Hi again! Well, here's my next chapter. might be worse than the previous ones.Hao is very naughty! I'm wondering if they have the series on DVD or VHS in English. I looked it up, but all they had was the Japanese version. : ( can't keep you waiting any longer, so enjoy (hopefully)! And don't forget to Review!
Chapter 3: Hao Asakura
Anna reached out from under the covers and turned off the annoying thing.
'Stupid alarm. I can wake myself up.' She stood up, took the alarm clock, and threw it out the window.
(there was a sound of a cat yelping in the background)
After Anna had showered and changed into a fresh dress (black to the knees, of course.), she went out into the hallway.
"Ouch! Hey, watch where you're going, Yoh!" She yelled. The lazy bum was careless enough to bump into her.
"Excuse me? Did you just call me Yoh?"
Anna looked up to see an almost exact replica of Yoh, but with longer hair.
'This must be Yoh's twin, Hao.' She thought.
Keeping a cold expression, she said, "I suppose that's not your name, is it?"
The boy smiled, "No, it's not. My name is Hao Asakura. And you are?"
Anna was very surprised (though she didn't show it) by how calm he is acting towards her like he's not scared of her.
"My name is Anna Kyoyama. I'm here to train your brother, Yoh." She said coolly.
Hao smiled wider, "Well, it's nice to meet you, Anna. My idiotic mother has told me a lot about you."
"How dare you speak about your mother that way!" Anna's eyes flared.
"What, like she's going to hear it? She will never know. Not that she cares or anything. Such an idiot she-OW!" he was interrupted by a smack across his cheeks.
"Don't you dare talk like that again, baka!" The girl looked like she was about to explode. She left him and went to breakfast.
"Stupid baka. I've never seen anyone so reckless." she mumbled as she made her way down the stairs.
Behind her, Hao touched the spot where Anna had slapped him-she slapped him hard. He then slowly followed the girl downstairs, a wide grin plastered on his face.
"Good morning, Anna!" Keiko announced from the table.
Anna nodded, "Where's Mr. Asakura?"
"My father always goes to work before dawn." Came a voice behind Anna. She twirled around and saw Hao, a smile on his face. The place where she had hit him was now a bright red spot, almost visible to everyone. That pleased her.
Keiko took no notice of it. "Ah, Hao. It's nice of you to come to breakfast. This is-"
"Anna Kyoyama. We already met." Hao said in an annoyed voice.
That got Anna fuming again.
"Listen, if you talk to your mother like that again, I might as well put you into training as well!" She yelled.
"Whatever. I'm going, now." He turned and walked to the front entrance.
"To where, Hao?" Keiko seemed sad suddenly.
"Why the hell would you care?" He then disappeared out the door.
Anna was about to chase after him when an arm stopped her.
"Just leave him, Anna. It won't do any of us any good if you go after him." Yoh said.
Anna calmed down then turned to Yoh, a determined look on her face.
"Yoh Asakura. You are late for breakfast. That'll cost you ten more miles of running. Now hurry up and eat. After that, meet me in the front of the house to start your training."
She then walked off, leaving a groaning Yoh behind.
15 Minutes Later
"I'm here!" Yoh called.
"Finally. What took you so long? I told you to hurry." Anna said irritably.
"I was eating, and in the art of eating, you have to take your time."
"What?"
"Oh, never mind. So, what do I have to do?" Yoh asked eagerly.
"You're going to run twenty miles, then I want one hundred push-ups, fifty pull-ups, and then clean your room afterwards. Yup, I think that should do it for your first day of training. Now get going!"
"Yes, Anna." He was about to start when Anna stopped him.
"Oh, and I forgot. Amidamaru will not be helping you. Amidamaru, come!"
A samurai-like spirit emerged from behind Yoh.
"Hey, how are you able to call my spirit?" Yoh asked quizzically.
"I am an Itako, I can summon and control spirits." She took her bead necklace, and threw it around the samurai, restraining him from going anywhere, "Now get to work!"
Yoh obeyed her orders and started running. In the opposite direction.
She sighed and went back into the mansion.
She was going to find out where Hao went. And then she's going to give him a piece of her mind.
'No need to worry about Yoh. He probably won't finish his training in five hours.'
Then, going to her room and putting on her blood-red bandana, she went to the master bedroom and knocked.
"Come in" Keiko's voice called out softly.
Anna opened the door, "Keiko, do you know where Hao is right now?" She asked.
"No, I don't. I think he's probably in some bar around town. Why?" When Keiko looked up, Anna saw that she was crying.
"I'm just asking. Thank you for telling me." She said unsympathetically, then turned around and left the woman, who burst into tears again. (A/N: God, what a crybaby!)
