AN: I´m so so so so SORRY! I´t´s been like a year since I last updated, but it´s been kinda busy. Since I graduated from school and didn´t have a job, but now I do so on with the story! And I´ll give you cookies for being so darn patient

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"Wha...what happened? Where am I..? Yoh..?"

"I think he´s waking up."

"Who...?"

"Finally. It´s been two days."

"Anna? What´s going on?"

"Ah, he´s opening his eyes!"

"Yoh..?" Hao weakly asked when he recognized his brothers voice.

"I´m here." Yoh smiled though he knew Hao couldn´t see that, but he knew that only his presence would calm Hao down.

"What hap..*cough*?" Hao tried to ask, but ended up in a coughing fit. Yoh offered Hao a glass of water wich he gladly took.

"You´ve been out of it for two days now." Anna said. Hao looked at the direction where he had heard her voice coming from. "Two days? How could´ve I sleep for two whole days?" He asked.
Yoh chuckled. "Well you were in a bad shape. But your fever is going down already, so I think it´s gonna be okay."

Hao sighed. He didn´t think he could sink any lower than he alredy had, but he guessed wrong.

"Yoh?" Hao heard a new voice, wich he really didn´t want to hear ever again. "Has he awoken?"

"Yeah he just woke up." Yoh answered. Hao heard several people enter the room.

"What are we supposed to do now Yohmei?" Mikihisa asked. Yohmei thought for a while and

sighed. "We have to report this and hold him here until the counsil comes to get him. "No!" Yoh

and Anna shouted the same time. "He´s not bad! He hasn´t done anything wrong since he´s been

here!" Yoh stood infront of his now standing and scared brother. "Yoh, stop being stupid. You

know he has to be punished." Kino said. "No! He´s my brother!" Yoh cried. He didn´t want to lose

his brother.

Keiko, who stood behind them, walked to Yoh, smiled sweetly to him and pushed him gently aside.

She then stood infront of Hao. Hao knew she was there and started shaking. She had basicly killed

her other son. "Mom, what are you..?" Keiko silenced him by lifting her hand. "Keiko?" Mikihisa whispered. "Hao." Keiko started sounding very serious. Hao didn´t hear anything but a big *smack* and felt as his cheek was burning. Yoh and Anna gasped quietly and the rest of them smiled slightly. Keiko was never one who would harm anyone, but right now, no one questioned her methods.

Hao still felt the burning and then something else. A warm body pressed against him and to arms wrapping aroung him, holding him tight yet gently. "It´s alright now." He heard Keiko saying. Her voice had change from before. She didn´t sound serious. She didn´t sound like she wanted to hurt him. She sounded like a woman comforting her child. She sounded like a mother.

Hao felt tears coming to his blind eyes. He didn´t make any efford to wipe them away. He just stood there being held by Keiko. His brothers mother. His mother.

"M..mo..." Hao whimpered. "Go on. Say it." Keiko smiled softly. "Mo..mom..?" Hao looked up to her smiling face. "That´s right, Hao." She said and hugged him tightly. "Mom´s here." Hao was sobbing now. He was so happy at the moment that he didn´t even care how weak and pathetic he looked. "I´m sorry..! I´m so sorry, mom!" He cried too Keiko´s chest. "Shh, it´s alright sweetheart. I`m here. I won´t let anyone hurt you ever again." She whispered to him.

Yoh and Anna smiled to each other as they watched Hao being welcomed to the family by his father, grandparents and mother. Hao couldn´t stop smiling for the rest of the day. He never let go of Keiko´s hand and that didn´t bother Keiko. She was happy that finally her both sons were with her now. She never had hoped anything else.

"Keiko?" Mikihisa asked as she sat on the couch and storked now sleeping Hao´s hair. "Yes?" "You should get some sleep." He said to his wife and walked to sit next to her. "In a minute. I don´t want to wake him just yet." She said. Mikihisa smiled and stood up and lifted Hao up to his arms. "Careful." Keiko warned. "I know. This is how we got Yoh to bed too." He smiled to her. Keiko smiled back at him a nodded.

As they tucked Hao in, he awoke. "Mom...?" He rubbed his eyes. "Yes honey? I´m here." "Goodnight." "Goodnight honey." Keiko said and kissed Hao´s forehead. "Goodnight son." Mikihisa said and gently stroked Hao´s hair. "Goodnight...dad." Hao smiled in the dark room.

Keiko and Mikihisa walked out of Hao´s room. Hao sighed and started to go back to sleep.

"Thank you...mom."

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And it´s done! Thank You so much for reading my story and I apologize for keeping you waiting for so long! Please leave a review!

~NekoEd~