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» You are a notorious writer and proud owner of a library, one day your first customer, Chrollo, tells you to meet him on September 1st, leaving the location blank, challenging you to a game of catch.
Obviously, he caught the book with ease while snickering. "So why are you in such a bad mood?" Chrollo asked tilting his head. I still remembered when I had met him, I was so unused to meeting and talking to people. But he was my first ever costumer, when he walked in my dear Chiaroscuro and looked around smiling, I jumped out of joy. Our friendship developed rather quickly as he was a fan of my books and a gentleman. Now, years after we met, he was being a douche, I guess we were that comfortable.
"You wouldn't believe the night I had..." The dark-haired man looked at me, eyes wide, as it was surprising for my life to be straying from a boring normality. He was wearing his usual fluffy coat, no shirt and some black pants with some lighter material crossed through each leg till his knee. His fashion did scream edgy criminal... along with this dark aura that always surrounded him.
"What? Did Y/N suddenly find a sexual partner? Did it not live to your sweet expectations?" I rolled my eyes at his guess and sat next to him on the beautiful cashmere sofa.
I sighed loudly, "Yesterday I had to call the police, there were screams coming from my neighbours house. Somehow when they arrived, the screaming had stopped, and I saw this purple shadow quickly leaving the house. It doesn't make sense... But yeah, they had a bunch of questions to me, I felt like in their eyes I am now a suspect of whatever happened inside."
"You saw a purple shadow? At night?" His calm and soothing voice was all I needed to relax and feel like I was sane again, so I just forgot some inhibitions and continued.
"Yeah, it was probably his aur- Oh fuck". My eyes widened when I realized what had left my mouth. It wasn't normal to see people's auras, I peaked at Chrollo who was simply smiling, he heard it. He was paying all the attention in the world to my words, yet his face didn't show any sign of confusion. "Well..." I cleared my voice, that was failing and cracking, expecting him to forget the secret I had tried hard to keep. "I had heard screams before, from his house, and told them but they didn't seem to consider them, my neighbour creeped me out... I still don't know what happened inside, but I have a really bad feeling about all this."
"Hmmm..." Chrollo's smirk widened as he raised his index finger up and above it his dark aura formed the shape of a spider, much to my surprise and dismay, I couldn't hide the dumbfounded expression, it was there, floating, a dark aura spider. "To keep that secret away from me for so long."
"I am going crazy. Delusional... This is what all the lack of sleep and frustration did to me..." I covered my face, taking deep breaths to calm myself down.
"Oh, you're not going crazy. So, about this purple aura, was it dark?" I drew my hands away from my face, gaze passing Chrollo's beautiful face for a moment before focusing on the spinning spider that he was now tossing from finger to finger.
"You can control it!" The silence continued and I remembered there was a question unanswered. "It was. Darker than my creepy neighbour, probably as dark as yours." He closed his hand around the aura spider, it disappeared, his gaze flickering to me, as he shuffled closer.
"So, you knew." His grey eyes almost black, even though there was enough light in this library to make them shine their usual steel colour.
"That you were dangerous? Yes. But you were also my first customer I was so excited." I turned away, seeing all the beautiful bookshelves filled with books, the most magical place, the one place I wouldn't mind spending hours or days on. "Ever since I met you, you never talked about your job so it must be around the illegal area."
"It is." He simply admitted, there was no point in hiding it. "It's actually called aura and with training you can probably control it too. Make it useful to yourself." It was my turn to draw closer, intrigued by the new discovery and filled with questions.
"Can you teach me? What can it do?" He seemed amused, his eyes lighter.
"If you knew I lied about having a good job, and that I am a ... threatening person from my aura, why didn't you distance yourself from me?" He asked as he pulled the book he had taken last time out of the pocket of his coat, handing it to me carefully.
"Why would I? Do you intend to hurt me?" I took the book, flipping its pages, a smile growing on my face to see it in pristine condition.
Surprised with my answer he quietly whispered. "No..."
"What do you actually do?"
"I'm a thief, sometimes I murder people too. Leader of a group of dangerous people." Wow, more dangerous people, could they use the aura too? The questions. The questions kept piling up.
"Huh... suits you~. When will you be back to teach me the aura thingy?" I stood up, walking to a bookshelf, placing the book he had returned. He followed me silently.
"I never agreed to that." He peeked to where I had returned the book. "Do you have a new one? I'll take it." My finger ran down Made in Hell's spine, a romance about demons and what values meant. Took me a lot of time to write it, but I was glad on how it turned out.
"I'll lend it if you come back to teach me." He snickered.
"Do you know I can steal it right?" I gasped, realizing he could, as blood rushed to my face. "How about this... if you find me, I will. Your deadline is September 1st." I nonchalantly handed the black book to the man wearing the same colour, taking the challenge. I saw him leave the bookstore quietly as I thought how I'd track him down, suddenly hyped to a game of chase. Ready to learn something new, to leave this boring live and gather some good writing material!
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> Author's Note: Hello loveliees~ I hope you enjoy the path things are starting to take.
