Title: Choice
Pairings: Yohna
Genre: Romance/Drama/Angst/Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: spoilers for the ending of the Manga.
Rating: PG (K+)
Chapters: 8/10
Status: WIP
Word Count: 1018
Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King nor the characters.
Summary: The Shaman Tournament has ended, the new Shaman King has been selected. And this brings a new different kind of problems for Yoh and Anna to deal with. Yohna. Manga-based.
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Part five
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After leaving his Grandmother's house, Yoh stood on the road, frowning deeply. Amidamaru hovered over his young Master, watching him carefully and waiting for the decision of their next course of action.
"It was two days since Anna came here, and it looks like she hasn't spent much time in the house." Yoh stated finally looking at his spirit guardian.
"Yoh-dono?" the Samurai ghost looked down.
"We need to find Anna. She had to spend the past two days somewhere here." He stated determined.
"Doesn't she have any special places around here?" Amidamaru asked his young Master.
"No… I don't think so." Yoh frowned. "I've been here only once, and she hadn't liked going outside much then. She usually spent her time in her room at Oba-san's." Yoh explained then sighed. "She didn't have many happy memories from this place. Her childhood was a hard one…"
"Hm…"
They stood in silence for a while.
"It's no use. This will not help in bringing her back." Yoh said frustrated. "Damn." He cursed making Amidamaru blink at his Master. "Where are you, Anna?" the brown haired boy raked his hair with his hands, making his orange headphones fall onto his neck. Amidamaru looked at his young Master concerned.
"Did Anna-okami say to you anything before leaving, Yoh-dono?" he asked.
"No, she didn't. She didn't know what this visit was about."
The ghost just nodded. "I see."
"She did felt uneasy when she was leaving though…" The frown he was sporting for the last few minutes deepened. "Actually I've felt uneasy about her going here alone too. Kuso! Why didn't I listen to my instincts…"
Amidamaru listened to his young Master, thinking of a way to help him find Anna.
"Maybe…" he stopped, and Yoh looked at him. "Maybe we could look back at the past two days since her leaving?" he suggested. "Maybe something has happened then that will help us?" he said tentatively.
"Since she left?" Yoh frowned once more. "There hasn't happened much… I was at school with Manta, then we met you as always and then Mata…mu..ne…" He paused, his eyes widening. "Amidamaru! You are a genius!"
"I am?" the ghost asked surprised at the sudden excitement in his young Master.
"I know where she is!" the brown haired boy continued, ignoring his spirit.
"Really? That's good, Yoh-dono!"
"Come on! We've got a long way before us!" He started running, the Samurai ghost following him.
Yoh ran as fast as he could. How could he have forgotten about Mt. Ozore? He wailed inside his head. Anna's been hurting and endangered since coming to Aomori and Yoh has felt the deep sorrow and pain coming from her. How could he have not put those things together? How could he have not realized this? She has been thrown away by his Grandmother from the only childhood home she's ever known and told that the engagement was over… her whole world was destroyed with that one conversation! Oh, Anna…
Yoh flexed his frozen fingers as he neared the Mountains. It wasn't the winter time yet but it was extremely cold in Aomori. And Anna has spent the past two days at the Mt Ozore. Yoh cursed as he hurried toward the mountain. He prayed that Anna was still alive. He didn't want to think what he would do if she's not.
Finally he could see the same place where he had found her six years ago. He stopped, huffing slightly from his running. He took a few steps, then stopped surprised. Now, he did not expected this.
"You were suppose to protect her. To make her happy!" the horned being before him snared. The last time Yoh has seen him was during his training session in hell during the Shaman Fights. "And what did you do?" the being shook with fury. "You don't deserve her!"
"Oh-Oni." Yoh whispered.
"Yoh-dono!" Amidamaru flew before his Master in defensive stance. Then blinked surprised. "Oh-Oni!" he echoed Yoh, unconsciously.
"Leave Samurai, this doesn't concern you!" the demon gritted through his teeth.
"If it concern Yoh-dono, it concerns me!" Amidamaru shot back, fiercely.
"Then I have no choice but destroy you too." The Oh-Oni stated and took an enormous swish at them. Yoh jumped instinctively away, calling his oversoul, his eyes were sad.
"Did Anna call you here?" he asked in a whisper but both ghosts had heard him anyway.
"She didn't have to. I may serve Sati-sama now, but my first priority was and always will be Kaa-san!" he took another large swish at them, but once more Yoh feinted, avoiding any damage.
"I remember asking you" Here, the demon pointed his large hand at Yoh "to take good care of her. And what did you do? What?"
Yoh stared at him unflinchingly, his soulful eyes filled with pain.
"You don't deserve her!" the Oh-Oni yelled. "I'm going to protect her from now on! Even if it's protecting her from you." The demon took a fighting stance ready to destroy anyone who dared to pass him. "Especially if it's protecting her from you!"
Yoh watched him for a second, then put down his oversouled sword "You're right I don't deserve her." He laughed mirthlessly, silent tears falling down his face. "I don't."
"Yoh-dono!" the Samurai ghost appeared beside his Master.
"Stay away, Amidamaru."
"But-"
"Stay here!" Yoh said in a hard voce, the determination was coming from him in waves. "This is something I must do alone." He said then looked at the Oh-Oni with eyes filled with resolve and purpose. "I'm going to save her. I will save her. She's my wife … I promised her I'll protect her and I don't intend to break that promise." He locked his eyes with the demon. "You won't stop me. I've come here to bring her back and I will!"
The Oh-Oni watched Yoh silently, his face impassive. The two of them seized each other for a while, Then the demon smiled. Amidamaru blinked. Yoh just returned the smile and took a step forward.
Unharmed, he passed the Oh-Oni toward the place where Anna was.
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end of part five
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