Got off my lazy butt (hey, it is the holidays) and started typing. Spurred on by reviewers, THANK YOU! Expect semi-regular updates from now on! ^^

Thanks to reviewers, my sister for beta-ing, good old friend RGNN and every one who reads! (no crappy excuses this time, just try... enjoy? *cheesy grin*)

My first alert point came from Hisoka's expected dialogue.

I had been enjoying the fight (wincing in all the right places, you know) and ignoring Efoe's loud yelling in Wing-sensei's ear (to my amusement, Wing-sensei had put nen around his ear to protect himself from the overloud baka that is Efoe) when it came to the part of the fight where Hisoka predicted Gon's Hatsu type.

'You're… in the Enhancement type, aren't you?' Hisoka said with his cool, creepy (pedo) smile. I expected Gon's finger and weirded out expression as he pointed at Hisoka and said "How do you know?"

But instead, Gon tilted his head to the side and asked, (blinking in surprise) 'Enhancement?'

And then I knew something was wrong. Something was very very wrong.

Gon was supposed to have strengthened his nen so much that Wing-sensei called the two of them to learn their Hatsu types. Then their nen increases in their training process, to give Gon even a little (miniscule, really…)bit of leeway in his fight with Hisoka. But Gon was now here, standing there with his head tilted to the side, saying that he didn't know his Hatsu type.

What was going on here?

As I watched Hisoka's eyes light up from finding an unripe apple strong enough to hit him hard without even knowing what Hatsu was (gosh, his pedo-ness seemed to have increased a hundred-fold because of this), I tried to figure it out in my seat at the stands.

I had been out for a few days. When I woke up, Killua had said he was going to learn Hatsu, but then I had gone into Wing-sensei's room first to ask about my rings that stalked me everywhere, and then it was Gon's fight.

Does that mean that… they haven't learnt Hatsu?

The storyline has finally changed? I thought it was strange when I had arrived and nothing had changed (since it's practically a cardinal sin to enter a story and not mess up the storyline). But…

Oh gosh, Gon's going to get crushed…

And he got crushed indeed

'Gon!' Killua ran to Gon's side in worry. 'Are you okay?' Gon smiled up at Killua.

'I am ab-so-lute-ly fine!'

Killua whacked Gon's head. 'I was worried you know!' Gon grinned up at him.

'I know.'

I followed a little slowly, a frown on my face. The storyline had changed. It had changed. Because of me. I bet they had said something along the lines of "Let's wait for Wind so we can learn it together!" and didn't learn it first.

It was just like them to do so, anyway.

'Hisoka hit really lightly, so I'm not that injured,' Gon explained, smiling innocently. Then he coughed out blood.

Real convincing, Gon.

The doctors fussed about us agitating the patient and hushed us out. Gon looked over their heads and saw me, then smiled at me. I smiled brightly and waved. Gon must have found it weird that I hadn't rushed to him like Killua did.

'Get better by tomorrow, Gon!' I called out over all the irritated doctors' heads. The doctors angrily hushed me (again), but Gon smiled and nodded. Then he got pushed down by an annoyed looking nurse and so we were all suddenly standing in the corridor, staring at Gon's closed door.

'So... let's go?' Zushi asked.

And so we did, leaving the sickly looking corridor where nurses and doctors were bustling around. I was peering down a shadowy corridor which looked really shady when I suddenly felt a stab of pain and saw a white room, with gossamer curtains floating in the afternoon breeze and the eyes of an excited kid holding a card when suddenly…

'Wind! The elevators here! What are you staring into space for?' I shook my head and ran to the others.

'Sorry. Thinking.' They all just shrugged and accepted it.

I looked weirdly at them. Did I stare off into space so much that they just accepted it...? Then I stared off into space again.

It was evening here. But I had seen the afternoon. This hospital was green. I saw white. And the little kid definitely looked like…

Tama. My little brother that I had never met.

I had seen… from my body on Earth?

We were learning Hatsu.

'Blah blah blah, so now who wants to try it first?' We all looked at the glass cup with the leaf floating on top simultaneously. Then Gon brightened up.

'Let's decide with scissors paper rock!' Zushi and Killua were the first to agree, with me reluctantly.

I know Gon's going to win anyway…

And guess what? Gon won. He stared at us triumphantly as he held a paper and everyone else had rock (oh why oh why did I choose rock?) and skipped to the cup. Yes, he was so happy he skipped.

