Nagisa Moyooshi

Literally, "Beach Party".

This story will be crazy, serious, funny, dramatic, and overall a lot of fun to write, and hopefully to read as well. And now I will do something I don't do often which is start this fanfic off with a Prologue. Why? Because I'm lazy.

PROLOGUE: Three Weeks have passed since the Shaman Fight concluded. In those three weeks, Yoh has had to make the most difficult choice he had ever faced. His mind is made up, but before that, he wants to throw a giant beach vacation. To celebrate the end of the shaman fight and it's victor. He invited everyone he could. Most showed up. He plans to kick back and have fun with everybody during this next week. But on the seventh day, he has to make an announcement, but he's not sure how to do it...

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin'
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking, how everybody's joking now"

-Eminem, "Lose Yourself".

Chapter One: Setting Up

"Ah! You think there are enough cabins here, Manta?", asked Yoh, holding his hands up in front of his face in a square to get a good view on the scene before him. In front of him were a bunch of wooden huts with screen doors and windows, not in any rows and columns but just randomly assorted. They were not old, in fact they looked like they were younger than the two teen guys looking at them. Manta took a good look at them from under his freshly purchased sunglasses, and then nodded, "Definitely...".

Yoh smiled and stretched out his arms above his head. Yoh had arrived early to set up everything with Manta, his fiancée. Tamao, and his newly adopted siblings, Redseb and Seyram. They were pressed with the task of setting up for everyone coming. The pair walked into one of the huts and inspected it, "According to Anna's chart...", said Manta, looking down at a clipboard, "We're all in this group". Yoh nodded, dropping a bag onto the floor.

"Redseb and Seyram will have to share a bed", said Manta, examining the room. Yoh nodded, "That's fine, they're used to that anyway". Manta continued on about something or another, but at this point Yoh wasn't paying a whole lot of attention. His mind was else where, the future. This was going to be hard, but it had to be done. Manta tapped Yoh on the shoulder, which was understandably difficult. "Yoh, you okay?", he asked, looking up to him.

Yoh smiled casually, "Yeah, I'm fine. Go on". Manta returned attention to the clipboard, "We'll get this first half of the cabin and the girls while get the spare room to themselves. Hey, Yoh-kun!", Manta said as he could tell Yoh's attention was drifting off again.

"Hm?"

"What made you want to throw a beach party in the first place?"

"Not sure... I thought it would be fun"

"Alright. Hey, when is Ryu going to be here?"

"He's getting the food, he'll be along shortly"

The door opened behind them, revealing a large box, Redseb trailed behind it, pushing it into the cabin. His sister followed him inside, now wearing black shorts and an oversized brown T-shirt. Her hair was no longer worn in braids, but untied and let loose. Yoh had taken her to get her hair trimmed so she wouldn't trip over it. The thought of tripping over your own hair made the two of them laugh at the time.

Yeah, Seyram could laugh again. And she did laugh again. She has turned 7 since the fight ended, it was the happiest birthday she had experienced in her whole life so far. Redseb actually cried seeing her so happy. Yoh had taken a real liking to his new siblings in the last few weeks, he had spent a lot of time with them lately. He even spent time with his father too. Despite the awkwardness, Yoh rather enjoyed it.

"Hey, Redseb, what's in that box anyway?", Yoh asked with enthusiasm, which confused Manta as Yoh was previously spaced out, not more than three minutes ago. Redseb hopped onto the bed, and replied, "I tried asking nee-san that, but she wouldn't tell me...", he said sighing. Yoh chuckled, she didn't trust the new Asakura members yet. Whatever, he shrugged, just like all his other friends, she would come around eventually.

"I'm going to check on the tables", said Manta, slowly walking out of the room. "Uh huh, you do that", Yoh replied, casually reaching for the scissors in Manta's back pocket. He got them when he took the step off the entrance. Manta didn't seem to notice, so he kept walking along. Yoh snickered and returned to Redseb, "How about we take a look for ourselves?". Redseb grinned and hopped off the bed.

