-Hey everyone! Why yes I have returned with yet another update.
I wanted to say that I read the last chapter (hee I usually just write my chapters without reading them XD)
And I gotta say that it was one of my favorite chapters!
Hope ya guys liked that chappie to and I'll try my best to make this one just as good. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King (laughs evilly) Not yet! Mwahaa haa haa! Oh wait...people are reading this? Oh crap...umm...never mind...just read the story. (sweat drop) I never said a thing. XD
Yoshi's lazy eyes slowly opened as he awoke from a good night's sleep and sat up right on his bed.
He gently moved away his bed covers and stretched out both arms as high up as they would go while yawning.
He tasted his tongue a few times and fluttered his eyes.
As things began to come into focus, he slowly looked around at an emptied room of beds, that had already been made, without a single wrinkle covering their surface.
He looked around the bright white room and noticed that he was the last one to wake up and the other children had left the room without having the courtesy to wake him up.
He slowly placed both of his small feet onto the cold wooden floor and began to walk towards the wooden door.
As he turned the knob and slowly opened the door frame, a bright light came seeping through causing Yoshi to twitch his eyes.
He slowly cracked the door open and heard noises emanating from downstairs.
The sound of laughter and small voices came crawling up the stairs and into Yoshi's ears.
The children must have been down stairs eating breakfast.
Yoshi lazily and quietly walked down the flight of stairs that led to the first floor of the orphanage.
Still have asleep, he wrapped his frail and cold fingers around the wooden hand rail to keep his balance.
With every step he took...the voices and laughter grew louder and louder.
When he reached the small door that led into the kitchen, he placed his right hand onto the door and slowly pushed it open.
Just then, all of the noise was silenced and the entire room of small children focused their attention on the small boy standing by the door way.
Yoshi's eyes widened when he noticed that the entire room of children was staring at him.
Suddenly the silence was broken when the jolly orphan, Horo Horo, stood up from his seat at the breakfast table and walked over to Yoshi with a grin on his face.
"HHHEEEEEYYYY YOSHI!" He shouted while slapping Yoshi on the back.
"Ow." Yoshi uttered as he closed one eye.
"Hey dude! It's good to see you up. We thought you were gonna sleep all day!" Horo Horo laughed.
The two then walked over to their table, and the children resumed their conversations.
"Uh...well why didn't anyone wake me up?" Yoshi asked as he sat down.
"Madam Kaori thought that you needed a long rest after all that happened, so she told us not to wake you up." Replied Ren as he sipped on the straw in his milk carton.
"Oh...Uh well. Thanks a lot...I guess." Yoshi replied.
"So you ready to eat Yoshi?" Horo Horo grinned.
"You bet...I'm STARVING!" Yoshi replied.
"Oh...really? Geez...uuh...darn. I was hoping you'd say no." Horo Horo sulked.
"Cause. Yeah...I kinda already ate your breakfast." He sweat dropped as he handed Yoshi an empty bowl.
"Oh uh...well I guess eating isn't that important." Yoshi sweat dropped. "I'll just wait until lunch."
"Oh no...eating is important...here let me get you some more food!" Horo Horo raised his hand into the air.
"Madam Kaori will come by and give you some more food if you just tell her that you're still exhausted and hungry from all the stuff that happened yesterday." He smiled.
"Really?" Yoshi asked.
"Sure! Just make sure not to tell her that I was the one that ate your food, cause she already warned me before about eating other people's food and I don't wanna get in trouble." Horo Horo laughed innocently.
"Hmm that's funny. You never really wanna get in trouble, yet you always do." Ren replied.
"Hey! Let's not start this day off with me kicking your butt!" Horo Horo warned.
"Kicking my butt? Ha ha! That's so funny.
More like me stretching your arm, stuffing it through your butt, pulling it out of your mouth, stretching it some more, slapping your butt with it and then repeating the process!" Ren shouted.
Horo Horo sat there dumbfounded.
"Wait...stretching my arm and doing what again?" Horo Horo asked.
"Oh never mind you idiot." Ren continued to drink his milk.
"Uh yeah." Yoshi simply giggled and then rolled his eyes.
