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History's Flames;
A Thousand Paper Cranes Arc
Chapter Eleven
Anna blinked, and awkwardly shifted in Yoh's arms, not having any clue what to say back, she turned away from his gaze, her face turning blank but pink, and softly said, "Idiot."
Yoh just grinned and held her tighter; not wanting to let her go, then something dawned on him as he began reasoning his thoughts in his head. "Anna…why are you here?"
SMACK!
Yoh winced at the brutal slap the blonde itako gave him, Anna pushed herself out of his arms and stood up, leaving Yoh there on the ground, trying to realize what had happened. "WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?" the Queen irritably shouted out in rage, looking at her husband in anger and disbelief. "I SHOULD BE THE ONE ASKING YOU WHAT THE HELL YOU'RE DOING IN MYHEAD!"
Yoh blinked and he stood up, dusting the snow off of his clothes, then he looked at Anna and gave a sheepish grin as he scratched the back of his head. "It was involuntary, Anna."
Anna furrowed her eyebrows together, a vein popping on her forehead, "Involuntary?" she yelled through her gritted teeth, her hand rolled up in two perfect and tight fist.
Yoh didn't flinch…much. Part of him was used to Anna's yelling when he did something wrong, the other part couldn't help but to still be a bit frighten when she was this way. After all, Anna's power was strong enough to kill you with one thought. Sooner or later Yoh would have a power many times greater than Anna's, but he doubted that that would make him feel any less afraid.
"Anna, I really didn't mean to!" Yoh blurted out in explanation. "If I would've known I would have been away from you for so long I wouldn't have-"
He stopped immediately when he saw her cock up one of her perfect brows. She closed her eyes and softly said, "It's only been about four days, Yoh."
Yoh once again scratched the back of his head and looked down at the shining white snow under his shoes. "I guess I can't stay away from you even for a few days, Anna." He admitted, his brown eyes turning soft, and a faint pink glow appearing on his cheeks.
Anna felt her eyes grow, but immediately recovered and turned her back to him swiftly. "Idiot." She mumbled once more, trying to hide the smile forming on her face. She let out a sigh and straightened herself. "Don't suck up to me just so I won't stay mad at you." She accused. "I'm still not forgiving you for entering my subconscious memories this way."
Yoh hung his head, Anna completely misunderstood the meaning of his words. But even as she accused him, she didn't seem so mad at all. So he just simply cheered himself up and smiled, walking over to Anna's side. "I'm still not leaving, Anna. Not until I find out what happened to you here." He whispered in her ear.
Anna rapidly jerked her body to view him, her olive eyes wide with disbelief. "T-that's why your in my head?" she stuttered. Yoh nodded his head, and Anna felt a big lump at her throat. "You can't…I won't allow you to do that." She told him.
"Why?" he asked. He saw Anna receive a shock from his question; obviously she must've thought he would have obeyed her if she would've just said no.
"Bad things happened here, Yoh. I don't want you to find out about them."
Yoh shook his head. Even if Anna did not want him to know what had happen, for once in his life he was planning to not listen to her. She was shutting him out of her heart, like she tried to do five years ago and Yoh just didn't listen to her, saying he wanted to help her out. How did that turn out? She ended up loving him, and he her.
"I know that bad things must've happened, Anna. I saw one of them." –Anna jerked her head up to look at him- "I saw what happened to Shio Yui, I was the first time you summoned an oni, right?"
"Hai." She answered blankly, her eyes turning away from his kind face. "And it was my first murder." She reminded him.
"But you didn't mean to. You won't do it agai-"
"DO YOU THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE I DON'T MEAN TO MEANS IT DIDN'T HAPPEN?" she shouted at him, this time Yoh didn't flinch, he just stood there as she shouted at him, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
"HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU, YOH?" she asked him.
Yoh calmly answered her. "What has?"
Anna seemed surprised that Yoh was able to stay calm while she yelled at him. He just stood there, waiting for her answer, his eyes filled with plenty of concern to what she had to say. Anna seemed to calm herself and took a deep breath.
"Answer me, Yoh. Have you ever even heard of this place before? Or any other Kyoyamas? Or Manta ever mentioning a doctor he knew with the name Kyoyama?"
Yoh thought about it for a small second, taking in Anna's words. "Iie." He answered.
"Don't you realize what that means?"
Yoh thought about it some more. To tell you the truth he never even heard of Cadm from Shilva or any of the other Patches. But now that he thought about it, the only Patch member he never heard of besides Cadm was Jane, but that was because before Anna revived her she was…Yoh's eyes grew in realization of what Anna meant by this. He turned to look at her, and she, with her eyes away form his gaze, nodded slowly.
"Hai. All the people in this city are going to die…because of me."
VRRROOOOOOOONNNNNOOOONNOOOONN
Yoh's head turned at the sound of a siren nearby, Anna just looked at the ground, her arms crossed out in front of her. Yoh shifted his body to view where the cacophonous sound came from. He then suddenly realized that he and Anna where in front of the school, just on the gates of the campus. He saw students running out of the school and jumbling up in larges crowds.
Yoh turned to look at Anna, her face into a blank stone, smooth yet expressionless. Yoh took her by the hand and pulled her into the school campus with him. To his surprise, she didn't protest, she just let Yoh drag her as if she was some lifeless creature.
It wasn't so hard to get through the crowd, seeing as since they were in spirit form, all they had to do was just go right through the pile of people. Then they made it to the doors of the school where almost about every student was standing. Both shamans could hear all the whispers being said in the mass of students.
"How bad was it? Were all of them killed?"
"I heard the students just saw a bunch of things being thrown around."
"And in the locker rooms too."
"How much blood?"
"The floor was covered in red."
"I heard Kyoyama-chan fainted from the sight of all the blood."
"Hai. Right in the hallway too. Sensei called Edward-sama saying something about a headache and by the time she was down the hallway…blood."
"What about that other girl who asked to go to the bathroom?"
Yoh stopped listening and began skimming through all the students, searching for any sights of Edward, Misaka, or Anna-chan. He couldn't find any of them; he turned to Anna who did nothing but just stare blankly at all the students around her.
