Anna looked at the spot, which she had been wiping for the last five minutes. It was so clean that you could see your face on it. Anna still thought about that morning although she told herself not to. It was wrong and she should never do it again. Anna was ashamed of herself. It was so stupid kissing Yoh. It brought no solutions, only more problems.
As Anna stopped attacking the table, the door burst open. In came in the whole party minus Yoh.
"What are you doing here?" Anna asked the whole group as she noticed that they were bringing dirt into the already cleaned place.
"Just came here to help Anna," said Hao with a smile on his face. Anna wanted to slap that smile off but she knew she needed help, especially with the tiles on the roof.
"Your more trouble than your worth," Anna said coolly.
"But my dear Anna, I just want to-"
"Oh knock it off already. It's giving me a headache. Hao go outside and mow the lawn or something," ordered Pilica.
"Fine," said Hao at last and he stepped outside into the yard.
"What are you guys doing here?" Anna asked again, glad that Hao was gone.
"Just here to help," said Horohoro.
"Well, um…" for once, Anna seemed to be lost for words.
"Okay, boys you go outside and fix the tiles and the window needs a new coat of paint so go," ordered Tamao while handing the boys the paint and the brushes.
"Do we have to?" they all whined at the same time.
"Yes you do, now go," ordered Pilica.
The boys scrambled outside where they found Hao working in the grass.
Pilica and Jeanne took over the top floor by decorating and cleaning it. Anna, Jun and Tamao worked on the first floor.
"You know Anna, there is no need to get intimidated by that little girl. She's such a spoiled brat," Jun said while scrubbing the floor.
"She's not a brat, she's a nice person. Just that sometimes she gets a little carried away," defended Tamao. Aya was still Tamao's friend no matter what.
"Carried away enough to kill Anna?"
"Well no but that was just because she was jealous, right?" asked Tamao, now blushing of what Jun had said.
"It doesn't matter, she was easy anyways," Anna said.
"She is one of the top shamans you know. She even beat Ren."
"Well Ren's not that tough and he needs training anyways," pointed out Jun.
"Well he is good enough to beat Yoh in the beginning," countered Tamao.
"But that was before Yoh started training with Anna," said Jun.
"She wasn't that tough," Anna said again.
"Yeah she was. How the hell did you beat her anyways? I know you can fight and is quite strong but Aya was really good in the shaman tournament. Yoh didn't fight her but she was good from what I heard," asked Tamao, now curious.
"It's just something I picked up," Anna said, now going back to the floor.
Tamao knew better than to question Anna on where she was. It would just earn her a glare and no possible answer at all. Still, Tamao thought about where Anna had been to learn such powerful moves that could actually break Aya's sword. You needed a lot of strength for that and power too. Where did Anna go? Tamao thought for not the first time.
"Okay, who wants lunch?" asked Jun, sensing the uncomfortable atmosphere around the room.
"I'll cook it. I just went shopping," said Tamao, now bouncing up from the floor.
"Great! I'll call the guys in," said Jun and got up. She walked to the door and went outside.
"Ren! Horohoro! Hao! Lyserg! Ryu! Get in here! Lunch!" yelled Jun.
Then out of nowhere, all the guys dropped from the roof.
"Thanks Jun."
"Yeah appreciated it."
"Hope its good food"
"What are we having anyways?"
"Just go in there and see," said Jun who was getting very annoyed at the boys.
"Okay, geesh, no need to blow your top off," said Horohoro.
"I am not blowing my top off!" screamed Jun.
"I'm sorry,"
With that, everyone walked inside with Jun still giving the evil eye to Horohoro.
Lunch was uneventful, except for when Hao tried to kiss Anna on the cheek and hug her just to annoy her when they were leaving after lunch.
Anna slapped him on both cheeks and kicked him hard in the shins. After that, Horohoro and Ren had to carry Hao half of the way back home. Jun had promised Anna that they would go shopping tomorrow for clothes.
As Anna looked at the retreating backs of her friends and watched Horohoro try to drop Hao on the floor, she suddenly felt a weird feeling inside of her. It wasn't pain, or even loneliness; it was an odd feeling Anna never really felt before. Then, for no reason at all, she smiled a really broad grin.
It was the biggest smile she had ever shown. After a few minutes of smiling, Anna came back to her senses. What was going on with her? What the hell is she doing? Smiling for no reason? Kissing Yoh? The kissing Yoh still brought a blush to her cheeks. There. Why was she blushing? What's going on? Anna wondered to herself, totally confused for the first time in her life about everything that has happened.
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSYoh looked at Aya's sleeping figure. He felt guilty somehow, kissing Anna. Well duh, he kissed another woman while he had a girlfriend not too many kilometers away. What was wrong with him?
But Anna wasn't just any other woman; she was the one. The one for him. Yet when Yoh thought this, a sudden picture of Aya popped into his head. Make this stop! Yoh thought to himself.
"Master Yoh, are you feeling okay?" asked Amidamaru who was in the room and looking at Yoh strangely when Yoh put his hands on his head and looked to be trying to take off his own head.
"Yes I'm fine," replied Yoh with a sigh (god I finally spelled that word right).
"Then I guess you would want to go downstairs for a friend of yours have arrived," commented Amidamaru.
Yoh was first puzzled at this for all his friends went to see Anna, but then he realized, "You mean Manta is back!" asked Yoh excitedly.
"Yes he is and he's downstairs right now being questioned about how much he has been eating by Yami," said Amidamaru but Yoh wasn't listening, he was already half way down the stairs.
"Yoh!" screamed Manta when he saw Yoh coming down the stairs. It had been a long time since he had seen Yoh for Manta was on vacation with his mom.
"Manta, old buddy. Its good to see you," said Yoh while hugging Manta. (I don't see how this is possible since he is like so short but hey, it's in there so deal with it)
"Yoh-kun, you look stressed, is everything all right?" asked Manta after they sat on the couches.
"Well everything's okay, just a little hectic around here. Well along with Anna been back, what did you expect?" said Yoh with a shrug.
"Wait, what! Anna is back! When did this happen?" asked Manta loudly. He had never believed that Anna was ever coming back.
"A couple of days ago. I still can't believe it myself."
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Apology to you all:
So sorry that this took longer than usual to get up! See I even did more than usual to make it up! I got a lot of stuff going on with me right now. I had promised this on 1/17/04 but sorry it was delayed. I got two projects and some tests coming up so yeah, its been kinda hard doing this along with me reading this really good book called the Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. Also I am writing some fiction on fictionpress so if u want to check it out its at fictionpress under the same name, lale the assassin . It's a good story but nobody reviewed yet so I'm kinda feeling down about it.
I got a lot of good reviews about last chapter with the kiss. Well you people wanted the Yoh and Anna fluff and I realized that it was already chapter 11 so might as well give it to ya.
And yes, I am a girl, although I don't really act like one.
Anyways, please please please review and I like to thank everyone who reviewed!
To BBYuna: Yes it is suppose to be like that and I did read that part about Anna fighting with the beads against Hao and everything. Okay so first of all, spirits cant really possess Anna so that's why Aya might be stronger than Anna, but of course she's not. And the spirits that Anna has that she fights Hao with are shikigamis, which are actually Hao's because Anna could only get access to them by beating the book and everything and it doesn't really matter anyways because in the end of the anime, if u read it, the shikigamis actually went back to Hao's side or Hao killed them or something, I forgot. And Anna might or might not have as much power as Hao is still a rumor and quite a mystery to us all. Thnks a lot!
And thanks to all those who reviewed!!!!