Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King. Yay. Done. My first fic!
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Yoh's P.O.V
Yoh yawned as he tiredly pushed His dark auburn bangs out of his eyes. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was the blue sky, and the sun. It was probably already late morning.
He wondered why Anna hadn't already come to beat the crap out of him for waking up late, as he sat up. The desert terrain stretched into the distance in front of him... HOLD ON! WHAT WAS HE DOING IN A DESERT? WHERE WAS HIS ROOM! AND EVERYONE ELSE! Yoh looked around. No sign of any threatening-looking blonde itako with two shikigamis hovering behind her. Or of Chocolove getting his nose stabbed yet again by Ren's Kwan Do for telling yet another lame joke...Or Manta yelling at them to shutup...
Right now, he was kind of wishing for Anna's Legendary Right Hand Slap to snap him out of this weird dream. If it even was dream.
Or maybe he'd caught some incurable disease and had died in his sleep... or gotten a blood clot in his brain, and died from the haemorrhaging, and was in the World Beyond waiting for Judgement. Wait. He didn't even know such a word as haemorrhaging existed! So how…Anyway, he WAS STILL DEAD. Maybe he'd been poisoned. That was probably why last night's dinner tasted like crap. Then again, Horohoro's cooking ( Anna'd made him do it after she found out that he was the one who'd cleaned out the fridge. He'd refused but Anna just threatened to do a number on him with her shikigamis.) NEVER FAILED to taste like crap. Or maybe Hao'd killed him. Nah. He was still saying how he needed his other half of his soul. Or maybe it was the X-laws. They'd always had it in for him since they found out that he was Hao's reincarnation. Well, part reincarnation.
Flashback scene
-The X-laws appear and sacrificial music plays, with some weird bright light behind them-
Marco : You people are the same as that sinful Hao since you have the same power as him. And in Asakura Yoh's case, he is half of Hao. ALL THE MORE WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO ELIMINATE THOSE WHO SMELL THE SAME AS THAT EVIL MAN!
-Sacrificial music plays even louder, effectively deafening anyone within a 5km radius-
Yoh : - about to laugh out at the absurdity of the whole thing- Smell the same?
Marco: -takes out his gun spirit medium thingy- MICHAEL! ARCHANGELS FIRE! SHI-NE, ASAKURA YOH!
End Flashback scene
Hey, it wasn't his fault that he WAS the half reincarnation of an evil shaman who lived 1000 years ago... It was his twin's fault for reincarnating himself wrongly...
Then again, he'd have probably been woken up by their crappy sacrificial music that seemed to follow them wherever they went. Maybe that Iron Maiden Jeanne had some gigantic hidden speaker in that metal headdress she always wore... Then again... If he'd really been killed, wouldn't Hao have resurrected him by now? He still needed his other half of his soul. Well, that was what he said.
But that still didn't change one thing- he was STILL DEAD. And in the Great Beyond! But that wasn't so bad... Anna wouldn't be able to use her Legendary Right Hand Slap on him anymore... he'd never have to keep on witnessing Horohoro and Ren argue over who was the bigger moron... He'd never have to worry about his older brother wanting to merge with him... He'd never have to do Anna's torturous training... Hao would rule the world, as Yoh, the only one supposedly able to come close to killing him was- HOLD ON! HAO RULING THE WORLD? THAT WAS BAD. VERY BAD. WHY ON EARTH DID HE THINK THAT WAS GOOD? If he ever got reincarnated, he'd be reborn into a world where every single living being bowed down to his crazy, psychotic twin... Asakura Hao!
Yoh groaned and pushed his bangs out of his eyes. It was then he noticed two things. He was wearing a red glove-thingy on his hand with a white star in the middle. And what looked liked the top portion of the Patch uniform.
" Hao-sama, daijoubu?"
" ARRRRRRRGHH! NO HAO, I'M NOT GOING TO MERGE WITH YOU- HOLD ON WHERE'S HAO- OPACHO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE-"
Yoh cut himself off. Hao-sama?
It was then that Yoh realized what happened. He promptly fainted.
" Hao-sama?" Opacho said, watching his great master, immortal shaman and the greatest of the Asakura Clan FAINT! Asakura Hao NEVER fainted. He just didn't!
" HAO-SAMA FAINTED!" Opacho screamed in terror, and began to run around like a chicken with its head cut off.
Mari, Macchi and Kanna appeared. Kanna slowly took a drag at her cigarette.
" Hmmm?" the blue-haired shaman inquired nonchalantly.
" HAO-SAMA FAINTED! HE HAS NEVER BEFORE! SOMETHING'S WRONG-" Opacho screamed, pointing at the greatest shaman and legendary Asakura sprawled on the ground, with his mouth stupidly hung open.
