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 4
"...gusa! Chi...sa! Chigusa!" a pair of hands shaking her body.
'Huh? Is that you? I thought you-,' the girl wonders.
SLAP!
"Oi! Chigusa! Wake up!" a hand slaps her over her face, waking her up fully.
"Ow! What the hell was that for?!" Chigusa sits up while holding her burning left cheek.
"It's time to answer the quiz, dummy! Man, your personality totally don't match your looks... I think my standard of girls have decreased... " Leorio complains while mumbling the last sentence.
"Excuse me?! You don't need to yell at me, you know! You're practically spitting at me! Yuck! And for your information, we can't answer something if we don't know the question! Back at you dummy!" the only girl in the group sticks her tongue out at the old man.
"Why you little-!" a smoke is practically flowing out of his gorilla like nostrils.
"Enough! We are starting the quiz!" the old lady stops the quarrel in instant.
All of us pays attention at her immediately, waiting for the question to be thrown. That is the moment that she realized that another guy is standing a few feet in front of us.
'He must be taking the quiz before we are. Geez, no need to be so forceful to wake me up... He could've wake me after that dude answer the quiz,' she grumbles under her breath, 'but then again, I do need to wake up just now. She's not worth being dreamed about,'
"Here is your question. Evil villains have captured your mother and lover. You can only choose one. Select 1 for your mother, or 2 for your lover. Which will you save?" the old lady asks.
The three males in the group flinches.
'Oh, they're from good families. Good for them.' Chigusa thought
Chigusa, however, knows what her answer will be. There's no need to even think about it. Whether it's a quiz or not, her answer will not change. Never to change.
"H-How is this even a quiz?" the man in suit asks in disbelieve.
"Knock, knock! Leorio! Are you there? Has your mind flew to the moon? This is the Pre-Hunter Exam quiz we're taking if I have to remind you," the girl rolls her eyes.
"Shut up! Do you even know the answer to this impossible question?!" Leorio growls, but Chigusa ignores him.
Kurapika let out a sharp breath, confused in what to answer if that question is given to him.
The guy in the front smile smugly though and he pushes the button which make a "ting-tong" sound. The group look at him curiously in the answer he will give since it's very much impossible for them to choose. At least that's what they thought, not Chigusa.
"The answer is 1." he crosses his arm, smirking.
"Oh? Why do you say that?" the woman expresses her surprised in her voice.
"Because you can't replace your mother. But you can find another lover." he answer.
'Is he that stupid? When you're Mama dies later, who will be supporting you if it's not your lover? Your dog?' Chigusa clicks her tongue.
The old woman stays silent for awhile before, "You may pass."
... a few seconds pass.
Leorio look at the Grandpa taken aback, "What?"
"You just have to tell the old lady what she wants to hear. Adios!" he jogs away from them.
"Hey, now! That's all bull!" Leorio says angrily, "How was that the right answer? We're supposed to give the answer the old lady wants? And that's considered correct?"
Silence fills the air as the guy keeps on his argumentation.
"Hey, say something!" and the bird answer him with a "Coack!"
Leorio scoffs, "I won't put up with this sham... I'll find a different route!"
"It's too late," the old lady says with her hands folded still, "Refuse to take the quiz, and you are disqualified."
"T-That's just ridiculous! Different people would expect different answers!" the black head shouts with his eyes widens like a saucer, "There's no right answer!"
Chigusa looks around to see her companions reaction. To her disappointment, only Kurapika seems to notice what the quiz is about. She doesn't know what this quiz is nor she really care about it. She just has to keep her mouth close until the quiz is over. The girl can't trust her mouth if it is opened for a millimeter at most.
"No right answer... I see!" Chigusa hears Kurapika says to himself.
"Leorio!" Kurapika turns around, about to inform the young adult into realization.
"Stop! You make another sound and you're disqualified!" the woman stops Kurapika from explaining the truth behind the quiz
Chigusa can sense Kurapika's worry from 2 meters away, making her feel the worry as well. She shakes the feeling when she turns to look at the thinking Gon.
'I know he's not thinking about the quiz. Or is he?' She sighs at the furrowed eyebrow the black-haired boy creates.
Chigusa put her weight into her left leg when she sees Kurapika look at her after looking at Gon. She blinks at him, questioning his sudden stare.
The old woman continues her quiz, "This is the question. Your son and daughter have been kidnapped. You can only rescue one. Select 1 for your son, or 2 for your daughter. Which will you rescue?"
Chigusa sighs at the question, 'Again with this kind of question? Might as well not have kids in the future.'
Leorio's teeth were clattering madly as the old woman start her counting. He walks towards a piece of wood, swinging it around. The man is beyond angry.
"Buzz! Time's up!" the woman announces.
Leorio jumps of the ground, about to attack the old woman. Kurapika arrives just in time to stop him from hitting the examiner.
"Don't stop me Kurapika! I won't be satisfied until I've taught this hag a lesson!" Leorio pushes Kurapika with a huge force as he shouts.
"Calm down Leorio!" Kurapika tries to make the man in front of him realized the thing behind the quiz.
Leorio practically spitting at Kurapika as he argues, "How am I supposed to calm down?!"
"You'll waste our correct response!" the blonde has hit his limit.
"Heh? Correct answer?" Leorio's expression change 180 degree, from a fuming beast into a dumbfounded squirrel.
Kurapika releases a sigh as he explains, "We gave the right answer. Silence was the correct response,"
"Silence? What do you mean?" Leorio asks, still confused with the situation.
"You hit the nail on the head. There's no right answer. Precisely. This quiz had no right answer. However, we could only state 1 or 2 as the answer. In other words, we weren't meant to answer at all. Silence was the only response." Kurapika explains.
