A/N: Hi, folks! Thanks to all that reviewed my pitiful little attempt at humor. I'm very sorry for not updating more quickly. I have a severe case of writer's block.

I have changed the pairing KannaXYoh to AnnaXYoh. I have also realized that I have been spelling Nichrome's name wrong. Not surprising, ne?

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Kiyuu-Chan (Yeah! Go Macchi!), sakura-star69 (Yup! I've changed it! Thanks for reviewing twice!), Darkie the Neko (Sorry for not updating sooner! I'm sorry, which group of people are you talking about?), Phaea (Thanks!!! This is nothing, compared to your stories though!), bro (Thanks Roro. I can't really do humor though, if you catch my drift.).

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Chapter 2

Mari and I started on "the journey to friendship." I'm so poetic. Mari is actually pretty normal once you get her talking. She likes boys, violence and eyeliner. Cool, huh? We were talking about how we should go shopping at Miss Sixty after school when Mari said:

"Isn't that the boy Macchi was with?"

I turned around and glanced at where Mari was pointing and I saw Hao. Or so I though.

IT WAS ACTUALLY A DEMON IN DISGUISE!!! Dun dun dun!

Hahaha...I'm just teasin'...

I shouted "Hey Hao!!!" at the top of my lungs, jumped up, and pulled him over. Hao looked surprised and confused but I sort of ignored that and restarted my blabbing.

"Cheating on me, huh, Yoh?"

Huh? Is someone talking to us? The social outcasts?

I grinned and moved my eyes lazily across the cafeteria to see a blond girl with Ice Queen eyes striding toward us. To my surprise,Hao cowered in his seat and gulped "Of course not, Anna!!!"

Anna? Yoh? Was she talking about Hao? This is SO a mistake...Oh! Maybe something heavy fell on Hao's head in the last sixty minutes!

Satisfied with the conclusion I reached, I started smartly, "Look sweetheart, ya got the wrong guy. This is MY buddy Hao Asakura."

The girl's eyes narrowed and Hao's eyes popped open wide. Sorta like Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I've always loved that movie.

"HAO??? YOU...YOU...YOU MEAN MY TWIN IS HERE?" Mr. Hao-look-alike started twitching and sort of spazzing out. In the midst of the spazzing, I felt a surge, like a shock of electricity. My own eyes opened wide. I eyed the boy's necklace (that I had just noticed.) That guy's a shaman!

And he was most definitely not Hao. I smelled almost no blood upon him. Upon? What kind of person uses the word "upon" when talking to herself? Ugh! Must focus...I've made an important discovery! This MUST be Hao's brother!!!

Duh.

Mari looked more confused than she usually did but I stuck out my hand. The Icy blond glared at it so I shrugged and retracted it.

"Oh...you must be Hao's brother, Yoh Asakura!!! He never told me you guys were twins...Anyhow..." Less than 10 seconds and I was ready to make friends. I'm so friendly.

"I can't believe my evil twin is here...Oh yeah, who are you again?" Yoh was still blubbering...

"-I'm Macchi and that's Mari...we're going shopping on Saturday. Wanna come?" And I was still babbling.

"-Don't you know what he is? MURDERER!!! HE'S A MURDERER!"

I frowned. "I have no idea what you're talking about," I stated. Crossing my fingers at the same time.

"Mari is confused...and bored..." Mari half-droned, half-complained.

By this time, Yoh Asakura had calmed down significantly. I studied him. He was pretty cute but the way he moved and talked was no way like Hao. His black eyes were little-boy-like and friendly, and he had shorter, chocolate-colored hair. The corners of his mouth turned down, only slightly.

"I'm sorry, Macchi. You've been tricked. Hao is a murderer. We won't allow you to go with him anymore," he told me firmly.

He said all this in a perfectly calm tone. Completely different from the panicking, twitching boy a few seconds ago. His voice had a lazy, almost bored edge. Despite that, his warning had been sincere.

