Hey there! I have been inspired!! And a whole lot of new ideas and occurrences popped into my head!!! So…… This is the seventh chapter….. and I really like how it came out. Despite the fact that I re-wrote and changed a lot of stuff. Hope you like it.

Hao: yes me too, I was hoping that you would finally write a ….good chapter for me

Pinkz: once a pervert always a pervert!

Hao: by the way I know many of you wanna kill Anna , but she is the only one in my heart…besides Pinkz of course

Pinkz:WHAT? Now I have to share property???

Hao: well you see , Anna is a very interesting girl….. ^^

Pinkz: how rude! Okay enough of this bickering , now shut up and get back in the fic Hao!!

Hao wimpers away : okey okey im sorry :'O

Pinkz: good! Okey folks now that that's over read and enjoy!

Chapter 7

Re-captured

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        Go to sleep Anna, I'm gonna go take a cold shower.

Saying this he left the room.  She turned away and pulled the covers close to her body, curling up.

As soon as she made sure she was alone. She began to sob into the pillows. What she had just done was to give up her whole life's dream because of one person. Whom she was now going to spend the rest of her life with.  She kept on thinking of Yoh and in what way he would take the news. After thinking of it till her brain seemed to go numb. She decided she would request that Hao let her see him one last time , so she would ease the separation.

And in this manner , she fell asleep.

Later Hao came to r45check on her , wearing only a towel. His hair wet from the shower he previously took.  He entered the now dark room. And encountered the Itako with her face half buried in a pillow and the covers a mess around her.  When she slept she looked truly angelical.

He smiled , and closed the door.

What had started out as a simple plan to make his conquest quicker. Had won him an indescribable prize.   Hao had decided that night that it was no longer necessary to wait for Yoh to get strong enough. In a small amount of time ,  he would desert the Shaman fight and attack the great spirits. Speeding things up. The sooner he got this over with the better.

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Yoh was over boarding with angst.

He had failed, and even though Hao had given him another chance, he somehow knew that things would not be the way they were planned.

That afternoon his friends had come back to the village all the while questioning him on why he had not gone on. And just why he gave up. He knew that even if he tried explaining that Hao would have killed them all if he hadn't the guys wouldn't shut up.

He ignored these questions. Because the whole way he could not take his mind off , what of what Hao meant when he said that

"Now listen here Otouto, you broke your deal , which means that I have no obligation of keeping the Itako or anyone for that matter far from harm."

If Hao lay a finger on her he would regret it deeply!

But then again He remembered the time when his spirit left his body and visited her, remembering the mark he saw on her neck.  Hao had already lay more than that her.

Yoh shook his head violently , brushing of the thought.

"Anna would never allow it." He kept on repeating this phrase in his head comforting and convincing himself tat his was how it really was.

What would he do! How would he gain the strength he needed to beat Hao , and fast???

Yoh's hopes were fading. The only thing that kept a dim light in amongst them was that he would get Anna back. And this time he would value her .

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And so in this manner one week passed ,Anna avoiding Hao inside the cabin the most she could, and every time he tried to make his moves on her , she would remind him of her promise. He seeming pleased that he would finally get her for himself. And Yoh Training non-stop , sometimes to the extent where faust would have to attend to him passing out at least twice a day.  His friends worried and having taken heed to Hao's warning were taking advantage of the fact they didn't have so many fights in that period of time and took the time to train as well. The judges at the patch village seemed to be in alert and as for the x-laws , they lay low for the whole time.

One week passed , and Hao was summoned to a fight and that morning he was leaving……

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Anna-chan???

He said looking around the cabin for her in her room , not there..

Kitchen…not there

Living room …not there.

Front yard…not there

Back yard….not there

Hmmm.. maybe she attempted  escaping again. But he would've felt it… no her presence was still in the house.

Oh yes… he had forgotten to look in the porch.

And so he went there . He stopped to find her looking out into sky , sitting . with the edges of her yellow dress tucked in her outer thighs , to keep it from blowing with the wind.  (after the ….small incident with the other dress , Hao had provided for a similar one , except this one came in light yellow. )

"so there you are , you know I've been looking all over for you"

she pretended to ignore him but it was impossible when he slipped his hand around her waist from behind gently prying her from the balcony edge "come inside Anna , I wouldn't want you to catch cold"

She slapped his hand off.  "go away"

"Oh , so loving today are we??"

