Nexus HWR 8.2 Killua:

"Hey Killua, Kil, get up," Usopp shook the kid with spiky white hair a few times and finally the fourteen year old opened up his eyes to see the long-nosed man leaning over him. Killua opened his mouth but Usopp lifted a finger and put it in front of his first to keep the boy quiet. The guy with long curly black hair motioned his head towards the door and Killua sat up to see Franky and Sanji both getting out of their beds.

"What's going on?" Kil whispered.

Luffy stood near the doorway and he looked back at the kid who just sat up. He chuckled in a quiet way and put a finger up to his mouth, before saying, "Let's go sneak into the Dread Fort."

Kil's eyes popped open wide. They had traveled the last two days with this destination in mind, but Meliodas had them stop at a small village right outside their destination for another night. Killua started frowning as the others all continued getting up, smirking and whispering to each other in excited ways. He noticed Luffy did not complain earlier when they decided to stop, even though they were so close to the Dread Fort that from the top of the bar they could see it over the next hill. He thought it was weird then, but now he realized why the pirate did not argue with Meliodas choosing to stop.

"Come on," Luffy urged, waving his friends towards the door while staying quiet so the men whose boar they were riding on would not hear them. They were in the room one down, and Luffy giggled as he snuck out of the room and tiptoed past Meliodas's. He headed towards the girls' room while the others kept getting up behind him, putting on their clothes and grabbing their weapons.

"Didn't think we'd be heading in in the middle of the night," Rin whispered as he grabbed his sword and slung it over his back.

Riku had a straight expression on his face, flat lips, staying silent as he watched the others get up around him. He spotted Killua slowly getting out of his bed and looking around the room with a nervous expression on his face, then turned and saw Usopp grabbing his slingshot that he put on his back while grabbing his weapons' pouch and strapping it to his waist. Sanji put on his suit jacket and Franky opened up his chest to check his cola supply once before closing it slowly to avoid making a loud clank.

Killua looked around at all the boys in the room and he opened his mouth, but held his tongue and his fists clenched at his sides. Don't worry, Nami and Robin will- His eyes opened wide as he spotted Luffy back at the door, both women he just thought of sneaking over behind him. Robin had a small grin on her face and Nami was smirking, matching the mischievous looks on Franky, Usopp, and Luffy's faces. Killua looked to his right at Rin and Riku, but both of the other non-members of the Straw Hats were fully ready now and started heading for the door where Luffy was ushering them.

"Let's go," Luffy said excitedly and in a low whisper. "I want to see how strong the Lord guy is," he added. Nami lost her excited smirk and she bonked Luffy on the head, whispering scoldings to him not to start fighting as soon as they got there. Most of the others were already expecting Luffy to say something like that though and just chuckled or shook their heads. Luffy saw all eight of his friends were ready, and he turned and made for the entrance of the bar. This is gonna be so much fun!

"STOP!"

The group of eight people walking towards the bright lights stopped and turned around. The person standing behind them had been slowing down progressively since they left the small town where the Boar's Hat camped for the night. It was already night, but because of the lights coming from the city they were on their way towards, the air was bright enough to see this white haired kid whose head was pointed down at the floor.

"Why did we stop?" Luffy called back with a frown from the front of the group.

Riku stared at the youngest member of their group as the kid's hands shook at his sides, curled into fists. "Is something wrong?" He asked.

"Kil?" Rin began, taking a step back towards the kid with spiky white hair.

"I tried to hold my tongue," Killua whispered. He lifted up his head and shouted, "But are you all fucking insane?!"

Usopp and Rin both stepped back in surprise. Nami and Robin opened their mouths with varying levels of shock on their faces. Sanji dropped the cigarette from his mouth as his own lower lip lowered. Franky's metal eyelids opened up wide and even Luffy and Riku were taken aback by the kid's shout, and by the two streams of tears coming down his face.

