I really wanna know why double-spaces are being placed where I single-spaced and it gets really botched when I try to fix it so I'll leave it as it is. anyway yeah here's the next chapter hopefully someone will review nut yeah most of my readers are at school and stuff so I'm just going to print this and run it next door and yeah finally done witht he first big part of the shaman fight and I'm going to be bringing in a lot more characters in the next few chapters.

Even though Blake knew it didn't matter how he did on the next fight he seemed to train even more to Christine she had no clue why he did this, if anything he was training like the fight was the one that had mattered the most. She never asked him about this, she figured he had reasons and if he wanted to tell her he would have. They hadn't heard about the next fight for a month and a week now Christine was starting to wonder if Hao may have done something to slow the progress of the fight down, but she figured something would have been said by now.

"Hey Blake, it looks like we might have another storm, I don't think you'll want to be out in this one." Christine said after taking a good look at the sky.

"Nah, a little rain won't do anything geeze you're a sheltered city girl if I ever saw one, if it starts getting bad I'll come in, you go on a head without me, did you say you were going to try cooking something, just don't start a fire or anything." Blake laughed

"Ok then Blake." Christine said, Blake's training had gotten to the point of where he'd stay out in a storm if he had to his power and overall skill had increased by this but Christine was sure he was pushing himself a little much, she did notice herself being a little more worried about him than she thought she should have been. She had asked Skya what was up with Blake but even Skya said she didn't know. Other that that, things were business as usual for the two.

Just then Blake's oracle bell finally started to ring Christine nearly fought Blake to get to see the oracle bell first just to see the lovely news…

Date: August 6th
Time: 4:30 PM
Place: Rikugien (six poems garden)
Opponent: Charger Chester

Of all the hundreds of shaman in the shaman fight it had to be him.

"Christine," Blake said
"yeah" she answered

"I think, karma hates us." Blake said with a sigh

"You're not actually going to go through with it are you?" Skya asked concerned

"Well we'll either have to fight him eventually or someone even stronger so I should at least give it a good go as long as I'm breathing I have nothing to lose right?" Blake said a smile creeping in

"Oh Blake you can't be serious…" Christine said

"Don't worry city chick it'll be fine, I'll quit if it gets too far… sure I'll hardly be able to live with myself if I quit but hardly being able to live with myself is better than not living at all, no offence Skya." Blake's slight cockyness was starting to kick in again.

"Alright but let's make a deal I'LL say when things get too far and have Silva end the fight… I'll have Silva know it's an agreement between you and I, how's that sound?" Christine said

"But you really can't tell from just watching" Blake argued

"Yeah but if you don't agree I'll just tell Silva you're not in the mental state for the match" Christine said

"You wouldn't!" Blake said

"Don't underestimate this 'city chick' Blake, she doesn't feel like seeing you get hurt when it wasn't needed and if it means pinning you down, using sleeping pills or anything to make you miss the match if she doesn't think it'll be alright she'll do it." Christine said

"Oh alright… just don't pull me out because I broke a nail or some stupid reason." Blake laughed

"Oh, I'll let him get a few good hits in so you'll remember this conversation and what I somehow managed not to do to you." Christine joked

"You couldn't punch me if you wanted to." Blake laughed Christine was in a more playful mood now she gave Blake a light punch in the shoulder and started to run Blake laughed and started to chase her.

"They have the best fights…" Koncho said with a sigh

"I still think they're amateurs compared to us." Skya said with a mischievous look in her eyes

"Wahh" Christine tripped Blake ran up to her

"You ok city chick?" he laughed a bit knowing if she was hurt it wasn't bad because her fall had been pretty soft.

"Oh, I-I think I turned my ANKLE!" Christine had grabbed Blake's ankle and pulled him to the ground with her.

"You faked that!" Blake said

"Sorta'." Christine laughed as she kept a grip on Blake's wrists and made her way to sit on top of him to keep him down.

"Now what was that about the city chick?" she asked Blake with a laugh

"What about her?" Blake asked as if he was taking about a stranger

"Repeat after me, This City Chick," Christine could hardly stop giggling at the sight of Blake at her mercy him being the better shaman and all.

"T-This City Chick" Blake was slightly blushing from the embarrassment of being taken down by a girl, and the fact that his 'roommate' was sitting on top of him in the middle of the parking lot.

