" I have no idea where we are right now..." Kuromi grumbled, frowning to herself as she looked about the area. "Hopefully Gon wasn't attacked. That's unless he mindlessly followed us..."

'I don't think that boy will follow us right after the chase.' Kiyoko chuckled nervously. 'Now all we need to do is continue avoiding the people here and find out where we are..'

"But that's the problem... WHERE IN THE HELL ARE WE?!" Kuromi exclaimed, crossing her arms and frowning altogether.

'I-I don't know?' the other girl replied, chuckling nervously.

Switching over with each other quickly, Kiyoko rested her arms and began to walk around again, looking at the environment and noting any danger to come. They were safe, sure, but it doesn't mean they were in the green light.

"I feel like we should start hiding again.. I don't like walking around openly this...

'But nobody is near us?' Kuromi asked.

"It doesn't hurt to be safe..." the other girl replied, walking over to a shrouded area.

"But talking to yourself all day is the easiest way to get caught," a voice said.

The girl jumped at the sound and fell backwards on her bottom with a thud. Looking at who it was, she sighed in relief and tried to calm her rapidly beating heart.

"I'm sorry, did I frighten you?" Kurapika asked, smiling softly as he walked over and pulled her back up.

'YOU MOST CERTAINLY DID, YOU SNAIL!' Kuromi hollered.

"Ah... Yes, but I'm fine," Kiyoko replied as she brushed off her sullied clothes. "Have you found your target yet?"

The teenager nodded as he gave a quick pat to his bag he wore around himself.

"I see... That's great," the girl said.

'Oi, Kurapika! I spotted a strange cave over on my side. Maybe we can go check it out tomorrow, possibly tonight,' Leorio called, his voice becoming more audible as he came closer. "Ah, Kiyoko! How's it going? No other injuries now are there?"

"Injury?" the Kurta asked quickly.

"I'm fine, thank you. No other injuries," the girl replied, holding up her hand to stop the Kurta from grabbing her and inspecting for any serious wounds.

The boy immediately stopped advancing himself over to Kiyoko, knowing that she didn't want him to worry about her so much. He still couldn't help, however, think about what sort of injuries she got herself into.

"How serious was it?" he asked the lavender haired girl.

"It was just a scratch damn it, now shut up!" Kuromi yelled, emerging out from underneath angrily.

"Ah. What she said," the other one said awkwardly.

"At least it wasn't a deep cut or a stab then..." Kurapika replied, completely relieved that she was okay and not terribly hurt.

The girl nodded but then suddenly stopped smiling and looked around caustiously as if she was an animal at prey, or well, she is one at the moment. She then allowed herself to take on her beast form and listened to her surroundings carefully, still eying the area little by little.

'So that's how a Lynith looks like up close...' Kurapika thought observantly.

"Someone must be nearby if she's acting this way.." Leorio suddenly said, stepping over to the female beast and patting at her.

It slightly bothered the Kurta due to the man treating the girl as a real animal despite her form yet she wasn't very bothered by it herself. Turning away and taking off, Leorio stood up and ran off himself, motioning the boy with him to follow.

"A hunter is near. She's going into hidng now and we must not expose ourselves either," the man told him.

"I can well see that happening right about now," Kurapika replied in a deadpanned tone.

"Please, save your wonderful sarcasm for youself later.." Leorio grumbled." Well split away from Kiyo for now. She doesn't want us to get hurt or anything and plus she'll just run away from us."

'If you say so...' he agreed quietly. 'I don't want to bother her, but I don't want her to get hurt...'

He then trailed his fingers up to his forehead and pressed his face against his palm in stress, rubbing his temples to relieve himself. Leorio looked over to the worried teen and blinked a few times, sighing silently.

"Did you say something?" he decided to ask the Kurta.

"No, nothing at all," the boy replied nonchalantly.

The man eventually stopped running, stopping Kurapika in his tracks as well and earning his attention.

"You shouldn't worry too much. She can take care of herself especially in that form."

"Did I show it clearly?" Kurapika asked curiously.

The man nodded as he gave him his monkey grin and laughed, slapping his back.

"..!"

"Really? What kind of question is that? Of course!"

"I didn't expect it to be that... obvious..." he said, smiling at the taller man. "No need to worry about me. Let's continue the search for your target's tag."

'Please tell me we aren't being followed,' Kuromi said as she forced herself to look back.

It was hard to see since her floppy ears were obscuring her line of sight as she continued to run. The ears were just busying themselves with slapping her snout and eyes whenever to lunged forward with force to keep herself going.

'And... we are not being followed,' she concluded, looking back ahead. 'Stupid ears.'

