Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King so please don't sue me. I will not be responsible for any sudden bursts of tears that this fic may cause or the up and down feelings that you may experience from reading this. I've based this off the anime series with hints of the earlier manga and drama cds. This fic came out before it was revealed that Yoh and Anna had a son named Hana. So there, mine came first. :P This fic was meant to be a sequel to "Gone." Instead I just continued the fic.
Summary: Yoh is dead and has left his wife and son behind to deal with something out of the ordinary. Asakura Hao isn't really dead, but has only appeared to young Hao to confront him about the powers that an Asakura wields and leaves the young man confused.
Chapter 5 – Return of….
The clouds in the sky continued to play games as the skies darkened and faint moments of light cascaded in through the windows as the clouds continued its ominous dance across the sky. Hao glanced at his mother, but she had once again withdrawn into herself. His hand closed in a fist. The anger was returning in full. He didn't understand why his father had to leave them like that and for things to turn out as they had.
Hao, his uncle, the brother of Yoh, his father, was still alive. After all this time, it was something that none of them would have ever dreamed possible, but it was true. Hao wanted so desperately to tell his father that it was okay, but there were so many other things that he had on his mind right now that he would have loved the opportunity to tell his father. Especially tell him off for leaving his mother, Anna behind to suffer due to the mere fact that he was no longer in this world anymore.
The ground began to shake, splitting the Earth into two. A large almost human like closed hand came out from the ground, but it was too big to belong to any mere human. The hand was closed in a fist and as commanded on queue, the fingers slowly lifted, one by one, to reveal a spirit that resided in the palm of its hand, Anna's eye instantly widened in shock at what she was seeing.
"It couldn't be.." Anna breathed the words, but left the sentence unsaid as young Hao glanced at his mother and than toward the spirits that had appeared before them.
"Who is it?" The hand begun to shift, lowering the spirit onto the ground. The hand began to withdraw into the ground again and disappear within the Earth's confinements. A gruff voice could be heard, almost a whisper in the breeze.
"Save… mama..." Its voice carried on the breeze. The ground closed up and the hand disappeared, but the nekomata continued to stand there looking at the two of them.
"I've come to help." Though his lips didn't move, they could hear what he was saying. He was speaking to them inside of their heads. "I've been sent by Yoh-san."
"Matamune." The word escaped so easily from Anna's lips and Hao understood.
A/N: I had written this as a sequel and have been playing with the idea for some time now at the insistence of many others that have read "Gone". I decided to just continue the fic and see just how it progresses. This is for all of the readers that have waited all this time for this fic to continue. Well, that time has come. Mwahahaha! So be prepared… because you just might be shocked on what happens in the future.