"Begin!" The ref called out.

Nothing happened for the longest time, the room was tense for a while until Kagero spoke.

"What, are we deciding who wins through a staring contest?" Leorio and others laughed at her sarcasm. Kagero shot Leorio a mock glare.

Hanzo took the bait when she looked over to Leorio. He charged at her at an alarming speed. Hanzo attacked her landing hits but they were doing no damage to Kagero. She made it look like she got damaged by holding the area and coughing or cringing and glaring. But in reality she adsorbed the force of the blow by moving in certain ways getting minimal damage.

Kagero backed away from him, acting scared. "St-stay away from me!" She held her head trying to look insane.

Hanzo charged at her once again hoping to knock more fear into Kagero. Though she set this up knowing he would do what he just did. Kagero looked to Hanzo who was charging at her with a fake, but very believable, shocked face. She moved in a certain way that her hood would fall down to let them see her face so he would fall for her ploy. He went to punch her in the head but she disappeared in the last moment and he struck air. She jumped over him getting out of his field of vision and struck his back with wheels that were put away right after. He fell to the ground with a bang leaving a few cracks in the ground.

Kagero walked beside him and helped him up. "Hmph, that's for underestimating me," then flashed a fake smile.

"You go get him Kagero!" Leorio yelled.

"You can do it Mirage!" Gon cheered.

"Che, good acting." Hanzo glared at her irritably.

"Thanks, I pride myself on it." Kagero's tone and smile were dripping with sarcasm. "Now if you don't want to lose I would get serious, Ninja-kun."

The battle began once again when this time Kagero disappeared from Hanzo's sight.

He looked around for a second when his head snapped upwards thinking that she jumped above him a second time. But in reality she did the opposite and reappeared behind him. To get the effect of disappearing in Hanzo's point of view, she ran towards him and crouched really low to get out of his field of vision and appeared behind him. In Hanzo's eyes it would have looked like she was charging at him and suddenly vanished.

He recovered a second too late when he turned around and was met with a kick to the gut. He grabbed her leg and tried to break it but Kagero was not going to let it happen. She arched her back until her hands could grasp Hanzo's ankles. Some of the people watching gasped at the flexibility shown. She twisted out of his grasp before his knee came up to break her leg. She put her leg on his knee and pushed it down still grabbing his ankles. She let go of the leg that was getting sent down and she jumped away before he was forced into the splits. Turns out he was flexible too though Leorio cringed at him doing the splits.

Frankly Hanzo was pissed off. She was just toying with him. He glared at her. "If you want me to be serious, I'll be serious." His glare intensified.

He ran at her, throwing punches to and fro and the odd kick that caught her off guard. She blocked almost all the hits but when he suddenly sped up he kicked her side. She coughed and hunched over holding her ribs. He grabbed her arm and proceeded to break it where her guards were. She twisted her arm before he kneed it so his knee hit the guard. A sickening snap was heard throughout the room. It wasn't her arm though. She broke some things in her pocket as he kneed her arm guard to make it seem like it was broken.

Kagero gasped and grit her teeth, making it look like she was in pain. She crouched down and held her arm.

"Kagero! We know you're strong but he's too much for you! If you forfeit now you might still win your next fight!" Leorio yelled. Kagero turned her head and smirked at Gon, Leorio, Kurapika and Killua who were watching her intently. Hopefully they got the message, Kagero thought. She wanted to let them know that she was fine without Hanzo knowing.

She went back to acting. "But, i-if I do that," she staggered as she got up, arm hanging and breath unstable, "I'll have to...Fight Gon!" She panted in-between breaths.

Hanzo waltzed up to her thinking that she was in too much pain to attack again. "Forfeit, or I'll break your other arm." He grabbed her other arm.

Kagero decided to pull a Gon. "NEVER!" She shouted and tried to kick him.

Another sickening crack was heard throughout the room, and once again, she broke something in her pocket. She screamed this time and cringed. She hiccupped in fake pain and glared at Hanzo with teary eyes.

"Kagero!" Leorio yelled again. Well... he sure didn't get the message.

"Sh-shut up...Leorio, I'm f-fine." She hoaxed up tears and coughed violently.

