Disclaimer: I do NOT own Shaman King, or Final fantasy, but I do own my computer! Lol. Hope you enjoy! Reviews are welcomed with open arms. Flamers can get lost! End of disclaimer. I do own the other main character that happens to be me! No one else owns me, but I do own Abbie, AKA: Dark and Light Samurai the FFX game I borrowed off her! .

Hao's new destiny. Part 5.

Hao had thought climbing the stairs to get to Kilika temple had been annoying. When he saw how long the Mi'ihen high road was, he could feel his legs already turning to jelly.

"Can't we just find something to travel on?" He wailed as they started off. Yuna turned around looking surprised.

"We could always take a chocobo, but it costs money, and exercise will do us good for the rest of the trip." She answered.

Hao frowned with a WTF face. Something like this O. "Chocobo's?"

Sarah sighed. "Read the book on them when we get to the next stop off." She said firmly. Hao grumbled and they walked on.

Hao groaned though when an all too familiar voice called, "Why not take a chocobo like I have?" Bickson was riding along on a chocobo. Hao nearly snorted when he saw how funny Bickson looked riding something that resembled a giant un-edible chicken.

"What are you doing here? Come out to gloom over the fact you lost?" Tidus taunted him. Bickson, amazingly, ignored him.

"Well, no, it was just a one off." He smirked. "Next year we'll win!"

Sarah glared at him coolly, and continued to walk on, ignoring him.

"OI!" Bickson yelled, annoyed that a Sorceress was ignoring him. Sarah slowly turned to face him. "Yes?" She asked in that calm voice that she knew would really annoy Bickson. And it did.

"Why do you always have to act so calm?" He hissed, trotting his chocobo over to her, and leaning down towards her.

Sarah coolly stepped away from him, and said, "Because I happen to know how to keep my temper. Unlike some others who I shall not mention…"

Hao snorted and gave a loud fake cough that sounded like, "Bickson." Bickson glared hatefully at Hao. Then he trotted off. Hao for a reminder that they weren't gonna let him off for good, set a fire spell on the chocobo, which screeched wildly, and ran at top speed down the dry, muddy road. What was even funnier was that Bickson didn't seem to realize!

Tidus snickered as Bicksons chocobo ran over a small hill. "God, I hope he doesn't notice the fire in a hurry." He said simply. Hao grinned and did something he never thought he'd do with a human. He high five'd Tidus.

"Come on you two!" Lulu yelled firmly. Tidus and Hao quickly ran on.

Travelling down the Mi'ihen high road was fairly tiring. Hao was soon dragging himself along the road, and the fact that fiends kept leaping at them from out of nowhere wasn't doing them any favours.

Eventually, when they got near the other end, they spotted a woman dressed in green, talking to one of the crusaders. Hao had been reading about them also ever since meeting Luzzu and Gatta. He couldn't help noticing that he felt fairly connected to people who didn't believe that much in Yevon, but the ones who were drove him mad. This made travelling with Wakka and Yuna difficult.

He could tell immediately that this girl was a yevonite. She was questioning the Crusader about why they were using forbidden machina. Hao noticed Wakka watching. Looked like those two were in agreement. Wakka and the woman I mean.

"Hello. What's wrong?" Yuna asked the woman. The woman turned around and beamed when she saw Yuna.

"Oh hello! You must be Summoner Yuna!" She cried stumbling slightly on her worlds. "And you're the Sorceress!" She added when she saw Sarah.

"What was wrong?" Yuna asked her. "You seemed annoyed."

The woman nodded. "Well, as I'm a priest of the temples, I seem to be the only one who realises that the Crusaders are using forbidden machina!" She cried.

(Authors note: I know it's a bit different then what she says in the game but I can't remember all the lines off by heart. ')

Wakka nodded. "That's bad ya? Why though?"

The woman sighed. "No idea. Those brutal crusaders won't tell me! Oh, by the way, I'm Shelinda. A disciple of Yevon!"

Yuna smiled and preformed the pray for her. Shelinda returned the gesture. Then she sighed sadly. "They just won't listen to me just because I'm on a lower level then the other priests."

Yuna firmly said, "Don't think that! We all have our flaws, even I, as a starter Summoner, has flaws. Don't sell yourself short!"

Shelinda smiled. "Thank you lady Yuna!" She cried, doing the prayer again, and scuttling off to god knows where.

They continued further up the road. Hao sighed for his own feet when he saw another inn just a matter of metres away. Auron, Sarah and Hao immediately started walking towards it, shortly followed by Tidus and Lulu. Yuna, Wakka and Kimahri however, stayed put.

Auron turned to face them. "Is there a problem?" He asked them calmly.

Wakka looked shocked. "That place is ran by Al Bhed ya?" He pointed out.

Hao raised an eyebrow. "So?"

Wakka gawped at them. "But they're traitors! They don't believe in Yevon!"

Sarah looked livid with anger. "Do I look like I care what they believe?" She snapped very coldly. "I don't care if they were born from chickens, never mind what they believe. So if you have a problem with other peoples thoughts that don't suit your beliefs, then sleep outside, because personally, I need the rest!"

Wakka looked like he was about to faint. Yuna sighed and walked forward, followed by Kimahri. Wakka gave one last desperate whine, before heading in side with the rest of the group.

"You know what Wakka?" Hao smirked as he walked past him. "You were right. Sir Auron really is a great guy."

Wakka rolled his eyes. God, he really hated Yevon dissers…

Later…

Hao watched the sun set from the window of the inn. Tidus was sat outside, chatting to Yuna. He wasn't sure what they were talking about but he could see one thing. It was so obvious that those two were digging each other. He could feel it.

