Disclaimer: I don't own shaman king, just my oc.

Warning: swearing, nudity, violence and funny bits =]

Chapter 3 – ocean

"Here you go wolfie, opacho brought steak." Opacho said happily, placing the plate in front of her. The wolf was sat under the shade of a large tree, feeling safer in the shadows where she was almost invisible to human eyes. It made her curious as to how the little girl had spotted her so fast, but she shrugged it off. Most of the camp had been glaring at her after trying to attack Hao, and Hao himself hadn't come back from where ever he went. Not that she cared; she hated the guy; besides it had only been around ten minutes. She stood up and sniffed the steaming steak, before deeming it safe and swallowing it down. Honestly she preferred eating in human form, but she wasn't willing to show the whole camp what she could do, or make herself vulnerable to an attack. Opacho watched her curiously as she licked her paws.

"Wolfie is pretty" Opacho said happily, taking her buy surprise. For as long as she could remember she had never been called pretty, even in her human form she held the kind of aura that repelled most people, and there she was, being complemented by a small child who should have been afraid of a wolf like her. She gazed at her curiously, walking slowly towards her to get a closer look at the child. Opacho didn't move away like she had expected, instead she smiled happily, stretching her hand out to run her fingers through her thick black fur. She felt her body relax from the child's touch, moving closer and leaning towards her. Her tongue lolled out as Opacho scratched behind her ears, and her mind went blank. Opacho giggled happily, watching the wolf's tail wag.

"Having fun?" Hao said, popping up beside them, a smug smile plastered across his face. At the sound of his voice, the wolf jumped back, snapping out of her trance-like state. She growled low, a warning that Hao wasn't going to pay attention to any time soon. He was still smirking.

"Hao-sama, you should touch wolfie's fur, it's so soft." Opacho said admiringly.

'Try it and I'll bite your hand off.' The wolf growled, bearing her teeth at him. Hao laughed.

"No thank you Opacho, right now 'wolfie' and I have a few things we need to discuss." He said, sniggering slightly at the wolfie part. She frowned at him, a dangerous flash of her ice blue eyes.

"Okay Hao-sama!" Opacho said, running off.

"Come on." Hao said, turning his back to the wolf and walking into the surrounding forest. She frowned, but followed after him.

They walked in silence, getting deeper and deeper into the forest, before Hao thought it was a good enough distance away from the camp. He turned to her.

"I want you to change back into your human form." He said emotionlessly, his face a blank mask but his eyes burned.

'Why?' she asked suspiciously.

"Just do it."

She growled in disapproval. She hated being ordered around, but she didn't have any other choice. He was stronger than she was.

'Fine, but I'm not doing in front of you.' She said, disappearing behind a tree and out of sight. Hao sighed in aggravation. She drove him nuts, no one ever dared to challenge him as she did, and his patients was wearing thin. But at the same time he was still curious about her, wanting to keep her alive.

She stepped out from behind the tree, wearing the same thing she had abandoned in the forest just an hour or so before, only this was clean and all in one piece. That was another thing Hao was curious about. She clearly hadn't brought any clothes with her, so how did she have them now? He was determined to get some answers, whether he had to force them from her or not. She strode towards him, her hips swaying gently from side to side in a motion of feminine grace, and her long midnight hair dancing in the wind. She stopped just in front of him and folded her arms across her chest, her delicate features set into a frown.

"So, what do you want?" she asked, a mixture of harmonious notes forming the sound of her voice.

Hao felt himself smirking. It was no wonder why she felt safer in her wolf form; she just looked so breakable as a human, like a china doll.

'A perfect specimen of woman.' Hao caught himself thinking, but he mentally shook the thought from his mind. No, she wasn't delicate. Far from it in fact, she was wild and foulmouthed. Although she had the voice of an angel, her words were anything but angelic. Her beauty was just a ruse to capture the hearts of men before she struck, that was all. She was a siren, nothing but demonic.

"Well?" she asked again, pulling Hao from his thoughts. He looked at her, gazing into the pure blue of her eyes, before a frown set across his own face and his eyes turned cold.

"I want you to tell me everything you can do, every power you have, and why you were out on your own in the woods at night." He said.

"Why should I? She challenged. She didn't want him knowing about her, it was none of his business as far as she was concerned, and until today she had never even met him before in her life. Why should she trust him with the secrets she had never told anyone?