"Man! When's Madam Kaori gonna come over here! My arm's gonna break off!" Horo Horo whined.
Madam Kaori suddenly came over once she saw that Horo Horo had his hand up.
"Yes Horo Horo? Wait...Don't tell me that you ate one of the other children's food again." Madam Kaori crossed her arms.
"Oh no Madam Kaori. Uh Yoshi was just wondering if he could have some more food." Horo Horo said innocently.
"Oh my... Are you still hungry, sweetie?" Madam Kaori turned to Yoshi.
"Oh uh...yes ma'am." Yoshi nodded.
"Oh well then I'll be right back with some more food for you okay dear?" Madam Kaori smiled and then gently pulled on one of Yoshi's cheeks.
Yoshi simply nodded and watched as Madam Kaori walked off and went into the kitchen.
Horo Horo and Ren stared at Yoshi with grins on their faces.
"Well, well, well. Seems like Madam Kaori's got a little 'thing' for ya Yoshi!" Horo Horo grinned as he punched Yoshi on the arm.
"What?" Yoshi's eyes widened.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" He shouted.
"Sure Yoshi. How about when she was like "Are you still hungry sweetie?" Horo Horo said as he imitated Madam Kaori.
"And then she smiled and pulled on one of your cheeks? Don't tell me that she wasn't flirting with you?" Horo Horo giggled.
Yoshi simply stared at Horo Horo with a "Are you F serious" look on his face.
"You've gotta be kidding me. Why would she, probably a 25-year-old women, be flirting with an 8 year old boy that has amananesia?" Yoshi asked.
"It's amnesia." Ren corrected him.
"And Yoshi has a point. No 25-year-old women would flirt with an 8 year old. You're just telling dumb stories, just like yesterday when you said that Yoshi was a run away prisoner that faked his own death!" Ren finished.
Yoshi's eyes widened. "RUN AWAY WHAT?"
Horo Horo suddenly interrupted and dashed up from his seat.
"Hey! You don't know! It could be true! And besides I just said he COULD be! I never said that he WAS! And you made up crazier stories than me!" Horo Horo hollered.
Ren suddenly slammed both hands on the table and stood up.
"Stories? I only said one! And besides mine is more believable than yours! How can an 8 year old be a fugitive! HE'S ONLY 8 YEARS OLD FOR GOD'S SAKE!" He shouted.
"HEY! THERE CAN TO BE 8 YEAR OLD FUGITIVE'S!" Horo Horo shouted.
"WELL EVEN IF THE GOVERNMENT WAS STUPID ENOUGH TO CHARGE AND 8 YEAR OLD, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOSHI'S A FUGITIVE!" Ren shouted.
"HE COULD BE!"
"NO HE CAN'T!
"YES HE CAN!"
"NO HE CAN'T!"
"YES HE CAN!"
"NO HE CAN'T!"
"WELL WHY DON'T WE JUST ASK YOSHI THEN!" Ren and Horo Horo finally said at the same time.
Both turned to Yoshi. Yoshi's eyes were shot open and he simply grinned innocently.
Ren and Horo Horo both walked over to Yoshi.
"Yoshi? Why don't you tell Ren, the spiky haired moron, over here that you are a run away prisoner that faked his own death by jumping off of a waterfall?" Horo Horo grinned.
"Yes and please tell this thick headed, ice for brains retard over here that an 8 year old CAN'T be a fugitive." Ren crossed his arms.
"Oh uh...well you guys...um..I." Yoshi stuttered.
"YYEEEEESSSS?" Ren and Horo Horo asked.
"Uh well...um...you..see...the thing is um." Yoshi repeatedly stuttered.
"Come on! Out with it." Ren said.
"Uh...well you guys...um..How am I supposed to know if I lost all of my memories?" He finally blurted.
Ren and Horo Horo suddenly looked at each other, then at Yoshi, then at each other, then at Yoshi, then at each other, then at Yoshi, and then at each other again.
They both sighed and then sat back down.
"He's right." Ren sighed.
"Yeah even if we think it's true, how are we ever gonna find out if Yoshi doesn't even know?" Horo Horo said.
