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[Chapter: Moving Out the Shack ]
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After his business with his Majesty, noah made it back to the shack in one peace, and no problem's.
And well, the shack was chaos.
Absolute, weapons-grade chaos.
Okay, maybe not that far.
Noah stood dead-center like the eye of a storm, arms crossed, head tilted like he was wondering how these little demon's even survived this long.
"Alright, ya little demons," he said lazily. "Pack your junk. We're movin' out."
For half a second, there was silence.
The kids just stared.
Then—
"WE'RE GETTIN' KICKED OUT?!" Kenji shrieked, clutching an old spoon like it was a weapon.
"NOAH, I'LL DO BETTER, I SWEAR!" Yui, the ever so unreadable girl, wailed, already clinging to his leg like her life depended on it.
Toma, the most cheekiest after Noah, dropped his half-eaten loaf of bread with a plop.
"Bro, we gettin' evicted like trash?!"
Noah dragged a hand down his face, muttering, "Bro... you're already trash...," before squatting down to their level.
He hooked Yui off his leg and planted her Infront of him with the other's.
Rio was also in the mix, his face full of unease, and his ear's perked up with alert.
"Listen, dumbasses," he said, calm and clear. "Nobody's gettin' kicked anywhere. We're movin' UP."
Mira the first to respond, tilted her head and blinked. "Up...? Like... upstairs?"
"This ain't a two-story shack, lina," Noah deadpanned. "Don't embarrass yourself."
Lina gasped at a thought. "NOAH BUILT US A TREEHOUSE?!"
At this point, Noah had to close his eyes and inhale deeply so he didn't start a tickle party.
"...No, you psychos," he finally sighed.
"We're movin' to a mansion."
Drip
Pin drop silence thickened around the whole shack.
Even the wind stopped blowing like it was tryna hear this one.
Rio, the only one with two brain cells, blinked once. "Like... a real mansion?"
"Yeah," Noah said. "With doors that work, beds that don't bite, toilets that actually flush, and bathrooms that ain't fountains."
The shack erupted into chaos after a few seconds.
"TOLILEEEETS!!!" Kenji screamed at the top of his lungs, fists in the air like he won a battle.
Rika, the twin of kenji, (not actual twin) also screamed something ridiculous. "FRESH WOOTAAAA!!!"
"We gotta pack the babies!" Yui cried, grabbing her collection of rocks and doll's like they were her kids.
Lina started spinning in circles. "I WANT A BED!! A BED WITH A NAME!!"
Mira immediately tried to carry a whole chair on her back.
Toma ran around stuffing literal garbage into a bag.
Noah just crouched there, watching the most uncoordinated packing operation in history unfold.
"You dumb monkey's," he said fondly under his breath, still trying to hold up his laugh.
Untill when Yui tripped over the chair mira was dragging and they both faceplanted, Noah couldn't help it — he burst out laughing.
Real, raw laughter that had him clutching his sides.
The kids froze, blinking up at him from the floor.
Then lina giggled. Then Kenji. Then all of them — a messy, gasping, snorting chorus of laughter that filled the entire shack.
With Rio, chuckling at this little show of stupidness.
For a second...
it didn't matter that they were barefoot, hungry, and had nothing but hope in their pockets.
They had each other.
And they had a future now.
After noah calmed down a little.
He bent down, ruffling Yui's hair with his knuckles, making her squeal.
"Get movin', brats," he said, his grin stretching wide. "New home's waiting for are majestic arrival."
Toma scrambled up, hoisting a sack of literal rocks over his shoulder.
"LET'S GOOOO!!!"
Followed by Kenji's scream as well.
"ONWARDSSSSSS!!!"
Then noah chipped in.
"FIRST ONE TO THE FRONT DOOR GETS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" Noah shouted dramatically.
An Instant stampede following.
