[Nsfw] ✾ Nanika's Crime Scene ✾ | cw: gore

[awuka]

[Finally laid to rest, Alluka is plunged into a long, drawn out dream that causes her to groan and cling to whatever's closest in her sleep.

She awakens in a dark, fleshy room with a weak lantern that just barely illuminates the darkness. Scared, she cautiously steps forward, wondering where her big brother could've went. As she walks, the soft, wet ground squelches underneath her, oozing old, reddish brown blood all over her squeaking berry boots. She can hear strange ambience throughout the cave: unnerving drip, drip, drips and even the sound of distant ringing which grows subtly louder the longer she navigates this horrible place.

(The rest is nested in the comments bc it's gross lol)

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[awuka]

Frightened, Alluka's wide eyes follow the red and pink marbled walls as she shines the lantern around, looking for something like a door so she can leave. She ends up walking face first into a web of soft, unidentifiable viscera hanging from the ceiling. Stumbling backwards, she furrows her brows and wipes the rotten-smelling fluids from her face with her kimono sleeve.

Realizing that this way probably lead deeper into the cave, she quickly turns around and starts footing it the other way, only to immediately run into another web that looks identical. This definitely wasn't the path she came from. Was her only choice to go through this? Swallowing hard the bile that rises in her throat, she anxiously lifts it up and passes underneath it, trudging onward the only way she can.

She starts seeing more of such formations. Big, bleeding tumors sit piled on the corners of the cave, making her weave around them cautiously, and organs are strung along the walls and ceiling, sometimes hanging just low enough to be a gross inconvenience. The deeper she gets, the worse the smell is until it's practically knocking her out. Alluka gradually starts feeling sicker and sicker, her stomach groaning with a powerful ache. When she finally reaches a chamber, a particularly sick stench of rot, iron, and urine hits her that makes her double over as her stomach ejects its contents onto the equally repulsive floor.

When she wipes her mouth and looks up, her eyes are met with a pale, blood covered face that smiles at her emptily from the darkness. Her first instinct is to scream as it approaches her, but it doesn't stop.

"Hi, Alluka." A familiar voice much like her own calls. Her eyes blow wide in shock.

"N-Nanika? What are you doing here?" She asks, trembling. When her shaking eyes travel downward to inspect her sister's equally stained clothes, she notices that Nanika's holding something blurry. She raises her lantern hand, but no matter how much light she provides, it's impossible to make out what it is.

"Do you want some too?" Nanika asks, holding it up to her. Her racing heart tells her not to take it and she instead looks past her at the strange clusters of pale limbs that pile up all over the floor.

"N-No thanks. What is this..?" She asks, visibly tormented. She steps past Nanika, getting close enough to illuminate the rest of the untouched bodies. The first identifiable detail every one of them share is silver hair, but before she can scream in realization, she is plunged into the dark again.]

No!

[Alluka screams into the front of Killua's shirt and pushes him away with her full strength, thinking that something's come and smothered her while she was sleeping. When she hears the thud of his real body hitting the carpet, her eyes shoot open to a very idyllic room, the opposite of the one she was just in before.

She sits up carefully, holding her elbow over her forehead to block some of the warm sunlight casting in from the balcony window. When her eyes are finally adjusted to the light, she looks over the side of the bed to find that it was Killua who made that sound. Horror and worry still carrying over from her strange dream, she leans down and offers him her hand.]

I'm so sorry, Oniichan! I had an awful dream, and, and...

[Her mind is so frazzled that she can't form adequate enough words.]

[devil_or_angle]

*killua's dreams are similarly fraught, his mind trying to make sense of nanika's newfound bloodlust in a series of nightmares where she asks for more and more of him and he gives and gives and gives until there's nothing left. he awakens on the bedroom floor, a dull ache in his chest where alluka had pushed him off the bed.*

a-alluka!