She noted the tone of sarcasm and irony in his voice. He began to laugh.

She turned around facing him and in an attempt to hurt him she said "Did you know you are the creature I most despise in this universe?"

He closed his eyes with a serene expression and smiled .

"yes , it's the third time you tell me this week" He took the advantage that she was facing him and pecked her on the lips. Her cheeks grew red. And she pushed him away. Getting down from the porch and walking inside. She said "Good, just making sure you knew."

He smiled and said to himself. "very soon I assure you that your hate will turn to love…"

And he followed inside.

"Now Anna I will be gone for half of the day….i have a few errands to run….so you be a nice little captive-errr lady and don't try to escape ..even though I trust you wont."

She just sat in the couch with a blank emotion and slowly nodded at him.

"good then see ya later my love"

he disappeared before she could answer to his comment.

She sighed and sank back on the couch. 

"Yoh….im going to have to leave you"

She laid down on the couch and feel asleep. Sleep…something she had been lacking the last nights because she spent them tormenting herself on how she would confront everything based on her decision .

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" And the winner is HOSHI (star) TEAM!"

the judge announced signaling to Hao's proud team .

The opponent lay dead before them. And Hao was happy just a little bit longer….

He turned to see Yoh in the crowd with a huge frown. Yoh hated to see people die.

Hao just smiled. And Yoh was taken aback as if Hao had just told him something just through eye contact. Hao's team left the stadium , heading to meet with his disciples

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"WHERE IS THAT BASTARD?"

"HE DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE AGAISNT US!"

"YEAH HE'LL SEE WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH OUR TEAM…"

Anna stirred in her sleep , thinking these voices were in her dreams.

"What's this??? He even has a nice little whore." She felt herself being pulled up by an rough hand . And that's when she was violently knocked out of her R.E.M. cycle.

She jolted her eyes open . To see a boy…a built boy of about 19 at the most with dark hair spiky all over (like the guy in dna 2, besides I think that guy is mad hot so basically this guy is supposedly hot too) with moss green eyes , and a scar across his left cheek.  He had and Oracle bell in his arm. Pointing to the fact that he was a shaman. There were 4 others.

        He was looking down at her with a questioning look probably asking himself who she was . 

        She saw a gleam cross his eyes and then he saw that she had fear in hers. Of course she was doing her best to look emotionless. she was alarmed , she didn't know what was going on

"Where is that godamm asshole?" he said once again shaking her

He said shaking her .

She kept her cool "What are you talking about."

She was slapped across the face by one of the others and fell to the floor holding her cheek. "THAT IDIOT YOU SURELY LIKE TO REFFER TO AS HAO-SAMA"

She looked up in disbelief. The one who had previously woken her up looked sort of bothered.

"hold , Hyoga we cant mishandle the merchandise", he then looked on at her and asked   "Is this where Hao is situated?"

"I don't know…. He left" she answered looking down, she wasn't about to get hurt by five guys who were probably 10 times stronger than she was.

The leader of them who was towering over her. Looked around .

"So we cant give him the message personally??"

He looked as if he was in deep thought. The other four guys were eyeing Anna up and down. With an indecent gleam in their eyes.

She crossed her arms over herself trying to hide her womanly features which were apparently very notable in this outfit.

The leader snapped his fingers and ironically looked towards her.

"I take it that , that pyromaniac loves you no?" he said questioning Anna.

She kept quiet and looked down. This time she was lifted up violently .

"Answer me!"

She dared look up and the words escaped her mouth.

"Shut up you asshole"

She thought she would receive a full punch for that one. And prepared for it. But as she looked back at the leader's face she saw a triumphant smile over his face.

"So your …..his weakness??? Huh ? hahaha now I know why he left that puny barrier hiding the cabin from view. But naturally we were able to break it in minutes."

"So boss what are we gonna do now??? Hes not here"

The  blond one with blue eyes and a frightening build asked.

"Can we have fun with her??" asked another one, This one with short brown hair, wearing a red  bandanna and a very punkish look to him.

The leader looked at him with and indignated face,  answering…

"Sack the cabin for anything of value, we cant disappoint the others  and leave Hao without a surprise when he gets home.. "

"What about the chick??" asked the one with the bandanna still looking at her with hunger in his eyes. His hand reaching out to her

The leader slapped his hand away and pulled Anna to himself.

