Chapter 4: time before leaving part 2

Yoh pov

My parents continued to talk and jabber at me for why I wanted to go to Tokyo of all places. Also how I would be abandoning the family, for my friend.

"That's not true I am not abandoning you guys. Lufix needs good friends because he is going to be alone. You guys have each other and I am barley home you wouldn't even notice if I was gone. Also-"

"THAT'S NOT TRUE!" My dad snapped at me. "We notice all the time when you are not home and we miss you dearly. What would happen if we don't have our younger son to look after?" The whole family nodded in agreement.

I sighed in defeat. "If you guys truly know what was good for me you would let me go. It is only for a year. If you don't let me go then maybe if you guys die what will happen to me and if I never knew how to take care of myself?"

"Alright you can go but you have to be home sometime next year or if there is a problem, also stay close with Lufix he may have a disease because of his strange hair liking but he knows his ways in life." Everyone stared at him oddly.

"Its Pink and purple for god sakes who dyes there hair pink and purple and streaks it orange!" he was spa zing out at all of us at one of my best friends hair color then it hit me he dyed it?

"Umm excuse me dad?" He looked at me waiting to hear my words. "Did you say he dyed it?" "Yes." "He didn't dye it he was born with it like that and he has tried to dye it before but nothing works so he blames everything on the hair." That shut him up good. I scratched the back of my head in the embarrassment of my father; my brother would have actually laughed his head off if he had seen this.

Then I realized brother. My brother had left the table early for some unknown reason. I knew something was wrong he usually was the last one to leave the table so he could wash the dishes. "Where is Hao gone? Is he not feeling well or is he just worried about tomorrow?" The room fell to a dead silence at my question. After that silence I knew something was defiantly was wrong.

"What happened to Oni-chan." I started to demand an answer like my brother usually had when he was pissed off. I had also dared to call him Oni-chan in front of our parents. Mom was the one to have answered me.

"Hao took a little spill this mourning with your father. You do not have to worry he is a strong man he can handle himself it's not like he has feelings. But later on do you think you can go upstairs and tell him that the dishes are ready for him we will be going to a movie tonight, so its all his when we are gone. Your friends Tamao and Lufix are coming over tonight also aren't they? Yohmei and Kino will be coming with Mikihisa and I so they will not bother you and your friends."

Mom stood up along with the rest of them and started to depart toward to door for the movie theatre. They had left the front door and closed it gently behind them. They left me standing there in shock. "O-Oni-chan took a spill… with dad?"

My heart started to race. "Dad was fine at dinner so if dad is fine then Oni-chan is.. Not. But he said in my room he was fine?" I started to run towards the stairs and dash towards my brothers' room. I burst through his door nearly busting through it. "ONI-CHAN!" I studied the room seeing a medical kit laying there in the middle of the floor with blood stains on the hard wood floor. I continued staring at it. My eyes then led me to my brother lying on the edge of his own room unconscious. His stomach's side was looking to be split open but it had been wrapped heavily in bandages and ointment to heal it.

"ONI-CHAN! ONI-CHAN!" I hurriedly sped off towards my brother. I grabbed his wrist and checked for a pulse I had found one instantly I felt relived. My brother had taught me, a number of things on what to do if you were hurt or if someone else was hurt. I repeated one of the lessons that he had gave me if you found someone seriously injured and unconscious.

"Step one check for a pulse. Step 2 look for signs of open wounds and scan there body to see if they were alright." I scanned his body only finding that waist injury and an unearthly wound on his shoulder was all. Everything else was in perfect shape. "Step 3 Try and wake them up as soon as possible like slap them or something. Try to give them more pain to get them to focus on that pain."

I don't want to hurt him though. He is my brother. I gently pinched his cheek and fiddled with his eyes trying to get them to stay open by there own. It failed. "If all else fails drag the wounded carefully into an open space and yell and scream for help." I picked him up by the legs and carefully dragged him into the center of the room. I then left the room running as fast as my legs could carry me.

"Nice time to go out to a movie mom, Dad!" As soon as I had got to the bottom floor the bell rang at the front door. I ran towards the front door it was my friends I had completely forgot that they were coming over today! I opened the door. "Hi there Yoh!" "Good evening Yoh-kun" I grabbed Lufix's hand and Tamao's as soon as I had shut the door and they had gotten off there shoes.

I pulled them all the way into my brothers' room and pointed panting at my brother lying sprawled out helplessly on the floor. "Holy shirt Yoh what happened!" That was all Lufix could say from his mouth. Tamao was silent and scared. "Who the hell did this to him! And when!" "I don't know" I breathed. I watched Lufix approach my brother with caution as I held onto Tamao tightly because I knew she did not like the sight of wounds or blood.

Lufix knew a lot about wounds cause his sister was going to be a doctor someday so she knew a lot of medical knowledge. Uriko's thoughts and speech went directly into Lufix's head so it was like he knew all this stuff but he had no clue what he was doing.

