Author's Notes: Hello from the Emerald Isle, Sketchfan here, rookie author at best, long time fic reader. Now this little gem here was not written by me, but rather by one of my best online buddies/brothers from another mother, Kyugan, author of many fics such as Naruto Kimyou no Bouken (a Naruto/Jojo's Bizarre Adventure fic crossover/au/fusion), Lelouch of the Second Chance,Code Decade:The Rider Rebellion, Sailor Moon GSL:Geass Speed Love,Hina Digger,Code Rider:Zero Knight (check all of them out,and review dammit!) .net/s/5244475/24/Kyugans_Crossover_Corner This chapter first appeared here, and as Kyugan mentions in his author notes for it, he and I sort brainstormed this little idea. For those of you who've never even heard of HunterXHunter, what are you waiting for? It's by the same mangaka as YuYu Hakusho,so go check out the manga and the anime. As he and I agreed,he'll write this, I'll post it on my profile, so again do be so kind as to review, and any and all questions to me, Kyugan has enough on his plate.
Hunter x Hunter: Side Story.
Strange beasts and monsters…Secret treasures, hoards of undiscovered wealth…mystical places and unexplored frontiers…the mysterious 'unknown'…there are magic in those words…and those that are captivated by their spell…are called HUNTERS.
Dolle Harbor, morning...
Dolle Harbor, a quiet, seafaring town that made it' living through sea-trade and fishing, though it also provided a nice quiet spot for people looking to get away from the hassle of life to come and rest.
Despite this, and the numerous amount of people passing through the harbor, the town itself was normally relatively quiet, the very definition of the word 'boring', with most people passing through quickly on their way to the capital city of Zaban, which resided on the other side of a mountain, fraught with magical beasts and other natural hazards.
The only time this quiet, backwater seaport shows any form of activity, is when it is used to usher in those potential candidates for the prestigious Hunter Exam, which is held once a year.
Into this picture, we find a young boy, thirteen at the very most, dressed in an impressively well cut suit and tie, complete with fedora, as he disembarked from one of the many ships that serve to escort such applicants to the port.
'Ugh…' the boy muttered, lifting a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose at the smell of sea-salt and water that pervaded the dock 'Bracing my foot…I'll be glad to see the back of this place.'
"Feelin' alright there, lad?" the captain asked, one of those crusty, bearded, man-of-the-sea, the old sea-dog leaning against the rail of his vessel as he eyed the survivors of the journey as they staggered off "Land legs giving you trouble?"
"Nothing you need concern yourself with, captain." The boy countered, his tone firm, but nonetheless polite as he inclined his head towards the captain "Thank you for your concern."
"Not at all." The captain assured him, inclining his head towards the youth, pleased to see a young man with such good manners in this day and age. The boy was better spoken, and dressed, than all the other aspirants put together, and had weathered the rough journey over much better as well, as he'd refused to vomit no matter HOW hard the deck rolled beneath his feet "If'n I were you, I'd try makin' my way towards that lone pine atop yon hill there." He offered, pointing to the tree in question in the distance "Good a place as any to start lookin' for the exam hall."
"Much appreciated." The youth offered, inclining his head to the captain in gratitude, before picking up his attaché case "Fair weather to you."
"And to you lad," the captain offered, watching him saunter off with a calm expression, before sighing and turning back to his ship, as there were supplies to be brought on board and they wouldn't oversee themselves.
Dolle harbor docks...
"Let's see…" the young man muttered, walking sedately down the docks as he made his way towards the steps which would lead up to the town proper "How to go about finding transport to that pine?"
"GERROF MY SHIP YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" voice roared, the youth looking up just in time to see a black-clad posterior sailing towards him, his eyes widening in alarm, only for the offending backside to slam into his face, sending him crashing into the dock in a tangle of limbs.
"Ow!" the owner of the offending rump swore, getting to his feet, heedless of his impromptu cushion as he began ranting at the one who'd thrown him, a large, make that MASSIVE fisherman, who stood atop a tuna-boat, massive arms crossed across his chest, above his bulging belly "THAT HURT YOU FUCKING GEEZER!"
"It'll hurt MORE if you ever show your face aboard the Kikokumaru again!" the old demon growled, his eyes like miniature thunderstorms as he glared in response.
