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On with the story!

Shirru's P.O.V.

The boys ran away, up the stairs. I smiled softly to myself, 'I think I can trust these guys. I'm already attached to them.' I sighed happily and went chasing after them.

Satotz's P.O.V.

I reached the top of the stairs and turned around to see how many people were most likely going to make it through this half, but once I turned around, I heard two loud "GOAL!"s while seeing two young boys run past me simutaneously. I was simply flabbergasted. I turned around to see them better and saw them arguing, and something tapped my shoulder. I turned my head slightly to see Shirru and her pet, Hiro on her shoulder. She stepped forward so that she was right beside me and grinned at me. I was astonished, no one in the hunter committee could make her smile, much less a grin. "Suprised?" she asked. "Hmm?" "About those two..." she said pointing at the two boys that were still arguing. "A bit, but I'm much more suprised about that huge grin on your face," I answered. "Yeah, of course you would be," she grinned. "So... next is Menchi and Buhara?" "Yes, I bet that you're looking forward to it, aren't you?"

She smirked slightly and replied, "Of course. I bet people will diss cooking and then Menchi will fail tons of them, wait, my mistake, all of them! At least I can cook, and I will never diss cooking. I'm a sadist, it's totally natural, correct?" "Indeed."

Killua's P.O.V.

"I'm the one who finished first!" I shouted at Gon. "No! I did!" Gon argued. "No! It was me!" "Let's ask Satotz-san then," Gon suggested. "Fine..." I huffed. We turned to no-mouth man just to see him conversing with Shirru. Wait, what's that on her shoulder? 'It's a fox?! Why would she bring a fox to the Hunter Exams?' I asked myself. She ended their conversation and walked over to us. "Ne, Shirru." Gon said. "Yeah?" "What were you talking about with Satotz-san?" He asked innocently curious. "Yeah, what were you guys talking about?" I backed Gon up. "Nothin' much. Just asked if the phase was over yet, and if he was suprised by you two." Shirru answered. I looked at her throughly, seeing if she was lying. She didn't make any movements that showed that she was lying, so I believed her. "So, is the phase over?" Gon asked sweetly. "Nah, we still have to run more to get to the second phase," she answered while ruffling his hair. Now that I noticed it, Shirru was just a few centimeters shorter than me, without her heeled boots, she would be about the size of Gon. My chest hurt when she did that, yet I did not know the reason for it. 'Am I sick? No way, I never get sick. Then if it isn't sickness then what is it?'

Gon's P.O.V.

Shirru was ruffling my hair like I was a puppy or something like that. I pouted, "You're messing up my hair! Stop it!" I whined. Shirru pouted too,"Aww! But you're just like a puppy!" I swatted her hand away and fixed my hair. I turned to Killua and saw him thinking, 'Best leave him alone.' Satotz-san started explaining about what to do.

Killua's P.O.V.

I was thinking hard, very hard about the reason my chest hurt, but while I was thinking a unfamiliar voice popped out of no-where in my head. 'Hahaha, you think you're sick?' the voice drawled. 'Who are you?!' I yelled mentally. 'Hiro. I'm someone that's close to you, I know who you are. The thing is, you don't know who I am.' he snickered 'I was listening to your every thought, ever since I heard you talk to my friend to right now.' I panicked inwardly, 'You were listening to my EVERY thought!? Who's your friend? Shirru, Gon, Reorio, or Kurasomething? ...WAIT! How did you ever get inside my head?!' I thought fustrated.

'Yes I was listening. My friend equals all of the above, and I can listen to anyone's thoughts, talk to them telepathically, or just mess with them.' Hiro said. 'WTF! Once I find you, I'll kill you!' I roared. 'You can't kill me, my friend will hate yo for the rest of his or her life~!' He sang. 'Sayonara, assassin-chan~!'

I panicked once again, 'How'd he know that I'm an assassin? If his friend is Gon or Shirru then they might not want to be my friend anymore!'

I glanced at Gon and saw no one near him or anything like that. Then I switched my glance over to Shirru, what I saw on her shoulder was a pure white fox with deep red eyes, it's paws, tips of it's ears, and the tip of it's tail were a faint ice-blue. It looked at me with it's firm gaze, amusement in it's eyes, tail swaying. My eyebrow twitched,'No way, it can't be Shirru's pet. But there's a possibility, I'll ask Shirru for his name.'

Hiro's P.O.V.

'Heh, that Killua is in love with Shirru and he didn't even notice. That guy is seriously new with feelings isn't he, but that just makes it all the more fun!' "Huh, Hiro did you say something?" Shirru asked quietly. 'Hmm? I didn't say anything.' I told her telepathically. 'Ugh, why did I let that slip out? If Shirru finds out about what i'm planning then my fun will go down the drain!' I scolded myself.

Shirru's P.O.V.

I turned back to the action.

Flashback ... "He's lying to you!" Heads turned to the source of the noise to find a beaten up man. "I'm the real examiner!" murmers broke out, I tried hard to stiffle my laughter, I mean, come on! Only stupid people will fall for this trick! "How do we know that this is not a trap?!" someone in the crowd asked the bloodied man. The man shoved something infront of him, "This here is a man-faced ape! They live in this marsh and can take the form of an human! I was attacked by him!" he pointed at Satotz. 'How Rude!' I thought.

