By animeninjaNIPPON
For some strange reason, we kept on running into some guy named Hao (the person who the X-Laws were Hell-bent on stopping), who turned out to be a reincarnation from 500 years ago. I learned that from a medicine woman named Lilirara, whom my group met along the way to Patch Village. But it didn't really concern me at the time, so I didn't put much thought into it.
On the other hand, Hao seemed to be concerned with everyone who associated with Yoh. He let us know that, in no uncertain terms, when he sent other shaman teams after us – first ZenRyo, a couple of musicians who attacked Yoh on his way to "rescue" me, then the infamous "flower group," Hanagumi.
Of course, before Hanagumi showed up, the Lilly5 stopped to ask us for directions. Then there was some debate over a nickname for our group. Chocolove, naturally, suggested that we name it after him. That was just ridiculous… "The Chocoloves"? Almost as bad as the nickname the Lilly5 gave us, "the Yo-Yos…"
We continued our journey, but Yoh got lost.
"You don't even know which direction is which?" HoroHoro cried.
"Heh…" Chocolove had that look in his eyes again – the one that showed he was going to attempt comedy. I immediately put a stop to that. "Argh! I haven't said anything yet!"
"Sorry. I figured you were going to do some stupid gag, so I acted early." His humor annoyed me, even though it sometimes made me express amusement. At first I thought laughing at that crepe nonsense was just a fluke, but some of his other jokes were beginning to crack me as well. I couldn't let him know that – after all, it would only be three times worse to encourage him.
Not that he needed my encouragement. He made some joke about soccer anyway, so I attacked him again. I didn't find it funny at that moment, but I had a bad feeling it might make me laugh later.
Soon, Hanagumi came forward, with their black clothes and their doll oversouls. Once they introduced themselves as Hao's allies, their group and mine got into a fight. They were much stronger than I thought they would be, but at least battling them got my mind off of other things for a while. Then Anna intervened, sending Hanagumi back to Hao. Along with her were some other people, including my sister, Jun. From that moment on, things became slightly more complicated.
End of part three
My life is so difficult… I'm having so much difficulty keeping this fic in chronological order. I have some later chapters planned out to the finest detail, but still others (like this one) have me baffled… But I NEVER leave a fanfic unfinished, if I can help it. Credits for this chappie go to SKU and Oversoul for their original scripts, Chocolove jokes, etc.
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