "Why are we keeping two kids here? If they don't know who the chain user is then there is no point in keeping them. Machi, we should let them go. There is no point in killing them when it's obvious that you all are too powerful compared to them. Please they're just kids."
The girl moved forward only for Shalnark to grab her arm and pull her against him.
"Answer the question. Do you know who the chain user is?" Feitan demanded.
Gon glared. "Get off me. I'm not telling you anything."
Nobunaga stood with a sigh. "Feitan, stop it."
"Stop what?" Feitan said in confusion.
"Stop doing what you are just about to do." Nobunaga said in annoyance.
Feitan's eyes narrowed. "You think you know what I'm about to do?"
"You're going to break his arm, aren't you?" Nobunaga said while rubbing his wrist.
"I would start with a finger." Feitan said with a look at Gon.
"Doesn't matter. I told you to stop it." Nobunaga said.
Feitan looked up with a glare. "Your giving me orders."
Rosabella pushed herself further into Shalnark's chest.
The man looked down amused before lowering his head and whispering, "Don't worry. They won't fight. We have rules for the troupe. I would protect you from harm if they did decide to fight. Boss has plans for you."
Rosabella's face went light pink as she tried to move forward only for Shalnark to tighten his grip. "You should be nice to me, bella. I can get you the electronic stuff you need."
Before she could respond a glint of gold had the two looking toward the fighters to see a coin flipping in the air before it was caught by Nobunaga.
"Tails." Feitan said.
"I'm heads." Said Nobu
He smirked. "Heads. So let him go."
Feitan let him go and Gon jumped away.
Shizuku sighed. "What do we do with them?"
Franklin sighed, "If they don't know anything than do as the healer said and let them go. They are no use to us."
"I checked on the trip here. They don't know anything about him." Pakunoda said with a sigh.
"Are you sure?" Machi asked.
The blond woman nodded her head.
Nobunaga glanced at Machi. "Looks like you are wrong."
Machi huffed. "That's weird but if Pakunoda says so than let them go."
Killua rushed over to his friend. "Hey Gon, did they do anything to you on the way here?"
Gon shook his head. "No. Just asked questions."
Killua frowned. "She examined us without us knowing but how."
His eyes landed on Rosabella who was twisting her fingers, constantly moving them. The two locked eyes and she glanced down at her hands.
Killua's eyes widened. Could it be that simple?
The memory of Pakunoda touching them returned. That was how she did it. Killua blinked twice and Rosabella sighed.
She gripped her pants as she turned to listen to the others debate about letting the two boys go. She didn't dare say anything else.
Phinks suddenly moved forward. "No. They could be being used by the chain user. If the chain user is discreate, they may not realize who we're talking about. Not till we know for sure who they are working for."
Shalnark released Rosabella with annoyance. "If they are working for someone, then it isn't the chain user. He works alone."
Machi frowned, "So you agree with Nobu
"We can get whatever info we need from the nostrade family. We don't need the kids." Shalnark said with a huff. "Our target is the chain user. WE can ignore everyone else."
Feitan glanced at the boys. "You are lucky."
Gon turned and stuck his tongue out at Feitan.
Rosabella sighed. 'maybe they will escape without any damage.'
"Not just yet" Nobunaga said with a sigh from where he was sitting. "I'm not letting the kid go. You want to join the spiders? Team up with me."
Everyone was shocked as he stared at Gon.
Rosabella felt like the blood in her veins had turned to ice. This could not be happening.
"No." Gon said with a glare. "I would rather die than team up with you guys. It's never going to happen."
Rosabella felt a jab to her heart. She had said the same thing. Gon had no idea what kind of people he was messing with.
Nobunaga started laughing. "He really hates us, doesn't he? You're an enhancer, aren't you?"
Gon frowned. "Yeah and?"
Nobunaga just laughed. "I figured. We're keeping them here till the boss gets back. I'm nominating him."
Gon glared. "I would never join you, so you have no reason to nominate me."
Nobunaga just tilted his head. "Everyone has a price. Ask the healer. She said the same thing. She caved and so will you."
Gon and Killua turned to stare at Rosabella.
Rosabella couldn't stand to look them in the face and lowered her head looking at her feet whispering. "They threatened my family."
Gon's eyes widened as Killua's narrowed.
Feitan however was not having it. "Are you serious? The boss will never agree to that."
Machi sighed. "Fine but you have to babysit them."
Nobunaga and Hisoka walked the two out. Rosabella moved to follow only to be stopped by Machi.
"I was going to heal the boy's hand." Rosabella said with a blank look.
Shalnark laughed. "That's a healer for you. They want to heal all who are injured."
"Sit down. The boy is fine. Don't waste nen." Machi said while pointing to feitan.
The girl moved and sat down beside him. 'What are we going to do now?'