"killua," the stern voice came from the older sliver haired zoldyck. His eye cat like flickered to a surprisingly relaxed kyriak for a moment, his face blank, no indicator to what he was thinking, before turning his full attention to his heir. "I was told that you made some friends"
"Yes..." he muttered sitting directly before his father, a hand holding kyriak to prevent her from walking off while thinking of a way to get himself and his friends out of the deadly situation.
"How are they?"
"Pff how?" killua spoke not looking at his father, "I Dunno when we're together its cool"
"Ah, yes? How was the exam?"
"easy" killua gave short answers, hoping the quick it takes the sooner he could get kyriak out of here.
"killua come here" Sliva gesture to the cushions besides him, "I want to listen to your stories"
Killua eyes widened for a moment, glancing towards a distance kyriak who was staring curiously at the dog like beast (that wasn't mike, but another of the creatures the zoldycks trained) sitting beside the older zoldyck. Her eyes flickered to his blue ones, a smile growing on her face as she pulled him towards his father. The slivernet stared at her, had can she be this carefree? Surely, she understands the dangerous situation she is in...
He thought back to the exam for a moment, thinking bad to kyirak and her action in certain situations...
Maybe she had a death wish? Was she hit in a head and knocked the common sense out of her?
He let out an internal sigh, letting the smaller girl pull the boy towards the cushions his father sat. Kyriak settle down onto the soft cushion. She played with the fur, rubbing her hands along the fabric and killua glanced to her and continued to talk to his father.
She couldn't help it.
It was soft and warm – the feeling slowly lulling her softly. She felt it tugging at her mind, slowly pulling her into darkness as she listening to the lumping voices of killua and his father talk about the hunter exam. No longer able to fight it – she let herself be pulled into sleep.
Killua paused mid-sentence feeling a weight leaning against his, glanced to his friend – it felt weird thinking that she was a friend – noticed the girls eyes closed. Ans breathing slowly, strands of her messily cut fringe fell into her face causing her nose to scrunched up slightly in irritation.
He couldn't help but let the small smile tug at his lips as he shifted her sleeping foam. So that her head was laid in his lap a hand protectively placed on her side.
His father made no comment, leaving his thoughts to himself for the moment. Letting his son continued his story of the hunter exam.
Wee little time skip
"gon!" killua shouted in happiness seeing the other younger boy before adding, "plus leorio and kurapika!" as an afterthought. The young zoldyck adjusted the weight on his back walking forward to the group.
"Long time no sees! You managed to get here but you should see your face!" killua pointed out to, looking intently at gons face.
"Yours isn't so great either!" gon point, both younger boys face showing signs of battle or torture in killua's case.
"Where's kyriak?" muttered leorio before kurapika poked his side and pointed. On the zoldyck back held a sleeping kyriak. The girl curled into the boys back – head tucked into his neck it was a cute sight and the way killua move it was as if she weight noting, only one hand holding her in place.
"So, we should leave ne? Whenever but let's go!" gon asked quietly, having already noted the sleeping girl.
"Better hurry before my mother hears, she doesn't want me to leave"
The group slowly ambled down the path towards the gate and town begone. The older pair quite as gon and killua chatted away... kurapika suddenly had a thought stuck him, "didn't kyriak say her father was going to come here?"
Leorio blinked, stopping his steps, "you know your right, haven't seen him though or heard anything. What's her father's name again?"
"what's this about her father?" killua paused turning towards the older teens, none noticing the sliver hues slowly opening.
"About a month ago kyriak told us her father was going to come round."
"What, why?" asked a confused killua, only to freeze a dangerous presence suddenly appearing behind him. The younger having not sense the figure at all.
"PAPA!" a female voice squealed in delight, almost deafening the boy. But the dark feeling vanishing as she did so.
The group jumped, spotting the tall figure a few feet away.
"Kyriak, my munchkin! Come to papa always from the stinky wolves!" the stranger called out opening his arms for the excitable girl.
"Huh?"
"Who are you calling wolves!?" exclaimed a grumpy leorio.
She sleepily jumped of killua's back (who begrudgingly let her go not that he would tell anyone) once she was settled in the arms of the stranger did, he come closer to the group. The stranger was a giant of a man, large muscles from working out all the time – his hair a dark brown was tided in a lose bun on the back of his head and the bread was long and plait.
He worn a dirty white tunic that loosely on his form accompanied by dark trousers. On his back a large axe was stationed – to the boy looking at the axe it gave an eerie feeling off it, like there was something else with the blade that there couldn't quite put their fingers on.
"Papa these are my friend!" kyriak exclaimed not noticing the glare the man was giving the boy.
"Mister," gon started stepping forward, "why do you smell like fire?"
Dark hue turned glaring at the younger boy for a moment only for a grin to break out across his face as studied the innocent cinnamon roll. "I am a foragemaster; I taught this squirt all she knows. I'm Thorin Emberly by the way her father"
The way the man said father caused a shiver to run along the spines of the other males in the group.
"Gon, Gon Freecss. What do you mean by wolves? I been around wolves before and I sure I'm human"
Thorin blinked for a moment before letting out a laugh, "boy, I like you squirt, you can stay near my kyriak. Keep the wolves away right"
"Papa!" kyriak called sleepily, "what do you mean by wolves?"
"Now, who are the others?" thorin asked avoiding the question.
Leorio and kurapika introduced themselves, but no before kurapika unleased his mama bear on the giant man – telling the older off for telling her about looking for a husband when she's still young which led to another argument about what should a good partner should consist of.
Never the less, the smile on Thorin face didn't change as she declared that he liked the older teens.
"killua zoldyck" killua stated glaring definably at the older man. He wasn't sure why but he wanted the man approval.
"zoldyck hmmm..." thorin studies the younger boy.
"kyriak," thorin turned his attention back towards the red head girl, "papa got a present for you at home!"
(In the background a tick mark could be seen on a certain slivernettes head at the dismissal from the older man)
"Really? What is it?" there were stars in the females' eyes at the thought of a present.
"it's a surprise!"
She pouted, sulking. "But I wanted to know..."
"You have to wait then. Say good bye to your friends"
The pout deepened. "But I want to stay with killua, gon leorio and kurapika..."
Thorin smiled disappeared for a moment, "nononononono my little girl it growing up..."
The older teens wet dropped at the man's sudden mood drops. "It's okay kyriak," kurapika started, "I'm going to part ways anyway from my goal..."
"Huh?"
The group chatted following the path towards the train station for them to part ways. The group agreeing to meet on September the 1st in York shin city and exchanging numbers. Though she listening a moment longer – for once concentrating on where gon and killua were heading to.
Heaven area.
Maybe she will pay a visit...
As the pair, thorin and kyriak left the group she turned towards her papa, "by the way papa, did you say you had business with the zoldycks? Have you sorted it already?"
"yeah, I was only dropping something off for Maha, and getting some blueprints from milluki"
"I didn't know we got jobs from them?"
"We get jobs from lot types of people, munchkin" he glanced at his surrogated daughter from a moment. Thinking over the brief conversation he had with the current head of the family. He didn't to work on her awareness...
"So, tell me all about the exam?!"
"Well..."
To be continued...
and onto the next arch! ish...
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