Disclaimer: I wish I owned Hunter but it already belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi :( I just own my idiotic OC, Hitomi... yay...
Chapter 33: Running out of Blood x Tears of Grief? x True Feelings!
Hitomi backed off and stood in the top of a tree, looking at the enemy. This time, she had to fight a huge falcon, and he was damned fast.
"It's not a surprise, though," she sighed. "Falcons are the fastest in air... And I have no opportunity to lose him either... They have an excellent sight..."
Then the enemy zoomed towards Hitomi, and she tried to kick him, but he dodged and rose back up into the air. He did so again, and she tried to punch him. The falcon then just chose to grab her hand and hit her in the jaw, sending her flying.
She got a hold in a branch, holding her sore spot.3
"You know is rude to hit a girl in the face, right, Falcon-boy?!" she shouted.
'Falcon-boy' just raised an eyebrow at her.
"Not much a talker, huh?" she mumbled, before shouting at him, who was still flying in the sky. "Come on! Will you stay in the air for much longer? I've got a fight to win yet!"
BANG!
Her head snapped at the direction of the sound, but didn't see anything. It was like someone, somewhere in the jungle, had just shoot something. She narrowed her eyes.
"Let's hope Killua wasn't the target..."
She noticed her foe flying her way and she immediately avoided it and climbed the tree again to see him more clearly.
"Got it, got it..." Hitomi scratched the back of her head. "Don't be that angry..."
The ant rose up in the sky again and started to spin quickly, until there was a huge cyclone around his body. Hitomi cursed again, before jumping out the way. It barely touched her, but the wind was that strong to send her flying away.
She stood meters behind, in the top of another tree, gasping for air. She growled slightly when she realized that she didn't even manage to land a hit on him in the whole battle.
That wasn't good.
BANG!
It sure startled her, but this time she didn't take her gaze out of the bird. She tried to shake out that bad feeling, but failed in doing so. She had the hunch... no. She was sure that the person in danger was Killua.
Her eyes suddenly sifted into a cold red.
She had to end this as fast as possible.
"All tornado has a weak point... its center."
'Falcon-boy' raised up in the air, until he was in front of the sun. It was that bright that Hitomi couldn't see anything. She however managed to step back, avoiding the tornado and gracefully landing in her feet.
"Guess that I can't depend only in my sight... But I can try that new thing," she closed her eyes. "Sorry for the copyright issues, Bat-san."
Nen leaked out her body and she released a long sigh. Her mouth opened and seemed to shout, but the ant never heard anything.
She then smirked, slowly putting a hand on her pocket.
The falcon continued flying towards her, but got shocked at what happened. In a split of second, the girl had her eyes opened and, when he realized what was happening, he had a dagger struck in his face.
Hitomi withdrew it and jumped back, watching the ant fall into the jungle, to not be seen again. She gave the dark, bottomless place, before sighing.
She had already lost Flutter, so there was another priority now which was find her friend. She looked up at the place filled by trees, with no trace of him.
Hitomi had to find him. Where the hell was he?
She had to calm down. She need to cold her head.
"Just keep quiet, Hitomi. Quiet," she told herself quietly, closing her eyes. "Rushed actions won't lead you into anything."
BANG!
She then forced herself to remain quiet. Hitomi inhaled and exhaled softly, doing her best for, once in her life, not rush into actions that she could regret.
Lives were in stake, after all.
BANG!
She opened her eyes and looked at the way in which she had listen the sound coming from, but still couldn't see anything. Hitomi took a long breath and her eyelids dropped once again. Her Nen got out her body one more time.
The girl shouted as loud as her lungs allowed her to, but in a way she had never did before. Even Hitomi couldn't hear herself, since that sound wasn't audible for humans.
"I can see!" she shouted in excitement in her head.
The pictures flashed in her head. Somewhere, far away from her, there was a man with a gun. An ant, more likely. She was sure now, that was Killua's enemy.
After realizing that, she started to run.
"Wow, I could've never believe I could generate ultrasound in my life, and let alone using echolocation!" she grinned, proudly at herself. "I kinda feel like a bat but... Oh, well. Who cares? I'm just awsome."
In a couple of seconds, she found where the sniper was, just to learn that Killua arrived at the same time, at the same place. They quickly glanced at each other, and she grimaced in silence at the sight of him. He was bleeding from a lot of places, and badly.
