Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King!
The next day, everyone was eating lunch, but it was more silent than usual.
"Did we miss something last night?" Shiow asked,
"Yeah, you guys seem to be…very quiet," said Yoh between mouthfuls.
"Shiow! They think their team is better than ours!" said Kira,
"Maybe because we are!" said Horo,
"That's right! Team Asakura is the best," said Ryu,
"WHAT?" Horo and Kira went.
"This is what you guys were fighting about?" Shiow asked.
Then Mikihisa appeared upside-down asking them to prove it,
"Where did you come from?" Ren asked,
"That's none of your concern, are you willing to prove which team is the strongest? We can do a practice fight if that's alright with Silva," said Mikihisa.
Silva said yes.
Shiow and Chris was eating taking no part in this,
"What are you doing here, Mikihisa?" they both asked at the same time.
"You know him?" almost everyone asked,
"It was because of him that I ran into Shiow Ying," said Chris.
"Oh yeah! I remember you, mask man!" said Kira.
"My team is not going to do a practice fight," said Shiow,
"WHAT?" Kira exclaimed,
"Yoh told me about him and his friends reading the tomb of the shaman. How can my team do a practice fight you guys if we can't practice the same way?" she pointed out.
"Oh fine!" said Kira.
At the desert the two teams planned out a strategy and then did their practice fight; yeah you know what happens in the episode.
Mikihisa suggested a training and everyone agreed to it.
"A grain of rice…" said Chris,
"And a brush," Kira finished.
"I want you to write the name of the one you cherish most,"
"WRITE ON THE RICE?"
"Let's see…." Chris thought and wrote his dog's name.
"I can't do this!" Kira whined trying to write one of her family member's name one it. Everyone else was either having a hard time too, or they just aren't complaining.
"Shiow Ying, why aren't you trying?" Mikihisa asked,
"I don't know, that's why," said Shiow.
"Come on, there must be someone," said Mikihisa.
Shiow thought about it, then wrote 'Friends.'
And then Mikihisa throws the rice out in the desert and they all start complaining and Anna kicks everyone off the cliff, yeah you know what happened in the episode.
Ren, Yoh, Shiow, and Chris tried mediating to find the rice. Everyone else had their own way.
"I can't find it! And all my spirits are looking too!" Kira whined,
"Can you keep it down! I can't concentrate!" Ren snapped,
"Shut up, spiky," said Kira,
"What did you just call me?"
"Get ready for a fight, everyone," said Chris with his eyes closed.
Hours passed and nobody found anything. Then Team Asakura's oracle bells went off announcing their next fight so they left.
"I can't do this anymore!" said Kira,
"I'm tired," said Horo,
"I'm hungry," said C.L.
"I'm thirsty," said Chris,
"I'm annoyed!" said Ren,
"I'm annoyed!" said Shiow.
"Are you saying I'm annoying?" Ren snapped,
"No," said Shiow.
"Get ready for a fight everyone," said Chris.
"Chinese people, sheesh what's wrong with them?" said Horo,
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Ren and Shiow shouted at Horo,
"Say that to my face! Horo Horo!" Shiow snapped,
"Insult my culture again, and I'll use your head to sharpen my weapon!" said Ren,
"Technically that's not possible," said Kira.
"Just don't get involved…even though I really want to pound snow-boy for insulting one of my cultures!" said Chris with a vein.
"Hey, what do you get if-"
"If your jokes are really as bad as they say, then I want to hear it, sorry," said Chris.
"Okay! I'm sorry!" Horo pleaded.
After a while of looking for a grain of rice, Shiow noticed that Shami seemed upset.
"Is something wrong?" Shiow asked
"Everything is fine!" said Shami with a fake smile,
"I know you, tell me," said Shiow.
"I don't want to," said Shami.
"…all ghost have unfinished business in this world, does this have to do with your unfinished business?" Shiow asked,
"Yes…" said Shami and tears ran a little.
"You don't have to tell me now, okay? I will try my best to help," said Shiow and left Shami alone.
The next day, they were still looking for that grain of rice.
While searching, Shami told Shiow in a whisper what her unfinished business was.
"I see…"
said Shiow and got up,
"I'll be right back okay?" she said.
She stopped by a rock in a forest,
"Is this it?" Shiow asked,
"Yes, but it's under it," said Shami and Shiow took her sword out,
"Guess I better break it," said Shiow and strikes…but,
"What the? My sword! I just broke my sword!"
"Omi said something about the moon," said Shami.
"Oh great…" said Shiow.
She got back to the desert and had to tell her team about her broken weapon,
"YOU BROKE YOUR SWORD?" everyone exclaimed but Ren.
"I hope that wasn't a family sword," said Chris,
"No, I never get the family stuff…I'm always at the bottom," Shiow moaned.
"Great, so what do we do when we have a fight?" Kira asked,
"Right when her body healed her weapon breaks," said Chris.
"Nice going," said Ren,
"It's going, and going, and going, it's go-" Horo stops him before finishing.
"Mind your own business Tao!" said Kira,
"Why don't you mind yours?"
"Because I like meddling with other people's business!" said Kira.
"Kira, just stop bothering him," said Shiow.
"I wonder how Yoh's doing in his fight." Chris wondered and right after he said that, Ryu just got squashed by the giant turtle spirit.
And Horo noticed a truck driving around like crazy,
"Is that Billy?" Horo asked.
"My, my, what a shame. I expected Shiow Ying to find her grain of rice by now," said Hao watching,
"But wasn't she trying to help her spirit a while ago, Hao-Sama?" asked Opacho,
"Yes, but she ended up breaking her weapon, how sad. It seems so that my weaker side has been on her mind lately. If not, then…hm, interesting," Hao got up to leave,
"Come Opacho,"
"Yes Hao-Sama."
"Shirako?"
"Yes?"
"Shiow Ying told me she was trying to help Shami with her unfinished business, so I was thinking if I could help you," said Chris while taking a break.
"That's no necessary,"
"But tell me anyway," said Chris,
"I always wanted to make a sword. I was half-way done but I was killed before I could finish,"
"So, you want to finish making that sword of yours,"
"Yes, but that sword must be destroyed by now," said Shirako.
"Not necessarily," said Kira eavesdropping.
"You see, my family collects treasures and antiques. If you're looking for a half sword that was unfinished, I think I have it," said Kira.
"Don't worry, Shami, we'll get that gift under the rock and we'll find your grain of rice as soon as I get a new weapon to help find it with," said Shiow.
"My rice is probably buried much deeper in the desert by now," said Shami,
"You never know," said Shiow.
"Man, Kira is so cunning, I still wonder if she's single…who am I kidding, girls always turn me down…" Horo thought.
"I wonder what's been on Shiow Ying's mind. When I first met her, she had an attitude and she didn't have a care in the world. Now…it looks as if she also has something she needs to do and hardly argues. Maybe she just needs a reminder…" Ren thought.
R and R please?