"Way to ruin our imagination, Yoshi." Horo Horo said sternly.
"Uh...sorry you guys, but I really don't remember anything." He sighed.
"It isn't Yoshi's fault Horo Horo." Ren said. He then turned to Yoshi.
"Yoshi? Even after all that sleep and rest that you got yesterday, you still don't remember anything?" Ren asked.
"Um I don't think so." Yoshi replied.
"Awww come on Ren. It almost took us an hour just to figure out his name, so he's sure as heck not gonna remember anything else." Horo Horo laughed.
"Shut up Horo Horo. He might. You don't know." Ren teased.
"Whatever. Go ahead...Yoshi." Horo Horo said as he stuffed an entire bread roll into his mouth.
"Twell...Rwen...thwat ywou dwon't remwembwer anythwing." Horo Horo said as crumbs of bread flew from his mouth and landed on Yoshi's face.
Yoshi annoyingly wiped the crumbs off his face. "Yeah well...Um there was one small thing that I remembered." Yoshi began.
Horo Horo and Ren's eyes widened. "WHAT? REALLY?" The two asked in amusement.
"BUT! Every single time that I try to think even harder to bring out some more information from that memory, everything just stops, and I just can't work on that memory anymore." Yoshi explained.
"Uh well even though I have no idea what you just said...why don't you just tell us the one thing you remembered?" Horo Horo asked.
"Well...every time I close my eyes." Yoshi demonstrated by closing his eyes. "I see a girl." He said.
"OMG! WOW! I already know who she is." Ren said sarcastically.
"A girl, and she has the most beautiful blonde hair. It's almost as if strains of gold are dangling from her perfect, rosy face. And she has dark, rich eyes. As if all of her secrets, most inner thoughts and fears, lie within those mysterious eyes.
And her nose, as round and as rosy red as her cheeks. And I see her wearing an elegant dark red dress. Just as mysterious as her dark eyes. She's the perfect girl. And I see her reaching for my hand and she says "It's nice to meet you..."
Yoshi opened his eyes.
"Yeah yeah...what does she say next?" Ren and Horo Horo both asked eagerly.
"And she says...uh...well...um..well that's when I forget." Yoshi chuckled innocently.
"AGGHHHHH!" Ren and Horo Horo fell back anime style.
"Wow way to leave a cliff hanger!" Horo Horo. "Is that it? Did you even get a name?" Horo Horo asked.
"Uh...no." Yoshi grinned.
"UGH!" Horo Horo grunted.
"Well...we don't need a name." Ren thought. "Maybe if we think about the description that Yoshi gave us, we can figure out who this girl is." He finished.
"Oh yeah...this'll be a piece of cake when over half of this whole village's girls have blonde hair and dark eyes!" Horo Horo said sarcastically.
"They might have blonde hair and dark eyes, but how many girls would wear an elegant dark red dress?" Ren asked. "That dress gives us a clue. This girl must be rich, and might be well known throughout this village." Ren said.
"But who could she be?" Horo Horo thought.
Both Horo Horo and Ren then slowly walked over to a small cloudy and window in the dining room.
The window looked out onto a grand palace that was at the very edge of Osorezan almost 10 miles away.
The two watched as dark wispy clouds, swirled around the palace's frame causing the giant palace to disappear for a few moments.
The more the two looked at the palace the more the two thought, and then the two finally received their answer.
"PRINCESS ANNABELLE KYOUYAMA!" They shouted.
"Uh...Princess who?" Yoshi asked
"Princess Annabelle Rose Kyouyama!" Ren repeated. He walked over and sat back down at the table.
"She's only the most well known Princess in this entire village!
Her hair, is as bright as the sun, her eyes as dark as the night sky, her cheeks as rosy as roses themselves, her clothes as elegant as the money they were purchased with!" Ren shouted.
"Yeah! That's gotta be her! She's the girl all young boys dream about! To be married to Annabelle Kyouyama is like winning a million lotteries!" Horo Horo daydreamed. "Of course...there is that temper of hers, but who cares. Annabelle's the perfect girl!"
Ren and Horo Horo both drifted off and daydreamed about being married to Princess Annabelle.
