Shaman King Fanfiction.
Thy Kingdom Come.
By Kiiro Asakura.
Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King. Waaaah... Hu hu hu.... = (
To the reader: If you think that some of my ideas were borrowed (lets use that term instead of word 'steal' okay?) from the fics that you have written, please notify me through email so I can provide the credits that are due to you. Gomen, it's just that I've already read far too many SK fics for me to distinguish the authors who made them.
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Narrator (whose voice is coming out of nowhere):
The phase of the moon is full. It smiles vindictively as its mighty rays claim victory over the luminosity of the distant stars. Even the densest of the clouds have paved a way for the moon to show its most scenic radiance. Indeed, amidst the darkness, the moon provides clearness to the sky hovering above the terrain. There is no doubt that this is an instance wherein even the spirits of the heavens have come to witness the events that are about to ensue upon the face of the earth.
Chocolove: Geez! Where did that come from?!?
Horo-Horo: Yeah! Would you belive!?! That's even worse than your jokes! Who the hell could possibly come up with such a lame introduction like that?!?
Ren: What the hell are you all looking at me for?!? I'm not the author of this fic you know!!!. . .
Hao (Jumps from the hands of the Spirit of Fire): Wee!!! I'm so pretty! Ne Opacho?!!
Opacho: Hai! Hao-sama is the prettiest person in the entire world!!!
Hao: Correction Opacho! In the entire universe!!!
Spirit of Fire:. . . . . .
Lyserg: Well I say! I bloody doubt if that bloody introduction has a bloody connection with the bloody plot of this bloody story!.
Ryu: Ano, Lyserg-kun... We know that you're an Englishman and all, but don't you think your overdoing it by saying the word "bloody" ever so often in your all of your sentences!?!
Lyserg: Gomen nasai Ryu-san! Demo, it's not my bloody fault if the bloody author of this bloody fic bloody thinks that I really don't qualify as a bloody Englishman! She bloody says that I don't have the bloody accent to be one! That's why to compensate for the lack of the bloody accent, she bloody supposes that saying the word 'bloody' will do the bloody job of making people believe that I indeed came from bloody England!
Yoh: Eh?!? You're a bloody Englishman!?! Well, we better bring you to the hospital and find a suitable donor before you completely run out of blood then!!!
Hao: Awww. My pathetic excuse for a brother is sooo cute when he says stupid things like that isn't he??! Demo, I'm still the prettier sibling here ne, Opacho!?! Hee, hee, hee!!!
Chocolove: What!?! You wanna pee, pee, pee?!? Well, why didn't you say so in the first place!?! There's a tree for you to pee at over there!
* Spirit of Fire smolders Chocolove into a crisp.
* Everybody sweatdrops.
Horo-Horo: I swear! Ignoring those two is getting harder and harder by the minute!
Ren: I'm gonna have to agree with you there...
Lyserg: The bloody poor blokes!
Ryu: . . . . .
Manta: Neh, by the way Yoh-kun, you're not suppose to be in this scene yet you know...
Yoh: Eh? I'm not!?!
Anna: Honestly! Don't you even know how to read a script!?!
* Anna drags Yoh out of the picture but not before she gives him one of her 'super killer combos'.
Faust: Um, right. Anyway. . .What am I suppose to say again? Ah yes. . . Ehem, ehem...I sure hope that Eliza and I will have a bed scene in this fic!!!
* After a while
Faust: Wait a minute...What the?!? .
Horo-Horo: Wahahah! I didn't know that you could you possibly think of such a thing about Eliza-san!?!
Faust: I couldn't! But what can I do? Kiiro-san put it in the script!!!.
Manta: Ano. We don't think that's such a good thing for a girl of your age to think about Kiiro-san.
* All of the characters agree.
Hao: I don't really object to having the bed scenes in this fic, for as long as they will focus on how pretty, hot, and sexy I truly am!!!
* Everybody sweatdrops.
* Spirit of Fire leaves the scene with its head hanging on its neck.
* Spirit of Fire (thinks): I can no longer bare the shame of having a master who is as pitiful as that!
(Brings out a bucket of hydrochloric acid and throws its contents at the SK characters)
Kiiro: Take that you bunch of stupid whiners! I've had just about enough of your stupid meddling! This is my fic! And only I have the right to decide on what to do here!!! Understand!?!
* Everybody shrieks in physical anguish...
Hao: Nooo!!! My face! My very beautiful! My very flawless!! And my very much pimple free face!!! Kiiro!?! How could you!?!
Kiiro (Throwing another bucket of acid at Hao): Oh shut up!!!
*** Heheheheh... Sorry for that bunch of worthless stuff... And now we proceed to the real fic!
*** And by the way, don't you people worry! Hao-sama is not that vainglorious in this fic, I assure you! = )
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Shaman King Fanfiction.