Kenji was first out the door, before he tripped falling face first on the small porch. Mira leapt over Kenji's body like a track star. Followed by everyone else. Yui ran passed Noah, screaming, "NOAH, C'MON SLOWPOKE!"
Noah chuckled lightly — before he took off running after them, carrying the hope of his family in his chest.
This was just the start.
Their start.
With a beautiful sun setting on this heart warming scene.
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The streets were alive with the sound of chaos.
Mostly because Noah's gang of tiny hoodlums couldn't walk five feet without causing a scene.
"EWWW, KENJI, STOP LICKING THE CARRIAGE!"
"OH HELL NO, LINA, YOU CAN'T PEE IN THE FLOWERPOTS!"
"AND YUI, PUT DOWN THAT POOR STRAY CAT!"
Noah barked orders like a tired general leading the worst army ever.
Behind them, Rio kept pace, carrying a mountain of bags like a pack mule, his face the picture of silent suffering.
"You're doin' great, little brother," Noah called back, not even looking.
"Kill me," Rio muttered.
It took every ounce of Noah's willpower not to laugh again. Not to laugh at his dear brothers suffering.
Finally, and finally, they rolled up to their destination — a huge, sprawling mansion that looked like it belonged in a fairy tale.
The gate opened with a creak that somehow sounded expensive.
Rio, and the kids froze right in there track's.
They stared up at the towering house with wide eyes, clutching their makeshift bags like they thought the building was gonna eat them.
Yui tugged Noah's sleeve, her wide — innocent eye's looking at him. "Noah... we really allowed in there?"
Noah knelt down, resting his arm casually across Yui's tiny shoulders.
"Of course we allowed, Yui," he said, tone low and certain. "This our house. Your house Yui, you hear me?"
Yui's eyes sparkled like she just heard the coolest thing ever.
"LET'S GOOOO!!!" Kenji bolted for the front door like he was storming a castle.
"Don't break the front door, else I'm selling you to get a new one" Noah bellowed after him, half-joking.
They all raced up the steps like a pack of wild puppies. Noah, and rio walking calmly towards them.
Just about to make it through the gate.
Before they both froze halfway through it.
Standing nearby, whispering behind lace fans and expensive cloaks, was a gathering of nobles.
The house was located by some noble house's, so naturally they'll see the ruckus.
Even the one's who walked past threw there gaze towards them.
They basically screamed the heartless type.
All eyes were on them — wide, judging, and disgusted.
Noah caught words drifting through the air, his heightened senses catching all of them.
His hair casted a shadow over his eye's at them.
"Filthy rats..."
"Dragging mud into our city..."
"Tsk. I can smell there stench from here. Disgusting...."
"Who even let them near the mansion?"
"Should we call the guards. They might be stealing."
He felt it.
That ugly, slimy judgment crawling across his skin — not at him.
At his crew — no, his family.
Yui noticed the looks too. She shrank back behind noah, clutching his pants tightly, her excitement dimming slowly into fear.
The others slowed when they turned and seen the looks, uncertainty creeping onto their faces. There excitement also dimming slowly.
Rio stood by noah's side his expression turning angry slowly upon seeing there judging eye's. Which was out of character for him, but he couldn't help it. They could judge him all they want. But his new family? Yeah no, he'll rather him, then them.
....haaa.
Noah rolled his neck slowly, cracking it once.
He stepped forward moving closer towards them— slow, easy, and a dangerous glint flickering through his gaze.
The nobles shut up immediately.
"You lot got somethin' to say?" Noah asked, his tone low and lazy, but packed with trouble, he'll gladly unleash.
Nobody answered. His question was met with silence.
He smiled — a smile that didn't reach his eyes.
That didn't even pretend to be nice.
"I didn't think so. Now fuck off ass eaters."
For a second, the air was razor-sharp.
The nobles flinched — full-grown adults stepping back from a mere kid who wore a smile like a knife.
Satisfied, (kinda) Noah turned his back on them without another word.
