Dumbledore looked at his devices curiously. Several of the bloody things didn't even work, and those that did barely twitched half the time. When he had Arabella look into the Dursley house, she confirmed the girl was still there.

However recently the girl had been missing since January. Petunia told the neighbors that the brat had gone to try her luck in becoming a Hunter, and she couldn't care less if the brat came back.

It had taken him a good week to remember where he heard that term, and when he did his scowl was particularly impressive. Why?

Because Hunters weren't obligated to go to Hogwarts, and since the chances of a magical child becoming a Hunter before eleven were so remote, the issue had never come up. And once they were in Hogwarts, even if they did later become Hunters they were essentially under the rule of the Ministries by that point.

So the issue of the reverse happening had never properly come up. Since Hunters were classified as legal adults in all ways that mattered, they became emancipated the moment they passed both the official and the hidden exam. Which meant that if the girl passed and survived the encounter, she was out of his control!

He quickly made his way to Zaban city in the hopes of preventing her from passing the secondary exam, which would forever take her out of the Ministry's reach. The treaty they had made when the Hunter Association realized they existed and proved that memory wiping wasn't going to work was the only thing that kept them from interfering with each other. The goblins, ever practical, had their own treaty.

Which essentially meant the Archeology and Beast Hunters had a rather interesting set of partners to help with the finds and kills. They also handled most of the money for them, for a small fee.

Kurt was not impressed by Gon's stubbornness. If anything, it annoyed her greatly. He was probably going to be surprised to learn the whole thing was a farce that she had cooked up at the last second with the chairman. He found the idea of pulling one on the candidates so amusing that he couldn't wait for the next round to begin.

Finally, it was her turn. And like she had requested, it was against Killua.

Before he had a chance to give up in favor of a better opponent, she did something uncharacteristic.

She drew the bow and arrow she had swiped from the tower and shot at him. He dodged easily, but she soon had him on the run as she kept firing. She put her running skills to good use, often ducking his attacks to collect her arrows.

Eventually she put the bow back up, and went at him in earnest.

Killua was put on the defensive rather quickly, as her invisibility trick worked against him.

Even if he knew she was there and that she was right next to him, her ability to shift his perception made it very hard to tell which angle she was coming from until the very last second.

When he was about to get serious for once, she pinned him in a headlock with a knife to his throat and said "I give up."

The silence was palpable.

"Uh...what?" said the proctor.

"I give up. I only wanted to test myself against him. I'm forfieting from this little tournament."

Everyone was in shock. Then the chairman began to laugh. Their expressions were priceless.

"Sir?"

"Since Kurt-chan has decided to drop out of the tournament, it means the rest of you pass!" he said amused.

Most were rather off-put by the way it all ended. When Kurt showed up at the room to hear the duties of the Hunter and the meaning of the license they now carried, they were confused.

Hearing she had played a game with the Chairman before the third test and won in exchange for her license early gave them all the reason they needed to see why she forfeited right as she was about to win.

She had already passed. She just wanted it over with. The only difference was that anyone who had passed the previous round passed automatically. The chairman was just playing a lighthearted joke on them.

"So you want to know why Killua went home when he recently ran away from there?" asked Luna. Ever since the blood test, she had forgone her previous name in favor of the one Kurapika said was her birth name.

"Yeah. We should head to where his family lives and find out!" said Gon enthusiastically.

"I may have an idea why he went," said Luna.

"Huh?"

"His brother Illumi was in the exam. He was the one who helped train Killua, and the one that's he's afraid of. My guess is that Illumi told him to go home and actually get permission first," said Luna.

"How did you know his brother was here?"

"He was the pin head guy."

Seeing their eyes bug out made her snicker. Still, since Gon was the one to bring them together and letting him go alone was beyond idiotic, they went to the region the Zoldyck clan was known to live in.

"So basically we have a choice between the fake door and the one that will be impossible to open without a minimum of training."

"Unless you want to get eaten by Mike," said the guard amused.

"Right. You guys go ahead and train, I'll go see how Killua's doing."

"Are you sure you can get that far?" asked Kurapika worried.

"Even with the invisibility trick, I learned the hard way to avoid detection. Chances are they don't have much before the mansion, and if that's the case all I need to do is find Killua without Mike bothering me. By the way, what does Mike look like anyway?"

"Your spiked friend asked the same thing, so you can see for yourself. Just be careful. Even if you have some skill with animals, Mike isn't normal."

"He's little more than claws and teeth who can be directed by the Zoldyck family isn't he?" she asked.

"How did you know?"

"I can tell by the way you talk about him. He might be an animal, but he's little more than a robot. Once we're out of his area I'll split off."

Half an hour later, when they reached the smaller hut, Luna vanished before everyone. Since none of the others paid any mind, neither did the guards.

They heard the door open and shut, and like that, she was gone.

'So this is the Zoldyck mansion. Rather impressive.'

The Butlers, apparently didn't have an experience in Nen. And according to Illumi and Hisoka, it would take Gyo to even detect her presence. Her invisibility was of mostly Nen origin with a hint of something else.

Fortunately, the only ones with Nen experience were the family.

When she entered what appeared to be a torture chamber, she found Killua. He was being held up by chains, though from the relaxed state he was in, it didn't bother him.

What bothered her was the fat pig who reminded her painfully of her supposed cousin Dudley. When he went to bring the whip up to hit the silver haired boy, she tripped him. The fool went down in a pile of blubber. She was sickened beyond belief at the sight of him.

