Disclaimer: Hunter x Hunter belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi. I just own my OC, Hitomi.

Chapter 1: Storm x Duel x To the Hunter Exam

"There won't be kids there, you know," the boy told the little girl.

She shrugged and put the fork again in her mouth, tasting the meat. It was delicious.

"And also, you'll be the only girl here," he added.

"Not that I care, but I won't be the only girl," she said, taking another sip of juice, after placing it back empty in the table. "I'm positive about it."

The blonde boy gave her a confusing look, before sighing. Meanwhile, the girl asked for another glass of juice.

"Also, it will be dangerous..." he murmured. She gave him a long look before rolling her eyes.

"Just give up, Blondie," she shook her head. "I will go, no matter what you say."

Her face then broke with a huge grin when she saw the man with her juice.

"Here you-!" he was about to say, "Oh!"

That was when she saw what the man was surprised about. Walking slowly and close to 'Blondie's' hand, was a huge spider.

"A poisonous spider!" he shouted.

The girl frowned, looking at the boy. "Oh, please. Don't look at it..."

"Hey, don't move!" the man shouted. "If you move, it will get you!"

However, the boy glanced at the spider and his eyes turned red. In a flash he grabbed his fork and threw it along the spider.

As if nothing happened, he started to eat again.

The girl shook her head in embarrassment and released a long sigh.

"W-What?" the worker murmured in shock.

She laughed, nervously, holding her empty plate.

"S-Seconds!" she sweatdropped, before looking at 'Blondie'. "And another fork, please..."

The battle cries of a couple of people were annoying the hell out of her and she couldn't nearly listen the music of her earphones. She rolled her violet eyes and took a tuft of her long blonde hair out of her face.

In the end, the loser got thrown off the ship. She didn't really care.

The little girl sighed, leaning in a wall. She put her hands again in the pockets of her lilac hoodie.

"Didn't I told you?" the person beside her said. "You're the only girl here."

"What do you mean?" she said, taking off her white earphones in order to hear him better. "I'm not."

"Huh?" he asked, confused.

"You're here, with me, big sis."

He stayed thinking about it for a while, before realizing what she had said. His eyebrow twitched, feeling annoyed.

"Oh, you were a boy? Sorry, big brother," Hitomi said, teasing him. "Hey, you can't blame me. Kurapika is a pretty name, but for females."

"It's not," he murmured, a little annoyed. "It's a boy's name."

"Yeah, right," she said, joking. "Sorry again."

"Hey, you..." Kurapika said, still feeling irritated, "You're trying to change the subject again, don't you?"

"Was that obvious?" she grinned.

Kurapika just sighed, giving up. He shook his head, smiling to himself a little bit.

Her sister was impossible.

"It's coming. A storm is coming," they suddenly heard.

Both of them looked up to the boy, who was as old as Hitomi.

The girl remembered that she, with her brother, had seen him before. He and the old man were late and arrived when the boat had sailed. Then, he had used the rod to jump inside the ship

"The air is getting moist and it's salty," he said. "The sea cranes are warning each other."

"Are you saying you can understand the birds?" the man laughed.

"Yup, but not completely," he said, innocently.

The siblings looked at each other, questionly.

"Son, when does it come?" the captain asked him.

"Considering the speed of this ship..." he started to think, "In two hours."

Hitomi looked at his brother, who was still interested in that boy.

"It seems we have such a horrible luck here, don't we?" she said.

"Yeah, kind of," Kurapika answered.

The girl plugged her earphones back on her ears once again, trying to space off a little for the next two hours.

"What a hassle," she thought.

"Shameful," the captain said once he entered into the cabin, looking at the examinees. "And you all intend to take the Hunter Exam?"

Then, he realized that there was a few people who was in a whole different state. Kurapika was sleeping quietly, and his sister was listening to music, leaning in a wall near him. The man was fixing his tie and the little boy was helping other examinee who were in a bad condition.

"You four, what are your names?" he said all of sudden.

"You want to know my name?!" the older man shouted, showing that he didn't want to do that.

On the other hand, the boy smiled brightly. "I'm Gon," he said, happily.

"Hitomi," the girl said, taking of her ear an earphone.

Her brother got up as well. "My name is Kurapika," he said.

"I..." the man said, as if it left a bad taste in his mouth. "I am Leorio!"

"Gon, Kurapika, Hitomi and Leorio..." he closed his eyes, like he was trying to record that names in his mind. He opened them again, giving them a serious look. "Why do you want to be Hunters?"

Hitomi flinched, she didn't expected such a question.

"Don't question us like that!" Leorio said, annoyed. "You're not even a interviewer."

"Just answer it."

"What the-?!"

"It's what my father does!" Gon answered, cutting Leorio off. "I want to see what it's like."

"Hey, wait your turn," Leorio told the boy. "I'm still talking to this old man."

Hitomi in the other hand just sighed, getting closer to the duo.

"What's the big deal?" Gon asked. "I just telling him the reason."

"I don't want to!" he shouted. "Look, I never do anything I don't want, even if it means fighting."

