FrappeG: Hey readers, I was finally able to write a bit about Kleptomaniac. Starting out with a short prologue, hope you get interested. To those who want a break from GonxKillua shounen-ai and yaoi, read this. They're completely male in this story, I promise you.

Yume: I hope you won't mess this story up, as you often do.

-FrappeG glares at Yume-

FrappeG: Ignore her, readers. Moving on...

Story does not go along with the HxH series nor the manga's storyline. It was so long ago that I watched it and I forgot what happened.

Yume: You're just too lazy to look up what happened in the anime again, admit it!

FrappeG: Yume, how dare you!? Why'd you have to be so pessimistic!

-FrappeG sighs-

FrappeG: Anyway, I still remember the characters. Which I think is what really matters. I also find it tiring to base the story on a hunter exam scenario... so I had to put on a new plot somehow.

Yume: Reminder: To those who read 'The Curious Case of Ryuuga Hideki', recall that Killua appeared there. This story is somewhat a crossover with that one.

X3

Disclaimer: I don't own hunterxhunter at all. That's why it's called a fanfic, duh! ENJOY!!!

The italized sentences signify the character's thoughts.

Prologue

X_Killua X Eris_X

Eris

The busy streets of the city along with its intertwined wires, humongous billboards, tall skyscrapers glinting with its shiny window glasses and the hectic inhabitants looked populated.

There was noise and honks everywhere, diverse forms of vehicles pass here and there. In the midst of everything was a petite girl climbing atop a lamp post. She motioned her eyes assessing her surroundings like an owl searching its prey. What is she looking for?

"HA! There it is! The department store!!!"

She was out foraging.

My name is Sierra Creed. My friends call me Eris. Right now, I'm alone in this city and I find it hard to look around since people are always getting in my way. With the unstoppable crowd that seem to move perpetually I have no choice but to carry myself to higher ground, in other words, the lamppost. Blame my short stature. I'm only five feet.

Eris slid down the post easily, completely ignorant to the weird stares she's getting. Food is her major priority for now. Who cares what they think?

I'm on my way to the department store. I reached for my pocket and found out that my coin purse is empty. DARN! How am I going to get provisions if I don't have money? I adjusted my shoulder back as I shrugged. What do I do now?

Eris looked around her. People in cities only care about themselves. Out here, it was 'the survival of the fittest.' Not one of them cares to look, stop and listen to a person in need. Meaning: Eris has no one to turn to but her self.

I'm lost, hungry and shelter-less. Within my first three days in the city, all of my money is spent. I spent too much on food and comics. Now I know why saving money becomes a crisis when you're out of it.

Eris clutched at her growling stomach.

I'm going to die in the middle of this crowd…Starved.

The horizon was getting blurry, Eris shook her head but it only made her dizzier. Dying slowly, is this God's punishment?

Just then Eris noticed a pickpocket yards from her, Oh yes. Even at her current condition her eyes are capable of 20/20 vision though it tends to get blurry when she's hungry. She focused all her senses into her eyes forgetting her nagging appetite.

Luck! That pickpocket is going to be the means of my salvation!

Eris straightened herself to walk casually like the rest of the population. She was doing her best to be sneaky enough to bump into the pickpocket as if by accident. She muttered sorry and the pickpocket replied a no problem.

He grinned evilly after turning his back from Eris. He just stole her coin purse. Before he got to business once more to open up the bags and purses of unsuspecting victims, he realized that the girl's coin purse was empty.

Useless he thought. So what? He's got more inside his bag. One empty pocket won't hurt.

The guy, chuckling in contentment of his stealing tricks, reached inside his bag to behold on his latest loots only to feel nothing inside of it.

"Hey! Where'd it go? My loots…"

"Hold it right there young man, you're coming with us!" Two police officers went after him, swinging their handcuffs for him to see. Though he was brisk in movement, with the crowd stagnant on their feet owing to traffic, it took only a matter of time for the cops to succeed in apprehending him.

"NOOO!!!" the pick pocket cried out.

Meanwhile, Eris was inside the department store carrying with her a dozen purses which she took from the pickpocket's bag. She put the rest of them inside her shoulder bag as she paced across the store to search for commercial 'Jjampong noodles'. Spicy foods had always been her favorite.

While paying the cashier by the counter she caught a glimpse of a wanted poster at the wall behind the clerk. The picture had the same face as the pickpocket earlier.

So he's been doing business for a long time around this part. Eris thought with a giggle.

Killua

"Gon, get that ass of yours moving!" shouted an impatient teenage boy.

"I-I'm trying, Killua…UMPH!!" a wide-eyed boy responded with a grunt as he tried to squeeze himself through the train's door.

The train station was a very populated place. Gon was not used to the inadequacy of space considering he lived from a far away place called Whale Island. Naturally, Gon would have to adjust to his new environment. This is the big city, far different from his peaceful hometown.

"Gon, Killua, I need a little help here." Demanded Gon's aunt, Mito. She was a middle aged woman with a kind face, sharp green eyes and auburn short hair. She's usually nice. But now, she was getting cranky because the crowd and the heavy mallets and bags she's carrying tire her.

The other boy Killua sighed in utter boredom.

I am Killua Zaoldyeck. As you can see, Gon, aunt Mito and I are off to move to this city where Aunt Mito planned to establish a restaurant. Gon and I are out from busy hunter business for the meantime. We opted to help aunt Mito settle in to the new place. Well…compared to our previous way of life, this new adventure seems rather easy and not to mention BORING.

There is not much enjoyment in working at a restaurant, being a waiter, taking down orders, greeting customers and giving them the bills. It's so simple, a child could do it! Maybe staying in Whale Island would be much pleasurable like spending time training with Gon in the woods for training. But then again, aunt Mito was too insistent to be here…

Killua stood there for awhile, contemplating his complaints rather than speak them. He resisted blurting it for he did not want to get on aunt Mito's moody side. She would scold him like a mother out to discipline her spoiled little child. Slowly he turned to his companion's direction and helped Gon carry the loads.

"We're coming, Konoha Beach!" Aunt Mito cheered. She led the two boys, focusing on her map. Gon and Killua carried her enormous baggage without sweat. It is only natural for hunters, such as them, to possess such strength.

Well… Let's hope all of this won't be as boring as I dreaded...

A/N:

Kleptomania is officially defined as the irresistible urge to steal items that you don't need and that usually have little value. It is a serious mental disorder.

Eris does not have this mental disorder. Though she steals a lot like a maniac, she does it with pleasure and she even considered it a hobby. Unlike real Kleptomaniacs who don't compulsively steal for personal gain but because of an inexplicable urge.

This prologue is designed to give readers a little background about the two characters, Eris and Killua, who will basically have their POV shifted from time to time.

This fanfic, I remind you, does not follow the HunterXHunter storyline for I plan on a different story altogether. The only retained elements of the anime that are shown here are the characters namely Gon and Killua. More of them may be coming soon after if I get any ideas.

^^ Thank you, readers, for reading this fan fiction! And to those who waited (assuming you did wait for not uploading the next chapter in ages. But don't worry; I'm working on the next chapter rest assured this story is not abandoned. I'm just too preoccupied writing 'Curious Case')