[[ Enjoy lovelies!

Also, SoulXHunter: The flashback occurs at different moments in time.

So, she had already started training when she went to Hisoka's house.

And, romance will come soon, be patient~

PS. I am not that great at writing out the fight scenes I see in my head so bear with me please.

Thank you for the reviews dear! Greatly appreciated. ]]

Zevil Island: Day Two.

Bring! Bring! Bring! A familiar ringtone broke the heavy silence of the forest.

"Hisoka," a robotic-like voice called out from his walkie-talkie, "Have you taken your target's tag yet?"

"No, not yet."

"You don't even know who your target is, do you?" On the other end of the walkie-talkie is Gittarackur.

"No."

"Do you want me to tell you?"

"No, it doesn't matter. I'll just find three others to hunt."

"I see. Do you think Tsubaki has your tag?"

"No. If she did, she wouldn't have carelessly approached me yesterday."

"Oh? The Princess caught up to you? What happened?"

"Nothing really."

"Liar."

Hisoka gave a smirk, "Just reminiscing about the past, is all."

"The past, huh? Oh, have you told her yet? That she's been followed?

"No, only to watch herself. She'll find out on her own."

"And if she doesn't?"

"You tell me, you were her partner back then."

"She'll probably fall back into the darkness, she was taught to submerge into the darkness if her life was threatened. We saw a glimpse of it when she almost decapitated that man who called her weak in the tower. Remember?"

Hisoka thought back to that moment and remembered the cold darkness that took over Tsubaki's eyes. He gave a smirk and replied, "It seems she didn't only betray me but herself."

The sun was beginning to set on the second day and Tsubaki decided it was time to look for her target. She had to find the person in possession of badge #78. As Tsubaki was roaming around the island, kunai knives were swiftly targeting her but she was able to deflect the weapons as she quickly unsheathed her katana.

The air was still for a mere five seconds before an assemblage of kunai knives made way toward their target in multiple directions. Gripping onto her katana in her right hand, Tsubaki conjured her fan in her free hand and managed to deflect the kunai knives promptly.

Dematerializing her fan, she scanned the trees and a sudden shadow lunged at her. The clashing of their katana's echoed throughout the trees. The pressure between the two was heavy; causing them both to jump back due to the recoil.

"Who are you?" Tsubaki questioned as she narrowed her eyes at the masked man before her.

"How can you forget me?" The man said in a mocking voice as he proceeded to take his mask off. The man possessed piercing ruby red eyes and jet-black hair that flew in the direction of the wind. However, one of his eyes had a scar running through it; it seems to have developed many years ago.

"That scar…Ryuga? Is that you?" Tsubaki lowered her guard for a moment and Ryuga, taking the advantage, lunged toward Tsubaki.

Tsubaki barely managed to dodge the attack as she managed to jump over Ryuga by using his shoulder as support.

"It's been a while, hasn't it, Hime?" Ryuga turned back to face Tsubaki and his eyes were filled with anger and resentment.

"Has Maya ordered you to come here to capture me?"

"Capture? Haha! How long has it been since you looked at your wanted flier?" Ryuga pulled a crumpled piece of paper from inside his jacket pocket and threw it towards Tsubaki.

The paper was a recently made wanted poster that depicts a photo of Tsubaki and the words: "Treasonous Traitor. Reward: 1OO Billion Jenny. Wanted: Dead or Alive."

"Dead or alive, huh? Then, I guess Maya found the loophole." Tsubaki said as she tossed the paper aside.

"Turn yourself in, Hime. Make this easier for everyone."

"Over my dead body."

"That can be arranged." The two of them tightly gripped their katana's and their swords clashed once again.

Swiftly and gracefully, both wielders dodged each other's attacks.

"Why do you think your aunt sent me after you after all this time, Hime?" Ryuga asked while their swords continued to clash.

"The only people that were any competition were those in the top five. She probably thought I'd go easy on you and she knew you had a grudge against me."

Ryuga gave a smirk as the swords made contact, "Erupt, Hiryuu. (Fire Dragon; Google Translate)"

A surge of power erupted from Ryuga's katana, pushing Tsubaki away from the power. As the smoke and sand was starting to clear the area, Ryuga's katana was cloaked in a fiery blaze. He swung his katana towards Tsubaki and orbs of fire made their way to their target.

Tsubaki quickly dropped her katana and conjured both her fans as she circled them around her creating a barrier of fire that withstood Ryuga's orbs of fire.

