ITS TIME! The next chapter to The Missing Piece is now here...

DISCLAIMER: I don't own this Hunter X Hunter characters... only Nana

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The First Phase Begins With... Sleep?

A girl with long silver hair stands next to two young boys, one with short sliver that stands up a little and one with short black hair going straight up. With their back turned they face a group of people all looking down at them from their rows above faces slightly blurred out. In front of them all is a man with long black hair put in a topknot with a bit of a bread and mustache, and a girl next to him with purple pink-ish hair put in a ponytail. They were talking but no sound was being heard coming from them. Next, the young boy with black hair walk up towards a small box in the middle of the floor and so does the older man with black hair in a ponytail thing. They get down on their knees and seem to be arm wrestling and the young black hair boy is losing multiple times. The boy began to talk to the man as he gets his hand continuously hit on the box and his hand soon starts to bleed. He then starts to yell and he wins against the older man with black hair in a topknot. Not even a second past everyone went to different location and seems that the three younger ones were cornered. When everyone went back to where they had once came from it and settled down it seemed that the sound came back on, "who is your leader… is it Kuroro Lucifer" it was the girl with the long silver hair that said it. There was a replay but it wasn't heard like the sound was once again turned off. "Then… where is he, can you take me to see him" the little girl said as if she was soon to explode with excitement. But the look on her face didn't seem to be the answer she wanted and everything faded.

"NANA, HEY NANA WAKE UP!" with that Nana opened her eyes to see Killua sitting there next to her in a hut. "Where are we" she said while wiping her eyes and giving out a huge yawn. Killua looked at her as if she could have lost her mind during a short sleeping time. "Were in the middle of a hunter exam Nana, we have to go it's around dawn" he said while getting ready to leave the little hut. Nana then suddenly gotten up out of realization "oh Killua it's you, you know I had the weirdest of dreams" she said while placing her back pack on her back and standing up also ready to go.

So did she forget who I was, Killua thought as he sweat dropped.

"Oh really. What was it about" he said as they started to head out towards Zaban City. "Well…" Nana began, "there were these kids in front of a gang of people, this one little boy walked up to one of them and started to arm wrestle them. He lost many times and towards the end it seems that he got the strength to beat the guy in arm wrestle, but at the same moment the group was going to gang up on the kids then finding them as no threat, I'm guessing, let them go. And then-"she stopped for a good minute then said," it's funny how I couldn't even hear a single word they were saying other than the little girl" she continued looking at the rising sun in the sky.

"And you know one other thing" Nana said to Killua as he moved closer interested in the story that Nana was saying with great seriousness. "the girl was so cute with her long silver hair" Nana finished happily as she held her own silver hair and turned around a little showing it off, while Killua just fell to the floor anime style again. "You got to be kidding, and I thought she was serious for once", Killua muttered to himself while still on the floor.

Nana and Killua neared the gate of Zaban City and found it opened. They went to the insides near the gate, "so what now" Nana said as she stood next to Killua looking around at the insides of the city of Zaban. "I don't know" Killua said looking at the city as well. "Let's look at the map and see if they have direction" Killua said as Nana ignored him and kept her sight on the city.

When Killua took out the map he saw that the map was no longer on the page but words replaced it. "Oi, Nana take a look at this" Killua said as Nana finally snapped out of her amazement and went next to him to see what he was talking about.

If you are able to read this then it seems you got to Zaban City without being killed by any beast of nature or you didn't get lost. Now we would like to have a dining at the location seen on the map before and while you're there be sure you order something, I recommend a steak slowly cooked rare.

"Ewww! A rare steak!" Nana squealed with disgust. "Who knows it could be a password or some key… but there wasn't a map on this thing" Killua said as he and Nana finished reading the note. But when he turned the paper back over there was the map and with a dot showing to the location that they needed to go to. "WOW! This must be some kind of magic paper or something" Nana said as a big goofy grin found its way back onto her face.

