Probably the fluffiest chapter I have so far, and likely my favorite because of that. I'm going to start revising chapter 18 right after this is uploaded, and I'm up to the beginning of the flashback on chapter 19, so it won't be too long on that one. It'll start slowing down some once 19 is out because I won't just be revising and putting out already finished chapters. So don't expect another 17 chapters in less than 24 hours anymore.

Sorry, but hope you continue to enjoy it anyways! If you got this far, thank you for reading and hope you continue to enjoy.(Or start to enjoy, whichever applies)

Chapter 18 might be a bit longer though, it's a sort of fight scene during the dodge ball game. I always feel dumb when I do fight scenes and feel like I'm doing it all wrong. But I'll try to get it to a way that I at least feel confident enough to get it out here.

I would also like to thank the current three reviewers I have seen, Midnight1234, Lovely Shipper and justanotheridiot(I don't think you're an idiot though) for the reviews that I sought after. A nice thanks to those who favorite and followed as well.

Okay, I'm done being cheesy and long-winded for now. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Hunter x Hunter. I would love to though.

Chapter 17: One By OneXCompetitiveXFluff

When Razor emerged from his office and saw all but one student done with the beginning laps and stretches, he made his way to the middle of the gym.

"Alright, everyone line up on this line," he ordered, staring at his clipboard and pointing to the line dividing the court in half.

Gon and Killua started making their way over, and stood on the black line with the rest of the class. Razor continued to stare at his clipboard even while everyone was lined up, seeming to be in deep thought.

"I bet you it's dodge ball," Killua whispered, nudging Gon beside him to get his attention.

"Killua, don't talk, you're going to get us in trouble!" Gon whispered back, kicking the side of the other's leg.

Killua's grin dropped, and he not so subtly stomped on the spiky-haired teen's foot. Gon sucked in a sharp breath through clenched teeth, standing up unusually straight. Razor glanced up from his clipboard at the sound and noticed the teenager's strange behavior.

"Something to say, Mr. Freecss?" Razor questioned, and went back to his clipboard after the teen shook his head.

Gon glared over at Killua seeing his friend holding back laughter until he smirked, an idea popping into his head. He sneakily inched his hand closer to Killua's sore hand, and flicked the knuckles as hard as he could. Killua instantly dropped to his knees and threw his hands up shoulder height, clawing at the air from the pain. His cheeks puffed out from holding in a scream and he threw his head up, squeezing his eyes shut. By now he figured his knuckles were probably broken.

"What on earth are you doing?" Razor asked, throwing his full attention to the silver-haired teen. The rest of the class began to snicker at the show, thinking he was just trying to be funny. Killua squeaked in reply, and Gon went down on one knee next to him, putting on a show of concern.

"Killua? Are you hurt?" Gon asked, pretending to look him over before leaning in close to his ear. "Yep, karma still sucks," he whispered before blowing into his ear. Killua eyes shot wide open and his cheeks flared red at the action.

"Looks like he's faking Mr. Razor. Look!" Gon pointed at Killua's face, "He's even embarrassed at being caught!"

"You little son of a-"

"Killua, seeing how you seem so keen on disrupting our time why don't you be our first team captain. You can stand up here next to me." Razor pointed to the spot next to himself. "Gon, you can be our other team captain. I'd really rather not have our two most athletic students on the same team."

Killua stood up and walked to one side of the teacher, mumbling something under his breath. Gon practically hopped over to the other side of Razor, ready to begin doing something with all his pent-up energy.

A loud boom of thunder was heard from outside. "We won't be going outside today for obvious reasons. We'll be doing dodge ball today," most of the students groaned while a few others silently cheered, "you know the rules. If you don't, I'll be more than happy to explain."

At this Razor noticed the hands of the students who groaned at the mention of the sport raise their hands, knowing full well they just wanted to buy time.

"No one? Good! Let's begin by picking teams. Killua, you first," Razor announced with a smile.

Killua rolled his eyes, pointing at someone at random. He didn't pay attention to anyone in class but Gon and the girls who like to steal his shirts, so he didn't know or care who was and who wasn't useful. He knew the outcome of this game anyways.

Once the teams were finished being picked, Razor planted ten dodge balls on the middle line and told the two teams to line up on opposite sides of the gym.