"He doesn't walk like a human..." someone muttered. "Yeah, he just skipped up those stairs like they were nothing..." someone agreed. "That also explains how he doesn't have a mouth..." another muttered.

I suddenly felt a murderous aura behind me, but I wasn't fazed by it. By the look on Gon's face it seemed like he sensed it and he was shaken by it also. In a milli-second there were playing cards embedded in the fake's body, the ape ran away and crows started devouring the corpse. Everybody was shocked. I turned to Satotz who had his annoyed face on, but to others it seemed like he still had a poker-face. He tossed the cards in between his fingers away and said to Hisoka, "If you do that again you will automatically be out of the exam. Is that clear?" "Hai,Hai." He replied a creepy, perverted face on.

Back to the present... I walked over to Killua who still seemed deep in thought and shook him out of his thoughts. "Huh?" he snapped his head up. "It's time to run, so snap out of your daze Killua. We're about to run again, so hurry up!" I smiled. I took his hand and dragged him back to Gon.

Killua's P.O.V.

I was shocked to see Shirru standing infront of me when I snapped my head up. "It's time to run, so snap out of your daze Killua. We're about to run again, so hurry up!"
She smiled her dazzling smile at me and grabbed my hand, I felt the blood rushing to my cheeks. 'I just love how my name rolled off of her tongue like that.' I thought. Then my eyes caught the sight of red ones. It looked like they were mocking me, those two eyes.

'Thinking about her again?' a voice in my head taunted. 'Hiro! You're that fox on Shirru's shoulder aren't you?!' 'Ask her, find out yourself.' Hiro said voice fading. 'Damn!' I thought.

Gon's P.O.V.

I stared as Shirru dragged Killua to where I was. She grabbed his hand and he blushed. I smiled evily to myself. 'Maybe... Maybe Killua likes Shirru!' 'Got that right!' a voice laughed. 'Hmm? Who are you?' I asked casually. 'See the fox on Shirru's shoulder? I'm him, Hiro.' I looked at Shirru's shoulder to see a white fox. It was smirking evily, it's eyes gleaming. 'It seems like we think almost the same.' the fox, Hiro said. 'I think that Killua likes Shirru also. But! It looks like he doesn't know that himself. He doesn't notice it...yet. Wanna be partners? Let's get Shirru and Killua together. You would love to see that wouldn't you?' Hiro asked slyly. 'You have me in. I want to know how this will end up.' I replied just as sly.

The fox chuckled, 'You're pretty evil, ya know that?' 'I know, but sometimes it's better to play innocent.' I grinned. 'Talk ta ya later. If you need me call my name, I'll talk.' Hiro said, ending our conversation.

I grinned as Killua and Shirru approached. "Ready to run?" I asked cheerfully. They nodded and we set off running.

Shirru's P.O.V.

Killua, Gon, and I started to run into the fog.

"Hey, Gon, Shirru." Killua spoke up. "Yeah?" Gon answered. "I think we should go further up." Gon agreed, "Yeah, we should get closer to the front so we can see the examiner." "No, that's not it, we should get as far from Hisoka as possible. He killed once, but he isn't satisfied yet, no kidding that he's going to use the fog as a cover." Killua said. "You were actually paying attention?" I asked suprised.

"Yeah..." He replied, irritated. "Anyway, we should get away from that joker as quick as possible. He wants to kill until his lust is satisfied. I can feel his murderous intent from up here." Killua looked at me suprised, but didn't say anything.

Gon sucked in some air, ALOT. I put my hands over my ears, Killua looked at me confused, 'My ears have gotten enough in one day.'I thought sadly, self-pitying myself.' "LEORIO! KURAPIKA! KILLUA SAID THAT WE SHOULD MOVE TO THE FRONT!" Gon shouted. "IDIOT! IF WE COULD, WE WOULD HAVE ALREADY!" Leorio shouted back through the mist. One look at Killua's face, I was holding my sides, trying to contain my fit of giggles.

Killua's face was so shocked looking. 'His head was tilted to the side a bit, a unbelieving look on his face mixed with a splash of pain. Eyes wide to show off the pretty deep sapphire blue color, silver fluffy hair fluffing up more, his mouth open so that I could see his pearly white teeth...- wait a second!'

'Why am I thinking like that?! I'm not attracted to Killua, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not! Killua's my friend, I can't LIKE him!'

Hiro's P.O.V.

While Shirru is thinking, Hiro is reading her mind secretly. 'Heh, so she likes him too, but the thing is, me and Gon have to make Shirru except her feelings, and make Killua, the clueless bum, realize his feelings.' He frowned. 'This isn't gonna be easy. Oh well, better tell Gon when I have a chance.'

Sorry for the wait. I'll try to update at least once every two weeks, I'll tell you guys whenever I'm going on a family trip. Thank you once again my reviewers, followers, and favoriters.

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