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Chapter 11: SkateboardXAttentionXFirst Day

"Killua, stop!" Gon yelled at the smirking boy rolling away backwards on his skateboard, hands in his shorts' pockets.

Many people were staring at and murmuring about Killua as he rolled around Gon like a bee around a flower, but this was nothing new. His silver hair and pale skin had always elicited rumors, gotten him looks of all kinds, and awarded him unwanted attention.

Although he generally didn't care, some days he just wanted to hide away from it all and would wear a hoodie or hat in an attempt at getting no one to notice his hair at least. It worked for the most part as long as he didn't draw attention to himself those days. But-

"KILLUA!" Gon screamed out loud enough for the entire schoolyard to turn their attention directly at him, though Gon never cared about what other people thought of him.

Then there was the problem of Gon always giving him away without really realizing what he was doing. However Killua believed that getting rid of Gon for even one day of peace was not worth it.

Gon stomped up to his stone-still friend under the doorway, and at that moment Killua was glad he didn't bother with trying to hide today. Any attempt at going unnoticed for the day would have just been completely and utterly shattered before the school day had even started.

When the spiky-haired teen finally caught up, he crossed his arms over his chest and glared at his best friend. Killua tried hard not to laugh at his friend's attempt at an angry expression, which more than usually turned out as cute rather than scary. It didn't help that the rain had downed the other's usually upright hair, either.

"Sorry Gon," Killua tried to apologize, but Gon wasn't hearing it as he bent down and snatched the skateboard out from under the pale-skinned teen and headed off toward the school.

Killua let out a sigh at this and jogged to catch up to his fuming friend.

"Alright so I'll admit skating those circles around you and almost making you fall-"

"TWICE!" Gon added angrily, still stomping towards the front doors to the school.

"-twice was a bit much, but-"

"Rolling over my foot," Gon added again.

"That was an accident, I swear. But you don't need to take it away again! I'm really, honestly sorry," Killua persisted.

He made his way in front of Gon to block his path, grabbing onto his arms and leaning down slightly to touch their foreheads together, giving a silent plea with his eyes. "Please?"

They stayed like that for a while with people passing by and giving looks, some stopping to see what was happening. Gon was actually enjoying the contact rather than getting frustrated, until the pale-skinned teen's eyes darted to the group of people watching them and his cheeks grew pink.

Gon sighed, not wanting the moment to end. He handed over the skateboard and watched Killua's face light up, elated at getting it back.

He didn't even remember why Killua practically worshipped the thing.

Age 11-12

Killua swore if he could disappear into thin air, he would. There were so many kids around. So many. It was maddening and stressful to see this many other people in one place for the first time in his not-so-people-friendly-life.

Gon elbowed him from the side, bringing his attention back to earth. "It's okay Killua, Aunt Mito made sure you got the same classes as me for your first two years to get used to it all."

Mito had been homeschooling Killua the first year he started living with them, but told him that he would have to go to public school after the first year. She talked to the school about it and got them to agree to give Killua the same classes as Gon for his first two years so he wouldn't be alone in learning to properly interact with people his age. Also so that he would be able to find his way around the school easier, being that he was actually starting in the middle of the school year.

Killua had visibly relaxed at hearing so, but tensed once again when they walked into a classroom and immediately all eyes were on him.

"Ah, you must be our new student. Please, have a seat there in the back." The teacher pointed to a seat in the back of the classroom in the middle aisle.

"Um, Mister Zepile, would it be alright if-"

"No, Gon. I don't care what animal it is or what it is telling you. You can not let it in. Now please have a seat."

"But-"

"Now Gon, you don't want your first detention do you?"

Gon muttered a 'No sir' as he went to his seat at the front of the class in the left most aisle. It really wasn't all that far away, but to Killua it seemed like miles away right now.

The teacher, Zepile, had gone on with his lesson about history and old artifacts then. Killua only half paid attention as he was more focused on taking in everything he could about the room and the people in it.

He noticed three girls giggling and constantly sending glances his way and multiple boys whispering while not so subtly staring at him, wondering if that was good or bad. He chose to ignore them and looked up to the teacher at the front to see his back turned as he talked non-stop and wrote on the whiteboard.

A crumpled piece of paper bounced against Killua's forehead and landed on his desk. He looked down and examined it, before he looked around and saw the three giggling girls waving and Gon glaring at them from across the room.

Uncrumpling the paper, the note had "i luv ur hair", "you have dreamy eyes" and "want to eat lunch with us?" written all over it. Killua did like his own hair as well, had no idea what they meant by 'dreamy eyes', and planned to eat with Gon.

Gon had watched this all happening from the corners of his eyes, happy that other people were already trying to get along with the other boy. He had been angry at first thinking they threw the ball of paper just to be mean, but visibly calmed when he noticed Killua reading it instead.

