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And now (sorry for delaying it to Tuesday) chappie here! (Updating schedule: approx. every 14 days: a.k.a fortnight. ^^ Cheers!)

'You know Wind…' Efoe said to me. 'I kind of need to go back to my nen master.'

I continued eating my pineapple jelly special, only half listening to what he was saying. 'Yan-chan is waiting for me. And I've gotten up to the one-hundred and ninetieth level. Master said he'll continue training me when I've gotten to level two hundred. I think I'll go to level two hundred and sign in and then leave... WIND ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?'

I winced from the sudden ear-drum attack before looking up angelically.

'Of course, Efoe-chan! Sign up to level two hundred and what?' Efoe just sighed at me and continued, looking out of the café window.

'And I want to give Zushi this present as a thank you for doing something he had done for me, but I'm kind of embarrassed.'

'Why?' I mumbled, with an eye-wrinkle of curiosity. I couldn't exactly give a confused smile with my mouth full of ice cream and jelly.

'I'm a guy!' He burst out blushing.

'I kind of gathered that, yes.' I said deadpanned.

'And I'm like a big brother to Zushi! It would ruin my cool, awesome, strong, handsome image from his brain if I give him a thank you present randomly like this!'

I scraped the bottom of my bowl. I never knew Efoe was so vain.

'So… what do you want me to do?' Sunset was coming, Gon, Killua and Zushi had gone to train in Killua's room. I opted out, as the pineapple special only came out once a month, on July the sixth at dinner time. They just nodded with a smile that said "well, that's Wind for you…" when I told them.

'Give it to him for me?'

'No.'

He drooped at my fast response.

'Come on! We bonded over battle, didn't we?'

'And what's that got to do with it?'

'Come on, pleeeeeeaaaaaase?'

'No.' I said adamantly, shaking my head in resolution. 'A present is a present because it comes from the giver to show gratitude or something. What type of gift would it be if I gave your gift to Zushi?' I waved a waiter over and told him we were ready for our cheque. As we waited, Efoe started whining (again).

'But Wind, you're so much more calm-headed than me!'

'Everyone is more calm-headed than you. So that doesn't say anything. And no buts.' The but on Efoe's tongue died. The waiter came back carrying a little plastic bowl thing with our cheque on it. I looked at the cheque and bulled out Jeb's wallet, paying the amount in full with a bit of a tip.

'Then shall I just give it to Zushi?' Efoe asked, twiddling his thumbs in a most uncharacteristic way. I stood up and wandered towards the door. Efoe followed.

'I think that's what you're supposed to do with presents.' I said drily as I stepped out of the air-conditioning to the more humid streets of the city.

'But!'

I sighed.

'Efoe, by how you're behaving, it seems like you're asking your crush to your first date.' Efoe paled.

'I love Yan-chan! I will forever be loyal to her! Yan-chan said she'll wait for me to come back! I cannot be unfaithful!' Anime tears streamed down Efoe's cheeks as he faced a sunset that had suddenly magically appeared with a beach. I slapped my forehead.

'I didn't mean that.'

'Oh.'

'Yes.' I nodded at him slowly like he was an imbecile and walked away towards the Celestial Tower. Then my phone rang. I stopped to accept the call, Efoe catching up with me then (unfortunately).

'Yes?'

'Windfarest Sani. You are friends with Zushi?'

'Yes.' I said guardedly. Then I remembered.

Night. The three practicing nen. Zushi kidnapped. Killua saving him.

'If you want him unharmed, then go and register three battles against us tomorrow.'

'Who are you?'

'You'll find out when you go to the two hundredth level.' The consequent beeps made it clear that the other person had cut off.

'Who was it, Wind?' Efoe said curiously. I snapped my phone shut and started running towards the tower.

'Sorry, Efoe! I'll get to you later!' I called over my shoulder as I weaved through the crowd. Then I felt I wasn't going fast enough and went into a random alley, jumped onto my staff and started flying.

'Wait, Wind!'

What if because I was late they hurt Zushi? I couldn't help myself from worrying. The storyline was changing. The storyline was changing. A match or three wasn't anything, really. What if Zushi was hurt much more than in the anime because I randomly existed in this plane?

I stepped through the window onto the two-hundredth floor. The mask guy was there.

'Sign here.' I nodded tersely and signed my name into the three slots.

'Are you happy now?' I asked him curtly. 'Release Zushi now!'

'In due course," he nodded. I nodded back at him and whirled on my foot to go to my room.

I hope Zushi was alright.

It was time for our fights. Zushi had only gotten one bandage on his cheek that he shouldn't have had, but most importantly, he looked fine. Apart from that one bandage that wasn't in the original.

Killua had looked enraged that Gon and I had signed up for fighting as well (he had a scary look on his face when we told him) and pulled his cap down to cover his eyes.

'Tch,' he had said ever so eloquently.

And so, I found that I was going to fight first, and against the whip dude.

Which was another breach of canon. Not that I cared at this point. I cared more about beating up these losers who had dared to hurt Zushi just to have a chance at becoming floor masters.