However, she shook it off. The two just kept in silence, running after the ant. He then stopped right in front of some kind of cave.
"This is a trap," he told them, jumping down inside. "You still wanna come?"
Hitomi watched in amusement as Killua jumped in his back.
"Couldn't care less," he said, icily, before stabbing his nail in his head. "Die."
Then tentacles got out the man's head, wrapping around the boy. Hitomi instantly jumped inside and freed him with her knife, seeing that his intention was to drag him into an underground lake.
They both used a slice of his tentacles, which got stuck in the wall, to hold themselves. The creature hold in the rocks as well and directed his gun at them.
"Bastards!" he shouted. "How dare you chop off my precious legs?!"
"Oh, these were legs?" Hitomi joked. "I thought they were just tentacles."
"Anyway," Killua frowned. "Aren't you an octopus?"
"Don't call me an octopus!" he yelled, angrily.
Hitomi raised an eyebrow.
"Then how the hell do you want to be called?" she asked, annoyed. "You look like an octopus to me."
"I'm Ikalgo! Just Ikalgo!"
The girl eyed him in curiosity. She would try to remember his name, but nothing was sure. Octopus was fitter for him, she thought. Oh, well.
He then shot at the air, and flew away. "See ya," he shouted.
But then Killua was quick enough to grab the gun with his hand and stick into another stalactite. Hitomi smiled slightly. It looked like the boy didn't need her help after all.
She got closer to him, to see the scene.
"Yo," Killua waved. "We meet again."
"So we do... Long time, no see! You know?"
Hitomi just narrowed her eyes. The octopus was talking way a lot, like he wasn't in a hurry... or worse, like he was trying to buy time.
Her eyes then opened. Maybe, just maybe, there were more ants there.
"Can I ask you something?" the boy continued.
"Sure, go ahead!"
"Why didn't you dive underwater to escape? You should have an advantage in the water. Don't tell me you can't swim."
The girl just looked at the blood under his sliced tentacles and then at the water at her feet. The carnivorous fishes were surrounding the corpse of the man that Ikalgo had used as a host that time.
"Blood," she mumbled. "They go berserk because of blood, and you'd end up dying here."
She then realized it. The place, the ants hiding, her hunch, everything. She had been right, there actually were more ants than Ikalgo, Flutter and the fishes... and they were right below her feet.
"Well, looks like I'm the only one who is not soaked in blood..."
And then she released a long sigh.
"Hey, Whitey... or 'Red', more likely... Just don't follow me," she said, catching the boy's attention. "I'm gonna take a bath, see you later."
"Eh?" he was confused. "Wait, you are not going to-"
Hitomi let go of the tentacle in which she was holding and, before the boy could do anything, fell right in the water. He wanted to go, but remembered how bloody he was now, and the blood-thirsty fishes out there.
At least she wasn't bleeding...
"She will be okay," he tried to convince himself. "That idiot is kind of lazy at using her brain, but she is actually not stupid... She'll think in something."
And then Killua turned around to face Ikalgo. He, too, had an enemy to defeat.
As soon as Hitomi's head got out the water, she took a long breath. The feeling of her lungs being filled with air made her feel alive again. She shivered slightly, it was so cold!
But then noticed something else, she wasn't in the same place anymore. In front of her, there was another cave, and she could feel a huge Nen coming from it. She got out the water and examined the entrance, wondering if she should come there or not.
"I can stay here all the day... Or just enter, find myself in front of a bunch of ants and shout something like 'Hey, I'm here to kill you all!'..." she sighed. "Neither of the options are good."
Then, something else happened. She felt something wrapping around her leg, and noticed it was a thread, nearly impossible to see. Hitomi tried to fight against it, but failed.
In a flash, she got pathetically dragged inside by it.
"Well, it's faster this way," she sweatdropped.
She then managed to cut the thread with her knife, and jumped back. From the shadows, she saw three creatures walking. The three ants had features of aquatic animals, with scales covering their bodies. The only difference between them was their color: the female was a dark shade of pink, the taller man was green and the last boy was blue, who had a little quiver in his shoulder.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" the green one said. "A tiny, human girl, huh?"
She didn't say anything, she just stepped back.
"We are the Ortho Siblings," the blue one stepped in front of him.
