This chapter is a little longer, due to what happens.
Enjoy!
Chapter 3 Gon X And X Killua
"Its Killua." the albino boy went.
"Its nice to meet you then." Hano placed his hand out as a greeting.
Killua sighed, shaking his hand, leaving Hano grinning and Gon smiling. But as for Tsuma, well he was his usually self. Barely smiling, rarely surprised, and almost mever laughing. Back then he was different. The lack of happiness that came after his clan died, was most likely the answer to why he was never happy.
Soon after their greetings, Leorio was lugging behind. He was already starting to stop, and he dropped his suit case that he had been holding ever since the beginning. Then after a few steps farther, his legs stopped moving and his hands went to standing on top of his knees. His face was covered in sweat, and he was panting hard.
Gon stopped himself and turned towards where Leorio had been. Killua stopped himself right after, then Hano did, and then Tsuma.
"Just leave him," Killua spoke in an instant.
"I would." Tsuma agreed. "He's annoying anyway," he then muttered.
Gon was speechless. He just waited for Leorio's response.
"I won't...stop yet!" Leorio's speed increased as he began to run off. His suit case was still on the ground.
"Good," Gon came. He grabbed a rod and threw it towards the suit case and the hook, hooked onto the handle. The next second, it flew in the air, falling into Gon's arms.
Killua and Hano awed at what their eyes saw.
"Let me try using that." Killua's hand lifted his board more.
"Same thing with me." Hano grinned in a way of eagerness.
"Only if you let me try out your skateboard. And I want to try something you have, Hano."
"Well I have this." He opened his bag. "This is the only thing I have." A maroon colored gun appeared in his hand.
Tsuma widened eyed a bit. "Where did you get that?" He was slightly confused about him having a gun. For his personality, it seemed weird and unrealistic for him to use a gun, or even holding one.
"I found it while I was travling. I haven't used it yet though." He flipped it in the air and it landed in his hand. "I don't have a weapon, so this should be it." He put it back in. "Do you have something?"
"I have no desire of having a weapon." He crossed his arms. "I actually think guns, swords, knifes, and any common weapon used is boring. I go for uncommon things, such as things like the rod. Gon's the first I've seen use a rod. But I'm still not that interested."
"You know that your wasting time." Killua pointed at the crowd of people. Everyone was almost too faraway.
"Ehh!" Gon and Hano went.
"Once again, I used myself as a problem." He facepalmed out of annoyance in himself.
The four of them continued to run off. But it didn't take long to catch up.
Kurapika and Leorio had been up ahead, Leorio being shirtless, and Kurapika with his tabard off.
All four of then caught up and somehow they ended up on stairs.
"Oh its Kurapika and the old man," Tsuma said jokingly.
Leorio's face scrunched up. He gritted his teeth hard. "Who are you calling old?" he yelled in Tsuma's face. Tsuma blink twice, then answered.
"You. Would you rather be called old guy instead?" he told him sarcastically.
"Don't be stupid. I'm a teenager like all of you." Then he became surprised.
All of them, but Leorio stared at him blankly as f it was a joke.
"That's new. For once I am surprised. What are you. 19 years, 11 months, 29 pr 30 days, and some type of hours, minutes, and seconds old?"
"Don't try to be exact."
"Whatever. Like I care anyway." He went ahead, along with Hano.
"Do you have a problem with him or something?" he wondered out of nowhere.
"Why?"
"Curiosity I guess."
"I don't like people like him. I don't see a point to become friends with everyone."
Hano shrugged, but then he was interrupted by two particular voices.
"Hey!" Gon waved from behind. "Hano' Tsuma! Do you want to race with us?"
'Do you mean me?'
"Where to?" Hano answered in excitement.
"The exit." Their eyes were led to a bright light in front of them. The exit must have been it. "Whoever loses has to buy the rest dinner."
"I'm out of this." Tsuma didn't really care about competition. He was already in one anyway. "Plus I don't have money, and we won't be able to buy each other dinner until, I don't know, weeks. Who knows how long this exam will take?"
"See you at the top then." Tsuma say his friend speak. Usually Hano wasn't like that. At least this was just a short game, so it didn't really matter.
Tsuma ran ahead, and the other three began countdown.
