Sakurai: Sakurai here ready for chapter 2 of PAST AND PRESENT!

Gon: Hi all! I'm ready for the chapter too. How about you guys!

Killua: You two sound like the hosts for a cheesy game show.

Sakurai: Shut up Killua! We're just trying to be enthusiastic!

Gon: Yeah! I thought I was doing good too…

Killua: Doesn't matter if you were trying to be enthusiastic or not, it was still stupid.

Sakurai: Killua! Can't you ever keep your thoughts to yourself!

Killua: Sorry, but no!

Sakurai: GRR… *pulls out a scythe* I'm going to get you now! Hehehe!

Killua: WTF?

Gon: *sweat drops* Uhh… Sakurai does not own HxH or any of the characters.

"What do you mean you can't remember?" Gon asked tilting his head to the side.

The girl shrugged her shoulders and just responded the same way she had been for the past 10 minutes.

"I don't remember. I don't remember my name, who I am, what I was doing, where I live, nothing."

"Ugh." I groaned at her. "You cause way too much trouble for one person, you know that?"

"Excuse me?" She asked, placing her hands on her hips defensively. "From what I heard, you were the one who kicked me into the wall, making me lose my memory."

"Well that's because you were being a jerk when I was already in a bad mood."

"Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong." She said glaring at me with her angry emerald green eyes. "I would apologize, but I can't remember what happened, so I won't!"

"Why you little-"

"Why don't we go see Leorio?" Gon interrupted. "Maybe he knows what to do."

We agreed and began walking. Finally we made it to the hotel Leorio and his fiancé were staying at. (It took longer because this girl had to stop and sit down frequently because her head hurt.)

We got up to the room and knocked on Leorio's door. He opened the door, took one look at the three of us, then Gon's face, and stepped aside with a sigh, letting us through. We sat on the nearby beds as Leorio closed the door behind us.

"What's up and who is she?" He said plainly, scratching his head.

"Killua kicked her into a wall and she hit her head. Now she doesn't remember anything." Gon confessed immediately.

Leorio raised an eyebrow before sighing again and sitting in a chair across from her.

"Killua, you really need to work on your flirting skills." He said checking the bump on her head. "Kicking them into walls isn't the way to get the girls."

"Say that again old man!" I said glaring at him. The girl snickered at me then turned back to Leorio and followed the light from a flashlight he was holding with her eyes.

Leorio sat back in the chair and scratched his head again.

"Well?" Gon inquired. "What's wrong with her?"

"From what I can tell, you don't have any serious injuries. The only problem is your memory. Are you sure you don't remember anything?"

She shook her head and smiled sadly. "Nothing. Sorry."

"The one who should be sorry is Killua! Seriously man, what were you thinking?"

"Well, she was dressed like a guy at the time." I mumbled.

"I was?" She asked curiously and I nodded.

"Yeah! With your hair stuffed into a baseball cap and everything!" Gon exclaimed.

"Hmm… I wonder what I was doing."

Leorio stood up, stretched his legs, and began to walk around the room thinking. "For now, you should probably stay here until you remember more of who you are."

She looked at him sadly and then she stared at the floor. "I can't." She said. "I don't have any money."

"That's okay!" He laughed, patting her on the back. "Killua will pay for it."

"Wait, What?" I stared at him incredulously. "Why should I?"

"This is your fault, isn't it?"

"Yeah, but…"

The girl stared at the floor guiltily. "Sorry…" She mumbled.

"I have an idea!" Gon said excitedly. "Killua, why don't you stay in my room with me? Then she can take your room and you don't have to pay anything!"

"That's a good idea!" Leorio said happily. "Why don't you go and show her where it is."

Then he pushed us all out the door and slammed it behind us.

"Bitter old man." I called at him as I walked down the hallway, Gon and the girl trailing after me.

"You're calling him an old man! At least he doesn't have white hair!" The girl said walking next to me.

"What? It's not my fault! It's just in the family."

"Weird family."

"You have no idea…"

She raised an eyebrow, but dropped the subject. We walked up the stairs and down to hallway towards Gon's and my rooms. We got to the door and I opened it with the room key in my pocket.

Inside it looked like a tornado hit. I had chocolate bar wrappers strewn around the floor along with several mangas, clothes, and my yo-yos. Gon and the girl sweatdropped.

"Why don't you wait in my room while Killua gathers his things?" He suggested and she nodded so they left, leaving me with the mess. This girl causes way too much trouble for one person.

Gon's PoV

"Sorry about the mess." I said. "He should be finished in a minute. Or two. Or three. Or four…"

"It's fine." She responded, smiling.

"What does it feel like to lose your memory?"

She thought hard about this.

"How do explain it." She said. "It's sort of like de ja voux. (De-zha-voo) You know you're forgetting something and you kind of almost remember things, but you don't. It's all fuzzy and confusing. AHH, I WISH I REMEMBERED STUFF!"

I saw tears forming in her eyes so I immediately changed the subject.

"What do you think we should call you until you remember?"

"Huh?"

"A name. What do what your name to be until you remember?"

"Oh. I don't know. Why don't you choose one for me?"

"Okay!" I said and looked around the room for an idea. I didn't see much that helped though. A door, Dorina? No. A bed, Bedrina? Definitely not! Uhh… I spotted some mangas on the shelf. They were my favorites.

Bleach, Naruto, Full Moon Wo Sagashite, Protecting Georgina-hime, One Piece. WAIT! That's perfect!

"I got it!" I exclaimed, making her jump. "Your name will be Hime!"