'We can't help it,' Kiyoko mumbled.

The two eventually stopped and skidded into a bush, walking out calming in their human form. Sadly enough, their ears and tail were still visible on their body much to Kiyoko's dismay.

"Thank god no one is here... I wonder how much longer we have to last on this island," the girl thought, leaping into a tree to rest.

'I don't know, but I know I just want to leave. This is stressful,' Kuromi groaned. 'I hate being target. We're not playing tag or anything like that...'

"Kuro, you know this isn't a game. I just want to go home once this is all over," Kiyoko sighed. "I wish I didn't come here... I hate being chased around like this."

"Then why did you come?" Killua asked, looking over at her.

The girl flinched at his questioning voice and fell backwards, clinging onto the tree branch for dear life with her tightly clenched legs. The young boy ended up snickering at her a little as he settled himself down in a more comfortable position on the branch, Kiyoko pulling herself back up.

"What's with you guys appearing out of nowhere like that...?" she asked in a slightly whiny tone.

"Sorry not sorry, but you got to get used to it sooner or later," he muttered, bringing his arms up to rest behind his head. "Anyways, why is it that you come here then if you didn't want to? Cause of the Old Grouch?"

'HEY!'

"Yeah, you can say that and please halt the name calling. She'll attack sooner or later."

"Ah, no worries. Not like she can do anything," he commented with a smirk.

"Er.. Just don't attack or so.. You'll hurt me too," Kiyoko said nervously.

"Got you."

"Look, I didn't want to come here, but since this is for Kuro's sake, I left home to take on this exam. She's violent, she be all out violent here. It's not like I wanted to, but anything to satisfy her lust. She gives me headaches..." the girl complained as she rubbed her temples.

'I get headaches from SITTING AT HOME AND DOING NOTHING!' Kuromi yelled, pounding her fists in the air.

The exhausted girl was now trying to ignore herself as Kuromi continued to throw a fit, setting more stress into her body than she ever needed. It only made her question why her negative personality even existed in the first place, but that question also made he remember her brother. The thought of him was never pleasant in her mind.

"You didn't have to listen to that other one if you didn't want to, but since you're here now, you got Gon and those other two right?" Killua asked, nudging the side of her body. "It... might have been different without you around. Maybe.."

Kiyoko laughed as she pushed his elbow away, brushing the area he was nudging at to stop her skin from feeling ticklish. The tingling sensation eventually went away after he stopped nudging her semi-hard.

"Who knows? It could have been better without me here!" she laughed. "Who knows?"

Shrugging it off casually, Killua lazily positioned himself on the branch to lay down and take a rest. He looked really bored and uninjured, allowing Kiyoko to make a few assumptions concerning his target.

"Say, did you get your target yet?" asked the curious girl.

"Hah?"

Killua lifted up his head to look at her, showing a face that gave her a rude response she could think of. Things like, "Are you kidding me?" or "No really." or even, "You're stupidly out of your mind, right? Of course I did."

"Yeah. I did alright. It was simple and they were really careless to the point where they looked stupid as hell..." he commented.

That was when he began to rant, showing a frown that stuck with him for the entire complaint he had to give out.

"One of them thought I was just a kid and that he needed to easy easy on me. It was funny yet I forgot how to laugh. Actually all of them thought I was just a kid and tried beating me up! Obviously, I was able to grab their tags and scatter them. I still took my target's tag though. You know what's even worse? They... were really slow. The kicks they swung and the punches they threw at me were laughable! Even their teamwork was sloppy and I know barely anything about teamwork! Well, more than them at least. Hey, do you have any chocolate?"

"I'm sorry, I don't..." replied Kiyoko awkwardly. "But hey, you got the tag and you're all set."

'He complains too much...' growled Kuromi.

'Please tell that to yourself because you're looking at a near carbon copy of yourself,' Kiyoko thought back.

'Am not!'

"I'm going to sleep.." muttered the young boy. "Wake me up when it's time to eat or something..."

"Eh? W-wait.. It's still morning and I don't have the time... Killua?" called the girl. "... He's asleep.."

Stormy: Ugh, school. Ugh, SATs... Blahhhh, ACTs... And volunteering and studying and homework... JUNIOR YEAR SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! -cries- I AM SO NERVOUSE FOR THE UPCOMING SAT AND ACT TEST I'M TAKING SOON, HOLY CRAP! -HYPERVENTILATING-

Kiyoko: Updates will be terribly, terriblyyyyyyyyyyyyy slow this year. Apologies to all readers!

R&R and enjoy! Sorry for such a short chapter and such a delay... -sob-

~stormy003