SHHHH! In short, a trip, no WiFi, no laptop, procrastinator, blah blah blah. You guys don't care about that. Less talk, more story!

Finally, after an hour and a half, I got the Hunter trio some clothes they liked. Kurapika wore dark blue converse, boot cut blue jeans -despite my warning that it can get up to 90 degrees fahrenheit in the afternoon- and a plain white shirt. Killua wore basically the same thing he always does, cargo shorts and a baggy t-shirt, but he took off the long sleeved undershirt. Gon wore black mesh gym shorts and a plain green shirt. None of them wanted any clothing with noticeable logos or designs on them, so all of their outfits were plain colors. I also had a bag with some extra clothes for later on.

After joining up with Alex (who I quietly yelled at for leaving me to do all the shopping) and paying for the clothes, which were all basically on sale, we headed outside to wander around town. Nobody called out to us or asked why there were three new guys following us, which was good. It was still nice outside, about 60 ish, and it wouldn't get warmer until later. We walked in silence, enjoying the cool breeze and the sights. That is, until we came across the candy shop.

Alex nudged me in the side, nodding in the direction of the store, which had just opened. We looked behind us at Killua, who had his hands behind his head, looking around at the different buildings.

"Okay, time to make a pit stop," Alex said, veering towards the store. "Gotta keep our promise." The door opened with a chime of a bell, and the cold air blew on my face as I walked in. The store was decorated with all kinds of colors from the brands and wrappers. Kurapika and Alex went towards the fruit-flavored kinds of candies while Gon, Killua and I headed towards the chocolate.

"I've got a little bit more than $40 with me, so knock yourself out. I'll be going through the candies at the end to make sure we don't buy more than I can pay for, okay?" I said, counting the rest of my money. The boys were gone at "Knock yourself out," so I shuffled through the candies on my own, grabbing one bar here, another there, a bag over there, and some other things.

By the time we all came to the register with our arms full of candy, I could've sworn that we cleaned out half of the small store. I got two packets of Fun Dip, a Ring Pop, one bag each of Kit Kat, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers bites, and a few bars of Twix and Hershey's. Alex got assorted fruit flavored candy like taffy, Nerds, jelly beans, and other similar things. Kurapika had a single bag of Fun Dip, which surprised me.

"What?" he asked me.

"That's seriously all you're going to get?" I responded as I dumped my candy on the counter for the woman to scan. Killua and Gon put theirs down next to mine. Gon seemed to lean towards the Hershey's bars and Crunch, while Killua grabbed every single chocolate thing they had and covered it with Milk Duds. Lots and lots of Milk Duds.

"Yeah." I watched the price go up with every scan. $20.75, $23.50, $24.25.

"Why? I said you could get whatever you wanted," I gave him a look.

Kurapika shrugged. "I didn't really want anything else."

I sighed. "Fine. Whatever. But if you want more later, I'm just gonna say no."

"You're total is $35.68," the woman said.

"So we've still got money to get more?" Alex said, heading off to get more candy.

As I was trying to deny and say I wanted to keep the change, something zoomed past me. Honestly, I didn't see most of it. He's too fast for me. All I saw was Killua smiling in a weird way, then a blur as he ran around the store, then back in front of me with another armful of candy.

"Really?" I asked, looking at the Milk Duds in his arms. He seemed to like them. I guess they were the closest thing to his Choco-Robo candy, so he got a ton.

"Yeah," he replied nonchalantly.

"I'm trying to save as much money as I can, so put them back," I ordered, taking my money out.

Killua dumped the boxes on the counter. "No."

Sighing, I paid for the candy- it's not like I could stop him anyways. But I had 11 cents left when I payed for that. 11 cents!

After we got out of the store we ended up sitting on a long bench, distributing our sweets among us from the giant bag I lugged from the store.. At first we started talking a bit more, but ended up getting some weird looks from other people, so we got quiet again and munched on our candy.

"Hey, Cowgirl," I bristled at the name Killua called me, but kept it more or less hidden. 'Don't add fuel to the fire' was something I learned a while back.

