The Contract That Binds Us

Caught X In X Webs

I felt myself being followed as I walked the streets of Yorknew City. I knew who but I still didn't want to stop. I had to find a certain something before I dealt with a new issue that had presented itself the other day when I terminated the dinner contract with the Zoldycks.

Killua and Gon attempted many times to contact me but I refused and thankfully they didn't use the pens I gave them. I was still infuriated from the rising issue that one of my gang members had been killed.

I finally stop at a wall of nearly invisible string that I knew as Machi's Nen ability. "I'm not here for play." I huff annoyedly, not in the mood.

"Sorry, but the boss wants to speak with you." Phinks grins.

"I wouldn't attempt to run." Feitan chuckles and I groan loudly.

Why couldn't I be normal? But then I remember, I couldn't be normal because that would mean stopping my puns and that would be terrible, tragic even. I wouldn't survive.

~~~

"Why do you want me to be part of your gang!? You know I won't just let the Fox gang be at your disposal." I reason knowing that was one of their reasons.

"We heard someone from your gang died." Chrollo informs, shocking me before I deflate.

"This jar didn't soundproof your little ability, Kalluto Zoldyck?" I ask, my eyes coming to the little boy in a kimono.

"No, I was curious about the calls you were getting." He says softly yet plainly. I pull out a tiny jar with a little rip of paper on it. I toss it to him and he catches it.

"Well yes, they did. What if it?" I ask defensively since it was still a sensitive subject.

"What will you do about it?" Chrollo asks and I give him a look.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm gonna make whoever killed him pay for what he did with his life." I say firmly, making them all grin.

"Allow us to help and be part of our gang. You have one hour to think it over." Chrollo proposes before I could say anything. I take a deep breath.

"Persistent, pushy Crayola." I huff, already walking out.

~~~

I came back after it hit me. I walked into base where they were and I pulled off my jacket, rolling it up. "I'm resting here." I inform as I lay down with my jacket being my pillow.

"Oh, so you still don't have an answer?" Chrollo asks and I sigh.

"I would've but my energy is currently drained." I inform, making myself comfortable on the slab of concrete.

"Whoa! She's right. She barley has any aura." Shalnark observes and they all check and are surprised that it's true.

"When my member was killed, our contract was terminated. And then I terminated another one the same day making it painful. All the Nen I put into those is lost and is taken from me. It's exhausting." I mumble closing my eyes for some rest.

"Interesting..." Chrollo murmurs as I fall asleep.

~~3rd POV~~

"She's asleep now, it's interesting how her contracts work." Shalnark speaks up.

"True, to have her abilities like that, her power are almost limitless." Franklin agrees.

"But she obviously has her limits and conditions." Machi reasons, eyeing the sleeping girl.

"It only leaves to question if the contract ability comes from her pens or her pens from her contracts. If it was from the contract, she took another's ability as it is something she's demonstrated she can do. However she needs her pens to make contracts." Chrollo muses and they all think on it.

"Can't they both be her ability?" Nobunaga asks confusedly.

"The two abilities are extremely different that they couldn't be related. One had to have come from the other but one couldn't exist without the other." Machi explains.

"Father and Grandfather had the same thought, but since they knew her when she was little they knew it was the pen. They say before contracts, it was only pens." Kalluto informs, staring at the sleeping girl.

"She's so defenseless like this. She's pretty stupid to leave herself so vulnerable." Feitan chuckles.

"It's smart, she knows the boss is gonna watch over her." Pakunoda reasons, although wondered how much trust she had put in the boss.

"Well she just lost a member, she's probably having it rough and is staying here to distract herself." Phinks reasons, knowing the girl had a mischievous tendency.

"But what was she doing in Yorknew City if she wanted to get revenge?" Shizuku asks curiously.

"Gather information?" Nobunaga suggests.

"That but she's probably waiting for something. She's just been walking around for a few days, maybe she's expecting someone." Shalnark suggests and they look to Chrollo.

"For now we wait and keep her here and guarded until she regains her energy." Chrollor reasons and they nod.

"No joke, even a normal gun could kill her at this rate." Feitan huffs, eyeing her very delicate aura. It was obvious a lot of her power came from her contracts with many conditions placed on them for maximum power. They were now witnessing a consequence of such heavy betting. But it gave them an idea on how carful and calculated she had to have been to be this powerful with such a vital risk placed on her abilities.

Chrollo in particular then wondered what exactly her "honest" contracts consisted of that it could give her so much power yet take so much away.

"Pakunoda, use your abilities to find out something about her contracts. She will be out for days of not weeks. You have enough time to find as much information as you can on them." Chrollo orders and she nods, getting up and going to the now sickly looking girl.

Pakunoda knew she had more than enough time to go through everything in the girl's mind on that one particular thing. She just worried how the girl would react when she found out about this.

She hesitated, not wanting to invade the mind of someone who had helped her but she had orders. She sat down by the girl's head and placed a hand on her head.

It took a moment but soon Pakunoda saw the sight of a dirty black and silver calligraphy pen in the hands of a little girl.