2:14 pm

"I'm off Eclair~ Stay here while i'm gone, yea?~"

"Sure thing."

The woman heard the door shut and she jumped up hastily, throwing her now discarded clothes off onto the magician's couch.

She giggled creepily out loud, and clasped her hands together in triumph.

'Yes! Score! He doesn't realize I put a tracker on him~'

She smiled to herself, and quickly ran into the bathroom to shower.

Once finished she threw on one of Hisoka's unused black sweater's, which was way to large for her, and some black shorts, along with her favorite pair of black converse shoes.

'I look emo... Oh well. As long as I blend in.'

She threw her hair into a messy bun, and was on her way out the door, not realizing that she'd left her phone on the bathroom counter.

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2:45 pm

Hisoka chuckled amusedly, and flipped another card in his deck as he sat atop the box he usually did in the Troupe's hideout.

'Joker~'

He'd known about the little tracking device his toy 'tried' to place on him, and he thought it was quite adorable.

She was so curious about his whereabouts, why not let her see for herself? It'd be interesting to see the troupe's reaction. Besides, he was getting bored sitting around all day.

"What's so funny? Hisoka."

A man, who was dressed in a dark trench coat, with the chest part unbuttoned spoke.

"Nothing important enough to pique such an interest, dancho~"

"What are you hiding Hisoka. We all know it's something. You've been excited all day."

This time a woman spoke, a (kunoichi) presumably, her hair a bright pink.

"Yeah! Get to talkin' or else."

Another man spoke, his outfit was that of a samurai, along with a matching (katana) to accompany his looks.

'There seems to be about 12.. No. 13 or so people in there. A cult maybe?'

Eclair almost had to stifle a laugh, at the thought of Hisoka, being in any type of organized group, but she kept quiet in order to continue to listen to their conversation.

"Nobunaga, calm down. Hisoka's just being his usual, albeit strange, self." The man in the trechcoat spoke again, and Eclair presumed this was the figure of authority, with him giving out orders and such.

The samurai spoke again, "Fine.. I'll punch your face in later, clown."

Hisoka only chuckled again in response.

"Danchou." A large man-like creature spoke, assuming it wasn't human, it had pale skin, and scars stitched up all over his face.

'Like Frankenstein..'

"I feel it Franklin. An unknown presence. You may reveal yourself now."

Eclair's heart almost stopped. Did they mean her? This wasn't a part of her foolproof plan.

The leader spoke again, "You know, that's quite an impressive aura you have there. I almost couldn't sense it. But, unfortunately, if you don't come out, I'll have to kill you."

He had an amused expression on his face, and Eclair cursed mentally as she jumped down from the rooftop of the abandoned building that they called their hideout.

"Damn.." She heard a whistle from the samurai's direction, and glared.

"What brings you to the Phantom Troupe's hideout? Got a deathwish or something?"

A short man spoke, he had long, spiky black hair that stood up in all directions, and the lower half of his face was covered by his strange outfit.

Eclair remained silent, taking in all of the people who sat in the shabby room.

((Character descrps. Here.))

"Yo dancho," the blonde man spoke, "Can we kill her already. She's starting to get on my nerves."

"No, phinks. Don't kill this one. I have questions to ask her."

Eclair wanted to smack the smug expression right off of his perfect face.

"Come, walk with me."

She badly wanted to bolt towards the nearest window. Everything about this man said, run and get away as fast as you can, but at the same time, it was like she was being drawn to him.

She inclined the man on his offer, and began walking towards the man down an unknown corridor, as Hisoka watched silently, his face ().

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"My name is Chrollo Lucifer. You may call me Kuroro, if you'd like."

He smiled softly at her, and she felt her face heat up, afterall, this man was very appealing to look at.

"K-kuroro.. Ok. What do you want."

She tried to sound menacing, but ended up sounding genuinely curious, and she sighed internally after doing so.

"You don't have to be scared anymore," he chuckled slighlty, which she found even more attractive, "I'm not going to hurt you. I just have a few questions."

He took a seat on the small couch that occupied the room, and patted the spot next to him, offering her to take a seat.

"I'll stand thank you. So what do you want."

She crossed her arms under her chest, her expression grim.

"How did you find this place?"

"I was.. Following someone."

"Hisoka, i'm guessing."

She squinted her eyes slightly, "Yea.. You knew because?"

He sunk back into the couch, and closed his eyes as he released a slow sigh, "He's been acting really weird today."

He opened his eyes and smiled again, "I can see why."

"W-what's that supposed to m-mean!"

'Goddamn it! Fuck attractive people and their stupid attractiveness! I'm stuttering like some love stricken schoolgirl!'

"Nothing. Anyways how do you know Hisoka? Are you.." He shifted in his seat slightly, "Lovers?"

Eclair's eyes widened in confusion, "No! Why would you assume-"

"He was telling us a few days ago that he was infatuated with a young woman. I'm not sure if he was joking or not." He shrugged.

She felt her heart flutter inside of her chest, but she ignored it.

"He's just helping me out with.. Stuff."

"I see. It's about your conflict mother, yes?

Eclair was silent for a moment, before answering, "How do you know about-"

"I've been trying to own Reah's estate ever since you were a small girl, Eclair."

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3:15 pm

"Guys." A firm voice entered the room, as the troupe looked over to see their leader and the woman walk out of the hallway.

"Yes, danchou?" The pinkette spoke, her expression almost emotionless.

"I want you all to introduce yourselves. This is Eclair." He gestured to her, then back to the closest member to him.

He observed the woman closely as they all introduced themselves, watching her expression only change into a softer one as Hisoka introduced himself.

"If that is all, and I believe it is-"

"Satisfied now? Eclair~" Hisoka winked at the woman as he interrupted the infamous Nobunaga.