"Oh, thanks to gods above!" she shouted, her voice oozing sarcasm. "Great, now that I know that, I can finally sleep in peace."
The blue ant looked at her for a couple of minutes, before his mouth curled into an amused smirk and looked at his siblings. They nodded and walked away.
Hitomi looked in confusion as the sister sat in a sofa and the older brother turned on a television-like device. At the sight of what - or who, more likely - it was on the little screen, the girl froze.
And she swore that for a moment her heart stopped beating.
"Killua!" she shouted, and looked as the older brother threw a dart at his board.
And, in her surprise, a fish stabbed his hand.
Then, she started to run right to the ant but something stopped her, like a wall. She then looked closely and noticed that she was surrounded by threads, that somehow managed to create a force field, so she couldn't get out there.
"No one can hear you from here, not even that little friend of yours," the blue Ortho chuckled behind her. "This fight is between two people: you and me. No one more, no one less."
"Wow, you want to fight me and only me that bad? I feel touched," she smirked. "Let's begin with it then."
She could just hope that Killua could take care of himself, and not get killed by blood loss. Hitomi could do nothing for him now.
The ant's claws grew and she jumped back, trying to foretell the enemy's next movement, but was just useless. His blank, cold gaze didn't gave out any lead for her to follow.
That was bad.
"Well, if you aren't going to attack..." Ortho said. "How about me doing the first move?"
Her eyes flew opened when she realized that he was gone, so she immediately turned around to block the attack that, Hitomi supposed, was going to land in her back. However, no one was behind her.
The guy kicked her from the right, and she leaped back to stood in the net. That was when her feet started to hurt, so she jumped back into the ground.
"That hurt a lot," she thought, looking at her burnt feet. "And that just means that I can't even stand on it... It's worse than a wall... Great."
Hitomi looked at her enemy with red eyes, and started to run around the field, waiting for his attack, that never came. Sick of doing nothing, she shot sound waves from the metallic clenching at him. She waited for them to do something, but he simply avoided it.
"He is faster than sound? Shit," her fist tried to hit his face, but was grabbed by his hand. "Double shit."
Then, the female felt herself being lifted by the collar of her shirt. He glared icily at her, and she tried to use it at her advantage. She quietly waited until it was the time, and softly spoke.
"If you keep holding me for more time, your arm will get numb, am I wrong?"
Nothing happened and the girl frowned. An amused smirk curled in the enemy's lips, making her worry increase.
"It's useless. I'm a genius in the mental field," he threw her at the ground again. "The weak point in your ability is actually saying what's going to happen. That alone is enough for me to keep mentally strong... At least enough to realize that everything is just fake."
"Triple shit," Hitomi flinched.
The ant tried to hit her. She narrowly dodged, using her enhanced speed. The girl started swinging in a speed that the guy only blocked, annoying Hitomi more than if he was attacking for real.
Then a mischievous idea crossed her mind. "Well, no one is seeing me, right?" she smirked.
She kicked him, but not in the place where he had expected to. Since it was the most sensible area in any man - ant or not - in the world, he winced in pain and his eyes watered. The girl wasted no more time and punched him on the face, sending him on the floor.
"Wow, it did hurt?" she smiled, cheekily. "You would never be able to reproduce, so it's no problem. Is it?"
The ant stood up and just glared at her, really pissed off.
"Well, it seems like it is," she sighed, waiting for his next move.
To her surprise, he put his hand on the net, and after awhile, it started to burn until flames started to come out his hand. Hitomi wondered why he was glaring at her like that, with no signs of pain because of the fire in his hands.
"You'll pay for this!" he shouted.
Then, he put his hand on flames in the ground, as the spot started to burn. He shook his hand then, turning the fire on him off. Ortho then stretched his thumb and index finger, letting his Nen out. A tiny thread appeared between them, like it was a mini-bow.
"I'm doomed," Hitomi realized, before eyeing Killua again. He was painted in bright colours, like a dart chart. "And seems like he's doomed too..."
That was when the smoke from the fire started to spread out the place, and Hitomi coughed a bit. She looked around and realized that she couldn't see anything at all. She growled a little.
Then something hit her arm. She looked at it, just to realize an arrow that had been shot at her.
