Sleepy and tired, so just going to say thankyou to everyone! Hehehehehehe a Dusky chapter. Light hearted and everything. ^^
Dusky's view
Dusky stood before Kurapika, holding a tree over her head and yelling wildly. Her voice, trained after yelling after a certain cancerous girl for the past few years whenever she sneaked out of the hospital for pineapple of all things, echoed throughout the forest. Birds literally shot into the sky to try to escape the noise. Animals living in the forest ran away for their lives, scared that the owner of the very scary noise would come after them and kill them.
Kurapika stood there, awed and just slightly intimidated by the girl standing in front of him. When his ears finally adjusted to the noise level, the first thing they understood was the oh-so-flattering phrase
'YOU IDIOT!'
But let's rewind a little so that we can understand the scenario better. Actually, let's rewind back quite a bit, back to the time way before Dusky's first yelling spree at her beloved Kurapika. Back to a time just before they found their nen sensei…
'I don't get it! What did I not see at the place?' Kurapika muttered, frustrated. The lady had just stretched out her finger to the side. There had been an odd sensation in the air, but... there had been nothing!
Dusky just shook her head.
If Wind was here, she thought, she'd tell me that I can't tell him or I'll ruin the storyline or something. Even though I really want to tell him...
'What did you not see, boy?' Dusky looked up from thinking about Wind and her obsession with keeping the story in canon and saw the silhouette of a random man standing at the top of a flight of steps opposite the ones they were sitting on. Dusky blinked, sunlight getting into her eyes. She couldn't see who the guy was, but...
'It's none of your business.' Kurapika snapped. Dusky blinked again, her brain on overdrive.
Was he…?
'Ah, none of my business huh? Then I should just leave then…' He moved and started walking away, out of the sunlight.
Dusky widened her eyes.
That martial arts outfit. That black hair. That old man face.
It was Kurapika's nen master! She couldn't just let him walk away!
'Do you know anything about not seeing something that is there?' Dusky asked, holding her breath. If the martial arts looking guy didn't stop, she'd run over and force him to answer her questions! But then, from what she remembered from the anime, he couldn't resist explaining things to people. So, Dusky reasoned, he would stop.
The martial arts looking guy stopped.
'Huh? What are you asking, girl?'
Kurapika shot her a glare. 'Don't involve others in this Dusky,' he said with a frown. Dusky sighed. Kurapika was so STUBBORN!
'I actually do know. But I'll only tell you, girl, because your boyfriend next to you is rude.'
Dusky beamed. 'Really? Kurapika, we have a lead!' Kurapika just sighed and shook his head.
'You shouldn't just believe what random people say on the street, Dusky…' He froze.
Dusky frowned. 'What, Kurapika?' Then she sensed it too. The nearly indistinguishable feeling she had gotten in the work-finding place. The slight buzzing of nen.
Kurapika immediately sprung to his feet.
'You really know something?' The buzzing stopped.
'Hey, hey, hey, I only agreed to tell the girl, not you.'
'Tell him too!'
The guy looked down at her and sighed.
'I never could refuse requests… especially from girls...' He sat down. 'Have you heard of nen?' Kurapika's eyes widened.
'But that's just in mythology books! Nen, the power that lies within the body…' Kurapika went into lecture mode. Dusky tuned out at the second sentence.
The teacher did too, interrupting Kurapika mid-lecture.
'Now, now, the first thing I can tell you that nen isn't a myth. And the second thing is a question. Why are you trying to find this thing that can't be seen?'
Dusky brightened. 'Because we were trying to find jobs as Hunters, and they didn't let us get a job application because we didn't have this weird thing. So unfair…' She pouted at the memory.
The person in front of them shifted, looking at something behind the two.
'So you are both Hunters? Can't really tell…' He muttered to himself. 'Are you two… Kurapika and Dusketha?'
'Err… How do you know our names?' Dusky looked at him suspiciously. Was he a stalker? Kurapika just continued to sit next to her.
'President Netero. That old geezer has a lot of contacts you know… And knowing him, I wouldn't be able to let you two slip by without teaching you it. So troublesome…' He ruffled his hair with a hand. 'Oh well, maybe he'll let this pass, I don't want to teach anyone yet. Too young, too young…'
The tinny metallic sounds of a mobile phone ringtone suddenly rang out from somewhere, shattering the tense atmosphere. Especially when the ringtone was the theme song of 'Sailormoon'.
Dusky watched interestedly as he took out a mobile phone and answered it. Who knew there was 'Sailormoon' in the Hunter world? And who knew that Kurapika's nen-sensei, a rough, tough, martial-arts expert was a fan of the series which had practically revolutionised the perception of manga and anime on Earth?
