CHAPTER 7
" Hao?" Anna whispered in a voice of forced calm, but her eyes and clenched fists gave her away. " What in the name of all that is Holy is my future husband doing talking to some unknown girl at the end of a bar?"
" It's not what you think it is, Anna." Hao said quickly, in a vain attempt to calm her down.
" What is it then?" she said, her voice straining.
Hao didn't know what to say then. He either told her that Yoh was flirting with some random girl which would have gotten him in deep trouble, or tell her that Yoh was getting seducing classes from him, which, if possible, was even worse. " She's his relative!" he said lamely. Her eyebrows rose up to immeserably heights after that, and he knew he said one of the lamest lies ever.
" Don't get mad, Anna." Hao said. " He was just. . ."
" I'm not mad." she said quietly, turning around to walk away.
" W. . .What do you mean by that?" Hao asked uneasily.
She turned around to face him slightly, and he was surprised to see a small smirk on her face. " If he wants to hit on other girls that's fine with me." she said, one of her hands on her hip. " But that doesn't restrict me from flirting with other men, doesn't it?"
" Now hold on there for a minute!" Hao called out, breaking all barriers of cool. Yoh had possibilities of being shot down by all types of women. But Anna was clearly good at what she did, giving how aroused she made him just minutes before. " You can't possibly be serious of that! Yoh might just be feeling hungry for his hormones and sexual desires!"
Bang.
That was stupid.
Anna froze there for a second before walking over to Hao, her head bowed, her fists clenched. Hao took a step back, worried of her inflicting pain upon him, but blinked as she just smirked once more. " Well he's just going to have to bonk some ugly skank wouldn't he?" she whispered, before whipping her hand across his cheek. He gasped, taking a step back, clutching his cheek.
" That's for being a busybody." she said, making her way towards Tao Jun who was waving at her. " And also for looking like Yoh."
Hao just stood there in pure, utter shock for a minute, watching her. She walked to the middle of the dance floor and said something. Ina second there were ten to fifteen men surrounding her, apparently begging for her number. Hao raised his eyebrows, amused. " Well, you have to admit that she's much better and more confident than her fiance ever was." he said.
He glanced at Yoh who was walking over, waving at him.
Hao smirked. " Looks like I have to train you up fast." he whispered. " Because there's going to be competition."
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They left the nightclub at around three in the morning, all looking restless and beat. Hao pulled out a sheet of paper, smiling at it fondly. " Well, let's check out the scores, shall we?" he said almost to himself, while the other three glared at him. " Horo Horo got two numbers, Yoh got three, Ren got a surprising sixteen, and I got twenty nine."
" The amount doesn't count." Ren said angrily. " The girls that I picked up were ten times more beautiful than the ones you got, and were harder nuts to crack."
" That's right! Bok-chamma!" Bason said, appearing.
" But I was rather surprised on how you managed to get that one girls' number, Yoh-donno." Amidamaru said, crossing his arms across his chest. " She was so cold towards you, I was surprised why was it when you gave up and walked away then she gave you her number out of the blue."
" That's how females are like, Amidamaru-san." Hao said good-naturedly.
Amidamaru seemed to be content with his answer.
" But what am I going to say to Anna when I get back?" Yoh asked, troubled. " I told her I would be back as early as possible, and I was meaning the day after! What am I going to do?"
" You could say there was traffic." Horo said jokingly.
Hao bit his lip. He had not seen Anna after the fifteen men had dispearsed. Had she just left for home and pretended that she had not seen Yoh flirting with the girl at the bar? Was she that confident that he would tell Yoh about the incident with her? He rubbed his chin thoughtfully and looked at Yoh. " Oi," he said to him, and Yoh turned around. " What does Anna do when she's jealous?"
Yoh blinked. " That's a strange question." he said.
" But it's a good one too." Horo said.
Yoh thought carefully. " I can't tell when she's jealous." he admitted.
Hao, Horo and Ren's jaws dropped to the ground.
" What do you mean by that?" Ren asked. " You were engaged to her for eight years now."
" That still doesn't justify anything." Yoh said defensively. " Anna always boxes herself up."
