It was a beautiful night. Team Funbari Osen have just won team Ice Men. Everybody was having party at the Inn. But party atmosphere is too noisy for Anna, she'd prefer a walk along the beach, enjoy a wonderful night.

She sat in the sand, poked some shell with her bare feet. Yoh performed quite impressive today. May be her helly-tranning has its profit. Anna smiled to herself at the thought may be someday Yoh would realize his promise, she would become true Shaman Queen. Anna didn't even have the chance to think about one biggest barrier in Yoh's dream, her red craft swifted off her neck and flew behind her. She turned around manage to reach it, then she realize one hand has grabbed the scaft for her.

"I believe this's yours" - said a deep voice, a boy voice.

"Oh thank you, I..." - she stopped mid-sentence, her eyes widen as she caught up with his face.

"Hao!!! What are you doing here?" - Anna stand up and jump backward on step at the same time. Her hands grabbed the pearls firmly, defensively.

"Oh calm down Anna-chan, it's not like I'm here to kill anyone" - Hao smirked slightly.

"Don't you dare call me like that" - she shot out a death glare at him.

"Yes I dare Anna-chan, and honestly you're not going to win if you fight with me, so why don't you just relax a bit" - Hao sit down on the sand - "Here, sit next to me" - he look up at her furious face.

Anna looked at his playful face. Really, she thought, if he wanted to kill me so I'm not even alive for past few seconds. Anna take a closer look at Hao, now humming and looking up to the sky. All her feelings of him, after long time being kept deep down in her heart, now explode, take over all her mind and body. She now realized how much she missed his voice, not the voice he use when threat someone, but the voice reflects his true soul. Without her knowing, Anna let her hands go off her pearls and slowly sit down next to Hao, not so close though. She can't even know why she let her guard down when she was with the mos dangerous person in this world. But weird enough, she feels peaceful when she sit next to him like this. She started inhale deeply, enjoy the salty air.

"I'm surprised. Since when you've stopped slapping me whenever you see my face?" - Anna turned left, seeing Hao smile warmly to her. Her heart skips a beat.

"Since this's a beautiful night, and I don't want to ruin it by slapping someone" - Anna spatted coldly - "And don't be happy yet, I'll save my slapping later"

"Ouch!" - Hao keeps his face on his hands, pretend just being slapped - "That's so cruel Anna-chan"

"I told you not to call me like that" - she sighed.

"I like to call you like that, whether you like it or not"

They both stayed silent. Hao lie down in the sand and continue staring at the night sky. Anna just sit, looking at the dark sea ahead.

"What is your intention Hao?" - Anna start the convesation.

"I want to enjoy a nice night" - he muttered softly.

"No, not tonight, I mean everything you did and will do, reborn, dead, and reborn again, killing people, do such terrible things, what do you want Hao?"

He didn't answer, instead, he sat up, and being quite for few minutes. Anna just wait, patiently.

"Don't you think this world is dirty, human are selfish, they like killing each other, lieing to each other...I want to clean this world, there would be no lame human, there would be only our shamans, that's a great world I'm creating, don't you think? - Hao answered hurriedly.

Anna looked so close in his eyes as he answer, there's something in his eyes, it's passionate, it's strong, and his eyes reflect herself...

"No" - Anna spatted back before she could reconize it. Hao was looking at her, questioningly.

"That's not your main reason" - she mumbled - "that's not, deeply, why you're doing all this" God she doesn't know why she was so positive, but she thinks she was right, because Hao was frozed right at where he was sitting. His eyes was staring at her.

"And why did you think so Anna" oh my he even didn't call her Anna-chan anymore, was he that shocked?

"I...ur..."

"ANNAAAAA" both Anna and Hao almost jumped up when her name's yelled, echoed through air.

"I guess your friends and fiancee are looking for you. I'd better going, they would not be happy seeing me here" - Hao chuckled and stand up.

Anna look at Hao sadly, he's disappearing again, out of her reach, when she almost got him for herself. She doesn't want him to leave.

"Will I get to see you again?" - she said it before she know it.

Hao was looking at her, quite surprised. "Alone, two of us, you mean?" - he asked. Anna could do nothing but nodded "I guess we can if you want that so badly" and Hao bow down to her face, before disappear like a wind.

"There you are Anna, we've been looking for you. Why don't you enjoy the party? It's cold out here" - Yoh rush next to her. Anna look up to her fiancee's face.

"Why are you kooing at me like that?" - then suddenly Yoh took one step back - "I'm, i'm so sorry, i'm sorry for whatever I've done wrong, I'm sorry, please don't slap me" - Yoh held up his hand defensively.

"No, you've not done anything wrong Yoh" - Anna stammered - "I'm sorry, I'm going to sleep now" and she rushed back.

"Anna said sorry? OMG Yoh, tomorrow must be doom day" - Horohoro - who accompany Yoh to find Anna - said wided-eyes

Anna rushed back to her room at the Inn, slammed her door closed and collapsed onto the floor. She could almost burst out in happy...

The feeling of Hao's lips still linger on hers...