within the sound of silence || Hunter x Hunter

shot in the dark

(AU where everything is the same except Illumi works with a rifle.)

WARNING: slightly gore

Song: Shot in the Dark by Ozzy Osbourne

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Out on the streets I'm stalking the night

I can hear my heavy breathing

Paid for the kill, but it doesn't seem right

Something there I can't believe in

Voices are calling from inside my head

I can hear them, I can hear them

Vanishing memories of things that were said

They can't try to hurt me now

There was a strange sound in the distance; a quiet squeak of a little critter as if some little mouse was just being murdered. It ended with a long, tiny cry echoing in the darkness longer than it should have before everything went silent again.

Weird. He didn't expect anybody here.

Then all he could hear was a sound of flesh being torn apart, a quiet animal-like grunting and another weird, tiny sound. A long hiss he didn't expect crossed the air before it turned into another loud cry of two cats fighting each other for food behind the trash.

A red cat ran past Illumi's legs, holding what was left of the dead mouse in its mouth as another black cat ran after its red, fluffy tail to catch it a few metres away and continue their fight.

The assassin breathed a mental sigh of relief. He wasn't afraid of being caught, he just felt a little better knowing that today there's no need to kill anybody else beside his target.

Night crept into the city, swallowing the quiet and empty streets and hiding every building behind its long curtain of darkness. Illumi stepped into a pool of white light from the street lantern above his head and looked down at his feet, looking like a lost specter under the moonlight; and that's exactly how he felt.

He let out a deep breath; the only sound he let himself make, because there was no other way for him to calm down his mind. He would never admit that he couldn't do a job he was paid to do; he could do that if he really had to, but not this time. This time he had to do this job not only for his client, but also for himself; because no matter how angry his father would be after that, he had to prove something.

The light flickered a few times before it made a strange sound and switched off, leaving Illumi alone in the darkness. He didn't move for a second as he kept staring at the sidewalk beneath his feet before he went on. Silence embraced him with its cool and gentle arms while chaos and memories slipped into his mind.