"Yeah?" I asked, munching on my Kit Kat bites.

"Why are people looking at us weird?" he asked, looking around at the crowded sidewalk where multiple people were glancing at us as they walked by. I opened my mouth to reply, but Alex beat me to it.

"Well, seeing as how we've got three new people with us that nobody knows, and two of them have wacky hair," Alex said, lollipop in her mouth, "people are gonna stare."

"Oi! Who are you saying has wacky hair?!" Killua demanded.

"You and Gon."

"What?!"

"Gon's hair is blackish-green, which isn't that noticeable, but yours is white. Kinda stands out among a crowd."

"It's silver."

"White."

"Obviously you're too stupid to see that it is silver."

"Silver has more of a sparkly, shiny tint. It's white."

"Silver!"

"~White~" came the sung reply.

Their bickering went on, so I turned to Gon and talked to him about the creatures in his world, while Kurapika just ignored us all with a small sigh. This went on for a few minutes until a girl, about 18 ish, approached us. I recognized her from around town. My parents had some chats with her before, since she was studying to become a veterinarian for farm animals. I think her name was Rose.

"Um... excuse me?" she asked nervously.

"Oh, Rose. Hey, what's up?" Alex stopped mid-argue to converse with the dark-haired girl.

"I don't mean to be rude, but," Rose paused, looking over the three Hunters sitting on the bench, "what country are they from?"

"Country?" my sister and I said at the same time, looking at each other. While in her room a few hours ago we came up with excuses for any questions people asked if they saw the three boys, but we weren't prepared for this one.

"Uh... they're from... Japan?" I answered, hoping it was a good enough answer.

To my relief, Rose started nodding. "That makes sense. I don't know much about Asian languages, but it sounds like they're speaking Japanese."

"Speaking Japanese?" we repeated, looking at each other again, dumbfounded. Rose didn't notice our uncertainness, and kept talking.

"By the way, why does this boy have green-black hair?" she asked, pointing to Gon. He looked up at her, confused as to why she was gesturing to him.

This was easier. It was one of the questions we prepared to answer, so Alex responded to her this time. "He dyed his hair green in the past and some of it is still like that, so in the light it looks more greenish." Rose nodded again, buying our lies.

"Ok, but why does he have white hair?" she questioned, pointing to Killua. The former assassin looked at her warily, sapphire eyes glaring.

Good. Another question we prepared to answer, even though it took more thinking and some researching to find a proper answer. "He's an albino, which is why his hair is white and he's so pale," I replied. Keep the answers short, simple, and to the point. Elaborating them is suspicious.

"Yeah, and because of that, he can't be in the sun too long, so we've gotta go. Nice seeing you, Rose!" Alex finished, standing up and grabbing Kurapika by the wrist, pulling him slightly as we walked away from the girl. I gestured for Gon and Killua to follow me, which they did after seeing the speed my sister left at. "She's a person who gets way into your business, although she's a nice girl," Alex muttered as we walked away.

"Alex, is that cute blond boy your boyfriend? Good for you to finally find a guy!" she called after us. I glanced back to see her walk in the opposite direction of us, head turned to call her farewell. Alex was blushing at Rose's comment, obviously embarrassed, and the Hunter trio were asking a flurry of questions which we ignored for the time being. I jogged up to Alex, who was still dragging Kurapika by the wrist.

"You can let him go now," I whispered, and she released her hold on him like he was on fire.

"Damn Rose, thinking I'm dating Kurapika..." Alex muttered.

"She's right about you not ever having a boyfriend though," I mumbled. Alex hit me on the back of my head. "Hey! What was that for?!"

"You brought that on yourself." I huffed.

Eventually we settled in a huge- and I mean huge- building that had a bunch of different things in it, like a food court, bowling alley, indoor soccer field, ice rink, and arcade type thing, and the boys started interrogating us. Alex and I explained what had gone on (leaving out the Kurapika as Alex's boyfriend part), switching between the two of us, until the Hunters were satisfied. I leaned back in my chair, hands behind my head.

