Chapter 10: Whatfriends?

Gon kept trying to enter the bathroom while I showered. It was slightly annoying that I had to tell him to leave every time, but whenever I heard the door open, a sudden calmness swept over me. I didn't know why I felt that way. I mean, Gon often tried to enter the bathroom while I was showering before we kissed and there wasn't any calmness then. I wondered if it was because I wanted to have his lips against mine so bad.

Heh. And here I thought I was punishing Gon, I thought.

I turned the water off and got out of the shower. Gon tried to sneak in, but I threw a bar of soap at him. I let out a small laugh as he whimpered and closed the door. I was almost tempted to say 'good boy' or 'good dog', knowing Gon would most likely be listening with an ear pressed to the door, but I didn't. Instead, I just put on the suit that was tailored for me.

Sometimes I wondered about how Leorio got his information. I'd never told anybody what my body dimensions were but he had this suit custom made to fit me. I didn't think on that too long, however, as I caught a glimpse of myself in the full body mirror after I had gotten my suit on. Now, I'm not really a narcissistic person, but even I had to admit that I looked pretty damn good. I couldn't wait to show Gon, knowing he'd be impressed by how good I looked.

I opened the door to the bathroom and found Gon, surprisingly, laying on the bed, reading the book on the Fountain of Youth. I tried to get his attention, but he was concentrating on the book. I called his name, I waved my hands over my head, I walked over to the bed and called his name, I poked him, I even waved my hand in front of his face, but he still didn't answer me. I was just a little upset at this. Okay, I was more than a little upset, but who can blame me? Here I was trying to show off how good I looked in my tailor-made suit and he was just reading up on something that would help us spend the rest of eternity together!

"I need some chocolate," I said. I climbed onto the bed from the foot and crawled over so I was on top of Gon and pushed the book down so we were face to face and said, "This is very important: Do not open the door all the way for anybody except for me. You understand?"

Gon nodded.

I continued, "I'll give a special knock," I knocked on the backboard once and then three times fast, "so you'll know it's safe. Alright?"

Again, Gon nodded. He leaned in to kiss me, but I did a roll to get off the bed. After straightening my suit, I walked over to the door and unlocked it. I opened the door and left Gon alone in the room. I walked to the elevator and went down to the first floor, where the hotel store was. I had to resist the urge to buy all the chocolate in the store, which was very hard. Instead of buying the whole store, I only bought ten bars. The one running the store put them in a bag and I went back to the room.

Just outside of the room, I saw Leorio and Kurapika arguing with Gon, who had the door open part way. Well, it was more Leorio arguing and Kurapika trying to calm him down. I took one of my chocolate bars out of the bag and unwrapped it as I walked toward the room nonchalantly. As I got closer, I noticed that Leorio and Kurapika were wearing the same type of suit I was, all tailor-made. I looked better in it, though.

"Oi, Killua," Leorio yelled at me when he saw me, "What's the big idea, telling Gon not to open the door for his friends?"

I took a bite of my chocolate and said, "It's for Gon's own safety."

"What the hell does that mean?" Leorio shouted, "Are you saying he's not safe with his friends?"

"Well, we've recently had a few problems," I said. I was standing in front of the door now, facing Leorio and Kurapika. "I'll tell you about it later, but first, I'm gonna have to ask you a question," I turned to Gon, "Gon, close the door. I'll knock when I'm finished."

"Okay," Gon said as he closed the door.

"I'm going to ask you a question first, Leorio," I said turning to the black haired man, "How long have Gon and I been friends? How did you invite us to the conference? And What did you whisper to the lady at the front desk?"

"Killua," Gon's voice came from behind me, "That was three questions."

I turned around and shouted, "Goddammit, Gon! I swear to God as soon as I get in there, I am going to punch you so hard, you're bound to lose a few brain cells! And I thought I told you to keep the door closed!"

The door closed and I turned around to face Leorio again. He spoke, "Well, I'm pretty sure Gon has considered you a friend ever since you two met at the Hunter Exam. I sent an email to you, Gon and Kurapika inviting all of you to the conference. And I told the lady to give you and Gon a room with one bed."

"And what else?" I asked.

Leorio answered, "And I asked her out on a date."

"And?" I prodded.

"And she turned me down," Leorio said. Kurapika looked at him as if to say 'Really? Again?' and Leorio said defensively, "I didn't know she was already married! So young, too."

