Sorry I've been gone so long! If you read my most recent story, you already know that I've been in Spain for a while (cool place, if a little hot...) and before that was finals for school.

And to pile on to all of this annoyance, I've been binging on a lot of things. Supernaturals (finished), Walking Dead (just started), Code Geass (finished), Dragon Drive (middle), Bleach (middle), All of the Marvel things (all of avengers finished along with their separate movies, Batman, and soon Ant Man!), Also Big Hero 6, Full Metal Alchemist, Shaman King (started), and Prince of Tennis (finished). I'm not asking for forgiveness, just a pardon. Thank you!

Okay, funny story I thought of while writing this chapter. My little brother (let's just say N for his name) threw a temper tantrum when he was around seven or six. My older brother (G) had locked him out of this one room in our house, and N went outside to grab a fairly big rock. The room was on ground level, and G was standing right in front of the window. N chucked the rock as hard as he could, and broke the entire window. G was able to move out of the way before getting hit, but his foot did get cut up from the glass.

Careful. Kids are dangerous.

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Chap. 3

A year after the last hunter exam, we find Naruto and his brother in their room of Heaven's Arena. Naruto had just finished a battle, having just past the 220th level of the tower. Though this seems like slow progress for the trained boy, it's rare for Naruto to show up even once a month. During the one day he and Hisoka stay at a time, Naruto fights as many battles as he can possibly fit. Hisoka still only battles with people he had already faced, and believes to have become ripe, much to the irritation of everyone who wanted to test themselves against him.

"The Hunter exams are coming up again, Naru-chan." Naruto hummed in response, already bored with the idea. Hisoka continued to prompt his interest, though, not ready to yield to Naruto's natural stubbornness. "There's going to be an assassin participating this year. He is of the Zoldyck family." One could imagine Naruto's fox ears twitch.

"Would you like to participate again? I promise I won't make us leave like last year's." Naruto moved his body, laying down on the bed and stretching out across it with his small frame, a position Hisoka learned to call Naruto's 'trying to ignore, but interested' position. "I already have been informed on where it will be held this year, so we only have to go to it. It is also less than half a day away." There was no acknowledgment from the boy. "It's under a restaurant. And they serve ramen." There was still no movement from the boy for the first few seconds before - with Hisoka calming his instincts so not to attack Naruto - Naruto jumped up and latched onto Hisoka.

"Great! When do we go?" He asked excitedly, bouncing around. Very odd movements for a highly trained killer, making it that much more entertaining to watch.

"Might as well go now. There might be some nicely ripened fruit on the way, ready to be picked!" Naruto giggled at Hisoka's expression. No matter how many times he sees that look of pleasure and bloodlust it will never get boring.

Besides, Naruto always get to fight amazing people when Hisoka gets that look. And if people of the Zoldyck family were going to be there, Naruto would be in no way disappointed.

"Then what are we waiting for? C'mon, Nii-san! I wanna hurry up and scope out the others." Naruto shouted excitedly once more, already bounding off to find the exams. Hisoka smiled and followed the younger murderer.

Hisoka's main motivation for entering this exam, besides the obvious fact of being able to gain a hunter license to make travel even simpler, was meeting up with Illumi. They had a fight waiting to happen, and Hisoka couldn't wait to taste Illumi's abilities. Now, if Naruto was able to be entertained during this process, that would just be perfect.

The process of getting to the started section was, like the last time, simple. Capture one of the preliminary officers and torture them for information on the location. They let this guy live, though. They might as well make it more difficult for others to get there, letting the man lead them in the wrong direction if they failed his test.

Once at the site - a large chamber under a small restaurant - Hisoka went looking for Illumi. Naruto was supposed to watch out for the man's disguise, not that they knew what it was this time. Right once Naruto found the assassin, he was supposed to tell Hisoka by sending out a pulse of energy.

So Naruto began his search, fully knowing this was actually a test of his skills in tracking hidden energies. All he had to do was look for a chilled energy, but not a frozen one. One that wasn't necessarily calm but was in no way active. It also wasn't angry or menacing to those who have been around truly malicious people, but it does feel dangerous to those who stay with the average human.

And then he saw the person (?) with needles sticking out of his head.

"...Really?" Naruto walked over to the creepy man, sending a small flare for Hisoka to follow. "Illumi-nii? Do you really have to look like that?" Naruto ignored the stares he was getting for fearlessly walking up to the psychotic looking man. He also didn't hear the whispers going around from those who were in the exams last year, talking about how he had randomly left after last year's psycho - the magician - killed the examiner.

