So far you know that the exam is going to be short. Because of there being 4,000 words per chapter, things will go by fast and you won't know where I will end the chapter at. (I don't even know exactly)
Enjoy chapter two!
Chapter 2 Tsuma X And X Hano
They arrived at a map where they tried to figure out where to go. The tree was their answer, but the way there was debatable.
"We should follow the path over there. I don't think the bus is a good idea." Gon pointed to the left and then drew his finger up towards the top of the mountain where the tree was in front of them.
"The bus would be faster. Walking will just waste time," Leorio corrected.
"I'm going with Gon." Tsuma crossed his arms. "Taking the bus may be faster, but it also may be a trap, considering this place, where everyone knows of the exam and to get to the tree is the way. Walking wouldn't be a trap, so I will just listen to Gon, so I don't mess things up and become slower."
"I'll go where Tsuma goes," Hano added.
"I also agree with Gon. And he may right about the trap thing." Kurapika let his hand face Tsuma, while crossing his arms.
"Well I'm going to take the bus." That was his final decision.
"See ya then." Tsuma put his hands in his pockets as he walked away. Hano followed behind him, while holding the straps of his black bag. Gon caught up, along with Kurapika and they followed too.
"Fine then. I'll go alone." Then he turned around and walked in the direction of the bus.
"So what did you mean by following him wherever he goes?" Gon wondered as he asked Hano mostly, but partly Tsuma.
"We made a promise to each other," Hano replied.
"We promised that we would help each other with our problems and explore together, so we could find out who killed our clans," Tsuma confirmed.
"Are you friends then? If you both have been with each other for awhile and decided to stay with each other, it would make sense to be friends."
Tsuma and Hano looked at each other as they took steps up the path to the top of the moutain.
"I didn't think about that," Tsuma said. "We didn't make that clear to each other before."
"Then yes. We've known each other for awhile, so I guess we could consider ourselves as friends." Hano grinned, giving Tsuma a high-five, and Tsuma joined in on the grinning thing.
But then they were interrupted by a peculiar, and noticeable voice.
"Wait for me!" a familiar voice came from behind. All four of them stopped, turning to see the so called 'the bus would be faster' man, also known as Leorio, panting behind them. He ran fast, and they were up high, so it made sense why he was sweating so much. He lugged behind and then stopped as he finally made his way to them.
"I thought you were taking the bus." Kurapika told him.
"I changed my mind. I would prefer to not be alone." He continued to pant and caught his breath.
"I bet your lying," Tsuma went. "But it doesn't matter and I honestly don't care. We should continue moving forward towards the tree." He went back to walking up the mountain, with his head facing the ground and his hands in his pocket. The rest followed, while Hano noticed something up ahead. It was small, but it was able to be deciphered about what it was.
"A...town?" He placed his finger on his chin.
"Hmm." Tsuma looked up, not being surprised, but suspicious about the deserted town that laid motionless above them. "This better be the way." He sighed, not being relieved yet.
But as they reached the deserted town, voices all over them came loud, loud enough for Tsuma to get annoyed. He grunted softly and gritted his teeth softer than usual.
He checked the sandy place, letting his eyes finally open. But it wasn't much he had to look at because a certain number of masked people, probably all girls, which it seemed. Surprisingly, an older woman, which it also seemed, lured herself and her table up to the front and glanced at the five. The path was now blocked, but they didn't stop.
Tsuma gave a glare, while the older woman gave another one of hers.
"Who's this?" Hano's head was blank. The question was obviously unanswerable, due to it being asked to the four next to him.
"More like, who are they?" Tsuma corrected.
Then Hano glanced at them.
"If you are hear to take the exam, then you must answer a question." The woman finally gave her first words to all of them.
'Question?' They all thought, obliviously.
Soon after the thought, they were interrupted by a man that came from behind.
"Teh." The man smirked. "Test, eh? I would like to take this so called test and continue on, so I can proceed to the exam site." He walked forward, leaving all the others watching, as if it was an example to the quiz, test, exam, whatever it was.