Thy Kingdom Come.
By Kiiro Asakura.
This story begins two years after the fight for the Shaman King throne has been ended. Yoh Asakura has been proclaimed as the victor, after defeating the legendary destroyer, Asakura Hao. While earning himself the title Shaman King a.k.a. 'The Savior of Mankind', and the ability to become one with the Great Spirits, Asakura Yoh has still a lot of hellish training to go through. At least that's what his faithful trainer and fiancée Anna Kyouyama thinks.
So now we go somewhere at the gardens of the Asakura ancestral mansion. . .
(With veins bulging out, and brows dangerously meeting each other because of repressed outrage.)
Anna: Down Asakura Yoh! And not another word from you!.
(Doing a round of full squats with his whole body shaking due to the extreme amounts of pain being bestowed upon him. (Yoh: You call this repressed outrage?!?))
Yoh: But Anna it's late! My body is aching alrea-!
Anna: Didn't you understand what I just said!?! Another round of 100 pushups!
Yoh: Wah!!! Anna! Please be reasonab-!
Anna: Not yet enough eh Asakura Yoh?!? Add 150 sit-ups then!
Yoh: Itai!!!
Anna: And another 200 squats to make you shut your mouth!!!
(With eyes shut into a thin line, and a waterfalls of tears flowing down their cheeks.)
Amidamiru: Yoh-dono?
Yoh: Amidamaru!
Amidamaru: Yoh-dono!?
Yoh: Amidamaru!!
Amidamiru: Yoh-dono!?!
Yoh: Amidamaru!!!
(Does one of her 'killer hand slaps' on Yoh)
Anna: Enough already you two!
Yoh: Wah! Amidamaru! Make her stop!!!
(Holds onto her itako beads, with eyes glaring ferociously at the samurai spirit.)
Anna: I'd like to see you try...
(Floats off into a far distance from the itako and yells.)
Amidamaru: Gomen nasai! You know that I will never possess that kind of power!!! Demo, I know you can do it!!! I have faith in you!!! Always Yoh- dono! Always! .
Yoh: Amidamaru. . .
Anna: Down and give me a hundred!
(Still crying)
Yoh: Hai!!!
Yoh silently asks the Great Spirits what he did to deserve such a woman for his future wife. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________
Inside the Asakura ancestral mansion, the itako's reprimanding voice and Shaman King's shrieks of pain can be clearly heard. Meanwhile, Asakura Yohmei, Kino and Mikihisa gather around a table to discuss a matter that is of great importance.
Mikihisa: Checkmate! You loose again pop!
Yohmei: Hmmm. And since when did you start calling me 'pop'?
Mikihisa: Since now. I thought you'd feel younger and better if I call you that. I mean that's what I feel when Yoh does it to me.
(Smites her husband and son with her mighty cane)
Kino: Will you two quit playing poker and listen to what I'm trying to say here!?!
Mikihisa: Okaasan, can't you see? Pop and I are playing chess, not poker.
(Nods in approval, and then sighs)
Yohmei: It's already nighttime you know, no need for you to wear those sunglasses at this time of day.
(Bashes her husband and son with her cane yet again)
Kino: Well quit playing whatever game you're having and pay attention to me!
(Both rub the bumps on their heads)
Mikihisa: Alright okaasan...
Yohmei: Very well...
Kino: Good then, now where was I? Right, as I was saying, Yoh and Anna have pretty much been living together for the past ten years of their lives now.
(Both men nod to show their comprehension of the woman's statement)
Kino: And I have no doubt that during all those years, they have both learned to value each other even more than their own lives.
Yohmei: True, there is nothing that those two will not undergo and surpass just for the welfare of the other.
Mikihisa: Um. So? I don't get it okaasan, why exactly are we talking about this?
Yohmei: Yes, I was actually going to ask the same thing Kino.
(Fights the urge to knock her husband and son out of their consciousness)
Kino: I've been explaining here for the last half hour, and you dare to tell me that both of you did not get the point of what I'm talking about!?!
(Both men look at each other, then at the old woman, then at each other, and then at the old woman again before they shook their heads)
(With the last ounce of her patience gone, the old woman was unable to resist the impulse of pulverizing the two men with her wooden rod)
Kino: Honestly! You two are hopeless! No wonder my grandson has turned into a worthless bum like you!!!
Yohmei and Mikihisa: Itai!!! Gomen! Gomen nasai!
(After a while)
Yohmei and Mikihisa: Itai!!! Gomen! Gomen nasai!
(Still after some time)
Yohmei and Mikihisa: Itai!!! Gomen! Gomen nasai!
