Chapter 8

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Italic stands for thought / dreams

'Italic with single quote stands telepathic voice'

[Stands for voice from the past]

-Stands for telephone-

Underline stands for letter

"Quote stands for dialogue"

Bold stands for emphasis

Bold italic stands for a dangerous tone

Attract Trouble

"Geez, those Patch, how come they dropped us just like that?" Horo Horo grumbled as he and the rest walking through a path of a snowy mountain.

"Baka ainu." Ren snorts, "You already complained for the thousand times, and it's already two weeks since we were dropped." He huffed and looked at their new companion, a green haired kid, "Lyserg, are you sure it's the right direction?".

"Yes." The new kid answered slowly, "I'm still not good with dowsing, but I felt many Shaman on the other side of the mountain, do you want me to do it again just in case?" but then the snow rain stopped all of the sudden.

"There's no need for that." A new voice joined, Lyserg froze and stare behind him in disbelief, the snow looked like avoiding the long haired boy and his subordinates.

"Hao!" Lyserg exclaimed in shock, "What are you here for?!".

"Only because I don't want my birth mother in this life to freeze to death." Hao said calmly as he looked at Keiko, "You are already on the right track, just search for a cave to stay, or else you will freeze to death." He sighed and walked calmly passed them along with his followers, "Ah, really, she should just stay at home, then again, if only Yohmei didn't do that stupid things, then the one here would be my twin." He mumbled softly as he went, leaving the confused Shamans from Keiko's group.

"He is . . . has a soft spot for you, huh, Keiko?" Luna commented.

"Keiko-san." Lyserg called, Keiko blinked and turned to face the boy, "Be careful, some of Hao's enemies might use you as a bait to kill Hao." He looked at Keiko with worried eyes.

"By Hao's enemies you mean X-Laws, right?" Horo Horo asked with irritation clear in his voice and face, "Those guys are really hypocrites".

"Yeah." Lyserg answered, "They are psychopath too, so please be careful, Keiko-san, you are already like a mother to me".

"I will, but if that's the case, I'm sure Hao will ignore me." Keiko said sadly, "He is too ambitious until he forget how to feel." She sighed, "I hope I can change his way of thinking somehow".

Lyserg smiled softly, "I was . . . never feel happy after Hao killed my parents and only thought how to kill him." He said sheepishly, "And then you treat me like your own son, because of it, I can feel happiness again. I kind of thinking that maybe Hao had the same past as me that causing him to hate humans so much, so if you can change him, I think that he will stop killing." His smile turned sad, "I don't want anymore people experience the same fate as me, I want to stop Hao for the sake of other people who can only thinking that the only way to stop Hao is to kill him, just like me in the past, so I will help you as best as I can, Keiko-san".

Keiko smiled warmly, "Thank you." She said truthfully, "I'm sure your father will be proud of you, Lyserg." She ruffled the green haired boy, causing the boy to grinned happily, "Now, even though it's Hao who advised it, we better find a cave to stay from this blizzard".

The others nodded, but Luna looked around with puzzled expression, "What's wrong, Luna?" Ren asked when he noticed the miko's behavior.

"Um, I thought I saw this place before, but when? And to where I passed this place before?" Luna asked herself with confusion, "Oh, I remember there's a cave not too far ahead, let's wait over there for now".

"Ahh, finally." Shouyo sighed in relief as he stretched himself, his body sore so much because he had to sit all day to read the reports and write the responses.

Rose and Roy give him applause, "Congratulations!" They said cheerfully, in a month and two weeks, they had grown fond of the Young Leader, and they are so proud with themselves to be chosen as his close aides.

"Thank you." Shouyo grinned, "Well, I will go back to Japan immediately, so please help me to pack my belongings while I take a quick shower".

"Yes, Young Leader." They said together and leave the room.

After a quick shower, Shouyo took his bag from his two close aides, he transformed back to his human girl appearance and teleported to Japan, right in front of the inn.

