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[Highschool AU,,, they’re older]
Killua's POV:
I was walking down the street, in the direction of Gon's house. He invited me over at his house because his aunt Mito was out for a business trip and he was home alone. He is my best friend, but whenever I'm around him I get a weird feeling in my stomach. It isn't bad, but I don't know what that is nor why I feel that. His house was just a few blocks away from mine, so I didn't walk for too long; in fact, after less than ten minutes, I was standing in front of his door. I knocked on the door, but I didn't get an answer.
Weird, I thought, Gon would've usually answered and opened the door by now. I knocked again, but I still got no answer. I started to worry. I knocked again, but, like all the other times, nobody answered. I decided to try opening the door with the spare key that Gon kept in a flower vase. He told me that I could've used it only in case of emergency. I took a vase near the door, right under the kitchen window, and I took out the fake plant. I took the key, put it in the lock and opened the door.
"Gon?", I called for the green haired boy. No answer.
"Gon?", I called for him again, just a bit louder. Still nothing. I stayed silent for a bit, when I heard some muffled whimpers from upstairs, like someone was crying, but at the same time trying to hide it. When I heard that sound I just had a thought in my head: something is wrong with Gon. I ran up the stairs, almost falling, as worry took over me. I arrived in front of his bedroom door and slammed it open. I saw Gon jumping lightly on the bed because of the sound of the door slamming.
"K-Killua?", he stuttered, his voice cracking a bit. I looked at him and something in my heart broke. He was sitting on the bed with his knees close to his chest, his face red and puffy from crying. He still had a few tears rolling down his cheeks. I walked slowly to him and sat on the bed, facing him. I looked him in the eyes, but he didn't meet my gaze and let his eyes wonder over the room, not looking at me. I held him in my arms as I softly caressed his back, while whispering kind words in his ear. I put two fingers under his chin and moved his head towards me, so he was facing me and I could take a look at his face; his eyes still not meeting mine.
"Who hurt you, Gon?", I said calmly, but still with a menacing tone. He kept quiet and didn't answer.
"Who. Hurt. You. Gon?", I asked again, rage taking over me. Right after I finished the sentence, he looked sorry. I then realised that he might have thought that I was mad at him for not answering, so I softened my glare and repeated again my question, this time with a kinder tone:
"I'm not mad at you, Gon, I'm mad at those who hurt you. I want to know who made you feel like this and cry. So please, tell me who hurt you and what they did". He didn't answer, so I hold his hand in mine to strengthen the seriousness of my words. After a minute of silence he started telling me everything that happened, his voice cracking and stuttering a bit here and there:
"I-it happened today at school. I was minding my own business as I was walking t-towards my locker. These guys approached me and pushed me o-on the ground. All of my books fell on the ground and, between them, was my d-diary where I write everything I feel. S-since it was different from the school books, one of the guys noticed it a-and started reading it and he found something that wasn't made to be f-found...", he trailed off and went quiet again. I decided that he needed a bit of help to continue his story, so I pushed him a bit to keep going.
"Don't worry, Gon, I won't judge you. So, if I can know, what did he found and what happened after?". He took a deep breath and continued his story.
"O-on the diary I wrote about the person I like, who is a boy... After the boy read it, he told everyone present in the corridor about the fact that I loved a male. All of the students in the hall started calling me a f-faggot and insulting me for liking a boy... I quickly got all of my books and ran to class. For the rest of the day everyone shot me dark glares that told how much they found me disgusting and how much they hated me... I-I understand if you think that too...", his voice lowering as he looked down.
I was surprised and angry. Angry because he didn't deserve this and because those people hurt him. I was also a bit mad at myself for not being with him in that moment. I was in a different class from him, but the school was the same, so I could've protected him. I was surprised because I never knew he liked boys and something inside me made my stomach flutter. While all of these thoughts ran through my mind, my face must've had a look that Gon misunderstood for hate.
"I-I knew it... Y-you hate me too, just l-like everyone e-else...", he whispered, tears forming once again in his eyes. He snuggled out of my hug and sat with his back on the wall, putting as much distance as he could between us. Just like before, when I saw him crying, I felt something breaking in my heart.
