Chapter six: questions time.
Hao eclipses without making more noise than when he has entered. The girl and her brother has finally found themselves and it make him happy. After all, if he has done all that, it was not for the pleasure (even if that it has proven much funnier than he has believed.) but to reinforce his young brother power. He is still so weak... So small...
-Tiny...
he releases while jumping in a puddle pool when he is finally left the house. he stops and looks at his image in the water still clear, reserve by the pond of the inn on the hill where Yoh and Anna has moved in.
-Was it really for that?
His long black hair flutter around his face, raise by the last traces of wind which the storm has brought.
-Was it really for that? I don't know any more...
He lets his brother's residence behind him and joins the hiding-place where the members of his group waits. Opacho approaches him.
-Something go wrong, Hao lord?
Hao smiles to him, of a cordial smile which he only holds to some rare people.
-No, no Opacho. Just... I need to reflect...Alone…a little.
He roses and go to sit down on a rock close to the house.
-Why am I so disturbed? Is this because of what I saw?
The shaman raises the eyes towards the moon and its procession of stars. He raises the hand towards the sky thus light, as if he hopes to be able to capture one of them and to preserve it in the hollow of his hand.
-What did you do me, little Anna?
Anna leaves the bed slowly where she was prostrate against the young shaman and, after have gently cherished his cheek, causing by-there a not very flattering growl on behalf of Yoh, she slips out of the room without making noise. She gains the balcony of the first stage, and she was lost in the starry sky contemplation.
-The moon shines high in the sky, this evening.
Amidamaru has appeared at her sides, and the ghost is pressed on the guardrail.
-Something go wrong, Anna?
-How does you dare to tell use the familiar form with me, ghost?
Amidamaru smiles.
-Not the sorrow to play the hard one with me, Anna. I cannot, like Hao, read in the people's spirit, but I can understand their gestures and their glance.
-Oh really?
-Yes. I always know to do that, even if it does not really help me in the past.
-And what do you see in my case?
She darts towards him her two black pupils like the darkest night. The moon is reflected there, drowning the distress which is visible there like if a few of will-o'-the-wisps dancing.
-I see that you need to speak a little...
-Peuh! You speak about an exploit...I have been just kidnapped, Amidamaru!
-And you return healthy and safe. I cannot oblige you to speak...But if you need an attentive ear...
-I would not call you!
The girl turns the back to him, and the wind make steal her fair wicks.
-Like you want, answers the phantom while disappearing.
Anna waits to be sure until he has disappeared to let her go to sigh.
-How is this possible? Which dumb this phantom...
She again raises the eyes towards the moon. It seems to smile to her, a sneering smile, as if it wants to make fun of the girl.
-And you, up there, what do you want of me? What do I thus make to deserve that?
Anna poses her face against the wood guardrail and cries. A long time. Yoh suddenly wakes up. He was afraid. A cold sweat slips along his spine, and he turns to Anna's place, fear in the belly. The girl is not there more.
-A...Anna? Where are you? It is not funny, really...
The boy pushes back the covers which obstruct his movements and seeks the girl in all the part.
-She is...? No, impossible...Not yet. Not again!
Yoh runs out of the part and finds him nose with nose with Anna.
-A...Anna?
He tights the girl in his arms and sighs of relief.
-Where were you? I had so fear... I believe that you have been again kidnapped and...
He stops when he hears the girl crying. She shakes against him, and when he raises her face towards his, he sees tears shone on her cheeks, such of diamonds in the lunar gleam.
-Anna? What doesn't go right?
The girl can't be solved to answer him and melts in tears. Yoh falls behind her, and is accepted on the buttocks, while Anna falls to knees, the face against his chest, the body shaken by her sobs. She breathes with difficulty. Yoh tries to protest her, in vain.
-Looks at me, Anna.
The boy tries to raise the face to him, but she obstinately keeps the eyes towards the ground. When he insists, she raises them to back-plate.
-What occurs, Anna?
-I...I...
-You can say anything to me, you know it. Anna, why do you cry?
He wipes a new tear on her cheek, and deposits a light kiss on her lips.
-Say it to me. Can I be able to help you?
He smiles to her cordially. The girl sobs still one or twice, then diverts the glance of the young shaman.
-It is nothing... Just... the pressure of these last days...It has accumulated and I need... slackening it.
The young boy was not easily deceived.
-Are you sure? Is it only that?
Anna looks at him again and smiles to him without conviction.
-Yes. Sorry to have frightened you.
-No matter. Don't worry. Nothing any more is serious.
And he attracts her against him to tighten her in his arms.