Hanzo pulled out his hidden blades, and started lecturing her about his training and such. Kagero took the chance of him being off guard and charged at him, arms dangling at her sides.

"Wha-!"

Kagero started with a barrage of kicks and he blocked them all. She stopped and walked closer to him looking up at him. He looked taken aback from the sudden pause in action.

"..."

Then in a blink of an eye she punched him square in the jaw sending him flying upwards, though in the process his blades ripped her sweater open.

"Awww, damn it. My mother's sweater..." She sulked. Meanwhile the crowd was baffled. She took off her sweater and threw it to Gon and he caught it. "Would you be able to hold it for me?" Gon only nodded, still surprised that her arms were not broken. Then she took off her ankle weights and wrist weights, and threw them to the side. They fell with an ear ringing bang, leaving a crater in the ground underneath them.

Now without her sweater she had a loose mens' blue tank top and her bandages were wrapping from her waist up to her chest, there were also bandages on her arms up to her upper arm area, close to the shoulders. You could also see scars surrounding her ankles and wrists from the weights. You can tell that she has worn weights all her life.

Kagero cracked her fingers and rubbed her ankles and wrists.

Hanzo started getting up. "H-how?"

"You never broke them in the first place." She pointed to her arm guards. Then pulled out the pencils and other things she broke in her pocket and dropped them. She smiled. "You just thought you did because of the noise."

Hanzo, who was currently dumfounded, was then charged at and Kagero attempted a flying double side kick and nailed him in rib, or so she thought. Hanzo pulled his arm in at the last second, blocking the kick from hitting a vital area, though his arm was injured in the process, a large bruise forming.

He pulled out his other hidden blade thinking that making her bleed was a good way to scare her. She lunged at her and she dodged but he followed up with another slice to her leg. Quick on her feet, Kagero brought her own hidden blade out for a mere second to block and it was retracted afterwards. With her weights gone, she was light enough for her to use her flexibility without the toll. It also increased her speed considerably.

The sound of metal on metal was heard throughout the room as that happened multiple times. Hanzo was confused and decided to go for a punch for the head. Naturally she did dodge, but he used his other arm for a hook that came from out of her peripheral view. She sensed it at the last second and barely dodged it.

But, it grazed her head.

And you know what happened?

Her wig was cut and it fell off, tumbling to the floor. Her long hair—that barely fit in there even with the most extreme of methods—came down with the wig not there to hold it in place.

Hanzo backed away, face unmistakably pale. Clearly everyone in the room was surprised, the raised eyebrows and ajar mouths giving the emotion away. Well... except for Hisoka, he already found out.

"I... I've been getting pummeled by a mere GIRL?!" Hanzo voiced out.

"Oh, so you admit it? Being pummeled by me?" Kagero scoffed with a hand on her hip, her hair swaying with the movement. "A mere girl?" Kagero's voice was coated in venom. "I'm so going to maim him." She mumbled, cracking her knuckles and those with sharp ears heard it, both her words and her knuckles. Hanzo paled even further and took a step back.

"K-Kagero's a girl?!" Leorio mumbled. He stumbled and leaned against the wall.

Gon recovered from his slight shock. "Mirage is still Mirage, Leorio!" Gon exclaimed happily.

Kurapika wasn't that surprised of her being a girl, in fact he sort of expected it. Her hair was incredibly long and reached down to her thighs. Her hair seemed to glow in the light of the room.

Killua wasn't paying attention—he was staring at her like many other applicants. Killua blushed slightly as he remembered the girl from the lake. Kagero's the girl I saw at the lake! He was caught up in his thoughts when he sensed aura from Hisoka.

Hisoka was excited. Kagero was showing an absurd amount of potential in the fight. Her true appearance made him think her as 'cute'... He thought that she wouldn't like him to call her that and chuckled creepily to himself.

"..." Kagero was staring at Hanzo who was in turn staring back at her. "...E-nough! Build a bridge, and get over it!" She snapped.