"Kil?" Nami whispered back to the boy with wide eyes. "Wh-What's wrong?" She always thought he was creepy, nothing like the other children she always tried to be motherly towards. This kid though, he just glared at them all with two lines of water coming from the corners of his eyes.

"What's wrong?!" He shouted at her, then looked around at the others with him. "What's wrong?" He repeated, saying it again slower in case any of them wanted to jump in and answer his question. Killua turned to Riku, then Nico Robin and stared into the older woman's eyes. "What, the Hell, are we doing?"

Robin saw the question directed at her and she opened her mouth, but Luffy spoke up first loudly, "We're going to that city!" He pointed a hand out towards the top of the hill they would have to ascend to be able to see where they were headed that was giving off so much light.

Killua shook his head and held both arms out in front of him. He clenched his eyes shut and then snapped them open and yelled, "WHY?!"

Every person there gawked as they could not understand what was so wrong with this whole situation.

Usopp spoke up first, "B-Because Meliodas said Zoro was going north."

"And this is the closest city north of when he said that," Nami added.

"There are slaves in the city," Rin added darkly, reaching up and touching the sword behind his back.

"Because I haven't been in a good fight all week!" Luffy said, smiling again as he looked back at the boy whose mouth could not drop any further. "And I can't wait to see Zoro again."

"We go where the Captain goes," Sanji stated, lifting up another cigarette to his mouth and lighting it.

"YOW!" Franky agreed, posing with his arms over his head.

Killua stayed quiet for several seconds, then shook his head furiously with splashes of water flying off his cheeks. "Why are we trusting Meliodas?" He asked, looking around at all of them as they suddenly looked pretty confused. He focused on Usopp, "'Melidoas said Zoro was going north...' Who cares?! Why should you believe anything that guy, who we just met, says?! But you know what, let's just pretend like everything he said was the truth." He snapped his head to Nami now, "But the 'closest' city north?" He questioned as if speaking to a child. "Who knows how many months it's been since Meliodas and Zoro have last seen each other. If he was going north, do you really think your friend only made it this far in all that time?"

"Killua, it isn't about the probability of how likely he's going to be there," Riku began. "They just want to go because there is a slim chance they could see their friend again."

"And why are you going?!" Killua yelled at him. "You never even gave a reason."

Riku stayed quiet as he looked at the boy with lighter hair than his own. The nineteen year old finally spoke after looking into Killua's eyes, "For the same reason you're here."

Kil's eyes widened and he took a step back. He kept looking into Riku's eyes and could see the older boy actually knew what he was talking about.

Usopp had no clue what was going on though and he looked back and forth between the two of them. "Umm, what reason would that be?"

"To protect you guys," Riku replied, looking back to the group he was with. "Not that you need protecting," he continued, holding up his hands innocently as Luffy glared at him. "I just promised myself that until Sora came back, I would protect everyone."

"You're wrong!" Killua shouted, shaking his head and glaring up into Riku's eyes. He grabbed both sides of his head and shook it over and over. "That's not why I'm here."

"Yes it is," Riku responded casually, barely glancing back at the boy.

"No!" Killua yelled, lowering his hands and glaring with a much crazier look in his eyes than before. He wiped his face fast so that the tears were gone and he smiled wickedly at the pirates in front of him. "Protect them? If any of you think for a single second I would not sell you out to save myself," he looked straight into each of their eyes, one by one, and finished, "you're dead wrong. I'm a killer," he continued, looking straight into Nami's eyes. He was expecting her to flinch and step back or something, but this time she just looked pained for some reason and Killua's own threatening, insane look faltered. "I am!" He shouted. "I do it without a second's hesitation. I would betray each of you if it meant saving myself-"

"Who are you trying to convince?" Riku asked the kid, stepping a foot towards him. Killua's eyes opened a little wider and Riku continued talking, "Because someone who would do those things would not tell us about it." Killua clenched his teeth angrily as Riku was right, he was being stupid by saying all this right now. And, he never acted stupid so he didn't understand why this was going so wrong right now. "Killua," Riku continued, taking another step towards him. "Since you got on the ship in Awul, you've become a part of this crew. Just because you wouldn't join in the pact, doesn't mean you weren't still a part of it." Riku looked down into the shocked kid's eyes, and saw them start watering again. He continued while the people behind him all smiled at Killua too, "You asked us all why we came, because you are afraid we are going to run into danger in the city. You're right, we probably will. This is a stupid idea."

