AN: I don't own Hunter x Hunter, I only own my OC Crystal and Nicole.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
1 YEAR LATER
IN A CLEARING
CRYSTAL POV
"Now that you've learned all I could teach you for the moment, you are allowed to take the Hunter Exam-"
"Scoff, I would have taken the Exam with or without YOUR approval " Crystal interrupted.
" You are smart, so use it to pass the tests they're going to give you, you're fast so make sure to always be first."
"Of course, Nicole-san." Crystal smoothly says 'of course I have to be careful I'm not an idiot.'
They stand there awkwardly.
"Well ~….bye." Crystal says suddenly as she walks away.
"Bye Crystal, come visit me. " Nicole happily says waving.
Crystal raised her hand, not turning around 'finally I'm taking the exam, I'll be seeing Kirane, and I'll meet Killua and Gon soon.'
1 HOUR LATER OF WALKING
"Sigh, I think I'm lost…oh well. " she said shrugging and singing "we're going to meet the wizard"
We're off to see the Wizard,
the wonderful Wizard of Oz.
We hear he is a wiz of a wiz
If ever a wiz there was.
If ever, oh ever, a wiz there was,
the Wizard of Oz is one because,
because, because, because, because, because-
because of the wonderful things he does.
We're off to see the Wizard,
the wonderful Wizard of Oz.
As she finished and putting on her cloak and hood, she noticed she was at the Hunter Reception.
' wonder when they'll notice I cheated.' crystal grins putting on the number 98 assigned to her where nobody could see it, walking to a wall leaning against it, taking care not to ruin her dress, humming lightly under her breath, waiting for the exam to start.
'Ok, let's see, Tonpa, over there is Hisoka, sigh, I only remember those two and the important characters.'crystal mentally crying 'oh, I see Killua… Who's coming towards me…' Crystal mentally cuts herself off as she noticed him coming closer.
'Crapcrapcrap, what do I do?! '
By the time she's done freaking out, Killua is standing in front of her.
Tonpa walks toward them with a drink in his hand, smiling.
"Hello! I'm Tompa, exam taker #36! I'm greeting all the new exam taker, I've taken the Hunter Exam thirty-six times in a row."he greets and holds his hand out.
" Hey! Nice to NOT meet you, no I don't want your poison drink, I don't like you so leave me alone and go to hell! " Crystal says cheerfully, while killua looks amused and leaving Tonpa shocked.
" What's your name? " killua asks.
" Crystal, yours? " she states and asked, glancing at him by the corner of her eye.
"Killua, your twelve, right? "
"Mm, last time I checked I was twelve. " she sarcastically said with a smirk on her face, turning to him.
Killua narrowed his eyes and returning crystals smirk.
"Hmph, you're interesting."
"Thanks, I guess? "
Before they could continue with their conversation they were interrupted.
" HIME-CHAN~ ! "
They both turned to where they heard the voice.
"Who's that ? " killua asked.
"Dunno." Crystal lying through her teeth says.
"HIME-CHAN~ ! " the unknown girls voice yelled out closer.
Crystal knowing she was closer, turned to killua.
" hide me, please don't let her see me. " she begs, breaking out of her cold facade.
" she's looking for you, hime-chan ? " killua teased, smirking.
Crystal blushed " s-shut up" as she hides behind him grabbing his shirt.
"Hime-chan, I've finally found you! After a year of looking." A black-haired girl says while fighting for a way to Crystal and killua.
XXXXXXX
KIRANES POV
"Hime-chan~ " Kirane sang " I know you're there~ "
" what do you want, you crazy psycho." Crystal peaked from behind killua as she groaned and demanded.
Killua just looked amused at her nickname, for the so called "psycho".
"So…you've got anything to do ? "
"Wow, no greetings ? "
Crystal came out from hiding behind killua, still staying close to him, killua noticed but didn't say anything.
"Nope~… So this is killua, huh ? " Kirane looked at killua.
"Who are you and how do you know my name? " asked killua suspiciously.
Crystal just sweatdropped ' way to go Kirane,way to go. '
" oh? I see the future~ just a bit though."
Killua just looked at her with a deadpan look.
"Yeah, right."
Kirane smirked at him and looked at Crystal.
