Disclaimer: I own my own ideas; the Shaman King Anime and its characters belong to Hiroyuki Takei.
Info: This is going to be a multichapter story. I've planned it to be only 4 chapters long going in depth into the relationship between the Shaman King cannon pairing. No, I'm not a Yona fan (GASP) but I'm writing a Yona. I just want to see one written properly so I'm taking upon doing that myself (something some people just can't do :hides:). So shoot me if you don't agree :P;.
Chapter 3: The climax~I think. I think I may make it an extra chapter. I don't plan things out, you know ^_~;. There have been too many Anna speculations (I think for some reason o_O;;) but she's the easiest since we (or at least I as the 'over-speculates-er') have know idea how Yoh feels about her.
She had gotten up feeling so furious that morning of what happened yesterday evening that she had not even bothered to wake him up. Tamao was the earliest to have awaken and had Anna's, Yoh's, and Ren's set neatly on the table. The itako stormed into the kitchen with a poker face. Yet through her pace, Tamao understood inately that she was irritated.
"Anna-sama? Where is Yoh-sama?" the young cook inquired without turning around. She continued to write up a recipe that would be suitable for a nice Thursday dinner.
"Where lazy asses are." the itako snapped back harshly and took her lunch from the table and forced her foot into her two formal shoes that the school 'required' of their school uniform to have and wear. "Wake the idiot up in ten minutes if he's still sleeping."
"Well, well, rise and shine, are we?" Faust mused cheerfully as the two girls exchanged glances. "Anna...you look furious. Have some tea."
"I have school. Maybe you can tutor me when I get back." she said quickly slamming the door shut behind her. It shook the house so hard that the residential ghosts wailed and took their anger upon the walls causing Ren to take up his sword and torturing the spirits for waking him up.
Tamao sighed rubbing her temples. She had afternoon school so it wasn't such a rush. However, the screams of the ghosts, Ren's screaming and swearing in Chinese, and Faust's cheerful musings began to wake the entire neighboorhood violently.
School was almost over when Anna realized that Yoh had not shown up at school all day. She surely wasn't in every one of his classes but he was nowhere to be seen. Many girls sighed tragically as though they had lost their mothers that Yoh's beautiful face had not shown up today. Anna, however, was infuriated.
By the time she had gotten home, Ren looked just about ready to kill her. Eliza, being the motherly woman, she was, hushed Ren away as the Shaman could do nothing but follow Eliza's orders wanting to avoid her pulling an Anna. The itako blinked twice, befuddled at the scene, and stormed to Yoh's room and pounded angrily against it.
"Idiot. You didn't go to school today." No reply.
She, instead, took up the offer and kicked the door open revealing an unoccupied room. She suddenly felt light and airy as if she was about to fall into a cold pool of water.
Nothing had happened.
He simply wasn't at home.
So she waited downstairs in the kitchen for him to return...when Tamao came back home at six o' clock, it was then her anxiety began to grow.
Ren had left the room looking extremely displeased as he felt an absence of a person. He glanced into the kitchen where Tamao was preparing the food for dinner. Anna had her school books and homework out but found the clock a much more interesting thing to gaze at.
"He's not home?"
"No."
"Not too much of a surprise."
"What do you mean?" the itako took her eyes off the clock and glowered angrily at him. The Chinese Shaman glared in return without a word and changed his direction to head to where food was about to be served. Anna followed right after him. He definitely was not leaving without answering her. "Tao. What do you mean?" she asked this time repeating in harsher tones.
"Anna-sama, what is it?" the young, cheerful cook asked.
"What does this bastard mean? No surprise that Yoh's not home?"
"He isn't?"
"Fine." Ren snapped. "He went out last night. He told me not to tell any of you."
"And why?" the itako demanded. "For someone living under the same roof as ours, you seem to have a lot to hide."
"Heh...you're the mind-reader. Go on and continue to intrude in my mind of what I know and what I think." the Shaman smirked. For the first time, Tamao had never seen the two in an argument worst than this. Usually it was Anna's opponent who would remain on the losing side but they were growing up. Boys learn to become much more mature and not become as intimidated as they once were a year ago during the Shaman fight.
"Well I don't need that ability anymore. I used it during the Shaman fight because we needed information from the enemy, not from our allies." she snapped.
"Do whatever you want." Ren muttered furiously. "Tamao, can I have that same bowl of noodles you cooked yesterday?" The timid girl nodded. "However," he said with a sigh turning his gaze back to the itako. "I doubt he'd want to come back here."
"And the reason?"
The Shaman looked up at her with a growing smirk. He then shook his head as Tamao grew more and more distracted by the uncomfortable silence.
"Why don't you think about it?" he whispered quietly taking a sip out of the cup of tea and ignored the terrible reaction from the itako in front of him.
A/N: Yay! One more to go :)! Thank you for the reviews ^-^! Now slightly inspired by both Confidential Confessions AND X-Day, both licensed by Tokyopop :D;.