A/N: This is probably AU! Although it follows the basic HunterXHunter timeline, I changed a few "minor" details (Probably minor ;p) for it to fit my plot!

Disclaimer: Not mine, sadly.

Enjoy~!

Chapter 1: The Beginning of everything

Mito Freecs (A/N: I'm not sure about this, if someone does please tell me~) knew that Gon would be able to overcome her challenge and take the Hunter Exam – She practically raised that boy herself, after all—but she knew there was a side of her nephew that not even Jin knew about. She rarely saw it but those brief moments that she did were one of her worst memories.

In fact, she had only seen it twice for the past few years Gon was in her care.

The first was when Jin had left Gon with her. Opening the door on that stormy night and seeing her vagabond cousin carrying a small child was quite the shock to the orange haired woman. As Jin was explaining himself, she risked a glance at the child beside him and flinched. Jin had asked her then if something was wrong and she just waved his concerns off.

Gold eyes without a hint of emotion, so deep you could probably get lost in them.

It was only there for a brief second before the color changed back into shiny, hopeful chestnut brown eyes.

She had convinced herself then that it merely a trick of light but she knew what she had seen.

The second was just few days before, when she had forbid him from entering the exam. Grandmother had not seen it but she did. She saw how her beloved Gon's chestnut brown eyes changed into blank gold ones. Directly facing the boy she realized that the saying that "The eyes are the windows to one's soul" would apply best in this situation. She saw in his eyes that he briefly entertained the notion of killing her, strangling her on a rope and hang her for all to see or to just use the knife on the kitchen sink and stab her directly to her heart and leave her to bleed to death, and she was glad that it immediately vanished while she turned around after she gave him that one condition to which she would agree to let him go take it. Gon had to capture the Lord of the Lake.

Other people had wondered whether Gon really was truly prepare to take that life-threatening exam, claiming he was just a child but Mito knew better. For all the love she had for Gon, she mused to herself;

"I wonder if the World of Hunters itself is prepared for the whirlwind of changes that Gon will bring…"

Gon POV

'Yatta! With this, I can now take the Exam! Waah~ I'm so excited!' I grinned to myself; hold the large fish for all to see.

"Now I can take test, ne Mito-san?" I smiled at her and she smiled back. I gave her the card she was suppose to sign and eagerly waited for her to sign it. She carefully sign it after rereading it one last time before she handed it to me.

"Arigatou, Mito-san!"I hugged her before running to the house to start packing.

'Just you wait Otou-san, I'll become a hunter like you!'

? POV

"That man! How dare that man steal HIM?! He may be her favorite but to think he'd manage to conceal where he left him… Just wait Gon, I'll find you soon and you'll finally be back to where you belong… Oh, my precious beloved Gon… Don't worry, Nii-chan's coming to get you back… And I will stop at nothing for that to happen, even if I had to kill your father himself…" A laugh resonates in a dark corner of a mysterious mansion.

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Gon flinches and looks behind him. He had a bad feeling that something was about to happen and that he was at the middle of it. He could only hope it did not involve THEM.

Famous last words, Gon… Famous last words…

A/N: I'm not quite sure about this so if someone knows please tell… Is Gon's father named Ging, Gin or Jin? And which is Gon's last name really? Freecss or Freecs?

Please help~

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