Brave Hearts

Disclaimer: I don't own Hunter x Hunter characters, they all belong to Yushirio Togashi and I don't even own the idea of this story, it's my younger sister idea. I am only the writer of the incidents of this story.

Main Characters: Kurapika, Killua, Gon, Leorio, Kuroro and other minor characters.

Note: Kurapiak on this story is a girl.

Prologue

When someone works so hard to defend his/ her own points of view even though all other people are against him/ her, this person must have a brave heart. When someone challenges his fears and exposes his own life to danger in order to save the people he loves the most, this person must have a brave heart. When someone prefers to face any kind of torments or even faces death over living in humiliation of captivation, this person must have a brave heart. When someone chooses to abandon his perfect prosperous life in order to be with his true love, this person must have a brave heart. We are going to meet some people in this story who have brave hearts that never feel despair, failure or fear even in the worst circumstances.

In a small quiet isolated town, there were four friends who never separated from each other. Although they were different in many things such their ages, features, characteristics, goals, dreams and even their gender, they were very close to each other. Their friendship was weird and even unacceptable in the eyes of their people because it wasn't familiar in that time that girls befriend members from the other gender. Although the intense sarcasm and the sheer refusal of others to their sincere friendship, they didn't budge and continued on their wonderful friendship. Those friends were none other than the naive spiky black haired boy called Gon, the naughty silver haired boy called Killua, the big mouthed and hot headed brown haired young man called Leorio and the tomboyish blonde haired girl called Kurapika. They were not only friends but they were also neighbors, they all lived in the same street. Each one of them was sharing the others with everything they had. According to their comrades, It was ordinary thing to see Gon, Killua and Leorio were walking, talking even fighting together but the strange and hateful thing that Kurapika, the blonde girl, was walking, talking, eating and doing all her activities with them leaving behind her classes that she must have attended. It was known, in that time, that girls should take lessons in how to manage the domestic affairs from cooking, cleaning, sewing, feeding the animals and of course, how to take care of a baby. But the boys should learn writing, reading beside farming, fishing, hunting the wild animals, riding horses and the most important thing was that they should learn how to use different kind of weapons like swords, spears, arrows and bows in order to defend their town from any outer attack from other town or kingdoms.

Kurapika was a stubborn and defiant girl who refused to subdue to the social restrictions placed on the shoulder of the female members on this country. She wanted to learn how to read, write and count like the guys, she had the faith that the women have brains like men so they have to improve and develop their mental abilities by learning. She thought that the girls should know how to use a weapon to defend herself and her country like the men and she couldn't understand why their society wanted to deprive women from learning those issues and only permitted to her to handle the house affairs. She was angry and indignant at her classes and she thought what the girls should learn were vain and useless things so she decided to join the classes of the guys to learn interesting and useful things so she cut her silky long blonde hair and wore clothes that were similar to the males outfit and started to attend the other classes. At first the teachers refused to accept her in the class because they thought that she couldn't understand their lessons and she couldn't bear their tough trainings but when they felt tired from convincing her to leave them and go to her classes, they chose to let her attend and she would leave by herself because she couldn't bear the difficult and complicated lessons and their rough trainings. But much to her teachers dismay, she could understand every single lesson they taught her and they couldn't deny that she was very intelligent and she was also capable of holding the heavy weapons and she started to learn how to fight and how to ride horses like the other guys and sometimes better than them. After a period of time, her teachers accepted her happily on their classes and they ceased to complain from her existence with them. Of course, she was very happy and content that she made other people believe her that the girls could do anything if they had the willing. Attending the males classes enabled her to become more close to her friends, they were learning, riding horses and fighting together.