" As in. . .a cage?" Hao asked playfully, and the other two snickered.
" You know what I mean." Yoh said. " She never shows emotions to me. I now even wonder if she even. . .loves me."
The three of them stopped laughing immediately.
" Aw, snap out of it, Yoh." Horo said, patting him on the back. " You know she does."
" How do you know that I know, if even I don't know that I know?" Yoh asked.
Horo seemed to puzzle about that for a moment.
Hao merely smiled. " Don't worry." he said. " She does."
Yoh blinked.
" And she'll express it to you sooner or later," he whispered in a promise. " Whether that's a bad thing or not."
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Yoh opened the front door of the house slightly, the small beam of light from the sunlight in the garden shining into the house like a glassy beam. There was nobody in sight. Getting bolder with the sceonds that passed, the door opened for his entire body to slip through before being shut again, a locking sound of the door being followed. The shoes were removed off his feet in an instant, and they dropped to the ground with dull clunks.
If he was lucky enough, he would be able to just sneak into his bed and feign sleep, and just pray that Anna went to bed early instead of waiting up all night for him. One step followed after the other as he made his way up the stairs, not even daring to make a single breath. " Come on, courage, Yoh. . ." he muttered to himself, finally reaching the doors of Anna's room.
Would he dare?
His fingers crept to the door handle.
Yes he dared.
The door slowly creaked open, and he peered inside. He raised his eyebrows, noticing that Anna was nowhere to be seen. That was odd. And scary. It was never a good sign if Anna was out of sight. It was pretty darn bad when she was IN sight too, but that was another story. " Anna?" he whispered. Her name was one of the things that he loved to speak. It was like honey to his lips; but at that moment it was like sucking the rear end of a lemon, sourish to the taste.
She was nowhere in sight.
The door was shut after he reconfirmed the missing of her presence, and he sighed and turned around to make his way to his own room.
" Looking for someone?" came an icy tone.
He jumped a mile before turning around to face his most-possibly-angry fiance. But there was nothing of that sort; just a look of distant coolness, her arms crossed across her chest, something that she did a lot recently. " I went out a lot too late. . ." he started sheepishly. Then he stopped in mid-sentence at what he saw she was wearing. It was a black negilee, perfectly hugging her ever curve, which was low-cut, and ended at her upper thighs. She was positively breathtaking, and it was taking every bit of respect for her from preventing himself from jumping on her that instant.
She smirked. " What's wrong, Yoh?" she asked.
" Nothing." he blushed.
It was then when the phone rang. Yoh blinked and pointed at it, asking her for permission. She merely nodded and walked off, making her way to the television room. He just watched her leave, staring at her in a non-flattering daze when the constant ringing of the phone brought him back to earth. Trying to walk to the phone with the hardening pain in his groin area, he picked it up.
" Asakura residence." he said clearly, still wondering who on earth would call this early in the morning.
" Er. . .Hello?" came a manly voice.
Yoh cocked a brow. " Yes?"
" Is Anna there?" he asked.
Yoh suddenly became unknowingly alert. " Who's asking?" he asked.
" My name's Craig. . .er. . .she gave me this number yesterday. . .I was just wondering if this was the right phone number or she just blew me off with some fake number of something." the person said.
Yoh felt a burning sense of jealousy.
" Oh?" Yoh asked, clenching the phone in his grip. " Are you her relative?"
The person laughed. " No way dude. Too hot to be anyway in my league anway."
Yoh was close to strangling the person on the other line, eyes burning.
" Er. . .did I say something wrong?" the person asked nervously.
" Nothing." Yoh said in a voice of dangerous sweetness, something he never thought he would use anyway. " It's just that you're currently talking to her fiance, that's all."
The person hung up.
He slammed the phone down at marched to Anna's room. He didn't even care to knock but slammed the sliding door of her room to one side, eyes flaming with unknown fury. She looked up from what she was doing irritatibly, ready to snap at him to knock first, but froze at the look of anger on her face. His hand was clenched on the door frame, biting his lower lip. " Craig called you." he said icily. She raised her eyebrows, turning her chair to face him.
" Who?"
" The boy from the nightclub." he spat.
A small smirk lifted onto her lips.
