~~~~~To answer the reviews: To Chibi Team Rocket, I know all this, I just
didn't gather all my facts right. Sorry! I know Anna was dropped off and
the Tami kid isn't about Anna and Yoh's age. I didn't think about it, so
thanks for pointing it out! I'll explain more about Tami in the story, so
keep on the look out for more cheese on her.
To the anonymous reviewer Akdia Yamakusa: I know Manta isn't jealous or anything. I don't think I said that he was jealous in the story anywhere.if I did, sorry. I didn't mean it like that. He just ran into something on JOL which will be called Japan on Line instead of America on line or a Website like that and decided it would be a cool thing to try. I thought I put that Yoh said that Anna is jealous because both she and Yoh had to train while Manta had to only read a really long book. Yoh of course, isn't lame, but it was sort of a joke for him to ask Anna's permission for helping Manta. You know how Anna acts and how bossy she is. He acts all lame like that around Anna to make sure he doesn't get her mad. Got it? Good.
So anyway, here's the next chapter. Please review it and flames are accepted. ~~~~~
CHAPTER THREE: FOUR TO SIX WEEKS LATER
Yoh sat down gingerly rubbing his backside. "Ow . . .my butt is so sore."
"Poor Lord Yoh," Amidamaru said sympathetically.
Anna laid a plate of cookies and a glass of milk on the table. "I can't believe you fell out of a fucking tree all because a fucking cat scared you half to death. I don't think you have what it takes to be Shaman King." She sighed dramatically. "If only I could have had an arranged marriage with that Ren person Manta has told us about. He isn't a lazy bonehead like you."
"Damn, woman! Leave me alone! I don't need your sass when I'm trying to relax for this 30-second break period. Besides, I don't think you want half Japanese and half Chinese kids. I've got an uncle who did that and his kids came out so ugly, it wasn't funny." Yoh looked at the cookies. "Did you make these for me?"
"Yeah. I'm not a 100 percent bitch. I can be nice when I want to be. Besides, apart from learning Shamanism from your grandmother, she also taught me some household stuff so I could be a decent wife to you." Anna shrugged and smiled at him. "You're a slacker, but I've seen you improve. I'm proud of you!"
"A-anna . . ." Yoh whispered. He had never seen her nice. "You're scaring me. Are you feeling okay?"
Anna returned to her usual mood. "But that's not enough! You have no choice but to be able to withstand the pain and strain on your body when you achieve total integration."
Amidamaru sighed. "Lord Yoh, you do not need to do this. I want you to lead a happy and carefree life! I do not want you to die!"
"It's okay, Amidamaru. I'm doing this because I wanted to. It's been a goal for me every since I was four. I know there's tons of Shamans out there who would want you as their personal ghost. If I have a ghost like you, I want to be worthy of you and of your skills. I think you deserve to be able to help me be the Shaman King," Yoh said.
"That is so valiant of you, Lord Yoh!" Amidamaru cried. He sniffed and ran a hand across his eyes. "I-I will do my best for you!"
The front door to the Asakura house burst open. Manta came rushing in holding a box in his hand roughly the size of his favorite dictionary he lugged around. "YOH! I GOT IT! I GOT IT! COME AND SEE!"
"Can't you come to me when I'm not on a break?" Yoh asked.
"But Yoh," Manta whined.
"Yes, Lord Yoh, please allow him to show us his new companion. I am eager to see who it is," Amidamaru insisted, popping his face near Manta to inspect the box.
Yoh said nothing and stared at Manta. "Whoa," he said.
"L-lord Yoh?"
"Manta! You didn't scream for a change!" Yoh exclaimed. "I'm so glad for you!"
Manta slowly began to smile. "Hey! You're right!" He got up and danced around. "I'm cured!"
The sound of a plastic straw attempting to draw droplets of soda interrupted his dance. Anna set her glass down and looked at the two of them. "Yoh, your training for today is over . . .maybe for the rest of this week."
"You mean it?" Yoh asked carefully.
Anna nodded, brushing back a few strands of flyaway blonde hair. "I know I'll regret this, but you haven't whined as much as you usually have for the past few weeks. Go have fun."
Yoh jumped up and hugged her. "I'm so glad there's good in you! You aren't a cold-hearted bitch after all . . . not totally, anyway!"
Manta jumped for joy. "Great! Come on, Yoh! Let's go to my house!" he ran out lugging his box.
Yoh took a single step out the door, turned, and faced Anna. "Why are you letting me go? You always said that this was the perfect time to do my training."
"I know, but I am going to take a day or two off so I can ask your grandmother about this weird feeling I'm getting. Maybe she can give me some advice and some facts about how Tami is doing. I know Tami has got something up her sleeve. I can almost smell it."
"The she-devil is actually concerned for Manta!" Amidamaru exclaimed.
