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A/N: I have to say, I think this chapter was the hardest one I've had to write. Finally, it's done. *collapses* Oh, and the chapter gets T+ in the second half. Even moreso than a couple chapters ago. That's part of the reason why it took so long: trying to figure out how to word it in a T-rated way.
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Chapter 19: Escape

Gon had been stabbed through the chest. I couldn't believe it. Gon had just been stabbed! My instincts kicked in and I immediately jumped off the tree and ran towards Gon. As I got closer, I noticed that Gon was trying to pull the Nen blade out of him. However, I could tell that he wasn't succeeding, so I unconsciously put some of my Nen into my hand and put against the other Gon's face, pushing him away.

"Get the fuck away from him!" I said as my hand forced the other Gon back.

The Nen blade disappeared and Gon started to fall back. It took me a second to react, but I caught him before he hit the ground. While I may not have been as skilled as Leorio in fixing wounds, I couldn't help but examine his body. There was nothing where the Nen blade had penetrated. No hole, no blood, nothing.

"Ki-llu-a," Gon said weakly, "I'm so-"

"Sh!" I told him, "Don't talk. I need to get you out of this stupid forest."

He smiled at me and laughed weakly saying, "I don't think I'm gonna make it this time."

"Don't talk like that, you idiot!"

"Hey, Killua," Gon said, "You're crying."

"Of course I'm fucking crying! Earlier you said you were scared you were gonna lose me, well now I'm scared that I'm gonna lose you!"

"It's OK, Killua." He brought his hand up to my face to wipe away my tears.

"It's not fucking OK, you idiot!"

I grabbed his arm and put it around my shoulder. Then I did the same for the other arm. I stood up, lifting him in the process. I carried him like I had done before, when we were with Natsuki. He didn't have any complaints this time, though. I started to walk when the other Gon stood in my way.

"Move." I glared at him with cold eyes.

"No," he said, "I can't let you leave, Killua. You belong to me now."

"I belong to nobody, you fucking bastard! Now move out of my way!"

He stood his ground. I put my hand on his face again and he put his hands on my arm to try and pull it off. As I pushed him out of the way, I let some of my Nen slip in. I started running in a direction that I hoped led back to Hikaryo and the old man. As I ran, I focused my Nen to my feet, hoping it'd make me run faster.

I ran. I ran and I ran and I ran some more. I didn't stop running. I couldn't stop running until I was out of the forest. However, the forest seemed to go on forever. Could the other Gon have something to do with that? Was he manipulating the forest to his will just to keep me in it?

I didn't believe it. There was no way he could do that. But, the wind that blew Gon away. And the roots that had trapped Gon's legs. Hell, even the Nen sword looked like a piece of bark when I got up close. So, maybe it was possible that he could control the forest. If that was the case, then I knew we were officially screwed.

"Killua…" Gon said weakly.

"It's okay, Gon," I lied, "We're almost out of here."

I found new resolve to keep going. I couldn't just abandon all hope and let Gon die. It's not what he would do if I were in the same situation. I had to press on. I knew there had to be an exit to this stupid forest somewhere. There just had to be.

"Ki-llu-a~"

I told myself not to listen. I told myself that if I listened, he would find out where we were. He called my name again and I had to force myself not to listen. I tried to think of all the times I had with Gon on our adventure. However, the voice interrupted all of my thoughts by having the Gon in my thoughts call my name like him.

I saw light up ahead. I knew that had to be the end of the forest. I'd made it. I just had a few more feet to go and then I could get Hikaryo to heal Gon like he had me. I'd then have the old man to tell us a different way to get to our destination; a way that didn't involve going through the forest. I stepped into the light and then, blackness was the next thing that I saw.

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"Killua…" A voice. "Killua…" My name. "Killua…" I knew the voice.

I opened my eyes and I saw the worried face of my best friend. As soon as he saw my eyes open, he sighed in relief. His face lost all the worry and he smiled happily. I couldn't remember what had happened. All I remembered was running.

"G…Gon?" I asked, "What happened?"

"You hit your head on a tree branch when you were running," he explained, "It knocked you out cold. I was so worried."

