Hello peoples! I am back again after a week! ^.^ I really am sorry for last week though…

I must thank my sister for beta-ing, and my good friend RGNN for constant encouragement! (We went into different classes though… sigh)

And please enjoy this new chapter of my story! *bow*

'Stop him! He is your friend!'

I woke up with a start. Huh?

Dusky was behind me, clenching the wheelchair handles tightly. Kurapika and Leorio were on the road, staring at Kanalia emotionlessly.

Oh… So it's up to that part of the story huh?

Gon walked slowly towards Kanalia. It was obvious that she was wavering. I grimaced at the sight of Gon. Even in the manga and the anime, it didn't look that bad!

'Why… We only came to see our friend… We only came to see Killua… So why? Why do we have to do all this!' My eyes widened at the sight of a very angry Gon.

He was always smiling, joking, laughing, encouraging, that it was a shock to see him angry. I shuddered. If he had been angry at me, I would have been racked with tonnes and tonnes of guilt. Gon angry didn't fit him somehow.

'Hmm? My foot crossed the line. You didn't hit me?'

Kanaria held her staff tightly. I looked at her face. It was clear that she was struggling internally. To let us through? Or obey her masters? Then Gon dropped the bomb.

'You're not like Mike. You can do whatever you want to hide your feelings, you still have a heart. When I said Killua, your eyes softened for a fraction.' Gon looked at Kanaria with determined eyes. Then suddenly, her eyes started to water.

'Please…' her tears spilled over, 'save Killua-san!'

Pan!

And then she dropped to the ground, her eyes still streaming with tears. I stared. That was way too fast.

'Really… What could the employee have told you?' a metallic whiney sounding voice came from the shadows, where two forms were appearing majestically through the trees…

Where my eyes became overloaded with lace.

What the heck is with the olden style European dress and fan? Kalluto looked fine though.

Was Kalluto a he or a she again? Because the Kalluto in front of me definitely looked like a girl.

The whiney sound came again and turned into words. 'It really seems that we handle Killua roughly. You know, it really is very rude to come and behave childishly here.' The dot on the middle of the screen zoned in on Gon.

'You're Gon, aren't you? We heard about you from Illumi. We told Killua you were in the domain three-weeks ago. I'm going to repeat word for word what Killua requested me to tell you.' She smiled sadistically at us.

"It's a real pleasure for me that you came… but… right now I can't meet you… Sorry."

I sighed. Couldn't just a bit of the storyline change? Then we wouldn't need to play the game with the really creepy looking butler…

Killua was sleeping. It might not have been the best situation or the most comfortable place to sleep, but to his defence, he was very tired.

And being whipped hurts.

'Wake up!' A grossly fat guy whipped him a few more times.

'Huh? Oh, Milluki! Hello! What time is it?'

Milluki frowned, annoyed. Wasn't whipping him enough? He smiled as he thought of another way of torturing him. He took his cigarette out of his mouth and started burning him with it. His eyes darkened.

'Don't make fun of me, Killua.' Milluki glared, trying to look scary. He failed. Just made him resemble a pig more.

'Oh it's hot! Hot!' Killua looked earnestly into his brother's eyes. 'You know, I did think about it. I'm sorry.'

'Lies!' He drew his whip again. Killua looked at Milluki darkly.

'It's that visible?' He spat out some blood out of his mouth. Milluki shook indignantly, his fat wobbling dangerously, as if it was going to drop off any time.

BRIIIING!

Milluki took out his phone and talked into it. Then he smiled at Killua.

'Ooh Killua, it seems as if your friends made it as far as the attendant's room. If I just tell mom to kill them all…'

Killua clenched his hands to control his anger.

'Or maybe one by one… The girl with the silver hair first maybe…'

CLANG!

Bits of metal flew at Milluki. The chain that held one of Killua's arms was now dangling off his wrist.

'Milluki… If you touch her… touch any of them… I'll kill you…' His mad smile bore down onto Milluki. Milluki involuntarily stepped backwards.

'Ack Gon! What did you do to your face?' I had jumped up from the stupid chair (much to Dusky's distaste) and hovered around Gon worriedly. 'At least let me clean it up for you…'

I summoned up some water and cleaned off all the dirt and dried blood. Without all of that, it looked a bit easier to manage. Kurapika and Leorio looked on with wide eyes.