"HEY! Stop calling me Hao-sama! I'm not HAO! "Yoh had evidently recovered rather quickly, only to be cut off by Opacho's incessant screaming
" HAO-SAMA DOESN'T THINK HE'S HAO-SAMA! "
"H'mmm-" Kanna apparently didn't really see how terrifying this was.
" Hello? " Macchi broke in rather rudely- " If Hao-sama's behaving like that, does it mean he's gone CRAZY! " the redhead then began to panic even more at the thought of that.
"The shaman kingdom won't be created! " Mari began to gasp at the sheer horror of it all, her green irises widened, her blonde hair flying. The Hana-gumi began to panic.
" He'll forget how to reincarnate himself!"
"He won't collect his other half of his soul! "
" He won't win the Shaman Fight! "
" He'll let that green-haired guy kill him! I read somewhere that crazy people don't see the danger of getting killed- they just stand there and let the person kill them! They have no sense of danger! "
" And if he doesn't know how to reincarnate himself, HE MIGHT NOT BE REINCARNATED IN 500 YEARS TIME! NO SHAMAN KINGDOM-"
" URUSEI! " Yoh yelled in frustration. I'm not crazy! I'm YOH! Hao's twin- "
" HAO-SAMA THINKS HE'S YOH! "
" He's really gone crazy! OH NO! Those filthy ningens are going to plague this world for another 500 YEARS! " Macchi screamed, yet again, accidentally whacking Yoh in the face with her broom, causing Yoh to fall flat on his face. Normally, Macchi would have been horrified at hitting her master, but she was too busy panicking to notice it. Yoh's aura blackened darkly as he got up.
Maybe Hao's 0 Tolerance of fools was beginning to rub onto him, combined with the fact that Yoh preferred more humane methods to the method of spontaneously combusting annoying people, which was Hao's usual method of disposing of ignorant fools, which caused Yoh to get severely annoyed, since he couldn't really do anything about the racket they were making... H'mm... it seemed that his reasoning was getting better...only to be jolted out of his thoughts by nearly being impaled in the head by one of Macchi's Guardian spirit's shuriken-like throwing weapon.
Yoh popped a vein. This was the first time...actually second time in his entire life that the cheery, happy, easy going Asakura Yoh ever got that irritated, or rather the great Asakura Hao ever got annoyed like that…
" SPIRIT OF FIRE! NOW IF YOU FOOLS DON'T SHUTUP, I'LL BURN YOU TO A CRISP!" Of course, Yoh would never actually do it, but he seriously needed them to be quiet. HOLD ON! HE WAS THREATENING PEOPLE! Hao had already rubbed off onto him!
" HAO-SAMA SAID ' DON'T '- THE WAY THOSE NINGEN MAGGOTS SPEAK! " Opacho screamed again, this time running smack into Kanna.
Yoh now had several irritation marks, and looked like he would just get the Spirit of Fire to stomp on Opacho, and put him out of his misery. Yoh then panicked. He THOUGHT of killing somebody! Being inside Hao's body was seriously corrupting his mind! Asakura Yoh wasn't the bloodthirsty I-want-to-wipe-out-all-humans Asakura Hao!
Yoh passed out yet again, much to the fright of Opacho and the Hana-gumi.
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Hao's P.O.V
Hao opened his eyes tiredly, only to be met by a plain ceiling. HOLD ON. WHERE WAS THE DESERT, AND ALL HIS LOYAL COMRADES! He sat up in a hurry, only to notice that his clothes were different. He ran his hand through his hair, only to find out that his dark auburn hair ended a few inches above his shoulders.
" NOOOO! MY HAIR! WHO LOPPED OFF MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR! WHEN I FIND HIM, I'M GOING TO BURN HIM TO A CRISP! "
" SPIRIT OF FIRE- " Hao gasped. His voice sounded different- higher, more cheery, and was that the garish-looking orange headphones his other half always wore…?
He had a horrifying suspicion.
Oh no. This had better be a nightmare, he better not really be stuck in its body!
Maybe it was retribution from the Great Spirits...for breaking one of Yoh's headphones- SHIT! He was thinking like that idiotic Yoh! Asakura Hao's perfect mind was not about to be corrupted by his lazy, idiotic other half/ younger brother's body.
Hao screamed in terror, only to be met with the screen door exploding, revealing a blonde girl with two shikigamis hovering behind her.
" Yoh, why are you making such a racket? " Anna Kyouyama asked, her arms folded, Hao's shikigamis hovering dangerously near.
" ME? You give me back Zenki and Kouki! " Hao said, forgetting that he was in Yoh's body, and therefore wasn't making a lot of sense, and angrily pointing at the shikigamis.
" Your shikigamis? I thought they belonged to Hao? " Anna said, raising an eyebrow.
" I AM Hao! Now give me back my guardian spirits! "
All that Hao got was a punch in the face from Zenki, which nearly resulted in a broken nose.
" Stop kidding around, Yoh, or I'll make you do 1000 push-ups. " The blonde girl glared at Hao icily.