(In a crouching position, their knees and elbows were on the floor with their hands poorly protecting their heads)
Mikihisa: Oh come on okaasan!!! Please stop it! We're already suffering from an internal hemorrhage here!!!
Yohmei: Kino! Do you want to be a widow right now!?! Have you forgotten my current age?!?
Mikihisa: We're really sorry okaasan!!! We'll be listening attentively from now on, we promise!!!
(Quickly stopping in fear of really taking the lives of both her spouse and offspring)
Kino: Very well then. That was fun. So as I was saying, the subject at hand here is the engagement of my grandson and his fiancée.
(The men quickly recover from their state of disembowelment)
Yohmei: Eh? Engagement? You mean you want them to marry already!?!. What are you talking about!?! Yoh cannot have a family of his own right now! He's only fifteen!
Mikihisa: That is correct!!! Besides, I don't think Anna's body is ready to conceive a child at her current age okaasan! Keiko and I got married when we were eighteen! I insist that it should be the case for my son as well!
(Barely sighing this time because she got really tired from the previous beating she gave to the other two)
Kino: That's not what I'm trying to say here you bunch of oafs. I'm thinking of breaking their engagement to-
Her sentence was cut off.
Mikihisa: What!?! Mother!?! Are you thinking straight!?! Break the engagement of Yoh to Anna? Why would you do such a thing okaasan!?! Why? Why!? Why?!?
(With his hands rubbing his chin to signify his thinking)
Yohmei: Hmm. . . Ahh... Hmm... Ohh! The family tradition eh? Of course! You're right Kino! I think now is indeed the right time for that.
Mikihisa: Otoosan!?! Surely you don't see the need for agreeing with okaasan!?!
(This time, both the elderly has hit the head of their son - pitiful creature)
Yohmei: Mikihisa! How could you possibly forget our family tradition!?! Your mother has gone through it! Your wife has gone through it! Of course it's only natural for Yoh's future wife to go through it as well!
Kino: That is correct! It is the Asakura tradition. Therefore, to be able to prove herself worthy of the name Asakura, Kyouyama Anna must be able to surpass this one last test that is to be given to her.
(With a ray of light shining upon the darkness of his thoughts)
Mikihisa: Oh. . . That tradition. Demo, okaasan, otoosan, that tradition nearly shattered my relationship with Keiko, I mean, how can we be sure that with the personality that Anna has, she will be able to surpass this challenge?
(With a tone of confidence in her voice)
Kino: Because she is Kyouyama Anna. And Kyouyama Anna will be the woman of no other man but Asakura Yoh. I heard her utter those words a million times myself. I have faith in both Anna and my grandson.
Yohmei: Yes. And so do I. I must say, Anna is very much like your mother. Very trusting and devoted to no other man but me.
Kino looks at her husband coldly and raises one of her brows.
Yohmei: Ehem. . . As I was saying, we are going to do this because it is our tradition. If Anna does not pass this ordeal, then I do not think that she deserves to be included in our clan.
Mikihisa: But otoosan, don't you think it's high time to change this tradition of ours? I mean, love is not supposed to be tested that way. You said it yourself. I think-
Mikihisa's sentence was cut off.
Kino: A tradition is a tradition Mikihisa. And that's that. I assure you that there is no need to worry. We will give her the exact same test that I, and your wife have taken. If I have passed it, I have no uncertainty that Anna will as well. She is a strong woman. I'm sure she is.
(Silence)
(After s few minutes)
Kino: By the way, I have talked to Yoh already. And to Tamao as well.
Yohmei: And did they agree?
Kino: Yes, both of them did. I'm not quite sure of the reason why Tamao's face was as red as a ripe tomato while we were discussing this matter the whole time though.
Mikihisa: Wait a minute, Tamao agreed? Okaasan, I'm quite sure that the girl possesses genuine feelings for my son as well. Don't you think it's a bit cruel to let her participate in this tradition?
Kino: That's exactly it Mikijisa. Tamao does have feelings for Yoh. Other than Anna, Tamao is the only person I can think of who is worthy enough to become Yoh's wife. In a way we are only finding out who's going to be the best prospect for the position of the Shaman King's future bride. Besides, that's the whole point of the said tradition, is it not?
Yohmei: Ah, yes, well, Tamao has known Yoh for as long as Anna has.
Mikihisa: But don't you feel like we are playing with the lives of the children here? Why can't we just let them be? Let them decide on who to marry? On who to love and-
(Yohmei and Kino whack their son's head yet again- sadist parents neh?)
Kino: Quit ranting like some moral believer!
Yohmei: You know, it's not like we're doing something illegal here, besides, it doesn't suit you son.
Kino: Anyway as I have said before, there's nothing to worry about. I've already explained to both Tamao and Yoh the severity of the tradition itself, and the possible complications of course. And both have already agreed to push through with it.