We were following Kanaria to the creepy butler's mansion. Dusky was loyally pushing the wheelchair for me. I sighed and stepped back and looked at Gon's face.

'Now that looks better. Don't you agree?' I turned him around to face the others.

'Yeah…' Kurapika and Leorio said monotonously. Dusky just nodded.

'And since you're not cleaning up anymore, why don't you sit in the wheelchair, Wind?' She glared at me dangerously. I gulped.

'I don't want to!!' But unfortunately, all my efforts were wasted when she pounced on me and dragged me back into the wheelchair. I pouted and drew little pictures on the chair with my finger.

'Dusky's mean…'

Kanaria had been leading us without a word until she reached a big mansion.

'This is it.'

'Huh?' Leorio craned his neck to try and see more of it. It became apparent however that there were figures standing in front of the mansion.

And the minute they saw us, they bowed.

'Good evening.' Then they led us inside.

I had always wondered about the decorations inside. It was all very expensive looking, that's for sure.

And did they really have to decorate the place with such a morbid décor? All of the hallways were dim and black with weird looking statues everywhere. But it was obvious that the top floor, when we finally got there, was better.

They led us to a brightly lit room where there were no weirdly shaped gargoyles or creepy looking carpets. I looked at the table.

Or more specifically what was on the table. There was a fruit bowl.

And inside the fruit bowl was…

'PINEAPPLE!!' I squealed and jumped out of my wheelchair. Then I dove into a sofa, picked up the fruit knife and started preparing it.

'La lala dida la…' I sang quietly as I happily cut my pineapple. Everyone sweat-dropped. The only one without at least as slightly surprised expression was the creepy looking butler.

'We should tend to your wounds first, then talk.' Gon was then led away.

I didn't actually care really. I was just happy that there was pineapple. I had been in pineapple withdrawal because they didn't have pineapple in the homey looking lodge.

They only had rice and vegetables…

Which was, of course, not as awesome as pineapple. Obviously.

I finished taking out all the little needle things and quickly chopped it into bite-sized pieces. Dusky tried to wheedle some off me.

'Wind-chan! Give me some?' She looked at me with puppy-dog eyes. I glared at her, giving in to a moment of childishness.

'No, you evil wheelchair! The pineapple's mine.'

Everyone stared at us as if we were mad. The butlers all had the same look on their face. I could practically hear their thoughts.

Evil wheelchair?

I just happily ignored them and ate my pineapple. Gon came in when I had about finished half of it. His eyes lit up at the sight of my pineapple. Everyone else had been too awkward about taking the other fruits.

'Wind! Can I have a piece of pineapple?' I looked at him. Then at my pineapple. Then at him again. Then at my pineapple. I was torn between the puppy eyes and my pineapple cravings. Then I reluctantly shoved my plate at him.

'Only one.' I muttered morosely. Damn eyes.

'Yay!' Then he picked a moderately sized piece and ate it. I immediately snatched back my plate and started devouring it again. Kurapika was looking at me, smiling, as if he was watching a little kid playing with a doll or a car or something. Leorio however, looked as if he was trying hard not to laugh.

I pointedly ignored Leorio and stared the other way. Right into Dusky's face.

'Why give him some when I didn't get any? I had been your friend since ages too!' Her eyes started watering. I stared at her, alarmed. I hated Dusky's tantrums. They lasted for days!

'One then. Only one.' She immediately smiled (where did the tears go?) and picked the biggest piece out of the lot.

'Oi! That's mine! I'd been saving it for later! Eat another piece!' I started scratching at her hand to try and get it back. Then she smirked at me and ate it.

I stared at her. She ate my special piece of pineapple. We started cat-fighting. Unfortunately, that meant we had skipped the introduction that the butlers told us.

I didn't even catch the creepy-looking butler's name.

And before we knew it, the game had already started and we were left out of it.

Sigh… we weren't allowed to join the game in the middle either. When we tried to, the butlers glared at us. So we just calmly sat in the tension filled room on the side waiting for Killua to come to us.

