This is my first Fanfiction on this sight, I have a few others on Quizilla (but they are absolutely horrible...horrible I tell you) I gave up on trying to salvage those.

Well, I would love reviews, and I don't really have a summary yet...because I still don't know exactly where I'm going with this story yet...when I figure it out I'll add the summary in here somewhere.

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As of April 25, 2011 I went back and edited this chapters... it didn't change the plot or anything...so if you've already read it and don't want to reread it then that is fine...I just made it easier to read.

Well ENJOY!

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I stepped off the elevator that was previously decorated as a dining room attached to the restaurant leading to the Hunters Examination, and I saw a room filled with bulky, pea-minded men. Well maybe calling them pea-minded is a little harsh, I mean, it's not like I was brightest crayon in the box. Besides, it looked like there were some decent, plain out scary looking, people here.

The plated number pinned to the fabric of my red knee length coat called attention to the rooms' newest occupant: me. I must have been quite the sight, my drenched hood laying in a messy fashion on my head, leaving water to drip down my face and onto the floor. I was already standing in a puddle and left a trail of water behind me.

Even if it wasn't raining, and hasn't for the past ten days, I still managed to somehow pitch myself headfirst into the nearby lake while looking for this place. My navigator, for some strange reason I can't understand, decided that I'd be fine in a city that I've never been to before in my life and left me to find this place by myself after giving me a small piece of paper telling me the password.

I guess it's needless to say that I got lost and almost didn't, make it here in time for the deadline.

"Ayanna, I've taught you everything I can. Now it's up to you to go out and learn things through your own ability. The Hunters Exam is coming up in a couple weeks; take it. This is the end of your training, pass the exam, and you graduate from my teachings."

I'm confident in my ability to pass the exam; I didn't give up most of my childhood for nothing, you know.

For five years now, since I was seven, my dad has been teaching me how to fight. Every morning I would wake up before the sun and train my body through endurance tests. My dad found out, despite how I tried to hide it, that I had horrible endurance and that turned out to be the first thing he made me work on. He said that endurance would be the base of my training so it had to be strong enough to hold everything on top of it. I was required to run every day morning to night, or until my dad blew the whistle signaling my speed training was over for the day. We would move onto hand to hand combat for a couple hours and then he'd send me off to bed only to do it all again the next day. It continues like that for three years, alternating between running for a full day to half and half. I have to say, as much as I hated it, it did work. I'm a lot better now than I was before. Now I can pull my pranks and nobody would even know it was me if I didn't want them to!

"You're a rookie, aren't cha?" A friendly sounding voice spoke from behind me.

My fathers' voice rang through my ears, "Don't trust anyone, you never know what they might try to pull. Always be on your guard, but don't let them know you suspect them."

"Mhm, how did you know?" I questioned as I jumped around turned to face him. Is it really that obvious?

He jumped back at my unexpected turn and enthusiasm, "It's my thirty-fifth time this year, I know all the regulars." He said it without any hesitation like he wasn't ashamed in the least. "My names Tonpa, if you have any questions feel free to ask me."

"Thirty-five times," Wow, you must really suck. "Is the exam really that hard?"

He was about to answer but I already lost interest and was now looking for the source of the loud whistle which rang out through the underground cave we were all in.

"As of this moment the exam is closed of any further applicants." A man wearing a purple suit descended from above us where he was most likely watching us mingle with each other. "I would like to officially welcome everyone here to the hunter exam."…Suspenseful silence…until:

"Alright, it's going to get started!" To my left was a boy probably around my age wearing all green and holding a fishing pole, he was the one who broke the silence first.

"Please come with me," the man, who I think is the examiner, said. He pivoted and walked down the cave like hallway, "Let me just remind you all that the Hunters exam is extremely demanding. In the worst-case scenario, you'll die. If you are alright with accepting those risks then you may continue following me." He gave people a chance to drop out right then, no one did. "Alright then, the number of applicants is 405…at least for now."

Moving quickly I made my way up to the front until I was standing besides the man in the purple suit, and just as I was about to ask him his name he began to walk faster. I did to. It went on like this until I was in a full-blown run, and then he finally spoke:

"Sorry for the delay, but allow me to introduce myself. I am Satotsu, examiner for the first phase; I am also the one who is leading you to the second phase. Some of you may have realized already but keeping up with me until we reach the second phase is in fact the first phase."

I look up at 'Satotsu' from under my hood and ask the question that's been bothering me since we began the test, "Hey Mr. Examiner, why is the first test one of endurance?"

Said man looked down at me, seeming to rate how far I would go in the exam, before answering, "The examiner who is leading the exam gets to choose how it will work each year. I am testing this group with endurance to eliminate the unfit people."

