Mikau: Hello! I'm back and in a pretty good mood. I had two free periods today, so I worked on this. My first one was first period, so I was pretty much asleep while typing, so forgive a weird sentences or spelling errors. By the way, Anna says: "yo! wuz up!" I must remember to teach her proper grammar sometime in my life.

Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King.

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Lunch Date

I had never been happier in my entire life. He had asked me out! On a date! A bright smile adorned my face as I waltzed down the basement steps, into my laboratory.

"It's been awhile since I've seen that beautiful smile on your face. I really did miss seeing you happy." An ominous voice echoed throughout the room.

"Ah, Lucifer…what a pleasant surprise. Why aren't you in Hell torturing the poor souls down there?" My smile diminished dramatically, but I kept a sugary-sweet tone of voice with the menace.

"My twin is taking care of the torturing today," The annoying demon leaned up against the laboratory counter across from me. "so I get to spend the entire day with you, my beloved."

Lucifer smirked sappily and pulled a bunch of red roses out of nowhere. "For you, Ivy-koi."

I grabbed his wrist and twisted it so that it was behind his back in an extremely painful position. "I'm not your 'koi', so stop calling me that…Thanks for the flowers though." I took the roses and snapped my fingers. In an instant they had been teleported upstairs to a vase in my room.

Lucifer rubbed his wrist and looked hungrily at me. "God you're rough…" I turned my back on him, knowing full well what was coming next. "I bet you're a total minx in bed."

I chose not to respond, being all too used to Lucifer's pervertedness. I picked up a vial of some bluish chemical, and mixed it with a clear solution.

"But I'd have to ask either Hao or Yoh about that, now wouldn't I?" He jumped at the sound of breaking glass.

I had been holding too hard on to the test tube, and it had shattered in my hand. I cursed softly and tried to clean up the mess. Thank goodness the tube had been empty.

The little pieces of glass suddenly levitated off of the counter and hovered over to the trashcan. I glanced over my shoulder at Lucifer, and he beamed happily at me. "I didn't ask for your help."

His arms encircled my waist from behind and he took my hand in his, gingerly pulling out the tiny slivers of glass. "True. You didn't ask, but I'm happy to lend my services anyway."

I relaxed in his embrace, not seeing anything wrong with him doctoring my hand. I soon regretted dropping my guard, for he quickly tried to take advantage of me, groping at my chest and other body parts with his spare hand.

"Lucifer!" He immediately backed off when I elbowed him in the stomach.

"Sorry…you're just so tempting…" He smirked apologetically, giving my thigh one last feel. This earned him a kick to the groin.

"Perverted bastard!" I pulled the last few pieces of glass out of my palm, and returned to my work.

"It's not like you haven't slept with one before…" Lucifer oh so subtly alluded to Hao. "So what are you working on?" Satan disappeared, and then reappeared right in front of me.

"The same thing I've been working on for sixteen years." I smiled wryly back at him.

"Can I help?" He looked eagerly up at me with puppy-dog eyes.

"No, you most certainly may not. You've done enough to me for one day." A hint of disdain couldn't be helped from entering my voice.

"I don't think I've done enough…" Lucifer gently cupped my cheek. "After all, you haven't felt the touch of a man in years…I think I might be able to fix that."

"Oh really?" I turned away from him blushing. "Do you know any men?"

"Oh Ivy! Darling, you cut me to the quick! Do I not look like a man to you?" In a quick burst of flames he reappeared sitting on the lab counter in front of me.

"No, not in the least." I turned away from him again. My face was getting impossibly red just thinking of how far he could go with this topic of conversation.

"Then meet me in your room tonight just after twelve, and I'll prove to you that I'm a man." 'Oh God, there he goes again! Is all he thinks about getting into my pants?'

"No Lucifer. Go away!" I carefully aimed a glass beaker at his head.

"Please Ivy? Just a little taste!" He had moved out of the container's way, and grabbed my arms. "I promise I won't be too rough with you. We both know how delicate that fake body of yours is."

