Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman king.

Ren and Anna. The two tyrants of the house. Unhelpful, selfish, short-tempered, unfriendly, imperious, dangerous book-worms. And the worst part – they couldn't stand each other. When characters like those fought, it was like an atomic explosion. In the end many innocent people suffered.

For the boys Ren was the short-tempered buddy with really bad childhood that no one smart enough should bother. For the girls he was a potential boyfriend (or in Jun's case – a brother).

For the boys (except for Ren) Anna was the Ice-queen, the Danger itself. They had to do anything she asked or they wouldn't survive another day. And, unfortunately for the boys, the girls thought she served as an excellent example.

And for everybody it was more than clear that the two should never be left alone…Now, even when they were already seventeen, they continued to fight for simple little things and the results were fascinatingly destructive. Though when the school gave Yoh, Horo, Tamao and Pirika the opportunity to get away from the noisy city for a couple of days with the class, they didn't think twice. And Ren and Anna were left completely alone in the mansion…

'Anna, are you sure you don't want to come?' Yoh asked, a big bag on his shoulder and the others waiting for him a couple of meters away.

'Yes, I'll pass.' She answered coldly as usual.

Her fiancée shrugged, then grinned and waved for goodbye. Instead of waving back as every normal girl, Anna soundly shut the door. She turned around and a soft sigh escaped her lips. She would never admit it, but a big part of her told her that the coming days wouldn't be too easy.

For these few years she had become a beautiful young lady. Her blond hair reached her waist, her lips had become full and tempting and she had a body to die for. But she didn't care. All she cared about was the nearing wedding. She was going to marry Yoh as soon as they both become eighteen. And that wasn't so far away…

Sometimes she thought whether she had taken the right decision. Marrying someone as lazy as the Asakura… She practically was dooming her young life. But then Anna remembered her duty and "fascinating" stuff like this, shook her head and immediately made herself think of other things.

'Hey Tao!' Anna shouted as she approached the stairs 'Come down here! We need to discuss something!'

A few seconds after that Ren appeared at the top of the stairs. No steps were heard before that. He was always soundless when he walked.

"Just like a snake!" Anna thought with disgust. Though, she had to admit somewhere deep, deep, deep and I mean REALLY DEEP inside that he was absolutely handsome. His inky hair was hanging down freely almost touching his shoulders, he was very tall, with athletic muscular body and when he looked at someone his golden eyes made the one think Ren could see directly inside his soul.

'What is it, woman?' he asked harshly.

'Come down here. We need to talk.' The Itako answered her hands on her hips.

'About what?' he begun coming down.

'We are going to spend a few days alone in this house so we have to… talk.' Anna explained and went inside the living-room, the Tao following her.

'We are both perfectly aware of the fact we hardly stand each other' She begun in businesslike manner 'So we need to discuss how are we going to…'

'Don't worry, I'll stay in my room most of the time. I'll only use the yard from time-to-time for training and the bathroom. I'll eat somewhere outside.' He interrupted her, stood up and left the room.

Anna was quite glad with that decision. She didn't want him around and he knew it. So he actually made it easier for both of them. She plait her hair in two in front of the mirror, then turned around and looked at the washing room. She hadn't been inside for ages since the others (except for Ren) did all the laundry, cleaning and stuff. But they didn't clean the laundry room and it was a mess. The floor was covered with suspicious patches and in one of the corners there was something that looked very much like a hot-dog…

"Stupid Ainu. I'm going to tear your head off as soon as you come back!" she thought to herself. She wasn't very good at cleaning but when she passed by the half opened door of the laundry room, the disgusting smell hit her and she decided to do the impossible sacrifice – to clean it up. She had never done it before but she just couldn't live in the house and knowing there was something like this inside.

She took a big bucket and filled it with water all the way to the top. She then looked around and found some bottle with preparation and put all of it inside the bucket without a second thought.

'OK may be this was a bit too much…' she said to herself as bubbles started pouring out of the bucket. 'Oh well… I'll just put the clothed in the washing machine and then think about it… '

But after putting the clothes in the washing machine and putting way too much washing powder, the bucket continued to produce big amount of bubbles. Anna tilted her head to a side thinking of what to do and then she suddenly remembered what Tamao did to clean the floor. She just emptied the bucket on the floor.

Proud of herself of thinking of that so quickly, Anna picked up the little bubble-factory and emptied on the floor. And then… there were bubbles everywhere…

'Maybe I put too much water…' no matter how hard she tried to stop it, Anna begun worrying. Maybe she wasn't doing so well.

Suddenly the washing machine began shaking like hell and bubbles started to pour out of it as well. At that point Anna couldn't take it anymore and panicked, very unlikely to her. She run toward the machine, or more likely slipped towards it and started pressing every possible button she could find and managing only to make the machine produce more bubbles. In no more then ten seconds she was standing, wet and miserable in the middle of a bubbling hell. And she wasn't the Ice-queen anymore. She was a girl who needed help as soon as possible. And without a second thought, she screamed at the top of her lungs.

'ANNA!' a voice shouted as the door opened and Ren stood up at the doordteps, thinking that she was in danger. Well, she was, but not the danger he imagined. More like a bubble-trouble.

The moment he tried to enter the room, he slipped and fell on his back, which, Anna though, was probably very painful. But Ren didn't stop with the fall, he continued slipping forward on his back very fast until he hit Anna's legs and she landed on top of him. Her hand were on his (she realized it just then) bare chest.

'Oh, my God, Ren are you alright?' Anna asked before she could stop herself. He moaned with his hand on his eyes.

'My head and back are killing me! I'm feeling like an old man!' he complained, then removed his hand and looked at her. The eye-contact lasted a couple of silent seconds, before they both realized their position. They blushed like crazy and hurried to get apart… which wasn't very easy, considering the floor was all wet and soapy. When they finally succeeded and stood up they were once again Ren Tao and the Ice-queen so it wasn't a big surprise when they started shouting at each other about whose fault it was.

At the end the room was so covered in bubbles that the shaman gave up and said he was going to clean it up if she just got away from his sight. Anna, knowing she couldn't handle the situation anyway, just did what he asked.

After a few very long hours, Ren finally walked out of the room, looking exhausted. He just climbed upstairs without a word, went to his room and threw himself on the bed.

'The idiot… thinking I was in trouble!' Anna said loudly, though she couldn't keep herself but wonder why he had rushed so fast to save her, since he always said he hated her. In the end she just shook her head and went back to the kitchen to continue preparing the dinner.

Suddenly the phone rang. She rolled her eyes and picked it up.

'Sister?' Anna exclaimed a second later.

He heard a knock on the door but didn't answer hoping Anna would think he had fallen asleep and would let him be. But Anna never considered stuff like that and after a few tries finally walked inside with a tray in her hands.

'I brought you a tea.' She said. He sat up in his bed and looked at her strangely.

'I'm probably having hallucinations.' He murmured looking at her submissive expression. He bit his lower lip hard and when he felt the pain just added 'Who are you and what have you done with Anna?'

'Don't be silly! It's me. Now Take the tea.' She handed him the cup.

'It's poison!' he folded his arms.

'You're such a baby! I'm trying to be nice to you!' she hissed, starting to get annoyed.

'You're never nice to me!' he said, taking the cup.

'Well, now I am. Take some advantage of it.'

'No, I know you. You want something.' He insisted and looked her straight in the eyes. For some reason that made her blush a little and she looked away.

'I…'

'Well?'

'I… uh…'

'YES?'

'I WANT YOU TO PRETEND TO BE MY BOYFRIEND!' she shouted finally leaving him speechless.

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