Years later...
"If you are happy, the hardest thing to lose is the person who made you that way."
An elemental master.An itako. A shaman prodigy.
Remember that little girl who was shunned by all? Who met up with him? She never had a place in her parents' hearts, but they had a place in hers. All she wanted was a person who would cherish her like no other. Someone who understands her more than anyone else. But no matter how hard she looked...there was no one. People simply could not understand her. She was just a tough girl outside, but from the inside she was a fragile crystal that was cracking away until it finally shatters. From that tragic moment of her life, from the moment she was born...her life was filled with uncertain paths. Paths that lead to the same place.That girl grew to the point where she changed entirely...personality,feelings..everything...That was me.
It's been years since that happened and I'm not sure if I really care anymore. Nothing in this world appeals to me anymore.Nothing. Life's nothing now, no difficulties at all. I don't know what to make out for my life. After all, my life is just one among millions of others.
Grandpa had sent me to Tokyo for "advanced" training. I, on the other hand, find it like another a way to have reprieve from the harsh training my grandpa assigns me. It is simply...bore. The same identical routine day after day. You understand don't you? It's hard for someone like me, someone that ended up as an outcast. My name is Yukiko Kasakura, the prodigy of the Kasakura family...and this is my story.
Back in my solitary childhood, my mother would tell me stories from time to time. All were of the same subject. The onmyoji, Hao Asakura. He--like all people--wanted achieve the life-long goal of becoming Shaman King.His dream:To create a shaman empire,to eliminate all humans. To save the earth. I cannot but sympathize with him. He was shunned by others for his unbelieveable dream. All see him as the source of all evil. He was in the darkness of others. He just wanted to save the world he cherishes. Why can't anyone understand? It's not hard to just to leave your thoughts behind and start afresh to understand how he feels. It's not hard. Really, it isn't. I suppose some simply cannot leave their spiteful feeling toward him behind. That's fate. Some dedicate their lives to prevent him from reaching his only dream.
My mother always told his story through the eyes of everyone else, while I viewed it through my own. After awhile, I realized Hao and I shared the same story. The same fate.
The urban city of Tokyo...its sky clouded from the smoke and gas of the city below. Staring from a towering tree, my eyes glazed over the flashing lights of the capital. I would always ask myself,why? It seems so vague, the spirits of nature, why have people forgotten them so soon? What use are shamans to the world now? Even now, only the moon remains and soon it too will hide from the earth like the stars before it.This 500 years, this century, this year. It the Shaman Fight to prove oneself above all others and attain the power of Shaman King. The dreams of the chosen one becomes reality while the other fallen ones lose theirs. The Shaman King's purpose is to mantain the stability between spirits and humans alike. In the end, only one dream survives and the other dreams will be crushed. If you lose your dream, your purpose in life, then what is the meaning of going on without any motivtation? Some die, some live on with no reason. Others become an empty shell and do nothing to achieve their only dream. But some are different, they search of new ways to make their dream come true. But I'm different from anyone else, I don't have a dream to fulfill.
It is still night, the sky is pitch black with no glimmer of the moon or stars. I lay here beneath the cloudy night sky, thinking about my lost childhood long ago, before I met him. My parents cherished me, loved me like no other. I was a perfect child and did all I could to please them. Those days,however, are long gone. I was a once loved child, and before I knew it, I was simply...abandoned.
Tomorrow is to be school which I find troublesome. But it's a chance to meet Yoh Asakura.