A Hunter Chronicle – 09

"So, there's something called Gourmet Hunter as well."

Naruto said, listening on their next task.

Most of the other candidates seem to avoid the blond right now after that little stunt. Perhaps out of fear.

"Screw the task, why can't she also have a see-through bra as well."

Kurama growled, trying to use his non-existence x-ray vision.

Naruto wondered as well about that.

Her t-shirt was just a mesh, completely see through and had no purpose either.

What was the point of wearing it?

Everyone went to search for some pig to roast.

It was for the first phrase of the second exam.

They generally avoided Naruto, who was leisurely walking around the wood with his group.

"This should be a really easy round."

Leorio said, rubbing his swollen cheek, still trying to remember what had actually happened.

Everyone had agreed not to tell him about it.

"We should split up, there's no point of hunting as a whole group and we can find more that way."

Kurapika pointed out as everyone nodded in agreement.

Kurama went with Gon, lazily hanged on top of the spiky black-haired boy's head.

Killua went with Naruto since the duo seemed to be absent minded at the moment. He probably just wanted to wander about.

"There they are."

Naruto said, pointing at several oversized pig.

They looked at the duo with deadly glare before charging at the pair.

The pig's toughness had protected them from any injury as they slammed into rocks and boulders along the way, turning those into rubbles.

Naruto channeled some charka into his fist and side stepped the first pig before slamming his empowered fist into its side.

The pig squealed in pain and flew off into the distance.

Killua was amazed at Naruto's strength, but quickly snapped out of it.

"Don't you need to cook them, not sending them flying?"

Killua asked as a pig collapsed in front of him, with blood streaming out of its side.

Naruto saw Killua had impaled the pig with his hand in one swift motion, probably pierced the pig's heart, killing it instantly.

"Darn it."

Naruto muttered as he dodged several pigs trying to crash into him.

Flipping upward, the sage smashed one into the ground from the air, knocking it out instantly.

"What about them, they will keep attacking us, unless we kill them all."

Killua said as Naruto tilted his head a bit.

"Let see how you like killing intent?"

Naruto said and radiated a wide area with his deadly aura, creating vivid scene of death to all weak-minded beings.

Killua was shocked at its potency, as he saw some flashes of his own death and sweated a little.

It had knocked out every pig in sight, forcing all the birds in the tree to leave their home in fright.

"I should have done that in the beginning, much easier."

Naruto muttered, rubbing the back of his head.

The two cooked their respective pig and returned back to the venue, only to notice a few people had returned.

"What happened?"

The second examiner, Menchi, asked.

She was shivering slightly as she felt the killing intent just moment ago that came from the forest.

Hisoka was there too, smirking while playing with his deck of cards.

'Should have done that to see who qualified or not.'

Hisoka thought, eyeing Naruto a bit, knowing exactly whose killing intent it was.

This just made Hisoka's interest in the boy rose to a new level, in a perverted way as well.

He had noticed many of the candidates were knocked out, laying around on the way back.

He didn't need to kill any, since they probably will be out of it for a long time.

"You did that didn't you?" Kurama shouted as Gon and his group finally came out of the forest, carrying their roasted pork.

Lerio was knocked out and needed to be carried by Kurapika.

Hisoka saw that and wondered if his previous judgment on the weakling was correct.

"I don't know what you meant."

Naruto said, averting his eyes away from the group as Killua smirked.

Several more people returned later, and the judging began when enough made it back.

'He ate all of it... he's a monster.'

Everyone thought and sweated at the pile of bones.

There were two examiners, a male and female.

Their current task was feeding the male one, who was large and gluttonous.

He had devoured more than his own body weight, several times over.

"Those hunters are incredible people!"

Gon said, astonished at how someone could eat that much.

"I don't really want to turn out like him."

Killua deadpanned, standing beside Gon.

"And I don't think every hunter can do what he did!"

"He consumed more than his own body weight, that's pretty awesome if you asked me."

Naruto pointed out as Kurama nodded.

"It turned out, everyone who brought back something passes."

Kurupika sighed.

He noticed the examiner said everything was good, even the burnt and half-cooked one.

The second examiner scolded her colleague before facing the crowd.

"I'm warning you, it won't be easy with me! I'm very cautious when it comes to taste."

Menchi pronounced, rubbing her chin a bit and pointing her index finger upright.

"Second round, phrase two: Sushi."

Menchi declared while the majority of the listeners had a confused look on their faces.

"Naruto, where are you going?"

Killua asked when the Sage turned around and headed toward a nearby lake.

"Huh? Sushi needs fish, so I'm going fishing."

Naruto replied as everyone immediately realized it and ran passed him toward the lake.

"DID YOU HAVE TO TELL EVERYONE?"

Lerio and Kurupika scolded the Sage, who just shrugged.

It wasn't like it was important anyway.

"Hahaha, what's done is done, let's go fishing."

Gon laughed cheerfully as Kurama snorted a bit on top of Gon's head.

The fox didn't even bother doing the first phrase at all and felt this whole test was lame.

In no way measured a person's ability as a hunter.

They quickly caught the fish they needed or wanted and returned back to the kitchen and start to make their sushi dishes.

Lerio handed in his sushi first, which was just several fishes stabbed through a giant rice ball.

The aquatic creatures were still alive as they wiggled in the spherical ball on the plate.

Same thing with Gon and Kurupika, the latter actually soaked the fish in sauce, but left it alive as well.

Naruto wasn't sure how to make sushi; he knew it was just a slab of raw fish on rice.

The sage cut up the fish he caught, wrapped it neatly around a small rectangular square of rice.

Menchi was shouting at a bald candidate, who actually did it correct, but it didn't fit her taste as she was very picky of what she ate.

'What the hell this has to do with being a hunter?'

Naruto thought and put up his plate for sampling.

Menchi had a glance at.

It was a standard sushi style, but something was out of place as the Menchi sniffed a bit and took a bite before spatting it out.

"It's poison! Are you trying to kill me!?"