"Will always be able"

"Will be able"

"ALWAYS"

"Will always be able"

"To pull me into the grass"

"To pull me into the grass"

"And be on top, because she might be a city chick but she can still out smart me"

"And be on top, because she might be a city chick but she can still out smart me" Blake honestly wondered if Christine had realized how wrong that all sounded, no sooner than he had wondered this did Christine's eyes get 3 times bigger and her face turn a bright red and she quickly jumped up and started brushing herself off.

"Realize something" Blake said laughing not moving from where he had been laying

"I-I didn't if you didn't!" Christine said quickly

"Well I didn't." Blake lied he stood up and started to brush himself off Christine still looked embarrassed from what she had just done it was so out of her usual shy nature.

"What are you being so quite for, should I give you a lift?" Blake asked before Christine could realize what he had said he was lifting her up around the waist

"No, No Blake you, you have to put me down before you, before you-" Christine was laughing as she said this before Blake tripped landing on his back and Christine falling on top of him, she quickly jumped up to avoid an awkward moment like they had had a second ago.

"Bout time the kid took a break." Drotoro said

"Aww it's like he cares." Manny said squeaking his voice a bit

"I do NOT care about that boy I only care about Christine-Sama's happiness and only to an extent… a VERY small extent!" Drotoro snapped at Manny

"Aww he cares!" Koncho said smirking

"I ONLY care because I owe it to her that the x-laws didn't completely wipe me out, otherwise my vendetta against every other member of the Weathers family STILL stands." Drotoro earned a sharp look from Elizabeth

"Living members." Drotoro said giving Elizabeth a very cold look

"You better stop running your mouth while you're ahead." Koncho said looking scared at the look on Elizabeth's face he knew better than to let Drotoro get Elizabeth started.

"Raining finally took it long enough and it's just rain not really a storm." Blake said smirking at Christine

"Hey, not my fault." Christine said

"But I guess we really shouldn't stay out in it." Blake said

"Why's that, is Blake scared of a little water?" Christine teased

"Psh, yeah sure me scared." Blake said sarcastically before a loud crack of thunder came in

"Know what this means?" Christine asked grabbing Blake's arm and pulling him along with her to go inside

"What's that?"

"You have to do dishes." She teased

"That wasn't even funny." Blake said

Blake seemed to cool off that day but after that day he was back to training like his life was on the line, as much as Christine didn't want him to fight she knew the only thing she could do now was support him, after all it was better than nothing. Finally the day of the fight had come, Christine had thought of cooking but figured Blake didn't need to be sick the day of the fight.

"Finally." Blake said when the two got to the fighting place he seemed very anxious to get this fight over with.

"Remember what we agreed to." Christine said

"I know, you're choice to pull me out at the first sign of danger, but there won't be, I'm ready for the creep today."

"Well about that- I, I don't want to make that choice, if you want to stop the fight it's up to you, I decided it'd only hurt you more in the long run to worry about me yanking you out when you weren't ready." Christine said

"You didn't have to do that, I kinda figured you were going to be a bit more worried than I was so I wanted you to have someway to be in control."

"Yeah but, now I'll feel better to leave it up to you, so you'll be in control." Christine said

"I won't let you down either; I'm going to make him eat dirt this time." Blake said smiling

"Well hello there." A familiar voice said

"SILVA!" Christine said excitedly

"So how are you two staying out of trouble I hope? And Christine I was hoping to have a word with you after the fight."

"Sure thing Silva, and yeah we can stay out of stuff." Replied Christine

"So we meet again Blake." Said Charger who had just walked up.

"Guess so." Blake said coldly

"Well we'll have to make this quick, aspiring to be the next shaman king takes a lot of work." Said Charger smugly

"heh, some king you'd make." Blake said sarcastically "You'd have the paper crown and towel cloak going on along with the twig staff wouldn't you?"

"Very funny Blake, but when I have the title of shaman king you won't be so cocky will you? Or will I have sent you to your early grave sooner?"

"You two cut it out already, you only have 5 minutes until the fight so you really shouldn't waste energy throwing insults back and fourth." Silva coolly said.