They made their way towards the location with Killua's help, but on their way there Nana became distracted multiple times by the goods that the outdoor stores were selling. "Ohhhhh, that is so cute, that looks gorgeous, that lots yummy" she said multiple times looking very much amazed. "Nana, we need to get to this restaurant so that we can-"but Killua stopped and wonder off himself. Nana went to go and see what caught Killua's eye and saw him buying some chocolate.

"Killua~" Nana whined as he walked away putting some chocolate in his mouth. "What" he answered to her whine, "you didn't get me none" she said with a huge pout on her face which was a very disturbing sight. "EW Nana, don't make that face. Here" he said while giving her a piece of his chocolate. Nana face turned back to her huge goofy smile and popped the piece in her, "thanks". They kept on walking with Killua guiding them and got to the place. "Wow, this place don't look so great" Killua said while chewing on his chocolate. "It looks good enough to me, now let eat." Nana cheered as she ran in the restaurant full of energy with Killua trailing behind her.

When they got into the restaurant they were greeted with a heavenly good smell. "Mmmm, that smells good." Nana said as she wonders more into the place. Killua came in just in time when the lady asked them what they want to order. "We would like a steak cooked slowly rare." Killua said remembering the order that was on the note.

"Hmm, I see" the cook said behind the counter.

"So young" and with that the lady lead us to the room in the back of the room. "Have a seat" she said with a smile never leaving her face. "Thank you" Nana called to the waitress as she closed the door behind her.

When Nana turned around she saw two chairs and a table. On the table there were two pins with the numbers 99 and 100 on them. "Oh, I call the 100 one" Nana said happily while placing the pin on her tank top. Killua grabbed the 99 pin and put it on his shirt.

Then the floor started to move. "Awesome a moving floor" Nana said getting more and more excited. Killua just looked at her while finishing off the last of his chocolate. Nana notice that that was his last piece and before he even saw it coming she tackled him down to the floor.

"Why you do it Killua, why you eat the last piece of chocolate" she said with a terrifying face, the huge pouting face one. "Ewwwww! STOP THAT!" Killua said as he tried to get Nana off of him but being unsuccessful with it. Then suddenly Nana got up and looked down onto Killua seeing that he was still on the floor.

"Well I guess I can forgive you" she said looking up proud of being the bigger person.

Forgive? Who asked her to forgive me, and for what for eating my own candy? Killua thought to himself as he looked at Nana as if she could have gone mentally crazy right now.

"And plus…" Nana said while pulling out a lollipop from out of nowhere, "I have a spear" she said popping it into her mouth. Killua just sat there and sighed, why do I always end up on the floor, he thought.


The bottom floor ~Nana's POV~

When we got down to the bottom floor it was really dark and kind of hard to see a little before my eyes got use to the darkness. There were a lot of people, I'm guessing near 100 being that's my number. I wanted to take a look around the darkened room but as some as me and Killua got out the elevator floor thingy a guy with a piggy nose came out of nowhere with a huge bag at his side walking closer towards our way. I just had to giggle a little by his nose; I mean it's a pig's nose. And I'm guessing Killua heard me laughing at something and turned to look where I was looking and started his own laughing fits.

He came right in front of me and Killua and stood there with a big smile on his face, "hey guys, ya are rookies right." He said with each word his smile gets bigger and bigger. I smiled, "yea, how did you know?" He just replied," I have ways, by the way my name is Tompa." He said before reaching into his bag grabbing two cans of drinks and then extending one each to both of us.

"Here, drink up ya must be tired after getting this far."

I just looked at his hand and narrowed my eyes a little, what a funny little man, I thought as I thought up an excuse really quickly. Next thing I know Killua extends his arm to take one. "Thanks Tonpa" he said while smiling really big then opening it up and walked off drinking it.

