Chapter 4

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Thought / dreams

'Telepathic voice'

[Voice from the past]

=Telephone=

Letter

"Dialogue"

Emphasis

A dangerous tone

After hearing Hao's story, Yoh left the room to let Hao rest up again, so that he would heal faster. He sighed as he leaned on the door to Hao's room, when Hao told him all that, what he felt was not a lie or malice even though Hao was a Demon. What he felt from the Demon when he spoke was a truth, and only truth, and he could feel the gentleness coming from Hao. The reason why he let Hao to stay with him was not because he felt pity towards the Demon, but because he felt the kindness and gentleness from Hao, which convinced him that Hao would never harm him or any human at all.

Yoh leaned away from the door and went to his Library, where he placed all the book the Asakura family had from generation to generation along with his own books that he bought by himself.

Truth to be told, he was feeling a bit scared when Hao said that he was the Demon's Heart. Somehow … he felt that being a Demon's Heart was something so significant, like something terrible would happen if something happened to him. It scared him thinking what would happen if he was injured or something, because he was not the type who lived a nice and comfortable life only and never doing something dangerous. No … he may be living a nice and comfortable life, but he always encountering many dangerous things too, like the Oni he fought the night he found Hao.

He sighed as he flopped down to his desk's chair, there's an Office Desk in the Library where he would do all his work, and not far from his desk was a table with many chairs, where his friends could use to do their works, if any would ever come anyway. He opened the drawer and pulled out a book and a pen, he wanted to write down this new knowledge about Demon of Heart he had just received, so that his descendant in the future would know about them and help them to pass on, instead of killing them as if they were just another Oni.

Yoh spent up a few minutes to write down the information about Demon of Heart, along with the fact that he had somehow become the Heart of a Demon named Hao. After he finished, he closed the book and chanted a spell that would protected it, making the book couldn't be opened unless by people with a pure intent, which would never misuse what was written inside. With that done, he put it inside the drawer along with the pen and left the Library, he would write more about it once he get more information from Hao. He would wait until Hao wanted to tell him about it by himself, he wouldn't force the Demon about it.

Yoh looked at the clock and saw that it would be Lunch time soon, so he decided to prepare the food now. He didn't know what Hao would like to have for Lunch, and he didn't have anything in particular in mind, so he just looked at the refrigerator and decided to cook whatever came into his mind once he looked at what he had in there.

In the end, Yoh decided to cook some Omelet Rice with Bacon, he was too lazy to make something fancy. When he arrived in Hao's room with the food for them both, he saw that Hao was looking at the garden again, and his bandage was on the bed. "You removed the bandage?" Yoh asked as he closed the door, he walked to the nightstand beside the bed and placed the tray on it.

Hao turned to him and smiled, "My wound had fully healed, thanks to you." He said with a bow.

Yoh grimaced at the formality, "I said throw the formality away, right?" He said with a smile, "I don't like it when people are bowing to me. If it's to show your gratitude, with words is already enough".

Hao looked down to the floor, "I'm sorry." He said weakly, like a child getting scolded.

Yoh sighed and shook his head, "It's not something so bad, just don't be so polite to me, that's all." He placed a hand to Hao's shoulder and smiled, "If you are going to stay with me, I would like it if you would treat me like a friend".

"Is that … alright with you?" Hao asked slowly as he looked up to Yoh a bit.

"Of course. If not then I wouldn't ask you to do it, right?" Yoh asked cheerfully, "Now, let's eat so that you will have the energy to go out with me".

Hao nodded and sat on the bed, Yoh followed suit and offered Hao's share of food to him, "Where are we going to go?" Hao asked curiously.

Yoh grinned, "Well, to go buy some clothes for you, and anything necessary for you to disguise yourself as a human." He explained, Hao opened his mouth to protest but he wouldn't have it, "And there will be a Halloween Party next week, I will be going, and I want you to go with me, I want to introduce you to my friends".

Hao sighed and could only nod to what he said. Of course, who would ever win a verbal fight against him? So far … there's none.

They ate in silence, Yoh simply enjoying his meal while Hao didn't know what to say. After Lunch, Yoh showed Hao the Bathroom and making sure he know how to operate every tools inside before went out to let the Demon had his shower, Yoh then went to his own room and take a short shower as well. Yoh dressed himself and took some clean clothes for Hao before going downstairs and gave the Demon the clothes, he then waited outside the room. He had everything he need to bring with him, so all that left to do was wait for Hao to get ready and they could go right away.

