Chapter 1: Your Name?

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A teenage girl with waist length brown hair tied in a high ponytail jumped from tree to tree. She looked no older than fifteen, her hair flying behind her, making her look magnificent with the bright early morning sunlight beaming off of her body. The girl wore comfortable baggy black sweatpants, black converse, a white Tee with Power is Knowledge' written in black on it with a golden crown tilted off of the 'O' in power, a grey plain zip up hoodie undone, flapping in the wind as she jumped from branch to branch. Her sleeves were rolled up to her elbows to help her cool down from the blinding heat, showing off her black string bracelet on her right wrist, a silver owl charm dangling from the weaved and worn string, a black arrow tattoo on the inside of her opposite wrist, pointing away from her palm. Her ears held small black studs and her hair tied with a black ribbon in a bow.

A blinding light started to seep through the trees into her wide hazel brown eyes. She was coming closer to the end of the forest. Only another five or ten minutes until she's out of the woods. The girl had been in the boring forest for a week and gathered next to no new information. Taking a few more jumps, the teenager jumped out from the trees and onto a solid dirt path. The path went in two different directions, one to her left and one to her right. Quickly pulling up a mini map on her phone and consulting which way to go, she turns right and heads on her way speed walking in the direction. Stashing her phone away, the girl takes in her surroundings, scanning for anything new she wouldn't know or be aware of yet.

After half an hour of searching for anything new and entertaining, she gives up with a sigh and starts a light jog, before switching into a run, then a sprint. She was bored, and well aware of it. There was nothing to do, no one to talk to, nothing new to learn, no fights to be in, no nothing… Traveling on her own was really boring at the moment. Sprinting for a full hour, not a sweat had been broken before she slows down to a jog and into a walk. In the distance, she could make out a small wooden cabin she had been making her way towards with a small little blob in front of it. Not being able to make out what the blob was, she instantly put her guard up. Walking a steady pace, she continued walking towards the blob, but not before long, she was able to make out that the blob was actually a person, a little boy to be exact. Keeping her guard up, she walked silently, not making any sudden movements or sounds. It took about ten minutes before she got the boy, but when she did, he stood up with a grin on his face, turned around and ran into the house laughing childishly, the front door wide open.

Confused by the boys act, she follows him cautiously into the house. The front door slammed shut behind her, startling the brunette and causing her to instinctively use gyo. The door had a fine layer of nen around it, someone was controlling it, a manipulator. There'd be no point in trying to open that door, she wasn't strong enough. So instead, she slowly turned back around, and cautiously made her way down the hallway. Being extra careful of her movements and the objects around her. She made sure to keep gyo activated as well, watch out for any traps. Once doing a full circle around the cabin, the girl grew worried, where was the young boy who was here a few minutes ago?

Giving the house another look over, she made the decision that no one was inside. So going back to the front door, gyo still on, the layer of nen around the door was gone. She slowly opened the door with a crack, scanning the area outside for a minute before deactivating gyo and started using zetsu. She wanted to hide her presence. So walking out the door as quietly as possible and keeping her body to as close to the wall as possible, she circled round the house before coming to the conclusion that no one was outside either.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGG!"

A scream in the woods, the little boy, the teenager ran off to where the scream came from, she was running desperately, the boy was in danger most likely. He most likely doesn't know how to fight. Zig-zagging around different trees, she finally made her way to a clearing. The young boy on the opposite side, crouched into a small ball whimpering, a toransu stood above the cowering boy. A toransu was a beast that was around 7 feet tall, was covered in green fur, a round face and hunched back, narrowed small eyes that were close together, their eye colour depended on whether they were the viscous or kind race, red for vicious and blue for kind. But the girl couldn't tell what colour eyes it had since its back was to her. Rage filled the girl, before she quickly slipped her small dagger from the waistband of her pants, positioning it into the correct hold, she hid in the trees, making sure to stay hidden and out of site of the toransu.

The beast was slowly approaching the boy, and just before reaching the child, the teenager jumped out from the bushes and latched herself onto the toransu, using enough force to push it onto his back and pinning his arms to the ground with her feet. Behind her, the young boy gasped in shock, watching the girl pin down a beast nearly twice her size. The brunette held the dagger in front of the toransus throat, pushing down harder on the arms of the beast.

It started chuckling, laughing even at the girl, before it settled with a large mischievous grin on its hideous round green furred face. Narrowing her eyes at the creature, the girl started to wonder why it was even around here, since they never really go out into the open, when the little boy behind her started to giggle a little as well, causing her to whip her head around to stare at him in disbelief, but then after a minute of thinking for a minute and taking a minute to look at the toransu adults eyes and seeing them blue, she realised what was happening and laughed while getting off the beast and holding her hand out to it, the beast grabbing onto her hand and being pulled up with the girls monstrous strength into a standing position, its back hunched slightly as a normal toransu beast would.

"Congratulations, you passed my dear. Risking your life for a young civilian, a noble and brave thing to do. Well done, my name is Kaito, over there behind you is my son. We are guides to the 287th Hunter Exam." The toransu, now known as Kaito, introduced himself to her smiling kindly. This was a different toransu, there are two types, the vicious type that always wants to fight and kill, and then there's the rare ones, the kind and friendly type. There aren't many of them anymore, mostly being killed off by their own brethren.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Kaito, Daiki. Your acting was very good." The teenager complimented them both, making the young boy beam at the praise once hearing it. Both Kaito and the girl chuckle at Daiki, thus making the child stand up and rush towards Kaito, slamming into his legs as if tackling him, causing the older two to chuckle even more at him.