All the people watching from behind Riku lowered their bottom lips a little upon hearing this. Riku continued, "But, Luffy is the leader of this group. That's why you didn't stay behind in the town, because you're ready to follow for no other reason, than not wanting the rest of us to go get killed while you could be there to stop it." Killua shook his head, tears coming out of his eyes again, making the other smile at him once more. Riku lowered a hand down on the kid's shoulder, "That's why you're here. Say you would betray us all you want, I won't believe it. You may not trust yourself Killua, but we trust you."

"You shouldn't," Killua stated in such a dark, low voice, that Riku lifted up his hand from the kid's shoulder. Killua had his head bowed and his white hair shadowed his face. "There was another group who trusted me," he began darkly, lifting up his head a little and allowing a strange dark aura to swirl around him. "They listened when I said, 'Hey, let's turn off the power nullifiers. I'll help save your friends!'" Killua shook his head. "But I got my nullifier off, and I left them to do the rest. Because I had held up my part of the deal, and once my collar was off, he fulfilled his part of the deal too."

No one understood what Killua was saying, but slowly Rin opened up his mouth, "Wait, you were in Metropolis?"

"That's right," Sanji muttered, "you didn't get affected by the insane disease that hit us out on the sea. Did you live in Metropolis?"

"I was a prisoner there," Killua snarled at the chef, raising his gaze and making the chef's body fill with sweat at the kid's swirling blue eyes. "So, he told me he knew how to get my collar off. He knew where the control room was, he knew who I could use to help me, which people were just as upset with the Government as me. And all I had to do was give him updates on my progress."

"Who?" Riku asked seriously, standing straight up in front of the shorter boy.

"Who else?" Killua asked with a mad grin. "Lex Luthor."

The group gasped together and more than half of them narrowed their eyes at him a second later. "That's right," Killua said with a smug look on his face. "I was Luthor's spy."

"But, wait a second," Usopp began in confusion. "I thought that guy confessed after the battle..."

"Him?" Killua laughed out. "A pawn Luthor told me about. Though, I was just another one of his pawns in the end. Actually, maybe I was more like a rook," he grinned around at the hate-filled looks they were giving him. "The guy in Pao would have only learned about my attack the day before, but Luthor, he'd been planning for weeks, ever since I gave him the date of when my comrades would be ready. I kept planting the idea in Green Arrow's head that he needed to get more help, because Luthor knew that he had the best connections of any of us. Luthor knew he would find the Saiyans and bring them to fight Tetsuo. We all pretend like the rebels and fighters-against-evil won because we freed Metropolis, and took down the corrupt NEG leaders, and destroyed the Underworld, but in the end Luthor was the only real victor of that fight. And I gave him everything he needed to get the ball rolling."

"You, psycho!" Rin shouted at the boy, his ears pointing out and blue flames wrapping around his body. "It's your fault Yukio-"

"Rin hold on," Riku snapped, turning back to the black haired teen sternly for a second.

"Why should he? You heard him, he's Luthor's dog," Sanji stated, taking a big puff of his cigarette and then narrowing his swirly eyebrow at the kid.

Riku shook his head, still in shock himself but thinking of something else. Don't you all get it?

"Once I got my collar off, I snuck off when no one was looking. Armin, Mikasa, Levi…" he began, and Sanji's eyes widened as he actually remembered those people, making him even angrier now. Killua continued with a smile on his face, "Eren, Oliver, Anakin, Fry, Bender, Leela," he tried to keep smiling but a few of them saw him falter for a second. "I didn't try to help them. I did my job, and Luthor said his new Government would be fine with people like me, so I just sat back and watched everything happen from a distance. Thought it was pretty funny when Luthor ran off, especially since things changed anyway." He started laughing, putting his hand on his chest and leaning back to make it louder.

