Disclaimer: I wish I owned Hunter but it already belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi :( Sadly, I just own my idiotic OC, Hitomi... yay...
Chapter 37: Dangerous Power x Losing It All x The Last Hope
Killua and Hitomi pressed their back against each other, frowning at the flying ant who wasn't stepping back at all. They just wondered how important that woman should be, because he didn't give up on killing her nor stopped to consider it.
Also, he looked like he was in a hurry and the teenagers just couldn't explain why.
The boy's eyes snapped open when he noticed Pouf stopping in mid air and flap his wings quickly, spreading some dust in the air. He tensed, and brought his arm in front of his face, to cover his nose.
"Don't worry, he doesn't want us to breathe it," she spoke, calmly. Killua looked at her in confusion. "He did so last time. I don't know what it can do to us... but it's something that we can't avoid... I think."
The Zoldyck was confused, but didn't say anything at her. He just stared at the ant.
"Sharp, lethal and composed..." Pouf observed Killua. "That boy won't let his guard down easily... He is tough."
He then looked at Hitomi.
"That is the girl of the red eyes again... She can bring me some troubles... She is really sharp as well... But unstable..." he frowned. "Something had changed since last time... That's it..."
Pouf smirked at her.
"You lost your confidence."
Hitomi tensed and gritted her teeth. Killua frowned as well, trying to get what he was talking about.
"What do you mean?" she asked, softly.
"You are more tense than last time..."
Hitomi looked away.
"It's like you don't trust yourself anymore... Something happened?" the girl flinched at her words. "Oh, I remember, that boy that looked like you... is he a familiar of yours?"
She knew, she couldn't bring herself to listen to him. But...
Pouf smirked, everything would go as he planned in a brief time. He noticed how unstable she usually was, and the stress she was under now thanks to his Nen ability. And as everyone knew, stress could make people even more unstable.
"Oh, sorry, I mean 'was'," he spoke. "He is dead now, isn't he?"
"He isn't," she didn't make eye-contact. "He is still alive."
"Because of pure luck," he laughed. "After all you leaded him into that fate, am I wrong?"
Killua looked at Hitomi in worry, since her grip on his hand tightened. He frowned at the thought of that all that chat was just to distract her.
Pouf looked at her eyes.
"That eyes... Are they Scarlet Eyes from the decreased Kuruta Clan?" the girl rolled her eyes at him. "I'd read about them, and just recently I recognized them..."
The boy yelped a little, after noticing something in his right arm. It was a scratch... It was coming from their shield.
"And I remember... they were killed in a pathetic way, weren't they?"
"Pathetic?" she snapped at him. "Pathetic is your face!"
"Hitomi, don't listen!" Killua shouted at her. "He wants to provoke you!"
She knew... She knew. But she couldn't help it.
"You face tells me that you've been there at that time," he said, evilly. "How did you survive? Running away? Hiding? Such a scaredy cat. "
She couldn't bring herself to answer, he was right.
"And you were going to let that other boy die as well?" he laughed. "Such an useless brat you ended up being!"
She froze in her spot. He was right, and she couldn't deny it. She always had been useless. She would always remain that way.
Hitomi remembered the end of the Exam, when Killua returned home. At that time, she hadn't been able to stop him. She ended up seeing him again... out of luck.
Kurapika had nearly died, twice, and she hadn't be able to help him. The reason he was alive now... was luck again.
And then is Gon. She hadn't be able to stop him, to knock some sense on him. The only thing she managed to do was shout at him. Would luck be on her side again?
She wasn't that sure.
Killua, on the other hand, bit his lip. Her Nen was getting out of control, he could see, since it had already began to hurt them both. It was a matter of time until the waves started to spin and spin like it was a tornado, and kept like that even when Killua turned off his Hatsu.
Even Pouf was having some troubles, it looked like his plan kind of backfired. He bit his lip and flew away before something could happen.
"Stop it, idiot!" he shouted at his friend. "Hitomi!"
But she didn't listen. Killua frowned when he noticed her eyes.