'Who is it? Oh hey, President. Why are you calling me? … How did you know so fast? Do you have secret cameras on everyone under you? Actually don't answer that. I don't want to know... But I don't want to teach them… What? No! That's black-mail, geezer!'
He stopped talking and listened intently to the person on the other end. Dusky leaned forward, trying to hear what was being said over the phone. She quickly leaned back and looked away nonchalantly as he started talking again.
'Alright… This is stupid, you hear me?' He sighed and hung up, slipping his phone back into a pocket hidden in his robe.
'Gaaah, this is so bothersome. Stupid old geezer... they're too young!' He stood up and brushed off his robes. 'So, are you two coming?' He said as he looked at them.
Dusky smiled and stood up. 'Yes!'
'Where?' Kurapika asked suspiciously. Dusky suppressed her urge to hit him on the head. Hard.
'I'm teaching you nen of course. You know, nen, the thing you couldn't see before? If you don't come you will never be able to see it.'
Their future nen-sensei sighed as he started walking away. 'And I planned on not taking a disciple for a few more years too…' Dusky followed him. Kurapika (finally) stood up and followed her.
'Dusky! You don't know if he's saying the truth or not!'
'But I think he is!'
Kurapika nearly tore his hair out in frustration. Why was she so trusting? Couldn't she just think things through and not act on her impulses for once?
Dusky hid her frustration underneath her smile. Why was he so stubborn and cynical? Couldn't he just accept things and go with the flow for once?
'So you mean I'm a special?' Dusky looked at her sensei, beaming happily.
'Yup. I can't tell what power you've got there. You're too weird so you've got to figure it out for yourself.' Dusky nodded, still smiling happily. Hehe, she was so special and different even her nen-sensei couldn't guess what power she had!
A voice in her head (somehow sounding like Wind) laughed at her. 'And you're proud of the fact that you're so weird even your sensei can't tell what you have?' Dusky stuck her tongue out at the voice-that-sounded-like-Wind. That was such a Wind thing to say! Dusky laughed silently. She knew Wind too well.
The snapping of branches, her sensei preparing kindling for their fire, returned Dusky to her surroundings. And reminded her of Kurapika's absence.
Dusky frowned at the direction that Kurapika had stormed off in. 'Do you think Kurapika's ok?'
'Kid wants a type he isn't born with. He'll come to his senses soon. He's too complex-minded for the type he wants anyway.'
'Really?'
'Yup. Most people that type are simple-minded.'
'Like you?'
Her sensei laughed. 'Yeah. Exactly.'
'That's definitely not Kurapika.'
'That's why I said he just couldn't be one.'
'Oh.'
Kurapika bit his finger. He stared at the stream of blood steadily flowing from his wound and grinned when his blood turned into chains. Then he fainted. Dusky, who had been sitting near him trying to figure out her ability (and wondering where all the blood flowing from his finger came from. The blood was flowing like a freaking stream and he had only bitten his finger), ran to alert the teacher.
'Sensei! Kurapika's doing something stupid again!'
'Again?' He sat up from his spot under the tree and stood up, stretching slowly. 'I'd better go and save him then. He fell from his usual spot at the waterfall?'
Dusky gaped at him. 'How do you know?'
'Nen, Dusky, nen. It's easy for a master.'
'Tch. Don't talk as if you're so high and mighty.' He shrugged.
'Better get going then.'
'Ok. Quickly, before he drowns. I can't find him anywhere.'
Dusky stood on the shore, frantically trying to see if Kurapika, who was currently being carried out of the river by their sensei, was still alive. The man, seeing her actions, chuckled quietly.
'Don't worry, he's just nen-depleted. He'll survive.'
Dusky smiled in relief. It was one thing to see it in pictures, and another to actually see him fall into the river...
And then she began to laugh.
Meanwhile, Kurapika slowly opened his eyes. 'What... Where am I? What are you doing? Why am I being carried?' He half turned his head to take in his surroundings. And then saw Dusky standing on the shore, laughing her head off.
'Oh man...' she spluttered. 'I always knew you were pretty, but you being carried like that, looking at you at from this angle, makes you look like such a pretty girl!' Dusky sat down, wiping tears from her eyes.
'Man, I really need to get you into a dress!'
Kurapika looked at her in alarm and practically leapt out of his rescuer's arms, only to stumble and fall over.
'Hey, don't try to use too much energy. Your nen's low, and so you'll be really tired for the next few days.' Their sensei hoisted Kurapika back onto his feet and half supported the blond boy, bracing him with one arm.
