Thanx to dragonmage27-san for reviewing. No, Meene is not Oc, but Fiona is! (No, she's not based on me…only Rena…)

Hunters and the Hunted

By: Rena Kuroyama

Anime: Shaman King, Spiral Suiri no Kizuna

Summary: The Blade Children find a new member in Patch Village. Who is this Blade Child? Mild Language, violence, romance, stuff like that. Kousuke x Ryoko, Rio x Lyserg, Eyes x Kanna, Meene x Marco

Warning: Some spoilers for both shows, I guess. Rio is 13 (I know she's really 17, but it's very important that she's young.) and the rest is the same age.

Disclaimer: Rena-chan does not own Spiral or Shaman King. She wished to, though. Right now, she's just borrowing them for some fun.

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Chapter 2: The Dream and the Dream Giver

"Hello?" Lyserg called out. He was in a dark passageway, lined with small windows leading into a room fit for a small room filled with some clear liquid, "Is anyone here?" He wandered off to a random direction.

"Are you ready, ma'am?" A voice of a man echoed throughout the hall. Lyserg headed towards where he thought that the noise came from. He turned a corner and came across a boy, about 5 years of age, walking around.

"Hi, are you lost?" He asked. Lyserg smiled, then nodded, "Why are you in here?" The little boy asked.

"Actually, I don't know." Lyserg said, looking around once again. The little kid leaned his head to an angle.

"You know, you look familiar." He said, then walked (or you can say trotted) away from the confused teen. Lyserg came to his senses after a while.

"Wait!" He cried, chasing after the kid. He turned around, grinning, "What's your name?" Lyserg asked as soon as he caught up with the quicker kid.

"My name is Eyes." Little Eyes said. Lyserg smiled.

"I'm Lyserg. Nice to see you, Eyes." Lyserg held his hands out. Eyes took it, then stared at Lyserg with a confused gaze.

"You know, there's a kid in here that's named Lyserg and looks just like you. Wanna come see?" Little Eyes pulled Lyserg before he can answer.

"No," Lyserg gasped as he stared at the woman in the room he was lead to. It can't be her, it just can't…

"See, doesn't that look like you?" Little Eyes continued, not noticing the pain in his new friend's eyes. Lyserg saw his mother, wearing some sort of a lab coat. Next to her, carried by another man that Lyserg had no idea, was a small boy, about 2. His mother turned to the two children at the doorway and smiled.

"Mother?" Lyserg blurted out. His mother grinned, a grin too familiar that Lyserg couldn't take a liking to. The room disappeared. He was back in his father's study, where a kid smiled at him. Fire danced around, the two corpses of his parents clearly visible in the corner.

"You're so small…" The kid said. Lyserg knew that phrase too well and prepared his pendulum.

"Hao." He muttered, glaring at the Shaman. The boy grinned wider, then proceeded to jump out of the window. Lyserg, out of instinct, grabbed one of the locks of hair that flew wildly. The hair slipped off, revealing the boy with the same, but way shorter, hair. He glared at Lyserg, who backed up in fear.

"Y…Yoh?" He asked. Yoh only smiled, throwing a box of matches in the air, "What are you…" Lyserg started, but was cut off by Yoh.

"You're the first, to know what I do." Yoh grinned like Hao, "Everyone believes that Hao is the evil one, because I do my job." He took a match out of its box and stared at it, no longer grinning.

"So…you killed my parents and not Hao?" Lyserg asked, still confused that what he believed in his whole life was now being twisted around.

"Exactly, the fools never even guessed. They just jumped to the topic: Fire." He lit the match, showing the bright light emitting from its flame.

"No." Lyserg said, fully aware of what his so-called friend was going to do. He backed up into the wall, staring at the small flame.

"You can't run away from the flames, Lyserg" Yoh said. He threw the match into the air, then kicked it. The flame grew bigger, coming towards the fear-struck boy.

"Stop it!" Lyserg shouted, waking poor Meene, who fell asleep next to him.

"Lyserg, what's wrong?" Meene asked while rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. She saw Lyserg pale, panting, "I…is something wrong?" She said, worried.

