Menchi shouted at Naruto who quirked his eyes a bit. He must have used a poisonous fish.
"Huh? Sorry, poison doesn't affect me, so I forget sometime."
Naruto rubbed the back of his head, feeling embarrassed.
"YOU FAIL!" Menchi shouted as the Sage became depressed, crouching in the corner.
Killua smirked as he put his plate up for the judging and joined Naruto in depression afterward.
Menchi failed everyone after that since none of the sushi fitted her taste, if she had any at all.
The situation quickly escalated at the point when one of the candidates tried to attack her, only to be sent flying outside of the hall by the fat examiner, Buhara.
"Finally a fight, I'll take on the girl, you all can have the guy."
Kurama grinned, watching Menchi with its demonic eyes.
"Why is there a fox in here?"
Menchi pointed her knife at Kurama, looking down at it.
"He's also a hunter candidate."
Gon said as everyone, who didn't know about it beforehand immediately become dumbfounded.
"Don't point that toy at me, little girl."
Kurama growled as it jumped off Gon's head and started to become bigger.
Everyone eyes widened and immediately tried to get out of the hall in panic.
Kurama's growing body pushed all the kitchen counters apart and broke through the wall and the roof as it finally returned to its full form, with nine of its tail swishing back and forth behind it.
"I had it with this lame ass excuse for a test. What does knowing how to cook have to do anything with being a hunter? Do all the hunters in the world know how to cook? Your test is biased, based on your own judgment of what a hunter should be. Do you speak for the whole association?"
Kurama stated looking down at Menchi, who gripping her knives tightly.
Buhara was standing by her side as they were teammate.
Kurama smirked and roared. The shockwave emanating from its jaw shook the earth heavily and sent a blast of wind outward, forcing everyone to stagger backward, including the two examiners.
"What is this?"
Killua asked Naruto, who sighed as he regained his composure.
That charka blast was very strong.
"This is Kurama's true form, he can turn this place into a desolated wasteland at the moment."
Naruto answered. It was close enough, Kurama had ten tails in total, but it was attached to the number nine and only used nine at any given time.
The tenth tail would double the fox's power if ever needed.
Naruto had decided to step forward, wanting to stop the fox from going on a rampage.
In such case, the fox could potentially kill everyone here without even trying.
"He's right you know."
An old man fell from the sky said. Everyone quickly realized this person was the chairman of the whole hunter association, Isaac Netero.
He continued scolding Menchi and she quickly accepted her fault so the whole test was scrapped, and a new test was given in its place: boiling egg.
"Kurama, is it?"
Netero said, looking at the demonic fox.
"Would you mind shrinking down again and join us on the airship since your current size won't fit."
"Do as Netero-jiji say."
Naruto ordered Kurama in a commanding tone of voice.
The fox puffed a little fire before shrinking back to his chibi form, as it didn't want to fight the Sage at the moment.
"Are you afraid of me now?"
Kurama said while looking directly at Gon, who had a cheerful look on his face.
"Nope."
Gon said as Kurama smirked and returned back on the boy's head, its second favorite place.
"Are you coming Lerio?"
Kurupika called out when he had noticed the man just stood there, along with several others.
"I can't move my leg."
Lerio said as his leg was frozen in place.
Kurupika sighed and carried Lerio onto the airship over his shoulder.
Killua walked alongside Naruto, following Gon and Kurama.
"So how did you and Kurama met?"
Killua asked, a bit curious.
"It's a long story."
Naruto was the only answered. He didn't want to go into details, at least not yet.
The boiling egg test was uneventful. But it did give some insight into the exotic food that existed in the world.
Kurama decided to let his rage go as he devoured countless of eggs; he had managed to pick the ravine clean.
[Airship]
Netero introduced himself formally to the remaining contestants.
Everyone was free to do whatever they want until the next morning.
Naruto, Killua, Gon and Kurama decided to tour the vessel while Leorio and Kurapika catches up on some sleep, it was a long day for them and they weren't energetic or as young as their fellow comrades.
Elsewhere on the ship sat the three previous examiners; having a nice meal.
"You almost got yourself killed."
Satotz, the examiner of first round said, looking at Menchi.
"No.407, Kurama huh, that fox really surprised me. How did it get to be a hunter candidate anyway?"
Menchi asked, frowning.
She wasn't sure what would happen if she fought the fox.
Satotz said that the fox could transform into a person at will, so technically it qualified.
Menchi nodded in understanding, as the rules for the exam were a little lax in some area.
"There are several others that really stand out in this examination, especially the young trio, No.99, No.405 and No.406."
Satotz continued, playing with his mustachio a bit.
"I think No.44 is very dangerous."
Buhara pointed out.
"Yeah, he was giving the most trouble in the beginning."
Menchi said, remembering the malicious aura that man emitted.
"I also sense the same thing, I hate to admit it but he's on the same level as us."
Satotz said, before looking at the table.
"The scary thing is; he was beaten half to death by No.406 during the first part and that was after he had killed dozens of other candidates."
"Is that the same kid that had ordered the giant fox to stand down?"
Menchi asked. Both Satotz and Buhara nodded.
"That kid is frightening and far more powerful than we could have imagined. I really don't want to know what would happen if he likes to grow in darkness…"
Satotz said, as Menchi and Buhara was deep in thought.
Elsewhere on a ship, an old man was spinning a ball on his head in front of three twelve-year-old.
Kurama was sitting on the side line, watching the game that was about to begin.
"If you can take this ball from me, you will win, and I will give you the title of Hunter."
Netero said before adding.
"You are free to attack me anyway you liked."
"Jiji… you will die."
A blond-haired boy, bright blue eyes, said.
His body covered in some sort of orange energy layer.
It flickered like flames.