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Chapter 5 : Shopping
In a supermarket,
" Okay, tell me again, what in the world are we doing here?" Hikaru asked in total confusion while Haku was busy finding Sakakura's favorite dark chocolate cake mix.
" Because Sakakura-san's wish is to bake a cake," the boy with blue-sapphire eyes answered tranquilly.
" Boy, what a weird wish," mumbled quietly the chatty boy.
" Hey! I want to bake a birthday cake for Kaito! What's wrong with that! Huh?" Sakakura burst out angrily, however, Hikaru didn't hear it.
Haku who heard every single word spelled out, " She want to give it her friend,"
" Oh, I see," the golden-haired boy nodded slightly before stealing a glance at his new friend, " Well, Can I ask you something?"
" Of course," Putting a package of instant chocolate pudding mix into his basket, Haku replied. His attention was on Sakakura's order, not Hikaru's question.
" Well, If three of them are all ghosts .." Hikaru began with the most confusing subject, " Then how I only see two of them, I mean, if I can see the dead, shouldn't I see all of them?"
" I don't know either," Turning to face the stylish pro, the clever boy theorized, " Maybe it's because Nabeshima-san and Yuzuko-chan aren't just a common ghost, they're GSG members after all. They have the power that ordinary ghosts doesn't have, maybe that's why you're able to see them,"
" But I did see Sai," Hikaru protested, " If I could see him, why can't I see other normal ghosts?"
"… I don't know, I'm sorry," Haku apologized.
" That's ok," Surely, the 1-Dan was disappointed but there was nothing he could do about it. It wasn't Haku's fault that he didn't know the answer, wasn't it? " So, what about GSG?" he changed the topic.
" What about it?"
" Don't you think it's kinda odd that they let ghosts perform a duty which should belong to angels? Or there's no angel? There's heaven but no angel? And what about the business card? I mean, though he's the agent, he's still a ghost, you said it yourself. Yet, he gave me his business card acting like a salary man working for a middle-class company," Hikaru spoke mockingly.
" It is a company," Haku stated firmly as he found the semi-sweet chocolate chip brand that the guy named Kaito liked.
" What?"
" GSG, it's a company, a service company," he informed.
" What?" Does it mean we have to work even if we die? Oh man! This is wrong! Definitely wrong! Hikaru mentally whined wildly.
" I don't know much about the company," the part-time employee continued, " It seems that it's formed only couple hundred years ago. Before that, the system wasn't well-organized, as a result of that, many ghosts were abandoned, they remained in this world, some of them became evil," he narrated.
" E…evil?"
" Yes, the ghost that died for a long time will soon lose his mind and become a bad crazy ghost someday," he lectured, " You're very lucky that Sai doesn't turn evil," he noted solemnly, " If he does, Unit 1 will certainly get rid of him without any doubt,"
" Yeah, I'm very lucky," Sai, the wicked ghost? Ha, I can't imagine that. Hikaru giggled.
" I think the reason no one came to take him because he wasn't on the list," Haku assumed wisely.
" What do you mean?"
" The company and the new effective system were organized 200-300 years ago but Sai had died long before that, right ?" he calculated, " That's why they didn't have his data," he ended his theory.
" You mean, all ghosts from the ancient time are ditched? Just like Sai?" Eyed widened in shock, Hikaru cried crossly, "That..That's not fair!"
" Comparing to the dead, there're so few agent," Haku replied calmly as always, " They have to deal with the recent deceased first,"
" That sucks, man," the blond cursed.
Finally Haku got all the ingredients that Sakakura wanted, " Let's go,"
" Ah..okay," Hikaru hadn't got over the shock yet, all he could do was following the other boy like a puppy.
At the cashier,
" Cool! You've got a credit card!" Hikaru exclaimed when he saw the golden card.
Haku smirked proudly, " It's GSG card,"
" What?" First, business card! Now, a credit card?
" Well, the company should the one who pay for entertaining the clients, right?"
" Right, but that.." This is getting weirder and weirder.
" Let's go to my house," he suggested.
