Hello it's me again! Yet another late update huh? Heh. You guys can yell at me all you want, I guess I deserve it. But if any of you guys are still reading this story, I'd really appreciate your review and enjoy chapter 5!

Disclaimer: Oh, all the things that I could do if I owned Shaman King. But I don't so I guess I can't do anything XD

Yoshi's eyes widened as he approached the giant orphanage that laid only a few feet away from him.

"Whoa this is the orphanage?" Yoshi asked as he walked beside Horo Horo and Ren, his new friends.

Horo Horo nodded. "Yupp"

"Wow. It's huge!" He gasped.

"Heh. It may look huge on the outside, but it's completely packed when you get inside." He explained. "Really?" Yoshi asked.

"Yupp. But I'm sure that there's an extra bed in there for you." Horo Horo nudged him. Yoshi smiled.

Madam Kaori was the first to arrive at the back door and she slowly opened it for all of the young children to proceed inside.

"Now, now children don't rush in. Once we get in, we'll properly introduce young Yoshi to our orphanage and prepare a bed for him to stay and rest." She exclaimed as Yoshi slowly walked passed her.

Yoshi couldn't help but smile. Once all of the children were inside, Madam Kaori closed the door and lead all of the hungry and tired children over to the kitchen in time for lunch.

The children were lead to a large, but dim room where they were to have dinner. Yoshi stared at the wooden walls that framed the room and saw 8 long yet small tables that awaited the young children.

"All right children, you may all find a seat and lunch will be served to you in a few minutes." Madam Kaori said as she left to get the children's meals.

Yoshi stood still in the large room as he saw the other children including Ren and Horo Horo dash for seats preparing themselves to eat. Yoshi couldn't help but sweat drop when he saw how fast the kids had found a seat and started talking amongst themselves.

"Hey Yoshi! Over here!" A voice called.

Yoshi turned and saw Horo Horo and Ren sitting at a table at the far right hand corner of the room. Horo Horo was waving his hand for Yoshi to come and sit with them. Yoshi slowly walked passed the other tables and made him self comfortable as he sat himself between Ren and Horo Horo.

"Hey guys." He smiled. "So what are we gonna eat?" Yoshi asked.

"I don't know. We usually have a different meal everyday. But I'm pretty sure that today we're having pea soup and bread." Horo Horo responded with glee.

"Pea soup?" Yoshi asked.

"Yupp." Horo Horo said as he licked his lips.

Although Yoshi was sure that he hadn't tasted Pea Soup before, he was pretty sure that he wasn't really going to like it. He held his stomach as it growled loudly from hunger and decided that he'd only try the bread. Hopefully that'd be enough to fill him up.

"Whoa was that your stomach that growled?" Horo Horo asked as he stared down at Yoshi's stomach.

"Heh heh yeah. I guess I'm a little hungry." Yoshi joked.

"Well you'd think you'd be after we found you almost dead in the river over there." Horo Horo said.

Ren who was drinking a small glass of milk (A/N: That he pulled out of nowhere), placed it down on the table and stared seriously at the wall.

"What I'm still wondering is how you ended up in that river in the first place, Yoshi?" He said as he turned to Yoshi. "Are you sure that you don't remember anything?" He asked.

Yoshi shook his head. "Nope not a thing. At least I don't think so." He thought. Yoshi then remembered the thought that he had earlier of the beautiful blonde haired girl that shook his hand and called him by his name.

She was one of the prettiest girls that he had ever seen, but who was she? Was she just some girl that he made up in his mind? Or was she real and the only memory that he had remembered? Either way, there was probably no way of him remembering now since he was in a whole new place and had to start his life over.

Just then, Madam Kaori walked into the room with a huge tray in both arms with small bowls of warm pea soup resting upon it. All the kids stood up from their seats as they waited to be served.

"Jack pot!" Horo Horo shouted as he jumped from his seat. "Pea soup! Just like I thought." Horo Horo grinned.