*shocked wide awake, he scrambles to grab her hand and climb back onto the bed, then pulls her into a hug in a rush of relief. guilt follows it for preferring one sister over the other, but it's hard to miss nanika's presence now when he last saw her feasting on his flesh.*

i-it's all alright, i don't blame you -- either of you --

[awuka]

[Pulled into a hug, Alluka realizes there are tears streaming down her cheeks. She sniffles loudly and buries her head in his warm chest, staining his freshly cleaned shirt with blotches of tears. She scrambles to explain her incomprehensible dream before she forgets all of the details.]

I-In my dream, I was in this horrible place full of blood and meat that got all over my shoes and made this terrible sound when I walked.. It was dark and wet everywhere. Some weird, wet stuff hit me in the f-face and I tried to run away from it but it went back to the same place, and when I passed it, I found Nanika holding something blurry in a place f-full of..full of...

She loudly cries into his shirt as more and more tears pile up and seep into the gray fabric. It's drenched now as she clings shakily to him, unable to finish her sentence through the shock.]

[devil_or_angle]

*killua's eyes grow wide with alarm as she recounts her dream, dread gathering heavy in his gut at the realization that this is her mind's way of making sense of what nanika did.*

h-hey, it's okay... i'm fine now, everything's fine.

*he wants to tell her it was just a dream, but can't while he can still feel the phantom throb of his uninjured side, the memory of splitting it open all too real. maybe she hasn't quite figured out what nanika did, but he needs her to know that no matter what happened, it's going to be alright. he pets her hair as she sobs, noticing with a jolt that there's still some of his dried blood matting the locks of her hair.*

[awuka]

[Brought out of her immediate shock by Killua's comforting gestures, the first thing Alluka notices is the pungent taste in her mouth. Her tongue is dry from sleep, her tastebuds coated in a bitter, salty, and irony mixture that make her stomach lurch when she inhales. She gags in disgust, throwing her hand over her mouth as she breaks from Killua and rushes to the bathroom to huddle over the open toilet and unload the contents of her stomach into it with one painful heave.

The toilet water splashes, at least one droplet hitting her face as heavy and red chunks of something drop into the previously still surface. When no more comes up, she peels her tearstained eyelashes apart. Innocent, blue eyes widen in horror when they fall on the small, undigested pieces of kidney floating around in the water. Her first instinct is to hyperventilate and scream.]

ONIICHAN! I'M BLEEDING!!!

[What an awful way to start the day after your own birthday. Terrified, she wonders if somehow her dream did something to her body. It's never happened before, but anything can seemingly happen on the airship.]

[devil_or_angle]

*killua rushes after her, reminded of her reaction to her first hangover but knowing this will be much, much worse. he's proven correct when he sees the toilet bowl full of the meaty chunks of his partially-digested kidney and feels his stomach flip, quite nearly causing him to vomit too. overcome with revulsion, his first reaction is to reach past her and swat the lever, flushing the grisly remains of his own organ away.*

don't look at it, okay? *he urges as he crouches down close, rubbing her shaking back to help her calm down.* it's okay, everything's gonna be okay--

*he repeats the mantra half for her and half for himself, panicked thoughts of her being poisoned by the piece of himself she consumed filling his head as he wraps his arms around her again, fretting over whether he should take her to leorio for an examination. he doesn't know how to tell her the terrible truth: that the blood she's just vomited isn't hers.*

[awuka]

[Alluka reels back away from the toilet when Killua turns the lever, not wanting her face to get sprayed further as the toilet noisily whirlpools the blood and chunks down the drain at the bottom. Killua's comforting doesn't help at all this time. For a moment, she feels angry.]

N-No it's not! I'm puking blood and it's all chunky--! A-And..my stomach still really hurts..It's bleeding!

[Her stomach is absolutely killing her with sharp and dull pains alike. She gags and heaves again, almost throwing up on the floor if it weren't for the toilet being so close. She doubles over the toilet again, her throat croaking embarrassingly loud as more blood and chunks are summoned. Her eyes well up again, blinding her as the toilet is once again filled with more of the same thing.

