I Found You Chapter 1
After all this time, I'm finally confident enough to start an actual KilluaxGon fic! (Wow it's been years since I've posted a new fic. I feel quite nervous). Actually it was supposed to be another concept I was going to post instead of this story but when I was fiddling with the plot, this was much more fun to do. It was partially inspired from bits of Noragami, Mike Inel's "Missing Halloween" video on youtube, and a bit of Bloodborne (I've only seen let's plays, I haven't played it myself.) This is actually a fic posted on impulse for the first time so don't blame me if there's some stuff that's off and I might take forever to finish. There's going to be implied deaths, gore (mostly Killua killing), nightmares and some morbid-ness. (I'll try not to make my chapters long...but we'll see DX)
Disclaimer: I do not own Hunter x Hunter.
"There is no way I'm waking up at 3AM in the morning just to kill someone. I'm an assassin, not a ninja that works 24/7." A protest escapes the white hair teen mouth. He was tempted to ignore this request, hang up on the dude and go back to playing Kirby. Beating this level is obviously more important than taking on a job.
"I'm only giving you the details Killua. You could try and do other things a normal Hunter would do." An old chipper voice replies back.
"But only thing I know and I'm good at doing is killing. Besides, I'm qualified as an Assassin Hunter old man. Is your head getting all screwy because of your age?"
"Well, if I invite you over to the association and have another one of those matches, I can prove you wrong my boy~"
Killua sighs discontented by his proposition. He throws his back on the couch and positions the cellphone to his other ear. "Netero-san," he says his name in hopes that he would give him a serious job to tackle. "Can you give me a job that's actually worth it? All the ones I've been getting have been so god damn boring."
"Beggars can't be choosers! Hasn't Zeno taught you any of that?"
"I snuck out from training and ate candy with him." He smirks at the memory.
"It's about time you ignore the candy and become a real adult boy. You have a sister to take care of remember?"
"Which is why I want a job that's fun for me at the same time. Come on, give me a hit that's actually challenging for me."
"There aren't any major ones this month I'm afraid. I think you'd be suited in a different category. Maybe a gourmet hunter since you wouldn't stop talking about that new chocolate from Idioha."
"More like a Chocolatier Hunter but I can't. All I would do is eat everything and Alluka put a limit to my chocolate intake."
"Hohoho, your own sister has a hold on you! She's grown up to be so mature~!" The senior hums.
"If you have one perverted thought about her, I'm gonna come over and beat you up for real old man." He grunted. "I'll accept the job only on the condition you give me a better one next time." Killua accepted it in the end since he did want some more money on the side for Alluka.
"Now we're talking business! I'll send you the location and details after I drop the call. Make sure you send a picture."
"You don't need to tell me." And with that, Killua ends the call with a click. His back rests on the couch as his hand reaches for his Nintendo 3DS. He lost his will to keep playing so he quits his game and sighs exhausted. Sheer boredom was swelling in the atmosphere which made Killua get up from the couch and walk to his room.
He didn't want to clean up his apartment, and it won't be long until his sister comes home from school. As he approaches his night table, he pulls the drawer and takes out his hunter's license that's already six years old. He smirks remembering that he took the exam for fun but he never thought he would use it as his backup job years later now that he's eighteen.
He slides the license card in his pocket while plopping himself on the bed. Taking a glance at the clock it was only 2PM, "Just one more hour before Alluka comes home…I hope school is okay for her." His eyelids grew heavy. Maybe a short nap wouldn't be bad…
"Killu," The sickening voice of his brother repeats his nickname over and over again. White noise was mixed in the air and long black hair and swirling eyes of madness came to his vision.
"Illumi!" Killua's eyes widens in fear recognizing his voice. He kept twisting his head in different directions to determine where he is.
"Come here Killu." Multiple hands in the background and Illumi's thousand eyes in foreground reached out to grab him. Killua ran. He didn't know where he was running to but as long it was away from that monstrosity…
He then spots a portrait of a younger version of himself and Alluka. Illumi's hand grabs the picture, tearing it in half. The walls of darkness Killua was running in flipped into a black and white mosaic pattern. Pitch black letters splatted themselves on the wallpaper like paint.