Madam Kaori came around to each table and served each child a warm plate of pea soup and some bread. When she came around to Yoshi though, she put the tray with food down on the table and stared at him.

"My goodness. I forgot to give you some warm clothes to put on!" She remembered. "You must be freezing in those drenched clothes." She said. She then grabbed Yoshi by the arm and took him with her to find him some warmer clothes.

"Uh no I'm fine really! You don't have to..." Yoshi tried to explain

Horo Horo and Ren waved Yoshi good bye as they saw him dragged around the corner and disappear.

"Heh. He's a pretty cool guy don't ya think?" Horo Horo asked Ren.

"Yes he is. But it's really strange that he'd be floating down a river like that and have lost all his memories." Ren continued to think.

"Yeah that is. He could have come from anywhere and he could be anyone! I wonder who he really is?" Horo Horo started to think. "OH OH! I got it! Maybe he's a run away prisoner that tricked the police by jumping off a water fall and faked his own death!" Horo Horo imagined.

"Surely you jest?" Ren said sarcastically. "How's an 8 year old going to be a run away prisoner that faked his own death? Pst, that's just stupid." He replied and started to eat his pea soup.

"Hmm yeah I guess that is a little weird." Horo Horo sighed. "Hmm or maybe he's a run away. Yeah...a run away. He was always cast out from his family and so he ran away to start a whole new life!" Horo Horo said with joy.

"What? If he ran away from home, then how did he end up in a river?" Ren asked.

"Uh..uhh...well maybe he tripped and fell at night and ended up in the river." Horo Horo quickly explained.

"Oh sure. That's believable." Ren said as he rolled his eyes and continued to eat.

"Oh yeah? Well then you tell me who you think he is Mr. Know it all!" Horo Horo said.

"Hmph. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that he's not some 8 year old criminal or a run away." Ren said. He then thought for a moment and stopped before putting another spoonful of pea soup into his mouth.

"No. I think that he may have been an important person that some one was envious of. And the only way for this jealous person to have lived a happy life, was if this "Yoshi" was gotten rid of. And so they plotted and thought of a way to get rid of him and when Yoshi least expected it, he was gotten rid of...successfully." Ren imagined.

"Whu! Are you serious dude? That's even wackier than what I said!" Horo Horo laughed. "I didn't even understand half of the words that you said!" Horo Horo joked.

"Hmm...well that's your fault for being so stupid." Ren said as he continued to eat.

"WHAT?" Horo Horo shouted.

"See even now! You had to ask "What?" because you don't even know what I'm saying." Ren replied.

"Agh! That's not what I meant!" Horo Horo shouted.

"No one ever really knows what you mean, Horo Horo." Ren said calmly as he sipped the soup off of his spoon.

"That's it!" Horo Horo clenched his fists and was about to hit Ren, when he saw Yoshi, from the corner of his eye, walking back into the room.

Horo Horo and Ren then turned and looked over at Yoshi. He was wearing a pair of kaki pants with a white button down short. His outfit was obviously different from Ren and Horo Horo's. Ren was wearing a pair of black shorts, a white shirt, and a black jacket. And Horo Horo was wearing a pair of kaki shorts with suspenders and a white shirt.

"Whoa looking sharp, Yoshi." Horo Horo said.

"Thanks." Yoshi grinned as he lifted his collar.

"Yeah nice shirt, Yoshi." Ren said.

"Thanks Ren." Yoshi said as he sat back down between Ren and Horo Horo. He then looked at Horo Horo and Ren's bowl of pea soup and saw that they had already eaten all of it.

"Whoa you guys are done eating already?" Yoshi asked amazed.

"Yupp." Horo Horo grinned.

Yoshi chuckled innocently and looked down at his bowl of soup. He squinted his eye as he looked down at the lumpy green liquid. He slowly picked up the wooden spoon that was beside his bowl, and started to slide the spoon through the soup feeling it's lumpy texture.

