Curse of the Spider [HxH!Trouble Trio x Reader]

4 🕷 Annoying Children

Even though you were entirely certain that you had lost the two Troupe members, you stayed anxious and jumpy up until you managed to get on a blimp straight to York New City. It would be a long-ass flight with a bunch of stops along the way, but it was better than hopping between taxis and cities.

Using the rest of your stolen money to buy the ticket, you sat down by a window, finally allowing yourself to relax as you slumped in your seat. It hadn't even been a full day since you had gotten off the ship, but it had felt like years already. You were exhausted, and looking forward to spend the rest of your flight relaxing. At least, that was what was planned until two younger voices piped up loudly.

"Aww, the flight's booked! We'll probably have to sit next to somebody else!"

Please, no.

"There're only a couple seats left, and that girl over there looks really lame."

God, why?

"Excuse me, miss, can we sit here?"

Suppressing a groan and feeling aggravation spike through you, you opened your eyes, fully ready to tell the two kids to screw off, but stopped as you met the earnest brown eyes of the kid who spoke. Immediately, your heart melted. This kid was literal sunshine and you wanted to protect him.

"Um, of course!"

Gesturing to the two seats across from you, you couldn't help but smile brightly at the two kids. "I'm [Y/n]!"

Grinning in return at your own friendliness, the ball of sunshine introduced himself. "I'm Gon, and this is Killua!"

The white haired kid with blue eyes, Killua, was affronted. "Oi, don't tell this old hag our names!"

"Excuse me?"

Gon laughed sheepishly, and you had to remind yourself that this was just a kid and you couldn't just yeet him out of the airship window as much as you wanted to right now.

But hoo boy were you tempted.

"Thank you again for letting us sit here! The rest of the seats were already taken!" Gon was polite, and you shrugged as if to tell him it was no big deal — since it was him, it was no big deal.

Shifting in your seat so you could lean back again, you hummed. "Of course! It's no problem. I'm going to nap, but if you two kids need anything, let me know." At the risk of sounding like an overly concerned mother, you closed your eyes again, able to drift into sleep quickly, tuning Gon and Killua's conversation out with ease as you fell asleep.

You weren't certain how long you had been asleep, and still didn't have a phone to check the time, but when you next woke up the sky outside the window was dark. Across from you, Gon was snoring quietly, and next to him, Killua was... Not asleep. He was staring at you intently, suspicion clear all over his face. You scrunched up your nose. What was his problem?

"You snore."

You felt the vein in your forehead throb, the urge to strangle the cheeky brat stronger than ever. That was definitely not why he had been staring, but the insult was enough to distract you for a moment as you gave him a strained smile. "Are you always this charming, brat?" Killua stuck his tongue out childishly at you.

He is a CHILD. You are seriously going to let a child rile you up like this?

Scolding yourself, you took a deep breath, rolling your eyes at his antics. Pulling out your book, and resisting the urge to beat the shit out of Killua, you grabbed your pen and began to write, documenting everything that had happened, from the boat ride to where you were currently. With a majority of the aircraft sleeping, it was easy to hear the scritch-scratch of your pen on tea-stained paper. Without looking up, you could still sense Killua's gaze on you — you tried to ignore it, but it was hard.