Chapter 6
Disclaimer: Sad to say, I still do not own Shaman King or any of its characters or related media.
Author's Note: hi! I really love the reviews that you gave me last chapter. I'm happy that almost all of you made a guess on who is the guy in Anna's hotel room. Your wild guesses never fail to put a smile on my face; most of you guys told me it was Yoh, at this point I will not confirm or deny anything. And because of that my not so freedom wall will be moved on the end of the chapter because it is meant to answer your questions and I don't want to spoil everything by letting the cat out of the box this early. And I apologize from the bottom of my heart for the delayed update on this fic. I know I've told you guys last chapter that updates would be faster this month, but as we can see my update time here is the same as the previous chapters. I am serious when I told you about the update its just that a lot of things happened namely my laptop got sick and has to rest for a few days and when it is ready to use projects and final exams are waiting in line for me and leave with no space for typing. It's still hot here in the Philippines I think the heat is frying my brains, but on the lighter side of things I will not hold you any minute longer and we will now proceed with the story
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"Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamond, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we don't have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spent it wisely"
Cecelia Ahern (The Gift)
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Anna was devastated as she head back on her hotel. She didn't have the urge to tour the city as what she had originally planned, so she had resolved in staying in the room all day. What she didn't know is that another inconvenience was waiting for her as she opened her door and blurted out, "What are you doing here?!?!"
The guy whom she was calling suddenly rose from his position on the bed.
"Oops, don't be angry, I'm just visiting you. I've told the receptionist that you and I are cousins. I've showed them some ID's and they believe me. At first I was in the lobby waiting for you but it took you so long to get back here and they pitied my situation down there so they finally let me in using the duplicate key" Redseb said, he was five years younger than Anna but no one looking at him would believe it. He was too big for his age.
"That still didn't answer my question," Anna asked through raised eyebrows, "What are you doing here?"
"I said I was visiting you" he answered back innocently.
"Visiting or spying me?"
"I don't know what you're talking about" he answered innocently.
Anna glared, disgust clearly visible on her face, "Come on tell me honestly, Jeanne sent you right?"
"I've come here on my own free will; no one sent or commanded me to visit you."
"Yeah and I am Snow White", Anna said sarcastically
"Why? You don't believe me Anna?" Redseb crumpled his face and showed a look of hurt.
"Stop it Redseb. I'm not buying it. Don't bother hiding your true intentions, as if I don't know that all of you are dying to know who that mysterious boyfriend is. Admit it." Anna said bitterly to him.
Redseb just laughed at her, "I won't confirm or deny anything!"
A vein popped in Anna's forehead, "Quit it! You're starting to piss me off!"
"Don't be angry Anna, your looking more of a witch now", he continued to laugh, "I just want to join in your fun with this business trip"
"I assure you Redseb, you won't squeeze anything out of me, come what may"
"I'll stay here in your hotel room cousin okay?"
"No!"
"Why not?"
"The hotel management won't approve of it. I checked in here announcing that I am alone."
"They let me stay in your room without your consent earlier, so I cannot see any reason why they would deny that I stay here now that you're in", Redseb reasoned out then stood from the bed and eyed Anna suspiciously, "Is it really the hotel management who will disapprove of my stay here or it is it you who disapprove because you don't want your boyfriend to see me here when he visited you?"
Anna instantly blushed then whacked his face, "Know what? Your brain needs cleaning, pervert! Just leave me alone, I'm not hiding anything much less a boyfriend!"
"If that's the case, then I can stay here right?"
Anna rolled her eyes in frustration, she knew that even if they argue here all and night he won't give up until he get his way, normally Anna would fight and make sure that she gets the upper hand but today's stress drained her energy away so she just shrugged and said, "If that'll make you happy, fine"
"Great!" Redseb shrieked in delight.
Anna stomped her feet and angrily went to the bathroom to change, of all of her cousins Redseb is the most determined and annoying if he set his eyes on something; sad to say that something now is her once peaceful life.
Anna was in the middle of a relaxing bath when she heard several knocks on the door, "what now Redseb?" she bickered.
"Your phone's ringing, should I answer it?" came the question from the other side of the door.
"No!" she automatically answered then hastily put on a robe and walked out of the bathroom.
"Give me the phone!" she demanded.
Redseb gave her a knowing look before handing her cell phone.
Anna just brushed the looks he gave her away.
"Hello…"
"Anna?"
"Who's this?" Anna's heart drum rolled.
The person on the other line laughed, "Come on, we've seen each other just this morning, don't tell me you already forgotten me? It's Yoh Asakura"
How can Anna forget that voice? After he said her name, she already knew it was Yoh, but the little voice inside her head keeps putting logical ideas to her, giving her a warning signal on being to close to someone whose life is an open book.
"I-I'm sorry but I don't know you." The words were so hard to spill out of her lips.
She immediately ended the call.
"You don't know the person on the line?" Redseb inquired, all this time watching he every move.