" It's not funny, Kyoyuma!' he yelled, and her smile disappeared. For once, he had never called her by her sirname before, and secondly because of the insane jealousy she had brought him. She had thought it would be funny to see him silently fuming in anger, but this was far from what she had expected. He was angry. It was this when she knew that she played the cards too far.
" Look, Yoh. . ." she started. " It's not what you think it is."
" Oh?" he said, his voice increasing dangerously, in a way that even the bold Anna felt a small pang of fear. " Would you care to explain it to me then?"
" I only did that when I saw you talking to some girl at the end of the bar." she said, and his eyes widened. Biting her lip, she looked up at him. " I guess this is where it's YOUR turn to explain, Yoh Asakura."
His mouth opened and shut, then he hung his head.
She got to her feet and brushed past him, not even looking at him, and was past her room doors when she felt his hand grasp her. She gasped as she was yanked back, and was pulled into his arms. There was a moment of silence as she just stared at him, mouth open in shock as she was cradelled in his arms, his thumb brushing the soft skin of her cheek.
" What the Hell are you. . ." she started, but he pressed a finger on her lips.
" I'm sorry." he whispered.
Silence.
" Did you kiss her?" she whispered.
" No." he said quickly.
" Did you get her number?"
" No." he said again.
" Do you love her?"
" No." he replied, ten times faster than he did for the others.
Silence once again.
" Did you kiss any guys?" he asked her.
" No." she replied.
" How many numbers did you give away?"
" Around ten." she said.
" Were you doing that just to get me jealous?"
" Yes." she replied truthfully.
Silence for the third time.
She pulled away from his grasp and glared at him straight in the eye. Then she whipped her hand across his cheek. " That was for making me wait up for you all night." she whispered angrily.
She slapped him once more, this time harder.
" That was for cancelling the date with me to hit on bimbo girls," she whispered.
His head whipped to a side at that, but he just looked centre at her, eyes although stinging with tears.
She slapped him for the third time.
" That was for making me jealous and hitting on useless guys." she hissed.
A lone tear fell from his eye.
" And this. . ." she whispered, her hand raised. He winced, shutting his eyes.
But they widened as he felt her lips pressed against his cheek, mingling with his tears.
" Is to say sorry." she finished.
His face broke into a smile. " Thank you, Anna."
Blushing slightly, she looked away. " I want to get some sleep." she said. " Get out of my room."
" Okay." he said, and at that moment, the phone rang.
He turned to look at her wirily, and she shrugged.
" You have lots of phones to answer today, I guess." she said.
He gave her a withering smile before shutting the door behind him.
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" Ah? She forgave you already?"
" Yep." Yoh said.
They were in the coffeehouse once again, happily sipping their teas. All except for Faust and Yoh, of course. Faust nodded to himself and sat back in his chair, smiling. " There are no serious injuries, Yoh-kun. But I can presume that you're not going to be able to chew steak or anything hard to munch on for the next few weeks."
Yoh sighed.
" That's never good news." he said.
Hao just smiled softly to himself as he twirled his spoon gently in his cup of coffee.
" Spill it out." Ren snapped. Horo, Ryu and Lyserg raised their eyebrows at Hao, who had started to giggle.
" I didn't think that she would be so hard to crack." he whispered softly. Yoh's eyes widened as he started to piece the puzzle in his mind, and whn he finally managed to push all the cracks in it his eyes widened. " You knew that Anna would come to the nightclub." he exclaimed, and Hao chuckled, nodding his head.
" That was exceptionally bright of you, Yoh; for someone as dim-witted as you. Yes, I knew she would come. Yes, I didn't bring you to the nightclub to build up your confidence. If Anna saw you flirting with girls on the street she would be much madder than if she saw you in a nightclub. So I decided on that. I saw Anna walking over so I asked you to meet with a girl, which made her jealous. What would happen if she was jealous? She would flirt with other men, knowing that heart of hers. They would call today and you would confront her, and she would confront you equally. Then you two would get in a quarrell and patch up, AND THEN it would be a tender moment, in which the two of you get it on."
The six of them stared slack-jawed at Hao.
