In the next day, Yoh's group was again on the road. Amat and Horo-Horo were looking to each other, blushing every time they done that. Chocolove and Ryou noticed that and started to feel some jealousy. Len was concerned with the dream he had last night. Yoh noticed that.
"Is something wrong, Len?" Yoh asked. Len looked to him and then back to the ground.
"The dream I had last night…" Len didn't know how to explain it. "I saw Amat… she… we… we were in a different country… and… Hao was with us, burning a house. Amat wanted to get in, but I tried to avoid her. Yoh, do you think… I mean… Amat… I don't know how to explain it, but…"
"You're distrustful about Amat?" Yoh asked. Len looked to him.
"The weirdest part of it is…" Len looks to Amat, such as Yoh. "I cannot stop feeling well every time I'm near her." Len smiled kindly to her, such as Yoh. They watched Horo-Horo raising slowly his hand and joining it with Amat's. Amat blushed and smiles, looking to Horo-Horo who was very red. Amat lends slowly her head on Horo-Horo's shoulder. The Ainu just didn't blush anymore because he couldn't, but he was very nervous and happy. Yoh and Len smiled.
"You're right, Len. Amat is a very nice person and she's so gentleful and beautiful." Yoh said.
"Who's beautiful, Yoh Asakura?" A voice said. Yoh froze. The Japanese looked slowly aside and sees a girl with a black dress, a red scarf and blonde hair.
"Anna!" Yoh got very nervous. "It's not what you're thinking… uh… Anna!"
Anna walks near Yoh sending him an angry look.
"This is great! I get my eyes off you for a while and immediately after that you start looking for another girl." Anna was really mad. Yoh swallowed in dry. "We'll talk later. First, I need to have a little conversation with that Amat." Anna looks to Amat, who was too much amused with Horo-Horo to notice her arrival. Anna stops in front of them and throws Horo-Horo to the ground. Amat looks to her love and then to Anna.
"Who do you think you are to throw people to the ground like that?" Amat asked, angry with Anna. Anna sends her an angry look. Horo-Horo was looking to them. Yoh was looking to them, worried about what Anna could do to Amat.
"Amat…Er…" Yoh whispered.
"Shut up, Yoh! This is not from your business!" Anna said, continuing looking to Amat. "Are you the girl Yoh was flattering?"
"And if I was?" Amat asked, not fearing Anna.
"Yoh, you shouldn't flatter another girl… especially if Anna was hearing." Manta comes near Yoh. The boy looked to Anna, hoping Amat to get rid of that unspoiled. Horo-Horo also feared what Anna could do to his new love.
"You must think you're pretty beautiful, don't you?" Anna asked.
"I don't! Yoh was the one who said that!" Amat said. "Now, can you leave me alone, I was enjoying what I was doing."
"I hate people who think they're the best." Anna said.
"Then, you may hate yourself!" Amat said, already annoyed with Anna's boring jealousy. Anna was about to slap Amat's face, but she catches her hand. "I guess you'll need to try harder for the next time you try to hit me." All were caught by surprised when they saw that Amat could stop Anna's powerful slaps. Anna smiled.
"You're really thinking you're the best." Anna said. Amat smiled. "But you forgot one thing…" Amat continued smiling. "I still have my left hand." All were sure Anna would it Amat this time, but they were surprised again, once Amat catches again her hand.
"Incredible!" Tamao said.
"Hao fell on the second!" Manta said. Yoh looked to him. Amat bind hardly Anna's hands.
"I don't like being annoyed by girls with love problems." Amat said. "But…" Amat gently smiles and releases Anna. "If you wanna be released from your doubts, Yoh has nothing with me!" Anna looked to Amat. "But don't worry! We can be friends." Amat raises her hand to Anna. Anna blushes a little and shakes Amat's hand. All were shocked. How someone rational could want to be Anna's friend?
"YOH!" Anna screamed. Yoh froze. Anna's eyes were on fire. "Did you have any idea of what you've put me through?" Anna runs to Yoh and gives him a punch under his chin. Yoh fell on the ground, agonizing on his pain. "Because of you I find someone as good as me! I should be the only one!" Anna grabs Yoh from his shirt. "Prepare for total annihilation!" The rest of the group just heard Yoh's screams.
"Anna is really violent!" Amat said.
"You haven't seen anything." Horo-Horo said. Amat looked to him and blushed a little.
"I…" Amat was about to tell something to Horo-Horo. He was looking to her, unknowing what she was about to tell him.
"Highness." Someone said. Amat and Horo-Horo looked in front and saw Faust kneeling down in front of them. Amat blushed a lot. "Your wishes are my command."
