A Change of Heart

by claritie

My dad is a mystery, and so is his death. I've already tried my best to find out what happened after being kicked out, but nothing. I can't find a thing about it. So when I heard about the Hunter Exam, and how becoming a hunter can get you access to special info, of course I'd take it. I didn't know meeting them was part of the deal, though. ( Killua x OC ) [DISCONTINUED]

2. Chapter 2 Two puns in a row

-Two puns in a row-

-Yumi's POV-

I slumped down, leaning on the wall as I waited for… whatever. Were we waiting for the first phase to start? Oh, of course.

"Hey! You five must be rookies." A chubby man suddenly called out to us as he approached us, the man had the number 16 on his pin. Gon's eyes widened with curiosity while I just stared at the man with a bored face.

"Eh! How did you know?" Gon asked the man. So that's what he was curious about.

"You see, I'm kind of a veteran here. This is my thirty-fifth time taking the exam, so I know who's a rookie and who's not." The man replied, Gon let out a 'wow' in… awe? What? What's so awesome about failing thirty four times and still being so desperate?

"That's not something to be proud of…" Leorio whispered to Kurapika, he just nodded.

"You must suck then." I bluntly, accidentally blurted out. What? I was planning to just say that in my mind! The man just chuckled nervously while rubbing the back of his head.

"Oh! By the way, I'm Tompa!" 'Tompa' said. Gon smiled brightly at him.

"I'm Gon! That's Yumi, Kurapika, and Leorio!" Gon replied as he pointed to us. "Ne Tompa, since you know a lot of people, can you tell us about some more applicants?" Gon said with his bright smile attack, therefore he hypnotizes Tompa using his cuteness to oblige.

Tompa started listing out the candidates, though I tuned him out since I figured it won't be important in the Hunter Exam and that the number pins were just for the examiners to identify us.

We suddenly heard a screech from somewhere in the room and people moved away from the source. It was revealed that the screech came from a man that currently had his arms turning into… flower petals? Well that's new.

With the man was a clown/jester with red hair, and oddly enough, white skin. Or maybe he just painted himself. Wait, actually, he painted his whole body. 'Does he think of himself as a canvas?' I thought as I stared at the clown/human shaped canvas.

"My my, it's rude to bump into someone and simply walk away without apologizing, don't you think?~" The clown dude said. He smirked and walked away leaving the terrified man behind.

"Oh… looks like he's back." Tompa said with evident unease.

"Eh? He took the exam last year too?" Gon asked. Tompa nodded and started to explain. I listened too since I was interested in this jester guy.

"He's #44 this year, and his name is Hisoka. Last year, he took the exam, and he had a guaranteed chance of winning. But he almost killed an examiner so he got disqualified."

Seriously? He almost killed an examiner? An EXAMINER? A pro hunter? I bet if you didn't need a license to be a hunter he'd be a famous hunter!

"And they still let him take this year's Hunter Exam?!" Leorio questioned with wide eyes.

"Well, that's how The Hunter Exam goes. Even The Devil himself can pass the exam if the examiners said so." Tompa answered and Leorio just stood there with a gaping mouth. Kurapika had slightly wide eyes, though Gon just listened calmly.

Man, if Gon wasn't smiling, he has a very calm face.

"Well anyway, to celebrate our meeting and as a good luck charm for the Hunter Exam, how about some drinks?" Tompa said cheerfully, a little bit too cheerfully, to us as he handed us orange juice.

I stood up from my spot (I was the only one sitting down at first) and stared at the drink. I was so not used to being handed drinks by strangers… so meh. I'll just keep it as a last resort drink. Though technically Tompa's probably not a stranger by now.

Leorio started to drink his juice but Gon suddenly sputtered the juice from his mouth to the ground.

"Tompa-san! There seems to be something wrong in your juice, I tasted something weird. Maybe it's expired?" Gon said to the man. The man sweated bullets and I narrowed my eyes at him. He was getting nervous for a reason.

Leorio also sputtered his drinks when Gon said that and Kurapika simply spilled his juice since he hadn't started drinking it.

I grabbed Gon's juice can and looked at the expiry date. It wasn't even expired yet. I narrowed my eyes even more at the man, who was by now, shifting nervously.

"A-ah! Really? I didn't know! I'm sorry for that." Tompa said as he slightly bowed.

"It's not expired." I suddenly said. They turned to look at me. I was leaning at the wall, and I took my hood off as I glared at Tompa.

It was a glare that said; 'Say a word and I'll kill you.'

