Sakurai: Hey all you readers! I don't own HxH or any of the characters. Now lets get to the story!

Gon: What's the rush?

Sakurai: I left off with a cliffhanger and so now I just want to get to the story!

Gon: okay! Let's get started then!

Sakurai: Here we go!

Hime's PoV

I opened my eyes to find myself in a dark room, my arms tied behind my back. My feet were also bound. My head pounded and I tasted something funny in my mouth as I tried to remember the events that brought me here.

I was kidnapped, that much I knew for certain. I didn't know, however, if it was the two men from before or if it was someone else.

I looked around the room and didn't see much. I sat on a cold, stone floor, my feet beginning to ache from being cramped up underneath me. I repositioned myself and tried to stand up. I stumbled and fell to the floor, lucky not to have landed on my face.

On my right sat an old refrigerator. It wasn't on and it probably didn't even work, but I noticed that something was inside. I inched my way closer to get a better look.

There was a small cardboard box, empty and unimportant. I slumped back onto the floor and began searching around again as my eyes became accustomed to the light.

There was a pile of old boxes and newspapers on the other side of the room. Above me, on the wall, was a small window, about the size of a bread box, if not smaller. I looked though it as best as I could, but saw nothing but a brick wall covered in rust and mold. I turned to survey the rest of the room.

I looked to the left and right and saw nothing else. I wondered where the door could be to get into this room; there had to be one. My question was answered when I heard two pairs of footsteps coming towards me from behind what I mistook for a wall.

My heart thumped loudly in my chest as I wondered what I could do. I shuffled back to the place I had first woken up and positioned myself the same way on the floor. I lay down, closed my eyes tight, and pretended to be sleeping.

The door opened behind me and my heart beat so loudly that I was afraid my kidnappers would hear it.

"Still sleeping?" I heard a deep voice ask his partner.

"The chloroform should still be effective for at least another hour."

"Alright."

"When's the train?"

"Not for a couple more hours. For now, we should just keep our eye on this brat; make sure we know when she wakes up."

My heart thumped so much that it hurt and I clenched my eyelids shut so tightly that it wouldn't be surprising if I damaged my eyes. The two men left the room, slamming the door shut behind them. I heard the key click in the lock and their footsteps as the continued down the hall away from the door.

A tear slid down my cheek as I opened my eyes again, my face presses against the cold stone floor. I knew deep in my heart that there was no way to get out of this mess by myself. Why hadn't I listened to Kurapika and just stayed in the hotel? What was I really going to accomplish, going out into the city?

There is only one word to describe how I was feeling at that moment: Despair.

~Meanwhile~

Gon's PoV

"Hime!" I called, running through the street. "Where are you?"

Killua and I had returned early from our search for the two men, only to find that Hime was nowhere in the Hotel. We called Kurapika and he immediately left the library and began searching desperately.

"Hime!" I had gone through every park in the city, and had run through almost every street. Killua searched from above, on the rooftops. Hime was nowhere to be found.

Kurapika's PoV

I mentally punched myself for not watching out more for Hime. Now she was missing. Naturally, I assumed the worst. The worst being that the two men chasing her had found her when she was alone and vulnerable.

Earlier, I had asked every staff member in the Hotel if they had seen Hime leave. After they all denied seeing her, I proceeded to knock on every door, asking each guest, until security had come and kicked me out.

Now I slowed down a bit and tried to think logically. If I were a kidnapper, where could I bring a hostage that wouldn't attract that much attention? The obvious choice was some type of abandoned building. Would they really be that obvious?

I tested Killua, only to be told that all the old and abandoned buildings had already been thoroughly searched.

Where else would they bring her? Well, if they knocked her out, then they could sneak her in anywhere. How can we find her?

Then the idea hit me. Gon's scent tracking skills! Maybe we could find Hime using Gon's doglike nose. I immediately called Killua and Gon and they were standing next to me within five minutes.

"Do you think you can do it?" I asked him, a hint of nervousness in my voice.

He looked at me straight on. "I'm going to try."

Then he looked towards the sky, put is nose in the air and sniffed. He slowly started walking and Killua and I slowly followed. Gon would stop every few steps and take a deep whiff. Eventually we came to a park.

"Maybe it would be easier if you were up higher?" Killua suggested and Gon nodded. Next thing we knew, he was up in the tallest tree, his nose as far in the air as it could reach. For an outsider, Gon was a freak. To us, Gon was our only hope of finding Hime.

Then he took off running. We followed him closely, not saying a word, so as not to distract him. We ran over 15 blocks before Gon stopped suddenly, sending us crashing into his back.

In front of us was an ordinary office building.

"In here? Are you sure?"

"Positive." He said, not taking his eyes off the building, a serious expression on his face.

I stepped in line next to them. "You guys ready?" Killua asked. We all nodded. Then we charged. We burst through the door. I immediately knew we were in the right place.