She charged at Hanzo with her hidden blades out since he had his out. She slashed at him and he blocked with his blade. That's when she retracted her other blade and grabbed Hanzo's shirt and proceed throwing him out of the room. She threw him towards the door, she ran up to him, while he was still in midair flying towards the door and kicked him to add enough power that the doors would open. She ran to the door and turned to the light switch. She looked to Hanzo and smiled evilly then turned her head to the group watching, the group's faces paled thinking of what she would do, and wither it was against the rules or not—it wasn't specified so if she got in trouble for it she could blame them for not telling them—she promptly turned the lights off.

When Hanzo walked back into the room he was suspicious because the lights were off, and he didn't see her in the room from the light coming in through the door. That's when the doors suddenly slammed closed. Kagero silently ran to the other side of the room and put her rollerblades on.

Hanzo walked to the middle of the room and closed his eyes, he couldn't see so it would be better to use his ears.

"Is that...The sound of wheels?" He thought aloud.

"Correct." A voice came from right beside his ear and the voice was clearly amused. He went to hit where the voice came from but hit air as she vanished.

For the next minute he could hear the faint sound of wheels before he got used to the darkness. When he opened his eyes he gasped. She was at her top speed circling around him. Some people in the crowd also gasped. Most likely they have gotten used to the darkness.

Kagero zoomed to Hanzo and he went to jump over her but she started spinning and jumped also hitting him with a successful combo of kicks. Then she grabbed the back of his shirt and threw him upwards. She went to the light switch again with her eyes closed and turned them on then off. This would mean everyone's eyes would have to re adjust to the darkness.

Kagero was having fun. It was the first time she's had fun in a fight in a long time. She opened her eyes to not notice that they were glowing. Her emerald eye color was altering back and forth from green to aqua marine.

She went to attack Hanzo but somehow he could see where she was. When she went to block a punch to the head she noticed light on her arm. So she rollerbladed backwards away from him and brought her hands up to her face. Her hair that was flying around also caught her eye. Her highlights were glowing too, very faintly, but they were.

"What...What is this?" She suddenly snapped back to attention when Hanzo was about to punch her. She turned the lights on as her plan failed because of her eyes.

Deciding to end this she charged at Hanzo, she went on her front wheel and started spinning towards him and bent down holding one leg in to build momentum and jumped releasing her leg, effectively nailing him in the thigh. He clutched his leg in pain. Kagero continued spinning around him. He recovered from his pain. She was cartwheeling around him doing unpredictable acrobatic movements with her flexibility. When he thought a punch was going for his head a foot would come up and hit him on the collar bone. Same for when he went to punch her she grabbed his fist and adsorbed the impact causing her to move faster on her wheels. When she did that she pulled his fist to the ground causing Hanzo to stumble.

Kagero swung her fist at him spinning and made her hair fan out in front of his face. Temporarily blinding him, she kicked his most precious and most guarded spot.

The groin.

He let out a scream of pain.

The audience cringed.

"Do you give up?" Kagero huffed clearly irritated. She was getting tired and dizzy from all the spinning she's been doing.

He couldn't answer but he shook his head, he was in too much pain to talk. She walked up to him, who was on his hands and knees cringing in pain.

"I can kill you with this and try again next year." Kagero bluffed, unsheathed one blade from her guards.

"You're bluffing."

"Oh really? Hmmm, well I guess you are right, but, "she gestured her blade to the... lower section of his body, "I guess you don't want children, or any of that hanky panky adult stuff, huh?" She grinned maliciously—acting obviously.

"I- I forfeit." He huffed out.

"Thought so."

"You are too unpredictable for me..."

"Thanks!" Kagero smiled. "Also you were right the first time, it was just a bluff! Well same for the whole 'threatening to cut off your manly bits' thing, it was a bluff too." She made a face, "I'm not that morbid."

The judge announced the winner.

She got her sweater she waltzed back to the group. The sweater was still ripped but somehow it started repairing it's self when Kagero held it.

"Ne ne Mirage, that was amazing!" Gon praised Mirage. Kagero patted Gon's head.

"So...the majority of it was an act?" Leorio was still confused about her little...performance.

"Yup." Kagero stated bluntly. "Umm, why aren't you asking why I hid the fact that I'm a girl?"

"Well..." Leorio started. "Kurapika explained that being a girl here, you would get undesirable attention. Also that girls are presumed to be feeble."

"Ooh, fancy words!" Kagero teased Leorio. He glared at her and muttered 'shut it'.

