Who's the Clown now? || Hisoka x Reader ||

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

We both stand in the center of the wooden floor, looking each other in the eyes. I had to raise my chin to meet his eyes, and Illumi grinned as he looked down on me. With a confident and sanguine body posture, hands on his hips, and an the same ugly grin on his face, he slowly removed the needles from his deformed face. Bit by bit, the transformation enrolled itself, and about midway through, a shocked gasp was heard from Killuas end of the audience. I didnt turn my head, but I could easily picture his feared eyes staring at the figure in front of me. I tried to keep my calm, not letting my apprehension and worry shine through my ice cold stare.

"Brother..." a whisper, almost silent was heard from Killua, as the remaining hunters send alarmed looks around the room, and with that, the 'Go' sign was given.

We instantly moved apart, both of us flying into he opposite direction of the room. Steady side steps lead us around the stage, us both keeping the same distance to each other. Through our Nen communication (A/N, see chapter 6) he repeated the same phrase over and over. "Don't hold back". I dont respond, moreover, I cant. My body was stiff, my thoughts were racing. I visualized my Nen, and started attacking. Knives aimed at his vital points, invisible ones were set as traps. Ones with poison, others with fire. They all charged at him at once, leaving no way to escape.

Or so I thought. Illumi twisted and turned his body, letting himself fall flat onto the ground, and jump up again. Avoiding each and every attack. Following up, as fast as possible, I shoot towards him, hands in fighting position. I grab his head, fingers digging into his hair and scalp. My feet on his chest I push him down, now sitting on top of him. I snap his right wrist, and the sound of bones breaking fills the room.

There was a moment of silence, as small whisper was heard...stuff like "So fast." "Did you even see her?" Or "Just an instant ago she was right back there" traveled among the group. Illumi's laughter fills the tense air, and he forces me up, and slams me back down into the ground. The wood beneath me breaks, and all air escapes my lungs. I cough, tears shooting into my eyes. Fuck. Come on, get yourself together.
My body crawls up, slower than usual, but still fast, and a moment later im behind him, slamming one of my knives into his back. He flips, pulls the knife out and shoots it across the room. It shoots into the next wall, slowly staggering from side to side until the motion stops. The blood from his wound drips onto the floor as he flips again, mine does too. There is no pain. Just blood, escaping from all the points I hit him. (A/N see chapter 7)

He clenches his fingers into a punch, aims, I avoid it, twisting my body to the side. I counter attack, duck to avoid another incoming punch, and grab him by the ankle, lift him, flip him, slam him down. He jumps up, I pant, spring back and up, land a kick into his upper chest. He trembles back, but catches himself, I kick again, this time into his face. Blood starts running down his face, staining his green clothes brown. The floor beneath us is vibrating with every movement we make. He jumps, kick flips, I bend down, knees straight, upper body at 90 degrees. My back felt like it was about to snap into two pieces, but I fly back up like a rubber band. My hands connects to his face, he trembles back again. It looks like I got the upper hand in this part fight, until he speeds up to an incredible speed, something I've never seen of him before. He grabs my knives scattered across the floor, aims, throws and hits. The poison bites itself into my blood stream. I twitch, but continue.

"It seems like they are even", Leorio says, about 25 minutes into the fight. We went full cowl from the first second on, both of us were bleeding heavily, but other than Illumi, I didn't suffer much from it. The poison injected into my body was the thing causing me trouble. My left hand was numb already, so was my upper thigh. I try to move, but my body wouldn't respond correctly anymore. He uses this chance to attack, jumping at me from behind, snapping my head down, I jump up, try to kick flip , but he grabs my leg in the air and tilts out down, twisting is as he goes. I land on my knees, he slams my head into the floor. The floor cracks again, and wood splitters start to perforate my skull. I scream in pain, this wasnt the sort of pain I could easily ignore. I happy grin shoots across Illumi's face, as he watched me crawling back up again. Turmoil starts spreading amongst the crowd, many asking for an instant stop of the fight. Killua screams, but is too afraid to come near our brother. But I...I only smile.

"Sorry to say, but I still have an ace up my sleeve" I whisper, I quiet chuckle escaping my blood filled mouth. I haven't relied on my Nen much in this fight, and with this in mind, I activate horror Vision. I create a knife and stare at Illumi blankly, my heart pounding through my skull. "Oh love, hate to tell you this, but you already used that trick on me today" Illumi grinned, catching the knife in mid flight. This time its my turn to smile, as I throw the second knife at him, watching it strike his shoulder, creating a small scratch. This is more than enough, I thought, as I watched Illumi grab his head, spinning in circled, fall down and gasp. He doesn't scream, but he quietly begs for me to stop. I wish I could, I hate seeing him this way. But I cant. His eyes are pulled wide open, and he starts grabbing my ankle. He doesn't scream nor cry, but I faint, my head still spinning.

—>TIME SKIP<—

I wake up in the medical room, tubes sticking out my body with red liquid in them. Millions of tinny screens across from me show statistics of my body, indicating my heart rate and monitoring my brain activity. My eyes hurt slightly, and feel heavy. My head still fells like its a ticking bomb, but other than that, I was doing surprisingly good. In slow, and I mean very slow, movements, I tilt my head slightly right, seeing Gon next to me. His tiny body on the large bed, covered in bandages. He looks fine, better than expected. "Thank god I'm glad your okay" I whisper, before my eyes close and I escape into the land of my dreams.

—>TIME SKIP<—

"WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU MEAN BY 'SHE WONT MAKE IT'???" Leorio voice echoed across the room. I open my eyes a small split wide, seeing Killua, Kurapika, Leorio and Gon stand around me. Gon has tears I'm his eyes, and Killua is....I look closer. Killua is crying. His right hand tightly grips the tip of Gons shirt. His face is tilted away from me, but the tears on his cheeks are clearly visible. No, no. Don't cry...Killua!! I reach out my hand to him, but a wave of exhausted overwhelms me and I drift back into an uneasy sleep.

(A/N: The story is coming to an end...or is it? Maybe its just getting started...let me surprise y'all!! Also I wanted to thank everyone for 4K!! This is crazy wth, thank you so so much!!