A/N: wow it feels so funny to be writing this after such a long time… well for me that is… I had/ still have a serious case of writer's block, but since it's break, I am going to try and write as much as I can. SO on with this story.
Disclaimer: (you'd think I would come up with something funny already but no…) so Shaman King is not owned by me…
Chapter Four:
A ring penetrated the nice silence in my office.
My mouth breaks out with a noise that I would say to be a sigh. After that tiring dinner with Yoh, I don't think I can take anything worse.
Well like my day could get any worse…
"Hello. Anna Kyoyama speaking. What do you want? Er… I mean this is Anna's Itako Agency."
"Um… This is Ben."
"Ben?" Who is that and why is he disturbing my rest?"
"Yes, Ben… I called you to deal with the ghosts at school?"
Oh that Ben.
I must have said that outloud because he made this weird coughing noise.
"Well uh yes… I would like to say that you did a good job in breaking into the school and playing as the students but you still haven't gotten rid of any spirits yet."
"Hey, it's the first day what could I do?"
He mumbled something on the receiver, but I could catch the words.
"On his first day, the Shaman King had already gotten rid of at least 30."
"The Shaman King!"
"What?" "Huh?" "How?"
My response to his remark was a mix of those four expressions.
The rest of the conversation breezed by in a flash and ended with me putting down the receiver slowly.
The Shaman King is in the tournament also? Did I hear of this before? Did I pay attention at all to what has happened in the past few days at all?
Okay. I didn't want to admit it but with the Shaman King? The tournament is not gonna be that easy, I'm telling you.
Because a guy doesn't get to be the King of anything unless he's good.
Even the King of toilets has to be specially gifted with the restrooms to be king.
On the other hand…
If I beat the Shaman King…
I would be the one who would get tons and tons of business, and fame and glory, not to mention money that would last us for years. And then he'll be the one who's bankrupt and I'll laugh when I see him saving kittens from trees for chump-change.
But that problem with Yoh Asakura however…
Having pizza with Yoh Asakura was not as easy as one would like to think.
Especially when it is a pizza buffet.
Flashback
"Hey stop right there! That Pizza is mine! Cool it is shaped like a cloud!"
I never knew (as I'm sure that no one else did) That Yoh Asakura was such a big eater. He piled pizza on pizza on pizza. Thank God this is a buffet.
"I know what our team mascot should be now!"
"If you are going to say what I think that you are going to say, then you are in for some serious…"
"A Pizza!"
My hand went up automatically to cover my forehead and to act as a buffer for my growing headache.
"You can make us matching pizza shirts, like the ones they wear to bowling!"
In the end I only ate three pieces of pizza even though it free for all. Yoh wanted to walk me home, which I definitely tried to decline. He seemed to be fine with it.
I walked a block until I felt a presence behind me. And guess who it was.
"That's called stalking you know." My voice pierced through the dark stillness in the air.
"How'd you know I was following you?" Yoh answered crouched behind a postal box.
"I'd think I would know since the trees seemed to be moving more than usual and the fact that your shoes…"
I was going to say "…makes a lot of noise," But something appeared right behind me. Something powerful-like.
The beads around my neck were immediately swung out. When I turned around, I saw absolutely nothing.
Well except for Yoh Asakura and a (I suppose it was his) sword.
I didn't know that he had a sword, much less used one.
Can I be more obvious to say that Yoh Asakura may be a pain in the derriere, but for him to get rid of a spirit with such speed; I know I shouldn't underestimate him.
End of Chapter
A/N: I would lie and say that this is one of my long chapters, but it really isn't. I have been working on this chapter for a couple of minutes per day, not because I was really that busy, but because of my ahem, brother's constant need to play guild wars, so between that and my summer assignments, I have very less time. And thanks for all of the people who reviewed and continued to read while I was on writer's block.