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Initially, Gon and Alluka later realized, they'd seen each other mostly as means to an end.
They both liked the other well enough, of course. All they knew about each other was that the other was important to Killua.
And although they both had grown slivers of jealousy over the years, for the time each of them had kept Killua from the other, it was something easily enough forgotten. Still, when Alluka had come to Gon that first night, it had been in the spirit of gaining information. And when Gon had responded, it had been an instinctual attempt to grasp at some change in his increasingly empty life.
However, both had been thinking of Killua, and of themselves. So it came as a little bit of a surprise, in the end, when after all was said and done they realized that they'd gained something extra:
Each other.