THE HEIR OF THE ZOLDYCK
You MuSt TraIN
YoU'rE THe FAVouRITE
HIGH HOPES
YoU OnLy LeAve HoME to KILL
KILLL KILLLL
Listen to US
LisTeN TO USSSSSS
You belong to ussssssss
COmE bAcK to UssSSsss
Killua huffs raggedly at the blotched lines that were appearing in front of his face as he kept on running feverishly. With each line there was a different voice each time. The familiar voices belongs to the members of his so called 'family'. It was all the things he had to grow and put up with.
Illumi's voice lowers, the lights grew dimmer around Killua. "Come closer." The lights continued to flicker on and off until Killua saw complete darkness once again.
A memory appears, one where he kills a few dozen people, another where he was in a chamber and his arms were shackled with chains. A sound of a shirt ripping and a knife hitting a target was heard. After that, the next thing he saw was a mop of Illumi's hair entangling his body and cradling him up in the air so he couldn't escape.
He wanted to move, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't. Illumi's eyes froze him in place.
"I'll make sure," He repeats his head twisting to him and open's his eyes only to reveal an army of giant needles preparing to stab him. His giant mouth opens wide to say:
"You're not alone."
"GYAahahaa!" With a strangled gasp, Killua jolts out the bed immediately, placing his hand on his wildly beating heart. Cold sweat dripped down his face and skin. "Damn it, not again." So much for his nap. "I'm far away from home…why do I keep having these strange nightmares?"
After years of imprisonment, he escaped from that dreaded mansion with Alluka and he was finally 'blessed' with a normal life. It's only been four months since he started living this way but he felt so…empty during the day and was plagued with nightmares whenever he slept. Killua didn't know whether he is truly free.
"Big brother, I'm home!" A hyper voice shouts by the entrance.
He cracked a weak smile, "At least Alluka is finally getting the life she deserves." He quickly throws his top off and tosses it into the laundry basket. He replaced it with another purple t-shirt by the edge of his dresser and walks out of his room. "Yo! How's your first day of high school?"
"It was so much fun big brother! You should have been there!" She pounces on him and nuzzles his chest happily.
"Too old for high school little sis. There's no way in hell I'm wasting my time with education."
"But it really is a fun place! And I made friends! There was this one girl named Neon and she says she can predict the future!" She holds out her hand, "She does something called palmistry and wow I didn't know these lines in our hands can tell our life story. She's like a professional! And then we grouped up with her friend Eliza and this other girl named Retz in class and they're both so beautiful! Retz is a bit like a tomboy but her hair is so gorgeous and Eliza has an amazing fashion sense and ohoh! Amana introduced me to these other girls that were part of the manga club and-"
"Whoa whoa, calm down." Killua shakes her shoulders, laughing at her enthusiastic day. "Make sure you're breathing Alluka. How about you tell me about your day and friends over dinner?"
"Yes!" She cheers and her burst of energy kept Killua going. He was sincerely happy that Alluka could interact with others after being locked up at home for so long. "What's for dinner?"
"Chinese takeout. I ordered it earlier." He leaves her embrace to open the fridge.
"Ehh again? Big brother I want to cook!"
"Maybe when we figure out how to cook and not burn down our apartment."
"I'm taking home economics!" She raised her hand in confirmation.
"Perfect! We'll do take out until your make your first dish."
"Deal!" The siblings high-fived each other and giggled.
They enjoyed their dinner together after they reheated it in the microwave. Alluka talked about her day at school while slowing down this time, and Killua listens to every word she says with a warm smile on his face.
"You have a job to do?" She asks, slurping her noodles.
"Yeah, it'll be late at night so you might be asleep when I'm gone." He tells her of the new job he has but not about his nightmare. He doesn't want Alluka to worry about him.
"Ehhh? But I want to say goodbye at least!"
