Ok, this is a very old fic of mine but before I finished it I had to go back and correct things.

Well, here we go:

A Girls Best Friend
Part One: Legendary Dog

The blonde itako sighed; she had allowed Yoh to go over to Manta's for some reason. She'd said something about double training for even suggesting it and non-stop for going; but she couldn't really remember; she was too busy wondering whether or not she was going soft. Her thoughts were broken by a loud crash.

CRRAAASH

What the hell was that?

A medium sized dog came shooting out of a restaurant door. A large chef brandishing a very large frying pan followed it. The corners of Anna's lips tugged.

Both the dog and frying pan are the same size as Manta.

The chef was Big Jake; someone you didn't what to get on the wrong side of. Obviously this young pup didn't know that. Jake was throwing everything he could get his hands on at the dog. He started shouting out some words that Anna bet even Ryu wouldn't know the meaning of. This started to attract attention; from the crowd Anna heard the words: "Looks like Bootz just doesn't know when to quit."

Ahh, so this is the famous Bootz.

Bootz had been causing mayhem for about three weeks now; the four-month-old Great Dane puppy had shown up out of nowhere and had been causing mischief ever since. He was quite harmless, but he'd do the stupidest things. Such as stealing one of everyone's shoes on three different blocks; hence his new found name; Bootz. At first he'd been a cute, poor, helpless stray but now he was just annoying.

"Try and steal my food, eh!?" Jake continued to shout; a well-aimed spatula hit the young dog squarely on the forehead. Bootz tripped over his own long legs and crashed into a wall. "Now I've got you!"

He raised a pan high above his head; below him Bootz was a shivering ball of matted brown hair. "That's enough!" Everyone's heads turned towards Anna.

Jake is taking this far too seriously.

"You're taking this way too far Jake, he's just a dog!"

Wow, maybe I am going soft?

"This doesn't concern you Kyouyama!" Snapped Big Jake. "Go home!"

The crowd held their breath, nobody, not young or old spoke back to Kyouyama Anna like that!

Skipping what happened next we'll just say Big Jake is still at home in his bed tending his wounds.

Well, at least I'm not going too soft.

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Anna had been walking for an hour and a half and the little runt still wouldn't leave her alone. She was starting to regret saving him, then again, why did she save him? It wasn't like her.

Ah well, it was just one dog, as long as Yoh and the others don't find out…

Anna stopped, news was quick to travel around here, Yoh was bound to find out, maybe before she even got home. Then again people usually kept quiet when Anna 'Taught Someone A Lesson'. Unless they wanted the police around asking questions how a young teenager managed to break almost all the bones in a man's body that was nearly twice her size without any help. Anna smiled to herself; she had done it without help and she was quite proud about it too, Yoh wasn't the only one getting stronger.

Bootz's whine broke her thoughts and turned her small smile into a scowl. She looked down to see the puppy watching her with his large green eyes. "What do you want?" She was answered with another whine. Her scowl grew, "I can't take you home with me!" He just stared at her. She moaned, "Come on then."

Take him home, give him something to eat then ditch him.

End Of Part One

A/N: When I looked back on this I didn't see any reason to change the first chapters that much, save for a few mistakes. ON TO CHAPTER 2!