2 A New Life

Yuuki was bored. She had been tasked with the extremely menial task of laundry and she was very upset about it. She didn't want to do this, her mother was practically a slave labourer making her perform these boring chores at the age of five. She should be out having fun.

Yuuki heard a laugh come from behind her. "Don't look so grumpy, Yuuki, a few chores won't kill you!" A female voice said.

Yuuki looked at her, it was her mother. Her words obviously did not make Yuuki feel better about having to work. Yuuki pouted. In the five years of her new life, she had only left the house and the small area of forest surrounding it twice. What was the point in getting reborn if she wasn't even allowed to do anything? She didn't even have her precious anime and manga to entertain her.

Whilst Yuuki was busy pouting, her mother came up behind her and squeezed her cheeks. "What's my baby thinking about?" She asked.

"Mum! Don't call me a baby! I'm just bored! It's so boring up here, I have nothing to do!"

Yuuki moaned. I was fourteen when I died and now I'm five, that means I'm an adult, got it! Yuuki thought.

"You can talk to me, baby!" Yuuki's mother replied.

"Please stop calling me baby! Talking to you is boring." Yuuki said.

Her mother laughed. "Ok when we're finished with the laundry, we'll go down into town." She said.

"Yay!" Yuuki yelled. Finally, something to do, I haven't even managed to figure out where I am yet. Yuuki thought. Acting like a child is the best way to get what you want after all. I'm only an adult in theory. Yuuki let out a little giggle. Her mother smiled at her and gently shook her head.

After they finally finished the laundry, Yuuki's mother took her hand and they started the walk down to the village.

"Hey, mum?" Yuuki said.

"Yes baby?" Her mother replied.

Yuuki scowled when she heard her mum call her baby again, but she ignored it. "How come we never leave the house, why aren't there any other people my age for me to play with?" She asked.

"Oh, " Her mum said, "Well we live on quite a small island you see, there aren't that many children here, in fact apart from you there are only two other children."

She ignored my first question, Yuuki thought. Anyway, I've been too lazy, I don't even know what kind of world I've been reborn into. If I've even been reborn into another world and not just back into my own. She sighed. Only two other kids, huh.

Yuuki's train of thought was interrupted as the sunlight from above started to become brighter. They had made it through the forest and ahead of them was a stone pathway.

They followed the pathway and soon they were making their way through a small town. They passed a few small houses until they found their way into a small market in the centre of town. From what Yuuki could see the town was a small fishing port, there were very few people actually living here.

"Hey there, Aiko!" A female voice spoke out. Yuuki turned to look at her, it was a woman with short, orange hair who was working at a fish stand. "I haven't seen you in a while."

Yuuki's mother turned to look at the woman. "Yes it's been a few years, I'm sorry I should've come and talked to you." She said. Yuuki guesses that this was one of her mother's old friends, she rolled her eyes, this would probably take a while. Adults talked for forever.

The woman turned to look at Yuuki. She smiled and said, "This must be your daughter." Great, Yuuki thought, now I'm involved.

"Yes, this is Yuuki." Yuuki's mother replied.

"Ah, hello there Yuuki, you must be pretty bored here, right?" The woman asked. You have no idea, Yuuki thought. "You should come over and play with Gon sometimes."

Yuuki's brain stopped for a second, Gon? Before she had time to think properly, her mother started to speak. "Right Mito, how is Gon doing? I haven't seen him since Ging showed up with him three years ago."

Gon, Mito, Ging? Yuuki was very confused now. She stopped for a second to look carefully at the woman talking to her mother. Fair skin, orange should length hair slicked back at the front, hazel eyes, a blue ring-like necklace. She was the spitting image of Mito from Hunter x Hunter.

Yuuki tried to hide her excitement. She had been reborn into the world of Hunter x Hunter, and right on whale island, the home of the protagonist Gon. She let out a smile. This was going to be so exciting.