little talk

I'll be very honest right now, don't expect too much this school year. :(

I don't remember if I put this down before, but, thank you for all the reviews. It's a bit overwhelming for me, never having so many before.

Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King, this time I made up a plant name. A plant that contains chemicals that makes you fall asleep for days…

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Moving In

Chapter 16

He lays in bed, his chocolate colored hair strewn across the sheets. The cover was already on the floor, grasping to the post, leaving him half naked beside the blasting alarm clock. "It's too hot, what day is it today? Oh…May." Sweating, he gets up, and sits on the edge of his bed. Something's missing. He looked around his room, everything seemed to be untouched. A delicious smell wafted in the air…along with something burnt. He smelled his breath, not that he wanted to, but had to do so anyway. He quickly got on his clothes, and practically bounded off the stairs. Something is missing inside of him, something empty. Not to mention his stomach.

Anna stood in the kitchen, one of the most familiar and yet strangest of places for her to be. She filled the plate with scrambled eggs, and bacon. Something different for once. And set it on the table.

"Anna!" Hao rushed into the doorway, hair not yet brushed.

"Good morning, brother-in-law. Hungry? The toast is burnt." She handed him a plate with a rigid, black piece in the shape of a square. He took it.

"What day is it today?" he composed himself.

"School-day, hurry up and eat." She spoke at half of her usual commanding tone.

"The date? What is it?" Hao asked, sitting down with her.

"The 21st of May, Monday."

"Thank you, for your honesty. My breath reeks of malaitus, have any idea why?" He had his usual friendly poker face, eyes slightly narrowed with a smile.

"Smart ass, don't ask things you already know." Anna turned around, and turned on the TV. Hao watched her back for a while, waiting to see if she would even bother to tell him directly. But no. He went up to his room, and changed into his school uniform.

But something's still missing. He walked out of his bedroom, and down the hall. He peeked into Yoh's room. Empty. He went down the hall some more, Tamao's room was empty. There was no sound caming from the floor below. He went down the stairs and looked into the dinning room. Anna was gone too. What is so important, or secret that they had to drug me with malaitus? What have I missed in my days of deep sleep? Last thing I remember is drinking tea with Yoh, and Anna. Tamao was upstairs, in her room making a racket of heavy thuds.

The tea…that's how they made me drink it, malaitus. I must've fell asleep on the table. Is this some sort of game? I'm good at games, it doesn't matter what they're trying to hide from me…

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Tamao soaked the cloth in the cool, crystal basin of water. After it completely soaked, she wrung it, folded it, and placed it on Kino's forehead. It was dark in Kino's bedroom. The only light came though the window by the sun.

"This is odd, Kino never gets sick. But then, there is a difference between a normal human sickness, and a shaman-influenced sickness." Yoh-mei kneeled by Kino's bedside. "One of the ways she could get sick is by overworking herself. The other way…could be a curse by a very powerful shaman. A very powerful shaman."

In her lap was a book.

"Have you found anything, Tamao?"

Yoh-mei sat across the room with piles of books about medicine, and curses. His aging hands flipped quickly through the dusty books. And every once in a while, a pause. He looked up at Tamao, to see her staring intently at a page. "You found it?"

Her eyes glazed over, "I-I don't know."

"Let me see it." Yoh-mei sat in his spot, expecting that Tamao would come. "Tamao?"

"To cause transfiguring… four-legged creature with yellow eyes, white fur, slightly raw appendages --especially at the feet. …Intermediate signs: feet losing skin, grayish fingernails, slightly protruding jaw. Warning sign: fur." Tamao read out loud, and looked over at Kino. There were only intermediate signs.

"Well then, that's good." Yoh-mei stood over Tamao, looking down at the book. "So we need fresh tadpoles, eh? Not a problem." The cure.

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So maybe Hao's hair color isn't exactly the color of chocolate…but sounds good, doesn't it? (.)

something I don't understand. is Hao/Tamao a fairly new pairing? because so many people say that they love it, and it just seems so sudden. I guess it's different for me, being the writer, it just seemed that Hao and Tamao would just fit perfectly together. besides that, when i first found out "Yoh has a twin brother?" everything just clicked for me. Yoh likes Anna but doesn't have those feelings for Tamao. And then he has a twin brother. So in my mind, here pops another Yoh (Hao), waiting for Tamao. Haha.