Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King
Sorry folks, for taking an incredible amount of time to update, you probably heard loads of time that people are too busy with work, the case for me is that i had absolutely no inspiration to write, and might be leaving the fanfiction fandom soon, as I'm starting to not find writing that interesting, but who knows? I will be finishing Anna's Sister 3
I hope you enjoy chapter 5, even though it's short
Ren sat there contemplating as he watched over his fiancée's sleeping form. A gentle tap on the window alerted him of Phoenix and Dragon outside. He slid the window open allowing them to enter. /Ren are you alright/ Phoenix asked, genuinely concerned. "Yes." He replied absent-minded, twirling his hand in his lover's locks. His thoughts strayed back to the earlier incident on the roof. What was going on? The look in his lover's eyes almost broke his heart in two, it was like Ren had never existed in her eyes.
"Mmmm?" he looked down to see his lover shifting, "Ren?" She moved into a sitting position, groaning slightly, Ren moved closer to her. "You feel troubled, Ren." Kita mumbled, lightly placing her hand on Ren's cheek. He sighed and clasped his hand over hers. "It's nothing, Kita. Go back to sleep."
"I'm not tired, Ren. I just have a slight migraine." She muttered, she moved to get up. "What are you doing?" Ren asked worried. She swayed slightly, "I'm going to the roof." She answered, "I need the air up there."
"No!" Ren answered, a little too quickly. She turned half confused, "Kita, if you have a headache, don't go on the roof, you might fall again!" She smiled wearily, "I won't, I have Dragon and Phoenix, remember?" She made to move again towards the door, Ren grabbed her hand tightly, and pulled her towards him.
"Ren? You're acting weird." She muttered, her eyes furrowing in confusion. Secretly she wanted to know desperately, and was almost tempted to read his mind, but every time she did she would always encounter a thought she didn't want to see about the person. It had always led to unwanted situations.
"It's nothing much, Kita. You have a headache, go back to sleep." Ren reassured, giving her a chaste kiss on the forehead. She nodded and pulled the startled Ren into the futon with her. As he opened to mouth to question, she placed a finger on his lips. "Please, be beside me." Numbly, he nodded, whether or not, her strange request had resided in his mind, he went along anyway, being next to the woman he loved was all he needed to calm the catastrophe in his inner world. Drawing the blanket around him and Kita, he then drew her close to himself. Sighing softly, she nuzzled his neck, placing a small kiss on his cheek before bringing herself closer to him, his own cheeks reddened, but the gentle breathing and the warmth emitting from Kita's body quickly became his soothing lullaby.
It was just the beginning of dawn, when Hao, yet again, felt the disturbance in the air. Quickly, wiping sleep from his eyes, he glanced around his room. Something was there, yet it wasn't showing itself. "Whose there?" he called, "Show yourself!" Slowly in the brightest corner where the sunlight shined on, a glimmer of white appeared, Hao narrowed his eyes at the intruder. "Either show yourself or disappear from my sight." The glimmer formed slightly before reverting back into a shimmer of dust/I…c…can't/ Hao felt his heart stop beating, the voice…so familiar, yet…he couldn't quite place it. The glimmer started to fade slowly, a small part of it reaching out to him. /Help…./, almost instinctively, Hao reached for the tendril of light, it slowly formed into a hand and disappeared. Using his other hand, Hao felt the palm, feeling the unfamiliar warmness from the touch the glimmer of light left behind. It felt so warm, so close to his heart.
Without knowing why, Hao felt his heart pang achingly with sadness.
/Do you feel it/ The reptile ask, his blue eyes focused towards where the sun was just starting to peek over the horizon. Phoenix closed her eyes, /Of course, every spirit felt it, why do you think so many lonely souls are gathering here? It's disturbing, why do I feel as though I know, yet I can't remember./
Dragon bared his teeth/It's an irritating feeling, one that I don't like./ he snapped sharply at a lonely soul that strayed too close. Already ten or even twenty souls had surrounded the house in various homes. /Let them into heaven, these souls have no goals and would only bother the living./ In reply, Phoenix spread her wings and soared downwards the scattered mass. Watching the fiery bird at work, Dragon closed his eyes in resignation; he and Phoenix both knew that they had previous lives, but he only had brief flashes of the past that only occur a few times a year. Never in his entire life with Kita, had he wanted to know the past so badly.
Ever since Kita had met Hao, things seemed to change quite a lot; when the finally annoying boy was destroyed, he came back again with not as much vengeance as Dragon thought he would have had. It was as though all he wanted was Kita nothing else, no matter what happened, it was always Kita. Could it be that their fate was somehow interconnected? Dragon grimaced at the thought, wondering about fate and destiny was a dangerous thing to do, although it wasn't as risky for mythical creatures like him or Phoenix. Humans tend to try and break or change their fate when even given the thought, often nudged by evil spirits it ended with their souls being forever kept in the hands of demons or evil ghosts.
Phoenix shook herself briefly after gracefully landing on the roof with noise as little as a pin drop. Again, she felt the urge to sing, like she has everyday since her birth from Kita. She suspected that somehow long time ago, in her first life, she was much more than just a phoenix, something much more powerful, she twisted her head slightly towards the still contemplating reptile, it must have had something to do with Dragon, it seemed wrong for a bird to love a reptile. She moved her head towards the still rising sun, but love prevailed everything, it was right for a Phoenix to connect with a Dragon (1), but why was she and Dragon condemned to live with a human? Of course, being with Kita was all she wanted, separation would hurt so much that she couldn't live, but she still wondered. She could feel that her, Dragon and Kita were all intertwined in a triangle of destiny, their souls interconnected with each other.
She lifted her head and the song of the rising sun, the song of life and rebirth, flew up her throat and soared out of her mouth as she sang to the fiery giant.
Kita opened her eyes wearily, as Phoenix's song softly infiltrated the room. She looked beside her at her sleeping fiancée, gently she swept the deep purple hair out of her lover's eyes. What would have she done without Ren? If it weren't for him, she would not have been here; she would have still been with Hao, Hao as his ruthless perverted self. She winced as she touched a rather tender spot, she looked to see light red scrapes across her left arm. Her eyebrows furrowed, what made her fall? A simple headache was too pathetic to actually cause a fall, worriedly she tried to recall the memory but nothing came to mind.
Ren was apologizing to her and she forgave him.
Then he wrapped her arms around and drew her close to him.
Then-..
Blank.
Complete Blank.
"Kita?" Ren stirred from his sleep, the absent of his lover's warmth waking him up. Quickly, she joined him, hoping that she could remember it when she wakes up later. She pressed herself against Ren's body, letting his light-breathing lull her back to sleep.
(1) I'm not sure about Japan, but in Chinese legends, the Phoenix is the female counterpart while the Dragon is the male counterpart, so it's alright for a Phoenix to love a Dragon and vice versa, but not for a bird to love a reptile or vice versa.