One day, Kurapika and her friends decided to go on a picnic in the green forest that surrounded their town. This place was the most favorite place for them and they used to spend their weekends there. The scenery in that forest was wonderful, they were surrounded by the huge and old trees from different kinds and under those trees they found the needed shadow when the sun heat raised and there was a clear twinkling small lake, they used to sit down on the green grass next to it and enjoy the decent breeze while having their lunch. The three guys arrived first in the said place and they waited for their blonde friend, they waited her for more than an hour until their stomachs grumbled from hunger so they decided to have the lunch and left some of it for Kurapika. Before they took the first bite from their food, they heard someone or something was running towards them in a great speed, they all alerted and put their food aside and brought their weapons and readied themselves for the attack. Suddenly, someone appeared from the bushes surrounded them and they relieved when they saw who was coming because she was Kurapika who appeared from the bushes but they raised a quizzical eyebrow when they saw her. She was panting heavily and she was disheveled with tousled her and her forehead covered with sweat and her face was pale as if she was chased by the devils.

" What is wrong with you? Why were you running like that? " asked the oldest one of them in an obvious worry on his tone of voice. But Kurapika couldn't answer him immediately because she was still trying to regulate her breath again.

" Wait, old man, she needs to catch her breath, " commented the silver haired boy in a sheer sarcasm dripped from his words. Leorio's face darkened when he listened to Killua's comment then he burst in shouting,

" Who are the old man? You should look to yourself in the mirror, you are the one who have the white hair like old people not me. "yelled the brown haired young man in annoyance.

" Who gave you the right to make fun at the expense of my hair? " asked Killua in an exasperation while grabbing the older guy from his clothes and shook him violently.

" Take your hands off of my clothes or you'll regret " ordered Leorio who got furious from the violent way the silver haired boy dealt him with. They continued their fuss while Gon was watching them with bored expression as he got used to their continuous commotion between them. Before they started to fight, Kurapika gathered all her strength and shouted at them as loud as she could, " stoooooooooop ", they stopped instantly because they couldn't handle the blonde girl if she got angry. They all looked to her direction and they saw something strange on her facial expressions, they felt that she was going to tell them something really important so they paid her all their attention.

" While I was on my way to come here, I saw two of our masters were talking and worry was apparent on their facial expressions so I approached them and hid myself behind a huge tree not to let them see me and I eavesdropped what they were talking about," said the blonde girl then she stopped to find how she could tell her friends about what she had heard, with every second passed became more curious to know what she had heard then she cleared her voice and completed her talk,

" They were talking about a great and strong kingdom called The Kingdom of Black Eagles. The king of this kingdom decided to accumulate his troops and attack the other countries and towns to widened his kingdom. And to obtain all the treasures of those countries and to have many captives to serve him as his slaves. If the country he had attacked lost the war against his armies, he would kill the governor of this town and joined this town to his property or he could leave the country without killing its chief but in one condition, to pay a great sum of money and deliver him the precious treasures of this country and he had the right to take what he wanted from women and kids to work in his palace or his men's houses as slaves, " she stopped again and her face started to show her inner worry and fear although she tried hard to appear calm and composed, her friends became more impatient and they wanted to know quickly that thing that worried their friend to this extent.

" Come on, Kurapika, tell us the rest of their conversation, we know that you haven't finished yet. " the spiky haired boy prompted her kindly to continue talking and she nodded slightly and swallowed her salvia and continued,

" The elders in our country knew that the armies of this kingdom attacked all the towns around us and all the countries before us had been defeated and they all occupied by their king's troops. Our elders expected that it is our turn to be attacked by the armies of this kingdom and now they are counting the number of men who are capable of holding weapons and fighting, " explained the blonde haired girl in a sad and gloomy tone.

" Are their armies so strong that no town or even country could stood against them? " wondered the silver haired boy in disbelief.

" Yes, they are very strong and the number of their fighters over numbered the fighters of any other country. Besides, their army commander is very clever and strong, his name is Kuroro Lucifer. "

To be continued

Author Note: Wow! A new story written by me, I am so proud of myself, I wish you enjoyed reading the story prologue. Don't give up reading, it is just the beginning and the story will become more interesting in the next chapters.

Sorry, that Kuroro didn't appear in the prologue but he is going to have a big role in the next chapter.

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