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Chapter 9 : Confronting each other
In subconscious world,
" Where am I?" Hikaru found himself floating with no gravitational pull in space. The sun was shining brightly, the moon was gleaming sending out its soft pale light while hundreds of stars were twinkling flashing in different colors; blue, red, green, yellow…
Am I in space? " !" Then I can't breathe ! He quickly covered half of his face by both his hands.
/Gig Gig Gig/
Someone was laughing at him. He looked down at his feet where the voice came from. There was a figure standing in the middle of a gigantic shining colorless glass Go board.
" Don't worry, you can breathe here," the stranger told him with his pleasant, gentle, dreamy voice, " Come over here," he waved his delicate hand calling the blond. It was like Hikaru was completely under a spell now. With his sleepy eyes, he followed the voice like a sailor who was captivated by siren's song and sailed towards the beautiful but dangerous creatures into rocks.
He gently landed on the glass Go board which was in the size of a basketball court and gazed at the person in front of him without blinking. With long silky violet hair, rosy lips, aqua-marine eyes and soft white skin, this person was too gorgeous to be true.
" Welcome to the subconscious world," Opened his arms widely, the nameless man said cheerily…yes, he was a guy, a guy who was more beautiful than the most beautiful woman Hikaru had ever seen.
" What?" the bemused green-eyed boy exclaimed in great uncertainty. Subconscious world? " Who are you?"
" Ouch! That hurts!" the mysterious man said jokingly, " You don't remember me?"
" …No, should I?" the clueless boy asked back.
" Though this is the first time we've met but…" the guy chatted casually.
" How can I know the guy whom I've just met for the first time?" Cutting in, Hikaru questioned infuriatingly.
" Because we've been living together for 3 years now," the attractive strange man gave him a clue…a very very big clue.
" Huh?" What the hell he's talking about?
" Yes, 3 years," he confirmed, " Even though we've never had a man's talk face-to-face like this but we talk to each other all the time,"
" You…"
" Don't you recognize my voice?" asked playfully Sai.
! Of course! How could I forget? I know this voice! " Sai!" the young pro exclaimed.
" Yap," Sai, the heart now became a man, spread his arms and bowed in acceptance.
" Sai! You're Sai!" Hikaru shouted at full volume in surprise.
" Yes, it's me," the older man grinned.
" Sai..you look…you look," the surprised boy stammered.
" What?" the stunning attractive man asked optimistically.
" You look like a girl!"the rude blond burst out, " I haven't known you look this cute!"
Other normal guy would take it as the offend but this guy happened to be Fujiwara no Sai, " Thank you," he took it as a compliment.
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" By the way, where are we?" his 15 year-old trainee swiftly changed the topic.
" I've just told you, we're in our subconscious world," Sai informed for the2nd time.
" Our subconscious world?"
" Yes, this world is influenced and designed by us, our thought, our desire," he explained, " Telling you the truth, even I don't expect it to look like this…a Go board in outer space,"
" Isn't cool?" the golden bangs Go pro said in awe, " It shows how much we love Go and how much we want to obtain the Hand of God," he pointed out with a smile.
" Yeah," Looking around, Sai agreed to his young partner.
" Why we're here? Why are you here with me?" Hikaru brought up a new subject again, " How come we've never met in person like this before?" he wondered.
" Because it's the first time you collapse after the operation," the finest internet-Go player replied.
Right…I didn't have a stroke for years now……… Wait! Suddenly, the blond remembered why he had gotten a heart failure in the first place! " Sai! You! Why did you do that?" he abruptly exploded.
" Do what?" Sai asked naively.
" Stop playing fool! You know damn well what I'm talking about!" Sai's unconcerned reaction only made Hikaru's blood boiled up heatedly, " Why did you mess up my game?"
" Excuse-me," the gorgeous man disagreed, " Me? Messed up your game? I helped you to win," he said uncaringly.
" It's not about losing or winning!" the 1-Dan yelled at the top of his voice, " Why did you interfere my game?" he demanded irately.
" You said it yourself that you wanted to beat him this time," Sai said defensively.
" Yes! And I can do it by myself without your help!" Hikaru declared.
" Yeah, Right," the man with red earrings sniggered.
" What's that supposed to mean? You.." Running towards the other guy, the mad boy wanted to grab his collar and punch him leaving a bruise on Sai's fair face but… " What the hack!" Out of no where, there was some kind of rope…rope of darkness came up from the glass floor, captured him, fastened his ankles reaching up to his knees and didn't let him go, " What the hell is this!" Struggling, he tried to shake off the black rope, " Sai! Help me!" he cried for help.
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" See?" Sai walked at a snail's pace towards him, " Without my help, you can do nothing,"
" Sai?"
" You can't beat Touya Akira, you can't be a pro, you can't even play the game," he tenderly touch Hikaru's smooth cheek with the back of his hand, " Without me, you are nothing,"
" Sai?"
" Don't worry, rest in peace, My student," Smiling beautifully, Sai lovingly cupped Hikaru's frightened face, " I'll reach the Hand of God for you,"
Despite his friend's mild touch, his amiable smile and his charming voice, Hikaru felt terrified…very very terrified, Sai's words did chill him to the bone. Too beautiful, too beautiful…This is…this is not human! He looked into Sai's shimmering eyes and uttered in disbelief, " It's you… you make this rope, Let go of me now!"
" Why don't you do it yourself?" Sai challenged.
" Eh?"
" It's our world, not only mine," he stated, " Therefore, you have a power too, just think, picture destroying the rope in your mind," he taught his student a secret tip, " Try it," he urged.
Although Hikaru didn't want to follow Sai's advice, yet, he did anyway…
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" Arrz! I can't!" he shouted irritably, " You're lying!" he accused.
" No, I'm not," the purple-haired man denied the charge.
" If this isn't your world but ours, we're supposed to be equal!" Glaring at the other man crossly, Hikaru stated his theory.
" We're supposed to but we're not," Sai said matter-of-factly.
" ?"
" As you said, we're supposed to be equal but we aren't," he smiled inhumanly cold, " I'm stronger and better, I'm always be,"
" Sai,"
" I'll be the one who achieve the Hand of God," his light-blue eyed blazed with strong determination.
A/N : Sai! What're you doing? Can you guess? Thing will get...juicier.
gravitation gig : Yap, he's quite evil.
Coiling death : "This is bad. Very bad, I mean evil, Sai, very bad" Haha, sounds like you order your dog to sit!
aaron : Thank you :)
kari : I can't say much...you gotta keep reading...Sakura, that's good!
d.ar.s.h. : As I told kari, you gotta keep reading...I like Hotaru :)
kathy : ...You really know me, you know :)
About the question: how can a heart control a body?"
Well, As I used to tell you guys, Sai isn't just A heart. He's not just a piece of an internal Organ, I want you to look deeper, you know, focus on his determination, his soul, his desire. If you considers him as spirit who lives in Hikaru's body, A Ghost in the Heart, you will understand thing clearly. In fact, this is the true meaning of the proloque in the 1st chapter, I just want to tell you that every cell in our body contain our soul so it means that though you donate your heart, your heart's still yours 'coz it has your soul in every part of it, if your soul is strong enough maybe one day you'll be like Sai.