"Plus! Plus!" Gon came in. "Mirage is still Mirage!" Gon added cheering Kagero up.

"That's part of it," The group cocked their heads to the side. The other applicants were listening in, ears open, same with the examiners. "I've been raised as a boy since I could remember. Four I think? Yea, since I was four. My father owns this dojo you see, and I'm his only child so I would be his successor. But...I'm a girl, and a girl can't run a dojo." She sighed. "Anyways, I'm happy, because of that I got to meet you guys here." She smiled.

Killua and Leorio blushed slightly. Gon smiled happily and Kurapika also smiled.

Kagero's eyes were still flickering between the two colors and the others just came to realize that.

"Your eyes..." Kurapika was in shock. He thought she was a survivor of the Kurata clan just like himself.

"Kurapika. I know for sure, that I'm not a Kurata." Kagero's energy started to fade away. "My eyes are green, and turned blue, not red," on the verge of passing out she mumbled something. "I'm...not even...from here..." and she fell asleep.

Kagero had a weird dream. She was in a blank white space floating. There were images of streams waterfalls and leafs with rain on them dripping off. Then a figure came into her dream; a woman with long hair very similar to her own.

"Mo...ther?"

The women opened her arms.

Kagero ran up to her.

"Is it really you?"

"Yes, Kagero." Her face was shaded out. Kagero went to hug her but she passed through her mother.

"Why...Why are you here?"

"I do not have much time. I only came here because of the sweater. I have a special power that I passed down to you. Once you awaken you will have another dream similar to this one."

"I see...?"

"It is time for me to go, you are waking up."

Light came in to Kagero's view when she saw Killua walking up to Leorio and Bodoro. I'm guessing it's time for their fight. But Killua's acting strangely... She noticed Killua's facial expression. Damn it, he reverted. He used to be an assassin after all. It was like the time in the airship. His eyes were all dark'n emotionless.

She bolted from her position on the wall.

People were startled when Killua was suddenly behind Bodoro. Kagero appeared in front of Killua and behind Bodoro grabbing Killua's sharpened and deadly hand by the wrist. She successfully stopped him.

Killua didn't spare them a glance and left.

Kagero wavered. She got up to fast that the blood rushed to her head and she lost vision for a bit. Leorio helped walk her to the wall again.

"Damn he left. Did something happen to him? Wait let me rephrase that...What happened while I was asleep?"

"Gon won his fight but got injured. I also won my fight and Killua had a fight with his brother." Kurapika transcribed what happened in the fight.

"Hmm..." Kagero looked to Illumi and Hisoka... "They have something...we don't..." Kagero mumbled.

"What was that?"

"Nothing Leorio... Nothing." She sighed. "...Mind if I sleep?"

"Not at all, just get a bed."

"Hai hai." Kagero walked off to find a room to sleep in.

She got to the bed and flopped on the comfy mattress and blankets and passed out in the fluffiness.

(Omake)

There was a blood curdling scream. She crouched down and held her arm, still acting. She looked confused for some reason before seeing a black thing on a ledge on the ceiling.

"Kagero! We know you're strong but he's too much for you! If you forfeit now you might still win your next fight!" Leorio yelled.

Kagero blinked, eyes wide and frightened "But...That wasn't my scream..." She said, voice shaky in 'fear'.

There was another scream, a high pitched shrill. People paled considerably, a person even fainted.

"W-what's going on?!" That was Leorio's voice.

Kagero started shaking. Then another scream pierced throughout the room, some person screamed.

Then Kagero couldn't hold it in any longer, she fell to the ground, laughing. "Everybody's reactions, hahaha, w-were so priceless! Hahaha!" The bird flew around the room, imitating her laugh. "It-it must have followed me f-from the marsh." She was still laughing. Hanzo was too dumbfounded to do anything, he just stood there, frozen.

The people who hadn't fainted were needless to say quite amused.

(Omake End)

I think this has been one of my best Omake's yet. :P

Also from a guest review I was asked what an Omake is. It's a little special done a the end of manga chapters. The Omake's I do are completely irrelevant to the actual story and is just for the sake of comedy. I just redo parts from that chapter and make it ridiculous. xD