"I agree with you, Leorio." Kurapika said, stepping closer as well.

Hitomi rolled her eyes, seeing the discomfort that Leorio was having against her brother. Kurapika, in the other hand, didn't either notice or care about it.

"It's easy to avert and unwanted question by making up a believable story," he said. "However, I consider making a false statement is a most shameful action akin to greed."

"Call me 'Leorio-san'!" Leorio insisted.

"My reason for applying is too personal to tell someone I just met," he continued. "Therefore, I can't answer your question at this moment."

"Call me 'Leorio-san'!" Leorio repeated. "'Leorio-san'!"

For the first time, Kurapika glared at an angry Leorio. Gon looked them in amazement and Hitomi just shook her head. The captain looked at the girl, waiting for her to say something.

"I don't want to," she said, coldly.

The man sighed.

"Then, you three get off my ship immediately if you can't answer my question," he said, they all looked at him in surprise. "You still don't get it? The Hunter Exam has already begun. It started the moment you got on this ship."

He took off his pocket a card with the Hunter Association's logotype. All four of them looked it in a big surprise.

"I got it!" Hitomi suddenly said, surprised at her thought. "You have to choose who will take the exam, don't you?"

Kurapika understood her point immediately, but the other two just looked at her questionably.

"What do you mean?" Gon asked her.

"There are hoards of people who wants the Hunter License, so I can deduce that the proctors don't have all that time to examine all these people," she said, before looking at the man. "Therefore, they hired you to screen the applicants. Am I wrong?"

The captain smirked.

"You are really intelligent, little miss," he said.

"Geez, I have no choice then. I guess I have to answer," Leorio sighed. "The reason I want to be a Hunter is-"

"Hitomi and I are the only two survivors of the Kuruta Clan," Kurapika cut Leorio off.

"Hey, let me talk!"

However, they all ignored him. Hitomi looked at her feet, not wanting to talk about their situation.

"I want to be a Blacklist Hunter to capture convicts who have bounties on their heads," the boy continued.

"The reason of that?" the man asked.

"Four years ago, all of our clan were massacred by a gang of thieves, Genei Ryodan," Kurapika continued. "I am determined to capture them. For that reason."

"All members of the Genei Ryodan are on the most wanted list. Even the most experienced Hunter hesitates," he said. "You may end up dying in vain."

"I'm not afraid of dying. The worst fear I have is that my anger will fade away."

Hitomi sighed. She had given up trying to deal with his brother to not get revenge. He had already chosen the worst path anyone could ever taken... the avenger one.

"And you?" the man inquired, looking at the girl.

"I'm not that obsessed to revenge like that emo over there," she said, pointing at Kurapika with her thumb. "However, I'm interested in finding the eyes from our people."

"Eyes?"

"Yeah, all of their eyes were taken by them," she told them, hiding the fact that their were the Scarlet Eyes. "I feel that they will be able to rest in peace if I collect them all."

Leorio just looked at the two of them.

"If you two want that, you don't have to be Hunters!" he said.

"Are you an idiot, aren't you?" the girl said, raising an eyebrow.

"There are places and information that only Hunters are allowed to access to and actions you are allowed to take only as a Hunter, Leorio," Kurapika said.

"I told you to call me 'Leorio-san'!" he shouted.

"Well then, what's your motive, Leorio-san?" the captain asked.

Hitomi smirked, teasingly.

"Yeah, yeah! Let's hear your heartbreaking reason!" she said. "I will try to not to cry when I listen to it."

Leorio smirked as well. "I won't answer your question just to impress you. So, I'll tell you honestly..." they were all curious. "Money!"

Hitomi facepalmed, really hard.

"I want to cry... in another way..." she thought.

"I'll be a Hunter, and I'll make lots of money!" he exclaimed. "If I have money, I can get anything! A huge mansion, a great car, expensive liquor, even women!"

"You can't buy class, Leorio." Kurapika said.

And you could say that Leorio was really pissed off right now.

"This is the third time," Leorio told him. "Let's go outside. I guess the dirty Kuruta Clan's man doesn't know about courtesy."

Hitomi didn't like that in the slighlest, but remained silent and bit her lip.

"Take back your words, Leorio!" Kurapika exclaimed, angry.

"Remember, it's 'Leorio-san'," he said. "Come!"

"With pleasure!"

They started to walk away, not caring about the conversation they were all having.

"Wait, I'm not through with you yet!" the man shouted.

"Brother!" the girl tried to stop Kurapika. "That idiot..."

She was about to run in order to stop them, when she heard:

"Leave them alone," Gon told her. "'If you want to know someone, know what makes them angry'. I like those words that Mito-san taught me."

Hitomi looked at him, raising an eyebrow in wonder. "You mean I don't know my own brother with that?" she asked.

"W-Well... is not what I mean," he stuttered, nervously, before grinning. "It's just that... they could know each other better!"

She sighed, before starting to poke his forehead at the point of hurting him. "Is there something in your head, or you are that simple?"