"You put something in the drink, didn't you?" I said with a large amount of venom in my words. Tompa shook his head while sweating bullets.

It was my signature move; 'Venom-words mixed with Killing-glares.' Or maybe that's too long of a title.

"Then why are you sweating bullets?" I asked. It became an interrogation. Tompa just sweated more.

"…I-I really d-didn't know! I didn't do anything to the j-juice. G-gomen! (S-sorry!)" He replied nervously while stuttering as he started scampering away. I saw some other applicants look at us. But as I glared my 'The hell are you looking at?' glare at them they averted their gazes.

"Ne, Yumi-san, do you really think he put something in the drinks?" Gon asked me innocently. Leorio stared at me for answers. I nodded.

"It's likely. Tompa was indeed sweating a lot when Gon sputtered his drink, and he started sweating more when Yumi asked him the two questions." Kurapika replied, adding emphasis to 'asked' because it was more like forced. But he still lied. I just huffed in response to his emphasis.

We suddenly heard a very high pitched screeching sound, and I covered my ears so fast that I accidentally slapped myself on both sides. Though the three with me couldn't hear it due to the noise.

After a few seconds of torture to the ears, which is literal I tell you, the sound stopped and we all looked at the source of the sound.

It was a pink haired lanky man, and that wasn't the only thing odd about him.

He had no mouth. I nearly freaked out the moment I realized this but I stopped myself from hyperventilating.

But anyway, it didn't come directly from him, but rather he was holding something that made the sound.

I don't know how to identify the thing, so, ahem, let's just leave it at that- he was holding a thing.

"I am your examiner for the first phase. Please follow me to the second phase." The man said. He turned to the large opening behind him that was previously a wall and he started walking in a weird way that didn't bend his legs or arms to the tunnel.

We followed after him, and murmurs of 'What about the first phase?' and something along those lines spread around the examinees.

He suddenly picked up speed and we had to run.

"You may be wondering about the first phase, and yes, it has indeed started. I am Satotz, your first phase examiner. The first phase will include of following me to the second phase, and I will not tell you when and where we will arrive."

"We just need to follow him? Heh! I'll breeze through this Endurance test!" Leorio smugly declared as I just kept my comments about what he said to my own thoughts.

You're that curious? Well fine, here are my supposed comments;

'Leorio, you're just gonna contradict yourself again just like how you said you were brave.'

'Just need to follow him? You do know that we might be running an awful lot of hours here.'

'This isn't just an endurance test, baka. He included 'when' in his statement earlier which means this is also a mental test.'

You satisfied now? No? Too bad.

I suddenly heard wheels near us and I turned to where I heard it from. There was a white haired kid that was probably the same age as me on a skateboard about to pass Leorio.

Oh dang, bringing a skateboard was definitely a good idea. Or whatever wheels. Actually, we can probably bring bikes too. Maybe.

"OI KID! That's cheating! Show some respect for the Hunter Exam!" Leorio shouted at the kid.

Wait… Oh. I saw Tompa approach him earlier and give him one of those juice drinks Tompa tampered with. The kid had drank it in a single go but he's still moving right now… I wonder how. I'll ask him when I get the chance.

The kid just stared at Leorio for a bit with a pondering look. Was his brain so slow he can't think of a simple response such as 'why'? But anyway, it isn't really an endurance test, and the examiner only told us to follow him.

"Why?" The kid simply said.

Well done, sweetie. Clap clap.

"WHY?! This is an endurance test!" Leorio replied. And to prove my point, not his, Gon went to defend the kid.

"No it's not! Satotz-san only told us to follow him." Gon said.

"Gon! Whose side are you on?!" Leorio asked. Gon just ignored him, and wow, I didn't expect him to do that.

The white haired kid skated beside Gon and asked his age. Now that's creepy.

"I'm 12! She's twelve too!" Gon said as he pointed to me while saying my age. Really? He only asked your age not mine.

"Heh… The same age as me." The kid said and he did this awesome trick where he got off the skateboard. He just carried his skateboard with him and started running.

"Ah! You're gonna run too! I'm Gon!" Gon replied, the kid just looked at him for a few seconds before replying.

"Killua."

My eyebrow twitched. They were completely ignoring me. But I can ask the question now.

"Ne, you drank one of those drinks the fat man gave you. How come you can still move now?" I suddenly asked to Killua as I went closer to the duo.

"Ah… I'm immune to poison." Killua said simply. My eyes sparkled.