Dejected, she sniffles loudly as she wipes her face and mouth with toilet paper she tore off the roll. She inconsolably wails, utterly terrified.]

Am I dying, Oniichan? Did I get poisoned by the cake? Or was it the icecream...I n-need a doctor...!

[devil_or_angle]

*there's no consoling her, so panicked and confused about whats happening to her that his reassurance falls on deaf ears. mouth hanging uselessly open and stomach churning with regret, killua is at a loss. all he can do is flush the toilet again with a trembling hand and murmur,*

it wasn't the cake or the ice cream that's making you sick, it's... something nanika ate.

*before she can protest, he stammers,*

i-i'm sorry, alluka, i really am... but she insisted...

[awuka]

[Alluka's panic pauses when she realizes that Killua knows something about this. Then it compounds even further.]

What did Nanika eat?! When she showed up and talked to me, I couldn't see what she was holding, so...

[A part of her knows the answer from the obvious layout of the familiar face and bodies in the nightmare, but the side that is still wracked with confusion and fear is the dominant one, unable to get her thoughts straight for long enough to accept the blunt reality of what she saw.]

If it's not poison, what is it?

[devil_or_angle]

*there's no getting around it now. he has to tell her the truth, or her mind will never be able to settle -- though he's sure it will only unsettle her more. casting his gaze guiltily downward toward his fists balled around his folded knees, he confesses,*

it was... a part of me.

*he has to choke down a surge of bile in his throat before he can continue, the acid biting at his voice as he forces hoarsely onward toward the truth.*

one of my organs, she-- she insisted--

[awuka]

What...?

[She gags. So that was why her mouth tasted so putrid -- and why Nanika wouldn't show her what she was holding. All those Killua bodies were there just for Nanika to consume in their dreams.]

I...I saw you there... Your body, or bodies... They were everywhere. Piled up on the floor and against the walls...

[She feels another kick to her gut and throws herself over the toilet. This time, there isn't as much.

Just like Killua's, there's a roughness to her voice.]

It was so frightening, Oniichan...

[devil_or_angle]

*killua winces as she gags on the taste of the ill-fated gift he'd given nanika, feeling her pain and nausea as if it were his own, as if the piece of him inside her had connected their bodies deeply, primally, even seeping into her dreams. he rubs her back sympathetically, wishing there were something he could do to reverse this and ridden with guilt that nanika had put him back to normal but left her to suffer in his stead.*

i'm so sorry... it's my fault you feel like this...

[awuka]

[Alluka senses the guilt in Killua's voice and her first instinct is to hug him, yet she ignores it due to their less-than-hygienic present situation.]

It's not your fault. You were just doing what she wanted like a good big brother would...

[Knowing the rules and consequences for Nanika's requests, it was the only thing Killua could possibly do. She could never blame him for that.

Wiping herself free of blood, she sighs.]

We should go see Mr. Leorio... I'm sure he'd be able to help us..

[Alluka picks up the empty mini trash can next to the toilet.]

Not going without this, though.

[devil_or_angle]

*killua gets to his feet after her, internally scolding himself for letting his guilt and despair cloud his mind. she sounds like the elder sibling right now, urging them toward sensible action.*

right, that's a good idea...

*he begins to leave the bathroom, but halts himself in the threshold with a grimace.*

can we... not tell him what nanika ate...? i don't want anyone to know... what she's capable of.

[awuka]

[Alluka follows Killua to the entrance of the bathroom and pauses when he stops, looking up at him for explanation.]

Of course not... I know what happens when Nanika's secret gets loose..

[devil_or_angle]

*killua gulps, forcing down a sudden, sickening feeling of suspicion that he's never felt toward his sister since they met. he turns away from her, leading them out of the bathroom and through the cabin to the hall without another word, lost in dark thought. how much does she know about nanika's violent tendencies? how little does he?*