"So everybody sees us as speaking Japanese when talking to or around you three, but we switch back to English when we talk to them?" I wondered aloud.

"I guess, though I had no idea that I was apparently speaking an entirely different language I had basically no experience on," Alex said. "Or that I was switching between the two."

"Maybe it's because we're suddenly fluent in it, so we don't register it as another language, just as if we were speaking English?" I said.

"I guess so, but that doesn't explain why we suddenly knew it."

"Or why nobody hears Killua, Gon or Kurapika's words in English."

"Ehh..." Gon interrupted, a confused expression plastered on his face. "That's confusing."

"You know Gon," Alex leaned forward, smirking and taking out her phone, furiously typing on it. "There are far more things more complicated that that."

"Like what?" the dark-haired boy asked, curious.

"3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745-"

I dived at my older sister. "Stop it, Alex! You're gonna make him pass out!" I tackled her to the ground, grabbing the phone out of her hands. She reached for it so I put it on the table, out of her reach. She started getting up again with the focus on confusing Gon with the numbers of Pi until his head swam, but I wasn't about to let that happen.

I tackled her again, pinning her down on her back, one leg on either side of her with my hands on her wrists. She twisted and threw me sideways, onto the ground, before kicking me away. I slid for a few feet before coming to a stop, pushing myself up onto one foot in a kneeling position. We had a stare off, tension crackling between us as we crouched on the ground before running at each other again, punching, pushing, shoving, hitting (not very hard, but still), before breaking apart and jumping back a few feet, glaring at each other.

"You know there really is no reason to fight," Kurapika said, calmly watching us. Alex shushed him, not breaking eye contact with me. We stared at each other for a few more seconds before breaking apart, laughing hard.

"That was awesome! One of the best fights we've ever had," Alex cheered, high fiving me. I grinned.

"The move where you threw me off you then kicked me away was really cool!" I said.

We quieted down, turning back to the table and taking our spots like nothing happened.

"..."

A silence from the three boys completely stopped us, and we stared at them.

"What?" Alex asked defiantly.

"You two are weird," Killua answered, taking the lollipop he was eating out of his mouth and pointing it at us.

"Well sorry for being weird," Alex replied. I picked my beanie off the floor where it landed when it got knocked off me and put it back on my head as she spoke. "It's not like everyone is a perfect human being like you try to be."

"Still-wait. 'Like you try to be'? What's that supposed to mean?!" Killua yelled.

"It means-" Alex started, only to be cut off.

"How about you two just be quiet for once?" I asked, rubbing my forehead. If they argued one more time, I was going to baka slap them into next week. "Or maybe stay on topic for more than ten seconds, if you can't manage that."

"So, why did you two fight then break away laughing?" Gon asked. Alex tapped her chin, thinking. I scanned the area around the table where we sat, suddenly conscious that we made a scene and that people could've noticed. To my relief, there seemed to be nobody around that saw our fight.

"Let's see," Alex started, still tapping her chin as she does when she thinks hard. "We used to yell at each other a lot when we were younger, me especially."

"I know someone else who yells a lot when he's mad," Killua muttered, pointing at Gon when he thought the raven-haired boy wasn't looking.

"Hey! You yell too!" Gon replied, catching on to who he meant.

"Anyways," Alex continued, "our parents got tired and annoyed at us yelling constantly, so they taught us another way to deal with each other with less noise."

Kurapika interrupted this time. "And they thought that having you fight each other with a risk of injuries was better than yelling?"

I answered his question. "At the time, it was the only thing they could think of. The next fight resulted in me having a black eye and Alex with a cut on her arm from when I pushed her into a window, which broke."

Alex started talking as soon as I was done, not breaking the chain of words. "After that, they taught us how to spar and had us do that instead. There's a few injuries every so often but nothing major."

I opened a bag of candy and ate some. "Now we make up moves to use on each other. It's really fun and more of a game or competition now than a fight."

"How can fighting be fun?" Killua asked.

"You two like fighting, don't you?" Alex replied, pointing to Gon and Killua.