"Really?" That didn't sound like me at all. But, if Gon said it happened, then it must be true. "Where are we right now?"

"Still in the forest," Gon said plainly, "I didn't want to try moving you until you woke up. Oh, Killua, I'm so happy you're alright!"

He pressed his lips hard against mine and I felt them move, as if trying to find the right position to be in. Once they stopped moving, I felt his tongue in my mouth. His tongue freely explored the whole mouth and when it got to my cheeks, he licked them furiously. His tongue travelled over my teeth to each cheek and then back to the center of my mouth, where he licked my tongue just as furious as he had my cheeks. Something was wrong.

Gon would never kiss like that. I tried to move my arms to push this person off of me, but I couldn't. I tried to move my legs so I could kick this not Gon where it counts to get him off, but my legs were stuck. I finally resorted to head butting him. His head flew back and his tongue left my mouth, but his body remained close to mine. Whoever this was, his head was just as hard as Gon's.

"Ne, Killua," the other Gon said, "Why did you do that? Did you not like my kissing?"

"Just shut the fuck up and tell me where Gon is!" I demanded.

"He is over there," he turned my head to where Gon was sitting against a tree, his arms, eyes and mouth were covered by something that looked like bark. He turned my head back to face him and continued, "Ne, Killua, when will you show me your Nen next?"

"The next time I show you my Nen will be when I fry your fucking brain with it!"

The other Gon looked at me, mock hurt, then he smiled and giggled, "I like you when you're angry."

He gave me another kiss and then he kissed my chin. His mouth surrounded my chin before he moved on to kiss my neck. His kisses trailed down my neck and onto my chest. It was the first time that I realized that I had been stripped naked again. As he was kissing my chest, I tried to concentrate my Nen to cover my body. However, I couldn't.

The other Gon must have known what I was trying to do because he stopped kissing me and crawled up my body. He giggled again and said, "My lips are covered with sap from a special tree in this forest, Killua. It stops whoever I kiss from moving for a few minutes. It also forces the one that I kiss into a state of permanent Zetsu. At least, until their lips touch something else. Which is why I have you tied to this tree," he turned my head to look at my arms and legs, which were tied by the same bark-like thing that held Gon, "so you can't wipe your lips clean from the sap."

He was about to crawl back down my body when I asked, "What about Gon?"

"Hm?"

"What the fuck did you do to Gon?"

"Oh, he's fine. You know, I was going to kill him. It would have been so easy, too. But then I thought of another plan. I'm keeping him alive so he can hear you moan. That's why my Nen blade didn't hurt him."

"'Hear me moan?'" I asked, "What he hell does that- Ah!"

He licked my chest. Then he kissed where he had just licked. He worked his way across my body like that. Lick then kiss, lick then kiss. Whenever he licked me, I let out one of those weird sounds. He made his way to my nipple and, instead of just sucking on it, he bit it. He actually chewing on my nipple! He pulled it with his teeth and another strange noise escaped my mouth then he went back to just sucking on it.

He then moved on to my other nipple, licking and kissing his way over, and did the same thing. As my mouth made every kind of weird noise imaginable- I think- the other Gon continued to do things to me with his mouth. When he got to my navel, his tongue circled it inside and out. He kissed it several times, too. He grabbed me down there and I let out the weirdest sound I had ever heard. It was so weird that I couldn't possibly know how to do it again. The other Gon stopped kissing my navel and crawled up my body while still holding on to me.

"Ne, Killua," he said, "Is this the first time you've ever been touched on your-"

I cut him off and said, "What the fuck are you doing? Let go of that, you sick fu-a-ah!"

He squeezed his hand and smiled at the noise that I made. He giggled. He continued to fondle my area as he licked and kissed my chest again. It felt like I cold move by myself again, so I looked over to where Gon was. I saw him struggling to get out of his bindings. I wasn't sure if it was because he was uncomfortable with the noises I was making, or if he was really pissed at the other Gon for making me make those noises. I felt the other Gon's hand move all around and his tongue and lips move lower on my body.