He walked up to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Anna, listen to me." He ordered as nicely as he could, she stared him dead in the eyes. "This doesn't change a thing, okay? But tell me, where is your younger self?"
Anna blankly gazed at Yoh in the eyes; she didn't hesitate to give him an answer "Over there." She pointed to the right wing of the school. She began walking in that direction, her arms crossed tightly against her chest, and her eyes turning cold, in order to prepare herself for one of her memories.
Yoh followed from behind; when Anna stopped Yoh walked a few steps ahead, noticing that Anna's now cold eyes didn't pull away from the scene in front of them. Yoh looked back and warmly said, "You don't have to see this, Anna."
Anna rolled her eyes, "I've seen it once before, Yoh, and I was seven. Besides…this is nothing compared to what you will see later on…that is, if I'll let you stay."
Yoh smiled and then prepared himself to see how the small version of his wife was doing, he slowly turned and almost forgot to breath.
There on the steps of the left wing of the school was Edward, sitting on the steps with Anna-chan in his arms. He had some red stains on his arms, it was until Yoh looked at the blonde in his arms that he realized why.
Anna-chan had her arms propped up on Edward's knees, her head resting on them. Her uniform was completely filled with dust, rubble, and blood. Her eyes were open and Yoh could see they were cold, cold and almost lifeless.
'It happened again...why?...why do I do this?' Yoh heard her ask in her head.
Yoh felt a strong aching pain in his chest, the pain was worse than when he saw Yui's cold dead body; this time more people lost their lives. How did he know?
He turned to his right and could see all the students in form of spirits, each one completely confused as to why they were dead.
"Hai. Another mysterious murder…iie it's not mysterious anymore…I saw it with my own eyes…well, come and see yourself then."
Yoh saw Anna clench her hands into two tight fists when the voice was heard, she was glaring at someone, Yoh followed her gaze. He looked around and saw a student talking on a cell phone. He eyed the girl, she had long dark orange hair that placed up in two high pig tails. She was young, about Anna-chan's age, with big round and bright lavender-grey eyes.
The girl hung up the cell phone and looked around, Yoh noticed that her clothes were also stained in blood. There was something about her, she seemed…different.
Yoh watched as the girl walked over to Edward and Anna-chan, Anna-chan lifting her head up when sensing new thoughts approaching.
"Ano…" the girl said in a sweet voice, "I don't know much of this place, seeing as I'm as new as you may be, but I was wondering...could we…become friends? Since we are both new–if you want to I mean."
Yoh frowned; the girl was obviously a fake, why of all people would she just go up to Anna-chan? And what was she saying on the phone? "I saw it with my own eyes?"
Yoh began to get a really bad feeling about this girl, and for some reason Oyamada Mansumi came to mind.
Out of the corner of his eye, Yoh saw Anna turn on her feet and begin to walk away. "Uh-Anna!" he called after her.
She turned and Yoh saw that her eyes were cold, yet burning with anger, but they soften themselves at seeing his worried expression.
"We're leaving, come on." She softly ordered, her voice barely above the whisper of the wind.
He felt it was better to leave, but he didn't feel like leaving the small Anna there when she was in shock.
"I went through it like that before, Yoh. You aren't going to change anything."
She began walking first, after a few seconds Yoh walked with her, his mind on Anna-chan. 'School just resulted to be another one of those things that troubled Anna.' He firmly stated in his mind.
How hard was it to figure out what had happened? She was locked up in a room where many students were at, students in their teens that, out of all the ages, have more wishes than any other age. So Anna-chan got one of her head aches and just moments after she left the room…BAM! An oni appears, causes mischief and then disappears.
Yoh frowned as he imagined all those poor people…dead, he began to pick up his pace a bit as his thoughts continued on. At this age Anna was way too young to see so many people dying in front of her, but it made perfect sense to him, it's the same thing as Ren. Both grew up in a place full of death causing cruelty to each one's heart, almost shutting out the whole world, wishing for it to be destroyed.
Yoh turned to look at Anna and finally noticed he was walking some steps in front of her. She was walking fast to keep up, but her steps were hesitant, and her eyes just view almost everything in town exceptfor him.
Yoh stopped dead in his tracks and held out a hand, Anna flinched in surprise and Yoh just smiled. "I said it didn't change anything, right?"
Anna slowly placed her hand into his, Yoh wrapping his hand around two of her smooth gentle fingers. Then they continued to walk, Yoh with a smile on his face which was caused by the fact he now got his wish and Anna was with him.
In spirit form, it didn't take long before Yoh finally led them to Cadm's house, Yoh just went right through the door and brought Anna along with him. He saw Cadm at the table eating along with Ohachiyo.
Cadm spotted him and smiled. "Ah, Yoh-sama, just in time for lunch! Come, sit down my friend there's plenty to eat."
Yoh noticed Cadm didn't seem to notice Anna one bit, it was as if she was invisible to him. Yoh shook his head and said, "No thanks, I'm not that hungry."
Ohachiyo choked on a piece of fish.
"Did something happen?" Cadm asked, as Ohachiyo struggled to get himself a drink of water, chugging the whole cup of water down.
"Did your chibi wife get mad at you or something?" Ohachiyo joked as soon as was able to breathe again, daring to put another bite of fish in his mouth.
A vein popped on Anna's forehead. "Chibi wife?" she ragingly asked, her teeth grinding roughly against each other.
Yoh looked at the wall, trying to avoid Anna's evil death glare. "Iie, another oni appeared." He told Ohachiyo. Cadm's brows shot up instantly as Yoh went on, "It killed a classroom full of students."
The Patch scratched his chin as he took this in. "I see." He mumbled to himself, "This is getting more troublesome. She needs to be purified, but there is no way to take her down to Mu…"
Yoh blinked as he felt Anna tighten her two fingers in his hand. "Purify?" he asked, having the urge to sit down, but he didn't want to let go of Anna at the moment.