"Shut up, vapor brain. I was worried about Yoh, not Manta. Manta is decently responsible."
"Ah yes . . .young love . . .how long ago it was when I first fell in love . . ." Amidamaru had stars in his eyes.
"It's not like that. Yoh is my fiancé after all. Manta is just an associate I guess you can say. I have a feeling that this is a trap and Yoh is linked in this somehow just because he is Manta's friend. Call it a stupid, but just trust me for once in your life, Yoh."
"I will. Thanks." He kissed her tentatively on her cheek. He regretted it instantly as Anna shoved him out the door.
"Just go and quit acting stupid!" Anna exclaimed. She watched as Amidamaru drifted after Yoh and watched Yoh walk down the street with his ears obviously red under his black hair and headphones. She touched her cheek and felt herself blush. "He is my fiancé . . . so feeling like this isn't stupid," she muttered to herself. She shook her head and focused on the task ahead of her. "I have to tell Kino as soon as possible. The best way to tell her is to contact the ghosts around her training area." She walked off to a place where she could get some quiet to concentrate on what she had to do.
At his house, Manta opened his door and carefully lay his box on the bed as if it contained something so precious that anything that involved pressure would destroy it.
"Manta, why are you so interested in being a shaman? You never seemed to want to do all this stuff before," Yoh asked curiously, sitting down where he could get a good view of the box.
"I'm not suddenly interested. I just found the book on JOL while I was trying to check my e-mail. You know, Japan on Line? I don't think you know it, but my mom has this sister, my Aunt May, who has a daughter. The daughter is my cousin Jodi who has a stepsister named Tami Koyoshima. I had no idea that Tami was related to me until Jodi told me over the Internet an hour or so ago. To make it more ironic, just as she told me that, I got Tami Koyoshima's package for me containing my very own ghost!" Manta hugged himself with glee. "This is the coolest thing to happen to be since I was nominated to go into accelerated chemistry!"
"Tami is a shaman, right? I'm trying to get facts straight," Yoh said.
"Yeah, that's right."
"So, you've got a shaman in your family, even if she's not blood related."
"It's so cool!"
"What if I said there was the off chance that Tami Koyoshima was trying to kill you through the ghost she gave you just to get at me or Anna?"
"Why would she do that? Tami is really nice-that's what Jodi said. Besides, Tami gave me all my money and stuff back just because I'm her cousin. I got all this cool stuff free! She can't be all bad."
"I'm glad for you; I really am, Manta. This means that I can have a best friend that's a shaman too!"
"But. . .Lord Yoh, I believe you said that I was your best friend. Did I hear incorrectly when you told me?" Amidamaru asked, sitting on a chair.
"You're my best friend too. It's possible to have more than one friend, Amidamaru," Yoh said.
"That is a relief. I confess that I had been worried about this whole affair with Manta learning to be a shaman. He, too, would possible strive to be the shaman king. I-I was worried that if Manta's ghost companion was much more impressive than me, you would get angry and use integration to destroy him and take his ghost. Then with his ghost, you would abandon me-just as Ren would have done with Bason if he had ever acquired me," Amidamaru said tentatively.
"I wouldn't do that to either of you! The three of us are closer than mayonnaise on two slices of bread!" Yoh said.
"But Lord Yoh, is there not meat in between the slices of bread and the strange delicacy you put on the bread? What is the meat represented as in this example?"
"What he means is, there's ham and other stuff between the bread. If we're the bread and mayo, then there's something standing in our way," Manta said, trying to reiterate.
"Oh. . .I don't know. I guess that was a dumb example, but I think you two get the gist of what I'm trying to say here. Nothing, even Manta's new ghost or abilities, is going to pull the three of us apart!" Yoh grinned. "Now, are you going to show us your ghost or not?!"
"Yeah! Lets see!" Manta opened the box, carefully pushing away the delicate tissue paper that lined the box.
Yoh and Amidamaru peered into the box as Manta pushed the last of the tissue paper away.
"What is it?!" Amidamaru asked.
"It's. . .weird looking!" Yoh exclaimed. He glanced at Manta's face. "It's cool, really it is. It's just, you know, weird looking. Amidamaru at least looks like himself in flame mode. What is this, anyway?"
"Let me look at the letter Tami sent me." Manta looked at the envelope that was attached to the box.