As he started sobbing again, I moved next to him and hugged him tight again. He moved a bit, as if he wanted me to let him go, but I wouldn't leave him alone. Not again. After a while he melted into the hug and pressed his face in my chest, crying harder than before. I felt my shirt getting wet from his tears, but I couldn't care less about it. All I cared about was making him feel better and make him understand that I didn't hate him. Make him understand that I could never hate him.
"Gon... I don't hate you. You're the most important person in my life, you are my first and only friend. You are always there for me and so am I. I'll always be right next to you whenever you need me. I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at those who hurt you. I really care about you and I could never hate you nor be mad at you. You're an amazing person and I don't care that you love a boy. To me you're still the same Gon that I bumped into that rainy day in front of the school gate. To me you're still Gon, my bestest friend in the whole world!", I finished my little speech with a sentence that he often use to describe me.
He looked at my eyes with a surprised look. I guess he didn't expect me, out of all people, to say those things to him since I never let my emotions show. I saw that he stopped crying, but his eyes became teary again, this time from happiness. He hugged me tighter and I held him close. We stayed in that position for what seemed hours, but I didn't mind. I love hugging him and holding him close to me. I still had a question for him though:
"May I know who the boy you like is, Gon?", I asked. He got away from the hug, looked me in the eyes and blushed furiously. He looked like a strawberry and it was the cutest thing I've ever seen. No, scratch that, Gon is the cutest thing I've ever seen and he's always cute, the blush just made him cuter. He looked down again, moved a bit farther from me and he whispered his answer; he said it so quietly that I almost didn't hear him. Keyword: almost.
"W-well... T-the boy I love is y-you, Killua. I-I understand t-that you don't like me back, it's totally o-okay!", he looked at me, his eyes teary, and flashed a smile that was obviously fake. I felt my cheeks grow red at his sudden confession and in that moment I finally understood. The feeling I had when I was around Gon was love. I loved Gon. I was in love with him and he was in love with me.
"Gon...", I said sweetly, looking at his teary eyes. I put my hand on his cheek and softly caressed it. He leaned into my hand and melted at the touch. My heart felt warmer at the sight of the boy I love leaning on my hand and looking so cute.
"Gon... Don't assume that I don't like you back. Though you're right, I don't like you. I love you, Gon. I didn't realise it before, but somewhere in my heart I always knew that you were the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I'm in love with you, Gon, so do you want to be my boyfriend?", I confessed and asked him to be my partner.
"Yes! I'd love being your boyfriend, Killua!", he exclaimed and tackled me in a hug, his face in my chest and my arms on his back, which I was more than happy to return. I loosened the grip on his back just enough to look at his face, to cup his cheeks and to softly kiss his lips. While we kept kissing, I moved him from his bed to my lap, so that we would both be in a comfortable position.
We broke the kiss after a few minutes and we looked into each other's eyes. He was blushing and I guess I was too. I stared into his beautiful hazel eyes and a smile crept on my face. I made our lips meet again in another long, sweet kiss, that I hope would be one of a long series of those. As we parted again, I made him get off my lap, I laid on his bed and pulled him next to me on the bed. We were facing each other until he moved closer, put his head on my chest and an arm on my torso; he also tangled our legs together. I put one arm around his waist and held him tight and my other hand petted his beautiful green hair.
We kept cuddling for a while until I heard soft snoring. I saw Gon fast asleep on my chest and my heart melted at the cute sight of my beautiful boyfriend sleeping on me. I kissed the top of his head, I pulled the covers on our bodies, put both arms on his waist and I closed my eyes. Sleep took over my body not too long after, while I was still cuddling my boyfriend.
*~*~* The Next Day *~*~*
I slowly opened my eyes, finding my beautiful boyfriend's sleeping face next to me. I kissed his forehead and tightened a bit my arms around his waist. He slowly started opening his eyes in a way that was way too cute. It should be illegal to be this cute.
"Good morning, love", I said, kissing him on his nose. He blushed a little at the gesture and nickname and pressed his head deeper in my chest.
