HUNTING REASONS

Synopsis : All over the world, some people are finding out that they were different than others. Those who deem themselves to have supernatural abilities call themselves hunters. Gon, claiming to have the ability to regenerate, must walk down all types of road before he could meet Ging, the mysterious man who claims to be able to copy others' abilities. Half the way through, he met with people he wouldn't mind dying for a thousand of times.

A/N : This is a HxH fic of mine put in the universe of Heroes – which is a cool show, you should really check it out. Beware of grammar mistakes, typos, OOC and weird pairings. Gon and Killua are about 18 and Leorio and Kurapika are 19. I don't want that huge gap between their ages.

Prologue

INDESTRUCTABLE GON

"I broke an arm this morning," Gon Freecs said with an underlying tone of unwithering determination as he looked across the table at the red-headed woman he called Aunt Mito. The woman's calm expression shifted into an annoyed frown as she put down her spoon with what she hoped seemed stern.

"Gon, it's the 52nd time-"she said before being cut and stopping into an abrupt halt when her nephew said, "I know. I'm not going to give up this time". The determination burning in the teenage boy's eyes was nothing but terrifying to the red-headed woman, feeling completely vulnerable under the intensity of his gaze. She quickly darted her eyes, opting to pin her gaze on a tiny yellow flower pattern on the table cloth.

She could still feel her nephew's glare burning right through her, but chose to stand her ground once again, like any other times she'd been forced into this conversation. Something in her seemed to hiss with deep pessimism, You'll lose this time, but she shook her head, hoping to quiet down those voices in her mind for once.

"I'll prove it,"he heard Gon said, making her snap her head right up as the teenager reached for a fork and held it with a metal-bending strength. Mito's eyes went wide the moment she knew what her stubborn nephew was doing, but was a fraction second too late in doing anything.

She saw deep red blood spurt out from the wound situated at the back of Gon's hand, swiftly streaming down on the side of his hand as he held the wound up for her to see. As much as Mito hated to admit it, what happened next didn't surprise her – she knew from the very start that her nephew wasn't telling her lies but she refused to believe it, blinding herself with the false hope that Gon was normal.

It was actually pretty impressive – had Mito never have a brother like Ging, he would've been entranced by the sight – in under a second, the wound seemed to fade away like mist when it's getting warm, little by little until it's completely gone, leaving trails of blood already drying away at the back her nephew's hand.

"Does it hurt?"she asked in one of the quietest voice she'd ever heard herself use. Gon flashed his teeth, grinning like the little boy he is – and for a fraction second Mito thought that he was still the ordinary little Gon she'd worked hard to raise. But nothing was ordinary about the teenager before her.

"Yeah, it does. But after a while, I got used to it because it was only for seconds,"he said, still wearing the childish smile Mito hoped could bring her back to the past when it was just her and Gon and no one else. Mito lowered her gaze to the innocent pasta sitting on her plate untouched, hoping that the boy would eventually give up.

"Aunt Mito, please. I need to know what I am," she heard him said. She snapped, looking at her nephew with rage in her eyes as she stood up, hoping it would give her the upper hand she didn't have as there's nothing she needed at the moment more than power over her nephew.

She needed to stop him. He can't leave her. Not after the days she'd spent working multiple jobs in order to keep him eating.

"You're my nephew and nothing else!" she said as she slammed the table angrily. Gon seemed to follow the suit, standing up while pushing his chair away with a loud creaking sound of wood on wood as he easily surpassed the petite woman's height by doing nothing but standing.

Mito looked up with her own look of determination, deciding that she's not giving up tonight. "I know that Ging's different like me,"he said, sending her off guard as she, wide-eyed and mouth gaped, freaked out entirely. Thousands of question formulated in her mind, racing like the adrenaline in her veins, and sticking on her brain like mosquitoes on a spider web.

He knew. She's going to lose him. Mito bit her bottom lip, fighting back the tears that threatened to spill out of her eyelids as the back of her eyes stung painfully. "How did you know about him?"she asked with a slightly shaky voice, not even daring to say that damn man's name.

"I met Kite this morning when I jumped down a cliff and he told me about him. He also told me how to find him,"Gon said, eyes seeming to visibly soften as the woman seemed to give up, yet still holding onto the same determination for what comes next.