Stupid people only interested in power.

What's with those guys in anime, anyway?

When my time for the match came, I handed Zushi my staff (after telling it to behave itself and let Zushi hold it for a while), left the others and walked onto the stage, facing the guy on the wheel chair. I laughed mirthlessly. He frowned.

'What's so funny, girl?'

'Nothing.' He didn't know that I already knew all of his attacks from endless repeats of watching the story with Dusky, and that I didn't feel like playing nice and letting him show me his attacks slowly. Why would I, when he had hurt my friend?

The judge dude raised his hand. 'Right with points and K.O.! No time limit! One set! Begin!'

Immediately, I created a wind force field bodysuit thing around me (kinda like the wind earmuffs, but a force field that surrounded every bit of my body), which I had specifically practised to defeat these three bakas. I leapt high, aiming for his wheelchair arm rest things, forcing him to spin his whips around him to protect him, but my force field bore right through the whips and sliced them into little bits that flew everywhere.

I pounced onto the back of the wheel chair thing just as he began to drive away. Ha! Take that, whip man. You can't run away now, can you? I laughed evilly as I crouched, perched on the back of his chair while he kept turning like a maniac in an effort to shake me off. I could hear his breathing increase as he panicked about me perching leisurely on his chair no matter what he did. Including trying to electrocute me with what was left of his whips. Too bad my wind force field was too strong an insulator, I thought at him, smiling maniacally. And too bad that I had taken inspiration from Hisoka's bubblegum nen and had made my force field sticky.

Wing-sensei had said that, since my wind powers were the strongest, it should be possible to make my breezes take on some characteristics of the other elements that I could use, and so he had me train to get my air mix a little of earth and water characteristics to get a sticky feeling. It took a long time, but to defeat these three children-hurting pigs...

Finally, I got tired of perching there, with nothing to do except make him panic (and avoiding his hair, which was hard and spiky, unlike Gon's which was kinda soft while spiky... his hair care needs work) and wrapped my arms around him just as he attempted to electrocute me for the fifty-millionth time.

Since sweat was slightly salty, and since salty water conducted electricity better than plain water, I coated my force field with the guy's sweat (and he had a LOT of sweat from manoeuvring his wheelchair so much), which conducted the electricity right back at him.

He fainted immediately, limbs twitching, eyeballs rolling. This stopped his wheelchair abruptly, so it flipped, dumping him onto the ground. Before it landed, I leapt off the thing, and then stalked towards the unconscious man on the ground.

'That was for Zushi.'

I kicked him hard (I know, kicking an unconscious guy was bad and everything, but he was so INFURIATING! Besides, the whips weren't at max setting, so he'd wake in an hour or so anyway), which made him skid over ten tiles, and then twirled on my heel and marched off the stage.

Only later would I realise that I was so engrossed in defeating this guy that I had not heard one single word of the commentary.

Audience's view

Zushi stared at the stage. 'What happened, sensei?'

Wing-sensei looked down on the head of his young pupil. 'Well, Wind attached herself to the wheelchair, and then made Riluberto faint, which then made the wheelchair flip over after he lost control. That's basically what happened.'

Zushi stared. 'But... the only thing I could see was Wind at the start, jumping onto the wheelchair. I couldn't see anything after that. The wheelchair was going too fast.'

Wing-sensei smiled. 'Keep training your nen, and one day you'll be able to see really fast things too, Zushi.'

The little boy nodded, bandaged face serious. Wing-sensei looked down at him again, then looked back at the stage, where the officials were waking up the man who had helped attack Zushi.

Thank you, Wind. Thank you, everyone.

Wind's view

I reached the others and sat down between Gon and Zushi. Gon smiled at me tightly. I smiled back, just as angry and tense as he was. My fights with the other two were after Killua and Gon's fights with the three, and so I sat back to enjoy watching Killua and Gon beat up those three before it was my turn to bash them up.

'That was so fast, Wind!' Zushi looked at me excitedly. 'I could barely see what you were doing!'

I laughed, or tried to laugh, lightly. 'Well, I had to test the results of my training, didn't I?'

Zushi nodded seriously. 'As I thought, I have to train harder!'

'You're doing fine already, Zushi.' I ruffled his hair, then looked around. 'Where's Killua? Has he gone down already?' Gon nodded in confirmation.

Zushi then added, 'He left while you were still zooming around on the wheelchair. And here's your staff, Wind.'

'Thanks, Zushi.' So... he left early, eh? That must mean that Killua's gone to have a little "chat" with the mask dude.

Killua's view

'If you don't keep your promise, you know what's gonna happen, don't you? If you understand, slowly open your eyes.'

Sadaso slowly opened his eyes, sweat trickling down his back. His eyes slowly met those of the one standing behind him.

'Listen carefully.' Killua smiled slowly, chillingly. 'Don't ever do this kind of dirty trick again. Swear it.'

In that instant, looking into Killua's eyes, Sadaso fully understood the meaning of hell.

