❛ INTO HXH ❜→ ᵏⁱˡˡᵘᵃ ˣ ᵒᶜ

Chapter 5

Four hours is a long time to walk, let me tell you.

"Oi! I need to take a leak! And a dump, too!"

"Shut up, Leorio!" I yelled.

"Here's another 'beware of magical beasts' sign." Kurapika said to me and Gon.

"I wonder what kind . . ." Gon said as he scratched his head.

"Hey, Kurapika, Gon, I see a house!" I said, pointing to the navigators house.

"Leorio! Juice found the navigators house!" Gon yelled.

"Good! My feet are aching!"

Gon laughed.

"Hey...Kurapika...do you wanna race?" I asked.

"No, my feet are hurting too, so I'd probably lose."

"Ah, OK. Gon, do you wanna race?"

"Sure! What does the winner get?" 

"Hmm...they get..umm...I don't know, bragging rights?"

"OK!"

"Kurapika, be the person that starts us off?"

"Sure."

Me and Gon stopped and stood next to each other, getting into a good starting position.

"Ready...set...GO!"

Gon got a huge head start due to his large burst of speed.

"Hey! How-" I stopped talking since that wastes energy. And I can't waste energy, I'm already losing.

I will say that I beat Gon Freecss in a race.

I eventually caught up to him, and we were running side by side.

"Eh?! I didn't think that you would catch up to me!"

I didn't say anything, though I wanted to say 'HA! You were wrong! I'm gonna beat you!'.

You were wrong!

We were about three-quarters of the way there, and we still neck and neck.

My plan was to stay on par with Gon until the final few feet, and then I would shoot forwards with a burst of speed.

Wait...but Go might do the same thing!......New plan.

I purposefully got a little bit behind Gon, just a few inches, but I made it seem like I couldn't keep up.

"Ha! Juice, you're falling behind!"

Or so you think.

Just as Gon was about six feet from the porch, I grabbed onto his shoulders and pushed down, jumped, used the momentum to spring upwards and twist in midair and land gracefully on the porch, facing Gon. 

"I-"

Gon slammed right into me. Apparently, he did what my original plan was. A large burst of speed. And the force on his shoulders didn't slow him down a bit.

"Oof!" I said as my back hit the deck.

Then my head hit the deck. Hard.

And I blacked out. 

Dang it.

~

I woke up lying on a couch in what looked like a living room, alone.

My head my hurting.

I guess I hit the porch harder than I thought.

"Hello?" I asked tentatively. I was probably in the navigators house.