You Will Always be my Friend (A HunterxHunter Fanfic Book 3)

Chapter - 15

Gon:

As we see Kurapika coming back into the passage we all make a mad dash out of it. When we pass him he stops to tell us where Killua is being held and Chrollo gives us detailed directions. I instantly memorized them, ’30 meters down the right hallway then turn left and pass two room, then jump down to the floor below and follow the right hallway again for about 150-175 meters and he will be in the room on the left. I follow those instructions exactly, I even mentally keep track of how many meters we travel. His estimates were astonishingly accurate.

I reach the room that should be where Killua is being held and I am overcome with excitement, I burst through the door imagining that I would be greeted with a smiling face. But to mine and the rests horror, we are greeted by the sight of the entire Troupe, Feitan is holding Killua by his throat. We all freeze and the others stare intently at their targets. But Milly and I cant take our eyes off of Killua.

“There are more of you here than I thought there would be. This should be fun.” Machi speaks up.

“Yes this should provide excellent entertainment.” Illumi’s sinister voice rings from behind us. Just hearing him makes my blood boil with anger.

“If entertainment is what you are looking for then rent a movie!” Pokkle rips. “We are here to get our friend back!”

“Get him back?” Illumi mocks, “Where do you plan to take him?”

“Away; far away from the Troupe and from you, Illumi!” I scream at him.

“And how do you plan on doing that when I have four people that are your side who are actually on my side?”

“With all due respect Master Illumi, but we have higher orders, we are not on your side this time.” Gotoh informs him as he pulls out his coins.

“We are purposing a fair and equal fight to decide.” Kalluto voices in. “We will fight each of you one on one. We have already taken the liberty of choosing our opponents. Of course that shouldn’t matter to you seeing as we don’t stand a chance against you anyway, right?”

“Fine by us!” Machi rips. “Go ahead and pick your poison.” 

“Before we do that, I want you to all release Killua and let us see him!” Milly interjects.

“Aunt Mito too!” I add.

“Gon, no.” I faintly hear Killua moan.

“Killua!” shout as I run towards him. Feitan lets him drop and he just limply falls to his hands and knees. I stand back for a moment afraid to get near him. Fury burns in me as a few tears of hate escape my eyes. ‘They did this to him, they broke him and beat him! They did this, they did this to my BEST FRIEND!’ uncontrolable andger seeps from every inch of me!

He looks so different and broken, like he may crumble or fade away if I touch him. Then he looks up at me and I see the twinkle of his old self has still survived. “Killua, we are here, all of us. We came for you.” I whisper to him as I help him to his feet. Milly leaves Alluka in the hands of Canary and tells her to stay back for just a minute.

“Killua, I’m here. Its me, Millua.” She tells him.

“I like Milly better.” He says smugly as he reaches up and gently brushes the hair from her eyes then pokes my face with his other hand. “Yeah, you guys are real this time.” He murmurs. We chuckle then help him to his feet. I hold him steady then while Milly examines his injures.

“They are worse then we thought, he is bleeding internally, his lungs have taken on fluid from being barely clothed in this cold weather and most of his wounds reek with infection.” She whispers to me. “If we take too long with these fights and don’t get him to a doctor he wont last long.” She informs me. Tears start slipping from her eyes but they don’t look like sad tears, more like rip someone’s face off mad tears.