1:Feeling Alive
Leaves covered with snow, trees got bold and cold, the sky was looking grey and sad covered by the dark clouds, it was very cold, to be guessed, it was a typical winter day in the spring of winter, but not so typical for one boy: Hana Asakura. A young boy with short blond hair which comes until his shoulders, hazel brown eyes and a really bad temper, which was travelling his way to his school in the inches of snow on the road. He was different from male and female students of his school, he had this special ability that was given by his parents at birth, an ability that passes through generations of his family. He was able to see spirits and communicate him towards the other world. His family was a well–known shaman family which originally are from Izumo, but Hana and his parents moved to Tokyo to give Hana a normal life, something that Hana hates. Hana lives with his two guardians: Tamao and Ryu, both disciples from his parents when they were younger, this because his parents have a spa and travel a lot around the world because of it.
Hana´s life is quite average and normal which makes him angry and annoyed, which makes him sometimes jealous of his parents that they travelled around the world, able to fight with their spirits and their friends. The only thing that the little teen got is his guardian spirit who has been passed by from his father a 600 years old samurai, also known as Amidamaru. This takes his inspiration of life, he doesn´t feel that going to school is the only thing to him and thinks that his life is boring. – Why to live and going to school if we´ll die someday anyway.
– Hana you should try and be nice to people, so try to make friends!
The guardian spirit tried to make sense in the little head of the shaman but he couldn´t care less and this conversation made him annoyed, because of that he left his books fall on the ground, but he didn´t wanted to know and continued his way to the school entrance when suddenly a tall paled girl bowed down to pick up the books that the young shaman left on the floor.
– You know books are paid by our parents, is this the way you thank them?
He heard someone behind him yelling at him, turning around he saw the tall girl with dark hair and shining red eyes who seemed hypnotizing him with words which made him giving up at yelling at the girl who didn´t know him of nothing, he decided to not to say anything and went on his patch but she went after him, after seconds she pushed his arm and gave him his books.
– You´re welcome
She continued to her class room, Hana followed her steps with his eyes entering the class room when he realized it was his classroom.
– You can´t be serious
Hana face palmed himself and couldn´t face her right now into the class. After a while he entered the class and the only spot free was next to the only person he didn´t want to sat next to, and not only that she was waving at him.
– Ah so now you got a crush on me?
Hana choked before sitting on the chair, blushing he opened his textbooks, trying to ignore the girl. "Faith "After a while they started to talk in class about their names and where they live and before they knew the class was over and it was finally lunch time, which Hana decided to spend with his new friend, it was quite awkward because she was eating her sandwich and he didn´t had any food with him because usually he would eat fast food. She gave a bit of her sandwich to Hana which he would accept because he was incredible hungry.
– Hana means Flower right?"
The pale girl with a sad look on her face looked upon the sky, but still with that sad face she had a very peaceful look.
– Does it has any meaning to it?
She asked to her classmate who seemed to be enjoying his food.
– My mother´s name is Anna, so I guessed they did something with that, parent´s aren´t stupid to call a boy flower I guess.
She laughed a bit, she thought that he was entertaining when he asked her about her name, because it was a very uncommon name, it was probably more a American name than a Japanese name.
– My parents are not exactly normal, they have a lot on their minds, my mom is busy most of the time and my dad is difficult to deal with him
The girl who looked like snow got a sad yet angry look on her face but soon she got her cheerful laugh on her face again.
Hana was feeling that he was living a normal life, or at least he tried to, he was still nervous of the fact someone trying to fight for him to talk and to live. It was still cold and snowing but the girl who looked like snow seemed it didn´t bothered her, she looked very calm and friendly. But something else kept his attention away, he was feeling this strange chakra from the school, this chakra is known as Foryoku, it´s the core of a Shaman, the lower it gets, the weaker the shaman is or becomes, the different levels of Foryoku depends of his power and what kind of type shaman a shaman is, this case Hana has both abilities of his parents, but doesn´t understand a lot of it because his parents decided that he would be educated as a human and not as a shaman, what was impossible for the little shaman, because of it his curiosity would grow.
– I´m going inside
–Don´t tell me that this boy has to do something with this foryoku I´m feeling.
Inside the school Hana tried to locate this energy growing and growing, when he thought that he found where the energy would come from he would catch other foryoku´s divulgated all over the school.
– Hana–dono, it´s everywhere, I can´t tell if they´re shamans or spirits
Hana grinned a bit because this wasn´t boring at all, he ran all over the school when he entered a classroom which had a very dark foryoku in it. He entered, the door closed by himself and he encountered a girl who might be of his age because she had a childish look on her face but she was at the same length as he was, her eyes were dark very dark, they were heavy like some dark and long path crossed her eyes with his. Her hair made contrast with her eyes it was pure white like the snow, in her right hand she had a wooden sword. Hana felt like that she was a shaman but not a human, something weird and heave came from her when he pointed at her asking who she was and what she was doing at the Shinra High school.
– We´ve been waiting for you Hana
Said the demon shaman who walked closely, Amidamaru wouldn´t stop his eyes on her, he had a feeling she would do something horrible and he wouldn´t let anyone harm Hana Asakura, the heir of the Asakura Shrine, the oldest and only son of Yoh his former master.
– I see you´re now his master
She could tell that Amidamaru was his guardian spirit but that meant she knew Yoh, what was quite strange because she seemed his age and Yoh was almost never around, unless something happened during his trips around the world. Suddenly she stopped talking and attacked the shaman, who avoided the attack, he didn´t knew what to do because he had no weapons to block her attacks.
– Who are you? What do you want?!
He kept asking at the girl who wouldn´t stop attacking him.
– Hidou!
Her name apparently was Hidou, also known as Hate.
– We won´t accept people like you at the Flower of Maze.
Hana was hiding beneath the tables every time she attacked, he kept asking Amidamaru what was this thing of Maze but he didn´t knew either, he never heard about it, and it wouldn´t make sense. When she was almost going to kill Hana who had nowhere to run she got cornered by a circle of fire.
– Wooh what?
Hana asked himself out in loud, the demon in front of him got burned into ash, but neither he nor Amidamaru did something.
Outside the classroom there was standing a girl against the wall trying to hear what was going on inside
– What the hell is going on?
The girl known as Faith walked away from the classroom and of the school. Hana was still on the ground thinking about what happened, what he didn´t know was that he just got saved by his new friend who he don´t even have a clue that she knows about his true identity.
– Amidamaru, what´s going on?
He shook his head, he had no slightest idea but he knew that the girl known as a shaman or a demon or even both wasn´t human and those powers weren´t normal.
– I don´t know Hana–Dono but I fought a lot of Shamans, including Hao´s servants, and they had this super power incredible huge and unhuman, but they were incredible human in comparison with this.
Hana was a bit worried, he had heard stories about his uncle who now a days is called God of the world, also known as the Shaman King, and what he did to become Shaman King, but this was a totally new level.
– Amidamaru, it´s time, it´s time for our story!
Hana grinned at his spirit ghost who seemed rather uncomfortable because of this new power who just appeared, but the most important thing was that Hana was safe and sound, and he would continue by his side with that in his mind.