"All right then. You are the first to take this test. You have two options. Answer 1 or 2. Here is your question." Everyone quieted down. "Your mother and your lover were captured. You can only save one. Which will you save?" Answer 1 for your mother, or answer 2 for you lover."
"1." An immediate thought.
"And why have you chosen that?"
"Because you can't replace your mother. You can just find a new lover instead." He laughed inside, like it was a joke to the rest.
They group of people, or women, who they thought were, discussed it for a moment. Then they became silent. "You can go ahead." The group of people moved out of the way, going to each side, and let the man pass. "Now for you five."
'The one chance we could have gotten a good question. This next one is obviously going to be harder, just because we hesitated to bump right in.' Tsuma once again sighed out of disbelief.
"Here is your question. Your brother and your sister have been captured. You can only save one. 1 for your brother, or 2 for you sister."
"How can this be a question?! You can make us do this!" Leorio ranted.
"Here we go again." Tsuma let his mouth shut and let the so called 'the bus would be faster' man, also known as Leorio, speak for himself. There was no point in butting in because then he would draw attention to everyone and end up arguing against Leorio.
"If you argue, then you will disqualified."
'Thank goodness for not speaking. And thank you old woman for shutting him up.' Tsuma thought.
"Then I won't do it. I don't like this test anyway."
"You have to in order to go to that tree up there. Its part of the rules for getting to the exam site. Now you have five seconds to answer."
"Why you...!"
"Is that your answer?" Leorio grunted. "Anything you say can be your answer."
'Wait a minute. If anything can be your answer then...' Tsuma almost spoke.
"Leorio, its just a..." Kurapika yelled, but he shut his mouth before realizing that he wasn't suppose to speak.
'So you realize it too, don't you Kurapika?'
Leorio grabbed a stick.
"5" Leorio held on tighter. "4" He started to walk up to the woman. "3" Then he started to run. "2"
"Why you old hag." He almost jumped in the air to hit the old woman.
"Stop Leorio." This time he had to speak in order to pass.
"1," she finished. He dropped the stick and went to the side by the wall. "0! Your answer was nothing. You all passed."
Kurapika crossed his arms and sighed. Gon was still thinking, while Tsuma and Hano stopped.
'Talk about passing. He almost ruined it," Tsuma thought to himself.
"We will let you take the secret path to the tree."
"What?!" Now he was surprised.
A door opened, leting a path appear. It was dark and black and almost pitch black.
"How come you didn't let the one guy pass through there?" Hano pointed to the path.
"We simply told him he could go ahead. We didn't say he passed."
"Hmm, that makes sense."
"And if you heard the scream from before, you should know what happened."
"Now that you mentioned it, I did hear something," Tsuma blurted out.
"I'm glad we didn't go there, though." Hano continued.
"Lets go then. We need to hurry since we don't know how much time we have left. Then they did.
After an hour of walking, light started to appear.
"Hmm. I still can't think of the answer." Gon put his finger on his chin.
"You don't have to think about that anymore. We passed already," Kurapika told him.
"But what if it does happen? Wouldn't you want to save them?"
"I would. I wish I had." Tsuma's eyes almost filled with tears, but he held it in and looked down.
Gon whispered to Hano and asked why he was like that.
Hano whispered back. "He lost his younger brother last week during the time he lost his clan. His whole village disappeared somehow. The same thing happened to my clan and village. And I lost my older sister. We are both the only survivors of our clans."
"I'm sorry that happened."
"I just want to know who did it though. We have an idea, but we aren't sure."
Soon they were out, and they found an abandoned house, which they thought was like that.
The door was knocked on, but no one answered.
"We're coming in," Leorio yelled to no one. Then he opened the door, and there was a man that was on the ground, injured, and a woman being held by an animal called a Kiriko. It jumped out the window after the arrival of the five. Then it ran away from them.
"Are you okay?" Hano ran up to the man.
"My wife. She was taken." Hano looked at the window, which was broken.
