Yuta: Look! I'm writing a fic that's not about Slayers and between two heterosexual characters! ^w^v victory sign Taeki: puts a blanket over her shoulders, a napkin with ice inside it over her head and a thermometer in her mouth while pressing a hand against her forehead Yuta: rises eyebrow Taeki: No, She is not delirious. Yuta: twitchTRUTH! Truth: leaps kawaiily like the kawaii hamster he is (:3) Muses: Back away in fear. Yuta: Now say the disclaimers Zel-chan. Zel: stares at the hamster Okay, none of the characters belong to Yuta. If they did, I doubt they haven't committed suicide yet. Yuta: DO YOU WANT A BERSEK-HAMSTER BEHIND YOU, ZELGADISS? Zel: hides behind Xell No. Yuta: Then CUT IT! Xell: pats his poor lover Continue Zel, before she gets more mad. Zel: Okay. So, the Shaman King chars don't belong to her, Leda and Jason do. If you want to use them, ask it first... Like if you'd want to... Yuta: What was that? Zel: expression of white lamb with pink ribbon around the neck What was what? Yuta: ¬_¬ Zel: (((-^))U Xell: Ignore him. ||^-^||



It was a Saturday at morning and Yoh Asakura and Manta Oyamada were helping his friend Bokuto no Ryu to fix for 575.000 time his dear unlucky scooter. Last night the poor in-training shaman's motorcycle had died and left him walking from the other side of the city till the Asakura's home. Well, Yoh wasn't exactly "helping him", more like watching, yawning and learning all kinds of new and interesting curses about scooters while Ryu did all the job and Manta handed him the tools. While working Ryu had the radio on in a station none of them had ever heard. Amidamaru was apparently asleep in his mini tombstone or whatever that thing Yoh keeps him was. Many times had the three of them tough in getting up and change it to a potable FM with something akin to music, but that would imply one of them making an useful movement, and we all know how lazy man's are when being sited; so the three of them kept listening to some totally brainless news reader that interrupted some creepy piano tunes (that could have been produced from a duet between Shinji Ikari and Lain, as depressing as they where) to scream some infamous publicity. They felt like the best thing to do would be throw a bomb at that station to end with that guy's misery. So, basically it was tanks to the laziness of the male race that they suddenly heard a morbid little voice that spat: "Last second! A horrible new obliges us to interrupt "Crime of Innocence (*)" The terror is back in our city! " " Even if the cops haven't emitted officially any information, it's undeniable that it's been found a sixth victim of the Wailing Woman in another temple. " "One of the young monks in the temple of Shokairo found today a horrifying surprise: A young woman savagely strangled in the backyard of the temple." "The strange disappearance of the young priestess of the temple makes us fear that she might be the unfortunate victim of that psychotic. To increase that suspicion counts the fact that the this young woman, like the other five murdered by the wailing woman, also counted with fifteen years" "Even with the lack of information provided by the authorities, we could announce that the characteristics of this new crime of the wailing woman were similar to the previous ones. The girl didn't presented any signs of rape, even if the state of the body was more than pitiful, clearly showing in the neck the hollow marks of a cruel strangling, produced by a thin cord or wire." "Luzia Shoji is the possible name of the new sacrificed life. This girl was originally from Takae, Japan, and had moved recently for unknown reasons, she's been working as a Miko in the Shokairo temple. The other monks had noticed her disappearance the previous night, but only today had they decided to denounce it, barely before the monk found the body." "The mysterious criminal has become a celebrity in the whole city and country. It's known by the indistinct names of the wailing woman and the faceless man, for the only witness that saw him described it as an skeletal woman that laughed, always walking besides a man clad in shard." "Its first murder was thirteen months ago, and the succession of strangles has been every time more frequently" "While between the first and second murdered were five weeks, the fifth victim, Naomi Saito, appeared dead only a week ago. The police had arrested a suspicious woman, but we guess they'll have to release him, due this murder proves them wrong..."

Yoh stared at the radio like if he hadn't ever saw one, Manta was with a spark plug in his hand and Ryu was with his had inside an acid that was already eating his bones. The news reader was happily detailing that according to information acquired by the station, , the body of the sixth victim exhibit a in her skin a purple bluish color, with a necklace of red raw skin around the neck in the place where the faceless man or wailing woman had pressed the wire and other comments as sickening as these ones. When the jackass stopped specking Yoh got up immediately.

"Yoh?" asked Manta. "Do you think Anna and Leda heard about this already?"

It was almost nighttime and Anna was in the house. The knowledge that a psycho was killing priestess, shamans and itakos of her age was driving her insane. Yoh and company had promised to be always with her, but if she'd even heard of the new she would be in the middle of an hysteric attack.

"You should call her, ya know, just to see how is everything going in the house." Suggested Ryu.

