Carly-chan: Hello my darling readers… it's most likely been a while since my last post and I've missed you. I'm currently seeing if I can take on the challenge of writing the chapters for this story in one week. If I can do that then you will most likely get an update every month. You see I get a week off between the day of my deadline for my vampire story and when they want me to start working on the next chapter again so I figured I would just give this plan a try since I find it very enjoyable to write these. Please enjoy this next chapter…that of which I have practically no clue what will happen in yet…lol.

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SGCred- Yes! I finally posted it! …I get so happy when I post this story… you know how long I've been waiting to do this story…I just love it! …. Yeah…I love writing weird intros like that…I did that with my vampire story too…but it's a little weird because instead of the intro building up to the middle or end like it should it builds up to the part after the end of the actual story where I really should have ended it but…won't. Lol hmm…. Later on I plan to make this story quite more fun but…as you probably can guess I'm much better at writing serious stories. I'll try to make some fun stuff happen… I mean…there's got to be some kind of fun situations I can put a sweet innocent naïve girl like Lea into that will be fun for the reader…and me…lol

devilicious-jo- lol yeah…she'll probably need all the luck she can get for a while… hmm…I just hope that Ren is still in character when I …hmm…lets see…how to word it…uh. …well… give him more of a part to play... more stuff to do and more lines. Um… yeah Ren does pretty much think that Lea is a guy like Lea thinks that he's a girl… but he really isn't paying the whole matter much attention yet.

Disclaimer: ….I still don't own Shaman King… I wish I did like most everyone else here probably does… yet, I don't.

Chapter 2: The Time of Departure

Lea POV

Last night I intended on speaking to my parents about what happened. However, I walked silently to their room and carefully creaked open the door but when I saw their sleeping faces, so pleasant like angels, I couldn't wake them up. So, now I sit here at this table, slowly eating my breakfast with them there across from me. Every few minutes I glance quickly up at them, trying to work out in my mind how to tell them and when the precise time would be. Slowly, yet surely I grow doubtful, at this rate it will never be told, I should tell them this instant, just get it out there in the open. "Mother, Father… I had a visitor last night." I say plainly yet sweetly.

My father stirs from his reading of the morning paper, folds it up hastily and sets it upon the table as my mother sets down the knife and the piece of toast she was buttering. It's as if they expect something horrible to be told to them, who knows, maybe they do.

"What did he say dear?" My mother asks me, I can't really see it but I sense nervousness in her voice.

"He told me that I might not be me…" I say slowly.

"What did he mean by that Lea?" My father asks, he seems to carry suspicion.

"He said that I was a Tao and that I had to leave, to go and find out more, and that someone needed my help. I want to go…" I left out the part about my twin sister; I thought that would get them worked up even more. Hearing the word Tao spill from my mouth seemed to have rattled them, even more as it was accompanied by the words 'I am'.

My mother and father look at each other, they seem to converse with their eyes but they haven't come up with a definite answer just yet. "Your mother and I will…" My father glances to my mother and is greeted by a gentle but stern look. "We will arrange for it, you know that we'd give you anything if it was what you truly wanted and would make you happy."

I'm simply overjoyed; I stand up and run the small distance to them, giving each a hug. "Oh thank you guys so much! Thank you! Would it be too much to ask for you to arrange for me to leave three days from today?"

"Not at all dear, we will work it out." Says my mother and I almost jump up and down with all of the joy I'm keeping inside of me. It really is a shame that I don't have someone to run off and tell right away, but I don't mind it, I've always been happy with the way things are. I kiss my parents and run up to my room to pack my things.

As I sit now in my room looking over all of my things I sing a ballad that I had read in a book " In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
"Whose heart-strings are a lute";
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel,
And the giddy stars (so legends tell),
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute." As I finish the first stanza I place a picture of my mother and father into my bag along with some nice dresses and some fairly casual clothes too. Soon, I grow tired and retire to my bed "I will finish packing in the morning, then it will be the first day before I depart." I mumble to myself as I change into my silken nightgown and sit down on my bed. A thought jolts through me and I hop up from my bed, there is someone I can run to tell after all, at least I can try to tell him. I run to my window and throw it open, lowering myself to my knees to be level with it, "You whose words floated to me on the wind, who started all of this and may secretly await my answer, I'm going! I'm going to see my sister in Tokyo!" I yell out towards the sunset and the trees. I can't sleep yet… so I sit here and watch as the beautiful colors melt below the horizon. Now I retire back to my bed, but I know that I won't sleep well tonight… but it's all right.

I woke up early on the first morning, and even earlier on the second. It seemed as if there was nothing left to do that could hold my attention for enough time after I finished my packing, I was anxious, I wanted to meet my sister so badly. I spent much of those days daydreaming about different scenarios of our meeting and trying to visualize what she looked like, that man said that she had hair like the fin of a shark. I wonder how that looks like… I can't stop thinking about her, she can teach me all about me… the real me, as I learn about her.

Slowly those two days pas and then finally it's the morning of the third day, I wake up oh so early and put on a nice white dress and some makeup and eat my breakfast. I disliked it but we take the family car to the airport, the car that we use only in times when we need it because I strongly dislike cars because they pollute the beautiful air, but this is a special occasion and we had to travel far… so we had to take the car. Through the whole ride I sit silently staring out my window watching the country landscape change into towns and eventually a big city, I amuse myself in that way and it seems like no time, yet forever and then we are there. I say goodbye to my mother and father and my mother started to cry and tell me how much she will miss me. I tell her not to worry but deep down I am wondering why they don't expect to see me again, that's the way it seems to me at least. So now I board the plane, this is the first time I've ever been on a plane, the first time I can remember at least, but I'm not scared, I'm going to see my beautiful darling sister after all. The land below looks so distant and tiny from up here in the sky, being up here among the clouds makes me feel quite at peace and I can relax as the plane flies smoothly through the sky to where the person I seek is… this plane will take me to my sister and I can learn the truth… finally the truth will be known to me.

Carly-chan: Hey you guys! Remember that one week thingy I was trying to do? ...Well today is the last day of the week and I just finished my chapter… I apologize for it being so short and not having Ren in it (he should be in…at least the beginning of the next chapter if not more) … I'll try so much harder next time guys I promise! Well now…I've noticed that none of the fan fictions I read have updated in a while… but I'm and fan fiction author now myself so I can update and then maybe the rest will just fall into place after my update…I hope…I get so lonely without my fan fictions to read…. Um…that poem I used was Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe …it's a personal favorite of mine… so I thought I'd share a bit with you guys. If you want me to try and work the whole thing into the next chapter so you can read it or I could email it to you please just tell me. Also umm…this may be too early but what pairings do you guys thing I should put in here? And as always please tell me about OOC-ness! …Ummmm…I think that is all I wanted to say…thank you for reading this chapter…I love you all so much.