~~~~~HA! Cliffie! I'm not exactly sure of what the ghost is going to be. I'll figure it out eventually. Until then, pretty please review! If any of you out there that reads this and happens to like Yu Yu Hakusho as well as Shaman king, then please read my other fanfiction! I don't get very many reviews on any of my stories, so I'm wondering if my stories suck. Just read and review telling me if my stories suck, if they're good, if I've done something terribly wrong like get the character layouts of history messed up. Most of the time, I'll let you know if I just made up the history layouts. Like Manta being a cousin to Tami, I just added that to spice stuff up later on. Just review all my stories, please!~~~
To the anonymous reviewer Akdia Yamakusa: I know Manta isn't jealous or anything. I don't think I said that he was jealous in the story anywhere.if I did, sorry. I didn't mean it like that. He just ran into something on JOL which will be called Japan on Line instead of America on line or a Website like that and decided it would be a cool thing to try. I thought I put that Yoh said that Anna is jealous because both she and Yoh had to train while Manta had to only read a really long book. Yoh of course, isn't lame, but it was sort of a joke for him to ask Anna's permission for helping Manta. You know how Anna acts and how bossy she is. He acts all lame like that around Anna to make sure he doesn't get her mad. Got it? Good.
So anyway, here's the next chapter. Please review it and flames are accepted. ~~~~~
CHAPTER THREE: FOUR TO SIX WEEKS LATER
Yoh sat down gingerly rubbing his backside. "Ow . . .my butt is so sore."
"Poor Lord Yoh," Amidamaru said sympathetically.
Anna laid a plate of cookies and a glass of milk on the table. "I can't believe you fell out of a fucking tree all because a fucking cat scared you half to death. I don't think you have what it takes to be Shaman King." She sighed dramatically. "If only I could have had an arranged marriage with that Ren person Manta has told us about. He isn't a lazy bonehead like you."
"Damn, woman! Leave me alone! I don't need your sass when I'm trying to relax for this 30-second break period. Besides, I don't think you want half Japanese and half Chinese kids. I've got an uncle who did that and his kids came out so ugly, it wasn't funny." Yoh looked at the cookies. "Did you make these for me?"
"Yeah. I'm not a 100 percent bitch. I can be nice when I want to be. Besides, apart from learning Shamanism from your grandmother, she also taught me some household stuff so I could be a decent wife to you." Anna shrugged and smiled at him. "You're a slacker, but I've seen you improve. I'm proud of you!"
"A-anna . . ." Yoh whispered. He had never seen her nice. "You're scaring me. Are you feeling okay?"
Anna returned to her usual mood. "But that's not enough! You have no choice but to be able to withstand the pain and strain on your body when you achieve total integration."
Amidamaru sighed. "Lord Yoh, you do not need to do this. I want you to lead a happy and carefree life! I do not want you to die!"
"It's okay, Amidamaru. I'm doing this because I wanted to. It's been a goal for me every since I was four. I know there's tons of Shamans out there who would want you as their personal ghost. If I have a ghost like you, I want to be worthy of you and of your skills. I think you deserve to be able to help me be the Shaman King," Yoh said.
"That is so valiant of you, Lord Yoh!" Amidamaru cried. He sniffed and ran a hand across his eyes. "I-I will do my best for you!"
The front door to the Asakura house burst open. Manta came rushing in holding a box in his hand roughly the size of his favorite dictionary he lugged around. "YOH! I GOT IT! I GOT IT! COME AND SEE!"
"Can't you come to me when I'm not on a break?" Yoh asked.
"But Yoh," Manta whined.
"Yes, Lord Yoh, please allow him to show us his new companion. I am eager to see who it is," Amidamaru insisted, popping his face near Manta to inspect the box.
Yoh said nothing and stared at Manta. "Whoa," he said.
"L-lord Yoh?"
"Manta! You didn't scream for a change!" Yoh exclaimed. "I'm so glad for you!"
Manta slowly began to smile. "Hey! You're right!" He got up and danced around. "I'm cured!"
The sound of a plastic straw attempting to draw droplets of soda interrupted his dance. Anna set her glass down and looked at the two of them. "Yoh, your training for today is over . . .maybe for the rest of this week."
"You mean it?" Yoh asked carefully.
Anna nodded, brushing back a few strands of flyaway blonde hair. "I know I'll regret this, but you haven't whined as much as you usually have for the past few weeks. Go have fun."
Yoh jumped up and hugged her. "I'm so glad there's good in you! You aren't a cold-hearted bitch after all . . . not totally, anyway!"
Manta jumped for joy. "Great! Come on, Yoh! Let's go to my house!" he ran out lugging his box.
Yoh took a single step out the door, turned, and faced Anna. "Why are you letting me go? You always said that this was the perfect time to do my training."
"I know, but I am going to take a day or two off so I can ask your grandmother about this weird feeling I'm getting. Maybe she can give me some advice and some facts about how Tami is doing. I know Tami has got something up her sleeve. I can almost smell it."
"The she-devil is actually concerned for Manta!" Amidamaru exclaimed.
"Shut up, vapor brain. I was worried about Yoh, not Manta. Manta is decently responsible."
