AN: hey a chapter that is not late by a day or multiple hours but instead EARLY? Oh, and before you start rightfully assuming I am some sort of doppelganger that replaced the original author I would like to say that I am not...
Moving on, I would like to again point out that this chapter is early... not due to me prewriting but just because my speed has slowly been increasing after writing for a while I guess? I am not sure if that will translate to more chapters or not though due to having a lot of other stuff I am busy with in the near future.
Regardless, enjoy the chapter!
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*huff* *huff* "...motherfucker!" setting down Gon's unconscious body against the wall of the alley before slumping against the cold brick wall myself, I muttered curses under my breath. Currently, I had stopped the bleeding of my hand stump but that did little for my pain or the blood seeping out of the severed hand itself. Thankfully, if I considered the upside of my recent nonelective surgery, I was kept conscious from the continuous pain instead of passing out before promptly bleeding to death.
*clip* using my now one free hand, I managed to finagle open the flip phone before realizing I had it fully powered off and had to restart it back up. Meanwhile, as I waited for it to boot back up I began to think about what I was going to do from now on. Because, as much as I would like to go to a doctor right now with my injuries, I knew it was an idiotic Idea. After all, it would prove to be fatal as anyone with a decent head on their shoulders can figure out what room I would be checked into while incapacitated and could pay me a visit.
'Ah Kurapika has that healing chain no?..' mentally putting meeting up with my friend as an even higher priority, I began to tap away at my now running phone while dialing Leorio's number.
*ring* *ring* *beep* "Magenta! You there!? Is everyone alright!?"
"Hey, hey! Keep it a bit more quiet please… while I am certainly in a better area than we were earlier, I still don't want to attract unwanted attention right now. Seeing as I am not in a capacity to protect myself right now from much of anything besides one or two common thugs." wincing while temporality moving the phone away from my ear for a moment before resuming the call. Meanwhile, I was also remaining vigilant of my surroundings as my head began to sober up after the momentary haze from the end of our battle.
"ok…so are the other two alright and what is the extent of your injuries… assuming you're injured?" in a much more hushed tone, He began pestering me with questions with a barely hidden underlayer of expectations in his voice. Sighing while slapping my hand, or stump now, on my forehead. I collected my thoughts, or rather, as best as I could with the small burst of pain from slamming an open wound onto my forehead.
*inhale*" tch… Well, I am a bit under whether you could certainly say I could use a hand right now…As for the two boys, I only barely managed to whisk Gon out of there so I left Killua behind as he is more likely to survive on his own. Additionally, Gon is unconscious. The guy we were fighting was some sort of anime enthusiast as he did the whole neck chop thing to him." keeping my voice as steady and mild as possible, I began giving the cliff notes regarding the outcomes of tonight's battle. Though near the end I began to start a tangent as I joked about what happened, something I have been doing very recently to combat the pain I suppose.
"Damnit! I mean… I understand why you had to leave him behind but, I just don't like it all too much. At least Gon is fine, though I will have to check on him to see if there is any extra damage… although it's weird that worked, I mean the neck chop to the back of the neck somewhat works but it's incredibly ineffective and almost never works properly…Hey, tell me your location and I'll fetch you alright?" mentally sighing at the prospect of someone picking me up right now, I began to instruct him on how to come to get me.
"Let me look, I'm not exactly sure where we are… I just avoided the main populated streets as an unconscious boy and a bleeding adult will cause some unrest and make it easy for anyone to pursue us. I also want to avoid any hospitals if you catch my drift? Oh, and no taxi's I really don't need uninvolved people seeing us like this… so either run on over or get a car if you have one." struggling to get back on my feet, I began to stumble over to the mouth of the alleyway as I briefly peer out towards the street while trying to pinpoint my location by cross-referencing the map of the city I memorized. A nice little habit I picked up under the tutelage of Claire.
"Get a car!? Are you stupid, this is yorknew city the only people who have cars are the locals and even they hate driving here! It's either a taxi, public transport, or you are stuck walking" frowning at my options, I continued to survey the area for a moment longer before turning back into the alleyway where I would be hidden by the absence of lighting.
"Haha… I may be a bit out of it right now sorry, oh and my location seems to be a side alley in the footlight district if the dress and looks of the locals running around are anything to go by… as for the block I'm on? It's… 3rd street, I can send you my direct location if I end the call?" opting to stand this time instead of sitting, I began 'pacing' slowly back in forth in the alley while continuing to talk with Leorio who declined my offer to end the call.
"By the way, did you ever end up contacting Kurapika? I figured you would even if it hadn't been 48 hours…" randomly bringing up another topic of interest to avoid an awkward silence pervading our phone call, I began to ask him about the instructions I gave him regarding our mutual friend. Especially since I was interested in hopefully getting my hand reattached.
"Like hell… this whole thing has barely taken a quarter of a day, sure it took a while for us to find the two initially. But, it took even longer for you to call me just now, yet it's only barely past sundown and this whole thing started an hour or two past noon. The time frame I have had to hunt down a high-profile CRIME FAMILY of all things and get access to a personal bodyguard of theirs in that time frame is insanely small. I don't even know where to begin searching for them and I doubt even shadier connections would want to rat out a large influence in fear for their lives. *sigh* just… hold on for a moment I am almost there, we can look for Kurapika later okay?"