" So. . ." Yoh said slowly in disbelief. " That was all your plan?"
" Yep." Hao said, grinning broadly. " But sadly it didn't work out."
Ryu's eyes sparkled. " You're amazing! Hao!"
" Thank you." Hao said, smiling at him, liking him a lot all of a sudden.
" So do you have any new plans for Yoh and Anna now?" Horo asked eagerly.
" Not at the moment I don't." Hao said, rubbing his chin. " Plus, I'm worried for you, Yoh."
" Me?" Yoh asked. " Why?"
Hao bit his lip, dropping two ice cubes into the cup of coffee before him, stirring it silently. " Because, Yoh. . ." he began.
Silence filled the coffeeshop.
" Anna's better at seducing than me."
There had been no time that was quieter than this moment. Yoh's eyes were as wide as fishballs, Horo was just gaping at him, Ryu had one of the most laughable expressions possible, Faust had coffee dripping from his cheek but didn't wipe it off, Lyserg's mouth was wider than when you had to open when you were at a dentists, and Ren was simply speechless.
" What?" Horo asked, after the deafening silence.
" Doesn't that mean that she's pn par with me?" Ren asked anxiously.
Hao rolled his eyes before glaring at Yoh. " I'm pointing this out to you to tell you that if she's better than me. . .AND Ren at seducing. . ." he added piercingly as Ren rose to speak up. " Then we might have a little trouble here."
" Why is that?" Faust asked politely, smiling at Eliza who wiped the coffee away from his face.
" Any man would be at her knees if she wanted to. . ." he said. " Even me."
Yoh's eyes, if possible, widened even larger.
Hao just grinned confidently. " But don't worry. I'm just glad that she's not jealous anymore, or there will be trouble."
The others sighed.
" So what are you planning now?" Lyserg asked.
Hao just smirked, taking a sip out of his coffee. " I've got plenty of ideas. . ." he whispered. " It just depends on when I decide to use them."
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Anna was inside Yoh's room.
It was something that she did frequently; one because she didn't want to stare at that stupidly enormous poster of Boblove, and the other because somehow it always made her feel relaxed. Her fingers ran themselves gently across the thin material of his bedspreed, smiling at it fondly. She was just about to go out without Yoh noticing her when the door of his room slammed open, a grin on his face.
" Anna." he said triumphantly.
" Yoh?" she asked cautiously.
" Let's go out for dinner," he said, winking at her as her eyes widened. " I finally got the bookings to the place you wanted, and as a way to say sorry, I guessed I ought to bring you out once in a while."
She smirked and got up. " Alright." she said. " Just let me get dressed."
He smiled as he watched her walk away.
But she stopped at the hallway, and turned around to smile at him in a rather flirtious way. He felt his face redden at that simple gesture of hers. " What's your favourite colour, Yoh?" she whispered. " Black, white or red?"
He blinked.
" I like orange." he said, scratching his head.
" Choose one of the three, Yoh." she said, rolling her eyes.
All of a sudden he was hoping she was asking for his opinion on underwear. Boy, he wondered how far into the ground she would pound him into if he told her that he liked the colour of transparency.
" Black," he blurted out.
She nodded, and shut the door behind her.
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Horo smiled to himself as he packed up three "documentarial" videos that he was planning to pass to Yoh, and placed them in a white envelope and sealed it shut. He rubbed his chin thoughtfully as he raised the black marker pen that he was nearby and unscrewed the cap. " Knowing Yoh, he's most probably stupid enough to leave it lying around in his room for all to see. Luckily, Anna's not like Pirika who always goes through my stuff, so I wouldn't have to teach him any secret places. She doesn't seem like the person who would rummage through other people's stuff anyway."
He scribbled on a ' For Yoh Eyes Only', and chuckled to himself. It was a mighty corny joke that almost nobody would have laughed at, but there you go. " Yoh and You. . .that's a good one." he said to himself, before sobering up as Pirika walked inside.
" Hi." she said cheerfully.
" Hey." he said, smiling back.
" What do you have in your hands?" she asked curiously.