"Ah yes . . .young love . . .how long ago it was when I first fell in love . . ." Amidamaru had stars in his eyes.
"It's not like that. Yoh is my fiancé after all. Manta is just an associate I guess you can say. I have a feeling that this is a trap and Yoh is linked in this somehow just because he is Manta's friend. Call it a stupid, but just trust me for once in your life, Yoh."
"I will. Thanks." He kissed her tentatively on her cheek. He regretted it instantly as Anna shoved him out the door.
"Just go and quit acting stupid!" Anna exclaimed. She watched as Amidamaru drifted after Yoh and watched Yoh walk down the street with his ears obviously red under his black hair and headphones. She touched her cheek and felt herself blush. "He is my fiancé . . . so feeling like this isn't stupid," she muttered to herself. She shook her head and focused on the task ahead of her. "I have to tell Kino as soon as possible. The best way to tell her is to contact the ghosts around her training area." She walked off to a place where she could get some quiet to concentrate on what she had to do.
At his house, Manta opened his door and carefully lay his box on the bed as if it contained something so precious that anything that involved pressure would destroy it.
"Manta, why are you so interested in being a shaman? You never seemed to want to do all this stuff before," Yoh asked curiously, sitting down where he could get a good view of the box.
"I'm not suddenly interested. I just found the book on JOL while I was trying to check my e-mail. You know, Japan on Line? I don't think you know it, but my mom has this sister, my Aunt May, who has a daughter. The daughter is my cousin Jodi who has a stepsister named Tami Koyoshima. I had no idea that Tami was related to me until Jodi told me over the Internet an hour or so ago. To make it more ironic, just as she told me that, I got Tami Koyoshima's package for me containing my very own ghost!" Manta hugged himself with glee. "This is the coolest thing to happen to be since I was nominated to go into accelerated chemistry!"
"Tami is a shaman, right? I'm trying to get facts straight," Yoh said.
"Yeah, that's right."
"So, you've got a shaman in your family, even if she's not blood related."
"It's so cool!"
"What if I said there was the off chance that Tami Koyoshima was trying to kill you through the ghost she gave you just to get at me or Anna?"
"Why would she do that? Tami is really nice-that's what Jodi said. Besides, Tami gave me all my money and stuff back just because I'm her cousin. I got all this cool stuff free! She can't be all bad."
"I'm glad for you; I really am, Manta. This means that I can have a best friend that's a shaman too!"
"But. . .Lord Yoh, I believe you said that I was your best friend. Did I hear incorrectly when you told me?" Amidamaru asked, sitting on a chair.
"You're my best friend too. It's possible to have more than one friend, Amidamaru," Yoh said.
"That is a relief. I confess that I had been worried about this whole affair with Manta learning to be a shaman. He, too, would possible strive to be the shaman king. I-I was worried that if Manta's ghost companion was much more impressive than me, you would get angry and use integration to destroy him and take his ghost. Then with his ghost, you would abandon me-just as Ren would have done with Bason if he had ever acquired me," Amidamaru said tentatively.
"I wouldn't do that to either of you! The three of us are closer than mayonnaise on two slices of bread!" Yoh said.
"But Lord Yoh, is there not meat in between the slices of bread and the strange delicacy you put on the bread? What is the meat represented as in this example?"
"What he means is, there's ham and other stuff between the bread. If we're the bread and mayo, then there's something standing in our way," Manta said, trying to reiterate.
"Oh. . .I don't know. I guess that was a dumb example, but I think you two get the gist of what I'm trying to say here. Nothing, even Manta's new ghost or abilities, is going to pull the three of us apart!" Yoh grinned. "Now, are you going to show us your ghost or not?!"
"Yeah! Lets see!" Manta opened the box, carefully pushing away the delicate tissue paper that lined the box.
Yoh and Amidamaru peered into the box as Manta pushed the last of the tissue paper away.
"What is it?!" Amidamaru asked.
"It's. . .weird looking!" Yoh exclaimed. He glanced at Manta's face. "It's cool, really it is. It's just, you know, weird looking. Amidamaru at least looks like himself in flame mode. What is this, anyway?"
"Let me look at the letter Tami sent me." Manta looked at the envelope that was attached to the box.
~~~~~HA! Cliffie! I'm not exactly sure of what the ghost is going to be. I'll figure it out eventually. Until then, pretty please review! If any of you out there that reads this and happens to like Yu Yu Hakusho as well as Shaman king, then please read my other fanfiction! I don't get very many reviews on any of my stories, so I'm wondering if my stories suck. Just read and review telling me if my stories suck, if they're good, if I've done something terribly wrong like get the character layouts of history messed up. Most of the time, I'll let you know if I just made up the history layouts. Like Manta being a cousin to Tami, I just added that to spice stuff up later on. Just review all my stories, please!~~~