"Get a life!"

"I'd rather take yours."

"Pervert!"

"Tease."

"Rapist!"

"You know we could keep trading insults all day, but we still wouldn't get anywhere." A victorious smile sprouted over his smug face when I didn't respond.

What could I have said? There was nothing to say without sounding childish, and childish is the last thing I wanted to sound in front of him. I could have kept insulting him, but he would obviously keep answering back calmly whereas I was shouting at him and losing my temper. He had control over the entire situation, including me, so it was useless to fight any longer. 'He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.' I absolutely hated him for having that kind of physiological power over me, but there was nothing I could have done about it, so it would have been better for me to just keep quiet.

"Aww, now isn't that cute! You're mad at me for being able to get you so angry!" The demon caught me again by the arms and forced me up against a wall. "Doesn't it just kill you to know how I can make your blood run cold and your body temperature skyrocket? I bet your heart is pounding in your ears because of how close I'm getting to you." I winced as he slid his tongue up my throat. "I do wish you would struggle more though, it's so sexy when you try to resist me."

"Get off!" I screeched.

"Ivy, marry me." He pleaded softly, nuzzling the side of my neck. "I promise I'll never mistreat you. You can finally stop working senselessly on this project for a man who has already forgotten you. Please? All Hao cares about is your body, but I still love you even if you don't have a body of your own. You'll want for nothing, Ivy-koi. What do you say? Be mine?"

"You are such a lying bastard." I jerked my hands free, and fought him off of me. "Hao never got remarried, and he's still hopelessly in love with me."

With a right punch of my fist, Lucifer ended up sprawled on the basement floor. "Ewe…I'm in trouble, aren't I?"

"Yes, Lucifer. You are. What, pray tell, did you hope to accomplish by lying to me?" I towered menacingly over him, cracking my knuckles.

"Umm…well, I was hoping that you would forget about Hao, and finally agree to marry me…" He nervously scratched at the back of his neck, and reminded me so much of Yoh. "I suppose my plan to steal you away from Hao didn't work, did it?"

"Nope." I set a foot down on top of his stomach rather roughly to hold him in place while I grabbed a gun and pointed it at where his heart should have been.

"Come on Ivy, you know that you can't kill me. I'm immortal." Lucifer smiled smugly up at me, checking me out even as he lay trapped on the ground under my foot.

"Ah yes, but I can always shoot off some body parts that you might miss." I lifted my foot and aimed right between his legs. A loud gunshot and smoke filled the room.

"AHHHH!" An angry Lucifer appeared behind me, looking quite shaken. "What the Hell were you thinking? You could have seriously injured them!"

I couldn't help but laugh openly at the expression on his face. "Yeah, it probably would have! If the gun were actually loaded! See?" I lifted the gun to my head and pulled the trigger. A gunshot sounded, and smoke flowed out the barrel of the gun.

Lucifer stood looking dazed at me, but slowly an awed, if not lust-filled, look consumed his face. "God, Ivy…you don't know how hot that is…"

"I can make a pretty good guess based on the way you're looking at me; are you trying to catch flies with your mouth?"

His jaw, which had been suspended above the floor, immediately shut. "Sorry…it's just that you really don't know how hormonal you make me. You turn me off and on like a machine."

"Well, I'm good at what I do." I shrugged while multitasking, mixing things with my hands. "Say, I wasn't too harsh on you today with my teasing, was I?"

"No. No, it was fine. I really don't mind as long as you're talking to me. I probably deserved the insults though…" The devil leaned up against the lab counter with his back facing it.

"Damn right. You shouldn't have lied to me, and I'm not going to forgive you that easily for making me suffer for—one, two, three—eleven years!"

"I know…just know that I'm sorry Ivy, okay?" He tried one last time to earn my forgiveness.

"Whatever." I gave an acknowledging nod.

"Ivy?"

"Hmm?"