Riku looked around as all of the pirates were looking more and more angry by the second. Robin looked calm, but she was the only one and Rin's flames were burning brighter. It was when he saw Luffy take a step towards Killua that Riku spun towards Luffy and stepped between him and Luthor's spy. "Luffy stop."

"Get out of my way Riku," Luffy growled harshly.

"I won't," Riku replied.

"Why are you still trying to help me?" Killua asked with a mad smirk on his face, looking up at the back of Riku's head.

"Because you're still trying to save us," Riku answered, making Luffy freeze in confusion, and everyone else to stop giving such harsh looks as well.

"What?" Sanji asked, snapping his head to Riku.

"I don't understand," Nami said quietly.

"He's trying to turn you all on him, so that we all forget about going to the city." As Riku finished, they all realized they'd been sitting there talking for five minutes now, not going to the city like only one of them didn't want to do.

"That's not-" Killua began.

"Kil!" Riku yelled, still looking ahead towards Luffy, not even glancing back at the kid who went wide-eyes at his shout. "We're the first people you've ever told about this." He didn't ask it as a question, he just stated it out loud because he already knew. "You know if word gets out, the Super Saiyans are going to hunt you down," he turned his head and looked at the kid behind him. Killua's eyes darted around as he knew that was true, and his hands trembled at his sides. Riku kept talking, "So what will it be Kil? Are you going to kill us right now to prevent us from talking? It's the sure thing, the only real way to keep yourself safe."

Killua's eyes widened larger than ever while Riku turned fully to face him. "No?"

The next second, Killua's hand was up in the air in front of Riku's throat, his fingernails touching Riku's skin. He moved fast, incredibly fast, but as he moved he watched Riku's eyes, and he saw the older teen following his movements, only to not dodge at all. He didn't even flinch.

Nami gasped as the kid shot his hand up at Riku's throat and since she was on the other side of him she couldn't tell how far in he had gotten. Everyone moved forward, then froze as Riku lifted up his right hand with an open palm, motioning for them to stop. He lowered back down his arm and stared into Killua's eyes. "No lying this time. No more games, or tricks, or lies," he added, not wanting to hear the kid blather on again forever while stalling them. "I know why you don't want to go into the Dread Fort. Do you?"

The kid's spiky white hair waved around for a few seconds as a breeze flew by. His hand kept shaking where it hovered right in front of Riku's throat, but he couldn't even will himself to look threatening anymore. He lowered down his right hand and whispered loud enough for the people behind Riku to hear too, "I don't want us to go, because we might not all make it out of there."

Franky's metal face started tearing up himself and then the cyborg burst out in loud sobs. "Little bro! I'm sorry I doubted you!"

Sanji looked at their cyborg shipwright, then back over at Killua. "What you said about Luthor though..."

"All true," Kil replied, as Riku stepped out of the way and gave Killua a better look at the group. The kid took a deep breath while they all stared at him. You can do this Killua. Just try. Try one last time to make them understand. "But, the truth is, I don't like killing," he admitted. "I kind of hate it actually. And if we attack this city right now, if we go in with the intent of causing havoc and starting fights, I don't know how many people I'm going to have to kill in order to survive. How many I'll have to kill to protect my comrades."

"You don't have to kill anyone," Nami began sternly towards the boy.

"How do you know that?" Killua asked, looking at her as if wondering if she really had an answer for him, which she didn't. He looked around at all of them, "I made a plan for Metropolis. We didn't have superior firepower, we didn't have an army, but we had stealth, we had the element of surprise, and we had a PLAN! And still with all of that, most of my team died. Sure, I pretended like it didn't get to me. But after spending months with a few of them, shorter for some others, I grew, attached. Just like I have, for this group," he admitted, looking away a little as that was hard for him to say while looking straight at them. He turned his head back and continued though, "Back then, I thought I knew what I was getting into, and things still went terribly. If I had known what Luthor would do, what he was planning for the city, I would have killed him the second I laid eyes on him." He shook his head sadly with clenched eyes, "But I didn't, and I watched an entire team die in a plan that I put together."

