This Twist in Fate

Chapter Four

A/N: Gah, sorry I had lots to do but I'm back and hoping I got some readers left. Heh well Right where we left off then shall we?

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Her eyes gently fluttered open, she propped herself up on her elbows and wiped the sleepiness from her eyes.

'Where am I again?' She peered out the window and looked out into the rain.

'Oh yeah,' recalling the past events. 'this hell hole.'

She began to tame threads of her blonde hair back into order slowly combing through the dampness.

"I know you're there, no use hiding." She stated dryly, smoothing out the creases on her black dress that had formed in her slumber.

"Heh.." A rather large ghost appeared, scratching the back of his head awkwardly.

"You didn't tell Yoh did you?" she shot a piercing glare.

"No." he stated and left the awkward atmosphere to Anna and her thoughts.

'I have a feeling I'm gonna have a harder time getting rid of this one.'

She tried to shake herself back into sleep.

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Yoh and Horo Horo sat outside on the porch.

"So what do you think about your newest fiancee?" Horo Horo amused himself as he laid his head back on his arms staring at the rain.

"Well, she's not like the rest of them." Yoh replied.

'I guess I just got to figure out if that's a good thing or not'

"You do realize that if Hao's after her, he'll be doing some pretty dirty stuff to get what he wants." Horo glanced at Yoh.

"Yea,I -" Yoh's eyes came alert and he stood up.

"What's going on?" Horo looked up at his friend in confusion.

"He's coming." Yoh whirled around and dashed inside, Horo close behind.

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Anna sat in an upright position.

'He's back! But where?!'

She sensed the familiar presence of a rather presumptuous shaman close by.

Her brow furrowed and she began to sweat, she involuntarily clenched her hand bunching a ball of the blanket into a fist, hiding her 1080 rosary beads.

"Miss me?" he whispered into her ear, and she stiffened.

'You're not going to make a fool of me twice!' she tossed her beads towards him.

He didn't seem to make any effort in moving, instead he swiftly grabbed the beads flung towards him and yanked on them.

Holding onto the other end, Anna surprised by Hao stopping the beads and the sudden jolt of movement fell onto the floor.

She refused to let go of her beads, as Hao tugged on them from the other end.

"I guess we'll just have to do it the hard way." Hao smirked as he strided towards the Itako on the floor.

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Yoh checked the rooms for Hao, and stopped as he heard a large thud fall onto the floor somewhere in the house.

He dashed towards the room Anna was in.

Sliding the door open violently he stopped and stood back.

Horo Horo ran into Yoh's back.

"Yoh what's the big I-"

He stopped. All over the room all that could be seen was a violent web of a beaded rosary.

"What the hell.. Anna?" Yoh slowly began weaving his way through the beaded web towards a glimpse of blonde hair.

He stopped when he reached her, she looked like some helpless insect caught prey to a spiders web.

"Anna.." he looked up at her.

Both arms were tied beind her back hanging from the ceiling fan her left leg was tied down to a lamp nearby and her right leg chained to the door know of a door.

And the final touch to Hao's masterpiece, a gag for her mouth with his signature.

"Horo, get over here, I need your help." Yoh gestured to the Ainu not far behind him.

Yoh gently eased the gag from Anna's lips. She immediately spat out a wad of paper into Yoh's face.

"You deserved that." Anna glared at him with cold eyes.

He gave a goofy grin and scratched the back of his head.

"Yea I probably did."

Horo came over, and stared at her.

"Sheesh. You must've got him pretty pissed." The Ainu chuckled looking up at the dangling Anna.

"Why you- " she began cursing at him.

Horo turned back towards Yoh and whispered.

"She looked better with the gag on."

A/N: Retarded chapter? Sorry I just wanted to try something @_@ well the next one will be sooner and better! Promise!