Redseb put his ear to the box and shook it a little. "I can't tell for sure... But I think it's a lot of objects in here". Yoh kneeled before the mysterious box of perplexity and held the scissors up above the tape. Just as he was about to cut, Redseb caught his wrist, "Wait! If we cut the tape, nee-san will know we looked!". Yoh preformed the infamous facepalm, "Your right, Redseb, how could I miss that?". Redseb smiled and began slowly peeling the tape off his side of the box.

Yoh did that same until they met in the middle of the top. Plucking the last bit off together, they took a deep breath. It was not immediately noticeable that the tape has come off. Yoh wiped his forehead, despite there not actually being any sweat there. He looked Redseb in the eye, "You ready?". Redseb nodded eagerly.

Yoh held both flaps of cardboard and slowly began to lift them apart, as they lifted, his thought process accelerated, What is in this box? What? What? Could it be? No. Maybe it's... Nah, perhaps.... yes! No... But... Yes! Maybe... No...

This process was cut short by a feminine hand slamming the flaps closed. Yoh's heart skipped a beat, and his expression froze. "What do you three think your doing with my box?", Anna said almost sadistically. Seyram would've normally pointed out that she hadn't done anything, but figured by the end of this it wouldn't matter. "We were j-just...", muttered Yoh, in a shaky tone. Anna raised an eyebrow, "You were just...?".

"Just... eh... Curious"

"Really."

"Yep."

"You were aware this box belongs to me, right?"

"Yes."

"Did I say you could open this box?"

"No."

"Did I say you couldn't open this box?"

"I was gonna say that!"

"I saved you the trouble"

"Uh, thanks?"

"Your welcome"

Redseb sat cross-legged on the floor, observing the verbal volleyball, when an idea popped into his head. He reached for the cardboard flap, but Anna grabbed his wrist right before his hand met with the surface. She swatted his hand away, and Redseb concluded that it was too risky.

Anna knelt down and looked Yoh in the eyes, "And if you try to look in this box again...", she said before leaning in and whispering something in his ear. Yoh blushed and crawled back towards the wall, eyes wide with fear. She was serious.

"You wouldn't!"

"I would"

"What could possibly be so important about the contents of that box that you would steep that low!?!"

"Well if I told you, You'd have to go through it"

"... That was a rhetorical question..."

"I know."

"Then why--"

"To stir fear inside you"

"Oh... how nice of you"

"I try."

"And you!", she pointed to Redseb, who's face drained of color when she called him out. "The same will go for you too!".

"What!?! No!"

"You heard me, Yoh"
"You can't! He's just a kid!"

"A kid who tried to look into the box"

"You can't force that upon him! Some things in this world you have to be ready for!"

"This isn't up for negotiation."

"Please... do what you want to me, but spare him the agony!"

"Hm... I'll think about it"

Yoh sighed, "Thank you". Anna re-applied the tape to the box and pushed it into the back room. She was wearing a black tank top and khaki shorts that reached her knees. She left without another word. The room stood silent and still for the next moment. Seyram sat beside her brother, "Nii-chan, what is this cold feeling?", her brother swallowed hard and replied, "Fear... Seyram... that chill in your spine? Fear...".

"Oh...", Seyram said back, looking down. Redseb slung his arm over her shoulders and looked back to Yoh, "What... would she have done to us, Nii-chan?". Yoh stared into the kid's eyes and muttered, "I hope you never have to find out...". Suddenly, the pair burst out in laughter, just that weird kind of laughter that sometimes happens in situations where it isn't called for that you can never explain.

Once the laughter died down, the door swung open and Manta asked, "Has anybody seen my--". Yoh handed him the scissors, to which Manta took and shrugged turning to go back outside.

I had more to go on in this first chapter but I've spent a week writing this much and have been neglecting to do a lot of my other various projects and need to get this out. I'm looking forward to writing this and I hope you will enjoy it.