"So each place is picked out by the examiners?" The man nods so I made a remark on his test. "Does that mean that the examiners differ each year to provide variety in the testing order?"

"Yes, now you should focus more on your running or you'll be tired out and left behind."

I stayed silent only for a couple moments until my boredom set in again. "You know, Mr. Examiner, this test is really boring. Not to mention easy!" I do this every day after all. "I was hoping this thing might have been a little more fun."

"I'm Ayann by the way, just in case you were wondering what to call me."

"Mr. Examiner, how long have we been running now?" I asked for, what seems like, the hundredth time in the past ten minutes.

"…"

He didn't answer me…again. He was probably tired of all my questions, like that one time my dad got so fed up with my non-stop talking that he gave me the silent treatment for three days!

Sensing that Satotsu was going to do the same I said goodbye and made my way bake into the sea of people behind me.

"You alright?" I heard from a little ways behind me. It was the boy with the fishing rod speaking to his friend, the one with the brief case.

He looked like he would pass out at any moment; he was obviously beyond exhaustion.

"Take this," I handed the man a water bottle that I fished out of my bag. "It'll help," I explained at his questioning glance. "And if you're going to take a break you should probably do it now before you pass out. That's what my dad always said anyway."

He thanked me and I was on my way once again looking for a new running buddy.

"Just between you and me, I'm actually a ninja."

A ninja? Cool! In a moment of excitement I ducked around people as I ran and slowed to a steady pace that matched up to the 'ninjas'.

"You're a ninja! Does that mean you can do cool ninja tricks?" I couldn't keep the smile off my face or the excitement from my voice.

"Of course, I am a ninja after all."

"So I say to the guy 'you're never going to get anywhere in life if you always give up so easily." Hanzo, the ninja, told the person next to him as I ran on his other side. "Are we there yet, I'm getting hungry."

"You are to? Good I thought I might have been the only one." I exclaimed brightly from besides him.

The man he was talking to, however, did not feel the same, "Are you two kidding me!" Then he proceeded to slow down, or we sped up, I'm not exactly sure.

"So kid, what's your name?"

"Ayanna, but just call me Ayann." We both quickened our pace slightly, to get closer to the examiner. "What's being a ninja like? Do you have any cool weapons that you use?"

"Well it's a lot of hard work. The trainings brutal, I wake up at dawn every morning to train and I finally go to sleep after the sun sets." So it's kind of like what I do. "Yes I have many hidden weapons on my form right now –"

The walls began to rumble and it stopped Hanzo mid sentence, it also stopped the examiner and everyone following him.

"What, are they digging a tunnel or something?" Should have known Hanzo couldn't keep his mouth shut for long.

The stone blue walls were cracking, red light spilling from the damaged rock. The wall exploded. Rock chunks flew and the examinees were forced to dodge the flying objects being hurled at them.

The hot air that came forth reminded me of my trip to the beach with my dad when I was younger. The hot sun warming my skin and giving it a nice sun kissed coloring on the exposed skin. That was a nice day; I'm going to have to do that again eventually.

"What exactly is going on here?" Our examiner, the one with a curling handle bar mustache, asked after four people emerged from the wall.

The boy in green, the man I gave the water to, Blondie, and the boy with the skateboard that had white hair and violet eyes.

"Uhh, haha, I'm sorry, but we had to break through the wall." Green boy answered while rubbing the back of his head, a nervous habit humans have seemed to take upon themselves to do.

"I never said you couldn't destroy the walls, but tell me. How is it that you survived after wandering down the tunnel of hallucination? I'm quite impressed."

"I can't believe it, where'd they get the rookies from this year anyway." Tonpa's voice rang out like a gun shot in the silent hallway, even if he was whispering.

The man I gave water to turned at the sound and wasted no time in stalking forward, "How dare you!" He grasped the front of Tonpa's shirt lifting him slightly off the ground. "I've got a score to settle with you," The Waterman practically growled.

"Stop it, Leorio." Green boy said taking only a step in his direction.

"No way, doesn't this guy just piss you off?" 'Leorio', I think I'm going to stick with 'The Waterman', said.

"The test always has obstacles to overcome," Blondie reasoned.

The Waterman made a sound of disapproval, but even he knew it was true, and let Tonpa go.

"Hey, Mr. Examiner, are we almost done? I'm getting tired of running, and I'm really hungry!" I was once again right next to the examiner, well actually right behind him next to Hanzo, but that's beside the point.

He sighs before answering my question loud enough for everyone to hear. "Well everyone, we're almost into the final stretch. I'm going to pick up the pace."

He did just that, quickly distancing himself from the rest of us and heading towards the patch of light up ahead of us. We only have to run up a large hill…and then some, but it will be worth it…

I hope.