I turned to Kurapika and said, "Now it's your turn." He nodded and I said, "When we were here last, what did we want you to do?"

"You all wanted me to use my Judgment Chain on you," He said.

"Why?" I asked.

"So if you were ever caught by the Phantom Troupe," he explained, "you wouldn't give out any of my secrets."

"And did you?" I continued.

"No," he said, "I never planned on using it on you."

"Are we done playing 20 Questions now?" Leorio asked, "Can we go in? I brought something to celebrate with."

He held up a bottle of sparkling grape juice and Kurapka held up some plastic cups. Satisfied that these were our friends, I knocked on the door once and then three times fast. Gon opened the door all the way. I walked in and hit him on the head, making good on my promise. He just laughed as I walked to the bed, taking another bite of my chocolate.

After Leorio and Kurapika were in, Gon closed the door. I sat down on the bed and Gon sat beside me. Leorio and Kurapika repositioned the couch so it was facing the bed and the table to be in between the couch and the bed. Leorio put the bottle on the table and opened it while Kurapika placed each plastic cup on the table beside the bottle. After Leorio had poured the juice into each cup and gave one cup to each person, he sat down and asked us what happened with us.

I knew I couldn't lie to them, so I told them the truth. I told them about how we had met up with Kite, the one that told Gon about his father, and how he fought off some creatures. I explained about our incident at the library and the NAZI Task Force and how an Air-Zinger was a type of flying machine. I told them about Natsuki, his dogs and the guy that looked like Kite. I told them about Kitakura and how he was going to use us as part of a youth potion. Then I told them about their impostors, the people that looked and sounded exactly like them, with only slight differences.

"I think that those trench coat guys were the impostors," I finished, "but I still don't know what they wanted from us or who had sent them."

Kurapika and Leorio were silent. They didn't know that I had left out our plans of finding the Fountain of Youth. I didn't really feel like it was necessary that they should know, either. That was just between me and Gon. The silence lasted for about half a minute. I went to take a drink of my juice.

"And now we're boyfriends!" Gon exclaimed happily.

I choked on my juice. Kurapika and Leorio just stared. I'd wanted him to admit to almost introducing me as his boyfriend, but I wasn't expecting him to flat out say it in front of our friends! Sometime during my choking fit, I'd put my cup on the table. Gon was confused at the looks Leorio and Kurapika were giving.

When I was just about over my fit, I yelled, "What the hell, Gon!?"

Gon was more confused now and said, "What?"

"What do you mean 'what'?" I said, "Since when in the hell did you decide to bump our relationship up to the next level? That's 'what'!"

"When you kissed me," Gon said, "after I told you that I loved you."

My face was as red as red could be. Not only had Gon just randomly decide to admit I was his boyfriend, but he also admitted that we had kissed. And in front of our friends, no less! Did I mention that he had just totally ruined the mood I had set up just half a minute before? Because that totally happened.

I was about to punch Gon on the head, but something made me stop. A sound I hadn't expected to hear. A sound coming from the people sitting right across from us. A happy sound. The sound of laughter. Leorio and Kurapika were laughing. I looked at them in confusion.

Leorio was the first to speak. Through his laughter he said, "It's about time you two hooked up."

"Leorio," Kurapika said, still laughing, "You owe me 200 Jenny."

I felt just as confused as Gon had after I yelled at him. I wanted to know if some big prank was being pulled on me. That's what it felt like. It felt like everybody was in on this huge prank except for me. Money passed between Leorio and Kurapika.

"Uh, guys," I said, "If you don't mind, would you tell me what the hell is going on?"

Their laughter died down enough so that they could speak properly. Leorio was the one that explained, "Before we came up here, we made a bet on whether or not you two had hooked up. I said you didn't but Kurapika said you did because, uh, what was the reason?"

"I saw the way you two acted at the airport," Kurapika said, "It was obvious that something happened between you two."

"Right," Leorio agreed, "And so we bet 100 Jenny. We bet another 100 Jenny to see if you two had kissed yet. Obviously, I said that you didn't but Kurapika, with the perverted mind that he has, said you did."

"Oh, I'm the pervert?" Kurapika asked defensively, "Weren't you the one that kept trying to come into the bathroom while I was showering?"