"Faust… ah? Get up! Don't… ah?" Amat didn't know what to say in that situation. Faust picked Amat's hand and kissed it. Horo-Horo gets mad.
"Hey? She's my girl..." Horo-Horo was about to end the sentence, when he realized what he was really going to say. Amat looked to him, hoping the end of the sentence to be the one she was expecting. "Friend…" Amat blushed a lot. "She's… Amat… She's my girlfriend!" Chocolove and Ryou faint. Yoh, all injured, looked to them and Anna stopped kicking him just to watch the scene. "Yeah!" Horo-Horo hugs Amat. "She's my girlfriend. And you, Faust… You came too late."
"But… I still love Elisa… Amat's just… my…" Faust suddenly stopped speaking. All looked to him, but he said no word. Amat looked to Horo-Horo.
"I… You… You consider me as your girlfriend?" Amat asked. Horo-Horo blushed.
"Why… you don't want to… be my girlfriend?" Horo-Horo asked. Amat smiled.
"Of course I want." Amat hugs Horo-Horo and then looks to Faust. "Now my wish is fulfilled." Horo-Horo found those words weird but said nothing. Amat puts her hands on Horo-Horo's face and gives him a big, huge, lovely and passionfully kiss. Horo-Horo blushed a lot. He had no idea how a kiss could be so damn good. He was looking to Amat while she kissed him. Chocolove and Ryou hugged each other.
"I had hoped she would look to me!" Chocolove said.
"I'll always love you, Lady Amat!" Ryou cried.
Amat releases Horo-Horo. The Ainu had a drop of saliva falling softly from his mouth. Horo-Horo smiles stupidly and falls on Amat's arms. Amat caresses his hair.
"He fainted?" Len asked. Amat smiled.
"No… I guess…" Amat looked to Horo-Horo. "He's just enjoying the moment." Horo-Horo felt so warm in Amat's arms, as if he… as if he was predestined to her. Amat felt just the same. She just wanted to be alone with Horo-Horo and to love him with all the love inside her heart.
"Ok!" Anna looked to them, holding Yoh from his shirt while he lied on the ground. "We need to find that patch village, so my Yoh can become the Shaman King." No one opposed her. Amat looked to Horo-Horo.
"You can get up now!" She said. Horo-Horo looks to her.
"I like you… You… You're so a good people!" Horo-Horo said. Amat found that phrase strange.
"Don't worry!" Len said. "Horo-Horo is very dumb. It's normal he can not make a grammatically correct sentence." Horo-Horo got mad.
"Are you saying I'm stupid?" Horo-Horo screamed at Len. Len smiles victoriously and leaves. Horo-Horo cursed him in Ainu. Amat lends her head on Horo-Horo.
"Forget it. Let's go." Amat said. Horo-Horo puts his arms around her back and they follow them.
By lunch time, they were in the middle of the desert. Anna was annoying Yoh a lot. She hadn't forgotten what he said about Amat. Manta sat near Len and looked to Amat.
"Is she your cousin or your relative?" Manta asked. Len found that question strange.
"No. I meet her days ago. Why the question?" Len asked.
"Well, I don't know if you noticed, but… she looks a lot like you." Manta said. Len looked to him and then to Amat, who was caressing Horo-Horo's chest.
"I… It's just a coincidence. Let it!" Len said, but his similarities with Amat were more than that…
"Amat?"
"Yes, pumpkin?" Amat answered.
"Why do you like me?" Horo-Horo asked. Amat looked to him. "I mean… you must have sixteen or seventeen years old and I… I'm just a kid and you… you're such a beautiful girl."
"Don't be silly!" Amat said, putting her finger on Horo-Horo's lips. "I'm with you because I want. You're very special to me. Don't have dumb thoughts like those."
"I'm not dumb!" Horo-Horo argued. Amat smiled. Horo-Horo blushed a little, caressing Amat's shoulders. "Amat… ah… can you…" Amat was looking to him. "Can you kiss me like you did this morning?" Amat smiled.
"Of course I can! But I won't!" Amat said. Horo-Horo froze.
"Why?"
"Because you need to learn how to kiss me like that." Amat said. Horo-Horo became sad. "So, I'm waiting!" Amat closed her eyes and looked to Horo-Horo. He hugs her and gives a kiss, not so great, but a kiss. Amat loved Horo-Horo's kisses, even if they were good or bad.
Anna looked to them and then to Yoh. Yoh was too wounded to think on something. Deep inside, Anna wished Yoh to kiss her like that, but she didn't show those kinds of feelings. So, she decided to annoy him.