"I was just wondering—that is to say…Ummm—whatever, I'm just gonna come out and say it: Ivy do you want to go out to dinner with me tomorrow?" I bit my bottom lip and tried to look busy. He seemed so scared that I would reject him, and since I wasn't completely heartless, it made me feel bad to hurt him even if he was the incarnation of evil. He really wasn't that bad of a guy.

"Oh…uh…gee, I'd really like to Lucifer, but I can't; I'm sort of busy tomorrow night…" Even to my own ears it sounded like an utterly pathetic excuse.

"Oh…I see…of course." The crimson-haired demon shrunk away from me like a puppy who had just been beaten, only he tried not to look upset. He reminded me so much of Yoh in the way he tried to act unaffected even when his heart had been ripped out. He nervously rubbed the back of his neck and retreated even further away. "I'm sorry. It was stupid of me to even ask you. I should have known that you wouldn't want to. I really don't know why I—I gotta go."

"Lucifer, wait!" I pleaded, grabbing at his sleeve. He turned and glanced down at the floor, not being able to look me in the eyes. I gripped his hand and stared down at it, running my fingers over his, and eventually bringing it up to rest against my cheek. "It's not that I don't want to…I…I already have a date tomorrow night, and I don't think I'll get home until really late, so I couldn't possibly…" I trailed off as my eyes met his.

His dark pools had such a remorseful look to them, but I really had been trying to turn him down softly. "Let me guess, Hao's taking Valerie out, isn't he?"

"Yes…" I muttered, my own onyx eyes dropping to the ground.

"That's even worse than you just flat out refusing me…Turning me down for another guy…I really do have to go; I sort of left without telling my brother, and he'll be mad when he finds that I left to flirt with a mortal woman."

"Maybe you could take me somewhere some other time?" I suggested.

"Wednesday?" An eager smile remerged on his handsome face.

"Be here at six and we'll go to a movie or something." I smiled reluctantly at my friend's enthusiasm.

"Promise you won't change your mind?" He pleaded one last time for good measure.

"I promise." I rolled my eyes teasingly at him.

It looked like Lucifer was about to say something else, but he paused and listened carefully to something I couldn't hear.

"What is it?"

"Someone's here to see you." He answered, still concentrating on the unheard sound. "Looks like I gotta get out of here, but I'm holding you to your promise Ivy." With a quick stolen kiss on my lips, he was gone, and I was left with a slight tingling sensation on my mouth as if it had been lightly singed.

"Valerie!" A female voice shouted from the top of the stairwell.

"Yes! I'm down here!" I responded, and after a few hesitant footsteps, Thorn appeared in the doorway.

"Are you busy? I really hope I'm not interrupting your research." The timid brunette took a few more reluctant steps into the room.

"Don't worry, you're not interrupting anything life altering important." I picked up a random beaker and pretended to be studying it, just so that it would look like I was doing something. "Hana and the gang should be home in a few hours; they went to the arcade to pick up women. At least that's what Hana and Ivory are doing. Makoto is probably beating all the high scores on the games, and Akira is probably sulking, being depressing, or acting all bad ass."

"Actually, I came here to see you." Thorn smiled warmly, but didn't step any closer to me.

"Really? I'm not all that interesting…but are you just going to stand in the doorway or what?" I smirked teasingly at the girl as she blushed and quickly rushed into the lab.

"Sorry, it's just that I wasn't sure if you wanted me here or not…" My little clone bit nervously at her thumb nail, a habit common to Kyôyama women.

I shrugged uncaringly, but was truly happy to have her there with me. "You're welcome to visit me whenever you want; I just don't know why you would want to—hey, you're an Allure Shaman aren't you?"

My daughter looked a little startled at first, but she soon totally opened up and looked admiringly at me. "Yeah, how did you know!"

"Your fingers." I smirked lightly, picking up a bottle of krypton and running an electric current through it with my own fingers. "Your fingertips are singed from the electricity flowing through them. It's very common for Storm type Allures to get that when they use their powers. I suppose you got those powers from your mother?"