"We need to save her!" Tsuma yelled out. "Leorio, you have medicine right? Help him while we get the girl." Hano jumped out after setting his bag down. Tsuma and Gon did the same by putting their bags down and then jumped out, and Kurapika put his swords down and joined by jumping out.
They ran after the Kiriko and eventually split up. Unfortunately they all followed a different Kiriko. Hano and Tsuma followed two different one, while Gon followed the original, and Kurapika helped the girl as she was dropped.
Tsuma had been running towards the one he found, but soon he lost it. He tried to search for it, but he had no luck. He continued to search and then bumped into someone.
"Hano? Were you chasing one of them?"
"I was, but now I lost it."
"Wait, if we were going in the direction towards each other, then that must mean..."
The Kiriko appeared in front of them.
"Where have you taken her?"
"I will answer if you catch me."
"Huh? Is your throat okay? You don't sound like the one I was chasing."
"And you look different than the one I was chasing. Who are you?"
The Kiriko let out a small gasp. "How could you both tell the difference?"
"First of all..." Tsuma stood up. "We were running towards each other, and you couldn't have been running in two different directions at once."
"And secondly..." Hano stood up. "Your voice is lower than what I heard."
"And thirdly and finally, you look shorter and your fur is lighter."
"Impressive. You both pass then."
"Huh?" They looked at each other blankly. "How?"
"Usually no one can tell the difference in us. As you can see I am the original one. Your friend was chasing me at first, but then we switched. You were chasing the injured man." He pointed at Hano. "And you were chasing a different one that lives with us. This was a trick, but you both didn't fall for it."
"I see now. But that means Gon should notice too," Tsuma assumed. "Hopefully he will know."
"Since you both passed, I will take you back." They followed him back to the house and soon Gon arrived.
"Did you notice too?' Gon waved to them.
"We both could tell."
Kurapika arrived and said that he noticed by the woman's tattoos and Leorio could tell because of the man left somehow when he didn't notice.
"All of you pass. These two noticed right away that I wasn't the one they were chasing. You had sharp eyes, and you had sharp ears. And you both noticed that you were going in different directions and could tell right away," the original Kiriko said.
"And this young boy could also tell right away when I showed up," the man said as he pointed at Gon.
"And as for this boy, he could tell my tattoos weren't right." The woman pointed at Kurapika.
The man continued to speak. "And this man noticed what the rest of you noticed when I left because no normal man can heal that quickly."
"Further more, you all had the knowledge to notice that there was more than one of us. We shall take you to the exam site."
All four of them carried the five across the ocean, letting the strongest carry both Tsuma and Hano. Soon they arrived in a city.
They were led over to a large building. "This is wear the exam will take place." They all looked at the tall building and awed at its sight. "I meant that restaurant over there." the man pointed at the restaurant right next to it. They all sweat dropped.
Soon after that, they were led into the small building.
"Welcome. What would you like to order today?" the chef greeted.
"A steak."
"And how would you like it cooked?"
"Slowly rare."
The chef glared at him. "You can use the table in the back room."
"Thank you." Then they were led into a room in the back. "Stay in here. You will be taken to the exam site from this room." then he closed the door behind them. A shake came and they all shook from left to right for a few seconds.
Tsuma sighed. "I didn't expect to get this far." He fell onto a chair. "At least we all made it."
"All we have to hope is taht we pass the exam." Gon grinned. "It should be harder than this, thought. But we should all try to pass."
The rest fell onto their chairs and soon the elevator/dining room was half way down.
Leorio then had an argument with Kurapika about what was better.
"The exam gives you all the money you want." Leorio gave himself sparkles around.
"All you think about is glory Leorio. I told you that you can't by class." Then Kurapika gave his reason. "The exam can help you with things more important than being greedy. Such as it can help me get a job like most people do."
"All you think about is getting revenge." Leorio turned to the side and crossed his arms.
"I understand Kurapika." Tsuma put his hand up. "Its true that you can get all the money you want, but its dumb if that's all you are getting it for. I think similar to Kurapika, but my way of saying it is that I can explore the world more easily and help myself to not struggle in life."
