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A/N: Shorter chapter to make up for the longer one that was Chapter 4. Also, not so much fluff as previous chapters, but still a little bit. Next chapter, I promise I'll get to bringing elements from "The Fountain" in. So, just bear with me for this chapter.
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Chapter 5: Fortune Telling

We ran towards the airport to get our tickets, when Gon suddenly stopped. I ran into him and he moved forward a bit. I turned my head to see what he was looking at. It was a building with a sign that had a crystal ball on it.

"C'mon, Gon," I said impatiently, "We need to get moving."

"We have time, Killua," Gon said walking towards the building, "I wanna check this out."

"Fine," I said, "But it better not take too long. These things are nothing but a hoax, anyway."

"A hoax?" Gon asked, not too interested in what I had to say.

"You know," I said, "A scandal, a scam. A quick way to get your money. They don't really have any powers."

"A quick way to get my money," Gon repeated like he was in a daze, "Quicker than your sweet tooth?"

I was going to say something, but this weirdly dressed woman opened the door to her building and motioned for us to come in. She wore a glittering purple dress and had her mouth covered with some cloth. Inside were dozens of charms and potions. I picked up a bottle and started turning it around in my hand.

"That is a love potion," the woman's voice came from right behind me, which startled me and I nearly dropped the bottle. "You put a drop into any liquid and the one who drinks the liquid will fall madly in love with you. Is there somebody you might want to try it on…?"

She looked over her shoulder and I followed her gaze toward Gon. I blushed and set the bottle down. "N-no!" I said, "Of course not. It's nothing but a hoax, anyway."

"You think what I do is a hoax, young man?" She asked with a fake hurt tone in her voice.

"Yes," I said, "I've heard stories about fortune tellers from my dad and grandpa. They said all fortune tellers are nothing but phonies."

I was paraphrasing, of course, but I didn't let her on to that. She put her hand on my shoulder and for a brief instant, it felt like she was searching into my subconscious for something. I shrugged her hand off and backed away, putting my arms up in a ready stance. She just giggled.

"You do not like to be touched, I see," she said, "Come over to my table and see for yourself that I am not a 'phoney'."

Gon and I walked over to the table with a crystal ball on it. The ball itself didn't look all that impressive, just the kind of crystal ball that you'd find in a toy shop, but the table was decorated in a manner that was obviously meant to take away from the ball. There were gold sprinkles scattered around a silver base for the crystal ball on a purple table cloth. She motioned for Gon to sit down in the chair across from her.

"Young man," she said, "I want you to look deep into the crystal ball. So deep that you see your very future."

I let out a mocking "Psh." and the fortune teller lady told me to "shush". I was a little agitated by that, but I didn't do anything else. I saw Gon was concentrating hard on the ball. I was about to say we should leave, when he said he saw something in the ball.

"Yes, young man," the fortune teller said, "Tell me, what do you see?" She was waving her hands over the crystal ball.

"I see Killua," Gon said, I immediately turned my full attention to what Gon said he saw, "He's standing over something. I-I think it's me. He's saying something that I can't hear. Ki-Killua, why did you turn your hand into the claw? Why are you lifting it over me? Ki-Killua? KILLUA!"

I grabbed Gon's arm and immediately ran out of the fortune teller's shop and down the street. Once we were a few blocks away from the shop, I ran into an alley. We leaned up against a wall and slid down to the ground. Gon was shaking.

"Killua," he said, "What… What did I just see?"

"You just saw me murder you in cold blood, Gon." I said.

I knew I couldn't lie to Gon. Not about something like that. That scene that Gon had just seen had plagued my dreams ever since I met him. It was a scene that I never wanted anybody to know about. I never wanted that scene to happen.

"You…" Gon said, "You're not really going to do that, are you, Killua?"

"Of course not!" I said, "You're my best friend, Gon! I would never do anything to hurt you."

"Then… Why did I see that as my future?"

"I don't know, Gon," I said, "but I'm going to find out." I got up and started walking out of the alley.

"I'll go with you!" Gon said.

"No, you stay here," I said, "I don't know what's going to happen and I'd prefer it if you weren't around. I don't want you getting hurt."

Gon smiled. I was a bit confused and I blushed. I wanted to know what he was smiling about. Did I say something funny or something?

"W-what?" I asked.

"It's nothing," Gon said as he shook his head, "It's just that… no. It's nothing."

I was still confused. I started to walk away when I heard something that made me stop in my tacks. Gon had said something that really made me blush. Maybe he thought that I couldn't hear it if he whispered it, maybe he only wanted me to hear it.

"I love you, Killua." Is what he said.

I looked down and said, "I love you, too, Gon."

I ran off before I could see his reaction. It wasn't long before I stood in front of the building again. I was determined to get some answers and nothing was going to stop me from getting them. I walked into the shop and saw the fortune teller lady sitting at her table just like we left it, with the chair that Gon was sitting on, on the ground.

I walked up to the table and slammed my hands down on it, yelling "What the hell was that!?"

"I do not know what you mean," she said.

"Don't play dumb with me, lady," I said, "What the hell did you show Gon?"