"I didn't think you'd resort to using Nen." Tsubaki commented as she dispelled her fire barrier.

"Nen is what made me drop from 3rd to 6th in our group's ranking. The masters, they only wanted one of each attribute and they decided to deem you more worthy. Ha! How ridiculous. I'll prove to them that they made the wrong choice, after all, our conditions are completely different, aren't they? You being a conjurer and all."

Tsubaki's eyes widened and as she was caught off guard, Ryuga threw another orb of fire at her. As Tsubaki deflected the orb of fire with her fan, there were kunai's hidden in the fire that struck at Tsubaki and cut her on her torso as well as her upper arms.

"Che." Tsubaki took her fans and threw them towards Ryuga. They continued to circle Ryuga and as Tsubaki blew on the string, Ryuga was surrounded in a fiery vortex. Picking up her katana, she quickly lunged toward Ryuga but a sudden blast of energy threw Tsubaki into a tree.

"Destroy, Hiryuu." Ryuga pierced his katana into the ground and the ground grew hot. Fire blazed from his katana and even the trees were beginning to burn.

"Remember, Hime, whereas your fire can't kill, mine can!" Ryuga yelled as a ring of fire surrounded Tsubaki. The oxygen was slowly vaporizing and Ryuga made his way to attack, Tsubaki, however, was able to shield herself from the attack with the use of her katana but the pressure was so intense, the ground beneath her started to crumble.

Using her strength, Tsubaki pushed back her opponent and kicked him away from her, knocking him back into the ground.

Tsubaki called for her fans, and spun them in the opposite direction of the ring of fire to try and extinguish it but while her focus was on her fans, Ryuga threw a tag with the word "seal" written on it in Tsubaki's direction.

The tag attached to Tsubaki's kimono and her fans immediately dispelled.

"A sealing tag?" Tsubaki questioned in shock.

"A lot's changed when Maya made you the Machiyo's target." Ryuga explained as he stood on his feet.

Grabbing onto her katana, Tsubaki lunged at Ryuga but he countered with multiple orbs of fire and Tsubaki's katana was unable to withstand such attacks, knocking the katana out of her hand.

Now weaponless, Tsubaki was quickly grabbed and Ryuga slammed her against a tree. Extinguishing his fire and sheathing his katana, he looked into Tsubaki's eyes and smirked at her, "Looks like our masters made a mistake didn't they?"

"You think you can kill me? Try, I dare you." Tsubaki instigated.

Ryuga's anger returned and he started to swiftly punch and kick Tsubaki to the point that she was knocked against another tree.

Blood started to stream down from her lips as she was lying on the ground. She looked into Ryuga's eyes and said with a sneer, "Is that the best you got?"

Ryuga used his flash steps to quickly throw Tsubaki against a tree and began to choke her.

"I think its fate we meet here like this, don't you think, Hime?"

Tsubaki glared at Ryuga and attempted to kick him on his torso but there was no effect.

"You think that a weakling like you can defeat me in hand-to-hand combat?"

"I wasn't trying to," Tsubaki commented as she looked down at her hand and in her grip was Ryuga's katana. Ryuga immediately let Tsubaki go and jumped away from her, readying his kunai knives in his hand.

"Know something Ryuga," Tsubaki began as she regained her footing. Ryuga looked into Tsubaki's eyes and they grew dark. Fear filled Ryuga when he saw Tsubaki lunge toward him. "My fire may not have the ability to kill," Panicking, Ryuga threw his kunai's at Tsubaki and she deflected them rapidly as she got closer to him, "But I do." Tsubaki pierced Ryuga in his chest as blood splattered on Tsubaki's face and hair.

"Gah!" Ryuga yelled in pain, as he looked Tsubaki in her eyes. The cold darkness of her deep purple eyes frightened Ryuga and that was the last thing he saw as he fell to his death.

Tsubaki tossed his katana to the side and stumbled backwards as the light returned to her eyes. She felt lightheaded and collapsed not too far from Ryuga's dead body.

Watching from the shadows was Gittarackur. He walked toward Tsubaki and released a surge on Nen on the sealing tag that shattered immediately. He picked up Tsubaki's katana and threw it beside her as he picked up Ryuga's dead body. As he was about to make his leave, he heard something drop from Ryuga's body and it was an applicant badge that read #78. Gittarackur took a moment to look at the badge and kicked it toward Tsubaki. He then proceeded to dispose of Ryuga's body.

