Yuta: depressed Hao, say the disclaimers.
Hao: We don't belong to her.
Neko-chan: Only me.
Yuta: If you expect sanity, go to find it somewhere else, not here. Btw, if
you are here to flame me, get out! I have enough flame sin my own home. So
review if you want, and if you don't, then don't do it.
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"Harrooooo Minna!" Yelled Neko-chan when Manta opened the door.
"It's "Hello", Leda-kun." Answered Manta calmly.
"Harrooooo Smurf!!" Yelled Neko-chan kneeling in front of the dwarf and pulling his cheek.
"My name is Manta, Leda-kun. And STOP pulling my cheek!"
"But you are soooooo cute! Next time we have a cosplay, I'll dress you like Kero.... Hey, Anna would do a pretty Sakura....." Said Neko going starry eyed.
"What?" asked Anna, looking like if she had swallowed something nasty, thing the brunette ignored while she kissed the Itako's cheek. "The only way you'll convince me to wear that horrible full-of-pink-ribbon dress would be..."
"Having Yoh as Shaoran Li...." Ended Neko dreamily, still starry eyed and looking far away in Neko-land.
"No." Said Anna recognizing the look in the Argentinean girl eyes.
"But Yoh wouldn't look half-bad as Shaoran Li" Said Leda a bit dreamily still.
"Hehehe, thanks Neko." Laughed Yoh emerging from the kitchen.
"Yo Yoh!" Said Leda merrily, kissing his cheek too and sitting in the sofa opening the bags and giving Manta the Playstation to start fixing it.
"Yo-yo? Where?" Asked Horohoro from the door.
"She was greeting Yoh, you freezer brain!" Said Ren kicking Horohoro in the ass and stepping into the kitchen to put the ice cream in the fridge.
"I wish I could act in the cosplay too... I wanted to sing my karaoke version of Kenshin's second ending...." said Amidamaru holding a microphone in his hand.
"Heart of sword?" asked Bison staring at his friend.
Kororo started making "Kururu" with the tune of the song.
"I'm surrounded by Otaku 's..." whispered Manta.
"You could do a pretty good Eriol/Clow reed, Ren-chan." Said Neko suddenly.
"I'm not going to the cosplay!" Yelled Ren from the kitchen.
"That's what you said the last year." Said Manta connecting the cables of the Playstation to the TV. "And you still went." Smiled Yoh.
"And dressed like Van Fanel. " Ended Horohoro smiling when he heard the "AHRG!" that came from the kitchen.
"What was really fun was dress Anna like Fuu, Pilika like Umi and Tamao like Hikaru!" Said Neko, starry eyed again.
"What was really fun was having Manta like Askot!!" Snickered Yoh.
"I tough you were my friend, Yoh...." moaned Manta with little waterfalls falling from his eyes.
"But it WAS fun, Manta." Laughed Horohoro, then turned towards Leda. "What are you going to make me wear this year, Neko-chan? "
"I was thinking in Vash the Stampede, you'd look great in those clothes Horo-chan!" Cried she holding the ice shaman hands in her own. A cool picture of Horohoro with the Trigun costume fixing the cool glasses over his nose appeared in the Background. Horohoro stared at it and gave Neko the thumbs up.
"You are ASKING her to dress you like friggin Otaku? " Asked Manta shocked.
"I always tough you were a bit masochist, Horohoro..." Said Ren sitting in the floor in front of the sofa.
"Hey, It's fun! Last year I won an Evangelion shirt with my Great Sayaman costume."
"I know, it was the only shirt you used that year." Said Re wrinkling his nose.
"Did I laugh that year...." said Yoh dreamily.
"Excuse me? Is the one that went dressed like tree with spirits from the Mononoke Hime movie talking to me?" Asked Horohoro.
Everyone cracked up and started laughing and even Anna couldn't help but smile when she remembered Yoh all covered with mud and leafs with those paper "tree gods" all over his body...
"Stop laughing! It was the best I could think of!" Cried Yoh embarrassed.
"See what happens when you don't ask for Neko's help?" laughed the girl.
"Yeah, there is no one to blame for looking stupid..." ended Ren taking a small bottle of milk from his jacket and drinking it.
"Hey, Ren-kun?" asked Horohoro.
"What?"
"What are you drinking?"
"Milk." Answered the Chinese boy.
"Hey, Ren-kun?"
"Whaaaaaat?"
"Where is your moustache?" asked he pointing to the bottle and smiling stupidly.
Ren tossed it over the head.
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"I really don't see why did you bought him back." Hissed Silver staring with fear at the two figures in the room. One was a tall, thin, dark-haired youth wearing a simple gray pullover and black jean pants. He was cleaning strange symbols drawn in the floor.
"Because he is needed, I told you so already." Said the young man smiling softly.
"..."said the other kid, who was lying in the floor, naked, looking both tired and apathetic at the same time.
"I don't care if he is needed or not! He is evil, Jason-san! He tried to kill us all! He tried to..."
Jason Toyomura covered the small body with a blanket, then sat in the floor besides the still body and eased the kid's head on his lap.
"Heh, sorry Silver, that's how thinks are supposed to be." Said he stroking the kid's long brown hair in a way that looked like if he was petting a cat.