Wind's view

As expected, the mask guy never turned up. Killua won by default, which meant that Gon won by default, which meant that I won by default. Even though it was nice knowing that Killua had creeped him out enough for him to leave the Tower, I still kinda wanted to bash him up... and looking at Gon's eyes, so did he.

But at least it was going according to canon, right?

After Killua had returned, slouching his way towards us like winning by default was a normal, every-day occurrence, Gon stood and walked down to the stage.

Obviously, and much more violently than drawn in the series, the top guy was defeated at Gon's hands. Who knew that Gon had it in him to do that to someone? I only knocked the guy unconscious for a few minutes. But I did see the top guy limping down the corridor thing, so I guess it just looked a lot worse from all the way up where we were sitting.

Because the top dude left the Tower as well, Killua won by default (again), so I won by default (again) and then it was Killua's turn (again) to fight the whip guy. Somewhere along the way, the whip guy had gotten new whips, and explained their use properly to Killua. But he still lost.

YES!

And then Gon went and re-electrocuted him, this time on max setting. It was satisfying watching the whip guy crackle with electricity as he sat in his chair, and also kinda amazing that he was still alive after being shocked so many times in a day, with such high voltage.

And then the fights were over. The three were defeated, we had all won three times each, Zushi was safe, and more importantly had no idea about the real reason for our fights today.

Heh... I walked with Killua a little behind the others. Zushi was chatting happily towards Gon, who was smiling and nodding, not looking that angry anymore.

'Aaaah, I never knew beating people up was such stress-relief!' I stretched and looked at Killua. He nodded.

'Yeah... Hey, is that Efoe?' At the end of the tunnel where there was light, Efoe stood standing awkwardly twitching.

Ohhhh, I remember now. Present giving.

I ran forward and clapped him on the shoulder hard.

'Just give it to him, dolt.'

Efoe nodded.

'Hi Efoe!' Zushi bounced over happily, still all excited over our fights.

'Err... Zushi. Here.' He shoved it into Zushi's arms and ran away. Zushi looked quizzically at me. I shrugged.

'Well, it's your present.' Zushi opened the huge box and gasped.

'Wow! The whole set of Getman comics!' I raised my eyebrows. Zushi liked those sort of stuff? He didn't seem the type. 'And oh, a letter!'

Zushi read the letter and his eyes widened. Then he ran off, leaving us all into the dust (even his present).

'Eh? Zushi, wait!' I ran after him, easily catching up. 'What's it?'

'He's leaving on the bus in two minutes!' He huffed out.

'Where?'

'Okuni Station!' I cursed in my brain. All the way on the other side of the city? So that's why he ran off.

'Then grab onto me.' Zushi nodded and held my hand. I unstrapped my staff, lifted it and in a whoosh, flew up into the air (ignoring the gasps of wonder from the crowd. But I think they were pretty used to these type of stuff already). The sun was starting to dip, not really sunset, but not really day either.

'There he is!'

Efoe was lugging his luggage into the bus. I dropped straight down, noting two blurs that looked like Gon and Killua and Zushi gave a little shriek.

Efoe looked up.

'Err... Hi.' He said awkwardly.

I nearly laughed. He had the same awkward greeting as Jeb! Zushi leapt at him and hugged him (in a very out of character way).

'Stupid Efoe! Let us say good bye first!'

'Oh... Bye?' He said unsurely. The bus beeped at him to get on.

'Bye.' I said, nodding. He nodded back confusedly. I think he planned on leaving before we found him (ha, I foiled his plans!) Gon and Killua arrived at the scene panting.

'Wind, what is going on?' Gon choked up through his breathing process of reinstalling oxygen into his body.

'Efoe's leaving.' Gon and Killua stared at Efoe.

'Really?

'Yeah...' Efoe trailed off. Gon and Killua smiled.

'Bye! Have a safe trip, Efoe! We'll meet... What's your number again?' Gon whipped out a notepad and shoved it in his face.

'Hmm... You still owe me money.' Killua blankly stated. 'Oh well, give it to me when we next meet.' Efoe slowly filled his number on the sheet of paper Gon shoved in his face and laughed awkwardly at Killua.

'Well, I'm not good a goodbyes, so can I just leave now?' Efoe said, poking Zushi lightly on the head. Zushi stopped hugging him and stepped back.

'Bye, Efoe.'

Efoe stared at Zushi and ignored the bus honking.

'Bye Zushi. See you later! After all...' He winked at us. 'Next time I might have a girlfriend! If I ever beat my master's expectations...'

'Good luck with Yannie-chan, and bye! See you later, Efoe!' He smiled at me and finally stepped onto the bus. We saw him then waving to us from the back of the bus, until he was out of sight.

'Efoe left...' Zushi said, looking at the road. It was nearly sunset, and we all turned towards the Celestial Tower, Wing-sensei's place and the main city.

'Well, people leave, but we can always see each other again. After all, we all don't need to say good bye. Because we'll all meet again later, right?' Gon said brightly, and ran ahead in true Gon fashion.

Gon always had a way of cheering people up.

And we started walking back towards Wing-sensei's place talking about Efoe's little quirks that made him a... strange, weird, but a truly good friend.

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