Chapter 4 – An enemy arises

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"Now, blondie, tell me, where is Hao Asakura?"

"A-at my ho-house …" Amy whispered.

"Very well, you shall take me there. And don't protest, you don't stand a choice against me, especially without your spirit, shaman."

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"So … Hao-sama." Said Kitty. "How long will you be the guest of this house?"

"I'm sure I'm a bother, but I won't sit here more than 2 or 3 days, so don't worry so much about me being here."

"Well, not exactly a bother, but … a danger … I still don't know if you can be trusted, like Amy-san does."

"Then don't, I won't be sad about it."

"I'm sure of that."

"Are you being sarcastic with me, spirit?"

"Well, I'm a bit sarcastic from my own nature."

"I wish I had my Spirit of Fire, it would do me a good favor right now."

"I'm trying to be nice, you know …"

"Well, it definitely doesn't seem you're managing."

"I wonder why I even try …"

"I wonder too."

"Oh, well, I'll be in the kitchen, downstairs. If you need something, just come down and call for me. The name's Kitty. Have a nice time, Hao-sama." And with that, Kitty left the room, vanishing.

'Finally, I can have a moment of silence, without that silly.' Hao was thinking. 'I can't wait to leave this place.'

Hao sighed and decided to go down and take a glass of water.

'The way this girl took care of me wasn't bad at all.' Hao thought, while he was descending the stairs. 'At least she made my wounds heal faster. This way, I'll be able to leave sooner from here.' As he was drinking his water, with no sign of Kitty, he could see someone coming towards the house. 'It took her long enough to come … It's like she went shopping in Europe or something …' Then he saw she wasn't alone. And the figure coming with her was pretty familiar to him. Putting the glass quickly on the table, he went outside to "greet" the two.

Hao went outside and advanced a bit, as the two came nearer and nearer. He could clearly see that Amy was slightly injured. He didn't know in what way, but there was some blood on her neck and a bit on her cheek too. Next to her was Koru Kotoba, the guy he thought would never see.

"Why, hello, Hao." Koru said smiling. "Long time, no see."

"I thought you had learned your lesson when I spared your life."

"This is the way you greet me? It doesn't please me. Anyway, nice girlfriend you have here … you …"

"Amy-san !" Kitty yelled and she wanted to go to her mistress, but stopped when Hao extended his arm and stopped her.

"If you don't want your mistress to be hurt, you'll stay behind." Hao told the spirit, which nodded and watched Amy with worried eyes.

"Ooh, I see, you care for this girl." Koru smiled. "Well, she really is something."

"If you think I care for her, you are wrong. You can kill her in that spot, I've just met her. And I don't care for nobody." Kitty gasped and Amy looked like Hao had two heads instead of one.

"I don't have time to test that, I came for you." Koru said and threw Amy away. The girl gasped as she landed hard on the floor.

"I've came after you, Hao Asakura. But this won't be the final battle you will fight, this will be only a warm-up."

"You think you stand a chance against me?" Hao asked, and Koru started laughing.

"Oh, please, Hao, you think I don't know you are without your shaman powers?" Koru asked.

'Damn, he knows about my powers …' Hao thought.

"You think too high of yourself. Spirit, bring me something similar to a sword."

Kitty hesitated, not wanting to leave her mistress alone, but right now, she needed to do something to get rid of this boy and Hao could to that. 'I just hope he can, without his shaman powers …' Kitty thought as she disappeared and almost immediately appeared with a wooden sword.

"Hao-sama, this is the best I found."

"It is good. Go and help Amy."

Kitty nodded and quickly went to Amy. She slowly got up, with Kitty by her side, than started running towards the house. As she passed by Hao, she glanced at him. He was watching Koru. She could see something dangerous in his eyes.

As soon as she closed the door to her house, Koru got his blade out and said to Hao, smiling evilly:

"Well, let the fight begin." And he dashed towards Hao. Even without his shaman powers, Hao's fighting skills were really good. He managed to dodge all of Koru's tries of hitting him, but the hard part would come when he'll oversoul.

"Not bad, Asakura Hao. But maybe we should take this fight to the next level. Masu, Oversoul into the blade!"

'Now, this is bad …' Hao thought as he watched Koru oversoul. He saw Masu, the warrior spirit, enter the blade. The blade got bigger, being surrounded by a red aura. 'Now the power of his attacks will be at least three times bigger.' Hao thought. His eyes narrowed, getting ready for a much harder fight than what was before.

"Let the real fight begin, Hao Asakura." Koru said, smiling evilly.

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"Amy-san, you're hurt. Are you okay?" Kitty asked as soon as they entered the house and closed the door.

"I'm feeling fine, still scared …" Amy said in a small voice, as she stood down, leaning on the door.

"I'm not surprised that that guy appeared. This boy must have a lot of enemies."

"He must have pretty much … But yet, how did this guy found out that Hao's alive? I mean, everybody thought that Hao died."

"Well, that is strange. But he's a shaman, maybe he concentrated on his aura and he felt him here."

"Think he knows that Hao's lost his powers, Kitty?"

"He might. This depends on how powerful he is, Amy-san."

"Oh my, this is bad …"

"You can say it that way, Amy-san."

"Kitty, that boy, Koru, he's a shaman, right?"

