Disclamer: I Do Not Own Hunter X Hunter

"blah" Talking

'blah' Thinking

(blah) memory's

The wind started picking up as I was walking in the forest on Whale Island when a wild Kitsume-gumas started growling at me. As it was walking toward me I could make out a cub by its feet just watching as its mother cam closer towards me. (My name is Gon and I'm 16 years old. I'm a quiet person as long as you don't do anything to threaten me or anybody I love. I kill only when I'm required to but I'm not a big fan of killing. It was a normal day just like any other with my Aunt Mito and Grandmother as my mother died and my father... well I don't know what happened to him. He was never there for me but I don't believe Mito when she said that both my parents died.

I normally walk through the forest near the house when I wanted to think about my life or just wanting to be alone, but I also like watching nature and the animals as animals are attracted to me. They just come to me every time I'm in the forest and just watch what I do or just sit near me when I'm relaxing but I've only been in this predicament a couple of times before.)

As the Kitsume-gumas comes towards me I can make out what looks like a person behind some trees watching and waiting. He has blond hair with a green hat on his head along with a sword sheathed next to him. I unsheathed the sword that's strapped to my back and as the Kitsume-gumas stands on its hind legs advancing toward me slowly, I wait till it about to swing a giant paw down at me to strike. I bring my sword up and block the paw then cut it straight in the middle, it falls dead at my feet. I resheath my sword and walk to the cub. He starts shaking as I approach him as if he's scared of me. The man I saw earlier comes out from behind the trees.

"Humph, don't you know better than to walk around Snake Beach forest this time of your?" He points to a tree with claw marks on it and says, "See that? That's a signal of the Kitsume-gumas territory. Even the stupidest animals know how dangerous it is to be here! Didn't your father teach you something as simple as that? Damn! I should have ignored the speckled squirrels warning. It's been a while since I've seen such a disgusting kill." He practically shouts at me.

I sit down near the Kitsume-gumas cub and say, "I don't have a father, or a mother. I was told there was some kind of accident after I was born. So I live with my Aunt."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"That's alright because I can feel that my dad is out there somewhere just too busy to see me." I said solemnly.

"What are you going to do with the cub? It should be put down or it will starve and even if it survives there's a chance it will bare a grudge against humans because of what we've done to its mother." He say's as he takes out his sword to advance on the cub. Racing over I pick up the cub even though it keeps clawing at me and struggling against me. "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to raise him it's better than killing him."

"It's impossible. Kitsume-gumas are too wild for that." He tells me. "They don't like people."

"Even so I..." I turned around to look at him seriously. He looks at me with clouded eyes as if he was seeing a ghost and mutters, "you..."

I left to go back home after making sure the man wouldn't kill the cub. Opening the door I could hear Mito getting dinner set at the table so I walked in just as I heard Mito say, "Gon! You're late. I told you so many times to..."

"Sorry Mito, I got held up with something."

She ran up to me as she saw I was littered with cuts and dirt. "Gon! How did you get these injuries?"

Looking down I said, "I was running in the forest when I tripped on a branch." She started dragging me outside, "Eh? Mito?"

After closing the door in my face she told me, "Those injuries are not from tripping."

"Uh," I sighed, "no there not, it's from when I picked up a cub in the forest."

"What kind of cub?"

"Uh... It was a Kitsume-gumas."

"Gon you know Kitsume-gumas are dangerous! Especially now, and a cub? What about its mother? Why would you pick up a cub?" she practically yells.

"I don't know the mother wasn't there. Can I go to my room now? It's been a long day."

"After you eat your dinner."

The next day I dug a grave for the Kitsume I killed. As I was going to push her into the grave the man from yesterday got up from where he was watching to help me push the Kitsume in.

After the Kitsume was buried he told me his name was Kite and that he was a hunter, he also told me what it was like to be a hunter.

I was fishing with him when I asked him why he was here on Whale Island.

"I'm looking for my teacher." He tells me.

"Teacher? Why?"

"Yeah... The Final Exam is to find him, but, this is harder than any of the hunts."

By the time the sun set we were sitting in the forest as I was trying to feed the Kitsume cub.

"Gon." He said making me look at him, "Yesterday you said your parents died but thought your father was alive right?"

"Yeah." I told him not knowing where he was going with his question.

"Did you know your father?"

"Hmm, Mito won't tell me anything about him. All I have is a picture of him but that's it."

"I see. What's his name?"

"Jin Freaks is what he's called."

"Gon. Your right, your father is alive. He's alive and he's somewhere in the world. Your dad, Jin Freaks, is my teacher. In other words, he is a hunter."

"Hun...ter." I say trying to get my head rapped around the idea.

"Yes. The best Hunter in the world."

The rest of the time I was with him I contemplated what he said. "Your father is a hunter, My teacher, Best hunter in the world." by the time I got home for dinner I was wondering how to bring it up to Mito so she wouldn't lie to me or storm out.

"What was my father like?"

"Why are you suddenly asking, Gon?" Mito asked me.

"I... Want to know more about him, tell me Mito."

"There's nothing special," she turned away from me, "He was a normal person. He worked at this store and died in an accident before you were born. There's nothing else I can tell you." 'I knew she was lying to me.' "I know it's tough, but I wanted you to forget about those who died. I can't be your father... but I've tried not to make you sad. I'm glad you understand."

After dinner I went to my room before sneaking out to sit by the water. 'Mito, what's the reason for your lies? Also, if my father is alive, why doesn't he visit me? Does that mean I was abandoned?' I left to go back to my room after my thoughts.

By morning I went back out to the lake just watching and listening to nature when the Kitsume cub came up towards me. I picked him up and lay down putting him on my stomach and fell asleep.