"Oh, you don't know do you? Well seeing as you're the Shaman King I'm sure you must have been passed the plant of Lake, am I right?" –Yoh nodded- "Well that water is used when we must cleanse the queen of all evil. She is to go into the water and rest in it for a few hours, giving her knowledge and tinting her eye color red, to symbolize the blood shed during the future Shaman Fights."
Yoh began to wonder if Annaka-san had ever been purified, seeing as her eyes were blood red, but he didn't seem to want to ask, he knew Anna wasn't purified, her eyes were always that cold olive color which she kept it.
He just nodded in understanding and said he wasn't feeling well, Cadm let him go up to his borrowed room.
Yoh walked up the stairs, still holding Anna's two fingers in his hand, pulling her along with him. She didn't say a word, not until Yoh took her into the room and shut the door from behind them.
"Why?" she asked. Turning her back to him and kneeling down to the ground, wrapping her arms around her knees and resting her head on her arms.
Yoh blinked, not having a clue to what Anna was asking him. He took a step closer to her and she buried her head in her arms and yelled. "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE WITH ME!"
Yoh furrowed his brows together, he was lost in Anna's question, he took another step towards her, now placing a hand on her shoulder, which calmed her a bit to his touch. "Anna…"
"Yoh, didn't you see what I had done?" she asked, not daring to look at him. Behind her Yoh gave a soft smile.
"Hai I saw." He calmly responded, "I know now where you're going with this, and no, I'm not mad Anna. You want me to not forgive you for killing innocent people, right?"
He saw Anna slowly shake her head. Yoh walked until he was right beside Anna, then sat on the ground beside her. "Well it's easier to forgive you." –Anna jerked her head and yelled 'What?'– "What did I tell you five years ago, Anna? I like being carefree so when I see you troubled and sad, I just can't leave it like that. And me not forgiving you won't help you one bit."
Anna clenched her fist and slammed them at Yoh's sides bringing her face inches to his, Yoh thought she was about to slap him, but when she lowered her head he had doubts about it. "Why do you have to be so damn forgiving, Yoh?" she asked him, bringing her head up to look at him.
Yoh took the chance to softly brush his lips on Anna's, making her eyes grow wide, she opened her mouth to say something but Yoh interrupted her. "I know it stills bother you, Anna. So I'm just going to forgive you. After all, I'm the one that wants to know what happened so…I'm staying."
Anna looked down. "You're not going to like what you see." She whispered, "Remember everyonein this town is going to die." Her tone turned cold once more and Yoh knew he won, how did he know? Anna was back to normal…for now.
"You're the one who said death is a part of life." He told her as-a-matter-of-factly. Then he leaned back on his futon, bringing Anna down on the futon with him. She ended up on top of him, her head on his chest, she glared at Yoh, who just smiled and said, "I missed this too."
Both of them gave a small blush, but Yoh's was less noticeable because of his grin, but since Anna's face was blank he could see the tints of pink on her cheeks. "Idiot." She mumbled once more. Then she raised her head and lifted a brow. "Yoh, you don't expect me to sleep in this dress, do you?"
Yoh looked at her, she was wearing the same black dress she always did, Yoh thought for a moment and sighed, "Take my yukata." He told her pointing to the robe hanging on a wall nearby.
Anna stood and walked over to the wall and yanked the yukata off the hook it hanged off of. Then she began taking her dress off and Yoh let out a yelp. "Anna, don't change in front of me!" he yelled, his face turning the color of a tomato, he grabbed his pillow and placed it over his face.
Anna rolled her eyes and continued changing, "You act as if you've never seen me undress before." She complained.
Yoh muffled some words into the pillow, still not wanting to show his face. Anna tied her yukata and bent down to look at him. "What was that?" she asked out of uttermost curiosity.
Yoh lifted his head from the pillow and gave a sheepish grin when Anna saw his red face. "I said it was only once."
Anna crossed her arms in front of her, "So you need to see me more than once to feel comfortable?" she asked irritably.
Yoh looked away, his face turning –if possible– darker shades of red. "Ano…lets not talk about this anymore." He mumbled his breath, then in a louder voice he added, "Oi, I'm going to rest for a while."
"It's still evening, Yoh. The sun hasn't even set."
"Hai, but I'm tired either way." Yoh complained, already bringing his covers over his body and placing his head on his pillow.
Anna let out a sigh and set her head on the pillow beside Yoh. Yoh just beamed triumphantly and closed his eyes. "Oyasumi, Anna."
"It's still evening, Yoh."
"Ah, gomen. Konichiwa Anna."
"Konichiwa, Yoh."
Kino took a sip of water and placed the cup on the table. "I'm sensing most of you are not happy with the decision of keeping Nianna around."
Tao En crushed the cup in his hand. "She could be a great threat! There must be a reason to why Goldva wanted her dead."
Tao Ran patted her husband's arm. "Watch it, En. Stress is bad for your health."
"I am also not comfortable with the situation." Yohmei protested, slamming his wrinkly fist on the table and Kino hitting that hand with her cane.
"I do not since any evil from that girl, so there is nothing to dispute about. Is there, my stupid husband?" she asked raising her voice and changing it to a more menacing tone.
Keiko simply got one of Ran's fans and swayed it back and forth, cooling herself as she spoke. "I do not have the least bit of trouble with the girl. In fact, I'm quite fond of her and Annaka, considering they remind me of Anna of course."
Ran nodded her head, also fanning herself with one of her big frilly pink fans. "But, those three she carries around with her…Soraguimi, is it? They seem too…perfect to be considered normal, no?"
"Jealous, my daughter?" Tao Ching laughed while taking a sip of his tea. Ran placed a hand on her cheek, gave an innocent smile, and softly whacked her father on his bald head.
"Perfect or not." Mikihisa added to the conversation, "Their character seems a bit old fashion to be in this era."
"Point not taken." Kino told them, bringing her cup of tea to her mouth. "We shall not do anything." She took a sip from her cup. 'Unless of course, they are a threat to us.'
Yoh began walking down the stairs, taking each step slowly to make sure he would not fall because of his drowsiness. He had had slept great last night, it was up there with the-night-before-America night. Why? Because Anna had slept by him, and it calmed him to know that she was with him again.
