When We Were Young
By: Neko
Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King... If I did, there would no way in hell I would let 4kids dub it.
Summary: It was a relationship everyone questioned. Why are Anna and Yoh still together? Yoh or Anna could easily break their engagement but they didn't. Memories keep coming back... When they first met... When they first kissed... When they found out that they were engaged... Could it be possible that Anna and Yoh really have feelings for each other?
Note: This is not really related the anime much. I changed the whole thing so Yoh didn't meet Amidamaru when he was 14. He met him when he was in the Asakura estate, still training to become a shaman. And I don't think they told you how Anna and Yoh met in the end of the anime... I haven't been able to watch past episode 57 so I don't really know what happens so just bare with me ok? If they did show you how they met, screw it lol. This is my fanfic remember?
Chapter 1: When We First Met
"After that, I want a 30 mile jog and after that, you have a 300 pound weight to lift." Anna commanded with her arms folded. "Manta, the wash room needs to be clean and spotless when I go in there. Do you understand me?" The little boy nodded and sighed. It was summer vacation... Where you get to relax and go on vacation and not have to work... Yet here he was... Working for a certain Itako.
"Now get busy or else there will be no lunch for you all." Anna turned and walked out of the room. Everyone sighed.
"Hey Yoh. Why do you even bother with her?" Horo-Horo looked at his brown haired friend. "I mean, she treats you like dirt." Yoh smiled sheepishly and puts his arms behind his head.
"It's complicated Horo." Yoh said as he looked up at the clear blue sky. Ren folded his arms and shook his head with pity.
"He is scared of her." He simply told them. "He is scared that if he breaks their engagement, she might get mad and kill him."
"Not really Ren." Yoh said scratching his head. Horo-Horo sighed.
"I don't get you. I really don't." He muttered.
"Are you still standing there talking?" Anna's strict voice boomed into the room. "I better not catch you taking a nap Yoh!"
"Hai!" They all answered and started on their run.
"Gomen Yoh-Kun. I have chores to finish up so I can't run with you." Manta looked up at Yoh with a small sorry smile.
"That's ok. We can run without you today." Yoh told him with a wide grin. "Good luck with Anna." He yelled at he and the others ran off. Manta waved them goodbye and turned to start his chores.
"Ah! I need a nap." Yoh said lazily as he lay down on the grass for a break from running.
"You are so weak." Ran muttered walking towards Yoh. "Where is that other moron anyway?"
"Must... Need... Rest!" Horo-Horo yelled out breathlessly as he stumbled towards them and toppled over them.
"Kisama!" Ren yelled and pushed Horo-Horo off him. "Don't touch me!"
"It's not my problem! I just ran 20 miles!" Horo-Horo shot back. "You would be tired too you know." Ren chuckled and folded his arms.
"Anna told us to run 30 miles idiot." He told Horo who's mouth fell open.
"30 miles!" Horo-Horo looked at Yoh who nodded.
"Yup. Sorry Horo. You still got 10 more miles to run." he told his blue haired friend and closed his eyes for a nap. Horo-Horo sighed.
"I give up." He muttered. "I'm going home."
"You ran away and stayed here because you were scared of Pirika and now you want to go back?" Ren asked in a rather teasing tone. Horo-Horo froze.
"10 more miles isn't that much." He said as he started to run off. Yoh chuckled a bit.
"Poor Horo. He is trying so hard." He said with a yarn. Ren shook his head.
"He is weak. He can't handle the pressure." He said with sympathy. Yoh smiled, his eyes still closed.
"Anna's training is tough." He told Ren. "Even you said it."
"I never said that!" He yelled.
"Well not exactly, but you know what I mean." Yoh said lazily and yarned again. Ren smirked as he took a seat next to Yoh under the tree and sighed. "You see. You are tired too." Ren's face turned a bit pink.
"I am not! I am Tao Ren! Little training like this is nothing to me." He yelled out. Yoh let out a small lazy chuckle.
"But even Tao's have their limits Ren. Even you know that." Ren looked at the lazy Asakura boy who still had his eyes closed, enjoying the shade and the warm summer breeze through brushing his hair. How he can be so calm and carefree, he didn't know but Ren did know that Yoh was always right. But still, being Ren, he never likes to be corrected or proven wrong... Not to mention stubborn.
"Not me." He muttered. "How did you end up meeting her anyway?"
"Anna?" Ren nodded.