He couldn't help but notice that Ren and Horo Horo were watching his every move. As if they were closely studying the way that he ate.

He lifted a spoon full of soup and gulped deeply as he moved the spoon closer and closer to his mouth. He was about to put the spoon in his mouth when he suddenly stopped, looked over at Ren and Horo Horo (A/N: Who were still staring at him XD) And chuckled innocently.

"Uh you know what? I'm not really that hungry." Yoshi smiled as he put the spoon back down into the bowl.

"NOT HUNGRY?" Ren and Horo Horo shouted.

"Dude we find you in a river soaking wet, as if you were floating in it for days. We bring you in here give you some new clothes and sit you down with a big bowl of delicious pea soup and you tell us that you're not hungry?" Horo Horo shouted.

"Heh yeah pretty much." Yoshi sweat dropped. "Uh I guess I'll just have some of this bread over here." Yoshi said as he picked up a small loaf of bread that was beside him.

Horo Horo sighed. But he couldn't help but stare at the lonely bowl of pea soup that was only inches from Yoshi's face. Horo Horo really didn't like wasting food soooo...

"Hey Yoshi? If you're not gonna eat that, do you think that I can have it?" Horo Horo grinned.

"Oh uh...Yeah...sure." Yoshi said as he slid the bowl over to Horo Horo and watched him completely devour the whole thing.

"Agh! There he goes again." Ren said. "Huh?" Yoshi asked.

"Slide him a bowl of food under his face and he eats the whole thing in about a few seconds." Ren explained.

"Oh." Yoshi giggled.

Horo Horo had already finished eating the bowl of soup while the two were talking and had now moved onto licking the bowl clean with his tongue (XD!)

"Ahhh! All done." Horo Horo grinned blissfully as he rubbed his stomach and burped. "Well we still got a few minutes before we gotta get ready for bed, so Yoshi?" Horo Horo asked.

"Uh yeah?" Yoshi asked.

"Are you gonna eat the rest of that bread?" Horo Horo grinned and pointed.

"Uh yeah actually I am." Yoshi said. "Aww man." Horo Horo sulked.

"Uh you guys?" Yoshi asked as he put his bread back onto the table.

"Yeah?" Ren and Horo Horo asked. Horo Horo stared at the piece of bread that Yoshi placed down on the table, waiting for his chance to grab it.

"Um since you guys pretty much know everything that I know about myself, why don't you tell me a little about you guys?" He asked. "I mean how did you guys end up here?" He asked.

"Oh...you wanna know about us huh?" Horo Horo said as he cracked his fingers." Well you see here Yoshi." Horo Horo said as he grabbed Yoshi by the shoulder. "It's a long story really. A story of family, love, and tragedy." Horo Horo said.

"Oh please. You've told me your story a thousand times and it get's boring every time you tell it." Ren laughed.

"Hey shut up and let me talk!" Horo Horo shouted. "Okay I'll tell you Yoshi. You see when I was only 5 years old, I lived with my mother, father, and my little sister Pilika. We all lived in a small village farther north from Osorezan. Yeah we lived like all other families lived. In a small but comfy house. Fresh food always on the dinner table, and all the love and support that you could want."

"What happened?" Yoshi asked.

"Well if you hadn't interrupted me, I would have gotten to that part." Horo Horo replied. "But as I was saying, yeah life was good for me and my little sister. Until one day. My father was a miner. He mined for coal and such in the mountains that separate Osorezan and some other village, I dunno what it's called. Imuzo, Imozo...whatever. Anyway, he was working hard one day and was trying his best to do a good job so that he could mine as much coal as he could so that he would get paid more to support our family. So he talked to the other miners and they told him about this cave just a few miles from where they mined. They told him that there was a lot of coal in that cave and anyone that could mine there would make a fortune. But there was one problem. Many men who tried to mine there, were never heard from again. They said the walls of the cave were extremely dangerous and could cave in on even the most experienced miner." He told

"Whoa...that's scary." Yoshi said

"Yeah it is. But anyways. My father told my mom about that cave and he said that he wanted to mine there no matter what. Of course my mom told him that it was a bad idea and that it was really dangerous, but my father said he was willing to risk it just so that Pilika and I could live a happy life. The next day he set out with all of his gear and he promised us that he would come back that night with all of the money in the world. Yeah...we all believed in him and cheered him on, but the problem was...that he never did come home that night. Not even the next day. Never. We never heard from him again." Horo Horo finished.