"HA!" the youth's assaulter scoffed, flipping the bird towards the old man, and the crew amassed behind him "Just you wait! Once I become a Pro-Hunter, I'll come back and sink that tub of yours!"
"You? A Pro-Hunter?" a lanky member of the crew with a pointed chin, ears, and head jeered, making him look like something out of a cheesy horror movie "Yeah right! A runt as short as you wouldn't make it past the toll gate!"
"YOU WANNA SAY THAT TO MY FACE TEME?" the assaulter demanded, rolling up his sleeves as he glared at the man, only to be met with a duffle bag to the face, courtesy of the captain, who barked at the crew to prep to set sail, as they were burning daylight "You just wait!" he yelled as he got to his feet once again "Wash your hair and wait for me, Jerks!"
"It's NECK." The youth muttered, getting to his feet with a grimace as he dusted himself down, checking his suit for damage "The correct saying is to wash their necks, not hair."
"Ah, who asked you?" the assaulter countered, turning to glare at the youth in annoyance, only to blink at the sight of him "For that matter…where the hell'd you come from?"
The youth sighed, feeling the beginnings of a headache coming on as he glared at his assaulter balefully as he reaffixed his Fedora. To his surprise, it turned out to be another youth, possibly the same age as him, though at least a head shorter, his two tone hair was styled oddly, the back and sides were shaved, though you could tell they were black, while the top was white, and styled in what resembled a drooping Mohawk. His sun-kissed skin stood out in contrast to his shocking white hair, his face set with one red eye and one blue. He was wearing what looked like an old-school gakuran, complete with trailing coat.
All in all, compared to the suit-clad youth, he looked, and acted, like some sort of stereotypical Highschool thug.
"Hey…" the two-tone teen demanded, snapping the suit clad youth out of his musings to find the thug practically nose to nose with him "You from around here kid?"
"Most assuredly NOT." The youth muttered, frowning in distaste at the breaching of his personal space as he backed away from the two-tone teen "I'm here to apply for the Hunter Exam, much like yourself, going by you're earlier rant."
"You?" the two-tone teen wondered, looking the suit-clad youth up and down with a confused expression on his face "Sure you're dressed for it?"
"I might say the same for YOU." The youth countered, eyeing the other's Gakuran with a look of mild distaste in his eyes, though his features remained neutral.
"Hey! Don't go dissing the threads!" the two-tone teen countered, thumbing the jacket of his Gakuran with a smirk "This' here Gakuran's my trademark! Name's Chino, back home they call me the Knuckle Bomber!"
'Knuckle HEAD-er more like it…' the youth muttered, sighing in exasperation as he turned on his heel, having had more than enough of this conversation.
"Hey where you going?" Chino demanded, the self-proclaimed 'Knuckle Bomber' looking up at the youth in confusion "Aren't you gonna introduce yourself? I figure if we're both going to the exam anyway, we can go together!"
"No." the youth countered, refusing to even look back as he ascended the steps leading up to the town, leaving the two-tone teen behind.
As the fedora boy walks off...
"What the hell?" Chino demanded, looking on as the suit-wearing youth just walked off without saying another word "The hell's his problem? You'd think I did something to the guy."
Shrugging offhandedly, he scooped up his duffle bag by the strap and slung it over his shoulder, looking up at the high wall that separated the docks from the town proper with an eager expression "Finally made it." he muttered, a confident smirk forming across his face "Look out Hunter Exam, cause here I come!"
Unbeknownst to the Hunter Hopeful, a third figure had overseen the interchange between him, the crew of the Kikokumaru, and the fedora-sporting youth, the witness sitting on top of a nearby crane, high enough that the entire harbor could be seen, but close enough that the conversations were still audible.
"He looks like fun…" the figure mused, a smile adoring her lips as she stood up, perching easily atop the crane, one knee bent as she put her hands into the pockets of her jeans, her features hidden as the sun shone behind her head "I think I might like this exam…"
Dolle Harbor town centre...
"Lessee…" Chino muttered, the gakuran sporting teen looking up at a massive map that displayed the various towns around them "Wait…where was the Hunter's Exam supposed to be held again?"
