A Faithful Companion / By Koyukix
Authors note: This chapter is going to be based on Anna, Manta... and all the others, Yoh will be back in the next chapter. So because of that, this chapter will be written in Manta's point of view. =)
Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King. I repeat, I do not own Shaman King.
Chapter three- Gone
"He left the groceries in the main entrance and left," Anna stated with her arms crossed, a frightening look on her face. She has been angry at Yoh ever since this morning. She had called Yoh to get the groceries, but that was one day ago.
'Either something happened to him, or he ran away from home.' Anna thought.
She sighed softly. "That good-for-nothing fiancée of mine." She turned her face away from the TV and fixed her startling eyes at me. "Go find him."
"Eh?? Me??" I took a step backwards and pointed my finger at myself with mouth wide open.
"I thought you were his best friend." Anna fought back; her words were slow and calm.
"Fine, I'll go look for him." I answered. I might as well go and find Yoh, it's better than getting assigned all those chores again by that girl.
Amidamaru appeared gracefully besides Anna. "Manta-dono, I will go with you." I watched as Amidamaru turned his head and stared at Anna for any signs of disapproval.
"If you go with Manta, then I highly expect good results." Anna's words echoed in the small living room.
I gulped lightly, making sure Anna hadn't noticed I did. Amidamaru floated alongside me.
"Let's go!" I shouted, nodding to the spirit. He nodded in return and we were off on our short journey to find Yoh-kun. I was somewhat glad we could get out of Anna's sight, away from her commands and chores.
I was at Yoh's early this morning just like any other morning. I walked into the house and noticed a strange quiet presense.. I laughed nervously to myself as the dead spirits of the house floated by me. I walked into the living room, and to my expectation, Anna was there watching her prized TV shows.
Sometimes, I surprise when I realize that Yoh and Anna have always had a TV, but never a phone (Well, at least not until I got them one) But I guess it all makes sense when you think of the phone bills.
That was when Anna told me Yoh had disappeared.
'That explains the silence around the house...'
"Manta-dono! Where should we go first?" Amidamaru asked, looking at both sides of the long, stretched road.
"Hmm, let's just look around," I suggested.
"Mmm." The spirit nodded in agreement.
I ran towards to the main streets, where people were visible near stores and shops. Amidamaru floated swiftly to the side of me. Once I reached my destination,I stopped and began to walk slowly, browsing around trying to find Yoh. Amidamaru floated up into the sky somewhere, he said he wanted to have a better look from a fair height.
I paced along, turning my head here and there, searching of my friend. I had my laptop in my bag which I was carrying on my back, but my laptop won't help me here. I sighed. Where did Yoh go? It's not like him to disappear. It's not like him to just run away either, knowing him, he would rather go home and take a nap than to run off into some distant place. Though, it was also suspicious and weird in a way since he would have most probably taken Amidamaru with him if he was to flee from the house, but his ghost friend is with me right now. I thought about it for a good while, but still came up with no ideas.
"Manta!" Someone tapped me on my shoulders. I turned around.
"Horo-horo!" I shouted, happy to see a familiar face.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, a small smirk was visible on his face.
"I'm looking for Yoh. What are you doing?" I asked back.
"Pirika begged me to buy her some things, so I had to come out here and buy them for her. I just bought them from that shop over there, I was about to leave but then I saw you." He explained, pointing to the shop in the corner of the street. "Why are you looking for Yoh? Did he run away from Anna's death-like training?" He laughed.
"I guess so."
"Eh? You serious?" His face suddenly changed from mischievous to serious. "Why?" He looked around. "You're looking for that lazy guy on your own?"
"Well, not really. Amidamaru's helping me look for him." I told him, giving him a nervous smile.
"Where is that spirit?"
"Oh. He just went off into the sky somewhere; he said he wanted to look for his master from the sky."
"Ah, I see." Horohoro muttered, nodding. His arms were crossed and his eyes were closed.
"Well then, I guess I'll help!" He offered suddenly, popping open his eyes and giving me a big smile.
"Thanks." I appreciated his help. "If more people look, it will be easier to find Yoh...at least I hope. Anna'll kill me if I don't find him."
"Geez, that girl just sits around and gets other people to do everything. Shouldn't she go look for her own fiancée?" Horohoro exclaimed.
"Well, you know Anna. She's not the type to do that." I smiled at Horohoro anxiously.
"Well she should!!" he shouted.
"Heh."
"Manta-donoooo!" I turned around. Amidamaru was back.
"So? Did you see anything from the sky?" I asked.
"I'm afraid not. I'm getting awfully worried." Amidamaru's voice faded.
"Oh, well, let's just look around some more in some other streets. Horohoro says he's going to help us." I looked at Horohoro.
"You are? Thank you!" Amidamaru seemed anxious about Yoh.
"Let's go look over there." Horohoro pointed to a park to the right. Wow. I never knew there was a park there.
So we began to walk towards the park, we talked amongst ourselves. I haven't seen Horohoro in a while, in fact, I haven't seen him ever since the shaman Fight ended.
"So, where's Kororo?" I asked.
"Oh, that little fella is with my sister. I was going to bring her along, but Pirika kept complaining on getting lonely by herself." Horohoro clarified.
"I see." Amidamaru stated.
"Why, you're missing her? Everyone says you have a crush on her!" Horohoro teased, stepping in front of me.
"Gyahh! No! Of course not!" I shouted nervously, waving my arms in the air.
Horohoro turned red and gave me a long, observing look. "Hah! You are in love with my spirit!"
"I am not!!!" I cried.
We arrived at the park within a few minutes, all three of us separated across the grassy field.
I walked around the park, observing every person in the park, checking if they were Yoh. Nope.
In minutes, all three of us met back at the bench near the entrance.
"So did you guys find anything?" Horohoro asked, panting. It seemed that he looked even harder than me.
"I, didn't find anything." Amidamaru said, he looked worried. Though I couoldn't blame him. I was getting worried myself.
"I didn't find him either."
All three of us sighed. I looked up at the sky. It was getting dark.
"We better head back." I suggested, not wanting to be in even more trouble by Anna. "Horohoro, are you going to come with us?"
I looked at him as he thought about it for about a minute.
"Hm, sure why not?" He answered cheerfully.
"What about Pirika?" Amidamaru asked.
"She has Kororo with her, she won't be lonely."
I smilied nervously.
"Welcome back." Anna greeted us. "Oh, you've brought that ice boy back along with you."
"Ice-boy?! Why I outta!" Horohoro lunged towards Anna, but was stopped by Amidamaru.
"Calm down Horohoro."
I gulped. What kind of punishment were we going to get? We couldn't find Yoh. But we tried so hard...
"You guys didn't find Yoh, did you?" Anna walked towards us.
"No, we didn't." I answered her nervously, even my voice was shaking.
"But I'm sure he's okay." Amidamaru said, trying to change the mood.
"Hey! We tried to find him!" Horohoro shouted, waving his arm angrily in the air. "Why don't you go look for him yourself then!?!"
"You guys-"Anna began.
She was quickly interrupted by Horohoro.
"I shouldn't have come with you guys here! I should have just went back to Pirika!" Horohoro roared.
Anna took her eyes off of Horohoro.
"You guys aren't going to get any dinner." She finished her sentence.
"EHHHHHHHHHHH?"
Tsuzuku