His hand a little in the air, just enough to show over his shoulder, given them the middle finger. (🖕)
The biggest insult he could give that wasn't death.
He grabbed yui's hand, and signaled rio to hurry along as well.
They walked back towards the little sad demon's who had there head's low.
He crouched down again in front of the frozen like statues.
"Hey," he called them gently, his tone soft for once. "Don't ever bow your head's to trash like that. You look right at them, and give em the biggest middle finger of your life."
The sad little demon's blinked up at him.
"You hear me?" he said, tapping every single one of there foreheads lightly. "You're better than all of 'em. Waaaay better."
Slowly, and I mean very slowly, little smiles crept back onto their faces.
"Now get your asses inside before I leave you's outside," he added.
The tension snapped like a rubber band — and they were laughing again, pelting up the steps, shoving each other in a race to the door.
Noah watched them go, hands once again shoved in his pockets.
Rio appeared beside him, carrying the last sack.
"You're terrible at emotional moments, dude" Rio deadpanned.
"I'm great at emotional moments," Noah spoke proudly. "I just make 'em funny so nobody gets weird."
Rio chuckled. "Right." He then tapped his fist lightly on noah's shoulder, before walking towards the door.
Noah grinned, muttering up his breath. "I know you felt that speech, dude. Don't need to act hard." He chuckled, before following them.
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[Inside the Mansion]
The entrance hall was huge — marble floors, a massive chandelier, more space than the shack and half the shitty slum house's combined.
The kids burst in, screaming and laughing, running up and down the grand staircase like a gang of lunatics.
"This place got WALLS!!" Lina shrieked.
"I GOTTA POOP IN A REAL TOILET!!" Kenji screamed, almost about to disappear down a hallway — but got cut off.
Noah clapped his hands once, loud enough to boom across the hall.
The chaos froze.
He stepped forward, standing at the foot of the entrance.
"Alright, you little goblins," he spoke gaining there attention. "New rule."
The kids leaned in, hanging onto his every word.
Rio listened closely, curious about this "rule".
"This house," he said, voice dropping low, "ain't just a mansion no more."
They blinked in confusion.
"It's the house of Misfits, so the rule is: Always mention it by that name from now on."
"The house of Misfits.....wow," Mira whispered, awestruck at the fancy name.
Lina bounced on her toes, repeatedly saying, "I LOVE IT!!"
"Since you all seem to like it, does that makes me Captain?" Noah asked smugly, full on expecting them to say "yes".
"NOOOOO!!" they all screamed unison, pelting him with pillows, and whatever else they could grab.
He laughed at them and there antic's.
Let the nobles whisper.
Let the world hate.
This was home now.
And he'd burn down heaven itself before he let's anybody take it away.
(A/n: BAAARRRS!! 🔥🔥)
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"THIS ROOM'S MINE!"
"NO, I SAW IT FIRST!!"
"I CALLED DIBS WITH MY BRAIN!!"
"YOU HAVE NO BRAIN IDIOT!!"
The Misfit House immediately became a warzone again.
The second Noah gave the greenlight, the kids scattered like roaches in a bakery.
Footsteps thudded.
Doors slammed.
Screams echoed up and down the halls.
Noah strolled casually through the chaos, hands back in his pockets, Rio trailing beside him like a ghost regretting all his life choices.
"...Was this your plan?" Rio asked dryly.
"I prefer the term 'beautiful improvisation,'" He smirked like he was some smart genius.
A loud CRASH came from upstairs.
Followed by Kenji's voice shouting: "I BROKE A BED!!!"
"..."
"Alright, slight improvisation," Noah corrected.
Rio sighed so hard it sounded like he aged ten years on the spot.
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Meanwhile Upstairs:
Yui peeked into a giant slightly pink room, it looked big enough to fit a whole playground inside.
She turned upon hearing footsteps, seeing Noah appear at the door, hands still jammed in his pockets.
"Yui," he said, his tone serious. "You like it?"