"I merely wanted to know what was taking you so long," Leorio said, "We only have one shower in our room and I needed to use it, too."

The room went silent again. A lot of thoughts were going through my mind. Thought like how Leorio and Kurapika had expected Gon and I to 'hook up'. I began to wonder how long Gon had wanted to 'hook up', what with him almost introducing me and then proclaiming me as his boyfriend. Then I began to wonder how long I had wanted to 'hook up' with Gon. That was the hardest question to answer.

"I have a theory," Kurapika said out of nowhere, "about what those two men wearing trench coats had wanted."

We all stared at him. He explained that his theory might have been completely wrong or only half right. His theory was that guy that looked like Kite had seen us and knows who we are now. So, he found somebody that knew our past and hired the trench coat guys to kidnap us. They would then either get rid of us or take us to the Kite impostor so he could do it himself.

The theory wasn't bad, and it could most certainly be very true. If this guy had the resources, he could find out everything about us. He could find out about the friends we made during the Hunter Exam. He could find out about our families. He could even find out where we lived. A sudden thought struck me.

"Gon," I said, "Call your Aunt."

Gon looked at me and said, "But I just sent her a letter not too long ago."

"Just call your Aunt Mito, dammit!" My voice was desperate. I started chewing on my thumbnail, as I do when I get nervous.

"Okay," Gon said uneasy. He went to the hotel phone and told the front desk, "I want to make a long distance call." He paused and said, "Whale Island." Another pause, "Mito Freecss," Another pause, "Thank you."

"Killua," Leorio said, "What are you thinking?"

I explained everything while Gon's call was being connected. The only face that wasn't filled with shock was Kurapika's. It was almost as if he had thought of everything I had just thought of. I could tell Gon's call was connected because of the change in tone from when he had talked to the front desk.

"Aunt Mito!" He said, bringing his free hand to the bottom of the phone. "You need to listen." I mouthed him the words that he should say, "If someone named Kite comes to the house, don't let him in." He mouthed the words that his Aunt said to him, 'Why not?' I mouthed the words back which he spoke into the phone, "Because it isn't really Kite. It's an impostor that wants to hurt you." He mouthed back, 'Why does he want to do that?' I mouthed to him, "To get to me and Killua. There's no time to explain everything."

Gon nodded his approval, which probably meant that his Aunt had agreed to what Gon had just said. He said his goodbyes and hung the phone up. I was probably just as relieved as Gon was to hear that his Aunt was safe. After all, she was the first person, besides Gon, to treat me with real affection. I didn't have to worry about my family, since they were all trained assassins.

"Well," Leorio said, trying to brighten up the mood, "Let's have a party, shall we?"

I looked at the clock and noticed that it said 7:00. I pointed this out to Leorio, who swore and then said that he still needed to do his hair and be at the meeting hall at 7:30. He then ran out of the room and everybody laughed. Kurapika stayed for a few more minutes to finish his juice and then excused himself saying he needed to do a few more things to be ready, too. Then it was just me and Gon in the room.

I leaned up against the backboard of the bed and said, "So, Gon, are you gonna have a shower?"

Gon looked at me slyly and said, "Why do you want to know? Are you gonna try and take a peek at me?"

I just about choked on my own saliva and blushed a little bit. "No!" I said, "I was just wondering. That's all."

Gon chuckled and said, "It's alright, Killua. I don't mind if you look at me in the shower. It's not like you haven't seen me naked before."

It was true. Back on Whale Island, we had bathed together. So, why was it that I was blushing now? Could it have been because we were considered 'boyfriends' now? Gon leaned in and kissed me. I kissed him back but then I felt his tongue in my mouth again.

I pushed him away and said, "Stop doing that! That's gross!"

He rolled off the bed and onto the floor with an "oof". I leaned over the bed to see if he was alright. I should have known that he was; that it'd take a lot more than a simple fall to hurt Gon. He was laying on his back, laughing. I sighed.

"Look, Gon," I said, "Just because we're boyfriends now, it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want to me. Now get up and have a shower. I want to meet Leorio at ten to. That's in," I look at the clock, "thirty minutes. Half an hour. So, I want to leave the room in twenty-five minutes. Can you do that?"

Gon nodded as he sat up. He got to his feet and went into the bathroom, taking his tailor-made suit with him. A few seconds later, I heard the water running and I reached under Gon's pillow for the book, knowing he wouldn't have any other place to hide it. I opened it and started reading with Gyo. I didn't know how Gon was able to read it earlier because I could barely understand it.

