14 Works by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
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You Can Look and You Will Find Me by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
24 Jul 2025
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“In my experience, when someone won’t answer your texts, they don’t want to see you,” Zepile says in a sympathetic, self-satisfied voice that means “you’ll understand when you’re older.” Which is ridiculous because thirty is not so far from twenty-one, and Zepile doesn’t understand anything about Kurapika.
Irritation scrambles up Leorio’s throat on wooly legs. He glugs down his beer in an attempt to drown it. The beer is lukewarm and watery, but he can’t complain. It’s on a two-for-one special.
“Yeah, well, I don’t give a shit what Kurapika wants,” Leorio says. It comes out louder than he meant, and the bartender glances over at them with a raised eyebrow. Leorio’s face is warm in the faux-sunburn way it gets when he’s toeing the line between sober and tipsy. His tongue feels heavy in his mouth. “If he’s ghosting me, he’ll have to tell me so to my face.”
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A fic in which Leorio goes looking for Kurapika.
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Illumi Zoldyck is one of the best assassins in the world. Hisoka Morow is a confidence man whose charm knows no equal. With such complementary skills, it’s only natural that they’ve collaborated on hit jobs for years. Only natural that they became friends. Only natural that they ended up in bed together more than a few times.
Their latest contract, a request to kill elusive tech CEO Chrollo Lucilfer, will stretch the limits of both their professional and personal relationships. They’ll do whatever it takes to finish the job. But when Hisoka’s strategy to win Chrollo’s trust crosses the line, Illumi finds himself overwhelmed with jealousy. Will he be able to put his feelings aside and focus on the job at hand?
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This is an AU without nen where Hisoka is a con artist, Illumi is an assassin, Kurapika is their client, and Chrollo is their mark. When everyone has something to gain and so much to lose, who can you trust?
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- Part 1 of The Show of Confidence Universe
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A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
30 Dec 2024
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“I was thinking about the last time I saw you.” Kurapika grabs Hisoka’s wrist to hold his hand in place and grinds down with full force. He swallows a moan. “And how you’re a better kisser than you look.”
Leorio’s breath hitches. “Are you drunk or something?”
“No, I’m…” Hisoka holds a finger to his lips and winks. Kurapika closes his eyes. “I’m in bed.”
Leorio doesn’t say anything for a long moment. The phone screen is still lit up, the call time ticking higher second by reliable second. Kurapika holds his breath and waits.
Finally, Leorio says, voice strained, “Kurapika… are you…”
“Yes,” Kurapika says. “Should I hang up?”
__A fic in which Kurapika needs help from Hisoka and Leorio to handle a lust-based nen curse.
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If You Want Me, Don't Play It Nice by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
21 Dec 2024
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“I didn’t know you were coming,” Illumi says, his voice airy and bland like the one flight attendants use when they’re welcoming passengers onto a plane.
Hisoka considers rising to meet him, pressing their bodies together, and greeting him with a slick, sloppy kiss. Wonders if it might pull a reaction out of the butlers, if they might look away in disgust or watch with too much interest. But Illumi’s aura is denser than usual, almost suffocating in the enclosed space. Waves of purple swirling around his body, forming clots. So he says, “I hope I’m not interrupting anything.”
“You are, but it’s only mildly inconvenient.” Illumi stops near the coffee table and peers down at the tea tray. He frowns, which is to say his face stays exactly the same but there are notes of frustration and annoyance in his tone when he says, “Oh, they’ve forgotten the ladyfingers.”
___A fic in which Hisoka visits Illumi at home after the events of the Election Arc. Illumi is still processing his emotions after losing Killua and Alluka. Hisoka does his best to rile up Illumi’s bloodlust to get the violent, passionate reward owed to him after doing Illumi a favor.
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The difference between a marshmallow and a video of your close friend masturbating is that a marshmallow can only be eaten once. A video, however, can be enjoyed as many times as you please.
Watching the video becomes Kurapika’s bedtime routine. He grows familiar with it, memorizing timestamps the way you might memorize a neighbor’s face. At 1:03, Leorio takes his dick out. At 3:01, he plays with his nipples. At 4:04, Leorio jostles the camera, revealing his mouth for six seconds before he notices and adjusts the angle.
Kurapika watches those six seconds like he’s studying scripture. Replays them so often it becomes a meditation. Watches for the quirk of a smile when Leorio moves to adjust the camera angle, not embarrassed exactly, but a little shy.
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A fic in which Leorio is filming solo adult content to help pay for medical school. When Kurapika finds it, he can't help but watch it. But he also can't seem to text Leorio back. Will Kurapika let himself be satisfied with an erotic, parasocial relationship with Leorio, or will he finally pick up the phone? -
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Ging stabs the pitchfork into a pile of hay. It stands upright, handle swaying a bit with the remaining force. He says, grinning in a teasing, brutish way, “Nine months without wrestling the eel?”
“We’re both adults, you can say ‘masturbate.’ And you’re putting words in my mouth. I engaged in self-pleasure, but I didn’t finish. ”
Ging turns around to face Pariston, slapping his hands on the sides of his jeans. Puffs of dust explode from his gloves upon impact. “We’re both adults, you can say ‘come.’”
“I haven’t had an orgasm,” Pariston says in the airy way he announces the upcoming events, waving a hand to shoo away a horsefly, “since our rather enthusiastic goodbye at the end of last summer.”
“Prove it.”
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After almost a year apart, Ging and Pariston make the most of some private time together. Part PWP. Part AU. Part weird dom/sub dynamic. All delicious pariging.
