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Disclaimer: I don't own SK....-sigh- it's so sad....


A real friend is ...


Yoko's POV...

Where am I? Looking at my hands I was glowing but everything around me is pitch black but wait a minute... I'm asleep. Right? But wait, what's that foggy shape it's so familiar. Who is it? The figure turned around and it was Yoshi with his button up school shirt and jeans. His goofy smile and always shaggy hair. I miss him so much, but why is he in my dreams? Does he have a message for me? WAIT! WAIT! Why is he walking away!

Hao's POV

"No, don't leave me all alone...Yoshi please!" Yoko cried as she twisted and turned on my lap causing me to wake-up from my superficial sleep. Huh? A human asleep on my lap!?!?! This is ruining my reputation as future Shaman King but no matter no one is watching... I hope.

She must be having a bad dream... well let me see who this Yoshi is and what's happening in this dream. /smirk/ I touched her forehead and entered her nightmare. Casting a spell on myself to make me invisible to her I was entering a world of great depression; everywhere I look was pitch black and this place was crying. Wait a minute it was Yoko. Humans /shakes head/ I watched as she struggled to step out of the darkness that was swallowing her glowing body. Hmm I think I read this in a scroll back in the Patch village. The glowing should be her consciousness and hope love dreams etc. but the darkness is what takes it away from her. /sigh/ humans such complicated creatures.

Though I don't want to help her, for some reason I do have an urge to... help. This girl is ruining me, she making me different but is that good? I swore not to trust anyone anymore but...she seems like a person I could depend on...

"AHH!! STOP IT GET AWAY FROM ME. YOSHI PLEASE HELP! ANYONE PLEASE!!" screamed Yoko as she tore away from the black ropes that tied her wrist and ankles.

'Damn, I need to help her I usually don't but I'll make an exception' cried Hao as he appeared and canceled his invisibility spell. "Yoko!" I cried out as she turned and look at me with her worn out and tear flooded cheeks. (A/N: hmm does that make sense? O.O) I frowned, are her troubles and nightmares this horrible? Not even other humans suffer THAT much though there are others worse but... I still have to help.

Yoko finally saw that I was there and her light glowed again and destroyed the black ropes and flew into my chest and wept into my cloak. I admit, I was shocked as my hands just were a few inches away from her sobbing and shaking body. "Hao, can you be the one who fights away the demons in my dreams?" she asked me. She asked me if I would protect her, which means she trusts me and loves me. I just don't understand humans but I still felt a tug at my heart when I heard her but I'm not sure. If I accept does that mean... I will have to love and care for her? Is she really Yukishiro? It seems that ...she is. The way she looks, acts and how fate brought us together again.

I'm a shaman and I can't just make a HUMAN with no powers be my Queen...what am I thinking...! Why am I even thinking to make her Shaman Queen... "No I can't" I replied with and calm voice. I told myself to calm down and be the evilish self I was before. Yoko's ears got the message and she just whispered an "I understand..." in a sad voice but... I don't know what was this new sensation, a new emotion? I have no idea.

Breaking away from her grasp I returned back to my physical body and peered down at the sleeping girl. Her now peaceful slumber face was awakening by the dream's end. "Um...what just happened was real right?" she asked. I didn't want to lie to her so I guess... "Yea it was." Suddenly Yoko stuck out her pinky in front of my face and said" Promise to be my friend...a friend that will last forever."

Still waving her pinky I locked mine in hers and made a promise that cannot be broken.


someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.


Ayame: sry for the short chapter... I had to type it really fast cuz friends were over! thanks for the reviews R&R soon! And I had to watch...the Olympics lol GO CANADA! GO JAPAN ! lol gotta cheer for where anime comes from