Chapter 10:

It was dark that night. They had no light except for the full moon in their skies. Two pieces of a whole stood in opposite sides of an empty parking lot, staring each other down.

"Yoh, I'm so glad you are here!"

''Are you really, Hao?"

Hao smiled. ''Of course I am."

"I'm not blind, Hao. I saw the way you look at my Queen and I want to tell you now as you well know…she is mine."

''I don't know what you are talking about, Yoh.''

''You want her…but you can't have her…"

''She was mine in the first place, brother. I can just as simply take her back. I was never ever known to share.''

''No…"

''She's mine. I always get what I want…"

''Except the Shaman King title…'' Yoh taunted.

''That was just child's play."

''You don't mean that."

"Oh, I do. Look there, brother." He said pointing to a nearby shop window. "Look closely."

"So what? I see you and me but what does that have to do with anything?"

''Look at how similar we look. With a little haircut, I could become you."

"You're talking in riddles. Get straight to the point."

"Watch your back, Yoh… you'll regret the day you decided to spare my life…Goodbye, little brother'' he whispered to him before disappearing into the mist…

WHAT DID HAO MEAN? WHAT DOES HAO HAVE PLANNED IN THAT TWISTED HEAD OF HIS?

WATCH OUT FOR PART 2, "THE SWITCH"

Author's Note: this was written first before the "the switch" and "stuck in the middle". The PREQUEL!XD