A/N: I cant think of anything to say right now.. maths test coming up.. evil maths… so.. um.. yah.. ":) R&R PLEASE!!

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Never-Ending Sadness

Chapter 9

Training

The morning bought sunshine and the chirping of birds, I could tell that today was going to be tough.

I stepped out of bed and, despite the earliness of the day, got dressed and tidied up a bit.

There was a sharp knock on the door followed by Anna entering the room.

"Time to get up Shinzo its traini- oh... You're awake..."

"Yeah, I figured we'd get an early start."

"Good for you, now come on, I must warn you thought training under my supervision isn't just a quick jog around the block, it takes strength and determination, think ya can handle it?"

"No problem," I smiled cheerfully as I followed her down the stairs and into the garden.

Yoh stood in front of them as they stepped onto the neatly mowed lawn.

"Take it you didn't get any breakfast either huh?" He asked in a whining voice.

"No, but I don't mind, has Anna told you the news?"

"What news?" He asked curiously,

"I'm training with you!" I exclaimed proudly and happily.

"WHAT?!" As he asked these words in shock my happiness faded,

"You mean you don't want me to train with you?"

"No, no, it's not that, honest!" He comforted, "its just it's really hard... not to mention painful, I just don't want her to push you too far."

"I pushed you didn't I!" Snapped Anna, "He's training with you and that's that! Now get your weights on and help Shinzo with his! Be home by tea or else!"

With that she walked back into the house leaving us to stand there in total silence,

"Weights?" I finally asked,

"Urm… yeah, she likes to torture me a lot."

He walked to the end of the garden, picked up a heavy looking box, and dragged it back to where I was standing.

Inside there were weights of all kind, light weights, not so light weights and heavy weights.

Yoh removed some of the light weights and placed them on my arms and legs by the leather straps attached to them, then he removed some heavy ones and put them on himself.

"You ready?"

"Yeah, what do we do first?"

"Well, wait a sec, did Anna say for you to do the exact same training as me?"

"Yup."

"Ok, but if you don't think you can go on just tell me 'k?"

"Ok."

"Right, first of all we do fifty miles in the weights, when that's done I'll tell you what we do next."

We walked to the gate and stood next to a lamppost, which was probably the starting position.

The weights weren't heavy but weren't light either, they made my balance a bit unstable but it was nothing I wasn't used to.

We started at a steady jog, I could see he was used to running but was going slow for me, so I speeded up a little.

The next thing we knew it had turnt into a race and we silently agreed that whoever was still standing when we had finished would be the victor and the looser had to wash up the pots.

It was an exhausting battle of strength and soon Yoh was in the lead.

"Having a little trouble back there?" He laughed as he tried to keep up a steady pace.

As we rounded the corner we saw a bench, a bench was like a heavenly sign for us since we hardly had any time to rest.

We flopped down onto the warm seat and gasped for air; we'd been running all morning and only had five more miles to go.

After about a minute Yoh told me it was time to get going so we got up and started the long run back home.

Training was hard with Yoh, I could see he'd had a lot more experience than me and was probably a lot stronger; he'd won every race we'd had even though he wore heavier weights than me.

Although I wouldn't admit it, I was beginning to look up to Yoh as an older brother, someone who I could go to in a time of need or to just muck about with, I'd always wanted an older brother, someone to actually care what happened to me and was always there when I needed him, Yoh was beginning to be that person.

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