|| HxH x Reader Oneshots ||

| Kurapika x Reader | Return

Requested by muffetsdonuts.

Some events of this story takes place in a sort of filler arc that never happened in universe but takes place after YorkNew.

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|| Part I : As For Now ||

The faintest image, so obscure in its detail to me where it finds itself to be much akin to a fainted painting hanging across the other end of a grand museum.

That's all I had of him...

And the second I would think that the details had returned to my mind, ready to scream out eureka on the top of my lungs, they would leave me like last night's dreaming. Leaving me confused and still very much unsure of the identity of the person.

He-She? They?

Admittedly, I've often found myself even doubting whether or not I had remembered the correct gender of the person in mind. My best hunch had been male but whenever the details of their appearance would tease me with its potential returning presence, I find myself questioning even that as well.

I do remember one thing though, and I knew for a fact that I shall never forget it.

A pair of vivid scarlet eyes...

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Kurapika had a habit of piling up burdens upon his shoulders.

One after another, he would grab ahold of them and not let go until whatever he had set out to do has been done, never once requesting help. As the man would sooner waste himself away to ash than to let go of these weights, seeing them fitting pairs of shackles around his heel.

But tell me, what atonement could he provide for your death?

It was a question that had consumed his mind for the longest time, burning, scorching at his consciousness as the days went by. He hadn't done anything for you, not even a burial.

But in the times that you were alive? You had done everything for him, given everything you had to him. Your time, your patience, your smile, your life.

Your very last words...

They haunted him still.