Killua sat next to Uzu watching her figit nervously. She was so cute. He thought as he tried to think of something to help him get to know her better. "So, what do you do for fun?" He asked curiously. She glanced at him and seemed to think for a moment then grinned.

"A little bit of this and a little bit of that. You?" She asked as she picked up a small pebble and examined it before skipping across the surface of the lake they were sitting next to. He whistled softly then looked at her again.

"I kill people for fun." He said honestly. She smiled at him.

"Sounds nice. Do you kill them quickly or slowly?" Uzu asked noone in particular. He looked a bit suprised by the question. Was that all she had to say?

He swallowed past the lump that had suddenly formed in his throat, "Depends on how much the one I'm killing pisses me off."

Uzu snickered, "Sounds about right." She said as she tucked a few strands of her silky hair behind her ear. He sat there for a second or so longer before blurting out,

"So it does'nt bother you that I'm a killer? At all? I'm a memeber of the Zoldick family. We are elite assassins, and this does'nt bother you. Seriously?"

Uzu gave him a sunny smile and propped her chin up using her hand as she reguarded him thoughtfully. Truth be told she had known who he was the second she had seen his face, she had a copy of his profile in her shirt pocket. So really she didn't mind about him being a killer at all, as long as he was'nt coming after her.

"I always thought you would be a huge, ogre like guy with no personality. Your actually much cuter than I thought you would be. And I like your personality too. So yeah, those things dont bother me at all." She said with another grin as his jaw dropped. She had known who he was all along! How?

She reached into her shirt pocket and pulled out a folded paper and held it out to him. He looked at her curiously then took the paper and carfully unfolded it and cringed. Oh shit, this was a bounty poster with his name, age, sex, height, weight, and other juicy little tid bits of information on it.

"Are you a bounty hunter?" Killua asked as he looked back up at her. She shook her head.

"I helped a bounty hunter as part of my training. I still do it from time to time just for fun, or when I need money. The rest of the time I'm just another ordinary girl. Please, stop looking so worried. I'm here to take the Hunter exams and that's it. He sighed and smiled back despit the fact that he felt shaken to his core. There was no way that he could take a bounty hunter home to meet his parents, but maybe since she really was'nt one there would'nt be a problem.

On the other hand she would fit in just fine with the rest of the freaks back in his home town, so maybe it was'nt such a bad thing that she used to hunt his kind down like dogs. "Do you believe me?" Uzu asked in a much softer tone. She sounded sad to him.

"Yes, I believe you. But you have to know that if you come after me..." He let his threat trail off there. She nodded her head slightly as he refolded the paper and handed it back to her.

"I understand that you have to do what you have to do to protect yourself and your family. If you ever feel threatened by me, then go ahead and kill me." She said as she tucked the paper back into it's place. Killua sighed and thought for a minute. There may be a way around her job...maybe the two of them could enter a contract. She didn't hunt him or his family. And he...would do whatever she wanted him too. No wait, would'nt that make him her servent? Maybe he could-no that would'nt work either. He sighed again and glanced at her. She was tense, closed off.

Probably waiting for him to kill her. He didn't want to, so a contract was the best way to go. "Do you know what a contract is?"

She nodded. Whew, good. He thought as he pulled a pocket knife out and opened it with a flick of his wrist and laid it on the ground next to him.

"Alright here is what we're going to do. We are going to enter into a blood contract with each other. You swear not to hunt me or my family unless it is under extreme conditions; and I have to be aware of those conditions. And I will be your partner, I will help you do whatever you want to do, and protect you. We seal the contract with blood,-" he cut off what he was about to say and changed the part of the blood contract so that it would be something more binding.

Picking up the knife he made a shallow cut over the vein in his wrist, likeing the way he could feel his heart thudding in his chest as he bled, then handed the blade to Uzu. She made an identical cut on the oppisit wrist and held her arm out to him, he pressed his bleeding wrist to hers, and wrapped his fingers around her arm just below her wrist and pulled her off ballance so that she was pressed against him. His mouth pressed against her skin as he wrapped his arms around her, and tried ot subdue the excitment racing through his veins.

He had done it! He had found and bound a woman to him. The blood contract was the same as a marrage contract. The word 'partners' had more than one meaning. Uzu was his now! Completely his, and he would never let her go.