Bored, this exam is boring, its too easy and we are barely jogging. Hmm I take in the smell in the air and almost gag, who is sweating that much already, pathetic. I smell Gon though, and he isn't sweaty, I sniff again focussing on the area round Gon I smell, pervert oh cat boy is approaching them and Kurapika, though he is a bit a ways off, properly got tired of being round the pervert.

I go in their direction to hear pervert yell at cat boy. "Hey! Wait up, kid!" and cat boy barely acknowledges him, entertainment huh, good thing I came to watch. "You should show the Hunter Exam some respect!" Baka there are no rules.

"What do you mean?"

"Why are you using a skateboard? That's cheating!" wait, does everyone knows what that thing is.

"Why?" man this is going to anger pervert, I might want to remember his name in the future.

"Why...This is an endurance test!"

"No its not." And Gon ruins my entertainment. I match my speed with cat boy who is looking at Gon maybe I can get him to react this way.

"Gon what are you saying?"

"The examiner only said to follow him."

"Those side you one?"

"But pervert he is right. We can use anything to get to the exam even jumping on the examiners back is a within the rules."

"Wait! Did you just call me pervert!" man I pissed him off can't believe I called him that. His face is funny though totally worth it.

Cat boy is looking at Gon and slows down to meet Gon. "Hey how old are you."

"I'm Gon. I'm 12 years old." Cat boy thinks for a moment Gon looks at me and waves. I slow down to meet with his pace but I switch side so Gon is in the middle. Cat boy suddenly jumps off the board. So balancing you wait differently you can do tricks ,cool.

"Guess I will run to."

"Cool" "wow" me and Gon says at the same time and runs up since cat boy speed up.

"That was so cool." Gon is very impressed I figured out the trick so I refuse to be looked down again.

"Rochelle how old are you?" Gon turns to me.

"I'm about 11." I think so anyway, not sure when I was born, I now base my age on when I got my name, it makes sense since normal people's birthday is the same day they gain a name. I was about 4 when I got it and it has been 7 years so 11.

"So cat boy got a name." He looks at me shocked

"Cat boy!" he yells.

"What your eyes remind me of a cat, I don't have your name so I have to dub you something, it the same with pervert." I point to pervert. "Though he did say his name, I just didn't bother with remembering it." he ignores me, obviously angry. Oh Kurapika, I turn and see him next to me I wave and he smiles at me, I then see pig nose.

"Its Leorio! You better remember from now on! LE-OR-IO!"

Gon and cat boy run off talking. I don't bother following them since cat boy is obviously ignoring me. Oh well. I don't fancy staying round pig nose so I run off so I'm in front on cat boy but close enough to be in hearing distance since they are better than bored.

Bored. I'm bored cat boy and Gon are talking with each other peacefully. I see the random fork in the path that leads to the bad sweat smell. Living in different forests so much you learn all sorts of plants especially when your senseis are animals. Though I don't know the names of them, they never learned human terms; they never had a reason to. The smell causes illusions of the past things which the person dread the most, and destroys the mind, but poisons don't affect me, so its fine.

Leorio is slowing down and is panting hard. I guess he is at his limit I stop a bit ahead of the others. I wait for them to continue, Gon says things to cat boy and Leorio tries to run again but stops just in front of me. I go to grab him to carry him, but cat boy grabs my hand and drags me off.

"What?"

"If you do he won't be able to make it out alive in the other phases it's just going to get harder you know. If he is your friend you should leave him behind."

"Friend?" I cock my head again. I don't think I was his friend I only just learnt his name.

"I can't explain what a friend is to you, I never had one." Oh he must have thought I don't know what a friend is, ok I guess I don't.

We join the others to hear pig nose say something about the smell.

"Hey. We might be able to get you to regain your energy." huh if he is talking about the smell then it won't help. Oh a trap.

"Its hunters use it is called the healing cedar."

"What a weird name." I whisper confused why humans would use a contradictory name.

Pig nose takes Leorio away.

"Aren't you guys coming?" cat boy yells at the two. I stay out of it wondering what they will do.

"No sorry we made you guys stay behind too. Go ahead."