"Yes, Amy-san."

"Hao isn't anymore. I mean, not completely."

"Yes."

"What if he'll oversoul? Hao can't fight him. Kitty, we have to help him, it's my fault, somehow, that this guy came here, I led him here." Amy said. Kitty could sense a bit of guiltiness in Amy's voice and said:

"Amy-san, it's not your fault. I mean, he could have followed you anyway. He would have came here for sure. It's just that you were implicated too, in a way."

After a short silence, Amy asked:

"Kitty, look outside the window, what's going on outside?"

Kitty went quickly to the window and looked outside. As she watched outside, the spirit said:

"Amy-san, I think it's bad."

"What do you mean?" Amy asked alarmed, getting on her feet.

"Well, seems that that Koru guy oversouled and the Asakura boy has a really hard time fighting, I think he's hurt again."

Amy stood a few seconds, thinking quickly what to do. 'Oh my, this is really bad … This guy's really serious about fighting Hao … Hao can't fight an oversoul, he doesn't stand a chance … I have to do something to help him.'

"Kitty, let's search something in which I can oversoul with you."

"But … but Amy-san, you're not good at fighting." the spirit said, slightly scared for her mistress.

"I'm not that bad, and we really need to help Hao, and fast. Now go!"

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Hao felt slightly dizzy. The fight was hard, and Koru wasn't even using too much of his power. Hao had a nasty cut on his right hand, making his moves slower. And from all the moving he was doing, the bandage from his chest started turning a bit red. 'The wound from my chest opened I think.' Hao thought. 'And I can barely move my hand, damn that wound he gave me. Damn his oversoul. If only I had my powers, the wind would blow his ashes all over this place.' But his thoughts were interrupted as another attack came his way.

Hao, feeling much dizzier, tripped while he got away from the attack and fell on the path, breathing hard. As he lay on his stomach, he tried to get up, but the pain was too much and he lay there, eyes closed. 'I remember he said he won't kill me. This is just a warm up to him. Still, I don't think something good will happen next. But there's nothing I can do. I am nothing more than a mere human.' Hao thought angrily.

"Not as great as you were when we met last time, are you, Hao? Without your shaman powers, you're pathetic." Koru said, cancelling the oversoul and coming nearer to Hao. As he reached the boy, he bent down and made him get on his knees, pulling him up by his hair.

"Is this the only way you can win a fight, Koru?" Hao asked with pain in his voice. "By fighting someone who lost his shaman powers?"

"No, Hao" Koru answered. "After our fight, you said I needed to get stronger to join you. Well, I got stronger. But not in order to join you, but to defeat you. And I am stronger than you can imagine. You barely saw a small part of my power and you can't even stand up properly." Koru finished and punched Hao.

"Stop right there, you!" someone shouted and Koru turned towards the direction of the voice. There stood Amy, with Kitty near her and another wooden blade. "You fight Hao with an oversoul so you can manage to beat him, no? Really low. But get ready. Kitty, oversoul into the wooden sword!" Amy yelled and the sword started glowing, in an orange aura.

'OMG, I can't believe I'm doing this … I'm not good at fighting. I can't believe I even had the courage to do it. Oh well, what's done is done, I hope I'm doing the right thing.'

Hao stared at the girl, surprise written all over his face. He read her mind and listened to what she thought. 'Is this girl mad? She's gonna get killed for sure, she herself knows she's not good at fighting. Why did she do this?' But his thoughts were interrupted by Koru letting him go and him falling flat on his face.

"You really think you stand a chance against me?" Koru said smiling. "You really are naïve, sweetie, but this …"

"Kitty! Orange claws attack!" Amy interrupted him. Koru was surprised by the attack, which came with big speed towards him and it hit him. Yet, it didn't have power and there were 3 scratches on his right hand, from which blood came out, which made Koru pretty angry.

"You know, I wanted to let you go, but you keep asking for it. Energy blow!" Koru finished, attacking Amy. The girl stood paralyzed as the attack was coming towards her. Before the attack reached her, closing her eyes, she put her sword in front of her, making the power of the attack only of half. Yet, the attack was still powerful and pushed her towards her house. As she hit the wall of the house, a small yell of pain escaped from her lips. Her oversoul broke and Kitty came out:

"Amy-san! Amy-san, are you alright?" but the girl didn't answer. 'I hope she's only unconscious.' Kitty thought frightened. Then she saw Koru coming towards her. 'Oh my, what's he planning? To finish Amy-san?'

"Don't come any near!" Kitty yelled.

"And are you gonna stop me, spirit? " Koru said. "Aaah!" he was stopped as something hit him in the head pretty hard. He touched the part where he was hit and felt something wet. As he brought the hand to see it, there was some blood on it. He turned around and saw Hao on his feet, holding the sword in front of him.

"What you did wasn't very nice, Hao." Koru said, with anger in his voice. "But our fight is over. Don't worry, we'll meet again." And he teleported away from them.

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isa18: Here's the 4th chapter! Happy me, I updated! It's a bit hard now, since good old school started. I've got tests, biiiiiiiig ones. Anyway, I hope you'll all enjoy this chapter. It was pretty hard to write, I hope I did a good job. As always, thank you for the ones who reviewed and a BIG one to Sima-chan!

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