They weren't shining in red anymore, they were burning scarlet, fiercely.
He had to stop her now. She was not only going to kill herself, but everyone there, including himself. Having no more option, he held her hand tighter, forcing electricity on her.
Hitomi cried in pain, before turning to the boy, snapping her hand away.
"What the hell are you doing?!" she shouted at him. "I'm not the enemy!"
"That's exactly what I mean, dumbass!" Killua shouted back. "You are going to kill us all!"
She froze there in shock, realizing what happened there. There were some scratches in Killua's body, and then noticed that there was in hers too. She clenched her fists in rage at the thought of killing her friend by herself.
Hitomi was kind of angry. She had developed some kind of powerful technique, but she couldn't control it.
That was why now she wasn't happy over this fact. She was scared of herself.
Meanwhile, Killua picked Komugi up.
"Killua! Hitomi!" they looked left, just to find who was calling them; it was Palm. "The King has arrived at the palace's entrance!"
"Yeah," Killua nodded.
"What to do now?" Hitomi asked.
"We should circle around, following the wall, and hide in the crowd," she suggested.
"Okay," both of them nodded.
And so they did. Both females walked at Killua's both sides, who was carrying an unconscious Komugi in his back. Palm was holding a hand on her eye, probably using her Nen ability.
"How are Gon and Pitou doing?" Hitomi asked, in curiosity.
"They just entered the Peijing hiding place," she asked. "They're walking down a hallway."
Killua looked at her, feeling curiosity as well.
"How does that crystal work now?" he asked. "You can also see Pouf and me in it?"
"Yes, looking from a bit above. Wink Blue uses my crystal ball to remember people seen through my right eye. Looking through only my left eye, I can watch those people's current positions in the crystal ball. At the moment, the crystal ball is simultaneously showing Gon and Pitou, Hitomi, Killua and me, as well as Pouf, the King, and Youpi," she explained to them. "It's like watching a TV screen that's been split up. However, my right eye has only seen Pouf, Killua, and Gon. So I can only see the others when they're around one of you. And I can only use my power to watch three people at once. If I see someone else with my right eye, I won't be able to see the oldest of the three targets, Pouf."
"I'm not sure you need to keep watching Pouf," Killua commented. "If you can only see his main body, and his clones are scattered, it's probably more a minus than a plus."
"Is that so? If I can only see his main body, that also means I won't be fooled by clones," she clenched her fists. "And if his main body is only the size of a fly, I can literally crush him."
Hitomi sweatdropped. "Looks like I'm not the only one who hates him that much..."
"Our chance to defeat Pouf is while he's divided," she continued. "What greater plus is there?"
Pitou was walking through the halls, with Gon following suit and guiding her, when she faintly heard the phone in her pocket ringing. She quickly picked up without taking it, taking advantage of her sharp hearing and the noise in the old castle.
"Pitou-sama, this is Welfin," she heard. "I will keep this as brief as I can. Brovada and I have retaken the girl."
Her eyes opened, but kept walking like nothing happened.
"Intruders are still around, so we're taking refuge beneath the palace. I will let you hear her voice."
As instructed, Pitou opened the huge door.
"Hello? Pitou-sama?" she heard Komugi's voice. "This is Komugi. I'm fine, so don't worry."
Pitou just kept walking.
"Got it," she whispered.
"Goodbye."
Meanwhile, in the palace, Welfin hung up and drops of sweat rolled down his forehead. He looked at a mini ant, whose face was now Komugi's. It quickly became Pouf's again.
"If possible, can you get me a doctor, Pouf-dono?" he asked, as he let himself fall in the floor.
"Of course," he then laughed, because of his evil action.
But when he tried to fly away, something stopped him. He looked over his chest, and noticed a large chain that seemed not to end.
That was when he remembered... The curse...
Right after that, Pouf's clone disappeared from Welfin's sight. And so did all clones from all places, one by one.
Until it was the real one's turn. He started flying slower and slower, trying to feel even more pain, but it was on vain.
When Youpi and Meruem turned around to see what was happening, they found themselves in front of an endless chain that was stabbed right in Pouf's chest.