By the time the sun fell I was fishing again. I pulled out the Hunter Request card Kite gave me and thought back to what he said.

"You can take the Hunter Exam when your 12 but since your 16 you can enter anytime you want."

I headed back home to Mito and Grandma sitting at the table and showed them the Hunter Request card. "Is that..." Mito started.

"... A Hunter Exam request card?" Grandma finished.

"Yes, I want to take the Hunter Exam."

"But, why?" Mito asked me.

"I know everything." I saw Mito flinch. "That my father is alive, and that he's a Hunter. I want to become a Hunter so that I can find him. You need to understand Mito!" She gets up from the table and starts walking away until Grandma starts talking.

"These past years, I knew by watching Gon, that he would say this one day."

Smiling at my Grandma I looked at Mito, "NO! You can't be a hunter!" Mito yells at me.

My smile fell as she said that. "Mito, understand his feelings." Grandma tried to reason with her.

I could see her clenching her hands for a minute then a smirk appears on there face before she says, "Ok. But under one condition." 'Crap! I knew it wouldn't be this easy.' "You have to fish the monster in the swamp..." 'That's it? There's got to be more to it then that.' "Within a week." She finishes then continues walking out the door.

I leave the house for my first try. I get to the swamp and swing my make shift fishing rod so that the bait gets in the middle of the swamp. I wait a few seconds and I already get a bite. It starts swimming away so I jump to my feet and try to rail it in but it's to strong as it's pulling me towards the swamp. I get stopped at a tree branch and try to use it as leeway to help me rail it in. Then the next thing I know is I'm on the ground with a broken fishing rod, watching as the monster swims away.

Over the next couple of days I tried to do different things in order to rail it in but by the end of the day I am left with nothing but a broken fishing rod and cuts on my shirt. I don't get how I couldn't rail the monster in as I am by no mean weak. I've been training myself, in secret, in the woods ever since I was young. I would get my ideas for training from the animals I would watch just living there lives but they would run around the forest, the bigger ones would pick up objects that were in there way, while others would climb trees and tree hop. I had a schedule where I would run in the forest and lift different objects that weigh differently. My eyesight is like a cat as I could see in pitch darkness just fine and Whale Island has the darkest nights than other places around the world. I don't look too muscular just fit from all the exercise I've done. I also found my sword in the woods on one of my midnight runs in the forest, when I found it, it looked like it hadn't been used at all so I came to the conclusion that the person that used to own this sword died by one of the many animals on Whale Island.

By the time I came out of my thoughts about what to try next in order to catch the monster in the swamp I concluded that I only had one day left for the challenge and that I needed a new fishing rod. As I was sneaking back inside through a window in my room the wind chimes that were next to my window rang, looking up I saw Mito standing in the doorway to my room.

"You failed again. Your also all dirty... Why don't you give up?"

"I don't want to. This is something I have to do. I'm going to become a hunter! And once I do I'll be able to find Jin."

"What's the use of finding him? He left you when you were only a baby." She said while looking away from me. 'She's lying but why?' "Jin was a Hunter; he went on long journeys and came back only few times. My sister was sad when Jin was gone. It was tough looking at her when she was sad. I despised Jin for that. I thought, "Screw Hunters!" He left his family and child... and your going to become a Hunter to find him?"

"But, it's a job worthy to continue even if it means leaving his child." I say looking at her in her eyes with a serious face. "It must be a great job, to be a Hunter."

She started to back up till she stopped and started to clench her hands and eyes saying, "You truly are... HIS child!" she turned and walked out of my room.

The next morning I was sitting at the table eating breakfast with Grandma when I asked her where Mito was.

"Today's the last day to fulfill your capture. Hurry up and eat." She said deflecting my question.

"Okay."

As I was bringing the spoon to my mouth I heard the door open and Mito come in with a wrapped package. "Open it." she said as she set it down on the table. I unwrapped it to find a fishing rod which was gold in color. "Jin used to use that rod. If you can't catch it with that..."

"Mito... Thank you." I say as I walk out of the house to capture the monster of the swamp.

Sitting at the swamp with my fathers rod and in camouflage I waited for it to catch my bait. After a few minutes it caught my rod and it started to bend like the others did but it didn't snap. The monster pulled me to the edge of the swamp but I kept hanging on. Once it gave me some slack I climbed up the tree that was behind me and jumped over a thick branch. As I was falling I could feel the weight of it as all my body weight was used as leeway to pull it up and out of the water. Finally after a week I did it.

I picked it up and headed home to show Mito. The whole village watched as I brought it to the front door. Mito stood there so I held up the card and said, "I can take the Hunter Exam now." She plugged in what was required and walked back inside while saying over her shoulder, "Do as you like."

"Thank you." I said just as she closed the door. I put the monster back in the swamp for someone else to catch when they were ready.

I walked into the forest whistling for the Kitsume cub which wasn't much of a cub anymore as he grew to the size of his mother in this short time. I told him all about what happened and I fell asleep while I was laying on his belly.

I woke up the next morning to see a bag filled with all the materials I would need on the desk in my room.

As I was getting ready to leave later in the day Mito told me that she was lying, "Jin didn't leave you. I took away Jin's custody of you in court."

"Yeah, I figured you were lying." She looked at me shocked, "I can always tell when people are lying and especially you. You don't look at me in the eye when you're lying." I said as I embraced her, "I will miss you."

"And I will miss you." She said embracing me.

I got on the boat and started heading out. I looked to my right to see that the animals gathered to say goodbye to me including the Kitsume that I raised so I waived goodbye to them all.

'Father, I'm coming to meet you.' I thought as I drifted down the river.