"Ah, Naruto-kun. How nice to see you. I had been wondering when you would show up. I assume Hisoka is around as well."

"Yep!" Naruto had been able to get Illumi to talk from the first time they met. Even with his jittering, semi-mechanical speech pattern, he continue to speak in full sentences, outside of the need-to-know bases of information. "Hisoka-nii should be heading over here now. He sent me to look for you, after all! So, how are you, Illumi-nii?"

"Naruto-kun, please call me Gittarackur for the time being. That is what I am going by for the duration of the hunter exam. My younger brother, Killua, seems to be here. I do not wish for him to know of my presence." He was more formal while saying this than he normally was with Naruto, letting Naruto know how serious he was about this.

"Well, Gittarackur-nii, does your brother not know of Nen? Shouldn't that be, like, the third thing you teach him as an assassin?"

"While that is true for many families, the Zoldyck are supposed to excel in all other aspects, and should not rely on nen unless in extreme circumstances." Naruto had already lost focus and was messing with some of the people that were trying to avoid him. Illumi only blinked, already used to this response and not fully sure why he decided to answer in the first place, though he was certain Naruto had heard everything he said.

"Naruto-kun, would you like me to direct you to where Killua is?" Naruto slowly turned around, a blank look taking over his face. The people around him quickly escaped, terrified of how quickly a young boy was able to wipe the emotions from his exterior. Illumi did his best to read him, however.

"... Have you forgotten who Killua is, Naruto-kun?" Naruto face brightened and he nodded vigorously. "My younger brother. The assassin that doesn't know nen." Naruto make an exaggerated 'oooh' expression, his eyes widening and his mouth forming a perfect O. Then he grinned.

"No thanks! He doesn't seem that interesting, anyway." Naruto grin faded and a dark look invaded his eyes. "Kids aren't fun, anyway. They have no use until they grow, and even then they may not have any purpose." The dark look never left his eyes. The two were quiet after that, content to occupy their own thoughts until Hisoka showed up.

"Nii-san…" Hisoka had just arrived, and Naruto was already jittering from pent up energy. "I need something to do! I can't be bored! You know what happens when I'm bored!" Illumi does too, seeing as the first time Hisoka and himself had met up after Naruto came, they both ignored the youngest boy and continued with their conversation - sharing intel. Naruto had receded into the darker parts of his mind. As long as his mind focuses on the brighter parts of life - Nii-sans, killing, blood, fighting, and ramen - he was able to stay calm and happy. However, when he is allowed to go back to his time in Konoha Naruto get's violent. He tries to either tie his brothers up, or kill them. In his fragile mind, he believes that either way will force them to stay with him forever. Hisoka is normally able to calm him down within minutes, but Hisoka isn't always around when this happens. If this happens to Naruto while no one is around that he trusts, the results are catastrophic. Everyone around him is killed, painfully but quick. After all living beings are dead, Naruto moves onto the buildings and ground. He screams. He cries. His energy flares up and disappears in seconds, rapidly. His entire aura is filled with pain, but no hate. No killing intent.

That's why the strong hunters within the city refrain from attacking him. For one, they'd be attacking a young child. And second of all, it's so obviously a sad, lonely, abandoned and broken child that it causes even the coldest of people to feel sympathy.

Naruto just kills the psychopaths that have tried to attack him in that state.

Everyone knows how out of control and violent children can get during temper tantrums, and how their entire goal is to cause chaos while getting what they want afterwards. Everyone also knows that there are times even a four year's temper tantrum can hurt the parent badly. This was Naruto, plus the insanity, chakra, nen, and a little extra power hidden away for special occasions that not even Naruto knows about.

"Naruto-kun, how about you walk around and people-watch. If people get mad at you, go ahead and kill them. The exams haven't started yet, after all." Naruto grinned at the prospect of killing people with no repercussion.

Naruto spread his energy out wide, thinning the amount one person would feel at a time when they came in contact. He also allowed it to escape from the places cooped up in his body, causing people to unknowingly look at him as less of a threat. Naruto had learned long ago that everyone was able to sense such things as nen and chakra, even if they had had no training in either area. If someone has a lot of energy, they cause strong emotions in people, most of the time fear.

If one wishes to appear kind, innocent and weak, you let go of your energy.