"I showed him his future," she said.

"Like hell, you did!" I yelled, "That was something that was locked away deep in my mind. How the hell did you get it into your crystal ball?"

She chuckled. "You must have some guesses as to how I operate," she said, "Right, Killua Zoldyck?"

I froze. I never told her my name and the only thing Gon had said was my first name. She must have done something to me to get my full name, but what? The only thing I remember her doing was…

"When you touched me." I said in realization, "When you put your hand on my shoulder, it felt like you were pulling something out of my subconscious."

"And how do you think I did that?" She was shuffling some cards she had taken out of a chest to her right.

"You used some kind of Nen, didn't you?" I said accusingly.

"Ah," she said, "you got me, you Zoldyck. I suppose I have to tell you my power now." She chuckled. "I am a Specialist, you see? I have the ability to take a person's deepest, darkest secrets-their worst nightmares, if you will-and project them on my crystal ball. However, as you have guessed, it only works if I touch the person."

I was getting nervous. If this lady had the ability to read my mind and bring out my worst nightmares, then what else was she capable of? How do I know all she brought out was my worst nightmare? She might have also seen a way to get at me when I was most vulnerable.

She must've known how I was feeling because she said, "Don't worry, Killua, I am of no threat to you." She looked at a card and placed it face-down on the table. She drew another card and looked at me and said, "And no, I didn't read your mind fully. My power doesn't work that way." She placed the card she was holding face-down on the other end of the table and drew another card. She looked at it for a while before setting it face-down in the middle of the table. "The cards are very favourable to you, today," she said, "Let's take a look, shall we?" She slid all three cards across the table towards me. "Flip a card and we will see what your future holds."

I was a little suspicious. "How do I know you didn't use Nen to choose the cards?"

"My crystal ball may be run by my Nen," she said, "but I can assure you that my cards aren't affected by my Nen at all. If you wish, you may use Gyo to see that."

I took her up on that offer. I focused my Nen into my eyes and looked at the cards. I didn't see any signs of Nen coming from the cards. She was telling the truth.

I still didn't believe that cards could tell my future, but I reached for the one on my left first and flipped it over. It had a picture of two people holding hands standing underneath a man with wings. It looked like they were standing in a roof-less bedroom.

"The Lovers," she said, "This card says that you will soon find love in someone you trust. It could also mean that you have already found love. So, Killua, which one is it?"

I thought of the conversation I had with Gon just moments before and felt my face turn a little read. I reached for the next card, the one in the middle. This one had a picture of a man standing in a gold wagon being pulled by two horses. One of the horses was black and the other was white.

"The Chariot," she said, "This card represents a battle. A battle that could be inside yourself, or a bloody war. Which one, though, I cannot say."

I thought about the scene she had showed Gon and wondered if that was what it was about. I reached for the final card and flipped it over. I took in a gasp of breath as I saw what the card was. The picture was a stone circle with water in it and another circle, just above the other one, with water spraying out and into the bottom one.

"The Fountain," she said, "This card says that you will go on a quest to find a mystic fountain, long forgotten by time. However, it does not say that you find the fountain. It is up to you to decide if you find it or not."

'The Fountain' was not something I had wanted to see in those cards. I had tried the best that I could to forget about what Kite had said about the fountain of youth. I'd almost succeeded when Natsuki brought it up again. And now this card. It was like this fountain was mocking me. And I hated being mocked about as much as I hated being belittled.

"The order of how you flipped the cards, determines their order," the fortune teller said, "You will find love that will lead to your battle on your way to find the mystic fountain. Now do you believe in fortune telling, Killua?"

"I'll believe," I said, "when I see everything before my eyes."

"Then leave," she said, "and find the truth, find your belief, find your destiny. Everything was on the house today. Even the little bottle of Love Potion you have in your pocket."

I reached into my pocket and found something small and round. I pulled it out to find it was the bottle I was looking at earlier. I hadn't put it in my pocket, I put it back on the shelf. I decided to question this.

"How did this bottle get in my pocket?" I asked, "I remember putting it on the shelf where I found it."

"When you grabbed your friend to leave," she said, "your free hand reached out and grabbed it."

I didn't know what to say. I must have grabbed it without thinking about it. Maybe it was something that I secretly wanted. When I thought about that, I thought about the conversation with Gon. I put the bottle on the table.

"I won't be needing it," I said.

I left the shop and saw Gon standing right in front of me. He had an impatient look on his face that was sort of mixed with an angry look. He leaned in to me and I leaned back. I was about to say something when he grabbed my arm and rushed me toward the airport.

When we arrived at the airport, we went up to the tickets desk and Gon showed his confirmation paper. When the lady at the desk asked how we were gonna pay, Gon looked at me. I sighed and took out my bank card and paid for the tickets. We boarded the first available flight and we were off to meet our friends in Yorknew City.

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A/N: One last thing to note is that I did do some (Wikipedia) research on Tarot cards and used two actual cards from the "Major Arcanum", while the third was completely my own. I might have changed the pictures on the actual two, but that's beside the point.
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