I was just glad that I had the rest of the pineapple to relieve my boredom.

'Gon! Wind! Plus Reolio, Kurapika and Dusky!'

'Leorio!' Leorio said annoyed.

'Plus?' Kurapika questioned.

'Killua!' Gon and I yelled and rushed to him.

Dusky said nothing. But smiled.

'Long time no see! You managed to get here but you should look at your face!'

'Yours doesn't look so great either!'

'Yup! Killua, you should really get a face-job!'

'What do you mean, you!' Then he put a headlock on me. Damn my shortness…

'We should leave ne? Because my mother wouldn't let me leave if I stay here…' He looked at the butlers. 'So see ya, Goto!' So his name was Goto… Killua continued. 'Don't listen to my mom whatever she says.'

'I understand. Have a good trip.' He said, bowing. We started to walk away, with Killua still having me in a headlock.

'Hey Killua…'

'Hmm?'

'Can you let go of me?' He looked down and suddenly blushed. He let go of me at once.

'S-s-sorry! I didn't m-mean to…' he stammered, waving his hands about. I chuckled at his awkwardness and looked at him. Then I frowned.

'You're so red, Killua! Do you have a fever? Let me check…' I went on my tippy-toes and put my forehead to his. It did seem incredibly hot. Killua was even redder than before!

I frowned at him.

'I think you should rest awhile later, Killua! You seem to have a fever!' He shook his head.

'No! I mean,' he amended 'I'm fine. Look! It's nearly all gone…' I looked. It did seem so. His ears were still a bit red though…

Ears? Was Killua blushing?

I glanced at Killua through the corner of my eye. Dusky was pushing my chair and talking to Kurapika animatedly. Leorio was getting angry at something Killua said while Killua himself was laughing.

I shook my head.

Naah, as if he would ever blush because of me…

Strangely, that thought made me feel a bit depressed...

Gon caught up with us and we went down the track together. On the way, Dusky had somehow pushed me back into my chair (I glared at Dusky), popped in to say a hello to Zebulo-san and went to the door. Killua opened it effortlessly to door four.

'Come on, go through,' he said, pushing nonchalantly at the door to let us through. Leorio and Gon gaped.

'Why are we surrounded by freakishly strong people?' Leorio muttered.

'Huh?' Killua looked confused.

'Oh, it's just that you and Wind can both open the doors so effortlessly…' Leorio trailed off, looking dejected.

I laughed secretly at him and casually took out my dagger. I took out the syringe and injected it into my arm.

'Well, you're pretty strong already Leorio… Just not as strong as the pair of little kids in front of you!' I laughed as I slid the syringe back into the dagger and the dagger back onto my arm.

They stared at me.

'What did you just inject into yourself, Wind?' Kurapika looked at me seriously. Sigh. He was always the mom.

'Painkillers. Nothing much.' Killua looked startled.

'You mean that you really are going to die in four months?' Everyone stared at Killua. Killua had this weird face on. I started. What? How did he know?

'How do you know that?' I looked at him seriously.

'I overheard one of your conversations in the hunter exam. And that had already been a month or so ago…'

Gon went into panic mode.

'What? Wind! You didn't tell us that you were going to die in four months? What were you thinking? We're your friends!' He looked so sad that I wanted to cry in guilt.

'Well… I thought Dusky told you…' I trailed off. Dusky immediately looked away and started walking while whistling, pushing my wheelchair in the process.

'I don't know anything,' she said while whistling. The others started to chase her.

'Tell us!' Gon ran after us, his dreadful puppy eyes on full force.

'Why did you lie?' Kurapika said in his serious tone, which was totally contrasted by his long-legged running.

'Hmm…' Killua frowned an bit his lip as he chased after Kurapika.

'What disease is it?' Leorio looked pale, but managed to nearly catch up to us.

I sweat-dropped as Dusky went into a full sprint.

'I don't know ANYTHING AT ALL I TELL YOU!!!!' They kept chasing her.

'Umm Dusky?' I looked tentatively at her.

'Don't say anything!' She glared at me. 'This is all your fault anyway!'

'No, I didn't mean that…'

'Then what?'

'Umm… We're going straight towards the cliff-edge…'

'WHAT?!'

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