But when he woke up Anna wasn't in the futon with him anymore, the yukata she used was on the floor in front of the bathroom door so Yoh guessed she must have already woken up.
As Yoh came down the smell of something really good came to him, making walk faster to see what it was, when he got to the kitchen he smiled.
Anna was at the stove wearing an apron and her hair was pulled back, she was placing some food into a tiny tester to taste it. Yoh came from behind and slowly wrapped his arms around her small waist.
"Ohayo, Anna!" he cheerfully said as he placed his head on her shoulder, watching her as she continued to cook.
"You're finally awake, Yoh. What took you so long?" she asked blankly as she kept on fixing the food in front of her, which was turning to look like an amazing cuisine.
He gave her a soft smile, "I just slept really good last night!"
Anna roll her eyes, "Maybe next time I shouldn't sleep with you so you can learn to wake up in the morning." She told him. Yoh blinked, not understanding what she meant by that, Anna explained it to him.. "It's 1700 Yoh. You slept for twelve hours."
"AH! Did I really!" Yoh exclaimed, letting go of Anna and turning to view the clock behind him.
Anna looked at him as if he were crazy. "Is that really such a surprise, Yoh? You sleep in all the time." She stated as-a-matter-of-factly.
Yoh frowned, then looked at the food on the table and smiled as he sat down and picked up his chopsticks. "I never thought you could cook, Anna." He admitted, taking a bit of donburi and popping it into his mouth, the food being so heavenly that he savored each bite.
Anna shrugged, taking her seat beside Yoh and taking a serving of korokke and placing it on her rice bowl. "We always had Ryu and Tamao to cook so what was the point?" she asked, little pieces of rice entering her small mouth.
"Yeah, but they don't cook as great as you do." Yoh told her, now stuffing his mouth with tempura, and chugging it down with water.
Anna smiled behind the rice bowl that covered the lower half of her face, there was silence as the both of them ate their lunch, Yoh stuffing his mouth and savoring each bite, and Anna curtly eating hers.
Yoh began looking at the walls as he ate, his eyes gazing over each thing that hanged on them, his eyes stopped as he viewed the calendar, it read December 24th.
"Tomorrow is Christmas." He said in awe, eying the calendar and suddenly making plans in his head.
Anna followed his gaze to the calendar. "Looks like it." She agreed.
Yoh frowned as he thought of something, how did he not notice the date until now? "You know Anna we have never really done any of the Christmas traditions…"
"You are not dressing like a fat guy in a red suit as if you were an American." Anna remarked, her eyes furrowing together as she said those words to him.
Yoh sweat dropped, "Iie, not that. I meant…" *blush* "I meant spending a romantic evening together like a normal couple…" he said in a low skittish voice.
Though Anna's face was unreadable Yoh saw a line of ghostly pink spread on her cheeks. "Oh." Was all she said. "I don't think we could do that well."
"Why not?"
Anna put down her bowl and sighed, "Because…something is going to happen tomorrow with…my younger self."
"With Anna-chan?" Yoh asked, a little aghast that something bad would ever occur on Christmas. "What's going to happen?" he gulped.
Anna stood from the table, placed her bowl in the sink, and began washing the dishes. "You'll find out tomorrow, but pack your things, we're going to Kyouto tomorrow. That's where it's all taking place."
"Kyouto? Ah, that place is great." Yoh eyes got soft, "My family went to Kyouto once, it was the only time we were together as a family, Mum, Dad, and I…"
Anna noticed how Yoh's voice softly trailed off and saw the sweet and warm images in his head. "You rode the swan boats too?"
Yoh nodded. "Hai, ever since then I've kinda had a liking to swans." He admitted to her, then he looked at her as she scrubbed a plate. "Anna since when do you wash the dishes."
Anna stopped scrubbing and Yoh saw a small vein popped on her forehead, "Would you rather wash them Yoh?" she asked irritably.
"I-iie, it's just that…usually you make me do them." He said stuffing the last of his food in his mouth.
"Well you're supposed to be living an easy life from now on."
"So are you." Yoh reminded her.
Anna rolled her eyes. "This is the only time I'm going to wash them, it's not going to kill me."
"Okay then, Anna."
Anna continued washing the dishes, then she became lost in her thoughts, trying hard to remember what happened on tomorrow's date eight years ago, but her mind was blank, only a few sketchy images came to place together. "Yoh?"
"Hai?" he muffled through his mouth of stuffed some incredibly tasting yakitori.
"I…I-don't…remember much of what's going to happen tomorrow." She admitted, a bit angered by the thought that her memory was falling her at the moment.
Yoh blinked and put down the yakitori. "What do you mean Anna?"
"It's all very sketchy and ghostly. I only remember going to Kyouto and…waking up in the hospital and…someone being dead."
Yoh stood from the table and placed his empty bowl in the sink and gave Anna a smile. "Guess we'll both find out tomorrow, huh?"
Anna nodded and kept her eyes on the plates, scrubbing hard, while trying not to leave any scratches. Yoh stretched and said, "I'm going to go and visit Anna-chan, then on the way back I'll tell Cadm to bring some food from the café he works at." –He turned to Anna- "Do you want to come with me?" He asked her.
The blonde shook her head, strands of hair falling on her face. "I'd rather not go to that house." She said curtly but with a hint of incensed irk.
Yoh nodded in understandment then he brushed the strands of blonde off of Anna's face, then he took the advantage and quickly kissed her on her lips, Anna wincing in surprise. Then Yoh pulled away and grinned.
"I'll be back as soon as I can!" he called out as he headed for the door.
When he left Anna gave a soft smile, but her eyes then began losing themselves once more in her thoughts.
