Knowing the Real You
Chapter 6: Misunderstanding…and something else
Her eyes widened until they were like huge orbs…reflecting the scene before her…
Down crouched Tamao, both her hands on Yoh's chest…with her lips crushed against his lips…
THEY WERE KISSING…
Anna could not believe it…this definitely was not happening…she must be seeing things…
She closed her eyes, tightly…praying that when she opened them a different view would be upon her…
This was just a nightmare…yes, just a nightmare…
She opened her eyes…
And there they were…kissing. Tamao seemed to be so into it, she was actually blowing into his mouth…and that bastard Yoh was not responding at all…not complaining…he just looked as if he were surrendered to her…he almost looked asleep…that shit head…
She did the only thing that seemed to make sense to her…she strode to Tamao, and with all the strength she could muster, punched her on the face, breaking their kiss and knocking off her feet and onto the floor.
"What the…?" Tamao stood up quickly, "Anna, NO, you don't understand…"
"Shut the hell up!" Anna whispered in a dangerous voice, she turned to Yoh, who seemed to be faking being asleep…I'll show him…
SLAP!
She had slapped Yoh against the face with every cell in her hand screaming in rage…
His head just turned with the power of the punch to the left…and stayed that way…
That's weird…
If he's planning to keep on acting, fine with me, she thought…
She stared at him…at his supposedly rising and falling chest…
Wait a minute…
His chest was not rising and falling…
He was still…very still…is that idiot faking to be dead? How stupid of him…and yet…she couldn't help but notice how good an actor he was…she was almost fooled by him…she almost believed he really WAS not breathing…
There in the background, there seemed to be a lot of people shouting, panicking, calling-noSHOUTING her name continuously…she didn't notice that it had been going on for a very long time…all the time she stood there seething…their voices sounded so far away…until she felt a pair of cold hands gripping her arms tightly…she awoke from her trance to hear this person positively screaming at her…
"ANNA! What are you doing? Can't you see he's stopped breathing!" Tamao was beside herself with rage and panic.
"Why on earth did you go and punch me like that? Do you want Yoh to die?" she went on…
"What did you think I'm doing…kissing him? Are you crazy? Would I really do something like that at a time like this? HE'S STOPPED BREATHING FOR GOD'S SAKE! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"
Anna stayed silent…for the first time in her life…she felt stupid…
"I…" she began, but Tamao cut her off,
"HE'S GONNA DIE!" she screamed, tears splashing down her face…
"SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU!" Ryu shouted suddenly.
"We better do something, quick, or we're gonna lose him" Horohoro instructed.
"Tamao, a minute ago, when Yoh's seizure began you said you know how to perform CPR, right?" Ryu asked.
"Yes. I learned it at school." she said confidently. "I was just starting to do mouth to mouth resuscitation and pumping his chest when Anna here felt like practising her punching skills" she pointed out angrily.
"Tamao, please try it again. QUICKLY." everyone begged her.
"Hai" and she put her mouth against Yoh's mouth for the second time…blowing as hard as she can while pinching his nose shut.
Everyone watched apprehensively…
Praying for him to breathe again…
"IT'S NOT WORKING!" she screamed suddenly as she pulled away from his lips.
"TRY AGAIN!" they replied in panic.
All this while Anna stood there…everybody around Yoh…everybody crying…
But her…she couldn't shed a tear…
Her shock was beyond tears…
She walked to him and grabbed both his shoulders…
"YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!"
Anna screamed until her throat was sore…
Nothing happened…
He was gone…
He was really gone…forever
For the first time in her entire life…tears were falling down her face…tears that felt warm against her cold skin…they didn't stop…instead they came down continuously…her eyes felt like they were bringing forth knives instead of tears…but that was nothing compared to her heart…
This can't be happening to her…
This was not fair…
"WAKE UP! YOH WAKE UP NOW!" she held both his hands. "You still have to make me lunch, Yoh…you have to wake up to make me lunch…Yoh…" she added weakly, not able to scream anymore. When she realized the truth, she couldn't bare it…she threw herself into his chest, hugging him as hard as she can, tears still falling silently down her now raw cheeks…
"Anna, you're crushing me"
Her head flew up. Either she was hallucinating or she had definitely just heard Yoh's sweet voice…
She looked up at him…and there he was smiling, blushing very bright red…
"YOH!YOUR'E ALIVE!" everybody screamed in ecstasy. "Oh thank god," they all wiped their tears, laughing loudly in joy.
"Yoh…how…?" she couldn't speak. She was so happy she was speechless.
"Ummm…actually…I was…faking," he smiled at them sheepishly.
Complete silence…
Complete silence even more…
Then Ren spoke,
"Aaah, Yoh? We didn't catch that…can you say that again please?" he asked, his eyes twitching.
"I was faking" Yoh replied simply.
"I really wanted to know if I was a good actor or not, it's always been bothering me…" he said, smiling pleasantly at them all. "So how was it? I'm sorry if I scared you"
He looked around.
He backed against his bed when he saw the looks his friends were giving him…they looked like serial murderers preparing to kill the person they hated most in this world…wanting to tear him apart limb from limb…
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?" they screamed in unison.
"KISSAAMMAAAAAAAAAAAA" Ren raged brandishing his weapon at Yoh. "I swear Asakura I'll get your blood for this"
Every single one of the gang was either shouting in complete rage or threatening Yoh to a very painful death…including Tamao, who blushed realising that she had practically kissed Yoh for no reason at all…
None of them seemed to notice that Anna was no longer in the room…