Hao: she does not own shaman king.

Ashuri: hey, glad you guys liked it. And I'm not sure if anyother shaman king characters will be in it. I'll see. Anyway enjoy chapter two.

Chapter two. Second meeting.

Yoh...

"Yoh! Get up now!"

Anna's voice was the first sound of the day. The never ending doom. Yoh however didn't wake up, he was too comfortable. A broom wacked him in the chest and he opened his eyes suddenly. "Are you ill?" Anna inquired preparing to not believe a word he said. "No." Yoh said sitting up slightly, and then laying back down. "Yes."

Anna sighed. "What was all that noise you were making last night?" "Nothing. Something fell that's all." Yoh said thinking, yeah me. "I don't believe you. Your hiding something from me I can feel it." Anna said. "Well can you tell me what it is so I can get back to sleep?" Yoh asked and Anna gapped at him. "What about my breakfast?" "You have two hands do it yourself." replied Yoh rolling over.

The broom connected with the side of his face and forced him to fall of the bed again. "Ow." "Get up now or face the consequences!" Anna thundered. "Right." Yoh muttered crawling over to where his cloths were and started to get them ready. "Good." Anna said leaving. "Then hurry up and make breakfast and it better be good."

As soon as she left, he desisted his movement and rubbed the side of his face. That had hurt a lot. Damn Anna and her laziness. She could at least try to cook once, just once. Finally he got dressed and proceeded to the door of his room.

Yoh...

Yoh turned sharply and looked behind him. He was pretty sure that the voice had come from behind him. Still not seeing anything he decided to leave and let it continue its calling.

Yoh...

Half way down the stairs he stopped. The voice went from gentle and calming to sweetly amused and demanding. It was kind of eerie.

Yoh...

It continued. He was still so sure it was coming from behind him, but there was not one there, he had made sure of that.

"I'm right here Yoh."

Still Yoh could find nothing. Figuring he need to go to the bathroom, and he wanted to see if he had a bruise from the bloody broom he continued down the stairs and went into the bathroom. Finishing with the toilet he looked into the mirror and what he saw made him cry out. It wasn't his reflection gazing back at him, well it did look like him, but his hair wasn't that long. He gawked at it and it smiled at him and someone (Anna) rapped at the door.

"Yoh what are you doing in there? Hurry up and make breakfast!" she said through the door. Yoh blinked and his own reflection gazed back at him. He looked slightly shocked but at least he had refrained from getting a bruise. "Coming Anna!" Yoh said leaving the room.

He went into the kitchen and Anna stood in the doorway determined to see if Yoh really did make last nights dinner. Yoh pulled out all the breakfast things looking like he would like to just run outside and eat grass and dirt. "Well?" Anna said. "Hurry up." Yoh gave a little whine and when it subsided the gentle calming voice was back. It was hard to ignore when it was like this. He closed hie eyes slightly, then opened them again and just like last night, he subconsciously started to make breakfast.

It turned out just as good as last night's dinner. Anna was pleased and said she would forget about the morning's incident, because Yoh did a good job in the kitchen. Yoh was still a little weirded out, he was sure he wasn't doing this on his own but didn't say anything, wishing he could forget this morning's incident.

At school he managed to shake Anna off and hang out with Manta all day, and after school they went to get ice cream, because it was really warm outside.

"So Yoh, what happened to your face?" Manta asked. A thin bruise had appeared from the broom, much to Yoh's displeasure. "I told Anna to make breakfast herself and she hit me with a broom." Yoh mumbled eating his ice cream. Manta winced. "Yoh, even you know better then that." "I know, but I went to sleep late and woke up in the middle of the night, so I was tired." he said indignantly. "Besides, she should try it once. It won't kill her."

"But Yoh, now that you can cook, she's not going to want to." "It's a fluke. That's what it is. You don't become a good cook over night." Manta sighed. "I'd say tell her that but knowing her, she might kill you for even suggesting that."

When their ice creams were done, they wandered around till the sun was about to set, and then Manta went home, so Yoh wandered over to the graveyard and plopped down to stare at the stars as they twinkled, like they held secrets that people wanted to know. Yoh wished to know their secrets but they were too complicated for him to understand, so he settled for something a little more closer to home.

Who was that inside his mirror? Was it his doppel ganger? What did he want? Why was he hearing voices?

He did believe he was paranoid and he felt like he was going crazy and he figured that if he thought that personally the voice would pipe up and say otherwise. He just preferred it to say his name. He sighed and stretched. It was a cool breezy night, considering that morning's heat. Also it looked like rain. Yoh didn't mid. He liked rain. And it seemed that the second he thought that, it started to rain, not hard.

It was silent all around him, the only noise being the rain.

As it started to rain harder, and afraid of what Anna might to do him if he walked in dripping wet, not to mention that he skipped out on making dinner, there for forcing Anna to make it herself, or starve, he was already in major trouble, he decided to start heading home, traveling slowly through the rain with the distant calling of his name growing louder.