"I agree with Master Silver!" cried the eagle-face in Silver's shoulder.
"The kid id Dangerous." Said the snake-head.
"You made a big mistake." Sentenced the turtle-head.
"Heh, I obey someone who doesn't believe in mistakes." Said Jason.
"The time for the Goddess of the night has ended, Jason-san." Whispered Silver.
"Don't be fooled by appearances, Silver. Many still bow in front of Lon- sama's sign." Answered the youth. "Her time never stops... Chaos is eternal after all!"
"... Why am I needed?" said the brown haired kid.
Silver rushed of the room ready to inform the other Shaman's about what had happened. Hao Asakura found himself staring into the black calmed eyes of one of the last known wizards of ancient magic.
"Heh, you'll see soon, keed." Smiled Jason ruffling the kid's hair.
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"Shoot it, Yoh." Said Anna calmly eating a spoon of lemon ice cream.
"I'M SHOOTING, I'M SHOOTING!!" Yelled Yoh panicking.
"THEN TRY TO SEE WHERE ARE YOU SHOOTING!" yelled Ren at him.
"THE WATER-MONSTER IS GOING TO EAT YOU!" yelled Horohoro.
"SHOOT, SHOOT, SHOOT! TOO LATE!! RUN, RUN!" Yelled Neko tugging Yoh's sleeve.
"Escape, master Yoh!" said Amidamaru.
"Too late..." whispered Yoh facing a lost battle as the thing from the sewers finished with the blonde character he had named Lina, a name Neko had suggested an he had liked.
"Give me that, Yoh." Said Anna calmly.
"Is not a easy thing, Anna." Said Ren. Yoh gave her the joystick.
Anna couldn't get as far as three steps before being killed by the evil Opera singer Eve.
Anna blinked.
"You lost." Stated Ren calmly.
"See, is not so easy!" yelled Yoh pointing at the "Game over" words in the TV screen.
Anna blinked.
"Uhm, Anna?" asked Horohoro waving a hand in front of the Itako's eyes.
Anna glared at the TV.
"Manta, reset the game." Ordered she. "Neko, get me chocolate ice-cream."
"Why, we still have plenity of continues to..."
"Reset. The game. Manta. NOW." ordered Anna. Neko rushed to the kitchen with an odd smile playing in her lips.
Manta gulped and did what he'd been told to.
Anna named her character Anna the Slayer, then started to play.
(twenty minutes later)
"You want something hot, Eve-dear ? Then EAT THIS!" Yelled Anna while shooting over and over again a half-mutated Eve. "Bleed bitch! BLEED!!"
Then she burst into sadistic laughter.
"Do you know tat you look a lot like Kaiouu-sama when you do that?(1)" commented Neko matter of factly
Yoh and Manta stared at Anna, who was sitting Indian style in front of the screen, bandana off her head, her short hair in ponytail and ice-cream spoon clasped between her teeth. Then they stared at Ren, and Horohoro. The Ice shaman had his head resting in Neko's lap and the Chinese shaman had his in Horohoro's belly. The three of them eating ice cream and yelling encouraging words to Anna.
"Neko, did you put something weird in the ice cream?" asked Yoh, tasting a bit of lemon flavored ice cream and founding it delicious, if a bit bitter.
"Why Yoh-chan, are you accusing me of adulterating good Ice-cream with the Secret Mazoku-vodka Xellos keeps in his closet just because I always wondered what could happen with a drunk Anna?"
Yoh gave a bigger bite to the Ice cream and thought about it.
"Yes." Answered he finally showing another spoon of Lemon ice-cream in his mouth and starting to find less scary and more funny to see Anna so mad with a video game.
Even if she had all the right in the world to be mad with a game she couldn't win. Even if she was winning it. Yes siree. He showed another spoon in his mouth.
Manta Stared nervously in Yoh's direction then sighed with defeat and tasted the creme ice cream.
"Yes!" yelled Anna smiling like a psycho and giggling maniacally "Try this one Bastard!" she tossed A Three-headed giant dog a laser-like spell and started shooting with the gun again "Try this one out! Do you like it? Do you love it? DO YOU, BASTARD?!"
She sighed.
"God's, I'm good in these games." "Yes, you are!" chorused the other five kids and kept telling her to win. Thing that she did in the end. But then Anna wanted more action and asked Ren where his resident evil I game was. And Anna the slayer appeared again, this time in a mansion surrounded by zombies and practically without ammo.
And then a zombie ate her alive.
And then Anna started cursing and ordered Manta to reset the game.
And then, she asked Neko for more ice cream.
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Neko woke up feeling nauseous and for some reason thinking in a munch of bugs she had seen once in the Discovery Channel. Then she felt stupid for thinking in that. Then wondered what had been the thing that woke her up. Two small golden eyes fixed in hers.
"Oh, Hi Lai Wan. What are you doing here? How did you left the apartment?"
The cat stared at her, then started to lick her paw.
"Yeah, That's what I thought...."