"Good morning, Kil", he said, with his voice a bit muffled because of my shirt. I kissed the top of his head, I looked at the clock in his room and noticed it was almost 7.30 a.m. I realised that we had to be at school by 8 a.m., so I got up from the bed to get ready for today. Or at least I tried. When I tried getting up, Gon put his arm around my waist and pulled me back in bed with him.
"No~ Stay here a little bit more, Kil", he said in a whiny tone. I chuckled a little because of his childish behaviour and then I tried to slip out of his grasp to get up.
"It's Wednesday, Gon. We have school and we can't skip just to cuddle", I said smiling while he groaned.
"But why~? I want to stay in bed all day and just cuddle with you, Kil~", he complained again. I blushed a little at his statement, but I shrugged it off and I sighed.
"If you get up and go to school, this afternoon I'll come over again and we can cuddle all you want ok, love?", I tried to compromise. At this offer he jumped out of bed and started getting his clothes to get changed. In that moment I realised I didn't have any clothes with me apart from the ones that I wore yesterday and that I still had on. I called out to Gon:
"Love, I don't have any clean clothes here and we're almost late, so I don't think I'll be able to go home and get new clothes. Do you have any spare ones that maybe I could borrow?", I asked him.
"Oh yes, sorry if I didn't think about it before! I have a few spare baggy clothes that are way too big for me, but I think they'll fit you just right!", he exclaimed as he opened the last drawer of a chest of drawers. He took out a white shirt, a pair of jeans and a light blue sweater.
"I'm sorry if it's not really your style, but it's all I have that could fit you, Kil", he said as he passed me the clothes and I took them from his hands.
"It doesn't matter, love, it's ok, thank you", I assured and thanked him. I kissed him lightly on the lips and he kissed back. It was a small peck and, after we parted, we both started changing into our clothes. After we were done, we walked into the kitchen and ate a bit of chocolate that he had in a cupboard and we put on our coats. Five minutes later we were walking on the road towards school while holding hands. The cold winter air made me shiver a bit and, when he noticed, Gon held my hand a little tighter, sharing his warmth with me. I turned my head to him and smiled and a 'thank you' gesture. He returned the smile, with his beautiful one. If it was possible, I would've fallen in love even harder with him.
We finally arrived at school after fifteen minutes of walking. It was only 7.50 a.m., so we still had a few minutes before the lessons started. We walked into the school and suddenly, all of the attention of the students in the main entrance was directed towards us. I saw that Gon was getting anxious, so I held his hand tighter to reassure him. He turned to me and flashed a little smile in my direction, which I was more than happy to return. I made a fake cough to bring all of the attention to what I was going to say and not our intertwined hands.
"Listen here, everyone. Do you see this guy next to me? Well, he is my boyfriend, Gon Freecs. I recently found out that some students have been harassing him because of who he loves. I wanted to say that I'm bisexual myself, so if any of you have some sort of problem with it, you can tell me that to my face. If you are going to hate my boyfriend because of his sexuality, then you can hate me too. It doesn't matter that you guys will hate me, that's not going to stop me from loving Gon. I love him and if you mess with him or hurt him in any way, you can have a nice and friendly meeting with my fist", I said with a menacing tone and a glare. I saw many students looking down scared because of my threat, but I couldn't care less. All that mattered was that Gon wasn't going to be hurt.
I softened my expression and looked at him with love written all over my face. I smiled a little and he blushed, but returning the smile nonetheless.
"Let's go, love. I'm walking you to your first class", I told him, squeezing his hand and starting to walk to his class.
"Thanks, Kil!", he said, holding my hand back and smiling even widely than before. We walked away together, our hands not leaving each other. He came a bit closer to me and whispered:
"Thank you for protecting me and being there for me, Kil".
"Thank you for loving me and staying by my side, my love".
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At the end of the day, Gon got his promised cuddles and Killua was more than happy to snuggle with his boyfriend. Since that day, no one bothered Gon nor Killua again and the relationship between the two only grew stronger and stronger. With time people started to accept the fact that the two of them were together and Killua got his revenge over the bullies that hurt Gon. Let's just say that after their 'friendly chat' they said sorry to the green haired boy and they never bullied someone again in fear of the albino. Even if time passed, Gon still loved Killua and Killua still loved Gon and they had no intention of letting someone break them apart or leaving their other half.