"I lie here in the frozen water that falls from the dark midnight sky, on a small bridge that is the same color as the liquid that is gushing out from my back. The snow I lie on is not white anymore; but still cold against my skin. It is now red snow, the color of a scarlet ibis, the color of the bridge and the liquid. There is an object glistening behind me, a blade, a blade which is held by the one that put me in the position I am in. I look at the red snow and see my long locks of sunshine floating on the red liquid, it too was cut from that one time I had trusted the person behind me. And this is how I am. But now my breathe is leaving me, and I can feel the wind calling me, mocking me for my childish stupidity. As I wait for my last breathe to come I vow never to trust again, I will trust and love no more, I will hate all of his kind. Those who are nothing more than humans who destroy what they do not understand. I hear whispers behind me and I hear a copter coming down onto the pure white snow. I close my eyes and finally realize the pain is gone, and my last breathe is not coming. I believe it to be a New Years miracle or it could be luck or Kami-sama's will. But though my last breathe isn't coming, for these people who have hurt me…their last breathe is on its way."
Anna let out a sigh as she finished those words, the memory of those words led her to say one thing. "Idiot. The end of this town shall come on New Years. I am an Idiot for not remembering the date. But tomorrow leads to the events. But that does not change the fact that I am an idiot for forgetting when I want to remember."
History's Flames;
Chapter Eleven
Mikihisa placed his bowl of miso soup on the table and clear his throat, his eyes on one of the new comers at the end of the table. "Nianna-chan," –Nianna raised her head– "We'll have to make some arrangements for you to stay. Such as fake papers, ID's, stuff like that and also-"
A folder was thrown right in Mikihisa's face, when it gently fell on the table he took it in his hands and opened it.
"That will be all you need for her stay at the Funbari Inn." Arisu informed across the table. "It contains all the things you will need."
"Impressive." Mikihisa muttered to himself, his eyes growing as he looked at the well forged papers that were inside the folder. "How did y'all come up with such well forged papers?"
Wilhelmina took a sip of her tea and placed it down. "When it comes to making images look real, I have a specialty for that." She responded, the sides of her lips curving into a sort of secretive grin.
Mikihisa didn't notice, he just kept on muttering to himself how well made the documents were.
Emmetto looked across the table over to Nianna, his face grim. "Wewon't be staying." He told her, "It'd be best if we didn't…for some of you at least."
Nianna nodded, not looking very interested. "No one is making you stay. Leave at your own will."
"On the contrary," Nagehiko's bass voice spoke up, making everyone at the table turn to him, "Asakura will make you stay, one way or the other, so you'll three will have to wait a while."
Emmetto smirked and a look of pride appeared on his face. "Asakura Hao has no power over me, Nagehiko." He smugly remarked.
They all heard Nagehiko chuckle, it was so smooth and perfect, making many wonder what his visage was like. "I never said it was Asakura Hao."
That shut the blonde up immediately, but his grim look never left his face. Tamao looked at him and blushed as she opened her mouth to speak then closed it, she pulled out her sketchbook and wrote on that instead.
Emmetto jerked his head up to look at Wilhelmina beside him, she pointed with her eyes in Tamao's direction, and he followed her gaze.
We have plenty of rooms back at the future Funbari Inn you all could stay at.
Emmetto raised a brow and the girl immediately flinched and wrote some more.
But don't feel obligated to! It's just an offer! Do as you wish!
The blonde boy turned to the pixie girl on the other side of him, she seemed dazed for a few seconds then a stunning grin crept up her face, she turned to Emmetto and cheerfully announced, "We're staying!"
While the shamans kept on talking the women of the two shaman houses, Asakura Keiko and Tao Ran, were eyeing the team known as Soraguimi. They just couldn't find it easy to believe that those three were 'human'.
They were quite stunning, too stunning as a matter of fact. The blacked haired girl was amazingly delicate and fair, her black hair spiked on its edges yet it perfectly framed her pale face. She was well built but not much, just enough for her age, which seemed to be fifteen years, the same as most of the shaman at the table.
The boy was a sight, a gorgeously handsome man. Strong muscles, a tall and leaner body, radiant blonde hair, dazzling golden eyes that distracted you from his also pale face. What they found peculiar about him was the fact that he seemed much older than he appeared, it was his seriousness, it added about six years to his character, but physically he appeared the same age as the pixie girl beside him.
Now the real sight was the Chinese red-head to his left. Her hair was a smooth mess of dark blood red curls and waves that gently framed her pale face and brought out her golden eyes. This girl was verywell built, her size was up there with Tao Jun and Bismark Kanna. Her age seemed to be around there too, she was obviously the older one of the three and probably the most stunning one out of all of them.
They were so stunning they did not even seem of this time period. Why? Because of the way the dressed and acted. So proper but yet not of this time…
(A/N: Y'all know how I love guessing games but note that Ran and Keiko say that Soraguimi don't seem 'human'. Meaning their appearance is way too perfect. Who else has an 'unhuman' appearance? Anna, Annaka, and Nianna. And they are all 'inhuman-like' due to the fact they are Shaman Queens. So that tells you that Soraguimi are not regular shamans either. One more thing, Soraguimi alsoallhave pale faces and golden eyes, saying they are the same kinds of 'inhuman' people. WELL ON WITH THE STORY!)
"Lyserg-kun, you're bleeding." The pixie girl told the green haired boy in front of her, pointing to his arm.
Lyserg looked down at his arm, indeed his arm was bleeding, the red paint was practically tinting his white shirt. "Ah, my wounds must have opened up!" he said standing up and taking a bow. "Suminasen, I will go wash up immediately!"
Everyone followed the British boy with their eye as he hurried out of the room.
"Oh," The face of Faust suddenly became a look of concern, "it has already begun..." He said slowly.
"W-what has begun?" the vertically challenged boy beside Tamao with a muffled voice, his body shaking as Faust's expression changed.
Silence reigned room... Faust lowered his head, shadowed his eyes and muttered under his hair... "The end…OF EVERYONE!"
"NNNNAAAANNNII!" all of those present simultaneously cried.
The dark face of the doctor changed immediately...
"It's a joke." Faust cheerfully chuckled.
All the shaman fell back to the bad joke of the doctor; all except Manta who fainted instead, his black humor definitely was not to the liking of those present.
(A/N: *imagines story as an anime and rolls over laughing*)
Chocolove stomped his foot on the table and pointed a piece of chicken at Faust, frantically waving it up and down. "Hey, I'm the only one who does the jokes around here!" he annoyingly protested.