"Oh, Hao didn't trick me. I chose to go with him." I threw a reckless grin at him. Then I mentally smacked myself. Bad move, Macchi.

My thoughts were churning inside my head. They knew I was with Hao. And apparently, they hated...ehhh disliked Hao.

Hao had told me Yoh had a Itako fiancée. Anna must be it. I wondered if they were going to attack me.If Yoh was anywhere near as strong as Hao, I knew I had no chance of beating him, especially with Anna at his side.

Then Yoh's eyebrows scrunched together (in an adorable manner, I might add) and he said, "You're with Hao?" He glanced toward Anna. She just replied:

"Apparently. So kill her." Gulp. Not good. Yoh flashed Anna a are-you-sure look and me an apologetic look. Mari looked from Anna to Yoh, then to me. Her face clearly read: What the hell is going on?

Quickly, I decided to tell them the truth. Well, the half-truth anyway. I began in a fake worried, shocked, pitiful tone, "No! It's not like that! I can explain if you want." I topped off the plea with an angelic, please-forgive-us smile.

Anna was doubtful but Yoh convinced her :

"Relax, Anna! We can try listening to her," he persuaded.

"Alright, I guess. Besides, there's no way she could beat us; this girl must be one of Hao's lackeys. She can't be strong at all," Anna agreed.

I was stung at the insult but held my tongue. You have no idea, I pouted in my head.

Whew, at least I had passed through the line of fire. Insults are no way as painful as...well...pain.

"No, Macchi is going to fight you. And I will help."

Passed the line of fire? NOT.

We all looked up to see who was speaking. I was mentally strangling the speaker. I was this close to being let off the hook! Just one more minute and I would've been done with my half-true confession. But nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Someone had to ruin it for me. I looked up and saw...

The girl with the blue hair I had seen about twenty minutes ago.

Before I had a chance to protest, the bluenette had dragged me and Mari outside, and Anna had dragged Yoh.

Anna looked superbly bored and asked us if we really wanted to fight them. Because if we did, we'd get torn to pieces. Those were her oh-so-comforting, exact words.

I said no (understandably) but the bluenette said yes.

Guess what? She won.

Anna immediately got into a battle stance and poked a reluctant Yoh into doing the same thing.

"AMIDAMARU! INTEGRATE WITH HARUSAME!" Yoh yelled. A flaming blue ball zipped through the air and pushed forcefully into the sword Yoh had suddenly pulled out.

Oh my...that sword was HUGE! Huge swords intimidated me...I almost fainted. But how idiotic would that look? Instead, I settled for gawking while the bluenette calmly stated, "Ashcroft. Oversoul."

"Excuse me? My name is Macchi." I corrected.

"I know. And my name is Kanna," she replied. I was just about to ask her why she just said "Ashcroft" out of the blue, when the ground started trembling.

And you know why it was trembling?

BECAUSE THIS HUGE SUIT OF ARMOR RIPPED THROUGH THE GROUND!

"AHHH!!! APOCALYPSE!!!" I screamed, latching on to Mari's leg.

And you know what Mari did? She merely raised her doll.

But the doll did something much more exciting. It started shooting at Anna. The doll.

Shooting at Anna.

Anna dodged the silver bullets expertly but they locked onto her furyoku and sent her into a display of acrobatics. Clap, clap for Anna.

Then something hit me. Not literally.

MARI WAS A SHAMAN!

I stared hard at her. Her green eyes were glowing so bright, they made me dizzy. She had a sadistic smile on. I opened my mouth but words wouldn't come. I felt a burst of heat...

...flames...

Hao.

The last thing I thought before drifting into a nice, soft, velvety darkness was I must seem so pathetic. Fainting just because my new best friend was acting insane.

Good night, Mommy.

TBC

A/N: Sorry that was short AND it sucked. Please review anyway? You'll get a cookie.