Disclaimer: I do not own this story. Not planning to own it, but I love the story.

All setting and characters are taken from Hotta Yumi and Obata Takeshi's Hikaru no GO

Author's preamble: This story is different from the original story, although some settings are taken from the original and use here.

This is my 2nd story of writing Hikaru no Go after a long year and lost my writing touches, so I'm practicing and polishing them again. So FORGIVE ME if I could not explain, narrate, describe the story as specific and clear.

I'll try to rewrite and update it as I can until June 18 since that will be the start of the school year and have to vigoriously prepare for the revolting, blood-spitting crisis of my life.

Note: The story is narrated by Sai and Shindo's perspective, or mine

I will add Touya POV and others but it'll take a level of a experience writer so I'm just an amateur, so you know what i mean...It'll be messy! ^_^

Chapter 3

Returning

I woke up, I was still inside the hospital as apparent in the equipments, positioned around me.

Sai was there beside me, looking at me with a worried expression, worn on his beautiful face

'Hey, Sai' i said in my mind

'welcome back' he greeted me, though I know only I can hear him.

I scanned my surroundings and notice an needle inserted in my left arm, heart monitor, breathing machines, attach on my body

If I don't know anything, I'll think I was dying.

I had cold sweats,

' was I dying before?' I asked Sai

He was about to respond when my attention was distracted by a loud crash

when I turned to look, it was Akari, pale, wearing a suprise expression. Then she dash into the room and embrace me tightly.

'Shindo! Shindo! wahhhhh', she burst into tears and wailed loudly. I tried patting her with my free arm but I realize I was to weak to even left it.

'Shindo', a suprised voice sounded in the background

'who is it now', i thought to myself, I glanced at the door and Mitani, wearing his usual shorts, suspenders and white long sleeve get-up. His hair was messy as usual and he had darck circles in his eyes, like he lost a days of sleep.

'Hey, dude-', i greeted casually, ' you look like you haven't sleep for days? - not so like you' I joked around and chuckled

Mitani bit his lips, it was his habit when he gets offended or annoyed, restraining himself. then he exploded.

' YOU BASTARD!', he stumped inside angrily and grabbed by collar. He look like his about to strangled me right there, his eyes darted to the equipments, attach to me and restrained himself, but i suppose it was not enough to remove his fist hovering a few inches near. Akari was beside him, couching him to let go of me.

I may have defeated Mitani countless times, but he throws really nasty punches. I'm lucky I can read his attacks, or else It will not be the 1st time I'm lying inside the hospital.

I didn't struggle or remove his hold on me. Akari was frantic, her eyes darting from me to him. I simply smirk and sat there calmly.

It just made Mitani furious, he raise his fist and was about to punch me. I were scanning my brain countless treatment to restore my face back to its position, and I'm sure I'll stay longer in the hospital due to sever damage.

He move his fist and I close my eyes, ready for impact. any minute now...any minute now-?

I felt a soft thump on my chest, when i opened my eyes, Mitani's head was leaned on my chest. He was shaking, in anger, frustration, annoyance, hate. My presence can make a person unsettled, thankfully, not to an extent of killing me.

' I thought - we all thought-' he pressed his head firmly on my chest. it made me winced but not hard enough to hurt.

' when you didn't wake up-i thought- we were told-', he couldn't continue, even Akari who is the calmest of us 3, was crying again. She was covering her face while grabbing Mitani shirt , ' I told you to come to my house , not in the hospital you bastard'

'Sai did I die?' i asked him mentally

'No, Hikaru- you were just asleep'

'but why do they look like i was about to die?'

' when you didn't wake up for 3 weeks they- '

'WHAT?' , i must have said it aloud that Akari and Mitani both look at me, their eyes red, from crying. hey, if I know better, this people gave me quite a hard time, so seeing them like this, well I kinda felt guilty although it was amusing to watch them.

' F***' i cursed mentally

Sai covered his face with his paper fan, hiding his amused expression.

' you are enjoying this, aren't you, you stupid ghost'

he made no attempt to reply, while I focus back to Mitani and Akari. I have no choice but to put an act.

' What are you acting all girly for?' , I told them, looking as annoyed and pissed as I can manage, 'I was just sleeping- what did you think I was doing?'

Mitani tried to shout at me, well he almost did when my stomach beat him to it.

My stomach growled loudly, I pressed it and rub it softly. I glanced at them, looking guilty, ' Do you think the canteen has some food left at this hour? I'm starving'

'Oh Hikaru' I heard Sai muttered embarrassed. I ignored him.

