Disclaimer: I do not now nor have I ever owned Shaman King. Got that?
Summery: JeanneXHao On her wedding day Jeanne reflects on how she fell in love with Hao.
Love just Happened
I never figured out exactly how or why it happened. All I know is that somehow I fell in love. It didn't happen so quickly that I was fighting him one minute and kissing him the next, but it wasn't so slow that I can trace it perfectly.
I think it started the day Yoh forced us into an unwilling truce. I found strange thoughts forming in my head that day. I kept thinking that it was kind of decent of him to listen to his brother after Yoh destroyed his dream once again.
I don't think Yoh ever really minded the fighting. Now that I look back on it, I realize that Anna probably just couldn't take it anymore so she probably told Yoh to make peace between us.
Then while Yoh was making us sign some kind of treaty I found myself noticing nice little things about him that I hadn't ever noticed before. Like how cute he looked when he smiled, or how his ridiculously long hair caught the light in a nice way.
That was also the day I found out that the nuns at my first and only convent choice all thought I was some sort of lunatic. Well I guess that imprisoning myself in a metal chamber and running off to "purify" the world only confirmed their suspicions. Long story short I got rejected.
So I decided to do what any sane human being would do; I put on a happy face and pretended it never happened. My happy face lasted about two weeks before I cracked. I knew that I just had to go cry somewhere or else everyone would find out what had happened.
I chose the garden of the Tao estate where we were all staying at the time. There was this nice bench in a secluded corner right next to a nice little pond. That was where I went to cry.
I had been out there for about half an hour before he found me.
'Great,' I thought, 'just what I need right now my worst enemy to mock me.'
Surprisingly he just smiled and said, "There you are. Everyone's been looking for you. Is something wrong?" He had obviously but what really surprised me was that he seemed to care.
"No," I snapped at him.
"Yes there is, otherwise you wouldn't be out here alone crying," he countered confidently. Damn he had me.
"Fine if you must know the convent rejected me. Now go ahead and laugh at me like I know you want to!"
"Why would I laugh at you?" he asked sincerely.
"Because you hate me," I answered no longer sure it was the truth.
"Maybe that was just me trying to cover up how much I really like you," he said a faint sparkle creeping into his deep brown eyes. I sat there for a minute puzzled trying to decode his meaning.
Then it hit me: this was his weird way of telling me the he loved me.
"Oh my god! Are you saying what I think you're saying?" I asked shocked. For an answer he kissed me.
The kiss seemed to last forever. Of course in reality it was about five seconds. Forty-five minutes later we both went back into the house smiling and holding hands.
Now five years later I, the holy Iron Maiden Jeanne stand at the door of a church in a white dress preparing to become Mrs. Hao Asakura.