Skipped

We all looked excitedly as Gon put his hands around the cup and concentrated. The water bulged up and out as the water was reinforced and increased. Then it spilt over and Wing-sensei smiled.

'You're Enhancement, like me, Gon.' Gon's eyes widened out comically.

'Does that mean Hisoka was right? How did he know?' He practically yelled out, his back plastered to the opposite wall.

We all laughed at him before he unplastered himself from the wall pouting (Gon was so cute!) then Zushi went next. It was similar to Gon's actions, although this time, the leaf moved in really slow circles instead.

'You're Manipulation, Zushi.' Zushi lit up, and he moved backwards, happy just knowing what type of nen he had. Killua finally came up and put his hands around the cup and focused his nen… and nothing happened.

'Nothing happened, Wing-sensei.' Wing-sensei just smiled and did a

'Hnn… it seems so.' Killua looked desperately at Wing-sensei.

'Does that mean I have no talent at all?' He asked indignantly. Wing-sensei shook his head and pointed to the water.

'Try tasting it.' Gon leaned forward first and tasted it.

'It seems… slightly sweet. Wasn't this normal water, Wing-sensei?' Killua also poked a fingertip in and tasted.

'Oh yeah, it is slightly sweet!' Wing-sensei smiled at Gon's question.

'Yes, it was normal water. Changing the water's taste means you're a Transmuter.' Zushi and I leaned forward to taste the water after them, but I didn't taste anything but normal water. I looked at Zushi with raised eyebrows.

Zushi shrugged at me.

Gon and Killua really are amazing.

There was a silence after that and suddenly everyone turned towards me. I looked at them confused.

'What?' I asked them.

'It's your turn.' Gon told me, pointing to the cup. I smiled and shook my head.

'I'm a specialty. Everyone in my country is.' Everyone seemed slightly put out not to see my power's reaction to the cup with the leaf. But Wing-sensei, pouring the water out and swapping it for new unsweet water, put the cup on the table and turned towards me.

'Wind,' he said in that tone that parents have that makes you feel all guilty/wondering what you did wrong/bolt in the other direction. Gosh, he had the most effective guilt trip tone I've ever heard. 'Even if you know what type of nen you have, it doesn't mean that you don't need to gauge how strong you are. If you don't do this now, how will you further train and know how much you've improved?'

I sighed.

Honestly, I was curious about how it would come out. I mean, five types of nen manifesting at the same time would be a sight… wouldn't it?

I closed my eyes, breathed and pulled out my nen. Then I opened my eyes and focused my nen onto the cup. Then the weirdest feeling occurred. It was like my nen was going to my rings, then it was going through my body again to my hands where I wanted them.

Which was totally pointless (to me). What was the point of my nen doing a detour?

I stared at my cup. The water was rippling madly (my air nen) before a fire (three guesses for which nen that is!) suddenly sprung up on the surface of the increasing-in-volume, still rippling water (another three guesses for which nen that is!). It was as if the two were fighting, the fire squashing the water, the water pushing up on the fire. Then the leaf, looking all burnt and black... kind of started repairing itself until there was no burn and the flame was dying out on the edges of the leaf (earth nen).

Then the whole glass cracked.

'Wha-' I started. Wing-sensei narrowed his eyes. Then he clapped.

'Did anyone see what happened?' Both Killua and Gon raised their hands. I was too busy looking at the cracked cup leaking water to really think.

'Black threads suddenly wrapped around the cup, and suddenly vanished, leaving spaces which led to the cup collapsing.' Killua gestured to the dissected cup, the leaf still smoking forlornly, being blown around on the surface by a miniature wind before the smoke was finally snuffed out by a sudden wave of water.

'Wind, when you do that exercise again, take off your ring with the black engravings.' I looked at the five rings on my hands.

Air, water on my right. Fire, earth and the black element ring on my left. The black ring was on my thumb though. It was bigger, for some reason.

'I have a theory that your nen reacts to your nen. A more limited specification. If you don't have your ring, then you can't use that type of nen.' I made an O mouth at this revelation. 'But if this seems like a little specification for you, it actually isn't. This is a very strong one, and you will realise why later.'

Wing-sensei had such a solemn air around him that I didn't dare ask "what?" but just nodded. Then suddenly Wing-sensei smiled and clapped his hands.