"Zaban." A voice supplied from behind, the teen turning round, looking up to see a tall man with dark, red-streaked dreadlocks under a beanie hat, dressed in what looked like a basketball vest over a pair of cargo pants "You lost kid?"
"Who you calling kid, old man?" Chino countered, glaring up at the easily six foot man angrily, even as the man scowled down on him.
"Pretty mouthy little runt." The man muttered, leaning down to glare at Chino, the two of them practically nose to nose as lightning sparked between them "Why don't you run along before I send you cryin' for mama?"
"I'd like to see you try." Chino dared, the two of them practically face to face now, the crowd backing away to give them some room, several of them calling out 'fight!', one adventurous local setting up a betting booth nearby, only for them to look up as a nearby speaker announced the last bus of the day was headed for Zaban now.
"Tch…" the dreadlock sporting man muttered, straightening up and spitting off to the side as he glared at Chino "You got lucky brat."
"Same to you shit-locks!" Chino countered, flipping the man the bird as he walked off, seething as the elder man ignored him "Jeez, I keep running into jerks and assholes today, what's with this place?"
"They're just jumpy 'cause the exams so tough." A cheerful voice suggested in his ear, the two-tone teen whipping round, only to get a face full of something soft and squishy, "Well now! Aren't you forward?"
"GAH!" Chino yelped, backing away from the mounds with a jump, looking up to see a tall girl, make that young woman, with exotically tanned skin and features, standing before him, dressed in form fitting blue jeans, boots and a red, woolen tank-top, her black hair pulled into a ponytail, one blue bang hanging over her face.
"Well that's an interesting way to say hello." She mused, smiling at the two-tone teen, one hand on the hip of her jeans, the other loose at her side "You greet everyone like that where you're from?"
"You sneaked up on me!" Chino countered, his hair spiking up as pointed at the woman, goose bumps racing down his frame as his breath quickened "What the hell were you doing sneaking up on me like that?"
"Hmm…" the woman noted, leaning forward so that she was peering into his eyes, Chino's face lighting up as the action caused her breasts to jiggle, only for her to beam at him "I like you, let's be friends!"
"Like hell!" Chino countered, spiking up as he backed away from the pouting, clearly insane foreigner, only to blink, his eyes widening in alarm "Shit! The bus!"
"Oh that left already." The woman explained, straightening up and covering her eyes with one hand, Chino turning to follow her gaze, blanching as he saw the bus had indeed already left.
"Great!" the Hunter Hopeful swore, throwing his hands in the air "That was the last bus of the day! How'm I supposed to get to the exam hall NOW?"
"You could come with me?" the foreign suggested, smiling down at the two-tone teen "I overheard one of the captains say that the best place to start looking is the lone pine atop the hill outside town." She beamed at him "Wanna go together?"
"Like hell!" Chino muttered, shouldering his duffle bag with a frown "Look, thanks for the help, but a real man doesn't need help from a woman." He turned on his heel and walked off "See ya around!"
"The hill's the other way." The woman pointed out, a teasing smile on her face as Chino froze, one foot suspended off the ground in the act of heading off in the wrong direction.
"I knew that!" he snapped, spinning on his heel and marching in the right direction, refusing to look at the woman as he marched past her, his eyes fixed on the lone pine which was visible even from town.
"He's so cute." The foreign woman giggled, sticking her hands in her pockets as she moved to follow the two-tone teen, a smile on her face "This exams gonna be so much fun!"
Dolle Forest...
"Seem to be making good time…" the Fedora sporting youth muttered, looking at his pocket watch in approval as he sat under a nearby tree, having left the main highway behind not long ago, and was now making his way up the mountain path "Should reach the summit by noon…"
"WOULD YOU STOP FOLLOWING ME ALREADY?" a familiar voice demanded, the youth looking up in surprise to see the two-tone teen from the docks marching towards him, glaring over his shoulder at a young woman with exotic features "I SAID I'M NOT TRAVELLING WITH YOU!"
"Oh come on-!" the woman pouted, the Fedora clad teen sweat dropping at how immature she sounded despite her figure "Don't be so cruel, Chibinosuke!"