Faust gave a lazy but cheerful smile. "Anyone can tell a joke, of course yours is not as funny as mine."
"WHAT WAS SO FUNNY ABOUT IT!" the dark shaman asked, his foot still on the table.
The lazy smile never left the doctor's face. "The fact that everyone was so scared."
Ryu began laughing as the thoughts of everyone's expressions popped into his head. "Hahaha, hai, even The Taos seemed scared by Faust's joke."
The room began to fill with cacophonic arguments and protests, while others such as Tamao were tending to the one who fainted.
"Manta-kun?" she worriedly called, looking down at him with Amidamaru hovering over her calling, "Manta-dono?"
"Why do all of you people have to be so NOISY!" a booming ringing voice shouted out through the entrance of the dining room.
The room instantly became silent at hearing the voice, then a strong bass like laugh was heard. "Haha, you guys are amusing. It's only Annaka, no Anna present here." He laughed his butt off. "You guys are too much." He said, placing two fingers on his forehead and shaking his head back and forth.
"Are you kidding?" Horohoro piped up, his hand on his chest to feel his rapid breathing, "As a regular person it's normal for everyone to be afraid of Anna."
Hao raised a brow, "Yoh and I weren't." he proudly stated.
Horo rolled his eyes and rested his head on his arm, "Well you and Yoh are a bunch of lovesick bastards." He huffed
Jeanne got up from her position on the table and took a small bow, "Suminasen, but I will go and check what is taking Lyserg awhile."
She left with a small smile, causing both Horohoro and Ryu to become dazed by her illuminant smile. The others just rolled their eyes, Hao and Annaka both smirked, each knowing they were both thinking the same thing...
Maybe those two could finally open up their hearts to each other.
Lyserg dabbed his wounds with a warm towel, the water on the towel fell his on his wounds, giving him a small wince of pain. His shirt was full of blood so he threw it on the floor as he tried to clean his injuries. He kept dabbing but the blood wouldn't stop flowing.
'Strange,'he thought to himself, 'my wounds have never taken so long to heal.'
"Lyserg?"
The towel fell out of his hand as The Maiden's voice startled him, he turned to see her standing at the doorway, a sort of worried look on her soft looking face.
"Ah! J-Jeanne-sama! What are you doing here?" the green haired shaman stuttered, embarrassed by the fact his leader was seeing him there without his shirt.
But Jeanne seemed as if she paid no attention to that, instead she looked at Lyserg straight in the eyes. "Does it hurt?" she softly asked, coming over to him and touching the wounds on his arm.
Lyserg winced, not only because the wounds did indeed hurt, but also because he was under Jeanne's gentle touch. He blushed a bit, then took a step back, to keep distance. Jeanne noticed this and slightly frowned, but it was unnoticeable to the male.
"Ano…it doesn't hurt that much Jeanne-sama, it'll eventually heal itself so no need to worry." He quickly responded, trying his best to smile.
"It doesn't appear to be healing."
"Ano…it might take awhile…" he wasn't so sure of this answer, but he knew Jeanne would try to use her furyoku to try to heal his wounds, but he felt himself unworthy of that.
"I could heal them for you." The young girl said, a smile going up onto her face. She took a few steps towards him and gave him one of her illuminating grins. "I have no problem with it." She cheerfully told him.
In the brightness of the light that flooded the room at the moment, Lyserg could not tear his eyes away from Jeanne. Her silvery hair flowed down in subtle waves, accenting the dark, black gown she wore. The gown itself was demure, not exposing any skin, making many know that the maiden wearing it was delicate and refined. Not a wrinkle marred the beauty of her image. But looking into her crimson eyes, Lyserg felt, just a little stronger than before, and yet, her eyes themselves were clouded too…as if by pain…or just caution.
But he was not worthy of being her follower, her ally, anything, and he surly did not feel worthy of having her.
Lyserg's lips twisted into a saddened smile. "They'll heal on their own, Jeanne-sama, no need to waste your furyoku on me." He said to her softly.
Jeanne lowered her head. "That makes me sad…you…you think it's a waste for me to help you." She hoarsely said.
"Jeanne-sama, I-"
"Agh!" the maiden suddenly felt a sharp pain on her back, an usual pain but familiar pain. She had felt it before, on their first stay in America with Nianna. But why was it coming back?
"Jeanne-sama! Are you okay?" the green haired rushed over to the girl's side, placing a hand on her back, her back was wet, wet with blood.
It seemed like she too wouldn't stop bleeding, the blood just flowed back, practically drenching her entire back. Lyserg knew that he should first remove the clothing away from the wound and then add pressure, but he couldn't bring himself to just rip the clothes off her.
But another wince of pain from the maiden under him caused him to give in. he placed his shaking hands on the clothing that covered her back and ripped only the place where the blood seemed to come from.
'That wound…' he thought to himself as he eyed the hole on her back, it was a little below her shoulder and it was small, but deep. Its shape was one of an arrow head.
But why did it seem to remind him of something? Something he felt like he'd seen before…
"Are you alright?" a soft kind voice asked.
A green haired boy opened his eyes and sat up, he scratched his head feeling a sharp pain in his back. "Ow."
"Hmm you still seem to be in some pain." The soft voice analyzed.
The boy looked up and was stunned by what he saw.
There before him stood a beautiful girl with long locks of silverish-blue hair and stunningly warm ruby eyes. She smiled sweetly at the boy.
"Is he alright?" a voice from behind the angellike girl had asked.
The boy's eyes led him to see a tall girl with super short blond hair, all spiked and unruly, and with smooth ocean eyes.
The angel turned to ocean girl. "Just a little pain left."-She turned to the boy-"You'll be fine on your own when I'm done."
A strange creature appeared it was blue with what appeared to be a tall metallike crown on its head.
The boy's eyes grew. A spirit.
The angel smiled "I'm glad you can see my guardian ghost, I would not wish for you to take this event as a human would."
She leaned in close to the boy as the spirit seemed to disappear inside her; she cupped the green haired boy's face. "When you'll wake up I'll leave a small gift with you, so you will not be alone."
