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'What would you do, if someone suddenly come to your life and you have to call them mom and dad?' Darkness Fall

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The Real Truth

By: Lullaby of Darkness

Chapter 1

The beginning …

"Tamao, when will you explain things to that kid? He still thinks that you're his mother!" the fox spirit questioned his master.

She didn't say anything

But deep in her mind, she was worried that the time would eventually come. The time when her master would arrive and replace her place .

"I need more time, he's too young to bear this burden, and it is just too much for a 6-years-old to understand,"

"But when? When Anna-sama and Yoh-sama come home?" the other spirit said sarcastically as he drank some coffee.

She stood up, gazing at the boy who was practicing his sword skills with Ryu outside the inn. He realized that she was looking at him, and smiled and waved at her.

"Tamao, you know that timeis rushing fast!"

"I know. But there's nothing I can do before that time comes …" She smiled, waving back at the boy.

One week later

Outside the Inn

"Home sweet home" A man smiled at the woman beside him and took her hand. She replied his warm smile with a cold one, but he was satisfied enough with the fact that she was smiling.

"It has been six years and a lot has changed. I just hope that it hasn't changed that much."

"I don't care if the inn changes. I can't wait to meet Hana. Do you think he'll recognize us? Or even forgive us for leaving him alone with someone who doesn't have any blood relationship with him for 6 years?"

He knew that she worried about her son a lot. It was bad enough without them sending these people letters but still haven't gotten any reply.

He smiled and said to her, "Don't worry, he will. He is the son of the shaman king after all. Everything will work out somehow. Besides, he got Tamao to take care of him for all these years." The trademark smile appeared yet again in his face that the woman grew irritated.

This time, he didn't get any reply; she walked in front of him towards the house.

00

"Huh?" the boy stopped walking and looked confused, making the shaman who was standing behind him and carrying a big fish worried.

"What's wrong, Hana-chan?" He asked him. He knew the answer himself, but he just wanted to know Hana's.

"I think I sensed a very powerful furyoku from our inn." Hana turned around to face him, looking very excited.

Ryu smiled inwardly. 'You really are Anna-sama's child,' he thought to himself.

"But I don't feel anything. Maybe it's just your imagination," he said as he looked away and started walking again. A disbelieving look appeared upon the boy's face.

"But I'm sure that it came from our inn, I've always felt it but it's never this close. It's so powerful that even you or Ren-san wouldn't beat them easily," he chased Ryu and walked in his right, trying to make his childish face look worried or something close to that.

That only succeeded in making Ryu laug and making Hana even more confused than ever.

'That's because the furyoku that you sense is the furyoku of your own father, the most powerful shaman in the world, the Shaman King.' He wanted to say that to Hana but decided to keep it to himself.

"You're starting to creep me out, Hana. Are you sure that you don't have a fever or something?" He continued to laugh and smiled at the furious boy.

With a grumpy look in his face, Hana looked away and said, "If you don't believe me then I guess I can run to the inn first and make sure that everything is okay at home." He was ready to rush away when suddenly Ryu grabbed his arm.

"Don't be so rude, you don't want Tamao to get angry at me if I let you go home alone. Besides, why need to hurry? Let's just enjoy this pleasant walk." He grinned and winked at the passing girls. The girls just giggled, while Hana just sighed.

00

"I'm-" he stopped when he saw two pairs of very old shoes besides Tamao's. Ryu had gone to his sushi restaurant that had opened few days ago to put the fish there.

'I knew it! It was that person! Uncle Ryu must have tested me before. That's why he pretended that he didn't sense it too.' He smiled and carefully put his shoes in the shelf, walking slowly to greet the new guests.

He stopped when he realized that the powerful furyoku was coming from the main room, and guess what, Tamao was there too.

"Where's Hana, Tamao?" He heard a woman's voice from inside the room. He wasn't planning to eavesdrop, but when he heard the cold tone of her voice, something stunned him. 'I think I've heard her voice before, it sounds so … familiar…'

"He's going out with Ryu to the fish market. I think he'll be back any minute now, Anna-sama." Tamao's voice sounded so fragile, empty and hollow inside.

'Why are they talking about me? Do they know me? Do I know them?' Those questions raced in his young mind, and he kept repeating them, making himself more and more confused.

"I guess that lucky boy's already back from his trip, Anna." Now a friendly voice was talking, making Hana freeze in place. "And I think he's trying to listen to what we're talking about, since he's standing right—" the door opened "—behind the door." He smiled at the boy who was glaring at him with a confused look still plastered on.

'How did he—'

"No need to know why I know, Hana Asakura," he interrupted his mind, shocking the little boy. How does the strange, tall man, wearing weird clothes that he'd never seen before, know his name?

Then he realized that he had seen him before, because that grin on the man's face had appeared many times when he looked at the mirror.

'Who is he? How did he read my mind? Could he be-'

He smiled wider yet, amused by the sight of his own son flabbergasted before him. "I think I can answer all of that question, Hana," he said.

The man squatted on the floor so that his eyes was level with the boy's, then said slowly to make sure he heard every word, "I'm your father, Asakura Yoh to be exact. And I can read minds thanks to something I'm not very proud of-" his words were cut by someone, who rushed towards Hana and hugged him.

