Lightning-Dono: Poor Tamao...
Anna: Why feel sorry for her? She's moving in on MY Yoh!
Lightning-Dono: Why do you have to be so mean to her? Why?
Anna: As stated in what I just said. She's moving in on my Yoh.
Lightning-Dono: He's not -your- Yoh.
Anna: Whatever. We're engaged and she's acting like he was someone off the street that needs to be loved.
Lightning-Dono: I'm going to change the fic to a a Romance/Fantasy. Is that okay?
Anna: Of course it is! Romance between Yoh and I?
Lightning-Dono: It's shoujo-ai.
Anna: gasps You'd NEVER...
Lightning-Dono: I'm just kidding...By the way, from this chapter on, Japanese names it will be.
Morty = Oyamada Manta (Manta for short)
Yoh = Asakura Yoh (Yoh for short)
Anna = Kyouyama Anna (Anna for short)
Rio = Bokuto no Ryu (Ryu for short)
Trey = Horo Horo
Corey = Kororo
Tamara = Tamao
"Yoh, do some push-ups for me! Amidamaru, don't help!" Anna turned her back on the boy and his guardian ghost and went to sit on her puffy red cushion once again.
"Oh, so you get to huff sit on a cushion while I huff do push-ups?" Yoh was already out of breath. Anna had been working him pretty hard lately, and he hard the scars to prove it. "If an eternity passes by and you still haven't gained any endurance as far as I can see, you never will. In my life, it's -been- an eternity."
Yoh rolled his eyes and laughed.
"Yeah, and in my world, an eternity is a day. C'mon, Anna. Give me a break." Anna turned up the volume on her soap opera defensively. Yoh sighed and got back to work.
Manta emerged from the shower, a towel wrapped around his waist.
"Where did Tamao-chan go?" He asked, sounding worried. Yoh stopped doing push-ups and sat down.
"Yeah, Anna, where /did/ she go? She couldn't just have disappeared last night."
Anna turned down the volume. How she could hear them, they didn't know, but atleast there would be an answer. "I kicked her out yesterday," Anna said unregretfully, as if it were no big deal that Tamao might've be being eaten by wolves.
"Why'd you do that?" For once, Yoh was concerned. In fact, he was frowning in disbelief.
"Look." Anna approached them calmly.
"That girl has been infecting Morty's mind with complete NONSENSE. Believing in stars, saying totem poles have no connection to ancient spirits, despite what we tell him," Anna said, directing this statement towards Manta. Manta turned red. "And /you/, Asakura Yoh. She's been having a school-girl crush on you ever since she first saw you. And no one will ever take you away from me. So by getting rid of her, I stopped her from cutting our future relationship in half."
For a moment, Yoh thought he saw worridness in her eyes, but it vanished within a few seconds. Yoh shrugged and got back to work before Anna strangled him with her spirit necklace.
But Manta wasn't convinced. He completely forgot that he was standing in the middle of the room, watching Anna unravel the ribbon from her head and completely unaware of the fact that he was only wearing a towel around his waist.
"But /why/ did you have to do it?" He asked tearfully. Didn't she mean -anything- to you? Didn't she matter?" Anna turned around with her arms folded across her chest.
"She didn't matter," Anna replied, her voice wavering slightly. She quickly regained her bossy toughness.
"And that's all that matters! Forget about that girl!" With that, Anna walked quickly of the room.
"I can't believe her..." Manta was shaking his head, fully dressed.
"Well, Anna's like that." Yoh laughed nervously.
"Aren't you worried about her? I mean, Tamao-chan?"
Yoh shook his head.
"She can see the future. How useful can that be?"
"Not very useful?"
"No. Very. She can see enemies coming...She can...anou...get out of their...anou...way?" Yoh was struggling to find words that would make Manta more comforted.
"C'mon, Manta-kun. You worry to much. Lighten up a bit or life will never be any fun."
"It's not fun anymore that Tamao-chan is gone..."
"I see."
That night, Manta went to be with disturbing, violent thoughts kept in his mind.
"Tamao-chan...you have to be okay," he whispered into his pillow, secretly tucking a picture of her beneath it. He fell into a disturbed sleep.
His dream was strange...Tamao was picking flowers in a lonely meadow with hills beyond it. She was highly content with herself, plucking the petals off of them unconcernedly. Ryu was sitting by her, his arm around her shoulder. He was handing her a bouquet of flowers and she looked so happy...He, Manta, was standing there, jealous, the color rising in his face. But they never noticed him. Then, a large spirit came shooting out of nowhere and hit Tamao square between her shoulder blades...
Manta woke up in cold sweat after witnessing that vision. Or dream. he couldn't decide which it was.
Yoh knew something was wrong when Manta ceased to study for school.
"Manta, you're not studying," he said blandly one afternoon, staring at a page of Judo Vocabulary he was supposed to be learning. Manta had his head against the desk as though listening for a pulse through the thick wood.
"I'm worried."
"About Tamao-chan?"
"...yes."
"Well, study anyway. You're making me nervous." Yoh laughed, picked up his pencil and doodled in the margin of the paper.