"Because if I know you can be of some use, I might let you live." He threatened. She felt a shiver run up her spine, and knew instantly that he meant every word, and was strong enough to back it up. She had a feeling that she had barely scratched the surface of his power in their last fight. But of course her pride would never let her give in so easily.

"Who the hell do you think you are? god? You're not the boss of me." She said stubbornly. She didn't have chance to blink, he had moved so fast, grabbing her throat and slamming her against the rough bark of a tree. A gasp escaped her throat, as pain coursed through her back. She knew it was a mistake changing into a human, and now she was paying the price. Her ice blue gaze flickered up to meet the burning flame of his brown, in an attempted threat, but they both knew it was pointless to resist. He leaned in, an inch off her face and smirked devilishly. She could feel his hot breath brushing against her lips and instantly her body tensed.

"Now," Hao said, his gaze not once leaving hers, "are you going to tell me?"

Her mind was screaming every known insult she could think of and how she wanted to say them to his face, but she looked down in submission. He let her go, stepping back to create some space between them. She could feel her legs wobbling underneath her, but she refused to collapse for a second time and forced herself to stand up straight.

"Well?" Hao said, mocking one of her previous remarks. She glared at him and turned, walking away from him to sit down on log not too far away. She didn't want to be standing through her explanation, she had a feeling that Hao wanted more than just a few details. He followed her, leaning against a tree trunk not too far away. She closed her eyes and breathed in deeply, trying to settle the hate twisting her stomach into knots. When she lifted her dark lashes, her eyes were cold, emotionless.

"You already know about my shape-shifting, other than that there isn't really much more that I know of." She began watching Hao for any sign of reaction. There wasn't one, and she continued. "I'm stronger and faster than a normal wolf when I'm in that form, and my hearing, sense of smell, and eye sight are impeccable. It's the same with every creature I turn into. I can also create things from the air."

Hao's eyes flashed with curiosity. "What do you mean?"

"Well... if I think about something I need, really concentrate, I can feel the air shit around me, it just sort of materialises out of the air. When I open my eyes it'll be there."

Hao looked at her curiously, staring at her in silence. There was something very familiar to that description, but he just couldn't place it. She frowned.

"What?" she snapped.

"... why where you in the forest?" he said, changing the subject.

"I'm part wolf, what did you expect?"

"Shouldn't a little human like you be at home with your parents or something?" he retorted, getting seriously annoyed with her bitchy attitude. Hao caught a glimpse of sadness hidden in the deep pools of her eyes, before she quickly averted her gaze. Immediately he regretted his harsh words.

"Should I? ...I don't remember..." she muttered, more to herself than anyone, but he caught it. His heart clenched in his chest, a feeling he was completely unfamiliar with. He didn't like it, but he didn't like seeing her sadness either. He stood up, walking over and stopped in front of her. He held his hand out to her and she looked up at him, her blue eyes damp, shining in the moonlight that broke through treetops.

"Come on, we should get back to camp. We'll be travailing tomorrow so you'll need your rest." He said, hiding his expression under an emotionless mask. She looked back to his hand, and hesitantly took it, letting him pull her up off the log. She was suddenly feeling tired, and didn't bother trying to argue about travailing with him. She knew she would lose anyway. He dropped her hand and started walking, and she followed close behind, ignoring the aching feeling in her back, it wouldn't take long to heal. Her leg was already feeling better, for normal people that would have taken a day or more. It was something she had forgotten to mention to Hao, but then it never seemed something that important to her, she had always been able to do it. Hao stopped, silently turning back around to face her.

"You know, I just thought that I need to think of a name for you. I can't exactly call you wolf forever." He said.

"Wouldn't make a difference to me, as long as you don't call me mutt I don't really care." She answered indifferently. Hao laughed slightly, before becoming thought full once more and staring at her. She could feel herself becoming uncomfortable under his gaze. He looked her over, until his eyes met her ocean blues, and it came to him. A light smile curved his lips.

"Kaiyou." He said, "That's your name."

"Kaiyou? That means ocean right?" she asked, and he nodded. "Why'd you want to call me that?"

He turned away from her and started walking away.

"Because of your eyes..." he muttered, thinking for a moment that he was unable to hear him, until he heard her mind wonder. He had forgotten about her good hearing already. She smiled gently, something that if Hao had seen would have made his heart jump in his chest, and followed after him.

Okay, this is the last chapter 4 tonight. Might add some more 2moz tho =] u know the drill, please review!