The people who had been avoiding him before came closer as Naruto weved through the crowed. However, none of them were looking to pick a fight with a kid. The more ruthless examinees had to have been in a different location, probably picking a fight with each other or something.

It wasn't long before Naruto heard someone calling his name. Naruto turned around to see Kallen, a 27 year old girl he had hung around in the last exam. She had a fairly nice personality, having immediately taken a liking to Naruto and scaring off all of the creeps that tried to attack him. Naruto didn't care for her distraction of potential victims, but it had felt nice to be fawned over for a while.

Kallen wasn't a tall person, but in no way was she short. She had a soft complexion, naturally pale, and had a fragile look about her. Naruto learned that she had strong, hard muscles packed into her small frame and lithe limbs. She had short, baby blue hair that fell just under her ears, and the bottom of her bangs reached the top of her eyes. Her eyes were a silvery blue, enticing to all that happened to look into them.

Just under her right eye was a silvery blue tear drop, shifting between her eye color and hair color. The top of her right ear was pierced with a loop in it, and the lobe of the left one had a green-silver feather hanging down. Her clothes reflected the feathery earing. She wore a thin, mostly transparent dress with fur-like patterns in blue and green. The front was tremendously shorter than the back - ending a fourth of the way down her thighs while the back nearly touched the ground where she stood. Her bra and pants seemed to be white, though it was hard to tell with the colored dress over them.

"Hiya, Naruto-kun! Didn't think you and the clown'd be back this year. Don't you guys have some job type of thing to go to?" Naruto smiled. She remembered everything. Naruto had told her most everything about his life, only leaving out the truly dangerous stuff like the group he was with being the spider troup. She knew about his problems with people, his faults, and how dangerous he could get. She was also the only one who knew he and Hisoka were brothers.

"Yeah. But it's better to have a license, anyway. Plus, Nii-san wanted to meet up with someone." Kallen grinned.

"Oooh, does creepy clown-che have a person who can keep up with his… needs?" She said, wiggling her eyebrows. Naruto, the ever oblivious 11 year old, nodded.

"Hisoka-nii loves to fight him. They always go off on their own and leave me behind. Hisoka-nii comes back injured at times, but he seems really, really happy." Naruto blinked when he saw Kallen's grin. "Um…" He paused, thinking about where he wanted to go with his question. "What's wrong?" Kallen laughed, clutching her stomach in pain. "Kallen-nee?" She held up a hand, trying to get him to stop talking.

"You're… killing… me!" She shouted, laughing and gasping in between each word. Naruto just stared blankly.

"But you aren't bleeding, and I didn't give you any poison…"

"Naruto-kun, I believe she is talking about laughing too hard. It seems it may cause pain in the stomach of people."

"Oh, hi Hisoka-nii." Naruto greeted before turning back to Kallen. "Is this true, Kallen-nee?" He blinked owlishly, not fully knowing if his brother was joking around with him again. Kallen took time to finish laughing before answering in a calm manner.

"Yeah, it is. Wanna see?" She lunged for Naruto, knocking him to the ground and tickling at his sides. Naruto nearly threw his hidden dagger at her, but could do nothing once her fingers touched his stomach.

Naruto couldn't breath. Everything was happening in third person, Naruto standing above his body as it was destroyed at the fingertips on one he trusted. Naruto watched as his eyes shined over with something he knew very well - tears. The only problem was that there was a smile on his face. A large, open grin that seemed to be making noise. Kallens hands moved up to his neck and arm pits, and Naruto was suddenly sucked back into his body, experiencing the pain of using his muscles in such an unusual way. With a scream, he pushed everyone in a seven meter radius away from him, Hisoka being the only one still standing, pushed back a mere foot.

Kallen was at the top of the pile of people she landed with. She blinked a few times, trying to draw order back into her mind. Not long late, she let out a joyous laugh.

"Well, that was fun, wasn't it? Don't worry Naruto-che, I won't tickle you that badly anymore. No need to do that again, ne?" Naruto pouted. On one hand, Kallen said she wouldn't tickle him so badly. On the other, she was still gonna tickle him. Naruto did not care to have such a weakness, but now that he knew how painful it was, Naruto was sure to remember to try that on other people as well. Maybe Hisoka while he slept. Definitely Illumi when he was being boring.

Naruto's grin came full force, a grin promising pain. Hisoka grinned at his look, Kallen laughed again, and everyone else backed away from the insane-looking blond.

Oh, yes. This exam would be fun.