"Are you crazy??? This prize is much to exotic for the likes of you….Besides I found her first ..." he said slamming her against himself and stroking her hair.

Oh great now I have barbarians treating me like a piece of meat

She though looking up at the shaman who looked 3 years older than her .

She tried to free herself from his grasp , but it was no use ..it was like she was wedged up by a rock.

"Hurry up , I'm sure that by taking her with us will make Hao come after us"

The men nodded and began to raid the house. The leader smiling triumphantly. He suddenly felt himself being kicked in the shin. And bent over in pain. Anna ran to wherever she saw first.

The kitchen. She backed up against a counter in fear. He had gone after her.

"Now don't try to run away missy, your important in the plan!"

he said lunging for her and grabbing her by the shoulders. Closing in on her.  But a voice interrupted them.

"uhh boss , there ain't nothing in here that could get us money. Except this" the blond and buff one held out some blue beads , Anna's beads.

"hmm its not of much value , but give it to me" he said  putting them inside his pocket.

" besides  I've already found myself a good reward" the leader swung her over his shoulder and held her by the legs a little too daringly. She used to it, kicking and screaming. Once secured he said "Lets get moving we can reach camp by night-fall if we leave now. " 

In her mind Anna was full of mixed emotions , the fact that the guy had taken her beads would enable her to defend herself when she got to them. And she would be able to return to Yoh. But then again…. Something inside her was pulling at her heart. Which was a heavy one. Some part of her deep inside didn't want to leave Hao…

By the time she was out of her train of thoughts she saw that they were in the open desert. And the group decided to stop. She looked to see a small campsite with gipsy like tents.

"Were here." The leader said putting her down .

she looked around, to see many gipsy men , only men. In their teenage years.  Seemed she was the only female there.

She gulped and unconsciously grabbed the arm of the leader.

He looked surprisingly down at her and smiled. Guessing her thoughts.

"Don't worry , I wont let them touch you. Respecting property is a thing I like for them to take seriously"

After hearing his comment , she quickly let go of him.

"come on inside my tent, you must be hungry. "

She didn't have much of a choice so she followed him inside. It was full of exotic blankets and pillows.

She sat down and crossed her arms.

"so where's my food?"

He instantly handed her a plate of fruits.

"Here" he said handing it to her.

She picked up an apple and began to nibble on it,

He took off his vest and sat across from her , topless wearing only his gipsy like pants and boots.

He picked up a pear and began to talk

"So…now that you've settled down, would you like to tell me about youself?"

She looked up from her apple and looking him in the eye,

"no?? Fine then I'll go first. My name is Touji Ayamoto and I am half Japanese and half Romanian (N/A: ooohh the country of the hot vampire ppl! Don't ask I get these spurts of madness sometimes….. )I am a shaman as you can see" he said pointing to the dark green oracle bell in his arm. "And im nineteen years old. Good enough ? Now tell me about youself!"

She again stopped eating the apple and looked up, ignoring his question  "Why are you being kind to me??? I would've thought that I would be in a horrible situation right now …"

She was interrupted by him "Im not a coward, I like to be good to my women and even though you have some relation with Hao I still like you" he said smiling ^_^

She looked down again.

"So aren't you gonna answer my question? I answered yours"

She sighed and began to speak. Restraining from some facts that she thought would be better to leave out.

 "My name is Anna Kyouyama and I am 16 years old." She stated simply.

"What relation do you have with Hao??"

"I …I was his captive"

she answered looking sideways.

"was he as kind to you as I am trying to be???"

he asked.

She was getting sick of his questioning.

"Look all I wanna know is what intentions you have with me…."

"Well, for starters I intend to keep you" he said huskily.

She shivered and looked angrily at him. What was she… some kind of male magnet???

"Hao will come after you , you know…by the way… what do u hate him for??"

"My dear…Anna …correct?? Yes, first off those matters shouldn't concern you yet… and let me explain to you that my family is keeper of the Forest Spirit, Its not as big as Hao's but it's one of the strongest nature spirits on earth. The only reason I am not as famous as Hao Asakura is because I don't have the same evil goals as he does. Besides even if I am in the Shaman fight , I use my other spirits. So that I may stay undercover"

She sighed again . This was unbelievable a guy as strong as Hao??

