Chapter 1

It's been a week since Ra Huu tore through the sky again, and Yoh and the others were training hard for their shot at being the Shaman King. With Hao out of the way Yoh-Kun and everyone else had a fair shot at the crown. As if Yoh didn't have enough on his plate Anna's been moodier than usual lately for unknown reasons. Maybe she's just paranoid that Yoh has to leave so soon.

Sixteen Yoh Asakura breathed heavily as he carried out his fiancee's orders, three hundred push-ups with two twenty-pound weights on his back.

"Yoh-Kun!" Manta shouted happily as he rounded the corner of the inn, "Anna-San told me you'd be out here."

Yoh smiled taking a break from his work out, praying to his brother that Anna wouldn't kill him. At the thought of his brother Yoh's smile slipped away, despite the fact that Hao wasn't the greatest person to be around Yoh still felt like he had killed off the other half of his soul.

"Yoh-Kun? Yoh-Kun?" Manta called snapping Yoh from his thoughts "sorry Manta, what's up?" The short human blinked "you were spacing out for a second. Is something wrong?"

The Asakura shook his head "nothing, you know me! I'll zone out at anything!" The two friends burst into laughter and fell onto the soft green grass, when their laughter died down they continued to stare at the sky in silence. The serene quiet was broken when Anna slid opn the back door and shouted that Ryu had finished lunch, and that if they valued their lives, they would come and eat.

The two boys cheered and ran inside the house. Washing the sweat off his face Yoh was the last to sit down, where everyone else was already digging into their noodles with shrimp and beef on it, "Thanks Ryu! Looks delicious!"

Starving, Yoh dug into his meal happily.

Anna slurped up her noodles peacefully before setting down her chopsticks "Yoh. I have to tell you something."

Ryu and Manta exchanged looks "if you wish madame, Manta and I can leave the room if you want more privacy."

She shook her head, "no. I'll need someone to lug Yoh up to his room after he faints."

Ryu and Manta raised their eyebrows in confusion.

"Yoh." Anna said staring him straight in the eye "I'm pregnant."