Chapter 24

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'Italic with single quote stands telepathic voice'

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-Stands for telephone-

Underline stands for letter

"Quote stands for dialogue"

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Break The News

Shouyo huffed as she walked in the storm, she is in a very bad mood because of what happened before. She want to released her anger, and the only thing she can do to do it is to let her emotion out. The problem is, she can't just go and destroy stuff, even if it's a mere rock, it's still part of Nature and needed by Nature. Vampire is a creature that respected Nature, so she can't just do anything to damaging Nature.

In the midst of rain, her cell phone rang, "Yes?" she asked calmly, but inside is very angry.

-Shouyo-sama, this is Rose.- Rose said from the other line.

"Please get to the point, I'm really angry now." She told her Aide.

-We received a report that there's a bunch of Rogue heading for Patch village, we had sent people to fight them, but since many of them is Magic user, we get a bit of problem and if we go there ourselves, the protection here will be low and they might attacked us to steal our territory here.- Rose reported.

Shouyo's eyes widened, "Great." She said softly but evilly, "Just when I need to released my anger. Don't worry, Rose, I will take care of them myself. Take back everyone, I don't want to scare them to death." She then chuckled creepily.

Rose silent for a bit, -I'm sure that if the one that make you angry is present over there, they will be dead by now.- Rose commented dryly, -I understand, I will sent word for everyone to retreat-.

Shouyo smiling like a predator cornered her prey, "Sure, I will go now, where are they?" she asked.

-They are heading from the west side of Patch village.- Rose answered shortly before Shouyo closed her phone.

Shouyo smirked, "Let's the party began." She whispered in the rain and ran off to the west side of the village, not bothering to use teleport since she isn't in the mood.

The morning come to soon for Keiko and the rest, the reason is Shouyo hasn't come back from the night before, everyone is worried, but from different reason. Hao is worried if Shouyo met with some Shamans on her way and they make her more angrier than before then Shouyo snapped and beat them to pulp, Luna is worried if Shouyo has mission to do and she is injured during her mission, even though that most likely not the case because it's hard to make a Vampire injured fatally, she is still worried about the not fatal injury. Keiko and the rest worried if Shouyo get sick during the storm and collapse on the street with no one helped her, which is silly actually, because Mizuno will come to get them if that the case, but once you are worried, it's hard to think logically.

They noticed that Shouyo hasn't come back yet when they were having breakfast together, everyone is presents except for the boy in disguise, even though her Shikigamis are still guarding in the dining room.

"Where is she?" Keiko asked in worry as she drink her morning tea.

Everyone looked at each other, "We might . . . search for her." Lyserg said hesitantly.

Just when everyone nodded in agreement, the front door of the house the Patch lent for them to stay during their time staying in Patch village opened and closed slowly. Everyone rose in an instant, they quickly walked to the front door to see Shouyo walked slowly in a black yukata with snow pattern and a sky blue Obi hugged her waist, she looked up to see them and smiled, "I'm sorry for not coming home last night, I was going to Japan for a bit." She said calmly.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Anna demanded angrily.

Shouyo smiled wearily, "I didn't call you since I know you will be sleep when I finally calmed down and wanted to visited Mai, so I just went to visited Mai to get some change clothes." She explained calmly, "Well, since I was also busy last night, I didn't get to rest. If you will excuse me, I want to sleep".

Hao sighed, knowing she might have mission to do and most likely exhausted right now, "Okay, but after you wake up, you will trained by me in term of Shaman skills." He said sternly.

Shouyo smirked, "Don't worry about it." She said as she rummaged her backpack, she lifted the copy of Chou Senji Ryakketsu and waved it to Hao, "I want to give this back to you, I have mastered everything written here".

Shouyo laughed cheerfully when all of them jaw-dropped, even Hao, "Serious?" Hao asked in total shock.

Shouyo grinning widely, "Yes, the technique is much more simpler than magic so it's very easy for me to mastering them." She told her brother casually, "Well, the original book already worn out, why don't you keep this one in case the real one get destroyed?".

Anna shook her head, "I don't know what to say, you are like very genius, even if you are Hao's twin, it's unbelievable." She said in shock.

"You are right there, Anna." Hao agreed, "Even I get surprised by this news".

Shouyo laughed heartily, "I see, well, I'm not surprised by this considering I haven't tell you a very important meeting." She looked at everyone of them calmly, "But I won't tell you yet, you can only know this secret when the Shaman King is determined through the fight".

Keiko blinked, "Why is that?" she asked in perplexed.

"Because that means that I will spoil the surprise." Shouyo answered and went off to her room, but just when she stepped on the first stair, the front door opened revealing Yohmei and Mikihisa standing grimly with an old blind woman.

"Mother." Keiko called softly in confusion, "You were coming here too? Why?".