"I had used already almost all my Nen with the Falcon-guy... so there's no chance I can use echolocation again," Hitomi frowned. "That's bad... I can't see anything..." she coughed a little more. "And I'm going to run out oxygen if this continues like this... But just wondering, how does this guy breath?"
She felt the urge to slap herself. "That's bad... I can't lose focus," another arrow pierced her shoulder. "Not yet..."
Hitomi tried to dodge again, trying still to be in her feet. But she got shot anyway in her belly.
"That was smooth. He is trying to tire me with the lack of oxygen while shooting me from somewhere I don't know where it is," she felt her heartbeat increasing. "He wants to kill me in the worst way he can think of."
Another arrow landed in her back, and she fell. She coughed a bit, thinking of the boy she was supposed to help: Killua.
"I need to, at least, avoid them to seeing him. He can think of something later... And I also have to tell him that they are not longer seeing him too..." she thought of something. It was dangerous to use more Nen, but... "Well, since I can't think straight anymore because of the smoke... I'll do it..."
She stood up, still wavering a bit, threatening to fall again. She let almost all her Nen out, and opened her mouth.
"KILLUA!" she shouted.
The sound was that loud that even the net didn't resist and broke, dispelling all the smoke in there. It echoed in all the room, and all the siblings had to cover their ears because of the loud voice.
But the small television ended up snapping.
"KILLUA!"
Killua unwittingly leaped in his feet, while taking another fish out of his bloody body. He could have sworn that, this time, it wasn't the enemy talking. That voice was one that he was able to easily recognize and, even though he would say it outloud, was glad to hear again.
It was from Hitomi.
iHe focused in the voice, trying to figure out what was happening out there. He heard a female coughing, so she supposed that the girl wasn't in top condition. Well, Killua himself wasn't either.
"Oh, sorry, Fish-san," she seemed to talk with one of the Ortho brothers. "I think I accidentally broke your little television.."
"You little-!" that was the ant's voice.
Killua smirked slightly, while wiping the sweat that was forming from his forehead. That television she had mentioned was maybe the device from which they had been seeing him all this time.
"Hitomi is alright, and she somehow managed to do something," he thought. "At least, now I know that they can't see me."
He got hit by another needlefish, which made him slump into the ground. He tried to got up, but another stabbed him in his right leg. Killua lost his balance and fell once again.
"Damn... This looks pretty bad..." he panted, looking at the blood pouring out his wounds. "I've lost way too much blood. I could die here, so no point in saving what's left."
Killua's eyes closed, as sparks electricity started to surround him.
"Now, then," Ortho voice was heard. "It's my final turn."
He waited calmly for the next three strikes to come. The first hit his left ear and the second his right leg.
And his blue orbs opened, waiting for the last one.
Hitomi was thrown in the floor again by the time of the sister's cheering. The brother had just threw the last dart, and had succeed.
"I'll go check his corpse!" the sister said, cheerfully.
"I'll come with you," the older one told her, before looking at the middle brother, who right now had a feet over the human girl's body.
"I'll catch you guys later," he said, before glaring at the girl. "As soon as I deal with this little brat."
And the couple walked out the place, as Hitomi's enemy kicked her. She rolled in the floor, before looking at him fiercely.
"Killua has already ended with this..." she thought. "No matter what happens to me, I have to kill him!"
She then stood up and closed her eyes, hearing the brother walking towards her. With the remaining strength she had, she managed to move her lips, saying something the enemy couldn't hear.
Then, Ortho stabbed her right in the chest, and she quietly spitted blood. Then, a smirk crossed her face, making the ant freeze at the sight.
"Sorry, but was that supposed to hurt?" she asked, looking at him at the eye.
"Don't kid with me!" he shouted, slashing her chest open.
Ortho just looked at her, who grinned at him. She didn't look affected at the attack, making him lose his cool. His panic increased.
"Come on!" he struck her again and again, but not avail. Blood was dripping from her wounds, but Hitomi didn't look affected at all. "Why don't you die?! Die already! Get out my sight!"
"Then, goodbye."
Something pierced his head and he fell onto the ground. Hitomi, from his back, took her knife out of his skull and dropped into the her knees as well, exhausted.
"Good, how should I name it? Sweet Requiem: Ultrasound Version? No, it doesn't sound good..." she thought randomly. "Come on! It's not the time to think over it!"
