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Hey peeps!, ok lately I've been getting some…..rather ….desperate reviews…so I decided to rush myself…I didn't know ppl would like my story that much. But im doing my best here. I had a huuuge case of writer's block for a while and I had a lot of school shit going on too. Plus my extracurricular activities. But now that I got some time to work on my stories im trying to get inspired again.

        So did ya'll watch Van Helsing??? Its not that cool, but it certainly has interesting characters. Like VAN HELSING! Hahaha and princess Anna Valerious …who reminds me a lot of our dear Anna Kyouyama! Isn't that cool??? Hehe well anyways I'll shut up now. Read and review!

Chapter 7

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        It was hot as hell. , sure she was used to it she had walked the whole way with the rest of Yoh's friends. But somehow it seemed that it was hotter than ever.

"only a few meters more"

Anna had been walking the whole night in caution not to be caught .And was now exausted. Hao probably knew already. But the good thing was that the it would be hard for him to find her due to the fact that the cabin was full of people and not only her. Not leaving any clear traces exactly of where she went. If anything he would be visiting Touji's village before realizing that she wasn't there either.

All this had been going through her mind and she noticed that she had reached the portal to the patch village. An alternate portal??? It was just a pathway to the lake in the village.This time there was no alternate door… she would have to swim.

"why is this happening to me!?" she thought annoyed at herself.

"Well no use to me now…" she said discarding the scarf on the ground.

And taking a deep breath before diving into a puddle that could come to be her watery grave.

"Any sign of her???"

Hao was over-aggravated at the situation. By now he knew that she hadn't left on her own. And her otouto couldn't have found her that easily … it wasn't him he would've known. He knew of no one who could have done it. Even with his immense power it was going to take time to trace down the person who took her.

"Kuso! Well keep looking!! If you find sign of her inorm me immediately and keep hidden , we do not want her to know she' being pursued again. "

once his disciples were out of sight , he looked down…had she run away from him after making such a promise? No matter what his mind was working with the fact that no matter what , he was going to make her yield , to make her his , to tame her to his will….it was a huge challenge but it was what made him want to go through with it even more. And the simple fact she had made that promise to him was enough reason to make him create a horrible chaos in the patch village. He wasn't about to let her break the promise.

Yoh was jogging around the outskirts of the village with his usual peaceful face plastered on. Even though under there a huge commotion was going on in his head due to all the things that had been going on lately. Yoh was never one to be alarmed in tough situations, but for some reason this time he was having a hard time keeping his mask ion. Recently the slow minded shaman had come upon a realization.

If Anna was not with Hao… then she had probably escaped. But that was what worried him..if she had escaped where would she be now?

He stopped and noticed he was near one the lake. Where the huge reflection of the great spirits appeared ever so beautifully. He turned and let his eyes graze over the beautiful sight, trying to calm his senses a bit.

He sat down against a tree and decided he would take this time in peace (which was rare) to think over what would be the best thing to do.

"Anna where you?"

Usually Yoh kept his "there's a way for everything" attitude in situations like these. But this time he was loosing it….

Where was the SURFACE!!!! She couldn't take it anymore! She had never swum like this in her life. In fact her body wasn't too accustomed to hard physical activities at all.

Holding her breath for so long was a struggle alone. Suddenly!

She saw light …she was nearing somewhere. But before she could reach the surface everything went black.

……….

Yoh was still leaned against the oak tree where he had been resting on for a few minutes now. Until he heard the sounds of bubbles…like something had just floated itself up out of the water. He looked for the source of the sound and his eyes popped out of his head to see that it was a person.

He kicked off his shoes and threw his headphones and dashed to the water. He was only knee deep in the lake when he got the body and turned it around.

It took him about a minute to register the face of who he was holding in his arms and to come to the reality that in his embrace lay a passed out , pale and ice cold Anna.

He brought her out of the water as fast as he could and lay he on the grass. She  wasn't breathing. He panicked as he tried to remember the procedure he had been taught in school of what to do in case a person is unconscious and not respirating. He re-called "mouth to mouth revival". And did not hesitate to break her lips apart and covering them with his own so that he might lend her oxygen from his own lungs.

He did it three times….nothing, he was panicking even more….tried again….still nothing .

"please don't be dead!"

he silently prayed as he took a deep breath and repeated the procedure again.

He waited a second and had a wave of brief relief invade his body at the sight of sudden revival as she violently got up bended over and coughed out all the water that was in her system. Instantly after , she turned around and met eye to eye with the familiar gaze.

She hesitated for a second as if having a hard time to register all that was happening.  And blinked back tears.

It was the first time he had seen her cry and at this his insides tightened .

"YOH!" she blurted out in between tears and unexpectedly lunged at him.

He was unbelieving for a second , and thought for that time that she was going to hit him for his inefficiency of rescuing her.  But instead she surrounded his neck with her arms and embraced him burying her head in his chest. 

Still a bit dazed from the unexpected action from Anna he wrapped his arms around her and stroked her golden locks. She had come back to him ….

They stayed that way for what seemed like hours and he broke the embrace eager to find out hwo she had gotten here in the first place.

