Disclaimer: HunterXHunter doesn't belong to me, they belong to Yoshihiro Togashi and some other people. The title is not mine, too. It's from (one of) the HxH Vocal Album.

My horribly corrupted plot bunny ran away and I had to get a new one. This one's a fluffy pink bunny named Pochi-chan. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

Kurapica is MALE.

Note: This takes place after Killua and Gon make the bet that whoever gets to have the least money in two weeks will have to do whatever the other wants him to do, and yes, they're still looking for Greed Island. The four are here, and a couple of Geneiryoudan members, too, if I could manage to get their characters right... AND, this is my FIRST, I repeat, MY FIRST HxH fanfic... so... well... you get the point...

Hunters in Wonderland
by Reia Shiioru [co-written with RikaZ]

WARNINGS: This fic is a parody that might lead to AU-ness, OOC-ness and shounen ai to yaoi. I've added three new characters to this story, and they're MINE.

Chapter 6: Curiouser and Curiouser...

"Shouldn't we start looking for the Colonel?" Gon asked. "Hyso-cat said that he'd be near here."
"Sure," Killua replied. "At least we'd get back to our normal size when we do."
Killua jumped off the tree branch he was sitting on. Gon flashed a small smile at his friend.

"Where should we start?" Gon asked.

"The cat told us that that Coloner person was near here, so we should start a perimeter search," Killua replied.
"Perimeter search? What's that?" Gon asked, clueless.
"A perimeter search, Gon," Killua started to explain. "Is when you look for something around the place you're looking for it," someone finished for him.

They both started to look for where the voice came from. Killua's eyes had narrowed.

"Dare da?"



"It's me, Apple," the pink haired Handmaiden entered Kurapica's room. "You wanted to see me, sir?"

Kurapica's room was clean and neat. Not because of the fact that he was always clean and neat, but all his things were now packed in one bag.

"Yes, I called you to tell the Queen that I am leaving," Kurapica said calmly, slinging his bag over his shoulder.

"Oh," Apple said. She didn't look surprised. The more reason why Kurapica doubted this girl. She seemed to know something he didn't.

Apple reached in her pocket. "Take this with you, then," she said, handing Kurapica a small key dangling from a thin, leather string.

"What's this?" Kurapica asked, examining the key.

"The key to this house. When you've reached the end of your journey, you might find your way back here," she said. She bowed and left. Kurapica stood there, the key in his hand.

"Curiouser and curiouser..."



Illumi paced back and forth the room. He was interrogating the prisoner for the Queen.

"Will you let me out now?" Leorio whined. He'd had too much of this. "No," came his reply. "If what you say is true, we have to keep you in custody. We cannot let anyone else know that you are from another world now, do we?"

Leorio groaned. If this goes on, the only way he'd be able to get out of this place was to escape. Which gave him the idea. Leorio looked around for anything he could use to knock the black-haired white-wearing bunny-eared Zoldick and escape. The window around eight feet high was accessible by stepping up the table. There were a bunch of broken pieces of wood, but Leorio didn't know how hard he was supposed to hit the Zoldick to render him unconscious...

Leorio turned to face Illumi again-- just to see that Lady Luck was on his side. The bunny-eared Zoldick was gone! Now was his chance to escape! He dashed for thetable, climbed on top of it and jumped out the window. He landed on a patch of green, healthy grass and sprinted off into a maze of trees and wild shrubbery. At the end of one very long and straight road, very much lined with trees and wild shrubbery, Leorio spotted a small group of gardeners with buckets of red paint beside them. They were arguing.

"You're too slow! Her Majesty will be inspecting the garden in a short while!" yelled one to the other three.
"You're too noisy, that's why we're working slow!" another snapped.
"Both of you, be quiet or we'll never get any work done!" the other commentend.
The other gardener just shrugged, picked up a bucket of paint and a paintbrush and started dabbing the paintbrush in the bucket. He then started brushing lightly against one of the white buds on a shrub.

Leorio thought they were too stupid to think they can make white roses red by just painting them. But then, he approached them to ask directions. "Excuse me, can you tell me how to get out of this maze?" he asked.

"Why of course," said the first.
"What are you saying, he was talking to me!" said the second.
"No, no, no. You're both mistaken. He was talking to me!" said the third.
The three started arguing again. The fourth sighed and pointed to his left.

"Thank you," Leorio said, sweatdropping.

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Tsuzuku

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I need you comments, your reviews, your suggestions. No flames or I feed you to Pochi-chan.

A/N: Uhm, blame the College Entrance Exams for taking too long to work on this. Ateneo almost killed me with their math exam.

[10/14/02]