Saske skipped down the street without a care in the world. The wind ruffled her short, brown hair and she stuck her hands in the pockets of her jeans as she gripped her new Hunter License. "I did it! I passed!"

She didn't have any plans for after the exam but she was excited none-the-less. After 3 tries she had finally passed the Hunter Exam! She felt a little childish considering she was 17 and skipping like a 10 year old but she didn't particularly care. In fact, she was so distracted by her thoughts, she wasn't looking where she was going and crashed straight into a boy walking in front of her.

"Ouch!" they both said in unison as they hit the ground.

"Sorry," she apologized, helping him to his feet.

"It's alright," he replied.

"My name's Saske," she introduced herself "Nice to meet you"

"I'm Kurapika."

"Well, I really am sorry about that. I guess I just wasn't looking where I was going," she said sheepishly.

He was wearing some weird sort of uniform or something. A blue vest-like shirt and a matching skirt thing that went just below his knees. He also had a white full-body training suit underneath. His eyes were kind of grey looking and his hair was fairly long for a boy's and was gold like the colour of a sunflower.

"Why were you so out of it?" He asked "Did something really good happen?"

She caught her train of thought and replied, "Well actually yeah, kind of. I've been trying to pass this test for the job I really wanted for a few years now and I finally did it!"

"Oh really? That's great! What job is it?"

"I wanted to be a hunter and finally passed the exam this time!" She said smiling.

"How can this little boy be a hunter? He only looks about 14 and not very strong either." Kurapika had a bad habit of narrating his thoughts in a whispered voice but, luckily, Saske didn't seem to notice. "He almost looks like a girl," he muttered under his breath.

Kurapika stopped for a minute and slowly looked her up and down. "You're a hunter?" he said with a hint of doubt in his voice.

This always happens. People take one look look at her and assume she's useless and not good at anything. She took a deep breath to calm herself. "Yes I am," she said.

"Cool! It's been a while since I met another hunter!" he exclaimed still a little surprised.

Now it was her turn to look him up and down. "You're a hunter?" she said.

"Yeah." he said. "I passed the 287th exam. Since you just passed, I assume you passed the 289th one?"

"Mmhmmmmm," saske replied half-heartedly eying one of the nearby restaurants as her stomach grumbled softly.

Kurapika, having noticed this, laughed and offered to buy her lunch. She was just about to refuse when she remembered she didn't have any money so she accepted his offer.

"Yum!" Saske licked her lips as she finished off a second plate. "That was great! Thanks Kurapika!"

"So what are you doing after this?" Kurapika asked her.

"Hmmmmm... I'm not exactly sure. I don't live around here so I'm not that familiar with the area. In fact, I should probably start looking for a place to stay..."

"Well in that case, do you wanna come check out some of the apartments around here?"

"Sure!" she replied. "That'd be great!"

Saske and Kurapika wandered around town until they found a nice apartment building that Saske thought looked very nice and homey. "Say, Kurapika, where do you live?" Saske asked.

"I live over there," he said, pointing to the huge mansion a little farther away.

"Woooooooooow! It's ginormous! Do you really live there?!"

"Yup. I work as a bodyguard for Lady Nostrade and that's where she lives."

After she finished gawking at the gigantic building she picked her chin up off the floor and replied, "Well, anyway, thanks for helping me out today Kurapika!" Saske thanked him. "I guess I'll see you 'round sometime then."

"Sure! I'd be happy to show you more around the city!"

After Kurapika left he went back to the mansion he fell on his bed and thought about his day off. "Well, I definitely wasn't expecting to meet another hunter. I wonder why he wanted to take the hunter exam? What was his name again? Saske? Yeah, that was it. Saske."