"Gon, Killua, at least try not to hurt the others this time. Please," Razor warned before blowing his whistle, and watched as the aforementioned two blasted off toward the middle.

The two had been nothing if not active ever since they met, and most of the time even went so far as to make exercising a competition. They even had weights at home and would more often than not snuck into the local gym to stay until they got caught to burn off excess energy.

Killua got there slightly faster, grabbing two balls and throwing them backwards while kicking a third back with one of his feet. When Gon got to the line he grabbed one of Killua's wrists to stop him and used his other hand to pick up and try to tag the other with the ball. Killua ducked back, dodging the ball that was aimed for his chest.

He tried to kick Gon's legs out from under him in a side sweep. The spiky-haired teen jumped over his friend's leg and threw the ball at Killua's face, whom dodged to the left and was freed from Gon's gasp when the other had to dodge a ball Killua's team had thrown.

As soon as Killua was free he jumped back and he turned to his side as two balls flew past both sides of him, happy that he was as skinny as he was. He looked across the line and saw Gon grinning at him like an idiot, immediately figuring out why and ducking as a red ball flew over the back of his head.

"Tch. Trying to hit me with a rebound," Killua thought angrily, kicking up two red balls at his feet and catching them in his hands. He watched the other side for a target, knowing Gon wasn't going to get taken out anytime soon. He noticed one boy doing the same, and made the ball spin before he threw it at the ground next to Gon.

Just as he thought, the boy watched the ball land at Gon's feet and looked away thinking he was safe before the spinning of the ball made it veer to the left right towards the boy, hitting him square in the stomach.

"They all expect me to go after Gon, which means I'm free to take out whoever I want."

"Maybe we've been watching too many action movies." Gon thought as he remembered the beginning of the game and staring at the boy behind him walking off the court, thinking that the ball was meant for himself. He leaned forward a bit to dodge a ball he could hear flying through the air toward him. He heard a girl yelp and turned around to look at where that ball aimed at his head flew, noticing it had hit one of the girls on his team that was behind him.

He sighed, knowing he was going to be the death of his team because of Killua. They really were far too competitive to be allowed in gym class. Or to play games.

Or do almost anything.

Age 14

"If I have to pull you two off of each other one more time-"

"We said we were sorry!" Gon tried to reason as he and Killua were being dragged by their shirt collars by Mito.

"Sorry doesn't make up for the picnic table you flipped over, or the poor man you pied in the face, or all the food you got everywhere during your little fight," Mito chided while dragging them away from the eating contest the two had entered in, and get disqualified from when they broke out fighting over trying to steal each other's food.

So far they had started a food fight at the eating contest, sprained the ankle of 3 different people at the 3-legged race, impaled each other with darts at the balloon popping game, killed 3 goldfish at the goldfish game, and somehow managed to set fire to the dunk tank.

All because they wanted to beat each other and/or everyone else at those games/competitions.

"If you two hurt one more person, destroy one more game, or get in a fight with each other one more time, we're going home and you're both going to be grounded for three months. Three. Months," she warned them, putting emphasis on the last two words. "It's a miracle we haven't been kicked out yet. Or arrested."

Killua grumbled and Gon nodded in understanding, both of them being released and running off in the direction of the games once more. Killua stopped in front of a booth where you shoot squirt guns into a clown head's mouth and Gon stopped just short of him.

"I don't think we should do this, Killua..." Gon knew full well what would happen the second they picked up those water guns.

"Yeah yeah, I know you hate losing all the time, but I want something from here." Killua took a seat and began inspecting one of the water guns. Gon puffed out his cheeks and pouted, sitting next to his friend.

"I do not lose all the time!" the spiky-haired teen retorted, snatching one of the water guns for himself and feeling quite offended.

Killua aimed his gun at the clown's mouth, waiting for the bell to chime as a signal for them to begin. When the bell gave a loud 'Ding!' they both immediately began shooting the water into the clowns' mouths.

Gon was winning by a miniscule amount, so Killua slid his foot over and used it to tip over the stool his friend was sitting on. As Gon collided with the ground, Killua shot far into the lead. Although Gon wasn't just going to take that.

Killua fell to the ground in a heap when Gon tackled him off his own stool, lying with his back on Killua to keep him down while he shot at his clown's mouth from his spot on top of his friend. Killua pulled his water gun over the spiky-haired teen's face to blind him, and kicked the other's gun away during the surprise.

