Chapter 1

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'Italic with single quote stands telepathic voice'

-Stands for voice from the past-

Underline stands for letter

"Quote stands for dialogue"

Bold stands for emphasis

Bold italic stands for a dangerous tone

New Partner

He awake to find himself laying on the ground of a cave, he's not feeling anything except exhausted and pain on his chest. He look down to see what cause him to feel pain, he saw a deep cut, but not enough to kill him.

Then the memories back to his head, the Shaman Fight, his goal, the Great Spirit, his followers, and lastly, Yoh.

Hao's eyes widened, that's right, Yoh, he remember the look of Yoh's eyes, on the last second, what make him to hesitate was Yoh's eyes. He can't understand why he felt there is something lack in there.

Hao remember the look of sorrow, pain, sadness and despair when Yoh about to give him the final blow, but why not anger or hatred?

Hao looked down on his wound again, he had a cut from his collar bone to his navel, he can survive from the wound thanks to his healing ability. But the cut itself not as bad as it should be, he wondered if Yoh checked the blow and make sure the cut won't kill him?

Why is it? He doesn't understand why Yoh not killed him, that few seconds of his hesitation is more than enough to kill him, right? Why Yoh not show any hate or anger to him until the end?

Hao then remembered the Spirit of Fire, where is he? "Spirit of Fire." Hao called for his spirit, no answer. Hao force himself to a sitting position, he gasped as the pain on his chest worsened, it burns. Hao give up and lay down, "Spirit of Fire?" Hao tried again, still there's no answer.

Hao sighed, seems like he lost his guardian spirit, fortunately, he doesn't need a spirit to teleport himself. But he can't teleport, not now, he is still too weak and exhausted. Hao can't think anymore because darkness claimed him.

Yoh walk around the patch village, he is sure that Hao's still alive, since he got this feeling that another furyoku that not him is awakened, even if it's weak.

"Yoh!" He turned to look who is it that called him, it's Silva, one of the 10 Patch Officials, "You're not leaving yet?".

"No, I want to take a walk for a bit." he said with a lazy grin.

"You are searching for Hao, aren't you?" Silva asked concerned, "He has hurt you a lot, and here you are worrying about him." Silva sighed, "Why are you searching for him again?".

"Silva, Hao is still my brother. I can't make myself calm if I know that he is alive, hurt and weak out there, dying because of me." Yoh said sadly, "At least I want more time to try and change him, breaking his ice barrier".

"Ice barrier?" Silva asked, he gestured for Yoh to following him. Yoh followed Silva as he walk to an empty shop, "What do you mean by Ice barrier?".

"When I got eaten that time, I get to know a little about him. He hurt a lot inside, he always wearing a mask of anger and hatred, but his heart is so hurt, and in order to protect himself from hurting even more, he build an Ice barrier around his heart, so that no one will hurt him again." Yoh explained, "I'm sure that he was hurt by humans, that's why he hate humans so much. I want to know the reason to help him passed his hatred, to make him understand that I will not throw him away or hurt him. If so, maybe he will stop and start to open up to me".

"You believe he will?" Silva asked tentatively, "What if he killed you this time?".

Yoh eyes turned so pained, "I hope he will change, but even if he is died, my family will make an excuse to kill me." Yoh said bitterly, "They think that I will become like Hao someday and want to kill me before that happened, and I was raised only to kill Hao." Yoh look at the ground, "I found out about this the night after that incident, they are discussing to find some excuse to tell my friends why they had to kill me".

Silva gasped in horror, then he place a hand on Yoh's shoulder, "How about tell this to your friends beforehand, so that they will protect you?" Silva asked in concern and worry.

"I can't, not now. I have to at least find Hao and change him, so that they will understand that I won't become like him, and that way, maybe Hao will be accept me as his brother? I don't know Silva, I'm confused, Hao always makes me so confused." Yoh shook his head, "But I will find and change Hao, but Silva, if you ever found Hao, can you please healed him? At least so that he can protect himself?".

Silva sighed, "I will, but I need to sealed his Shamanic ability, in case he will try to kill me instead." he sighed again, "I wonder if he even still alive after such a blow".

"If he died then I will always live with regret, he is my twin, and after got eaten that time, I know that if he died then I will lost half of me." Yoh sighed, "I always feel like there's something that lost from me, now I know that it is Hao. No matter what everyone says, twin still needs each other".

Silva smiled, "I trust your judgement, if Hao can be changed, I will try as well." he said, "I'm also his descendant after all".

Yoh smile at Silva and walk away, back to his search on Hao.

Hao awakened again as he felt some warm, ghostly feathers wrapped around his body, slowly, he opened his eyes to see what awaking him.

What he sees the first time is black feathers, then, when he can see more clearly, the black feathers become a bird, a big black hawk with strangely red eyes, like flame.

"Why are you here?" After Hao asked that, he feel stupid, why the hell he asked a bird?

'What do you think I'm here for?' A clear voice rang in Hao's head.

"You are a telepath?" Hao asked curiously.

The hawk nod it's big head, 'I am.' It's answered, then it's become quiet as it's rest it's head on Hao's wounded chest.

"What's your name?" Hao asked again, merely curious that there's a hawk that make him as it's cushion.

Strange that he is not angry at all, normally he would burn the spirit already, then again, he doesn't have Spirit of Fire.

'My name is Lin, a female leader of Chinese Hawk, for your information, I'm 530 years old already.' She said and looking smug.