When he got home Anna was furious. It seemed she almost burn the kitchen down in an attempt to make something. She chased him around the house for a while, before he escaped outside into the rain. He ran as far away as dared go, knowing far to well that he would have to got back eventually. There was really no place to go, but fearing for his life stopped him from going back.

He eventually went to Manta's. "Well I told you to not skip out." Manta said finding Yoh a towel to dry himself off. "You should know by now that Anna's going to freak out." "She freaked out enough to almost burn the kitchen down." Yoh said drying his hair. "But at least she tried." At expense to your life." Manta said looking around for a spare blanket for Yoh. "She didn't have to get that angry." stated Yoh. "But you know she's going to. So don't do it." Manta said chucking a pillow at his face. At least it was softer then a broom.

"What are you going to do about her tomorrow?" "Run away." "Oh yes that's very effective." "It his." "You know she's going to find you, eventually." Manta said turning off the lights and going to lay down. "Key word eventually. But its worth a shot." Yoh said curling up around his pillow underneath the blanket. "If you say so." Manta yawned. They fell silent and Yoh stared at the ceiling. He suddenly felt very alone.

"Manta." Yoh said. Nothing.

"Manta." he said louder. Still nothing.

"Manta!"

"Jesus Yoh I'm trying to sleep!" came Manta's voice. "Sorry." said Yoh feeling better that wasn't alone, but he still felt like he was. It didn't last long, soon the feeling diminished and he was fine. However he was till awake. He sighed knowing why. He didn't want anymore weird dreams. No more dreams he thought. no more dreams.

"Sleep Yoh."

The voice said soothingly and Yoh started to get drowsy. "No he muttered.

"Sleep."

Yoh fought to keep his eyes open but it over took him and he dreamed. This dream consisted of him standing in a large open field of bright green grass and a bright blue sky above him. And what was weird about it was that he was all alone, well maybe not, but he thought it was weird anyway.

Standing there Yoh, decided that he might as well walk around as staying in one spot wasn't going to accomplish anything. He hadn't walked more then five steps when he felt something brush up against him, behind him. He turned. Nothing there. Not being able to find anything was beginning to annoy him. Facing the direction he had started walking in he found someone blocking his path. Yoh jumped back and tripped and landed on his butt.

Looking upward, his doppel ganger looked down at him. "Hello. It's been sometime." "W-what are you doing in my dream?" Yoh asked looking him up and down. "You think this is a dream?" his doppel ganger asked extending his hand to pull Yoh to his feet, but you didn't accept it. His white cape billowed out behind him in the invisible wind, no shirt underneath. "Well yeah." Yoh said. "What else would it be?

His doppel ganger crouched down in front of him after having his hand denied. "An illusion maybe." he said. "Or a figment of your imagination. They are similar to dreams in a way. But how can one possibly tell the difference." "I guess you couldn't." replied Yoh gazing into eyes identical to his, yet with slight anger, longing, and malicious intentions behind them. "Exactly." He said leaning closer. "I've been quite interested in you for a while now Yoh."

"How do you know my name?" Yoh asked suddenly. His doppel ganger smiled. "I know everything about you. Your age, your birth date, where you go to school, blood type, who your friends are-" Whoa stalker alert. Yoh thought. "yes I suppose you could consider me a stalker." he said smiled widening. This dude can read minds freaky. Yoh thought blinking. "The mind is not a book which you can open and looks at leisurely when ever you want. So reading would not be the correct term." he said.

It didn't matter what he called it. It was minding reading to Yoh.

"Why do you know al that stuff about me?" he asked. "It's my duty to know. It was necessary for me to know, so I could keep an eye on you." "Why?" his doppel ganger laughed. "What's with all the questions? Do you not trust me?" "Its not a matter of trust." said Yoh. "I'm just curious, that's all. I've never had a stalker before." his doppel ganger laughed again. "The point is I know everything about you because stalkers tend to." "Oh." Yoh said finally getting the whole stalker thing.

"Now I have a question." he said moving so close that they were inches apart, and Yoh felt like he was looking in a mirror. "Do you want to have a stalker?" "If I said no, you'd probably do it anyway." replied Yoh and his doppel ganger nodded. "I don't know. It could be kind of cool." "Some bad things can happen to stalkee's." "Like what?" asked Yoh noticing that the calm and happiness had left the voice of his stalker to be replaced by a sightly seductive and malicious tone.

"Oh I don't know. Death, pain, rape, things like that." Okay now he's scaring me. The smiling face was replaced by a hungry look. "Don't be scared Yoh. I won't hurt you." Far from reassuring Yoh, he was beginning to question his stalkers intentions. Why would anyone want to stalk him? Good question he told himself. "Why do you want to stalk me?" he asked finding his voice.

