Previously:
"Yoh!! Get out of the way!" she screamed.
"Always be you." I fell to my knees and looked to my left. A light shone brightly in my eyes, and before I completely blacked out, and was hit by that car, I saw a familiar pair or dark eyes.
A smile…
A face…
There he was… just smiling at me.
He reached towards me and placed his hand on my shoulder, and grinned.
A louder scream…
Screeching of wheels…
People panicking…
"Yoh-kun!!"
"Always be inside of you…"
And then it all went…black.
Always be Inside of You Continued:
Opening my eyes seemed to be like a chore. Just trying to force my eyelids to part from each other was painful. I opened my left eye, all I could see was white. Made a change from the darkness.
"Uhh… my head…" I moaned, closing my eye again.
"You should really be more careful in future."
"Yeah…" I replied, laughing slightly.
I had heard that voice before, but I couldn't remember who it was. I was so confused. What happened to me anyway?
I eventually managed to open both of my eyes, after another great effort. I saw a white ceiling above me. I was resting on a pillow. When I focused on the room, I couldn't work out where I was.
"You're in hospital." Said the friendly familiar voice again. I tried to work out who was talking to me. I still couldn't see where they were, or where I was either. I somehow found the strength to turn over onto my side.
Only coming face to face with Asakura Hao.
"Boo." He grinned.
"Ahhh!!" I screamed almost falling backwards off the bed. When I blinked to see if this was real, he was lay next to me, his face only inches from mine.
"Hey Yoh remember me?" he laughed.
"I must be dreaming…" I muttered, putting a hand to my head, finding a bandage there. He climbed off the bed and stood up.
"You were hit by a car, nasty accident. Blood everywhere!!" he said dramatically, making me panic.
"What?!" I shouted.
"Hey – keep your voice down will you?" he said, smiling. "You we're fine. You just got a bit of a bump on your head, that's all."
"Keep my voice down…?" I muttered. "Keep my voice down!"
"Don't freak out on me like you did at the show!" he chuckled.
"Freak out? You're meant to be dead! Of course I'd freak out!" I screamed.
"Shhh… just calm down okay? You're good at that. C'mon now, lie down and relax. Let your big brother have a closer look at you."
"Relax? Relax? Where's Anna? What have you done to her?" I demanded.
"Will you just chill out for a moment? I'll explain everything to you once you're quiet."
Finding no other option, even in the situation. I decided to just do as I was told, and take a few deep breaths. "There's a good little brother."
"Will you stop calling me that?" I grunted.
"Sorry – Yoh." He smiled. "Anyway, don't worry. Anna's not here. She's gone home to get some more things for you. The doctor said you might wake up today, so she's gone to get you some clean clothes and stuff." He explained. I didn't feel like I should believe him, but it did make sense.
"And Manta?" I asked.
"Piano lesson. But he'll be here as soon as it's finished. They're both very worried about you. I was! I really wasn't expecting you to react like that…"
"Neither was I…" I sighed. "So what did Anna say about you being here?"
"Not much." Was his simple reply.
"Not…much? Is that it?" I replied, stunned.
"Well she didn't say much about me in the first place did she?" he said, sitting down on a chair next to the window. Now he wasn't making sense.
"Huh?"
"Look." He leaned forward on the chair. "I have been with you ever since you destroyed your other half. Since you are the half that remains, I have been living on inside of you." In a very strange way… it made sense.
"What's Anna got to do with that?" I asked.
"Anna could see me before what happened yesterday. I think that's why she took you to that medium show. I'm not so sure about that. But I swear she always used to look directly at me. Like in my eyes. I would just stare at her, not being able to ask her 'Can you see me?' I think it has something to do with being a medium. I can speak to you now, because now you know I'm here, you can see and speak to me. But I can't speak to anyone else, since no one else except you can see me." He finished. I blinked. "Understand?"
"No one else can see you?" I said. He shook his head.
"And for your information, I am not dead." He smiled.
"You're…not?"
"Nope. As long as you're still alive, so am I."
"Right…" I thought about it for a few moments. "So can Anna still see you?"
"No."
"Why not?" I asked, still confused. He shrugged.
"I'm not sure. That medium woman could see me clearly. But she specializes in visions and spirits. Anna, on the other hand, is trained in seeing the dead spirits and those who have crossed over to the other side. She could see me, faintly, but could not interact with me. I guess you could say I'm a vision. I can't be a spirit, since… well… I'm not dead!" he began to laugh.
I lay down on the bed, pulling the covers over my face. I didn't believe it was happening. I wouldn't accept that everything that happened a year ago happened for no reason. "What's wrong now?"
"You're not here. I'm dreaming." I murmured. I felt him pull the covers down from my face. I blinked up at him.
"My dear brother, you are not dreaming." He sighed, shaking his head in a fake sympathetic way.
"Then I'm imagining you." I stated, not believing his existence.
"You know…" he stood up and took a step back. "I'd rather you'd believe that."
"What do you mean?" I said, sitting up. He sat back down again.
"News flash Yoh! You're in hospital. You have very badly knocked your head. If you tell Anna 'Oh my god! Anna! I'm seeing my twin brother!' she will not believe you." He smirked at me.
"Excuse me? Yes she will."
"No she won't."
"Yes she will!"
"No she won't."
"Yes she will!"
"No she won't!"
"Yes she will! She can see you!" I screamed.
"She can no longer see me. And when she did see me, she denied my presence." He sighed, raising his eyebrows.
"She what?" I asked, getting more and more confused.
"Yoh." He took a deep breath. "Don't you think, if she really believed I was there… She would have told you herself?"
It took me a while to take in everything. Hao was here. I repeated it over and over in my head, trying to get it to sink into my brain. But it wouldn't, maybe it was because I had such a horrible headache. What ever it was, the situation… was literally… unbelievable.