"I…I, no…it was just a dream. I'm fine, Meene-san." Lyserg smiled at her. Meene sighed, then called Jeanne and Marco in. What they didn't know is that there's a strange girl sitting on a tree branch, smiling. She put away a small castanet that she was holding.

"My job here is complete, Hao-sama." She spoke softly and left.

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"Good Afternoon!" Hao, followed by Nichrom, called cheerfully into the camp site of the Blade Children. Kousuke jumped out of his tent with his trusty little knife, Rio actually threw a bomb at the Shaman, and Eyes yawned.

"Hao-san, please do not scare us like that…" Rio sighed as Hao dodged the bomb thrown at him. Kousuke sighed and put his knife away.

"What're you doing here?" He asked, trying without success to sound awake. He couldn't help but yawn every second or so, "We were sleeping, you know?" He sent a death glare, but that was cut off by another yawn. Hao shrugged.

"Don't you know what time it is?" He said, putting his hands on his hips and pouting, "It's 1:30 exactly, and I said I'll be here in the afternoon, remember?" Eyes nodded, then struggled to get his hair, which looked like a bird nest, straightened out. Rio tied her hair up. Kousuke messed his hair up even more.

"Hao-sama, I have completed my task!" A girl with curly pink hair jumped out of the blues. Hao smiled.

"Good job, Fiona. Did he take it seriously?" Hao asked, perking up. The Blade Children were confused.

"Uhhh…" Kousuke managed to squeak out, "I'm a bit lost here…"

Hao chuckled at this, "Nichrom-kun, can you help them?" He asked. Nichrom nodded.

"Fiona-san is a new member of our team and she is able to control the dreams. Before we take action on taking Lyserg, we needed him to be able to cooperate with Hao-sama." Nichrom explained quickly. Kousuke scratched his head.

"So you were giving this guy a nightmare, but why do you need him to cooperate? It's not like he wants to kill all of you guys, is it?" He yawned again. Rio fell asleep while standing.

"You're close, but he wants to kill just me, not everyone else." Hao shrugged. Eyes managed to pull his hair together and joined the conversation. Fiona raised her hand, "Yes, Fiona-chan?" Hao asked.

"I gave him the dream like you requested, Hao-sama, but I'm not positive about if he took it seriously or not. It may take longer that we thought." She said, proud of her work. Hao nodded, no longer grinning.

"I should've known he wouldn't take a dream seriously. Well, maybe we can approach differently. Maybe we could use some help." He said, smiling at the Blade Children, "…and you might want to help the girl, she could fall on her face."

"Eh?" Kousuke turned around to face Rio, who was still sleeping, "God damn it, how come she gets to sleep in?" Kousuke complained as he pulled on one of the pigtails, causing Rio to smack him.

"Kousuke no Baka, why did you pull on my hair?" She shouted, definitely not happy about her rude awakening.

"So, what was the content of the dream you gave him?" Eyes spoke up suddenly, scaring everyone there, "What, I was thinking!"

"I'm glad you asked." Hao smiled his little evil grin. The Blade Children have a little tear-drop moment here, "The dream consisted of his past that he doesn't know of, followed by his parent's murder scene with a little twist." He grinned, recalling the day he killed the fools that didn't cooperate with him.

"Let me guess, his past is in a laboratory, and the twist in the murder scene is that you replaced yourself with your twin in disguise?" Kousuke yawned. Fiona and Hao froze.

"How'd you know that?" They asked. Kousuke blinked ( No, so cute!).

"I just guessed…" He rubbed his head, with a big sweat-drop thing.

"Well, you guessed it right, and Eyes-san is in it as a…tour guide." Hao giggled.

"Tour guide?" Kousuke and Rio looked up. Eyes had a BIG vein mark on his head, "Rutherford, a tour guide?" Kousuke struggled to keep his laughter in.

"Asazuki, do you not remember that I hold your deepest, most embarrassing secret on blackmail?" Eyes said, fighting all of the urges to kill the Blade Child. Kousuke stopped struggling, turning white.

"W…what?" He stuttered. Eyes grinned.

"Oh yes, and if I wanted to, I can reveal it in front of everyone…" Eyes whispered. Kousuke turned blue from turning too pale, and fainted.