She nodded shyly, her arm's tightening around her bear doll.
"Good," He nodded lightly. "Cause you're stuck with it now."
He ruffled her hair, making her squeal and giggle.
"You can even stick your drawings on the walls if you want," Noah added. " Even though they are ridiculous, I won't even yell... much."
Her eyes lit up like twin star's.
"You're the best, Noah!!"
And just like that, she launched at him, tackling his waist in a tight hug.
Noah pretended to stagger like he got hit by a cannonball.
"OOOFF, CAPTIN I'M HIT!!"
Yui giggled louder, her smile growing even bigger.
From down the hall, lina stuck her head out of a door.
"NOAH!! HELP! MIRA STOLE MY BED!!"
"I DIDN'T! YOU TRIED TO!!" Hina screeched back.
Noah groaned, dragging a hand down his face. "Why are you guys like this?"
With a sigh, he got up, planted yui on the ground and made his mary way to the unfiltered young lady's.
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After what felt like 100 years of babysitting gremlins.
Every kid eventually claimed a room.
Mostly based on who punched who first.
Miraculously, nobody died.
Noah finally, got his own space —
a chill little corner room with big windows overlooking the backyard.
It was dusty, old, and half the floorboards creaked.
And it also had a king sized bed, and bathroom.
Noah loved it instantly.
"This one's perfect." Tossing his Shinobi sandals under a chair and flopping back first onto the king sized bed.
He barely closed his eyes before —
knock knock knock knock knock knock
Then the door slammed open without waiting for an answer.
Six tiny figures flooded into the room one by one.
Noah cracked an eye open, and sighed like he was a dad, who put the baby, then soon after "waaaaa waaa" entered his ear's.
"....What?"
"WE WANNA SLEEP WITH YOUUUUU!" Yui declared, already climbing onto the bed.
"I thought we had our own room's? Why ain't you sleeping in them?" He facepalmed, his peace giving a "good luck bro" before fading.
"YEAH BUT IT'S SCARY!!" Lina said.
"Mansion too big!" Kenji agreed, jumping onto Noah's bed like a wrestler off the top rope.
Followed by toma, mira, damn even the strong front rika joined.
Noah wheezed.
He tried to kick them off, but it was like trying to fight a tidal wave made of boulders and bad decisions.
Rio walked past the door, casually glancing inside, and just kept walking.
"I'M DYING, LITTLE BROTHER!!" Noah screamed after him.
"Rest in peace, big bro" Rio pulled a (👏), praying for his dear big brother.
The last thing Noah saw, and thought before he blacked out under the dogpile was Yui grinning down at him.
"Best big brother ever!"
'....wh-why you's gotta dogpile for...'
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Later That Night:
Somewhere in the middle of the night, Noah cracked an eye open.
All seven kids were sprawled out across the bed, snoring like tiny chainsaws.
One was drooling on his arm.
Another had their foot shoved in his face.
And somehow, despite it all...
Noah smiled.
Which soon turned evil, seeing rio in the mix of the kid's.
Yeah, even he didn't wanna sleep alone inside this big ass mansion.
"Hehehe, don't wanna help a brother out. Then taste some stink foot in your mouth~"
With movements like a cat, and fast like shadow. He put Kenji's foot perfectly on Rio's lip's, letting it naturally go inside his mouth.
(A/n: BIG pause by the way.)
Before he layed back down comfortably, his mind slowly going back into that dark place.
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Next Morning:
Noah was on the front steps, yawning and stretching like a cat, listening to the beautiful bird's cherp, when he spotted a person at the gate, which slowly opened.
A nobles in fancy clothes.
His expressions screaming "I don't wanna be here."
Though he picked up his ball's and walked forward till he got to the steps, bowing stiffly.
"Ahem. Greeting sir. Noah, I was ordered to... welcome you to your new estate."
He said it like it physically hurt him.
Noah raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah? How 'bout you welcome us with some free breakfast while you're at it? Are tummys been staving since yesterday."
