Yuta: Wow... two reviews..... Now that leaves me to ponder... should I be a royal bitch or a nice fic writer? Horohoro. I think we all know the answer. Yuta: That's right my dear! pulls his cheek Anna. That means you'll just leave them pondering if I was killed or not? Yuta: of course! Anna: Three hours of electrical chair for you. Yuta: but I'm supposed to be studying math's.... Anna: Now. Yuta: yes Ma'am!

+++++++++++++++++++ For a second He'd the impulse to tell her everything he's never said: "Anna! Answer me! I swear that I can't stand you, but I love you too, I mean that I estimate you, that I appreciate you! Anna! Please answer! I swear that your training makes me want to kill you, but deep inside I appreciated all the work you took to train me!..." The high pitched wail had interrupted. Yoh tough he could hear feet stumbling threw the room slowly a and a barely repressed moan of Anna. The rumor of something falling. The strange steps got closer again and Yoh felt clearly an asthmatic breath, a pant like if someone, after making a grate effort, would have picked up the tube and was holding it against his mouth.

"ANNA!" yelled he "Who's there?!"

The tube fell again. The steps went away. Yoh Kept screaming, not aware of how much time had he been doing so. "ANNA! By God's sake, ANSWER ME!"

Yoh almost jumped out of the cabin when an impatient voice said: "I'm not deaf, you know."

It was Horohoro. "Horohoro!" screamed Yoh, wanting to simply eat the tube. "Is Anna there?" "What do you want?" asked he with the most calmed voice in the world. "Horohoro! Find Anna!!!" "Calm down Yoh, breathe... I can't move right now, I have to wait for the antiseptic to dry and for that I need my feet up." "Horo..." started Yoh to explain as patiently and quick as possible "Another Miko appeared murdered today. I called you to tell here because Anna could be desperate. Leda must be hysteric already and her phone isn't working or she is using it. I called her to tell you that. Anna picked up the phone, we were talking and suddenly I heard a thud and she screamed there was someone inside the house and then I heard noises, like if someone attacked her... " "Ohuh... and then...?"Asked Horohoro. Obviously he wasn't paying any attention. "Horo! Wake up damn it!" Screamed Yoh to him. "Is Anna there?" "Nope." "She started screaming like if someone had attacked her! You where in the bathroom?" "Yep." "You didn't heard her scream?" "Nope." "I don't believe it! Se screamed like crazy!" "Maybe, she is crazy. I was using the Discman... BTW, your new Bob's CD is cool, man..."

I'm SO going to kill him

"Did she went to the bathroom to call you?" "No" "Are you sure?" "Are you deaf? I told you she didn't" "And how the fucking hell you found the phone?" "I went outta the bathroom and saw the tube over the floor, took off the Discman and heard your screams. And then you all say I'm the crazy one." "Make me a favor and call Anna to see if she is there." Muttered Yoh threw clenched teeth. "Anna....!" yelled Horohoro unwillingly, like someone that pretends to do what a crazy man ask him to do only to calm him down. He announced. "Nope, she is not here, no one is home." "HOROHOROOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Yelled Yoh irated. "Relax Yoh" said Horo calmly. "You seem to be too nervous, read a book, breathe some pure air, chat with people..."

Yoh lost it.

"Are you listening you IDIOT?! Did you hear ANYTHING of what I've just told you? What the HELL are you doing?" And then Horohoro started to explain Yoh the fascinating history about the rash that had grown between his foot fingers.

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Yoh was imaging some creepy skeletal hands squeezing Anna's neck while listening to that spooky laughter. He imagined Leda getting crazy about this and drinking a cup of insecticide after killing him for letting Anna die, and then his grandfather and grandmother would punish his spirit, and then Anna's and Leda's spirits would chase after his owns spirit for letting them die.

But he had to stay there and listen to the wonderful story of Horohoro's feet.

He started telling him that only a week ago his feet had been some completely normal feet, to the ones he barely paid attention. He washed them, cut his nails and changed socks, nothing else. One night he woke up with them itching. He saw the skin between them was red and with tiny blisters.

"After that Piririka started yelling me that I had the plague and that I was going to die soon from a horrible, slow and painful dead and things in those lines, so while she started preparing the funeral I went to a doctor and he told me that what I had was mycosis..." "Mywhat?" asked Yoh barely out of a rather scary metal image of Anna's ghost punishing him. "Mycosis, fungus. Fungus commonly called "athletes foot" because everyone catches them in club showers, I must have cached them in a public bath, tough. So, the doctor receipted me an antiseptic , so now I have to wait for it to dry off...." "That's so interesting Horo. Are you finished? Can I speak now?" "... No, wait, I have to tell you something else, I have another problem. Yesterday I lost my wallet. Is a big problem, because I had there all the money Piririka had gave me to pay for groceries and a cute photo of all the group I hold very dearly, I think I lost it yesterday in your shool..."

Yoh completely forgot about the mental image, of Leda's insanity, of everything. "You were at my shool yesterday?" "Ye-esss..." answered Horohoro realizing he had screwed it again. "And what were you doing in my shool?" "Well... I went because... Anna had called me. She was going to leave early and wanted me to go back to the house with her.... You know that she is afraid of going alone like that now... "

Why didn't she asked me to go with her back home? Tough Yoh almost breaking the poor phone tube and nearly melting it wit his glare.

"So... while I was waiting for her to end from packing her stuff I was bored, so I started walking around... And behind your shool was waiting the scariest thing I've ever seen! You know I'm not a chicken and I don't hallucinate things." "No, of course not, Horo, you are the most normal person in the world..." answered Yoh, sure that the other shaman was about to make up a story to dissimulate his guilt of had been alone with his fiancée.

"So I stared there and saw her. She was horrible Yoh! I tell you, Hoooorible." "Who?" asked Yoh rolling his eyes. "The woman! The spirit one! She was sitting in a bank, alone, staring fixedly at me. Her arms and feet hanged like the ones of a doll. Her skin was white, transparent like fish. It was the horribliest thing in the world... horribliest is a word, right Yoh?" "No." "Oh. Anyway I turned around and ran away, while escaping Anna and Neko found me and asked me to go with them, so I did, and didn't tell them a word, just like you had told me...! "

Yoh didn't cared, he didn't cared about anything but: 1) Why hadn't Anna asked him to go back home wit her? 2) Why hadn't his good, nice, always-truthful friend Horo asked him to go with both of them? 3) Why had Anna only asked Horo to go with her? 4) Why hadn't Leda told him a word about both of them coming back with Horohoro?

Yoh hissed between clenched teeth. "Horohoro, another shaman girl appeared death today. Anna was screaming for help. She saw someone entering the house. I'm going home now. While waiting, see if you can find her around there throttled. " And hung up.