"It won't happen this time," Luffy stated firmly, unclenching his fists but still frowning at the boy for stopping them from going to the city for this long. "We won't die-"

"Damn it Luffy!" Killua shouted at the pirate captain. "Not all of us can have your optimism! I actually believed Ben when he told us we all died! I died trying to save Dash. I hated myself for doing something so stupid, but now I hate myself even more because I'm about to go rush to another early grave, following you!" He panted over and over while glaring through the dimly lit darkness at the pirate in a straw hat whose face was shadowed over. Killua frowned and continued, "There is no rush. Your friend Zoro sounds strong. He's probably alive somewhere, somewhere that's not in that city. And we can go to the city anyway, but why not with Meliodas when those guys are ready to go? Why are we taking such unnecessary risks when we know how dangerous it is?"

A fist flew out of nowhere and crashed into Killua's face as his mouth opened up to keep on shouting. Riku spun and glared angrily at Luffy as his arm snapped back into place. "Hey! What are you doing?" Riku yelled.

"Luffy!" Nami scolded the captain sternly.

The rubber pirate grunted and slammed his hand out to the side. He looked across the dark area to the spot where Killua was pushing himself back up to his feet. The kid was rubbing the left side of his mouth with a deep frown on his face, but suddenly he started smiling and laughing even. "Luffy," Kil started. He looked over and stared straight into the pirate's eyes, "I've heard of stupid pirate captains. I've heard of reckless pirate captains. And I've heard of pirate captains who care nothing about their crews, who think their men are disposable." Killua glared across the darkness into Luffy's eyes, "But you don't get to be the first two without also being the third one!"

Luffy's eyes widened and he stared at the kid blankly as Killua kept shouting at him. "If you're going to act stupid and reckless all the time, every day, every God damn minute! Then don't go crying and pouting when your friends die in front of you!" He shouted at the rubber man. "I know you care about your crew Luffy, I know you don't think any of them are disposable! But," he shouted, and pointed his arm ahead so that it was aimed past Luffy and up the hill behind him. "But if you go rushing into that city tonight, and a single one of your friends die, then you have no right to get mad about it! And you don't have to tell me about having faith in your comrades, because I do too. But just because I believe Robin is smarter than me, doesn't mean that she knows anything more about what's inside that city than I do!"

He looked around, trying to make them understand more than earlier when they were all just staring at him blankly, and five minutes ago when all they did was pity him. Killua frowned deeply and looked straight ahead at Luffy again, staying a little more on guard now than before as he was expecting another punch soon. "The strongest man on my world. Isaac Netero. When we went to war with the Chimera Ants, with the King as their leader," the others all listened closely hearing about that insanely strong creature who was in charge of this continent. Killua continued, "Netero fought the King. We made a precise plan, with every step of it thought out thoroughly. I trusted each of my comrades to do their parts, and in the end the King was dead, so were his Royal Guards. But in the end Netero died, he had to sacrifice himself. And Gon," he whispered, closing his eyes as he thought about his best friend's form after fighting Pitou. "My best friend was on death's door. He almost died, lost a limb," Killua looked around and saw a few more pitying looks. "Stop with the pity already!" He shouted at them, surprising a few of them into leaning backwards. "I don't want your pity! That isn't why I'm telling you this! I just want you to understand, because none of you seem to. We could all die tonight. I trained and planned for months for both my fights against the King, and in Metropolis. When I'm going into a life-threatening situation, I plan for it, because I don't want to die, and I don't want any of my comrades to die. What, can, I, plan, for, tonight?" He asked, taking a break between every word to hopefully, finally get a point across.

The group stayed quiet until Riku spoke up, "We don't know."