"I don't want to."
"Wow. Say that again. I don't think I heard you correctly. You did NOT just say you didn't want to study, right?" Yoh chewed on the eraser, waiting for a reply.
"No, I said that. I don't want to do anything. I just want to wait for Tamao-chan."
"Yeah, and when she comes back you'll be a short little skelton with a rotting brain. Manta-kun, this is freaking me out. Memorize one word on the list to cheer me up."
"Sure...Bakuto. 'A wooden sword used as a weapon in the Japanese martial arts'," Manta said without much interest. He sighed and closed his eyes slowly.
"That's better...Hey, wait! That's not on the list!"
When they got home, Tamao wasn't there.
"Manta-kun, stop whining!" Anna said angrily.
"It's your fault! You kicked her out! I whine about it! So there!" Manta was close to tears. Anna tapped her foot impatiently.
"For goodness sakes, Manta-kun! How long are you going to cry over that no-good little girl?"
"Wait, Anna." Yoh walked up to Anna and rested his hand on her shoulder. She shook it off moodily.
"Before you hurt Manta-kun with your words...he likes Tamao! What did you expect?"
Anna gave him 'The Look'.
"I know that."
"Then why do you continue to bug him about it?"
"Because I don't like Tamao and I have a right to stand up for that. Good for him if he likes her! I'm trying to improve his future."
"Yeah, sure."
That night while Anna was putting on her night gown (I FORGOT WHAT IT'S CALLED IN JAPANESE! ;), she looked out the window into the hazy forest, which was getting darker by the second. What if Tamao was in there? Anna didn't know why she was suddenly worrying about that love-sick girl, but she suddenly felt something inside her heart. Something that told her that Tamao was in trouble. Anna removed her ribbon, picked up her necklace from her nightstand, wrapped his around her wrist carefully and walked out of the creaky house, watched by the spirits haunting it.
Up on the roof, Amidamaru watched Anna leave. He glided smoothly down to Yoh's room. Yoh had been sitting in his bed, hands clasped in his lap, in deep thought.
"Yoh-dono," Amidamaru said in a quiet voice.
"What is it?" Yoh asked, looking at the wall opposite of them, covered in pictures of him and Anna as younger children.
"Anna-dono has left and headed into the forest." Yoh stood up.
"I knew she would go look for Tamao. I know Anna-chan. She can't let the guiltiness stay in her heart and lie to herself. Sooner or later, she'll do something..." Yoh pulled the Spirit Sword out from under his bed. "...And it's about time she did."
Anna: Why feel sorry for her? She's moving in on MY Yoh!
Lightning-Dono: Why do you have to be so mean to her? Why?
Anna: As stated in what I just said. She's moving in on my Yoh.
Lightning-Dono: He's not -your- Yoh.
Anna: Whatever. We're engaged and she's acting like he was someone off the street that needs to be loved.
Lightning-Dono: I'm going to change the fic to a a Romance/Fantasy. Is that okay?
Anna: Of course it is! Romance between Yoh and I?
Lightning-Dono: It's shoujo-ai.
Anna: gasps You'd NEVER...
Lightning-Dono: I'm just kidding...By the way, from this chapter on, Japanese names it will be.
Morty = Oyamada Manta (Manta for short)
Yoh = Asakura Yoh (Yoh for short)
Anna = Kyouyama Anna (Anna for short)
Rio = Bokuto no Ryu (Ryu for short)
Trey = Horo Horo
Corey = Kororo
Tamara = Tamao
"Yoh, do some push-ups for me! Amidamaru, don't help!" Anna turned her back on the boy and his guardian ghost and went to sit on her puffy red cushion once again.
"Oh, so you get to huff sit on a cushion while I huff do push-ups?" Yoh was already out of breath. Anna had been working him pretty hard lately, and he hard the scars to prove it. "If an eternity passes by and you still haven't gained any endurance as far as I can see, you never will. In my life, it's -been- an eternity."
Yoh rolled his eyes and laughed.
"Yeah, and in my world, an eternity is a day. C'mon, Anna. Give me a break." Anna turned up the volume on her soap opera defensively. Yoh sighed and got back to work.
Manta emerged from the shower, a towel wrapped around his waist.
"Where did Tamao-chan go?" He asked, sounding worried. Yoh stopped doing push-ups and sat down.
"Yeah, Anna, where /did/ she go? She couldn't just have disappeared last night."
Anna turned down the volume. How she could hear them, they didn't know, but atleast there would be an answer. "I kicked her out yesterday," Anna said unregretfully, as if it were no big deal that Tamao might've be being eaten by wolves.
"Why'd you do that?" For once, Yoh was concerned. In fact, he was frowning in disbelief.
"Look." Anna approached them calmly.
"That girl has been infecting Morty's mind with complete NONSENSE. Believing in stars, saying totem poles have no connection to ancient spirits, despite what we tell him," Anna said, directing this statement towards Manta. Manta turned red. "And /you/, Asakura Yoh. She's been having a school-girl crush on you ever since she first saw you. And no one will ever take you away from me. So by getting rid of her, I stopped her from cutting our future relationship in half."
