Chapter 11 - About x To x Depart

"Even though you guys haven't met in over a year, he's still your friend, right? And you're going to betray him by murdering him."

"But I do know, that the Killua I used to know would also choose me over his family. Would always place me before everything else. And wanting to sacrifice himself to save his friend."

When Killua is sleeping, these are the two lines that come up in his mind. His troubled expression demonstrates his frustration.

"What did my family even do to help me?" Killua thinks. "Nothing! They've done nothing to me besides torturing me and putting me in stupid training! So why do I care if they kick me out of the family? Who wants to be stuck in that gloomy family estate all day.?! Sure, you can kick me out! You'll be doing me a favor!"

Before they know it, the sunlight pierces through the shades of the glass wall. Gon wakes up first. He looks to his left, and sees Killua tossing and turning in his sleep.

"Man! What happened to Killua? He seems different ever since last night. But I was with him the whole time though." Gon looks at the clock, "Mmm, it's nine thirty right now. I'll go wash up and let him sleep longer."

Gon silently makes his way to the bathroom, and finishes everything up without a sound.

He groans at the stickiness of his clothes because they were wearing the same clothing for four days straight now. When he leaves the bathroom to wake Killua up, he realizes that Killua is already awake. He's sitting on his bed, gazing into a distant part of the city.

"Killua! Good morning!" Says Gon, excitedly.

"Yeah! Hi."

"What's wrong, Killua?"

"Nothing...Just had a bad dream."

"You certainly don't look ok. If you're willing to tell me, I'll always listen to you."

"Gon, it's not I don't trust you, it's because even I don't understand what's going on."

"It's...something about my family, I don't want to talk about it." Killua technically isn't lying, however, he's not telling the truth either.

"Oh. ok. If you don't want to, I won't force you to. Anyway, I'm ready to go, you can go wash up and get ready to leave."

"Thank you, Gon. You understood that I really didn't want to talk about it, so you let it slide."

Killua gets up from his bed and goes into the bathroom. Ten minutes later the two boys are downstairs in the dining area.

"Yo Killua! Look at this buffet! They have these western food as well!" Gon screams with joy.

"Yeah, they look nice." Killua agrees, but with much less enthusiasm.

Gon grabs a full plate of food, but Killua's plate is almost empty.

"C'mon Killua, are you seriously only going to eat one bowl of cereal? That's it?"

"Yeah, I don't really have an appetite right now."

Gon pouts in disapproval but goes back to eating his food.

"So Killua, what our plan for today?" Gon asks.

"Huh? Oh...since your airship takes off at six in the evening, we should leave for the airport at three." Killua pauses to check his watch, "We've got about five hours of free time, what do you want to do?"

"Well, we can go visit Mr. Wing (Wing-san) and Zushi." Gon proposes.

"As much as I would love to go, it would take way longer than five hours for us to get back together. And we don't even know if they're here. I mean, the last time we met was more than a year ago."

"Yeah, you're right...wait! Where did my phone go!?" Says Gon.

"It's not on the table, are you sure they're not in your pockets?"

Gon turns his pockets inside-out to prove it.

"Someone took it!" Killua turns around and sees a figure in black scurrying away outside the hotel. "It's him! Let's go!"

The two of them take off at an incredible speed.

They think they'll be able to catch up to the thief in no time, but ten minutes after the chase began, they're still pursuing him. However, they are closing in the distance.

"Gon, should I use Thunderbolt to stun him?"

"You mean one of your electric abilities?"

"Yeah."
"Wouldn't that just kill him instead of slowing him?"

"I can control the power under normal circumstances, but since we're running right now, I might miscalculate."

"Then save it, we can't accidentally kill him."
Killua is just about to say "But", but one look at Gon's serious face convinces him.

But the moment Killua looks away, a knife is thrown directly at his face. His body is forced to activate Godspeed automatically, and he dodges the incoming knife at the last second.

"Jeez! That was close!" However, now Godspeed is activated for Killua, he easily catches up to the thief and knocks him out. He then comes back to Gon a second later with his phone.

"There you go, Gon."

"Wow...Um...thanks...Killua, but you didn't have to do that."

"Well, he threw a knife at me and almost killed me, so...yeah."

While the two of them are talking, some people around them saw the whole thing.

"Yo! Did you see that kid?" One exclaims.

"Who? The one in the blue undershirt and white T-shirt?" Another one asks.

"Yeah! He was so fast!"

Another person yells at Gon and Killua, "Hey! Who are you kids? Come here!" The speaker is a very large and burly man in his thirties.

"Not interested." Killua waves him off.

"I'll pay you a million Jenny!"

"Nope!"

"Ten million!" He increases the offer.

"Nope! We're not interested in money!"

"Y'all are just some goddamn kid that goes around stealing from people! You won't get away with this! I'm telling ya!" The person offering them money is now getting mad, he threatens them.

"What are you going to do? Call the police on us because you're too scared to come at a kid by yourself?" Killua teases him.
"Yer bastard!" However, he has no intention to fight Killua, he's aware of the skill gap between them.

"Heh, that's what I thought...Gon, let's go." Killua turns around and walks back toward Gon. However, the moment he turns around, the large man takes out his pistol to shoot Killua.

"Tsk! I knew it! I knew he'd attack me when I turn around!" Killua leaps back toward him at an unbelievable speed. In fact, it is so fast Killua seems to have disappeared to the average human eye. Half of a second later, Killua reappears behind the large man, with his razor-sharp finger-nails pointed directed at his neck. The man freezes in terror.

Killua's eyes are now blank of emotions, he whispers quietly into the man's ears. "Three problems. Number one, we didn't steal anything, a thief stole my friend's phone, we were simply taking it back. Number two, don't go around making empty threats you can't fulfill. Number three, never...and I mean NEVER try to sneak attack someone...Because trust me, they know. Understood?"

The man doesn't respond, he's still recovering from the initial shock. Killua pushes his claws into the man's skin, blood starts to drip out. Killua asks again, "Understood!?"

"Y-yes. Please…" He answers.

"Good."

"Umm...c-can I ask you a question?" The man asks.

"What is it?"

"What's your name? Who are you?" He asks weakly.

Killua hesitates, but answers ten seconds later. "Killua Zoldyck."

The man winces at the name "Zoldyck."

"If you mention me or my name to anyone, trust me, those will be the last words that you'll speak."

"Y-yes… I understand." He answers compliantly.

One outsider might describe this situation "sarcastic" because Killua is toying with a man almost twice his height.

Killua walks back toward Gon, "Alright Gon, let's go now."

"Okay."

The two of them walk back, everyone else gets out of their way when they see them coming.

The sun is almost shining directly on top of them,

"Killua, what do you want to do now?"Gon asks.

"Let's just go to the airport and wait there, I don't want to end up in a fight with someone else."

"Okay! Sounds good!"

"Wait, I gave you back your phone...right?" Killua asks.

"Yeah, it's right here. You gave it to me when you came back to me during that fight. Thanks." Gon takes it out of his pocket to prove it.

"No worries." Killua answers.

They hire a cab to take them to the airport, and thus, their Journey back to Whale Island proceeds to its next stage.