Disclaimer : Hunter x Hunter is owned by Togashi and I only own my OCs and the story idea.

A/n - This is a story my friend and I came up with. My friend doesn't have an account but she will be writing with me, so this will be a two (wo)mans project. It's kinda AU with the fact that they aren't actual Hunters but the Zoldycks being infamous assassins still remains. Also, Gon and Killua will be 16 in this, Kurapika will be 17 and Leorio 19. Anyway, I don't want to reveal too much so happy reading ~

Chapter One

This is why I hate High School!

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Drip, drop, drip, drop.

It was a rainy night outside. Sheets and sheets of raindrops were crashing down, while the trees were dancing wildly in the strong wind. It was the perfect weather for staying indoors and not worrying about whatever was going on outside. Young Noriko was sitting on the floor with a selection of colour crayons in front of her, drawing the night sky, stars and the beautiful moon before adding a face to it. Just like any child her age, she didn't bother with anything that was happening outside. If she couldn't wear her wellies and splash in the puddles then she simply didn't care. It was just her, her crayons and the white sheets of plain A4 papers in front of her.

"Now for today's eight o'clock evening news," the newspaper reporter started off. Noriko's mother and father were both sitting on the sofa behind their daughter, watching the headlines. "Another government official meets his tragic yet mysterious death. No weapons or evidence were found at the site of the crime. The cause of death was a clean slit through the throat and we aren't entirely sure who could have done this."

"It must have been them in that case!" Noriko's mother commented. Hearing her mother voice, young Noriko turned back to face her parents.

"Them?" She asked, tilting her head.

Her mother smiled and reached out for her five year old daughter, "Do you want me to tell you a little story, Noriko?"

"Is it a Princess story?" Noriko asked, "If it is, then I don't want to hear the story!"

"Oh no, it's not a Princess story at all. It's a story about a group of infamous assassins called the Zoldycks."

"What is an assassin, mummy?" Noriko asked with curiosity. She abandoned her drawings on her floor and climbed up onto her mother's lap, ready to hear her story about these infamous assassins; whatever the hell an assassin was of course.

"Assassins are people that accept jobs and murder a specific person in exchange for a reward."

"So they are the baddies?" Noriko was still confused, "If they are the baddies, then why are they the main characters in this story? Don't the baddies always die at the end of every story?"

Noriko's mother and father looked at each other before letting out an amused chuckle. "No, not this time. They are the main characters of this story."

The fact that the bad guys were the main characters was a little hard for her to understand. The usual story would have a main good character that would overcome the obstacles set by the bad character. So if the bad characters were the good characters in this story, does there hav to be super bad character to be the bad character? That concept confused her a little, nonetheless she was prepared to listen to her mother's story. It sounded different compared to all the fairy tales and bedtime stories she had been told in the past.

"The Zoldycks are a family of assassins," Noriko's mother started off, only to be interrupted by her overly excited and curious daughter.

"If they are a family, does it mean there is a baby Zoldyck and a mummy Zoldyck and a daddy Zoldyck?"

"There might or might not be. It's all up to you to imagine," she smiled at her daughter, "For a long time now, the Zoldyck family line had been assassins. No one knows whether they exist or not for sure but it's all up to you to decide."

"That's it? Is there no happily ever after?"

There was no 'once upon a time' starting off the story, nor was there a 'happily ever after' to end it. Noriko didn't think of this as a story at all. It was more like a piece of information thrown at her. Her mother didn't even know whether that piece of information was true or not either, so there were a lot of questions running through the girl's head.

"You'll only know if you find out."

Those words caught Noriko's attention. She'll only know if she found out for herself and what better way to find out than to meet the infamous family face to face. Mommy, daddy, grandma, granddad and baby Zoldyck, were all of them bad. Did they all like to kill and did they all kill? Wasn't there just one nice person in the family, or maybe every one of them was nice but no one knew.

"How can I meet the Zoldyck family?" She asked.

"The Zoldycks won't appear unless you are being a bad girl, Noriko," her father answered her question this time. Their daughter was a good girl and always listened to her parents which made them proud. She cleaned up her toys after she was done playing, she went to sleep on time and she finished all the vegetables on the plate. However, her father still tried to give her a small warning or a little scare just for the fun of it wanting to hear the response of his overly curious daughter. What their daughter asked them surprised them though.

"So if I'm bad, then they will come to meet me?"

"No sweetie, if you are bad then they will kill you. Don't be bad, you can be good and meet the Zoldycks too," her mother smiled. "But Noriko, aren't you scared of the bad Zoldycks?"

