Hey! Reader-chan here, sorry it took a little while to update hope you enjoy?
~13 years later~
"Grrr... Whoever is there better come out now" I warned. I was pretty pissed, I've felt the presence of someone stalking me for that last 10 miles.
"Hehe hello there little princess, your mother doesn't like you running off. You've been missing for two years, don't you you think it's time to come home?" A voice said behind me.
'Bingo' found ya.'
"Toshi, MAUL!" I commanded.
"N-no please" he shrieked as his heart was ripped out by my faithful feline (enter smirk face here).
"Always the screaming and pleading." I sighed as his body went limp. These lousy men my mother keeps hiring to drag me home ever since I ran away before having to see my future "husband to be," couldn't catch me in a million years. "I think it's time we take the hunters exam, Toshi." I said picking up my now regular size kitty.
"Meow" Toshi said blinking at me while licking a bloody paw. I had recently perfected my specialist nen with Toshi. All my aura is transferred to him when i say the command MAUL, it's risky, but I trust my cat. 'I should probably get some new clothes at home, but I really don't want to run into my family...' I thought.
"Guess we're going to take a little trip home Toshi," I said standing up.
~10 minutes of running later~
"Whew finally at the doors"I said look at the replicated doors of my house, resembling our old home before the Zoldyck's forced us out, yeah mother was that obsessed to pretend nothing ever happened. She even went as far as pretending that my sister Aiko didn't even exist. I pushed the doors open, running quickly into the house with Toshi. 'almost to my room, just a little further-'
"Oi where do you think you're going, mothers been looking for you, not that I care" ... My older sister... 'dammit I forgot about her'...
"Oh... Asami... nice to see you again" I said, faking a smile.
"shut up ugly bitch, oh and I met your future husband and he will be MINE I don't care how long it takes to convince mother to give him to me." my older sister said.
"Whatever, you can have him. I don't care to have a husband that took everything from us, anyway I'm going to change and then leave, bye!" I fake grinned, dashing off to my room. "Alright if anyone touched my stuff they earn a one way ticket to pain" I grumbled searched for clothes in my room. I took a shower and then quickly bandaged my chest and put on a sports bra on top of that. I hated my boobs, they got in the way of everything, thats why I tried to flatten them down as much as possible. Then I grabbed one of my favorite brown leather skirts, that had creases in a fan style, a black top, and leather boots. I know, I have a thing for leather, one of the many things my mother complained about. She'd rather see her daughters in a yukata, and anything with silk or lace. Then I strapped my sapphire dagger to my left inner thigh. I paused when I picked up the opal one, my sisters… I reminisced all the bittersweet memories we had together as children before strapping it to my right thigh. Looking around my room I found my necklace that my mother gave me, it looked suspiciously like a cat collar. Leather with a buckle and everything, with a cute little pendant dangling from it. If you looked carefully at it you could see my family crest carved into it, this gift was before my sister died, when my family was actually happy. We used to do normal things that regular families do, my mother was actually not as mean back then. The last thing I need was my gloves that didn't cover my fingers, showing off my perfectly black manicured nails. Then I tied up my thick black hair into a messy high pony, stands falling out into my face. I've never really done anything with my hair, too much work. I picked up Toshi before dashing out of my mansion to head for the ship that would take me to the hunter exam site, and my freedom.
~1 hour later~
I was finally on the boat. Free. Ready to start my own life and become a hunt- "Ow! Watch where you're going!" I hissed as I felt someone knock me over.
" Sorry I didn't see you there!" A guy with black, green tipped hair and brown eyes said, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. "My names Gon! Are you taking the hunters exam too?" Gon said, snapping me out if my thoughts.
"Erm... yeah" I said. I didn't really know how to talk to people my own age, let alone how to act in this situation. *sigh*, I blame my parents.
"Wanna be friends!?" Gon said eagerly.