Eclair could here a growl coming from his direction, she remained silent to Hisoka's comment.

"You know Hisoka? That's not surprising." Machi said, a hint of venom was laced deep below the phrase, and Eclair rolled her eyes.

"What's that supposed to mean? Something irrelevant, most likely."

"Then why ask."

"No particular reason, just making my opinion known."

The tension in the room shot up, as the two women glared at eachother, and Hisoka bit his tongue to prevent himself from laughing.

"Tch, whatever. Danchou why is she even here." The woman scoffed as she turned her head to stare at the magician.

"This is the daughter of a very important project of mine.. Reah's daughter."

Eclair watched as almost everyone's heads turned to her, their expressions a mixture of shock and confusion.

"Wait, REAH'S DAUGHTER?!"

"I didn't know Reah had daughter?"

"Are we talking about the same Reah here?!"

She was so confused as she listened to all of the different reactions. How did they all know about her mother? More importantly, why did they sound so surprised?

It wasn't that strange that her mother settled down and started a family, was it? Not that it mattered.

"Yes, this is Reah's daughter. We've talked it over and she's going to help us get the estate."

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A/n:

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"How can she help, of all people.." Eclair glared, but refused to look the direction in which the snarky comment had been made. She didn't need these people's cooperation, all she needed was Chrollo's information. That was why she'd agreed to help him in the first place. Right?

"She just so happens to be the current pursuit of Reah, She's been after her for quite some time now." Chrollo sounded slightly amused, but there was a hint of another tone laced too far below for Eclair to interpret. "So what, we use her for bait, then attack when she's unprepared?" Phinks spoke, his eyes scanning slowly over Eclair's form which stood extremely close to his boss's.

"No, actually," She looked to Phinks, her eyes narrowing slightly as she spoke, remembering the death threat he gave not too long ago, "I have.. Something she wants, and she'll do anything-I mean anything to get it back." She almost let out a slow, shaky breath of air at the thought of her mother, her palms threatening to begin sweating as she clenched them against her sides.

"But wait- We don't know anything about this girl, and we're just gonna let her aid us in the take-down of Reah? Just like that? I don't like it-Or her for that matter. I think we should vote on it." Phinks growled at the thought of the woman, there was something.. Off. About her, something he was missing.

"Alright, let's flip a coin on it."

Eclair found it odd that Chrollo seemed not to have any other reactions to anything besides staying calm. That was something she was slightly envious of, but she pushed the thought aside.

((Insert voting sequence))

"It's been decided then," Chrollo started, his eyes trailing over Eclair before glancing out onto his comrades, his expression still somewhat amused, " We'll be working with Eclair from here on out. Everyone please do her the favor of introducing yourselves." He finished his statement before walking towards his designated spot in the room, only sitting once someone made the move to get up and walk over to the young woman.

Hisoka's eyes glanced up from the stack of cards he was shuffling, his interest now piqued at the sudden unexpected situation. Phinks was now slowly making his way towards the woman, his head bowed slightly, eyes not daring to look up from the ground. He was probably ashamed at the way he'd acted out earlier, that or he was disappointed that they'd be working together from there on in. Either way, Eclair still didn't like him.

"I'm Phinks," He started out upon reaching her, his hand outstretched towards her own in an attempt to shake hands, "Sorry about--"

"I-It's fine," Eclair started out, hoping to save him the embarrassment of apologizing.

(Everyone introduces themselves??blehh.)

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"Now that that's settled," Chrollo started, his eyes trailing up from his book momentarily to glance at the occupants in the room, only stopping briefly once his sight stopped upon Eclair before continuing, "I believe it's time to start planning."

"I.. actually have somewhere we could start?" Eclair added almost uncertainly, a she clasped her hands together in a small embrace, "She throws this.. Galla sorta thing every year to scout out clients or something along those lines. We could.." She trailed off, her eyes clouding over as she fell into a fit of utter silence.

"We could~?" Hisoka teased, his smirk still etched () across his face. "I think we get what you're implying at, Eclair." Chrollo stated, immediately causing Eclair's eyesight to regain their awareness suddenly, "Ah, yes this is good." She paused briefly before adding, "I'm certain it's.." She pondered, "We have maybe about.. Two weeks? Give or take."

"Well, for someone who partook in such festivities you sure sound uncertain of yourself," a feminine voice spoke, making everyone turn to see why she'd decided to comment so suddenly.

Eclair crossed her arms as she glanced at the voice, her expression unamused. She sighed as she answered, "I never really, "participated" per say. More so like.. Cleaned up the mess afterwards. What was your name again? M.. Mashi?.. M--"

"It's Machi. Don't wear it out either."

"Didn't plan on it, Machi," Eclair added on, in an attempt to annoy the woman.

"Ladies, ladies~ I think we have better things to do than to bicker at the moment, no?~" Hisoka spoke.

"Shut up Hisoka." The two women said simultaneously, causing Hisoka to chuckle.

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A/n: WOOHOO!! This is it!! The last chapter of the book!!!

Well, when I say end I mean the end if this ... Per say version.

This Is It (Revised version) should be out sometime tomorrow or the day after and BOI IM SO GLAD ITS SOO MUCH BETTER SKSKD

Anyways! I just wanted to take the time out and thank each and every single person who's read this till the very end and I really appreciate that you took the time out of your life to read this oh-so-shitty fanfiction!!

And everyone who commented I just really just dkwlwleje!! your kept me going, I truly mean it. Without your comments I probably would've given up writing in general a long time ago so thank you, so so sooo much!!

Hah, I just.. I'm so glad I really hope I can continue the journey with all of you into the next book, I really mean it your all like. Good friends that encourage me, ya'know? Anyways I'm done rambling.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully I'll see you soon in the newest version.

-Thehisokalover 💖