I watched him helplessly from about a meter distance while clutching Tamao. Her head was buried into my chest. I watched Lufix touch the wounds and analyze all of them.

After a few minutes of panic he stood up from my brother and walk towards me and Tamao. "He just fainted from blood loss. My sister complements you on how well you did the bandaging." I looked up at him in confusion. "I didn't do it he must have before he fainted." "Oww that must have been pretty rough if I ever got those wounds I would be yelling and screaming my lungs off.

Your brother must have kept calm and did what he needed to do until he gave out." I nodded and stood up with Tamao. We then walked out of the room. "We should give him some privacy we can check up on him from time to time."

"Alright that sounds awesome Yoh I will leave Uriko in here to keep an eye on him so he does not move much." "Alright that's even better!"

I smiled so big that it hurt my jaw. It felt like it was going to become unhinged any moment. We left the room and when we reached the kitchen Tamao started to speak. "I am sorry that I am not very good with wounds and blood." "Its alright Tamao I am not very fond of it myself." I scratched the back of my head. "Yoh you don't seem to have a hangover anymore." Lufix observed me well. "Hmm your right after I got home and went to sleep a few minutes I woke up with a clear head."

"But Yoh-kun I watched you at the party very closely you had 20 drinks last night it should have been 20 hours of hangover. But it has only been 11.5."

"Hmm maybe your brother has something to do with it. You told me once he knows a lot of shaman spells that help others right?"

"Ya now that you mention it he does when I awoke he was standing over me with his hand on my forehead pretending to be checking for a fever!" I observed.

"Yes and maybe that's what drained him of his body energy to deal with his wounds." We all sat there putting together the pieces. "Oh and my mom said that I can go because they were already going to send my brother there." It was a complete silence after that until Lufix spoke.

"WHOA YOH YOU JUST LIKE CHANGED THE SUBJECT FOR LIKE NO REASON! But yay that's wonderful that you can go." He went from scary to nice in a matter of seconds.

I saw the yellow dragon behind my bright red shirted friend. "Ahhhhhh!" I screamed completely forgetting that, that was his sister Uriko. My scream made everyone scream startling them. Uriko just burst out laughing at our stupidity and Tamao's easy startling and easy blushing ability. "What is it Uriko?" Lufix barley managed to speak.

"Younger brother, Hao is awake and is coming downstairs."

"Alright but is it alright for him to be walking already? His wounds are pretty bad" While Lufix was speaking I noticed this black shadow come from out behind the yellow dragon.

"I assure you Lufix I am perfectly fine now. All that happened was the scab burst." Everyone was startled at my brother's sudden appearance even Uriko. We all jumped back breathing heavily at this. He walked out from the shadows and replaced the spot on which Uriko was standing at. He was as emotionless as ever and had dark shadows out from under his eyes from the strain that he was putting his body through. I decided to speak up before Lufix or Uriko decided to put him back to bed to get some rest.

"Oni-chan how did you get those wounds and when did you? Also how did you hide it from me so well?" I stopped my interrogation to let him speak.

"Mikihisa did it just this mourning, just after you had left for school. He has been plotting this for some time. How do I know? I read his mind at dinner time. Also I did not do a very good job at hiding it from you when I was going down the stairs and kneeing at the dinner table, you should have been more assertive and been able to recognize when someone is injured. But you did kind of get it by continuing by questioning me if I was fine."

Lufix now stepped into this conversation. "But why didn't your parents look after you? Why did they harm you instead?"

"That is an easy question in there eyes compared to Yoh I am nothing but a nuisance. Anyway what happens, happens. Anyway, I am going out for a bit if you need me I will be in the backyard." I watched my big brother once again disappear into the darkness of the hallway. "Alright then where do Tamao and I sleep tonight Yoh?" Lufix started to get a more enlightened conversation going. "You are sleeping over tonight?" "Yea duh that's why Tamao and I brought our stuff…. Hey where is our stuff?"

He looked at Tamao and she just shook her head and blushed. My brother once again came out of the darkness of the hallway. "Hey." He through 2 large suitcases towards us. "I nearly died tripping on these."

He then turned and left us for the darkness again. We sat there in silence thinking about all that had happened tonight.

To be continued….

Author note: My hands my beautiful hands they are dead DEAD! Look at them! (Points to fingers!) They are on fire! ahem I shall get started on Hao's life tomorrow or tonight if I feel like it. (Evil laughter fills the air) ahem I hoped you are enjoying this story

Chibiazn3: I hope you like the length of this chapter it took me 4 hours

Zeke Yoh Asakura: I hope you also enjoy, PS when are you are updating the story "is Lyserg crazy?" I can't wait anymore! You are going to kill me! AHHhhhhhhhhhhh……..

Too late

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