"Three. Two. One. Go!" all of them yelled.
Tsuma got close to the exit, and pushed his foot hard and junped out into the brightness. But at the same exact time, when he got out, Gon, Killua, and Hano yelled 'Goal.' all together and all four of them finished together. No one behind and no one ahead.
"I won!" Gon cheered.
"I think it was me who finished first," Hano corrected.
"Don't be so confident. I won that," Killua finished off.
"You all came out at the same exact time. I saw with my own two eyes." Tsuma's fingers pointed at his eyes.
"That means you lost. We passed you."
"What? Wait. Wait. Wait. I said I was out on this. And I also happened to come out just as you three came out anyway." A vein popped out of his forehead.
"Satotz-san. Who came last?" Gon moved his head to see see Satotz by the exit.
"It appears that you all were out at the same time. Even the one boy who wasn't competing happened to come out with you three," Satotz remarked.
"See? I told you so." Tsuma turned away. Then his head hurt hard, like a hard beat came to it. He lumped forward, and almost lost his balance.
"Huh? Are you okay Tsuma?" Hano became worried.
"I'm...fine. Its probable a sudden reaction to the light or stopping. I'm tired anyway. That's probably why." It was sort of a lie. That could have been true, but he didn't know. Maybe it would just happen then. He wasn't going to worry about it much if it only happened once anyway.
Kurapika and Leorio came out the next minute.
"You both made it. That's good." Hano smiled.
"I just hope that was the last of Phase One." Leorio hoped.
"I thought the exam would be more fun than this," Killua wined a little.
"Easy for you to say." Tsuma crossed his arms.
Satotz continued to explain more of Phase One.
"So far only three hundred sixty eight examinees remain. But it is likely that more of you will fail during this next part. Phase One has not ended yet. We still have much more that we have to go through." But another interruption came.
"Don't listen to him!" A random man from behind the building came. He pointed at Satotz, claiming that wasn't the real examiner. Then he pulled out a creature. It was some type of monkey thing that had the same type of face and hair as Satotz. "I am the real examiner. He disguised himself to look human so he could trick all of you."
"What proves that you are the real examiner? Do you have a license?" someone went.
"I did, but he stole it from me so he could cover himself up." It was all lies.
Next thing he knew, three cards hit the man. He fell to the ground and the monkey thing ran off in fear. More cards were thrown at Satotz, but he ended up catching all of them.
"Well that proves you are the real examiner then. You should be able to catch these if you are one." Everyone turned their gaze towards Hisoka. He held his cards while talking.
"I may assure you that the next time you do something like that, that you will be disqualified for attacking an examiner." He threw the cards to the ground. "We will now continue by following me through this forest. We will arrive at Phase Two soon. But as a reminder, if you don't catch up with me, you may never find your way through this forest and may end up dying instead."
'Then I'll stay with you if that's true.'
"We will now begin." He turned and continued to walk in the same inhuman way, making everyone needing to run to catch up.
Soon after only half an hour, people were disappearing out of nowhere. Hano's heart pounder harder because of the fear, and Tsuma widened eyed a bit when he heard screams. He even gave small gasps due to his amount of fear.
But then his head hurt again, like something hit him. He held his forehead and gritted his teeth a bit. 'This is the second time already. Why is it happening again?' Then his slowed down. His oegs were weaker for some reason. He even stopped and his legs shaked hard. He couldn't move, but he couldn't stop shaking hard.
Hano looked back, not hearing Tsuma anymore from behind. He saw his friend in pain, so he ran back over. But then he gasoed as Tsuma started to fall. His hand left his forehead and his eyes were closed. His mouth was opened a little and hus knees hit the ground. But just before he fell foward, flat onto the ground, Hano caught him. He turned, having his back face him, and carried Tsuma on his back.
"You should have told me. I knew something was wrong. You were acting different than before we started the exam. But I don't think this is out of exhaustion. I can feel your heart besting normal." It was exhaustion. It had been something else that made his head become intense, intense enough for him to faint.
Hano's eyes watered as he carried Tsuma, with one arm hanging low. It hurt his back carrying him all the way, but he couldn't leave him behind.