"Yep, cute isn't it? Pity it won't work out…" A voice jumped in. Hao jumped out of his skin. Sarah was stood next to him.

Hao frowned at her. "What do you mean?"

Sarah sighed. "I guess you haven't read about the Final Summoning yet…" She mumbled sadly. Hao gasped.

"Wait, I did read about that!" He exclaimed. "I just didn't read it through properly."

Sarah looked depressed. "You know Yuna has to die after the Final Summoning. The Final Aeon will kill her to kill sin. But, the thing I hate the most about it is, it isn't permanent."

Hao gasped. "You mean, sin will always come back?" Then he looked disgusted. "That's just pathetic! That's one more thing to put on my 'reasons to hate Yevon list. No matter what though, I know what's staying at the top of my list."

Sarah laughed, before asking, "What's at the top of the list?"

Hao narrowed his eyes and hissed with a snarl. "That new Maester."

Sarah frowned at him. "Seymour?" She looked fairly stunned. "I guess you don't know much about his past."

Hao snorted. "Sounds like you're going soft on him. Trying to stick up for him."

What really annoyed Hao was that this sentence seemed to hit Sarah hard. He distinctively saw her blush slightly.

"Come on Hao, give people a chance." She insisted, still blushing faintly.

Hao glared out of the window. "You've sooooo got a thing for him. And he so likes you."

Sarah suddenly looked highly peeved off. "Even if that was true, why do you care?"

Hao suddenly realised something. He wasn't even sure why he cared. He just tried to cover this up and snapped back, "I can just tell he's evil. I can just see it. I don't want to see anyone get hurt."

Sarah looked highly amused at this. "You know what? That is sooooo rich coming from you! From what I remember, you killed thousands of innocent people! You even tried to kill your own brother! You killed your own followers. To say Seymour is evil is like the pan calling the kettle black!"

Hao knew Sarah had a point. In fact, she'd practically retold his life story. All he'd really done was kill, all because he wanted a human free world. But here he was making friends with Tidus, the confused, but sugar rushed blitzball player, and Sarah, who had dragged him into this whole mess in the first place! Bu the way things were going now, it looked like those two were falling out big time.

Hao looked at the floor, almost ashamed. "I'm sorry…" He started but Sarah snapped, "Just, shut up!" Then she stormed out.

Hao groaned loudly and collapsed onto the bed he'd claimed. Auron walked in, smirking coolly.

Hao glared at him. "What's so amusing?" He snapped angrily.

Auron laughed. "It's sort of obvious isn't it?"

Hao frowned. "What, that she digs that freak of a Maester?"

Auron laughed again. "No, that she likes you. You two are like an old married couple."

Hao felt himself go red. "I have no idea what you're talking about." He said firmly, turning away from him.

Sarah suddenly stormed back in, nodding her head in Auron's direction, and pulled a face at Hao, before picking up her necklace and putting it back on, and heading back out.

Auron smirked when he saw Hao flaming red face. "Oh dear, I guess the so called Great Hao Asakura is going soft over a human. His spirit of fire seems to be setting his face on fire."

Hao pulled out his staff and aimed it at Auron's heart. Auron just pushed it away.

"It's nothing to be ashamed of." He insisted, before walking off. Hao growled in frustration. He did NOT like-like Sarah. On that day, hell would freeze over…

Next day…

Hao had over slept that evening. He was worried about facing Sarah that day, in case she tried getting the strange lizard thing around her necklace to bite his nose off.

He nearly jumped out of his skin when Sarah ran into the room screaming, "Hao! The chocobo's! Come on!"

Hao frowned. "What about the chocobo's?" He asked. Sarah just grabbed him and snapped. "Just come on!"

They ran outdoors, to see a gigantic fiend with the biggest mouth Hao had ever seen attacking the chocobo's. Tidus and Auron had run forward, all set for battle. Hao quickly ran up to help.

"Use fire attacks Hao. This fiend is weak against fire attacks." Auron ordered. Hao took his advice and aimed as many fire spells as he could at the fiend. The fiend lost balance and fell onto it's back.

"Shove it! Quickly!" Auron called. The three of them shoved the fiend as hard as they could. It slid across the muddy ground.

They repeated this several more times. Eventually, they knocked the big-mouthed fiend down the cliff, towards the ocean. The only thing left to prove its existence was several wandering Pyreflies.

"That wasn't… so hard…" Tidus mumbled weakly. Hao just laughed. "Just a pushover…" He threw in for good measure. They both laughed.

Sarah shook her head. "Boys…" she mumbled in annoyance. Hao frowned. What was her problem?

He got a shock when Sarah suddenly ran towards him and gave him a huge bear hug. "I'm sooooo sorry!" She cried. "I can't believe how I reacted yesterday!"

Hao once again, went horribly red. "Hey…" He mumbled nervously. "I shouldn't have taunted you like that…"

"Er… can we get going please?" Lulu asked them coolly. Sarah laughed shyly.

"My bad…" She giggled before running ahead.

Hao was still stood still, blushing. Urgh, Auron had really gotten to him. If he hadn't insisted that Hao liked Sarah, then he wouldn't be so embarrassed. Tidus hung back with him.

"Do you know what? Auron was right. You DO like that girl." He teased him. Hao looked livid with horror.

"He said that to you?" Hao screamed in anger. Tidus gulped and ran ahead. Hao stormed after them, all set to kill that old man in red…

To be continued… (If I can be bothered… .)

Once again, I'm really thankful to Dark and Light Samurai for convincing me to continue! Please review!