I wrote this after my friends and I went on a camping trip. The trip gave me an idea. What if Yoh and the rest of the gang went camping?

I don't own Shaman King.

Yoh sat in chemistry class anxiously watching the clock. His pencil tapping on the table matching the seconds' hand beat for beat.

"Would you stop that!" Manta ordered trying to carefully measure out the acid they needed for the lab. "We still have twenty minutes left."

Yoh sighed deeply with disappointment at the reminder of how much time was left. He began tapping his pencil again on the table, but quickly stopped when Manta shot him a look of death.

"I'm sorry it's just that I've been waiting for this for months."

"I know, but tapping your pencil on the table wont speed up time."

"If it was a magic pencil it would," Yoh mumbled watching his short friend add the acid to the base solution. "So did we neutralize the acid?" Yoh asked not really caring.

Manta tested the solution, "Yes we did, or should I say I did."

"Ya good," Yoh mumbled back, his eyes were again glued to the clock. Shit only five minutes had passed. Two months Yoh had been waiting for the upcoming holiday. He and his friends had planned to go on a camping trip.


The whole thing started when Yoh had been speaking with Ren on the phone.

"So what did Anna do to you when she found out you didn't clean the house?" Ren asked.

"Well since it's pointless now to train me she decided to throw me out for three days." Yoh answered, shuddering a little remembering Anna's cold stare when she had found out.

"Where are you staying then?"

"Oh, she gave me the old tent to live in. It sorta smells like cat pee. Don't ask me how that happened, I mean we don't even have a cat. Unless it was that crazy old lady's cats down the street. Have I told you about her?" Yoh was answered with a long silence on the other line. "Hello Ren are you still there?"

"Ya, so what about Anna and the tent." Ren hated how Yoh always got off subject.

"Oh right. Well anyway this old lady is like 100 years old and has like 20 cats in that little house. She chases kids who play in front of her house. She's had it out for me ever since Horo and me shaved one of her cats. Man that was so funny."

"SHUT UP ABOUT THE DAMN OLD LADY AND HER CATS, WHAT ABOUT YOU LIVING IN THE FRONT YARD!"

Yoh was silent for a second, "Oh, I just have to live in the tent for a few days. It's not that bad. It's like camping. Instead of watching out for wild animals it's Anna I watch out for."

"Camping?" Ren's voice sounded confused. "What exactly is camping?"

Yoh gasped loudly on the other end of the phone, then whispered as if what he was saying was horrible, "You never have been camping?"

"No...and why are you whispering?"

"I'm taking you camping Tao Ren if it is the last thing I do!" Yoh yelled out over the phone causing Ren to hold the receiver away from his ear.

"In a few months we have a holiday at school, we'll go then. I'll call you again to tell you what to bring." Yoh continued much quieter this time, but he sounded as if he was on the edge of giggling with joy.

"Why not tell me now?" Ren asked.

"I would but my time is running out on the phone, and I have no more money. Oh shit! Only a few seconds left. TalktoyoulaterRennexttimeicallyoui'lltellyoumoreaboutcampingandthecrazycatla dybye!"

The next thing Ren heard what the click of the phone. And he was left confused and staring at the phone.
Yoh sat daydreaming about how much fun camping was going to be. He had spoken to others and they to wanted to come. The only problem was the only way he could go was if Anna came along. True this was not happy news, but it was only fair.

Yoh glanced at the clock and almost swore when he saw ten minutes were still left. He looked down at his pencil. "Stupid non magical pencil."

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