She got out the floor and started to run. Hitomi then stood in front of the underground lake, looked at herself and realized that she was bleeding badly now.
The girl then facepalmed. How the hell was she supposed to get out there now?!
The two siblings got out the water, just to see the boy lying in the ground, with a fish stabbed in his forehead.
"You hit him right in the forehead," the sister commented.
The brother turned around and talked with Flutter for a bit, telling that they've taken out the fist target and that the other one was about to die soon by the hands of the other Ortho. The flydragon-like ant then promised to convince Leol, his boss, to promote them.
"Great! We can be assistant squadron leaders now!" they high-fived each other. "Yay!"
But, a heartbeat later, the story was different. The two found themselves having their heads severed, because of the boy that was supposed to be dead.
After that, he fell into the ground again.
"H-How?" the male head shouted. "How can you be alive with a dart sticking out of your brain?!"
The boy sat up and took the fish out of his head. He then showed them that, instead of having a sharp end, it had attracted a octopus' suction cup.
"No way. How did you manage that trick?" he was shocked. "No, wait... My... darts were perfect! It's absolutely impossible to stop them!"
"Yeah, I didn't stop it. I just grabbed it, the moment it materialized at my head. From what you guys were saying, I could tell that Hitomi broke the thing in which you were seeing me," he told them. "Because of that, I had plenty of time to switch out the needle for a suction cup."
"H-Hold on... No human has reflexes fast enough to catch a dart!"
"Well, it wouldn't have been possible had I not known where it would appear," he explained, hiding the fact that he was just using Nen. "But I knew exactly where and when the last dart would hit."
The two ants would have jumped in their spot if they had legs of their own, at that sentence.
"The final dart must hit the board's outer ring per double out rules. And you were playing an 01-501 game. You start with 501 points, and the goal is to reach 0. These rules are used in professional competition."
"I n-never told you what rules I was using!" the male ant freaked out.
"As soon as I knew you were playing darts, my suspicions were confirmed. Remember how your first dart hit double 4?" he remembered. "The game starts by hitting the board's outer ring. A double in... A sign that you were confident in your skill. A skilled player would play by official rules," he closed his eyes. "Players with talent and confidence tend to seek public recognition. After that, I just had to do the math and endure the pain. I subtracted your points from 501, and waited until your score was under 40."
Then, he placed his hand in front of his forehead.
"At that point, I placed my hand in the 40-point area, my forehead. That's all it took."
"Do you have some history with darts?" the man was surprised.
"At age six, I mastered the game. I've counted down from 1,440 points," he smirked. "It was part of my early training."
And like that, the ants started arguing with each other. The boy sighed, standing up to leave the place.
"Or was I seven?" he wondered. "Guess it doesn't matter... I talked too long. I need to hurry!"
All of sudden, the world started spinning and, when he realized what was happening, Killua found himself looking at the rocky roof of the cave. He struggled to move, facing the floor beneath him and forcing his arms to get him up, but no avail.
"What? My body won't do what I tell it to..." he panicked. "Wait, is this really happening?"
Not being able to hold his own weight anymore, he fell again. He lay there, doing nothing but just stare at the huge pool of blood forming under his body.
"Wow... All this is my blood? It feels like I'm taking a warm bath," he thought, absent-mindedly. "Wait, this isn't the time to think about that... I should get going."
However, when he tried to stand up once again, his body didn't move. Not even an inch. He looked at his hand, and realized that he was having troubles at seeing it. His vision was getting dizzier and dizzier as time passed by.
"Crap, now I feel cold... Damn... And after that last fight gave me a hint... for improving my power. Am I... going to die here?" his friends' faces popped up in his mind. "Gon... Hitomi... Sorry... I wasn't any... help..."
He didn't have any strength left, not even to keep his eyes open. Without wanting it, his eyelids started to drop and his mind started to drift somewhere... and Killua wasn't able to prevent it from happening anymore.
"Too cold..." he mumbled in a soft voice, before everything turned dark.
Meanwhile, in the cave, Hitomi was cursing and cursing, pacing around the room without an idea of what she was supposed to do. She released a long sigh, trying to deal to the urge of pulling her hair out, since she didn't want to get bald.
Suddenly, her phone started to ring. She took it off her bag and stared at it before sighing.
"What do you want, Gon? Better make this quick," she snapped at the phone.
