Disclaimer : I don't own Hikaru no Go.
Chapter 4 : The forest
" What are you doing?" he demanded.
" Since you can't shake it off, I'll keep it for you," I told him my purpose.
" A..Are you sure?"
" 100 sure," I guaranteed.
" But…"
" We're the same person, remember? I'll do this for you, for me, for both of us," I stated confidently.
" …But I have nothing to give back to you," Hikaru said it in shame.
" I don't want anything in return, you're not a stranger to me, I want you to be happy,"
" How can I be happy if I take an advantage from you!"
He has a heart of gold. I thought joyfully.
" I know it! I know what to give back to you! You said you didn't remember anything, right?" he asked dynamically, I shook my head.
" Then I gave you all my memory!" he shouted merrily.
" A what?"
" Memory, my memory, our memory, I'll tell you all what I know, what I remember," he made it clear.
" …Sounds fair enough," I nodded.
" Good, Let's start, I am, no, we're the only child but we're lonely, we grow up with Akari and Ken-chan. Once we…."
Sitting right there, right then, Hikaru started telling me about our family, our little adventure, how we got lost when we did the grocery by ourselves for the first time, the secret fort that we and Ken-chan built together and how we convinced our grandpa to buy us a PS2.
As he carried on telling me every little thing that had happened in our life, I saw the surface of the floor turned from water into soil. New shoots started growing up from it. They continued growing up fast. Hikaru didn't notice it. Moving his hand in the air, he was still telling me about his remarkable and exciting experience. The more he got excited, the faster the shoot grew. When he finished his story, we found ourselves surrounding by thousands hectares of forest.
" What the hell…since when?" Finally, Hikaru noticed it. We looked around. There were various trees ; Oaks, Umbrella Pines, Birches, Chestnuts, Ginkgoes, Maples, Willows, Almonds and Walnuts. Acorns, cones and different kind of nuts were on all over the ground.
" Hikaru, try this," I put something into his mouth without any warning forcing him to eat it.
" …Yummy, where did you get it?" Chewing experimentally, he asked me.
" Check these out," Smiling suspiciously, I showed him a small bush that I found.
" Berries?" he wondered.
" Raspberries, Blackberries, Gooseberries and Strawberries," I corrected.
" What? But how?" he called out in surprise.
" Shh…I think we have company," Covering his mouth with my hand, I whispered as quiet as I could.
" What!" he jumped in alarm.