Mitani and Akari did what I didn't expect them to do. They burst out laughing.

Akari was leaning at the rail, her hand covering her mouth , but it didn't help mute the laughter, Mitani didn't help at all. He was clutching his stomache and was leaning at the railing.

They were crying and angry at me a while back as if they're going to cut my life line, and now they're laughing. I did what any rational person would do in that situation. I grunted.

Minutes later, Akari started to tell me what happened after I lose consciousness. I only told her I remembered collapsing at the attic because I stumble on something and hit my head, I excluded telling Sai story cause I have more than a few ' I'm sorry', ' I'll be careful next time', 'don't worry', 'Shut UP Mitani', ' I'll make you replace me in the hospital next time i defeat you', and so on.

My parents, siblings and grandpa, even Eina visited me. I heard from Akari, grandpa and dad were arguing due to what happened to me.

It wasn't grandpa's fault neither Eina, but I didn't woke up for 3 weeks and the situation turned out bad.

It wasn't anyone's fault. It was because I saw blood stains, Sai decided to attach himself to me and having a ghost inside of you put a strain both in your body and spirit. So we all agree it's SAI's fault, right?!

after 3 weeks, when the doctor decided I was well to travel, we left the hospital and traveled back to Tokyo. My stuff were already pack.

Dad and grandpa , were still not in good terms. I tried to ease things up, and blame it at the attic, but Eina got involved because she store the Shinai up there, then Mitani got involved next for challenging me to Kendo, then the Yakuza and everyone just blames the other. I got tired and leave them be.

I promise grandpa to visit him which he gladly obliged, telling me, he'll be expecting me next time, but made sure no more attic accidents. We just laughed it off. Did I mention my grandpa is the coolest grandpa in the world.

No? i guess I wasn't the sweetest grandkid, but I'm not the worst.

Mitani also left Hokkaido, he didn't travel with us cause a Yakuza and a businessman seen together doesn't make a pretty picture.

Worse? A black Volkswagen and an armored Van travelling along the countryside, is pretty suspicious nevertheless

What 's worse was Sai keep on fidgeting, moving from here to there to everywhere, pointing excitedly every thing he saw, while inside the car, of course I have to see what he was pointing so I could explain it to him, but my actions must have looked unnatural but my family and Akari were looking at me suspiciously.

' Hikaru- do you perhaps develop ADHD, after you hit your head?' my older sister asked jokingly.

My older brother snorted and Akari, looked as if she was about to burst into another fit of laughter. Only my mother looked worried of me, as all mother's would.

'very funny Sis-' i retorted back, ' but I'm not laughing'

she was about to add another sarcastic comeback, when my attention was distracted by Sai, pointing his fan up on the sky.

'Hikaru, look a huge bird', I look up and saw a plane. I smirked.

'that's a plane, Sai'

'what is this we are riding?'

'A car'

'how does it run?'

I thought for a second, i never really bothered knowing how a car run. It just run with gasoline. Hey, I'm just a kid, I don't know everything in the world.

I even considered asking my parents, but seeing how everyone thinks I'm crazy, asking that will only hit a nail on the floor.

'we feed it with liquid from the ground and it runs, when it runs out of liquid, we stack it again', I explained simply.

'How cool!'

'yea' - i was having fun explaining to Sai, and i didn't made them all up. I just explained it in simple words and ideas.

'Hikaru, why is your friend car different from yours?'

I glanced at the armored Van following a few meters behind us.

'oh that- they're Yakuza so everyday, they are getting into war and they have to always be prepared for sudden attack' , I slumped back into the sit, positioned myself comfortably. Sai's attention won't be distracted by now, seeing how deep he was in thought on the armored Van

'like in past, War broke out here and there- I wasn't involved since I live at the capital'

'I see- you have a luxurious life- huh', I glanced at brother, looking at his phone, and my sister no longer paid attention to me, and is now paying attention to her phone. I guess she's checking stocks again

then I paid attention to Sai

Sai expression, changed he no longer look excited but his face was replace by a painful expression, as if the memory from the past hurt him.

heard ghost who don't passed on, has a lot of regrets and Sai's regret was he couldn't play Go anymore. My life is so much different from the Movie I saw.

Ghost appears bearing regret and then drag you down along with him. The thought sent shivers in my bones.

' Hey Sai- Grandpa told me there's a lot of Go Salon in Tokyo. when we arrive I'll let you play all the games you want' - I tried to change the subject and to make him focus on GO. We don't want Sai turning evil, and dragging me inside the Goban. That thought sounded freaky enough

Tokyo, Shindo family Mansion

The Mansion was secluded from the city, in fact, it's on top of a hill.

