It's kind of late to jump on the fan fic train of Baoh I think.

~Just a little.~

But better late than never. And I thought that Ikuro and Sumire deserved better endings. Anywho, here's a prologue to my version of how Baoh should have ended.

Prologue

The pair of fishermen tossed out the net out the back of the boat. As it floated to the floor, the boat motored slowly ahead. The day was peaceful. Wispy clouds drifted through the clear sky. Small waves stirred the boat slightly as it cut through the water. All those aboard knew that it would be a good haul that day.

A grinding of gears whined through the air, slicing through the peace as the full net was winched back to the surface. As it breached the water the fishermen congratulated themselves. The net was bulging with twitching fish as they attempted to return to the water. Hoisted onto the back of the boat the net spilled its contents and the fishermen went right to work sorting through the fish. Several minutes of work passed when one of the men paused in his work.

"Oi! Yama, we don't have time for you to be spacing out!" the captain called down from his post. Yama didn't move and continued staring at his finding.

"C-Captain! I found a body!" he finally managed. The other fishers stopped their work and moved over to their co worker. Among the pile of the fish lay a very human arm. One of the more brave men inched forward and poked away fish with his pole. Slowly, the body of a young man appeared.

"Dear God," another man whispered, "It's just a kid."

Even the captain was looking at their horrid discovery, having cut the engine and allowing them to drift.

"Must have come from a shipwreck. He hasn't been dead long," the captain pointed out. "I'll radio in. Let them know what we've found. In the meantime, get him out of the fish." He whipped around and returned to the wheel. The man was experienced, and had a job to do. He wouldn't allow something such as that bother him. His men however, were a different story. They bickered among themselves about who would take care of the body. Just as they decided, the young man's body heaved upward.

"Captain!" Yama shouted, "The kid!" his voice trailed off as a rattling in the boy's throat deepened. The boy hunched over retching up sea water and whatever had been in his stomach. The captain and his men stared at the now very much alive body began coughing.

It was the captain who reacted first. He retrieved a blanket from the cabinet beside the wheel and draped it over the boy.

"You alright, kid?" he asked. Thick hair hung in the boy's face, obscuring it from view. It was impossible that the boy could be alive, the net went to the ocean floor and they dragged it for at least an hour. He could only describe it as a miracle. The kid is very lucky to be alive, the elder man thought.

The boy murmured something that the captain failed to catch. Perhaps it was his name. The captain leaned closer.

"Sorry, son. What was that?"

The former dead man looked up, a deadly light flashing in his eyes. "Where is Sumire?"

*I read the Baoh series last year-

~Really late I know.~

*-and the ending was unsatisfactory to me. Of course many endings that mangakas put out are displeasing to me because I don't often want the story to end. Selfish of me, I know that. But when the ending hovers over my head reminding me of the loose ends and overall incompletedness of the thing then I have problems. And I have more important things to do than fantasize about what could have been done with Baoh.

~Not really.~

*Shut up! Anyway, because I need to vent my feelings and ideas somewhere, I'll publish this story here. For all two of the people who find this-

~You aren't very optimistic are you?~

*I apologize if my writing is sloppy compared to others on this site. I've never written a fan fic before. Certainly not on this scale as this one appears to be heading.

~Really should have chosen a smaller and easier topic.~

*Do you ever shut up? If you read this and like it, please let me know. If you hate it, please let me know. Either way I'm going to keep posting this story until I'm contented with how it ends. That is all from me. Thanks for your attention! Also, I own nothing of Baoh. It was written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki.

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