8/13/2016

I don't own HunterxHunter.

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"Got a weapon?" Killua asks later after they've built a bonfire and set up some kind of camping ground for the night. They're up on a hill so they can see if anyone- or thing- approaches them. The fire helps to warm them up as well as keep any stray zombies away- they hated the heat.

Uh-oh. Gon picks at the canned beef Killua stole from some store along the way, knowing Killua won't like the answer. "Do my fists count?"

Killua rolls his eyes. "No. What are you gonna do, punch the zombies to death?"

Gon winces. "Um. Yes?"

Killua flicks his forehead- ow! Killuaaaaa,he cries out- before he can get away. "Stupid! You're going to get yourself killed!"

Gon could feel his eyes watering as he rubs where Killua hit him. "But!"

"No buts!" Killua says sternly. "What am I going to do if you get bitten, huh? I can't save both you and Alluka!"

Gon winces. Killua's right, like usual, but. Still. "Well, it worked up until now."

Killua's head snaps up. "What?"

"Well." Gon carefully sets his can to the side so he show Killua what he found. "I found this when me and Aunt Mito were cleaning the house a while back- see?"

He holds up his makeshift weapon for his best friend to see. Killua squints to make it out in the low light then makes a grabbing motion. "Let me-"

"Yeah, here." Gon hands it over and watches Killua turn the glove-like object over in his hands. "It doesn't look like much, but I tampered with it a little with Bisky's help and it's actually really useful! It becomes this fireball thing when you make your hand into a fist and it destroys whatever you hit. Its crazy powerful depending on how much force you put into the punch."

"How does it work?"

"Batteries. And blood."

Killua looks at him sideways, an eyebrow raised. "Blood?"

Gon can't help but smile sheepishly. "Yeah." He'd tried everything but blood was really the only way it would turn on, as weird as it sounded. Batteries fueled the thing once it was active.

"How did you find this thing?"

"I think it belonged to my dad," Gon says. "There were blueprints inside the glove in his handwriting."

Killua bites his lip. "I'm sorry, Gon. You'll probably never find him now."

Gon shrugs. Ging didn't seem like someone who would let the end of the world get the better of him. Gon would bet anything his dad was still out there somewhere, and Gon would find him eventually. But- "We can worry about that later, after we find Alluka. She's more important right now."

Killua nods, worry flooding back into his face. "Right."

Gon wants nothing more than to wipe that expression away. But he can't, not until they get Killua's sister back safe and sound. To distract him, Gon asks, "What about you?"

"What about me?'

"Do you have a weapon?"

"Oh. Yeah, 'course I do. Who do you think I am? I don't come from a family of weapon manufacturers for nothing!"

He reaches into his pockets and pulls out two yo-yos.

Gon's eyes widen involuntarily. "Are those-?"

Killua grins. "You bet."

"And they work?" Gon remembers Killua complaining to him a while ago about how he was trying to figure out a new way to work electric whips into kid toys- so no one would suspect how deadly they really were until it was too late- and how hard it was to find a cohesive alloy. Killua never liked being a test subject for his family's inventions, but coming up with his own meant he would be able to protect himself- and Alluka- against them in the future.

For Killua, self-defense had been a necessity since birth.

"Yep! Fixed them up just in time for this shit show to start." Gon blinks as Killua stands up, wrapping string around his fingers.

"Each one of these weigh fifty kilograms," Killua explains and lets them both hang in the air. Electric spasms of light flicker down the cord connecting to the yo-yo part. "-so they pack quite a punch."

He lets one fly to their right- away from Gon's head- and it smashes into a tree, straight through the trunk and shattering the bark. Gon whistles, impressed.

"Wow. But will the electricity hurt the zombies?" Another thought turns Gon's blood to ice. "Will it hurt you?"

"Pffft, nah. I'm electric resistant, remember?" Killua yanks the yo-yos up into the air and does some fancy tricks. Gon tries to follow them with his eyes but Killua is somehow an expert and he moves too fast for Gon to trace. "As far as the zombies, all I have to do is smash their heads in and they're done for. And I'm pretty sure the electricity can paralyze their bodies. Haven't tried it out yet, though."

Gon barely hears him; he's still watching Killua's yo-yos spin through the space above their heads.

"How do you do that?" Gon asks in awe.

Killua smirks. "I once won a contest when I was younger."

"I thought that was in dart throwing, though?"

His friend shrugs. "That too."

Gon feels his mouth hanging open. Killua really is- "You're amazing!"

Killua snorts, pockets the yo-yos, and says, "Hardly. I was just bored."

But Gon can tell Killua's cheeks are a shade darker, even in the flickering firelight, and he beams. Even if Killua didn't think so, Gon likes to remind him just how special he really is. Gon didn't know who else he would rather have at his side, especially during a zombie apocalypse.

"I'm glad you're here with me," Gon admits lowly as he wrings his hands in his lap. He sees Killua's head whip around to stare at him. For a moment, Killua doesn't speak and Gon stays silent, heartbeat thudding loudly in his ears.

Finally Killua lets out a resigned sigh and plops down next to Gon on the ground. "Yeah," he says, just as quiet. "Me too. I don't know how many people would willingly head into this bloodbath with me."

Gon hums. "Kurapika and Leorio?"

"Maybe." Killua leans into Gon's right arm and warmth blossoms under Gon's skin where they touch. "Still. I- I would want it to be you, though."

Gon can't hold back his smile. The moments when Killua shares his feelings are rare, but always one hundred percent genuine. He flings his arms around his best friend's shoulders, despite said friend's squawking- and squeezes him.

"Me too, Killua! I wouldn't want to be anywhere else!"