For a moment, Yoh thought he saw worridness in her eyes, but it vanished within a few seconds. Yoh shrugged and got back to work before Anna strangled him with her spirit necklace.
But Manta wasn't convinced. He completely forgot that he was standing in the middle of the room, watching Anna unravel the ribbon from her head and completely unaware of the fact that he was only wearing a towel around his waist.
"But /why/ did you have to do it?" He asked tearfully. Didn't she mean -anything- to you? Didn't she matter?" Anna turned around with her arms folded across her chest.
"She didn't matter," Anna replied, her voice wavering slightly. She quickly regained her bossy toughness.
"And that's all that matters! Forget about that girl!" With that, Anna walked quickly of the room.
"I can't believe her..." Manta was shaking his head, fully dressed.
"Well, Anna's like that." Yoh laughed nervously.
"Aren't you worried about her? I mean, Tamao-chan?"
Yoh shook his head.
"She can see the future. How useful can that be?"
"Not very useful?"
"No. Very. She can see enemies coming...She can...anou...get out of their...anou...way?" Yoh was struggling to find words that would make Manta more comforted.
"C'mon, Manta-kun. You worry to much. Lighten up a bit or life will never be any fun."
"It's not fun anymore that Tamao-chan is gone..."
"I see."
That night, Manta went to be with disturbing, violent thoughts kept in his mind.
"Tamao-chan...you have to be okay," he whispered into his pillow, secretly tucking a picture of her beneath it. He fell into a disturbed sleep.
His dream was strange...Tamao was picking flowers in a lonely meadow with hills beyond it. She was highly content with herself, plucking the petals off of them unconcernedly. Ryu was sitting by her, his arm around her shoulder. He was handing her a bouquet of flowers and she looked so happy...He, Manta, was standing there, jealous, the color rising in his face. But they never noticed him. Then, a large spirit came shooting out of nowhere and hit Tamao square between her shoulder blades...
Manta woke up in cold sweat after witnessing that vision. Or dream. he couldn't decide which it was.
Yoh knew something was wrong when Manta ceased to study for school.
"Manta, you're not studying," he said blandly one afternoon, staring at a page of Judo Vocabulary he was supposed to be learning. Manta had his head against the desk as though listening for a pulse through the thick wood.
"I'm worried."
"About Tamao-chan?"
"...yes."
"Well, study anyway. You're making me nervous." Yoh laughed, picked up his pencil and doodled in the margin of the paper.
"I don't want to."
"Wow. Say that again. I don't think I heard you correctly. You did NOT just say you didn't want to study, right?" Yoh chewed on the eraser, waiting for a reply.
"No, I said that. I don't want to do anything. I just want to wait for Tamao-chan."
"Yeah, and when she comes back you'll be a short little skelton with a rotting brain. Manta-kun, this is freaking me out. Memorize one word on the list to cheer me up."
"Sure...Bakuto. 'A wooden sword used as a weapon in the Japanese martial arts'," Manta said without much interest. He sighed and closed his eyes slowly.
"That's better...Hey, wait! That's not on the list!"
When they got home, Tamao wasn't there.
"Manta-kun, stop whining!" Anna said angrily.
"It's your fault! You kicked her out! I whine about it! So there!" Manta was close to tears. Anna tapped her foot impatiently.
"For goodness sakes, Manta-kun! How long are you going to cry over that no-good little girl?"
"Wait, Anna." Yoh walked up to Anna and rested his hand on her shoulder. She shook it off moodily.
"Before you hurt Manta-kun with your words...he likes Tamao! What did you expect?"
Anna gave him 'The Look'.
"I know that."
"Then why do you continue to bug him about it?"
"Because I don't like Tamao and I have a right to stand up for that. Good for him if he likes her! I'm trying to improve his future."
"Yeah, sure."
That night while Anna was putting on her night gown (I FORGOT WHAT IT'S CALLED IN JAPANESE! ;), she looked out the window into the hazy forest, which was getting darker by the second. What if Tamao was in there? Anna didn't know why she was suddenly worrying about that love-sick girl, but she suddenly felt something inside her heart. Something that told her that Tamao was in trouble. Anna removed her ribbon, picked up her necklace from her nightstand, wrapped his around her wrist carefully and walked out of the creaky house, watched by the spirits haunting it.
Up on the roof, Amidamaru watched Anna leave. He glided smoothly down to Yoh's room. Yoh had been sitting in his bed, hands clasped in his lap, in deep thought.
"Yoh-dono," Amidamaru said in a quiet voice.
"What is it?" Yoh asked, looking at the wall opposite of them, covered in pictures of him and Anna as younger children.
"Anna-dono has left and headed into the forest." Yoh stood up.
"I knew she would go look for Tamao. I know Anna-chan. She can't let the guiltiness stay in her heart and lie to herself. Sooner or later, she'll do something..." Yoh pulled the Spirit Sword out from under his bed. "...And it's about time she did."