"Pouf," Meruem asked, in worry. "What's wrong?!"
"My King..." he mumbled. "I-!"
He never finished that sentence, just cough blood as his heart got broken in pieces, in a literally way. Meruem caught his Royal Guard between his hands and looked at him...
Pouf was already dead.
"Palm..." Killua spoke up after a long time walking.
"Yes?"
"Thank you," he looked away.
Palm's head snapped at Killua out of shock, silently asking herself if she had heard it right.
"What? What's this?" she asked, in confusion. "What are you thanking me for?"
"Stuff..." he replied vaguely as Hitomi snorted, holding a laugh at it.
"Stuff?" Palm pressed. "Such as?"
"Drop it!" he hissed irritated, in a really tsundere way. "Stuff just means stuff!"
"Wow," Hitomi joked. "I think I'd heard deeper sentences coming from Gon's mouth..."
"Shut up!" he shouted at her, still blushing in embarrassment.
Palm, however, was getting annoyed as well.
"What was that?" she scolded. "It seems wrong to make me mad while you're thanking me!"
"Don't worry... I'll never say thanks again..." there was a one-second pause between he continued speaking. "Because now we're friends. I never say thanks to my friends."
Hitomi held a laugh once again.
"That's only an excuse he made up to skip the 'thanks' part every time his skin is saved," she grinned. "He is too shy to handle it."
"I told you it's not that!" he yelled at her.
Both females gave an 'I-don't-believe-you' look, before laughing. A vein popped up in his white head and looked away, pouting faintly.
"Anyway," Hitomi spoke to Palm. "How is Gon?"
"Y-Yes, that's right..." she remembered.
But it looked like whatever she saw there, she didn't like it Palm froze in shock and fright. The other two stopped and looked at her.
"What's wrong?" Killua asked.
"It can't be..." Palm mumbled. "What's going on?!"
"That's exactly what we're asking!" Hitomi shouted, annoyed.
"Why?" Palm continued. "What's going on?!"
"What's wrong?" Killua wanted to know. "What happened, Palm?"
"Stop asking and talk, for goodness sake!" Hitomi yelled in irritation. "We can't see it, you know!"
"I don't know... I can only see what's happening... But something is wrong with Gon!"
They both froze at her answer.
"Cut it with the suspense!" the nerves were killing Hitomi. "Spit it out!"
She stood still for a couple of seconds, like she was trying to process what she was seeing there.
"Pitou is healing herself, not Kite," Palm spoke, shocking them both. "Gon is slumped on the floor next to her."
Hitomi felt somehow angry. They still had Komugi, so how come-?
"And there's something else... Pouf is in the King's hands... And dead," they gasped at it. "But he doesn't seem wounded... The King and Youpi look really confused about his death..."
"Couldn't it be...?" she looked at Killua. "Judgement Chain!"
"Ah! That's true!" he nodded. "It really worked but... Who did he attack?"
The girl folded her arms over her chest, thinking hard about it. There should be only one connection between all these points.
"That's it! Maybe he tried to kill Gon, even if it wasn't directly!" she spoke. "It's probable that he somehow lied to Pitou and told her something... Like Komugi isn't in our hands anymore!"
"Makes sense... Then he would kill Gon and Komugi at the same time... And kill two birds with one stone..." Palm said. "But that doesn't explain why Gon is crying next to Kite and the enemy."
Killua's eyes turned sad for a moment.
"That only means that Kite is already dead..." he mumbled.
Hitomi froze there, in shock. If that really happened... Gon would snap - for real this time. He is that close to the killer, so what would happen?
It gave her the chills just by thinking about it.
"I have to find that idiot!" she ran away. "Catch you later!"
She jumped out the cliff but before she could do anything fell in someone's back, just to feel some faint zapping through her body. She looked down and found herself, much in her dismay, by carried by Killua.
"What are you doing?!" she shouted at him.
"You run like a hag," he answered, annoying her. "And you're hurt."
"I hurt only my hand..." she then looked at the burnt one. "Well... both of them. That isn't the point."