"Eh? Are you okay?" he was worried.
"Well, if you call being almost choked up by an ant with smoke, using almost all your Nen and being bleeding while the only way you can get out the place is a lake filled with, literally, bloodthirsty fishes being is okay... Yeah, I'm perfect," Gon didn't answer at her outburst. "Well, what happens?"
"Oh, well... You see..." he mumbled. "Have you seen Killua? He doesn't answer his phone."
Her worry increased. "He doesn't?" Gon kept silent again. "Oh, god. I need to find him!"
"Wait!" the boy panicked. "Is he okay?!"
"No, he isn't. But he'll be," she assured. "I have to hang up, but I promise to call back as soon as I find him."
They stayed in silence for a while.
"I understand," he finally said. "Please, take care."
Hitomi hung up and looked at the water, frowning. There was only a way to get out of the place, and she knew it. She gripped tightly her knife and jumped in the water.
"Suicide time!" she thought, as the fishes came into her way.
Her friend crossed her mind, so she proceed to swing her weapon around. After a lot of fighting and slicing, she managed to reach the surface and immediately jumped out the water, rolling in the floor.
"That was close!" she panted. "Good, let's find Whitey."
She started to run and she found him pretty quickly, but that doesn't mean that she had expected the state in which he was.
Killua was lying in a pool of blood, with Ikalgo standing next to him.
"Get away from him!" she hissed, as she walked closer to the ant.
Ikalgo panicked, stepping back. His red face then paled.
"Hitomi... Don't..." Killua mumbled, weakly. "He wanted... to help me..."
"Killua..." she looked at the boy.
Not taking attention to the octopus anymore, she rushed at his friend. Quickly, but tenderly, she took him in her arms. Hitomi didn't want to move him much more, he looked too fragile... like he could to snap at any moment.
Dull sapphire eyes looked at her for a long time. Hitomi didn't realize how much time passed until he weakly opened his mouth.
"I'm glad..." he said in a whisper. "I... I wanted to... see you..."
"You sure are delirious..." her eyes watered. A soft, playful laugh escaped from his lips.
"Seems that way..."
Then, the boy's eyes closed again and he snuggled against her chest, worrying Hitomi even more. His smile, however, never got erased from his lips.
"It's warm..." Killua managed to say, faintly.
The girl looked at his face, while placing him gently in the floor. It became paler and paler, as blood continued to pour out his body, his life fading away every second it passed.
She tried to shake him awake, but it was fruitless.
He was unresponsive at her desperate calls.
He was barely breathing.
"Killua... Come on!" she shouted. "Killua! Don't you dare to die on me!"
At that moment, Hitomi felt useless. That was then tears started to roll down her cheeks, as she tried to wake him up again and again.
Grief consumed her completely from inside, as the memories she shared with him didn't leave her in peace. It ended up stabbing her in the heart, as impotence and sadness started to, together, burn fiercely in her chest.
"Looks like..." she smiled, bitterly. "It wasn't just a crush..."
And after it, she felt stupid because of realizing it just now. She cursed herself, and told herself that she was an idiot multiple times.
She panicked, shallowing the air around her but no avail. Panic filled all her mind, as she struggled to breath.
"Girl... Girl!" Ikalgo snapped her out her thoughts. "He isn't dead yet."
Finally, she calmed down a little before it could have gotten worse.
Her eyes glanced at him briefly, wanting to believe him, but unable to. The octopus looked at her, and winced.
"And please... will you stop looking at me with these red eyes?" her eyes opened at his words. "They are scaring me..."
She blinked. She had them still on?
"Anyway, I know a secret doctor!" he told her. "We can take him there. It won't take long by underground gateway!"
"You do?!" she asked, feeling somewhat relieved.
He nodded, and his head started to grown. The girl picked the boy up and sat on his head. Ikalgo then started to quickly swim in the water.
"Will he make it?" Hitomi asked, in worry.
"I don't know," he admitted. "But we have to stop the bleeding. Can you do something?"
Her mind started to run for a solution, since the bullets shot at him by Ikalgo had been dipped in some chemical to stop natural patching.
But then, something hit her mind. She remembered been looking at Killua for a lot time, with her Scarlet Eyes on.
She didn't know if it would work... but...
