Chapter: 2

This Love

The Tickets Sell Out

How long had it been…?

Yoh's head bobbed up and down as he tried to keep his eyes opened, he needed to stay awake and alert to call up when the time came. If not, he was going to have to keep his promise to Manta and he certainly did not want to spend good napping time studying things that didn't even seem important at the time. Sighing, he nestled his head on his crossed arms before him, the thick, way too big for him gray sweater was so comfortable and warm in the mornings cold weather, that he could just fall asleep.

He looked at his cell phone; it was almost going to be nine and still no luck. What the hell did it mean to call on the hour…or what was it that Manta had said…Yoh was confused and he didn't want to thnk about it. He just needed to know when to call.

The radio was blaring, and then he heard to call. The man in the radio was babbling after that, and all that came to mind was that this was his chance, he pressed the radial button and it speed-dialed to the station. Manta had given him the number,

There was a loud hissing noise that made him groan and then the line getting through, it was actually getting through. Then, it was answered, "Congratulations, you are the latest winner for the Band Of the spirit of Fire concert, you just one the last tickets, aren't you excited. What's your name?" Yoh slowly lifted his head as he said.

"I am in shock…and Yoh, I'm Asakura Yoh"

"Hahaha, my good boy, you were lucky" The man said "now let me tell you about where you can go and get your tickets" Yoh nodded, grabbed his notepad and pencil and noted everything else, repeating it over just to make sure that he had it right "So, when can I go?"

"You can come today, or tomorrow, but no later than this week" Yoh nodded and hanged up.

"Well, that was lucky" He frowned, did things always worked out like this?

Tokyo Studios, the place that made stars....

CRASH

"Hao? Where's Hao?" Anna asked as she walked around the room. Everyone was bored out of their minds, nothing fun ever happened with them. Horohoro, the second singer was playing a video game with Ryu who was the drummer. Tao Ren was meditating, shirtless and a yin yang tattoo in his back, an angry expression on his face. Lyserg was the only one in the room who was practicing his guitar, tuning it in and out, and strumming it to different beats. "I will say this one last time before I torture you all, where the fuck is Hao?"

That is when all of them turned to look at Anna "Ha, Anna, we weren't expecting you this early in the morning" Her death icy glare made Horo shut his mouth and she kept waiting for her answer. Ren finally sighed and gave in.

"He left, happy, said that it was time for him to spend with Opacho, they went shopping or something like that," the Chinese boy shrugged "You never know with him anyway, he could be just about anywhere"

"That good for nothing" Anna muttered to herself. "Alright, stop slacking off you dumbasses!" She snapped, "Get to practicing now, I am going to give Hao a piece of my mind when he gets back!" she growled.

Somewhere off in the streets of Tokyo, Miles away

Asakura Hao, lead singer to the band spirit of fire, needed something else to do. Like get away from all the stress that being a band singer brought. He, for once, wanted something normal. He had been born to this life, his parents were managers, knew how to get around, and he had been caught in the middle of it. Always in the publics eye, a celebraty baby and now, a singer. He wanted to escape it and have a life like the other's did, you know...the life with someone not stalking him every second! "So this is Tokyo," he said as he looked around, he was in the middle of some place in Tokyo, he was just not completely sure where. "Oh, look Opacho, a music store" he said and slowly approached it. He glanced in through the window and then walked inside.

"Is Hao-sama going to buy something?" Opacho said with a smile on her lips. She was the child he had forced his parents to adopt. The only thing was that he had to be the one to raise her and take care of her, because no one else was. Hao liked it. She was a bit of normal in his life, he'd like to believe.

"Not really" He said, he walked discreetly towards the store with her following after him, the cap on his head covering half his face, and he was wearing a normal plain gray shirt and light blue jeans with belts. He could pass off for any other kid, since his hair was hidden under his cap. It looked as though he had shorter hair. He didn't look up and expose his face until Opacho tugged at the hem of his shirt in an effort to get his attention.

"Hao-sama!" She giggled. Pointing at a Cd/Dvd Special of his band, with him in the cover, dressed with a baggy red shirt, and black jeans, with white shoes…he looked good. Well, he tilted his head, depending on what good was. Opacho kept looking around as Hao kept looking at the collection of CD/DVD that his band had produced and how they were all in an all out sale.

"Yoh!" The call was sudden. Hao looked to the side when he heard someone squeak, a girl with pink hair was standing there, a full blown blush on her face. She was shyly playing with her fingers in front of her, pushing both index fingers together, and she avoided looking him in the eye...'A fan?' he thought, unsure of himself. How did she recognize him?

"What's up" He said, thinking she had just said 'Yo' to him as a greeting of hello or something. Then she said something that made complete to no sense to him.

"So…uh, you missed school today again huh, the teachers are going to give you detention. St-Still, it's the last year, why are you ditching school, we only have a quarter left to finish" she said rather quickly but Hao still managed to catch it. Hao, was also confused as to what she meant by that. He did not even know her, let alone go to school as she had said.

"Uh" he managed to say before she cut him off, shaking her head and being even more hasty.

"Oh! I am so sorry, it's none of my business. I should have not said that!" She was waving her hands, blushing, and seemingly embarrassed. Hao had no clue what was up with her, and then she fell forward on the floor with a loud crash and a yell of pain from her.

He offered her his hand as he said "Ah, are you-" but was cut off and not allowed to finish.

"Yes, I'm fine!" she said quickly standing up "I...uh will see you later, I uh…yeah bye now!" She left running, a blush on her face and a distressed look on her face. Talking with Yoh had never been so hard before, and now, she felt completely foolish, and yet she was exhilarated, that she had gotten a chance to talk to him as well. This was the best day ever.

"Well, that was either a crazy fan or some other crazy person" He said, Opacho was gaping at the scene that had just happened and a couple of people were looking his way and soon looking away. It seemed as though this occurred every day...and perhaps...it was normal? "Come on Opacho, let's go," He murmured, a dark look crossing over his features and walked out of the store.

"Is Hao-sama angry?"

"No" He said a smiled down to his little friend. Opacho smiled back at him, "Let's go get something to eat and forget all of this ever happened." Hao knew that later he was going to have to return, and then he was going to have to face the wrath of Anna. Still, for now, he would do as he pleased.

"Okay" Still, in the back of his mind he was still hoping for something new, something good to come out of this.

"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!"

Yoh stared at his hysterical friend as he gripped the tickets. He had not wanted to, but when he heard that the ticket area was just a little ways off, he was glad to go and get them, so he would not have to later. Of course, also to get Manta off his back from calling him a liar and that there was no way that the address was real. Apparently, the show was going to be in Tokyo Bay, a nice popular place, and just a little far from here, they could go in Yoh's car. "I am, I managed to win" he said once more.

"No Yoh!" Manta cried "You just don't win, I mean I have never won a thing in my life and you…you won these incredible tickets" A smile split his face "Thank you" Yoh smiled at him.

"You're welcomed" That was when the lazy boy stood up "Now I'm hungry," But Manta was no longer listening, he was to lost in his tickets to even pay attention to what was going on around him.

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