Disclaimer: I wish I owned Hunter but it already belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi :( Sadly, I just own my idiotic OC, Hitomi... yay...

Chapter 35: Wrong Way to Go x Not a Fairy Tale x The Broken Promise

Once they arrived at the palace, they started to run, Meleoron and Knuckle nowhere to be seen because of God's Accomplice. Ikalgo - using Flutter's corpse - sprinted to the other direction.

What they didn't expect, happened. Sitting in the stairs was one of the Royal Guards, Youpi. Slowly, he noticed them and stared at the group, in shock. After realizing the situation, he stood up. Bloodlust could be felt from where they were, as his eyes shone evilly and his body changed radically.

"I am a shield," he spoke, arms growing in his back. "I protect the King with my body."

All of sudden, the roof broke. Strange, yellow spikes started to fall like meteors, destroying the floor in which they were standing.

"Just what the...?" Hitomi avoided another spike. She then noticed Killua. He was staring at the attack with a knowing gaze. "He knows about it!"

"This is Dragon Drive!" he froze. "Then the old man's friend is..."

Everyone was frozen in the spot, except of Gon, who kept running towards Youpi, despite of knowing he wasn't his enemy. Hitomi and Killua realized it instantly after, and then the others.

Meleoron and Knuckle... were they alive or not? No one knew about it. But in case that it was positive, they had to act, and now. Shoot would take care of Pitou after that.

Then, something happened and Hitomi sighed in relief. An unseen force - apparently the two missing ones - hit the ant in the ribs. They were alive.

The blow got the Magical Animal Hybrid out the way, so the three continued their way, running upstairs, past him.

The girl looked over her shoulder and grinned, when she didn't find Knuckle's APR.

"Looks like God's Accomplice is compatible with Bankruptcy Chapter Seven," she thought.

They all felt something, a dark, intimidating aura all of sudden. Hitomi gritted her teeth, remembering clearly that presence of when Kite was attacked, and recognized it as Pitou's. She, however, forced herself to keep running.

Then, the ant smashed the stairway with his arm, splitting it in half. Luckily, the three managed to jump back and avoid any kind of injury. Because of that though, they had to get another route.

"Take care!" Kurapika shouted after his sister.

She nodded and mouthed a 'you too' right after disappearing from everyone sight, along her two friends.

They ran for a lot of time, only the pants and gasps for air being the sound between all of them. Hitomi glanced at Gon's back, frowning, before turning around to face Killua...

But he wasn't there.

"Huh?!" she almost tripped. "Killua isn't here!"

Gon didn't answer.

"Hey Gon! Are you listening?" silence welcomed her again. "Hitomi's talking!"

No word came from the boy's mouth, and she winced a little. His eyes hadn't recovered their natural shine they always had, certainly a bad sign.

A terrible one, indeed.

"The only thing you are thinking about is Pitou, right?" she asked.

The name apparently made him react, and he stopped in his tracks after hearing it. Hitomi stopped as well, looking at him, but he didn't even spare her glance.

"You want revenge, don't you?"

Gon clenched his fists. The girl just sighed.

"You know I nearly lost Kurapika in that road, right?"

The boy didn't speak. This time, it was Hitomi's turn to curl her fists into balls.

"That's why, Gon..." her eyes narrowed. "Please... Please..."

The young teen didn't even look at her. She looked at the floor, eyes watering as the words kept dying down in her throat.

"P-Please... That's a wrong way to go..." she choked, softly. "Don't go in there... Promise you won't do anything foolish... Promise me!"

Gon looked at the floor, as Hitomi started to shake a little.

"Sorry, Hitomi," the girl wasn't surprised at his answer. "I can't promise that."

And then, the boy walked away. The girl gave him a long look, wiping a lone tear rolling down her cheek, before following him in a slower pace.

Kurapika and Morel stood in front of the ant, who was surprised to see them. The younger one narrowed his red eyes, at the sight of a crying Shaiapouf, while the older one smirked.

"Yo," he waved his pipe around, as smoke covered the place.

Instantly, the ant tried to fly away, but collided with a the wall of smoke.

"Unfortunately, you've been surrounded," Morel told him.

"And also... caught," Kurapika smirked as well, as he retired a chain that was attracted in his arm. "Poisoned Chain."

Pouf's eyes flew opened when he realized that, and wiped his tears away. He never faced them, though. He just kept flying there, giving them his back.

"What must I do to have you both let me free?" he asked.

