Author's note: I almost had this finished but my computer broke down and lost all my files. Thankfully this chapter I still remember it very well. I'm sorry it took so long to update. This chapter was a dedication to Yoh and Hao's birthday.
Chapter 6: An Unhappy Happy Birthday
Morning at Funbari Onsen. The house was very quiet. There was silence at the breakfast table. Yoh was now frustrated about the loss of his son. Anna was able to accept this now. But the longer Yoh thought about it the more frustrated it got. At first it was fine but he was wondering if he did the right thing. His conscience kept on nudging him. He didn't even get enough sleep last night.
"That's it I can't take it anymore! I can't believe that I entrusted my son to my megalomaniac evil twin brother!" Yoh said as he slammed his rice bowl down and spilling some of the contents of his soup bowl
"Yoh, you have to clean that up and after that finish your food and go train. I want you to run 500 laps today." Anna said calmly
"Anna how can you be so calm! We don't know what will happen to Hana!" Yoh said loudly
"Look Yoh it was you who said it will be all ok. And Besides I believe in him like I always have with you Yoh. Now finish quick or I'll double your training." Anna said as she finished her food and went of into the living room
That statement from Anna made Yoh calm down a bit. So he ate his food and went of to train but he still worried about what would happen. He worried so much that he forgot it was his birthday that day.
Hao's side of the story
"Hana-sama! Ohayo gozaimasu!" said a little voice
Hana turned the other way around.
"Ne Hao-sama! Hana-sama doesn't wanna get up!" called the little voice
"Ok Opacho! I'm coming!" Hao made his way towards the tepee or tent
Hao leaned over to his little nephew
"Ne, Hana, time to get up!" Hao said poking Hana on the head
Hana grumbles a little
"Otou-san let me sleep just a little bit more…."
Hao was shocked that Hana called him otou-san.
"I guess he's not used to it yet…"
Hana wakes up , "Oh yeah…. I forgot… I'm with uncle Hao now…."
Hao heard Hana's thoughts and replied, "Oh it's ok Hana. You'll get used to it. Now I want you to run 200 laps." Hao says with a smile
Hana gave an "are you serious shocked jaw dropped" look.
"Oh I know what if I run with you! And then after we could go buy stuff! Today is an important day! I'll even treat you with ice cream!" Hao said smilling. He knows Hana has the potential to be very very strong!
"Ok!" Hana said getting up and running , " I bet I can beat you!"
"Oh no you won't! I'm the great Asakura Hao!" Hao said smiling running after his nephew
Back in the Funbari Onsen
Anna made sure that Yoh was gone before going out from the living room. She had to call everyone and make the preparations before Yoh comes so off she went. Anna ran (yes she ran and yes Anna can run.)until she came to a very tall white building. It was the Funbari mall.
She hurried and went to the record store. She looked through the stacks of cds until she came across the one she was looking for. She quickly grabbed it and payed. She put the cd in her bag. She ran towards the bakery. She told them what kind of cake she wanted. She wanted cake with little oranges as designs on them that said "Happy Birthday Yoh!" and threatened them that if they weren't done by the time she came back which was 30 minutes from now she would blackmail the business and that she would torture them throughout they're whole lives. So she quickly ran out of the bakery and headed towards the gift wrapping department. After Anna was gone the workers in the bakery dumped all the other orders and went to work on that creepy girl's cake.
Anna came quickly to the gift wrapping department but there was a very long line of people who wanted to wrap their gifts. Anna only had a limited amount of time. She couldn't wait any longer. So she stormed through the line. She told the saleslady that she wanted it to be wrapped simple but it still looks good. She picked an orange gift wrapper with oranges on them. She rushed the saleslady and went straight to the party department.
When she got to the party department she grabbed orange streamers with oranges on it, an orange piñata shaped like an orange, orange flavored assorted candy to put in the piñata, orange party hats with oranges on them, orange tablecloth with oranges on them, orange everything whatsoever. She payed for them and with amazing strength ran towards the bakery with the heavy load of shopping bags. She got the cake and ran towards a payphone. As soon as the creepy girl was gone the bakery closed down and got relocated to the Bermuda triangle where it was never to be seen again.
