Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King. I do not own its context and characters. Format based on FLIPPED.

IMPORTANT: I OWN the series of poetry you will see throughout the story. I wrote them, and I own them. No stealing, please.

Maybe contain OOCness-ness.

If not yet noticed … whatever name you see on its own paragraph with the "…" means the beginning of a new POV … the POV of the person named.

Pirika …

The beautiful melodies of the wind chimes signal my arrival. I could walk around with my eyes closed, and still know that I'm home. The last statement would seem funny to Horo Horo. He would comment on that right away. "Of course you would be able to! That's the whole point, duh."

But today, those wind chimes … they are irritating me. I want them to shut up … though that is probably not a very nice thing to say.

The whole way home from the hospital, what happened keeps replaying in my head. The visit, when I met this beautiful and gentle lady. The doctor explaining about her illness to me. The boy who yelled at me. But, in the end, it is what the doctors have told me that sticks inside me and haunts me. "… and it is slowly taking her away." The doctors finished explaining. "Will she die?" was my obvious question. The answer? He said it so simply, as if this had no regard. "She will die."

She will die! She will DIE! She will loose herself from this world, as we all pray that she goes to a place we do not even know exists! She will go away unknowing of who's around her because of her memory. She will not know that her family loves her … no. She will go unwillingly, as the life sucks itself dry in her flesh. She will die …

I feel teardrops upon me hands and cheeks. I feel around for a tissue, which I find. I blow my nose, when I hear a knock.

Horo …

I am worried. Very worried. About Pirika that is. I left her alone for a while. I figured, "Hey, she'll come down to talk to me about whatever is bothering her." But that did not happen. She has not come down for more than 2 hours. What is going on? I get up, and I walk towards her room. I give the door a knock, and wait.

Pirika …

I walk over to the door and open it. "Yeah?" I whisper out.

"Pirika, do you want to, I don't know, talk or somethi- … Oh My God! Why are you crying?" she interrupts himself.

"Silly Horo. I am not crying. But, anyways, what did you want to talk about?" Me and Horo walk over to my bed and sit.

En …

It is past midnight. Where is that stupid kid? I let him go out in society to visit his mother, and this is how he repays me. I don't know why he wanted to visit his mother anyways. She's nothing but a piece of shit eating up my money now. Hell, she doesn't even know who we are anymore. What's the point? Honestly, I can't wait for her to die. She has given me enough trouble as it is … or as far as it goes with her child, Ren, anyways.

The day we found out that his mother was blind … what were we to think? Personally, I was sad at the time. Devastated, actually. Imagine a world where you can't see anything. We lived with it and cooped with it for over a year, and we were all doing fine, and we had all adjusted to our new lifestyle. Nothing wrong. Just an eye sight gone overly bad. We could live. As 3 years approached, things began to change. She had shifts in her moods. Became wild, untamed, and angry easily. At first, we were pretty good at claming her down, but as the days went by, we couldn't. We had no patience; we couldn't handle her aggressive behavior. We called a doctor. We were given pills, which helped us out a bit … for a while.

This is when her memory went. One day we woke up to a yelling. "WHERE AM I?" Followed by other unreasonable comments. We were all confused, as we explained her questions. She refused, and denied every single one of them. What was wrong with her?

This was followed by another trip to the doctor. He filled us in. She would be ill. She would loose her memory, a terrible disease, the doctor explained. Then, he said the words we did not want to hear. "Not to mention, out of the rare 10 we have had with this case, none of them had survived …"

This is the end of another chapter. If you had been reading close enough … you might have figured out my hints … that turn into a spoiler. Please don't include your ideas in your reviews, especially if you think your idea is RIGHT, for it would ruin it for the other readers. Thank You.