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Something Happens and I'm Head Over Heels by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
07 Aug 2024
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“You’re obnoxious,” says Kurapika.
Leorio swallows whatever he was planning to say in response, because Kurapika is kissing him. Kissing him hard. Standing on his toes to reach him, clacking their teeth together, sucking on Leorio’s bottom lip. Leorio can’t help the whine that escapes him, high-pitched and surprised. Which would be embarrassing, except it makes Kurapika kiss him harder, run his hands up Leorio’s chest so he can grab his lapels and yank him close.
Leorio forgets how to kiss for a moment, brain a sort of foggy-sticky from the beer and the kissing and the darkness, isn’t sure what to do with his mouth or his hands. Kurapika pants against his lips. Says, I know why you’re not a dentist, your breath smells awful, with such genuine fondness that it breaks through the fog.
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Leorio and Kurapika enjoy a stolen moment together during a party. While this can be enjoyed on its own, it's a bonus scene from "Show of Confidence."
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- Part 2 of The Show of Confidence Universe
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I Get Down With Crooked Men by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
20 May 2024
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“Come on. What kind of hunter do you plan to be, Mr. Leorio? A disease hunter? A jackpot hunter?” Pariston glances at his suit. “A bargain hunter?”
Leorio bristles, clenching his fist and doing his best to loom over Pariston. He shouldn’t punch him, but punching people has done a lot for his reputation recently. Who knows? One more blow and he might end up with riches beyond his wildest dreams.
“Oh, don’t be like that.” Pariston puts a friendly hand on his shoulder, gives it a squeeze, lets it travel down his arm until he’s holding his bicep. Leorio can feel Pariston stroking his thumb against the smooth fabric of his suit jacket as though he’s tracing the outline of his muscle. “I didn’t mean anything by it. Frugality is an excellent trait to have.”
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A brief moment that takes place immediately following the election in which Pariston doesn't pass up an opportunity to play a different kind of game with the runner-up.
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If You Obey, I Might Give You A Treat by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist) for bisexualbluesargent
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
13 May 2024
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The Annual Zodiac Twelve Alignment and Synergy Retreat was shaping up to be the most memorable corporate event ever put on by the Hunter Association. It being the only corporate event ever put on by the Hunter Association was neither here nor there.
It is for this reason that Pariston stands drinking an aperol spritz out of a plastic cup in the middle of an upscale hotel ballroom on a Friday evening. Ten other members of the Zodiac mingle around him. A bumper attendance, much better than anticipated. But there’s a tedium he can’t shake. A listlessness that rots between his teeth, blackens his gums.
Ging isn't here.
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In which Pariston orchestrates a corporate retreat for the Zodiac Twelve just to share a hotel room with Ging and all the sexually charged moments that come with it.
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I Feel Like I Win When I Lose by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
07 Mar 2024
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Pariston has always been good at making his own fun, most often through little games of social manipulation. He became a cruise director so he could toy with a captive audience to his heart's content. But even with unlimited playthings, he's grown bored - until someone new boards his ship.
Ging is a travel writer come to write a review of the Kakin Cruises’s newest ship. It’s easy money. Pariston has a new playmate. Ging can see through Pariston's perfectly tailored veneer to the horrid thing that roils beneath. He knows how to play all of Pariston's games. He refuses to give Pariston what he wants.
Stuck together on a ship at sea, it's only a matter of time before Pariston's desire grows into something uncontainable. The real question is: will Ging play along?
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Kiss Me in a Way That's Gonna Screw Me Up Forever by JM_Eiche (gregariousProtagonist)
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
17 Nov 2023
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The Lake Mobius Homeowners Association is infamous for two things: an absurdly long and asinine set of rules and its vice president who takes the utmost joy in enforcing them, Pariston Hill. It's under the pretense of performing these "vice presidential duties" that Pariston finds himself paying a visit to Ging, a new resident who's racked up an impressive amount of infractions in just a few short months.
But, it's not just Ging's disregard for things like "rules" and "fines" that captures Pariston's attention. There's something about the way Ging acts that gives Pariston the distinct feeling that he can see beyond Pariston's carefully crafted facade to the darkness churning below the surface.
And he’s hot. How awful.
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This is a non-nen AU where Pariston gets to use the HOA to be as irritating as possible and Ging puts up with it. -
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Though he has never admitted it, Hisoka has long been important to Illumi. It’s only after Hisoka dies that Illumi realizes just how important, and how much he'd left undone between them.
When Hisoka returns as an undead product of post-mortem nen, they both get another chance to wrap up the loose ends of their relationship. But Illumi finds himself unable to let Hisoka go, no matter how much Hisoka begs for it.
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A canon divergence in which Hisoka is killed by the Phantom Troupe following the events of Greed Island. -
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Illumi is one of Hisoka’s favorite toys. But the assassin is so buttoned-up that he rarely gives Hisoka much to work with. When a moment during the Hunter Exam provides rare insight into one of Illumi’s weaknesses, Hisoka can’t help but get carried away trying to get under Illumi’s skin.
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Or Illumi is an “arms guy,” and Hisoka does whatever he can to use that to his advantage.
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One of an assassin’s most important skills is self-control. After years of training, Illumi learned to bury his desires so deeply that even he can’t find them. That is, until a chance meeting with Hisoka tests the limits of his restraint.
If Hisoka wants something, he takes it. Until he meets Illumi who, despite their mutual obsession, rebuffs his advances. How long will it take before Illumi lets down his walls and surrenders to temptation?
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Or Hisoka wants to know what else Illumi can do with his needles.