They kept in silence for a while more, guilt consuming her every minute. To think in that fight she had with Gon... It made the girl want to smack herself.
"You have a loose tongue, don't you?" Killua asked and Hitomi blinked, surprised that he was looking through her that easily.
"Yeah... But... He has one, too..." she mumbled.
"You two owe an apology at each other," Hitomi just wrapped her hands around his neck, nodding weakly. "After that, everything will be like it always was..."
"Yeah... Perfect, as it always was," Hitomi nodded. "The three of us... will be together again."
Killua couldn't help but have a bad feeling about it.
"The three of us... that sounds good."
As they were reaching the place, Killua jumped high in the air. The two of them got shocked at the huge flashes of light coming from the forest, along with the sound of explosions.
"Which one of them is doing that?" the boy whispered.
"Whichever the case, it's not good at all," the girl commented. "Let's just hope Gon is okay."
Seconds after that, Hitomi was literally jumping out the boy's back and watching at the terrifying scene. There was a grown-up Gon, a muscular man with long, long hair with no sense of gravity, that they couldn't see the end of. He was continually swinging a bloody fist at the decreased Neferpitou's skull.
He then gave it the final blow and stood up.
"Kite..." he whispered, rather to himself. "I finished the job, the way you taught me to. So..."
Hitomi couldn't bear seeing him in that state anymore.
"G-Gon!" she managed to call his name, with a strangled voice.
"Is that you?" Killua whispered.
When he turned around, they both swore that their hearts skipped a beat, or maybe two beats. His brown eyes were duller than ever, tears rolling down his cheeks and blood splattered everywhere in his face.
"Killua... Hitomi..." he spoke, his voice way more mature than before.
They didn't say anything at him. They both froze there, in shock.
"It's like Bisky... No, it isn't," Killua mentally shook his head. "Bisky's appearance changed but there wasn't a massive increase in the aura contained within her. And in her case, she was merely reverting to her original form... But Gon's done the opposite!"
"How many years of endless training is that?... Maybe more than I can ever imagine," Hitomi's eyes widened. "How much this power will he have to pay for that immense aura?... Maybe more than I would want to imagine... Just to think about it..."
That was when they noticed something else. Behind Gon, Pitou's headless corpse was rising, being lifted by a puppet made by her Nen. It immediately charged at Gon, as his friends jumped over him as well, almost getting him out the way.
Almost.
Hitomi's red eyes widened at the sight of it happening again. Blood was flying everywhere, as the boy's arm was chopped off his body. She wanted to scream, to run, to kill, just to do something, but she just stared at the blood, and Gon's long hair which surrounded them.
Then, she focused at his eyes. It hit her harder in the chest.
Did you ever see a real smile of surrender? When you know that everything is over? When you don't have anything else to live for? When you welcome death with open arms? When you know that there is no hope?
If you did, then you'll understand what pained Hitomi that much.
Neferpitou's body charged at him once again.
"It's okay," they heard Gon speaking. Their eyes went wide and their bodies tensed. "It doesn't hurt. I'm not trying to be tough. I'm kind of happy... I finally get to be the same... as Kite was then."
"Gon..." Killua whispered.
"I feel like... I've been redeemed some..."
Gon turned around and hit Pitou with the arm he had left, sending her corpse flying. He then jumped and took his disconnected arm, stabbing right into her chest with a loud cry. He then kneeled down next to his dead enemy and slided in his typical stance.
"First comes Rock..." for some strange reason, the Nen was getting a terrifyingly darker color.
"Gon!" his friends tensed at the sight.
But he didn't react at their calls.
"Stop you can't!" Killua thought. "I you keep using this power..."
"...what will happen to you?" Hitomi thought the same thing.
The Nen kept growing, blowing everywhere, and spun around them like a tornado. The pair had to cover themselves with their arms in order to not fly away because of that huge power.
"Rock... Paper..."
Flames started to surround the place, and they were slowly seeing their friend getting lost, forever.
"GON!"