"Follow me, we'll head back to the cabin and drop off Daiki. After I'll show you the way to Zaban City." Kaito gestured for the brunette to follow him, Daiki already running ahead, giggling. Nodding, she followed after the two toransus, taking in every little detail she could of the two and trying to spot differences between the Kind and Vicious toransus, having her fair share of encounters with the vicious type in the past.

The two walked silently towards the cabin, making sure to keep watch of the young toransu and making sure he stays safe. After a few moments, the yall reach the cabin, where Kaito makes sure that Daiki stays in the cabin, promising him that he'll bring back a treat for him. Most likely half of an adult deer. Toransus can only eat meat, and deer was their favourite.

After leaving the cabin area, so around 500 yards, Kaito grows a pair of bony looking green wings from his back and growing his tailbone out into a long, thin tail, he wraps it around the girls waist, then takes off into the air slowly, careful not to jostle the girl too much. But after reaching 100 meters in the air, the green furred beast starts to pick up a bit of speed, going faster and faster every few hundred yards he goes. Within an hour, the two had covered half the distance to get there.

"You never told me your name little one. What is it, if I may ask?" The toransu was never told over of her name, and was very curious of it. Usually, a human would cower in fear of the Toransu, but this human didn't, earning his respect. He wanted to learn her name, to remember it, and to tell his child and future grandchild of who she was, because it was rare, for a human to gain a Toransus respect.

"Hmmm… I'll tell you before we part ways, to keep the mystery. But don't worry, I will tell you, promise." The hanging girl answered back, amused at how polite the toransu was towards her. They flew in the air for another hour, before landing in Zaban city behind a couple buildings, out of sit, Kaito releasing her from his grip and letting his wings and tail grow back into his skin. He then reached behind a dumpster and slid a black cloak over his head, the cloak covering his body, a hood slipping onto his head comfortably.

Market stalls surrounding them and hungry buyers engulfing them in their need to buy things as they made their way to their destination.

"This way little one, don't stray too far, we're nearly there." Making a humming noise to show that she heard him, the two continue on their way, a tall building that was once in the distance, now finally appearing larger and larger, until she stood in front of it in awe. The teenager didn't notice how the toransu walked to the tiny building next to it though, which happened to be a small ramen shop.

"Wow… The hunter exams are in this tall build-what are you doing in front of a tiny ramen shop?" The brunette was nearly finished with her statement of wonder when she looked over at Kaito, noticing him holding the door to the ramen shop open. The question caused the green furred beast to laugh heartily at the girl before he motioned for her to enter the tiny ramen shop with him. Following him confused, she walked into the quiet little restaurant with him.

"What's the order?" The girl whipped her head round to the chef, quickly realising what's going on, before looking at Kaito expectedly, waiting for him to answer.

"Ah, the steak combo that opens your eyes to the light." The chef narrowed his eyes for a minutes, studying the two before him.

"How many?" The pair could hear the tiredness in his voice, they could see how run down and old he was.

"Just the one please." The elderly man focused his attention on the girl, his eyes narrowing even more, his facial expressions becoming sharper.

"For one… How do you want it cooked?"

"Grilled over a low flame, until cooked." Kaito raised his head slightly, their eyes connecting for a minute before the chef pointed to the back with a smile on his face.

"Got it. You can get to the back room now." The chef focused his attention onto his cooking once more, now oblivious to their existence.

Kaito started walking towards to the back door, the brunette following close behind, scanning the room for anything new to take in. Opening the door they both step in, the girl looking round as she lightly places her backpack on the table and seating herself on a chair and turning towards Kaito.

"Wait here, you'll be taken to the area of the exam now." Furrowing her brows, the teenager cocks her head to the side.

"We're parting ways now?" Her brown eyes narrowed slightly in sadness, before an idea popped in her head and she grabbed her phone after Kaito answered.

"Yes we are. My job is done for now. Hopefully we'll meet again in the future." The torasu pulled down his hood for a minute to offer her a toothy smile.

"Here, put your number in here. I'll message you later to give you my number. Contact me if you ever need anything, mainly information." She was creating a new contact, something a person needs if they need or want information. Kaito put his number into the device and handed it back to her before pulling his hood back up and headed towards the door.

"You never told me your name…"

She gave him a small, gentle smile on her lightly tanned face. She slipped her phone back into her inside hidden pocket of her hoodie and faced away from the friendly beast, her head resting in her palm as she leaned against the table as she carefully said each word, giving it a slight accent as she spoke.

"Catalina… The Spanish Flower, Catalina."

"...Good luck Catalina." The door shut closed after he left leaving Catalina alone in the small room. Catalina felt the room start to move, but she wasn't startled. She just sat and waited patiently for the ride to be over. But all the while, she wondered, what was the exams going to be like?

I would like to thank my amazing Beta Daanny for helping me with this!

Thinking of doing a side-story for this for all the info and random chapters to go in if this story goes well.

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