Yoh nodded and run to the public phone across the street, found money in his pocket and the number of Leda. He could call his home directly, but that would sound like if he had some feeling for his fiancée, think that he didn't had, of course, so it was better call his fiancée best and only girl friend, Leda Soukori, another Itako she'd met a couple of months ago, when she joined the shool. He marked the number of Leda's flat. Occupied line. Called again at Leda's flat. Occupied line. Called again at Leda's flat. Occupied line.

(*) That depressing piano tune in Evangelion. Spooky.

*********Dramatic pause*************

While Yoh tried to communicate with Leda's house, he remembered what has happened ten months ago, three weeks after the first murder. Tamao had called by phone babbling something about all the shaman girls being in grate danger because of a cursed phantom.

He called once again at Leda's home. Occupied.

There were rumors in the Shaman circle that the one that started this was a Shaman that tried to use the spirits of two powerful shamans at the same time in two different bodies. As result both spirits had drove the man insane, making him sacrifice his life to make the two of them independent spirits, walking around by own will. Over the last month many people had announced they'd heard a heart-braking wail or an hysteric laughter, or directly seen the phantom of a woman that walked around the streets wailing and doubled like carrying the weight of an enormous guilt.

He called once again at Leda's home. Occupied.

Silva had tried to find information about the ghost, he'd already sent an emissary to find everything possible about the dead shaman and the two spirits. With the bad luck that the chosen one for that mission was Jason Toyomura, Leda's boyfriend. Now Leda was nearly hysteric, because he hadn't call her in over a week, and she had locked herself alone in her flat all that time, not leaving it for a second, afraid of get killed and afraid of leaving if he called. She'd told Anna that it would be good for her to do the same. Anna hadn't done that, but everyone noticed how jumpy she was lately, and that she abode being alone or walk by herself.

He called once again at Leda's home. Occupied.

Yoh told himself: I'll wait a minute and then call again. If the line is occupied again I'll call home. If Horohoro picks up the phone, I'll tell him to discretely check if everything is okay around the house. If Anna picks up the phone, I'll tell her to give me with Horohoro... And if she suspects and gets all crazy... Shit.... But there was no other way.

He called once again at Leda's home. Occupied. He called at his home number.

**************Another dramatic pause***************

He marked the number of his home and Anna picked it up. Shit tough Yoh.

"Yes?" asked Anna doubtfully. "Hi, Anna? Is Horohoro here?" "Yoh..." sighed she with relief, then gained composure again. "What do you want him for?"

She doesn't know! Yessssssss Unconsciously he grinned.

"Please Anna, give Horohoro the phone." "I don't know if he could pick it up, because he's been in the bathroom the last three hours "

Shit! I let him taking care of Anna and he interns himself in the bathroom? Little ...

"Knock the door and tell him that I have to tell him something important." "I happen to have better things to do that knock the bath door where the Horo-child is locked up." "Please Anna, It's something extremely important!" "Oh, yeah, I imagine it already, veeeeery important." "Yes Anna, I assure you, please call Horohoro." "Very important?" the tone had changed.

Oh please, oh please not... tough Yoh.

"Important...." muttered she. "It's about the spirits, isn't it?" asked she sounding scared.

Anna. Sounding scared. Imagine that.

Oh shit. moaned Yoh's toughs. Please brain, work good just this time...

"What? Gosh Anna, you are pretty paranoiac lately! Not everything in my life is about those spirits, you know." He managed to say all that sounding easy-going and cool. Thanks the lord.

Silence.

"Anna?" asked Yoh. "You are not lying to me Yoh, are you?" asked she.

Why the hell does she has to sound so... scared and unprotected?

"Of course Anna, I wouldn't dream on lying to you! You would punish me too badly if I ever do that!"

Success. He could almost feel Anna smiling at the other side of the line. Anna smiling.

Hanyaaaan.... (*) Tough Yoh smiling and blushing a bit.

"Why Yoh, I could end up thinking you only call home to speak with Horohoro..." He sighed pretending to sound annoyed "Look Anna, I enjoy immensely speak with you, my soul lits up listening to your fine and ironic spirit, but at this moment I need to speak with the Horo-child." He added more change to get plenity of time to speak "And why can't I know what you want to tell him?" asked she. Yoh was about to treat her with hang up when he heard Anna shriek.

"There is... There is a man in the window!"

The tube of the phone transmitted him a dry hit, like if from the other side it'd fell from her hands. He could hear Anna shriek, getting away.

"Anna!" Called he.

"Horohoro!" he heard Anna scream.

"Anna! What's happening?!" screamed he at the tube. Some persons walking around stared with quizzical looks at the weird kid yelling at the phone. He was terrified. Anna was mean sometimes, okay, most of the times, but she was the last person in the world that would do that kind of joke. "Anna!" called he again.

Yoh could hear more screams, but this time there weren't Anna's. These ones were high, feminine shrieks, but faked, like if they came from a man.

(*) That sigh Sakura uses when referring to someone she likes immensely, usually accompanied with a blush and funny cute faces.