A knock on the door telling him that Hao was ready, he looked at the door and saw that Hao was looking so cool with the set of clothes he gave the Demon. A Black muscle shirt under a Red jacket, along with a pair of Black pants, White and Red sports shoes, White belt and a Black watch. With all of them combined with Hao's handsome face and his long Reddish Brown hair, he was perfect.

Yoh grinned, "You look perfect." He said cheerfully, then he noticed that Hao's Wings were nowhere in sight, "What happen to your Wings?"

Hao smiled, "I pull them in. Demons can hide their Wings, so we could hide among humans." He answered, "And you look perfect as well".

Yoh was wearing a simple long sleeved Black t-shirt under a White sleeveless vest, a Blue jeans, a White belt, and a pair of Black sports shoes. His Bear-Claw necklace and his Leaf shaped earring were always on him, and attached to his Belt was a Brown Fox shaped Keychain.

Yoh grinned, "Let me take something from my room and we will go." He run upstairs and retrieved his Talismans wrapped Sword before going back to Hao, "Let's go." He said as he slipped his sword to his belt.

Hao blinked, "Why do you wrap your Sword with Talismans?" He asked, "And why would you bringing a Sword around with you?".

"Better safe than sorry." Yoh answered as he looked at his Sword, "I wrap the Talismans to seal it's power, I don't really need it at the moment anyway." He smiled at Hao, "Are you ready? Need a weapon or something?".

"Yes, I'm ready." Hao answered, "I have my own weapon, don't worry".

"Good." Yoh said and led the way out of the Mansion, he locked the door and went out of the gate without bothering to lock the gate as well. Actually, there was no need for him to lock up his Mansion. No one would be stupid enough to enter anyway, and their Instinct would have driven them away from his Mansion. But it's better safe than sorry, so he locked up the door to make sure no one would get inside.

"First, we need to get you some clothes, so let's go to the Tokyo Mall." Yoh said as they walked, "The Mall is not far, so we could just walk".

They walked to the Mall and Yoh would going from store to store to chose a nice outfits for Hao, he paid them using his Credit Cards since he was too lazy to bring along too much money with him, not to mention dangerous. Hao could only inhaled deeply when he felt that Yoh overdoing it, but Yoh ignored it and keep doing as he please.

"Alright, all we need to buy now is a mobile phone for you, so we could contact each other whenever we need to." Yoh said after he paid the clothes he bought in the store they were in, he told them to send the Items to the front of his Mansion since he couldn't bring them with him.

"It won't be necessary." Hao told him quietly.

Yoh stopped walking and looked at Hao, "What?" He asked in confusion.

Hao looked at Yoh, 'You are my Heart, Yoh, so we can communicate from Mind to Mind.' He explained through telepathy, giving an example to Yoh.

'Wow.' Yoh responded with wide eyes, 'Cool'.

Hao nodded, "So, where are we going next?" He asked.

Yoh hummed in thought, "No, there's nothing else, so we could go home." He said and led the way out of the Mall. When they were crossing the road, he stopped when he heard a mew, he looked behind and saw that there's a Kitty Cat being abandoned in a box near the street lamp.

"Yoh?" Hao asked when he walked to the Kitten.

"What a cute Kitten you are." Yoh commented as he picked up the Kitten from the box, he inspected the Kitten to see if there's any injury before walking to Hao again, "Look, I found a cute Kitten!".

Hao smiled at Yoh and began turning around to continued walking with Yoh, but then he froze for a second, Yoh noticed this and saw what was the cause, a car was speeding their way. He was ready to jump out of the way, but Hao was faster and he found himself on the ground on the other side of the road, with the Kitten still in his hands and Hao panting beside him.

"Hao?" Yoh asked in worry when he saw that Hao's eyes were unfocused, and a second later, Hao's eyes turned blank and he collapsed. "Hao? Hao!" Yoh shook Hao with his right hand since his left was filled with the shocked Kitten, he was worried about the Demon, but then he heard a steady breathing and sighed in relief. He didn't know if Hao was fainted from the shock or just become tired emotionally and fell asleep, but he relieved that at least the Demon was alright.

The car stopped and the driver came out, "Are you alright?" The man asked.

"Yeah, alright." Yoh said with a sigh, "I just need to bring him home".

"Um … I will take you home then." The man said with apologetic face, "As an apology of nearly hitting you earlier".

Yoh looked at the man and felt that the man was honest, so he nodded and stood up, he help the man carried Hao to the car and they left with Yoh directed the man to his Mansion.

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