Hanabi Mirei owns nothing of Hunter x Hunter.

Though, fortunately, she owns this fiction of hers together with her fictional characters. :D

This story is based on the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime.

Enjoy! XD

Merry-Go-Round Wonders

Chapter 3

"Killua!" The silver haired girl hugs the boy in front of her.

"H-Huh? W-Wait a sec..." the boy looks at her in disbelieve.

'Silver hair almost similar to his with blue streaks in the ends... Light grey irises... Very pale skin... Don't have an arm and leg...'

His eyes widening in recognition, "Lorielle?!"

"Hehe, took you long enough to recognize me," Lorielle grins.

"Wait, what are you doing here? More importantly, why are you here?" Killua raises his eye brow, still not believing that Lorielle is here right in front of him.

'She shouldn't be here, right? I mean, why would she?!' he thinks.

"What does it look like? Of course I'm taking the Hunter Exam!" Lorielle pouts and let go of the embrace.

'That pouty face... This is definitely Lorielle,' the boy says in his head, confirming more about the girl.

Killua smiles his boyish smile as he pinches both Lorielle's cheeks, "Hahaha! You still wears that pout expression eventhough you're already twelve! I miss that pouty face you have,"

Lorielle blushes at both his last sentence and the sudden contact of his fingers on her cheeks, but she tries to pry his hands off of her face, "Shotp ight! Igh hults! Ang Am nog eveng twev yez!"

"Huh? What did you say? Can't hear you," the young assassin says even though he knows very well what she just said.

'Stop it! It hurts! And I'm not even twelve yet!' he imagine her saying those sentences clearly.

Lorielle huffs when he finally released her hurting cheeks. She rubs them gently in attempt to sooth the pain

"Oh, come on, Lorielle. It wasn't that bad," the boy says only to earn his friend sticks her tongue to him while trying to get back to her flying chair.

He rolls his eyes at the silver headed girl childish behavior and helps her up the chair.

"Oof! Thanks, Killua," she thank him after she gets comfortable on the chair.

"Sure. Hey, why aren't you wearing your prosthetic arm and leg, Lorielle? You know you should wear them, right?" Killua narrows his eyes.

"Don't tell me you ran away when they changed the prosthetic limbs because you can't bear the ant biting pain?" he teases.

"What? Of course not. Sensei said that I have to not use them in the exam," Lorielle remembering the phone call yesterday.

"Listen, Lorielle. You have done very well in every training I give you, but only with you wearing your prosthetic arm and leg for each of them. I believe it's time to stop using those Aegis machines and learn how to live without them. You never know when you have to let go of them and continue living because of various reasons. So that it will not come to a shock in the future, I consider that you are ready to learn that lesson. Why do I choose you to enter the Hunter Exam? It is the perfect reality images of the harsh future you might be going through. Do you understand me, Lorielle? No Aegis machine until you pass the exam,"

"That's what he said to me," Lorielle tells Killua.

"But then why are you allowed to bring that flying chair?" asks the boy, confusion appears clearly in his voice.

"Because he also said "Since you will be the only heir of the Reinharts, shouldn't you use this opportunity to build a technology of your own that is not an arm or leg for the exam?"" the girl tries to imitate her Master's deep and low voice and his poker face expression.

She fails miserably at the imitation of voice, but very successful in the poker face expression and that causes Killua to burst into a fit of laughter.

"Oh... So what he actually means by all those long talk is just you have to use a technology you made yourself except for arm and leg?" Killua asks, still trying to contain his laughter.

"Yep," Lorielle nods.

Silence fills the air around them before...

"That flying chair is a technology you made by yourself?!" the silver haired boy shouts, not believing.

"Quiet down, Killua! You're hurting my eardrums! And of course I made it!" she now rubs her ears.

Loud whispers bark around them as many examinees tried to hold their surprise.

"Shit?! That little squirt build that high tech chair?!"

"That's gotta be a joke, man!"

"There's no way a kid like that builds that. Of course she asked her Mommy and Daddy to buy that thing for her! I mean look at her!"

"She only have half of her limbs! And she thinks that she can pass the exam because of a flying chair that can do nothing but fly over here and there like a bird!"

"That little girl gonna be damned in the First Phase I bet!"

Laughter echoes all around the place after the last two statements. The same people are now joking around about the girl. Throwing nasty insults and laughs their butts off.

