Note: based on a challenge I found on the internet: write a series about any pairing using 121 given themes.

1. Crossing Paths

Yoh looked up at the sky in a daze, lying down flat on his back (not on his own accord at first) and just moaned. Lights were flashing somewhere between his retinas and his eyelids and he began to register pain.

Lots and lots of pain.

He whimpered as he tried rolling onto his side and then collapsed. In all ten years of his life, he had never been injured this badly. Quite a feat considering that he was first off a boy and second off in the fifth grade (and as everyone knows, ten year old boys go together with rough housing and fighting like peanut butter goes with jelly). He managed to push himself up and sat on the floor, his head spinning a mile a minute. Okay, Yoh. Try to remember what happened before you got the living crud beat out of you.

As he scratched his head, his wrist scratched against a scrap of broken plastic and metal that had been wedged into his shoulder. "What the--" He reached around his neck to remove his headphones...or at least whatever was left of them. "You've gotta be kidding me!" the poor boy exclaimed as he tearfully surveyed the damage. The plastic band that connected the two earphones was completely bent out of shape, parts of it snapped off with...blood all over it?

"Huh...I'm bleeding." Yoh stared at his shoulder until his eyes widened with comprehension and the belated realization he usually had. "I'm bleeding!" he cried and immediately commenced to completely freak out.

"Yoh!" The boy who was almost on the verge of tears turned around. "There you are. I was wondering where you wondered off to." Matamune walked over to him. As he approached closer to Yoh, his footsteps slowed down until the came to a complete stop. The cat blinked. "What...happened to you?"

"I...That's what I'm trying to figure out," he lamented.

"Were you robbed?" Matamune observed Yoh's destroyed headphones. "Ah...not that you have anything worth stealing."

Yoh sniffed. The girl. He lit up. "Oh, yeah. The girl!"

"What? Did you engage in a fight with another boy over a girl?" The cat frowned. "From the looks of it, it appears that you took on an entire mob of boys and lost." Yoh winced as the diminutive feline prodded one of his battle wounds. "Very badly, might I add."

"Thanks, Matamune." Yoh sighed. "No...I'm starting to remember now. I was walking down the street to the grocery store because grandma wanted some milk before our guest arrived and then I saw this girl. I thought she was really pretty and then all of a sudden..." Yoh paused, his mouth slightly hanging open. "All of sudden she glares at me. So I thought that maybe I was staring at her and being really rude so I said hi to her and then..."

"And then what?" Matamune helped the young boy to his feet.

"Then she tells me that she's gonna kill me!" he exclaimed. "And the next thing I know, I'm on my back on the floor and it feels like someone stepped all over me."

"And your dignity," Matamune chuckled to himself.

"It's not funny! How can you be laughing? If she ever sees me again, I'm a goner!" Yoh protested. "There's nothing that can make this day worse."

"Ah, pardon me for finding your situation to be rather humorous but..."

Yoh's jaw hit the floor, his eyes bugged out, and his entire body began shaking as Matamune uttered the only eight words that could indeed make his day any worse: "It seems that you have met your fiancee."

A/N: okay...what am i doing. I should seriously not be starting this but...i couldn't help myself =) stay tuned as I will be releasing four other fics about my OTPs with the same 121 themes. wish me luck! i'm aiming to finish all five 121 theme series by the time I graduate in May. if anyone else is interested in doing the challenge as well, just say so in a review and I will hook you up