Pure Snow

Author's Note: Whhhheeee!!! Chapter 3! I'm so happy you guys like my fic! Oh! And I know Yoh and Anna have a rice cooker. I just wanted them to do it the old fashion way so their conversation would make since.....somehow.....oh! and I did notice that the 4kids people DO keep Lyserg's name but there's gonna be a high probability that they're gonna change the pronunciation...... ::sweatdrop:: Anyway! Chapter 3!!!

Disclaimer: give it a rest; I don't own Shaman King and I never will.

Chapter 3: I realize I'm always within a crowd.
For a second.....I could have sworn....

I could have sworn that there was a scent of cherry blossoms.....

But only for that split second.....

Anna Kyouyama stood there dumbstruck blushing lightly as Hao Asakura, Yoh Asakura's older twin brother walked upstairs to his room. After a few minutes Anna was able to shake herself out of it. She sighed and went up the creaky wooden stairs and walked down towards her room at the end of the hallway. The first door to her left was Yoh's room. She stopped and turned her head to look through the paper-like door. Anna only saw the shadow of his dresser, window, the moon, and his bed, with a lump in it. Obviously her fiancé was sound asleep. The blonde smiled and continued down the hall.

She then stopped and turned to her right to see another door, leading to Hao's room. Anna walked over to the door and put her left hand on it and tried to look through. She only saw complete darkness. The itako grinned and slowly leaned her head against Hao's door. She didn't know what attracted her to this particular room, a room of darkness and evil. She felt like a tiny piece of metal being sucked to a magnet. Soon, she slowly sank down to the wooden floor and closed her eyes and drifted into a deep slumber.

On the other side of the door, the dark twin peaked out of his room and looked around. "Hmmm....I thought I heard someone....Eh?!" Hao felt something soft, yet hard fall on his feet. He looked down and saw a girl sleeping near his feet. Her sandy blonde hair covered up her innocent sleeping face. Hao chuckled and shook his head. "Oh Anna....." He bent down and picked up the fragile girl and left his room.

He walked down the hallway a bit and turned left at Anna's room. Through the paper doors, where the moon lit up the entire room, was a clean, yet empty room. Hao slowly opened the doors and walked to Anna's futon bed. Gently, Hao laid Anna down and tucked her in. He smiled at her, thinking how cute she was asleep. He implanted a soft kiss on Anna's forehead before leaving her to sleep.

The next morning....

The blonde girl opened her eyes and sat up. She examined her area, which was identified as her room. Anna pondered how she got here seeing that see fell asleep right outside Hao's door. Then it struck her, did he carry her to her room? She shook her head.

It was probably Yoh.....

Anna kicked her covers off her and made her bed before looking out her two- story window. It was certainly a beautiful day, being a Saturday of course. She suddenly smelt something from downstairs. Was something burning? No, it was a delicious smell. Yoh must be cooking breakfast. But....would he really be up this early on a Saturday? Without questioning anymore Anna quickly took off her yukata and threw on her usual black dress.

She rushed down the stairs and led herself into the kitchen and stood at the doorway where a boy with long dark hair was at the stove. "H-Hao?" Hao turned around and smiled at Anna. "Ah, good morning Anna."

"Hao..."

"Breakfast is almost ready.....why don't you sit down...."

Anna looked at the table and saw that it was all set and neat with juice served for three. She raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know you knew how to cook...."

Hao had a sweatdrop. "Well....I had to survive if I was at the desert near Patch."

"Yeah, but I thought your minions cooked for you."

"Well.....Mari did, just to get me to notice her." Hao turned his head back and smiled brightly at her. "Her cooking wasn't bad either." He turned back around and stirred the ladle. "But usually when I'm alone I cook for myself....and Opacho."

Anna crossed her arms. "Humph, well....now there's one less thing Yoh has to do...."

Hao's eye twitched. Anna looked at the stairway, still having her arms crossed. "Where is Yoh anyway?"

"Still asleep.... I swear, never in my thousand years of life have I ever slacked off as much as he does...."

Anna couldn't help but giggle a bit. Hao joined her in the laughing. But then Anna stopped laughing.

D-Did I just laugh with Hao?

Why didn't I insult him for making fun of Yoh?

What is wrong with me?

Then, the wooden stairs creaked as Yoh came down. He rubbed his eyes and yawned. "Morning! What's for breakfast?"

"Good morning Yoh...." Anna smiled at Yoh. "I'm not sure what's for breakfast.....Hao's surprising us...."

"Oh, I see! Well, I'm sure it's something good." Yoh smiled his big goofy smile. Both Yoh and Anna sat themselves down at the table. Yoh sat on one side and Anna sat on the other. Hao served what seemed to be a feast for seven. Yoh's mouth was wide open and he started to drool. Anna herself even seemed surprised. Hao smiled and sat between the two. "Well....enjoy!"

Both Anna and Yoh took a bite of their breakfast feast. Yoh seemed to enjoy every bit of it. Even Anna loved it. But she couldn't admit it was delicious, especially if Hao cooked it. Anna just looked down and ate quietly.

A little later.....

"Boy Hao....that was GOOD!" Yoh sat back in his chair and rubbed his tummy in satisfaction. Anna stood up and said she was going out for a while. Yoh nodded as he and his brother started to clean up. Anna walked to the coat rack and grabbed her jacket, wool hat, and black boots and left the house. She walked out the Asakura boundary line and headed into town.

Anna walked past many bustling people, rushing to get from one place to the next. She walked past fashion stores, shoe stores, restaurants, company buildings, and etc. The girl eventually came across this mysterious grove of dead cherry blossom trees. The strange thing was that this grove practically separated itself from the loud, obnoxious, polluted, city.

"Pretty huh?" a familiar voice nearly whispered from behind. Anna turned around to see Hao, wearing a long black trench coat smiling at her. "......Yeah....."

There was a long silence......

"Where's Yoh?"

"He's at Funbari Hill....talking to all of his ghost friends...."

"......"

Hao smiled, "Don't worry about him.....he's a big boy, he can take care of himself. Come on, lets go...."

Anna nodded, trying not to get to close to Hao, started walking back home. Hao snickered a bit and walked just a pinch closer to Anna without her noticing. The two just walked normally, no holding hands, no blushies, no romantic-ness whats-so-ever. They looked like normal people walking together. Then, all of the sudden, Anna froze. Her eyes wide open in shock. Her breath was cut off by what she saw.

The thing she saw, a tiny thing slowly floated down past her shocked face.

That one little thing.........

A cherry blossom.....

I peer into the window of a fashion store.
ChibiLaryla: Well, there's chapter 3! It's just a little something. So glad I have so much time to make these. God I love summer vacations! Well, see ya in chapter 4!!!