"Yeah, we enjoy fighting, but that doesn't mean we think of it as fun," the white- ahem, silver-haired boy said.

"It's the same thing."

"No it isn't!"

"It is."

"No it's not! Gon, what do you think?!"

"Uh, well..."

I watched the three bicker, chin in hand, before looking at Kurapika. "So, what do you think?" I asked him.

"Hmm?"

I waved a hand at the fighting group next to us. "About that. Do you think enjoyment and fun are the same thing?"

He pondered my question for a moment. "Fun and enjoyment are extremely similar, close enough to each other to be considered the same thing. I don't really have an opinion of if they are the same thing or not." I tilted my head, thinking about what he said. "How about you? Do you think that they are the same?"

"Well... I don't really think of words as something that is analyzed. I think of them as they are- words. A form of communication, not something to be debated on. They're used as they are," I replied.

"No matter how you think of it," Alex intervened, "it's still the same."

"It's not!" Killua argued.

I sighed. "Does it really matter? The original point was- you know what, I give up." I put my head on the table and my arms on top of my head. "You're giving me a headache. I'm going to nap."

"Ehh? You're going to sleep?" Gon asked. I yawned, mumbling in approval.

"Let her sleep," Alex said. "She can be boring if she wants to."

"Meh," I mumbled, falling asleep.

Something was wrong. I didn't know what yet, but whatever it was, it woke me up. I lay still, keeping my breaths deep and even as if I didn't wake up. My arms were still covering my face, so I didn't need to worry about my eyes.

There! Whispers. I know for a fact Alex didn't whisper when I slept. She knew how deep into sleep I get, so she never bothered about being quiet. I strained to hear what they were saying.

"Here," that was Alex, no doubt. "I've got these two sharpies. Let's draw on her face."

It took all my willpower not to jump up and punch my sister in the jaw. Mark SHARPIE on my FACE?! Sharpie doesn't come off easily! No way was I going to let her do that!

"Don't you think she'll get mad, though?" That was Gon. Good old Gon, always being a nice guy.

"Of course! Which is why we'll mark on her face then take the car and drive back home! Even if she wakes up, we'll be far away by the time she realises that we drew on her." Too bad I was already awake. Oh Alex, you are soooo going to be dead!

"I'm not going to be dragged into this mess when she notices what you did to her," Kurapika said.

"You're fine! She won't get mad at you since you stayed out of it. Okay, Killua, what should we draw first?" Alex asked. A hand lifted up my arms and I focused on keeping my eyes from opening and my breathing deep and even. I had to wait for the perfect moment. Wait for it, waiiiiit...

The scent of Sharpie entered my nose. The marker must be close to my face. I shot open my eyes, jerked my head away and up from the smell, then grabbed the marker from the person's hands-hmm, that was Killua. Silently plotting revenge now- and threw it in a random direction before darting my eyes around for Alex.

"Got'cha!" Alex cried as she tackled me to the ground, holding my hands back with one arm and trying to mark my face with the other.

"My dear sister," I said, struggling against her, "I would love it if you got off of me." Her hand came closer to my face and I felt the tip press against my cheek. Quickly I jerked my hands up to cover my face. "Gon! Kurapika! Save me!" I looked up at the two remaining boys who hadn't tried to ruin my skin with black ink, only to find them staring at me passively.

"Mito-san told me to let siblings fight to work out their problems," Gon said.

"Why?! Kurapika! HELP ME!" I yelled, growing desperate as Alex once again made another mark on my face.

"I'm not getting involved with this," the blond replied cooly.

"KILLUA! HELP!" I begged as a last resort. He stared at me with blank eyes.

"What do I get out of it?" he asked, hands in pockets.

I thought for a moment. "Chocolate?"

He considered what I said before disappearing out of my vision. Alex was suddenly off of me, and I scrambled up onto my feet.

"NO! WHY DON'T YOU LET ME TORTURE MY SISTER?!" she screamed, being held back by Killua, who had her arms in his grip behind her back.

