13 The Exam Site

As they walked through the streets of Zaban, Gon kept checking out the stores, observing all of the colourful objects the people were selling.

Yuuki was still feeling depressed, she couldn't even stop to look at all the weird and wonderful things the people of Zaban were trying to scam her into buying.

"Gon!"

"Here it is!" The father kiriko now disguised as a man in a turban said, "This building across here, the exam site."

As Gon, Kurapika and Leorio marvelled at a giant building they thought was the exam site, Yuuki looked at the small restaurant in front of her. The hunter exam, she thought, it's about to truly begin. She clenched her firsts. I'm definitely going to prove myself this time.

"Not there, " the kiriko said, "here." He pointed at the restaurant.

Soon the kiriko had told the password to the shopkeeper and they had reached the secret room in the back. Yuuki couldn't be bothered in Kurapika and Leorio's argument about hunters and why each other's idea of a hunter sucked. They tried to involve her in their conversation but she avoided it.

In truth, she didn't really care why people wanted to be a hunter. She just wanted to have some fun in this life and admire all of the things that didn't exist in her previous world.

Although she had adapted pretty well to her new life some of the things seemed more like fantasy than reality.

As Gon, Kurapika and Leorio stood to the side in the middle of the room Yuuki broke away and moved to the side. Tonpa soon approached the group, offering drinks.

Yuuki observed the hunters candidates. Quickly she noticed Illumi, he was quite hard to miss with the needles in his face and Hanzo who was yelling loudly about his secrets to a bunch of hunters who would listen.

Soon she heard a yell, surely enough it was Hisoka, removing the arms of an unfortunate candidate. Anyway, it was those three she should probably avoid, and probably Killua too. Maybe Tompa just because he was annoying.

She sat down at the side of the room. She thought about the upcoming phases. Yuuki should be able to pass the first phase, she had trained her endurance and the second phase was easy enough.

The third phase, however, she wasn't sure about. At first, she wanted to pass it with Gon and the group but now she wanted to challenge herself. She didn't want to pass the exam by relying on her knowledge and Gon.

The fourth and fifth phases. It was entirely up to who she got. She should be able to pass as long as it wasn't Hanzo, Illumi, Hisoka or Killua.

Soon Tompa came for her. He had just failed at giving laxatives to Gon, Kurapika and Leorio and was hoping to ensnare her in his trap.

"Hey there newbie, I'm Tompa!" he said. Yuuki really wasn't in the mood for this. "I'm a veteran, if you have any questions, just ask?"

"Yeah, sure" Yuuki smiled, "I have a question, Can you please go away!"

"What?" Tompa replied.

"You know I grew up in the same place as Gon right?" She said, "I'd definitely be able to taste whatever poison you want to offer me and although I hope I would be resistant to it, I would rather not test that right before the exam!"

Tompa looked very confused, had she seen him trying to get the other group? She must have.

"Hey Tompa, can I have another can?" A small boy with white hair came running up.

"Um, sure?" Tompa replied, taking out another can with a bad expression on his face.

"You must be really confident in yourself," Yuuki said.

"Yep, whatever poison he put in there won't affect me, " Killua said, "I've been trained to resist them. Do you not want any? It tastes pretty good you know."

"Yeah, I'm good! I eat a lot of weird stuff but I don't really want to injure myself before the exam." Yuuki replied.

"What kind of weird stuff?" Killua asked.

"Well there are lots of plants around Whale Island, I've tried eating quite a lot of them, " Yuuki said, "As long as I don't know its deadly poison, I'll probably try it."

"Haha, that's pretty stupid."

"Well, you're supposed to try new things you know."

"I'm pretty sure that's not what they mean by that."

"Some of them have pretty cool effects too. There's this flower that makes your hair and nails grow really fast and this mushroom that changes your hair colour."

Weird kids, Tompa thought. In fact, all of this year's rookies are insane.

Soon a loud sound rang out. "The time for chat is over. The exam will now begin!" A tall skinny man said, "Follow me please."