Buhara, one of the proctors of the Exam, didn't make her feel this sickened. Possibly because unlike the other...large...people she had come across he didn't ooze arrogance and brutality.

She heard a surprise shout. She looked up to find an old man staring at the fat fool. When he went to hit Killua again, she kicked him in the knee and deftly avoided the falling fat.

Almost immediately she could sense the old one trying to find out what made the fat one trip twice.

Finally his eyes settled on her and his eyes widened in surprise.

"Well now, it seems we have an uninvited guest. How did you get this far in without one of the Butlers detecting you?"

She dropped her trick and watched with satisfaction the look of shock. Apparently he could just make out her shape, not her appearance.

"According to Illumi, I have a natural Nen defense that renders me completely invisible. Killua in particular had difficulty countering it until the last second, and he was looking for it."

At his name, the silver haired boy woke up with surprise to find his friend there.

"Kurt, what the hell? How did you get into the mansion?!"

"It's Luna now. As for how I got in, the same way I managed to pin you with a knife to your throat. Clearly your...Butlers...as Illumi called them, can't see through my invisibility trick."

"This is most interesting. Why did you come in here anyway little girl?"

"I only came in here to see how Killua was doing. The fat pig here just annoyed me greatly, and I enjoyed tripping him."

"You do realize that you aren't going to be allowed to leave until we figure out how to respond to you getting in here."

"Just let me alert my brother and his friends as to why I haven't come back first," she replied.

Once she alerted Kurapika and the others as to what happened, her newly found brother was naturally unhappy but as long as she was safe he could live with it.

Killua watched his grandfather with interest. Kurt...no, Luna, had gotten the interest of his family without even realizing it. He had known his family would have been intrigued about her trick of going invisible, but for her to actually succeed in getting into the mansion and tripping his fat ass brother was the final nail in her coffin. Depending on how his father acted towards her, she could be killed.

"Killua, what do you know about that girl?" asked his grandfather.

"Not much. She came into the Hunter Exam a year too early, though the proctors didn't care. She was the first person there too, if her badge was any indication. She said she was there because she no other options left to her."

"Oh?"

"Something about if she didn't leave her family she would be dead before she reached 12. From what I can tell, her family didn't exactly want her there. She was able to keep up with us, though."

"Interesting. What about that trick of hers? I didn't even notice her until she made a move."

"I have no idea. Whatever it is, I could just barely see her outline when we were fighting in the last part of the exam, and it took everything I had to even do that. She's a natural archer from the way she handled that bow, though she didn't have it before the third exam. When I asked if she was an assassin, she said she wasn't and that she had no formal training."

"A natural assassin. Now that is rare."

"The only odd thing was that we all thought she was a boy until she flat out told us she was a girl."

His grandfather chuckled. The more he heard, the most intrigued he was about the girl. And Illumi had alluded to a child who could avoid even his natural senses and didn't even blink at his aura. That spoke volumes about her temperament.

She was too interesting to kill outright. And to make it even better, she was definitely a natural Nen prodigy with large reserves.

He went to talk to his son. This girl could prove useful.

Illumi came back to the mansion and found a rather...odd...guest in one of the rooms.

His grandfather had called him back from his last assignment to question him on the exam. Specifically the youngest member of the entire thing.

Seeing the girl from before reading a book on killing techniques only gave him more questions. Guests weren't allowed in the mansion, ever. They couldn't be permitted since Alluka could get them to use her powers.

Though from what he knew of Kurt, she most likely wouldn't bother with the wishing ability. The only thing she wanted to do was kill the man who placed her with her 'relatives' and kill said family. And it was clear she wanted to do it on her own.

"Grandfather, why is she here?"

"She broke into the mansion. According to her, she wanted to see how Killua was doing in order to keep one of the more foolish members from doing something stupid."

Illumi thought back to the group she was somewhat apart of, and guessed it had to do with the boy who had caught Killua's attention.

"Is she the same girl you spoke of from the exam?"

"She is."

"A natural assassin, and a nen prodigy with large reserves to boot. And she didn't even blink when she saw Killua tied up. She's too interesting to let go just yet."

"We're not going to kill her?"

"Not unless she does something like try to find Alluka or kill one of us. So far all she's done is tell her brother where she was and read."

As it turned out, Luna didn't need to find Alluka, the youngest and most dangerous of the family. The little girl found her. Or at the very least her power did.

Who are you?

Luna blinked, her reading disrupted.

Who are you?

...Who's there? I know you aren't physically near me, because my senses would have picked you up.

I'm Alluka. Who are you?

Siding on the better side of caution, she decided to go by the name she gave herself.

I'm Kurt. Hello.

Can you come and play with me?

I'm sorry Alluka. But I am afraid the owners of this house would take it ill if I walked around looking for someone I don't even know. They are still trying to figure out whether they want to kill me or not for breaking in.

That's too bad Onee-san. No one ever comes to play with me.

Perhaps when things are different I could play with you. Since I can easily read while talking, would chatting work for you instead?

Alluka brightened up. While it was too bad the new presence couldn't play, she still offered to talk to her. That was more that her family ever did. They were all too scared of her powers, and it made her sad. The only person who would even come see her anymore was Killua.

And so the two girls talked well into the night, until Kurt went to sleep. Alluka was happy to have someone who wasn't afraid of her or her power.