"SUGOI!(Cool/Awesome!)" I exclaimed and began fishing for the drink in my backpack. I threw it to him and he easily caught it. "Drink it now, and prove it." I said with a smirk.

Killua simply raised his eyebrow and drank the drink in one go. Gon just looked at him weirdly.

"Ne… how can you last the taste? It tastes bad." Gon asked with a curious face.

I almost wanted to crack up laughing. Well, almost. Of all the questions he could ask he'd ask that.

Killua just shrugged.

"Oh wait, I haven't told her name yet!" Gon suddenly exclaimed. Killua looked to me then to Gon. "She's Yumi!" Killua just nodded.

"And after your blissful moments of COMPLETELY ignoring me, you just remember to introduce me now. Clap clap." I mocked as I patted Gon's hair. Killua just raised his eyebrow at my sentences.

"Ehe, gome! And mou, you're ruining my hair." Gon apologized and whined at the same time as I brought my hand away and he fixed his hair.

"I'm Killua, if you hadn't heard me earlier." Killua said with a flat tone. I glared at him.

"Of course I heard you. Ya think I'm deaf?" I said, in a… maybe, maybeee, slightly challenging tone.

"What if I said yes?" He asked in a tone that didn't say he was asking.

My eyebrow twitched.

"Then I'll call you old hag. I know you're not a girl before you say that. The word 'hag' simply adds to the effect of calling you old." I said with a mocking smirk. Gon just looked back and forth at me and Killua with a sweat drop.

"So what? I don't care." Killua said with a bored tone.

"Well then, what if I said to Leorio the man that called you a cheater earlier and Kurapika the blonde that you have a dark secret? And that the secret is that you're really old, but you're in a body of a child?" I asked. Killua flinched.

"You're going awfully far with those old threats. Nonetheless, I'd deny it." Killua said with a smug tone.

"You do know that denying it further proves my point right? Because by denying you have a reaction. A negative reaction. And by having a negative reaction It means that the secret is true and you don't want to have it revealed." I said in a victorious tone and a victorious grin to add it off.

No source of knowledge, facts, and intelligent comments can ever beat Yumipedia. Not even Wikipedia.

Killua's eye just twitched and he sighed. He gave up huh?

"Gave up? Good choice." I said in a smug tone. He just rolled his eyes.

My Relationships(in my point of view):

Gon – Close acquaintance, I think.
Kurapika –A bit of a stranger.
Leorio –Annoying money grubbing old geezer.
Killua –I'm annoying. And we will never be friends. Not that I'm thinking of having friends in the first place.

While I was in my currently entertaining thoughts, I heard Killua say something.

"Heh… I'm surprised you two can keep up with me." He said as he looked around. Gon smiled brightly and rubbed the back of his head. "Or maybe it's because the people here are too slow." He added.

Kill joy. And here I thought you were paying us a compliment.

We suddenly heard a thump behind us. Me and Gon stopped to see what happened and saw Leorio down on the floor, panting and sweating. Looks like he had enough.

Killua also looked behind him and stopped when he noticed we weren't by his side anymore.

"Hey, forget him, let's go. He won't make it." Killua said bluntly. Ouch. If Leorio heard that, he'd be definitely annoyed as hell.

Though, it's not like I want to stay back for Leorio either. But, yeah, I don't want to start running first and maybe accidentally leave behind Gon because I don't notice him not running with me.

"But…" Gon was about to say until Leorio let out a roar.

"DAMN IT ALL! I'M GOING TO BE A HUNTER NO MATTER WHAT!" He suddenly shouted which brought attention to him and he zoomed past us with a burst of speed. On the way he also took off his suit and shirt inside leaving only his tie on.

Ew.

Killua had a look of shock and slight disbelief on his face while Gon just had a bright grin. My eyes had widened very slightly that only one with trained eyes can see it. So to some, I might just look bored.

"Well, looks like he's fine." I said. Gon took his fishing rod and used it to get Leorio's suit case.

"Cool! Let me try that later!"

"I wanna try that later!"

Me and Killua shouted at the same time. Gon just grinned sheepishly.

"Sure! But Killua, I wanna borrow your skateboard too!" Gon replied enthusiastically.

Killua nodded but raised his eyebrow. "But what does she have to do?" Killua asked as he looked at me. What? I have to do something too? I pouted.

"Eto… do you have anything you can let me borrow, Yumi-san?" Gon asked while he tilted his head. He was so cute!

"Not really… unless you consider a camera interesting. How about I won't do anything because I met you before Killua did?" I said while sticking my tongue out. Killua just pouted while glaring at me.

