Note: Man, this sure is tiring. My computer isn't working and I have to use the school library's one…And gosh, you won't believe how SLOW it is! Gee! Anyway, glad that you enjoyed the previous chapter! Anyway, the ending for this chapter seem to imply the end of the whole story, but no, please don't think that way. This story should have about 12 to 13 chapters. A bit too short, I know, but yeah, after editing it all over again, this is what I have left in all…

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Chapter 6: The Asakura sisters-in-law to be

Marion jumped as she heard someone knock on the door of her room. "Mari does not want whoever that is to come in." Marion said in a low voice, grabbing one of her puppets and beginning to wring its neck. "But Mari wants to see Hao," She thought miserably. "What should Mari do…?" And slow, hot tears began to run down her cheeks.

"Mari wants to see me, don't you, Mari?"

Marion's head shot up in horror as soon as she heard Hao's voice. "And wringing the neck of the doll isn't going to help matters improve, you know." And Hao came into view as the sliding doors slid open. He shut the door and sat beside Mari. "I've read all your thoughts," Hao said as he tugged the puppet away gently. "Hope you don't mind. Now don't kill the doll. Wasn't she your favorite?" And Hao stared at Marion's room with interest- every corner of the room was filled with puppets and dolls. "Mari does not mind that Hao read her thoughts since Mari have so stupidly blurted her feelings out earlier on." Mari said softly and uneasily, not daring to look up. "There's no need to feel stupid, Mari. Don't you love me?" Hao asked simply.

Marion gave a small gasp and blushed dreadfully. "Mari…Mari has no right to love Hao! Mari… Mari isn't the right person to stay by Hao… Mari believes that Hao deserves someone more capable!" She said quickly, and withdrew shyly as Hao leaned closer towards her. "But what if… What if I tell Mari that he only wants her to stay by him for the rest of his life?" He whispered softly. Marion drew further away, horrified at the idea that Hao would want her, stupid, plain old Mari, to stay with him.

"Mari…Mari does not deserve it at all! Mari had not served Hao properly during the period of the Shaman Fight, and…" "So now I'm actually giving you a chance to serve me again, only this time, you'll not have Matilda and Kanna with you… You'll serve me personally." Hao told her with a small grin that he was unable to suppress. "I…Mari…!" And Mari broke off abruptly as Hao pushed her onto the futon mat and kissed her.

Marion's bright green eyes widened in shock. Part of her wanted to jerk away and reject Hao, but the other part of her made her remain motionless and allow Hao to kiss her.

As they kissed, Hao slowly slipped the ring into Mari's long and thin finger, then broke off and helped her up. "Mari?" Hao asked the stunned girl, waving his hand in front of her face. Marion, who was in a daze, started and blushed. Hao grinned at her. "I take it that since you did not object to this," And he raised Marion's left hand, "You won't object to being mated with me for life, do you, Mari?" And Hao grinned triumphantly at the amazed girl, who stared, speechless at the ring glinting on her left middle finger.

Yoh and Anna drew away from the sliding doors of Mari's room and stared at each other for a while. "You mean to tell me…" And Yoh jabbed hid fingers at the closed doors, "That what we just saw was Hao proposing to Mari!" He goggled at Anna in amazement. "Exactly, and your brother sure has tact. Fancy slipping on the ring while Marion was too stunned to do anything." Anna rolled her eyes, and stuck her tongue out roguishly at the sliding doors. Yoh chuckled. "Man, so that makes Mari my…what? Sis-in-law or something?" He shook his head. "Yeah, I guess. Let's go off now. Hao will be angry if he catches us out here" And Anna turned and began to stroll away, her blonde hair flowing gracefully behind her. Yoh stared at her for a minute, then a slow grin spread out of his face. He'd just realized how much Anna had changed. And what was worst… He realized that the cold, demanding Anna, had did something childish and immature… Sticking her tongue out at…well, the door. "Yoh! ARE YOU COMING OR NOT!" Anna yelled, and Yoh jumped and scurried after her.

When Hao came down with Marion that evening, everyone saw the identical ring they both wore, and, although moronic at times, they all knew what was going on between Hao and Marion, but wisely made no comment to it or else Hao may get angry and call upon the Spirit of Fire to kill them all. However, the mood became livelier and funnier when they all sat down for dinner, when Hao and Yoh began to talk about sisters-in-law and Anna hinted darkly that if the two of them do not drop the topic right now they'll get really horrendous slaps from her. Besides them, Hao got into an argument with HoroHoro and Ren, who, of course, wanted to kill each other without haste when Ren kicked HoroHoro on his knees by accident as he was positioning himself.

"You did it on PURPOSE, dude!" HoroHoro yelled indignantly.

"I did not, you stupid MORON! Try positioning yourself in this small pathetic space given to you and I'm sure that you'll kick the person sitting next to you too!" Ren screamed back.

"Oh yeah? And since when have you become so fat!"

"Look who's talking! Why do you need all those space on your right for, huh? Can't you budge up and give ME some space?"

Before Anna could throw whatever she could get hold of at them, Hao had yelled at the two of them for being utter idiots who can't live in peace with each other.

And so the story continues.

Asakura Hao's diary entry for the day:

Those MORONS! They just can't get through a day without quarrelling! Anyway, guess what I did to Mari today? Nah, I'm not going to write that in. It's not like I'm as dense as Yoh to trust EVERY SINGLE THING to his diary. An idiot would have gone to read it without you knowing and know every little secret of yours. Tsk, morons! They're arguing AGAIN! Wasn't the bashing I gave them hard enough just now? They really drive me crazy! I wonder how Yoh and Anna can stand these morons! We might be going for a short2-3 day trip to the beach from tomorrow because the school has suddenly decided to be nice and give us a break suddenly. Can't wait.

Asakura Hao