"I'll just go with that. I didn't want to do this in the first place. It just sounded fun and made it seem like it would be easier to survive." Hano then stopped butting in.
"What do you think is right Gon?" Both Kurapika and Leorio asked for a brief moment.
Gon waved his hands over and over as if he was confused. "I don't know. That's not really what I was doing it for though. I wanted to see what it was like because my dad is one and I just want to find him." He waved his hands nonchalantly.
Then the elevator shook again.
The big silver door moved itself to the side and all five of them walked into a cave full of an enormous amount of people.
"Hello. Welcome to the exam site. My name is beans." A small green man came up and greeted. "Here. Each of you needs one of these." He handed a white piece of plastic with a number in dark bold print, first to Leorio. He was number 403. Then he handed one to Kurapika. He was number 404. Then one was handed to Gon, who was number 405. Hano held one up as it was placed in his hand. Number 406 was his number. Finally, Tsuma got his. Number 407 was his number.
An utter moment was disturbed while observing their badges they held. A man named Tonpa approached them.
"Welcome to the exam. You all must be new here. My name is Tonpa."
"Its nice to meet you." Gon put his hand out in front of him.
"So who are you exactly?" Tsuma wondered. "Such as describing yourself."
"Oh right. I have taken this exam thirty-five times." He rubbed his neck.
This time Tsuma was surprised.
"Thirty-five times!" Gon and Hano yelled surprisingly, looking at each other. "You must have lots of experience then." They looked at each other and laughed.
"I am well known, and I've been through a lot of it. But I don't know all of it because I haven't gotten through all of it."
"That's okay. We were hoping we would know something about the exam." Gon rubbed his head.
"And that includes all these people that could be dangerous." Tsuma added.
Then he explained about all these people that were considered dangerous, but he stopped as a scream came.
A man fell to the ground and started turning into small specs. A card stuck in his head and he screamed while he suffered the agony.
Then another man laughed. He had red hair, and his shirt was like a card. His face had tattoos, one tear drop shape and another a star shape. "Now do you know why you should apologize?"
All of them gulped at the incident that appeared in front of their eyes, and Tonpa continued to talk. But this time he decided to talk about the one guy who looked like a magician.
"You want to stay away from him. He calls himself Hisoka. No one knows his problem, but it would be better to stay away from him. He is probably the last person you want to bump into."
'I wouldn't.' Tsuma felt shivers in his spine and he shook a little.
"Oh, I forgot. I always treat newbies with a drink." He opened a bag that hung on him and juice cans laid on his hand. Hano awed and smiled as he started to open the can. Tsuma preferred to not drink it, but he opened it anyway.
Gon started to drink his first before the others, but spit it all out before he swallowed a single drop.
"Is this juice still good? It tastes weird."
Tonpa widened eyed a little, and Hano put the can away as his lip touched the metal top. He dumped it all out, along with Kurapika and Tsuma who weren't surprised.
'I'm gladly appreciated that you made an excuse to not drink it.' Tsuma thought. Again, he preferred to not drink it anyway because he still didn't trust outside food.
"Sorry. It must have expired. I must have not realized it." Kurapika and Tsuma glared at Tonpa.
He left embarrassingly, and then they waited for the exam to start. But it was shortly after the conversation.
"Sorry for keeping all of you wait."
'Its fine. Proceed...'
"The time for examinees to arrive had ended."
'Thank goodness we made it on time.'
"The exam will now begin. But I must assure you that the exam will be difficult and you could end up risking your lives. If you would rather not, then you have the choice to leave now."
'Like I would.'
No one turned around.
"Well then, I shall take you to Phase Two."
'What about Phase One?'
"We will start Phase One with one rule. Follow me towards the direction of Phase Two."
'Okay. Now I get it.'
"The exam will now begin!" The examiner, which it was, started walking in an inhuman way, while everyone else followed.
"And now everything begins." Tsuma spoke out loud.
