OK I know it's been a REALLY long time since I last updated, I've been very busy lately with going to high school and my computer deleting ALL my files including this chapter and I was almost done... ah well gotta start from scratch again...

Christine didn't get much sleep between admitting to her self that she was freaked out to be sleeping in the streets and the fact that it was the streets and not really what she could call 'easy sleep' she got up rather early, still wanting to sleep.

Before she left the alley she had to make sure the coast was clear so she sent Koncho to go check around. It didn't take him long before he was back, seemed things were ok. Christine thought something just didn't feel right, she didn't understand why they would have given up on looking for her, she hoped they just thought she would just get herself killed/kidnapped. The thought being kidnapped or killed made her a bit more apprehensive about wandering alone on the streets, she knew that she was a shaman, not the best if anything she was behind what power the average shaman her age was due to being cooped up in her uncle's house for so long, still would have been able to at least get a running start from any danger.

Soon enough she had let herself loosen up some, she knew she still needed to get out of the country, which would mean needing a passport. Thus she found, another problem with being 10 in America.

"Curse American laws, I think, If a 10 year old girl wants to leave the country by herself then she should be able to." Koncho huffed
"Well, that being the case I'm glad no one ever would have put you in charge of laws." Laughed Elizabeth.
"But... none of that helps the problem at hand" Manny said
"We'll find someway, I'm not sure if it's the lack of sleep talking but, I have a really good feeling about today." Christine smiled, she stood up "come on, nothings going to happen just sitting here right?" she said.

She really did have a good feeling, then again that might have been the natural calmness you get when you haven't gotten enough sleep.

So Christine finally got to see the city that she had lived in for several months, she had rarely ever gotten to see what the place looked like with her uncle and didn't get out of there much, she didn't even go to school.

Everything, the lights, the cars, the stores, the park, it was like stepping into a new world, she hadn't felt this free in a long time, nor had she realized how much she had missed it.

She decided to take a short break and sat down on a bench, now that she was more relaxed she took the time to try to come up with someway to get on a plane without a passport, and without money... though almost all of these included hiding in luggage, and were so unrealistic it was almost sad.

Her train of thought was broken when a dog ran up to her dragging a leash. She didn't realize just how foolish it was to reach for the dog and get a hold of it, so that's what she did. She had fool's luck however and the dog was pretty friendly she looked at his collar, there was a folded up piece of paper there, she unfolded it, thinking maybe there was info on whom ever owned it, she didn't think about looking on the tag for that info.

The piece of paper said,
"Hello, I trust this has fallen into good hands,
by good hands I mean the right hands, the hands of
Christine Weathers in other words. So if you are not
Christine Weather would you kindly place the note
back where you got it and let the dog go.
Moreover, if this is Christine Weathers then
please come to the bank (you know the one closest to
here with the water fountain in front, I hope you do
because you've passed by it enough in one day.) please
get there before it closes today because I have left
something there you might... or most definitely
will need. I know you are planning to exit the
country, might I suggest Japan? Also if you're
thinking this is a trap, ask yourself 'just why
would a trap involve going to a bank if it could
be much easier done right here and now?'
I know this must be odd for you
having a stranger randomly send you a note
on a dog telling you to go to a bank and go to Japan,
but not to worry, all will be reveled in due time...
maybe even when you have reached the 14th
day of the third month and have struck 14
yourself. Otherwise you had probably better
do yourself a favor and pay attention to things
like this you're sure to find them helpful.

Stay out of trouble and don't forget to start
boning up you shaman skills as you will need them.

A friend

PS. Don't worry about the dog just let go
of the leash and he'll be fine."

Christine seemed dumbstruck, well seemed wasn't the word she really was dumbstruck surely anyone would be. "My 14th birthday." she said
"14th birthday?" Knocho asked
"Yeah, so I'm just supposed to go around and apparently get help from someone who I don't even know who they are until I'm 14... what's up with that."
"Well, if it really helps, I say you should do what the note said." Elizabeth said.
"Well, if you say so I guess that's enough for me then." Christine said

So with that she made her way over to the bank, the moment she entered she was asked be a person at the counter if her name was Christine Weathers, she said yes. She was handed a small box and told that some of her money had been put in the box (about 1,000$ US. ) along with a passport, and the rest had been sent to Tokyo Japan.

