Title: Secret Colours

Chapter: 1 – Prologue – Red – Secrets; Leaked

Author: Rekino

Warnings: ANGST! OMG! And romance and a bit of hentai-ish! A BIT!

Pairings: Hao x Anna, Yoh x Anna (undecided pairings) Anna-centric

Disclaimer: Shaman King and its lovable characters do not belong to me, unfortunately.

Summary: Don't kill him." I said, looking Hao straight in the eye. "Why not? Are you getting fond of him, Anna?" I closed my eyes and answered, "Don't be stupid, I just want to do it myself." Betrayal has never quite been like this. Hao x Anna Yoh x Anna

Crimson; the colour of blood. Red tinged with purple. Associated with the emotions – anger, rage.

I stood in front of my master. The man I served. Whilst the others laid their heads low in respect, I calmly met his amused eyes. I was not a victim of the childish fears that everyone seemed to share. Yes, around me the others either feared or revered him. I did neither. Asakura Hao had always been the person who understood me, and him I.

No, I wasn't his slave. Nor he my master. Ignore what I had said before. Only on the surface did it seem like that. But we knew we were equals. People of the same breed. We desired the same thing in life and I was willing to comply with him to get it.

"Leave us." His voice said silkily. A single order dipped into sweetened honey for he sounded so graceful that it almost seemed a crime to not obey him. The rest bowed more lowly, their heads nearly meeting with the ground. A muttered 'hai' was their reply before disappearing from where they had once been.

"Come closer, Anna." He motioned – a slender finger emerging from his cloak to beckon me towards him – sitting on his rock as if it were a throne. Maybe it was. To him anything seemed possible. He was capable of changing the world.

I took a few strides forward and met his gaze easily. Something the others hadn't managed to do. He gave me a sly grin before wrapping his hands around my waist, "What?" I asked coolly, feeling the heat rush up to my face as he embraced me and began to run his thumb over the material of my dress.

"Hmm… I was just wondering about that brother of mine." A frown crossed my features instantly. The mood ruined by his sentence. I wanted to pull away but remained still in his grasp.

Asakura Yoh, that Kamidamned brother of his. The one who disgusted me beyond words could explain.

I had never liked him.

With that foolish grin of his, that easy-going attitude and his phrase, 'It'll all work out'. I desired to kill him, to end his life.

I may be cruel, yes. I admit it.

One might wonder why I would betray my fiancé.

Ex-fiancé, being the most appropriate term.

Well, when you catch him doing something unmentionable with a certain pink-haired shaman, it tends to destroy your whole perception of everything in general. I had literally seen red. My rage was undeniable but I managed to remain calm as I stormed out of the house into the pouring rain.

No, I had never liked him.

I had only loved him.

My love for him had disappeared after that day. Rightly so. He had betrayed me.

Then in my pain and confusion, tears disguised as raindrops under the cascading liquid, I met Hao. We simply stared at each other before I threw myself onto him. For some reason, I knew that he understood the pain I felt, I didn't even need to explain it to him while he simply held me and caressed my hair. Letting soft tears wet his cloak. He didn't murmur sweet nothings into my ear like some would have done. No, he gave me his warmth and his body for the night. He was the only one who really knew who I was.

Soon Yoh would feel the same pain.

Yet, did I really want to kill him?

"What about him?" I questioned, feeling Hao lazily trace circles across my back that caused me to shiver in his hold. He chuckled as his grip on me tightened. Gentle but tight nonetheless. The feeling was exhilarating.

While he played with my crimson scarf, tugging every so often as if to tease me. "He's weak." he answered with a look of mock disgust on his face. I agreed easily.

I added, "He's always been weak." Even with the training I tried to instil within him, he was still far too weak. At this rate, he would never be able to catch up with Hao.

"Unlike us." the Shaman of the fire element laughed softly.

"Unlike us." I echoed as he slowly pulled me down and traced kisses on my exposed collarbone – my dress strap having not covered that – licking here and nipping there.

Then with a dark glint passing through his dark orbs he looked up at me, studying me, before catching my mouth in a passionate kiss.

Asakura Hao was actually a very passionate man. Despite his prone pyromaniac tendencies and his wish to destroy his own twin brother that I also shared. He had this side in him that made me feel for him. It wasn't just lust, no I knew for a fact it was something more. And from his actions and the way his eyes spoke, he felt the same.

After breaking the kiss, he pulled away to cup my face in his palm, rubbing my bruised lips slowly. Inspecting his work with a smile. He glanced at my flushed face as I shifted my eyes away from him, feeling naked under his gaze. Hao was able to reduce me to a schoolgirl in love.

His next sentence however, surprised me.

"Anna, how should we kill him?"

Red – Secrets; Leaked – End.

To be continued Chapter 2

Fic notes;

Spur of the moment fic. The title doesn't necessarily have anything to do with colours, I just couldn't think of another title. Lol

Author notes;

Enjoy! Excuse the shortness.

Reviews, criticisms are greatly appreciated.

Rekino