"Yoh! How far are we from the patch village?" Anna asked. Yoh looked to her and he was about to answer…
"We are very close." Amat said. All looked to her. "Believe me. It's near this desert." Amat pointed to South. "At night we'll reach a blue cave. We'll enter trough it."
"How do you know that?" Horo-Horo asked. Amat looked to him.
"I have my sources." Amat said.
So, they wait until night and… the sand became black. Yoh was looking around.
"Wow, Amat! You really know where to find sources…" Yoh was about the end the sentence, but Anna was looking to him with an unfriendly look. "But it's nothing comparing with Anna can get!"
"Well, a girl of my position always needs to be informed." Amat said.
"What position?" Chocolove asked, but mysteriously he stood without will to know the answer.
"It's cold in here!" Anna said. Yoh looked to her and took his coat off and gave it to his fiancée. Anna blushed a little and sent Yoh a shiny look. Horo-Horo saw that and decided to make also a gentle movement.
"Are you ok, Amat?" Horo-Horo asked. She looked to him.
"Yeah, why shouldn't I?" Amat asked. Horo-Horo became a little sad and decided to put his arm around her, just to warm her up. Amat felt a little better.
"Remember that dream you always had?" Horo-Horo asked. Amat said yes. "I… How long have you been having that dream?"
"Since I can remember." Amat said. Horo-Horo felt a little sad.
"And… if you find the boy of your dream… I mean… would you leave me and stay with him?" Horo-Horo asked. Amat smiled. Horo-Horo looked a little unconfident about Amat's answer.
"I've already…" Amat was about to speak, but Horo-Horo was catapulted meters ahead and hits the ground violently. Amat's blood disappeared from her face. She was very shocked. Who could do that? Yoh and the others noticed what happened and they were also worried. Amat was about to run to her love but something behind him starts to burn. Horo-Horo was about to get up but someone kicks his head. Horo-Horo vision gets fuzzy and he starts coughing blood. The Ainu was trying to make his possession but someone steps on his wrist.
"Hao!" Horo-Horo moaned. Hao evilly smiles.
"Have you missed me?" Hao asked and punched the Ainu in the face. Horo-Horo faints.
"Horo-Horo…" Len whispers. Hao grabs Horo-Horo from his clothes. Horo-Horo was badly wounded on the face, bleeding a lot.
"Is this the one who you want to be the Shaman King?" Hao asked, looking to Horo-Horo. "I guess… if he dies… then, who's going to play 'houses' with you? After all, what can this boy offer you? Sulks?"
"Release Horo-Horo!" Yoh demanded. Hao looked to him. "He has done no arm to you. Release him!"
"Don't worry. I promise the body will be in good condition to be buried." Hao said and points his flaming hand to Horo-Horo. The ground was covered with the Ainu's blood. Amat was crying a lot. She wanted to save her love.
"Don't do that!" Amat screamed and starts running to Hao, but Faust and Ryou stopped her. "Let me go! Horo-Horo! Horo-Horo is dying! He needs me! Let me go!"
"Be rational, Highness. You're not in a good position to retaliate." Faust advised. Amat was struggling to be released.
"Faust's right, Lady Amat." Ryou agreed. "You haven't got the power to defeat Hao. Let D. Yoh and the other solve it for you." Amat was crying a lot looking for Horo-Horo bleeding. Hao smiled on their pain.
"Now, let's burn this…"
"Yoh!" Anna screamed. Yoh was being suffocated by a big blue snake of light. Anna was trying to free him, but it was useless. The power of the blue snake was very great.
"That snake again." Len said. "It's coming from where?"
Yoh couldn't breathe once more. Amidamaru was trying to save him, but the blue snake didn't let him approach. Yoh's eyes lost his bright and he sees something that he has no memories of. Yoh starts crying. Anna used her necklace to weak the snake, but it was useless, that snake looked invincible. Hao looked to Yoh, but he was not worried about what could happen with him. Hao turns his Spirit of Fire into a sword, throws Horo-Horo into the ground and points to sword to his face.
"Say bye." Hao was about to kill Horo-Horo, but…
"Sorry…" Yoh said. Hao froze. "I'm so sorry… I… I was… wrong… Forgive me…." Hao looked angry to Yoh. Yoh was not speaking what he wanted to. The words were getting out of his mouth like a breath of the soul.
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Why is Yoh asking for sorry? And why his Hao upset with that?
Will Hao kill Horo-Horo? And why?
Stay tuned for the next chapter "Killing my soul with my soul"