She leaned in a bit more leaving little space between them, before she closed off the whole space the boy opened his mouth, "Is there a way I can thank you?"
She looked at him and smiled "I have no need to be thanked, but if you wish to thank me there is one thing…do not avenge your parents' death, do not blame the humans that burned them alive and move on."
"My parents?" the boy asked.
The angel moved in and in a second her lips touched his. He felt warmth and the pain he had before left completely. As his eyes seemed to become heavy he heard her voice once again.
"Once more thing, please stay away from the fire and do not get burned."
With that she turned her back to him and walked away the short haired blond following behind.
Then his eyes gave in as he slept.
"You seem to be eyeing that Maiden a bit too much, don't you think?"
A green haired boy turned to see a long haired brunette looking at with a sort of smug look on his face. The green haired boy blushed and looked back to continue viewing the girl that caught his eye. "She is stunning, Hao-sama."
"Not to mention stubborn." Hao added, walking right next to the boy. "You'd think a maiden with such beauty and 'pureness' would stop thinking of putting an end to me." He laughed.
The boy on the other didn't laugh, his emerald eyes were glued to the perfect maiden that gracefully walked through all the other shamans at the festival. Hao shook his head and opened his mouth to say something to his lovesick follower.
"Why not as her to dance?" Hao asked. As much as he did disliked that woman he had to let his followers enjoy the most they could of their small lives, after all not all of them were bound to survive the shaman fights.
The green haired boy let out a sigh, "She's with someone else."
Hao finally glance over to where the boy was looking at, indeed the maiden that the boy looked at was occupied, but by a Patch female with long blonde hair. Hao furrowed his eyebrows, then a grin came up on his face. "How about I distract the blonde and you just ask that girl to dance?"
The boy blushed so deeply that it entirely contrasted with the color of his hair. "That isn't necessary, Hao-sama."
"And why is that?"
"I am not pure enough to even touch her."
"Y-you…you joined Asakura Hao." The maiden said in a soft voice. She took some steps away from him, her crimson eyes growing in disbelief. "Why?"
the green haired boy lowered his head, his voice was sad and low. "He can help me get rid of the ones who killed my parents. Those heartless humans who burned the entire house with them inside."
"That is no excuse!" the girl yelled, placing her pale palms on his shoulder as tears began to form at her eyes."I told you to stay away from the fire, you didn't listen!"
"He's not a bad person."
"You're right…he's the uttermost evil."
"He helps shamans live their dream of a world without the people who hurt him!"
The silver haired girl looked into the boy's green eyes, she began to pull away from him, he wrapped his arms around her before she could move away. "You were brain washed as well." She darkly stated, her eyes being shadowed by her bangs so all you could see were her stream of tears coming down her face. "I thought you were different. I thought you could be the one who suffered andwouldn't go to the side of evil, the side of revenge."
"But-"
"Urusai!" she commanded, if it wasn't for the loud music of the festival she was sure someone would have heard her by now. But the music was so loud, nothing could be heard. She struggled to get out of his tight embrace, but he didn't let her. "Let me go! I never wish to see you again!"
then what he did next was a surprise for the both of them, he pulled her closer and brought her lips to his.
"Lyserg snap out of it!" someone yelled at the British boy, causing him to return his attention to the injured maiden in his arms.
In front of him, at the doorway, were Hao and Annaka, both looking at the two X-Laws on the ground that bled. Annaka's eyes were normal but they had some hidden emotion inside them, knowledge? She walked over to Lyserg, Lyserg raised his head to watch her and she knelt down beside him and Jeanne, the blood from the both of them getting on her dress.
Lyserg knew she wasn't going to ask what had happened, just by searching his mind both Hao and Annaka would know that Jeanne just began to bleed for no reason.
"What do we do?" Lyserg asked the blonde. Annaka kept on searching his head, then Lyserg heard a chuckle from Hao.
Hao walked over to them and also knelt down, Jeanne looked at Lyserg with a look of pain, then she looked at Hao with disgust. Hao on the other head just smirked.
"This isn't so hard." He answered. Then with one hand he grabbed the back of Lyserg's head and the back of Jeanne's head too. Both of them blinked in confusion, and Annaka looked blanked but amused by her husband's actions.
Then Hao pushed their heads together until their lips collided together. Both Jeanne and Lyserg turned red as they felt each other's lips on theirs. They would have instinctively pulled away except Hao's hands were strongly pushing their heads together.
"All done." Hao announced to the two X-Laws, smirking and trying his best not to laugh at their expressions filled with awe, horror, and daze.
Lyserg was the first to react.
"ARE YOU MAD?" he shouted out in horror of the event that had just occurred. His eyes were completely wide and burning with rage.
Hao calmly just rested his body against the wall and sat down with his arms behind his head. He closed his eyes as Lyserg kept on yelling at him. "Don't act as if you didn't enjoy it, Lyserg." He opened one eye, "You and I both know part of you was wishing this sort of event."
Lyserg closed his mouth and blushed clutching the pocket which held his gun. "What makes you suggest such a thing?" he muttered questionably, "For my lips to touch Jeanne-sama's…I am not worthy enough for it."
Jeanne was not paying attention to the boys' dispute, she just stayed where she was, completely shocked and dazed. She brought her fingers up to touch her lips and softly murmured, "Mon premier baiser." Then her small lips curled up into a soft gentile smile.
(A/N: mon premier baiser = my first kiss.)
Hao closed his eyes and smiled. "Just because you are not 'worthy' of kissing her doesn't mean you didn't have desires to."
Lyserg turned a darker shade of pink and clutched his gun tighter. "I never h-had any desires to…k-ki"
"-can't say it, Lyserg?" Hao teased, from across the room Annaka rolled her eyes. "It's not that hard, come on say it…kissu...kissu."
"Grrr…Hao!" Lyserg pulled out his gun and aimed it at Hao's head, he was about to pull the trigger when he felt a soft, pale hand on his, trying to push the gun down.