" Nothing." he muttered quickly, grabbing the videos and hid it securely behind his back, ignoring the bemused expression on his sister's face. " What's up? Didn't you tell me that you were planning to go to Anna's place? What happened?"
Pirika shrugged. " She said she was going out with Yoh for dinner."
Horo Horo almost fell off his chair. " What?" he asked, flabberghasted.
" She said she was going out." Pirika repeated.
Horo Horo then smiled, chuckling. " Is that right?" he said.
Pirika just raised her eyebrows.
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" Wow."
Yoh was speechless. It was one too many a time where he just sat in one corner, dazing out into nothingness, thanking the Lord that he had Anna as his fiance. She was sweet in her own silent way, smart, strong, beautiful, HOT, cool, which was pretty much the whole package. There were times where he would just be saying to himself, " Anna Kyoyuma is my fiance."
And it tasted sweet on his lips.
This was one of those moment as he just stood there at the doorway, staring at Anna as she slowly stepped down the steps from her room, a small smile on her face. What she was was one thing. What she was wearing was another. It was a long, silky, black, hugging her curves in the right places, but flowed below her ankles. It high-lighted her bosom in an obvious yet classy way. He gulped, his lips dry all of a sudden.
" Yoh, quit staring." she said.
" Sorry." he blushed, looking away.
" Are we walking there?" she asked curiously, looking out, unaware of Yoh's piercing gaze. " Because if we are, I'm changing out of this."
" Of course we're not." Yoh said quickly, not wanting her to change out of it EVER. Well, unless he helped her out, of course. That very thought gave him shivers to the bone. " I borrowed my brother's car."
" Hao?" she asked cautiously.
" How many brothers do you think I have?" he asked jokingly.
She ignored that. " Let's go." she said.
" Yessire!" he said happily.
END CHAPTER 7
This is for all you LOOOVVVVEEEE peeps out there! I felt I should have one whole chapter of purely fluff, because the next chapter will be rather rough. I figured since I was going to put this in M, might as well go all the way, don't you agree? In the next chapter, Anna does some PRETTY nice things to Yoh in his mind. Which obviously is not as it is in real life of course. So if you're the kind who does not like the. . .er. . .more M scenes in my scenes, just skip it, and I'll add more fluff in the next chapter after that. You all have been warned. Plus, the bringing of Yoh's "documentarial" tapes. Will Anna find them? Will she not? Or will Yoh get a go (Hey that rhymes) at it first? Find out in the next chapter! Until then. . .adios!
ReAdEr ReSpOnSeS
Orphen27- - -Lolz. That's a cool idea though.
YumeTakato- - -Thank you. That's a compliment. But I don't need to say that, won't I? Lolz.
Iria- - -I won't. That's why there's this chapter. But if you're missing the sauciness, there's plenty in the next chapter. (Grins) Look foward to it!
jess- - -Lolz. I hope it can.
hannami08- - -Here it is.
Exploded toilet bowl- - -Yeah. And being hot to boot. Lolz. Look foward to chapter eight, k?
I-Smiles-U- - - -Hmm. . .Interesting point. I'll try as much as I can to keep them in character. Thanks for the tip though.
charl- - - Wan't really going to centre into that, but we'll see how it goes, won't we?
The Shaman King- - -WHOA! An honor! Lolz.
tone- - -That's great news for me. Hahaha. . .
cherry- - -Then I'll have to try to speed, up, won't I?
Mikauzoran- - -Thanks.
Dream Parfait- - -Yep, that shows that he was stressed out, didn't it?
Lushi- - -Thanks! (Broad smile)
BabyKaoru-Sama- - -Haha, thanks.
Peacemaker- - -Yep, but he'll get action with Anna sooner or later in this story anyway.
Satori-chan- - - -You can bet on that.
KrayZi- - - -Yeah, Hao's like Hitch. Smooth, cool, handsome. . .just with a different skin colour and. . .yeah.
pendulumxswing- - -Then I guess this chapter was a major spoiler wasn't it?
blackyuki- - -Yep.
hannah-asakura- - -Yeah, wouldn't you be?
azimataiji- - -Haha. Yeah, Anna feel devoted to Yoh in her own silent way, I suppose.
Frank S- - -Yep. And all of us too.