Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King

A note, probably the story will probably be set in da girl's view, sometimes in Hao's view

'thoughts'

/telepathic stuff/

Mikauzoran – oh well as long it doesn't go the wrong way :P anyway I love your story too!

Chapter 2: FIRST LIFE 2

Hao sat in the sedan chair waiting patiently as he was on the way home. Matamune woke up and rubbed himself against Hao's hand. Hao smiled, "You do know what I am thinking don't you Matamune?" He was thinking about that girl again.

As they passed a forest, Matamune puffed out his hair and hissed angrily out of the window. "Nani Matamune?" Hao lifted the curtain up, and Matamune yet again jumped out of the window and ran into the forest. "Matte! Matamune!" Hao leaped gracefully out of the sedan chair and followed Matamune into the forest and stopped in his tracks.

There was mizumushi youkai (translation – water worm demon), it absorbs all its enemies' energy before eating them, becoming more powerful and larger. His eye's widened as he saw the very girl being hoisted up by the worm's coils. He could feel that her energy was slowly draining away.

Immediately, he chanted a quick spell to his youkai and ordered them to attack. The youkai caught the worm by surprise, causing it to drop the girl. Hao quickly darted forward and caught her. (You know how like he disappears and appears from another side or something)

Hao's youkai threw numerous attacks never tiring since the chant that Hao said, made them absorb energy instead of the other way around, making the worm smaller and smaller until finally it was only the size of a dog with wide eyes and a pointed head. Hao smiled, "Hmph, no one ever saw a mizumushi in its original form. I think its time to change that." And with that his youkai demolished the worm and disappeared into thin air.

Hao looked at the woman in his arms. She must have not known about the properties of this youkai to actually fight it. She fainted from the exhaustion of her energy fading away too quickly. He walked back to the sedan chair with Matamune following behind. Naku's eyes widened, "Hao-sama that girl……….." Hao silenced him with a glare.

He carefully got up into the sedan chair and sat the girl so she was sitting in his lap with her head resting against his shoulder. He looked down, she was brave, to face that mizumushi by herself, but where was the dragon or the phoenix? Weren't they the ones to protect her? And why was that worm attacking her? Mizumushi don't attack for no reason although they are very protective of their territory, and would attack if the intruder persisted. Hao believed that the girl was smart enough not to persist in intruding a youkai's territory.

The girl stirred in his arms, she weakly opened her eyes and he stared straight into them. She looked at him dazed and unfocused before dropping off again. He smiled and held her tightly to himself, so that he was sure that she wouldn't fall off.

Phoenix flew on, until /Dragon, I think she's been attacked./ She said. Dragon shook himself, /WHAT? I knew we shouldn't have left her go on her own./

/But koi, she's fine that young man from earlier on saved her./

Dragon growled softly/ I don't like him./

/You don't like anyone/ Phoenix reminded him.

/I do! Like that boy before remember? I didn't do anything to him./ Dragon replied defensively.

/Until he tried to hold her hand, and you scared him off by setting psychic fire to his pants./ Phoenix reminded him.

She woke up as moonlight shined directly onto her face. She sat up in the futon (a big flat mattress thing that jap ppl sleep on sometimes in Japan) wondering how she got here. She vaguely remembers dreaming about the same man who she met earlier on. She decided to look around and tried to get up. It was hard, her legs felt like water. She took a step and wobbled around. She crawled to the door and tried to pull herself up. She tentatively took a step and immediately collapsed.

Instead of feeling the hard floor, she felt herself being swept off her feet. It was that man again, she blushed, and she felt so helpless, being carried by someone who she just met for no longer than 2 minutes. "What are you doing out here? You should stay in bed, your body is still weak from the attack." "I don't like being kept inside the room." She replied.

Hao was walking towards the girl's room to see if she was any better, when the door open and he was surprised that she had the strength to even pull herself to the door. He watched as she pulled herself up and take a step, and wobbled, he darted forward and caught her in his arms. He asked her gently and she replied without fear. He liked this girl, her spirit was strong and she wasn't afraid of him.

The man smiled and set her down gently onto the pouch' side (you knoe that bit where they have this wooden floor thingy just above the ground), she sighed and breathed in deep the fresh smell. "What is your name, maiden?" She looked at him, "Kahiya, and you are?"

"Asakura Hao."

' Kahiya that's a nice name, just take off the Ka and its means fire arrow.'

"May I ask Lady Kahiya, who are your guardians?"

She blinked, "Guardians?"

"That ryu and phoenix."

"Why do you ask?"

"Er…"

Hao broke off, the girl smirked and continued, "I don't tell things to random people even if they are the almighty King."

'So she knows what I am.'

"Maiden, how old are you?"

"22."

"What is your last name?"

"I don't have one."

"Where is your family?"

She stood up, well she stood up and fell over again. She sighed, "Look, I don't know why you are so interested in me or why you are asking me so many questions, I should be the one asking."

"Apologizes, my Lady."

"Kahiya."

"huh?"

Kahiya snorted, she did not expect a king to say "huh". "I said Kahiya, not maiden Kahiya or maiden or Lady. Just Kahiya." Hao smiled, "Kahiya." He pronounced, he liked it, it had a smooth sound to it.

Kahiya's eyelids were getting heavy. And Hao noticed that. He stood up and picked Kahiya up ignoring the small gasp of surprise. "You are tired, Lady, you should rest." She pushed against him and gave up too tired to resist any further.