"Oh," Morel's grin widened. "We're not letting you out."

"I see..."

Then, Pouf landed and Kurapika tensed. His eyes became even more redder, as he held his chained arm in front of him.

"Promise me," his sister's words rang in his mind. "Promise me you will fulfill your promise."

"I have to win this and live afterwards," his eyes narrowed. "For her."

Hitomi and Gon reached the edge of the building, and noticed the cloud of smoke in another one, recognizing it immediately as Morel's Smoky Jail. The girl narrowed her eyes, thinking that there was where her brother was - she supposed.

The boy started to run, making her follow suit. But then stopped, at the sight of some people walking down the corridor of the other tower.

First, a humanoid but grotesque creature which she supposed was the famous King. But what surprised them the most was that behind him were two old men, and one of them was the Chairman: Isaac Netero, who waved a little at them both.

Killua caught up with them, but only Hitomi managed to acknowledge him by a brief glance. Quickly, he noticed what they were looking at and his eyes snapped open in recognition of the last man.

"Grandpa...!" he trailed off.

"He is your what?" Hitomi blinked at him. "Oh, god."

She then kept quiet and looked at the scene. Zeno - Killua's grandfather - started to leak his Nen out and created a dragon of golden light. Then Netero got into its back, the King hang on its arm with his tail and the two flew away to who-knows-where.

"Killua... Hitomi..." Gon's voice snapped them out. "Pitou is over there," his eyes never left the building. "Let's go!"

The boy then jumped high, and the other two hesitated a little. Hitomi could smell it in that thick air and couldn't help but have the feeling that after this everything she knew, everything she believed in, everything she loved, everything in her world...

Just everything would begin to fall apart.

"... 'Let's go'... In what sense did you mean that?" Killua bit his lip, refraining himself to ask. "If I ask that question... I won't be able to stop anymore. I won't be able to get back."

He chose to not ask it because the fear was greater. He was terrified at the thought of losing someone he cared for that much.

And like that, the pair jumped after him.

Softly, the trio landed on the other side, just to face Zeno, who looked at them and greeted casually. He focused in his grandson, Killua, noticing in his eyes how much he had changed from the last time he had seen him.

"My job here is done," he spoke. "I know nothing beyond the mission I received. I'll let you draw your own conclusions about what's happening inside."

"Inside?" Killua was confused.

Zeno didn't answer and jumped down the tall building. Hitomi watched at the precipice, just to find nothing more than darkness. Her eyebrow twitched in annoyment.

"Jumping that high like nothing..." she thought. "I see why he gets along with that well with Isaac Nicholas... Oh, sorry, Isaac Netero."

"Hohoho~" his annoying laugh echoed in her mind, as she imagined him stroking his long, long beard... Yep. He was exactly like Saint Nicholas, or Santa Claus... or whichever name you choose.

Even though she didn't want to at that moment, she forced herself to focus in the task in hand. She looked at Gon, who started to walk away and, with Killua, she followed him inside the tower.

Wow, that sure wasn't expected. Not even a bit.

Hitomi was shocked at the scene in front of them all.

In the middle of the room was Pitou, but not in the way they could had ever thought of. She was kneeling next to a sleeping girl... a human girl. A big doll - similar but different to the puppet that controlled Kite - seemed to be... healing her.

Pitou turned around, in a slow motion, as her eyes got filled with fear upon the sight of them. Gon's, however, got full of anger. Dark Nen started to got out the preteen's body like steam from a kettle.

"Do you remember me?" he asked, rage filling his voice. "I'm Gon Freecss! I came here to get Kite back from you!"

The girl was worried inside out, frozen in her spot without a single of idea of what to do, just looking at the situation developing in front of her. Killua was a little calmer, as he analyzed the scene as well.

"Get away from her," Gon started to walk towards Pitou. "I'm telling you to take that monster and get away from her. And then, fight me! Fight me, so I can get Kite back!"

But something surprised them: the ant placed both palms face-up in the floor, meaning her lack of malice. The three looked at her for a long while, shocked.

"Please wait," she spoke, in a soft whisper.

And that action pissed Gon off even more.

"What the hell?! What am I supposed to wait for?!" he snapped. "Get up! We're going outside!"

The ant didn't fight back, leaving Gon even more irritated. Hitomi and Killua didn't say anything at it, but understood the situation perfectly.