I felt the other Gon's tongue on my hips, moving closer and closer and extremely slow to his hand. When it reached his hand, he started on the other side, switching hands, and moved in closer and just as slow. He started licking my legs from the outside and moving in. More weird noises were escaping from my mouth. Finally, he stopped with everything and I sighed in relief.

"Ne, Killua," he said, "If that was your first time being touched, then is it also your first time…"

He trailed off. My eyes widened when I realized what he was about to do. I knew he was about to start on what had been denied from him last time. He grabbed me again and I felt his breath. I closed my eyes and, as his mouth closed around me, my mind went blank. I don't even remember if I let out one of those weird noises. I felt tears forming at the corners of my eyes.

Kill, I am very disappointed in you.

A voice had spoken to me deep inside my mind. It was a voice I was all too familiar with. I had wondered where the voice was coming from, if he was actually here. If he was, then how had he found me? I opened my eyes a little and looked around. The only one I saw- or, chose to see, I should say- was Gon trying desperately to get loose. I closed my eyes again and realized that it was just my imagination; that my mind had automatically thought of what Illumi would say if he saw how easily I had been taken by the other Gon.

You do not have to take this, Kill. Remember what I taught you.

"Ne, Killua," the other Gon said. I opened my eyes to look at him, "You can pretend that I am him, if it'll make you release faster."

"R-release?" I asked, "What the fuck does that mean?"

The other Gon giggled again and put his mouth around me again. His mouth went up and down along me slowly at first. Then, he picked up speed. As he got faster, the sounds escaping from my mouth got louder. I looked over at Gon and saw that he had cracked the bark around his torso. He was still a long way from breaking through it, though.

Remember your training, Kill.

A sudden gust of wind rose up. I saw a flash of metal in the moonlight, but didn't know if it was real or not. My mind was taking in too many things at the moment, so it could have just been my imagination again. However, I saw the metal again. I knew it was real, then, but I still couldn't make out what it was.

Remember.

My arms and legs were suddenly free. I pushed the other Gon off of me. He fell down on his ass. I saw his face. It was a mixture of surprise, and confidence.

"Ne, Killua," he said, "You don't plan to fight me, do you? It would be a losing battle for you. You can't use Nen, remember? But I can."

I saw his hand move and before he could lift a finger, My hand was underneath his chin. I said, "I don't need to use Nen in order to kill you."

He was shocked. That much I could tell. I had seen plenty of people with that same look on their face. It always brought me joy to see that face. It was the face I remember the most because that's the face they had when I killed them.

I smiled an evil smile and said, "I wonder how quickly forest children recover when they're decapitated? Or when their heart is ripped out?" I leaned in closer and whispered in his ear, "Shall we test it?"

"Ne," he said nervously, "Killuahck-"

I stepped on his foot, pushing it out to its limit and grabbed his neck, choking him, and said, "Don't you fucking dare try saying my name in his voice. In fact, don't you fucking use his voice at all! If you so much as say one syllable in Gon's voice, I will rip out your fucking throat."

With each passing second, he was getting more scared of me. I liked it. It gave me power. I hadn't felt this way since before I met Gon. I began to wonder why I ever gave this feeling up. This feeling of power. This feeling of strength. I could almost taste it.

I could have ended everything at that moment by just squeezing my hand on the other Gon's throat. I felt like I could have done it easily. I mean, my hand was right there. All I needed to do was tighten my grip and he would die. However, something stopped me from doing that.

I let go of his neck and said, "Let me get dressed and then we'll fight."

The other Gon just nodded. He was still too shocked to say anything. I found my clothes and put them on. I told him to put something on as well. I would have been distracted if he had fought me as he was. His outfit was slightly similar to Gon's, though, so I wasn't sure if it was any better.

We walked to another clearing not far from the one we were at. I had requested the move to keep Gon out of danger. Well, that, and so I could kill this son of a bitch without feeling guilty about it. I knew that if I killed him in front of Gon, even if Gon couldn't see me do it, I'd have to tell him that I had killed. And considering the current mood I was in, it wasn't something I wanted to do.