She checked around to see if everyone was there, and they were. Anna was curled up in front of the TV, her head resting in her arms and knees nearly touching her chest, Yoh was directly in front of her, in a similar, yet more relaxed position, their foreheads nearly touching. Manta was snorting in the sofa, one hand and one leg falling from it. Horo was sleeping on his side, near her and for once, not snorting. For one second she wondered where Ren was, then she realized he was asleep in her lap.
"And how did you get here, uh?" asked she ruffling his hair.
Neko sat down and started fixing her ponytail, the heat her hair provided making her feel even sicker. Someone -and for some reason she thought it might have been Yoh- had turned off the TV. She supposed it might have been any of the spirits too, but then she remembered they had left to do she- hadn't-heard-what-and-actually-didn't-cared-either and it seemed like if they hadn't came back yet. She lifted Ren's head from her stomach and moved him so he was resting in Horo's chest. Horo immediately started using Ren like an oversized Chinese teddy bear. Neko giggled until she found the cat staring at her.
"What?" asked she. "He likes it!"
"Neko, who are you talking with?" muttered Ren only half wake.
"With my cat. Go back to sleep." Ordered she covering them with a blanket she found near.
" 'Kay" answered the Tao immediately falling asleep again.
Neko sighed, then went to the bathroom, peeled off her gloves -thinking how much did she hated to wear them always- then splashing water over her face. She stood there, staring her reflection in the mirror, water drops falling from her face. Suddenly she tossed her head forwards and under the stream of water. After sometime she straightened herself again, her hair completely wet and dropping water.
"Anna will kill you if you keep wetting the floor." Said someone at her back.
"Oh, hi Yoh."
Yoh handled her a towel, but she shook her head and started combing her hair without drying it.
"I'm nauseous. This refreshes me a lot. Anna would get more mad if I threw up in her house, ne?"
Yoh nodded and smiled.
"What woke you up?"
"My cat."
"Oh... How did she got in here?"
"Donno... Did you saw Ren and Horo?"
"I knew you had done that."
Neko smiled softly.
"Come on" said she yanking Yoh by the sleeve. "I need fresh air."
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Leda and Yoh where in the roof, the Argentinean girl trying to teach him to dance "The roof is on fire", and Yoh was too busy laughing his head off to be able to stand up.
After pouting a bit, Neko sat down next to where the brown haired boy was rolling and laughing.
"Hey Neko..." started Yoh after his laughter subsided a bit.
"Mhh?" asked she staring intently at the moon.
"How did you ended up living with Xellos and Zelgadiss?"
Neko laughed.
"Because I liked them."
"And your parents?"
Leda seemed to think about it.
"They are my parents."
"But...they aren't you parents... biologically, I mean, ... are they? I mean... male demons and male chimeras can't have babies, can they?" asked Yoh, starting to get confused.
Neko burst into laughing.
"I'm not sure. As far as I know, demons adopt a human shell, and their real beings are in the astral plane. Xellos real form are some big spikes. Or that's what Zel told me... and for chimeras I don't know..." she burst into laugher. "Once, when I was younger, I asked Zel if he could lye eggs.... " she started shaking with laugher "He... di-didn't spoke with me for a month... and... he... kicked Xellos out of the room... couse he asked him... if he was planning to lye some for breakfast.... " She started panting, trying to catch her breath.
"That was totally senseless" said Yoh snickering a bit.
"Me knows." Nodded Leda.
There was some silence for a moment.
"You told us... that a Dark Lord was the one that had you..." "Hai, Juuou-sama." "But ... how did you ended up with her?"
Neko stared blankly at him.
"I mean... who took you with her? You parents?"
Leda seemed to think about it. Then shrugged.
"Somebody must have left me with her."
"You don't remember?"
Leda shook her head.
"I was assigned to Xell and Stone-boy when I was four... there was nothing before that..."
"What are you two doing here?" asked Anna. She was standing besides then, and Yoh noticed that like was sitting and she was standing, he could see under her skirt. He blushed.
Neko smiled Cheshire-cat-like and smiled at her.
"Hangover?"
"I'm going to kill you"
Neko laughed.
"No, please, Anna the slayer... I'm too young and pretty to die! Here, kill Yoh!" and she grabbed him from the back of his shirt and tossed him to Anna. With so much luck that he knocked her and both fell over the roof. And so much luck that Yoh landed face-first between Anna's tights.
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"Uhhnn..." said Yoh regaining consciousness and focusing in a face barely inches away from his.. Closed eyes and Cheerful expression, royal purple hair at shoulder-length. Xellos.
"Yoh-kun, what are you doing here?" asked him cherry voice.
"Xellos?" asked Yoh confused. Something was weird with Xellos. Well, weirder than usual. He was upside-down.
"So, is this the keed we need to take care of?" asked a small feminine voice. "Why is he hanging from a tree?" A tiny green-skinned blonde fairy staring at him from over Xellos shoulder.
Yoh realized that after Anna had punched him, he had landed in a tree and that his belt had hooked in one of its branches. Of course, like in every anime, in the moment he realized this, the branch broke and he fall flat on his face.
"Meow" said Lai Wan.
"I thought I had left you in the apartment..." said Xellos staring nervously at the cat sitting next to Yoh. The cat stared back with her intense golden eyes. "Don't look at me like that, you're creepy, cat."