"Pitou looks like protecting her... and badly. The question is... Why? I thought ants only cared about the King's well being..." Hitomi's then eyes opened. "Wait... there's only one answer: the King cares about someone... a human... And that human is that girl."

Killua jumped in the same conclusion at the same time, and everything cleared up. The reason of the King's self-harm was in front of their eyes... and Pitou was desperately trying to save her.

But telling Gon that would had only worsen the condition, so they kept their mouths shut.

"I'll do anything! I'll do anything you say!" Pitou suddenly pleaded. "So please wait. I... must save this person!"

"Save..." Gon repeated, with a monotone voice. "Save what?"

"'Anything'?" Killua jumped in the conversation. "When you say 'anything'-"

"Killua…" his voice was cold and his eyes didn't even look at him. "I'm asking the questions."

His friends froze at his response, as the female one narrowed her eyes. That was really out of character. The Gon she knew would never speak to his friends in that way.

"What is it that you must save?" the boy asked Pitou.

"This person is someone... Someone who's important to someone important to me," she spoke the truth. "She is the reason the King is who he is. If she dies, the King will cease to be who he is. She's that important. So... All I care about is saving her! Once she's healed, I'll do anything you want. So please wait!"

Silence filled the room for a couple of seconds, that seemed hours for them.

"You want to save her? You must save her? Save her?" he went on, shaking in anger. "How dare you say that... How dare you?!"

An evil, huge aura surrounded the young boy once again.

"DAMN IT!" he snapped. "The hell if... The hell if I'll listen to you!"

The ant looked at him in fear.

"Gon, hold on!" Killua tried to stop him. "It's likely that we were the ones that injured her. It was probably Grandpa's Dragon Dive."

Hitomi jumped in her spot, since she had never thought about that possibility.

"And?" Gon asked, indifferent.

"Pitou is probably telling the truth about healing her."

"So?"

"Let's wait until it's done."

No one spoke again, rage filling the boy's body.

"'Likely'? 'Probably'? You want me to wait because of 'likely' and 'probably'? And after we wait, it's likely that this thing will do what I want?" he yelled at the tops of his lungs. "Likely? Probably? Seriously?! That's crap! That's just crap!"

The girl freaked out a little at his outburst, but Killua's face didn't change. It was like he allowed himself to be yelled.

"Is something wrong with you?!" he turned to Killua and then pointed at Pitou. "You want... You want me to trust this thing?! I can't do that!"

CRACK!

Slowly, the three turned their heads to the source of the sound. Pitou was there, with a hand over her broken arm and looking at the floor.

"If you want, you may also have my right arm... If that isn't enough, you can take both legs..." she looked really desperate. "If you're worried I'll change my mind after the healing finishes, you can break any part of my body that isn't required to heal her. Please let me save her!"

That was when Gon exploded in rage, using his bare fists to break the floor.

"That isn't fair... That isn't fair, damn it!" he then yelled at the ant. "Why are you helping her, after everything you did to Kite?!"

"Gon!" Hitomi tried to stop him.

"Why?! WHY?!" he cried in anger, filling the room with his aura. After a long while, he stopped and fell into his knees, in tears. "To hell with that..."

Then, he stood up, walking towards the feline ant, dangerously. He stopped and got into a fighting stance. "First comes-"

"Gon!" Killua called. "If you kill Pitou, we'll never get Kite back."

He stopped his attack after realizing he was right. He broke his pose and stood still, clenching his fists in rage.

"You have it easy, Killua," the female friend heard the boy saying, and couldn't bear his bratty attitude anymore. It was enough for her. "You're perfectly calm. Since it means nothing to you-"

SLAP!

"That we aren't out of control and yelling at everything like mad doesn't mean that we don't care a shit about Kite!"

Killua watched in shock at Hitomi, who had just slapped Gon across the face. Her eyes sparkled in scarlet for less than a second, as she brought her hands to the collar of his shirt and grabbed him tightly.

Gon's eyes kept cold all the time.

"I'm sick of you ignoring what the others when they have something to tell you! I'm sick of you mistreating your friends! I'm sick of you thinking only about yourself!" she yelled at him. "I just wanted to help you, and you didn't listen! Killua just wanted to help you, and you just treated him like trash! That's why I'm sick of everything! I'M SICK OF YOU, SELFISH BASTARD!"

"Hitomi!" Killua put a hand over her shoulder. "That's enough!"

Hitomi just glanced at him, before sighing. She gave Gon a last glare and freed him. The girl turned around and walked towards the door.

