Chapter 6
Posted Sunday,May 7, 2006
The next morning, which just happened to be Saturday, Akiko and Hikari made their way to the room that Hiro was located in. They knocked and waited for Hiro to invite them in.
"Come in." Said Hiro, a little bit surprised that he had visitors at this hour. Akiko usually only came later during the day, after most of her rounds were done and Hikari usually only came later in the afternoon because she usually trained with Shigure in the morning; it was the same with Sundays.
To say he was surprised would be an understatement, but he was still pleased to see them.
"Akiko-san, Hi-chan! I wasn't expecting to see you until later! You brought Ken-chan too!"
"Good morning Hi-kun!" Said Hikari as she entered the hospital room and gave him a quick hug which he returned happily. She smiled at him. "Hi-kun, Kaa-san has something important to ask you."
"Akiko-san?" Asked Hiro curiously as he looked to the raven-haired woman.
"Hiro-kun, as you very well know, your body is almost completely healed from whatever happened to you before you we found you, except for your amnesia, but there is currently nothing we can do about that except to wait for your memories to return on their own." Said Akiko, sitting down on the end of the bed, hands folded in her lap as she stared at him.
Hiro nodded; yes, he knew that he was in, almost, perfect health. The doctors estimated that by the end of the week he would be able to go anywhere he wanted by his own, without anyone watching to make sure he didn't fall or anything (1).
"Well, the doctors were wondering, since there's no reason for you to stay here anymore, if you wanted to move into a foster home until your memories come back or we find your parents."
Hiros' mind froze in that instant. Leave? He thought.
"Before you make your decision though, the doctor asked me a favour. He knows that you and Hika-chan have become close friends, so he asked us if we would like to take care of you. You could come live with us, if you wanted to of course. We could also help you with your Shamanic abilities, if you'd like."
Hiro looked at Akiko then shifted his gaze to Hikari, who was giving him an encouraging smile, silently telling him that she would respect any decision he made.
It only took that smile to help him make up his mind. He turned his head to face Akiko.
"I'd like that." He said with a large, happy smile on his face.
The next afternoon they packed Hiros' things, which amount to about two small boxes and left for the Yamato household. Once there, Hikari led Hiro up the stairs to his new room, which was right across from hers.
It didn't have much by way of furniture or decoration, only a desk of drawers, a twin-sized bed in a corner with blue comforter on top and a small headboard that had a lamp and an alarm clock.
"I know it isn't much, it used to be our guest room. Kaa-san said that tomorrow we could go in town and buy some more clothes for you, maybe a poster or two if you'd like." Said Hikari as she helped unpack his things, Akiko was downstairs with Ken making lunch.
"Sure, that'd be fun." Said Hiro as he placed his small collect of clothes in the chest of drawers and Hikari hung up the rest of his clothes in the closet.
"Great! Maybe we can convince Kaa-san to buy that new Ringo CD that came out a while ago! We'll stop by the music store tomorrow and see if we find any music you might like!" Said Hikari happily as she finished unpacking at her end and waited for Hiro to finish.
"Hika-chan! Hi-kun! Lunch is ready!" Shouted Akiko from the bottom of the stairs.
"Coming Kaa-san!" Shouted Hikari from the doorway. She turned to Hiro who was staring at something in the box that had contained his personal items. "Hi-kun?"
Hiro shock his head as if to clear his head and looked at Hikari who was frowning.
"Sorry, I was thinking about something, but it doesn't matter, let's go eat lunch, it smells good. I bet it tastes better than what they had at the hospital." Joked Hiro as they walked towards the kitchen.
"ANYTHING is better than hospital food! I remember when I was little I had to stay at a hospital because I was sick. I didn't know which would happen first, me getting better or death by starvation!"
Both laughed as they made their way down the stair case.
Meanwhile, half-way across the world a young Shaman by the name of Asakura Yoh was currently sleeping in bed after another hard day of training; courtesy of one Anna Kyōyama. After coming back from the Tournament several weeks ago, Anna had put Yoh to a gruelling training schedule that made his pre-tournament training seem like a breeze as punishment for not becoming Shaman King (2).
Horohoro had returned to Hokkaido with his sister and Kororo, Ren and Jun returned to China with Bailong and Bason. Chocolove had decided to stay in the States with Mic and work on his jokes. Faust and Eliza decided to stay in Japan and open a new clinic there (Germany brought back bad memories), so they were staying at Yoh's Inn until they found a better place. Anna didn't mind it too much since they were paying rent.
Manta had gone home to his mansion with his parents none-the-wiser that he had been missing for several months, although that was probably helped by the fact that his parents weren't even living in the same house as him.
Ryu was also staying at Yoh's Inn, but as the head, and only, chef, but next year he was planning to move to America to learn how to become an expect Sushi chef. When asked why he just didn't learn here, he would shrug the question off and change topic (3).
Tamao had decided to return to Izumo with Yoh's father and continue her training with Ponchi and Conchi.
What was left of the X-Laws had disbanded and moved to England, with Lyserg returning to his now-rebuilt home.
All of Haos' supporters had vanished like dust on the wind; nobody, not even the Patch could find hide or hair of them.
Basically, Life had returned to relative normalcy after the tournament (4).
AN;
(1)The reason why it didn't take long for Hao to get the strength back in his legs was because he hadn't spent a really long time off of them, maybe a month or two, so his muscles hadn't weakened a lot. Also the reason why he was confined to bed was because he had several broken ribs. You do NOT go walking around with broken ribs – mainly because it hurts A LOT. I just wanted to clarify this so that you don't become confused.
(2)I know that some of what I'll say may be confusing, but this fic is a mix between the anime and Manga. While I'm usually a Manga purist when it comes to anime (meaning I like it when the show doesn't stray to far from the Manga version) I'm going to have to use lots of anime reference, mainly because I've since the ENTIRE anime in English AND I own the box set that has the original Japanese version, and I am only at the beginning of the second round of the Tournament in the Manga! But I do know that in the Manga Hao actually DOES become Shaman King and in the anime Hao just takes the King of Spirits.
(3)This is actually a fact, in the Manga, Ryu was originally heading to America to become a Sushi Chef, but he instead helped Manta to get to Izumo. I was always wondering WHY he was leaving, when Sushi originated in Japan.
(4)I know that the whole thing about was basically useless and nothing exciting happened, but this is just to help you know who is where and why so that in the future I don't end up confusing people (which is very likely to happen). It also helped me make my word quota!
Well, with ten minutes to go until midnight; I think I'll finish it right here, next Sunday will basically be Hikari and Hao shopping and----
Is tackled by the producers
Producer 1: SHH! Don't tell them, it'll be bad for the ratings!
SFT: MMPH! (Help!)
Producer 2: Silver Fox Trot does NOT own Shaman King; if she did, the world would have exploded.
SFT; Glares at producers MMHPP MHHHHP MP MMMHHHHPP! (I'll have my revenge!)
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