"Ouch ... Killua did she beat you too?" Gon asked
"Yes, that old woman beat me up just because I said the true, such old hmmmbbmbmmbmm..."
Gon quickly covered Killua's mouth as he noticed Bisket approaching with a menacing aura.
Killua glared at Gon, but soon realizing that Bisket was there, he sweated coldly and calmly removed Gon's hand from his face.
"How are you brats?"
"We're fine!" Gon said excitedly.
"Good ..." Bisket said before raising a finger in the air.
They both stared at her as if she was crazy when they remembered her training and quickly responded.
"2!"
It was already too late.
"Too slow!"
"But I answered faster than Gon!"
"Does not matter! With the experience of both have that response had to be immediate! Now on the floor paying 1000"
They both complied immediately, as Morel, Leorio, and Alluka approached quietly.
A common scene for people like them, but a show apart for everyone at the airport that filmed the unusual event.
If they asked Killua how it all started he couldn't for the life of him exlplain, in one minute he was doing push-ups, one the other he was in the room with Bisket having another conversation with her.
How he ended up in that conversation he also didn't know.
"Don't tell me you want to go to the Dark Continent? Killua, do you have any idea what's in there? You're not ready!"
"I know..."
"Then why are you here, why are you embarking on this?"
Killua looked down, staring at his hands for a while before looking back at Bisket.
"I was missing you guys, I wanted to know how you are and Alluka wanted a vacation she liked this town too, so I thought why not?"
Bisket put her hands on her waist and stood looking seriously at Killua, her tone leaving no room for argument.
"Killua, I've been lying for 50 years, and I know very well when someone is lying. Tell me the truth, what's happening?"
Killua was silent, which would normally make Bisket show his true form and give him a homeric beating, but she knew the boy, she herself had said that he should leave Gon behind in the past - even if it was for totally different reasons.
"I did what you said.I left Gon behind back then, not because I was going to run away in face of danger, but because I knew that if I had to choose between him and Alluka I would choose her. Gon would be counting on me, but he would not be my biggest priority ... but ..."
Bisket stopped to listen carefully to what Killua had to say.
"... but you didn't tell me it was going to hurt so much."
Bisket's eyes softened when she heard Killua, she knew that boy loved Gon there was no doubt about that.
And by loving him he was constantly hurting himself never thinking his sacrifices were enough.
"Separating you two might have been the best for the two of you at that time, don't you agreed with me, Killua?"
"Maybe, I would say yes, but that's not what I see, I don't recognize him sometimes ..."
"Maybe you should step away again, give him time to think."
"No, I can't. He's like this because I've walked away, what can happen if I disappear again."
"But Killua, are you happy like this?"
"It doesn't matter! I'll be happy when Gon and Alluka are happy!"
Killua said getting up and leaving the hotel room, giving no further explanation to Bisket.
Gon was irritated.
He was shaking, his feet nervously tapping the ground while Morel was talking nonsense.
"Gon you have no condition to go to the Dark Continent!"
"And you have?" Gon snapped.
"No, and that's why I'm here to convince these freaks that it's crazy to go back there!"
"I don't care, I will go with or without you! There I will find what I need."
Morel rubbed his face and continued to argue, even if it was as efficient as talking to a wall.
"Ok ... okay ... you want to kill yourself so go and kill yourself! But leave Killua out of it!"
"Killua is going with me!" Gon answered angrily at Morel.
"You can't decide for him!" Morel argued back
"I didn't force him to go with me; he came here because he wanted to!"
"This is a lie and you know it Gon! You used Nanika to make Killua come here with you!"
Gon got up and looked suspiciously at Morel.
"How do you know that?"
Morel felt, for the first time, that sense of oppression that made his breathing difficult - just as Killua described.
What is this, Gon?
What is going on?
Leorio didn't understand why he stayed with Alluka, he knew Gon and Killua better, it would make much more sense for him to stay with one of the two boys.
He, however, was defeated, Bisket and Morel were very incisive in saying that he would stay with Alluka.
And there he was, after he thought they were all going to die.
He never saw Gon like that.
They didn't say much.
They didn't do anything suspicious.
Morel said he wanted to talk to Gon about the Dark Continent, details of the mission, things like that, and Gon at first seemed excited.
He stood up quickly, stopping and looking at Killua.