(With the feeling of injustice on being defeated by his two opponents)
Mikihisa: Fine. If that is your decision, okaasan, otoosan, then I guess there's really nothing that I can do about it.
Kino: Tradition is tradition son, anyway, I'm sure that the outcome of the test shall be for the benefit of our whole clan.
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Deep within a forest quite distant from the Asakura ancestral mansion, a figure is sitting on top of a tree branch. Clearly, it has witnessed the entire scene that has occurred inside the manor.
(With his lips forming into a thin and wicked smile)
Hao: Indeed Kino-san, the outcome of the test shall be for the benefit of the whole clan. And evidently, that includes mine.
Opacho: Hao-sama, come and eat your soup please, it's getting quite cold already!
(Gives his sole servant a sweet smile, then reverts his stare at the mansion, but this time, he focuses his gaze at the people located at the mansion's garden)
Hao: Hai, Opacho, I'm coming.
(Lips forming into a grin once again with his voice reduced into a whisper)
Hao: Kyouyama Anna. Indeed, such a beautiful creature you are. So beautiful in fact, that I have decided to personally make sure that you fail the so- called Asakura test.
(Lets out a sinister laugh)
Hao: Ha ha ha ha ha hah! I have not yet lost to you little brother! You hear that!?! Not yet!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha hah!!!
(Birds fly out of the trees. Opacho shivers.)
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The Shaman King and his fiancée have felt the uneasiness of the forest but did not give too much attention to it, on the account that they still had their hands full with the strengthening drills that the itako was forcing the shaman to finish. After a while, Anna and Yoh were done with their so-called 'training' session. Yoh definitely thinks that it should be called 'torture' session instead, which of course, is indeed one, from his own point of view that is.
Now, we find Asakura Yoh inside his room talking with his samurai spirit.
(Yawning and stretching his limbs while lying on his bed)
Yoh: Haaa!!! I sure am tired! Anna's special training course is really helpful when it comes to making a person have a good night sleep ne Amidamiru?!!
Amidamaru: Hai hai! By the way Yoh-dono, if I may ask, it's about your engagement with Anna-okami. . .
(Looks at the spirit with a very happy smile)
Yoh: Hai? What about it Amidamaru?
(Looks at his master with an expression that suggests curiosity)
Amidamaru: Ano, are you sure you agree with your grandmother's plans?
Yoh: Hai! Hee, hee, hee! My obaasan knows best! Besides, I'm sure Anna will do perfectly well with the test! I have complete trust in her! Speaking of which, can you believe it!?! Tomorrow will be the day Amidamaru!
Amidamaru: Eh!? What day Yoh-dono?
(Flashes an even wider and happier smile)
Yoh: Tomorrow will be the day! The day that Anna and I will be engaged no more!!!
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Meanwhile, we go to Kyouyama Anna's bedroom.
(Wearing her yukata and smiling to herself)
Anna (thinks): You did good with our training tonight Yoh. I'm very proud of you.
(Thinks out loud)
Anna: I think I'll make breakfast for Yoh tomorrow.
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Meanwhile, again, we go inside one of the rooms in the Asakura ancestral mansion.
(Talks in front of a mirror while sitting on a stool, with her cheeks having a streak of a pink shade)
Tamao: Yoh-sama, you have no idea how happy you've made me! At last! My dream of becoming your fiancée has finally come true!
(Floating beside the girl with silly grins plastered on their faces)
Ponchi: You look really excited Tamao-chan!
Konchi: Well she should be! Imagine! Being the new fiancée of Yoh-sama!?! The Shaman King!?!
Tamao blushes furiously
Ponchi: So have you told Anna-sama already!?
(Suddenly wears a grim look on her face)
Tamao: Not yet. . .
Konchi: Eh!?! Not yet?!? Well, when will you and Yoh-sama tell it to her then?!?
(Looks at the sprits with a scandalized expression on her face)
Tamao: Do you really think that Yoh-sama and I have the guts to tell Anna- sama that!?! Of course we don't! Besides, Kino-sama plans to tell it to Anna-sama herself!
Ponchi: Ah, I see, it's going to be a teacher-student dialogue ne?!?
Konchi: Naturally! That way, Anna-sama will not feel the total humiliation of being dumped by her fiancé!
Tamao: Not exactly. . .
(Looks down at her lap, bites her lip, and then looks at the two spirits)
Tamao: Kino-sama will tell Anna-sama tomorrow.
(A short pause)
Tamao: At breakfast.
Konchi and Ponchi: Eh!?!
~Tsuzuku~
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~ I'm not sure about the name of the raccoon and fox spirits of Tamao. Can you please correct me if I'm wrong, tnx! = )
~ Wee!!! Please review people! Thanks! = )
Thy Kingdom Come.