Liar he probably thinks he's as strong as Hao like all the others…..who end up killed

"In other words if Hao comes you intend to hold him off?"

He smiled at her. "exactly"

Saying this he got up and walked to the entrance.

"Stay in here Anna , I wouldn't want for you to get assaulted by one of the men….i'll be back later."

And so Anna lay back on the pillows and began to plot her escape.

When , he's asleep I'll just get my beads and go!

I wonder where Hao is….what?? no no I should be happy that I finally have a chance at finding Yoh…..

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Hao had met with his disciples announcing his plans to take the great spirits in a short period of time.  And had invited Opacho to come along with him to the cabin.

They walked into the Oasis only to find….

The entire cabin sacked without a clue of what had happened. As soon as Hao saw this he began to run around the ouse frantically calling for "Annaaaaaa , Annaaa!"

But it was no use…. Her presence was no longer there. He knew that she was taken out of there by force. Because he felt Energy from struggles around the cabin.

He was furious. And worse , he couldn't feel her presence within the radius. Whoever took her , took care of hiding it well. ..very well.

"OPACHO" he called

the little boy appeared beside him.

"Yes Hao-Sama??"

"inform the others to keep their eyes open for any sign of the Itako immediately "

the little boy nodded and disappeared.

Hao took a seat in one of the chairs vaguely tossed aside , and pulled it near the table. His face serious…

"Hmmm I wonder if my otouto has felt her presence by now.."

Anna….i'll find you….you will be mine ….

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Anna opened one of her eyes and found Touji was staring at her with a grin…^__^

She in return frowned and looked away sitting up and wrapping a blanket around herself.

He plunked down beside her …

"You know , you should ease up more if your gonna spend time with me"

"Who says I'm to have any relationship with you??"

"Well , my tribe's custom is 'finders keepers, losers weepers'you should get accustomed to it "

"Listen here , get it out of your head . If you think that I'm gonna forcefully have any affair with you your overly wrong! Hao gave me enough of that already…"

"you're a Stubborn one "

"dream on"

his eyes suddenly took a gleam to them as he lay back with his arms behind his head

"Ahhh dream, If I became Shaman king my dream would be to wipe out every city and for people to return to the primitive way of living with nature , and my other dream ever since I turned 16  and took honor as my family heir was to marry a beautiful girl who could see spirits just as I could …like you"

She looked away from him.

"my dream is to be free"

he cocked an eyebrow looking at her back and  noticed her long locks of golden blond hair dangling behind her halfway through her back.

He began playing with them and she stiffened.

"well not all dreams come true , some of them are stolen from you "

She heard the remorse in his voice but ignored it. She felt his hands moving away from her hair and heard him get up.

"Go to sleep Anna"

She could hear there was a sort of celebration and a lot of laughing outside. But chose to wait , making her move would only work when most of the men were asleep.

So she layed down , and noticed that she was very worn out for some reason. And fought to keep herself awake. But it was in vain because within the next 15 minutes she was in deep sleep.

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"YOH-DONO! Please cease this arduous training! I am sure that with only half of it, it will make you strong enough to go rescue Anna-Okami!"

Yoh sat up stopping the push-ups he was doing.

He looked to Amidamaru and the to the sky.

"Do you think I'll ever see her again?"

The samurai was taken a back but answered.

"Yoh-dono  excuse me for asking , but didn't you think Anna was the devil reincarnated?"

A gleam shot through Yoh's eyes and the samurai backed away.

But he calmly answered

"Yes I did , until I realized that everything she did was good for me and that when she's not near I feel an emptiness . I feel I de-valued her Maru , and I came also came to the realization that I feel something deep for her. After all, we are to be married. I owe it to her to rescue her and value her for who she is…something I never paid attention to."

"Yoh-dono I didn't know you  were capable of using such big words"

the samurai said enthusiastically. With tears of joys leaving his eyes.

But then suddenly becoming serious.

"Yes Yoh-dono a man must honor his woman and take pride in her"

The samurai looked aside to see Yoh sprawled out on the ground snoring. He sweat-dropped and went to off to find Faust.

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Anna was sleeping peacefully , the celebration outside had seemingly finished for all the noise had stopped , but she was suddenly awoken by a thud followed by tremendous weight down on  her body. Her eyes popped open. She saw Touji lying on top of her his eyes half shut. His breath smelled heavily of alcohol.

