(Yumi POV)
I'm jumping through the trees thinking back on me and Killua's conversation and I can't help but feel a sense of loss. Why? Don't f*cking ask me! I'm too confused to process something like that right now!
Sigh
I want to stop. Stop moving. Sit down. Think. But I can't. My body is moving on its own, like a machine. It has one goal. But I'm not so sure I can achieve it.
"I want to kill Hanzo if it's the last thing I do!"
I can't stop myself! I'm going to die! I still have to protect the others! I haven't done enough for them! Stop!
BUT I DIDN'T! I KEPT MOVING. MY LEGS PUTTING ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER. MY BRAIN CLOUDY. MY EYES SEEING RED.
Then I feel them.
The tears dripped down my cheeks.
I didn't understand them.
I don't know where they came from. Why they're there.
But they were warm.
And......
they hurt.
a lot.
I didn't like how they hurt.
I didn't want them to hurt.
But I smiled.
My twisted self SMILED!
And I just let myself.
The next moments were almost a blur.
I got my scythe. Prepared my knife. I looked for him. Found him. And then........
What happened again?
Oh right. I killed him.
Was it easy?
I don't remember it that way.
I got hurt. A LOT.
The blood I enjoyed seeing so much flowed like a river. It's all I could see. At least it wasn't only mine.
I felt a smirk coming on.
"You twisted son of a bitch"
That is what I wanted to say to myself. But I felt too tired to do that.
I just wanted to take a nap.
Just a small one.
But then I felt.
Sure I felt what was going on around me. But that wasn't what shocked me.
It's that I felt myself.
Living with my condition you tend to almost forget about how you feel because you're constantly in tune with your surroundings. Whether emotionally, or physically.
So when I felt myself.
I was shocked.
But I also realized that I was gonna die if I fell asleep.
If I took that nap I wouldn't be able to help the others.
I wouldn't be able to meet Melody in the future and play matchmaker.
I wouldn't be able to thoroughly beat up Ging for leaving Gon.
I wouldn't be able to see Leorio officially become a doctor and congratulate him.
And finally.
I wouldn't be able to beat up that bastard Illumi, sit him down, and explain to him how to be a proper brother to Killua or at least die trying.
'Their smiles' I thought envisioning each of them perfectly. Not just seeing the pixels on the screen. But there is skin and the life under it.
I'd miss those smiles.
So I got up. And got walking.
(Okay guys I was really tempted to leave you at that. Like REALLY TEMPTED. But I'm not sadistic or mean. So I'll give you guys a bit more. 😉 Oh also P.S. if you're confused. You should be. 😋)
(Hisoka POV)
The moons out high above the sky and I'm ready to hunt. I lick my lips.
'Now let's see what is available.'
I make my thumb and my pointer finger into a sort of circle. My telescope.
'I spy with my little eye'
I see Gon but I pass over him. He's too interesting to hunt like this. At least not yet.
'No, I can't get excited. I have to wait. Now let's see who else.'
I look around and spot two of my other little interests in this exam and I can't hold back a wicked smile as I lick my lips once again.
'Now this should be fun' I think to myself as I jump down my little look-out rock.
(Leorio POV)
As me and Kurapika were talking while walking I saw a sight up ahead that made me stop in my tracks.
"Hisoka" me and Kurapika say under our breaths noticing him at around the same time.
"Hey," he says causally saluting us with a card. That instantly puts me on guard knowing what those cards can do as I clench my teeth
"What a coincidence running into you two here. I keep running into people I don't want to encounter" Hisoka says with almost a sigh.
"See I need two more points. Could you give me your-"
"They don't need to."
My head spins to the side trying to see who talked in such a raspy tone.
I'm shocked by the sight.
"Yumi?" I can't help but say in almost a gasp. Because of what I'm seeing. I almost didn't recognize her if not for the damaged bunny hat.
She was covered in blood. Some of them her own with the massage open and closed wounds all over her body. But there must be a dozen I can't see under the surface.
With a quick look, she miraculously was able to miss any fatal spots. But the wounds she did sustain were all somewhat deep. If she wasn't treated soon blood loss might not only be a part of her problems but where the blood may end up clotting would be one as well.
I was about to run to her until Kurapika stopped me.