"If you don't want to listen, fine. Die for all I care," she gave him a last look, her eyes shining in scarlet. "I don't want some trash like you to be my friend... I won't worry about you. Not anymore."

And Killua froze there, speechless, as he watched his male friend. He didn't spoke nor look at her. The girl, on the other hand, walked away.

Killua just looked at her figure leaving, disappearing in darkness. He wanted to run after her, to bring her back...

But he was frozen. He failed to do so.

Gon talked to Pitou, and after a long time agreed in something: after one hour, the ant would come with him and heal Kite.

Kurapika jumped back and stood a few meters away from Pouf, still gasping for air. He could hear Morel's elaborated breathing as well.

That ant wasn't an easy target, that was sure. Even though he was losing a little of his strength because of the Poisoned Chain, he was a difficult match.

Hell, they didn't want to know his original strength then.

He narrowed his eyes upon realizing something and instantly after jumped back. From his wings, he was releasing some type of scales...

And the boy wasn't really fond of breathing them.

"Caution, resolve and confidence..." Pouf looked at Morel, using his Spiritual Message. "His caution isn't as strong because he's confident. It's safe to say he has a strong personality."

The red-eyed boy then frowned. It looked like the enemy didn't want them to inhale them... So, what did he want?

"Sharp-eyes, caution and deep thinking..." he looked at the younger one. "He isn't that confident, but he is really cautious. He is the type who always thinks a step ahead..."

Before anyone could do anything else, though, something could be heard. A familiar metal clenching rang in Kurapika's ears and later an explosion.

And before he realized what was happening, he found himself in front of a known face. The girl looked at him and grinned.

"Hitomi?!" he shouted at her. "What are you doing here?!"

"What am I doing?" she repeated, as she couldn't believe him. "I'm here to help you!"

Morel just looked at her, shocked, as the smoke began to cover the hole from where she got into. "Is she able to break force fields?" he thought. "How much stronger had she gotten since that tournament?"

But the siblings just kept arguing, glaring at each other.

"It's dangerous!" he scolded her.

"Ah, because being around a kitty-ant is really safe," she rolled her eyes. "Next time maybe we should share cookies with her!"

"But-!"

"Stop arguing, you two!" Morel cut them off. "Hitomi is here now, and there's no way to change that. So, she will help us, fine?"

"Fine!" she smirked, sliding into a fighting pose.

This time, Pouf looked at her for a couple of minutes.

"Anticipation, confidence and caution, like the others," he analyzed her. "She looks like the kind who can think great things once she uses her head."

Hitomi's eyes then shifted in scarlet. "Let's go then, Blondie," she called, before turning to Morel. "You watch our back, alright?"

"Of course."

The two siblings jumped in the air and tried to hit him, but he avoided their blows. Kurapika stood in the walls somehow and Hitomi swinged herself on the chain, attacking him when he didn't expect to.

"First hit accomplished," Kurapika told his sister, who was hanging in his chain. "Another idea for another strike?"

"Yeah, kind of."

Morel looked, in shock, at Pouf as he wiped his sore cheek and the pair continued to push him back. It looked like siblings' strength was just something else. The bond they held was just so strong that even their movements were synchronized, without even needing to agree on anything.

"Let's do this, Hitomi!" Kurapika shouted to his sister.

"Got it!" she nodded, energetically.

Hitomi swinged in her brother's chain and tried constantly to land a hit, but the butterfly-like ant continued to avoid her, only focusing in her task.

But then, Kurapika jumped to him, making Pouf avoid only to have his back against the chain. The teen landed in the ground and managed to wrap him with it.

"Fairy caught!" Hitomi grinned. "And since this isn't a fairy tale, you'll have to die."

They held the chain tightly and Pouf shouted in pain. Hitomi ran around the place, using her enhanced speed to strangle him even more. She handed Kurapika her knife while sprinting around and he jumped next to the ant.

"It's over," he tried to strike his head.

But suddenly the chains broke, that could had been expected since it wasn't the Chain Jail. Pouf flew away, gasping for air and the siblings growled.

They had been so close...

"They are strong," he thought, shocked. "That's a problem... A big one."

The scales started to merge together with Pouf's wings, surprising them a lot.

"Huh?" Hitomi blinked. "No more fairy dust?"

But then, the ant's wings started to shine brightly.