She realized that the inheritance her parents left along with the money her aunt left must have been fairly large, because none of them were poor and they all had insurance policies, none of it having ever been touched, she knew that they must have made sure there would be a good stock of money for some reason, somehow they knew she'd need it.

She left the bank, she thought about getting a taxi but was a bit too apprehensive about it so she just walked to the nearest airport (lucky for her it wasn't too far).
On the way there her head started to pound, she could almost hear another voice faintly, slowly it started to become clear, it said "fancy seeing you here" she recognized this voice, but before she could fully process who it was she heard footsteps behind her and a hand went on top of her shoulder, she nearly jumped out of her skin and turned around.
There stood Hao Asakura grinning like an idiot. "Fancy seeing you here." he smirked.
Manny Koncho and Elizabeth got in front of Christine as she started to slowly back away from Hao. She head the voice again, this time she recognized it as Hao's saying "Nice, she's got a fear of me, things are going just as I like them." "I-I'm not afraid of you... " Christine said with her voice breaking, because truthfully she was, but she wanted to hide that from Hao.

"Now Now Christine, it's no use you trying to hide your thoughts from me, seeing as I'm having quite a time trying to hide mine." Hao said "you just have the gift, you should be pleased, Even Jenna, a loyal as she is wasn't so lucky, but know you'll never develop it enough to block what you want and hear what you need to hear, there's just not enough dark blood in your vains, though I'm getting a good bit of enjoyment from this, as I can read yours better than you can read mine, and you don't know how to drown it out either."

Hao was really right about that, Christine heard his voice saying many different things at the same time now

"You know, I'm really enjoying this, your family only asked that I find you and bring you back or kill you but, I think I'll let you go besides it's not their places to give me any orders, I'll dispose with them all after they serve their purpose. Ah well... it's been fun playing... I mean, winning mind games with you, see ya around." Hao then walked off.

The voices seemed to get fainter and fainter the further he walked away.
"Christine are you alright?" Koncho asked
Christine nervously laughed "F-fine" Actually she felt like fainting but not having Hao's voices in her head made her feel really good.
"So, it must have been true then" Elizabeth said
"What must have been true?" Christine asked
"Remember, when half the Weathers joined Hao that the one was said to have been able to see his true thoughts... until just a minute ago I thought it was just a fabrication, but I was sure it would only be passed down the dark side of the family." Elizabeth explained
"But how come it's never happened until now?" Christine asked
'Well, it may have been that the last time you and him saw each other you two somehow made a mind to mind connection. But he's right there's no way you can learn to control it, not because of your blood line but because you fear him too much."
"Am I not supposed to be?" Christine asked
"Well while you have a good reason to fear him, you won't begin to be able to control it until you can look at him without fear... or at least that's what I think... there may be something else to it though."

Christine was a bit lost in thought when she finally did get on a plane to Japan, she wondered if that because of that so called gift which she thought of as a curse, could she herself be bad deep down. She really didn't want to think of it like that but it seemed odd that the thing passed down on the dark side had somehow been passed to her, could it mean she herself was just like them.

She had been so quiet on the trip so far Manny decided to ask her what was up. When she told him Elizabeth said "It's not like that, you have to remember that the one Weathers who could do that had to get it from somewhere, he was never a bad person, he only chose Hao because he felt how Hao felt, it's true humans are slowly killing the world, Hao wants to stop it, but he wants to stop it and have total power, killing all humans can't be the right way because, a shaman only world that he wants would eventually get worse, he wants too much control and the world can't be controlled by anyone even the most powerful shaman in the world. It's not what you can do that makes you bad, it's how you use it, and just because what you can do may seem to be something only the evil would have, you have to remember that they are just like you, they have the same blood, even if they are evil. There will always be a balance of dark and light in you, and in everyone without a balance, a life it's self has no propose."

"That's deep" Koncho said Christine blinked, Elizabeth laughed "one day you'll know what I mean."

Little did they know someone had been watching them.

Ok done for now, anyone who's read this before can probably guess who's waiting maybe I'll be able to update this soon.

And I know Having her be able to read Hao's mind was a little much, and kind of pushing it a bit... well a lot, but it's also helping a bit because now Christine has a whole 'self-image' thing to deal with, Also I think having her show a good bit of fear helped things out. and actually this draft of the chapter was better than the one that was deleted