"AND STOP CALLING ME THAT DAMMIT!" the two-tone teen snarled, his head actually enlarging as he spat fire at the unwanted nickname "It's Chino! CHI-NO! Wait! Why am I telling you that? Just stop following me already!"
"Would you mind keeping it down?" the youth demanded, scowling at the newcomers with a hint of annoyance "Or at the very least go somewhere else? I'm trying to rest here, and all your noise is likely to bring a Magical Beast down on us."
"Hey!" Chino exclaimed, pointing at the youth in recollection "I remember you! You're that jerk that brushed me off at the docks!"
'I'm the jerk?' the youth wondered, quirking an eyebrow at the two-tone teen from where he sat beneath the tree 'Big talk coming from the one who uses people as landing pads.'
"Hi there!" a cheery voice greeted, the youth blinking in alarm to find himself face to cleavage with the foreign girl, who was bending over to beam at him in greeting "Are you a friend of Chibinosuke!"
"That's not my name and he's NOT my friend dammit!" Chino countered, the two-tone teen glaring between the two, clearly trying to determine who he despised more at the moment "This jerk just brushed me aside when I asked him if he wanted to ask around for the exam, thinks he's better than everyone else just cause he's got a cheap suit."
"Cheap suit?" the fedora clad teen repeated, eyeing the two-tone teen in disbelief, and no hint of anger "I'll have you know this is a custom Armani original! It probably costs more than your HOUSE."
"Yeah-yeah big whoop!" Chino muttered, glaring at the Fedora sporting teen "So what're you doing here Mr. Too-Big-For-His-Britches? I'd have thought you'd have gotten the bus like the rest of them."
"Don't be absurd." The Fedora sporting youth scoffed, eyeing the irate, shorter teen mockingly from beneath the rim of his hat "Didn't you learn anything on the way over?" he asked, only to shake his head at the two-tone teen's clueless expression "Getting to the Exam hall is PART of the exam, that means all the obvious routes are traps, designed to cull the amount of participants down to a more manageable number." He eyed the pair warily "I don't know how you found out about it, but the pine ahead is said to be the best place to start looking for the exam," he snorted "Maybe you're not as hopeless as I thought."
"Them's fighting words punk!" Chino snapped, his features drawn in a snarl as he lashed out, only for the youth to dodge, one hand on his Fedora "Put 'em up! I've been looking for a reason to cut loose all day!"
"Barbarian." The fedora sporting youth sighed, side-stepping nimbly around the two-tone teen's savage punches, which he noted were rather impressive for someone his age, showing he at least had the skill to back up his words.
"Quit dancing around and come take your licks like a man dammit!" Chino demanded, glaring at the fedora sporting youth as he nimbly sidestepped again "You chicken!"
"Hardly." The youth countered, tone dismissive "I simply see no need to bring myself down to the level of a common brawler."
"Level THIS!" Chino yelled, leaping into the air, earning a whistle of approval from his female tag-along at how high he jumped, the youth grimacing as his vision was obscured by the sun, only to leap back as Chino descended, his foot stamping into a muddy puddle next to where the youth had been standing, spraying mud everywhere.
"Heh," Chino scoffed, smirking confidently at the youth as the latter wiped mud out of his face "Not so squeaky clean now are you?" he scoffed, smirking as he espied the youth's fedora lying in the mud "Was aiming for your HEAD, but oh well."
"You little…" the youth muttered, Chino shivering as he picked up the Fedora, glaring at the mud adorning it before setting it aside with his attaché case "You'll pay for that…"
"Check's in the mail!" Chino jeered, racing in with his fist drawn back for a haymaker, only to twitch, leaping back, his eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Chibinosuke?" the two-tone teen's tag-along wondered, only to blink as the trunk of a tree between the duo suddenly developed several gashes, branches falling to the ground from above.
"You're pretty good to see that coming." The Fedora sporting teen mused, his tone mildly impressed, though laced with anger, his fingers twitching, light catching off of several glistening threads as they danced around him like snakes, "I was planning to cut off your arm." His eyes narrowed as a small cut bled on the two-tone teen's cheek "Still, you couldn't dodge it completely.
"Filament wires…?" Chino muttered, eyeing the numerous dancing threads with a hint of wariness as he scowled "You got weird tastes man…you some sort of killer dentist or something?"
