AN: Hey everyone! Sorry for no upload yesterday, work started up again this last Monday, and every month the company rolls out a mandatory Saturday to deal with the large backlog of work… which so happened to be my first week back on the job! I was way too tired to really do anything so I ended up lazing around while picking up a few other projects I had shelved for a while…
{Magenta P.o.V}
'Well, the boat should be arriving at midday, or rather when the sun is overhead… it's currently early morning and I don't have much to do besides laze around in hopes of recovering some energy as my attempts at sleeping have been… anyways, I need something to do to occupy me while waiting?' staring out onto the horizon I watched the sunrise while leaning against a small tree that was growing at the edge of the beach.
"Maybe some light exercise or back to meditation? Hmm… the former doesn't sound so bad, sitting up in that tree or scurrying around like it was a shitty stealth game probably put a permanent bend in my spine and my body stiff as all hell…" following my decision I began to slowly jog up and down a stretch of the beach as a way to warm up. Once I was done running after a short while I began moving on to various other forms of body weight exercises while making sure to not focus too much on one area.
{a few hours later}
"Well, it seems it is time to move out towards the boat, lets's hope that everything went well for everyone else… they should be fine right?" deciding to take the easier-to-navigate but longer way back to the boat I move around the outskirts of the island and circle back around to the beach where the exam started.
'I have done a lot of running around this whole exam… it seems kind of pointless when one of my future nen conditions is standing still. Though I guess it's never a bad thing to have good cardio endurance all things considered.' Turning around the corner of the beach I could finally see a small group of contestants forming along the beach waiting for a small boat that was just anchored offshore. Quickening my pace by a small margin I jog over to the rest of the contestants who were just standing around in tired silence.
'It seems no one was exit camping… though it does make sense, people who are Hunter material have some sort of pride, honor, eccentricity, etc. so such an orthodox tactic as waiting at the finish line is probably below them or just a waste of time when they could do it themselves…' looking around at everyone I eventually spotted a familiar face, moving over to Killua I gave him a small nod as he looked at me.
"Wow, old man you look awful! After every single part of the exam, you look worse and worse! First, you lost your hat, then your coat, and now you are covered in mud and your shirts all messed up! Maybe in the final phase, I'll take your boots?" poking fun at my current appearance Killua was currently having a field day, I guess after we went separate ways during the exam he was just hanging around the island while bored.
"...ok…" being much too tired to give him much in the way of a reaction I instead opted to kill his excitement by giving him a bland reaction.
"!?" looking at Killua's confused reaction told me that it worked well enough.
'You think you can piss me off? Hah! As if!' while internally laughing in a smug manner I looked down at the silver-haired kid with a neutral expression on my face.
*thwack* "fuck!" however, outside of my expectations, he kicked me in the shin causing me to recoil in pain.
"What was that for!?" I said while giving him a nasty glare all the while cupping my aching leg.
"I didn't like your reaction… instinctively." further taunting me by sticking his tongue out
Killua and I started to further converse. Something we never really had the time to do before as he mostly stuck around Gon and did not interact with the rest of the group nearly as much.
'Though I still find Kurapika and Leorio to be more agreeable than Gon and Killua… or is that just my negative bias due to how much wasted potential there was in Gons nen ability? Or maybe it was me just hating Killua's ability due to seeing it in every single Naruto fanfic under the sun... ' After around a half hour passed on the beach the boat finally began moving towards the beach, seeing this the remaining examinees seemed to get a bit excited or more animated. On the other hand, Killua and myself were worried since our friends were still missing.
'I hope nothing really changed… It would be quite sad if the rest of the group could not pass the exam. Though I guess they are just fashionably late as always? They better be…' looking around at the tree line in the distance I kept an eye out for any signs of my friends appearing.
*bzzzt!* "the time frame of the exam has just ended! Any badges collected or stolen from this point forward will no longer count. Any contestants who are not present on the beach will have five minutes to make their way into the clearing or will otherwise be disqualified. After the five minutes have passed we will begin inspecting the badges held by each contestant one by one and will then have you move onto the boat. Any further instructions will be given by exam staff." diverting my attention from the forest were the loudspeakers coming from the slowly approaching boat. Following the end of the announcement, many more examinees began making their way out of the forest.
"Oh, there they are." once again gaining my attention was the seemingly disinterested voice of Killua as he pointed a bit to the left of where I was originally looking.
"It seems they made it through right at the end… Again." being almost disappointed in myself for being worried I stared at the approaching group of three with a blank look.