" You-you! Just because you're my mother's reinc-" Hao said, thinking of the fact that Anna was the reincarnation of his dead mother from 1000 years ago. He clapped his hand over his mouth. Now he was talking even more nonsense. His mind was getting corrupted already! All that precious knowledge he'd stored for 1000 years was going to be corrupted by Yoh's stupidity! Oh shit! Plus Asakura Hao had never shot his mouth off and said stupid things like that in 1000 years! His reputation was already in shreds. Then again, Anna didn't know he was Hao…
" Yoh, what kind of nonsense is this "I'm your mother's what-? Care to explain? " Anna said, annoyed.
" I'm HAO! AND YOU'RE THE REINCARNA-"
" Yoh, stop trying to fool me. 1000 push-ups later." With that, the blonde itako left the room, not without having Zenki slug him across the room again.
Hao angrily rubbed his bruised cheek. Thanks to a certain unfortunate event occurring now, he no longer had his healing powers. Normally, he always kept his cool, but due to certain circumstances, he was really in a bad mood now.
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" Hey, look who's finally down for breakfast!" the boy Hao recognized as Horohoro said cheerily. "Got into some trouble with your fiancée? " he asked innocently, noticing Hao's bruise.
Hao's aura simply blackened and he glared very threateningly at the Ainu. Horohoro yelped and hid behind Pirika. Hao merely sat down and grabbed his cereal and began eating silently.
-I wonder if Yoh will find out that I put a whole bottle of laxatives in his cereal... Hehe. Nah, he's too laid back to suspect anything.-
Hao narrowed his eyes. So there was one ability he still kept, his rei-shi (Soul Sight) It was fortunate he'd only had a spoonful of the cereal. Hao glared menacingly at Horohoro. In his current mood, he wasn't exactly in the mood for any crap. Laxatives? That stupid Ainu wouldn't dare do it if he knew that it was Asakura Hao he was messing with, not cheery overly-obsessed about oranges Yoh. Hao toyed with the idea of either burning the ice shaman to a crisp or simply using Yoh's oversoul to very painfully dismember his body. Something simpler would settle for now. Did that baka have nothing better to do? Hao picked up his bowl. And threw it smack at the Ainu's face, splattering the milk everywhere.
Everyone stared in surprise.
" Yoh! What you'd do that to Onii-chan for?" Pirika angrily demanded.
" You shouldn't waste laxati-" a gigantic net catching him in the face cut off Hao. That was the final straw. He'd had enough of these fools' nonsense. Hao expertly twisted the net out of Pirika's hands. He grabbed the handle. And snapped it into two. Everyone was silent.
Pirika stared in shock, as the wooden splinters littered the floor.
Ren smirked.
-Baka Yoh. Pity he's so blur and too laid-back. No wonder he can't do much with his powers. And Hao. Delusional, psychotic evil shaman. That's gonna cloud that guy's judgement.-
Hao turned to glare very pointedly at the Chinese shaman. If that fool shut up, he might reconsider skewering that idiot on Yoh's oversoul.
" Hmph. With that bad mood of yours, Yoh, you're gonna lose all your fights. You're beginning to behave like that demon Hao."
" Ren!" Jun said with disapproval.
Demon.
That hit a nerve. Hao was silent for a moment, remembering the events of 1000 years ago.
FlashbackThe two demon shikigamis turned into a small ball and floated down alongside him.
" Thank you for getting rid of those demons. We are grateful to you." That man said, with a false smile. Everything about him was false. What everyone said. They were all liars. Deep in their heart they didn't mean it. And Asakura Hao knew it.
-What a frightening man. He must be a demon! -
-Don't turn around or he'll kill you!-
-How can anybody be so powerful? Surely he is not ningen, but a powerful evil being in disguise, trying to deceive us!-
-He's a MONSTER!-
-Oni. Youkai. He's either. That freak can't be human. I wonder why they haven't gotten rid of this monster yet.-
-I bet that demon is putting up a show, making himself look like he's a good person.-
End FlashbackHao's eyes narrowed slightly, but his face otherwise betrayed no emotion.
" Pitiful." Ren said, not expecting what was to come next. In a flash, Hao had Yoh's oversoul at Ren's throat.
Hao nonchalantly raised an eyebrow and smirked " If you do not shut up, you pathetic fool, I will not hesitate to skewer you through your throat, and end that pathetic life of yours right now. You ought not to be a shaman. You behave as foolishly as those lowly ningen maggots." Pronouncing the word human with absolute distaste.
Everyone's eyes widened including Amidamaru's, who was currently trying to get out of his oversoul form, they'd never seen Yoh threaten somebody like that, and acting so casual, even Ren, like that. That wasn't like Yoh at all. Hao then strolled out of the room, with an ominous air of silence, like nothing had happened.
Anna's eyes narrowed. Something definitely was going on.
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