By Kiiro Asakura.
Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King. Waaaah... Hu hu hu.... = (
To the reader: If you think that some of my ideas were borrowed (lets use that term instead of word 'steal' okay?) from the fics that you have written, please notify me through email so I can provide the credits that are due to you. Gomen, it's just that I've already read far too many SK fics for me to distinguish the authors who made them.
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Narrator (whose voice is coming out of nowhere):
The phase of the moon is full. It smiles vindictively as its mighty rays claim victory over the luminosity of the distant stars. Even the densest of the clouds have paved a way for the moon to show its most scenic radiance. Indeed, amidst the darkness, the moon provides clearness to the sky hovering above the terrain. There is no doubt that this is an instance wherein even the spirits of the heavens have come to witness the events that are about to ensue upon the face of the earth.
Chocolove: Geez! Where did that come from?!?
Horo-Horo: Yeah! Would you belive!?! That's even worse than your jokes! Who the hell could possibly come up with such a lame introduction like that?!?
Ren: What the hell are you all looking at me for?!? I'm not the author of this fic you know!!!. . .
Hao (Jumps from the hands of the Spirit of Fire): Wee!!! I'm so pretty! Ne Opacho?!!
Opacho: Hai! Hao-sama is the prettiest person in the entire world!!!
Hao: Correction Opacho! In the entire universe!!!
Spirit of Fire:. . . . . .
Lyserg: Well I say! I bloody doubt if that bloody introduction has a bloody connection with the bloody plot of this bloody story!.
Ryu: Ano, Lyserg-kun... We know that you're an Englishman and all, but don't you think your overdoing it by saying the word "bloody" ever so often in your all of your sentences!?!
Lyserg: Gomen nasai Ryu-san! Demo, it's not my bloody fault if the bloody author of this bloody fic bloody thinks that I really don't qualify as a bloody Englishman! She bloody says that I don't have the bloody accent to be one! That's why to compensate for the lack of the bloody accent, she bloody supposes that saying the word 'bloody' will do the bloody job of making people believe that I indeed came from bloody England!
Yoh: Eh?!? You're a bloody Englishman!?! Well, we better bring you to the hospital and find a suitable donor before you completely run out of blood then!!!
Hao: Awww. My pathetic excuse for a brother is sooo cute when he says stupid things like that isn't he??! Demo, I'm still the prettier sibling here ne, Opacho!?! Hee, hee, hee!!!
Chocolove: What!?! You wanna pee, pee, pee?!? Well, why didn't you say so in the first place!?! There's a tree for you to pee at over there!
* Spirit of Fire smolders Chocolove into a crisp.
* Everybody sweatdrops.
Horo-Horo: I swear! Ignoring those two is getting harder and harder by the minute!
Ren: I'm gonna have to agree with you there...
Lyserg: The bloody poor blokes!
Ryu: . . . . .
Manta: Neh, by the way Yoh-kun, you're not suppose to be in this scene yet you know...
Yoh: Eh? I'm not!?!
Anna: Honestly! Don't you even know how to read a script!?!
* Anna drags Yoh out of the picture but not before she gives him one of her 'super killer combos'.
Faust: Um, right. Anyway. . .What am I suppose to say again? Ah yes. . . Ehem, ehem...I sure hope that Eliza and I will have a bed scene in this fic!!!
* After a while
Faust: Wait a minute...What the?!? .
Horo-Horo: Wahahah! I didn't know that you could you possibly think of such a thing about Eliza-san!?!
Faust: I couldn't! But what can I do? Kiiro-san put it in the script!!!.
Manta: Ano. We don't think that's such a good thing for a girl of your age to think about Kiiro-san.
* All of the characters agree.
Hao: I don't really object to having the bed scenes in this fic, for as long as they will focus on how pretty, hot, and sexy I truly am!!!
* Everybody sweatdrops.
* Spirit of Fire leaves the scene with its head hanging on its neck.
* Spirit of Fire (thinks): I can no longer bare the shame of having a master who is as pitiful as that!
(Brings out a bucket of hydrochloric acid and throws its contents at the SK characters)
Kiiro: Take that you bunch of stupid whiners! I've had just about enough of your stupid meddling! This is my fic! And only I have the right to decide on what to do here!!! Understand!?!
* Everybody shrieks in physical anguish...
Hao: Nooo!!! My face! My very beautiful! My very flawless!! And my very much pimple free face!!! Kiiro!?! How could you!?!
Kiiro (Throwing another bucket of acid at Hao): Oh shut up!!!
*** Heheheheh... Sorry for that bunch of worthless stuff... And now we proceed to the real fic!
*** And by the way, don't you people worry! Hao-sama is not that vainglorious in this fic, I assure you! = )
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Shaman King Fanfiction.