"Hana, I missed you so much and we're so sorry that we had to leave you with Ryu and Tamao. We had no choice back then," she cried, the boy looked at the woman carefully, and looked at Tamao.

"Mom, who are these guys?" he asked Tamao confusedly, innocently. Anna looked at Tamao, then at Yoh. He sure looked confused because the usual smile in his face had disappeared.

But she didn't answer the question. There was silence and she looked the other way, tears pouring steadily from her eyes. While Anna's face just got red, not because she blushed, but because of the anger that took over her mind.

Yoh realized that Anna could kill Tamao any time by now, so he stood up and released Anna from the kid before she will do something to all of them. He kept Anna in his arms to make sure that she wouldn't do anything.

Still having Anna in his arms, he asked his innocent son: "Did you just say 'mom' to Tamao?" Hana nodded in blatant agreement. Yoh felt that something wet, and figured out that those was Anna's tears. He didn't dare to do anything or Anna might summon Zenki and Kouki to kill Tamao, or worse: destroy her.

Anna let go of Yoh's arm and walked towards Tamao, with Yoh behind her to make sure nothing happened.

"What the hell did you do to my son while we're gone? Answer me, Tamao Tamamura!" the Itako yelled to the pink-haired one. Her glare, as cold and sharp as ice, succeeded in making Tamao shrink smaller in fright. She kept crying and covered her face with her hands. Tears were falling not only from Tamao, but from Anna too.

Yoh knew that Anna's tears were for the only two people in her life: he himself and Hana.

"What does this mean, Tamao? Why did my son call you 'mom'? I want your explanation and I want it right now!" Anna cried angrily.

"I … I …" Tamao couldn't quite finish her words, choked by her own tears.

The 'great' Shaman King, who was watching the two women fighting over his child reached his limit when he saw Hana's glassy eyes with tears on the brim.

"Stop it! " he bellowed. Anna stopped yelling and Tamao stopped crying. "You two are driving me crazy! Aren't you ashamed to fight in front of a child! What kind of adults are you!" His supposed-to-be-questions sounded much more like a statement.

Anna's face blushed more, and she demanded, "Why are you shouting at me? It was her who made our son become like this, it was her who started all of this mess." She turned her back and started to hide her tears behind her back, just like before she met Yoh and became Kino's student.

Yoh knew what she was hiding from him, and felt sorry for what he had said. He looked at the boy beside him and smiled.

"Tamao," he suddenly said, almost making the girl jump. She nodded and stood up. Knowing what she should do, she left that room immediately.

After he made sure that Tamao had entered her room, Yoh sighed and looked at Anna. "You're making this hard for me, Anna"

"What did you say? I'm the one who's making this hard? Who was the one who needed to fulfill his mission as the shaman king and forced me to tag along with him? Who was the one who forced me to leave my two-weeks-old son all alone with someone who had liked my own husband for a long time?" She stopped, ignoring her ragged breath completely, even though it made her words shudder and harsh. "Now tell me, who's making this hard?"

He didn't know what to say: the queen of ice had beaten the all-powerful shaman king. "I know it's my fault, but please understand," Yoh said calmly with a disappointed look.

"Um … ano… I think I should go upstairs or …," Hana said to the arguing 'adults' in front of him and pointed to the door.

Yoh sighed, and Anna stopped yelling. She looked at her son carefully and said to him, "I think it's time for you to know who your parents are,"

Yoh smiled at her and then turned to Hana.

"Hana, could you ask Tamao to come here? We have to talk to her, privately."

Inside Tamao's room

"See? I've told you that this would happen!" One of her spirits said to her, Tamao was in the corner of her room, curled into a ball like a child who missed her parents.

"Now what should we do? I bet Anna-sama and Yoh-kun are going to kick our butts out of this house," the other said sadly, looking disappointed and desperately at its master.

"I think the only thing that we can do is go to Asakura main house again," the fox said quietly, "Then hurry up pack your things so we can go before they noticed us. C'mon Tamao."

"No, I won't run away again," she said, looking at her spirits. Even though they were perverts, useless, and stupid, they were good friends for the lonely girl.

The spirits smiled and approached Tamao.

"So what will you do?"

"I don't know what I should do, but maybe I'll start with telling Anna-sama and Yoh-sama how sorry I am. I just hope that they'll forgive me for what I've done, even though it is unforgivable."

"How could they forgive something that's unforgivable?"

Tamao fell silent once more and dunked her head down, wishing in vain that she could turn back time. It's just that when she saw the innocent, happy face of the child, she couldn't bear thinking about what would or could happen… Tears, cries, sleepless nights that would bring dark circles around what used to be a pair of cheerful pools, paling face, silence, perhaps tantrums… No! She couldn't and she wouldn't.

They didn't realize that there was someone behind the door, listening to their conversation the whole time.

'So it's true that she isn't my mother. But why did she lie to me all these years? I know that it was for my own good, but she didn't need to lie. If my real parents didn't come, maybe I wouldn't get to know the truth for a long time…"

To be continued …

A/N : my friends said that I made the chapters too short and I think I can make it longer if I merge the chapters and correct few mistakes that I made before, so here's the new chapter 1 , hope you like it :)

Sorry for all of the reviewer who had review until chapter 7, I guess you should leave your review again T,T I'm really sorry ….

-DF-