Anna got the pay phone and called Manta. Manta already knew there was a party. Anna told him to get his limo and pick her up from the mall. Manta was there with his driver in under a minute. (Anna was very threatening.) They got back to Funbari Onsen. Anna requested Manta to pick up Horo Horo and Pirika from Hokaiido and she called Ren to tell him to come or else….. She also called Faust, Ryu, Lyserg, Jeanne and Marco and even Chocolove over. The Lily 5 came without invitation but they stayed there anyway. Even Kalim and Silva were there. Mikihisa, Keiko, Yohmei, and Kino came too.. (Yes those two Kino and Yohmei…. They live… Mikihisa and Keiko's hair have white streaks now.) Everyone help set up the place.
It was going to be the biggest surprise ever!
Back to Hao's side of the story
Hana came to a stop in front of one of the tepees and then he collapsed onto the ground.
"What took you so long?"
Hana looked at the boulder behind him. It was uncle Hao!
"Ok so you won again..." Hana said while breathing hard
"You can't even beat me. That's why you have to train a lot harder… Anyway you did your best shall we go to the mall now?" Hao said jumping down from the boulder and putting on his mantle/cloak/poncho/ BABY BLANKET!
"Yay!" Hana said getting up and dusting himself
"Opacho is coming too Hao-sama Hana-sama!" Opacho said running towards Hao and Hana
"Of course you are!" Hao told Opacho as he summoned the spirit of fire
Hao and Opacho got on the Spirit of Fire
"Uhhh…. Uhhh… Uncle Hao….." Hana said nervously to his uncle
"Hana what's wrong? It's perfectly safe. Now come on." Hao said looking down at his slightly trembling nephew
"Errrrrr… That looks…. Well….. Are you sure that that's…. Well…. Not gonna burn my butt…. I mean … Everything it practically touches burns." Hana said looking up and down on the spirit of fire
"Oh ok….. Look Hana it's perfectly safe…. I control what it burns" Hao told Hana smiling while holding out his hand "Now come on! Let's go. Nothing wrong will happen cause I'll always be here."
Hana sobs a bit
"Hana-sama?" Opacho curiously asks Hana "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine…." Hana wipes the tears from his eyes and looks up at his uncle taking his hand.
SOF flies over the city. No one except shamans notice it but there were hardly any shaman in Tokyo. It landed in the road. Everyone jumps off. No one sees them. They walk into the mall. They head towards the supermarket. They head towards the vegetable department and get some potatoes, carrots and a bunch of other vegetables you use for curry and put them into the cart. Then they went to the meat department and got some freshly cut beef and they also got some curry powder. They also bought some Pepsi Fire! Then they went to pay for the items they bought and headed towards the party department. At this point Hao stopped walking he felt a strong force headed for the party department. It felt like…..
"No I must not let them meet. Hana might get second thoughts….." Hao thought of all the wrong things that would happen. His plans would be ruined.
A strong force of wind passed by that it flung back Hana. Opacho and Hao stood still.
"Are you ok?" Daijobu?"
"Whao! What the heck was that?" Hana looked around confused
"I can't tell him that his mom just ran through the mall like a tornado he might regret coming with me…."
"Uhhh well…. Being the ALL-KNOWING PERSON! I shall explain…." Hao took out a blackboard from nowhere and is now in that graduating suit thingy the one with the PHD hat and it is red cause he was soooo smart and was the valedictorian and he loves red, "AHEM… This was a phenomena caused because the mall was air tight at the moment that when this one person went in it sucked all the air out but luckily we are shamans with……"
Hao was cut off by Hana.
"CHAKRA!" Hana screamed out loud
Hao looked at him raising one eyebrow, "Errr… almost but no my dear nephew that is wrong that is from Naruto… Please stick with the program…. Anyway the correct term is…."
Hao was cut off again but this time by Opacho.
"Furyoku!" Opacho said loudly with a big smile on her face.
Hao now had a giant vein popping from his head. He hated to be interrupted and it was annoying. Hao kept cool and tried to do a fake smile which only Opacho would smile to.
"Errr… Uncle Hao your face is a bit crooked when you try to smile like that." Hana thought nervously smiling.
(kinda like Yoh when he thinks he's made a mistake and Anna's there.)
"Oh well and that concludes my lesson." Hao thought, "And a good thing too cause I can't feel Anna here in the mall anymore."
"Ikuze cause we're kinda in a hurry." Hao walks a bit faster as he walked towards the party department
They got well you can guess what they got….. Party hats, streamers, table cloth, cups, plates, and other things and they all had stars and fireballs on them! He got candy that was really hot in flavour and some real sweet candy that were shaped into little fireballs and stars. He also bought a piñata it was a star with a fireball in the middle!