"It'll be quick trust me, I'll be back before you know it. Hell, it'll probably take me two minutes to go there and come back."
"In that case, I'm sleeping beside you tonight!" Alluka puffs her cheeks stubbornly.
"Hmmm, I might let you if you can finish your homework and take my turn cleaning up the dishes~" Killua puts up his feet on another chair and flashes his famous cat grin at her. Alluka stares at her brother silently before she dashes out of her chair and grabs the empty plates on the table, bringing them over to the sink. "After you finish eating!" He adds quickly.
"Hehehe~" Alluka laughs sheepishly.
Killua shakes his head and chuckles with her.
He hopes all of his days with Alluka will be like this. It didn't take that long for Alluka to clean up and do her homework. She walked in his room with a pillow in her hands prepared to sleep next to him for the night. They snuggled up together and they both fell asleep around the same time.
Killua observes his surroundings only to see that he is in his room. At first he thought he wasn't dreaming but the fact that Alluka wasn't beside him disturbed him greatly.
He looks up at the ceiling and see the large family portrait from his home again. It was the one without Alluka in the picture and sucked his teeth displeased.
"Killua."
The voice wasn't unfamiliar to him but he tenses realizing that wasn't Illumi's voice…
He looks back up to see the portrait once again and the center piece forms a crack all of a sudden. Killua stiffens when the painting began to break from the center and a black hand protrudes out of the large frame. A large visage of Alluka's face pops out and takes out the left arm that was still inside the image.
The giant head grows closer to Killua at an alarming speed making the room shake like there was an earthquake. The white walls were turning red and black, the room became sketchy with a crosshatch pattern. When her eyelids opened, her irises were darker than night, her sclera reflected the shadows in his heart and the same thing could be said for her mouth that smiled widely to engulf Killua's entire body whole…
Killua immediately sits up from the bed wheezing. "I got to stop that…seriously." He yawns hoarsely as he looks down at his sister who was sleeping soundly. Alluka murmurs some incoherent words of something being adorable.
Killua was relieved that she didn't wake up because of his bad dream.
He wipes away the sweat from his forehead and looks at the digital clock on the night table and sees that it is 2:39AM. His head swerves back to Alluka and ponders about something. Knowing that 'Alluka' was asleep he asks, "Nanika, are you up?"
"Ooou?" Alluka's body sat up from the bed and she rubs her eyes. Her head turned and Killua saw the same deep black eyes from his dream. "Aye?"
"Were you…" His eyebrow twitches not knowing how he should be wording this. "Eating my face in my sleep?"
"...Eyeh?" Nanika tilt's her head, her pitch black orbs swirls in confusion.
Killua shakes his head and rubs her hair, "Never mind, I have to get up now. I got a job to do." He gets up from the bed. He exchanges his pajamas shirt for his dark blue turtle neck and light purple t-shirt thrown over it. He went to the washroom to change into his long dark pants and exits out. "Nanika, watch over Alluka and make sure not to let anyone else in while I'm gone. I won't be long, but just in case."
"Aye~" She gets up from the bed and trots her way over to Killua when he unplugs the cellphone he was charging. "Killua." Nanika wraps her arms around the assassin's waist. "I love you!"
He smiles and pecks her forehead softly, "Love you too. Stay safe." With that, he jumps out of the window. "Godspeed!" He runs out in a flash before Nanika could wave at him.
Target: Itovenkov Reista
Occupation: Illegally distributing counterfeit Drug D2 pills from NGL.
Location: Underground Port 12, West of Balistine way. There should be a hidden entrance in the fourth warehouse. A wooden latch shouldn't be too hard for you to break~
Time: We've received info that they'll be loading the drugs unto a ship exporting coffee around 3AM.
It's the best time to strike boy! Feel free to take out his subordinates as well will ya? We'll send some people from the association to handle the mess after you're done. Good luck!
-Netero
Killua read over the information Netero sent to his cellphone along with a photo of the said target. "There's still stuff going on with NGL? I thought that ended years ago. Shessh, why do I always end up with the old messes?"