At the sound of his name, the boy turned around to gave his friends a last, pained look. Hitomi fought to not lose the sight of him, but the flames engulfed him and the explosion blew his face away from her.
Gon's childish grin. The face flashed in her mind once again, before everything turned black.
Hitomi released a long, relaxed sigh, as she felt the warm water of the tube running through her back and hair. How much time passed since she had a bath like that? She couldn't remember...
Oh, right, at Gon's house.
She bit her lip. It looked like the memories would never let her live in peace. She looked at her feet, feeling that her good mood had just died down, as she closed the tube.
And she got surprised when she tried to dress up. Her hoodie - the one she had been using from the Exam until Greed Island - didn't fit her. It was so strange...
She looked at the calendar.
"August 6th."
"But it had been a few months since Greed Island... Not a big deal..." she looked closer and gaped. It was a year before then. "Well, a year and a few months then... Does that mean that I'm fourteen now?"
She wrapped a towel around her body and looked at the reflexion of the mirror and her eyes opened a little more... She looked somewhat different from last time.
Little she used to know how radical growing-up could be. Sure, she had noticed the boys growing up, getting taller, becoming even more muscular and toned... and more, but she had never noticed the changes on her until now.
There were a few curves... and her chest had grown a little, too - she wanted to laugh in Killua's face for calling her flat-chested several times in the past. She also noticed, she was taller than before.
She, slowly, was transforming into a young beautiful woman.
Hitomi then walked closer to her bag and took some pants and a long-sleeved sweater, that fitted her. She got into her room and let herself fall in her bed, closing her eyes in exhaustion.
"Are you okay?" a male voice asked.
"Yeah... Huh?!" she quickly sat up, knocking her head against the person's one in the process. She grimaced in pain, while the other sweatdropped, with a hand placed in his head as well.
Hitomi stopped grimacing, just to see that she was in front of her brother, who looked like nothing had ever happened. She blinked, staring at him.
"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" she asked, slowly.
"They. Let. Me. Go," he replied with a straight expression.
"That easily?!" she nearly jumped. "You literally died there! And I still don't know how you managed to remain alive..."
Kurapika just looked at his fists, remembering that he hadn't told her anything about what happened there.
Hitomi raised an eyebrow, wanting to know what was going on in his head.
"You know... when I was dying, someone rescued me somehow," at the statement, her eyebrows knitted together in confusion. "At that time... I saw Mom's face."
This time, Hitomi literally jumped in her spot. What was he talking about?
"I swear I saw her... She talked to me... She hugged me..." he then smiled to himself. "But it isn't possible, I know. It definitely was a dream."
The girl thought about it for a few seconds.
"I don't think so," the boy looked at her when she spoke. "I mean, I saw Pairo in the game because his Nen remained in his eyes, even though he didn't developed any Nen, remember?"
Kurapika's blue eyes widened when he heard that.
"Mom was worried about you. At the time of her death she knew I was safe, but didn't know if you were alright, I can tell," she continued. "So, it could perfectly be that Mom's Nen remained on you since she died, because she was worried."
"That means..." he trailed off and Hitomi nodded.
"She was the one who protected you..." she smiled warmly. "The reason you are alive is her love."
The boy thought about it. He still couldn't understand how come he didn't get it before. It was so simple, so clear... and so fantastic at the same time.
But... something just didn't felt right about it for Hitomi. She had the impression that Kurapika didn't look well at all. Since the last time she had visited him, his face was paler and the bags under his eyes were growing gradually. He looked sicker every time she saw him...
She had noticed it long ago, it was his Nen what was disappearing. As far as Hitomi could tell, Kurapika had broken his contract and restriction, so she supposed that was happening was exactly what happened to Gon, but in a slighter way... And she hoped that it was only Nen involved.
Kurapika was alive now because of his mother. She delayed his death, that was right, but at the same time he was slowly dying.
Hitomi was aware of his situation, but chose to shut it up because of her brother sake.
Kurapika was aware of his own situation too, but chose to shut it up because of his sister sake.
In the end, no one said anything about it.
"Anyway, how are you feeling?" he asked her after a while.