I looked slightly confused at Killua as he walk more into the dark tunnel, then I turn to realize that Tonpa is still there offering me one, "no thanks.." I saw while taking out yet another lollipop, hey …don't blame me their good, I always keep lots of spares of lollipops," I'm good" I say to him with another one of my big smiles and walked off to find where Killua went off to.

When I find him I was relieved to find him not sick.

"Killua you're all right" I say as I run towards him with my arm out stretched in front of him giving him a big hug.

Killua just stood there slightly shocked to see me hug him. "Um… yeah" he said kind of uncomfortable as I let go of him. "Sooo" I say while looking slightly confused, "you look… well?" I say to him looking all over him searching to see if anything was wrong. "Well of course, I'm immune to everything. Nothing like that will ever harm." He said smirking lifting up the empty can of the drink that used to be in it.

My eye started to shine as I stare at him amazed, "wow Killua, YOUR SOOOO COOL!" I say partly yelling, which caused people to turn and look but who cares. He just stared at me before looking away slightly, "its ne big deal" he said then looked around a bit and I guessed he notice too that there were lot more people than before.

"I'm about to see Tonpa's reaction to me if I walked up to him and dranked all of his can 'goods' want to come to" he said looking back at me fully now. "No, I want to just sit down, I sooooo tirrred" I aid backing to the wall and sitting down, "but tell me how it goes, I would looove to know" I said smiling and waving off Killua as he walked off into the crowned. As I sat there I looked around the dark tunnel cave thing that they were in and looked closely at the people that were there. And then there he was the clown. Oh he made how nice, she thought while smiling, but… I don't think Killua would like it, I thought feeling sad, he was so scared. I continued to look around and saw a scary nail dude. A chill went down her spine, now that's scary. As I continued to look around I started to get really tired and soon found myself drifting off into sleep, I'm sure it will only be for a little while, was my final thought as I fell completely a sleep.


Killua's POV

As I walked back to where I last left Nana sitting I was smiling to myself and just kept on remembering Tonpa's face when I told him that I was immune to things like that after drinking all those cans. He was so scared. When I was almost back I heard some creepy sounding alarm of some type and turn to see a man in a suit with… no mouth... well um, he was explaining stuff to us and wanted us to follow him deeper into the tunnel. Everyone started to go in and I was about to when I notice that Nana was nowhere in sight.

I jogged/ran over to where I last saw her and to my surprise she was still there, but… sleeping? I walked over to her and started to shake her awake, but yet she stayed asleep. I thought about stabbing her, but that would be mean. So I decided I couldn't just leave her here to fail and just picked her up, she was light, and put her on my back giving her a piggy back ride. I placed my skate board on the ground and started to ride it. I could catch up faster this way. As I rode my skateboard I notices it took me a while to catch up to the group but I found out why when I did, they were running.

So is this the first phase.

I decided it would be wise to stay ahead of the pack and started to move toward the front zipping past people quickly, but when I went in front of one guy he started to shout, and I'm guessing it had to do to me. I turn my head learning that it was in fact because of me.

"HEY YOU!" he shouted at me, and I looked at him for a second before answering, "Yea?" I said kind of in a bored tone. He looked kind of angered for some reason. "Why are you on a skateboard when your suppose to be running, and why is a girl on your back, shouldn't she be running too, this is an endurance test MAN!" he said/ yelled at me.

I was about to say something when a little kid around my age said, "this isn't an endurance test he just told us to follow him." The little boy said kind of happily, "oh come on Gon your suppose to be on my side" the older man said to the little black haired boy. I slowed down my pace to where the boy called Gon was.

"Hi" the little boy said in a cheerful." How old are you" I asked curiously but I think it came out more of a demand. "Twelve" he said, he sounded like a cool person to hang with, so then I jumped off my board swinging my legs so the skateboard landed in my hand and started to run along with everybody else.