The nobleman lightly flinched at the unexpected response.
Rio, standing off to the side, covered his mouth to hide his laugh.
The messenger coughed.
"You, uh, have been assigned a few caretakers and guards," he continued stiffly. "To ensure the proper maintenance of the property."
What noah actually heard: "We're spying on you because we don't quite trust you. "
Noah smiled wide — all teeth, with no warmth.
"Tell your bosses thanks," he said sweetly. "I'll make sure NOT to keep all the rats inside the house...."
The noble nodded, his smile wary, and a little sweat drop on his cheek.
Noah added before turning, " but seriously we need some food up in this bitch ASAP. So chop chop~"
"Ri-right away, sir Noah."
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Meanwhile Inside the House:
The kids were already running around setting up a 'Misfit Flag' (really just Kenji's ripped shirt on a broomstick) and assigning dumb room names like:
"Boss Room" (Noah's)
"Gobbler's Den" (Kenji's — don't ask.)
"Princess Tower" (Yui's — enforced by screaming.)
"Mr. Cheeky" (Toma's — fitting for his mouth)
"Princess haven" (lina — stealing yui's flow)
"Mr. Grumpy" (of course that's rika)
"Mother mira" (Mira — cause she gotta baby everyone)
"Hero of justice" (Rio — cause he's HIM)
And somehow, some way —
for the first time in a long time —
they all slept good. And soon was about to eat good.
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The golden afternoon sun spilled across the courtyard like it was trying to show off. Noah, posted up against a marble pillar, lazily spun the fancy envelope between his fingers. The royal seal glinted under the light, screaming "important."
Noah clicked his tongue.
"Man... fancy paper, fancy wax stamp…"
Rio, standing next to him, blinked. "Isn't that a good thing?"
Noah shrugged. "Good things usually come wrapped in bad ideas, little brother."
Still, even he couldn't hide the smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth.
King Philip himself had sent it to him — so they perked up.
Noah cracked the seal open and read it out loud for the kids gathered around, sitting cross-legged like they were waiting for story time.
> *"To Sir Noah and his distinguished household:
There has been a charge of plans of your attendance to the academy it has been changed for next week.
Please arrive dressed in academy uniform that'll be with you shortly and ready to represent your house proudly."*
Silence.
He lowered the letter slowly, a mischievous glint in his eye.
"Right~, almost forgot, you little demon's are attending the royal academy with your's truly."
The courtyard went dead silent.
Then exploded.
"Whaaaaat?!"
"Us?!"
"I don't even know how to read that good!!"
"Do we get uniforms?!"
Rio, almost fell face first on the ground. "Wha—really!?"
Noah chuckled out the outburst.
"Calm down, ya hooligans. We'll figure it out. One thing at a time. First — we need style. Then — you guys become the most dangerous 'noble students' this kingdom's ever seen."
Mira, clutching Yui close, giggled behind her hands.
Kenji puffed out his chest. "Guess we not gonna look like slum shit, huh?!"
Noah ruffled his hair roughly. "That's right, also Lord kenji. Swear again, im kicking your ass, kapesh?."
Kenji shrunk a bit, nodding viciously.
Noah smirked.
"Anyway, that is why tomorrow—" he made a grand sweeping gesture, "—we storm the capital and make every merchant cry."
The kids exploded into laughter, even Rio chuckling under his breat
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[The next day— operation get drip: commence]
The boutique was supposed to be a quiet, elegant place.
However.
Within three minutes of Noah's crew stepping inside, it looked like a zoo.
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Kenji — the "idiot with no brain" type — was posted up in front of a mirror, trying on a series of capes like he was starring in some edgy hero fairy tail.
"Tch. Too flashy." he muttered, tossing aside a velvet one.
"Too lame."
"Too peasant."
Noah leaned against the wall, sipping free tea, (stolen) and just nodded like a fashion guru.