"What are you talking about? I wasn't the most wounded person around, you know," she then held her two hands. "These are the only two injuries. Hand broken by friend number one; healed. Hand burnt by friend number two; healed. Don't I have such a wonderful bunch of friends?"
Kurapika couldn't help but laugh a little.
"You maybe aren't that hurt physically," he spoke. "But I bet you are hurt from inside. Even more than me."
She gazed at her feet, in thought.
"Killua is still sitting next to Gon," he told her. "I find it strange that you aren't there as well."
Hitomi didn't have a good reason to answer her brother's observation.
"Did you and Killua fight or something?"
She flinched at the memory.
"Is there something we can do?" Hitomi asked the albino boy, looking through the glass at the bed where Gon was lying.
"We have to wait, Hitomi," he spoke, softly. "He will be okay, I'm sure."
That should have the intention to calm her down, but it looked like it just made the opposite effect.
"Wait? Wait for what? It's exactly the same as doing nothing!"
"Then we do nothing!" he yelled back. "There's absolutely nothing we can do for him now! We have to trust him, he is going to make it!"
"Like hell he's going to make it!" Hitomi snapped. "Didn't you heard the doctor? He said that he had never seen something like this before happening to a boy all of sudden! Also, didn't you heard the last Exorcist that came to heal him? She said that if she tried Gon's Nen would kill her!"
Killua's eyes opened, an idea crossing his mind. He didn't have time to say it outloud, because he saw the girl walking away.
"I'm going to take a bath," she told him, waving her hand around.
"You idiot... Are you taking a freaking bath in a time like this!" he shouted, irritated.
She stopped, not looking at him.
"What do you want me to do? Sit down and grimace here until my body gets rotten and old while looking at his slow death?" she turned around, her red eyes watering. "Wake up for once, he is gone! He is already dead in life! He won't be the Gon we all know anymore!"
There was just silence between the pair. The tension was that thick that you could literally cut through it with a knife.
Wow, Hitomi never thought that expression would be that literal...
"If there was something I could do, I'd be glad to," she turned around to leave. "But since there isn't, I won't sit here all day," she gave him a sad smile over her shoulder. "I'd hoped how many things in my life, and no one happened. Hope is lost to me."
Well, did that count as a fight? She didn't know, and wasn't exactly in the mood to think about what was that. She just released a long sigh.
Kurapika sighed as well, before pushing her out of her bed and playfully guiding out the room.
"What are you doing?" she asked, irritated.
"For once in my life, forcing you to be with Killua," he chuckled. "Believe me, you being alone with him is even harder for me than for you."
"What the-?" a tick mark appeared in her head.
"Don't think strange things, I just telling you to accompany him," he smiled, closing the door behind them. "In hard times, friends need to be together."
He stopped pushing her and she turned around, showing her irritation.
"And what are you going to do?" she asked.
"Oh, just a short call," she raised an eyebrow at his answer. "I won't take long."
Hitomi gave her brother a long, questioning look before sighing in surrender. She waved at him briefly, before starting to walk away. Kurapika watched her leaving, before taking his cell phone out of his pocket. He dialed the number and pressed it against his ear.
"I can't believe it! Someone please punch me now!" Kurapika sighed at the person greeting. "Are you calling me for real?! Who forced you to?!"
"Don't be that loud!" he replied, somewhat annoyed, "I called from my own accord, Leorio."
"Well, you have to admit that it's kinda strange. Days ago, Hitomi called me and now you are calling... Something is wrong here!"
"Hitomi calle-?" he stopped himself from asking and facepalmed. "Nevermind..."
"So, may I know why are you calling?"
Kurapika turned serious again and straightened up.
"Do you have time? It's a little long to explain," his stern voice worried Leorio a bit. "It's about Gon."
Meanwhile, Hitomi looked over her shoulder, managing to see the silhouette of her brother in the darkness, coughing a little before disappearing on it while talking on the phone. Hearing his steps getting far and far from her, the girl turned around completely and faced the place in which he was just standing, fists clenching and unclenching.
