Trickster Damsel

5. Hidden truth

You leaned against the wall and didn't really listen what Hikaru was mumbling by himself but one sentence surprised you. '' So he loses to people other than Sai.'' Hikaru's words kept repeating in your head. When he entered corridor where you were at you couldn't help but hide and quietly followed him outside.

After while of following him, it clearly seemed like he was speaking with someone whom you could not see as he wasn't speaking to phone either and the only one reasonable reason would be, that he was haunted by Heia's little brother Sai. After all Hikaru mentioned his name earlier. If only you would have accepted Heia's fan you wouldn't have trouble making sure of this.

{Flashback}

'' Oh and one more thing.'' Heia said raising her hands, holding her fan on them, '' Take this with you. You could be able to see Sai with this. It works both ways. Human holding this can see remaining Fujiwara ghosts and Fujiwara ghosts holding this can be seen by living Fujiwara's. If you happen to meet him teach lesson to him in my place.'' Heia said with gentle smile. Even though she said to teach him lesson, it seemed that Heia loved her brother very much but you didn't take her fan.

'' No, this is very important to you right ? I cannot take it and if he really is so remarkable player as you say then I will surely hear of him some day.'' You said.

{Flashback end's}

You weren't really sure could you make your presence known but in the end you decided to do this for Heia's sake. You stopped hiding and walked to Hikaru.

'' Oh Yuna !'' Hikaru yelled in surprise seeing you standing behind him.

'' Hello Hikaru and Sai.'' You greeted them with sweet smile. Hikaru was shocked and he started panic about what to do.

'' um... Who is Sai ?'' He plainly asked but you saw right through his lie, because you had handled people in past who were such liars.

'' I have some questions to him; if he says something can you tell me, because I cannot see him right now at all.'' You said still holding your sweet smile and Hikaru panicked even more but then nodded, probably Sai asked him to listen you.

'' Firstly I could introduce myself with name, which Sai too knows. Nice to meet you Sai, I am Saya Fujiwara's Daughter, Yuna Fujiwara and Maria Luna Esmond. Then secondly does name Heia ring the bell ?'' You introduced yourself to the ghost you didn't see but now that you knew you sensed his presence.

You wrote your address down to the paper and handed it to Hikaru who stood still shocked. '' Here is my address. When you feel like it come to visit me and Heia too.'' You said as you gave Hikaru the paper and left

'' Fujiwara...? Then is she-'' Hikaru was about to ask but he got cut off by Sai.

'' Yes and Heia is my sister. Seems like Heia was the one who told her about me but for this Yuna girl to be able to find me without Heia's fan is quite remarkable.'' Sai said with mysterious smile.

At the same time in Yuna's house she was telling Heia about her day and the fact, that she had already found Sai.

'' Did you teach him lesson I asked you to ?'' Heia asked smiling in little evil way.

'' Sorry I didn't but I gave them my address so you can do that yourself when they come.'' You answered to Heia.

'' And what, if they don't ?'' Heia asked little disappointed

'' Then I just have to make them come.'' You answered with wicked smile and Heia laughed thinking that you were Maya's daughter after all.

Then Heia asked you question, which you didn't expect ''Are you sad with not being able to become pro ?'' While asking that she looked you with serious eyes.

You kept quiet as you started to think, because you had never thought about becoming pro but something made you nod.

'' I see. Which is more important to you being able to play strong opponents or being famous as you, if you were Pro ?'' Heia kept asking.

'' Being able to play strong opponents, of course !'' You answered without thinking. After all you were already fed up with being famous in America as you were daughter of Richard carl Esmond.

'' Then you don't have any problems, just get disguise and go do it.'' Heia said smiling.

'' Oh... How come I didn't think of that ?'' You asked while being dumbfounded as you had done that many times before but didn't think of it when you really needed to. Remembering, that you had bought one of your disguises with you, you ran back to your room looking for it.

'' Found em !'' you yelled as you picked up blonde wig along with some boys clothes. This could work you thought as you changed your make up, clothes and put blonde wig on your head hiding your long almond brown hair.

Actually you had disguised yourself as a boy many times in America, when you wanted to get away from your father and maids who were looking for you as your father was way too overprotective and didn't let you wander around the city without Sarah. You had tried girly disguise too but Sarah and your father saw through it somehow and that's why you had to cross-dress. Luckily you didn't have that big chest, so you were able to hide it with some bandages and your femine figure was hidden with little big and baggy boys shirts along with long scarf, which hid your neck.

When you were little, you were taught all kind of things and one of them was how to apply different kinds of make-up. That's why you were able to make yourself look more like boy but even make up wasn't able to hide your pretty face, which made you look like pretty boy or bishounen with boyish make up.

