Chapter 7
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"Hello?" Duo picked up the phone.
*Duo?*
"It's me. Leorio?"
*Yeah. I was just wondering about the Valentine's Day dance... Would you... uh... go with me?*
"I'd love too!"
*[Told ya, Kurapika!] Great! Well, that's all I have to say. Bye.*
"Bye."+Click+ Duo felt like jumping for joy.
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Kurapika caught up with Boiar on her way to art. She smiled. "Hi, Kurapika. How's it going?"
"More than fifty girls here have triend asking me out. Some of them triend more than ten times." He gave a sardonic laugh. "I had to turn them all down."
"Why?" Boiar gave him a curious look.
Kurapika's cheeks turned pink. He couldn't meet her eyes. "um... I wanted to go with you... would you be my date for the dance?"
"No need to be shy." They reached the classroom. "I'd be thrilled!"
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"How'd it go?" Leorio found Kurapika by the water fountain. "What did she say? Did she turn you down? Did she agree? Tell me!!!"
Kurapika wiped his mouth off on his sleeve. "Boiar said she'd come. I was so embarrassed when I asked her."
"You go, girl![1]" Leorio snapped his fingers across Kurapika's face. "Oops, I meant..."
To his relief, Kurapika just laughed it off. "You're getting kind of light-headed these days." Leorio noted. "What kind of illness is getting to you?"
"You're the doctor. Tell me."
"It looks like a bit of love-itis."
"Sounds serious." Kurapika's cell hone rang. "Hello?"
*Kurapika? This is Boiar! Look, my neighbor is a scientist, and I was asking her about portals. She told me that if you two can't get back to your own time, there's going to be a huge imbalance in both ot our times!*
"What the...? Then how are we supposed to get back?"
*Another portal is supposed to appear on midnight, Valentine's Day. All you have to do is to gain enough speed to break through the time barrier. Somehow you'll get transferred back to your original time.*
"Is that it?"
*The only way to get that speed is to jump for something really high... Like the clock tower here in Blue Sky.*
"Are you SURE?"
*Yeah, absolutely certain! I'm gonna be late for practice, bye!*+Click+
"Weird."
"What?" Leorio looked puzzled.
"Another portal. I'll explain..."
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*Freaky! He could kill himself that way!* Eilen exclaimed. *Instant suicide.*
"It has to work!" Boiar protested, "There's no other way! We don't even know where or when they came from!"
*Right...*
"Look, the creator of HunterXHunter never gave the year when this happened, okay?"
*So you actually believe that they have to jump off a creakyspookyscaryold clock tower?*
"What else?"
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[1]"You go, girl." Not to say Kurapika is a girl, but does 'You go, guy' sound right? I could've used 'You go, man,' but... oh well...

We never did figure out when HunterXHunter took place, did we?