"No matter how much it costs me... I won't let you die again," her eyes narrowed. "I will heal you both, Gon, Kurapika. I will do things right this time."
Killua had not the slightest idea of how much time had passed since he sat on that bench, all alone. That was true that his empty, dark blue eyes never left the glass from Gon's bed. They narrowed when he heard steps coming and just shifted to look at the person.
Hitomi was standing there. She forced herself to smile and sat down next to the boy.
"I thought you were determined to stay out of this," he told her, in a whisper.
"Yeah, sorry. I wanted knock some sense in that head of yours that time, but I just couldn't," she admitted. "I also realized that avoiding to see him isn't going to help in anything."
Killua didn't answer and the girl released a long sigh. She walked closer to the glass and rested her forehead against the glass, feeling its coldness. Hitomi closed her eyes, which were again sparkling in red.
"I can't believe this is happening..." she mumbled.
The boy bit his lip. That summarized pretty everything that was going on in his head. The picture of a grown-up Gon fighting Neferpitou from his memories bombarded his mind countless times and he couldn't help but wince a little.
"In the end, you did everything by yourself... I get it," he spoke to his friend, mentally. "Kite saved your life, and he has no connection to us. But... still... I wanted you to ask for our help in defeating Pitou."
The Zoldyck's fists clenched at the memory.
"Let's go," his eyes never left the building where Pitou was.
"Did you say that to us as a teammate? Or as a friend?" he wondered. "I know. This is just a tantrum."
Killua smiled a little.
"It's the same as always," he said out loud while standing up, confusing Hitomi a little. "You run ahead, while I clean up after you."
He then pressed his hands against the window while Hitomi just stared at him.
"The same as always... I'll clean up your mess! But this time, I won't let it slide," he said. "You have to apologize. I'm going to heal you up," then, he shouted at the top of his lungs. "SO YOU'LL HAVE TO APOLIGIZE!"
"We are going to heal you up," Hitomi smirking, correcting him.
He looked at her, like he was going to protest, when Knov walked into the room.
"I'm organizing a team of doctors to save Gon. I'll be leaving here for a bit to transport the equipment and people with my Hide And Seek," he told them. "Do you want to come?"
"No… that's okay," Killua told him as Hitomi agreed.
"I see... Being by Gon's side and calling out to him is also necessary..."
"I'll save Gon," both the girl and the man looked at them in confusion. "I'm counting on the doctors. They're necessary, too," dark eyes looked at him. "Until I get back."
"I don't get something about this..." Killua crossed his arms in front of his chest, his eyebrow twitching in annoyment.
"Uh-huh?" she laid in the sofa of the train, not paying attention at all.
The pair was now making their way to the Republic of Padokea, place where the Kukuroo Mountain was. Hitomi still couldn't get what did Killua's home to do with saving Gon, but she shook it off.
"As far as I knew you weren't supposed to come," he continued.
"Uh-huh."
"You ended up coming."
"Uh-huh."
"And you are aware of your possible future, tragic death, right?"
"Uh-huh."
"Are you even listening to me?" a tick mark appeared in his features.
"Uh-huh."
Well, that was exactly the same than saying 'not at all'. Killua looked at her and noticed that she was wearing a pair of earplugs, listening to music or something. Annoyed, he made his way to her, pulled the earphones out and yelled close to her ear:
"DON'T IGNORE ME!"
Hitomi jumped and swore that she was too close to hit the roof. She rubbed her sore ear, looking in anger at his cat-like smirk.
"Do you want to get me deaf, you dumbass?!" she gritted her teeth.
"That's what you get for ignoring people as you please."
"Aww... But it have been a long time since I listened to music. It was like it was calling me, you know," Killua raised an eyebrow, questionably. "Well, maybe not. It's just like... You gave me enough of it in the plane."
She showed him a huge, bright grin right when he tried to speak to her.
"... 'If there was something I could do, I'd be glad to', remember?" she spoke. "There actually is something I can do, so I'll be glad to do it. End of the story."
"And may I know what are you going to do?"