Meanwhile, Hisoka, who was injured in Trick Tower, has not yet made his move to find his own target. He sat against a tree with a swarm of Hemotropic Butterflies surrounding him.

"Well, come on out." Hisoka begins.

Gon, who was hiding in the bushes following Hisoka, reacts with surprise thinking that Hisoka had discovered him.

"I know you're there. If you won't come out, I'll come to you." Hisoka begins to stand and starts walking toward the bushes in Gon's direction.

As Gon prepares to attack Hisoka, another man stands from within the bushes. He has short black hair and is wearing a yellow forehead band. Gon was surprised; he didn't even sense him there. The man's name was Gozu. He took out his spear and challenged Hisoka to a duel.

Hisoka gave a smile. "You'll die"

Gozu stepped forward and prepared himself to fight. As Gon was hiding in the bushes he prepares for his chance to snatch Hisoka's badge. Gozu lunges his spear at Hisoka and Hisoka leaps back dodging the attack. Gozu continues to lunge at Hisoka but his efforts were futile. Hisoka was able to dodge every single attack.

"Hisoka… explain yourself." He says through heavy breaths. "Why won't you attack me?"

"If I continue to avoid your attacks, you'll die eventually."

Gozu replied with a shocked expression as a swarm of butterflies landed on his body.

"I can tell from the swarm of Hemotropic Butterflies that your wounds are grave. Someone else has already dealt you the fatal blow, yes? Though I do understand your desire to die in battle."

Gozu fell to his knees at those words. He barely had the strength to remain standing. "If you… If you understand so well, why do you still refuse to fight me?"

"I have no interest in the dead." Hisoka says straightforwardly.

"What? I'm not dead yet!"

"You're already dead. It's in your eyes." Hisoka then turns away and walks to the broken tree stump Gozu has cut when attacking Hisoka. "Bye-bye"

Gozu tries to utilize his strength to keep himself on his feet, in his last efforts to deal one last attack to Hisoka; a needle was thrown at his neck, followed by many needles afterwards.

"Sorry about that" A voice called out from behind. "I carelessly let him escape."

"Liar. He probably begged you to grant him one final wish, yes?"

"Well, I felt sorry for the guy." It was Gittarackur; he then walked towards Hisoka's side. "Given that he was already dead."

"You should cease pitying enemies who serve no purpose."

"You've done it before, haven't you? You've walked away from opponents before finishing them off."

"I have a purpose. I'm not interested in people who serve no purpose. I only spare those whose deaths would go to waste. What about his tag?"

"Oh. I already took it. I have six points now so I don't need this one. You can have it." Gittarackur reached into his pocket and gave Hisoka one of the circular badges reading "8O"

"Whose badge is this?"

"it belonged to some guy that tried to snipe me. He ticked me off so I killed him. Well, then…" Gittarackur started to remove the needles from his face altering his appearance; emotionless black eyes and silk long black hair. "Ahh. I feel much better." Gittarackur then dug a hole with his bare hands. "Well, I'll just sleep here until the final day. Good luck! Oh! Also, the moon was attacked."

Gon reacted to those words with shock. The moon? Gon looked up at the sky at the moon and saw it brightly shining in the sky.

"By?" Hisoka asked with no interest in his voice.

"Who else, the Machiyo. It seems I was right, she submerged into the darkness to kill her opponent."

The Machiyo? Gon questioned, where have I heard that before? Ah, Tsubaki was talking about them earlier. Then, is the moon Tsubaki?

"Where is she now?"

"She's lying unconscious somewhere. It seems she had a pretty rough fight. The Queen seems to have changed the condition in which Tsubaki return to the palace as well." Gittarackur explained as he threw the wanted flier towards Hisoka.

Hisoka opened the flier and narrowed his eyes at its content. Dead or Alive, huh?

"I just thought you'd want to know but she still has that bracelet you gave her. You think she still believes in its power?"

"If she didn't, would she still have it?"

"I think you know the answer to that question since you were the one that gave her the bracelet in the first place."

"Don't you have a hole to sleep in, Illumi?"

Gittarackur, whose real identity is actually Illumi Zoldyck, responds with a smile and buries himself in the hole he dug up.

Hisoka tosses the flier away and gets up from the tree stump, "Well, I need two more points. I suppose I should go hunt someone." Hisoka makes his way deeper into the forest and reaches the top of a cliff and Gon follows closely behind.

As Hisoka scans the area, he sets sights on Kurapika and Leorio. "Mitsuketa~" He said in a sing-songy voice with a smile.