"So this is what normal people call a Shaman?" asked another feminine voice, a beautiful woman with long blue hair and a white short dress smiled sarcastically. "Are you okay?" asked she kindly, offering him hand.
"Uhh." Commented Yoh smartly, eyes fixed in her red bra, exposed by the movement.
"YOOOOOOOOOOOH!!" screamed Manta running to Yoh's direction and clutching to his leg, ignoring Xellos comment about a "justice freak" using to do the same stupid things with Zel. Following him nearly appeared a normal looking Anna, Neko and Ren, who were carrying an unconscious Ice-shaman. Behind them came the spirits. "You don't know what happened! I woke up because I heard Leda-kun laughing and went to te bathroom, and then suddenly Anna screamed and I saw a silhouette flying in front of the moon like in that movie Et, and then I went to see what was happening and Anna was beating Neko, and when we cam down Ren was beating Horohoro and calling him pervert and then... Xellos-san?"
"You gave them the vodka, didn't you?" said Xellos smiling at his step- daughter.
"Who, me?" asked Neko bating eyes. "Why are you dressed in you priest clothes?" asked Neko staring at the attire Xellos used to wear many centuries before and the red-jeweled staff.
"Yoh, who are these persons?" asked Anna, eyebrow twitching when she noticed where Yoh's stare was directed.
"I don't know Anna... they were here when I fall..." answered he walking to where she was.
"I am Shido Tatsuhiko, pleased to meet you." Said a deep voice from behind her. Anna turned around to face a simply beautiful sex-god in all his glory. Long lavender tight-length hair tied in a loose ponytail, deep emerald eyes and pale skin. With a smooth movement he took Anan by the chin and moved a strand of her hair to see the Band-Aids covered wound she had in her head. "I see the wound wasn't as bad as I had supposed at first." Said he softly, letting go of her. Anna only managed some sort of sounds as answer. (2)
"What? You were the one that attacked Anna?" Yelled Manta.
"Shido was the one that saved her from the Night-breed last night." Answered the fairy.
"Yoh, do you know what a night breed is?"
Yoh was busy waving a hand in front of the Itako's eyes.
"Anna? Anna? Annita?" said he crying little waterfalls.
"Don9t worry, he has the same effect in most women" snickered the tiny demon.
"These are my companions, Yayoi Matsunaga." The blue-haired woman bowed. "And Guni." Guni flashed a victory-sign and a smirk at them
"I am Yoh Asakura." Said Yoh. "This is Anna Kiouyama" he pointed to the Itako, who was currently blushing quite strongly, mouth slightly open and eyes wide, her gaze still fixed in the dream she had in front of her. Neko elbowed her smirking, and Anna lowered her gaze and bowed politely. "This is my best friend Manta Oyamada, the kid with black hair is Ren Tao and the unconscious guy with blue hair is Horohoro Ainu..."
"All this kids except the short one are strong shaman's, Shido-san." Said Xellos. "Anna-chan is an Itako, she can summon any kind of spirits. And Neko-chan" he pointed to the brunette. "she is a psichonometrist, meaning she can know the past of things only by touching them." Neko moved her gloved fingers in quickly motion smiling at him.
Shido drifted his gaze from the two girls to the ghosts "And I suppose these are their spirits?"
Ren nodded.
"The samurai is Amidamaru, and belongs to Yoh, the Chinese warrior is mine and his name is bison, and the tiny thing holding the leaf is Kourple- something and is an earth-spirit, it belongs to Horohoro."
Yayoi looked confused.
"I don't see a thing."
"Normal humans can't see ghosts, women." Said the demon in teasing tone.
"What do this guys have to do with you, Xellos?" asked Neko.
"What is a night breed?" asked Manta.
"Why did they wanted to attack miss Anna?" asked Amidamaru.
"And don't tell us it is a secret!" said Ren.
"Don't worry" smiled Xellos opening a violet slitted eye. "This time it isn't." He sat in the air, making manta 's eyes widen like saucers. "You'll see, a night breed is a creature that is begot in the shadows, and feeds of humans with weak will or dead bodies... Or virgin priestess, in this case." He flashed a smile to Anna that make her blush and Yoh scowl. "And Shido- san is a vampire that kills them..."
"A VAMPIRE?!" yelled Horohoro jumping from Ren's back.
"Weren't you unconscious?" asked Ren glaring at him.
"Nah, I just wanted you to carry me all the time ^-^ "
"And what are you discussing with them, Xellos?" asked Neko grabbing Ren by his shorts to stop him from throttling the Horo-child.
"He is her to hel-"
Suddenly there was a bright explosion of red light and a part of the forest started burning. Immediately there was another explosion, this one white.
"That was a La-tilt!" said Xellos, disappearing and dropping the shield that had been guarding the group.
"Zelgadiss!" yelled Leda running to the fire's direction.
The rest of the group followed her.
"Qwick" said a small rabbit-like thing with small bat wings and tiny demon horns. It landed softly in the space that the group had been occupying and stared to the fire's direction.
"Sofu." Greeted a soft feminine voice.