'For the next month, continue training this exercise until a very visible improvement occurs! I will be here if you ever need me. After a month, come back here and we will gauge our improvements together.'

We all simultaneously widened our stances.

'Hai!' We all shouted simultaneously.

'Some people are trying to sleep you know!' A shout came from the room next door. Us children just nervously laughed at each other and ran out of the room, leaving Wing-sensei to fend for himself.

Wing-sensei himself just sighed and looked out the window; streetlights reflected in his glasses, his untucked shirt reflected in the dark window.

When we were back in my room, I contemplated the consequences of a changing storyline.

The change was slight. The timing was swapped a bit, but according to my calculations, we would still leave the Celestial Tower at the time of our leave. It was coming soon, actually, because Hisoka's fight aside, after mastering Hatsu and defeating the people who bullied Zushi (just thinking about it made my blood boil), we would leave.

Leave. I looked around the rich room, the wide-screen TV, the carpeted floors, the huge four poster bed. After this, we wouldn't be able to live in a room like this for a long time.

What future changes would occur? Just thinking about it scared me. What was happening to my nen? What had happened in the pineapple room?

Room service came, and I dug into my extra large pineapple ice tea with vanilla ice-cream. I dropped my spoon, and as I bent down to get it, I accidently inhaled some dust. It made me cough…

And to my alarm, I didn't stop until a few minutes later.

I stared at my hands. Were my lungs worsening again? My cancer was cured, but I never heard them say my lungs were cured. Maybe I had to visit Avril again…

I swallowed the ice-cream a bit painfully. I never thought symptoms would come back so quickly. My cough was a separate entity from my cancer, how could I have forgotten that? My mind wandered to Dusky.

Better not tell her. My eardrums had already endured enough abuse from Efoe already…

Thinking about Dusky, I was going to get slaughtered for not calling her for the past week. I gulped and nearly choked on a random pineapple piece.

Not looking forward to that. But where has Dusky been? And Jeb too… they haven't been appearing in the yellow-skied dimension lately.

I slurped the rest of my pineapple tea, taking careful consideration of my throat and my mind floated from the yellow-skied dimension, to different dimensions, to Earth and in turn, my momentary vision in the hospital.

What had happened? I saw Tama – who is on Earth. There must be a reason. But Jeb hadn't appeared for so long. The last time he appeared, he had been playing chess, and then something had happened. He abandoned our match in the middle. Something he never does.

And Dusky. I haven't known her for so long for nothing. I know, I know something is wrong on their side. Dusky would never be so moody except from something important. But I can't reach her, or help her from here.

Anyway, if I offer any assistance, she would think she didn't hide it well enough and hide it even better. Better knowing when something is wrong and do nothing until the right time comes than trying to help and having it lash back into your face.

I put the huge fancy cup back onto the tray and slid it back outside into the empty blue-coloured hallway. So empty.

I stood in the empty corridor and looked at the view outside. All those twinkling lights. I have long realised this was a real world.

It was in these times that homesickness came. Thinking too much again. I turned on my heel and went back into my room, dimming the lights and closed the door behind me. I sat down on a chair and winced when I sat on my hair and tried to look down.

I scowled at the hair. Why was it so long already? Dusky had short hair, and she only had to cut it every two, three months! And now my hair's grown more than thirty centimetres in a few weeks? What the hell was in the shampoo that Jeb had given me?

But... growing hair meant working hair follicles. I smiled as I got my scissors and started cutting.

After I had cut it back to somewhere near my shoulder blades with my extremely normal scissors, I sat back and looked into the mirror, with my hair all anime-layered looking, the ends curling inwards.

Sigh. Anime effects don't ever let off, do they? And I was actually hoping to see how straight I could cut my hair this time. Ah well. At least it didn't make my hair extra shiny or something. Actually, I could make it into a new attack. THE EXTRA SHINY HAIR ATTACK!

And with these weird thoughts in my brain, I reached for the light switch and switched off the lights before opening up the curtains so I could fall asleep looking at the bright stars and the city lights, twinkling as if they were reflections of the stars overhead.

Da end of the chappie! Action comes soon, don't worry, as well as the end of the Celestial Tower arc. ^^" Now! Waiting for the flying knives to add to the collection of rocks. I expect some people would've dropped this. *sigh* What happens, happens I guess... TT_TT