reverentia [hxh various x reader]

unrecognizable

The first thing you notice after you wake up is the unadulterated blinding white pain blaring at you.

"Oh fuck..." You rasped lightly, feeling all the sleep leaving in an instant, "fuck, fuck, fuck."

Feeling like you've been run over by a truck, you laid there for a second with your eyes clenched shut to gather the strength to push yourself into a sitting position. Waking up has never left you feeling this painfully disoriented before.

The world spun round as you peered at your blurred out bedside table. There was a cup of water, you believe at least, placed neatly among a small assortment of knick knacks. But... you paused, you didn't have a bedside table did you? And your bed was against the wall wasn't it? No- actually wasn't your door diagonal to your bed? This one was in front. Also why were you in a nightgown? And- and actually, where the hell were you?

Instantly your heartbeat increased and nausea washed over you once more like a tidal wave. Momentarily forgetting the pain, you frantically whirl your head around searching. Searching for anything that would be familiar to you.

The room was dark. But even in the midst of your panic, you could make out that this place in fact wasn't anywhere you recognized.

Oh, you felt like throwing up again. Shuddering gasps racked your body as you gripped the blanket placed upon you. With last night's events blanking on you, you felt you could only come to one conclusion.

You were kidnapped.

Maybe even drugged.

And there would be no one caring enough to come to your rescue.

Hot tears welled in your eyes as your lungs continued to grasp for air. Until this point, you've never felt more desperate- if there was anyoneyou could count on, maybe you wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. But, you were alone. So you needed to escape.

Your eyes shakily locked onto the door and you instantly pushed your legs off the bed. The moment you attempted to stand, however, the lightheadedness caused you to stagger forward and collide with the hardwood floor. You gagged as bile rushed up your throat from the impact and you paused to recollect your swirling vision.

Clinging onto whatever support the room offered you slowly began stumbling towards your ray of hope, the burning of your muscles proving to be a good counter to your nausea. However, just as you were within reach of the doorknob, the door swung open and harshly collided with the wall.

You sharply inhaled with terror and averted your eyes. The trembling causing your knees to finally give out under you.

"Wha-woah watch out!"

As you dropped like a weight towards the floor once more, lean arms suddenly encircled around your waist, hoisting you back up onto your feet with their support.

Feeling entirely numb, you failed to notice the shivers passing through their body as your bare skin pressed with theirs. All that was going through your fear plagued mind was- should you beg? Maybe then they would spare you at the very least. What would a college student like you be able to do anyway?

Defeated, you slumped in their arms, assuming this time you would really fall. But instead the person only readjusted their grip and tenderly lifted you up into a bridal carry. You flinched and looked upwards towards their face in surprise. Why would someone who supposedly kidnapped you treat you with such kindness? And what you saw was, to say the least, not what you were expecting at all.

Boyish brown eyes that gazed down at you with such concern it made you want to cry, slightly tanned skin and dark hair that somehow stayed upwards in a way that strangely suited him. His lips parted as if to speak when-

"Gon! What happened?"

Suddenly, a boy with startling white hair rushed into the room. His expression immediately souring when his blue eyes landed on your figure. He scowled, "You seriously rushed in the house as if it caught on fire just for this?" You jolted as he glared at you. "The girl doesn't even look injured!"

Docile with fear, you could only look away to avoid his cold stare.

"Killua," 'Gon' frowned, though not unkindly, "don't be so harsh, she's probably terrified from everything that's happened."

You wanted to scream. Yeah, no shit you were beyond fucking terrified right now and no one was clearing up anything that happened to you! You couldn't even speak out as you had no idea what would anger them- what would set them off and end eventually with your demise.

Thankfully at Gon's words, Killua only glared at you once more and sighed, turning back towards the exit, "...Fine. Do what you want, but let's not forget what we're really here to do."

And with a click of the door, he was gone.

Left with just the two of you, there was a moment of complete silence as you tensed in his arms. Even you weren't naive enough to believe that just because someone looked at you kindly (you wanted to think) that they actually cared about your wellbeing. However, considering that the white haired one actually listened to him when he spoke, if you could just convince Gon to let you live, there might still just be a chance to escape later on ...

"Um-" You said, "I promise I can help out in any way so if you let me live-"

Your voice dies out when you feel his arms tighten around you. Nervously, you peek at his face and shrink away when you see the look in his eyes. He looked almost angry.

God, you had one chance and you had to screw it up. Tears started to well again when he spoke again.

"You- you thought we were gonna kill you?" His tone was cold and you trembled. "Are you in some sort of danger?"

Huh? You paused in confusion. "W-what? No?" Was he crazy? Wasn't he the one that kidnapped you?

Gon blinked at you, his gaze suddenly shifting towards innocent confusion, "Huh? Then why would you assume that we would do that to you?"

You stared, mind whirling from the whiplash of his tone and the new information. It was almost scary how he went from terrifying to innocent in mere seconds. "Didn't you... kidnap me here?"

"Kidnap? What's that?" His eyes went wide and you gaped at him, slowly feeling your throat go dry.

What.

I decided to age them all up bc any lower felt weird ^^

(Unedited and short so far but I wanted to release something at least)