"Like to brag, aren't you." Hao gives a weak chuckle, "I'm older than you".

The Hawk looked surprised at Hao, 'You are older? How old are you?' She asked.

Hao sat against the wall of the cave, he sigh in relief when he doesn't feel any burn sensation. "I'm a thousand years old already." Hao said, noticing that he doesn't as weak as before.

'That's nonsense.' Lin make a scoff-like noised, 'Human can't life more than 100 years, well maybe if they have long lifespan they can'.

"Well, my spirit is 1.000 years old, but this body is 14 years old." Hao answered with a weak smile, "This is my third life".

Lin looked at Hao, 'You sure is wiser than you look, I can see it, but your wisdom is clouded by anger, hate and loneliness.' She said, 'What cause you to be clouded by them?'.

Hao shut his eyes up, "There's no need for you to know." Hao said calmly.

Lin make a scoff noise again, 'You asked why am I here before, I came because I can sense a great power flowing from you.' She said telephatically, randomly changing the subject, 'I know you are a Shaman, since you can see me, but I bet you have Demon power, or else, I will have difficulty to get my telepathic voice to you'.

Hao open his eyes at that, "You are far more smarter than your appearance can tell me." He said with a sigh. "What do you want then?".

'A friend.' Lin voice sounds so pained, filled with loneliness, 'I'm lonely, I want a friend that can see me, hear me, understand what I said'.

"Is that why you are not leaving?" Hao ask the bird, "Because I can see, hear and understand you".

'You can say it that way.' Lin nod her bird head, she look at Hao's eyes and her eyes glowing red a bit, 'You have fire affinity, like me. Say, what's your name again?'.

Hao blinked, a bird has fire affinity, "I'm Asakura Hao." Hao told her, then frown, "Are you, by any chance, have Demon power?".

'Yes, I become a leader because I have Demon blood in me, human scientist made me this way. But I'm glad of it, I can protected my clan because I have this power.' Lin said proudly.

"I see, if it's me, I have killed that scientist already." Hao commented.

Lin laughs in bird way, or so Hao thought, 'Man, your way of seeing things always from negative side. All the things that happened around us are have both positive and negative side.' Lin said telephatically after she calmed down.

"You remind me of my twin." Hao said with a faint chuckle, "Now that I think about it, he is always an optimistic person, always say something like everything will work out. Indeed, with that tiny power of him, he can defeat me, so everything is really work out in his case".

'You miss him.' Lin commented after Hao silent for a few minutes.

"I'm not." Hao snapped, "He is the one that make this cut on my body, like hell I would miss him".

Lin shake her head, 'No, you are lying to yourself.' Lin then press her beak on Hao's wound, 'Do you think that you will alive now if it's not because he spared you?'.

"I have healing ability, of course I will." Hao said right away, but he know deep inside that Yoh was indeed spare him that time.

'Don't lie to yourself, that's worse than admit the truth.' Lin said calmly and sounded to Hao like she is older than him, wiser than him.

Hao said nothing to against that remark, he can't. Lin said nothing too for a short while, until she stand up and unfurl her wings. 'Where is your spirit, Hao? Most of Shaman I see have their own spirit, only a few that don't have one.' Lin asked in curious tone.

Hao sigh, "I don't know, after my fight with Yoh, I don't see him anywhere and he doesn't answer my call." He said in annoyed expression.

'Say, Hao.' Lin climb all the way to Hao's shoulder, 'How about I become your spirit, maybe that way we can become friends and not lonely anymore, and you can tell me the reason of why your judgement clouded by those emotions'.

Hao look up to Lin, "Strangely enough, I thinks that a good idea." Hao admitted, "Maybe because I found you here with me when I was awake?". Hao then close his eyes and move his hand to his wound and concentrate to heal his wound, after he doesn't feel pain anymore, he open his eyes and look down to his wound. The cut mostly closed and healed, but Hao now have a scar. "I'm going to sleep for a while." Just after he said it, Hao fell asleep right away.

Silva walk around the village after Yoh left, he is searching for Hao. He doesn't know why he searching for him though, he believe that Hao will definitely die after such a blow.

When he walk around, a thought entered Silva's head, why would Hao in the village if he know that he would be killed when he found? Silva make his Oversoul then, he fly by his Silver Wings to the cliff around the village carefully, so that he won't be found by the others.

Hao awakened again by a beak grabbing his right ear, he get dizzy for a while before everything not moving anymore. 'You awake?' Lin telephatic voice caught his attention, 'We have to move now, there's a Shaman around, he has a bird spirit too'.

"Bird spirit?" Hao asked slowly, still not focus yet. He shake his head and walk to the entrance, there's a figure floating in front of him.

Hao look at the figure, the figure is a guy, he had long hair and a pair of big white wings adorned his back. "Silva?" Hao ask, not understand why he is not attacking yet, then his vision blurred, must be because I'm not eating in this past. . . don't know how long already, he thought in the middle of chaos in his mind.

Hao lose his strength and fall from the cliff, he doesn't remember anything except falling and then darkness.

To be continued . . .

Froim : Yay! New Story!

Lin : In previous story you make 4 character, now me?

Froim : What? You don't want to exist?

Lin : I want to, but are you always make new character for new story?

Froim : You can put it that way, I'm used to after all.

Lin : Sigh, Please review.

Next Chapter : "As if I would stay here forever."