"You not coming?"

"Not until Leorio comes back."Why I think Leorio said to go ahead though I was ignoring him he can be quite boring, though he is entertaining to annoy.

"Sorry we made you wait to. We will catch up later. I hope you tell me your name later I don't know what to call you."

"Call him cat boy, until he gives you his name, it better than referring to him, you or whitey."

"It not cat boy! Why not just cat?"

"Cat boy sounds better than cat, plus I know a cat so calling you cat will just be confusing, you're the only cat boy so less confusing." No cat is named cat boy, but several go by cat, why I will never know.

Whilst we were arguing the others ran off.

"Hey cat boy." He ignores the name for now sensing my seriousness. "Should we save Gon and Kurapika and thus perv ... I mean Leorio. From the sap, it is a bad plant which doesn't heal. I don't know the name of it though, I know how to find one and avoid it and such, not the name though, not sure if healing cider was right if so, what insane person named it?" I look at cat boy, with my face serious. But he grins and laughs at me... again.

"Yeh sure lets go." He get back on the skateboard and we head at a swift pace. "Oh it is called illusion tree, it's been used by assassins for years."

"I could have guessed that name. Obvious much" I sniff "Pig nose is close... Tompa is close. Do you want to warn him or shall I. Though I don't really want to deal with the pig, however he needs a warning don't you think?"

He looks shocked as if he didn't expect it. Why, I have no idea, I smell blood on him he has killed before and dealt with scum before so he is capable of handling it, probably better than me as well I would end up killing the guy for being annoying and not wanting to deal with him.

"I'll warn him. I'm guessing Tompa is dubbed pig nose then, huh." He smirks at me. I increase my pace and pass pig nose, though I do trip him as I past. I slow down after I past pig nose, just enough so cat boy can catch up.

When he managed to catch up we are not too far from the others so I don't bring up pig nose up in case Gon hears, he has good ears.

We spot Kurapika on the floor next to Gon. Cat boy goes up and kicks his head. He then explains the illusion tree to them so they understand.

"Let's go I know a way to save the old man and to catch up with the others in one go." Hmm sounds interesting, though I my way of doing that, making a hole in the wall either by opening them using energy or punching the wall. I'm curious to see what he does so I actually for once pay attention.

"A game too easy isn't fun." That's true.

"I'm glad we meet again will you tell me your name now?" I'm curious to I want to know. I step in front of cat boy and look at him head tilted looking up at him waiting. If he doesn't this time I plan on pouncing on him and not letting go till he does.

"Killua" It suits him not due to the kill being in the name but it's a beautiful name.

"Killua" me and Gon say at the same time testing the name out "what should we do?"

He shuffles in his pocket and grabs a weird thing which I don't know of again. This is infuriating, I need books to read. I really am behind on human knowledge. I go to poke it but Killua moves it out of my reach.

"It's a bomb. Quite powerful too." I tilt my head in confusion again. He looks at me and sighs, "Should have known." He grunts. "It explodes anything within a certain distance when you push the button. So don't poke it! We'll blow it up... this disgusting sap covered wall!"

We run towards the wall and Killua presses the bomb then throws it at the wall.

Boom!

Wow it explodes that's so cool, we jump through the hole, I see Leorio and smirk. I aim to land on his face. "That was fun can we do it again." I say as I move off Leorio's face. They talk about useless stuff so I ignore them.

Killua snaps me out of it when he announces "Old man we don't have for talking so lets go." He clicks the bombs and throws them past Leorio who looks in shock; I look at Killua in confusion, he just shrugs and runs towards the explosion. We get thrown through the wall and everyone lands well except Leorio who falls on his head. I gracefully land on my feet.

"What's going on?" Satotz asks us. Are we in trouble? But he didn't say we couldn't blow up walls.

"Sorry we broke the wall." We didn't break it we melted it.

"I never said that you couldn't destroy the wall." So we aren't in trouble, that's good that was fun. "You came back after wondering into the tunnel of hallucination. I'm very impressed." I look at Killua and we smirk at each other and pull them the others to their feet.