"Or something." The youth countered, his tone unexpressive as he glared at the teen "Not that it's going to matter to you in a minute."
"Heh…" Chino scoffed, shaking his head as he got to his feet, unfastening the buttons of his Gakuran jacket with one hand "You really think something like THIS is gonna scare me off?" he snorted, his hand moving down the buttons in order "Still, good to see you got some balls under that bad suit…" he threw his jacket off, revealing a loose red, sleeveless shirt that was tucked into his pants, and an ornate oriental dragon stitched into the underside of his jacket "But too bad for you, I'm the main character here!"
Dolle forest...
'What does he think this is, a shounen manga?' the youth wondered, eyeing the two-tone teen with an exasperated expression, only to blink as the two-tone teen disappeared "Where-?"
"WHEE!" the foreign woman from before squealed, having tackled Chino from the side with a projectile glomp, pressing the struggling two-tone teen's face into her cleavage as she held him off the ground by his neck "Chibinosuke! So cool!"
"AIR!" Chino screamed, trying to extract himself from the woman's surprisingly strong embrace, his arms and legs waving wildly as he fought to breath "Dammit! Get off me you damn milk tank! I'm in the middle of a fight here!"
"No." the youth finished, sighing in restrained amusement, his anger dissipating in the face of the scene playing out before him "We're done here…the moods' just not right anymore."
"The hell?" Chino demanded, trying to wriggle out of the woman's embrace, only to fail miserably as she continued to glomp him "You running away teme?"
"HARDLY." The youth countered, removing a hanky and slowly beginning to remove the mud from his fedora with careful swipes "It's simply getting late, and I'd much rather get to the pine before the sun goes down." He eyed the duo before him as he replaced his fedora on his head "We seem to be going the same way, so I suppose I can put up with the pair of you for that long."
"Who the hell would go with you-?" Chino began, only to choke as the woman, still holding him by the neck, suddenly leapt over and scooped up the youth, pulling them both into a group hug, their cheeks pressed into her chest.
"YAY!" she cheered, heedless of the two male's struggles as she held them close "We got a new friend Chibinosuke!"
"My name's Chino dammit!" the shorter teen swore, finally managing to break free, landing on his feet alongside the suit-clad youth, who despite being red faced from mortification, was happy to be able to breathe without getting a mouthful of Mammary in the process "And he's not our friend!"
"But Chibinosuke!" the girl pouted, her features taking on an almost feline expression as she knelt down to look at the two-tone teen "Traveling is more fun with friends!"
"It's certainly more interesting…" the youth muttered, earning an exasperated look from Chino and a kitty smile from the woman, causing him to clear his throat and look away, dusting off his Fedora.
"Tch, Fine!" Chino swore, throwing his arms in the air before scooping up his discarded Gakuran jacket, slinging it over one shoulder as he scowled at the youth "you can tag along, but only as far as the tree!"
"Yay!" the girl cheered, jumping excitedly in the air before beaming at the youth "Oh! I'm Nikia by the way! And this is Chibinosuke!"
"Dokuro." The youth greeted, smiling at the pair as he affixed his Fedora onto his head, looking on as Chino's rant regarding the nickname was silenced by another glomp "Nice to meet you."
And that's cut and print! Consider this the prologue/first chapter a taste of what's to come. Upcoming chapters in the future will come when I get them from Kyugan. As Kyugan also mentioned, many of you will recognize my OCs Dok, Chino and Nikia. Here in this series they will have completely different backgrounds and personalities, as Nikia and Chino show (though Chino isn't all that different) and just to clarify, while this is set in the same world as Hunter x Hunter, it is set a full year BEFORE Gon enterred the Exam, and as Satotz explained, the exam differs from year to year, so Chino and co will face different challenges than Gon and the gang will be a few OC characters, as well as cameos from other series and as Kyugan-bro explained, we've already decided on their nen abilities so if you're writing about that, don't. What they are? What's Nen? Well to answer the first question, you'll have to wait and see. The second question, check HunterxHunter, which goes into great detail on Nen. Anyways, again do please review, us authors need them, and hope you all look forward to the next chapter. Ciao for now.