Muahaha, welcome to chapter 4! It's not as bad as you might have thought (or hoped) cos I'm too much of a wuss to describe it properly. Also some of the M-rated fics on here just make me squirm (Roxy makes me read them :( bleh!) so I'm not even going to try and write stuff like that. Enjoy:-)

Chapter 4

Anna woke up to find herself staring into a pair of big brown eyes. For a minute she thought they were Yoh's and felt a sudden rush of love. Then everything came flooding back to her and she remembered it was Hao. She felt a weight on top of her - it was him. She suddenly realised what he was doing to her, screamed, and tried to pull away.

"Thought you might try that," Hao said, smiling. He muttered something. Anna's arms snapped to her sides and her body seized up. She tried to move, tried to speak, but none of her would move. The only thing she could do was blink. She looked at him pleadingly with sorrowful eyes, but it was in vain. Nothing was going to work.

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The next half an hour was absolute hell. There was not one part of her body that hadn't been touched, licked or kissed. She felt dirty. Without warning Hao got off the bed, muttered another strange chant and she could move again. Weeping in embarassment and pain, she gathered up her clothes from the floor and started to put them back on.

"I hate you!" she screamed between sobs. "I hate you for what you've done to me! You had no right to do that!"

Hao smiled grimly. "You may have been stupid enough to marry my pathetic little brother, but you're mine now, Anna."

"Yoh's not pathetic! He's more than you'll ever be! You tried to kill him!" she yelled furiously. "And I'm not yours! I don't belong to anyone. I'm not a doll. Oh yeah, this one's for Yoh!" she shrieked, kicking him right where it hurts. He yelled with pain.

"If you do that again I'll hurt you in ways that you could never imagine," he panted. "I'll see you later, Anna." He opened the door, left the room and slammed the door. She heard a key turn in the lock.

Anna sat on the bed and sighed. This was it - destined to become the plaything of a sex-crazed pyromaniac. Hurry up, Yoh, she thought. Rescue me, if you're not pathetic like Hao says. As a desperate last measure, she took one of her shoes and threw it out the window, hoping that if, by some miracle, Yoh went past, he might spot the shoe and realise she was in there.

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"Yoh, this is pointless! We're not getting any closer to Anna," Mikami yelled over the roar of the motorbike engine.

"Wait! Mikami, stop this thing! StopstopstopstopstopSTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!" Yoh replied, spotting something lying on the pavement nearby. Mikami stopped, Haru on his friend's moped nearly crashing into her.

"What?" she said. Yoh had run off down the street. She followed. "Yoh, what are you doing? Come back!"

He had picked up the object on the pavement. A wedge sandal with red straps. "Anna's shoe," he said, in hushed tones.

"What about-? You don't think, well, we've, erm, FOUND her, do you?" Mikami asked sarcastically.

"I bet you she's in there," said Yoh, peering at the small round window. "I have to get in somehow!"

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Lying face down on the hard bed, Anna suddenly heard tapping sounds coming from the window. She ran over to it, spotting a familiar face. Could it be? It was. She yanked the window open.

"Yoh! Oh, Yoh! How did you find me? I knew you would!" she gushed. He grinned.

"Long story. What happened to you?"

"You don't want to know, seriously. Hao's in the shower, I think. I hear water running. Get me out of here, pleeeeease!"

"I'll do my best. Here, take this," he suggested, pulling off his shirt. He handed it to her. "It's cold at night," he smiled. "I'll come and rescue you as soon as I can. I have to go now, it's starting to rain and this roof is getting slippery. Yaaargh!" he cried, seeming to fall backwards. Anna looked out of the window worriedly. He was sitting down on the tiled ledge jutting out from under the the second storey of the house. He gave her the thumbs-up. "Bye, Anna. Love you," he said. She smiled and closed the window. She just had time to stuff the shirt under the pillow before Hao burst in, wearing a towel round his lower half. His eyes narrowed. He had spotted a corner of Yoh's shirt sticking out. He walked over to the bed and moved the pillow, revealing what Anna had so hastily stuffed under there.

"Where did this come from?" he said, holding it up.

"Um..." she stuttered, trying to think up an excuse. Suddenly she felt an irresistible urge to tell him the truth. He watched as she wrestled with her conscience. Eventually she replied.

"It's Yoh's!" Anna blurted out. The spell had got the better of her.

"Yoh? What? How on earth could you have got this? He doesn't even know where you are! Or does he?" he said, looking hard at Anna. The strange feeling came over her again. She tried desperately to keep her mouth shut, but it was no use. Whatever he was doing was working. A voice in the back of her head whispered, fight it, Anna! Another much louder one screamed TELL HIM THE TRUTH! The whisper became a roar and she struggled, but managed to overcome Hao's enchantment.

"I...I carry it around with me. It has his mobile number on the inside in case I ever get lost," she lied convincingly.

"Hmm. Well. I'm compelled to believe you, my captivating one."

Anna scowled. "Shut up."

He leaned over and grabbed the front of her shirt. "You look so beautiful in the moonlight, Anna. My Anna..." he whispered. She pulled away.

"For the last time, I'm not "your" Anna. Leave me alone," she spat. Hao's image melted away in front of her. "How is he doing that?" she wondered aloud. Hao appeared again. "Trade secret," he smiled, and left the room.

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Curled up on the floor in Yoh's shirt, Anna was freezing cold and hardly slept that night. Inside, something hurt much more than the hard floorboards pressing into her back - her vulnerability, unable to fight off Hao's spells. She found herself wishing more than ever that there was someone there at her side.