(30 Minutes later)
"Wait! No way! There's no way that you know Annabelle Kyouyama! She only hangs around Osorezan palace or the palace in Izumo! We barely get to the chance to see a glimpse of her on the street when she travels to Izumo! How can you, possibly know Princess Annabelle! Now that's crazy!" Horo Horo said.
"For once in my life, I actually agree with Horo Horo." Ren answered. "There's no way that you can know Princess Annabelle."
Horo Horo suddenly stood up and pulled a newspaper off of one of the dining tables. He walked back and placed it right in front of Yoshi.
"Do you really mean to tell us that you know this girl right here? This girl surrounded by royalty? The Princess of this entire village and the fantasies of every single young boy on this earth? That you actually shook her hand?" Horo Horo asked as he pointed to a picture of Princess Annabelle that was on the front cover.
This picture was of young Annabelle standing between her mother and father.
Queen and King of Osorezan.
She wore a long and elegant dark blue dress. Blue diamonds encircling it's entire frame.
Around her neck lay a string of flawless white pearls.
Her right hand laid gently upon the strings of pearls and her expression almost as delicate as the flower petals that lay in the background of the photograph.
Yoshi grabbed the paper and stared at the picture Horo Horo had pointed at.
The more he stared at the photograph, the more it triggered his memory.
Those dark eyes, bright blonde hair, her elegant clothes, her delicate soft fingers, her delicate expression. It had to be the girl that was in his memory! He was sure of it!
"It's...It's her!" Yoshi shouted. "This is her! I know it! I can recognize her from anywhere! I know that this is the girl that I remembered!" Yoshi said as he pointed to the photograph.
"Oh you've gotta be kidding me!" Horo Horo ripped the paper out of Yoshi's hands.
"No way! You're just imagining things. You were in that cold river for a long time! Maybe all that cold water is messing with your brain." Horo Horo laughed.
"Yes. The chances of someone that we found half dead in a river knowing Princess Annabelle, are over a billion to one." Ren replied.
"But you guys, seriously...I'm telling the truth. I know that girl!" Yoshi repeated.
"Oh never mind. Just forget that we brought the whole thing up. Come on Horo Horo, let's go outside and play tag." Ren stood up and walked out the door.
"Yeah I think you still owe me a rematch." Horo Horo agreed. He stood up as well and walked out the door.
Yoshi remained in his chair, all alone in the small and dark dining room. He was telling the truth, yet no one believed him.
"I'm telling the truth you guys. I'm really telling the truth." Yoshi sighed.
Meanwhile, in Izumo palace. All hope was given up that the royal family would find Yoshi alive.
And now Hao, stood straight up in the grand ball room. His mother and father by his side.
Hao wore the most elegant black tuxedo he owned, and he held a bright red rose in his hand.
Suddenly, the two large doors opened and young Annabelle set foot into the grand palace, her parents as well by her side.
Her blonde hair bouncing against her exposed shoulders.
Her creamy pink dress flowing around her feet as she walked.
Once the three walked up to the Queen, Prince, and King of Izumo, Hao bowed and his father presented him, for his mother was to sad to utter a word.
"Young Princess Annabelle Rose Kyouyama. May I introduce to you, your future Husband, and future King of this entire country, Hao Asakura." He said firmly.
Hao reached over and took Annabelle's frail and soft hand into his.
He kneeled down on one leg and placed the red rose into her hand.
"It is a pleasure to meet you...young Annabelle." Hao smiled as he gently kissed Annabelle's hand.
Annabelle simply sighed and gave up hope that she would marry the boy that she had fell in love with.
Her true love was now dead, and so was...her heart.
Author's Note:
Wow that was a pretty intense ending wasn't it?
Ha ha well I hope that you guys liked reading this chapter as much as I liked writing it.
It's weird how I never plan ahead of time what's going to happen next in my stories.
I just type what I have in my mind at that exact moment.
Weird huh? Well I hope that you guys think I did okay in this chapter and I'd like to thank you all for reading!
Hope you'll tune in for chapter 7!
I LOVE YOU ALL! BYE!