"How did you escape Anna??"

"I didn't"

He hesitated at this answer and the thought that Hao had actually been kind enough to let her go.

"He let you go then??"

"no"

he slowly nodded and looked at her she continued to be as beautiful as before even though he had not seen her for a while , now he noticed how pretty she really was. But then he noticed the rip in her cleavage , witch looked very indecent. A pang of anger passed him as his eyebrows connected. But did his best to bring his eyes back to her face .

he was loosing his cool , what had happened after all?

As if reading his mind and knowing he was full of doubt she said

"I was re-captured by another group of shamans and escaped from there. "

"who?"

"That doesn't matter now"

as she said this again she embraced him , missing his gentle and care-free way so different from his brother .

"come on lets go back to the village so you can clean up."

From now on I'm not leaving you alone for even one second.

He thought.

They got up , Anna helped by Yoh's now muscular arms , that were there thanks to her. And made way towards the village.

"Where's Yoh? Shouldn't he have come back by now??? "

the silver haired samurai was already worrying about his master.

"Relax Amidamaru , he training so that Yoh can get back Miss. Anna"

replied Bason. 

On the other hand , Ren was sitting down with a VERY annoyed with his arms crossed and a vein popping out of his head. With Horo-Horo attempting to lecture him on something.

that morning Ren had gotten up earlier and Horo assumed he had gone out to train , so Horo just stayed in town eating and sightseeing. His sister nowhere to be found.

So he decided to leave the restaurant and take a walk around town to find her. And what did he find?? His sister walking along side that Shark! With shopping bags none the less and flirting!!

"Unneceptable!!!"

Ren refused to answer while Horo repeated the same situation in different words and angles and kept on saying that his sister was only to date normal looking people and that this would only start happening when she was 25!

"How dare you take my innocent sister on a date without consulting me??? And how dare you go without a proper chaperone??"

"we weren't on a fate spikeboy…"

"SPIKEBOY??? WHY U INSOLENT LITTLE SHARK!"

Ren took out his spear.

 "That does it!"

They both turned and saw a very pissed Pilika  Ren instantly blushed and Horo sweatdropped.

"This is no time to argue about something like that! Anna-san is back!"

Both boys just stared in daze …..

"naniiii?!?!?"

that was enough to shut them up. Meanwhile ….Yoh had taken Anna to his room and called upon Faust and Eliza to check up on her. He asked Faust to meet them downstairs when he was finished . And gathered with his group and Ren's to talk about the situation.

"So has she spoken…"

"Not yet , when Faust is done I'll go up and talk to her…but all I know is that she was captured by another group of shamans from Hao's place and from there she escaped."

"But master Yoh?? Did she say anything about Hao??" said Ryu

"Not yet"

Ren just glared for a second "What about the festival tomorrow night??"

Horo looked at him annoyedly and said "Well whatever happens your not escorting my sister."

He was bonked in the head by everyone.

And then chocolove attempted at a joke to untense the moment and got poked in the nose with Ren's spear.

When that was over. Yoh continued.

"If she's better by tomorrow I'll take her of course"

Everyone sweatdropped

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!"

screamed Ren

"Yeah Yoh, your slow to catch on!!" said Horo

"apparently slower than you" answered Ren.

The two gave each other deadly glares until Ren continued.

"What I meant is what if Hao decides to show up by surprise…maybe we should warn the judges"

"NO NEED FOR THAT!" a higher voice said.

The group looked up to see Silver just attempting to come in heroically but then tragically falling and landing on Ryu who's hair became a mess and began to cry ….

So basically the conversation continued and Ryu and Silver straightened themselves out.  Silver said  that he would inform all the judges and that they would provide extra tight security for the festivity. The others continued to talk out the situation until Faust came out.

Yoh instantly asked "So?"

Faust looked at him and smiled.

" she's  fine!!! No aggression marks …she was just dehydrated from the journey and need a little rest. "

Yoh sighed in relief

"do u think she'll be good for the festival?"

"provided she gets proper rest…yes"

"can I go see her?" he eagerly asked

"be my guest…."

And Yoh eagerly walked over to the hotel entrance and left the other dazed at the change that had gone on in Yoh regarding Anna.

Unknowingly something crawling on the rooftops of the patch village had been quietly watching and was now out of sight.

"So that's where she is?"

Hao said with his voice half with jealousy and half with relief.

Opacho nodded.

So as soon as you get your chance you go crawling right back to otouto.

No matter I'll be sure to make my appearance….

"Opacho come….we must get ready for the festival tomorrow night…."

An evil smile crossed his face.

TBC

Okey next chappy "the festival"…can ya'll guess wats gonna happen???

BUAHAHAHAHHAH

I know u all hate me….but ill do my best,

Don't worry next chappy is already half done. Considering I still need some storylines for it. So now let me do the voting pole.

Last time I asked for who should Anna be with… and I got a somewhat mixed reply. So now I ask what do u think will happen??? Good guesses now…The longer the review the faster the story comes out!!! I NEED FEEDBACK!!!

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Well

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