His entire body was enshrouded with electricity as he was running on the roofs of the buildings and homes that were around him. It was still dark out but he can see people around going to their parties and hearing dubstep music across the distance. He ignored all of those noises as he arrives by the harbor port 12. "This is it."
Killua's electricity receded and his static hair returns to normal. His eyes searched for the fourth warehouse and finds it in less than three minutes. He enters and goes to find the latch that was in Netero's message. "Where could it be?" Voices of laughter came from a certain direction and when Killua followed the source he found the latch.
After opening it carefully, he goes down the steps without making a sound. At first he thought he was in an attic since there was dust all over. He walks further in and tunes in on his hearing. He lifts his eyebrow when he heard the same laughing voices coming from the floor below him. He quietly removes a plaque of wood revealing a group of men below.
"Cheers for getting these drugs outta this house!"
"To D2!" All the men below clanged their mugs of beer together and all of them took a sip.
"We'll be rolling in the dough in the next few days. Who knew this would work out?"
"We got to get the ships rolling out first, then we get the booty. Haven't you learned about order?"
"It's a good thing no one figured us out yet."
"Heheh, no one will figure out this scheme of ours! Don't worry guys, as long as we have these babies then we'll be set for life!"
The assassin knew that the last guy who spoke is his target and went to work instantly. Killua shoots a spark of electricity at the light switch and the room goes dark. The men shrieked at the sudden black out but before they could wail any further, Killua jumps into the fray and slashes down all of the men one by one. Screams of terror and fear reverberated in his ears as the lights flickers back on. "Oh whoops. Guess they have a backup generator here."
"W-What are you?!"
Killua lightning steps behind the person who shouted that demand. "Oh yeah, you're supposed to die too. I forgot." He recognized the man from the photograph.
"Please, spare me! I beg-" SWACK! Killua didn't bother to listening to the rest since he swipes his head off. He then dangles the freshly severed head in front of the last two men that were alive. Killua drops the head letting it roll away to the side.
"A-AHHH!" The two attempts to run away from Killua but their escape went in vain when he places his lightning palms behind their back. Electrocuting them until they couldn't yell anymore. They dropped to the floor.
"Too easy." Killua flexes his dainty fingers to flick away the blood from his hands. He takes out his cellphone and quickly takes a photo of the target's severed body and forwards the image to Netero as promised. He thought of scouting the area for more of Reista's men, but he figured he got all of them in one go. Speaking of go, he slips his phone back into his pocket preparing to leave when…
"That was so cool!"
A voice suddenly echoes through Killua's ears as his shocked eyes turned to see the source. With spiky forest green hair and bright hazel eyes enamoring Killua's work, the assassin flinches at the newcomer and jumps back defensively. "Who the hell are you?" Killua gazes at the teen that looks around his age. He stood up and brushes the dust from his black tank top and green shorts. "I get it, you're that guy's bodyguard right? Or a spy?" He unsheathed his claws and his pupils became slit in agitation.
"Oh, I'm not a bodyguard!" The teen waves his hands innocently. "I do admit I was spying on you, but I'm not actually a spy! I was just-"
Killua didn't bother to listen to another word as electricity coils his feet and zooms towards the stranger with the intent of beheading him. "Sorry. Spy or not, I can't let you live since you saw me." He went so fast that he thought he cut through air. Assuming he slashed the boy, he lowers his head expecting to see blood oozing from his flesh on the floor…
However, no one was there.
"What the?!" Killua's head frantically moved from side to side trying to find the teen. He used En but it was a bit too late for that…
"That was awesome! How did you do that with the electricity? I've never seen anyone with nen like yours!" The mysterious teen appeared beside him and praised Killua's skills even more. Killua steps back and nearly lost his footing. His En couldn't detect him at all!
Killua growls irritated attempted to cut him down again, but the teen moves away and jumps back to evade him. "Actually don't answer yet, I was going to-Ah!" He ducks his head and Killua raises his fist to aim for his torso. Before it hits, he was nimble enough to fall onto his back and back-flipped twice to get some distance between them.
