By animeninjaNIPPON

We had been filming for almost two weeks now. Ryu, Ren, and Manta were now going by their American names full-time. If it weren't for Yoh's overwhelming friendliness that sometimes enabled us to get away with stuff other actors couldn't, I don't know what I would have done.

I think it was the day that Faust VIII arrived that I finally decided to have my revenge- subliminally, of course, as not to get into trouble. Faust, as you well know, uses his late wife's skeleton as his oversoul. His wife and spirit ally, Eliza, has a bullet-hole in her skull. This angered the execs (why, I'll never know).

"You can't use that skull on TV, Mr. Faust," the exec said. "You'll have to get another one."

Now Faust was never one to keep his temper, and this time was no exception. "Get another one? GET ANOTHER ONE!"

"Here." The exec took Eliza's skull out of Faust's hands and in place gave him a cheap, unmarked Halloween skull. "You can borrow this for filming."

Faust took the fake skull and threw it as hard as he could against the exec's head. There was a loud crack, and then a thud as he fell to the floor, but surprisingly, no blood.

"You don't understand how important this is to me!" he fumed as he gingerly picked up Eliza's skull and tucked it safely away under his coat. "I swear, when I become the Shaman King, I will rip off your skin, dissect your mangled body, and..." Then he continued his rant in his native German. (I could make out the words dummkopf and doppelganger from his speech.)

Strangely, Faust didn't get arrested. However, I was very angry at how insensitive 4Kids Entertainment had been in the 1 1/2 months I had been here. And I decided to do something that would piss them off without taking away from my group.

"Lights, camera, ACTION!" It was time to film the episode where I fight Yoh in the Shaman Tournament. They made us have this little argument, and I was supposed to tell Yoh to be a mascot, like a kangaroo. So I said my line, but with a twist:

"Like a kangaroo, or a... JACKASS!"

I knew the word "jackass" was considered taboo, and I also knew that the execs figured that I was purposely screwing up my lines in order to get out of saying them. Therefore, 4Kids would do the opposite and keep nay line in the show. The naughty word would reach audiences everywhere, and everyone would blame 4Kids Entertainment. I don't know whether or not it worked, but it made me feel better.

End of part five