Summary: Just what the title says.

Rating: K (G)

Chapter Notes: I'm sorry. I was bored.

Disclaimer: Manta's not mine. I don't really like him anyway. Can you tell?

Warning: SPOILERS!

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Can you see me there? Yep, that's me: the little short one who's always next to Yoh. We were best friends, ever since we met. Well, nearly ever since we met. When I first saw him, he freaked me out completely and at our next couple of meetings, we didn't get along well. But then we sorted everything out. Yoh helped me get revenge on Ryu. Actually, I lied. Yoh got revenge on Ryu for me. I just stood there, all right, tied there to the tree while he did all the work. Now we're best of friends and have been ever since.

Anna did get in the way a bit. She made me do all the work for her around the house, especially cleaning. It got very boring after a while, but I never had the courage to stand up to her. The only one who ever did was Hao, but even he got slapped once. I was never one to risk Anna's infamous slap. Actually, I was more afraid of her using me as a weapon. I got thrown at Horo Horo once or twice when she was closer to me than to him.

I suppose you could say I got along with Yoh's friends well. I still don't trust Ren with my life, like I do with Yoh, but we talk to each other. Horo's nice to me, as are Lyserg and Chocolove, even if he is a bit weird. I always had a special friendship with Ryu, even though he beat me up the first time we met. He was the one who gave me hope when I thought Yoh didn't want to be friends any more, and took me to Izumo, where we became friends again. Faust, I'm not too sure about. I used to be deathly scared of him, even after Anna assured me he was nice at heart. Now I can get along with him, but don't always understand why he does some things.

Hao has always been a weird person for me to discuss. The first time I saw him, he hurt Yoh and his friends, so for a while I hated him. That and the fact that he wanted to make a world free of Shamans. In case he hadn't noticed, I was a human, and didn't appreciate that he was going to wipe out me and the rest of my race. I was sickened by the fact that he could just kill other people without a second thought, but I also looked up to him a little because he had such great power. I mean, I wasn't even a Shaman, but he could control the elements with a flick of the wrist or a click on the tongue.

My thoughts changed a bit when I actually met him. I was astounded by how much he looked like Yoh, but how his personality was so different. I was a bit proud that he talked to me as if I was on the same level to him and that he told me things that he didn't even tell Yoh. I still felt very uncomfortable in his presence because of what he wanted to do to Yoh. The final straw was when I witnessed the fight between them. I was scared stiff the whole way through, and worried for Yoh. Inside, I knew he was going to lose. It was inevitable. But I couldn't believe it when he did. It was like – something had broken inside of me. Yeah, so that sounds really cheesy, but it's true. A part of me – my best friend – was gone, so I thought, forever.

And when Yoh came back, I can't really describe how I felt. It was a bit like a major mood swing – depressed to downright ecstatic. I knew we had a fighting chance and, after a few mishaps with Hao getting the King of Spirits and Yoh nearly dying again, he eventually managed to win. Then, I don't know what really happened. Everything went so quick.

But then, the world often goes quick when you can only see up to peoples' knees.

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Okay, so I was bored… --;; I hate the ending, but I hope it gave you a little smile :-)

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