Disclaimer: I want to say this right here right now, so that I don't have to say it in future chapters: I DON'T OWN HIKARU NO GO! Never have, never will. But I do so thoroughly enjoy it :)
Prologue
Hikari never liked the white walls that she woke up to nearly every day of her life so she painted drawings and images of the sun, of the sea, the earth. Plants, flowers and animals- anything her mind imagined and everything she craved for.
The ladies in blue and men in white didn't like her 're-decoration' very much but let it slide.
Hikari didn't like the way her face was pale and her hair so dark- it made her look like a ghost, so she asked Akari to get her some blonde dye and dyed her fringe blonde- that way, no-one would have to look at her with pity because they'd be blinded by her bi-coloured her, they would never notice the strange dull coloured skin of hers because her hair would be bright enough to take off some of the off-white colour off her face.
Her parents sure didn't like it , but they couldn't say anything about it now could they?
Hikari didn't like hearing the beeping beside the hard bed she lay in, it kept beeping morning, afternoon and night. And it never just- ENDED!
But she couldn't do anything about it, it was attached to her.
Hikari didn't like many things about her life, but she guessed, she was probably lucky to be alive at all.
"Hikari" a voice whispered, old and strained.
"Grandpa?" she said weakly, and oh how she hated the sound of her voice. It felt scratchy and feeble. She wanted to shout to scream! To show the world she wasn't fragile. She wanted to run and play and be normal. Not this.
She never wanted this.
She never wanted to be lying on a hospital bed for the rest of her life.
"Kari?" her grandad repeated smiling slightly "I brought you a game, it's Go"
"Go?" she asked
"Yeah"" Heihachi nodded enthusiastically, "it's a game I played when I was younger and still play now. Did you know? you're ol' granddad here was an amateur Go champion!" he said proudly.
Hikari smiled shakily "no I didn't"
Hikari didn't like the pity that shone from her grandad's eyes, she knew it was because he cared, but she didn't like it.
"I got this old thing from the storehouse, I forgot about it until now" he showed a somewhat large square box thing made of wood with criss-crossed lines etched and painted on top of it. Hikari narrowed her eyes seeing the spot on the corner that looked a little bit like dried blood.
"Can you see it?"
Hikari looked around searching for the invisible voice.
"You can see it! Thank you kami-sama!"
Heihachi looked worriedly at his granddaughter's panicking movements as he heard the heart monitor beep faster and faster and faster, until…
Heihachi's eyes widened and he screamed- he can't lose her! Not again!"NURSE! DOCTOR! SOMEONE!" he cried, and he was crying. His eyes were spilling with tears and he was too scared to stop "SOMEONE! PLEASE! ANYONE!" he cried louder as he heard footsteps rushing through.
The nurses took away the hysterical elderly as the doctor pushed the patient's bed to the ER.
"Heihachi- san, please you have to tell us what happened" Hikari's nurse told the distraught man. The nurse, Kaoru, had been assigned to Hikari since she was a baby, she had dealt with all the trouble the girl had. And dear Lord, she had so many that Kaoru often wondered if she could last till adulthood. Kaoru knew that the hope was small, but many in the hospital wished it would come true; Hikaru was a little bundle of energy, no matter how troublemaking and cheeky she was, she was adored by fellow patients and hospital staff for her bright nature that attracted and touched the heart of everyone she met.
"I-I don't know" he croaked "I was showing her the Go board, a-and then, she was panicking! And the monitor! It was beeping so loud! A-and I, I just heard it going faster and faster, and Hikari was- Hikari wasn't breathing, and it stopped. The beeping stopped and I yelled for help" he cried "Kaoru-san please" he begged "please say she'll be alright"
Kaoru gave a grim smile that she knew would bring no comfort to the poor elderly, and before she could stop herself, empty words spoke out from her lips "she'll be fine Heihachi-san". Kaoru couldn't help the lie, she wanted to scratch out her esophagus for telling a lie to a desperate man, but she couldn't say what she truly thought, because if she did, then it would come true. And sweet loving Christ! She didn't want it to come true!
"She'll be just fine"
A/N Okay so my first HnG fic, but I wanted to write one, for now I don't know where it's going so it'll be slow updates between random periods of time but I hope you like it. Also, I'm afraid I don't know much about Go in general even if I have watched all the episodes and read most of the HnG fanfic here, so I'l be focusing mostly on the feelings of the individual characters and alluding to the game rather than say anything to specific. I'll probably be BS-ing my way through any of the battles so please don't take offense, I'm barely an amateur, I don't know much about it but I loved the plot-line and story and the tension in the anime... Hope you like it :)
Hitomi Feito~