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Kaiouu-sama is Deep Sea Dolphin, one of the five generals in Slayers, and she is insane.... Just wanted to let everyone know. Sorry, couldn't help it... COME ON, YOU WOULD HAVE DONE EXACTLY THE SAME THING? IT'S SHIDO BY GOD'S SAKE!
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"Harrooooo Minna!" Yelled Neko-chan when Manta opened the door.
"It's "Hello", Leda-kun." Answered Manta calmly.
"Harrooooo Smurf!!" Yelled Neko-chan kneeling in front of the dwarf and pulling his cheek.
"My name is Manta, Leda-kun. And STOP pulling my cheek!"
"But you are soooooo cute! Next time we have a cosplay, I'll dress you like Kero.... Hey, Anna would do a pretty Sakura....." Said Neko going starry eyed.
"What?" asked Anna, looking like if she had swallowed something nasty, thing the brunette ignored while she kissed the Itako's cheek. "The only way you'll convince me to wear that horrible full-of-pink-ribbon dress would be..."
"Having Yoh as Shaoran Li...." Ended Neko dreamily, still starry eyed and looking far away in Neko-land.
"No." Said Anna recognizing the look in the Argentinean girl eyes.
"But Yoh wouldn't look half-bad as Shaoran Li" Said Leda a bit dreamily still.
"Hehehe, thanks Neko." Laughed Yoh emerging from the kitchen.
"Yo Yoh!" Said Leda merrily, kissing his cheek too and sitting in the sofa opening the bags and giving Manta the Playstation to start fixing it.
"Yo-yo? Where?" Asked Horohoro from the door.
"She was greeting Yoh, you freezer brain!" Said Ren kicking Horohoro in the ass and stepping into the kitchen to put the ice cream in the fridge.
"I wish I could act in the cosplay too... I wanted to sing my karaoke version of Kenshin's second ending...." said Amidamaru holding a microphone in his hand.
"Heart of sword?" asked Bison staring at his friend.
Kororo started making "Kururu" with the tune of the song.
"I'm surrounded by Otaku 's..." whispered Manta.
"You could do a pretty good Eriol/Clow reed, Ren-chan." Said Neko suddenly.
"I'm not going to the cosplay!" Yelled Ren from the kitchen.
"That's what you said the last year." Said Manta connecting the cables of the Playstation to the TV. "And you still went." Smiled Yoh.
"And dressed like Van Fanel. " Ended Horohoro smiling when he heard the "AHRG!" that came from the kitchen.
"What was really fun was dress Anna like Fuu, Pilika like Umi and Tamao like Hikaru!" Said Neko, starry eyed again.
"What was really fun was having Manta like Askot!!" Snickered Yoh.
"I tough you were my friend, Yoh...." moaned Manta with little waterfalls falling from his eyes.
"But it WAS fun, Manta." Laughed Horohoro, then turned towards Leda. "What are you going to make me wear this year, Neko-chan? "
"I was thinking in Vash the Stampede, you'd look great in those clothes Horo-chan!" Cried she holding the ice shaman hands in her own. A cool picture of Horohoro with the Trigun costume fixing the cool glasses over his nose appeared in the Background. Horohoro stared at it and gave Neko the thumbs up.
"You are ASKING her to dress you like friggin Otaku? " Asked Manta shocked.
"I always tough you were a bit masochist, Horohoro..." Said Ren sitting in the floor in front of the sofa.
"Hey, It's fun! Last year I won an Evangelion shirt with my Great Sayaman costume."
"I know, it was the only shirt you used that year." Said Re wrinkling his nose.
"Did I laugh that year...." said Yoh dreamily.
"Excuse me? Is the one that went dressed like tree with spirits from the Mononoke Hime movie talking to me?" Asked Horohoro.
Everyone cracked up and started laughing and even Anna couldn't help but smile when she remembered Yoh all covered with mud and leafs with those paper "tree gods" all over his body...
"Stop laughing! It was the best I could think of!" Cried Yoh embarrassed.
"See what happens when you don't ask for Neko's help?" laughed the girl.
"Yeah, there is no one to blame for looking stupid..." ended Ren taking a small bottle of milk from his jacket and drinking it.
"Hey, Ren-kun?" asked Horohoro.
"What?"
"What are you drinking?"
"Milk." Answered the Chinese boy.
"Hey, Ren-kun?"
"Whaaaaaat?"
"Where is your moustache?" asked he pointing to the bottle and smiling stupidly.
Ren tossed it over the head.
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"I really don't see why did you bought him back." Hissed Silver staring with fear at the two figures in the room. One was a tall, thin, dark-haired youth wearing a simple gray pullover and black jean pants. He was cleaning strange symbols drawn in the floor.
"Because he is needed, I told you so already." Said the young man smiling softly.
"..."said the other kid, who was lying in the floor, naked, looking both tired and apathetic at the same time.
"I don't care if he is needed or not! He is evil, Jason-san! He tried to kill us all! He tried to..."
Jason Toyomura covered the small body with a blanket, then sat in the floor besides the still body and eased the kid's head on his lap.
"Heh, sorry Silver, that's how thinks are supposed to be." Said he stroking the kid's long brown hair in a way that looked like if he was petting a cat.
"I agree with Master Silver!" cried the eagle-face in Silver's shoulder.
"The kid id Dangerous." Said the snake-head.
