Chapter 1

"Everyone, I've got something to announce... Anna and I are getting married..." Yoh said to the other shamans sitting at the table.

"Really! Well the two finally tying the knot! I guess that I will be on the guest list?" Horo Horo, asked the soon-to-be groom asking the obvious

"But every one here seems to be invited. But the guest list can be rewritten, right Yoh?" Anna said to her fiancée, watching the Aniu turning pale.

"NOOOO! You can't do this, Yoh! Please!" Horo pleaded his friend.

"Er... Of course!" Yoh said, earning himself a death glare from Anna, "not that I'm in charge, but let's not put him off the list."

"He... So have you chosen the date?" Ren asked Yoh.

"Oh... its on the ninth of August..." Anna answered him.

"Ah... I'll make dessert, for this special day!" Tamao said cheerfully, but with a hint of sadness, which no one had noticed except Horo Horo.

Tamao... she'll be so hurt... she has done so much for Yoh... but it's gone unnoticed... And now... Yoh is getting married and the bride is not her...i better go and check on her... Horo horo thought.

"Tamao... Are you in here?" Horo horo said as he entered the kitchen, where Tamao was supposed to be in preparing dessert.

Sob sob... sob sob... He heard sobbing sounds from other end of the kitchen, there she was... Crying her heart out...

"Tamao... Why are you crying?" He sat down beside and put an arm around Tamao.

"Huh... I'm not crying! What are you doing here?" Tamao said in her futile attempts to hide her tears.

"You were crying... does it have to do with Yoh getting married?" Horo asked and got an answer from Tamao, who had buried her face in his chest.

"You don't have to answer..." Horo horo said softy.

"He's not the only guy in the world, you know... there are many others... there's no need to sacrifice a forest for a tree... pick another tree to groom... there are so many trees to choose from ... he whispered to Tamao.

"But... but I liked Yoh so much... and he didn't even notice me..." Tamao sobbed.

"Well he's taken now... there's no changing it..."

"But I don't think I can feel for someone... the way I feel for him..."

"You've got to try... if you don't try... you'll never know if any one else had felt the same way to you... the way you are to Yoh..." Horo horo said talking to Tamao looking deep into her eyes, causing her to blush to the shade of a lobster.

"Why don't we go back in... you still haven't start the dessert you promised to the rest..." Horo Horo said in his usual tone.

"Greedy Guts." Tamao teased, laughing a bit.

"What can I say... I'm guilty!" Horo horo said flashing a childish grin.

"Do I look I've been crying?"

"Why... when I see you... I wonder if there's been a flood, which did happen." Horo Horo said thoughtfully.

"Hrmm... May be a bit of powder should do the trick." Tamao said, whipping out a compact.

"You have use makeup!" Horo was shocked.

"Sometimes... I only own a lipstick or two and this," Tamao said, pointed to the compact in her hands, "Anna has way, way, way more than I do..."

"WOW!" Horo Horo was shocked at the information.

"Come on... help me choose what to cook..." Tamao dragged Horo Horo in to the kitchen.

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