The golden blonde wig reached to your middle neck and it was messy but the sides and back were kind of spikey. It also had bangs divided into three parts, two of them going on both sides of your face, they were longer than the hair on back and one went between your eyes but didn't reach your nose. The scarf you wore right now was cream coloured and wrapped around your neck.

Shirt you had on was plain gray coloured with short sleeves as you had long black vest over your gray shirt with longer but ripped black sleeves. For your pants you had black skinny jeans and on your feet you had normal black converse sneakers.

Even though you loved girly things you didn't hate that kind of clothing either and this was your favourite disguise. It was easy to maintain as it was close to your own story and you had used this one quite many times, so it was easy to maintain.

Your alias Aka Takao Ryuunosuke whose Japanese mother had died when he was young and his father who was still alive was busy businessman.

You had added the Japanese mother part, because of your slim figure and perfect Japanese accent.

Only thing left was to get someone play your father. After all becoming Insei needed parents approval and as your ''Father'' was busy businessman, so it would work, if you got someone to play your father and to agree when the person in charge of Insei exams calls him with the number you give.

First person who came to your mind was Eric. He was one of your best friends in America and also liked to play Go, so he would understand your situation. Eric is two years older than you, 17 meaning that he already got his voice changed and sounded like adult now. You didn't want to deal with all explanations but right now you didn't have much of choice. Searching his number in your phone you then decided to call him as it wasn't that late in America as it was in japan now.

'' Maria ! Are you okay ? I heard that you left America.'' Eric was yelling at the other side of phone making you move the phone away from your ear until he decides to calm down and after while yelling he did.

'' Err... Hello and yeah I'm now in japan but don't dare to say anyone anything I am about to tell you now. Actually I called you because I need favour.'' You said to him.

'' Is that the way you ask someone favour ? Firstly threatening them... So what is this favour you need ?'' Eric laughed at the other side of phone but then sighed in relief that you were all right and haven't changed at all.

'' You know me. I need you to act as father of Takao Ryuunosuke, since you know about my alias and you sound like adult.'' You explained.

'' Oh god. For what ?'' Eric asked, his voice showing, that he wasn't very excited about this idea of acting as father.

'' I need parents approval for insei exam.'' You explained.

'' Y-You what ?'' Eric shouted, which nearly made you deaf.

'' Well do you agree to help me or not ?'' You asked being little bored of his over reactions already.

'' Guess I have to.'' He answered.

'' Thanks.'' You simply said as you closed the call and sighed in relief, that you got Eric helping you with your plan.

Then you remembered leaving Heia alone in the Goban room without saying anything, so you decided to head back to where she was. Your laptop was there too with her.

''...Yuna, Is that you ?'' The confused ghost asked as you entered room where you had been earlier before you went to get your disguise.

'' Yeah. Do you like my disguise ?'' You asked from her with grin.

'' Well.. I said disguise but was cross-dressing required ?'' Heia asked while looking at you with astonishment shown on her face.

'' It is. Some inseis already saw my face and father sees through my girly disguises.'' You answered.

'' Nice disguise, wouldn't guess that you're the same girl, that was here some minutes ago but why did you cover everything else but not your eye color ?'' Heia asked.

'' I don't like contact lenses and they aren't really needed, besides I like my own eye color.'' You answered and opened your laptop. Signing in as Lunatica.

Not many second passed until you got challenge, which you declined. In internet Go it was remarkable how fast good players were noticed even though you created this nick only two days ago. You snapped out of your thoughts as you saw familiar name challenging you, ''Zelda'' and you didn't decline this one.

The game went by for while as you were taking it easy to see what he was capable of doing. You had to give him some credit for getting much better in short while but still not good enought to beat you, because you too had gotten a lot better when you learned some old tricks from Heia and Zelda too noticed this.

Now that you knew what he was capable of you weren't interested anyone and attacked the territory, which he hadn't protected and was attacking instead. What a fool he was thinking, that you wouldn't see this and so the game ended.

''Zelda - Are you Sai ?''

How did Zelda know about Sai ? You wondered and decided to ask.

''Lunatica - No I' am not but who is this Sai you speak of ?''

''Zelda - During summer there was very strong internet Go player with nickname Sai.''

''Lunatica - I see but what made you think that we are same person ?''

''Zelda - You have many similar movements with Sai and you're both strong.''

''Lunatica - Well too bad for you, cause I am not this Sai you speak of.''

''Zelda - Then who are you ?''

''Lunatica - Who knows''

Saying that you closed your computer and went to your bedroom. Before you went to sleep, you removed your make up and changed to your snow white pyjama. While thinking about your plan for tomorrow you slowly fell asleep...

~Tyragosa