He put her down onto the futon and covered her with the blanket. Haos looked at Kahiya's face and gently trail his finger along her jaw, she shifted ever so slightly.

'Beautiful, yet mysterious at the same time.'

He left the room thinking about getting a good night sleep. He stopped though outside, was the huge dragon and phoenix, the dragon however, looked as if it was going to burn him into cinders very soon. "Your friend is inside there, she is very weak due to a attack from a mizumushi." Hao explained gently not moving so as to not make any wrong actions.

The bird bowed her head and nudged the door. Hao reached forward and open it, he did not want to make too many enemies especially, but he sensed that he might have more trouble making friends with the dragon though, because the dragon did not trust him.

He continued on his way to his room.

(In the Morning)

Kahiya got up feeling drained and tired as normal, but as she tried to crawl to her feet she found she could do it and not fall down like last time. That meant only one thing…. She ran outside and threw her arms around Phoenix's long neck. Dragon gave a small growl, /and none for me/ she laughed and hugged Dragon as well. She put a hand on both of them and they both shrank until they were size that was slightly shorter than her. (just think of a reasonable height for a 22 year old person)

'Amazing, Lady Kahiya, simply amazing.'

She turned around to see Hao smiling at her. She frowned back at him, "Thank you." She said reluctantly, but Phoenix was urging her so she had to. /Bow to him, Kahiya./ She bowed as much as she hated to doing that others. "No need, Lady Kahiya, we are alone so it is not necessary." 'He's doing that delibrately, he's delibrately calling me Lady, or Maiden. I'll just have to put up with it. But I don't even deserve that title I am a lowly beggar.' She thought annoyed.

"Kahiya, there is a kimono there for you to wear instead of your own tattered clothing." Hao said pointing to a pile of clothes in the room, which she woke up in. She didn't remember them being there, probably the servants put them there right after she went out. She nodded and went into her room closing the door behind Phoenix who was the last to come in. She separated the clothing to see that they were different sorts of kimonos some brilliantly decorated with flowers, dragons and phoenixes. She quickly chose a simple plain cream coloured one.

"Maiden Kahiya, would you mind taking the morning walk with me before we eat breakfast?"

/Go on Kahiya, he's nice, I'm sure, you will like him./

'Phoenix what are you trying to do? Get me a husband?' Kahiya stepped out, shook her head and followed Hao down a path that took them through a garden. They walked in silence, Kahiya was nervous, what did this man want? Something brushed against her leg. She looked down to see her Kodoro meowing. She bend down. "I'm glad you took care of Matamune well." She spoke aloud.

"Thank you Kahiya, actually he was the one that found me." He stopped and watched Kahiya. He watched as she gently stroked Matamune tracing the stripes on his back. He saw her face and watched her eyes soften at Matamune.

Kahiya noticed someone was watching her; she stared back at him only to have Hao smile at her. She blushed not use to this sort of reaction. He bent down and looked straight into her eyes. "Kahiya-chan, are you alright?" He asked. Kahiya blushed and nodded unable to say anything, she didn't know why she was acting like this, she looked away, her face set, she couldn't trust this man yet, not until she knew his intentions.

"HAO-SAMA! YOUR MEAL IS READY ALONG WITH LADY KAHIYA'S!"

Hao stood up. He held out his hand to Kahiya, "Shall we go?" She ignored the hand, stood up by herself and walked to the dining room.

(Afterwards)

Dragon growled with happiness, burping as he soared up high circling the palace looking everywhere in between rooms, ignoring the people since they can't see him anyway.

Kahiya remained in the garden leaning against Phoenix. "I want to leave Phoenix, but it hard, I hate being impolite I mean, Hao-sama is being very kind and treating me with everything, clothes, food, shelter, but why is he doing this? Only to me? He could have done it to other poor people that are hanging to life and trying to live. And I'm not sure what might happen here, I have to protect you Phoenix, you're the last of your true kind. And he might be there to take you away, and you won't be here anymore…"

/Don't worry hiya-chan, I'll always be there, besides when you're not around Dragon is here, he cares for me and I care for him too, Dragon is the last of his kind as well, we are both unique and I knoe that I would die for Dragon and for you without a doubt. Can you not feel it Kahiya? We are bonded by fate and destiny, we are meant to stay for each other through many lives and through many deaths. Just because you are to protect me does not mean you are to be unsocial with people who want to be friends with you/

Kahiya closed her eyes and looked deeply, she opened her brown eyes, "You're right, I can feel it to Phoenix deep down, I never want to lose you or Dragon, you both were so good to me, ever since we met in that fire. I'm really sorry, it just every time I tried to make friends when I was young, they were always after something." Phoenix lowered her head, and Kahiya took it in her hands. "Friends forever." She smiled.

Hao watched the girl, he didn't know why but that girl held him entranced, her spirit, her soul, her personality and her beauty made him stunned and made him wish she would stay here with him forever.

I know that the first life is very long but this is quite a important part, life two and three isn't though I think First Life might last for three chapters and Second Life and Third Life might last one chapter hehehe…………………………..

Do not ask me why I was inspired to write this fanfic, maybe it is because the OOC-ness of Hao in the sequel so maybe that's why I wrote it here. Hope you like it!

And it'll help me a lot if you review so I can improve the next chapter!