"You made a big mistake." Sentenced the turtle-head.
"Heh, I obey someone who doesn't believe in mistakes." Said Jason.
"The time for the Goddess of the night has ended, Jason-san." Whispered Silver.
"Don't be fooled by appearances, Silver. Many still bow in front of Lon- sama's sign." Answered the youth. "Her time never stops... Chaos is eternal after all!"
"... Why am I needed?" said the brown haired kid.
Silver rushed of the room ready to inform the other Shaman's about what had happened. Hao Asakura found himself staring into the black calmed eyes of one of the last known wizards of ancient magic.
"Heh, you'll see soon, keed." Smiled Jason ruffling the kid's hair.
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"Shoot it, Yoh." Said Anna calmly eating a spoon of lemon ice cream.
"I'M SHOOTING, I'M SHOOTING!!" Yelled Yoh panicking.
"THEN TRY TO SEE WHERE ARE YOU SHOOTING!" yelled Ren at him.
"THE WATER-MONSTER IS GOING TO EAT YOU!" yelled Horohoro.
"SHOOT, SHOOT, SHOOT! TOO LATE!! RUN, RUN!" Yelled Neko tugging Yoh's sleeve.
"Escape, master Yoh!" said Amidamaru.
"Too late..." whispered Yoh facing a lost battle as the thing from the sewers finished with the blonde character he had named Lina, a name Neko had suggested an he had liked.
"Give me that, Yoh." Said Anna calmly.
"Is not a easy thing, Anna." Said Ren. Yoh gave her the joystick.
Anna couldn't get as far as three steps before being killed by the evil Opera singer Eve.
Anna blinked.
"You lost." Stated Ren calmly.
"See, is not so easy!" yelled Yoh pointing at the "Game over" words in the TV screen.
Anna blinked.
"Uhm, Anna?" asked Horohoro waving a hand in front of the Itako's eyes.
Anna glared at the TV.
"Manta, reset the game." Ordered she. "Neko, get me chocolate ice-cream."
"Why, we still have plenity of continues to..."
"Reset. The game. Manta. NOW." ordered Anna. Neko rushed to the kitchen with an odd smile playing in her lips.
Manta gulped and did what he'd been told to.
Anna named her character Anna the Slayer, then started to play.
(twenty minutes later)
"You want something hot, Eve-dear ? Then EAT THIS!" Yelled Anna while shooting over and over again a half-mutated Eve. "Bleed bitch! BLEED!!"
Then she burst into sadistic laughter.
"Do you know tat you look a lot like Kaiouu-sama when you do that?(1)" commented Neko matter of factly
Yoh and Manta stared at Anna, who was sitting Indian style in front of the screen, bandana off her head, her short hair in ponytail and ice-cream spoon clasped between her teeth. Then they stared at Ren, and Horohoro. The Ice shaman had his head resting in Neko's lap and the Chinese shaman had his in Horohoro's belly. The three of them eating ice cream and yelling encouraging words to Anna.
"Neko, did you put something weird in the ice cream?" asked Yoh, tasting a bit of lemon flavored ice cream and founding it delicious, if a bit bitter.
"Why Yoh-chan, are you accusing me of adulterating good Ice-cream with the Secret Mazoku-vodka Xellos keeps in his closet just because I always wondered what could happen with a drunk Anna?"
Yoh gave a bigger bite to the Ice cream and thought about it.
"Yes." Answered he finally showing another spoon of Lemon ice-cream in his mouth and starting to find less scary and more funny to see Anna so mad with a video game.
Even if she had all the right in the world to be mad with a game she couldn't win. Even if she was winning it. Yes siree. He showed another spoon in his mouth.
Manta Stared nervously in Yoh's direction then sighed with defeat and tasted the creme ice cream.
"Yes!" yelled Anna smiling like a psycho and giggling maniacally "Try this one Bastard!" she tossed A Three-headed giant dog a laser-like spell and started shooting with the gun again "Try this one out! Do you like it? Do you love it? DO YOU, BASTARD?!"
She sighed.
"God's, I'm good in these games." "Yes, you are!" chorused the other five kids and kept telling her to win. Thing that she did in the end. But then Anna wanted more action and asked Ren where his resident evil I game was. And Anna the slayer appeared again, this time in a mansion surrounded by zombies and practically without ammo.
And then a zombie ate her alive.
And then Anna started cursing and ordered Manta to reset the game.
And then, she asked Neko for more ice cream.
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Neko woke up feeling nauseous and for some reason thinking in a munch of bugs she had seen once in the Discovery Channel. Then she felt stupid for thinking in that. Then wondered what had been the thing that woke her up. Two small golden eyes fixed in hers.
"Oh, Hi Lai Wan. What are you doing here? How did you left the apartment?"
The cat stared at her, then started to lick her paw.
"Yeah, That's what I thought...."
She checked around to see if everyone was there, and they were. Anna was curled up in front of the TV, her head resting in her arms and knees nearly touching her chest, Yoh was directly in front of her, in a similar, yet more relaxed position, their foreheads nearly touching. Manta was snorting in the sofa, one hand and one leg falling from it. Horo was sleeping on his side, near her and for once, not snorting. For one second she wondered where Ren was, then she realized he was asleep in her lap.