Gon looked really surprised when I did that and then shouted, "COOL!" he said his eyes shining really brightly. "My name is Gon" he said smiling. I nodded once and turn to the older man, "what about you old man" "why does people keep thinking I'm old I'm a teen like you." He said a little annoyed. This made me sweat drop, wow… really, and Gon was thinking the same thing when he yelled out, "REALLY!" really loud.

After that we kept on running behind the man named Satotz for some hours now and some people were getting tired and that also included Leorio, that old teen guy from before, but he's good… for now. Then Gon asked me a question that I have expected earlier, "um, why is there a girl on you back". At first I didn't know what he was talking about, "wha…" then I turn my head to see Nana head there catching me by surprise for a second," oh she's Nana, she fell asleep before we started the first phase and since she didn't get up I had to carry her." I said while shrugging, "but I kind of forgotten she was there."

When I looked back at Gon he seemed surprised. "How long can she sleep" Kurapika, a boy with the blond hair said looking at her weirdly. I just shrugged my shoulders again. Gon was about to say something when we heard Leorio yell out exhausted and sat on the floor giving up. Rolling my eyes I stopped my running and stood next to Gon wanting to know what was wrong.

After some disusing about what to do about Leorio, seeing that none of them wanted to leave him behind, Tonpa came up with another man, that was kind of chubby, saying that he liked 'helping' rookies, but I knew he was lying seeing how he gave me laxative juice last time, and said that the smell that was near is a healing tree of some kind and that if he puts them there they will have their strengths up in no time. This didn't sound good, but it wasn't my place to say anything and the other seems to agree with the pig man.

So… he took them away.


Nana's POV

Three people were running through the city streets chasing after a group of people one with long silver hair next to her was a woman with a cap on covering over their dark colored brown hair with big circle glasses on their face, and the last one was a little boy with spiky black hair. After a long chase through the city the group that was being followed turned around suddenly and the boy with the black spiky hair and the woman with the shades hide while the other girl with the long hair kept going right towards the group…

I woke up feeling a slight breeze flowing past me, after a while I realized that I was on something moving and looked down to see that I was riding on the back of Killua as he rode his skateboard. He must have felt that I was awake because he turned his head slightly to take a look through the side of his eye, when he saw that my eyes were wide awake he said, "Oh, so you're finally awake".

I let out a slight yawn and rubbed my eye, "what's going on" I said looking around at my surroundings. It was dark but I still could make out what my surroundings look like.

"Well, you fell asleep and seeing that we were about to start our first phase I couldn't just leave you there to fail so I carried you on my bac-"I interrupted him by giving him a big straggling hug, "awwwww, you're so sweet, you did this for me cause you didn't want me to fail" I said all basically shouting out my words and choking him. "Nana… s-stop" Killua said between breaths. I continued hugging him until I smelled something. "That… smell" I said while letting go of my tight hold. "Yeah, Tonpa took these two people towards the smell to heal them-"Killua tried to say but stopped when Nana said, "NO, this isn't something that heals people… it's a tree that gives them horrible hallucinate." I said slightly shaken up. When I was around six years old I came upon a tree that had this same smell to it, I liked it… it had a sweet smell to it. But when I showed it to my mom one day she started to shake and fell to the floor. She held her head and started to yell, 'NOOOOO! COME BACK!' it scared me so much, to see my always happy and brave mother be so afraid. "My mom told me to stay away from this kind of sent, especially if you have a troubled past… we got to help them!" I said when suddenly I dropped to the ground,

"OWWW, KILLUA!" I shout out while rubbing my butt. "Well that where we are heading to see if we can help, right?" He said with a small smirk, "of course" I said as I got up from the ground and turning my boot to skates. "Lead the way" and we both speed off.

Up the path that Killua and I took we saw Tonpa returning back with a smug look on his face, but when he spotted us he got pale. Killua went right pass him but when he was next to him turned his head and glared at him and kept going. Seeing that glare almost made me want to turn and start screaming, wow. When I went past him all I did was smile and waved, but my smile was sinister and I said, "Strike two" then skating away behind Killua. I turned my head to see Tonpa staring back at us and looked even paler than before trying to stay up on his feet, I just giggled.

