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"Yoh, quite stalling already!" Manta screamed.  "My pants are riding up."

"Amidamaru, you know what to do!  Spirit flame mode!" Yoh said, leaning against the gold rosary beads.

Amidamaru bowed briefly and turned into the flame version of him.

"Stupid! You can't integrate with a ghost when you're a ghost yourself!" Tami scoffed.

"No shit, Sherlock!  I'm not as stupid as I look."

Amidamaru flew into the air, spinning around Manta. 

"Lady Kite, backup plan like we showed you!" Anna yelled.

Lady Kite's spirit flame exited Manta's body.  Amidamaru immediately integrated with Manta.

"Come on, shorty, lets see what you can do," Anna said.

Manta, with Amidamaru's help, cut through the binding and stood up.  He grabbed the sword from the ground and held it in the stance Yoh usually used.  "Fight now, witch," Amidamaru said through Manta.

"What can a shrimp do against a full-fledged shaman?" Tami laughed.  She held up her sword with a grin on her pretty face.  "Alright, then.  Face me, short-stuff."

Manta swallowed nervously.  Amidamaru, can I really do this? I don't have as much experience as Yoh does! I can't reach full integration like he can, he thought to Amidamaru.

"Don't worry, Lord Manta, she isn't as powerful as she believes.  She relies heavily on her Itako skills rather than the actual fighting."

He moved one foot back to make his body face Tami at an angle.

"Lets go, then," Tami said.  She spun around, her sword close to her body.  As she spun, she slowly stuck out her sword, weaving it to crate a dangerous defensive posture.

Manta backed up a step and blocked the attacks.  "What can I do?  I can't get her up close or I'll get cut into pieces!"

"Manta, hurry up!" Anna snapped.

"Amidamaru, use your special attack!" Yoh ordered.

Manta nodded nervously, holding his sword loosely.  He leapt backwards.  "Amidaryu shockwave . . ." He swung the sword in a horizontal slash.  "Buddha-giri!"

Tami flew backwards, her rosary beads cut in half.  Kentaro's spirit floated out and dashed into his Memorial tablet.

"Tami, make Anna and Yoh right again!" Manta demanded.  "I know how to do these things now."  He waved the sword.

"No, not yet.  You aren't going to embarrass me in front of the entire shaman race!"  Tami sat up, digging in her pockets for a rosary bead.  She gasped, drawing out nothing but lint.

"Ha!" Manta said.  "Now let them go!"

Tami buried her face in her hands.  "What did I do wrong?  I had all the rosary beads, but now . . .I can't do a thing!"

"That's because we made you use up all the rosary beads.  Unless you use them sparingly, you're only going to be cornered," Anna said. 

"Yeah, what she said!" Manta said.

"Give me my body back!" Yoh whined.  Anna rolled her eyes.

"I can't integrate you back in your body, though," Tami murmured weakly.

"You can at least let Yoh loose," Anna said.

"Yeah, let me loose!"

Tami stood and removed the gold prayer beads from Yoh and muttered a chant.  Yoh returned to his body.  She looked at Tami.  "I can't let you out because I need my blue rosary bead to get you back.  Even if I take the one on you off, you won't be able to be solid again."

Anna ignored her.  "Manta, Yoh, one of you go to the hospital and carry my body back here."

"That's in the next city!  We can't get there and back soon enough," Manta said.

"I can do it," a shaman said, stepping forward.  "I'll get there for you."

Within five minutes, he was back carrying Anna's body.  He laid it down in front of Anna's ghost.

"Now what?" Yoh asked.

"Urgh, do I have to do everything around here?  Dig in my pocket for my rosary bead.  Good.  You know what my Itako chant is.  Do what I showed you.  If you can't do it right, Tami can fix it up."  She glanced at Tami.  "Unless you really aren't an Itako like you claim."

Yoh frowned and held up the rosary bead with a thumb and forefinger.  "B-b-but."

"The only butt in this is yours going through another three months of intensive training.  I won't go easy this time!"

"Meep!  Okay, I'll do it!"  He held it uncertainly.

Lady Kite flew to him.  "Young Master, I know how to do this.  I was trained as an Itako before I was kidnapped.  If you know the chant, than I can help you unleash what you have learned."

"Erm, okay."  He held up his hand.  Kite turned into the flame mode.  "Integrate!"

Yoh fell into the Itako stance and muttered Anna's chant.  Soon, Anna was back in her body.

"I'm surprised you got it right.  I'm proud of you.  Instead of three months, I'll only have two intensive training months.  The third one will be Manta's.  You'll give him hell like I did you."

Yoh grinned and fixed the headphones to keep his raven hair from falling into his eyes.  "Thanks, I guess."

"Oh what the hell, you saved me no matter how much I doubted you and treated you like crap," Anna said, actually smiling for a change.  She threw her arms around Yoh and hugged him.  "Thank you.  You won't be as bad of a husband as I thought."

Yoh patted her back awkwardly.  "You're embarrassing me, Anna."

"Yes, indeed, it's young love at work," Amidamaru said, popping above them with his hands clasped together.  He sighed.

Anna blushed and pushed Yoh away.  "Don't get too carried away with the idea, vapor brain," Anna snapped.  She stood up and faced Tami.  "You, you're coming to train too.  You are about as bad as Manta here, but he hasn't been trained."  She stomped off dragging Yoh by the wrist.

Manta watched it with a grin.

"Manta!  You're coming too.  I'm not going to suffer with two girls at my neck!" Yoh yelled at him. 

"Coming!"  Manta trotted after him, his memorial tabled securely under one arm and his encyclopedia slash dictionary under his other arm.

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The next chapter will be the last.  R & R!