Thy Kingdom Come.
By Kiiro Asakura.
This story begins two years after the fight for the Shaman King throne has been ended. Yoh Asakura has been proclaimed as the victor, after defeating the legendary destroyer, Asakura Hao. While earning himself the title Shaman King a.k.a. 'The Savior of Mankind', and the ability to become one with the Great Spirits, Asakura Yoh has still a lot of hellish training to go through. At least that's what his faithful trainer and fiancée Anna Kyouyama thinks.
So now we go somewhere at the gardens of the Asakura ancestral mansion. . .
(With veins bulging out, and brows dangerously meeting each other because of repressed outrage.)
Anna: Down Asakura Yoh! And not another word from you!.
(Doing a round of full squats with his whole body shaking due to the extreme amounts of pain being bestowed upon him. (Yoh: You call this repressed outrage?!?))
Yoh: But Anna it's late! My body is aching alrea-!
Anna: Didn't you understand what I just said!?! Another round of 100 pushups!
Yoh: Wah!!! Anna! Please be reasonab-!
Anna: Not yet enough eh Asakura Yoh?!? Add 150 sit-ups then!
Yoh: Itai!!!
Anna: And another 200 squats to make you shut your mouth!!!
(With eyes shut into a thin line, and a waterfalls of tears flowing down their cheeks.)
Amidamiru: Yoh-dono?
Yoh: Amidamaru!
Amidamaru: Yoh-dono!?
Yoh: Amidamaru!!
Amidamiru: Yoh-dono!?!
Yoh: Amidamaru!!!
(Does one of her 'killer hand slaps' on Yoh)
Anna: Enough already you two!
Yoh: Wah! Amidamaru! Make her stop!!!
(Holds onto her itako beads, with eyes glaring ferociously at the samurai spirit.)
Anna: I'd like to see you try...
(Floats off into a far distance from the itako and yells.)
Amidamaru: Gomen nasai! You know that I will never possess that kind of power!!! Demo, I know you can do it!!! I have faith in you!!! Always Yoh- dono! Always! .
Yoh: Amidamaru. . .
Anna: Down and give me a hundred!
(Still crying)
Yoh: Hai!!!
Yoh silently asks the Great Spirits what he did to deserve such a woman for his future wife. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________
Inside the Asakura ancestral mansion, the itako's reprimanding voice and Shaman King's shrieks of pain can be clearly heard. Meanwhile, Asakura Yohmei, Kino and Mikihisa gather around a table to discuss a matter that is of great importance.
Mikihisa: Checkmate! You loose again pop!
Yohmei: Hmmm. And since when did you start calling me 'pop'?
Mikihisa: Since now. I thought you'd feel younger and better if I call you that. I mean that's what I feel when Yoh does it to me.
(Smites her husband and son with her mighty cane)
Kino: Will you two quit playing poker and listen to what I'm trying to say here!?!
Mikihisa: Okaasan, can't you see? Pop and I are playing chess, not poker.
(Nods in approval, and then sighs)
Yohmei: It's already nighttime you know, no need for you to wear those sunglasses at this time of day.
(Bashes her husband and son with her cane yet again)
Kino: Well quit playing whatever game you're having and pay attention to me!
(Both rub the bumps on their heads)
Mikihisa: Alright okaasan...
Yohmei: Very well...
Kino: Good then, now where was I? Right, as I was saying, Yoh and Anna have pretty much been living together for the past ten years of their lives now.
(Both men nod to show their comprehension of the woman's statement)
Kino: And I have no doubt that during all those years, they have both learned to value each other even more than their own lives.
Yohmei: True, there is nothing that those two will not undergo and surpass just for the welfare of the other.
Mikihisa: Um. So? I don't get it okaasan, why exactly are we talking about this?
Yohmei: Yes, I was actually going to ask the same thing Kino.
(Fights the urge to knock her husband and son out of their consciousness)
Kino: I've been explaining here for the last half hour, and you dare to tell me that both of you did not get the point of what I'm talking about!?!
(Both men look at each other, then at the old woman, then at each other, and then at the old woman again before they shook their heads)
(With the last ounce of her patience gone, the old woman was unable to resist the impulse of pulverizing the two men with her wooden rod)
Kino: Honestly! You two are hopeless! No wonder my grandson has turned into a worthless bum like you!!!
Yohmei and Mikihisa: Itai!!! Gomen! Gomen nasai!
(After a while)
Yohmei and Mikihisa: Itai!!! Gomen! Gomen nasai!
(Still after some time)
Yohmei and Mikihisa: Itai!!! Gomen! Gomen nasai!
