Chapter four: What's hidden in the shadows.

I sighed loudly. Covering my face with my hands. What was I thinking last night? I never felt such emotions course threw my veins. It was like I had taken a drug and it was controlling my body and my mind. I touched the side of my face that had been punched, the swelling had gone down, but the pain was a cruel reminder of my actions. Why did I try and take things further last night? I already knew she was uncomfortable with the situation. Not being able to come up with an answer I rolled over and closed my eyes.

"And those strange dreams I've been having," I said out loud to myself.

They aren't dreams. A voice spoke.

I sprang from my bed and looked around my room. It was dully lit by the early morning sun, shadows hiding parts of my room. Shadows that could conceal a person.

"Who's there?" I whispered. No one replied. I stood grounded to the spot, my eyes the only part of me moving. I was breathing loudly trying to fight off the uneasy feeling growing inside of me. Slowly I reached down for my katana, I unsheathed it and held it tightly in my hands.

I walked towards the door thinking that an intruder perhaps had broken in. I had my katana in a white knuckled grasp that caused my hand to hurt. The hairs on my neck pricked, as I looked around my room, my katana in front of me ready to strike. Suddenly the door slid open.

I swung with all my force, but stopped just in time when I saw a pair of dark eyes looking back at me.

Anna stood there her face full of fear. The cold steel of the blade half and inch away from her neck. Slowly her eyes slid away from the blade and met with mine. She looked at me with scared eyes.

All I could do was look back at her, again she had that look of fear, and it made me feel ill. I threw the katana away as if it was filth.

"Oh god Anna I'm sorry, I thought you were a burglar" I hugged her tightly. I could feel tears forming in my eyes as the situation sunk it. I had almost killed her.

I pulled away, still being met with eyes that looked upon me as a stranger. I prayed with all my might that she would say something, anything. Please Anna say something. I repeated in my head over and over again.

She swallowed hard trying to recover. "I just came to tell you that breakfast is ready." Her voice was laced with a mixture of disbelief and shock.

"Are you alright?" I asked.

She just nodded then walked away almost in a dazed state. Her feat moving unconsciously downstairs.

I leaned against the wall, I had to get away and clear my head. And the only thing I could think of was to run. Run away from everything that had happened.

As I was about to leave I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Yoh, are you planning to go out in this rain?" Amidamaru asked. My spirit had started speaking to me again. But the conversations were brisk and strained. He was still a little put out about me yelling at him, and me putting in no effort of apologizing didn't really help the situation.

I looked outside and watched as rain poured from the sky. "Yes I need to get away for a little while."

"Do you want me to come with you?"

I thought about it for a second but thought it better for him to stay. "No I need you to watched over Anna for me."

He looked at me with questioning eyes but knew better then to ask what had happened. "Alright, when will you be back?"

I sighed loudly, "I wish I knew."

My shoes pounded against the wet pavement and I ran down the sidewalk. The rain was falling so hard I could hardly see what was ahead of me. I was forced to squint against the rain as the water ran down my face and into my eyes. My cloths were now drenched and clung to my body. Hours passed but I kept on running without stopping, I didn't know where I was going; the only thing I did know, was that I needed to get away. Away from that voice, and from those eyes who now looked at me with fear.

The streets were deserted, only a few people ran to cars with umbrellas and newspapers to shield them from the weather. Many gave me odd looks as I ran by, as if they to knew something was different about me. I shrugged the thought off quickly thinking I might also be going paranoid.

I managed to make my way to a park, it was run down and the weeds outnumbered the flowers. Trashcans overflowed and the fountains were full of muddy water. I had no clue where on earth I was. But by now I didn't care, my body was tired and screamed at me to stop and rest, but I wanted to run myself to near death so I wouldn't have to face the pain of what I had done.

I had no feeling in my legs and my vision was going blurry, my body was giving out on me, forcing me to stop. I could sense an awful feeling in my abdomen as my stomach started to twist. Nausea flooded over my body. I skidded to a hault and gagged into a bush near a park bench. I spit onto the ground, my head lowered fending of the feeling of vomiting. Slowly it went away, but I still felt weak. I started to walk but my legs trembled and threatened to give out on me so I sat on the bench. My body ached all over from running so far. Plus I hadn't had anything to eat or drink since yesterday. Slowly I set my head down on the hard wood of the park bench and blacked out.

You know running yourself to exhaustion wont help the situation.

"I don't care." I replied not even bothering to search the dark for the source of the voice.

You really do amuse me you know that. What you did this morning was very interesting. Almost taking the head off Anna.

"You leave Anna out of this." A realization hit me, "You were that voice I heard in my room. It was because of you that I almost hurt her."

I wasn't the one holding the katana.

"Who are you!" I yelled out, I was getting fed up with this.

Why I'm you.

"Your me? That doesn't make sense."

Oh it makes perfect sense.

I saw part of the shadows move and materialize into a human form. I could hear the figure walking towards me. There pace was slow, in no great rush to reveal themselves. The form became clearer as they came closer to me. My heart stopped when I saw who it was.

"Hello dear brother, long time no see," Hao laughed.

sorry from the crap chapter and the long wait, I havn't had my computer from a few months now.