"Eh… Well, I can just borrow your camera. I've never used a camera before!" Gon said with his signature bright smile. Me and Killua nodded, me as an 'okay', and Killua in satisfaction.

After a few minutes of running, the tunnel's flat floor turned into stairs and oh how I wish I could give up on this, but I couldn't do that. I've been sweating a bit earlier, and now, stairs. I'm definitely going to be exhausted by the end of this phase.

Whilst we were running up the stairs, Gon suddenly asked Killua a question out of the blue.

"Ne, Killua, why do you want to be a Hunter?" Gon asked Killua. I listened in too.

"Well, I don't really want to be a hunter, but I heard the Hunter Exam was hard. So I thought it would be fun." He replied while Gon let out an 'Ah.' While I, nearly tripped on my feet.

"You think The Hunter Exam is fun?" I asked in an incredulous tone. Killua just shrugged.

"How about you?" Killua asked Gon.

"I want to look for my dad! He passed the Hunter Exam when he was 12 and he also left me to be a Hunter! So I thought being a Hunter must be great, so I wanna be like him!" Gon said without any sort of negativity whatsoever.

Just like before.

Killua just snorted, probably because of his optimism.

"What kind of Hunter is he?" Killua asked him.

"I don't know."

Killua laughed. I just snickered.

"You want to be like him but you don't know how he's like?" Killua asked with an amused and incredulous tone.

"I live with Mito-san, so I only see my dad in pictures!" Gon replied. Killua let out a nod though he asked who Mito san was.

"She's my Aunt!"

Killua nodded. Gon then turned to me and he asked; "What about you Yumi? Why don't you tell Killua your reason?" Gon asked. I just blinked and sighed.

"Fine, I want to know how dad died and how come mom blames me for it." I said bluntly.

Act like you don't care, Yumi. Then Killua won't care too. Then he'll leave you alone.

Killua blinked at me. "Your mom's pretty harsh…" Killua said. Oh great. He still slightly pitied me. "But, you can do that without being a hunter too you know. That's not your only reason." Killua said.

Dang, he catches up fast. Gon blinked too and he looked at me, asking for answers with a curious look on his face. I flinched. Being swallowed up by a hole from the ground sounds so appealing right now.

"Well… I also want to know why dad died, and if he was killed, who did it. And if he was in fact killed, then I want to get revenge on whoever killed him." I said. I know it was a bit over reacting, but I have my reasons.

"Heh… aren't you over thinking it a bit and jumping to conclusions?" Killua asked. I shook my head.

"No, I have a reason to believe that it's possible." I said. Gon asked what it was but I shook my head. Gon then said to Killua that I probably didn't want to talk about it. Good boy.

We all then looked ahead of us to see that there was a faint light coming from above and we all knew what it was.

"Race you two to the top!" Killua suddenly exclaimed. Gon pouted and said something about him having a head start but sped up nonetheless.

While I, of course, tried to keep up. Why do I have such a low stamina? Well, the fast stamina regeneration makes up for it but still…

The two boys were keeping pace with each other while I slightly (but not enough to be noticeable) lagged behind.

These two were going to be the death of me.

We passed by Leorio and Kurapika, "See ya later old man!" Killua shouted to Leorio. A vein popped up on Leorio's head and he shouted back;

"I'm not old! I'm a teenager, just like you guys!"

"ARE YOU SURE?!"

"No way!

"I thought you were in your thirties…"

Yes, I was that last one. I really thought he was in his thirties… Or maybe even in his forties…
but he was a teen?

Un-ex-pected! Too bad you couldn't hear the 'Dun dun dun' that came with Un, ex, and pected.

Leorio growled. "That's it! Gon, Yumi, our friendship's over!" He exclaimed.

Gon just laughed and I blinked. Now, I know that wasn't a serious statement, but I was a friend to him? Really? Eh, I just shook my head and focused on keeping up with the two boys.

Soon after that we were at the front and we reached the opening of the stairs. Just when Satotz turned around, the two boys jumped through the entrance and shouted 'Goal!'.

I just slumped down behind them in a panting mess, and my eyes were blurry at first, but I got better each second. Though it would take me at five minutes to fully recover… and two and a half to recover half of my stamina.

The boys argued over who got in first, and seeing that they were making no progress, they asked Satotz instead.

"I believe you two crossed 'The finish line' at the same time. But I think your other friend there isn't as enthusiastic as you two are." He said as he motioned to me.

