This chapter is dedicated to Lilythemarshmallowqueen and PandaYumi7 for constantly reviewing! Reviewing makes me HAPPY! And if you were waiting for Li Mei (which means 'pretty rose', I think), here she is!
Li Mei sighed and hugged her knees. School was such a bore. The boys were stupid, the girls were preppy and squeamish, and it seemed to her as she was the only one in the class who had a straight 4.0 GPA. There was, of course, that other kid. What was his name? Yes. Tao Ren. He wasn't that bad, or so Li Mei thought.
The girls were awful. They took to tripping Li Mei in the hallway, making snide comments about "stealing their boyfriends" or whatever. Li Mei hadn't seen a boy in years, ever since that awful incident with... Chi.
Flashback
"Go fix your room, Li Mei. We have guests coming over today."
"But Ma-ma..."
"No 'buts', Li Mei."
"Fine..."
Li Mei entered her room and flopped onto a pillow, moaning. Her room was perfectly clean, it always had been. Li Mei's parents had taken to using that as an excuse to keep her out of the way of their guests. Li Mei muttered to herself, "It's always about the guests."
She stared at herself in the mirror. "Wow... I'm so beautiful I scare even myself." If her maid or anyone else had heard that, they would have scolded her, or sweatdropped. But Li Mei was a proud child by nature. She took pride in her schoolwork, her looks, and her family. The Xu family had a very good reputation in those parts of China.
A cluttering sound was heard at the window. She whipped around to meet eyes with a man she thought she would never meet again...
"Chi."
"Come here, Li Mei." Li Mei refused to move. An abrupt force suddenly forced Li Mei to the window. "But how-?"
Chi grinned. In one of his hands was a sharp rock. "No... you wouldn't..." Li Mei gasped as she remembered saying those words two years earlier, when Chi had abandoned her...
"Of course I would." He laughed maliciously, and without warning, drove the rock into Li Mei's eyes.
End of Flashback
Li Mei shuddered, recalling the feeling of drowning into blackness, as little by little her sight was lost. She had tried, believe me, to struggle and break free, but somehow a force, probably conducted by Chi, had held her in place as she screamed for help.
She looked out of the window of her new home in Tokyo. True, she couldn't see, but she could at least hear the wind and the birds. Li Mei had a sort of passion for the wind.
"Yo."
She frantically shook her head back and forth, trying to find the location of the voice.
"Hi, Li Mei! I'm Yoh Asakura, your next-door neighbor and classmate."
'Never mind, it's just one of those boys.'
"Wanna come over to our inn?"
'There's nothing better to do...'
"All right then, I'll be out soon."
On the way out she felt around and grabbed a cane, which she used to walking around so she wouldn't bump into things. She emerged outside on the sidewalk, and felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Yoh, is that you?"
"Mhm. Come on, I'll lead you to our onsen."
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Pirika wrapped a bandage around Horohoro's broken leg and sobbed. "Big brother, how did you get so... INJURED?"
Horohoro exchanged a secret glance with Ren, who's ears were currently red with smoke.
"Aw, it was nothing that your one-and-only Horohoro Usui couldn't handle!" Horohoro puffed out his chest.
"BIG BROTHER!" Pirika wailed loudly.
Ding-dong.
"I'll get it." Ren got up and strutted over to the door, only to be slapped aside by Anna.
"Funbari Hot Springs, how may I help you?" Anna opened the door. "Yoh? Who's this?"
Yoh stared at his shoes sheepishly. "She's this girl at our school, she's new, and she lives next door. I thought she might want to come over..."
Anna looked Li Mei over. "I've heard of you. You're blind, aren't you? Your father's famous around here."
Li Mei winced. "Yes, Anna-san, I've heard of you too. You've quite a... er... reputation around here -"
"Well that's good. Nice to know Yoh's going around saying wonderful things about me."
" - as the Ice Queen."
A deathly silence hovered around the room.
SLAP.
"O... my rear end... ow..."
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"This is Lyserg, Ren (I think you know him already), Horohoro, Chocolove, -"
"Chocolovely!"
Hao shot chocolove an odd look through a crack in the closet where he was currently being locked up. No one seemed to notice.
"Er. Right. And Anna, Tamao, and Hao." Yoh grinned while everyone looked at him, mouths agape.
Horohoro gave Yoh a stupid smile. "You didn't just say Hao, did you? Of course not!"
"Of course I did! He's right there - WHAT?!?!? HAO?!?!?!"
Hao had finally emerged from the closet, with Spirit of Fire behind him (Horohoro: Wow, that thing actually fits inside the house?), a pot in one hand.
"Yo. Anyone up for green tea?"
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"Nice to meet you."
Hao extended a hand to Li Mei, who accepted it.
"Nice to meet you too... I think." Hao quaked visibly under the handshake.
"Woah, talk about a macho chick." Horohoro whistled.
"Ugh... will you QUIT commenting on everything you see?"
"Right. Ok. Why am I listening to Ren again?"
"Why am I listening to a hen again?"
"CHOCOLOVE! MEET MY KWAN DAO!"
"Oops."
Yoh looked bored. "We're all shamans, Li Mei. That means we have the power to fight with spirits."
'Should I tell them? Ah well, no harm done, right Li Mei?"
"Er... I'm a shaman too, except my powers are a bit different from average shamans."
"EXCUSE ME? AVERAGE?"
"No Ren, I don't mean it that way... I mean, NORMAL shamans."
"Oh. Whatever."
"If you're a shaman, where's your main spirit?" Lyserg inquired.
"Right here. All right, Akiko, come on out!"
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What will Li Mei's spirit look like? Since she's blind, how will she fight as a shaman? Find out next time, on "You Are My Destiny: That Is Why I Love You"! By the way, if you have time, please read my other fanfic, Shaman Idol! It's a comedy, just to let you know. XD R AND R!