The two had both gotten angrier looking with in the five minutes; Silva was starting to whish he had just let them argue, but at long last the oracle bell sounded off.

Blake managed to get a hit in early with Skya but charger was quick to not let it happen again and sent Blake a good charge forcing Blake to the ground. Blake had a better tolerance now than he had had before and got back on his feet pretty quick and managed to get another hit in on Charger, he was started to realize Charger didn't have much more Furyoku than he did, but he had a good way of managing it so that he got more use out of it than Blake did.

"Not bad Blake you've gotten a lot stronger since we last fought, but so have I." Charger smirked using the same attack he had used earlier but for some reason it seemed to be less powerful to Blake because he was able to recover from it faster than before and get another hit in on charger.

"My, my you managed to hit me three whole times; don't you feel good… or bad?" Charger bragged again before using a different attack on Blake this time laying him out for a while. Blake struggled to get back on his feet this time. "Hurry up I can't stand winning a fight when my opponent is on the ground, he's gotta at least be standing before the hit." Charger had been so busy bragging he failed to notice Blake had just sent an attack using most of the remainder of his Furyoku straight for him.

Charger was on the ground for a bit, Blake kept a sharp eye on his oversoul hoping for it to go out but he wasn't that lucky before he knew it Charger was using an attack with what was left of his Furyoku and Blake countered doing the same. There was a huge cloud of dust when it cleared Blake was out cold on the ground his oversoul flickering, Charger laughing madly.

Christine had been watching quietly the whole time she was starting to get a bit worried but knew she had to keep those negative thoughts as far from her mind as possible, but she knew Blake was in trouble now Charger's oversoul was flickering as well but he was still standing all he needed now was one more hit and Blake didn't look so good, Christine had to keep herself from running out there.

"I hate to take out an opponent that's laying on the ground like this but if his oversoul doesn't go out soon I'll have no choice I can't run the risk of mine dying." Charger said he was just about to pack in one more hit before Skya disengaged her oversoul with Blake and Sliva made the call "Winner Charger!"

Charger disengaged his oversoul at once and Christine engaged an oversoul with Elizabeth into the cloak to be able to get to where Blake was faster.

"Ha, knew I'd win sorry chicky tuff brake for your boy there." Charger laughed "If I were you I'd get him to a hospital and fast he had some bad shocks." He laughed once again.

Christine couldn't remember the last time she had been this mad, she knew Charger had won fair and square and Blake knew the dangers and should have quit, sure he was still going to the next round but now he was hurt and she could have prevented it by not letting Blake have the power to get his own self out.

"I think I deserve a reward." Charger said going to take Blake's knife from his hands earning a swift kick in the nads from Christine "I think winning the fight was your reward, you're pretty much out of Furyoku if I were you I'd go I'm not a very talented shaman but with you as low on Furyoku as you are now if you wanna get out of here in one piece you better go now." Christine said.

"I don't have to go anywhere" Charger said

"Well then you can at least get out of my way so I can get Blake to a hospital."

"I don't have to do anything." Charger had hardly gotten those words out of his mouth before Christine slapped him across the face leaving a red mark.

"Charger I think you should take her advice." Silva said

"Ok, Ok I don't want any trouble here, see ya next round Chicky' tell Blake I said get more powerful I want a real challenge."

Later on Silva went with Christine to take Blake into the hospital, luckily Blake was going to be just fine according to the doctors, Silva had went with Christine to talk like he had asked earlier.

"So Christine have you heard anything out of Hao lately." Silva asked

"No, last time I heard from him as the day I met Blake I'm not so sure that he's been around this area lately. Sure I've gotten a chill every once in a while but that's it and I don't think he's found a way to block his thoughts from me." Christine said almost disappointed

"Ah, well I'd been figuring he's been lying low lately. If you can though keep an eye out for any strange activities you might notice things have been too quite lately."

The next day Christine had came to visit Blake and see if he was ready to go back to the hotel yet, his room door was wide open and Christine didn't see him anywhere inside the room which had just been cleaned she was hoping that he hadn't somehow worsened over the night.

"Wasn't there a guy named Blake in here?" she asked a nurse walking by

"Yeah hun, but he left us just a while ago; I'll tell ya what I had my daughter coming to work with me today, she sure was sad to see such a boy leave." The nurse said before walking off.

