MAJOR DISCLAIMER! Hunter X Hunter and all of its contents are definitely NOT mine. The story and the sugoi wonderful characters belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi-sama and HIM ALONE! This is only a product of my deep gratitude towards the great one's work of art. So sue me, okay? ^_^
January 18, 2002
Hi minna-san! This is my very first fic in fanfiction.net so I'm still a rookie. After watching the first few episodes of HXH I knew I just HAVE to make one ^^ So I hope you guys would like this, and onegai please, add a review so I could improve it more to your satisfaction. Arigato!
~Bleak Red of Vengeance~
Characters:
Gon, Leorio, Kurapika, and Killua
Hisoka
Genei Ryodan (Phantom Brigade in other words)
Additional Characters:
Cloud Strife (from Final Fantasy 7)
Yuki (from The Last Blade)
Kurama (from Yu Yu Hakusho)
Hiei (from Yu Yu Hakusho)
Riharu (this is MINE!)
Terra (this is MINE!)
I will add some more if someone could give me a few ideas…
So without further annoying ado, let's get on with the first one, shall we?
Itadakimasu!!
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Chapter 1 - Memoirs
This experience happened to me when I turned 13. Now I am 20 living in the outskirts of Yorkshin. But I can relate to you the details as if they just occurred yesterday--the one how I managed to find out the secret of my self as the "omen". It was a most unusual and horrible one, believe me, but I couldn't say my life would've been better without it.
I was the youngest daughter of the Kanago-Romanova family, the richest and most influential family in the world. But for years I've been scrutinized by confused looks and pitiful sighs, for I was far from any other family member—physically and in power and strength. Instead of inheriting their signature golden hair (or even my otousama no father's light brown hair) and eyes, I had blood red hair and eyes the color of the sea during a peaceful summer. Riharu, our fortuneteller, used to say that it foretells a bad omen to the family. Most of my relatives tried to get rid of me the moment I was born, but according to my brother, our mother resisted and ran away to the desolate woods with Father, my brother Cloud, Riharu-san, and the kazouku family bodyguards Kurama and Hiei. Misfortune struck right after that, though, as the entire lineage except us died out seeing the Angel of Death, or so Riharu-san had said.
It started out when I met the new bodyguard. I was waiting for the car that would pick him up when my brother came and ruffled my hair. "Doshtanou (What's wrong)? You look pretty anxious looking at the window. Can another comet be crashing into the window again?"
I snorted. A not-so-small comet once broke in our house through the very same window I was looking then. They said it was because of my extreme concentration, being a "bad omen". I whipped my head around and looked up at his smiling face. "How many years do you need to get the fact that it wasn't my fault? I don't have the much power since I was still five then, so it's totally not possible for me. Besides, who in our family got the meteor element?" I smiled pointedly at him.
The Kanago-Romanova family, by the way, is well-known because of our individual elemental powers. Okasama Mother had the power of ice and snow, Otousan the sword skill, Riharu-san psychic abilities, and my brother the element of meteor. My element, oddly like my other strange characteristics, is still unidentified.
"Okay, whatever," he smiled and shook his spiky-haired head, but I could tell I had a very good point stuck into him. Then he looked out into the window above my head, which he did effortlessly because of his amazing height. "I wonder if he's any good," I mumbled half to myself. My brother looked at me for a while and replied:
"You mean him? The authorities said it's just his second time now doing this kind of job, but he was the most powerful among the group."
"Sou desu ka (Is that right)?"
Cloud raised an eyebrow and looked serious for a second. Then he couldn't hold it any longer and burst out laughing. "What?" I asked him, confused. He got into a case of those laughing fits where you can't stop, but he managed to stop long enough to say, "We-ell, I overheard yesterday Okasama's conversation about him." Then he continued his giggles.
I sighed impatiently. "And?" I poked him on the bicep.
"I think the other line asked for the reason of his job. Okasama said in the exact words, 'We need him to keep her from breaking this place apart and blow up our guests!' After that my stomach started to hurt from laughing so hard!"
I didn't believe him at once. Mother was never a joker; actually she has the exact opposite personality of "funny". And Cloud had the biggest record of making pranks and stories during his seventeen years, so asking for the truth from him would be useless. "Why did I ever bother asking you? Omae wa hontou ni baka (You are really an idiot)!" Then I started staring at the clock in the corner. The car should have arrived here a half hour ago.
Suddenly I heard a familiar honk and I ran out to the balcony. And I sighed in relief as I saw the door open to reveal the bodyguard. But as I glanced at the person below I stopped in the middle of my relief and almost gasped in surprise.
As I listened to my brother's information about him, I got the image of him being huge, tough-looking, and carrying a big weapon such as Cloud's favorite sword. Instead the boy was slightly thin, of average height, and had a funny blue outfit that seemed like a female-type dress. When he looked up and saw me, I noticed he had blond hair and blue eyes just like mine. Beautiful, but not exactly the description of "huge, tough-looking bodyguard".
Moments later, we were summoned to the main office where Kurama and Hiei usually keep their posts. Okasama was there behind her desk where she's glued into every day for years, filing important documents and signing contracts fit to change an entire country. My eyes caught Riharu-san's gaze next to her, and she smiled at me. Since Okasama's engaged in businesses that made her absent during my whole childhood, Riharu-san seemed to have pitched in as a temporary mother because of her constant attention to my well-being.
I stood in my usual spot next to Cloud whenever guests arrive at the mansion. A few minutes later, the door swung open for us to see Kurama and the blonde.
Kurama may be one of the pair Guardians, but he actually does more negotiating and escorting rather than his true position. He was a youkai demon, like Hiei, but he changed to a human form after his transport to the ningen human world. He was the expert on plants and botanical creatures that roam on the forest where our home was located.
Right in his heels was the blonde. He bowed in way that made me think of a willow tree being bowed by the grace of the wind. "Ohayou gozaimasu (Good morning). Watashi wa Kurapika desu (I am Kurapika). And I am deeply honored to be in your presence." Before someone goes into the office, he is sure to be trained to greet this way as part of tradition in our family. I found out later he was not that type to be polite to anyone, even to people of high positions.
Okasama wasted no time for pleasantries, though, as she went straight on instructions in the mansion, and his expenses and bills. I didn't listen much to this sort of thing, but I did catch the phrase "...and follow Terra in her every move...". I couldn't stop myself from groaning aloud and causing the blonde to look at me in curiosity. Or so it seemed, because his expression remained blank.
After an hour and a half, Okasama let us go due to her meeting with some city officials, so Cloud and I went to the garden following our daily routine. But I felt someone behind me and turned around to see the blonde trailing us. "Do you need something?" I asked, managing to sound extremely polite.
He shook his head. "This is my job. Don't be bothered by my watching."
I was beginning to feel bothered already. But instead of letting out my stand, I replied back, "Okay. But if you become bored or something, you can go and find something to keep you occupied." But the boy didn't flinch the whole time.
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Ok, just an intro. R+R please! ^_^