"Man, this stain isn't coming off..."
A voice stirred the consciousness of a slumbering being...
"... what stain? It's clean."
"Huh?! It's dirty!!"
~~First Days with Hikaru~~ Part 1
"Normal speech"
""Sai's thoughts to Hikaru""
//Hikaru's thoughts to Sai//
Hope soared in my heart as the faint voices pierced the confines of my dark prison.
"Here, these look like spots of blood."
Time started to slowly trickle back into my mind, second by second. The darkness started to give way to a slight gray glow.
"Where?"
"Here."
But fear held me back. Voices had drifted into my mind several times before. I needed to be certain that this was what I'd been waiting for.
"Where...?"
"I said here!!"
""Can you see it?""
"That's what I've been saying..."
""Can you hear my voice?""
"Huh?"
""You can hear my voice, can't you?""
"I don't see it..."
The last of the darkness cleared, revealing a pale-fringed boy and a brown-haired girl bending over a goban.
"Akari, someone's here..."
Stunned, I stared at the boy as he faced the empty room and yelled, "Who is it? Ojii-san? Come out!"
"Stop it! Stop saying weird things. I'm leaving, Hikaru."
""You can... You can.""
A boy... Standing in front of a goban... The image awoke memories of another young boy in front of a goban and I couldn't help but smile in anticipation of another like him.
""All-powerful god, I thank you.""
I approached the boy as he turned around to face me.
"Aaaaaah!!" His eyes widened as I prepared to attach my mind to his as I'd done once before.
""I will now... return to the living world.""
The attachment started immediately but the boy suddenly collapsed and darkness reclaimed my mind. Plunged into despair, my thoughts raced. Was he not the one I was supposed to attach to? Was I to return to the darkness to wait for another?
"Hikaru? Ah! What's wrong, Hikaru?"
No... The girl's voice was clear and I could still feel the passage of time inside me. Then, why had the attachment gone wrong? The boy wasn't supposed to collapse. The attachment took a little time to complete but...
"Hikaru's fainted! Someone! Hikaru needs help!"
I was jerked out of my thoughts by a groan resounding in my mind.
//Who are you? You're... inside my...//
""Yes, inside your consciousness.""
//What...?//
The voice fell silent as the boy's mind slipped into unconsciousness.
Notes and message:
*sighs* That didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to ¬¬ But it's the first of maybe three or four chapters so I guess I can still work on it a bit more. I was reading the first chapter of Hikaru no Go again and wondered how Sai would've felt when he first met Hikaru so *tadan!* The fic will probably stop before Sai and Hikaru meet Akira though but if it turns out ok, I might keep going. Anyways, as always:
** Thanks to toriyamaworld.com for the scanlation of the manga *huggles*
** Thanks to everyone who reviewed my first fic! *huggles* Your comments really helped! I won't make Touya yell so much in the future ^^
** If there are any mistakes, please point them out! Spelling, grammar, whatever.
** If you have any comments, please post them. Even if you hated the fic (heck, I'm not too pleased with it either...), you should say so... but with a reason ¬¬
** I'm wondering if it was ok to put in a little japanese so any comments on that are very welcome.