"And how did you get here, uh?" asked she ruffling his hair.
Neko sat down and started fixing her ponytail, the heat her hair provided making her feel even sicker. Someone -and for some reason she thought it might have been Yoh- had turned off the TV. She supposed it might have been any of the spirits too, but then she remembered they had left to do she- hadn't-heard-what-and-actually-didn't-cared-either and it seemed like if they hadn't came back yet. She lifted Ren's head from her stomach and moved him so he was resting in Horo's chest. Horo immediately started using Ren like an oversized Chinese teddy bear. Neko giggled until she found the cat staring at her.
"What?" asked she. "He likes it!"
"Neko, who are you talking with?" muttered Ren only half wake.
"With my cat. Go back to sleep." Ordered she covering them with a blanket she found near.
" 'Kay" answered the Tao immediately falling asleep again.
Neko sighed, then went to the bathroom, peeled off her gloves -thinking how much did she hated to wear them always- then splashing water over her face. She stood there, staring her reflection in the mirror, water drops falling from her face. Suddenly she tossed her head forwards and under the stream of water. After sometime she straightened herself again, her hair completely wet and dropping water.
"Anna will kill you if you keep wetting the floor." Said someone at her back.
"Oh, hi Yoh."
Yoh handled her a towel, but she shook her head and started combing her hair without drying it.
"I'm nauseous. This refreshes me a lot. Anna would get more mad if I threw up in her house, ne?"
Yoh nodded and smiled.
"What woke you up?"
"My cat."
"Oh... How did she got in here?"
"Donno... Did you saw Ren and Horo?"
"I knew you had done that."
Neko smiled softly.
"Come on" said she yanking Yoh by the sleeve. "I need fresh air."
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Leda and Yoh where in the roof, the Argentinean girl trying to teach him to dance "The roof is on fire", and Yoh was too busy laughing his head off to be able to stand up.
After pouting a bit, Neko sat down next to where the brown haired boy was rolling and laughing.
"Hey Neko..." started Yoh after his laughter subsided a bit.
"Mhh?" asked she staring intently at the moon.
"How did you ended up living with Xellos and Zelgadiss?"
Neko laughed.
"Because I liked them."
"And your parents?"
Leda seemed to think about it.
"They are my parents."
"But...they aren't you parents... biologically, I mean, ... are they? I mean... male demons and male chimeras can't have babies, can they?" asked Yoh, starting to get confused.
Neko burst into laughing.
"I'm not sure. As far as I know, demons adopt a human shell, and their real beings are in the astral plane. Xellos real form are some big spikes. Or that's what Zel told me... and for chimeras I don't know..." she burst into laugher. "Once, when I was younger, I asked Zel if he could lye eggs.... " she started shaking with laugher "He... di-didn't spoke with me for a month... and... he... kicked Xellos out of the room... couse he asked him... if he was planning to lye some for breakfast.... " She started panting, trying to catch her breath.
"That was totally senseless" said Yoh snickering a bit.
"Me knows." Nodded Leda.
There was some silence for a moment.
"You told us... that a Dark Lord was the one that had you..." "Hai, Juuou-sama." "But ... how did you ended up with her?"
Neko stared blankly at him.
"I mean... who took you with her? You parents?"
Leda seemed to think about it. Then shrugged.
"Somebody must have left me with her."
"You don't remember?"
Leda shook her head.
"I was assigned to Xell and Stone-boy when I was four... there was nothing before that..."
"What are you two doing here?" asked Anna. She was standing besides then, and Yoh noticed that like was sitting and she was standing, he could see under her skirt. He blushed.
Neko smiled Cheshire-cat-like and smiled at her.
"Hangover?"
"I'm going to kill you"
Neko laughed.
"No, please, Anna the slayer... I'm too young and pretty to die! Here, kill Yoh!" and she grabbed him from the back of his shirt and tossed him to Anna. With so much luck that he knocked her and both fell over the roof. And so much luck that Yoh landed face-first between Anna's tights.
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"Uhhnn..." said Yoh regaining consciousness and focusing in a face barely inches away from his.. Closed eyes and Cheerful expression, royal purple hair at shoulder-length. Xellos.
"Yoh-kun, what are you doing here?" asked him cherry voice.
"Xellos?" asked Yoh confused. Something was weird with Xellos. Well, weirder than usual. He was upside-down.
"So, is this the keed we need to take care of?" asked a small feminine voice. "Why is he hanging from a tree?" A tiny green-skinned blonde fairy staring at him from over Xellos shoulder.
Yoh realized that after Anna had punched him, he had landed in a tree and that his belt had hooked in one of its branches. Of course, like in every anime, in the moment he realized this, the branch broke and he fall flat on his face.
"Meow" said Lai Wan.
"I thought I had left you in the apartment..." said Xellos staring nervously at the cat sitting next to Yoh. The cat stared back with her intense golden eyes. "Don't look at me like that, you're creepy, cat."
"So this is what normal people call a Shaman?" asked another feminine voice, a beautiful woman with long blue hair and a white short dress smiled sarcastically. "Are you okay?" asked she kindly, offering him hand.
