Zzup everyone! This is my first fic for this series and Im not well informed about the technicalities of the story so pardon some inaccuracy. I never intended to read the entire manga because I am actually bothered by *cough* (excuse me) Togashi's horrible art (SORRY! Don't kill me ppl!) and the only infos I relied on was from the whole anime series (both 1999 and 2011). I watched them all teehee xD! Since the mangaka is still on hiatus, we cannot determine a correct ending for it so we all just make assumptions of what will happen or we just write how we wanted it to happen xD Here it is anyways. Please, if you have any complaints about my writing, state them in a polite manner. I don't tolerate nonsensical comments and pointless, biased criticisms. Thank you!

DISCLAIMER : Following the word itself "fanfiction", I do not own anything in this fiction and credits belong to the rightful creators of the manga: TOGASHI YOSHIHIRO, the publisher, the broadcasting companies of the anime both 1999 original version and 2011 remake - Nippon Animation and Madhouse, respectively and etc.

CHAPTER 1
- PROLOGUE -

I walked along an alley surrounded by huge, dense trees. It was an uphill climb. The sky was gray, and the air slowly gets thick as I move forward. It has been a couple of hours since I started walking. For some ordinary beings, it couldve been suicide. But I'm not. A lot of thoughts were playing on my mind as I took this boring path forward. It has always been a familiar route however, somehow... different.

"Why did I choose this anyways?" I asked myself.

"I'll prolly be going back to when Ging was only my age..." Gon stated with an excited and determined gleam in his eyes. "I have said this once before, but I have never felt Ging as my father, but more like a comrade, a friend... I would like to know how does it feel like to be with him by the time when we're still equals..."

We sat at the edge of a cliff gazing at the starry night sky.

"That'd be great..." I nodded blankly, void of any expression. I was still lost deep down in my sea of thoughts. And what if he asks...

"How about you?!"

And then he really did . We were both aware that the machine only works in a way only one person can go to a certain time period. I can't be with him. I don't have a chance to hang out with him and the young Ging. And I knew to myself, I had no direction. I had nothing interesting to go back into my past. Rather I must say I was avoiding it. I don't even have any goals in my life other than to protect Alluka. And now I'm done with it and that she finally decided to head back home to our family's custody having the restrictions on her completely revoked, I'm basically nothing again. Thanks to this mission, I'll finally get to see them again...

"Killua?" He tilted his head.

"Oh.. haha! yeah!" I chuckled.

"It's such a pity I can't bring you with me to see and hang out with the young Ging. I wasn't even able to bring you back then when we finally had the chance to talk at the World Tree..."

"Oh, that... well, you see, he said he won't be seeing you if you would bring a friend with you right?"

"Yeah but..." He paused for a while staring at the ground. "Anyways! Where were you heading to again?"

"SE-CR-ET!" I stick my tongue out winking at him. "That's what you get for not bringing me with you to see Ging!"

"Killua! You cheapskate!"

"Make me!"

"OH YEAH?! Well take thiss!"

I chuckled to myself as I walk, remembering that conversation we had the day Ging explained to us how this Time Travel Experiment works. I was the only one who did not reveal the time I would go back to.

"So, it's the four of us... since your friend won't come, like I said, I would fill in that slot." Ging looked around, from Gon, Leorio to me. That asshole Kurapika didn't even bother to come. Although I understood he had some serious matters to deal with, I still felt somehow bad about how he didn't do anything about Gon back then during the Chairman Elections.

"I repeat, this machine only has four slots available temporarily. We will be doing this for experimental purposes and the proof you accept the risks is that you are here, ready to go. If this fails, you will be lost in space and would never be able to come back. You still have time to change your mind and tell Eeta and Elena your new preferred destination, respectively. If so just press the green button, and type it on the screen. If you decide to back out, press the red button."

"I'm already dead sure about mine. And that's going back to the past where Pietro still lives." Leorio stated with determination.

"And you?" Ging turned to Gon.

"I'm good." He responded.

"I'm fine too." I seconded.

"Alright... let's proceed..."

We proceeded to a platform while we look at each other. I can tell each one of us was nervous in a way.

"On my signal all of you..."

"WAIT UP!"

A familiar voice from behind. We looked back to see a familiar figure we had been waiting for.

"KURAPIKA!" Gon yelled enthusiastically throwing his arm up in the air waving at him. "IM SO GLAD YOU CAME!"

"Hey Gon! It's been a long time!" He smiled back at him. "Am I late?"

"Yeah you really are. We were about to leave..." I answered.

"Damn you, I really thought you wouldn't come! I was calling you last night to confirm if you'll be coming but you weren't answering!"

"I'm so sorry about that. I was busy." He apologized monotonously. He obviously have changed. Everytime we meet again, this guy seems to get further and further away from us, and apparently as how I see him, someday he would just treat us as a hindrance from his goals. Or could that be now?

Ging re-explained the terms and conditions of this experiment and asked him to sign a waiver in which he did so without any complaints.

"We will be using Magnetic Force to send you back to a certain period of time in the past . At the moment we're still working on traveling to the future, however, we still needed to make sure of this one. You're not allowed to say anything about the future. Nor prevent a certain, significant event, no matter how little, from happening."

"Got it." He started typing his destination before finally stepping on the platform with us.

"Oi!" Leorio slapped him on the back. "Youre not gonna do anything stupid, aight?"

We all know where he would be heading. And somehow we all had that fear that he might just decide to stay in that alternate reality and never come back here anymore.

"I don't need to heed advices from someone like you..." He retorted whilst whisking the part of his back Leorio hit.

"And what in the bloody hell is that supposed to mean!? You cocky lil'...!" Leorio waved his fists at him.

"We'll come back here alive... right?" Gon interrupted. "Right, Kurapika? We havent' seen each other for long and I have wished to tell you a lot of things..."

"Yeah... I promise..." He smiled as an assurance. "We'll hang out as soon as we get this done..."

And Gon smiled back.

"OI!"

I was too busy reminiscing all of the things that occurred yesterday and this morning that I didn't hear someone was actually calling me out.

"Bouya..." He referred to me in which I finally stopped walking as I realized I've finally come to a dead end with a tall, stone wall impeding me from moving forward.

"Are you lost or something?" A middle aged man around his early thirties. I looked back at him to find him smiling at me. He was sitting by a booth besides that tall, stone wall.

"Eh?" I gave him an innocent look. I don't wanna look anything suspicious even though I can always slit his throat anytime and just bust my way in.

"The tour bus have left an hour ago..." He continued speaking. "And it would probably be back 5 hours later. If you want, you can stay here for the moment and wait. Loitering around is forbidden as this is a private property, you know?"

"Hahaha... yeaahhh..." I let out a grin whilst making my way to the guy's booth. "However, I came here for something else..."

END OF CHAPTER 1