There's a bit of inconvenient when Shouyo use her human form, every Vampire in Leader's bloodlines has both Vampire form and human form, and in human form, Vampires get their power lowered by two of three of their full power. So it's not like Shouyo can't use her power at all, just not freely, and not free to use her power mean inconvenient in battle between Vampires.

When Shouyo entered the inn, she immediately noticed that everyone are absent, and oh what a timing, the phone of the inn rang. She lift the phone and placed it on her ears, "Yes, with Funbari Onsen inn, can I help you?" she asked politely.

"Who is this? Some servant Anna hired?" Shouyo blinked, she felt as if she heard the voice somewhere in the past. . .

"But Jii-chan, why must I train so hard? I just want to live an easy life." A small boy whined, he is about 5 years old and there's an orange headphone on his head.

The elderly man, the boy's grandfather she assumed, glare at the boy and smack the boy's head, "You lazy brat! I already told you that you have to get strong in order to enter the Shaman Fight!" he yelled in anger, "You are already 5, Yoh! And it's already 2 years since you start your training! Why the hell you can't even do this simple thing?!".

The boy pouted at him, "I just want to have normal live! Lying around watching clouds and stars! I don't want to fight!" he yelled back, "And besides, calling a leaf spirit to make a shikigami is tiring!"

Oh! This is my grandfather as Asakura Yoh! Shouyo thought in shock when she remembered a piece of her forgotten memories. "Um, no, I'm one of the inn's occupants." She answered slowly, hesitate whether she should tell the old man her name, she also said in girly voice so that he won't recognize her voice.

Shouyo heard the old man snorts, "Huh, fine, come to Asakura estate in Izumo, I want you to deliver something to Anna." He ordered and hung up.

Shouyo stared the phone in disbelief, that old man, he is still so bossy even after these 8 years! She thought in annoyance, then frowned when she thought of something, the old man want her to deliver something to Anna, then maybe she can know where Anna and the rest had gone to, "But. . ." she mumbled softly to herself then sighed, "I got myself in trouble again." She grimaced as she thought of how to comfront the old man, "Nah, it's not like he can recognize me as a girl, he thinks I'm already dead anyway".

Shouyo waited until night come before teleported to Izumo, she need to make the old man thinks that she come using train after all, then she walked to the Asakura estate calmly. She was welcomed by an extremely shy girl with pink hair accompanied by two pervert animal spirits of a raccoon and a fox, the girl told her that her name is Tamamura Tamao, then Tamao led her into the room where the old man that goes with the name of Yohmei was waiting for her.

Yohmei then took her into an old shrine a bit far from Asakura estate without a word, "The book inside, take it to Anna, but be careful to not remove the seal, or else you will be dead." He said tonelessly.

Shouyo's eyebrow twitched, but she didn't say anything and went to take the book, "Chou Senji Ryakketsu?" She asked curiously, "What is this book for?".

"Just tell Anna that this book can help her, there's no need for human girl like you to involved deeper to Shamans matter." Yohmei said with a derisive snorts, "Just take it to her, if you want, you can ask Oyamada Manta to pay the ticket for you since she is in America, she is on her way to the Patch Village".

Shouyo huffed inwardly, the old man clearly is an arrogant type, the type she hate the most, well, not really hate though, she can't bring herself to hate, dislike maybe, but not hate. "Fine." She answered in annoyance, then she left the shrine and teleported back to the inn once she was sure that no one around.

When she arrived not far from the inn's gate though, the seal on the book blown by the wind, then two big figures appeared in front of him. Shouyo's eyebrow twitched, "Oh, dear. That old man said that I will be dead if the seal removed, and here the seal blown off by itself just because of a bit of wind." She shook her head as she stare at the big blue and red figures.

"Anyone who knows Hao-sama's techniques should die!" They spoke together and attacked her immediately, Yup, I really got myself in trouble, she thought dryly.

To be continued . . .

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