A/N: Hay there! First Shaman King FF! I'm considerably satisfied how this first chapter ended up and I hope you'd like it, too. Oh, the song Yoh's listening to is Bob Marley's "No More Trouble". It said in Wiki that Yoh's favorite singer is –quote- His favorite musician, "SOUL BOB", is a reference to Bob Marley. –end quote- So I looked him up, and what do you know – the perfect song xD And yes, I moved Fire Inn to Izumo although I know it's not supposed to be there. Oh, well. Enjoy and please review

Oh, I was in such a hurry to post this that I never really checked it for mistakes. re-reading it makes me realize how much mistakes I have, so I decided to repost it. Nothing's changed safe for spelling and gramar

Look at What They Did to Us

The afternoon sun was shining lazily over Izumo during a certain warm Sunday in the middle of May. At the touch of spring the place was flooded in greenery combined with a wide variety of colorful flowers. A most beautiful time of year, indeed. A calm, quiet, peaceful time.

"NO WAY!!!"

A sudden yell cut trough the quietness of the forest a little out of the village as HoroHoro stared wide-eyed at his companion.

"You've got to be kidding, Ryu! You've actually never even kissed a girl!?" The teen was gaping with the stupidest look on his face.

"Oh, seriously, HoroHoro, did you really think that mindless flirting could ever get him somewhere?" Hao, sitting comfortably between the branches of a big tree looked down at the two, situated a little lower. His face was set in a knowing half-smirk as he sent the offending words, gaining a half-hearted glare his way.

"Well, nothing seams to work!" The black-haired was almost sent to tears at his incompetence, resulting in a really pitiful sight. "How do you do it, anyway? I saw Tamao ask you yesterday! Even the shyest girls dare to come talk to you. And even Jun was there the other-"

"What!? Jun!?" A sudden protectiveness entered Ren's voice as he looked at them from the other side of the tree trunk. "I swear, Hao, if you ever dare to…" His thread lingered in the air as his eyes burned furiously, earning nothing but an innocent closed eyed smile.

"Well, Ryu, for once you have to be graceful about it. Just running to every single prettier girl won't get you anywhere. Make them run after you, pal. It would be much more rewarding."

Ryu's self-pity seamed to disappear within a second. "Will you help me get them, Hao!?"

"Ah, well, that might be a little difficult, but I'll see what I can do," A thoughtful expression took its place on his face as he said the certain words. "First of all, you have to-"

"Oi, stop changing the topic, wise guy. Every time when it's your turn you start babbling about something," Ren watched him carefully from across a few branches. "Now, let's get this on. Truth or dare?"

A sudden challenging look moved in of Hao's features together with a competing sparkle in his onyx eyes.

"Dare me." He spoke with a look that showed there was nothing he wouldn't do.

"So be it," the Chinese boy said with something distantly reminding an evil grin fighting to take over his face. "Kiss the next person that walks on the road under the tree. And I'm not talking about some simple peak on the cheek, Oh Great Womanizer," the last three words possessed all of the sarcasm Ren could lay out in them as his eyes had turned fiercely challenging.

Sudden quietness settled on the branches at the point that a bird flew so close to the tree and was just about to land when another shriek scared it away.

"ARE YOU TRYING TO GET HIM KILLED!?" HoroHoro was staring wide-eyed at the lavender head. "Just imagine who might walk there! What if it's-"

"You're on." There seamed to be excitement in the long haired teen who leaned a little bit foreword to be able to see between the branches if there was any movement.

"But- but, Hao!" Ryu seamed to panic. "Do you realize which road this is!? It leads to that old inn. The place where Anna lives! You're going to get killed if she decides to go shopping now!"

A joyful laugh erupted from the dared boy. "If I manage to kiss her, it'd be worth it!"

"Pffffh," Ren seemingly disapproved. "You think she's gonna let you? Remember what happened last time you tried to even get near her?"

The painful memory flooded the brunette as his smile disappeared immediately and an unconscious movement sent his hand to his right cheek.

"Well it's not really something you forget easily… But if I catch her off guard, maybe…" A mischievous look overtook his face together with a malicious smirk and his hand moved to rub on his chin.

"Hao, are you suicidal!?" The blue haired boy all but yelled again causing said teen to laugh out loud.

"Hush, you idiot!" Ren hissed in an amused manner. "Here comes his victim."

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A loud wide mouth yawn escaped Yoh as he extended his hand in front of it, before titling his headset back over his ear. It appeared that what had sounded like a yell had been only his imagination. Either that or this place was crazier that he had thought.

But, well, the trees on both sides the road didn't seem too normal anyway…

Oh, well, what could happen? The brunette wasn't one to worry about such things. He just decided to turn on the volume of his player up to max and ignore whatever other sounds there were. After all now was probably the only time of the day during which Anna wouldn't tear the instrument off of his ears to make him do some chores in the house.

Well, not that buying groceries wasn't a chore, but still. He could be away from her tortures for a while and listen to music, so it was much better in his opinion.

Honestly said, he hadn't expected Izumo to be this good. It was peaceful and quiet – whenever Anna wasn't there, of course. But he guessed after the preparations in the inn were taken care of he'd have a little spare time. Seriously, what else could she think of making him do?

Wrong question. She could think of anything. Realizing the troublesome place his thoughts were starting to near, he decided to concentrate on the music. Troubling himself with such things just took too much energy and was absolutely unneeded.

We don't need no trouble;
What we need is love. Oh, no!
We don't need - we don't need - no more trouble!
Lord knows, we don't need no trouble!

He ended up humming in the rhythm of the song as he went on trough the empty road, clearing his head of all troubles. It was so much easier this way. He thought that maybe he should have flipped when they told him he was moving here. Well, he hadn't. It's not like he had anything to really miss from that place. The only thing that had troubled him had been the fact he was supposed to live with Anna -and only Anna- in a huge inn a little bit outside of the place which wasn't really that inviting, but… Oh, well, he could deal with it for the time being.

Suddenly something seamed to fall right in front of him and he practically jumped, surprised by the sudden motion. Pushing one side of the headset to free his left ear he stared for a second at what seamed to be a mirror. It took him a surprisingly long amount of time to realize he was actually staring into another person who had just fell – no, jumped more like it, and landed quite gracefully, at that – from the tree above.

So he curiously started to observe the person and note the differences between him and the reflection his own mirror since it would take a smaller amount of time than listing the similarities. First of all, there was the hair – the one before him had let it grow long as the brown locks ended somewhere around his waist. Second, the clothing – Yoh knew he'd never see himself in something like that. It seamed like some kind of cape - or a poncho? – wrapped around the other's upper body, pants the kind of which he had never ever seen before and shoes that looked like they weighed a ton, making him wonder how the other one walked around in those. Also, there were the earrings – those big, round and probably heavy earrings with the star shape on them.

A curious looking guy, to say the least.

"Hay, there," the other one said, smiling a smile identical to his usual one.

"Um, hi-"

Before he could even finish that, the new boy moved so fast he could hardly see what was happening. Within seconds he found the other's lips pressed to his own with a hand buried in his short hair. A surprised gasp escaped his mouth, leaving the other one just the needed space between his lips to slip his tongue in and deepen the kiss. Yoh felt his entire face heathen up and was just about to start protesting when the other one pulled back.

Yet again he found himself staring forward with mouth agape and cheeks flushed.

"Just a dare," Said the mysterious boy, before turning his back and circling the tree, until he found the right branch and got up with ease.

Still shock stricken You didn't even feel the headset fall completely off his ears and onto his shoulders, neither did he realize where the boy had disappeared. After god knows how long he found himself walking towards the town in a daze...