Sorry for the delay. But the next promised chapter will be up in a week. As always thank you for reading and reviewing as feedback is always helpful.

So without further ado...

Chapter 11

It was a beautiful day but Kurapika wasn't outside the cabin to enjoy it. He had been checking around the cabin's premise since sunrise and wasn't happy with what he was finding. By walking around he found that he wasn't able to just walk through the forest every time he walked in a certain direction he ended up back at the cabin. He guessed it was a nen trap but without his he couldn't analyze the web to make it out of the area. He climbed the tallest tree that he could make it too before winding the transition happened. He could tell that there were some cities that were in close proximity but with the trap set he wouldn't be able to make it to any of them. He tried forming a plan to make it out but none seemed feasabile without his nen he knew that escape would be improbable.

Jin had returned the day before and while there was some tension between them, Kurapika began to observe Gon's father. He could definately instantly tell the resemblance between the two. Besides the fact that they looked alike he had that wild observedness that Gon had and probably came from living on Whale island. He tried to get a gage on Jin's nen ability and how he was able to take away his nen. He knew that Jin's ability was unlike his where there was a condition and a pledge.

"Your nen changes it's attributes doesn't it?" Jin interupted his observedness.

"What makes you say that?" Kurapika wasn't too keen with Jin over this new subject but the man had his nen who knew what he could figure out about it.

"Would have sworn you were a manipulation but appears that your actually a materialization user. Which is powerful but your still new at nen, so you had to be able to change some of it's attributes to get the power you were able to use to strike at the Ryodan effectively." Jin's eyes never left Kurapika's face which quite unnerved the boy.

"What do you know about me striking at the Ryodan and whether I was effective or not." Kurapika was surprised at Jin's intuitiveness but didn't want to reveal all his cards in case of escape. He knew he had to stop thinking of Jin as Gon as there was an intense look in the older man's eyes that alerted him that he was being... stalked.

Scoffing Jin moved closer to Kurapika, "Let's just say it was a good guess. I did a bit of research on your tribe. Not a whole lot of intel and since you were young at the time of the massacre figured you might be able to shed a bit of light on some interesting rumors.

"There have always been rumors about my tribe. Those who's eyes turn red are devils and evil... not a whole lot of truth to those rumors." Kurapika tried his best to stare the other man down.

"Yes but what about when a Kurata's eyes turn red their nen becomes more powerful. It was an old tale couple decades old. Something about a young man's eyes turning red and massacring a whole slew of people. But the thing was he had scuffles before and was no where near the scale of attack he was able to reach. So him and his tribe were cast out of the norms of society. So now that I'm sitting accross from the last known Kurata figured you might be able to shed some light." Jin had sat in one of the chairs his posture and tone were relaxed but it didn't aleviate the tension.

"Can't really say much on that but you are correct about me being a materialization user. I only learned nen a year ago after the Hunter exam so can't honestly say if our red eyes change anything about our nen."

"Is that so?"

"Yes, interesting tale though could have used a little more pizzaz though. Our elders spoke oftern of why we were a seculeded tribe and why we didn't interact much with outsiders. Not that it helped much in the end."

"That's where things get tricky, no. The Genei-ryodan were responisble for your tribes massacre but they are from the Shooting Star City and with that message written out it seems your tribe took something from them. Which means they were in the right. If under my guess you were able to strike down the Ryodan it was because they were unaware and you had... a condition? Also I'm sure you had elders who were well versed in nen why they didn't..."

Crash

"Shut up!"

Jin glanced at Kurapika's outburst appeared a glass had been broken, but he continued on despite the boys obvious distress at talking about his fallen kinsmen.

"...They didn't or weren't able to protect the others."

"What do you know about it. You left your own son so you could run about. What do you know about protecting others."

"More than you, I may have left Gon but he's still alive. What about your tribe? Your still alive but not anyone else, so why did you leave."

Kurapika didn't know he had moved when his fist first connected with Jin's chin. He continued with his assault not fully in control. All he knew was he saw red. The red controlled his actions and his thoughts, his grief. It barely even registered that he was attacking a man who had nothing to do with his tribe was simply asking questions. It all came to him the guilt of leaving when his tribe was horrible tortured than massacred, endangering Gon, Killua, Leorio and Senritsu for the sake of his revenge, the fact that both Gon and Killua could have easily been killed. And now he was attacking Gon's father as he had the leader of the Ryodan. But this was different when he had hit Kuroro there was the danger of his friends lives in the balance so he was unable to lose control the way he just had. Every action and detail in York New had to be controlled had to be exact as it was a knifes edge. But here and now he was just red.

It wasn't until he was slapped accross the face that the red vanished. Jin was unharmed from his outburst but the look in his eyes was unnerving. He couldn't quite place the emotion in them.

"And you just confirmed that little rumor. Get some rest." With that Jin left.

Kurapika could only stare at the spot Jin had been. He had been manipulated the man had pushed him hit all the sore spots and got the answer that he wanted. He still didn't know Jin's abilities but he guessed he was able to read his captured nen and despite his best effort, when his eyes went red Jin probably found out more about his nen than he had wanted the other man to know.

Defeated Kurapika fell to the floor. He raked his mind of what he should have done, could've done as he had done before. Both the guilt of past and present which caused him to pick a part his actions. It was hours until he was able to fall into a fitful nightmarish sleep. It wasn't until the sun was peeking through the windows that he put himself back together piece by piece. And started to check the perimeter.

With his new information gathered he began to return to the cabin to come up with a good plan against a man who seemed to always have something up his sleeve. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he was tackled into the dirt by an unknown advesary with a strange buzzing noise.

Cursing at his lack of attention a flash of blue and yellow was the last thing he saw before everything went black.