"Ah! Yumi-san! Are you alright?" Gon asked me and immediately went to my side. Killua just looked at me with his eyebrow raised.

"You shouldn't take the Hunter Exam if you don't have enough stamina." Killua said. Gon pouted at him and said he was mean. Why thank you Gon.

"I'm fine, and I do have less stamina than you two, but I bet I can regenerate stamina faster though." I said while giving Killua a challenging smirk. I stood up and sighed as I brushed dirt from my clothes since I sat down on the grass-

Wait, grass? Oh, we're in a field near a swamp.

"Heh? I can recover half of my stamina in five. How about you?" Killua asked with a smug grin. Gon just looked back and forth at us like last time, but this time with a grin.

"Well, if we're talking about recovering half the stamina, I can recover mine in two and a half minutes. But if you want to know in how many minutes I can recover fully, I can recover in five minutes." I said with a victorious grin and Killua's grin dropped and was replaced by a gaping mouth and a face of disbelief.

Gon laughed at Killua's expression. Killua tried to desperately say words.

"T-That's impossible!" Killua exclaimed with wide eyes. My grin widened even more.

"Well, it's possible and I can prove it right now." I said. Killua just raised an eyebrow. He then said that if we have a five minute break and I'm fully recovered by then, he'll believe me.

And we sealed the deal.

Soon after that, the applicants had gathered on two sides around Satotz.

The gate started closing, and a man almost got out too but the gates closed on him. Ouch.

"Satotz-san, is this the second phase?" Gon asked. Satotz shook his head. Aw…

Leorio and Kurapika arrived last, and they headed to us.

"Is this our destination?" Kurapika asked us and Gon shook his head. Kurapika just sighed.

"Next, we're here at The Swindler's swamp, and true to its name, its inhabitants uses tricks and to lure humans into their traps and eat them. We're going to run through this swamp, and make sure to stay near me, unless you want to be eaten." Satotz said. Leorio just snorted.

"How can we be tricked when we know that we're gonna be tricked?" Leorio said as he raised his eyebrow.

"Don't believe him! It's a trick!" A man suddenly said from behind the gate building.

The puns. The unintentional PUNS!

"Like I said, how-" Leorio interrupted but was interrupted himself.

"He's lying!" The man said as he showed us a monkey of some sort with the same head as Satotz. "He's an impostor! I'm the real examiner! This here, is a man faced ape!" The man said as he pointed to the monkey he was holding.

Leorio and some others started looking at Satotz in dubious ways. Idiots. If the man really was the Hunter and the Examiner, he wouldn't have gotten tricked by 'The Impostor'. He has bruises and scratches all over him, which means he was defeated.

If he was a Hunter, he'd have enough power and strength to defeat one of those 'Man faced apes'. Therefore, he's the real impostor.

I snorted as I rolled my eyes at the people who pointed at Satotz. If they think Hunters are that weak that they can't fend off a stupid monkey, why are they trying to be Hunters?

I tuned out whatever the applicants were saying and realized it's been past five minutes now. I walked silently to Killua and whispered;

"Five minutes are past. I'm fully recovered, and I can prove it."

He raised his eyebrow at me and narrowed his eyes.

"We have to run through this swamp, so prove it by doing so." He replied and I nodded with a victorious grin. 'This gun be good.'

Something white suddenly whisked past my face, missing my eyes from a few centimeters. My eyes widened and my breath hitched up my throat. I soon realized it was a card, and it hit the man that was claiming to be the examiner while Satotz caught the card between his fingers.

That was close. I looked to who threw the cards and saw it was the clown. He had a grin on his face as he held some more of his cards.

"That settles it~ You're the real examiner~" Hisoka looked at Satotz. "The real examiner would've been able to easily catch that~" Hisoka said. He's creepy, but at least he has common sense… and maybe a bit of weird sense too.

"I'll accept that as a compliment. But if you do something like this again, you will be disqualified." Satotz said as he dropped the card. Hisoka just smirked. "I believe some of you got tricked into thinking I was an impostor."

I heard some nervous chuckles from some of the applicants and Leorio rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

I yawned.

Oh no. Oh no. We need to start running or else I'll fall asleep…

"While running through the forest you may encounter tricks like these, so stay close to the crowd." Satotz said and started running/walking quickly to the forest. We started running after him.

Killua, Gon, and I ended up near the front of the crowd while Leorio and Kurapika were a bit behind us.