"Sorry for not introducing myself. I am the examiner for Phase One. You can refer to me as Satotz. How about we pick up the pace then." Satotz walked faster and soon everyone else was running. Who knew how long they had to run?
After awhile, the five had been running, but none were tired. By then, an albino boy with white hair rode along aside them. He wore blue shorts, with a long sleeved dark blue shirt, alond with a pale purple, short shirt on top of the blue shirt.
"Hey!" Leorio called. His face changed as he pointed at the albino boy riding a yellow and red skateboard.
"What?" He turned to see the angry Leorio.
"That's cheating!"
"How?"
"This is an endurance test. Follow the rules!"
"Who said it was?"
Gon butted in on the conversation. "No its not. All he said was to follow."
"I didn't hear endurance even once." Tsuma kept his hands in his pockets.
"I don't see why he wouldn't be allowed to." Hano also butted in.
Leorio just grunted. "Who's side are you on?"
"Everyone but whoever killed my clan and his." Tsuma moves his thumb towards Hano. "Stop yelling. Your too old to be doing that anyway. Not even I would."
"Why you little brat!" He clenched his fist.
"Hmm." The albino boy rode on slower to ride next to Gon, Tsuma, and Hano. "How old are all three of you anyway?"
"We're all twelve." Gon was the first to speak.
The albino boy jumped off his skateboard and ran alongside them. Gon and Hano awed at him. Tsuma just shrugged.
"That's no enough to surprise me."
"I'm Gon anyway," Gon blurted out.
"And I'm Hunter, and this is Hunter too." Hano pointed at Tsuma.
"You didn't have to introduce me. I could have done it. Also he shouldn't call us that or else it would be confusing."
"To give myself less confusion, I will just call you Chi and you will be Namida." (Chi is blood in Japanese and Namida is tear/tears in Japanese)
"How about Tsuma? And call him Hano."
"Why out of anything?" the albino questioned in concern.
"Tsuma is short for Tsumaeru which is my last name, and Hano is short for Hanoton which is his last name. We decided to leave Hunter so there isn't any confusion and chose that to be our names." Pretty simple for a name, huh?
"What's yours? Now since we've given ours, give us yours."
The albino shrugged. "Its Killua."
Next time on Hunta To Hunta
Tsuma: Ah, the sweet sight of new beginnings. Finally the exam had begun.
Hano: I'm glad too. But I hope we can get through this tunnel.
Tsuma: We did make it stupid. And we made it to Phase Two.
Hano: But what about the cooking?
Tsuma: You had to deal with it. At least it was better than being in that forest. That was probably the worst so far.
Hano: Well the airship was fun. Especially the game. *grins*
Tsuma: Yeah, I guess.
Hano: I'm also glad we were able to know more about Gon and Killua though?
Tsuma: At least I was sort of expecting the truth about Killua. It didn't seem surprising when I found out.
Hano: Your never surprised. *laughs like it was a joke*
Tsuma and Hano: Next time on Hunta To Hunta: Gon X And X Killua
Tsuma: I hate outside food.
Hano: Don't judge it yet. All it was, was that boiled egg. You've never had it before.
I almost couldn't introduce Killua in this, but I was able to. (Tears of joy in me because I finally added him.)
Shown below, I have answers to reviewers. I've decided to do that in this, so you will get answered, even if you are a guest. If you have read all my other fanfics, I don't reply. But I wanted to do that at some point, so this is the one I have chosen.
(I may have made mistakes here. Point any out if you see one.)
See ya!
Replies to reviewers-
DeadlyPinkFluffyUnicorns: Thanks for the review. :) I'm glad you liked it so far. You were right about Hano. He is an enhancer, (its pretty obvious) but it won't be mentioned in the story until later on.
Guest: Actually about that shooting in the head thing, there's a theory about what happens to James and Hano's sister, actually their whole clan. You will understand why he was able to talk before dying later on in the fanfic. Its confusing at first, but since you do find out, its really simple and understandable. (I don't want to spoil anything, so it may take awhile to find out.)