HxH: Fraternal Twins

Chapter 25: A Living Nightmare

The next day...~

Sikiyona laid there on a spare bed that Rui had made not that long ago, gazing up at the ceiling, with her cold and emotionless frosted eyes. Every time light would shift around her, anyone could see the white sparkles in the icy gloss of her eyes. One hundred and ten years... Of all that time, I was blinded. Who are my birth parents, where are they...and are they still alive...? Who am I really..? Many questions... So...many questions... Yet not one answer. She spoke in her head, laying on her back, with her arms sprawled out to the side. Her white, winter, long coat had been placed on one of Rui's chairs nearby. Hearing a clock tick repetitively made her turn her head in its direction and checked the time.

It was so quiet in the room, not one peep was heard except the distant fighting outside the window. Though she completely ignored it, knowing full well that it was Ruby sparring again. Sitting up, she got up off the bed, grabbed her coat, and left the room. She made her way down the hall thinking about those many questions that bottled up her mind. After exiting the mansion, she jumped up onto the roof and viewed the scene before her. Ruby was training with Hisoka in her summoned gear in an intense battle. Ruby... I owe you, for opening my eyes... Thank you... Before sitting down, she looked around her and found Rui, Illumi, Silva, Kikyo, and a little boy with white hair? That boy... His features are similar to mine. Why is that...? Yet he is the only one with white hair aside from Silva, is he perhaps adopted or a family friend, or perhaps another offspring? She mentally asked herself and stared at the small boy who appeared to lack life in his blue eyes.

The moment when she asked that question, the said boy looked up at her then grew surprised. It was as if everyone had faded from around them, their bodies shading in with shadow and their distance growing bigger. She and the boy never broke from each other's gaze, leaving his parents and elder brother puzzled. "Sikiyona, why are you staring at my son?" Kikyo's voice knocked her out of her stare, making her avert her attention and look back at Ruby.

"He has white hair... That is abnormal, compared to the rest of your family. Is it safe to assume, that he is a friend of your family, adopted, or maybe an offspring?" Siki's voice was robotic as usual, though, for some reason it gained a bit more life in it.

"No... My husband has white hair, he got it from him," Kikyo replied easily, having her attention on the frosted serpent woman.

"I see..." That was all she said in return until she felt someone's gaze on her. Turning around, she looked over her shoulder and noticed an old man. Having one arm behind his back and another on his kane, staring at her as if he just saw a ghost. His eyes were a bit wide and his mouth remained in a frown.

"You look... Familiar... Why do you look like my father's sister, when she was young...?" At the old man's words, everyone snapped their attention to him and the frost lady. She turned to face him, giving him that robotic look and cold gaze. "I am Zeno Zoldyck. What's your name...?" Questioning her with a stern voice and expression, he deeply looked into her frosted gaze, trying to see past the ice.

"I am Sikiyona Kane... Well, I am uncertain of my last name now. Ruby had told me that I was blinded by Mr. Kane and was adopted, as well made to believe that the mutations were meant to make mankind better," she flatly replied to the old man. Zeno's hand that was on his kane, tightened from hidden emotion and his eyes squinted more.