Disclaimer: No, no. It simply isn't possible. If I owned Shaman King, would I be here writing fanfics? O_o
The Courtship of Iron Maiden Jeanne
Lyserg Diethyl was desperate. There was no way he was going to let this happen! He scowled uncharacteristically and bumped into someone who was walking in the opposite direction. It happened to be Horohoro.
"Hey watch where you're going!" the Ainu said.
But Lyserg just ignored the other boy as he continued to walk away.
"No one turns his back on me while I'm talking!" Horohoro yelled. He ran after Lyserg and faced him angrily.
"Huh? Lyserg? I didn't know it was you." Horohoro said. But Lyserg didn't even look at him.
"That was weird."
Later that afternoon, Horohoro dropped by the Asakura residence.
"Hey Yoh! I kinda bumped into that British kid Lyserg this morning. And he was a mess! You shoulda seen him!"
"Horohoro. He's here." Yoh Asakura pointed to a distraught looking Lyserg.
Anna, Yoh, Manta, Tamao, Pirika, Ryu and Ren listened as Lyserg told them his problem.
-*-flashback-*-
Lyserg strode purposefully toward the garden. he would tell her today, there was no turning back now. He would tell Jeanne and...
"Lyserg-kun." It was Jeanne's voice. He looked at her and his breath caught in his throat. His Jeanne was tending to a rose bush, her silvery blue hair loose and a few strands moved in the breeze, she held a pair of garden shears in her white hands, and was looking at him oddly.
"O-Ohayo Maiden-sama." he said as he bowed, after snapping out of his reverie. Jeanne's beauty and spirit had this effect on him.
He walked toward her and she paused. "I---" They began at the same time.
"You go first, Lyserg-kun." Jeanne said, blushing faintly.
"No....you go first, Jeanne-sama..." Lyserg said. Jeanne had stopped working on the rose bush altogether, and was focused on the young man in front of her.
"Well...alright." she said. Jeanne looked at him curiously, her red eyes twinkling with a bit of amusement...and sadness? "I was going to save this for later, but now I want you to be the first to know. I'm leaving for France in three days, to be a nun." Jeanne said softly, wondering what he thought of this. Sure everyone else would be upset that she was leaving-- but Lyserg, he was somewhat different from the others.
Lyserg's eyes widened in surprise, but he said nothing. He simply nodded.
"I know it's sudden but--" the girl said "Anyway...what was it that you were going to say?"
The green-eyed boy looked at her, the pain hidden quickly. "It doesn't matter." Then he took her hand and kissed it softly. "I wish you the best, Maiden-sama." he said.
"And you're letting her go. Just like that?!" Tamao said, indredulously.
"Well...well Tamao, you sound like you know so much about L-O-V-E. Care to tell us about it? " Horohoro teased.
"Shut up!!" The females shouted.
"Ok. ok!" Horohoro put his hands up in defeat. Women were scary.
Jeanne looked at her image in the mirror. The Shaman Fight was over. She convinced herself that entering the convent was the right thing to do. Nothing else really mattered anymore. She sighed, except that a certain person kept popping up in her thoughts ever so often. It was getting much more frequent now.
Lyserg Diethyl. Lyserg-kun. Green eyes, unruly hair, innocent face. A smile that could make iron melt. Even Iron Maiden Jeanne. Now she was smiling. Smiling by herself like a fool. What on earth was she thinking?
"Now lookie here!" Pirika commanded "You're not going to let her go to France, ok?" Lyserg looked nervously at the three girls who stood in front of him. They looked like the world's toughest POW interrogators.
"Ok here's the deal. Ask her if you can court her." Tamao said. "Then take her on a date the next day. You have three days! That's not much time, pal!"
"What if she refuses?" Lyserg said.
Anna glared at him like he asked a really stupid question. "You going to ask her, not Marco!"
Ren, Yoh, Manta, Horohoro and the other males tiptoed outside noiselessly. They were very, very scared.
Author's Notes: Like it? Not? Comments welcome. ^_^