"Wait, I didn't get to finish what I was saying earlier!" He pouts folding his arms jumping away from Killua's lunge towards him. "Like I was saying-AH!" He kept on dodging Killua's claws as he continues.
"I was watching to see how you kill and stuff since a friend of mine told me how badass you are! I thought I'd come to see you in action so that I can tell my other friends. Since one can't see and the other can't leave the place he's at and-"
Killua brings himself to a halt, lifting his hands to prevent him from saying anything else. "Okay! Chill dude, I get it already. You don't have to be a freaking pour out every single detail."
"I'm Gon! Not dude, Gon!" He happily introduces himself while shooting his hand in the air. His smirk falters as he blinks at Killua, suddenly experiencing an epiphany. "Oh…!"
Killua quirks his eyebrow confused at Gon's sudden change of expression, "Oh what?"
Gon stares at him wordlessly for a while as a grin formed and it grew wider and wider until his cheeks were pink in excitement. "You really are an amazing person Killua!"
"Wait what? Ah screw it, I'm going to kill you after all!" He zips past him with sparks of his electricity crackling by his feet, but once again Gon jumps up and down elated that he could outrun the assassin.
Gon whistles, "You really are fast as they say! I bet you can't out-speed me!" He challenges with a feisty grin.
"Oh yeah?" With a smirk on Killua's lips, he accepts the bait and charges forward with his signature one hit K.O hand chop.
Too bad it didn't faze Gon at all since he leans away from Killua's hand. When he saw the assassin raise his leg to kick him Gon steps to the side which made him fall over. Killua spun his heel to prevent himself from completely falling down and his arms began to move like snakes.
Somehow, Gon kept on dodging all of his venomous pounces and Killua was getting more frustrated. Gritting his teeth, Killua swings his electric enhanced leg and Gon swiftly flips back. This time, Killua leaps into the air before Gon could land back on his feet.
"Thunderbolt!"
From the tip of his fingers, he shoots down a bolt of lightning right at him and it collided to the ground setting off a cloud of dust. Gon yelps as he lands on his back in shock from the sudden impact. After taking in the explosion that occurred, his eyes glistens at Killua with pure admiration.
"Wow, that was incredible!" Gon's mouth gaped at the burnt ground where Killua's lightning struck in fascination. "Can you do that again? I didn't get a good look at it!"
A red vein appears on Killua's head in annoyance, "Oh, I'll do it again for sure!" Sadly for him, no matter how hard he tried to slice him, electrify him or just out right kill him, he would see Gon resurface unscratched, and his face full of vigor. He was getting even more excited over this match as he continued to play with him.
Killua broke a sweat, which hasn't happened with an opponent in ages. He huffs wiping the sweat from his face and glares at Gon who was itching for more. "What the hell? There's no way a normal person like you can dodge any of that!"
"Hey! I trained too! I've been up against a lot of people in my life. Besides, it's really because I'm-"
DING RING RING
Gon heard a loud church like bell ringing in his ears. "It's three already?" He swiftly covered them but released them when he sees Killua glance at his watch.
"Duh," Killua lights up his digital watch. "Look, we could be doing this all night and we'll get nowhere. If you're really not working for this dude then I'll let you go just this once. Chasing you gave me a headache. And don't ever come near me again." Gon could only see Killua back walking away from him.
"Ehhh? But I want to talk more." Killua couldn't hear the bell, but it was pounding Gon's ears making him cringe.
"Talk to someone that isn't after your head." Killua enters in his mode of Godspeed and ran out of Gon's sight.
Gon awed, marveling Killua's powers but the bell rang in his ears again reminding him that he needed to go. "Mmmmm!" He groans wishing to stay longer, but he doesn't want to grow deaf. "Oh well…I'll try again another time.". A hazel eye emerges in the palm of his right hand and he taps it with his right hand.
In an instant, Gon's body fades away as if he was never there.
Ghost!Gon time! This is gonna be fun if you guys like this idea! :D Creepy dreams are hard to type tho.
Until next time?