"See? I'm on full stamina now." I said with a smug grin. Killua just pouted and Gon smiled brightly. I suddenly noticed the fog was getting thicker and I sighed. I wish this run was shorter.

Killua suddenly tensed. "Let's move up, you two." Killua said. I simply nodded.

"Yeah! We shouldn't lose sight of the examiner." Gon said with a bright smile.

"Iya,(No,) I think we should just get away from Hisoka. He's dangerous, I can smell it." Killua said and Gon started sniffing the air. Did he really think he could smell it?

But anyway, though I can't smell it or anything, I agree that Hisoka is dangerous.

"Leorio, Kurapika! Killua said we should move up!" Gon shouted.

"Gon! Can't you feel the tension around us?!" Killua asked/whisper shouted.

"Baka! If I had enough energy to do so I'd already be there!" Leorio shouted and I could see his veins showing up with his tone of voice.

"Don't worry about us you two!" Kurapika also shouted.

Killua looked up again and said; "Let's go."

We started running faster. We ran in silence for a bit before Gon spoke up.

"There's a lot of people screaming around us…" Gon said with furrowed eyebrows. Killua just shook his head.

"Just don't let your guard down."

"I hope Kurapika and Leorio are okay…" Gon said as he looked behind him.

"They'll be fine. Look ahead of you instead." I said. If Gon kept on looking behind him he might run into a trap… sigh. He did as I said and we felt like we ran over something.

"What?" I asked myself as we all stopped in our tracks. We suddenly fell.

My eyes widened and I flailed my arms around as I shrieked. Killua flinched at the sound. We soon landed in some sort of acid water or whatever thingy…

I looked at the two beside me. "I think we're in the saliva of a mouth of a giant frog." Killua said. My eyes widened and I felt like I wanted to puke.

This stupid frog…

"He wants food? Well too bad, I only have drinks." I said out loud to myself and the two looked at me. I brought out the can of orange juice Tompa gave me and poured it. We were immediately threw out of its tongue along with its puke.

The frog hopped away as if nothing happened.

Then I realized we were all sitting on puke. I jumped up so suddenly that I splashed puke on the two. One looked at me with an indifferent face and one looked at me with a glare. (You know who did what.)

"Sorry… but my clothes are stained with puke!" I shouted and I almost wanted to cry. I wailed and flailed my arms in the air. What?! You think I'm over reacting! THESE. ARE MY FAVORITE CLOTHES! AND MY ONLY SHOE!

"Stupid frog…" I said to myself as I sniffed. Killua and Gon sweatdropped. Gon suddenly spoke up.

"I'm still worried about Leorio and Kurapika!"

Killua sighed. "Forget about them. Let's go." He said as he started running. I started running with him too only to see Gon was gone. I sighed.

"He'll be alright. Let's go, I don't want to end up as food." I said. I was cruel? No! I'm just too lazy to really catch up with Gon. And besides, I'm still hoping they get back.

Soon enough we arrived at the next exam site and we waited near the gate. Hey, I noticed, there seems to be a lot of gates in the Hunter Exam. They love gates, ne?

We waited for a few minutes and right before Satotz ended the exam, Gon and Kurapika arrived. I nearly fainted in relief. They approached Leorio who was leaning on a tree, unconscious. How did he end up there?

We ran up to them. "You made it Gon!" Killua said. I snorted at the fact that he only said that to Gon. "What happened?" Killua asked.

"We fought with Hisoka. He brought Leorio here I think." Gon replied and Killua's eyes widened.

"He let you live?! And how did you get back?" He asked. Wow, Killua's asking an awful lot of questions dont'cha think?

"I tracked Leorio's cologne." Gon said with a smile. Killua raised his eyebrow.

"You're weird." He simply said and I nodded. Gon laughed. Leorio began waking up.

"H-huh? What happened? Why does my face hurt?" Leorio asked. Gon and Kurapika looked at eachother.

Gon was about to say what happened when Killua interrupted. I raised my eyebrow.

"You fell asleep."

Really? If he was gonna lie, at least think of a good lie! I snorted. Leorio just nodded and we walked to the crowd to listen to Satotz.

"This is where Phase Two will happen, in the Biska Forest Park. Congratulations to everyone who made it here." Satotz said. He wished us luck and started walking away-

Wait. Where's he going? He's going to walk all the way back to where we exited the tunnel? But the gate's closed… HOW WOULD HE GET BACK TO TOWN?!

I shook my head and looked at the opening gates. A woman's voice then called us in.

"All applicants please enter." She said. All of us walked in and we observed our surroundings. There were… Kitchen counters all over the place. What the heck?