"Hime?"

"Yup!"

Just then Killua walked in saying he was finished. I jumped up to the bed and ran over to him.

"Guess what!" I said. "I gave Hime-chan her name! Hime!"

"Himey?"

"No! He-may! He-may!"

"Hime?"

"Yeah, you like it?"

"Uh, sure, but doesn't Hime mean princess?"

"Yeah, so?"

"So…" He said pointing at Hime. "She's definitely NOT a princess."

"Whaat?" I said going by Hime. "She can be a princess if she wants to!"

He sweatdropped and sighed. "Gon, you are a seriously strange person.

"Huh?"

"Whatever. Come over here Hime, you're going to stay in the next room."

We followed him into his room and it was like a complete transformation from before. All of Killua's mangas, clothes, candy, and other junk were put into his bag. The bed was tidy and so was everything else. I stared at the room in awe.

"Woah… So even a guy like you can clean!" Hime said smirking.

"And just what is THAT supposed to mean?

"Nothing~!" She sang as she skipped over to the window smiling.

We followed and looked out at the sun over the city. It was just beginning to set and was very pretty. For the next half hour or so, we watched it set in silence.

When it was dark my stomach rumbled so I suggested going to get something to eat.

"Sure. I could use some food."

"How about you Hime?

She shook her head. "No thanks, I'm not hungry."

"You sure?"

She nodded and we left. We went to a little stand in the hotel and got some pizza. Killua, of course, got a chocolate bar with his.

"Should you give your room key to Hime?" I asked "And we could get another one for my room for you to have."

He nodded, washing down his pizza with a big gulp of water. We stood.

"I'll go to the front desk. You can go give Hime her, uh your, room key."

"Okay." He said, and then we separated.

Killua's PoV

I knocked on the door before opening the lock with my key. I didn't immediately see her so I called out to her.

"Hey Hime! Where are you? Gon wanted you to have this room key." She didn't answer so I was about to turn and leave when I heard sniffling. It was coming from the other side of the bed. I walked around it to find Hime sitting on the floor crying.

"Uhh… Hime?"

She looked up surprised, like she hadn't even heard me come in.

"What?" She asked wiping tears from her eyes, hoping I hadn't seen them, but I had.

"What's wrong?" I asked coolly. I'm not very good with 'comforting' so I was not very sure of what I was supposed to do.

"Nothing." She said standing up from the floor and wiping imaginary dust off of her pants. I pushed he shoulders down so she had to sit on the bed and sat down next to her.

"Tell."

Suddenly she started crying again. Oh god, what should I do?

"I hate not being able to remember anything." She confessed.

"Oh, that's it?" I said with a sigh of relief. That only earned me a slap on the top of my head.

"That's it? You don't get it, do you?" She yelled at me, tears pouring out with every word. "Try to imagine not remembering anything about your life."

"That would be great." I said, thinking about my family.

"Great? So you think that you would be fine forgetting about Gon? Not knowing him at all? Not even knowing you HAD a friend? It's not great! It's horrible and frustrating! I don't know who I am. If I have friends. If I have a family. Where I live; if I even have a home. I'm completely lost and I don't know if anyone is out there looking for me or if anyone is worried about me!"

I sat back and stared at her in amazement. I hadn't realized how hard it must be to not know anything.

"What if I'm some kind of criminal? Or what if I have someone who needs my help and I don't even know who they are to help them? And What if I never get my memory back? What if I have to continue on lost forever? I don't want that! I want to remember! I'm scared Killua. I'm scared that I forgot something important. I'm scared…"

She sat there silently sobbing while I sat there not knowing what to do or say. After a few minutes I decided to say something, anything that might make her feel better.

"Look. Gon and I are going to do everything we can to try and get your memory back or at least find out who you are. And, also, you don't have to worry about being lost and alone forever. You can always stay with Gon and I until you need to."

She looked up at me and sniffled. "Really?"

"Well, duh. No matter what I have to say about it, Gon is definitely not going to let you go anywhere all alone. I'm stuck with you whether I like it or not."

"Hey! I'm not that bad to be around!" She defended smiling, getting the edge back in her voice.

"Oh, reeaallly? Are you sure about that?" I joked.

"It's not like you're a basket of roses to be around either!"

"Basket of roses? What the hell does that mean?"

She pondered this before answering. "I think it's because roses are pretty and lots of people like them and they make people happy."

"They still have thorns though."

"Hahaha, I guess you're right. They look all nice and lovely at first but then you find out too late that they have thorns and you have cuts on your hands… Sorta like being with you Killua!"

"What? You more like that than I am!"

"Fine then! We're both baskets of roses!"

"Sure we are!"

Then we heard a knock at the door and Gon's voice calling, "It's me!" Hime jumped up and opened the door for him. They walked over and plopped onto the beds near me.

Gon gave me the room key and held a plastic shopping bag out to Hime.

"What's this?"

"I thought you might be hungry so I got you a sandwich. Oh but be careful-"

"OUCH!"

"Hahaha sorry! I was about to say be careful, they were giving out flowers to their customers as a promotion."

"Flowers?" I asked. Then I looked at Hime's face and she was wearing a wide smile. She reached into the bag and pulled out two roses.

"We really are baskets of roses aren't we?" She asked smiling and I smiled right back.

Sakurai: Chapter two done!

Gon: Nice job!

Killua: That was a pretty dramatic chapter.

Hime: Thanks for giving me a name! I didn't like being called 'the girl' and 'she' all the time.

Sakurai: No problem! Hey readers! Please Review!

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