Noriko shook her head with a wide grin on her face, "If there is a baby Zoldyck, then he or she won't do anything bad, right? I can become their friend!"

That was all her parents told her about the Zoldycks, although her mother clearly knew a lot more. Although the story of the Zoldycks has caught Noriko's attention, she was still a bit too young to understand what they did. For now, the five year old just hopped off her mother's lap to continue drawing as her parents had nothing left to tell her.

Watching her draw, Noriko's father whispered something over to his wife, "Seems like she is going to turn out like you in the future."

Noriko's mother just smiled in response. Her story had sparked the interest of her curious little daughter.

…

"Ahh, it's so hot today!" The sixteen year old Noriko sighed, looking out of the classroom window. Blue sky, no clouds. It was just another boiling summer day. She had her wavy, brown hair tied up in a ponytail and her bangs pinned away hoping that it will keep her cooler that way. She picked up the paper fan she made two lessons ago and started to fan herself, trying to cool herself down in this heat. Her attention then fixed onto the clock above the blackboard. One minute left until lunch time. She intently watched the second hand tick away until eventually it was finally lunch time. Both the teacher and students packed their books away and most of the students stood up, ready to leave this boiling room. Noriko too waited for her best friend Karin to finish packing up so they could finally escape the classroom for the hour.

"Let's go visit Gon," Noriko said with her packed lunch in her hand. "Let's eat lunch outside today!"

Karin also took out her packed lunch and water bottle along with a rubber band. She tied her shoulder-length, black hair up into a ponytail too and took out some clips to clip up the stray strands of hair. It was hot, and the last thing a girl wanted was for their hair to stick to their neck. The pair then left their classroom and made their way to their friend Gon's classroom.

"Gon are you going to join us for lunch," one of Gon's classmates asked him. However, Gon could only smile awkwardly as he was already expecting two girls to turn up at their classroom. His classmates immediately understood that smile and looked over towards the door to see the pair of girls from the other class waving. "They are here!" The boy pointed at them.

"Hurry up Gon!" Noriko ordered impatiently, "We don't have all day."

Gon bid his classmates goodbye before joining the girls and announcing a big news that was going around the school. "Did you hear, a new boy transferred into class E. Apparently he was dropped off in a fancy car this morning."

Of course Noriko and Karin wouldn't have heard of that news. Noriko is a little weird, so some students tend to stay away from her. What do I mean by weird? You'll soon find out! Karin on the other hand was very timid and wasn't fond of talking to people she wasn't close to. It took her long to get used to Gon and Noriko, so that alone said a lot. In other words, people stayed away from Noriko while Karin stayed away from the people. Either way, neither of them would have heard the news as there were hardly anyone they could hear it from. Gon was the sheer contrast to them. He was able to make a crowd come and surround him somehow, and although he didn't like gossips, he certainly did like the fact that a new boy transferred into their year group.

The trio looked at each other. The fact that he was dropped off in a fancy car didn't catch their attention at all. They didn't care about fancy cars and whatnot. But there was a question running through all their minds. A question they asked every single one of the students in their year group.

"Wanna check it out?" Noriko asked before the other two had an opportunity to. They all wanted to at least get a glimpse of who this new student was, so they headed towards the Class E classroom. It seemed like the trio weren't the only ones interested in the new student. There were a couple of people surrounding him, probably asking him for his name, origin et cetera.

"What are we going to do?" Karin asked.

"Plan N!" Noriko announced before she entered the classroom and headed towards the new student's seat.

Gon looked at Karin, "What was Plan N again?"

"I don't know. She has so many plans, it's hard to keep up with them!" Karin was right, Noriko had Plans A-Z and Gon and Karin only knew up to C. For the other plans, they just made sure to stay close to Noriko and get instructions from her.

"Let's just go with her!" Gon lead the way.

"Okay."

Noriko took a close look at the seating plan of this class. She knew the girl that sat besides the new kid. She was what you could call an old middle school classmate of hers. She took the opportunity to go and talk to her old friend who just happened to sit next to the transfer student. By the time she was talking to her, Gon and Karin caught up. They stood besides her, waiting for her to carry out her so called Plan N.

While chatting with an old classmate, Noriko intentionally dropped a pen from her pocket so that it rolled under the new kid's table. The sound of the pen hitting the floor made the boy glance down by instinct. Upon spotting the pen, he looked up at Noriko, figuring out that it was all an act to initiate a conversation. Nonetheless, he bent down, picked the pen up and passed it back to her.