As he caught up with the others, Gon noticed what Hano was doing. He then asked why he was.
"He fainted. But its not because fo exhaustion. His heart wouod be beating hard right now. Its normal, but I don't know why. And I don't know what it was from."
Later, about fifteen minutes later, they approached a group of people after the examiner started to disappear.
The group of people had been in a circle, along with someone hiding inside, well not really hiding. It was Hisoka in the middle and the grou of people tried to trap him. But not a good decision because he held a card out and it killed all ten, twelve, something people.
His head turned to gaze at the others and he laughed a bit. "I'm playing judge. If you pass then I will let you through."
"Gon ahead Hano. Its not safe to have him aroujd Hisoka if he unconsious." Kurapika took out his swords.
Hano couldn't move from his spot. He couldn't make his legs move any further. He was trembling so much, that it was hard to even move.
"Go. It should be you first that gets away." Leorio took out his knife.
Again, he couldn't move. His heart was racing.
"Who says he can go?" Hano widened eyed at Hisoka.
Somehow Hano had been closest to Hisoka, so he went for him first, especially since he couldn't let Hano go without being tested.
He grabbed him by the neck, and Hano lost grip of Tsuma, so he fell to the ground, making his head hit it first, as it being the hardest, then the rest of his body landed on the ground.
Hano tried to grasp for breath, but he couldn't.
"Let go of him." Leorio grabbed onto a stick and ran towards Hisoka, trying to hit him, but he was knocked out instead.
"I will even give you a bonus if you pass. If you pass, then your friend that you were carrying will pass to. But if you fail, then he fails along with you." Hisoka tightened his grip.
Hano opened an eye, glaring at him. His face was like he was angry. He was, but he couldn't do anything to show it. His face determined what he was feeling.
"You pass." He let go, letting Hano hit the ground, choking. He coughed hard and then looked back up. "You can go now then. I will take care of them. But if you don't move forward, then you will fail."
Hano quickly grabbed Tsuma with fear and ran away faster than before. There left Leorio on the ground, with Gon and Kurapika still left to be judged.
As Hano got closer the crowd, everything became more clear. He saw the examiner and gave himself a small cheer inside. He caught up with them and soon they ended with a building in front.
By a tree, he set Tsuma down against it.
Killua came up before the rest arrived.
"If he fell asleep out of exhaustion, then he won't get through the exam easily." Killua crossed his arms.
Hano turned his head. "I don't exactly know why he fainted, but I can tell it was because of that. Something must have hurt his brain too much, that he couldn't take it anymore. That's what I think most likely happened."
Ten minutes later Gon and Kurapika arrived.
They both looked around as if they were lost, and then Gon turned his way at a tree. Leorio had been against it, so he and Kurapika ran over. And then after a few minutes he was carried over to the tree where Tsuma and Hano had been.
"How long do you think it will take for him to wake up?" Gon let Leorio's arms go off his shoulder. "I don't think he should be like this during Phase Two. Its starting soon too."
Hano sighed and then stood up from sitting. "I don't know. But I think he should wake up on his own." Then he turned his head towards Tsuma. 'What's going in your head. You better wake up soon though, or else you may fail.'
"Huh? Where am...I?" He rubbed his eyes and sat up. "What happened to me?" He got up and looked all around himself. Tons of green pieces of grass surround the area, going on forever. He walked forward, hoping something ir someone would show up to tell him where exactly he was.
He had walked miles as it felt, but nothing changed. Until a faint noise came from behind. A gun went to his head, the cold, hard front touched the back of his head. The innocence in him made him still. He was shaking and his legs stopped.
"Who are you and why are you here?" A white glove covered the intruders finger, moving from one side to the other of the trigger. It wasn't pulled yet, but the feeling of the gun shot nade him sweat and have worry.
"I...I..."
"Speak! Give me your answer or else you will be shot," she demanded.
His eyes watered and he closed them. He clenched both of his fists and they shook hard.
"I don't know."
The gun started to leave his head, but then it was put back when the woman gritted her teeth.
"Don't give me that. No one comes here not knowing what to do. Its survive or die. You come here in order to train. But most people are foolish and instead kill themselves from their own actions. Now be honest with me. The master won't be pleased if you lie."
