A Genius Thrown to the Wolves

Thought it'd be Harder Ch. 71

Gon and Killua were able to do their little partner move 2-3 more times before Killua's hands returned to the state they were in before Kiyotaka healed him. Gon not wanting to hurt his friends any further came up with a new idea, "Guys, I think I know a new way we can catch Razor's throws. Just throwing the ball isn't enough, the only way we're going to get Razor out is by catching one of his throws. What do you say?" "I guess it's worth a shot." Killua shrugged. "Count me in~ What did you have in mind~?" Hisoka was more then excited to have this thing almost coming to a close. That means soon the little kitten is going to join the fun. 

"Okay, here's what we do" Gon began to explain, Kiyotaka was interested in the plan he had come up with. "So I would be in front to catch the ball. I can enforce my hands with nen, Killua could be behind me to help brace my legs and keep me steady after impact, and you, Hisoka, could be behind him and kind of wrap your hands around the both of us and use your bungee gum around my hands to help keep the ball in my hands." Killua was silent, thinking through Gon's idea. "Hm~ That's not a bad idea per say" Hisoka commented "What?" Gon asked. Hisoka only looked over at Kiyotaka who was already looking at him. Hisoka raised a brow silently asking if he was going to step in. 

Kiyotaka rolled his eyes and stood up, drawing everyone's attention to him. "I'm subbing in now. Gon come switch with me." "But-" "Gon. There are only you three left, come switch with me." "Alright." Gon was feeling pretty down, not being able to be a part of winning the game, but he also knew Hisoka would probably end the whole thing on his own anyways. 

Gon was right. Razor used his nen men to continue the fight. The first ball that got thrown by one of Razor's clones, was thrown with much less force then before, Killua easily caught it, getting the clone out of the game. Razor had no idea what went wrong but he tried again with a different clone, making sure it had even more nen put into it just in case. Again the ball thrown by the clone was easily caught. 

Razor had no idea what was going on, he couldn't be the issue. He just couldn't, but he also couldn't sense any nen being used by the other team, and his nen didn't feel different from when he usually used his technique. 'So what the hell is going on?' He didn't just loose his touch. His technique was working just fine a few minutes ago. 'The only thing that's changed is him walking on the court. But I haven't seen him use his nen. So why?' 

Razor tried again putting in even more nen. He also failed again. It continued until it was only Razor on his side of the court. He was stunned at how fast it happened. He needed this throw to eliminate someone, and he wanted to save the person who'd insulted him for last, so his first victim was Killua. He got him out no problem, his nen was working on himself as least. Then Hisoka threw the ball, which Razor caught, with more difficulty then he'd ever admit. 

Now it was just Razor and Kiyotaka, and Razor had the ball. Every one on the sidelines, that hadn't seen Kiyotaka fight before, were seriously concerned for their chances of winning. Razor reeled his arm back, charging both his arm and the ball with nen. More nen then he'd used the entire game. He threw the ball as hard as he could, and -

Kiyotaka caught it. He stumbled back one or two steps but he caught it. His face didn't even change. How it that even possible? How could he suddenly loose all his strength when the boy across from him hadn't even shown signs of using nen? 

"I guess we win? I honestly thought that was going to be a little bit harder?" At this point Hisoka was chuckling and Kiyotaka's antics. Razor on the other hand was not laughing. This guy ... no one had ever made fun of him like that. How dare he. But what could he do? They'd won. He had to obey, and give them what they came for. While Razor stood there clearly fuming, the group grabbed the card that had appeared and made their way out of the arena. 'He'll regret this. I'll make sure of it. He just needed to convince Eta and Elena to help him. The boy won't know what hit him."

Outside the group was talking speculating about what happened. "So what did you do to win Kiyotaka?" Gon asked curious, causing the whole group to turn to him, because to most it hadn't looked like he did anything really. "I used his nen against him." "What do you mean?" Killua asked this time. "I made my nen feel like his nen. Because it felt like his nen, he didn't sense anything wrong. That allowed me to over ride the command and power he'd given to his nen men." 'Thank you Tsukishiro for that little idea'