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"sir you are too kind to me I will be fine I do not require any money and I'm not hungry I will just stay here and wait to see how Mulan is doing"

"alright then I'm off" he said as he moved slowly with his cane the old man may be the size of my knee but his heart is ten times the size of me Shangthought as he watched the small old man walk away and he closed the door and was about to walk back to the healing room when just when he came in front of the old woman Kaede opened the door holding a new mans robe for him "here cover up you will catch a cold if not besides it's not proper for you to walk around like that" she said as she handed him the robe and then slammed the door in his face again. Shang smiled at this but then thought of Mulan she must be in so much pain right now he thought as he took the clothing and went back to the room the old man had given him and went behind the screen and changed into the dark brown clothing it had a dark brown top with dark brown pants and there was a holder for a sword on his waist this is old but why would there be a holder for a sword on this it seems like a simple clothing I don't even think my sword from the army will fit in this it's rounded just perfectly as if the sword had to fit just right. That's odd. He ended his thoughts there and went to go sit in front of the door again to wait passionately to hear of Mulan's condition. Hours past quickly but Shang did not move soon enough he felt a tap on his shoulder from behind. Shang looked behind him to see Miro with a smile on his face this old man must be senile or something to be so happy and smiling all the time Shang thought

"there is a temple at the back of the house why don't you go back there and pray for her sitting here isn't helping her" Miro said

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"I guess your right" Shang said as he stood up and walked to the front outside and walked to the back not knowing where the back door was and just when he reached the back he saw a large temple probably one of the finest he ever saw in his life he walked over hesitantly and moved the door to the side and walked in it was clean and perfect It had waxed floors and insencts everywhere stones all around a place where a little pillow was to sit on each stone read something different with a different symbol on it the middle on said LOVE the one next to that one on the right said PEACE the next one says HEALTH and the last one said PROTECTION

this is an odd temple no ancestors or anything in here it's as if he's praying out of thin air and it will come hey what's that? Shang thought as he looked about the Temple then he saw all the way in front of the temple hanging high on the wall with flowers around and many inscents was another stonr marked with the word THE DEAD maybe they had someone close to them die for them to do that. What the hell am I doing here I am in a temple ment to pray while Mulan fights for her life god do I get side tracked easily Shang thought as he walked back over to the cushion with four praying stones around it and sat down calmly and put his head to the floor facing HEALTH and started to pray and plead for Mulan's recovery.

Hours later

Shang had not stopped praying and pleading with the stones and his ancestors to help Mulan live when he felt a tap on his back startling him. He jumped a bit and turned to see Miro with his little cane no smile on his face though this time.

"Miro?" he asked looking at him wondering why he had pulled him out of his prayers he doesn't have a smile on his face did something happen to Mulan?

"Shang come inside for something to eat you will make yourself weak if you do not eat."

"I'm not hungry But is Mulan alright?"

"Starving yourself won't help her Shang"

"What happened to Mulan?"

"Nothing Shang my wife has not come out of the healing room yet your fiance must be very injuried to be in there for many hours...but you must eat Shang when she gets well you will be weak."

"I know but I'm not hungry and I'm not even tired it's almost three in the morning and all I want to do is pray. I can't feel anything, do you know what it's like to feel such worry for just one person I mean I'm a general I'm responcible for over thousands of men and i….i don't worry as much as I am now I feel like I want to kill myself with so much worry I have in me. it's killing me Miro!" Shang said as he closed his eyes tears almost forming in his eyes.

"Aye I have felt such worry for just one person… my wife you see I came from Japan many years back before you were born years. You see one of the reasons me and Kaede left Japan was because I was a very good swordsmen I was once known as the legendary Batousi if you haven't heard of him then maybe you'll know the story of the man that killed the most Samurai of the different side of the Fushigi war? That was me and I made enemies lots of them I was the strongest out of ever Samuri in Japan so you beat me you gain the title frankly I didn't like the title I didn't really care about it really I was just trying to do my job as a Samurai and win for what I believed in. But one day after the war the title was still mine and I came home from the market one day and blood covered the walls of my little home up in the mountains. There was so much blood on the walls and floors that it was all I could smell I ran through out the house ((whatever they are called)) calling out Kaedes name but there was no answer but there in the backyard….."

"What was it her?"

"No….. thank the Buddha it wasn't all our animals laid there dead on the ground they were all torn up as if on purpose to make it die slow and painfully and In Japan that's a sign saying that's what I'm going to do to someone you know personally we have many meanings. Well soon I started to fear the worst of Kaede and of our son Inochi our two month old son. But there I saw him onto of our family horse he'd been cut up in so many ways and at such a young age but Kaede was no place to be seen soon enough I found out someone had taken her I killed him just as slow as I saw how my son had died and nearly Kaede. I made him pay for every life he took but I didn't find Kaede till a few months after the incident at my home worry consumed me every day."

"I'm so sorry" Shang said after hearing the tale of Miro's life "but if such bad things you have witnessed and done upon others and those close you have lost how can you smile?"

"I smile because after everything that bad happens something good always does sure there will be tuff times but there will be a time where you can look back at them and laugh. I know it sounds like I never cared about my son but I did but after his death and everything was settled the man was dead Kaede got pregnant again with two babies they have moved away now but those two the boy Ruini looked just like my first son I will never forget about the people that I have killed or my son but living my life shows I am showing my penance to them that I am sorry" Miro said as for once the smile left his face.

"you are a very strong man to be able to live after all of that" Shang said "you have my utter most respect for you." Shang said as he stood and bowed to him

"don't I don't deserve it"

I know it was short but i don't know what to write really i'm sorry i'll update as soon as possible

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