"Of course, Milluki helped me out a bit. Normally, he wouldn't help me out, but he thinks of you as his sister, so I told him it was for you, and he helped."

"Illumi, you really didn't have to go through all that trouble to do this." I take in the view again.

There were two logs sitting in the middle of the clearing, surrounded by flowers of all kinds that looked freshly planted. There were bird feeders around the logs hanging off of low tree branches. There were mechanical fairies flying around in the sky around us.

Lights started turning on around us once the sun set a little more. The sky was now an orange mixed with purple. It was turning darker and darker every minute.

"Does this appeal to you?" Illumi asks me.

"Of course it does! You must've worked really hard for this, especially if you did it in only a day..."

"The butlers did help out as well, they're all fond of you, you know."

"Hopefully, they're all like family to me, and so are you Illumi."

"I'm glad."

"One thing."

"Yes?"

"Did Milluki really come outside to help you with this?"

"No, he just made the fairies fast and gave me some blueprints. He wasn't too busy either."

"Oh, that makes more sense."

Milluki hasn't gone outside for years, I would be surprised if he went outside for any other reason then for himself.

"It's beautiful."

"Would you like to sit down?"

"Of course I would."

"Sit down here, behind me, so that you can brush my hair." Illumi orders me around.

"Ok." I say as I sit down on the log behind him. Illumi gives me the brush and I start looking at his hair.

"You really did mess up your hair, huh?"

"I tried to."

Taking out the brush, I start brushing the worst parts of his hair, taking out all the knots the bets I could, so that I wouldn't hurt him.

"Does it hurt when I brush?"

"No, even if it did, I know you're not trying to hurt me."

I smile. I continue brushing his hair to a gloss. I played with his hair for a while once I was done brushing it.

"Have you finished?" He asks me.

"I have, do you have anything else you want to do?"

"Not that I can think of. I don't think the garden is going to be put away that soon, but for now, I guess we can just be here in the garden."

"Of course, I feel like I haven't seen you in such a long time, even though it was only a few days."

"While you were training, I also had a lot of jobs, I even took some extra ones so that I could get some free time with you." Illumi tells me.

"I'm glad that I'll get to spend time with you. Maybe I should put more things in my schedule, but you don't have anything planned for the next week or so, so I have no idea what to do other than train."

"Training is important at your stage of expertise, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything else in the mean time."

"I have more training for the next two weeks, after that, I have a mission I have to do with the help of Kalluto."

"Did you find out that Hisoka is a member of the troupe?"

"Wait, so you knew this whole time?"

"My allies shouldn't keep secrets from me."

"I-"

"I didn't want to tell you, because I wanted you to figure it out yourself."

"I guess."

"Maybe I can brush your hair?" Illumi asks me and commands me at the same time.

I turn around on the log I was sitting on.

"Go ahead."

I give the brush back to him and he starts untangling parts of my hair. He was extremely gentle to me, it almost felt like I was being given a head massage.

"Am I hurting you?"

"No, in fact, you're being extremely gentle, it's enjoyable."

"That's good, I never want to hurt you." Illumi says.

"Do you know if I can get any other missions for this week?"

"I'll have to check in with my father. You're a pro hunter, do you have anything in mind that you would like to do as a hunter?"

"I don't really know. When I was younger I've always wanted to be noticed by my father, I really didn't think about what I wanted."

"Perhaps you would like to be my date to a ball?"

"A ball? Did you get an invitation?"

"It's a ball that a very powerful family, related to one of the ten dons, invites us to every year."

"Oh, don't they hire you a lot for jobs?"

"They do. I've never Brought a date along with me, the whole family is invited. I used to book a job during that time, but now, I want to go with you."

"I'd love to go with you Illumi."

"We'll have to make a dress for you, I'm sure anything will look good on you, of course. Oh, and also, your family was invited this year."

"They were?!"

"Of course, your family has moved up in the rankings, and now people acknowledge them more."

"I didn't know that."

"It was because of you, now everyone thinks we have strong ties with them."

"When did this happen?"

"When we went on our first mission together. Apparently people took pictures and your family recognized you as their own. Now everyone thinks that we're friends."

"We have to tell the public what really happened."

"That's another reason why my family wants you there. We don't want anyone thinking that we're allies, so we want you to clear things up. Think of it as a mission."

My face started to get red with anger.

"Why would they now say that they acknowledge me, when they ignored me my entire life?"

"You're angry, don't worry, the ball is in five days, when that day comes, you'll be able to set things straight."

"Won't that mean that we'll have to tell the public about our relationship?"

"Do you not want to?"

"I do, but I don't know if we're ready for that. There's been so many people who have been corrupted by this kind of information from the public and people commenting on them."

"I'll make sure no one gets in between our relationship without permission."

"Who else would get into our relationship?"

"Family, missions, jobs, although they won't affect us as much as it seems they would."

"I want to make sure we have a stable relationship."

Illumi tugs on my hair with the brush, gently. I feel the brush leaving my hair and arms wrapped around my shoulders.

"Nothing will ever happen to us, as long as I live."

I put my hands over his arms wrapped around me.

"I hope so."

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