"Exactly," Killua replied. "We don't know anything about this place. This is an entirely new world to us. If Gray were here he could tell us how powerful the Lord in charge is. Whether or not Luffy or Riku could take him. He could let us know what type of weapons people use on this continent. What if there are land mines all around the city, buried in the ground waiting to be detonated at any second? What if there are laser snipers that could shoot us from three miles away as soon as we step up that hill looking suspicious. We did no recon! So I'm going to ask again, and I will go with whatever we choose. What, in the Hell, are we doing?"

Luffy had been silent for a while now, ever since he punched Killua across the face. He had been trying to ignore him the entire time the boy spoke about changing their minds, but it had started getting to him. I trust my crew. They can handle... certain people. I find whoever's the strongest and take him on, then Riku and Sanji could take the next strongest guys. And there aren't normally too many, more... but what if there are? That's just a risk. Pirates have fun with risks. Risks make an adventure! Luffy's mouth opened up a little, but he stopped as he saw the black haired teenager on his right take a seat.

"I'm mad at you Killua," Rin said, using his full name unlike he had for last few weeks since they became friends. He turned to the spiky haired kid and continued, "But, you're right. This is stupid, and I'm pretty stupid myself," he added on, "so that makes me think this is a new level of stupid."

"Rin," Usopp started from next to the younger boy. The sharpshooter looked over at Luffy then down at the sitting boy, "Whatever Luffy decides-"

"I'll go with too," Okumura Rin stated. This surprised a few of them who saw his sitting down to indicate him not wanting a part in the attack. "Whether we stay or go, I'm in. I chose to come this way knowing full well that Luffy was going to be in charge." The half-demon looked at the pirate captain and continued, "That doesn't mean I'm going to be quiet and not tell him my mind. Luffy, waking us all up at midnight to go raid this city was a stupid idea. Sounded fun and exciting at first, but I have lost all excitement that I felt towards it originally."

Riku stayed quiet while Rin spoke, but as he looked over at Luffy he saw the pirate captain still not speaking. "Luffy," he began, making the pirate look his way. "We've known each other for years. You know I am fine with risky situations, and I accept that in this group, you are the leader. I'm not afraid, but then again, death does not scare me that much. I know it doesn't scare you either, but it's not just about you and I, and a leader needs to make decisions for the good of the group."

"What about what you said before?" Usopp asked sarcastically.

Riku looked at the long-nosed man and felt a pang of guilt, while Usopp looked at him harshly. The silver haired teen spoke calmly, "I stick to what I said. I said I promised to protect you guys, and I also said I would follow Luffy. Doing both of those things at the same time is hard sometimes, and it will be even harder if we go into that city right now," he added. "So yes, Killua is right in that we should have some idea about who we are planning on fighting, or where the slaves we want to help are inside a giant city. I already sent some scouts ahead..."

"Wait what?" Nami asked the younger man, interrupting him in his speech.

"As soon as Luffy woke us up," Riku admitted, looking around at all the shocked looks. "What? I just sent some Shadows to take a look around."

"Sent some Shadows?" Usopp asked, his voice coming out pretty harsh. "You're using the Heartless?"

"Those things are evil," Rin added, the other person trapped in Castle Oblivion with Usopp also despising the creatures. "You shouldn't use them."

Riku shook his head slowly, "I use the darkness when I feel my friends are in danger." His words made a few of them look down and a couple others to look back at Luffy. "Tomorrow morning, those Shadows will return to me with a lot of information on the city, more so than what Meliodas will have even if we had just waited to ask him instead."

While Rin lessened how deep his frown was at Riku, Usopp's only dropped further. That doesn't make it okay to use those monsters.

"Luffy?" Nami whispered after a few seconds of Riku being quiet.

