notes: tbh i dont think i even translated that right lmao, forgive my beginner latin skills; sry it's so short ! i'm working on poetry lately, so word counts less than 500 seem to be haunting me
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Killua's been rereading the word over like a soft-spoken prayer. Diu- it's one word. But it leaves him breathless when Gon translate it to him.
"It's Latin." he says, sighing like it's the fifth time he's asked this. "It means 'for a long time.'"
"Whoa, really?" Gon gaping mouth makes Killua roll eyes to the back of his head like he's about to say something irrevocably stupid. "One word means four in Latin?" As expected.
"You're going to fail again." He foresaw. "You need to understand this. Your vocabulary is-" He throws a disgusted, pompous look towards Gon.
"I do know vocab! The only thing keeping me from failing are those vocab quizzes!" To this, Killua snorts.
"Really? Then, translate this sentence." He opens up the heavy bound book and randomly lands on a page. His finger already on a sentence he has yet to read. But when he does, he instantaneously regrets it.
Fuck, he thinks. Of all sentences... His tongue clicks and he looks away, hoping out of the all the words, he wouldn't be able to say some.
Diu amavi te quod est pulchrae et tui pulchra amina.
Why? Killua dreads. Gon squints at the tiny, eight-font text and smirks.
"Are you trying to say something to me, Killua~?"
"Ugh, do you want tutoring or not? You're lucky I'm generous enough to free up my time for you, I can leave right now. I'm only here for the extra credit anyways."
Liar.
"I was kidding! Only kidding!" Gon waves his hands up, surrendering all innuendos. "Okay, it says, 'I loved you for a long time because you are beautiful and your spirit is beautiful'?"
"Translate 'amina' as 'mind.' It sounds better that way."
"So I got it!" He cheered himself. His smile; little things like that got to Killua. "Hm, I wonder how many girls would swoon if I said this to them in our math class."
A tinge of jealousy. "Idiot, they won't understand."
"That's why I'll tell them." And a siren-sinking ship.
It's just a dead language, Killua thinks, but it's a dead language that read his mind and had Gon's tongue voice words no truer in.
And I'm gonna make myself sick loving you..