"I'd rather not tell you my painful experience." Yoh muttered as he let sleep over take him.
Ren looked up at the sky and closed his eyes, as he too, decided to take a short nap.
Flashback
Young Asakura Yoh skipped out the door and ran off, exploring the yard of the Asakura manor. He was a curious little boy and just about everything catches his eyes. He skipped off looking at this and that when suddenly a red piece of cloth caught his eyes. He blinked and stared at it. He had never seen that there before. He walked towards it and gave it a yank.
"Hey!" Someone yelled out. Yoh jumped and backed away. Who just yelled at him? "Hey you. What's the big idea pulling on my bandana like that?" Yoh looked up and noticed a girl standing in front of him. He face didn't look happy but she was definitely cute. Her shoulder length blond hair brushed in front of her eyes as she glared at him. A red cloth like bandana was tied around her head. If only she smiled, she would look like a perfect Barbie doll. "Well?" Ok. Forget Barbie doll. Her voice may sound young and some-what childish since she did look like a 5 year old but with the maturity and sternness in her voice, she really sounded... scary. "Can you even speak?"
"Y-Yah I can..." Yoh looked at her. The little girl folded her arms, making her look extremely adorable.
"Then answer me." She demanded. "Why did you do that?"
"H-Hey sorry. I didn't know ok." Yoh said waving his hands in defeat. "I was just wondering what it was that's all."
"Well you didn't have to yank it." She yelled as she looked at Yoh with a glare. "Just who are you anyway?"
"I'm Yoh. Asakura Yoh." He told her grinning madly. "And you are?" The girl with blond hair studied him for a second before answering.
"Kyoyama Anna." She told him.
"Anna huh?" Yoh got up and studied her. "You are really cute you know that? You look like a Barbie doll except that you have shorter hair." Anna's face turned into a light shade of pink as she lifted her hand and smacked Yoh in the face.
"Ow!" Yoh yelled as he rubbed his sore cheeks. "That hurts."
"That was supposed to hurt you idiot." Anna said glaring hard at him. "Call me cute again and you will wish that you were never born." Yoh sniffed. This girl was definitely mean.
"And don't say I look like a Barbie girl. I hate Barbie." Anna's cold voice snapped him back out of his thoughts.
"You hate Barbie?" Yoh asked with wide eyes. "But all the girls love Barbie!"
"Well I don't." Anna snot back with a glare of death.
Yoh sniffed again. He didn't really like this girl... She was way too abusive. But either way, he still thought she was cute. Anna seems to have read his thought or something because she smacked him again.
"Why did you do that again?" Yoh asked with another sniff and his eyes started to turn big and round, as if he was about to cry. Anna gave him a death glare.
"I told you not to say that I am cute." She yelled at him. Yoh blinked, his hand still rubbing his reddened sore cheek.
"But I didn't even say anything." He told her.
"But you thought it." She told him firmly.
"But how would you know?" Yoh asked her.
"I am an itako. I can hear your thoughts." She told him, her glare never left him.
"Cool!" Yoh's eyes sparkled. "Do you think you can teach me how to read minds?"
"It can't be taught." She simply told him. Yoh frowned.
"No fair." He muttered folding his arms. "So why are you here?"
"I am a new student here." Anna told him. "From now on, I will be training here." Yoh's face lit up.
"Cool! I get a new buddy to hang out with!" Yoh yelled jumping up and down.
"I am not your buddy Yoh. And I am here to study as an apprentice not baby sit you." Anna told him.
"Apprentice?" Yoh blinked. "We don't need apprentices."
"Shows how much you know." Anna turned and walked away.
"Hey! Wait up!" Yoh ran after her. "So who is going to be teaching you?"
"Why are you so annoying?" Anna snapped at him. Yoh shrugged and smiled.
"Is that bad?" He asked her.
"Oh course." Anna muttered but didn't look at him. Instead, she just kept walking.
"So who is going to train you?" Yoh was very curious about this new apprentice.
"Kino-Sama." Anna told him. Yoh's mouth fell open.
"Baa-San? She didn't say anything to me..." He muttered. He thought back and finally remembered that she had said something to him earlier but he fell asleep so he didn't' hear any of it until the part where she smacked her cane on him to wake him up. Yoh rubbed the back of his head. It still ached.
Anna opened the door to the manor and walked in. Yoh quickly followed after her like a baby duck following its mother. Anna walked down the hall and turned, walking into a room. Yoh immediately followed her inside. He was of course curious on where she was going... Then again, there was the quote, curiosity kills the cat...