'Seriously. Leorio is that dumb in the head? Will he really be able to pass the exam?' Chigusa stares at the man's back as he question the passing of the cocky man.
'If the pre-exam is like this, the exam itself shouldn't be that hard, right?' Chigusa opens her bag in search of her mineral water bottle.
"Walk two hours and you'll reach the top. A couple lives in the cabin beneath that tree. They serve as Navigators. If you meet their standards, I believe they will guide you to the exam site." Chigusa's ears perk open at the information.
'Meet their standards... Another test. I wonder what they serve this time.' she looks up to the sky.
"Young lady." the old woman's voice brings her to face the woman.
"You mean me?" Chigusa points at herself.
"Yes. Have we met before? Your face is somewhat familiar to me." The old woman walks closer to the green head.
"I think not. You must be confusing yourself with someone else." Chigusa says.
"Oh really?" the old woman raises her hand to cup bring Chigusa's face closer.
The girl is sure that she never met this granny in her lifetime. So it must be...
The woman searches something inside her memory as she look at the girl. Her eyes widens when she finally get it.
"Ah... You're that child. I remember now. This is going to be interesting indeed," the old woman smiles warmly.
"I'm sorry, but I'm no one's child. My family is only my brothers. I don't have a parent anymore and ever. I don't even know them..." the girl feels her hands clutching themselves at a certain memory.
'Everything will change... No worries,' Chigusa believes.
The old woman smiles sadly and she removes her hand from her face.
"Don't worry, dear. Everything will be alright." she pushes the girl to the group who are watching, "Keep moving forward."
"Thank you, Granny. I will move forward. I'm going now," Chigusa let out a smile before she walks to the group.
Everything is changing.
Changing for the better.
"Oh yeah, Kurapika," Chigusa calls for the blonde.
"Yes?"
"Here." She throws a thing at him.
"Ah, I need this. Thank you," he thank her, starting to use the thing she gave him
"I fell sorry for you. Being spitted by Leorio," The green head confesses, "... twice at that and on your face. Hope that will wipe off the spit and the smell. It smells of lemon, if you hadn't noticed."
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
"Ne, Killua. I'm so bored right now... Come on! Play with me!" Lorielle whines for the umpteenth time.
"Oh please. You have lots and lots of video games inside that chair that you haven't played yet. Play them to pass time and let me sleep," Killua closes his eyes.
Lorielle sticks her bottom lip in annoyance, "Fine! Go to that dream world full of chocolate of yours..."
Killua nods knowing he will go there soon enough.
"... while I eat the real thing."
The boy's eyes open immediately at the mention of 'chocolate is here'. He turns to her, expecting to see the Robo-Choco box in her hand.
Why he says Robo-Choco there is because they share the same liking in sweets, especially the chocolate balls from Robo-Choco. In their childhood, they would eat it together in the middle of playing.
It's been awhile since he eat chocolate together with someone and he is considered very lucky to be able to eat the chocolate with his first friend again.
To his dismay, there's none.
'She tricked me... again.' Killua's eyes twitching at the sight of the laughing girl beside him.
"Hahaha! The trick still works on you! So funny!" the silver head laughs on her chair.
Killua smiles at her smiling face.
He misses her more than she could imagine.
"I lied Killua. I lied. I have the Robo-choco in my bag, so stop that pouting face of yours. Pouty face has always been my specialty, not yours!" Lorielle searches through her bag once her laughter dies down, muttering 'Eventhough you're pouty face is better than mine. I don't want to lose to you. You better not show it to anyone'
The boy chuckles since he hears her muttering. He knows that whenever he pouts in front of her, the girl will always blushes for no reason. Reasons he had yet to discover.
He only wants to see that blushing face again.
"Here. Robo-Choco!" Lorielle hands him the chocolate box.
The Zoldyck helped her get off the chair so that they can sit side by side while eating the chocolate like it used to be.
"I miss this..." Lorielle pops a chocolate ball into her mouth.
"Me too. It's been so long since we did this. When was the last time we did this?" Killua copies her action.
Lorielle tilts her face, trying to recollect the event, "I forgot..."
They chat and chat, filling each other with their past events and laughing at jokes and recalling things they had been through.
"And I answered "Really? No gold fishy inside a cup of tea?". You even remember that?!" Lorielle tells the boy one of her embarrassing moments.
"Can't get that memory out of my head! You're so innocent back then! Until I corrupted you that is." Killua grins, showing his dark teeth from all the chocolate balls.
"Bwahahahaha! Your teeth are chocolate!" the petite girl laughs.
"Yours too you know!" he joins her laugh.
"Hey! It's rude to tell a lady that, Killua!" Lorielle puffs her cheeks.
Killua look at her, confused, "You're not a lady, Lorielle. Your a girl, by a girl female, yes, but you're not a lady."
"How come?" she asks
"Look at you. You have chocolates on the side of your mouth and some on your cheek," he rolls his eyes.
"Huh? Really? Where?" Lorielle raises her hand, about to rub her cheek when Killua stops her.
"Riiiiight here," Killua brushes his thumb across her left cheek before licking the chocolate coated finger.
... Lorielle hearts explodes inside her body.
Author's Note :
An update for today!
Hope it's not too boring and you still remember this story of mine!
I've been stuck with the continuation which caused an very, very, very long update.
I thank you all who reviewed the last chapter and I'm sorry I couldn't type your names one by one. I really do appreciate your comments and I am so happy with them!
Reviews please!
Advice, comments, critics, and such are welcome in here.
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Hanabi Mirei