When Zepile finally finished, he told everyone to partner up and Gon immediately got up to go sit next to Killua. When he turned around though, his friend was already surrounded by the three girls from earlier all asking to be his partner.

Gon didn't know why that was so bothering to him.

He made his way over and tried to push his way past the girls, only to find they were practically glued together and he couldn't push past.

Now he was annoyed. He wanted to get to his friend.

"Excuse me, I'm trying to get to my friend if you don't mind," he tried politely, as Aunt Mito taught him to never be rude to a lady.

"I really doubt Killua would want to partner up with a country boy like you. You would probably cause him to get an F on his first day here!" one of the girls spat, all three turning to glare at him.

Pissed. That was the only word to explain what Gon was feeling now. "Surely these aren't the 'ladies' Aunt Mito was talking about."

"Go away hags," they all heard from the silver-haired boy. This caused the three of them to gasp and turn to look at him, shocked. "Next time you talk to him like that I'm going to shave each of you bald too," Killua warned them with clenched fists, causing them to back off.

Now Gon was quite pleased, and smirking triumphantly at winning the best prize of all. Killua's attention.

A year and a couple of months later Killua's birthday had rolled around, marking the second year Killua had moved in with the family. They were sitting around the table singing 'Happy birthday' to him as he grinned brightly. He wanted to tear into the pure chocolate cake with a double coat of chocolate icing so badly he could feel his skin itching at the prospect of being so near to it and not being allowed to touch it yet.

He already had to watch Mito make it from scratch with so much chocolate all over the place. He had quite a few bruises on his hands from trying to steal the chocolate batter so many times and having his hand smacked away by a wooden spoon.

When they finally finished, Killua didn't even bother making a wish before blowing out the candles and reaching out for a handful of cake. He immediately had his hand smacked away by a wooden spoon.

"Does she always have that thing on standby just in case?!" he thought angrily, glaring at her for not letting him just tear into it.

"Killua..you didn't even make a wish..." Gon informed him sadly.

"I have triple chocolate cake in front of me and you beside me. There isn't anything else I need." Killua stated without even realizing it.

Watching Mito cut the cake right down the middle and putting one half on a big plate, She passed said plate to Killua and shoved a fork in his face before he could shove his hand or face into the cake. Killua accepted the fork reluctantly. He would still much rather just wolf it down.

Gon smiled at what Killua said earlier. He passed his piece of cake over to Killua rather than eating it, thinking his friend should get as much as he wanted today.

After Killua had destroyed the cake and any remnants that might remain of pieces that belonged to others, and Mito had wiped his face of blotches of chocolate, they passed presents on to him. Granny had gotten the preteen a set of twin yo-yos, which Killua loved at first sight.

Mito was not happy with her own decision for his birthday gift, but counted it as Gon's birthday gift as well, and she believed together they could manage to be responsible enough for this.

"I have to go outside to bring your present in, Killua. Open Gon's gift next and I will be back with your last one." she informed the boy, walking out of the room to the backdoor.

Killua stared after her, before he turned back around and found a giant box hovering in front of his face.

"Open it Killua!" Gon chanted over and over, literally bouncing up and down on his toes.

"Okay okay! Just calm down! Geez!" Killua shouted, snatching the box out of the spiky-haired boy's hands. He examined the box, wondering wha-

"OPEN IT KILLUAAA!" Gon practically screamed right in Killua's ear, who was hoping it was a good hearing aide that he would inevitably need now.

Killua tore through the wrapping and opened the over sized box to find a yellow and red skateboard inside. He took it out and carefully examined it, already happy to have it as he had been watching the skaters down by the skate park with great amusement whenever they passed by.

"I noticed you watch people who skate a lot, and when I saw it I thought it'd be perfect for you! So do you like it? Huh? Huh?!" Gon explained, still hopping up and down on his toes in excitement.

Killua smiled and mentally swore to hunt down and kill anyone who ever stole it or broke it, and promised to cherish it forever.

Pat pat pat pat.

The three of them turned to face the door, and saw Mito walk into the room with a dog almost as big as both Killua and Gon.

"YES!" Gon yelled, running to go greet the dog.

"Holy-"

"Killua," Mito warned, already aware of his not so innocent language.

"-crap that's a big dog," Killua finished, correcting himself before Mito decided to scold him..

"I hope it's not too big, did you want a smaller one?" Mito asked, concerned she had chosen the wrong kind of dog for him.

"No way, a small dog wouldn't be able to scare people!" the silver-haired boy retorted, running over to play with his new pet that he had been hinting at wanting for months.

He saved up his allowance for the longest time to get a spiked collar with the name 'Mike' engraved into it after then.

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