"I need to find him,"he said with the most intense stubbornness Mito had ever heard coming from the boy. The red-headed woman was fighting the tears to the point that she's visibly shaking, clenching her fists until it's stark white. She knew this would be happening as soon as she woke up that day but she stupidly decided to shake off her instinct, which as long as she'd been living was never wrong.

She kept quiet, lips trembling as she avoided her nephew's gaze. "Mito-" she heard the spiky-haired boy say with a much softer, gentler voice but she pushed him into an abrupt stop as she raised her hand up, tears starting to roll down he cheeks as she looked at the boy. "Just promise me you'll be back," each syllable hurt her as she forced the words out, taking in a deep breath as she told herself again and again that it was the right thing to do.

Gon seemed to be taken aback for a few seconds before jumping in excitement and circling the table to pull his aunt into a hug. Mito hugged the much bigger boy, fingers clenching at the back of his forest green shirt as she told herself over and over again, almost like a chant, he'll be back.

"Indestructible Gon, The Master of Lightings and Electricity and The Bender of Weather," Cheadle Yorkshire said as her deep brown eyes scanned the document, before looking up to see her colleagues trying to digest what she was saying. Most of them looked rather impassive, as if this project was nothing important to them, but a number of them looked skeptic, which she had prepared herself to answer their questions.

A taunting snot came from the tiger-like man at one end of the round meeting table, followed by a loud sneer, "Where did you get the names from? A comic book?". Cheadle narrowed her eyes, feeling rage boil down inside the bottom of his heart but mantained her calm expression. "Plus, what's so special about them? Besides the Zoaldyeck one, they're just kids who doesn't even know what it means to live in this world we're living in," he said with irritation dripping from his voice as he threw his head back and folded his arms behind his head.

Cheadle stood up, and held her head high with mustered confidence as she continued to talk some tampered sense into the brains of her skeptical colleagues. "The prophecy said that they are meant to change the world. We don't know what change will they bring but for the sake of The Hunter's Association, we'll have to make sure they're on our side," she said.

If there's one thing she hated the most, it was using children for her own sake. But as of right now, there was nothing she could do without being relatively evil yet good at the same time – she will do anything to make sure The Hunter's Association win this endless war they were fighting for.

The Summoner's Organization had went pass the boundry when they sent their monsters roaming on her part of the country. If she didn't do this, thousands will die. It was the right thing to do, she kept telling herself no matter how much her own instincts screamed otherwise.

"Gon Freecs could rapidly regenerate – which means that he won't die, granting us a perfect human shield for the front line soldiers. We could use him as a bait any given time – and if anything, he's Ging's son,"Cheadle could see flashes of annoyance in her colleagues' eyes as she uttered their former co-worker's name, the tense air from before had somehow snapped and turned into something more childish.

"Killua Zoaldyeck had exploited his abilities to its true potential, and is a perfect killing machine – expect nothing less from the next heir of the Zoaldyecks," she said, stoic to the point that she couldn't even feel the self-hate that always comes whenever she treated people like weapon. It's what she'd been scared of – becoming completely comfortable being the persona she summoned for the sake of thousands under her. She's the leader. It was her responsibility.

"And Kurapika Kuruta is still oblivious towards his ability of weather manipulation. He could be extremely destructive whenever he's feeling strong emotions, which could probably be most of the time as he's very emotionally sensitive and suffers from PTSD,"she continued.

"We'll be watching them at all times, but if things leaves us no choice, we'll take them in". A thick silence enveloped the entire room, even the air-conditioner was bothering Cheadle, the hair at the back of her neck standing up as each eyes it the meeting room seemed to avoid her searching gaze.

She knew this situation is bound to happen when she took the chairman's position – eventhough Chairman Netero still seemed carefree and light-hearted as the first time they met, Cheadle will never be able to find her old self again. That being said, she's got nothing to lose at the moment. This project was going to succeed, even if it's the last thing she'll do.

A/N : Since this is only the prologue, it has to be short even though my chapters are usually 3k-4k. Sorry about the weird story but I really can't help it. Also, I can't seem to imagine someone with the ability of chains in this story, so I gave Kurapika something else. Although Leorio isn't at all mentioned in this chapter, he will make his entrance soon - so to all those Leorio's fans out there, fear not ;)