Killua's eyes narrows at the laughing men, feeling anger towards them.

So what if the girl has half her limbs?

Is it something that can be laughed about?

'How about I make them feel the pain of only having an arm and leg?' the boy turns towards them.

A hand grabs his arm, stopping his intention to wreck a hand and a leg of the crowd in front of them. Blue eyes meet light grey ones, challenging each other to look away. None gives up though. They still stare at each other with intensity in one side, while calmness in the other.

"Why?" asks Killua, venom dripping in his voice.

"Hmm... Let's see... Because with C-101, I will get the last laugh when they fail not long after this," the girl smiles innocently, not getting any effect from Killua's venom.

"What? Whaddaya mean?" he asks, his anger decreases a bit.

"Don't worry, Killua. You'll get it once the First Phase commence," she giggles.

Killua only chuckles at the girl beside him, his anger has gone far away, "Whatever you say, Lorielle,"

'I can never get bored with her by my side,' the twelve years old boy follows the girl to go in the middle of the crowd because she thinks they are blocking the way out of the elevator.

'How long has it been, really?'

When they are walking (flying in Lorielle's case) to the not so crowded space, a rather too friendly voice turned them around.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

"Gon! Wait up! I'm coming with you!" a voice calls for the boy in green beside Chigusa.

Both the female teenager and boy turns around to see a blonde haired person jogs towards them.

'Err... Is it a 'he' or a 'she?' Chigusa asks herself, 'I can't tell... Maybe after hearing the name, I can...'

"Ah! Kurapika!" Gon waves at him.

'K-Kurapika? That's a unisex name!' the teenager furrows her eyebrows, 'Uhm... How about a closer look at that person's body?'

Chigusa waits for the blonde to arrive and Gon engages the blonde in a short conversation.

'Time to check!' Chigusa's eyes turns into focus mode.

Cat eyes...

Smooth face skin...

Can't see the Adam apple...

Can't really tell if the person has a girl's chest or not because of the blue thingy... It can be a late bloomer or simply has no chest though.

Can't see the size of the wrists...

The size of the shoes are rather small for a boy in puberty...

It must be a-!

"Excuse me?" a not so deep voice says sternly, stopping her effectively from staring at the blonde.

Chigusa looks at the blonde emotionless as if to tell she did nothing wrong.

"Why are inspecting my body?" the person says in discomfort.

"Oh. Sorry, I was just daydreaming. My teacher says that when I daydream I will always looking up and down anything in front of me which happens to be you. I apologize for the discomfort," Chigusa lies smoothly.

"I see. My name is Kurapika," the blonde holds out his hand.

'He speaks in male way of talking... (A/N: I'll explain this one at the Author's Note) Urgh! Why must this be so confusing?!' Chigusa's eyes twitches quickly.

"Chigusa... Nice to meet you, Kurapika-san," the girl nods.

"Please, just call me Kurapika. No suffix," he smiles.

"What? But aren't you older than me?" Chigusa blinks in surprise.

'Isn't he older than me? Oh, and I'll just stick with a 'he' until I can ask Gon what gender is Kurapika-san,' she says to herself.

"Aren't we around the same age? I'm seventeen," Kurapika raises an eyebrow.

'We're in the same age! I turned seventeen three months ago...' the green-haired girl says.

"I'm seventeen too. Then Kurapika it is," she gives out a smile.

'Seriously? An unknown gendered person is now walking beside me. Oh! Could it be?!' Chigusa pretends to see something interesting at Kurapika's right which is a view of green grass and wild bushes.

'He's actually a she but she cuts her hair short, hides her chest with rolls of bandages under that full-body training suit because she didn't want to be recognized?! She wants to see the love of her life which is an examinee in the Hunter Exam!' her eyes mentally widening at the thing her brain comes up.

'That must be it! She ran away from home because she loves a man very much but her parents didn't allow her to get together with the man! Poor, Kurapika if that is really happening...' the green head mentally puts her fist on her open hand in an I-understand-pose.

"Hmm? Is there something in the bushes?" Kurapika looks at the direction Chigusa is looking, curious at her sudden behavior.

"It's nothing. I just thought I saw spiky black leaves in one of the bushes... Must be my imagination," she shrugs.