So they bought everything and went to get a cake.
They found a bakery that was packing up and a store clerk greeted them.
The store clerk said all jittery because he was now all traumatized from the freaky girl that just came in, "Uuuuhhh…. H-hel-llo…… I-i-I'm s-sorry –b-but-we're c-closed?"
Hao raised an eyebrow he could only deduce that a certain freaky itako just came by….
"Oh well please I beg you just one last cake please." Hao begged the sales clerk
The sales clerk thought, "Well at least this kid wasn't as kowaii (scary) as the last GIRL who came here…."
Hao twitched, "He thinks I'm a girl…. Ah well better continue with my charade…"
"Ya, please mister please…." Hana said to the sales clerk
"Yes please give us just one…." Opacho asked the salesclerk
"Oh fine ok……" The store clerk said, "What kind of cake and what decoration?"
"Oh ok I would just like a nice sponge cake and the decoration would be a nice big star in the middle with fireballs all around it and please use royal icing nut first a little layer of white frosting then the royal icing then the decorations made out of royal icing. I think that's all thank you soooo much!" Hao said with a big smile on his face
"Oh ummmm oh errrrr ok…. Please come back after an hour" the store clerk said
"Yata! Yay!" both Hana and Opacho said at the same time
"Now what do we do?" Hana asks his uncle
"Well I promised to treat you for some ice cream if you finished training right?" Hao said smilling
"Yay!" Hana said jumping in the air
They walk towards the ice cream parlour.
"Two scoops of chocolate on a Belgian sweet cone for me with sprinkle please!" Hana said as he jumped up the chair
"Ok. And what will you two miss be having?" The store owner asked Hao and Opacho
"Insolent humans, why do they always mistake me for a girl!" Hao thought in disgust "I'll be having the same……"
"Hao-sama remember you're blood pressure and hyper activity. The doctor says you should lay off the sweet stuff!" Opacho warned Hao
"Augh! Damn it! Ok…. I'll be having 2 scoops of sugarless chocolate on a normal wafer cone." Hao said in an annoyed way
"Ok! Opacho will be having a Fudge Sunday please!" Opacho asked the store owner politely
"Ok! Here you go!" The owner said with a big smile
"Sank you!" Hana said happily then he took a big bite out of his ice cream
They left the ice cream parlour and went for a walk around the mall.
Hana started to take big bites out of his ice cream. This reminded Hao of his little brother.
"Hana don't eat so fast or you'll get a….." Hao warned Hana but…
"GAH! OUCH MY HEAD! ITAI! ITAI! OUCH!" Hana started to run around and jumping because his head hurt
"See I told you so. As I was saying slow down or you'll get a brain freeze…" Hao said as he sighed
After the walk they went to pick up the cake.
"We're here to pick up the cake." Hao told the sales clerk
"Oh yes miss it's you. You're cake is ready and perfect!" The sales clerk informed Hao
"Opacho can you hold my mantle for me first because I'm feeling kinda hot." Hao told Opacho
"Yes Hao-sama Opacho will carry your mantle." Opacho said happily
The store clerk finally noticed that Hao was a guy and was very embarrassed.
"Ahem! Yes as I said SIR your cake is ready." The store clerk said as he brought out the cake to the counter. Hao paid for it and they went off.
And so the bakery still never forgot about the freaky girl and moved that night.
They came back to the campsite and found that all Hao's other team mates from before where there, in other words the Hanagumi and that little lego guy.
Hao greeted them all with a smile and they smiled back at him.
So they fixed up the camp site.
Then came the cake blowing. Cake blowing always has candles so Kanna brought out a whole bunch of party candles and Mari took out a whole box of little party candle holders.
"Ummm… What's up with all the candles?" Hao asked confused
"Oh it's nothing Hao-sama." Macchi told Hao
"Umm… Hao-sama will you please do the honors of lighting the cake because it's soo boring." Mari told Hao
"It would be my pleasure!" Hao said happily
Hundreds of candles lit at the same time. It was just like a campfire.
"1515…..1516….1517…1518….1519…1520?" Hao counted, "What's up with the 1520 candles?"
Everyone started to sing Hana just stood quiet
"Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Happy Birthday! Happy 1520th Birthday to you!"
The last line made Hao snap a little.
(twitch) "1520! ONE-THOUSAND-FIVE-HUNDRED-TWENTY! DO I REALLY LOOK THAT OLD!"