" Oh, okay, let's go," Then they headed to Haku's house, along with the Sakakura, the ghost, of course.
Somewhere in Tokyo, on the way to Haku's place
" Err, Can I ask you something?" Asked Hikaru, he knew he had already asked too much but he wanted to know more about GSG.
Haku smiled warmly as always before he answered, " Of course, why not?"
" You mentioned Unit 1, what is it?"
" They have 6 units," he informed, " Unit 1 is the unit that formed to capture bad spirits,"
" And then what? Capture and…"
" I don't know," Shaking his head, Haku came clean, " As I told you before, I don't know much about the upper world, Nabeshima-san and Yuzuko-chan aren't allow to say much about it,"
" I understand," Well, after all the living shouldn't know much about what's going on up there.
" This is my house,"
Hikaru looked up at the red tall wooden gate before him. It was a gate way to a shrine, Shinto shrine, " This is a shrine,"
" Yes,"
" Your house is a shrine,"
" Yes,"
" Shinto shrine,"
" Yes,"
" Then your dad is…."
" a Shinto priest,"
" That means someday…."
" I will become the head priest of this shrine,"
" You're a priest?"
" Not yet, I'm too young," Haku said as if it was the most common thing in the world but for Hikaru…
" You, a priest?" A priest? He's priest?
" Someday, yes," Haku nodded, " Perhaps, that's why I possess this power since I was little," he climbed up the rock stairs, " Let's go,"
" A..Ah!" Well, it makes sense, it makes a perfect sense. He is a son of a priest and will be the head-priest one day. It's usual for him to see the dead. But me? What about me? I'm just a normal boy, how can I see Sai?
In the kitchen,
" Okay, Let's get started!" Sakakura song, " I want it to be the best cake ever!"
" Now what?" Hikaru questioned.
" First, preheat the oven, 350 degree," the ghost in a blue dress instructed.
" Could you take the ingredients out of the bag? I'll prepare the oven and the utensils," Haku said. It was a good decision since he was the only one who knew where the cooking utensils were.
" Okay,"
While Hikaru was placing the ingredients on the counter, Haku preheated the oven and brought out whatever he thought necessary to bake a cake.
" Combine the ingredients together, First, 18 ounce of cake mix,"
A thought crossed Haku's mind," This is how we're going to do it," Taking a deep breath, he explained the plan, " Because I'm the only one who can hear Sakakura-san, I'll add the following ingredients into the bowl while you, Shindou-kun, mix them together," he proposed, " Shindou-kun, could you do that for me?" he offered Hikaru a whisk.
" O..Okay," Nodding slowly in doubt, the clumsy boy received the whisk. To be honest, Hikaru felt very uneasy about this since he had never cooked before but what choice did he have? He had already agreed to help, he had to keep his promise, there was no turning back.
Haku followed Sakakura's instruction and added the ingredients into the mixing bowl bit by bit. First, it was the cake mix, then, the pudding mix..sour cream..eggs..vegetable oil and coffee flavored liquor.
" Keep beating till it's well-blended" the deceased chef ordered.
" She wants you to keep beating it,"
Since it was his very first time in kitchen, Hikaru awkwardly mixed the flour.
" No! You're gonna spoil it all!" the dead girl with long wavy hair screamed at the top of her voice. By instinct, she hastily reached out her hand to catch Hikaru's but her transparent hand didn't pass through the boy the same way it happened whenever she wanted to touch something, her hand was pulled into the boy's body by an invisible force.
Everything happened so fast, before she knew what was going on, it was over. She was inside Hikaru's body, it seemed that she had possessed the blond…by chance.
A/N: Now, what will happen next? Chapter 2 and 3 got 92 hits but there're only 4 comment! It means that in 23 reader, there's only 1 reader who give me the review! Com'on, guys!
By the way, I'm look for HNG transcription, do you guy know where can I find it?
dragonshadows : "anyone who has read this would know your not copying " Yeah, you're right, Thanks.
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Kitten : Of course, there's a reason why he can't see others ghost? The question is...Do you know it?