"Alright," someone said on Luffy's left. "By us not saying anything, it really makes it seem like those of us actually on the crew are just sheep following their Captain." Everyone looked over and saw Sanji turn and look straight at Luffy. "This is serious, speaking against a captain's orders, but right now I can tell you aren't even that sold on your own orders Luffy. Not questioning your decision, but if you endanger Robin and Nami's lives needlessly, I won't be able to follow you anymore."

"Sanji-san!" Nami yelled over at the cook.

Okumura Rin sweatdropped, What about the rest of us? He thought staring over at the blond man who only mentioned two of their group members.

"Well I'm with you Luffy, all the way!" Usopp shouted out, slamming a hand against his muscular chest that showed under his overalls. The sharpshooter grinned over at Luffy to give him a vote of confidence, but his smile wavered as Luffy did not return one of his own. "Luffy?"

But changing my orders now seems weird. It feels like I wouldn't be making the decision here. I should just go with what I said, go with my gut- even if my gut now says to listen to my friends?

"Luffy?"

The pirate in the straw hat looked up and across the circle over at the former assassin, former spy, with spiky white hair. Killua stared into Luffy's eyes and the captain looked right back. What's the point of nakama if I'm not going to listen to their advice... every once in a while? A smile spread across Luffy's face and Killua frowned deeply, expecting the worst. "Let's go get some more sleep," Luffy said, then started walking towards Killua whose eyes were huge. Luffy walked right by while stretching his arms up and yawning. "Tomorrow we attack Dread Fort!" He called out with his arms above his head.

Usopp shook his head a few times from his shock, then his eyebrows narrowed and he yelled, "Don't shout that we're going to attack a city when we're this close to it! Baka!"

Nami, Sanji, and Franky all sighed after a few seconds and started walking after their captain as well. Sanji took another puff of his cigarette, "At least let me buy some good ingredients before we leave this city the same way we left Dressrosa."

"I want to go shopping too," Nami stated firmly. "I have not haggled-to-free a new change of clothes for far too long." She did not say the word 'buy' which would indicate her spending money, her precious money. This made Rin start laughing and follow after the woman while Riku chuckled quieter and followed after as well.

Killua took some deep breaths as everyone went walking past him, then he reached up and rubbed the side of his face where Luffy's fist hit him before. "I was an assassin once myself," a voice said on Killua's right, and he spun around fast to see Nico Robin standing there. He totally did not notice her and it kind of freaked him out, especially with what she said to him on top of it. "An assassin, and a spy, and at one point, I abandoned Luffy and left the crew."

Killua stared at this woman confusedly as she stepped in front of him and got down on one knee. "The life we lived was not pleasant, but the lifestyle makes for a cautious person, which is something necessary on the crew of a stupid, reckless... and caring pirate captain. I've been on the crew for too long, but you made the right call today that we needed." She leaned forward so her head was right on the side of his and whispered, "I'm glad you trust us enough now to share your secrets. But Killua, if you ever do betray us like you said you would, and unlike Riku I think there is a part of you who still would, I will tell your secrets. Son Gohan will know that you fed Luthor information willingly. Prince Vegeta will hear about it. No matter where you go, or where you hide, the Super Saiyans will find you like they found every Underworld base and crushed them under their feet. You pride yourself on your torture training, but I wonder how many painful ways Prince Vegeta knows how to kill someone." Robin leaned back from the kid's ear and smiled down at his face. "Good night, Killua-kun."

The kid did not turn to watch her after she walked past him, because he was staring forward for a solid minute after that. She wants me to believe she was an assassin and spy too? Yeah, I can see that... Gulp.

A/N Hope you enjoyed! Killua freaks out about sneaking into the Dread Fort and winds up spilling his own dark secrets, a dangerous move while also showing that he really is getting attached to his friends despite what the No Matter What pact showed. Thanks for reading! Let me know what you thought in a review! Sorry but no review responses today, for some reason when I click on the reviews for this story and refresh, I can't manage to see the most recent reviews from chapters 38 and 39. Hopefully the problem is fixed by tomorrow, where I will be posting HWR 8.3 The Dread Fort Part 1! Anyway, 'till next time!