"I'm not lying! I don't know what happened to me. The last thing I remember was the exam and then I fainted. And then when I woke up, I ended up here. I'm telling the truth." Tears ran down his cheeks.
She put the gun down. He gasp quietly and rubbed the tears away.
"What do you mean by exam?"
"It's called the Hunter Exam. I was taking it so I could avenge my clan. But somehow I ended up here during it. My friends are probably wondering where I am right now."
"Friends? Clan? Wait a minute, what is your clan called?"
"Tsumaera. I don't think you know who we are because we hide ourselves so no one can find out about us," he explained.
"Tsu...ma...era? That sounds familiar. Do you know who Master Gutano is?" (Pronounced guu-tah-no)
"I've never heard if that name before. Is he related to Tsumaera's or know us?"
She sighed. "Then you must have not learned it when you were younger. Follow me and I will take you to him." Tsuma turned towards the woman. She had two white gloves on her hand, along with a black dress, with a black cloak underneath. Her hair was blonde and her eyes were purple.
"But I've walked for miles and nothing had shown up. Everything is just grass and sky."
"You think that. We have secret passage ways hidden under the grass. If you see right there." She pointed to the right. "The grass is darker. Most people assumes it's from a cloud, but no clouds appear here. That is really where one of the passages are." She moved her finger in a way that showed a path. "Now if you go in, there are different directions you can go. But there us a pattern to each passage. Once you enter, you always turn left, then right, then straight, then right again, then you moved left once more, then straight, and finally right until you reach a door that says, 'Montoyari'. (Pronounced Mon-toe-yar-ee) But from there, there are guards on the other side, so either if you are with me, or you are recognized as a Tsumaeru or been here awhile that you are welcome, then you get passed safely. For now follow me and then the master will see you."
He sweat dropped out of confusion. "For now I guess I can memorize the way through watching. I'm not entirely sure the way through the passage." He rubbed his head. She laughed and opened up the passage way. Stairs appeared. They were made of grey stone, and chips of it were broken.
They went the way through until close to the point where the door appeared.
"We will be arriving soon in Montoyari. And excuse me for not introducing myself. You can call me Namipano. (Promounced Nah-me-pa-no) You wouldn't know me because I became a servant of the master after the inncident of your clan and my master. But you don't know Master Gutano for a reason." They reached the door where the sign appeared and the door opened. Many voices came everywhere. The guards weren't the only voices though. There were other people, children, men and women all over. It was like a town full of people in the past, die to the clothes. The guards wore blue shirts and pants, and the other towns people wore white shirts, and black pants for boys, and girls wore white shirts, with khaki shirts.
"Welcome back Nami-senpai." One of the guards bowed at her. "Who do we have here?"
"Oh yes. I have found one of the Tsumaeru's. Call him Hunter-senpai." Tsuma stared at her blankly, then he butted in.
"How do you know my name anyway?"
"We servants that serve Master Gutano, must know the names of every Tsumaeru. You are the first to ever come here. And we will adress you by your first name."
"Actually I don't go by Hunter anymore. Just call me Tsuma. And no senpai is fine."
"You are an honored guest. We will adress you by Tsuma-senpai. We will change your name, but we must adress you with senpai because that is dishonoring your clan."
'When did my clan become so famous and well known?'
"Now that you know that you can come here, I will take you to my master." She directed him over to a large building. It was a light brown, enormous house/hotel like, with windows in a row at the top, and a few others were either in the middle or on the bottom. The door opened and a large hallway was shown, leading up to a set of stairs on the other end. Making their way to it and up, the reached the top floor and wlaked in a large room where someone had been mediatating by a window. Three giant windows laid on the wall, and the man had been facingg the middle one.
"What do we have now? Or is Hama acting bad around the others again?"
"No. We have someone you might want to see." She put her hands together and out then down in front of her. "You might know him if you look at his appearance."
The man stood up and and turned his gaze at Tsuma. "Well it looks like I have a new student then. Your grandfather must be glad you showed up here."
Tsuma gasped. He looked at the man in surprise. He had short black hair, with a black cloak on, along with a red shirt and black pants on.
"If needed, I can leave you alone."