Silence
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's just funny! AHAHAHAHA!" Hao started laughing
The rest followed laughing nervously.
"Ok time to blow out the candles Hao-sama!" Opacho told him happily
And so Hao brought the fire together into a big fire ball.
"SPIRIT OF FIRE! I got a treat for you!"
(vwoosh) (hao's backround music) I'm soo sexy! Se se sexy!
"Hey! Not that one Opacho!" Hao told her
Dundundun dundun dun dundundun dundun dun…….
"Ah ok!" Hao
Spirit of Fire ate the fire ball.
Hao smiled contently "I never try to skip meals."
The night went on with stargazing.
Back to Yoh's side of the story
Yoh went past the park and was greeted by Manta. Yoh still hasn't come to his senses that it was his birthday. The plan was working according to what Anna said and what Tamao predicted.
This was going to be an interesting party! Yoh was almost home and he doesn't even know what was going to happen or does he…. He can't mess with fate that's what the Great Spirits Fate! What will Happen will happen!
Yoh came to the front door and opened it. He was met with all of his friends by a sudden burst of surprise. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOH!"
"Oh ok I forgot that it was today. Look I know I'm suppose to be optimistic and all but it's just not the same without my Hana!" Yoh said in a very depressed way, "I sensed you guys from miles away."
"I guess it wasn't such a good idea to try and pull off a surprise party for our buddy the shaman king now was it?" Horo said smiling
"Ya! I guess he can't even take it!" Ren said
"Look I know about Hana we can try and help you…" Lyserg said
"Yoh look I have an orange!" Anna said with a slight smile of her face but there was a hint of pain too.
Yoh just looked away.
"Aaa…." Chocolove was about to push through a joke but Ren took out his Kwan Dao and then…
POKE!
"GAH MY NOSE OUCH OUCH!" Chocolove screamed in pain, "I didn't even do anything!"
"Well you were about to you baka!" Ren protested
While these two were fighting Jeanne went nearer to Yoh.
"I'm so sorry. What has that wretched Hao done now. You would think he would do something else. Kidnapping his own nephew how low. I swear that if I get my hands on him I'll soo totally…. Grrrrr…."
"Jeanne no it's ok we knew it would happen. Maybe it's for the best we can't really tell what the great spirits are up to." Yoh said still depressed
Sharona went in front
"We have a special dance number to present to you!" Sharona announced
The song started. "We all live in a yellow submarine! A yellow submarine!"
The Lily 5 started to do one of the stupidest dances ever!
Everyone started laughing even Anna was amused by their stupidity.
Next Yoh's parents and grandparents went to talk and try to cheer him up while all the others went to the other room to play kiss the bottle but that's another story!
"Look Yoh we were kinda put in the same position as you before when you were born." Mikihisa told his son
"Yes Yoh. We had no way to tell you apart from your brother and you. We had no choice." Yohmei told him.
"It was very painful to do so" Keiko said
"But then the worst case scenario happened." Kino said with regret
"It's just like your choice that you let Hana go with Hao. One word Yoh inevitable." Keiko told him
"Just go with the great spirits will. It will eventually turn out." Mikihisa told him
Yoh stands up and calls for everyone.
"Everyone I'm so sorry that I've lost it. I almost forgot my aim in life! Well Things just come out. I can't really lay back all the time since I have my responsibilities, including taking care of my son. I almost forgot my motto in life everything will be alright. I'm so sorry. Anyway I guess we should start eating now. I'm starving!" Yoh said with a slight smile
So they ate there were some food fights started by Horo and Ren and Pirika and Tamao got mad at them for making such a mess. Anna eventually slapped their lights out. There were some memories discussed. Some scores to settle and then fights. But it all ended with big red marks on faces.
Now it was time for the cake blowing. Anna got out the cake and the candles. 20 candles!
"Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday Yoh!"
"This despite the many friends who came was an unhappy birthday. As for Hao nothing will stop him from his dream!" A mysterious lone figure stands looking down at the onsen from on top of one of the windows.
FINALLY I'M DONE! Thank you for all who reviewed! I'm happy you like it! Anyway hard work yes! From now on I'm sticking to one shots but I'll still update my stories of course! Anyway that was great! I feel relieved It will take longer for me to update from now on since I have school and lots and lots of things to do anyway enjoy! Yoh and Anna care so much they just don't show it so much like how Anna doesn't show how much she cares about Yoh. One of my longest chapters :p