"After a rebirth, all will be forgotten," in their surprise, his wings changed radically and somehow changed into some type of brown fabric and wrapped himself, forming a cocoon. "I'll need you to wait a moment."

They tensed, looking at it for a moment.

"What is he going to change into?" Hitomi joked. "A worm again?"

But under the glare of Kurapika and Morel she realized that, maybe, it wasn't the perfect moment for doing that.

Knuckle just wanted to avenge Shoot's hurt pride. But in just an instant, he realized two greater facts: Youpi had just tricked him and he was so dead now.

"It's over... Shoot... Kurapika... Boss... Everyone..." his comrades' faces flashed in his mind. "Everything is up to you."

He then focused in Hitomi's one. She was looking at him with her deep, violet eyes."Take care, Hitomi..."

Like a gift from heaven, a ray of lightning fell from the sky, zapping the Royal Guard, who got stunned for a couple of seconds. Knuckle took the opportunity and hit him several times before running out the clif.

"I did it! I did it! I'm done! I can't do anymore!" he ran like mad for his life. "Damn, I almost died! But I hit him eight times!"

Youpi stood there for a while, confused, as he heard Knuckle's cheering. But, when he raised his gaze, he found something else.

Standing on the top of the cliff was a young boy with white hair. His dark blue eyes were looking at him, sparkling in anger.

"Sorry," he spoke as he calmly walked down the hill, his hands still inside his pockets. "But what's about to happen is just me blowing off some steam."

He held his hands out on his sides, as electricity started to spark in all his body. Right when Youpi realized what had happened, Killua disappeared from his sight.

The memories of that day struck the boy hard as he used his hands to zap his enemy with lightning, who cried in pain.

"Gon, Hitomi, Killua! Run! Hurry up! Get out here!" the other three froze. Kite jumped and tried to run towards them. "GET AWAY FROM ME!"

Everything was too fast for the trio to realize what was happening. All they could see was blood, and Kite's arm flying out of his body.

He cursed Pitou, the ant who lead them to that situation with that action. If it wasn't for her, nothing would have ever changed. Everything would have remained just the same. Everything would be just... perfect.

Transforming all his anger in strength, he landed a kick on his enemy who jumped back and gritted his teeth.

"You have it easy, Killua. You're perfectly calm. Since it means nothing to you."

He cursed Gon too, who kept acting so out of character because of that and becoming such a monster. He never realized how much he had hurt so many people people... Not only Killua... Hitomi too.

Youpi growled and tried to hit him, but the boy vanished into the thin air again, only appearing again to zap the ant's entire body. He then felt a punch, just before another hit... and so on.

"If you don't want to listen, fine. Die for all I care. I don't want some trash like you to be my friend... I won't worry about you. Not anymore."

He cursed Hitomi as well, who walked away after saying those cold, painful words in that outburst. She would never realize how much she'd hurt everyone there too and how much she would regret it in a near future.

Using that new ability, the boy was way faster than any living creature.

Killua then gritted his teeth, sticking his enemy countless times, unleashing the grief he was feeling.

Finally he cursed at himself because of his weakness. The only thing he had managed to do was freeze in his spot every time he had to do something.

"I froze and I was unable to help Gon who is going to be consumed by his own rage," he landed a punch. "And he became that bloodthirsty monster."

Youpi bit his lip, feeling another hit coming.

"I froze and I was unable to help Hitomi. I let her go to who-knows-where," Killua kicked him three times in a row. "And I don't even know if she is alive now."

And then Youpi laughed in amusement. The boy was just interesting.

"Oh, yeah, there was a time that I didn't froze. I moved from my spot to run away," he thought, grimly. "Leaving Kite alone with a monster... leading him to that terrible destiny."

The young teen channelled all his Nen in a powerful kick in the stomach that left the ant stunned for a few seconds before jumping back.

Then, he realized something. His white hair - that was spiky now because of the electricity - got fluffy again and brushed his forehead as it fell because of the gravity. He stopped feeling the lighting around him as well.

"Crap!" he leaped back again, out the cliff. "I used it all up!"

He then started to run before anything could happen.

"I feel a little better now," he smirked. "Let's now find that idiot before something she does something really stupid... as usual."

Hitomi narrowed her eyes, something wasn't going well. Let's say that Pouf had been way a lot inside the cocoon. They should be happy because he is wasting time, yes, but something was telling her that he wasn't just wasting time, that he had the upper hand.

But what was he thinking? She couldn't put her finger on it.

