While you were sleeping

part 2 get out of my closet!

Summary: Anna by chance saves her prince charming from being throttled over by an oncoming train on Christmas day itself. She gets mistaken as his secret fiancée and gets accepted quickly by his family, something she never had. Pretending as his fiancée, she falls deeper in love with her comatose prince charming, and falls deeper into lie.

Yoh x Anna x Hao

Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King. : P

Finally the tiring day has passed. At quarter past ten, I'm back to my shabby apartment. Closing the door behind me, I removed my shoes and placed them nicely in my shoe cabinet, even though I'm tempted to just throw them in a heap in a corner. No point in making things even messier for myself, I thought.

'Meow!' I spun around to face my favourite cat, Chocolove.

'Why hello there! Have you been a good kitty today? I most certainly you have!' I said darkly as I picked him, remembering what he had once done to my curtains. By the time I came home, the fabric was mostly in shreds. I carried Chocolove in my arms and was about to sink into the sofa when I heard a small shuffle coming from my room.

I dropped my cat and moved quickly to the kitchen to grab a piece of equipment to aid. Armed with a frying pan standing outside my door, I took a deep breath and charged in with my pan high above my head ready to strike.

'Hang on a minute! Don't hurt me! ARRRRRGGGGgGHHHHHHH!' the intruder screamed.

Too late. I already whacked my pan right smack on the head. I opened my eyes to see a swirly-eyed RYU with a nasty bruise on his forehead slumped in my closet. -sweatdrops- Oh! So it was just him. I thought my house had been broken into.

'Hey Ryu! Wake up now and get out of my closet this instant!' I was annoyed. I do not understand why he has to sneak into my house every other time to play around my closet, especially trying on my shoes. He was still out cold. Gathering strength I have left, I grabbed him by his collar and delivered my specialty left-handed slap.

'WHACK!' I was sure that there was a slight echo resounding in my apartment.

Slowly Ryu opened his eyes to see a stony me facing him. 'The slap always works on reviving him.' I thought with amusement.

'Welcome home Anna-san! How was your lovely day?' Ryu sprung up and tried to deliver a hug. Too bad for him that my reflexes kicked in, before I could stop myself I gave him another tight slap which sent him into the wall. I thought I knocked him out again when he jumped up and dusted himself. That guy has amazing recovery ability!

'I see that you are still as lively as every day, Anna-san!' Ryu replied cheerfully with pink fluffy hearts popping out of nowhere. 'I guess you must be hungry! Let me make you something tasty. Give me a mo! I'll be right back!' he grabbed the frying pan out of my hand and whistled to my kitchen.

Ryu, my annoying neighbour, yet he seems to be the closest thing to a friend that I have. He is forever raiding my closet, treating my place as his playground. But he is a bit of a Casanova, always flirting around trying to pick up pretty girls as arm candy. He ever tried that on me, but failed miserably. Guess I was his only failure to date. Since then, he has given up on me but that does not stop him from annoying the hell out of me. But he is a nice guy generally speaking. He is my confidante.

I was still in deep thought when Ryu popped out of the kitchen with two piping hot dishes in his hand. Did I mention that Ryu happens to be a fantastic cook who owns his own café? His cooking is simply out of this world.

'Here you go, Anna-san! Ryu no specialty, meatball spaghetti! Itadakimasu'

'So Anna-san, you managed to see your prince charming today?' Ryu asked through slurps.

'Yep! He still looks just as great as every day!' I replied as I recalled his every little detail.

'Just how does he look like? I really wanna know just what it is about him that makes him so much more gorgeous than me! I too am gorgeous you know!' A dashing smile flashed on Ryu's chiseled face. I almost choked on my mouthful of spaghetti, not meaning to be rude though.

'Well, he has these really mesmerizing brown eyes, this confidant air around him, and really beautiful brown hair. And of course, the killer smile.' I can't help but gush all about him. I felt my cheeks getting warmer and I'm sure I was blushing.

'OOOOOO Anna-san is blushing! You are so cute!' Ryu exclaims with hearts popping out of nowhere again. I simply sweatdropped. Ryu has this fetish for cute stuff. I was getting flustered and was about to slam him into the wall when he suddenly took out three boxes from behind him and placed it on the floor just next to me. There was a big box, as tall as I am, a medium box about half my size and a small parcel. I was stunned beyond words.

'Ryu-san? All these for me?' I asked blankly as I watched him picked up our empty dishes and deposit them into my sink.

'Yep they are all for you but you gotta open them in sequence. From biggest to smallest.'

'But why? Why are you doing this for me? Giving me presents for no reason?' I simply don't get it.

'Silly Anna-san.' Ryu gave a hearty chuckle and headed for the door. He looked at my clock. It says one minute to twelve.

Just before closing the door, he wished me good night and 'Merry Christmas, Anna-san.' At the moment the clock struck twelve.