The Love that Transcends a Thousand Years

--By sukishippo

Disclaimer: I do not own Hikaru no Go, Yumi Hotta does. Haiz

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Chapter 5:

A web of darkness engulfed him as he fell into an abyss of darkness.

There was nothing in that empty space, except for darkness and coldness.

He was falling…falling through the place where there was no light, no life, only loneliness…

"Hikaru, Hikaru…can you hear me?"

Hikaru opened his eyes slightly with all the strength that he could muster, as he had thought that he had heard Sai calling him. As his mind had slowly gotten accustom to his surrounding, he felt that he was falling through a dark endless tunnel.

His slightly dazed eyes look around him and only saw…nothing…just blackness….darkness…

'Where am I?' Hikaru thought to himself, as he tried to contemplate his location.

"Hikaru…Hikaru…do not worry, you are safe…"

"Sai! Sai! Is that you?" Hikaru called out as he tried to find Sai. He rolled his body around in the vacuum space, looking out anxiously for the ghost.

"Where are you Sai? I can't see you!" Hikaru shouted out desperately, "And where the heck am I?"

'Hush, Hikaru...you just have to reach the end of this portal, and everything will be revealed...'

"What?! What portal? SAI!!!!" Hikaru shouted in distress as Sai's voice became too soft to be heard when he fell through a spot of blinding bright light, reaching the end of the portal…

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Hikaru raised his hand in front of his face as he tried to block the blinding sunlight that was shining in his face.

He peeked through his fingers as he assessed his surroundings, and also letting his eyes to be accustomed to the bright light as he stood on the grass.

Next to his right, there is a pond, where Kois swam freely, there is also an artificial waterfall (connected to the pond) which was made by artfully piled rocks where water flowed into the pond.. On his left, there are potted Bonsais, aligning some parts of the pathway. All in all, it is a typical Japanese courtyard, but a very beautiful one indeed.

Hikaru was admiring the sparkling waterfall, when he was startled by the sounds of running feet.

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A young girl wearing a black traditional kimono, burst suddenly into the courtyard, and cried, "Semei sama! Semei sama! Please, I need to see you!"

Hikaru looked frantically for a place to hide, when a middle-aged woman (also wearing a traditional kimono) slided open a rice-papered wooden-framed door of one of the rooms in the big house. She walked down the stairs and onto the pathway.

'Oh crap! They saw me' Hikaru closed his eyes in fear as he prepared himself to be called a 'thief' and get caught.

Minutes passed when Hikaru realized that no one paid him any notice. And that the girl and the woman were talking on the pathway.

'Am I that insignificant?' mused Hikaru as he shifted his attention towards the girl and the middle-aged woman.

"Please! I need to see Semei sama now! It is urgent!" The girl cried as she shook the arms of the woman.

"But Semei sama is busy at the moment, he does not like anyone to disturb him when he is in the middle of his work." The woman replied worriedly.

"Please! Can you help me ask if he could spare me some time. I really need his help!" The girl pleaded pitifully.

"All...right, I will give it a try." The woman said as she turned to walked back into the house.

"Thank you so much!" The girl said gratefully, as she watched the woman make her way back to the room.

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Hikaru continued to stare at the young girl as he found her to be very familiar.

'Now where have I seen her before….especially one as cute as her…' Hikaru was scrutinizing the young girl whose age looks around 9 to 10 years old, when he heard the scuffling of robes on the floor.

He turned his glance towards the person who was at the back of him and saw a man in his thirties walking towards the girl's and his direction.

'Hmm…Is that man wearing the robes of an Onmyouji (Japan priest in the past--I think…) ?' Hikaru pondered when something suddenly clicked in his mind.

'What!!?? All this looks like a setting in ancient Japan. What and where is this place?!' Hikaru pulled his hair in frustration.

"Hey! Can anyone tell me where and what this place is?" Hikaru walked bravely to the front of the two people and tried to ask them.

"Hey! Hello! Hello?" Hikaru said as he waved his arms vigorously in front of them but the two people were still ignorant of his presence.

'It seems as they can't see me' Hikaru thought to himself, then he looked at his body and found that his body is pretty translucent, which freaked him out.

'What!! Am I a ghost now? NOO!!!!'

'Arggg Who cares!!!I don't care anymore!!' Hikaru thought in frustration. He does not want to think anymore, as there are just too many weird things that had happened today.

Hikaru turned his attention back to the girl and the Onmyouji and caught onto what they were saying.

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"Please Semei sama, you have got to help me! You are the only person in the whole of Japan that will be able to!" The girl pleaded, with her tears on the brink of falling.

The Onmyouji looked intensely at the girl before saying:

"I understand what you would like me to do, but I do not have a solution for that, Hikaru hime."

This caused Hikaru to stare in shock at the girl.

'WHAT?!The girl is also named Hikaru? Wait a minute…she is the girl in my dreams! No wonder she is so familiar!'

"So I am now currently in my dream?!" exclaimed Hikaru.

His thoughts were broken when the girl started speaking again.

"I do not care! I 'll do anything to help Sai onisan! It does not matter what it takes, as long as Sai onisan can live happily once more."

"Semei sama, you can help me right? Sai… You can bring him back to life again right?!"

"There is no spell or formula that can revive a dead man back to the living, this you should have known." The Onmyouji said coldly.

"There should be! Aren't you Sai onisan's best friend? You should help him right?! You should help him fulfill his dream, and bring him away from his unhappiness. There is a way right……?" Her words drowned off as she saw the stoic and expressionless face that the Onmyouji had.

"Please help him… you are his only hope…" The girl sobbed as she fell onto the ground, her legs unable to support her any longer.

The Onmyouji's face soften and sadness flicker across his face for a second, but the girl was not able to see it as her head was bowed towards the ground.

"I will try my best to help Fujiwari; you should go back now Hikaru hime, I will need to research first. You can come back at midnight where it is more suited to work spells." The Onmyouji said as he helped her back to her feet.

"Miyoko san, please show her the way." The Onmyouji passed the girl to the woman from before and walked back into the house.

"Hikaru hime let's go" Miyoko san said as she helped the girl walk towards the exit.

Hikaru can only see their backs for a brief moment before everything turned black and started spinning.

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"Not...Not again!!!" Hikaru shouted, but almost as sudden as it started, it stopped.

Hikaru steady himself quickly, and when he was alright, he take a look at his surrounding.

'Isn't this the same place? Only that it is at night.' Hikaru thought.

It is still the same place where Hikaru had landed the previous time, only that it is pitched dark, and the only source of light was the light emitting from the house.

A door of one of the many rooms suddenly opened and the Onmyouji came out.

"So, you finally came." The Onmyouji said to the open night.

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Author's note:

Hello again :).

So how is this chapter? Does that makes you understand more of Hikaru's past life or does it only make you confused? (I think it is the latter :p )

I'm a little evil aren't I :p. Leaving you all on a cliffy…

Well never fear! Cause superman is here!

"Bang!!"

Got hit by a very huge Go board…………