(In a crouching position, their knees and elbows were on the floor with their hands poorly protecting their heads)
Mikihisa: Oh come on okaasan!!! Please stop it! We're already suffering from an internal hemorrhage here!!!
Yohmei: Kino! Do you want to be a widow right now!?! Have you forgotten my current age?!?
Mikihisa: We're really sorry okaasan!!! We'll be listening attentively from now on, we promise!!!
(Quickly stopping in fear of really taking the lives of both her spouse and offspring)
Kino: Very well then. That was fun. So as I was saying, the subject at hand here is the engagement of my grandson and his fiancée.
(The men quickly recover from their state of disembowelment)
Yohmei: Eh? Engagement? You mean you want them to marry already!?!. What are you talking about!?! Yoh cannot have a family of his own right now! He's only fifteen!
Mikihisa: That is correct!!! Besides, I don't think Anna's body is ready to conceive a child at her current age okaasan! Keiko and I got married when we were eighteen! I insist that it should be the case for my son as well!
(Barely sighing this time because she got really tired from the previous beating she gave to the other two)
Kino: That's not what I'm trying to say here you bunch of oafs. I'm thinking of breaking their engagement to-
Her sentence was cut off.
Mikihisa: What!?! Mother!?! Are you thinking straight!?! Break the engagement of Yoh to Anna? Why would you do such a thing okaasan!?! Why? Why!? Why?!?
(With his hands rubbing his chin to signify his thinking)
Yohmei: Hmm. . . Ahh... Hmm... Ohh! The family tradition eh? Of course! You're right Kino! I think now is indeed the right time for that.
Mikihisa: Otoosan!?! Surely you don't see the need for agreeing with okaasan!?!
(This time, both the elderly has hit the head of their son - pitiful creature)
Yohmei: Mikihisa! How could you possibly forget our family tradition!?! Your mother has gone through it! Your wife has gone through it! Of course it's only natural for Yoh's future wife to go through it as well!
Kino: That is correct! It is the Asakura tradition. Therefore, to be able to prove herself worthy of the name Asakura, Kyouyama Anna must be able to surpass this one last test that is to be given to her.
(With a ray of light shining upon the darkness of his thoughts)
Mikihisa: Oh. . . That tradition. Demo, okaasan, otoosan, that tradition nearly shattered my relationship with Keiko, I mean, how can we be sure that with the personality that Anna has, she will be able to surpass this challenge?
(With a tone of confidence in her voice)
Kino: Because she is Kyouyama Anna. And Kyouyama Anna will be the woman of no other man but Asakura Yoh. I heard her utter those words a million times myself. I have faith in both Anna and my grandson.
Yohmei: Yes. And so do I. I must say, Anna is very much like your mother. Very trusting and devoted to no other man but me.
Kino looks at her husband coldly and raises one of her brows.
Yohmei: Ehem. . . As I was saying, we are going to do this because it is our tradition. If Anna does not pass this ordeal, then I do not think that she deserves to be included in our clan.
Mikihisa: But otoosan, don't you think it's high time to change this tradition of ours? I mean, love is not supposed to be tested that way. You said it yourself. I think-
Mikihisa's sentence was cut off.
Kino: A tradition is a tradition Mikihisa. And that's that. I assure you that there is no need to worry. We will give her the exact same test that I, and your wife have taken. If I have passed it, I have no uncertainty that Anna will as well. She is a strong woman. I'm sure she is.
(Silence)
(After s few minutes)
Kino: By the way, I have talked to Yoh already. And to Tamao as well.
Yohmei: And did they agree?
Kino: Yes, both of them did. I'm not quite sure of the reason why Tamao's face was as red as a ripe tomato while we were discussing this matter the whole time though.
Mikihisa: Wait a minute, Tamao agreed? Okaasan, I'm quite sure that the girl possesses genuine feelings for my son as well. Don't you think it's a bit cruel to let her participate in this tradition?
Kino: That's exactly it Mikijisa. Tamao does have feelings for Yoh. Other than Anna, Tamao is the only person I can think of who is worthy enough to become Yoh's wife. In a way we are only finding out who's going to be the best prospect for the position of the Shaman King's future bride. Besides, that's the whole point of the said tradition, is it not?
Yohmei: Ah, yes, well, Tamao has known Yoh for as long as Anna has.
Mikihisa: But don't you feel like we are playing with the lives of the children here? Why can't we just let them be? Let them decide on who to marry? On who to love and-
(Yohmei and Kino whack their son's head yet again- sadist parents neh?)
Kino: Quit ranting like some moral believer!
Yohmei: You know, it's not like we're doing something illegal here, besides, it doesn't suit you son.
Kino: Anyway as I have said before, there's nothing to worry about. I've already explained to both Tamao and Yoh the severity of the tradition itself, and the possible complications of course. And both have already agreed to push through with it.
