WOOHOO! Another story, I feel accomplished... I think this one's not gonn actually be finished by the time you're done reading this, so expect more!
Anna/Yoh/Len(Ren)/Tamora(tamao)/Trey(horohoro)/Morty(Manta)/Choco(Chocolove)/Zeke(Hao): 14
Rio/Faust: 21
Jun/Pai Long (Pyron):19
Most others that I possibly neglected to mention:(FYI: this doesn't include ghosts) late teens/early twenties
(P.S. I will use Itako and Medium as adjectives for Anna interchangeably)
Disclaimer: (I think I forgot last time... and maybe the time before that) I don't own Shaman King.
ON TO THE STORY!
Shaman King contender Yoh Asakura walked up the stairs of the home he was residing in during the shaman fight. He was on a mission. His no-nonsense fiancee had barely shown herself today, and was unusually quiet. He was intent on finding out what was wrong with her, even if it meant great pain in the process.
Link
Yoh walked straight to the doorway of her room. Only now was he actually hesitant about disturbing her. She had never acted like this before, and he had known her since they were six. Yoh wasn't very comfortable with this new behavior, but if Anna was acting like this there had to be something drastic going on.
Anna Kyouyama could sense her fiancee at the door, and hurried to finish her work. It had taken all day to prepare, and she wasn't about to let her work go wasted. She gulped, then drank some of the content of the vial in front of her.
Yoh took a deep breath, let it out, and knocked.
Anna gasped at the taste of the liquid. It wasn't at all pleasant, and she felt sick. She wondered for a moment if she was actually going to technicolor yawn, but her stomach returned to normal, and she was able to answer Yoh's knock.
"Come...in...," she said, and sighed after she didn't throw up.
"Anna?" Yoh nervously, and came in.
"Yoh," Anna acknowledged, still not feeling quite herself, but hiding it like she usually does behind that mask.
"Anna... uh, what's wrong?"
"What do you mean, Yoh,"
"...You've barely said a word all day, didn't come down for lunch, and didn't bother to train me...there's something wrong,"
"Just because I decided to give you a day off doesn't mean something's wrong,"
"It does when it's you we're talking about,"
"And just what is that supposed to mean!"
"Nothing!" Yoh said, wincing, and waiting for her slap. When it didn't come, he peeked one eye open. Anna was turned away from him, keeling over. "Anna!"
"It's nothing, Yoh. Here, drink this. All of it," she handed him a vial half full of a liquid.
Yoh looked at it suspiciously, but decided if Anna was giving it to him, it wasn't poison. He gulped the liquid down in one sip, then gagged, although he had already swallowed.
"Anna? What the heck is this stuff!"
"...It's a potion that can create a link between two people. It will transfer certain things from one person to another," Yoh gaped. Anna had just said that, hadn't she? But her mouth... it didn't move. But he had heard her, hadn't he? "And as you can see, it's transferring thoughts quite well,"
"So I can read your thoughts, and you can read mine?" Yoh asked in his mind.
"That would be the idea," Anna answered him. "But it will also transfer something else... energy. Yoh, I have decided to help you in the tournament by giving you my energy,"
"But Anna! That could prove deadly! If I take too much, you won't be able to live! I don't want you getting hurt!"
"Your concern is... touching, but it's already done. You're stuck with me," Anna thought, and turned away. "So you and I had both better get some sleep, we'll both need the energy, if this is to work,"
"Hai, Anna," Yoh said, aloud. He turned away from Anna, toward the door. "Goodnight, Anna," he said.
"Goodnight," she replied. He closed the door.
"Hey Yoh!" came a call from the accidentally destructive blue-haired Ainu. "C'mon buddy! Time for BED! We know how mich you love bed!"
Trey walked over to him, and slapped him on the shoulder.
Yoh smiled at him half-heartedly. He was worried about this link.
Back in her room, Anna rubbed her arm.
That had hurt.
TBC!
YAY! first chapter done! Hope you liked. I would like to ask you to review, and tell me what you think. I also want you to tell me if I should leave my other fic, Mothers, alone, or whether I should continue it with a second, of maybe even a third part!
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