Built with high level security system, skilled personnel, heck- If I pushed it further, I still believe our maids are ninja and our guards are Samurai. They appear and disappear, the house looks sparkly clean, even the ceiling and chandeliers looks as if they're being cleaned everyday.

It's a child's imagination, can't blame me?

The car stop one by one at the front driveway leading to a huge oaken door.

A life sized Lion statue stand infront of the door that separates the driveway. I wanted a pet Lion and since it's not allowed, Dad decided to build me a Lion statue, It will greet me everytime I return home and he and I were satisfied with that. Uncanny , but pretty much cool. Soon that Lion was decided as one of the main tourist attraction everytime visitors and guest are invited to the Mansion.

It has now become the house Guardian statue and I was satisfied with that. Real or not, I grew fond of my Lion Statue.

though seeing Sai made a fuss , a whine and a whimper as he tried to hide behind my back. made it even more amusing.

~ narrator~

The Shindo Family got out of the car and was greeted by many maids lined up at both sides.

They bowed in unison and greeted them in perfect harmony. Shindo was used to this but Sai was looking dumbfounded.

'hey, Hey- Hikaru. I thought you were Torajiro's descendant? but whose side of the family is the relative of a Lord?'

'Huh?' was Shindo's intelligent reply.

Sai ignored his dumb response and continued

'or is your mother a daughter of a Lord?'

'what?'

'or a mistress of the emperor?'

'Shut up-?' Shindo finally got him to stop.

' I have no idea what you're talking about, nor do i have any relation to a Lord, nor do we have a relative whose a mistress. NO-' he exclaimed, he was scanning any information in his brain but no such input existed, not that he knows of. He would definitely remember it.

'So why do you live in a Mansion?', Sai asked innocently, shindo blinked once, twice and furrowed his brow

'We just did', he simply replied

'How did you live in a Mansion?'

Shindo tilted his head as if he was thinking, but it didn't take long and he explained good-naturedly, ' I grow up here, so I live here'.

Sai expression look confused, debating as if there were so many questions he wanted to add to it, Shindo decided not to pay attention and started to head to his room

'you don't know why you live in a Mansion?', Sai asked as he followed Shindo

Shindo scuffed his feet, ' I know my dad owns a company, mom designs clothes and sells them, brother works part-time in my dads company, and sis is obsessed in stocks and I'm just a Kid, so yeah I have no idea why we lived in a Mansion. We just do'

'But-'

this time Shindo's patience run out and he got tired of explaining to Sai and he doesn't know why Sai keeps asking him that.

'Shut Up Sai- I'm tired' he quickly undressed, put on clean clothes, and slumped on the bed. Sai started whining , annoying him to no end.

'I don't have anything to do tomorrow, so I'll bring you to a nearby Go Salon, when I feel like it- Now be quiet and let me sleep' , he told Sai.

Compromising him about playing Go, always make him shut up, and when he no longer hears Sai crying, he feel asleep.

Hope I did Justice to Mitani and Akari appearance.

Akari has an annoying, persona and Mitani has a cool, cold city-prince persona

Shindo, Touya, Akari, Mitani- the three of them are 16 years old, 1st year highschool ( note: i change 2nd yr HS to 1st Yr since i still have a lot to write about Shindo and Touya)

but I'm struggling how to make them more alive in the story.

God of writing, please help me!

additional info:

Shindo's explanation about his family (w/ my inputs)

I know my dad owns a company == Shindo's dad is the CEO and founder of the Shindo Empire. They run everything, from Finance, Entertainment, Agriculture, Construction. they own everything as far as the eyes can see

, mom designs clothes and sells them == he's mother is a BigTime designer, Her designs are the most searched, most craved and hottest item in the season.

every person worldwide wants to wear, want to have it, want to die for it [ if fashion could inspire murder then this is it]...per say, she earns millions per runway, and her shop is almost packed with customer

, brother works part-time in my dads company == He's older brother, oldest of the Shindo siblings is the Heir to the Shindo empire. He is now working as the Vice-president of the company

, and sis is obsessed in stocks == he's sister models for their mom's Brand and designs, Shindo and his brother are sometimes invited in fashion shows and models the men's line.

she's into stocks and earn 3 million per year...and counting...

Hikaru == since he's the youngest, they just pamper him and let him do what he wants.

he's parents are not strict, they're just busy but there is one rule they must always follow:

Always eat meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) together with the family.

So its not suprising how i always have a scene where they are having meals and chatting about their day.