BUTTERFLIES - READER INSERT

07. First Exam x New Friend

                YOU CROSS YOUR ARMS AS LEORIO AND KURAPIKA HOLD THEIR HANDS OVER YOUR EYES, "[Name], breathe in and out." Kurapika says as Leorio sighs.

"Don't get angry over idiots," Leorio says as you do as Kurapika says.

"That drink... he put something in it. In my— when... when I was with you know who... he used to put laxatives in my drink so I wouldn't eat with them anymore. I would be in pain all night. People think they taste odorless, but they taste like bad vegetables." you tell Leorio as the burn in your eyes goes away. You'll need to ask Kurapika for more tips later, but before you can ask him to teach you more your thoughts are tuned out by the ringing of something as both Leorio and Kurapika let go of your face.

"As of now, registration is closed!" a man with no mouth says as you look at him as he seemingly stands straighter, "the hunter's exam will now begin! Is everyone ready? Good." he says, hopping down from the ledge as he points to the edge of the tunnel, "this way, please," he says politely as the examinee's start to follow his light walk.

"Just so there's no mistake, the hunter's exam is very rigorous. If you lack the unnecessary ability— too bad. If you're unlucky— again, too bad." he says, looking at the crowd as he turns back around, "and examinees are not above sabotage one another, as you just saw." he says referring to the scene of Hisoka taking a mans arms as you shutter again, but you wouldn't agree with the assessment. Hisoka didn't sabotage that man, he hurt him because he wanted to. There was a difference.

"Still with me? Good, you 405 applicants may enter," he says as you stare at your tag and see 406, it seems like that man who was attacked had died. How sad, you think as the man who started to walk now took up a brisk pace as you and others started to work and you can see how they would be confused, but in your first life you often hung around hunters due to your family's ties.

Most of them had some weird ability, you had learned that early in life.

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NETERO WATCHES CURIOUSLY AS [M/NAME] STANDS BEFORE HIM, her [S/color] hands on his desk as she gasps, touching the screen in the blimp as water spills over her [E/color] eyes.

"They're alive," she whispers as you run alongside a pair of boys, smiling up at the eldest-looking one as butterflies trail after you.

"Do you know them, [M/name]?" he asks as the woman sniffles.

"Do you remember how I told you that I had used Life After Death?" she asks as Netero nods. He remembers her waking up fourteen years ago and rushing down to his residence, storming through all the other hunters as she cried about dying and losing her third child(despite only having two children).

"I do," he says and he wonders if she knows he could never forget that. It was rare to see [M/name] cry or show any emotions.

"That's them. Applicant 406, that's my child. I-I knew I was going to die soon after giving birth so I gave them my nen before I passed on. I loaned it until they died an unjust death and it seems they had died an unjust death and they, they must've wished for a new family seeing as I never had a third child." [M/name] says, holding her stomach as Netero nods.

"I see, they seem happy," he says, taking the draft drawn up by his prequalified examinees, holding out your file as he reads it out loud.

"Paldiknight [Name], one of the last Kurtas, fourteen years old, current dream is to find the truth about themselves," he says, muttering on about more notes from the other few examinees as he lets out a laugh. "They're quick to their emotions, what men do you think they'll have?" he asks as [M/name] shuts her eyes.