"Thanks," she smiled at the silver haired boy. "You must be new around here, I haven't seen you before." Turned out her plan worked no matter how stupid it was. She somehow managed to initiate a conversation after going through all this trouble of dropping a pen. However, the boy was just trying to be polite and tried not to stir up anything on his first day. He wanted to keep a low profile so he decided to play along.

"I transferred today," he answered. At this point, Noriko turned her full attention towards the boy, her hazel eyes looking straight at his emerald eyes.

"Zoldyck," she muttered, while she continued to look straight in his eyes. For just one split second, the boy seemed to have been caught off guard as if he recognised that name. She looked back at Gon and Karin who were smiling at the transfer student. "You two saw that, right?"

"He flinched," Gon commented on what he had observed.

"Yep, and that means you are selected," she smiled at the transfer student.

"Selected?" The transfer student thought.

"Can I borrow your phone for a moment?" She asked him. "I can't seem to find mine and these two have forgotten theirs in the classroom." He found her extremely strange. Not just that, out of all the people in the classroom she asked him to help find her phone although they were complete strangers. Nonetheless, he took out his phone from his blazer pocket and started dialling her number while she dictated it. He wanted to keep a low profile, so if this girl caused him any trouble then that low profile thing was going right out of the window. However, a few seconds after he started the call, he heard a vibration sound coming from Noriko's blazer pocket only to see her take out her pink cell phone and look at it with a satisfied smile plastered on her face.

"Thanks. It seemed to have been in my pocket all this time. I'm such a klutz!" She grinned before she continued. "So, what's your name?"

"Killua," he answered.

"Killua, huh?" She wondered before she started typing something on her phone. "Killua with two l's, am I right?"

"Yeah…"

"Cool, I saved your number!" She smiled at him again, "Come to Class B in the literacy department after school! We'll be expecting you there!"

With that, she gave him another satisfied grin before taking a leave with Karin. Gon remained for a moment and smiled at him, "It's nice to meet you Killua. I'm Gon!" With that, Gon left the classroom too, leaving Killua puzzled and the rest of his class amused.

"Sucks to be you man, she's going to drag you into all kinds of things," the boy sitting behind him laughed wholeheartedly and patted his back before getting up to get his lunch from the canteen.

Killua looked at his phone, "I should probably block this number."

…

That weird incident from before left Killua wondering. He still hadn't blocked the number, but was blocking it actually going to work? She had two friends who followed her whose phones she could use. Now that she had his number, he could only escape by getting a new SIM card. But then again, he didn't want to go through all the trouble of getting a new SIM card and handing his number out to people that needed it. Even if he did get a new number, that girl knew where he was so she would come back for him.

"Why me?" He sighed as he walked down the literacy department, searching for the classroom she was talking about. Instead of causing all that trouble he was just going to drop by and tell them that he isn't interested in joining any clubs, especially not one with weird members like them.

While Killua was on the search for the clubroom, the five members were moving the chairs and tables around to welcome the new members that Noriko somehow forced into coming.

"Is this boy really going to come?" The oldest looking boy out of them asked, still not being able to believe it. He had spiky black hair and was also the tallest out of them.

"Don't you trust me Leorio?" Noriko asked her elder.

"How many times have I told you to address me as Leorio senpai…" he sighed.

"You didn't happen to force him into joining, did you?" The tall, blond boy asked raising a brow.

"Nope, I just did what I usually do!" She smiled innocently, "Why did you ask, Kurapika?"

"In other words, she forced the poor guy into joining…" Leorio and Kurapika thought.

"She used Plan N," Gon added.

"Now it's confirmed, she did trick him into joining!"

Karin who was on the look out finally spotted Killua approaching their clubroom and shut the slightly ajar door, "He is coming!"

"Okay, in your positions!" Noriko announced. "We'll use our usual introductions."

The five club members lined up side by side, although not all of them seemed to be totally into it. Judging by their expressions, only Noriko and Gon seemed into it fully. Karin timidly stood beside Gon not being able to back down anymore. Judging by Leorio's expression, he just thought it was all a stupid idea while Kurapika seemed to be just a little amused by it all. After all, the only reason he joined the club was because it was livelier than the other clubs.

The footsteps got closer to their clubroom and they waited for Killua to open the door. As soon as he opened the door, they greeted him in order.

"President Noriko."

"Vice President Gon."

"Karin."

"Kurapika."

"Leorio."

"We are the Mythbusters!"

"Say what?"