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Author's notes: Hi, people! Okay, so this is the last repost and next week I'm uploading some new YxA material. Strawberry-chan, I agree with you, I need some fuel for my YxA shipping, soon! Oh, and just like with this one-shot, I did some minor editing on "Parting", but otherwise its the same thing. Thanks to everyone who left a review, they encourage me to keep writing! Special thanks to rumia, for leaving one for each ficlet all in a row, haha. Thanks for everybody's time, hope you enjoy this one too. See you next week!

Perfection
06.09.2004

He walked quickly to the room his fiancée shared with Tamao and Horo's sister, Pilica, He'd found the silver, skeleton keychain she had been looking at her first day in the Patch village. And at a good prize too!

He slowed his pace as he reached her room, where chains of colorful beads worked as a door. Yoh let himself in, finding the blonde-haired itako staring at the window. It wasn't a strange sight, Anna used to be a thoughtful person, but she'd have acknowledged his presence by now.

"Anna?" he started meekly to catch her attention, "Look what I got for you!"

The excitement flooded his words. The beaming smile he offered to no one in particular was ignored and there was no evident response from the girl, except for a sigh.

"Something's wrong?" His face grew worried, brow slightly knitted together.

"You don't think that I'm perfect to be the future Shaman King's bride, do you?" She finally spoke, but her voice was kept low and even. She didn't even look at him as the question slipped from her tongue.

"What are you talking about?" he asked, seemingly clueless, and subconsciously gripping the keychain in his hand.

"He said... he said that he thought I was perfect," the blonde said almost absent-mindedly.

"Who did?"

"Him..." She was looking past the window's glass, faraway at the desert. It was enough to make him understand. His features darkened. Hadn't he warned Hao to stay away from Anna?

"When?" Yoh asked, his jaw uncommonly set tightly.

"A long time ago. The first time we met, in my way to bring you the book," she answered promptly, unafraid of what it'd cause on him. There was nothing wrong in telling him the truth. She trusted Yoh's judgment enough with that. Then again...

"Do you really want to be perfect?" Yoh asked sternly, again something rather unusual in his usual easy-going attitude.

There was a hesitant, slight shake of her head. 'No...'

"You're right, Anna. I don't think that you're perfect," he paused as he saw Anna's body stiffen, "But all that that makes you imperfect, all those little things, that's what a love the most about you. That's what makes you, you. That's why I love you."

She turned around hastily to look at him with wide hazel orbs- "I..." she wanted to speak, although by this point she was speechless and her mouth was dry.

"I don't need you to be perfect. I need you to be my Anna." He smiled at her, a wide and warm smile, the one usually reserved for her and her only. Yoh walked towards her and took her left hand in his own, spreading her palm open. He placed the keychain on her hand and closed her fingers around it as she gasped in recognition.

The brunette took a step back and turned to walk out of there.

"Yoh!" she called him and he looked at her over his shoulder curiously.

She smiled softly before hiding her face in her golden-brown bangs. "Thank you."

And she meant it.

"'Night, 'Naa-chan," he bid goodnight and smiled casually before he left the room.