From: dino1980@usa.net Heroes on Earth - Part 3 By Dino "hmm… Ninja did you say? But I learnt no Ninja skill and besides, who else teaches ninja nowadays when all they know is Kendo?!" Aoshi stared wide-eyed at his friend who had just related what happened. "How am I supposed to know when you are the one who is taking up two wooden pole and used them as if they are some kind of swords?" Rei exclaimed. Looking suspiciously at his friend, he added," Are you sure you didn't lied to me about you learning martial arts?" "Rei…" Aoshi looked at his friend, showing irritation in his voice." Can you tell me one good reason why I would want to lied to you?" "Well… I can't seem to find a good reason… but…" Rei said, thinking if there is any reason for Aoshi to lie. - After school - Aoshi and Rei both walked quietly out of the school compound, each of them still thinking about the event that had happened during lunch break. As they both walked quietly, they was stopped by a voice from behind. "Aoshi -- niiichan!!!!" came the voice. Aoshi and Rei looked back to find a cute little boy running towards them.. It was Shinta-chan. " Aoshi -- niiichan! Can I go and pick up one water melon from your house and bring it back to mommy? Please?" He asked while tucking at Aoshi's hands. "O.k. Go and pick the one you like." Aoshi told her, smiling. 'Who could resist saying no anyway.' "Thank you!!" With that, the little boy sprang out of sight. Aoshi and Rei continued walking again before stopping at Megumi-san's place. "Hello!" She shouted out from inside the garden as she was hanging out the clothes. "She's a beauty, isn't she?" Rei said to Aoshi. "Well, practically any women are beauties to you Rei." Aoshi looked at Rei. For saying that, Aoshi was given a punch from Rei. Megumi was a senior in their school and every boy in school had wanted to be her boyfriend. However one thing that most people didn't know about is that she was Shinta's mommy. Shinta was actually adopted by Megumi since he was a baby. His mother had abandoned him and so, Megumi took up the role as a mother to look after little Shinta. "You know, I always admire her for what she is. She is so capable. Being only 18 and she is able to support both herself and Shinta." Aoshi said to Rei. "I wonder where she get the money." "You could go ask her if you want." Rei said boringly," I am going home now… Bye." - Meanwhile, at Aoshi's house - "Uncle Jiya!!!!!!" Shinta raced up the steps to the front door. Looking up at Aoshi's father, he said under one breath," Uncle Jiya, Aoshi nichan said that I can get a water melon home to mommy. Can I? Can I?" Shinta smiled his trademark smile and tucked at Jiya's hand pulling him to the garden. "Of course not! Shinta, you can't always bring one melon home." Jiya replied to the little boy with a serious face. Hearing the reply, Shinta looked disappointed and began to turn away from his favorite uncle Jiya. "Well, you are going to bring two back this time!" Shinta looked back at Jiya before leaping forward to give his favorite uncle a bear hug. "Well, how's your mommy? Does she care to come over for a drink?" Jiya continued, choosing two big melon from the garden in front of his house. "Uncle Jiya… I think mommy is too young for you. I think that you will surely find someone more suitable if you search some more." Shinta looked at Jiya matter-of-factly. As Jiya was passing the melons over to the little boy, he felt a hostile presence near by. 'This can't be happening..' He thought to himself. He pushed little Shinta out of the garden and told Shinta to quickly go back home. However, as Shinta turned to walked, he bumped into someone very big. "Hello little kid.. Wanna play with me?" said the big man. "You leave him alone! He got nothing to do with it, Urui!" Jiya shouted over to the big man, jumping forward to grab Shinta away before the man's sword came crushing down the very spot where the boy had been. Putting the boy down, Jiya sprang toward Urui and hit him with a metal rod which he had grabbed from his house. "Too slow" grinned Urui and kicked Jiya to the far end of the living room. "Aoshi, this time you will die under my hands!" With that, Urui pierced his sword into little Shinta's body. "No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jiya shouted out from his position and sprang forward again toward Urui. "This is your turn now!" Urui said and swung his sword towards the charging Jiya. His sword went right through Jiya's heart. Urui pinned Jiya into the wall, " As you have been so stubborn, I will let you die a little slower. How about at the count of twenty?" With that, Urui started counting. 'No this can't be happening. I have to think fast before I really am dead.' Jiya thought to himself as coldness was beginning to flow around his body. 