"Why are you stopping-!"
He looks me in the eyes before nudging at Hisoka. I hiss but I don't move understanding the danger.
"What did you say?" Hisoka asked looking at Yumi with a borderline creepy curious gaze.
Yumi answers through haggard breaths as she leans against a tree exhausted. I squeezed my suitcase at the sight hoping I could just jump out and help her but knowing that I could not.
"Well, you see I have an extra badge that I don't need. This badge is most likely the one you're looking for after surveying the entire island I have a good idea of who everyone's target was."
"And if it isn't?" Hisoka asks raising an eyebrow. At this Kurapika steps.
"Well, we have an extra badge as well. If I'm correct you said that you need two points. That way you'll get two points either way. It just wouldn't be ours. And if Yumi is correct you won't even need them anyway as she has your number."
"That is a very good deal," Hisoka says admiring the card in his hand before looking up.
"But what if I refuse? Your friend doesn't seem like she's in a good enough state to fight well doesn't she." At this, he gives a shit-eating grin that I really can't take anymore.
"THEN WE'D HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO FIGHT FOR HER!" I say getting out my knife and setting down my suitcase. To my surprise, Kurapika soon follows setting down his satchel and getting out his wooden swords.
"I would replicate the sentiment."
With that, we all stare each other down. Even Yumi has shifted her position getting ready to fight even if we'd already offered to protect her with our lives. It almost makes me want to smile and pet her for her loyalty. (Now Yumi would like that don't you guys think?)
Soon Hisoka brings a hand to his face and then.... then he laughs. It's a creepy weird laugh that takes a while for him to finish but after he gets all his giggles out he calls a false alarm.
The nerve of this guy!
Kurapika the ever-cool one arranges a way where Hisoka could pick up the two badges while we away far away from that bastard I go and support Yumi allowing her to lean on me while I grab my suitcase. As we all backed away Kurapika kept an eye on Hisoka the entire time Kurapika then joined me in helping support Yumi as we started backing away together going to where we came from.
(General POV)
Now Gon was happy that his friends got away okay. Especially Yumi she looked like she was in really bad shape. But what did that mean for him?
'Now that Hisoka has all of the badges he needs he won't go hunting anymore! Then I can't get his badge! Then what happens if I can't get his badge?
Now while Gon was worried and contemplating his next move Hisoka was looking at the butterfly on his finger remembering the last few moments.
He knew that he had already gotten his target badge but. The look in Lerios eyes. The defiant way Kurapika held his wooden weapons squeezing them tightly preparing for a fight he would not win.
And arguably best of all Yumi.
It wasn't only the look in her eyes which I will say was just exhilarating. But it was her whole demeanour. The tilt of her hat. The tension in her muscles. Her hand waiting for an excuse to grab her well-concealed weapon and stab something.
It was just so perfect!
He grabs the butterfly and multiple copies escape from his grasp he just lets loose. He couldn't stand to hold it in anymore and being convinced he was alone he just let his blood lust ravage its way across the area sadly unknowingly catching Gon in the crossfire.
Hisoka licks his lips.
"They had to go get me stirred up. I guess must quell it"
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SeekerofLight: YUMI! Are you okay? Your injuries are serious, aren't they?
Yumi: I should be fine. But Seeker! Did you see how Leorio and Kurapika put their life down for me? EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
SeekerofLight: *deadpan* Wow. That's really all you're worried about.
Yumi: But Seeker! They supported me! Too bad I kinda wish Leorio carried me bridal style but you can only dream. And the look in their eyes knowing that they were going to die was so beautiful!
SeekerofLight: I wonder where I've heard that before today?
Yumi: I swear I'll murder that pedophilic clown!
SeekerofLight: Oh yeah that's were
(I digress guys! Honestly, I really love you people's comments! I like and read and reply to every single one! Oh also I've been noticing recently that Yumis starting to sound more and more like Hisoka but what can you do am I right? Also while I was first writing this chapter I was talking to my brothers about how I planned for Yumi to kill Hanzo and they just deadpaned at me. And I was like why? And they were like you're making her too Op. So I broke down her stats with them and they said that if she even won it'd be a very close battle and it'd be by the skin of her teeth. So I took it! Anyway SEEKER OUT!)