"Hime-chan~ is this you're –" before she could finish Crystal somehow taped her mouth.
" NOT. A. WORD..." The raven-haired hissed dangerously.
Kirane nodded, trying not to laugh.
" are you going to answer my questions ? " asked an annoyed killua.
Both Crystal and Kirane looked at him, and Crystal returned to his side, while Kirane pulled the tape off her mouth.
" my name is Kirane Hagane, I'm 12 years old, and Crystal is my best friend. " she answered.
'Best friends? ' killua wondered glancing at Crystal.
While he was wondering, Crystal asked kirane awkwardly.
" so who trained you? "
"Hmm~ Ging Freccs. " Kirane looked at her.
"Eh?! Seriously! " the midnight eyed girl responded, shocked.
" yup~ so killua? "
" yeah? " he asked distracted.
" wanna be best friends? " she gave him a kitty look.
" you wanna be friends with me? " he asked incredulously.
" no, I said best friends."
" hey! Don't I get a say in this! " Crystal said looking between Kirane and Killua.
"No, and no one cares" Kirane said.
Crystal glares at her and stuck her tongue out.
"Oh that's very mature of you"
"Shut Up! "
Killua just looked at the two, not saying anything, amused and smirking.
"Ok, look I'm going to talk to killua-chan-" cue killua twitching his eye "- and it's very important. Go find Gon, ok? " Kirane asked looking seriously at her.
Crystal raised a delicate eyebrow " don't tell me what to do, you're not my mother." and with that and saying later to killua, went to look for Gon and Co.
Once she was gone, Kirane looked at killua and vice versa.
"What do you want to talk about? "
" do you want to be best friends or not? "
" that's it? "
"Answer me…"
" I don't know…"
" hmm~ tell me about yourself."
"Huh? Why? "
"Course I'm curious."
"…you won't want to hang out with me." Killua said looking away.
" I get to decide that, now tell me about yourself."
" I'm from a family of assassins, there."
"Eh what else? " Kirane asked the child.
"Y-you don't care?"
" no, why would I ?"
"I killed since I was a kid."
"And you are a kid."
"You're just saying that."
"No, I don't really care, besides, the exam is full of crazies and killers, ya know."
Killua looked around and she was right, there were killers and crazies.
"Soo, what kind of name is killua? " Kirane asked, changing the subject.
Killua looked back at her and smiled a little, then laughed.
"Hey~ ! What's so funny? "
"You! What kind of name is Kirane Hagane?! " he responded with laughter.
"…your name has kill and ua! "
"So? "
" shut up killi. "
"Don't call me that! Seriously though what does your name mean? " killua asked.
Kirane sighed and instead asked again.
"Do you want to be best friends? "
Killua just looked at her 'why does she want to be best friends with me so badly.'
"Why someone like me? " he asked in a quiet voice, but Kirane heard it.
"Because…hm~ cause you're a badass! And even if you do kill you do it awesome and you're still killua, right? "
At this killua looked up with wide eyes. This girl who barely knew him and vice versa wanted to be best friends with him and she didn't care what he did.
"You're still killua, no matter what you do! And Crystal thinks so too, I know it! So don't be like that." She said with determination.
Killua smiled "Hai, I want to be best friends."
Kirane beamed and hugged him "thank you! "
"O-oi! Get off! " killua blushed in embarrassment.
"Haha, anyway, my name is Kirane Hagane, Kira as in killer, ne as sound and Hagane as steel."
Killua looked at her weirdly " so it's killer sound steel? "
"Yup~ "
"Ha, you and your name are weird."
"Shut it, you fluffy kitty! "
"Not a kitty."
"Denial~ "
"Shut up! " yelled a blushing killua.
"Haha"
Suddenly there was a ringing sound.
"I'm sorry for the wait. The Hunter Exam will now begin." A man with purple hair announced.
"Hm~ you ready killu?" Asked Kirane with a smirk.
"You bet…Kira." Killua said with a smirk.
Kirane grinned 'yeah, best friends forever.'
XXXXXXXXX
CRYSTALS POV
"I'm sorry for the wait. The Hunter exams will now begin."
" I am Satotz, the Phase One examiner." The purple hair man marched as he said this.