Even Morel was starting to think that it was a trap to lure them to attack.

Kurapika's eyes didn't leave his enemy, thinking the same thing than his sister. That ant had certainly been there for an awfully lot of time.

"A Royal Guard's top priority always were and always will be protect the King, so he either is trying to get out here or..." his eyes opened. "Or actually getting out here!"

Without a second thought he materialized his chain again, shocking his partners. In a flash, he swung it around and wrapped the cocoon.

"What are you-?!" Morel was about to ask.

Then, he clutched and destroyed it, just to find out that no one was there. Hitomi gritted her teeth at the same time that Morel dispelled his Smoky Jail.

And Pouf was there, standing out the place.

"I see you've made your decision," he commented.

"It was a little obvious, though," Kurapika smirked. "You're an ant, and it's in your nature. Being close to the King, that's it."

But then an evil laugh got out his lips, confusing them all.

"Fifteen minutes," he looked at them. "That was exactly how long I expected you all to take before deciding to remove the smoke barrier."

Hitomi gritted her teeth, even though it took them less than Pouf expected, she felt that they'd been fooled.

"During that time, I intended to slip through the smoke and move freely, but I didn't totally accomplished that because I was a little low of Nen. But now that I'm reborn, the effect has passed and I'm as good as new," he told them. "You trapped me within that barrier to separate me from the King, yes? Meaning, as long as your prison of smoke was there, your allies would see it and conclude that I was still inside. I decided to take advantage of that misconception so I did that. I knew you would hesitate long enough to give me plenty time to act."

"You thought we'd spend fifteen minutes waiting in front of an empty cocoon?" Morel asked. "You really underestimated us."

"No, on the contrary, it appears..." he flew high up in the sky, unfolding his colorful wings, which shone brightly. "I overestimated you all."

A white glow covered all his body and the three gasped in surprise at what happened next. He broke himself up into tiny particles that formed the most unusual thing they could have ever thought of: little, chibi, Pouf-like things.

"Just great," Hitomi facepalmed. "The big fairy evolved into a microscopical Tinker Bell."

The two men raised an eyebrow at her.

"Come on! Don't you see the similarities?" she looked at them, wide-eyed. "Both are blond, fairies, leave annoying fairy dust wherever they go to and they now are both small. Also they-"

"That's not it," Kurapika sighed, before turning serious. "This isn't the time for joking, this is bad."

All little Pouf started to laugh.

"To be honest, I was upset by the fact that I'd been trapped," one of them spoke. "I was under the impression that you all were more capable soldiers... Who would carry out his original plan and be faithful to his mission. However, you made some wild guessed, let me enough time to get rid of that curse of the chain and removed the barrier. I must thank you."

"Thank you," the little things said, making Hitomi narrow her eyes. "Thank you, thank you."

Morel, feeling a little angry, blew his pipe and created puppets made by smoke, Deep Purple. They tried to hit them, but some flew away and some others disappeared after hitting them, just to appear again somewhere else.

"I can't destroy them?" Morel was shocked. "He is invencible."

"Invencible?" Hitomi's eyes widened, before mumbling. "No way..."

The little ants laughed, before flying again. The girl's eyes reddened even more out of anger, as she clenched her fists.

There was no way. She had come all this way to help, at least a little, but did nothing. It was in vain, the enemy was winning, in a way.

But she was used to this kind of situations, wasn't she? After all, it was always the same. She attempted to help someone important, but no matter how hard she tried, in the end was always the same.

It was useless. She was useless.

She tried to help her brother, Kurapika... and he nearly got himself killed.

She tried to help her friend, Gon... and he was now becoming something he wasn't supposed to be.

And now... Now...

"Kurapika... Morel..." she spoke, bangs covering her eyes. "Go help the others."

"What are you gonna-?"

But when the others realized what was happening, the girl was already gone. Hitomi ran, as fast as her legs allowed her to, with her enhanced speed. She wasn't going to let him get away with it.

"That's impossible... Can she keep up with me?" Pouf thought. "She is dangerous, for the King and all of us."

Hitomi jumped back suddenly, when one of the little Pouf charged to her, but then felt the pain in her back because of another one.

She flew a bit, before she managed to get a grip on her feet and remain in the battle. She wiped the blood pouring from her mouth.

"Damn, strong even in his chibi-form," she frowned.

The enemy tackled her again, in several fronts this time. She panted a little, moving her body from right to left, jumping, bending and so on...