"WHAT?" Yoshi asked in disbelief.

"Yeah. Then after my mom heard what had happened, she ran off completely depressed leaving me and Pilika all alone to never hear from her again either. So I tried my best to take care of Pilika but we had nothing to live off of. And that's when we were found by the orphanage and taken in."

"Whoa..that's sad. I'm really sorry Horo Horo. What happened to Pilika?" Yoshi asked.

"Oh she was adopted about a year ago. And I've been here ever since." He finished.

"Whoa." Yoshi was completely shocked and had no idea what to say. "Oh well what happened to you Ren?" Yoshi asked as he turned and looked over at Ren.

"Hmm well there's not much really. I lived with my father, mother, and sister to. We lived here in Osorezan and my father was one of the security guards that protected the queen and king of this village. We all lived in a house close to Osorezan palace where I, only six years old, stayed with my sister and was brought up and taught with some of the best education. We were all living fine until, like in Horo Horo's story, came that frightful day.

My father was in charge of guarding the king one day when he left for a business trip to some town across these mountains. The king needed protection because it was said that there were a lot of people in the other town that despised him. And so my father went to guard him. Turns out that the people that despised the king were violent protesters that were against a monarchy government. My father was shot 6 times in the chest as he tried to protect the king. My mother went to the town after hearing the news, and when she got out of the car in front of the hospital where my father lay dying, some protesters showed up and shot her as well." Ren said.

"Oh no." Yoshi said as he felt his heart shatter.

"Yes my sister was then taken to live with some relatives that lived in another town, while I was left alone to fend for myself in our abandoned house. The people that lived in the castle didn't want me there since there was no use for me. My father was the one that was important to them. And so that's when I was cast out and sent here. I've been here ever since." He finished.

"That sounds horrible you guys." Yoshi said. "I know it may not mean much, but I'm really sorry for what happened." Yoshi tried to comfort them.

"Agh. That's all in the past Yoshi." Horo Horo said as he lightly slapped Yoshi in the back. "We've moved on since then." He grinned.

"Yes I agree with Horo Horo. It's better to let the past go and that's what Horo Horo and I have done." Ren said.

"Oh." Yoshi said.

"Yeah right now, all we need to do, is brush our teeth and get ready for a long sleep." Horo Horo said as he stretched his arms. "It's been a long day." Horo Horo reminded them.

"Yeah." Yoshi said

All of the children then got up, went to brush their teeth and then entered their rooms. The girls had a separate room from the boys. As Yoshi walked into the darkened room, he was able to find an empty bed beside Horo Horo and Ren and made himself comfortable.

"Well good night guys!" Yoshi smiled as he pulled the covers over his face.

"Good night Yoshi!" Horo Horo and Ren said. "I'm sure that you'll fit right in here Yoshi." Horo Horo grinned as he turned off the lights. Yoshi smiled.

As everyone slowly fell asleep, Yoshi couldn't help but think about Ren's and Horo Horo's past. They were all so tragic yet they had both seemed to have moved on since then.

I wonder if my past was as sad and tragic as theirs? Yoshi thought as he slowly fell asleep.

Author's Note:
Well I think that this is one of the best and LONGEST chapters that I've written for this story yet XD. I hoped that everyone liked it. I tried my hardest to make it as good as I could. And again if anyone is still reading this, I'd really appreciate to hear what you think in your reviews. Thanx for reading chapter 5! Love you all! Bye!