Sitting on a sofa in front of us was a woman with a very weird hairstyle. I bet she gets stares from all over the place when she's in public. She was also wearing revealing clothes. I snorted. Behind him was a…

"MONSTER!" I accidentally squeaked out as I looked at the huge man behind the woman which I classified as a 'monster'. My eyes widened as some people near us looked at me weirdly and snorted.

The man behind her was gigantic…

Oh no. I have a guess as to what the second phase was. Is he a tamed giant trained to kill us for a few hours and whoever survives passes the second exam?! Nope, nope nope, this has all my nopes.

"Welcome. I'm Menchi, and I'll be one of your second phase examiners." The woman said, and the man behind him spoke up.

Omg, giants can speak?!

"And I'm Buhara your other examiner."

…Oh, he's an examiner? I trust he won't kill us then? We suddenly heard a loud grumbling sound and I froze.

Oh no, maybe they're hiding a monster that's the one supposed to eat us?! Or maybe kill us so that Buhara can eat us?!

"You must be hungry." Menchi suddenly said to Buhara.

"I'm starving!" Buhara exclaimed back. Or wait, maybe he was going to eat us alive? THIS SECOND PHASE ISN'T GIVING US CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS!

"You heard it. Phase two will involve cooking! You will cook for us and if it satisfies both of us, then you pass." Menchi said. …Yay! We aren't the ones that'll be cooked!

Or wait. Maybe we have to cook each other?! NO!

"You can cook us any breed of pig in the forest. Begin!" He exclaimed as he bonged his stomach. Ew. His stomach is huge. And yay, no cooking eachother~ Stupid examiners not giving clear instructions at first.

We all filed out of the gates and we started looking for the pigs. "We just need to catch a pig and cook it, this is way easier than the first phase!" Leorio said. Oh yeah… this is easy now that I think about it. But I'm pretty sure there's a catch.

Gon suddenly slid down a steep hill and I followed suit. Next came Killua then Leorio then Kurapika. Gon suddenly stopped so I bumped into him which caused Killua to bump into me(THEY SANDWICHED ME BETWEEN THEM! I'M NOT CHEESE!) then Leorio to bump into him and then Kurapika.

"Gon! Why did you stop?!" Killua exclaimed/asked. Gon pointed to his right. We all looked at where he was pointing and voila!

Monsters. No, they were only pigs, don't worry. Wait, actually, you should worry, they're chewing on bones.

"They're carnivores!" Kurapika suddenly yelled out, which caused the pigs to turn their attention to us. We all ran from the stampede as I shrieked and yelled at Kurapika.

"BAKA! WHY DID YOU SCREAM?!" I shouted at him. He winced and replied it was in the spur of the moment. I huffed and we soon passed by the other applicants who at first were confused but then also ran away when they saw the pigs.

One pig suddenly hit a tree and apples fell on it but when an apple hit it's forehead, it fainted.

Now that's a very weak weak spot.

Gon apparently saw this and told us that the foreheads were their weak spot, and since all the applicants heard this all the pigs fell down one by one as we all hit their foreheads.

I stared at the huge pig. Can I carry this? I looked around and saw that some applicants were carrying it on their shoulders like it weighed nothing at all. Even Leorio, Kurapika, Gon and Killua.

I shrugged. It probably doesn't weigh much. I started trying to lift it but…

Holy. HOW MUCH DOES THIS STUPID PIG WEIGH?!

I pulled and pulled and even just tried to push it but I couldn't move it. It moved, but it was moving so slowly. After a few minutes I was a panting mess, and the other four were only staring at me.

I glared at them. "What are you standing around there for? Can't one of you at least help me?" I said as I pouted. Killua walked over and threw the pig on his other shoulder. He literally threw it to his shoulder.

"You guys aren't human." I said. Killua just snorted. We all walked back to the second phase and I walked to one of the counters as Killua laid my pig on the counter and he went to his own.

Now how should I do this? I sure as hell don't know how to cook. I used to steal some food from restaurants (You guys'll know why later :P) but I never saw how they cook…

I took a peek at what all the other applicants were doing. They were roasting the pig. Oh, okay.

I just did the same but made sure that it was roasted just fine, not raw, not overcooked. I also saw some chefs one time put salt on pigs but I'm not sure whether or not that's possible on this one… oh well. I sprayed a bit of salt on the pig while it was roasting.