Dozens of men jumped up and grabbed their weapons the moment we stepped foot in the room, an angry expression on each face. The ones nearest to us started attacking. I knew the three of us were in for a rough fight when I realized that every single man in the room used Nen; and they used Nen well.

Someone hit me in the back of my head with a large blunt object, sending a tingling sensation down my spine. Gon threw two men across the room and they hit the wall with a loud thud. We were getting nowhere, trying to plow through all of the men like this.

"Killua!" I called to him as he drove his nail through the stomach of a man with an elbow length beard. "Go find Hime! We'll hold them back!"

He nodded and jumped into the air. The men were momentarily stunned as they watched the boy with white hair soar above them and land safely on the other side of the room. He opened the only door and climbed down the stairs behind it.

The men started to follow, but, by that time, Gon had also already jumped over the men and stood strong in front of the door. I got over to him as quickly as I could and we began to do our best to keep the men from chasing Killua down the stairs. Please, find her Killua.

Killua's PoV

I raced through a winding hallway, devoid of any other hallways or doors. I ran a few minutes before I came to another door. Slowly, I opened it and slipped inside.

I found myself in some sort of lounge or living room, decorated with a few couches and armchairs, a large carpet, and one lamp that was giving the room and eerie glow. There was a door on the far right side of the room and one directly in front of me.

I couldn't decide which one I should enter. The only choice I had was to flip a coin. Heads, the door to the right. Tales, the door in front. I threw the coin in the air and caught it in my closed fist. I slapped it on my hand and hesitated before revealing what was underneath.

I looked at the coin. Heads. The right door it is. I took a deep breath and ran to the door with all my might, breaking through the door instead of opening it. I looked in the room to see two very shocked and very angry men, standing up from a desk, weapons in hand.

I retreated out the door, turned, and ran straight to the other door, the two men right on my heels.

Hime's PoV

I heard fast footsteps approaching my door. I curled up into the smallest ball I could and closed my eyes tight, my heart going out of control again. The next thing I knew, the door burst open, someone grabbed me and started running again, everything was moving too fast and I was afraid to open my eyes.

I started shrieking instead. The person ran through a long hallway, fixing my position and roughly throwing me over his should. I started yelling louder. I heard us go through another door and heard the deep voices of many men fighting.

The next thing I knew, I smelled fresh open air. In a few seconds I was plopped down onto the ground, far away from whatever building we had just come from. I clenched my eyes tighter and started kicked and hitting, screaming louder than before.

"HIME!" I heard a voice yell at me "HIME!" I stopped yelling and flicked my eyes open. Tears came to my eyes as I recognized the usually pale face of Killua. "It's okay! I've got you! You can trust me!"

Suddenly, my mind was thrust into whiteness. I stopped hearing Killua's voice and instead heard the voice of another boy. "You can trust me." He said.

The whiteness turned to pale color and I saw shapes. The shapes turned into a fuzzy picture. I saw myself standing in a mirror, wearing a pair of jeans, a hooded sweatshirt, and a baseball cap. Next to me stood a boy about the same age and height as me. "See." He said. "No one will be able to tell."

The boy was wearing a dress made of fine fabric and a wig that resembled my hair. "I've always got you're back." He said, smiling sadly into the mirror at me. The picture faded back to whiteness.

I instantly knew that it wasn't a hallucination or a dream, but a memory. Then I heard Killua's voice calling to me again.

"Hime? Hime? Are you okay?" He asked, worry evident in his voice. "Come on, Hime, say something."

The whiteness began to change into color and I saw Killua in front of me, calling my name, shaking me back and forth, trying to get me to answer him.

"Snap out of it!" He said and I did. I opened my eyes wide, tears falling from them. "Killua?" I asked softly, hoping it was real.

Relief visibly spread throughout his face as he pulled me into a tight embrace. "Oh thank god." He muttered. I sat there stunned, Killua hugging me so tight I could barely breathe.

"Killua… I can't…breathe." I said and he let go quickly. I realized my hands and feet were still tied.

Killua followed my gaze to the ropes.

"Oh, sorry!" He said and began untying my hands from behind my back. I let out a relieved sigh as the tight ropes were loosened and then dropped to the ground around me. I bent over and began untying my feet.

I got the rope off and when I looked up, I realized Killua was staring at me.

"You sure you're okay?" he asked and I nodded.

"I had another memory." I said quietly and he raised his eyebrow just barely.

"You can tell me about it later." He said softly. "For now, why don't we head back to the Hotel and rest a little. I nodded and then Killua picked me up and began running quickly but calmly down the street.

I clenched his shirt in my hands and leaned my head against his shoulder. Then I slowly drifted off to sleep.

Sakurai: So? How'd I do?

Killua: I don't even care about the story, I'm just impressed that you put out three new chapters within the course of a couple hours!

Sakurai: Thanks! I really worked hard.

Gon: Nice work!

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