"Some bar around town. There are dozens of bars here in Funbari. I won't be able to search them all today." She said bitterly.
Then, an idea came to her.
Going outside and out of sight of everyone, she took out her bead necklace. (A/N: Just so you know, Amidamaru is still restrained by the same necklace.)
"Fuyumi, Reijin, Nobusuke, Nobutaka, and Ienobu, Come to me!"
Five deer-like spirits appeared in front of her.
"What do you want us to do, Kyoyama Anna?" The only female of the five, Fuyumi, asked as she bowed.
"I want you to search all the bars in town for Hao Asakura. Report to me if you find him. I have a piece of clothing I stole that you can sniff." She took out something that she had stolen from Hao's room earlier and presented it to the five spirits.
Each of them sniffed it and then ran in different directions.
"Now let's see. The closest bar in town is on Hashiguchi Street," she walked a bit more, and sure enough, there was a bar there. "Alright. Hao, you're coming back home."
With that, she went in, well, actually barged into the bar.
2 Hours Later.
Sounds of hooves can be heard outside the sixth bar that Anna has visited.
"Kyoyama Anna, I've located Hao."
"Good. Take me to him." She climbed up Nobusuke's back, and the two of them rushed towards a small but crowded bar.
Just then, Hao staggered out of the place.
"And don't you ever come back here again, bastard!" a girl's voice screamed from the inside of the building.
"Aw come on, Chris, you don't mean that, do you?" Hao's voice was thick with beer.
"I said get out!" Large beer bottles were thrown through the door, aimed for the drunken teen. He dodged so slowly, that the bottles narrowly missed his head.
"Alright, but don't come begging back to me." Another beer bottle was thrown towards him. This time, he forgot to dodge so it smashed against his head.
He stumbled (A/N: wonder how he can, since he's been tripping over himself for some time already), then fell backwards.
Anna gave an angry sigh, then walked towards him.
"Hao Asakura! Have you been drinking? Oh, of course you have, but have you been messing with this girl?" Her tone was close to being deadly.
Hao turned his head, then smiled, "Ah, hello, Anna. Would you like to join me over here?" He laid back down on the cement.
Anna smiled coldly, then walked over to where he is. Hao, thinking that she was going to join him, opened his arms.
However, she didn't join him. Instead, she slapped him so hard, he ended up rolling three feet backwards, anime style.
The girl named Chris poked her head out one of the windows of the bar, "Is he your boyfriend? You should dump him, he's not worth your time." She called out.
"And he's not worth your time, sorry if he's been messing around with you. Good thing he's not my boyfriend. This gives me the advantage to torture him. We'll be going, now so have a nice day, Chris." Dragging the almost unconscious Hao, Anna went home with her Spirits.
A couple hours later, Hao opened his eyes. He was in his room, but it didn't feel right. Something-or someone was in here as well.
"Well, it took you long enough." A cold voice said.
Usually it would send shivers down people's spines, but Hao didn't flinch at all. Instead, he just smiled his trademark Asakura grin, "Good morning, Anna. Finished with my obouto's training?"
"Yes, I'm finished. And for your reference, it's 'good evening'. You've been unconscious since 3:00 this afternoon." She walked over to his bedside, "You're going to follow new rules now that I'm here. From now on, you're going to come home every night. No more nights at the bars, and no more messing with girls."
At that, he stood up, irritation starting to spread across his face, "And who made you my mother, all of a sudden?" he asked.
"I have decided to take you under my training as well. Now go eat your food," she pointed to the table where a bowl of soup and a loaf of bread lay, "and get some sleep. You'll be waking up at dawn tomorrow."
She turned and left, but didn't go far, because Hao had grabbed her shoulder. She looked at him coldly. "Let me go, Baka."
He continued to stare at her, "No."
"What?" He had said no to her! No one disobeys Anna Kyoyama!
"I will not let you train me. I've finished my training years ago. And to be trained by a girl? I'd rather kiss my ass."
Anna was seething, "You take that back." Her voice was less than a deadly whisper.
Hao smirked. "No, I will not. I think I'm satisfied with my insult."
"Take it back!"
"Or else what?"
"Or else this!" She lunged for him, arms raised for a mighty slap.
Hao merely moved aside, making her tumble onto the bed behind him, "Now, here's what's going to happen. You're not going to train me, and I'm not going to follow anything you say. Got that? Now if you'll excuse me," he smiled again, "I'm going to visit an ex-girlfriend of mine. I believe you know her."
He left her lying there, dumbfounded.
A couple minutes later, she slowly got up, still shocked. Hao had said defied her. Hao had said defied her. Hao had saiddefied her. She kept repeating it in her head.
For the first time, her lips curled up into a veryslight smile.
PLEASE review and tell me how it's going so far. :((