"Be your bodyguard! Well... not really..." she thought of the best words to say it. "I mean, we kidnapped you from there, remember? That's why I'm going to you, to not let them get you back. A kidnapper never gives their victims away like nothing, you know."
There was a long, uncomfortable silence. Killua just stared at her, before narrowing his eyes in worry.
"You can die there," he gazed at the floor. "Most likely, they are going to set us a couple of rules. If I broke them, they probably are going to send me back home, but in your case..." he looked at her again. "They are going to kill you, Hitomi."
Hitomi pointed at herself.
"Do I look like I care?" she smirked. "As you know, I'm really careless and I couldn't care less about my well being, if there's no other choice, of course. I won't die, because that will mean that Gon would die as well and you would return there. So, don't worry about it."
Killua's eyebrow twitched in annoyment at her attitude, but chose to not say anything at all. Instead, he released a sigh of surrender.
"Got it," he turned deadly serious again. "Then, there are a few things you should know about our little 'mission'."
She nodded.
"We're going to my home because there's someone who can help us," he told her. "We're going to get her out of there, surely against my family's consent."
"Oh? It looks like every time I pay a visit to your house I end up kidnapping someone," she grinned. "So, who is she?"
Killua gazed at her feet for a long moment.
"My younger sister."
"Sister?" her eyes opened. "Hold on a second... I thought that Kalluto was a boy! And then you are telling me he is a she... and your mother said that she is a he... Oh, god... Your family is really messed up..."
"I don't mean Kalluto!" he was pissed.
Hitomi blinked. Did Killua had another sibling? And she thought that Illumi was too much...
"As I was saying, we're going to get my younger sister out the house..." he paused for a minute, before making eye-contact with the girl. "Her name is Alluka."
End of the chapter! Let's hope Gon's scene turned alright...
Finally we got out the long Chimera Arc to enter to the last one! In advance I tell you that, in my opinion, Alluka's gender is kinda confusing... Alluka is called a she, a he... and even an it in the series. That's why I'm going to believe Killua and call her as a little girl (since her appearence is a girl's as well) It gives me less headaches...
Also, I will say that (again) I won't be able to publish next chapter right away because (again) exams are in my way :( Sorry!
Anyway, let's focus in reviews...
JokeLover123: Again, I'm happy over the fact you liked Killutomi last chapter and that I made you believe that Kurapika died (Just kidding XD) Anyway, thanks for reviewing and I hope you liked it... One more thing, you made me remember and you are right... We are close to the end and I haven't even noticed :(
Veno: Well... certainly my brain didn't go there. But I can tell you that you are right in the fact that not everything is alright with Kurapika after his close to death state... but I'm sorry it doesn't have to do with the soul :( Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this update.
Last Future of Embryo: So you noticed about my love about it! (I'm kind of obvious though -_-') Wait a minute... Is Togashi really going to continue?! OH MY GOD! I'll be so happy if that's true *cross fingers*. Thanks for the review, I wish you enjoyed this chapter and good luck with your new job!... And about Mondaiji, it looks interesting so I'll take a look of it :D
havanatitiana: Happy that you like their relationship since it's really hard to write! About your questions... yeah, they may departing sometime... and no, she doesn't have a healing technique (Sorry, she isn't great at all:( ) Well, thank you for the review and I hope you enjoyed this!
Guest: I'm really glad to heard that about you! Kurapika brother's traits, the sentimental parts of the story and the romance around Hitomi aren't easy for me to write... I'm also glad you didn't lost it like Hitomi because if you did... oh god, even I wouldn't be alive right now XD. I can tell you just that something is happening to Kurapika because of that, but you'll see that in next chapters :D Thank you for the reviewing and I wish you enjoyed the chapter!
SoulXHunter: Sorry for scaring you XD I'm glad you liked that chapter though and I hope you like next one! Thanks for the review :D
Mikamizu Mouri: Sorry for leading to believe I killed one of your favorite characters! I'm happy another silent reader reviewed my story :) Thanks for it and I wish you liked this update!
Silent Readers: Thanks for your time here! Let's hope that at least you had fun :D
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