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Previously...

I knew that my eyes were darkening, I was becoming evil again. I was going to go on my mindless killing spree. I jumped down onto the ground, not even making a sound. Hisoka turned his head slowly to look at me, everybody followed his gaze. "Tsuki...? You're causing this...?" Hito asked, unbelieving. I lifted my head and smirked evily. "Who's Tsuki?" I sneered. "She's you," Kara replied softly. "Oh, her," I spat in disgust.
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I soon arrived at the second phase's exam site. I leaned against a tree and drifted off to sleep, waiting for the second phase to start.

Story...START!

Tsukiko's P.O.V.

Dream~

The rain was pouring, thunder was heard. The night seemed darker, it seemed more evil. Akane was in a dark alley, breathing hard, her pale skin was scraped and cut, her clothes were drenched and torn, her eyes dull. She leaned against the wall, slowly walking. 'Why does everything bad happen to me?' Akane activates her nen, signaling for someone to come out.

A hole opened up in the ground. Rakuza, Akane's Gashadokuro (skeleton demon) appeared out of the ground. "Rakuza. Bring me into the underworld, bring me to Dantalion-sama," she commanded. Rakuza nodded and she stepped onto his awaiting hand. They started sinking, soon, she didn't see the rainy night sky. She saw red, black, temples, altars, statues, and all types of demons.

Akane ordered Rakuza to teleport to the Itoshiku Shrine, and he did. 'Such a loyal servant.' Akane stepped off of Rakuza's hand and walked inside of the shrne. "Dantalion-sama. Are you there?" She called out.

A groan irrupted from the door to her right. Akane slid open the door on her right and stepped into the dim-lit room. Lit candles were scattered on the floor, scrolls of parchment paper were spead out, there were various types of swords and spears on the wall. A cyan blue fire was located at the back of the room, beside it layed Dantalion-sama.

Dantalion-sama had shaggy, knee-length, dark brown hair. His hair wasn't combed, which made it even messier. His pitch black eyes were slightly glazed over, 'I'm guessing that I just woke him up.' He had on a black yukata with a dark blue haori with red outlining. He glanced at Akane, yawning.

"What do you need Akane?" he questioned, groggily sitting. "I need to change my name. I need to change myself. I need to change, period." she answered. Dantalion raised his eyebrow. "Why come to me?" he asked. Akane rolled her eyes and replied,"You know that you are the only one that's able to change me."

"You know that this will have it's consequences, right? You can't hide from your family forever," he pointed out. "I know."

He sighed, running a hand through his hair. He looked up at me and started speaking. "Conditions are, your murderous intent will switch on whenever a intent that's strong enough is felt by you. You will cough out blood for a full half-hour once every month. You will forget a memory every year you are still changed. And last, you have to get marked by this fire." He pointed at the cyan fire. "Really? All of that?" Akane asked. "That's the easiest I can go, Akane," The wolf demon sighed. "I accept these conditions."

Dream End~

Tsukiko's P.O.V.

I opened my eyes slowly. I stretched and glanced around. Alot of people were here now. I glanced at the clock. 11:45 a.m.

'What a dream.' I sighed and slowly stood, starting to walk around. My malicious aura was completely gone, 'Seems like a good nap did the trick.' I mused. I bumped into someone, I quickly looked up to see #301, Gittarakurr. The aura seemed sort of familiar. 'A manipulator.' I thought. "Sorry for bumping into you," I apologized and walked away, not before whispering a name so quietly, "Illumi."

I heard a small whisper back, "Mother would love to see you again." I slightly smiled.

After wandering around, I heard a gong ringing and those two doors opened. Everybody went inside instantly, while I just stuck to the back of the crowd. "Quiet down! I am Menchi and this is Buhara! Welcome to the second phase." Menchi announced. The talking quieted and everybody was listening closely. "This exam phase will be... COOKING!" Menchi declared.

People started dissing cooking. Saying that gourmet hunters were sucky, saying that they didn't want to be tested by a stupid theme, ext. you get the point. "If you don't like it the leave!" Menchi ordered. Every soul quieted at that. "Good. There will be two parts to this phase. My part and Buhara's part. You will have to satisfy us both to go on to the next phase. Buhara's dish will be first," Menchi explained. "I want roasted pork!-" once he said pork, I was out of there. I searched for a pig. After two minutes I heard the ground rumbling. I found the fat pig and whipped its forehead with my chain. It fell, I could literally see the X's for its eyes.