"I don't know who he is and he's definitely not my boyfriend"
Redseb just shrugged.
Her phone rang again, when she checked the LCD, it displayed Yoh's number, she immediately answered the phone, "You again? I've told you I don't know you. Stop bothering me!"
She let out a breath that she was holding when Redseb walked out of her room. Somehow, she knew that she convinced him about the caller on the phone. She just go back to the bathroom and lowered herself in the tub, all the time thinking if she had done the right choice of shutting Yoh out of her life.
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"You're giving me a headache just by watching you walk back and forth like a laboring hen. Will you stop it and tell me what's bothering you?" Jun demanded as she rubbed her temples.
"It's Anna. I've been calling her but she hanged up twice on me. I don't know what her problem is; I've introduced myself on each call." Yoh wailed.
"It's impossible that she didn't know your voice or your mobile number." Jun commented.
'Busted! Silly me, now Jun would suspect something is wrong here!' Yoh mentally slapped himself then formulated a response to defend Anna, "M-Maybe she accidentally deleted my number" he gave a nervous smile.
"Give me that phone; I'll be the one calling her." Before he could react, Jun snatched the phone from his hands and started to call Anna.
Yoh was sweating cold as the seconds seems like years.
After a while, Jun's face lit up, a signal that someone already picked up the phone, "Hello Anna, its Jun, Yoh's manager do you still remember me? How are you?"
But as fast as her face lit up, it turned dark and the happy aura quickly disappeared, "What are you—sh_t She hanged up on me!"
"What did she say?" Yoh can't help but ask.
"I don't know what's wrong with her. She said she didn't know us and that we shouldn't bother again. It's so impossible that she forgot us that easily", Jun fanned herself as if hyperventilating, "Why is she acting that way? From what I saw, you two didn't have a fight, as a matter of fact; you were in good terms when we left the hospital."
Yoh stayed silent.
After a pregnant pause, Jun stood up and looked Yoh straight in the eyes, "Tell me honestly, that woman is not your girlfriend right? Because if she really is your girlfriend, after I mentioned your name she would easily remember you. "
"Jun, what are you talking about?" Yoh said as he looked everywhere but Jun's eyes.
"Then my suspicions are correct," she concluded, "I know you Yoh Asakura, I have known you for seven years and I know that when your eyes can't focus, you're lying. You're never a good liar Yoh."
Yoh let out a breath that he was holding, he really can't hide a secret, a lot of people have told him that he was bad at lying; they were even surprised that he became a good actor on TV, he now felt like a rat cornered by a fierce cat.
"Who is she?"
Yoh didn't have a choice but to tell her the truth, he didn't want to test her temper, "S-she's the driver of the car who hit me that's why I'm hospitalized."
"Oh my god!" Jun's eyes widen with shock, "And what on earth has got into you to cover her in front of me? We should have sued her! Now what? She's free from her offense and is now avoiding us!"
"Alright, I know it's my fault, I just don't have the heart to expose her to a scandal. She doesn't mean for it to happen and was willing to take responsibility with the damage. One solid proof of that is her bringing me to the hospital and didn't just let me die in the streets."
Jun rubbed her temples and cursed under her breath, "It's the first time that I saw you make a fool out of yourself! You're a fool and a half! She just batted her eyelashes at you, just told you some dramatic excuse and you instantly gave in. just as I thought, woman is your weakness!"
"Think whatever you want to, call me whatever you want, fool that I am but I desperately need your help. I need to see her again. If I don't see her, I'll go crazy!"
Jun was surprised at him, "what do you mean?"
"Honestly I don't now. Maybe I just miss her" Yoh looked at her with puppy dog eyes.
Jun sighed, "Just as I thought, she must have caught your fancy. You're like that whenever you're fascinated by any of Eve's children; you'll do everything to get her. Womanizer!"
Yoh turned serious, "Call me whatever you want. Just help me find her," he almost pleaded at her feet.
"Stop that nonsense Yoh. You still have a lot of work to fin--"
Yoh cutted her, "Please… please… Jun…"
He didn't know what Jun saw in his face that made her change her mind. Jun seemed sympathetic with him, "O-Okay… I'll help you"
Yoh was happy that he was not alone in finding Anna, "First thing to do is to find which hotel she is staying so I could go and visit her."
"There is only one solution to that," Jun brought up a telephone directory, "We should call all the hotels here in Aomori, if we still didn't find her, I'll go with you to Funbari hill and for sure we will find some information there."
Yoh embraced her, "That's what I love the most about my manager, you love and spoil me so much that even my personal life is taken cared off and your main priority is my future. Thank you so much Jun. You're really heaven sent!"
Jun smiled mockingly at him then poked his forehead, "Enough pleasantries, this is no thank you Yoh, remember that! You have to promise me that will finish all your commitments here and in Tokyo before you got yourself into another misadventure. If not, we will lose a lot of money and would be in the hot seat!"
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Yoh was determined as he makes his way to the hotel where Anna was staying. He had with him a dozen red roses that he planned to give to her, he also prepared his line, and all in all in his mind he could never go wrong!