I saw his Nen sword appear in his hand. My earlier suspicions about it were right. He charged at me and swung his sword, but I dodged it easily by jumping to the left. He swung his sword at me again but I jumped back. As he kept swinging his sword, I was just walking backwards and bending my body to dodge. His movements were predictable.

I backed up against a tree. His face showed confidence. He didn't think he had me cornered, did he? He swung his sword at me again and I jumped to grab onto a tree branch. In the misstep caused by missing me, I swung my body and kicked him in the face while jumping off the branch. I landed on my feet and looked back to where he was laying on the ground.

"Come on," I said, "This can't be the best you've got. I was expecting a challenge. I haven't even broken a sweat, yet."

He got up and rushed me again. I noticed his eyes were full of fear. That was why he was being sloppy in his movements. I laughed on the inside. It felt good to know that he was afraid of me. I kept dodging his attacks, waiting for the right moment to strike.

The moment came when he left himself unguarded as he brought his sword over his head. I took the opportunity and punched him in the chest. Then, as he bent over I gave a chop to his neck. He went down. I waited. I knew he'd get up shortly after going down.

I felt something wrap around my legs. I looked down and saw roots coming from the ground. This was one of the other Gon's Nen abilities. I remembered seeing him use it on Gon when they fought earlier. I remembered how Gon had dealt with them. I wasn't going to do the same. Instead I just stood there as they wrapped my legs.

The other Gon laughed and said, "Ne, Killua, I have you."

I said nothing and just stood still. He mocked me as he got up. He asked me why I didn't use Nen and then immediately said that I couldn't. I didn't really pay attention to what else he was saying, as I was just getting more pissed at him for still talking, though, I didn't show it.. If I could, I would have ripped his lips right off.

When he got to his feet, he charged me again. I just sighed and crouched as he swung his sword. He was obviously caught by surprise and I brought my hand up in a fist. I made contact with his chin and he was once again on his back. I then bent down and ripped the roots that held my legs.

"It's my turn, now," I said.

I started walking to the left. I used my Rhythm Echo technique to confuse the other Gon as he was getting up. I walked around him in a circle and I saw him looking for the real me. He charged at the me directly in front of him, but I was on the behind it. I stepped forward and took out his heart with my hand.

He was shocked. He pleaded with me to give it back. I tightened my grip. I wasn't in any mood to listen to him talk. He pleaded again and instantly, my grip tightened. I could tell he wasn't going to collapse. He pleaded one last time.

"Die."

I crushed his heart. He just stood there. I waited for a minute. He fell to his knees and finally, onto his face. I walked up to him and wiped my hand on his shirt. I then stood up and walked away, back to the clearing where Gon was.

When I got back, I saw Gon had made some progress on breaking through his bonds. The crack on the bark was bigger. I walked up and ripped the bark off of him, freeing his hands. He ripped the bark off of his mouth, gasping for air, and his eyes. He blinked and I smiled.

"K-Killua!" He said as he jumped and wrapped his arms around me.

"Whoa, hey," I said, "Take it easy, Gon."

"Killua, what happened? Where are we? What happened to him?"

I explained to Gon that after his fight with the other Gon, I had tried to escape, but was knocked out by something. I told him that the other Gon and I had discussed some things and he decided to leave us alone. Gon was a bit sceptical at first, but quickly accepted my lie. I told Gon that we needed to leave the forest, as well, so we walked back into the forest.

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A/N: As the official 20th chapter is next, I am once again reaching out to you, my readers, to ask me questions. Be it about my personal life, my online life, my stories, whatever. If there is a question burning that little brain of yours, feel free to leave a review and ask away. I'll be answering all of the questions I've received in an Author's Note at the beginning of the next chapter. It won't be for a little while yet, as I intend to take a short break before working on the next chapter. Also, for those of you who don't know, I have a facebook now! "authorjaynavi" after the facebook in the adress bar. If you want updates of my stories, then that is the place to go. One more thing: I have a new story up. It's a Hunter X Hunter crossover with Pokémon, called "Pokémon: Hunter Version". I'm not going to say everything about it, as I have already done that in the summary of the story. I will say, however, that it will be a KilluGon story (just not the kind this is). Go check those out and be sure to leave me questions!
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