Hunter x Hunter Shorts

No harm done | The Cakes

The next morning Leorio woke up alone.

He stumbled into the kitchen to find Gon and Killua eating waffles drenched in acorn syrup for breakfast.

"Are you really getting married?" was the first thing out of Gon's mouth.

Leorio chuckled.

"It'll most likely take some time until we do, but yeah, that's the plan," he said with a smile and took a plate for himself.

"Can I come to the wedding?" Gon asked almost jumping in his chair. "I've never been to a wedding!"

At that Leorio burst out laughing.

"Gon, you're probably my best friend. You're one of Kurapika's best friends. We share an apartment with you. Name one reason you shouldn't be invited to the wedding."

The boy bit into his waffle with the frown he always had when he was deep in thought.

"He's trying to tell you that there is no reason, moron!" Killua told him. "You are invited."

Gon instantly light up.

"Really?! Yes!"

Leorio chuckled at his antics. Then he let his attention drift over to Killua.

"You're here early today. Do you boys have something planned or something?"

"I didn't go home yesterday. I slept over," Killua shrugged.

"Your parents allowed that?" Leorio still didn't know much about them but Killua's parents didn't seem like they were too fond for their children being outside of their direct control.

"I didn't tell them," Killua just said taking another bite off his waffle.

Like he was completely unaware of the cold shiver of dread that ran down Leorio's spine.

"Won't they be mad that you stayed out all night?" he asked and tried to sound concerned instead of terrified.

"Nah, I've got an excuse," Killua waved off.

"What excuse?"

"I had a job last night. And afterwards I came here. Nobody will be able to find the body to check how long he's been dead and I can just say that I played with him and wasted time," the boy shrugged.

Leorio regretted asking.
This kid was an assassin, he had to remind himself of that. It wasn't good to let the childish contests and games Killua played with Gon make him forget.

"I should probably get going soon, though," Killua decided looking at the clock. "Or Illumi will get obnoxious. Or, even more obnoxious than usually."

Leorio didn't want to know who Illumi was. He had a feeling that it was someone with a very high body count.

Killua helped clear the table before disappearing out of the door.

Leorio had to leave soon after and Gon had a school assignment to work on and since it was friday would call his aunt at around noon.

"Can I tell her about your engagement?" he asked as Leorio was already on his way out.

"Would you mind waiting with that for now?" Leorio decided to answer after a beat of hesitation. Personally he would mind Gon telling everyone he knew (which were a lot of people), since he himself wanted to scream it from the rooftops, but Kurapika was a rather private person and he didn't want to make his boyf- fiance uncomfortable.

"Alright," Gon nodded, seemingly understanding without Leorio even explaining. "See you later then!"

"See you later," Leorio gave a small wave before closing the door behind himself.

His classes were uneventful that day, almost even boring, but he did his best to pay attention anyway and not think about the fact that his beautiful, fantastic boyfriend was now his beautiful, fantastic fiance or even the fact that the kid he was supposed to look out for had had a slumber party with a child murderer last night.
Phrased like that it almost sounded like something out of a shitty soap opera.

Leorio sauntered down the street, on his way back to the apartment. Kurapika had texted him to pick up a few things from the store, so he took a different route than usually. It was a bit longer but only by a few minutes.

He entered the store and checked his phone again for the shopping list.

Flour, beans, dark chocolate (for baking), some cheese and toast.

Easy enough.

So Leorio grabbed a basket and made his way through the store.
The toast was sold out, but he could probably come back for that the next morning.
He had no idea what kind of beans Kurapika meant and ended up two kinds he considered the most likely. If they weren't right then he had more to buy tomorrow.
Cheese was easier to decide and he made his way over to the isle with all the stuff for baking.

The isle was empty except for a girl and a boy.

On second glance the boy seemed familiar.

On third glance Leorio realised that it was Killua.

He didn't recognize the girl, though.
She was shorter than Killua, with long black hair, that had beads woven into it and wore a pink dress.

The two stood by the cake mixes and the girl excitedly pointed at different ones.

"Or we could try this!" Leorio caught her saying. "Oh! And this looks good!"

Killua chuckled. "We can't try all of them at once, you know. We can come here again, if you want to."

She gasped: "Really?"

"Of course," Killua told her and she tackled him in a hug. He patted her head and Leorio was pretty sure he had never seen the boy smile so gently.

Just as the girl pulled back Killua noticed him.

"Hey, old man!" he called and waved.

Leorio groaned but walked over to them anyway.

"I'm not that old!" he complained.

"Sure thing, old man," Killua smirked at him. The girl giggled.

"This is Leorio," Killua said to her. "I told you about him."

She nodded and smiled at Leorio.

"Leorio, this is my sister Alluka."

"And the two of you are shopping for cake mixes?" Leorio questioned. He kept his voice neutral to make sure neither of them could guess that the full question was 'And you two assassins are shopping for cake mixes and pretending to be normal kids just after I tried to get myself to remember that you're anything but why exactly?'

Killua shrugged: "We both like sweets and I promised Alluka to test some with her, and we ended up deciding that cakes count as sweets. We could try making from scratch but cake mix is easier and faster."

"I don't really know how to bake," Alluka admitted. "And here you can see all the different kinds of cakes! I didn't know there were so many!"

"Do you have any idea which ones are good?" Killua asked suddenly.

Leorio let his gaze wander over the different boxes. Most of them were pretty basic flavours with maybe one or two unusual ones.

"No idea," he shrugged. "I never bought cake mix before. Plus I have no idea what flavours you already know and what stuff you like."

The siblings turned back to the shelf and Leorio grabbed the stuff he needed.

"It was nice seeing you two but I gotta go," he announced and waved over his shoulder as he sauntered out of the isle.

"Bye, old man."

"Goodbye!"

So now Leorio had met two of the murder children. Great.
Alluka acted even more like a regular, innocent child than Killua did.

Great. Just great.