Dusky hurriedly got up and went to Kurapika's side, replacing their sensei to support him herself. Their sensei walked next to them and then looked down at his disciple.
'Hey, Dusky!'
'Yeah, sensei?'
'When you get him into a dress, take a picture and send it to me. '
'Sure thing, sensei.' The two of them smiled conspiratorially at each other over Kurapika's head.
Kurapika sighed.
Kurapika stood next to his sensei, his
The nen master sighed. Why was this boy so persistent on getting revenge?
A voice floated through the clearing, destroying all the tension between the pair.
'Sensei! I FINALLY got the durian you wanted! And why did it have to be durian? You know how hard it is to find durian in this season? I had to go to the village two days drive from the edge of this friggin' massive forest!'
The figure of a girl slowly emerged from the trees. The sound grew substantially as she approached.
'AND WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE DURIAN? IT'S SPIKY AND SMELLY! IT SMELLS SO STRONGLY I HAVE TO HOLD IT A METRE AWAY FROM ME! ON A STICK! YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS HOLDING IT LIKE THIS FOR DAYS? YOU BETTER BE THANKFUL I SOMEHOW CAUGHT A RIDE TO AND FROM THE VILLAGE, OR I'D BE EVEN MADDER THAN I AM RIGHT NOW!'
Dusky, reaching the pair, flung the durian at her sensei and continued to yell at him. Kurapika looked on and smiled slightly.
Dusky saw this and spun in glee inside. Kurapika had smiled! Even though it was more a lip twitch than a proper smile, but it was still a smile! His first smile in weeks! But that was inwards. Outwards she continued to yell at her sensei.
'DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THIS FRUIT FRIGGIN' COSTS? YOU BETTER PAY ME BACK 'CAUSE I'M NOW BROKE! ALL THANKS TO YOU! STUPID DURIAN! STUPID SENSEI, WANTING A FRUIT THAT TAKES FIVE DAYS AND FIFTY THOUSAND JENIS TO GET...'
Kurapika smiled again, slightly bigger than before. Dusky also saw this second smile, and decided to keep yelling at her sensei for three reasons. One, it got Kurapika smiling and so she'd keep yelling until he smiled properly. Two, it was funny to see her sensei sitting there like a kid caught stealing a cookie from the cookie jar. Three, she was really annoyed at needing five days and fifty thousand jenis to buy a durian.
So she kept on yelling.
Kurapika stood in front of Dusky. He couldn't meet her eyes.
'... I don't think you should follow me.'
'Kurapika you IDIOT!'
And that's how it went. Kurapika's eyes widened when the dodged tree shattered into splinters when it crashed into a rock.
'How can you say that I don't follow you? You STUPID BAKA!' Kurapika looked wildly around, because he didn't want to use the chains and hurt Dusky, but he didn't exactly want to face a rampaging Dusky either. Who was in the midst of destroying everything she could lay her hands on, including logs and boulders.
He ducked as a particularly large tree trunk soared right at him.
Their sensei just watched with an amused eye. Kurapika glared at him.
'ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, YOU CAN JOIN ME WITH MY JOB!' Dusky smiled sweetly, letting go of the boulder she had been holding up.
'Oh, then why didn't you say that earlier? Let's go! Bye sensei, I promise to keep in touch.' She waved at their sensei happily.
'Bye.' Kurapika nodded at the nen master, and then walked out of the clearing with Dusky by his side.
Hi! This author's note is once again by colbub's sister, because she can't be bothered again XD
Hehe... what should I tell you about her this time?
I think I'll tell you about colbub's likes :D I'd do dislikes too, but she told me not to...
colbub: Yup, just likes please.
Me: When did you ever say please... D8
colbub: Go away. Don't bother me. Just write your thing already!
Me: That's more like it 3
Anyway, colbub likes – manga/anime (obviously), Killua (also obviously), sleeping (a lot), sweet foods, salty foods, sour foods, chilli foods, spicy foods, SOME bitter foods (this is starting to look very similar to Wind's likes/dislikes from earlier in the story XDD), all foods, cooking (when she feels like it anyway), reading, watching TV (mostly animes anyway :D), being annoyed by me LOL jokes XD she hates it actually :P, playing somewhat intellectual games, playing Plants vs. Zombies, and a whole heap of other things :]
Someday I'll do a list of her dislikes.
And yes, I do like pineapple very much ^^ maybe not as much as Wind, but I like pineapple quite a lot ^^ (conversely, colbub just likes it a normal way. XD)
Hopefully that gave you another small insight into the colbub: the person :]
And that's it for now! See you next time!
colbub's sister