A/N: Sorry I took so long to update, but there were too many problems on the way of adding more chapters to my fanfictions. But here is chapter Five! Also, note that the day in this chapter is of no significance whatsoever. It is not an Important Day!

Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King or any of the characters! SO there!!!!

Chapter Five:

The sound of locks unlocking filled the 'empty' house. The house is dark when Yoh enters, it seems that no one is home. It's for the better, Yoh thinks to himself, I do need some time alone…but how long will it be like this? He shakes his head arguing with himself, I don't need to think about this yet, maybe later.

Then he walks into the supposedly 'empty' and dark living room. Using one hand he flipped the switch so that the lights turn on and…

"SURPRISE!" A couple of people cried!

"Happy Birthday Yoh!" Must be Ryu getting drunk again.

"Merry New Year Everyone!" Even Ren? What is the world coming to?

Then there was more noise and clapping. No one actually paid enough attention on Yoh that they didn't notice that he was trying to say something.

"Just wait a minute here-…"

"Congratulations on getting that law degree Yoh!" Apparently some people were not listening to him and drunk as well. Yoh could feel his anger coming out. Not that he wanted to feel angry, he wanted very very much to be happy, but he couldn't feel anything but numbness and a growing headache.

"Can you guys please listen to me, I…"

There was some more noise and then someone turned on a radio or something and then some rap music blasted throughout the whole house, which Yoh found extremely offending.

"Alright! Out! Everyone OUT!" Two things happened at the same time when Yoh yelled:

Someone drunk, who looked amazingly like Tamao, knocked over a vase as she, or he (yeah right), was falling down of drunkenness.

Anna came out with a cake, which she has baked herself.

Hearing Yoh's unmistakenable shout, everyone was and became silent. One or two of the party members actually looked towards Yoh/and or Anna for an explanation of what was happening.

Anna, herself, was trying to brush off that cake she dropped onto herself when she heard Yoh scream. Not that it did any good.

Manta was the one who actually found the courage to speak.

"But Yoh, we are all here for you. Is there something wrong?"

"Is there something wrong?" It is so simple a phrase, but somehow it causes Yoh to feel a rush of even more sadness and anger. "Is something wrong?" Yoh repeated, for sanity's sake. "Of course, there is something wrong! What would not be wrong? Everything is wrong!!!"

Everyone looked surprised that calm, happy-go-lucky Yoh could be so cruel, but besides that they were worried that Yoh was having hysterics. Because that was not regular 'Yoh' behavior. So they left, one by one out the door. Those that were drunk were carried by others. Everyone huddled out of the house as fast as they could and hoped that Anna would be able to solve whatever that was going on.

Of course, even Anna didn't know what to do. So she tried to do what was normal to her, yell at him.

"Yoh! I know that your friends are a bit of an annoyance sometimes, but that doesn't give you the right to yell at them when they want what is best for you. They all came here for you, and you shooed them away as if they were noisy rodents. I know something is wrong with you. Can't you tell me what your problem is???"

He didn't answer her. "Yoh? Yoh!" She yelled the second word because he dropped down in a dead faint, as if he too were drunk. She caught him before he fell to the ground, but she couldn't hold him up so she also slid onto the ground with his head on her lap.

She knows that he's unconscious so she takes this as an advantage to talk to him, without him yelling at her. "Funny, as it's always me that was yelling at you. Now it's the other way around," she strokes his head and hair, then pecks a kiss on his forehead, "Yoh, I know you have a lot on your mind right now, but you know you can always tell me how you feel, I would like to know. I would love to know. I would also want to know what you are thinking. I want to know if you hate me, or…or if you don't. Especially… especially since…" she mouthed the words: I love you.

Then she leaves him on the floor and turns into the hall where the phone is hoping that Faust had already arrived home and that he would know what to do with Yoh. She knew that whatever it takes, she was going to help him.

What she didn't know was that Yoh, although unconscious, heard her every word, except for the last three, and that there was a tear rolling down his cheek.

End of Chapter

A/N: So… this chapter was kind of long, right? Well long according to the chapters that I usually do… So please review! And if you liked this fic, you might also like my other one, Crash and Burn. Yes, I am promoting my fics!