Disclaimer:  I don't own Hiroyuki Takei's characters but I own Lady Kite and anyone else you don't see in Shaman King. 

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                                                Chapter six:  Anna? Fainting?

                 Yoh sat in his seat and yawned.  Manta wanted him to come to class early so the two of them could talk to Anna to explain all about Kite, Manta's personal ghost.  Manta was reading over his dictionary for the hell of it.

                "Damn, Manta!  Anna isn't even here and neither is anyone else!  Let me sleep.  Amidamaru wouldn't shut up about 'Lady Kite this, and Lady Kite that!'  It's nice to know that the two of them are friends and everything but since I'm alive I need to sleep!" Yoh complained loudly.

                Amidamaru came out of his memorial tablet, bowing.  "Forgive me, Lord Yoh.  I was far too excited to remember your need of sleep.  Do not cast me out on Funbari Hill with all those accursed spirits."

                "No problem, but please, please, PLEASE don't do it again!  Besides, why would I cast you out where some freak like that Ren guy could steal you for his own."  He turned to Manta.  "So how's she doing?" he asked in a whisper.

                "Who?" Manta looked blankly at Yoh.

                Amidamaru popped out of his memorial tablet. "Lady Kite!  How have you been treating her?"

                "Oh.  Fine, I guess.  I really doing know because she's always in her memorial tablet.  She won't come out even when I give her offerings and when I ask her to come out to get to know her better."  Manta slouched over his dictionary sadly.  "I want to be a shaman.  It would be an honor to have an emperor's daughter be my ghost, but she won't talk to me or anything."

                Amidamaru nodded with crossed arms.  "Ah yes, it does make sense.  Lady Kite has always been shy.  Her abilities make her self-conscious so she keeps to herself."

                "It seems like you know her pretty well.  It doesn't sound like your normal kill-all-the-dumb-asses-that-dares-bother-you story like you always seem to tell us," Yoh said, grinning in a teasing way.  He rested his chin on his supported arms.  "So, tell us the whole story.  What really went on and how do you really know one another?"

                Amidamaru frowned slightly.  "Forgive me, Lord Yoh.   I know I'm being disobedient for refusing to give you information, but I don't know myself.  I do not understand the true reason why I didn't mind protecting her when it was me who was being attacked.  Normally, I would have allowed her to be taken captive but something instinctive told me to help her.  Perhaps it was the wrong thing to do when I died from doing this."

                Yoh was stunned into silence.  He rarely heard this side of Amidamaru and it always made him lapse into silence.  "Look, I'm sorry if I hurt you by saying all that, okay?  I was joking.  I wouldn't force you to answer something personal unless it had to do with me, Manta, or Anna. . .or my parents, and maybe not Anna as much, but you get my point!"

                He turned to face Manta who had been prodding him in the back with the corner of his dictionary for the past 20 seconds.  "What is it?"

                "Don't tell me that's Anna," Manta said quietly.

                Yoh looked at the front of the room where Anna was looking carefully around the classroom as if she wasn't able to see straight.  "Um. . .if I told you that, I would be lying, wouldn't I?"

                "No, Look at her clothes.  You know how she is about the dress code and here she is wither her bandana and rosary beads around her neck."

                "Hey, you're right!  ANNA!  Come here!"  Yoh called to her.

                Anna turned her head slightly.  She didn't answer but merely stared at him with her usual piercing glare.

                "Anna?  What's wrong?" Yoh asked carefully.  He walked up to her.  "Are you okay?"  He squinted up at her face and noticed the bags under her normally flawless face. 

                "I don't know how I am, but I'm tell you now, if you're in the stupid club called something like The Brotherhood & Sisterhood of Shamanism, DROP OUT.  It's a trap.  I was curious about it so I went to see what it was about.  Then something happened."  Anna clutched the front of her shirt above her heart as if she was in pain.  Her eyes closed all of a sudden and she collapsed.  Yoh caught her just before she hit the ground.

                "Somebody call an ambulance or something!  Anna just passed out!"  Yoh yelled.  He glanced at Manta.  "I mean it!  If she off all girls pass out, it's got to be major!"