A Deal With the Queen

Genre: Romantic Comedy
Rating: Teens but just may elevate to M for adult humor in later chapters
Pairing: Yoh-Anna-Hao-Ren (Anna's pimpin')
Summary: Labeled as the Ice Queen, the name Anna Kyouyama strikes fear into the heart of many. But a bet with Shorty could change all that. Anna living with Hao and seducing all the guys? What has the world come to? – Anna-Yoh-Hao-Ren
Author's Note: Reposted with grammar corrections. The grammar before was atrocious.This one is for fun like my other recent one "Married to My Brother's Fiancé" (plug-plug). This is post-Shaman King the anime, but Hao did not die at the end, but simply stripped of his powers. He finally accepts defeat and is living among the humans and slowly learning not to hate them…as much. Hao just has to be in the story. How else will it be fun, right? I just love the Yoh-Anna-Hao relationship. It's too cute to pass up. Then throw Ren into the mix could only make it more fun. In this story, we will see another side of Anna. See how everyone will react to it.

Chapter 1: The Deal

Ah being the Shaman King. The title he fought many and nearly died for was finally his. People should serve and obey, maybe even fear him. Yes he was it, the ruler and savior of all mankind.

But why is it that the mere sight of a certain girl could make him cower at her feet. She was ruthless, manipulative, cold-blooded and extremely brutal, you get the idea. In a word, she was simply evil.

Nobody knows the extent of her evil better than none other than her fiancé of 3 years, Yoh Asakura, now the reigning Shaman King and her slave at the same time. Embarrassingly enough, this fact was known to many of Yoh's close and not so close friends. Luckily for Yoh, everyone understood him for The Queen has terrorized each and every one of them at least once in the past.

Well here comes our hero now…looking out of breath running up the hill strapped with 3 weight rings around each of his wrists and angles. He collapsed on the floor as soon as he stepped into the inn. Anna watched the scene with an indifferent calm while Tamao was on the verge of jumping to Yoh's side. But one glance at the blonde next to her and she knew that would not be such a good idea.

"Um Lady Anna, don't you think you're being a bit harsh on Master Yoh?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, Tamao," she replied as she sipped the tea from her cup. "He's been doing this for years."

"But you added heavier weights and he also has to do more laps," Manta stepped out of kitchen holding a bowl of cake mix in one arm and the other hand holding a whip, whipping slowly.

"How else is he going to improve? He has to challenge himself."

"But I don't understand why when Master Yoh is already the Shaman King." Tamao seemed on the verge of tears at Yoh's state and Manta nodded in agreement.

"That's exactly why he has to keep training."

"Huh?"

"As Shaman King, he needs to be the strongest Shaman in the world and he cannot continue to be the strongest if simply lay around the house like a bum!" Anna's voice rose but Yoh's body was unmoved.

"I think Lord Yoh has lost consciousness, Lady Anna." A concern Amidamaru appeared from his tombstone.

"Oh no, Master Yoh!" Tamao ran over and kneeled down beside Yoh, her eyes moist from unshed tears. Manta's short little legs managed to carry him over also.

"Pathetic!" Anna stood up and walked over to the body. "I will not accept a weakling for a future husband."

"I bet if he had a choice he wouldn't want to be your husband," Manta muttered and suddenly, it seemed time froze for there wasn't a sound nor movement. Manta said it a little louder than he had intended.

"What did you say, Shorty?" Each word came out slow and precise.

Her question was followed by a long silent. Manta didn't dare to speak; Tamao looked at Anna in fear, while Amidamaru shrunk a few sizes.

"Well?"

Still no answer. Manta wouldn't even dare look her in the eyes.

"I see. Pathetic like your friend there on the floor." Anna crossed her arms and looked down at the small boy below her with half-lidded eyes.

"Yoh is not pathetic!" Manta exploded.

"Oh really?" She challenged.

"You're just cruel. You work him as well as everyone else to death. You never appreciated him for everything he has done for you. He endured through all your crazy training, no matter how harsh or how seemingly impossible, just to please you. And what does he get in return? Nothing but more work and training, that's what. He even told me that every memory he has of you ends with him in tears, but now he's learned to live with it because that's how you've always been. But you know what? I don't think you deserve a great guy like Yoh. He's nice to everyone and only wants everyone to get along and be happy. You're a mean and selfish person who's incapable of caring for anyone but yourself. You may be pretty but your personality makes you unattractive. And I think that if it wasn't an arranged marriage, Yoh would never pick a cold and heartless person like you to be his wife!" Manta ended his long speech being out of breath and red in the face from nearly yelling at the top of his lungs.

Tamao and Amidamaru stared at the little guy with widen eyes and dropped jaws. They truly fear for his life.

"Is that where you really think?" She asked, surprising in her usual monotone voice.

"Ye..yes," Manta replied shakily as he tried to avoid the Itako's eyes.

"Well we'll just have to see about that, won't we?"

"Huh?" All three uttered in unison.

"Lets make a deal. If Yoh asks me to be his wife with no previous arrangements nor any kind of threat from me, you will become my slave for all eternity."

"Wha?" Manta fell over.

"That means, even after death, your spirit will continue to serve me."

"That's crazy! I won't agree to it."

"But you haven't heard your prize if you win, even though that won't happen."

Curious himself, Manta asked, "What would be my prize?"

"If Yoh doesn't ask me, then I will go away forever and leave him in peace, no more training, no more chores, no more obligations, no more of me. He will finally be "happy" as you might say."

"Master Manta, no. Don't do it," Tamao said in a low whisper to the boy next to her.

"Wait, lets discuss this." Manta, Tamao, and Amidamaru all huddled around Yoh' still unconscious body. "Look, I think this is a win win situation."

"How so, Master Manta?" Amidamaru couldn't see how anyone could win from this deal and Tamao was equally confused.

"Well, Yoh will get a chance at choosing to marry the person he really loves instead of being stuck with Anna. He also won't have to go through the torture of Anna's training any longer."

"But Master Manta, what if Master Yoh still chooses Lady Anna to be his wife? You'll be her slave for all eternity," Tamao squeaked.

"Well, then I'll be happy knowing that my best friend will marry the girl he truly loves. I owe him so much, this is the least I can do."

"No Master Manta, you must think this through." The ghost argued.

"Yes, Lady Anna is capable of anything, please." The now tearful girl pleaded.

"No, I've made up my mind. Ok, Anna!" Manta turned to face the blonde but found her now laying on the flooring watching her soap on TV leaving all three of them speechless.

"Hmm? Oh, are you done having your conference?" Anna merely turned her head halfway.

"Yes, I agree to your deal on one condition."

"And that would be?"

"That you get Yoh to ask you to marry him in no more than 3 months."

"Ok, but I have a condition of my own."

"Huh?"

"Yoh is not to know of the deal in any way, shape or form."

"Ok, fair enough."

"Ok, we will officially start tomorrow. Start learning some new recipes, Shorty." She smirked at him before returning her attention back to the TV. Manta turned to the other two and gestured for Tamao to help me get Yoh to his room for some rest.

"Oh," Anna's voice stopped them before they could even make it half way there. "When Yoh wakes up, tell him the floor needs a good mopping and the toilet's clogged up and he needs to get to it before he expects any scrap of food."

She's so evil…

Author's End Note: Awwww poor Yoh, trained so hard that he fainted.

hard that he fainted.