SLAP
"GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" Anna yelled throwing Yoh out of her room. Yoh hit the wall and landed on the floor of the hallway with the funniest expression on his face. He shook his head and slowly got up.
"Ah, my aching back!" Yoh sniffed. "Now I have to walk around the place with a cane just like Baa-San." He chuckled. It wouldn't be that bad. He had always wanted to see how it was walking with a cane the way his grandma does. Yoh walked outside to get a stick to use as a cane. He looked here and there but the place was bare of tree trunks and sticks. He finally found a pretty decent one and decided to use it as his cane. He leaned against it and thought about the position Kino was in whenever she walks with her cane. He remembered that her back was hunched over. Yoh nodded and hunched his back and started walking, moving the cane in front of him.
"Hey! This is pretty fun!" He laughed as he continued mocking his grandmother.
"Mock me do you?" Yoh froze but before he could turn around and apologize, Kino's cane made connection to his back and Yoh's face made connection to the grass. "Now you will really know how it feels to walk the way I do." Yoh sniffed and sat up in pain.
"B-Baa-San..." He sniffed as his eyes got huge and round.
"Y-You-Sama!" Little Tamao gasped and stumbled over to him. She was still young so she couldn't really run or say Yoh's name correctly. Yoh sniffed as his eyes began to water. Kino smacked him pretty hard. Even harder then Anna had when she smacked him.
"A-Are you K?" She asked as tears started to fall out of Yoh's eyes.
"I should punish you for mocking me." Kino said in a low voice. Yoh sniffed as more tears game out.
"Kino-Sama." They all looked up and saw Anna standing in front of them, her itako beads now around her neck. "Gomen, I threw Yoh out of my room and cause his back to ache so he had to walk around with a cane." Kino stared at Anna for a second.
"I see." She muttered.
"It won't happen again." Anna told her. Kino nodded.
"You are my very first student and I trust that you will not lie to me Anna." She said as she turned and walked away. "Come Anna. Your training begins now." Anna nodded.
"Hai." She said in an obeying voice and looked at Yoh who sniffed and whipped away his tears. What a crybaby.
"S-Sank You Anna." Yoh said with a smile. "You are the best buddy anyone could have. You and Tamao-Chan." Tamao's face turned beat red. Anna gave Yoh a glare.
"Next time you won't be so lucky." She muttered as she walked pass them.
Yoh and Tamao watched her walked away in silence. A few minutes later, Yoh sighed.
"Y-You-Sama daijoubu?" Yoh who smiled at Tamao.
"Ah, Daijoubu." He told her grinning. "My back just hurts from Baa-San's cane attack." Tamao helped him up and helped him walk to his room where he laid in bed and thought about how Anna saved him from death today. A large grinning smile appeared on his face. Maybe there was a chance after all.
End Of Flashback!
"Tadaima" Tamao closed the front door as she removed her shoes and stepped inside. "I brought the groceries you asked me to buy." There was no reply. Tamao walked to the kitchen and placed the bags of groceries down on the table. She looked up at the clock. It was 2:36 which means it was lunch time for Yoh. Tamao smiled as she walked to the stove to cook up a meal for him and his friends. She paused and walked to the living room. She forgot to ask Anna what she wanted to eat.
Tamao slid open the living room door and her mouth fell open at the sight in front of her. Poor Konchi and Ponchi were forced into labor while Anna calmly watched TV. Ponchi fanned her while Konchi was busy dusting and cleaning the window.
"A-Anna-Sama..." Tamao was pretty much speechless. Anna had everyone working hard labor while she was being treated as a queen. Even Yoh and his friends had to go train. Sometimes Tamao wonders how Anna could stay in such good shape by just laying on the floor and watching TV all day. "It is close to lunch time. What would you like?"
"The usual." Anna told her without turning her head.
"H-Hai." Tamao nodded and turned to walk out the room. Before she closed the door, she herd Anna yelled at Ponchi.
"Fan faster or else!" She warned him. "I am hot! Konchi, get me a snow cone or something."
"Hai, Anna-Hine-sama." Tamao's spirits replied.
Ok. My... new fanfic... Well it's not as good as Follow The Stars but it will do. This one isn't that bad though. It's quiet funny I think. Poor Yoh... he was abused so much! So what did you think about the flashback when Anna and Yoh met? Good? Bad? Stupid? Reviews please!