The old woman smiled softly, "Tamao is here too, but I told her to buy groceries for us." She answered calmly, "I hear that Hao has changed, is that true?".

"Yes, it is, Kino-sama." Anna answered respectfully with a bow.

Kino chuckled, "Well, I must say I welcomed him in the family if you want to take him home, Keiko." She said, causing the two men to gasped in shock.

"But, Kino!" Yohmei yelled, but his protested cut off by Kino slamming her cane to his face.

"Shut up." Kino scolded sternly, "Isn't it better if Hao changed? He won't kill anymore and we don't have anything to fear anymore, we don't want Hao to succeed in his goal to eradicate all human, but now he has changed and won't pursue the goal anymore, why must we kill him still? This way we can still have an heir to continue our family line".

"So wise, Grandmother." Shouyo praised truthfully.

"Excuse me, who are you, boy?" Kino asked in wonder, she can't see Shouyo's appearance but she can hear the voice.

"Mother, she is Shouyo, she is a girl." Mikihisa told her.

Shouyo chuckled, "No, she is right, I'm a boy even though I wear girl clothes." She said, earning a gasped from Mikihisa and Yohmei, certainly can guessed who she is actually from her identical face with Hao, "I wear a girl clothes because one, to hide my identity from you before this, and two, my adopted Mother just love to play with me and confused people about my gender".

Kino raised her eyebrows, "Oh? And why do you want to hide your identity?" she asked curiously.

"Because grandmother," Shouyo answered, "I'm your long lost grandson, Asakura Yoh".

Yohmei gaped, "And why the hell you hide yourself from us?!" he demanded in anger.

"Because if you find him sooner then you will forced him to fight against his brother and Hao-sama will not changed this early, because the reason Hao-sama changed in the first place is because he fell in love with Yoh-sama in his girl appearance." A new voice answered.

"Oh, hi there, Matamune." Shouyo said as she saw a spirit of a cat with two tails wearing a kimono.

Hao stared at the cat with soft eyes, "Matamune." He called the cat with soft voice.

"Wait! In love?!" Yohmei yelled in shock, "That would be an incest!".

"Well, we don't care." Hao answered this time, then he looked at Matamune again, "How did you come back?".

Matamune smiled warmly, "I was sent here by The Great Spirit, I have a message for Yoh-sama." He answered calmly then looked at Shouyo.

"From Asanoha-san?" She asked curiously.

Matamune nodded, "She want you to met her tonight and she also want me to be Hao-sama's Guardian Spirit since Great Spirit want Spirit of Fire to be returned to them." He answered still with calmness, "So, can you please returned my necklace so Hao-sama can fused them with his furyoku?".

"Sure, just wait for a minute." Shouyo grinned and went upstairs, she changed her clothes to a boy clothes consist of a sleeveless black t-shirt, a pair of blue jeans and a blue coat with black fake fur as borderline along with black Ninja shoes, finished by wearing a small waist bag filled with necessary stuff.

Shouyo, or better called Yoh now, pulled off his, since he is wearing boy's clothes, orange ribbon and changed it with a blue one to match with his clothes, then he went back downstairs with the bear-claw necklace in his hands. "Thanks for the wait." He said and handed the necklace to Hao, "Here, the necklace, and give me Spirit of Fire, I will returned him to Goldva, I know you want to catch up with Matamune".

Hao smiled and nodded, he accepted the necklace, then a small form of Spirit of Fire appeared beside him. The spirit hugged Hao which returned with a pat on his head by Hao, then the spirit flew to Yoh, "Well, I'm going now." He said to them with a wave of his hand, "Oh, Zenki, Kouki, watch Yohmei and Mikihisa, they make trouble for Keiko-kaasan, you pinned them down to the ground until I come back and ordered you to released them".

The two shikigamis walked out from the dining room and bowed to him, with a satisfied smile, Yoh walked out of the house, leaving a smirking Kino and Anna, a paled face Yohmei and Mikihisa, and the rest to snickering.

"I like him, even if he is different from the little Yoh back there." Kino commented calmly, causing the other to snickering again.

"Hello Silva." Yoh greeted the Patch Officials in his working place, a cafe for Shamans to eat food.

Silva turned to face him, then blinking a few times, then staring for a while, "Uh, I nearly mistaken you for Hao." He said in surprise, "Why are you wearing boy's clothes, Yo-san?".

Yoh grinned, "Because I'm a boy, I was cross dressing before." He said, chuckling when Silva jaw-dropped, "Oh, my name is Yoh, by the way, Hao's twin brother".

Not enough with jaw-dropped, Silva's eyes widened as wide as plates and he was speechless, "You are a boy?" he asked in pure shock.

Yoh nodded, "Explanation later, I'm here to do some business." He said cheerfully, "Can I meet with Goldva?".

To be continued . . .

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