When the smell was extremely strong we heard a scream and someone yell, "Kurapika!" That's when Killua speed up and headed toward the noise and that when I saw them, two people one with blond hair and seems to have been captured in the hallucination. The other was a young boy with really spiky black hair trying to help his blond hair friend, spiky black hair, I thought remember my dream. Next thing I know it Killua is next to them and hits the blond one with his skateboard. That's when I went faster to get next to them.

When I finally got close everyone seems to have been alright but just to make sure, "is everyone ok?" I asked with uncertainty. The two from before that I didn't know the names of just looked at me as if they just realized that just got here.

"Hey, you're the sleeping girl from before" the little boy about my age with the black spiky hair said to me.

"Really…?" I asked then looked over at Killua for him to explain, "You were on my back sleeping while I meet them." He said with a shrug. "Ohhhhhh" I said then turn towards the black haired boy and the blond.

"Hello, my name is Nana. Nice to meet you" while smiling. "My name is Gon and this is Kurapika" he said with a smile as well. That's when Killua cleared his throat, "um, did you guys forget about the exam" he said with a straight face looking uncaring. "Oh… snap!" I yelled, "How we are going to get back in time" I said slightly yelling. "And what about Leorio, we can't just leave him." The boy name Gon said while the blond, Kurapika, nodded in agreement. Killua took out some little tablets and said; "I think I can solve both those problems." he smirked and throws it up into the air.

The wall in the cave exploded and that made all four of us go flying through to the other side of the wall. I did a little flip making me land gracefully on my feet and turned around towards Killua, "WOW, THAT WAS FUN! Let me try next time." I said smiling really big.

"Leorio!" Gon said and started to run to his friend which seems to have gotten out of the trance of the hallucinate, "GON!" he said confused. He then turn his head to look around, "you're that kid that was on the skateboard… and you're the sleeping girl, what's going on!" he said with even more confusion. "We're going to bust out of this cave and pass the hunter exam." I said with a huge smile on my face and started to walk over to Killua taking his bombs. "How?" he asked looking as if I was crazy, "with these" I said lifting up my hands showing him the bombs. "Oh not again" Kurapika said a little worried with it being in my hand. "What are thos-"but he didn't finish when Killua said 'there' in a calm voice and pointed out a spot. Without a second thought of it I through it at the wall.

KA-BOOM!

After the wall crumbled down me and the four others jumped out the hole to find the other examinees that was running right in front of us and leading then was a guy… without a mouth. I couldn't help but stare. "What is the meaning of this" he said moving only his chin, wow. Before anyone could have gotten a chance to speak Gon said, "I'm sorry we were-"but he was interrupted when the guy without a mouth, wow, said, "I didn't say anything was wrong let's just keep going" and with that he went on running. Everyone went on running like nothing happened and so did our little group. I pulled back in my skates, after realizing that I was still skating, and started to run with the rest… it was only fair.

After some time we started to head up stairs and Gon turn to Killua to asked, "Hey, will you tell me what your name is now". I was surprised they didn't know his name. "Killua" he said with a small smile on his face and that made me smile widely and start to run ahead coming up in an idea. I turned my head slightly to look at them, "hey, let's race to the top" I said with a slight head start. After a few hours passed by Killua, Gon, and I were all running side by side almost to the top. That's when I saw a light in the distanced and shaped the bottom of my shoe into a spring and hopped a good distance and right out the door. Once I landed and felt the feeling of the soil under my boot, I knew I was out. "I win!" I shouted and spun around to face Gon's and Killua's faces as they looked at me in disbelief, "you cheated!" Killua claimed, "how did you do that?" Gon said amazed. I just smiled at them both and turn to check out my surroundings.

Wow. A… swamp?


What will happen next? Can you guess...

Until next time... Bye!