She tried to pry him off her but she only made it worse , for he began getting all the way  on top of her. And hungrily slamming his lips against her own. Then parting …

"hmm it's been so long, but it was worth the wait. Your definitely what a guy would call for after months of no action"

he stated in a voice that sounded nothing like the one she had heard all day. something was different….

Non the less she was terrified and kept her eyes wide open.

He started to rub himself up against her and his hands began to travel her body. She stiffened and began to kick and wail.


 "GET OFF YOU PERVERT!"

He just made his weight heavier on herself. She needed to do something and fast…

 "No one leaves me halfway through the course , milady…I plan to go the entire way" she felt the bulge in his pants touching her lower stomach

She entered a state of panic, if she didn't do something, he would take her virginity giving her yet another bad memory in her life.

She tried pushing him off again.

"don't ruin it " he said before nibbling into her neck. She in return began to pound fiercely at his back . But his mouth continued to roam mercilessly down her collar bone. She felt the cleavage of her dress being ripped down the middle. And yet another perverted comment came from the mouth of the forest shaman.

"beautiful pair of bossoms you got here."

He buried his face in them. She was pounding him on the back.  He ignored it. And his hand brought up her skirt through her inner thigh . revealing her underwear.

"PLEASE DON'T!!"

"don't worry , on the contrary your gonna like this"

She desperately reached around the room for something that might help her and she was able to feel a bottle just a bit off her reach   .

As he lowered down to kiss her again, she grabbed the bottle and hit him in the head. He instantly passing out . She sighed in relief. Squirming her way from under him. And getting up. Looking for anything that might cover her shredded cleavage.  She looked fast, she needed to get moving.  So she grabbed a purplish black scarf she law laying in the ground (the scarf having  a very gipsy like touch to it). She wrapped it around her neck careful to cover her ripped cleavage. And leaned down near Touji.

"Nothing against you but I got other things to do…" she reached into his pocket triumphantly grabbing her beads. She was about to walk out of the tent and heard him groan. She looked back and for some reason felt sorry for the state he was in.

So she went back and was nice enough to cover him and pat him on the head, then heading out the tent and running as fast as she could until the camp was nothing but tiny lights.  She sighed and finally took a break.

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In the patch village.

It was exactly 4:49 A.M and Yoh was already up and at 'em.

Stretching to begin his 10 kilometer morning run.

He was doing stretching attempting to do an arc. It was weird because his back just didn't wanna go all the way, when he saw a little boy with a huge afro floating just above him.

He fell backwards from the scare.

"Wuuaahhh"

he recovered from the fall sitting up ,and rubbing his head

"Opacho??? What does Hao want now?"

Yoh 's expression turned serious.

Opacho just looked questioningly at Yoh.

"The Itako is not with you???"

"Huh??" Yoh looked completely confused.

"nevermind" the little one said walking away.

"Matte!!!! What about Anna??"

Yoh ran after the boy. Who turned into a lamb and disappeared.

There was something fishy about this. But he just got back to his stretching preparing for his run. Even though now he was more alert for any other weird occurrence.

The shaman was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't notice a certain presence that was nearing the patch viallge. …

Tan-dan-dan-dan!

I bet you all hate me for this!!!! Hauhauhau now you shall have to wait till chapter 8!!!!!!!!!

But since I'm toooo busy it wont come for like 6 months……

Hao: since when do you have a life?

Pinkz: I was kidding you freak……

Hao: oh….

Pinkz: oh come on that was at least little funny!

Hao: Your humor is worse than that Chocolust boy

Pinkz: It's chocolove you ignorant person

Hao: what did u say(spirit of fire emerges behind him)

Pinkz: (cowers away) nothing nothing…….but anyways what do you think , you got more competition that just Yoh now???

Hao: hmpph Anna would never fall for that freak….

Pinkz: ….well see…… well people remember to give me your opinion , your feed back or whatever the hell you wanna tell me about the story!!! In other words REVIEEEWWWWWW! At least 10 reviews for the next chapter…is that too much to ask??? I mean this was a really long one.

Hao: what's a  long one?

Pinkz: Shut up perv, I'm trying to talk to my public here

Hao: (starts to blaze and eyes become red) why youuuu

Pinkz: hehehe (nervously) well anyways folks see ya next chappy (runs away) ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Hao: those who dare insult me shall BURNNNNNN!!!