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Chapter 4

"Funga fufu!" Yoh replied.

"What, in the whole wide world, are you saying!" Anna inquired, her patience wearing thin.

"Ehe… shall we start? Who will ask first? Are you sure I can ask 'any' question?" Yoh asked nonstop. Obviously, he's very excited. At least, for once, he would talk to Anna amicably and civilly.

"Arigatou, Kami-sama!" Yoh thought to himself.

"Well, I would go first."

"Any problems?" Anna added seeing the disappointment on Yoh's face.

"But why can't I go first?"

"Baka! If you wanted to go first, why did you still ask me who would go first! Could you make use of your head more often? Please!" A vein popped on Anna's fine forehead.

"Ehe… gomen! Can we please start now?" Yoh asked immediately, sensing the wrath coming from Anna.

"Do the honor…"

"Well… ano… are you really… uhmm… you know…" Yoh stuttered.

"Darn it! I can't understand what you're trying to say! Silly!" Anna yelled, another vein popped into her fair forehead.

"Ehe… well…" Yoh directed his eyes to the other side of the room (to the left).

"Spit it out already!" Anna is now obviously infuriated.

"Uhmm… well, what I'm trying to say is… ehe… why are you so… mean to me... I mean, since we're kids… you're always bossing me around…" Yoh said… sweat dripped profusely on his forehead due to his nervousness.

"Nani?" Anna is really trying hard on preventing herself from punching the daylights out of Yoh.

"Well, let me see… hmm… maybe because you're very nice and can be easily intimidated. Always ready to obey every command I say…" Anna answered.

Yoh definitely sweat dropped. "That's not reasonable, you know…"

"Well, the truth is, all I want is an easy life and in order to have it, I need someone to do things for me. And you're the lucky one who got to have that opportunity."

"Opportunity to be your slave, more like…" Yoh thought.

And again, he sweat dropped once another thought invaded his mind. "Why does it always have to be me?" he asked himself quietly.

"Huh? Are you saying something?"

Yoh shook his head with such vigor that make Anna doubt him. But Anna let it pass… just this once.

"Well, I think you're satisfied with that. Now, it's my turn." Anna gave Yoh a devious grin. Yoh shivered.

"Just out of curiosity, if you don't want to be 'bossed' around by me as you put it, why do you obey?" Anna raised one of her eyebrows and added, "You're free to decide whether to obey me or not, you know."

The question struck Yoh badly. Why does he obey her in the first place?

"Well… actually, I haven't thought about that. That's definitely a tricky one." Yoh vaguely replied.

"Hn… come on, don't you dare play innocent on me!" Anna rolled her eyes at Yoh.

"But that's the truth!" Yoh said defensively.

"Really?"

Thunder. Thunder.

Yoh sensed it. And he chose not to infuriate Anna even more.

"Uh… may… maybe, I'm so scared to face the consequences of not pleasing you. I mean, you always get what you want… by any means. I'm afraid that you would hurt me or something." Yoh stated quickly.

Anna doesn't know whether she would believe him or not. The reason was so… so… hmm… how do you put it? Ahh… simply stupid… way vain, but then, this is Yoh we're talking about and he looks so serious… his tone is definitely serious.

"Poor boy." She whispered.

"Eh?" Yoh asked.

"Well, I guess I have no choice other than to believe your peculiar answer."

"Hmph! You're mean!" Yoh pouted. "Well, can I just ask the next question?"

"Isn't that a question!" Anna replied.

"That's definitely a question, you know!" Yoh smiled.

This may not be a bad experience after all… (you just didn't realize how right you can be…)

Authors' Note:

I need to upload the alreadymade chapters soon! Because, I will be deprived of having an access to the internet for God-knows-how-long.

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