"Yeah, sadly, but now I think it's kinda cool since you seem to be an Allure too!" Thorn watched with interest as I mixed a bunch of chemicals.

"So what happened that you had to use your powers?" I inquired, mildly interested.

"My sister attacked my dad. She was about ready to kill him, so I had to do something…I zapped her, but only enough to stun her for a few hours." The sixteen year-old girl took a seat on a stool across the laboratory table from me.

"What! Why would Hoshi want to kill Hao!" In a moment of shock, I accidentally dropped an entire bottle of Silicon into the mixture, and the whole thing exploded.

After a long bout of coughing, Thorn finally managed to ask, "What happened!"

"That was a sudden release of energy and a rapidly expanding volume of gas; otherwise known as an explosion. Are you okay Thorn?" I pulled myself up off of the floor and pulled the pieces of glass from my skin.

"Yeah, I'm fine, but your eyes and hair…they're…" She slid a mirror over the counter for me to look in.

Blonde and turquoise. My hair was champagne blonde, and my eyes were the color of Native American jewelry. My pale hair was lighter than my sister's, but still managed to look like melted gold like Anna's; my eyes stood out a crystalic clear color against the rest of my features. "Whoa…Oh my God! Look at yourself!"

She pulled the mirror out of my hands, and examined her own face. "Oh my God! I look like…Oh my God!" The reddish tint had been taken out of her hair, so now it looked exactly like mine—well, Ivy's. Her eyes had darkened in color as well. Minor changes, but they gave me the eerie effect as if I was looking into a mirror of the sixteen year-old me. It was creepy to say the least.

"I look like my mother…Dad won't be too happy about this. Well, he'll be shocked to say the least." Thorn's gaze was transfixed in the mirror as if she were spellbound by her reflection.

"Uh…Hey, do you want to go somewhere and get lunch?" I asked off-handedly. I had no real idea of where the question had come from, but in truth I really did want to spend time with my daughter.

Thorn's eyes immediately brightened, and a smile returned to her face. "Sure!" She replied happily.

We talked for a minute and finally decided on going to a nearby café.

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Mikau: I almost forgot, Hannah drew Akira, Hana, Hoshi, Thorn, Makoto, and Ivory. You can see Akira, Hana, Ivory, and Makoto here: http // jingle360 dot deviantart dot com / in the scraps and gallery sections. I really hope she posts the pictures of the twins because I really liked both drawings. Thank you sooooo much Hannah! Also, the thing I said about only having 20 or so chapters might not be exactly true…Yet again, I seem to be writing more than I originally planned. I'm not exactly sure when this will end.

Thanks To: Kiva Kyoyama, ChibiAzn3, LonelyLittleWolf, HAO-Addictive, yo wuz up, Danny, Andrea Nefisto, MaiValentinefan, Darkpisces33, glitter galz, y0ur-w0rst-nightmARee, ivyxhao 4 eva, megumi13, Firebane5, Knux33, AMERICANIDIOT75, and morgan000.

To Ai: No I didn't get your e-card…sorry I that my computer automatically sends e-cards to the trash, and I don't find them in time to save them from being automatically deleted. Congrats on the play; sounds like fun. Also, my calves aren't as scared anymore (if you just glanced at them they would look normal, but if you look really close you can see the cuts and scratches.) as for how I got them, it's rather unexplainable if you weren't there when it happened. I'll tell you this much, the little incident involved scalding tomato juice and glass containers.

To Danny: I'm sorry, but ff dot net won't let us answer all of our reviews anymore, so I have to pick and choose what I absolutely have to answer. Since you haven't had any major questions or comments that needed responses, I haven't been writing to you. Sorry, but it's the stupid rules. If I could I would answer all of my reviewers like I did at first.

To DarkPisces33: At first I really wanted to be an actress, but then I wanted to be a writer. I think I'll do whatever is convenient (aka: whatever I can make money to survive on). I'm not really interested in any stable, concrete jobs, so I plan to do whatever I'm good at. It really would be cool to be an actress though…

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