Mai: Ok so I finally realized after god knows how long that chapter 6 was the whole story up to chapter 6 and not just chapter 6. So I'm fixing that now. Sorry about the mistake. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King. If I did it'd be a lot more romantic and Tamao's annoying spirit thingies would be cuter.
Chapter 6: Darkness, Light, and Ramen!
"Morning," I muttered sleepily as I stumbled into the middle of the camp still half asleep. Mirelle must have jumped at least a mile. She was the only one not asleep in her sleeping bag. It was funny though you'd think that she'd have heard me coming. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you," I told her apologetically.
"It's ok," she said, "I was lost in thought so I didn't hear you coming."
I smiled at her. I knew from the first time I saw her that she was special. I mean she's beautiful, dedicated, and brave. She kind of makes me wonder what's wrong with me. But she always seems to go off by herself and doesn't often socialize with the rest of us.
"Hey, uh do you want something to eat?" I asked picking up the food pack.
"Oh sure," she said absent-mindedly. "What do we have?"
"How about some ramen?" I offered taking out the ramen. (A.N.: I was reading Naruto just before I wrote this so I decided that Naruto's funny little ramen quirk should somehow manifest itself in my story. For all you Naruto fans out there you know what I'm talking about.)
Suddenly she suddenly perked up and she suddenly seemed more excited than I had ever seen her before. "Did you say ramen?" she asked sounding somewhat like a little kid on Christmas.
"Uh yeah," I said taken aback. This was a totally new side to the quiet withdrawn Mirelle I was used to.
"I should warn you, she has a bit of a ramen obsession," Ami said popping out of thin air with a huge anime sweat drop forming on her head. "It's kind of embarrassing to tell you the truth. Just the word "ramen" can distract her from almost anything."
"Hey there is nothing wrong with liking ramen," she told Ami defensively.
"Yeah there's nothing wrong with liking it, but when people have to start hiding it from you just to keep you from eating two dozen bowls and throwing up all over the house then you've got a problem," Ayano said joining in the fight.
"Hey that was one time!" Mirelle shot back. "This isn't fair you guys shouldn't gang up on me!" By now I was the one with the huge anime sweat drop on the back of my head.
"Um, do you want the ramen or not?" I asked interrupting what was sure to become a heated and pointless argument. Actually it kind of reminded of the arguments that go on, between me, Ren, and Chocolove. It was funny since Mirelle had started to break those up for us lately. Man this felt weird.
"Sure," she said cheerfully abandoning the fight.
"Wow, who knew you could eat so much," I said after she cleaned up three quarters of the very large portion of ramen I made for the two of us. She blushed embarrassed.
"I can't control myself around ramen," she muttered blushing.
"It's ok," I told her, "I can't control myself around food most of the time." This made her smile and I felt happy. I love her smile it's so sweet and sincere. Plus since she doesn't use it that often it's all the more special.
"I'm really glad Yoh asked me to join you guys," she told me. "It was kind of a hard decision for me but I'm glad I chose to come. To tell you the truth I was kind of missing my friends back home but now I have some new friends to rely on. And I know you won't ever let me down." This touched me. No one had ever said something so nice to me.
"I'm glad you decided to join us too," I told her. She just smiled. I wanted to stay like that with her forever. But we were soon interrupted by everyone else waking up and she became distant again.