Lyserg turned and saw The Maiden's calm and gorgeous, pale face smiling up at him, Jeanne took the gun out of his hand and gave her aluminous grin. "No need to stress over such detail, Lyserg. I am fine with it."
Lyserg blushed. "H-hai." He stuttered.
Hao laughed as he stood up, shaking his head at the British X-Law. "You're too gullible." He laughed.
He made his way out the door with Annaka trailing behind him until Jeanne's voice stopped her.
"Annaka-san." –Annaka stopped dead in her tracks- "Why were we bleeding in such way?" the fair maiden asked the blonde.
Annaka stood still for a bit, Hao came back in the room and rested himself at the doorway, eyeing his wife with concern. Jeanne and Lyserg waited patiently.
To answer the silence, Hao cleared his throat and decided to speak instead. "It's your desires." He began. "A reincarnated soul cannot hide desires that have been put away for so long."
(A/N: yea sorry for putting so many of these in this chapter but this chapter has valuable information that is important for the rest of the story, those of you who don't care, just don't read the author's note. Okay you all need to pay close attention to the following conversation.)
"A reincarnated soul?" Jeanne asked, her red eyes sparkling with small interest. "You are trying to inform that are souls are…incarnated?"
Annaka nodded slowly, she didn't turn to face them, instead she placed her head on Hao's chest. "You two have the souls of two people we knew long ago. Believe it or not but no one can no your souls better than Hao and I. Hao knows Lyserg's soul and I know Jeanne's."
"That is impossible." Lyserg began protesting. "This man cannot know my soul, he killed my parents cold bloodedly!"
"I'll let you in on a little secret, Diethyl." Hao began, irritated by the protest of the British boy. "I went to your house searching for allies, people who shared my wishes of a perfect world without humans. When I saw your father I first thought of one thing…that hewas that reincarnated spirit with you obtain. He refuse my offer and was about to kill me, even if I wouldn't have killed him before he would've risked his life to end mine. So I did more of a mercy killing."
"…"
Hao went on. "Then I saw you come through the door and I felt that reincarnated spirit of my previous ally. And I let you live because that soul you have was once a favorite ally of mine, you're lucky that I recognized it or else you too would be with your parents."
"Check your family tree, Diethyl Lyserg." Annaka ordered, her face still not facing them. "That soul you have belongs to the founder of the Diethyl dowser. But that is all I wish to tell you."
"What about me?" Jeanne asked. Annaka finally turned to view them, her red eyes hard and unreadable.
"I advise you to ask your mother. I'd rather not discuss this." She pulled her head off of Hao's chest and began to walk, she looked back at them and said one more thing before her and Hao left the two X-laws to their thoughts. "Those wounds you have come from your past life, they bleed like that when your desires for each other grow and nothing happens between you two…the same as those images you see of your past life. That kiss Hao made you two do is only temporary then you two will have other things to worry about…but of course…it is your decision for your life."
"They fell asleep pretty fast, and it's just morning." Pirika worried, looking at the three flowers spread out fast asleep on the couch.
Jun was fixing and making some modifications to Bailong's arm; she stopped turning the screw driver in her hand and looked over at the three tired figures on the couches. "Well, they were up late at the hot springs last night. Not to mention Kanna-chan cleaned the whole hot spring baths and Matilda-chan spent all her night's rest crying. The poor girls are tired."
"Hai, but Onichan and the others will be here soon and they're asleep." Pirika whined.
Jun smiled at the flowers, her eyes carefully analyzing each one's features of peaceful sleep. "They seem more peaceful when they close their eyes. But soon enough they'll awaken to the nightmare they believe to live in." –Macchi began rumbling around uncomfortably in her sleep-"Then again, when it comes to memories…there is really no safe place to hide from them."
Lyserg sat on the wide pathway of the Asakura Temple. He needed to really clear his thoughts at the moment. Did he have desires for Jeanne? I mean of course she is truly radiant in her beauty, a complete loss for words but…
Lyserg let out a sigh "Why am I stressing so much over this?"
"Because you are still young." A ringing voice answered him.
Lyserg looked back and saw Nianna walking down the long pathway over to him. Sitting down beside him with Hana in her arms. Lyserg turned his gaze to the ground. "I am the same age as you…so to say." he dully said.
"True…but your age of love isn't." she said looking up and the morning clouds that sailed softly through the blue sea above. "You are just now thinking of this, aren't you?"
"Hai."
"Then you are just now realizing what love is. I, on the other hand, have known it for a bit longer than you…only because it's a defect I have. I can't choose who I can or cannot love…but you can. As so can everyone else."
Lyserg turned his gaze forward, where he saw the road in front, he watched as Marco began stuffing the Iron Maiden in the back and helped Jeanne in the car. Then he looked back down at the dirt underneath his feet. "I can't have her…" he said aloud.
"And why is that?"
Lyserg didn't want to say his answer but he knew how right he was, the true reason why he could have her as anything more than his leader. "I am not worthy of her. I am…"
"Dirt can be cleaned with water, thought it'll always be dirt, water can still clean it." –Nianna responded. She looked at the child asleep in her arms then out of her pocket she pulled out an apple and bit into it.- "If you are not worthy of her, then who is? You're the closest thing to purity to her. You are her angel." –She took another bite of her apple as she waited for him to respond, when he didn't she added one more thing. - "Would you prefer Horohoro or Ryu to have her?"
Lyserg suddenly felt a jerk at his heart. Ryu or Horohoro with Jeanne-sama? "No." he stated firmly. At least he was sure of that much, but then didn't that mean he wanted to keep Jeanne for himself? Selfish? Maybe. True? Yes.
"Then no one other than you can have her."
Lyserg softly smiled, his eyes returning to the car, Jeanne met his gaze from the window and gave one of her smiles, Lyserg smiled back. Nianna looked at the two, hearing behind her everyone packing up to head for Funbari hill. She then saw Soraguimi standing like blank statues in a corner.
Arisu looked a bit annoyed, she glared at the car which held the maiden, then her eyes turned painful as she looked at the boy beside Nianna. Nianna slowly shook her head and turned her gaze back to the two love birds close to her.
"All of them, every single one, are nothing but idiots."
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