You think I know what I'm doing? I'm just doing random stuff to the pig. When it was done roasting I placed it on a large plate and lined up. There were lots of applicants already lined up and Menchi kept on failing them without tasting while Buhara kept on passing them. At this point no one's gonna pass…

It was my turn and I put my plate down. Menchi raised her eyebrow at it. She used a fork to get a slice and put it in her mouth. She narrowed her eyes at me.

"I can tell you don't know how to cook, but you put effort in this." She said and I beamed. All applicants stared at me thinking I'd be the first to pass. "It's better than everyone's pigs here so far, but sadly you still can't pass. " She said with a smile and I sighed but nodded. Buhara then ate it without hesitation and said 'pass' as expected. I walked back to my counter and Killua who was just on the counter next to my counter pouted.

"You got a better score." He said. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Better score or not, I still failed." I said. So I failed the Hunter Exam because I can't cook… What a shame. I'll pay attention to the cooks next time.

When everyone was done Menchi declared that everyone fails and applicants started mocking her and throwing insults at her. I tuned them out but still watched what was happening.

After a few minutes of Menchi showing off, in my opinion, and explaining how Gourmet Hunters work, I saw an airship flying above us.

Since I'm going paranoid of waiting and failing the Hunter Exam because of cooking, I thought that Menchi called someone to crush all of us because we were irritating her. If I had ears like a dog has, they definitely would've flopped down now.

We all saw a white blur rocketing down and soon it made contact with the ground. There was dust for a few seconds and it revealed to be an old man.

What? How did he survive that?! HE SHOULD BE HALF DEAD RIGHT NOW! And he's an old man…

"Menchi, that's a bit harsh." The man said. What an awesome entrance. Note the sarcasm. He should have said something cool like 'Menchi, that's quite harsh, don't you think? *cue smirk and narrowed eyes*'. It would've been epic.

They started a conversation with each other and soon enough it was decided that she'd redo the second phase, only with a new rule; She'll have to do her test too so It would be fair.

"Alright… This time, we'll do boiled eggs! Chairman, can you take us to Mt. Split-In-Half?" Menchi asked. Netero smirked.

"I see what you're planning." Netero said. We got on an airship and we were taken to a mountain that was apparently Mt. Split-In-Half.

I looked at the split of the mountain. Uncreative, uncreative, uncreative names. Can't they think of something that doesn't have something to do with puns?

WHY IS MY DAY FULL OF PUNS! Not really… but at least, two puns.

I shook my head and listened to Menchi's explanation instead. After she explained what we had to do I grinned.

"What?! No sane person would do that!" The man that stepped up to Menchi earlier I think said. If no sane person does that, then I guess I'm not sane.

Menchi then jumped down into the split and some applicants said out loud if she was insane/crazy. Of course she wasn't, she's just 'not-sane.' But she's not necessarily insane, I guess.

She grabbed an egg on the way and she was blown up by a wind current. She smirked. Some applicants around us were still hesitant though.

I looked down into the split. This is definitely easier. I get to have fun, experience how to fly, and get free food? Hell yeah!

A/N: SOO! Yeah, I'm a fast updater amirite? Anyway, Yumi's so obsessed with food. Though sadly she can't carry that huge pig and be able to eat it XD

Hope you liked this chapter! :D And here are the review replies:

Liz(Guest): Thankies! :D

Llama(Guest): Thankies! And, the trick to writing long chapters is having fun while doing so. I really DID have fun doing it. Especially when Yumi said 'Brave indeed.' xD Ah, yeah, I was just making sure because some might suddenly say that Yumi's being too smarty-likey? X3 And, NUU! I won't make Yumi weak at all, but of course she still has weaknesses. And don't worry, I won't put it that Killua just randomly likes the girl for no reason at all *facepalm* And haha, YUS! Of course there'll be awesome moments with Yumi pwning the opponent and being all cool HUEHUEHUE- Though not enough to make her a Mary-sue :P And, yeah, though sometimes you might see some none Killua x OC Stories since most of the stories I follow are Killua x OC I sometimes just add stories without putting any thought x3 So just review here when you find one :P And, glad you like Yumi's attitude! :3

Thanks for the three people that followed AND added my story to your favorites! It means an awful lot! Now, on to the story! :D And the one that also added me to their favorite authors/alerted authors :D

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Well, yeah, I just said that just in case some people get the impression that she's a bit too smart for their taste and think she's a mary sue :P And yus, here's the update! :3

-EDITED: I realized there wasn't a Leorio-revealing-his-age scene and I saw some major mistakes xD Sorruh~