He can now visualize the smile on Anna's eyes as he will confess his love for her. He was so confident that she liked him too; all they just need is time to set things up.
He breathed in then out and checked his reflection in the car's tinted window, he smiled, and 'Perfect' he thought. He walked directly on the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel to the front desk where he asked what floor is Anna's room.
"May I ask what your relationship with Miss Kyouyama is?" the brown haired lady with the name 'Millie' on her nameplate asked Yoh.
"I-I am her cousin, yeah her cousin", he stammered as he blurted out the first excuse that he could think of, he wants to surprise Anna with his visit.
"May I have your name sir?"
"Is that really necessary?"
"It's for record purposes, Miss Kyouyama requested to let it be known to her who among her cousins are visiting her. Not just her cousins but anyone who wants to visit her." Millie calmly explained to him.
Yoh tried to remember the name of the people who replied to his text message, good thing it didn't take him long to remember one, "Okay, my name is Lyserg."
"Please hold on for a while. I will confirm this to Miss Kyouyama."
He waited while Millie talk with Anna on the phone, and after a few short conversation, she gave the information that he needed.
"Thank you Miss!" Yoh thanked her then winked.
Millie was taken aback by his wink then looked closely through his sunglasses, "W-wait sir... Aren't you---?"
"It isn't me" Yoh cut her next word as he left immediately left before she could remember who he really is.
"Here I come Anna…"
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Anna was troubled as she walked back and forth in her room. The receptionist informed her that another one of her cousins arrived and wanted to know her room number. She that Lyserg is now in his way. She can survive Redseb but an additional family member and most of all people, Lyserg Diethyl, Jeanne's boyfriend and most trusted and loyal ally is more than she can handle. She was sure that Jeanne sent him to be an 'additional' spy.
And it will just be a matter of minutes before the terror duo will join forces and extract as much information as they could from her. She has to go out here as soon as possible. She didn't change her t-shirt and just put on her jeans then hastily walked out of her room.
She saw Redseb watching TV in the living room and told him that she would buy something outside.
"I'll just going to buy something", she said but actually she didn't plan to go back until 7 pm since her next appointment is at nine pm.
"Come back soon, your boyfriend might come here and he might not see you" Redseb teased her over his shoulders.
"Bastard!" she growled as she glared at him before walking out of the door. Instead of using the elevator she uses the stairs because there is a high possibility that he and Lyserg would cross paths if she used the elevator.
Even though panting and her feet hurts, she gave a sigh of relief when she reached the lobby.
She knows that by now Lyserg is on his way on her hotel room and after that the two will form a plan to torment her.
She just shake that thought away then approached the receptionist, "If my cousins will look for me just tell them that I'll be back later and if they get hungry they can just order anything they want."
"Yes ma'am I'll tell them that."
"Thanks"
Anna was about to go when the receptionist called to her, "Ma'am I know its none of my business and I'm becoming so nosy but I really can't help it. Your cousins' are oh so handsome! And I didn't know that you have a cousin which is a celebrity."
"A celebrity?"
"Yeah, but he has a different name on TV, well, it really is natural in show business to use screen names. Who is he again?" Millie rubbed her temple and thinks deeply then as if a light bulb glowed on her brain, "I now remember his name, Yoh Asakura! Right, Yoh Asakura is the guy that asked for your room number!"
Anna's eyes went wide with shock as though a basin of cold water was splashed on her, "What?!? Are you sure that it's Yoh Asakura who's up there now? "
"Yes"
"Oh my god!" Anna shrieked, she immediately left the front desk and even forgot to thank the receptionist. She runs for the elevator but unfortunately both are still on the seventh floor.
She will still have to wait for five minutes or more!
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~not so freedom wal~
I know some of you might be disappointed because it's not Yoh whom Anna saw in her hotel room, but bear with me guys I have a different plan for the two of them, eventually they'll see each other, promise! By the way, a big THANKYOU for all of those who read and reviewed last chapter, especially:
FD14-BLACK SNOW - I missed you! You've been gone for a while, it's so good now that you're back, I understand your situation, and I myself also had a fair share of laptop malfunction times, especially when you need it the most. I'm grateful that you love my stories! Hope to see you in the next chapters and to read your works!
Complicatedmind21 – thanks for reviewing! Ren and Pirika's username really ate my time when I'm still thinking what to put in there. I'm not into chatting that's why it's hard for me to formulate a username. It's always a pleasure for me to put a smile on someone's face! By the way, are you in school around morning last Monday? Bongga yung experience na yun saken, naipit ako at nainitan ng todo, ayaw ng mga guards na magpapasok ng mga estudyante, di q alam na ang pagpasok pala sa eskwela ay double effort para sa isang student. Para kang dumadaan sa butas ng karayom!
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– thanks for reviewing! I also love those two, they're my most favorite anime couple!
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P.S. looking forward in reading another of your story!
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