She stopped, and Gon pouted, putting both hands in the place where she had touched him.

"That hurts!" he complained.

"Come on! That made you feel pain?" she said, sighing, "How old are you? Six?"

"I'm twelve!" he said, before grinning widely.

She eyed him for a couple of seconds and broke her serious face with a smirk.

"Well, me too," she said.

The captain smirked too at the sight of the two children.

"They are too young," he thought, "But, also, they seem to have a great potential."

"Whatever, I'm going," she said. "I don't want my only brother and that old man to fall in the sea or something."

"Me too!" Gon exclaimed.

With that, Gon, Hitomi and the captain started running.

The three of them arrived, just to find that Leorio and Kurapika standing and glaring at each other.

"If you take back your words, I'll forgive you, Leorio!" Kurapika shouted, holding his weapons tightly.

"You do it first, Kurapika!" Leorio said back, browsing a pair of swords. "I have no intention of yielding!"

They jumped, clashing in the air. Hitomi sighed, at the stupidity of both boys.

Then, she noticed something else. A huge lightning hit the mast of the ship and a sailor, who was trying to fix it, lost his grip and began to fall down right into the ocean above him.

"Kazto!" the captain shouted.

Both of the kids reacted quickly, starting to run towards him and jumping. Gon caught Kazto, and Hitomi caught the boy. She grabbed herself into the ship in order to not fall down.

But her grip slipped because of the rain.

"Damn it!" she thought.

Hitomi was shocked, she didn't feel the cold water as she expected. Instead, a warm hand was getting a hold of her leg. She looked up to see Kurapika holding her and Leorio grabbing his leg. They were all hanging all in each other, like a chain.

"Th-Thank you..." Kazto said, still surprised. "You saved my life."

"Thank us once we are all safe," Hitomi said.

Then a huge wave of water hit them, wetting them more than they already were.

That was just great.

"What the hell were you thinking, idiot?!" Kurapika shouted to her sister. "That was the most stupid thing I've ever seen someone doing in my entire life!"

"Come on..." she said, rubbing one of her ears. "I'll get deaf if you keep shouting like that..."

"I'm serious, Hitomi!"

"Hey, hey..." Gon said, trying to calm him down. "Why don't-?"

Kurapika furiously turned to him.

"You too!" he snapped, "That was reckless!"

"That's true!" Leorio added. "If we didn't grab you two, you both would have been goners too!"

"But you caught us," the boy said, happily. "Right, Hitomi?"

That question took the girl by surprise, making her blink at the boy in confusion.

"Umm... yeah," she said, unsure of what to say.

The older boys looked at him, as amazed as her. After a while Hitomi smirked, before crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"By the way, are you both agreeing with each other? That pretty amazing," she commented. "Weren't you two fighting minutes ago?"

"Ah, right," Leorio said. "We were doing that."

"Let me apologize for my rude action, Leorio-san," Kurapika apologized.

"Hey, don't be so square. You can call me Leorio, Kurapika. Let me apologize too," Leorio said, rubbing the back of his neck. "I take back everything I said about your people."

"Well... that's a little out of character, but..." Hitomi was about to said.

But she just smiled. Then, they heard a laugh behind them and turned around to see the captain. He was looking at them.

"The four of you have passed the trial!" he told them.

They all jumped in their spot.

"Are you serious?" Leorio said, with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, I'll take you to Dole Island."

"But, can this scrap make it without sinking?" he insisted.

"Trust this ship!"

"You better not be wrong," Hitomi told him. "If I have to swim all the way I will hit you."

He just laughed again.

They got out the ship, just to see a lot of people there

"What a crowd!" Leorio said, staring at it.

"Most of them are probably here for the same purpose," Kurapika said.

"They are Hunter applicants from all over the world," Hitomi said. "That means that finding the exam won't be easy either."

Leorio started to look around. "Let's see now... Transportation to Zaban City is...?"

"Hey, did you even listen to me?" the girl's eyebrow twitched. "I said it won't be that easy!"

"Let him be," Kurapika sighed, shaking his head. "He's helpless."

Then they heard Gon talking to the captain.

"Captain, thank you for everything. I had a lot of fun."

"Well said, Gon. The stormy journey was 'fun', wasn't it?" he said and started to laugh. "But you only reached Dole Harbour. You still have a long, difficult ways to go."

"Yup, I know," Gon said bowing slightly.

Leorio started to walk towards them. "If you are lecturing us, no thanks," he said. "You gave us plenty of that during the sail."

"Then I'll give you one last piece of advice. It's a special tip."

The captain said and pointed at a tree that could be seen from where they stood.

"Look. Head for lone cedar. That's one of the shortcuts to get to the Exam Hall. If you got that, be on your way," then the captain walked to the ship. "The Exam has already begun."

"Well, take care!" Gon spoke, happily.

"Yeah. Same to you all."

That's the end of the first chapter.

I would like to clear up that English is not my first language, so there could be some grammar or spelling mistakes in my writting. I'm sorry.

Well, I hope you liked it! See you!