What the nurse had just said to Christine had scared the crap out of her "Blake couldn't really be… someone would have said something right?" she asked Elizabeth

"You have good timing!" Christine turned to see Blake

"Oh my god Blake I should really kick your ass." Christine said hugging Blake

"what'd I do?" Blake asked cluelessly "If it was the Nurse's kid I had nothing to do with that!"

"No you dumbass." Christine laughed giving Blake a hit on the shoulders "You're not upset about the fight yesterday?"

"Well at first yeah I was but I thought it over and at least I tried I'll get him next time, and I'm glad you let me take charge of the fright too."

"I'm glad too, and next time you have to beat him or you're doing all the chores for a week." Christine joked.

A few weeks later and it was time for the opening ceremonies of the next round of the shaman fight.

"Hey, this Asakura boy is on fighting this Tao Ren kid! This is supposed to be the last shaman fight of the first round!" Koncho said getting Blake and Christine to look at a monitor the patch had set up.

"Wow I wish I could have seen this from the start if either wins we're going to have one heck of a match down the road." Skya said

"Too bad it's over looks like the Asakura kid won." Blake said

"Force cannot destroy the wind or the water. Asakura it bitters me but the fact is you've won"The boy with the pointed hair said

"YEAH!" rang a few voices in the crowd

"Guess he's got fans." Christine said

"Please wait a sec Ren, My power too faded a long time ago… what am I going to do if I lose this battle Anna will kill me" The Asakura boy said

Christine couldn't help but giggle at the 'Anna will kill me'… "Poor boy" she laughed

"WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHO THE WINNER IS!"the Tao boy said furiously

"And why did you not see it- IT'S BECAUSE YOU HAD YOUR BACK TURNED TO ME THE WHOLE TIME YOU HONCHO ASS!" Asakura said

"YOU ASSHOLE HOW DARE YOU CALL ME THAT!" The Tao boy yelled

"STOP SPITTING IN MY FACE!" Asakura yelled

"Both of you used your powers at the same time so the fight is a draw." Silva said calmly

"They both got through to the next round whoa!" Blake said "They have to be pretty skilled to do that; I'd like to meet these shamans and learn some stuff that Asakura boy's skills are off the chain and that Tao kid has major power!"

Later on the ceremony had been called to order.

Goldva walked up to a patch crafted Microphone

"The first rounds of the shaman fight will begin a month from now. The time, place, techniques… ect will be sent to you via oracle bell. The cruelty in this round is by far greater than that of the preliminary round. So we hope that everyone will prepare themselves by spending this last month with Friends, Family and lovers, because all of you will no longer be able to return to the life you used to have ever again."

"BLAKE YOU DID NOT JUST GET A HOLD OF SAKE!" Christine said seriously surprised when Blake made his way into the hotel room the next day.

"Sure did tonight we party… tomorrow I work the hangover off! Don't tell me you haven't had Sake." he said happily

"Only a few times when I was younger and not even enough to make me sleepy." Christine replied

"Well, I don't think there's a thing wrong with rewarding yourself by getting so drunk you see two of everything, you ARE going to join me right?" Blake asked

Christine laughed "Sure I'll join I'll have a low tolerance so I'll be drunker than you though, and just who turned you on to things like Sake."

"On Marco's breaks he would drink a few sips usually wine but when he got more stressed sometimes beer and Sake and such… of course he didn't drink much and I often drink what he left. I used to get so drunk I didn't see a stained glad window when I was nine and fell into it." Blake started to laugh he probably wouldn't normally have laughed half as much but seeing as he had been sipping Sake when Christine had talked it was already getting to him.

Christine took a sip of it, it was an odd taste to her but somehow inviting before she knew it she and Blake were pretty drunk

"I LOVE YOU!" Christine pretty much yelled drunk this was her attempt at singing
"I need to pee!" Blake sang more off key just a bit more quiet
"I think I'm drunk enough to puke!" Christine sang a bit quieter

The two of course woke up with huge hangovers the next day Christine's being worse than Blake's because she didn't have a tolerance at all to the Sake. Sure her head was killing her and she was really worrying about some of the things she might have said the night before that Blake might have remembered but Christine only hoped the next round of the shaman fight could be like this past one... boy was she in for a lot more.