"Keep going, Kenji. I'm lookin' for something that screams 'I'm better than you, but still humble about it.'" before he went on his way to the next Chao's causing kid.
Kenji gave a serious nod and kept searching like dog hunting his squishy ball.
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Yui — the literal ball of cuteness — had found a bin full of shiny hairpins and was currently sticking them into her hair at rapid speed.
By the time Noah spotted her, she looked like a walking pincushion.
"Yui. You're gonna poke your own eye out."
Yui just beamed at him, ignoring his word's entirely.
Noah sighed and ruffled her hair. Or well tried to.
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Toma — the literally clone of noah— somehow managed to pick the exact same outfit as a mannequin next to him.
He stood there, mimicking its pose perfectly, scaring the life out of passing tailors.
"...Toma, why you trying to startle old men into heart attacks, bro?" Noah deadpanned.
Toma blinked slowly. His face filled with pure innocent's.
"...Training."
Noah paused. Blinking once. Then twice.
"... can't hate a guy training. Respect." He nodded with approval.
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Lina — the sharp-tongued one — was busy hustling a merchant for free gloves.
"I'll tell all my noble friends about your shop if you give me these for free," she said, fluttering her lashes like a demon in disguise.
The merchant, a sweaty bald man, looked about one second from fainting do to being overwhelmed.
Noah watched proudly from a distance. A nod of approval again.
"That's my girl."
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Rika — the "knuckle head thief" — wasn't even shopping.
He was straight-up plotting.
Every time Noah glanced his way, he was quietly "borrowing" accessories and vanishing them into his sleeves like a professional thief.
Noah decided to pretend he didn't see anything.
If nobody caught him, it wasn't stealing... right?
House Misfit rules.
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Mira — the most normal one, somehow — had already picked out a simple but cute dress and was now standing on a stool, posing dramatically.
"Do I look elegant?" she asked, twirling like a tiny princess.
Noah gave her a standing ovation.
"Elegant? Nah, you look like you're about to steal the whole damn throne, queen."
Mira flushed red but beamed like she'd just won an award.
Noah left the spinning queen to her imagination.
His stop is the clothing store.
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Meanwhile, in the background — Noah had the tailors running like they were surviving a natural disaster.
"MORE CAPES!"
"MORE SHOES!"
"I SAID ONLY THE SOFTEST SILK FOR HOUSE MISFIT!"
At some point, Noah even declared himself "Head Drip Consultant" and threatened to "burn" any tailor who brought him ugly colors.
Nobody dared challenge him. That didn't wanna end up like bob, who somehow disappeared out of thin air.
Rio was the only one acting remotely normal, meticulously picking smart, practical clothes for everyone while Noah caused chaos.
Rio's patience was on the thinest ice ever, watching noah cause chao's.
"Noah," he said, pinching the bridge of his nose, "...we can't actually bankrupt the entire capital in one day."
Noah looked him smirking like a idiot.
"Correction: you can't. I can."
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[Scene jump — Leaving the Boutique]
By the end of it, Kenji, Yui, Toma, Lina, Rika, Mira, and Rio were dripped out to the heavens.
Sleek coats. Tailored boots. Rings. Capes. Jewelry.
Each one looked like arrogant rich kid's.
And Noah?
Still rocking his usual outfit, but now with a smugness so thick you couldn't bottle it.
The nobles on the street literally parted like the Red Sea when they walked by.
Okay, only cause they looked weird is why they stepped away.
And Noah?
Leading the charge like a goddamn king without a crown.
Noah put his arms around kenji and rika, casually saying.
"Remember this feeling, boys. Today we came in looking like orphans. Right after we came out looking like new born baby's."
Mira, yui, and Lina skipped ahead, not even minding the weird looks now.
Rio sighed behind them, carrying six extra bags, wondering when his life had become a full-time babysitting job.
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End
(What the fuck am I even writing fr. Weed got me trippin bro 😂😂)