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Confused MemoriesChapter 4. Friends?
I walked on… there wasn't much goal in my life as I thought of what I will do after the Shaman Fight. What will be the outcome I did not wan to think so much. The truth will reveal itself when the time is ripe…I'm sure it will…
The moon shone. I have wasted much time in the desert, and had rested long enough, so I decided that night isn't the time to rest again but carry on. "HEY GUYS! Wait up! I think I saw the guy, which I lost to in the preliminary matches! Yo Lyzerg! Is that you?" Someone was calling up for me? I looked up and saw the face of Horo Horo. I didn't even realize that I had already made a friend without knowing. He was with a group of people… Wow. He must have made friends fast. "Hey Lyzerg. These are some of my friends. Yoh, Chocolove,Fruast and Ren. Don't mind Ren. He is too much of a grouch. Anyway, what are you doing here all alone? We're waiting for Ryu. He dashed off to look for a mirror when the wind blow against his hair. But he never returned! Lyzerg, are you ok? You don't look to good…"
"You mean that proud and mean guy…killed Ryu?" Happy or go lucky he might be, but fiercely loyal to a friend… that's what I thought about him, my second impression. My first impression, which was his ''rash-ness'' disappeared within me. He looks so upset, perhaps I'm the reason, why, a good friend of him has deceased. I'm sorry…Horo Horo.
Just then, the others snap out of the trance, whether they like it or not, it was back to the cold and cruel facts. Someone, which is dead, can never be revive… Ren snorted and said nothing. The silence was haunting. Yoh continued walking on, so quiet. A slacker, he might be, but no one knows what goes on through his mind, but I must say, that the answer is, he actually thinks a lot, despite his daily 'relaxing periods'.
Fruast, all I can say that, his one loyal lover…
Days fly by, the topic about Ryu, was never brought up, they treated me as a friend, but as THEIR friend, I thought I should leave them, so as not to bring trouble to them. Perhaps that's true friendship, you would rather sacrifice yourself for the others… But, even if I'm walking by myself, I know I'll not be alone, I've my friends…
I left that when they were asleep. It'll be too hard to part with them face to face. I was once again walking all by myself, aimlessly? No. I have a goal. That is to find Him, to ensure myself that He will NEVER hurt my friends again, never. I looked around the town I was in, currently. Strange… there seems to be no shamans at all. Or was it that I couldn't sense them? Could I be lost? Something strange about this town… Something very strange…and I was about the find out, in the worst type of 'style' there would ever have.
I pushed open the door of the nearest inn I could find. When I entered, I gasped. There was someone, lying on the ground, with a pool of blood. And there was He. Why was he killing the innocent? They are not even shamans! Their just normal people, minding their own business! How could He? He noticed me and smiled. How can he still smile after he had done such a thing? His inhuman! As though reading my thoughts like a book, he simply replied, "They said that shamans are not allowed in this inn. I wanted to make sure you have someplace to stay at. I can't leave you wondering all alone in the alley… So this person will have to DIE. Anyone who opposes me and hurt you in anyway will come to a no good end." "You're hurting me in another way…" I muttered. Its not like I'm his wife or anything… Why does he care so much about me? Just then, I thought flash me.
The picture I saw in the hut! The lady with green hair, that looks a bit like me. The words, carved on it. H. A. Could it stands for Hao Asakura? What does He have to do with that lady that resembles me? If I could discover the answer, everything would have been linked and the whole case would be solved. Would it? It all didn't matter now. If I don't find out, more people could get hurt. I must find the answer. Be the shaman king or not doesn't matter anymore. I just wanted the answer.
I know that these isn't the time to chicken out, but I had had to return to Britian. If I didn't see things, I'm quite sure there is someone which looked like the lady in the picture. If only I had not fell asleep during the history of my family, things would have been clearer. But do I have time to return to my homeland and come back? Most probably I would implicate more people. As I thought of these, I thought of my friends. Friends, the most precious things to have, next to family. I wonder what they are doing. Its been 1 whole day…
Meanwhile…
"Lyzerg is missing,gone…"
"Got a problem with that? I knew it. Just couldn't trust him. He might be a spy of some opponents…"
"Don't be so mean! I knew you treated him like a friend. You just don't want to be too disappointed"
"If you didn't sleep like a log, you would have…"
"Cut it out" Yoh sighed. "This is not a time for quarrelling. Break it up will you? He might just went to somewhere… I believe we will find him along the way! Buck up guys! I could feel that we are reaching the 2nd stop of the Shaman Fight. We might be able to meet him there. He could have been too impatient so, he probably went off first… Let's go!" Even as Yoh said that, no one was convinced. They never actually understood him, but nevertheless, he was their friend, and they will try all they can to protect him. They didn't want to lose something precious to them…like before…
"Ryu…"
Author's Note: I knew this chapter came way too late. Hope no one had forgotten me P Please review!