"Killuaaa stop it!" Gon yelled, grabbing a hold of the other's wrist to keep him from getting a shot off. Killua grabbed hold of Gon's hands and held them up, using his legs to pin the other's down on the ground and shooting into his clown's mouth until he won.

He let go of Gon's limbs, crawled out from under him and jumped to his feet, giving a small cheer of victory before going up to the prize handler and pointing at what he wanted. Upon grabbing his prize he was immediately jerked away from the booth by the back of his shirt. Turning around he saw an angry faced Mito dragging Gon along by his wrist as well.

When they got to the car, she practically threw them both in the back seat and went to the driver's seat to start the car. When all seat belts were buckled, she pulled out of the parking lot and began the drive home.

Killua could feel the anger radiating off of Mito. He looked over at his friend and saw the teen with his arms crossed, a mixture of sadness and anger on his face. He couldn't tell if the spiky-haired teen was about to cry or yell, maybe both.

Killua reached out and poked his friend on the shoulder to gain his attention. When he had it he offered his hand to hold and an apologetic smile, but Gon curtly turned his head away and stared out the window. Killua sighed and looked at his prize, deciding to wait until they got home to do what he had planned.

When they pulled into the driveway, Mito turned off the car and ordered them to go straight to their room.

Killua followed Gon into their room, closing the door softly as Gon plopped down onto the edge of the bed with his legs dangling off the side. Killua sat on the edge next to him, deciding to go ahead and get it over with.

"Hey, Gon?" he said timidly, scratching the back of his head and looking to the side. Gon glared at him, probably the only indication he was going to get that he had the other's attention. "Look, I'm really sorry I started that. But you were winning and-"

"So you cheated and started a fight and got us thrown out and grounded for THREE MONTHS!" the spiky-haired teen yelled at him, sitting up on his elbows to glare harder at his friend.

"Yeah, but I had a good reason!" Killua tried, and flinched when Gon huffed at him.

The other sat up fully and crossed his arms, waiting for a good explanation. "Yeah? What's that?" Gon challenged, patience running thin.

Killua pulled out a white, fluffy cat with ocean blue eye beads and a small pink tongue poking out of the mouth line. He held it out in front of the other with a pink tint on his cheeks. "I..wanted to win it for you, and I couldn't really do that if you had won. So..I wanted to win at all costs and got a little carried away. I'm really sorry, please don't be mad at me anymore, Gon."

Gon stared at it in awe, all anger disappearing from inside him. "Killu-"

"Shut up and take it! Geez," Killua raised his slightly cracking voice at the other, jerking his hand with the plush toy closer. Gon smiled and took the toy, inspecting it in his hands.

"It looks like you, Killua!" Gon exclaimed happily, all anger effectively gone. He turned to look at his friend who was staring at him in surprise at the sudden exclamation and Gon leaned forward, giving him a small kiss on the nose. When he pulled back he noticed the now scarlet red hue of the other's cheeks.

"Ah..eh..it doesn't..why..You! Ugh! You're so!" Killua tried to yell out, not even able to create a coherent sentence right now, "AGH! You're so..you!"

Gon continued to smile as if nothing had even happened. The only thing on his mind was the fact that Killua had tried so hard to win something just for him. Nothing beyond that fact could have made him happier at the moment. He quickly glomped onto his silver-haired friend in a bone crushing hug, laughing merrily as he did so. As Gon pressed his cheek up against Killua's, the other attempted to struggle free from the hug and ended up sending them tumbling to the floor.

"I'm glad you're my best friend, Killua," Gon admitted, rubbing his cheek against the other's. Killua finally resigned and just let it happen rather than attempting to fight it, knowing it was futile. Sighing, he slowly returned the hug and tried to will his blush away.

"Yeah," Killua looked down at the plush cat toy squished between the two of them, "I am, too."

"I'm going to name him 'Killu'!" Gon exclaimed.

That killed it.

"Killua NOOO! Don't tear his head off!" Mito heard Gon scream from upstairs, followed by a series of crashing noises. She was far too tired to even bother trying to deal with whatever was happening right now. She covered her face with her hand and slumped in her recliner, sighing in defeat.

Gon sounded like he was going to cry, "Killua pleeeease!"

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