"I can't reflect this kind of attacks with Ren... I can get killed because they are that strong... I have to be sure that he can hit me first..." her eyes then widened after remembering something. "This is exactly like Gon's match with Gido! I can try that... it's dangerous but..."

Hitomi released a long sigh, while closing her eyes. She had to give it a chance.

That was when the female teen's aura shut off completely.

Kurapika gritted his teeth, forcing himself to run even faster. He felt a little bad about leaving Morel and Knuckle alone with Youpi, but he knew that they would be able to take care of themselves. What concerned them right now, was something beyond that...

Where in the world was his sister?

When he had turned around that time, she was already gone. What worried him now was... What if that were the last time he would ever see her? If, from that time, she was already gone forever?

Losing another member of his family... Kurapika was aware that he wouldn't be able to take it.

After running a little more, he finally spotted her in the roof of the palace and he swore that his heart skipped a beat. She was jumping around, just avoiding several hits, without a chance of attacking.

But the most terrifying thing was that she was in a Zetsu state. He knew that, at that rate, she would get herself killed.

"What can I do?" he gritted his teeth. "If I do something, I'm afraid she can lose her concentration and get badly injured."

Hitomi, on the other hand, kept avoiding blows. She tried again and again to spot the chance to counterattack, but just couldn't. He was way faster than her, even if she used Nen to enhance her speed.

Thinking about that, she moved in a wrong way. Pain greeted her, as she was thrown backwards, collapsing against the hard roof.

"This is the end," she thought, watching Pouf grinning evilly as he got in his original form.

She wasn't fast to react because the pain blinding her mind. The only thing she managed to do is open her eyes widely when she realized that the enemy was charging after her, to give her the last blow.

Time didn't flow, as she came to what was happening. Something got struck in Pouf's chest, making him stop out the shock. Slowly, the girl turned her head and looked at the person standing under her feet, in the ground.

Kurapika coughed a little of blood.

"Why? Why is he coughing blood? Is he injured?" she slowly thought, before looking at the chain. "The chain... Little finger... That's means... No way!"

Her heartbeats became stronger and faster out of shock.

"You won't kill nor attempt to kill someone..." he coughed a little more. "... precious to me."

He drew the chain away and panted, welcoming whichever would be his destiny. Now he was glad that Pouf would never hurt them ever again.

Pouf gasped a little for air, bringing a hand to his chest. He was sure that the chain had stabbed him, but it didn't hurt at all.

"He did something to me... Maybe a curse?" he frowned, before looking at the shocked girl. "But what is right is that, if I hurt her, I won't get unscratched. I can die. I can risk myself that much."

He unfolded his wings.

"You are lucky, because I can't die now," he spoke to the girl, who didn't even spare him a glance. "I still need to protect the King."

Pouf then flew away, but Hitomi didn't react. Nothing mattered to her anymore, she couldn't even think straight anymore.

That was when Kurapika felt some kind of explosion in his chest, making him place his hand on it, shutting his eyes tightly out of pain he wasn't able to deal with.

He then, weakly, opened them to give his sister a last smile. Strength left him, as he was losing the grip on his legs. The boy lost his balance and started to fall.

"KURAPIKA!" Hitomi screamed at the top of her lungs, standing up and jumping out the roof.

The boy remained there, lying on the ground and looking blankly at the sky. He didn't feel pain anymore, nor sadness, nor pleasure... He felt absolutely nothing apart from the exhaustion he had. He was well aware, that was the end.

Well, that was the price he had to pay because of his ability, he reminded himself that again and again.

He couldn't hear anything anymore... Everything felt so distant... so far away from him. He managed, though, to recognize the blurry image of his sister trying to shake him to react...

She was shouting... Was she shouting his name? It looked like it...

But something troubled him... Why was she crying? After all, he'd always been such bad brother... Who forgot her own sister because of his stupid revenge...

"Promise me... Promise me you will fulfill your promise."

Her words echoed in his head again and again... Why had she said that? Why did she want to travel with him when she still had her friends at her side to laugh with?

That was right... Because he was her only brother.

He then remembered, he too wanted to travel with her that bad. But it looked like it wouldn't be possible anymore...

"Sorry, Hitomi..." his eyes dropped. "Looks like I... wasn't able to keep... my promise..."

Hitomi then froze in her spot. Her only, beloved brother had just stopped breathing.

End of the chapter! I just swear that everything sounded good in my head :S I hope it turned on well...

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