Then it began to turn really bizarre.
Killua was hesitant, and Gon apparently didn't want to be waiting too long and in a rather rude way he called the albino.
"Come on, Killua."
To his surprise, Killua stood up and obeyed.
There was no attempt at persuasion, no lie, nothing.
"I want to talk to you Gon, only you."
Morel tried to intervene.
"Whatever you have to tell me, you can tell Killua too, we don't hide anything from each other. I'm right don't I, Killua?"
There was a tone of irony and defiance there.
He would not think it strange if it was Killua talking like that, but that was Gon.
Bisket entered the conversation quickly.
"Killua will soon meet with you Gon. I have to talk to him and Alluka."
"About what?"
"Nen."
"Because?"
"So that Alluka can defend herself and Killua can accompany her and you without further concern."
Bisket was good, very good, she lied with enviable naturalness.
"Is this true Killua?"
But Gon didn't seem to have bought it.
Everyone looked anxiously at Killua, everything depended on him.
"It is, Gon."
Gon then suddenly changed.
He smiled, gave a childish laugh, scratched his head and apologized, soon follwoning Morel.
"My God what was that?" Leorio wondered.
"Alluka, don't you want to go buy ice cream with Leorio?" Bisket asked the girl.
"Yes!"
Leorio was taken aback.
"What?! Who said I'm going to take brat to have ice cream !?"
Alluka looked at him and tearfull eyes.
"You're evil!"
"I'm not!"
"Killua I don't want to go with him! Let's both go and have ice cream!"
Killua looked at Alluka and smiled serenely.
"I can't, I need to talk to the old hag ..." And Bisket slapped Killua's head "... why don't you go and bring me something?"
"A surprise!?"
"A surprise."
And that's how he ended there, having ice cream.
But there must be something else he could do.
"Hey ... aaaah ... Alluka?"
"Yay!"
"Is everything okay with Killua?"
"Um ... I don't know ... I think so, but Nanika thinks not."
"Meaning?"
"He wants us happy, he wants Gon happy, but he forgets to be happy, really happy you know?"
Leorio nod in agreement.
"I'm going to learn Nen and I'm going to leave Killua, so he'll be able to do what he wants, to be really happy, happy with Gon."
"Wh-what?"
"You don't know? Killua wants to stay with Gon forever, but Nanika thinks it's bad, she thinks Killua feeds on Gon's happiness and Gon abuses it."
"Maybe she's right."
"But I think Killua can fix Gon, just like he fixed us!"
Leorio stopped walking and stood there a little confused.
"So there is something to fix? Do you know how?"
"Of course there is, Gon talked to me, he feels alone even in the company of others, he feels left behind, he feels he will be forgotten and abandoned by everyone if he gets weak and lose his powers, so he wants answers, wants power and wants to show Killua all this, he wants to show that he is stronger and Killua can heal this, he can fill that void with love ... "
Leorio was astonished, how much does that girl know?
"... that is Killua's greatest power and his greatest weakness. He loves too much."
Hisoka was strolling down the street, having nothing better to do, when he caught a glimpse of white hair.
He would probably ignore but that hair color is not something normal to see, so why not take a peek?
He sneaked up to see the familiar albino come out of a store with a bag full of chocorobos.
There was no question that it is Killua.
And he is delicious.
Physically he remembered Illumi, a delicacy that hid a brutal force, thin hands and elegant fingers capable of ripping enemies apart.
But unlike Illumi's elegant face, Killua had a more angelic and feline face, an exotic mix.
Hisoka licked his lips in anxiety.
He could accompany him till to the right moment and attack him, but that would not be so fun, deciding to make things more interesting he picked up his cell phone and called one of his acquaintances.
"Hello ... Illumiiii. Longing for me? "
Hisoka smiled at the cold, robotic response before answering in a singing tone.
"You won't believe who I found walking around YorkShin."
The conversation was brief, and while pretending disinterest, Hisoka knew Illumi would soon appear in the city.
So predictable ...
But then something unpredictable happened.
Out of nowhere he felt sharp nails around his neck, and a cold yet sweet voice stirred him.
"What do you want here, Hisoka?"
Uuuuuuaaaaaaah Killuaaaaa ...
Aaaaaaaaaaaah I can't help myself!