Hitomi hugged Killua tightly, burying his face in her chest. It had to work... if not... she wasn't going to forgive herself... never.
"Isn't that great, Killua?" she tenderly pressed her lips against his head, giving him a quick but sweet kiss. "The bleeding is stopping..."
And in her surprise, the wounds started to close. She now needed to stay awake, because she feared that if she didn't do so, they would open again. And Killua then would be as good as dead.
She wasn't going to let that happen.
Hitomi released a long sigh, glaring at the nurse from the place. She had never expected an human being to be that useless...
The only thing she had done was giving them a bed for Killua, and the items to heal him. Nothing more. It was some type of ridiculous auto service-clinic she had never heard of.
Her power was slowly fading, and the boy's wounds were opening as well. She and Ikalgo had agreed that the only way to save him was stitching him up from themselves...
But...
"Hey, Ikalgo, do you know how to stitch someone up?" she asked.
He stood still for a moment.
"I was hoping you knew," he replied.
Her face fell. Her head dropped and a long sigh got out of her lips. An idea crossed her mind and she looked at her phone. She wasn't sure if it would work, but...
In the other second, she was dialing a number and pressing the phone against her ear.
"Yo! It has been a long time, old man!" she greeted as the person picked up. "What's up?"
"Huh?" he was confused for a bit. "Ah! It's the brat!" and now, the girl was pissed off. "Why are you calling me this late?"
"Well, you see, dear Leorio..." she went on. "You don't happen to have any experience... in stitching a person up, do you?"
There was a long silence, and Ikalgo just blinked at her.
"What happened there?" Leorio turned serious.
"Nothing serious. Small cuts," she lied. "Killua got hurt, and the wound just doesn't heal... And we have no doctors close... So..."
"But, is he okay?"
Hitomi glanced at him. His face was pale, and looked like the walking dead, literally...
"Yeah, perfectly okay," she grinned. "Actually, he is insulting me for calling you... as always..."
Leorio stood silent for a while, before sighing.
"First you have to sterilize the utensils and cleaning the wounds with something, so the wound doesn't get infected," he told her. "Do you have something to do so?"
"I think... let me see..."
She covered the speaker and asked the nurse for it, but she told her that she didn't have anything left.
"Once I heard that Killua was immune to poison... Does bacteria count as it?" she sighed in irritation. "Well, it doesn't but... can't be helped."
Hitomi then turned to the phone again. "Done," she lied again.
"Well, you can apply him something like anesthesia if the wound is too big," Leorio continued.
"No, it's just a scratch," she looked at the huge wound in his body. "Well, it wouldn't work either way... Again, because of his poison resistance..."
He then told her the way of stitching, and she did exactly as the older man instructed. After a while, she finished patching all of them and released a long sigh of relief.
"Now then, look at his face," she did as she was told. He still looked sick because of lack of blood. "If he is too pale, it's because of blood loss. Do you have blood somewhere close by any chance?"
"I do," she nodded looking at the only thing that the small clinic had, before lying again. "I'm always careful, looks like it was worth it."
"And you happen to know Killua's blood type?"
She gave him a long look, immediately remembering his bratty actitude.
"Well, he's really fastidious," her eyebrow twitched. "Definitely an A-type."
"Are you sure? Better ask him somehow!" he was somehow tense. "He can die if you give him the wrong one!"
"Sure," she winced and looked at Killua for a bit. There was no way she could ask him... "I'm great! He is an A-type indeed."
And then, she gave him blood, praying gods above she was right. Then, she pressed the phone against her ear again.
"Thank you a lot, Grandpa!" she teased him, and he growled.
"Yeah, yeah... whatever."
"Good, then take care!"
"Hitomi," he stopped her. "I don't know what you guys are into, but be careful. Don't get yourselves killed."
A smirk appeared in her face.
"Okay, we will. Don't worry," she assured. "Goodbye."
She then hung up and grinned at Ikalgo, Killua's face was slowly gaining color again. Hitomi stood up and stretched herself...
But she had no strength left and fell into the ground. Ikalgo jumped in his feet, but calmed down when he realized she was just asleep.
End of the chapter! Sorry, it was lame, I know.
I'd like to apologize because, from now on, my updates won't be as regular as they used to be... :( I just want to kill whoever had the brilliant idea of having final tests...
Well, that's it. I just want to burn the school into flames...
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