'I get it now.' With the last ten counts, Jiya was able to use the magic he had once learnt from a black magic practitioner to transfer his soul to little Shinta's dying body. As the count ends, Jiya was dead and his soul transferred over to Shinta. - One hour later - 'I bet Dad is going to be pleased with what I bought for him.' Aoshi thought happily to himself as he looked at the porn magazine in his bag. 'After all, he is still the dirty old man I'm used to.' Aoshi got the shocked of his life when he found policemen at his doorstep and the pool of people who had gathered around his house. 'What happened? Dad?!!!!!' Aoshi rushed forward to be blocked by a policeman. "Who are you?" "I'm living here! What happened here?!!!!" Aoshi looked at the policeman then trying to see what's inside his house. Fear was everything in his mind. 'Please be safe Dad.' "So you the son of Jiya? I'm Sanosuke. You can call me Sano. I'm in charge of this murder case now. Can you tell me anything about your father? Like enemies?" A tall man in police uniform called to him. Aoshi looked at the policeman. He didn't like the inspector one bit. The inspector had looked like a gangster himself, with a kind of hairstyle that made him looked like some kind of a rooster. Aoshi was too shocked to reply the inspector. He walked into the house to find his father pinned to the wall with a sword right through his heart and little Shinta lying on the floor who was getting emergency aid help from the people who had arrived from the hospital. "What happened here?" was what he could asked the inspector at the very moment. "Well, you see. One of you neighbors had reported to the police that they had saw someone very big in size coming into the house at around an hour ago. They heard a lot of noise and crashes and decided to call the police. When we arrived fifteen minutes later, we saw no one but only this mess right before your eyes. Do you think your father had any enemy of any sort?" Sano inquired, looking at Aoshi attentively. "No… He's very peace loving. I can't see why anyone would be so brutal." Aoshi said walking away, silently. - One day later - "Hello! I've came to check on you. How's everything? Do you need my help?" Sano asked Aoshi as he walked into the room where Aoshi's father's funeral was being held. "Everything is fine." Aoshi said listlessly. "How's little Shinta? Is he out of danger yet?" " Yup! That's what the doctor said. They had said that it had been a miracle." Sano told Aoshi. "You don't have to worry. His mom has been taking care of him last night." "Oh I see…. " Aoshi muttered. - At the Hospital - "Where am I?" Shinta asked as he woke up from his deep sleep. "Baby, you are in the hospital. You have been sleeping for one whole day. Are you alright now?" Megumi told her son. "What Baby?" Shinta who was now Jiya looked at Megumi, wide-eyed and nervously. 'Oh I've taken his son's body… Oh no How am I going to tell her?' "Oh don't tell me you forget your mommy? That incident must have left you frightened. I go get you some Milo ok?" Megumi stood up and walked toward the corridor for the vending machine. As she walked out of site, Shinta grabbed his clothes, put them on and ran for the door. ' Urui will be back for sure when he knew that Shinta isn't Aoshi.' I have to get back to Aoshi before it's too late!" He sprang out of his room's window just as Megumi came back with his Milo. "Hey wait baby! Where are you going?" Megumi shouted out and ran out of the hospital in pursue. - Half an hour - Jiya or Shinta had been running over the street for half an hour trying to get rid of Megumi. However she seemed to keep up with him very well. 'Damn! She is a hard one! I've got no time!' and then he found that he was cornered. Jiya looked back to find Megumi already facing him. "You have been a very bad boy! Get back to the hospital this once!" With all her strength, Megumi tried to get Jiya or her Shinta back to the hospital. "No! No! I'm not your son! Let me go!!" Jiya shouted with all his might and struggled to break free. However, Megumi suddenly fainted right in the middle of the street. Jiya was surprised and as he thought that he could escape when Megumi woke up again. But this time, Megumi had changed. She carried Jiya over her shoulder and said," Come on, Jiya. Master Aoshi will need us now for Urui will be showing up soon!." Megumi sprang toward the place where Jiya's funeral was being held with a surprised little Shinta or err.. Jiya over her shoulder. "Wait! How did you knew I'm Jiya?!! Let me down!!!!" Jiya shouted as he was being carried towards the place where his (?) funeral was held. --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- GRAB THE GATOR! FREE SOFTWARE DOES ALL THE TYPING FOR YOU! Tired of filling out forms and remembering passwords? 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