I was deep in my reading that I didn't hear the water in the bathroom turn off. The next thing I heard after the water had turned on was the bathroom door opening. Gon walked out, dripping wet and butt naked. I looked at him and immediately averted my gaze back to the book. I was cursing in head.

"Killua," he said, "There aren't any more towels in there."

"What?" I said, closing the book.

I got up and walked to the bathroom to make sure his allegations were correct. I tried my best not to look at his naked figure. In the bathroom, I noticed the towels. One was on the floor in a ball under the sink counter, the one I had used; one was hanging on the bar, for drying your hands; one was on the floor spread out, so you didn't slip on the floor; and the last one was folded neatly on the shelf above the bar.

"What do you mean," I said, "'there aren't any more towels'? There's one right-"

I pointed to the shelf above the bar. I heard the bathroom door close behind me. I felt stupid. I had fallen for Gon's obvious trap. I turned around to look at him and finish my previous sentence before moving on to a different one. But before I could get a word out, Gon leaned into me with his wet, naked body almost touching my fully clothed body and pressed his lips against mine. I fell back and sat down on the toilet, being thankful that the lid was down, while Gon's tongue invaded my mouth. His whole body was now pressed right up against mine.

I tried to push him away, but he held my arms down. I felt as powerless as when I was facing Illumi, but thankfully, not as terrified. I had no choice but to let the invading tongue explore the new domain, as if it were conquering previously unconquerable territory. I figured this was Gon's way of getting me to like something he did. I felt Gon's grip loosen after a few minutes and took the opportunity to free my arms and push him away. A small trail of saliva fell from my bottom lip onto my chin as Gon's mouth was forcefully removed from my own.

"Dammit Gon," I said, wiping the saliva away with my hand, "I told you I didn't like it when you put your tongue in my mouth. And now my suit is all wet." I reached above my head and grabbed the remaining towel, which I then threw at Gon. "Now dry what's left to dry off, get dressed and let's go."

I got up off the toilet, walked toward the door to the bathroom and stomped outside, all the while cursing and swearing. I wanted to slam the bathroom door, too, but the hinges wouldn't allow me. I had to think of some way to dry my suit off before we left. The only way I could think of was with the blow dryer in the bathroom. However, I didn't want to go back in there while Gon was still in there, so I just stood outside the door, waiting.

When the door opened, Gon was fully dressed in his custom tailor-made suit. I had to admit that he looked pretty hot in it, but I was too pissed at him to tell him that. And besides, he still didn't look as good as me. Gon walked out of the bathroom with a sad look on his face. There were two things I couldn't stand about Gon: The eyes and his sad faces. If I had to take a guess at which one was worse, I'd say his sad faces because they literally just tore your heart right out of your chest and chopped it up before putting it back in.

"Killua," he said in that sad tone of his that he always used when he used that face, "I did a lot of thinking in there and I'm sorry."

"For what?" I tried to act like I was still mad at him, even gong so far as to cross my arms.

"For doing something you didn't like," he said.

"There are a lot of things you do that I don't like, Gon," I said, "So, which one are you sorry for?"

He sighed, knowing I wouldn't just accept his apology, "For putting my tongue in your mouth. It's just that I wanted to try something different and that plain old kissing wasn't good enough for you. I thought you deserved something better and putting my tongue in your mouth was the only thing I could think of." He bowed and finished, "I'm really sorry."

I walked up to him and hit him on the head. He knew it was my way of forgiving him. I then walked past him and closed the door to the bathroom. I took the blow dryer and started to dry my clothes off. I didn't get my suit completely dry, but it was at least bearable and not so obvious now. I walked out of the bathroom and found Gon sitting on the bed. I told him it was time to go and we left the room and walked to the elevator hand in hand.

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A/N: Since I didn't receive any questions last chapter, I didn't put any answers up at the beginning of the chapter. But, ten more chapters and I'll be doing it again. So, if you think of any questions, Chapter 19 will be the place to ask them. Also, OMIGOSH A HINT OF LEOPIKA! I am going to stop reading this story because you hinted at another Hunter X Hunter pairing that people like that's not the one you're writing about. ... Yeah, that sounded stupid in my head, too.
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