Leorio goes and yells at pig nose. I ignore them Killua already warned him so it will be fine I walk off a little staying close to the others but not involved with Leorio. I stand next to Killua who must think the same as me.

And we are running again boring, but I stand next to Killua and Gon.

"Hey Killua, can I try out your skateboard sometime?" Gon asks whilst we run.

"Sure as long as I can try out your fishing pole." I look down feeling left out. I don't have anything on me that they would want to try. Realising this they look at me and nod at one another. "ah Rochelle you can try to, if you can show me any tricks later." I think for a moment I don't want to show them the main tricks till after the exam, but I can show them things sensei's showed me. So I nod at them and smile.

"hey do you guys want to race to the top?" I say as I notice the stairs. We smirk at each other. "3...2...1...Go!" and we speed up the stairs.

We run in silence for a while but when we see Leorio shirtless I dramatically cover my eyes and yell "My eyes! My eyes! They burn! I saw a pervert!" Leorio glares at me I just smirk.

"See you at the goal Kurapika."

"Catch you later, old timer." I just simply wave at them.

"I'm not old!" huh? "I'm a teenager like you guys!" I nearly fall over, and some guys behind and in front do fall or go to. I should have guessed his energy and smell lead you to believe that, but I assumed he just aged well.

"I'm surprised you two can keep with me." Gon looks flattered I just ignore it I can run faster, but I want to speak more to them. "Or maybe its that everyone else that is too slow. Man... the hunter exam is gonna be a breeze. That's not fun."

"Hey why do you wanna be a hunter?" I'm curious to so I look at him.

"Me? I'm not actually interested in being a hunter." So like me then. "I heard that the exam was supposed to be really hard, so I thought it would be hard, but this is disappointing."

"That sounds like Rochelle's answer." He looks at me I stare back then nod not ready to expand on that... yet.

"What about you Gon?" I speed up already knowing the answer, as I do I turn and stick my tongue at them. I see 44 on the way and ignore him and go towards Satotz.

"Hey Satotz, what is the name of the swamp we are heading towards?" He looks at me in shock, and then shakes it off.

"It's most commonly known as Swindlers swamp." Hmm I expand my senses to the swamp. Oh I have been there before. I learnt from the animals there. No new energy so I won't run to explore. I thought I will meet some new animals here to.

"I've been there before the animals are crafty that try to trick you for food." I chuckle a little. "They also like leading foolish hu... people to their deaths as well, but they are a nice brunch, but there you have to respect that there is a order to things, so no interfering, especially me, they were so mean and banned me from it." Nearly said humans then, that clearly says not normal.

"Is that so? When did you go there?" he asks obviously curious.

"I think I was about 7 at the time so 4 years ago I think." I sense 44 getting closer so I look ahead. Satotz catches on and we run in silence. Satotz and me were the first ones out, though Killua and Gon yell goal as they past the finish line.

They start yelling who crossed first. I join in after a while.

"Satotz who crossed first?" I grin and look at Satotz

"She did and then you two crossed simultaneously."

"Aww." They groan.

"Victory!" I mocked in their faces.

"Ok so me and Killua buy you dinner. Then I buy Killua dinner and Killua buys me dinner."

"That makes no sense." Me and Killua shout.

"Why don't you just give me a pig or something for me to kill and eat or something, why buy it?" I look at Killua and Gon head tilted, again. They look shocked at first but Killua shakes it off first.

"Then someone would have to cook it, and it won't necessary mean it will taste good, when you buy food it taste good. Like those noodles you brought at the beginning." He explains to me that's nice of him.

"Why not just eat it raw? For prizes isn't it normal to give the winner the right to have the first bite in the kill?" I tilt my head again. That's the way with animals; I guess they have different prizes for humans.

"It's bad for you to eat meat raw." I look at them shocked. I do it all the time even in human form and I'm perfectly healthy, I guess normal humans are weaker in that aspect. Maybe that's why sensei's said I won't fit in with normal humans, though I have a shot with Hunters.

"Hey Satotz is this where the second phase is going to takes place?"

"No. We still have quite a way to go."

So phase 1 continues