"Because I'm interested in you." Yoh blinked. he was much to close. His doppel ganger snickered. "Trust me Yoh." was all he said before leaning over and pressing his lips against his. Yoh's eyes widened. Why was he kissing him? What was he doing? His confusion seemed to interest his doppel ganger, as he deepened the kiss slightly, forcing Yoh to have numerous things flowing through his mind. Things like "Aw crap. This is so wrong."

But it was. First off they were both male, and the fact that this guy looked like him made him feel like he was kissing himself and that was incredibly odd and he wasn't a narcissist and somehow it was beginning to fell right. He mentally slapped himself. No bad. His doppel ganger pulled away laughing at his thoughts. Yoh's hand immediately went to his lips, still the lingering sensation that was there.

His doppel ganger laughed again, but it was a pleasant laugh. Not like the one's from before which were slightly harsh. Standing up his stalker turned and faced the wind which blew his dark brown hair backward and all over the place. "My name is Hao." he said after a minute. Turning back to Yoh he added. "Don't forget it." Yoh nodded briskly and Hao started to walk away and after a few paces disappeared into a sea of flames.

Yoh sat there, fingers still tracing his lips, unsure of what was happening to him. The kiss had been very unexpected and he wasn't sure he had been ready for it, it any case, whether it was a guy or not, if fact even though he was engaged to Anna, he had never kissed her and probably never would. He blinked. oh god he was engaged and he was just kissed by a man.

He slapped himself mentally again for forgetting that it was a dream or as Hao had clearly specified an illusion, so it certainly wasn't real. Man his mind really did freak him out sometimes. But satisfied over the that fact that it was a dream and Anna never had to find out, he calmed down a bit and laid down on the grass and gazed at the sky. Yoh didn't know how much time had passed in his dream, though it didn't seem that long, his surroundings never changed. He sighed wondering when morning was going to come and how he was going to avoid Anna and anymore possible injury he might attain.

He closed his eyes and let the breeze blow over him, ruffling his hair, then it stopped and a bright ray of light pierced his eyelids. He groaned and rolled over, and his face connected with a pillow not grass. With a small jolt, he realized he was at Manta's not his weirdo dream. "Yoh." he heard Manta say from above him. "You need to get up now, if you want to avoid Anna." Yoh groaned again and lifted his head.

"Yoh...you look terrible. Are you sick?" "No." Yoh said rubbing his eyes, feeling like he never slept at all. "I just didn't sleep well I suppose." "But you were fast asleep when I got up." Manta exclaimed. Yoh shrugged. He didn't know why he was so tired, its not like he went anywhere. He heard laughter. "Did you hear that?" he asked Manta suddenly, jumping and throwing aside his blanket.

"No. What was it I was supposed have heard?" Yoh gazed around the room. It had sounded like Hao. He jumped around a couple of times as the laughter continued and then a large boom sounded and they both jumped. It came from behind from the door. "What's that?" Manta squeaked. "I don't know." answered Yoh. The booming continued before Manta slowly edged toward it. "Um hello?"

"Open the door shorty!"

Came Anna's voice. Manta flinched and had no choice but to open the door deaf to Yoh's quiet stammers of no. Anna burst in through the door, almost sending Manta flying. "Yoh!" Yoh flinched. "Corporal punishment!" Yoh shrieked and barricaded himself in Manta's bathroom before Anna could get her hands on him. "Accept your punishment like a man, Yoh!" "I would, but what your offering is not punishment its murder!"

Eventually Anna calmed down and ordered Manta to make breakfast and only after she had been fed did Yoh leave the bathroom. She did try to hit him with a broom again, but he was expecting it so he caught it just in time, inches from his face, much to Anna's shock. Afterward Anna forced Yoh to go shopping for groceries, as she had totally obliterated all of them yesterday.

Grumbling he thought it was best not to argue, lest another broom made its way toward his face. And so ladled with the many bags of groceries he somehow managed to get home without dropping anything. When he got there he slowly put them in their rightful places and he went to look for Anna. "Anna?" he couldn't find her anywhere, which was odd because he figured she'd be at home to make sure he didn't do anything wrong, not that he was complaining mind you.

He shrugged off a growing anxiety feeling and sat down in the sitting room staring outside. It had started to rain again and dark clouds were covering the sky. It gave Yoh a dark feeling of deep foreboding. He closed his eyes sighing and remembering what his grandpa had said about his doppel ganger. But how would he know? Had they met and when? Was Hao dangerous? He certainly didn't seem so, yet Yoh was judging him after only meeting him twice, he did seem a bit evil but certainly not dangerous.

Yoh sighed again wondering what Hao was doing now and if he was nearby watching him. Considering Hao was stalking Yoh, it seemed to be the most logical answer. His stomach growled. Bur he didn't dare got get food in case Anna suddenly came home and decided to scold him for eating. He also didn't sleep like he wanted to cause Anna would do something terrible if she caught him sleeping.

So he figured he'd just sit there and be good and try not to doze off.

Ashuri: yeah, chapter two, interesting. Hao's in it.

My title Nijuushin Kossori ou: stands for doppel ganger Stalker.

RXR please.