Kurapika tensed for a second there before all three of them walk up the hill towards the cedar tree. Not even 5 minutes of walking that another shouts can be hear behind them. Chigusa turns her head to see an adult wearing a blue suit carrying a suitcase. He also wears round glasses.

"You don't have to stop, you know. Just let him catch up to us," Kurapika tells her.

"Oh. If you say so," Chigusa continues her walking next to the blonde.

"Well, I knew you guys would be lonely without me. And it's no fun traveling alone. So I decided to stick around you guys a while long-," the man finally catches up with them and he pauses almost at the end of his blabbering.

"Wait. I haven't seen you around in the ship. Who are you, beautiful?" the man flirted with Chigusa.

The poor girl shudders at the flirt the black haired guy gives her, "C-C-Chigusa, Sir,"

"The name's Leorio. Pleasure to meet you," he winks at her.

Chigusa's hair at the back of her neck stood up in instant and she turns to Kurapika for help.

'That man is so disgusting! Help me, Kurapika!' Chigusa bit her bottom lip.

He only sighs and tells her to ignore the man.

"He's not worth listening to. Just ignore him," the boy says earning a muffled laughter from the girl and a loud 'Hey!' from Leorio.

After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at a seemingly deserted town. No one is outside on the road.

"This is a creepy place," Leorio looks around, "I don't see a single person,"

"No. There are plenty here," Gon says as he stops together with Kurapika.

"What?" Leorio says, increasing his guard up for any attack.

'Hmm? I feel a large presence on the left...' Chigusa look at the direction where she feels the presence of many people.

As soon as she does, a door opens revealing people with white clothes and weird masks pulling something from the door. Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio change to their on-guard position while the girl still standing calmly. They keep coming and when they finally stop, an old lady is sitting in the center while on her sides, the people are holding many kinds of instruments. One of them though, hold a bird.

"W-What's with the freak show?" Leorio asks, confused.

Gon and Kurapika act calmly but cautiously as well.

"Exciting..." the grandma says with eyes close.

"E-exciting?" Leorio stares at the old woman.

"Exciting..." she says once again.

"Exciting." Leorio repeats and gulps right after saying it.

"Exciting two-choice quiz!" the woman opens her eyes widely as she exclaims scarily.

And then the 6 people besides the old woman plays their instruments in funny tone.

Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio stares at the little musical show oddly. Not expecting any of this peculiar show.

They stay quiet until the whole tone tunes out. Surprising them, after the bird chirps, ending the little tone, a sound of a body landed to the ground appear right behind Gon and Kurapika and beside Leorio.

It seems like the weird masks with long different color hair and 3 circle holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth, wit the freaky show proofs to be too hard for Chigusa to handle.


Author's Note :

Hello again, readers!

Like the little thing I give for Killua and Lorielle? Or do you find it more amusing of Chigusa's thoughts about Kurapika? Or perhaps the girl's fear of weird masks? xD

Oh yeah, for the part with the A/N in the middle of Chigusa's thought, I'll explain it right here!

You see, in Japanese, there two ways of talking. Boy's talk and Girl's talk. In this case, an introduction. This example is what commonly used.

A boy will say : "Ore wa Kurapika." or "Boku wa Kurapika."

While A girl will say : "Watashi wa Kurapika." or "Atashi wa Kurapika."

Both means "I am Kurapika," just with a different way :D Checking here, please? x.x In case I'm wrong...

What can I say? I enjoy writing this chapter a lot! I keep smiling and grinning when I type the funny parts! I do hope you enjoy it as much as I do :3

An announcement I would like to say is that I am not sure if I can do an update next week because I have a busy high school student orientation week since I'll be a high school student tomorrow (I feel old...). Therefore, I publish this chapter sooner to make it up the lost that might happen.

Just pray for me and wish me luck for the orientation... Wishing everything will go well and I can do an update next week!

Reviews please! I read every one of them and reply as soon as I can! For those of you guest reviewers, I will reply to your review in the author's note :D

For Micha'lea : Thank you for the review in the last chapter! X) Hahaha, I'm doing my best to write both :3 For that question, it will be answered in the future chapters so stay tuned! XD OMG! You know me so well?! O.o" How do you know about that? Are you a stalker? You don't seem like it... Whoops! I have just imitated Alluka's imaginary answer! x.x I'll be waiting for your future reviews! :D Keep reviewing please!

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Thank you for reading and see you next time!

Hanabi Mirei :D