Let Me Fall

By: Callista Miralni

-Four Months After the Conference-

An assasin stood outside the window of the Senatorial Guest Room in Tokyo. Kanna Hanagumi watched the sleeping young Senator, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

The victim shifted in her sleep. Kanna carefully opened the window, hoping the alarm wouldn't trigger.

It didn't go off.

Kanna sighed in relief. She stuck her hand through the open window.

And the next thing she knew, she barely escaped a string a blue beads from capturing her.

Her victim was an Itako! Well, that certainly complicates things.

-Dawn of the next day-

Kanna had snuck into the garage where the air speeder of the Senator was kept. Planting a thermostatic nuclear bomb in the engine, Kanna snuck away and waited for the Senator to arrive.

There she was! The young Senator was flanked by her three handmadiens and four bodyguards.

One bodyguard each rode with the four girls. One pair to a speeder.

The Senator climbed into her air speeder with her bodyguard. The engine started up and the four air speeder took to the air, heading towards the Senate building.

Kanna followed the group at a safe distance. The three handmadiens and their escorts disembarked.

Come on, come on, hurry up! Master wants this job done, and he wants it done soon!

The Senator was finally getting of her air speeder. The door opened and the engine died.

BANG! A loud explosion blew up the air speeder. The Senator was dead.

If only Anna Kyoyama wasn't as smart.

The clever girl used a decoy.

Grief flickered through her onyx eyes. Senator Kyoyama didn't say a word and allowed herself to be dragged away by her head of the guard.

Well, Kanna wasn't going on any missions anytime soon since she failed to kill Senator Princess Anna Kyoyama.

-Senate-

"Senator Anna Kyoyama, has been assasinated!" Chancellor Goldva announced.

"NO!" Senator Pirika Usui cried out in disbelief.

"Calm down, Pirika, they can't kill me that easily." Anna said as she walked into the Senate and onto her platform.

"It brings joy to my heart to see you alive Senator Kyoyama." Goldva told Anna.

"Now that we're all here, let's begin." Goldva started the session.

-Several Hours Later-
-Chancellor's Office-

"The recent assasination attempts on your life, Anna, are a cause of great concern." Goldva said quietly to Anna.

"I don't want increased security- I want answers. I know Hao is behind this, but why?" Anna answered, her voice even.

"You, my dear, are one of the leaders to eliminate Hao's threat to the world." Goldva turned around and pressed a button.

"Asakura Yohmei?" He asked into the speaker.

Several miles away, an elderly man heard the Chancellor's call.

"Yes, what is it Chancellor?"

"Can you send five of your students here to Tokyo for a mission?"

"Certaintly. One of my students is already in Tokyo for the Senate meetings. Why do you need them?"

"I want them to guard some of the leading Senators against Asakura Hao."

Far away, Yohmei smiled wryly. "I know just who to send."

Anna sighed audibly. The Chancellor just didn't know when 'no' ment 'no'.

-The Next Day-

"Yoh? Yoh? YOH! Answer me baka before I decide to attack you with my kwan dao!" Ren screamed to the spaced out slacker on the train ride to Tokyo.

"I wonder... will she remember me?" Yoh mumbled quietly.

"Who Yoh-sama?" inquired Bokuto no Ryu, an twenty-year-old man who trained under Asakura Mikihisa and idolized Yoh in every way possible.

"Do you mean Princess Anna Kyoyama of Aomori? The girl who bossed us around when we were younger?" Horo Horo asked, inwardly cringing at the thought of the fierce girl and her Legendary Left.

Yoh smiled. Anna was one of his best friends. Yes, she was harsh, tough, and sometimes cruel, but she had a good heart. He hadn't seen her in, oh what was it? Eight years?

Anna was privately trained by his own grandmother, Asakura Kino the Itako. He saw her every year since they were four, since his grandmother had to help run the Asakura estate. Then, when they were eight, Kino decided to move to the Aomori palace until Anna was fully trained the ways and arts of the Itako at the age of thirteen.

Yoh heard from her every now and then, but was so busy to actually contact her and hear her voice.

And now, eight years later, he gets to see her again.

All on business.

Yoh vaguely remembered stepping out of the train and heading towards the Senatorial Guest Hotel Building, where all the Senators and their companies stayed away from home.

"Well, we're going to see Tamao and Pirika. Are you coming with us?" Horo Horo asked.

Yoh shook his head. "Thanks but no thanks. I have to go up to Anna's room." He smiled and waved goodbye to his friends as they boarded a separate lift from his own.

Up, up and up he went, all the way to the sixty-fifth floor.

"Room 658." Yoh mumbled to himself. He found the right room and knocked on the door.

A girl with light brown hair answered the door. "Hi! Is An- I mean, Senator Kyoyama there?"

"Are you the guard Kyoyama-sama is expecting from the Chancellor?"

Yoh scratched his head. "Er... yeah, I am."

The girl smiled and let Yoh into the room. She led him down the hall, past the living room and the balcony, and stopped at the door of a bedroom.

"Mei, who was at the door?" a sharp, familiar voice asked from the inside of the room.

The girl, Mei, bowed low. "Anna-sama, you have a visitor."

Anna looked up from her previous task of packing. Her glittering onyx orbs widened slightly at the sight of her visitor.

"Yoh? Is that you?" Anna whispered, almost afraid that he'd disappear into thin air.

"Yo! Hey Anna, what's up?" Yoh casually answered.

Anna approached him.

SLAP!

Anna's handmadiens and bodyguards cringed at the sound of their young mistress' hand connecting with the poor boy's cheek.

"Itai." Yoh mumbled softly.

"Is that how you greet me after eight years Asakura Yoh! No greeting, no 'I miss you', no indication that you were happy to see me!" Anna screamed.

"Gomen Anna, but you were never one for sappy reunions." Yoh apologized.

Anna looked taken aback. He remembered, Anna thought smiling softly at her old friend.

"We've a meeting with the Chancellor in five minutes. Be ready by then." Anna ordered, sounding a bit like her normal bossy self.

I know I said I'd update after five reviews, but I had to post this one before I forgot about it.

I want reviews, but I'm not gonna threaten you for them. It means a lot to me when you do review.

Thanks to my first two reviewers! Your encouragement means the world to me!