(With the feeling of injustice on being defeated by his two opponents)
Mikihisa: Fine. If that is your decision, okaasan, otoosan, then I guess there's really nothing that I can do about it.
Kino: Tradition is tradition son, anyway, I'm sure that the outcome of the test shall be for the benefit of our whole clan.
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Deep within a forest quite distant from the Asakura ancestral mansion, a figure is sitting on top of a tree branch. Clearly, it has witnessed the entire scene that has occurred inside the manor.
(With his lips forming into a thin and wicked smile)
Hao: Indeed Kino-san, the outcome of the test shall be for the benefit of the whole clan. And evidently, that includes mine.
Opacho: Hao-sama, come and eat your soup please, it's getting quite cold already!
(Gives his sole servant a sweet smile, then reverts his stare at the mansion, but this time, he focuses his gaze at the people located at the mansion's garden)
Hao: Hai, Opacho, I'm coming.
(Lips forming into a grin once again with his voice reduced into a whisper)
Hao: Kyouyama Anna. Indeed, such a beautiful creature you are. So beautiful in fact, that I have decided to personally make sure that you fail the so- called Asakura test.
(Lets out a sinister laugh)
Hao: Ha ha ha ha ha hah! I have not yet lost to you little brother! You hear that!?! Not yet!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha hah!!!
(Birds fly out of the trees. Opacho shivers.)
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The Shaman King and his fiancée have felt the uneasiness of the forest but did not give too much attention to it, on the account that they still had their hands full with the strengthening drills that the itako was forcing the shaman to finish. After a while, Anna and Yoh were done with their so-called 'training' session. Yoh definitely thinks that it should be called 'torture' session instead, which of course, is indeed one, from his own point of view that is.
Now, we find Asakura Yoh inside his room talking with his samurai spirit.
(Yawning and stretching his limbs while lying on his bed)
Yoh: Haaa!!! I sure am tired! Anna's special training course is really helpful when it comes to making a person have a good night sleep ne Amidamiru?!!
Amidamaru: Hai hai! By the way Yoh-dono, if I may ask, it's about your engagement with Anna-okami. . .
(Looks at the spirit with a very happy smile)
Yoh: Hai? What about it Amidamaru?
(Looks at his master with an expression that suggests curiosity)
Amidamaru: Ano, are you sure you agree with your grandmother's plans?
Yoh: Hai! Hee, hee, hee! My obaasan knows best! Besides, I'm sure Anna will do perfectly well with the test! I have complete trust in her! Speaking of which, can you believe it!?! Tomorrow will be the day Amidamaru!
Amidamaru: Eh!? What day Yoh-dono?
(Flashes an even wider and happier smile)
Yoh: Tomorrow will be the day! The day that Anna and I will be engaged no more!!!
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Meanwhile, we go to Kyouyama Anna's bedroom.
(Wearing her yukata and smiling to herself)
Anna (thinks): You did good with our training tonight Yoh. I'm very proud of you.
(Thinks out loud)
Anna: I think I'll make breakfast for Yoh tomorrow.
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Meanwhile, again, we go inside one of the rooms in the Asakura ancestral mansion.
(Talks in front of a mirror while sitting on a stool, with her cheeks having a streak of a pink shade)
Tamao: Yoh-sama, you have no idea how happy you've made me! At last! My dream of becoming your fiancée has finally come true!
(Floating beside the girl with silly grins plastered on their faces)
Ponchi: You look really excited Tamao-chan!
Konchi: Well she should be! Imagine! Being the new fiancée of Yoh-sama!?! The Shaman King!?!
Tamao blushes furiously
Ponchi: So have you told Anna-sama already!?
(Suddenly wears a grim look on her face)
Tamao: Not yet. . .
Konchi: Eh!?! Not yet?!? Well, when will you and Yoh-sama tell it to her then?!?
(Looks at the sprits with a scandalized expression on her face)
Tamao: Do you really think that Yoh-sama and I have the guts to tell Anna- sama that!?! Of course we don't! Besides, Kino-sama plans to tell it to Anna-sama herself!
Ponchi: Ah, I see, it's going to be a teacher-student dialogue ne?!?
Konchi: Naturally! That way, Anna-sama will not feel the total humiliation of being dumped by her fiancé!
Tamao: Not exactly. . .
(Looks down at her lap, bites her lip, and then looks at the two spirits)
Tamao: Kino-sama will tell Anna-sama tomorrow.
(A short pause)
Tamao: At breakfast.
Konchi and Ponchi: Eh!?!
~Tsuzuku~
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~ I'm not sure about the name of the raccoon and fox spirits of Tamao. Can you please correct me if I'm wrong, tnx! = )
~ Wee!!! Please review people! Thanks! = )