Shaman King: Friends

Disclaimer: The SK gang belongs to Takei-sensei. I just own the cake in here.

Summary: Five shaman friends, five different backgrounds, one crazy funny romantic angsty fluffy loud and possibly destructive adventure and tons of other comrades to share with. Nothing can hold them down. Well, almost. Inspired by kigen.

Author's Note: This is what happens when you think of something to write while you're supposed to study on your driver's ed test!

Look out for: Anna's Legendary Right/Left Hand Slap. :D

And it's been months since I've updated, sorry! I've been busy with the most important exam of my life. And now I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!

Chappie 10: Sweet Gifts (HaoLysergYoh fluff)

"You want to bake a cake for Lyserg?" As much as Anna wanted to believe it, she just couldn't. Especially when that thought came from the one and only: Hao-sama.

Hao felt his head throbbing and his face flushing. For some reason, he had a feeling Anna was going to have a good laugh and a good sneer out of his (for once) good intention. "Uh, yeah… I was thinking, maybe I should do something nice for Lyserg once in a while."

Anna actually smiled in amusement at this. "Really? I didn't expect YOU of all people to ask me to teach you. I was expecting…maybe Tamao or even Yoh…"

"Yoh?" Hao smirked. "You still can't get over him, can you? Even after he let you go for Lyserg?"

At that, Anna left a big handprint on Hao's cheek.

To be frank, Hao was the only one who's quite tolerable with Anna's tendency to slap people, ever since they met the first time. That would've explained why he was daring enough, yet not thoroughly convinced, to approach her and ask her to teach him how to bake a cake.

Rubbing his sore cheek, Hao asked, "So are you going to teach me or not??"

The blond itako sighed. "I know it's going to get messy, but sure, why not?" She grabbed two aprons and threw one at Hao. It had a picture of a cute chick with eyes as big as Opacho's on the pocket. Hao eyed the apron hard before he put it on. While he was swiftly braiding his hair, Anna turned to him as she tied the apron around her waist. "So, let's get started, shall we? Just remember one vital thing: DON'T SET ANYTHING ON FIRE!"

"I know," Hao replied, flipping his braid to one side. "You don't have to remind me about that."

Anna reached for the cupboard. "Well you never know what's going to happen when you're around the kitchen even when I'm watching you." She took out a few baking utensils and said, "Now all we need is the essentials…"

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It was almost late noon when Hao finally managed to bake a proper cake. The trials and tribulations were unbearable (countless of eggs broken, spilled flour, the salt jar mistaken for the sugar jar, splattered batter, the oven almost burnt instead of the cake… GRAAAH!!!), but it was worth it. Hao successfully baked a rainbow cake (green, blue, yellow and red with a little chocolate and milk) for his dear Lyserg. Even Anna was quite pleased with the result.

Hao sighed contentedly, wiping off a bit of hardened batter on his cheek. "Lyserg's going to love this, I just know it."

While he was cleaning up, the doorbell rang. The pyro heard Manta called out, "I'll get it!" Hao had hoped it was Lyserg.

Instead, it was his twin brother Yoh.

"Tadaima!"

At that point, it occurred to Hao that he hadn't seen his brother since this morning. Where could he have gone?

"Hi Aniki! Hi Anna!" Yoh popped into the kitchen cheerfully. There was a box in his hand. "Manta told me you guys were here all day and-" he stopped mid-way.

Anna was a bit puzzled. "Yoh?"

Both twins frowned.

"Did…did you bake that, Aniki?"

Hao took off the apron and said, "Yeah. I asked Anna to teach me. I was going to surprise Lyserg with it-"

"What??" Yoh placed the box on the table. "But I was gonna surprise Lyserg with a cake!"

"You too??"

Yoh opened the box to reveal a rather tasty-looking chocolate cake. "I went to see Jun this morning asking her to teach me how to bake a cake. I was thinking of doing something nice for Lyserg for a change…"

Somehow, the theory that twins tend to think alike wasn't so farfetched after all.

Both Hao and Yoh felt uneasy. Now what?

"Hao? Yoh"

"Lyserg??"

The dowser came in without the twins and Anna realize. He saw the cakes and stopped. "Uh…guys?"

It was disturbingly quiet for a moment. Finally Anna spoke up, "Hao and Yoh wanted to do something nice for a change so they both bake you a cake each. Want some? I'm sute they're pretty good."

The twins were lost for words. "Anna…"

Lyserg somehow felt touched. "You…you two baked these for me…?"

Both nodded, sheepishly.

Lyserg went up and gave each of the twins a kiss. "Thank you so much, you two! I can't believe you'd go through all this for me…"

The twins grinned at each other and pecked Lyserg on the cheek. "Anything for our Lyserg, right Yoh?"

"You got that right Aniki!"

The emerald-eyed boy blushed before he turned to Anna. "You want some, Anna? You deserve it too, for teaching Hao how to bake."

Anna was slightly surprised before she smiled. "Why thank you, Lyserg. That's so sweet of you."

"Oh, Jun deserves this too!" Yoh chirped. "After all, I wouldn't be able to bake this without her tutoring! Heck, why don't we all share these together?"

Hao was exactly on the same page with his brother.

And after calling Jun to come over, everyone had a great tea together, and all agreed that the Asakura twins were quite good at baking cakes…

…if not for all the mishap that befell on them and all the mess they made!

-Owari!

As usual, please review. You'll make me so happy after such a long time of not writing. I really wanna know if I've gone rusty or anything...

Hao: She kind of threw her fic-writing book into the pile of old books by accident.

Ran: That's right. There was even a pretty picture of Hao and Yoh together in there... -sobs-

Yoh: And just so you know, the cake that Ran really owns is the rainbow cake. She made it herself.

Lyserg: And the chocolate cake was her dentist's. She bakes really tasty chocolate cakes!

Ren: -munches on Hao's cake- Goes great with milk. -munches on-

Anyway, thanks for reading!