A Genius Thrown to the Wolves

Second Order Ch. 57

Kurapika was once again pulled out of his thoughts by movement in the room. 'who else could be here' he thought to himself before being run in to on either side and grabbed tight. That's when he saw the tufts of white and green hair. "Gon! Killua! What are you doing here?!"

Killua rolled his eyes as Gon bashfully scratched the back of his head. "Well, we kind of, accidentally, sorta, mighta-" "Gon." "We were tailing two suspicious looking people who happened to be part of the phantom troupe before being spotted, and taken to their evil layer where they debated what to do with us. When they realized we didn't know anything about the chain user, they decided to keep an eye on us-" "More like eyes since they put us under the supervision of both Hisoka and Ayanokoji" Killua interjected, Gon nodding along signalling that was the gist of what happened.

"What about you? What are you doing here?" Killua asked Kurapika who was surprisingly calm despite being directly next to one of the very people he vowed to rid the world of. Killua didn't miss the flinch that followed his question. "Oh, now I gotta know!" Killua and Gon were now intently looking at Kurapika for the answer. Before he could, Chrollo spoke for him. "I have made him mine." The look of shock on Gon and Killua's faces were priceless. That answer had been totally out of left field. "What does that mean?" Gon asked, scared for his friend. "It means that your little friend here tried and almost succeeded in killing me. Key word is almost, so instead of killing him, I've decided to simply put him on a leash. A nen leash that is." Kurapika let out a long sigh. "He's right. I wasn't able to kill him, he got the jump on me, and gave me three options, this, unfortunately, was the best option." Gon and Killua just gave him an apathetic look before going into the kitchen and helping themselves to whatever food was left before coming back to sit down.

"Wait you guys know each other, but you two didn't know he was the chain user?" Gon and Killua looked at each other as if they were also just realizing it themselves. "Yeah I guess, I mean none of knew nen when we split up." Chrollo only chuckled in response at the irony of it all. Hisoka, on the other hand had been growing impatient.

"Now that this whole situation has worked itself out, we're no longer on babysitting duty. Right?" Hisoka asked Chrollo, a dangerous smile on his face. "I guess, but you're not relieved of the duty until tomorrow. Kurapika will come get them from you." Hisoka was okay with that, as long as he got back to his life with just Kiyotaka, after all it was about time for them to move on to the next adventure. "Make sure to put your dishes in the sink, and turn out the lights when you make your way back to bed." Hisoka called out, more scolding then anything, to the boys and he retreated back to his bedroom, Kiyotaka in tow. 

"I can walk on my own you know." Kurapika said, still stuck on Chrollo's shoulder. "I know." "So you can put me down" he supplied, already exasperated by the antics currently at play. "I can. But I don't think I will." "Wha-! Why not?!" Kurapika felt the shrug of Chrollo's shoulder under him "I don't feel like it." "You don't feel like it?! I'm telling you that I want to be let down, so put me down!" Kurapika thought he was getting what he wanted when he felt Chrollo lift him off his shoulder, but he was sourly mistaken. 

Instead of being out down, he was merely shifted into a princess carry. This was far more embarrassing, and now he could feel and see every time Chrollo looked down, just to look at him, which happed far to often given how little time was left on the walk to where ever Chrollo was taking him. 

His house. He took Kurapika to his house. Kurapika's mind had begun to race a mile a minute when he realized where he had been taken. He was still technically working a job, and the last thing he wanted was to be left alone in a house with this guy. It was even more distressing when he was dropped on what was very clearly Chrollo's bed. 

Chrollo was only entertained by Kurapika's distress and just got into comfortable sleeping attire before also getting into the bed. He turned out the lights and laid down. "Relax, I'm not going to do anything. At least not yet. So lay down and sleep." 

The orders hadn't been to relax, but his body did just that. At first being forced to lay down felt stiff and uncomfortable, but he slowly felt himself relax into the sheets, and feel his eyelids grow heavy. There was a lot for him to worry about on his mins, but maybe it could just wait until tomorrow.