Chapter 4
"Hao?!?"
Hao looked up at Amidamaru, then smiled.
"Hi, Amidamaru."
Hao smiled, then looked back down at Yoh.
"Hao! You're
alive!?! How!?!" Amidamaru cried frantically. Hao smiled
softly.
"It's kind of a wired story. It all started last year
after I was defeated. I'm told it had looked like I had been thrown
away from the area.. I woke up in a hospital bed diagnosed with
amnesia, as an elderly women held my hand. I tried to piece together
who I was with the bits of information given to me, but I soon gave
up. I tried to get the town fortune teller to help, but she said I
had to at least know one thing about my past, so I stared a new life
in the quiet town that I had woken up in. I helped people build
houses and sheds, earning a reasonable pay. It went on like this for
several months, until a strange women entered the town. She had come
to buy special herbs, but when she saw me, she began crying and
yelling threats as me. I asked her what was wrong, but she wouldn't
give me a straight answer. I soon started getting mad, not even
noticing the fire surrounding me. She then began screaming, 'You'll
kill us like you killed my son!'. I finally noticed the fire and it
disappeared. I walked over to her and asked what she meant, but she
just ran away, so I went to the town fortune teller and asked what
she meant. She soon gave me this weird liquid to drink, and when I
did my memories came back. I remembered being Hao Asakura.. I felt
bad about it so the people of the village told me to come here and
ask for forgiveness, and to be part of the family again, but when I
arrived, I heard people talking about how they would seel my soul, so
I lost my nerve and began living at this waterfall. I've been here
for the past 4 months."
Amidamaru
looked at Hao thoughtfully. "That's when Yoh-dono's nightmares
started getting worse." he said. Hao looked down at Yoh and
cringed seeing scars on his hands and wrists from when he tried to
burn him. Amidamaru quickly looked up.
"Wait a second, why
should I believe you!?!" he cried. Hao looked up and frowned.
"I
never said you had to." Hao then looked back down at Yoh.
"What
happened to him?" he asked.
"We were attacked by some
Jigoku guy who claimed to be a soul keeper. He said he had come for
your soul and when he couldn't find it, he wanted to use Yoh as bait.
So he hurt him, but when you wouldn't show he gave up and tried to
finish him off." Amidamaru floated over to Yoh and looked at his
bandages.
"Why did you help him?" he asked.
"Because
he's my little brother." Hao looked up at Amidamaru.
"What
nightmares were you talking about?" he asked. Amidamaru frowned
at Hao.
"He's been having nightmares from when he was inside
of you." he growled. Hao's expression became sad.
"It's
okay Hao," a small voice said. Both Amidamaru and Hao looked
down and saw Yoh smiling at them..
"I knew there was good in
you," he sighed."Yoh-dono, you're okay!" Amidamaru
cheered. Yoh smiled, then looked up at Hao.
"Thanks for
saving me. I don't even wanna think about what would've happened if
you hadn't been here," he laughed. Hao turned red, then looked
away.
"It's no big deal," he said in embarrassment. With
help from Amidamaru, Yoh weakly got to his feet, then turned to
Hao.
"Well, lets go," he said. Hao looked over at him in
confusion.
"You said you came here to be part of the family
again, so come on." Hao frowned.
"Maybe I changed my
mind," he growled.
"Come on, Hao. You know you wanna,"
Amidamaru ordered. Yoh looked at him sadly, then began walking out.
Hao sat down and watched them leave, until Yoh suddenly cried out in
pain and began to collapse. He quickly jumped up, ran over and caught
him before he hit the ground. Yoh looked up at him tiredly, then
smiled.
"I guess I'm still tired out," he laughed. Hao
looked down at him, then sighed.
"Let me help you." He
wrapped his arm around his rib cage, and began helping walk out of
the cave.
"Thank you," Yoh laughed. Amidamaru looked
over at them and saw Yoh was bleeding again.
"Yoh-dono."
"It's
okay Amidamaru. I'll be fine."