"You must follow me to Phase Two. This is the exams First Phase."
"Huh" Crystal said as she stood with Gon and the others.
"What is it, crys-chan? " Gon asked.
"I'm feeling like murdering Kirane." Crystal says casually.
Gon sweat-dropped " hahaha" with Kurapika and Leorio.
"Oh well-" shrugging"-come on, let's go." Leading the way out, with everybody following.
FLASHBACK
THIRTY MINUTES EARLIER
'Now let's go find Gon, if I'm right and I usually are, he should be just entering.' Thought Crystal while searching.
'Aha! Found them! " with masked glee, she thought.
While approaching them, she found them with Tonpa talking to them.
"Is your stomach okey? " she heard Gon ask Tonpa.
"Y-yes…I'm fine."
"I've sampled all kinds of mountain grasses and plants." She heard and saw Gon explain. " so I can usually taste when something's bad." He smiled.
"R-really?! Haha, that's amazing…sorry about that, I'll see you around."
When Tonpa was gone she approached them.
"Hi, my names Crystal, what's your name? " she smiled not having to fake it.
"Im Gon, over there are kurapika and leorio." He smiled and introduced them while gesturing towards them.
"I thought I was gonna be one of the only kids in this place."
"Really?! "
"Yea, there's only two other kids here."
"Wow?! "
"So.. Why do you wanna be a Hunter? "
"Well, my dads a Hunter, so I want to become a Hunter like my dad."
"I'm sure you'll become a Hunter, like you're dad." She says smiling gently.
END OF FLASHBACK
AFTER TWO HOURS OF RUNNING
Crystal is running besides Gon. She sees killua in his skateboard with Kirane besides him running.
"Hey! Wait up, gaki!" Leorio yelled.
"Hmm? "
"You should show the Hunter Exam some respect! "
Killua glanced at him "what do you mean? "
"Why are you using a skateboard? That's cheating! " he asked enraged and pointed to the skateboard.
"Why? " killua looked at his skateboard.
"Why…this is and endurance test! "
"No, it isn't." Gon interrupted.
Leorio and killua turned to look at him.
"Gon, what are you saying? " leorio says.
"The examiner only told us to follow him." Go simply said
"Whose side are you on, eh? " while leorio says this killua goes to gons other side and asks
"Hey, how old are you? "
"Im twelve." Gon answered.
"Hmm" killua simply says before flipping his skateboard and running.
"Guess I'll run too."
"Wow! " exclaimed Gon.
"I'm killua" he introduces himself.
"I'm Gon"
he turns to Crystal.
"You have a very weird friend."
"What? " she turns to him, confused.
"Kirane is very amusing and weird."
"Oh, tell me something I don't know." She says rolling her eyes, and smiling mockingly.
Killua smirks.
"By the way, where is she? " Crystal wondered.
"Hm, she was just besides me a moment ago."
"Oh well-" shrugging"-she'll find her way back."
"Aren't you worry about her? " killua asks curiously.
"Not really."
While they were talking, Leorio fell behind them and Gon came to a stop, so Crystal and killua stopped too.
"Hey, forget him, let's get going" killua said
"Killua! Shh." Crystal scolded him and shushed him.
Killua turned towards her.
"Lets see what happens." She offered and smiled mysteriously.
Killua nodded and turned to Gon, but Gon payed him no attention.
"Screw that…IM GONNA BECOME A HUNTER, DAMMIT ALL!"Leorio yelled running past them, Gon and Crystal smiled and Gon turned to get leorios bag with his fishing rod.
"Cool! Let me try that later."
"If you let me try your skateboard, okay? "
While they were talking, Crystal just looked at them and sighed.
"Do you want to try, Crys-chan? "
" huh? " Crystal looked up "sure! " And smiled at Gon.
"Hey what is she going to let us try? " killua pouted.
"Hm~ I'll let you play with my phone?" Crystal bargained.
"Yeah!" Both Gon and killua said together and they turned to looked at each other.
"Hahaha"
XXXXXX
AFTER CATCHING UP WITH KURAPIKA AND LEORIO
"Im impressed that you can keep up with me." Killua says not out of breath.
"Really?! Haha" Gon laughs it off.