"W-what?!" I was totally shocked and truthfully nervous, the last time *cough* the only time I had a friend it didn't really work..."Um... Sure, names Akuma, you can just call me Aku if you want." I said. Why I didn't say my real name I don't know. Maybe it just sounds wrong now, after so long of being called a devil I guess it kinda stuck.
"Ok Aku! Hey do you smell the storm coming?" Gon said. "Huh, you can smell the storm coming?... Well I guess Toshi sensed it too, he's been acting odd." I said. "Yup! And nice cat! He looks like a mini tiger" Gon said petting Toshi.
"Haha, you don't know how close you are to the truth Gon, and let's get off the deck and see who else is taking the exam!" I said excitedly.
"Ok, race you!" Gon said. When we got there, there was a lot of mean looking guys, I didn't really see any girls though...
"Hey what's a nice girl like you doing taking the hunter exam?" A man with spiky black hair and small dark glasses sitting far down on his nose said.
"You better take that back, I can take care of myself" I said glaring as the room seemed to get colder while Toshi seemed on alert, awaiting my command.
"S-sorry! Names Leorio" he said. " it's ok Orio!" I said, inwardly smirking at the new nickname I created. He didn't really have time to respond as the boat suddenly rocked and thunder was heard. " I'm going to go take a nap" I told Gon as I skipped over to an open hammock. I could sleep through anything and since I hate water I thought I would just sleep until we got to the exam.
~3 hours later~
" Aku! Wake up it's time to get off the boat" I heard Gon say as I groggily opened my eyes. Looking around I saw Gon, the Orio guy, and a blond haired kid. I think his name was Kurapika.
"Where's Toshi?" I asked, I didn't like not knowing where my furry companion was.
"Right here" Leorio said.
"oh thanks Orio" I said grabbing Toshi. The expression was priceless, you could practically see steam coming out, and a vein twitching on his head as he gave me a death glare. "So how do we get to the exam?" I asked.
"The captain gave us the real directions to the exam site" Kurapika said. " Ok thanks Kuri! By the way names Akuma!" I said jumping off the hammock to get off the ship.
"What did you call me!?" He said incredulously.
"Just let it go Kurapika, just let it go. Theres no way you can win this" Leorio said in defeat, staring at my retreating figure. After walking for a little bit we met this old haggard women, saying we need to answer a question. Which I just let my 3 new friends answer as I zoned. Hey I wasn't going to do any work if I could help it until the actual exam started. After trekking through the woods we came upon what looked like our guides, that looked horribly wounded and I saw a massive creature run out of the house.
"Gon, I'll stay with Orio while you and Kuri capture the beast." I commanded. Looking at the wound I could tell it needed to be closed fast.
"H-hey what are you doing!?" Leorio said blushing madly as I reached under my skirt.
"Relax Orio I'm just grabbing something to heal these wounds" I said rolling my eyes. When I unstrapped the dagger from my right thigh I unscrewed a hidden vial from the base of the opal dagger. "This might sting a little..." I warned as I emptied the liquid on the most serious wounds while Leorio bandaged them afterwards.
"What is that?" Leorio asked me, pointing to the empty vial. He actually seemed really interested in my healing weapon.
"It's a secret" I said. Really it was sissy's nen that was infused with her dagger, that would fill up into the vial. She got blessed with healing, while I got poison.
"What does that mean?!" Leorio yelled at me. While re-strapping my dagger to my thigh, Gon and Kurapika came back with two strange looking creatures. They were really testing us to see if we were worthy to take the exam. Though I kinda zoned out on their complimentary speech.
~1 hour later~
Gon, Kurapika, Leorio, Toshi and I were just led into a secret entrance to the hunter exam by our guides. "The people who made this hunter exam really are geniuses" I said.
"Having the entrance in a back room of a restaurant is smart." Leorio said. *Ding*
"Hmm? Guess this is it, we're here" I said as the elevator door opened.
I wonder who Akumi-chan will meet when she steps out of the elevator? Sorry for the cliffhanger! I'll update as soon as I can!