I picked up the pig and ran back to the exam site. I went to a station and grabbed a knife. I started gutting the pig, slashing the skin in a certain direction, and then I turned the thing like a rotisserie chicken. I added a light layer of barbeque sauce when it was close to being fully cooked. Once it was cooked, I left it on the side to cool down for a bit, while I grabbed a plate. I placed the pig on the plate and presented it to Buhara. He ate it and said 'Delicious!' like he did to everyone else. I nodded curtly and walked back to my station.

Killua, Gon, Hito, and Kara were a few stations down. 'They're most likely afraid of me, Kurapika and Leorio too.' I sighed and walked into the forest.

There was a river in my way. "Why a river of all things?" I muttered. I shrugged,"Might as well catch a fish."

"FISH!" was all that I heard at the moment. 'So, my gut was right, the next part had to do with fish.' I sprinted back to my station and got out a medium sized knife. I started skinning and descaling the fish. I then cut off the tail and head, then left out the fish to dry after gutting it.

I cut the fish into small, rectangular pieces, and molded the rice into rectangular pieces after mixing it with vinegar. I applied some wasabi ontop of the rice and placed a slice of fish ontop of it. I pressed the fish and rice together gently, placing it on a plate shortly after. I put a small bowl of soy sauce on the side with some sashimi right beside it. After making six pieces of sushi and drizzling some sauce on it, I got in line to give it to Menchi.

Once it was my turn, I placed the plate infront of her and said, "This is my sushi, please enjoy it." She examined the sushi with a strict eye. She broke into a small smile, but quickly hid it. 'So she likes tai sushi?' ( red snapper) "Finally, something edible!" she huffed. I tried to stiffle my laughter. She took the sushi by her chopsticks and dipped in to the soy sauce. I could feel everybody's eyes on Menchi and I.

She bit a piece off of the sushi and her eyes widened just a bit. She smiled at me, I could hear gasps. "Its the best tai sushi that I've had in years!" she complimented. "What's your name #333?" she asked me. People were still staring at us like we were rare specimen. I answered, "Tsukiko, my name is Tsukiko." She looked a bit disappointed. "Surname?" I gulped slightly and answered, "Eclipse. Tsukiko Eclipse." This time she sighed then muttered under her breath, but I could still hear it. "Moon Lake Eclipse, huh?"

"Is something wrong?" I questioned. Menchi shook her head slightly. "One of my previous students looked just like you, but with longer hair. Her tai sushi was the best I've ever had, but one day, she disappeared. Your sushi tastes just like hers, but better."

"When was the last time you saw her?" I questioned nervously. "Her birthday party, the day she turned 10. But her family suddenly announced that she disappeared two days after that," Menchi answered. "I'm sorry..." I whispered. "Hmm? What did you say?" "Nothing. What was her name?" I asked.

"Akane Nisshoku."

Everybody was still watching us like a drama, but I heard loud intakes of air. "You mean the pro assassin? The one who perfected the skills to be a assassin at the age of seven? The one who entered the Zoldyck's estate and got out without dying?" A guy I believed was Pokkle asked, question after question. "Yes, that one." Menchi said.

I walked back down to my station, and watched as the applicants got failed and had to redo it over again. Then a stupid guy blurted out how to make sushi, and everybody rushed to make it. After another 20 minutes, Menchi banged on the gong and announced that everybody failed except for me. 'What's wrong with her tongue? Sure Kara isn't the awesomest pro cook, but her cooking is awesome!'

I watched silently as Todo, a wrestler, get smashed into the doors on the other side of the clearing by Buhara.

Suddenly, I felt a big burst of nen and heard a big crash a second later. I flicked my gaze over to a old man with a curly beard and a ponytail ontop of his head. He was wearing a yukata, except with pants. He wore wooden getas (japanese footwear). His aura was strong.

After conversing with Menchi, who looked pretty scared, they decided to hold another exam on Mt. Split in Half. We all walked onto the airship, and listened to Netero, the chairman, introduce himself. 'It would at least take 30 minutes to get there.' I thought. Once he finished his speech and walked away, I ran to explore the air ship.

Soon, we landed, I still haven't seen Hito, Kara, and the rest of the gang. "Figures." I shrugged. I only partially listened to Menchi. The only things I knew was spider-eagle eggs, a river, and jumping down. I shrugged my shouldrs once again and ran off of the cliff. I grabbed a spider-eagle egg right after Menchi jumped to get one too. I was still falling, I could hear Menchi calling out my name, but I didn't care. The silver ribbon of water was coming closer, so was the ground.

All of a sudden, I heard Killua and Menchi call out at the same time, they shouted something that made me freeze up. "AKANE!"

Hey! Sorry for not releasing soon! Blame extreme writer's block, it'll take a while to get the other chapters of this story and the other stories too, so please bare with me!

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