"Uhh." Commented Yoh smartly, eyes fixed in her red bra, exposed by the movement.
"YOOOOOOOOOOOH!!" screamed Manta running to Yoh's direction and clutching to his leg, ignoring Xellos comment about a "justice freak" using to do the same stupid things with Zel. Following him nearly appeared a normal looking Anna, Neko and Ren, who were carrying an unconscious Ice-shaman. Behind them came the spirits. "You don't know what happened! I woke up because I heard Leda-kun laughing and went to te bathroom, and then suddenly Anna screamed and I saw a silhouette flying in front of the moon like in that movie Et, and then I went to see what was happening and Anna was beating Neko, and when we cam down Ren was beating Horohoro and calling him pervert and then... Xellos-san?"
"You gave them the vodka, didn't you?" said Xellos smiling at his step- daughter.
"Who, me?" asked Neko bating eyes. "Why are you dressed in you priest clothes?" asked Neko staring at the attire Xellos used to wear many centuries before and the red-jeweled staff.
"Yoh, who are these persons?" asked Anna, eyebrow twitching when she noticed where Yoh's stare was directed.
"I don't know Anna... they were here when I fall..." answered he walking to where she was.
"I am Shido Tatsuhiko, pleased to meet you." Said a deep voice from behind her. Anna turned around to face a simply beautiful sex-god in all his glory. Long lavender tight-length hair tied in a loose ponytail, deep emerald eyes and pale skin. With a smooth movement he took Anan by the chin and moved a strand of her hair to see the Band-Aids covered wound she had in her head. "I see the wound wasn't as bad as I had supposed at first." Said he softly, letting go of her. Anna only managed some sort of sounds as answer. (2)
"What? You were the one that attacked Anna?" Yelled Manta.
"Shido was the one that saved her from the Night-breed last night." Answered the fairy.
"Yoh, do you know what a night breed is?"
Yoh was busy waving a hand in front of the Itako's eyes.
"Anna? Anna? Annita?" said he crying little waterfalls.
"Don9t worry, he has the same effect in most women" snickered the tiny demon.
"These are my companions, Yayoi Matsunaga." The blue-haired woman bowed. "And Guni." Guni flashed a victory-sign and a smirk at them
"I am Yoh Asakura." Said Yoh. "This is Anna Kiouyama" he pointed to the Itako, who was currently blushing quite strongly, mouth slightly open and eyes wide, her gaze still fixed in the dream she had in front of her. Neko elbowed her smirking, and Anna lowered her gaze and bowed politely. "This is my best friend Manta Oyamada, the kid with black hair is Ren Tao and the unconscious guy with blue hair is Horohoro Ainu..."
"All this kids except the short one are strong shaman's, Shido-san." Said Xellos. "Anna-chan is an Itako, she can summon any kind of spirits. And Neko-chan" he pointed to the brunette. "she is a psichonometrist, meaning she can know the past of things only by touching them." Neko moved her gloved fingers in quickly motion smiling at him.
Shido drifted his gaze from the two girls to the ghosts "And I suppose these are their spirits?"
Ren nodded.
"The samurai is Amidamaru, and belongs to Yoh, the Chinese warrior is mine and his name is bison, and the tiny thing holding the leaf is Kourple- something and is an earth-spirit, it belongs to Horohoro."
Yayoi looked confused.
"I don't see a thing."
"Normal humans can't see ghosts, women." Said the demon in teasing tone.
"What do this guys have to do with you, Xellos?" asked Neko.
"What is a night breed?" asked Manta.
"Why did they wanted to attack miss Anna?" asked Amidamaru.
"And don't tell us it is a secret!" said Ren.
"Don't worry" smiled Xellos opening a violet slitted eye. "This time it isn't." He sat in the air, making manta 's eyes widen like saucers. "You'll see, a night breed is a creature that is begot in the shadows, and feeds of humans with weak will or dead bodies... Or virgin priestess, in this case." He flashed a smile to Anna that make her blush and Yoh scowl. "And Shido- san is a vampire that kills them..."
"A VAMPIRE?!" yelled Horohoro jumping from Ren's back.
"Weren't you unconscious?" asked Ren glaring at him.
"Nah, I just wanted you to carry me all the time ^-^ "
"And what are you discussing with them, Xellos?" asked Neko grabbing Ren by his shorts to stop him from throttling the Horo-child.
"He is her to hel-"
Suddenly there was a bright explosion of red light and a part of the forest started burning. Immediately there was another explosion, this one white.
"That was a La-tilt!" said Xellos, disappearing and dropping the shield that had been guarding the group.
"Zelgadiss!" yelled Leda running to the fire's direction.
The rest of the group followed her.
"Qwick" said a small rabbit-like thing with small bat wings and tiny demon horns. It landed softly in the space that the group had been occupying and stared to the fire's direction.
"Sofu." Greeted a soft feminine voice.
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Kaiouu-sama is Deep Sea Dolphin, one of the five generals in Slayers, and she is insane.... Just wanted to let everyone know. Sorry, couldn't help it... COME ON, YOU WOULD HAVE DONE EXACTLY THE SAME THING? IT'S SHIDO BY GOD'S SAKE!