I walked over to my sister, grabbed the marker out of her hand, and threw it in a trash can. Then I covered her mouth with my hand, returning to my calm manner now that the danger was gone. "You're being too loud and hyper," I told her. She replied with yelled words that were muffled by my palm. "Let's get out of here before someone kicks us out," I said as I let go of Alex and led her out of the building. Killua disappeared again for a few minutes but was back at the car by the time we reached it.

The drive home was silent, the car filled with tension. I stayed as far away as possible from Alex, plotting on how I would prank her and Killua for trying to mark my face. Yes, she was my sister and yes, I care about her very much, but that doesn't mean she can try something like that and think she can get away with it!

We arrived back at the house and headed inside, Ryu greeting us eagerly. Gon petted her for a bit while I scrubbed most of the Sharpie off my face before heading to the living room, where the group all collapsed on the couch with a collective sigh. Killua rustled through a second and third bag of candy, his first one already emptied.

"Killua, when did you get those bags of candy?" I asked, noticing that he only had one when we left the candy store.

"Nowhere," he replied, eating a chocolate bar.

"Did they fall out of the sky?" Alex asked, completely serious.

"No."

"Then where did you get it?"

"I got some more candy at the store before we left, okay? No big deal."

"Wait... how did you pay for it?" Alex looked through her pockets to make sure that none of her money was stolen.

"Calm down," the former assassin waved a hand at my older sister. "I didn't take any of your money."

"Well, I didn't have any left," I said.

"Killua, did you steal money?" Gon asked his friend.

"...Maybe."

"Killua!"

"Relax, Gon. I returned the wallet when I was done."

"Oh really?" I asked. Killua nodded. "How much money did you spend?"

"I don't know the money in this world!"

"Killua!" Alex scolded.

"The lady said something like 50 dollars," he mumbled.

We stared at the white haired boy, trying to imagine him stealing another person's money- which, in fact, wasn't that hard for me to think about at all. Said person grabbed another piece of candy out of the bag and ate it.

"Say, Killua..." I started, having to satisfy my curiosity. "How much candy was left in the store when you were done?"

He coughed and said something too quiet to hear. "What?" I asked again.

"None," he replied, bangs covering his eyes.

"..."

"Seriously?" Alex and I asked at the same time. "Was that really worth it?" we wondered, again, in sync.

"Absolutely," he replied, and ate another piece of candy.

So! Yeah. Alex and Kylie have pranks like that all the time, which usually involves a lot of yelling and overreacting. Anyone ever get Sharpie on their skin? It usually takes a few days or a week in some cases for me to scrub the marks off by just washing it with regular soap. I have to use this special bar of soap that hurts my skin when I use it. Ouch.

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Infinityworlds: Yup! Killua will call Kylie Cowgirl more in the future. I'm glad I wrote the drama part good. I'm not too great at things like that. As for the Hunter X Hunter characters in normal clothes? Gon and Killua look like regular middle school boys, and Kurapika kind of looks like a foreign exchange kid (in my mind).

BizzyLizy: Yeah, Kylie had a hard time, but it's been two and a half years. Time doesn't exactly heal, but it helps. Good for you that you made an account!

Anna: Thanks! I'm glad you like my story.

Rennwolf: Awesome very much. I imagine Killua going through the same thing and just standing up, brushing the dirt off his clothes and moving on like nothing happened. Alex is a nice sister, and Killua probably will be doing a lightning prank on Kylie, followed by a baka slap! The chocolates will speak for centuries about the Zoldyck massacre that happened in that store. I'm glad I did the drama well.

MidoriEmerald13: I'm glad that you find my story unique and awesome!

Dragonbooks: Good that you stumbled across my story and enjoyed it. How they came to Earth and how they get back will be explained, but as for the why, that may or may not be.

xhunterxhunterx: I'm happy that you like the story! Hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Also, I want to add some more action or fighting in this story because I think it would be more enjoyable, but I can't think of any scenarios which would be necessary for that. Any ideas? Or should I just keep it as it is, with mainly day-to-day situations?

Thanks for reading!