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How could this happen? Illumi supposed it was possible, but honestly what were the odds that Hisoka of all people managed to find the one nen user that could not only suppress nen, but drastically change your age? Hisoka for the most part seemed like himself, but it looked like the other was reverting back to the age the nen user made him. It just didn't seem possible, what should he do about this? It's not like it's a problem having Hisoka how he is now, but now he didn't have a mutually beneficial acquaintance.
"Illumi? You've been sitting still for awhile..." The now young Hisoka waved a hand in front of his face. Maybe he should just leave and come back later... Hisoka made sure he had his wallet, and his keys before leaving the apartment he shared with Illumi. He figured he should find some help to change himself back to normal, maybe there was some kind of nen healer in the city, he'd just have to sniff them out.
Hisoka wasn't used to being so short, since usually he towered over anyone on the street. The borrowed clothes he wore were nothing like his style, and they were very baggy on him. Hisoka had been a rather small child before he hit puberty... How exactly old was he supposed to be now? He looked like he was around ten. Illumi had a few of Killua's outfits in his suitcase in case Killua ever called him needing his bigger brother and Hisoka had snuck one of them. First things first, he needed to find someone who could have a lead on strong nen users. Thinking about how he currently was brought back some unwanted memories; it had been so long ago, and he rarely thought of the past, but being so young again made him subconsciously look over his shoulder for someone who had long been gone...
He didn't know how far he had walked when he heard a very familiar voice, "Killua, I think you've bought enough chocorobos, this is already the third store we've bought out!" Gon wasn't sure how they could carry the crate on the side walk alone with how huge it was.
Killua was obviously not going to put them back, "None of the stores have enough of them!" Hisoka walked into the store, now would be the perfect time to spy on the two now that he was a kid himself.
Not even two seconds into the store, "Hey, that kid looks like Hisoka!" Crap...
Hisoka looked to them innocently, blinking twice, before walking to the back of the store in a way that said he didn't want to make a scene and another way to say he was freaked out by some random kid calling him someone he obviously didn't know about. Might as well check what kind of gum they had, while he was at it.
"Gon, you can't just say that random kids look like Hisoka, it ain't fair to them." What was that now? He came back up to the counter with some sweet pink gum. It couldn't be as good as his favorite, but it had been so long since he'd indulge himself in a sweet treat.
Gon blushed with embarrassment when he walked up. Oh, such a cute look! "Sorry about that, you really reminded me of someone I know."
"It's alright, I don't mind." He looked at the crate of candy the boys were trying to buy, "You two sure you can eat all of that?" Hisoka would pat himself on the back with how innocent he looked and sound. He put his gum on the counter by the other cash register, and the cashier lady rang it up for him quickly.
"Us two?" Gon looked to Killua, "He's the one buying it."
"You make it sound like I won't share!" Killua folded his arms and huffed
"You never do when it comes to chocorobos!" Gon stuck his tongue out at Killua.
"I gave you a box last time."
"A miracle!" Gon turned to Hisoka, and noticed the other kid was smiling at their banter, "You okay?"
He hadn't realized he had let his face slip, "Yeah, I'm sorry, I just think the two of you are really great together." He fought not to grin more when Killua blushed and looked away, Gon was obviously oblivious to his friend's feelings, "It kinda reminds me of my friend." A fake sad smile on his face would have made them think he was alone now.
"Oh, are they waiting for you?" Except for Gon, "We didn't mean to keep you."
"They're not in town at the moment they left with their family on a vacation, it's kind of lonely without them..." He looked away his smile fading, Hisoka had to say this was one of his best performances to date. It helped to sell his point with his now younger look.
Gon gave him a bright smile, how could he be so cute? "You can hang with us if you want to, we're staying in the city for a couple of days." Killua acted cool, but Hisoka could tell the other had just wanted to spend time alone with Gon.
Too bad. "I wouldn't want to be a burden." He had his hand over his mouth to cover the small smile he couldn't fight.
"It's okay, we were going to explore the city a bit after we dropped off Killua's candy." The cashier had finally finished scanning every box they wanted to buy and brought up the price. Killua easily paid it, most likely the two boys had done some jobs to make some cash.
"Alright, sounds fun." Hisoka had never been able to get this close to Gon to see how he truly acted around friends. He tried helping in carrying the crate of candy back, but realized he wasn't a very strong child without his nen. Hisoka still could at least pretend he was lifting it.
The trip to the room the boys were renting was a quick one; it wasn't very big or fancy, but reasonably sized. Heheh... Hisoka waited politely outside since Killua was suspicious of him, he just smiled at the Zoldyck. When the two boys came out with backpacks and some water bottles they handed one of the bags to Hisoka, "You can borrow this, we were going to a festival."
"Festival sounds fun, thank you." Hisoka took the backpack and gave Gon a small smile, "I don't think I've caught your names yet."
"Oh, I'm Gon and that's Killua." The kid practically beamed at him.
"Gon, and Killua." Hisoka pretended to be in thought, for a moment, "Well, I don't really like my real name... what did you call me in the candy shop?"
Gon blushed a bit in embarrassment, "Hisoka? I don't think you want us to call you that..."
"Why not? How bad could Hisoka be? Makes me sound mysterious." He playfully put his arm in front of his face and squinted his eyes to look mysterious, "And since I remind you of them, it'll be easier to remember."
Gon laughed and didn't question further, Killua shrugged. Couldn't argue with that, "Well, I guess we can call you that."
"I doubt the real Hisoka is that scary anyway, like what can he do?" The look on Killua's and Gon's face was almost enough to break character, to hide the smile he couldn't fight he walked in front of them, "Well, come on, daylight's wasting."