" or maybe it's just that everyone is too slow, man the Hunter Exam is gonna be a breeze, that's no fun." Killua complains.
"Ne, killua why do you want to become a Hunter? " Gon questions.
"Me? I don't really want to become a Hunter." He answers.
"Huh? "
" I heard the Exam was supposed to be really hard, so I thought it'd be fun. But this is disappointing."
Gon looked at him and Crystal glanced at both, amused.
" why do you want to become one? " killua questions Gon.
"Well, my dads a Hunter. So I want to become a Hunter, like my dad." He says determined.
"Hmm" killua hums " what kind of Hunter is he? "
"I don't know."
Killua laughs "haha, that's kinda weird."
"Really?"
"You want to be like your dad, but you don't know anything about him."
Gon looks ahead and explains "I was raised by mito-san,so I've only seen my dad in pictures."
Killua asks "who's mito-san? "
"Aunt mito." Gon answered looking at him.
"When he was twelve, my dad took the Hunter Exam. He passed and became a Hunter. Then he left the island. I want to find out why he chose to become a Hunter over being with me." Gon deteminedly says.
"So why do you want to be a Hunter, crys-chan? " Gon questions.
"Hm~.. I want to become a Hunter, because I want to see the world, and to do that I would need to become a Hunter, my dream compared to you is pretty simple." She says smiling at them.
They see the ending of the cave and start running faster.
"Goal! "
"Yay! I win"
"What are you talking about? "
"I was faster…"
Crystal sighed as she sees them arguing about who came first ' boys, they're so simple minded.'
"I was."
" no I was faster! "
"I was faster, so you have to buy dinner! "
"Nope, I was faster. So you buy me dinner."
"But I was faster, ne who was faster? " Gon asks Satotz.
"I believe the young lady over there was faster than both of you." Satotz answered.
"Eh!"
"Haha then we'll both split up the money to buy Crys-chan dinner." Gon laughs.
"You don't have to do that ." Crystal says looking at him.
"Oh, then I'll buy you dinner, then you can buy killua dinner, and you both can buy me dinner" Gon says.
Killua and Crystal both look at each other and sigh, smiling.
"Ne, Satotz-San, is this where the second phase of the exam is taking place? " Crystal asked Satotz.
"No, we still have quite a way to go." Satotz answered.
"Okay, thanks." Crystal thanks him walking away and leaning on the wall.
"Numere westland, also known as Swindlers Swamp. We must cross these wetlands to reach Phase Two of the exam. This place is home to many bizarre animals, many of them being cunning, insatiable creatures who deceive humans and prey upon them. Be very careful. If you let them fool you…you're dead." Satotz explained.
"Hmm~ this is gonna be interesting." Crystal says lightly under her breath, killua looks at her having heard her.
"These Westland animals will use every trick in the book to fool their prey. An ecosystem in which creatures obtain food through deceit… Hence the name Swindlers Swamp. Stay very close to me so you won't be deceived."
"Don't let him fool you! " was heard.
"D-don't fall for it…he's lying to you! " a men came from behind the building.
"He isn't an examiner…I'm the real examiner." the man pointed to himself yelling.
"Look at this…" He bring out a man faced ape.
"Sigh, how stupid can you get, it's obviously a fake." Crystal says under her breath noticing killua looking at her "hm? " she tilts her head.
When she turns back she sees hisoka with his cards " I see, I see... That settles it. You're the real one "
She turned back to Satotz and sees him holding hisokas cards.
"Examiners are Hunters selected by the committee to perform this duty without pay. Any Hunter, bearing the title we seek, would have been able to block that attack. " Hisoka says.
"I shal take that as a compliment. However, should you attack me again, for any reason, I will report you for turning on an examiner. And you will be immediately disqualified. Are we clear? " Satotz narrows his eyes as he says this.
"Hai" Hisoka boredly says.
"You will be encountering such deception on a regular basis. I believe that a number of you were fooled into suspecting my identity? Do you understand? If you lose sight of me in the numere Wetlands fog,you will never reach the exams second phase. Do bear that in mind. Please follow me." Satotz explained.
He marched away with everyone following.
AN: please leave a review and if you like it put it in favorites, the pairing will be Crystal and killua, tell me if something's wrong so I can change it and tell me if I missed something too.
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