"That would be helpful. This can be something private." Nami left the room, while the guards closed the door and were gone too. "Let me guess. You were travling alone and happened to find this place. You are lucky you have your signs of showing you are a Tsumaera."
"Give me something that we are known for. Then I may believe you know us." He closed his eyes to so he wouldn't show the color in them. "First of all, what color eyes do we have."
"Golden yellow, but can turn bright yellow when you are showing great amounts of joy."
He stopped speaking for a moment. "What else?"
"The color red in the hair. Not many have that, and your clan are the few who have that born with." Tsuma opened his eyes.
"Anything else?"
"Nothing else."
"Wrong. There is one more thing that we can be known for." He didn't gasp or widen eye.
"Hmph. Good decision. But no."
Tsuma smiled. "Correct then. Since you knew I was lying about there being one last thing, you do know us Tsumaera's well. We are only known by are eyes being one of the seven most beautiful colors in the world when they glow. And our hair color is true. All of us are born with red hair." Gutano smiled at the boy. "But what I really want to know is how you know the Tsumaera's."
"I will answer that honestly. You grandfather was my master a long time ago before you were born. He found me by your village one day and took me in because I had no one to go to or be with, and no where else to go. I was weak, so he trained me to survive in the world. Then after years, I left. I heard your clan died too, and that you only survived though."
"That's true, but no one told me that an outsider stayed with us."
"That's because your mother didn't like me. She didn't want anyone else to know about it, so your brother and your cousins were not told just in case something could have gotten spread."
"That explains why they never let me leave. They said it was too dangerous to go to the outside world, so I wasn't allowed to leave, unless I went into the forest with someone."
"Well then, since you trust me, I will take you as a student. But not now because this is just a dream. I know that you need to wake up, so I will make you."
"So that's why I didn't recognize this place."
"You can visit after you become a Hunter. That's when I will teach you. I will see you when the time comes." Tsuma then started to fade and he disappeared.
As his eyes opened, a hand appeared. It hit his cheek, and it woke him completly up.
"I told you not to do it," he heard Hano.
"What?" Tsuma looked up. "Why did you slap me?"
Hano sighed. "Killua thought that you should have been woken up, so he slapped you since no one else was willing."
"The next Phase is starting. What else were you suppose to do?"
Tsuma stood up from his spot. He laughed and then they were led to Phase Two. Inside the had to cook. Everyone was surprised about it, but they ended up doing it anyway. The cooked roast pig for one of the examiners Buhara, and everyone passed. Then they had to cook sushi, which no one knew of about. So everyone ended up failing.
A minute later after a fight the chairman Netero showed up and made a new Phase Two. They had to get a Spider Eagle egg and cooked them. Then everyone who got one passed. (Sorry I don't really like Phase Two, and I had to add it in this chapter.)
Everyone who passed were put on an airship. Gon, Killua, Hano, and Tsuma explored the ship part of the time. And during that time they found out Killua was an assassin. None of them were surprised. No even Hano, who got surprised easily.
Netero came by and asked if they were willing to play a game, and forced them into by saying they would get a license. Since they all agreed, the game started off with them trying to get a ball. Killua quit, along with Tsumawhi wasn't that interested. Hano later quited, and Gon continued. The game went on until Gon made Netero use his right hand and he fell asleep immediately. The airship continued to fly in the air, towards the direction of Phase Three.
Next time on Hunta To Hunta-
Hano: I'm glad we got through that much of the exam.
Tsuma: Yeah, me too. I at least hope Phase Three isn't hard.
Hano: As long as we get through it, you know.
Tsuma: *thinks for a moment* I have something I need to tell you.
Hano: Is it about what happened when you fell asleep?
Tsuma: Yes. But how did you know?
Hano: What else could it have been of? You would have told me sooner, unless you had to wait until now.
Tsuma: Well, I guess I will tell you.
Hano: Is it important?
Tsuma: Yes. You will want to know.
Tsuma and Hano: Next time on Hunta To Hunta: Gutano X Amd X Tsumaeru
Hano: I'm ready.
Tsuma: Okay.
Sorry if this is too long. I needed to fit in Phase Two and the game somehow.
So if you have a question about the dream with Master Gutano, I will answer it.
Thanks for reviews! :)
