Mai: ok here's another chapter of Close Enemies. Now as I sat down and wrote this I started to think about what to rant about this time because let's face it ranting is fun even if no one reads it. Then it hit me I should just type out whatever I feel like typing for a few minutes. I think this chapter is pretty good. An interesting fact is that when I first started to write this story Mirelle didn't have a sister. Then I thought to myself that it needed something and then I started thinking on inserting another oc so that it wasn't just Mirelle and Horo fluff all the time and that's how Terra was born. It took me a while to put Terra together though but I must say that I am pleased with how she turned out.

Disclaimer: I don't own Shaman King (although it's only a matter of time), Canada (also only a matter of time), or Ranma ½ (I love Ranma he's so funny! I've only read the first three volumes of the manga though but I still love it!)

Chapter 7: Fire Fuels Anger

"Hi Hao," I said to the approaching shaman. I smiled imagining the pissed off look that must be creeping over his face at this very moment.

"GOD DAMN IT! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO STOP READING MINDS!" he yelled. The whole mind reading thing was really getting to him. He really wasn't used to living with someone who didn't worship him and I personally thought it was good for him.

"Now I see how stopping my mind reading activities benefits you but how does it benefit me?" I told him playfully. "By the way isn't there something you wanted to ask me?" I waited for the boom. The thing he hated most about my mind reading was when I picked up on what he wanted before he could ask me.

"THERE YOU GO AGAIN WITH THE GOD DAMN MIND READING!" he exploded.

"Fine while you're ranting about how much you hate me I'll be off taking care of your brother's friends like you want me to," I told him getting up.

"You're actually doing what I want you to?" he asked suspiciously. "You never do what I tell you to."

"Well this is a matter of survival, before your commands were stupid personal preferences that didn't really matter. I teamed up with you to help myself win the crown not to play servant to an arrogant jerk like you," I told him.

"You know what. I don't want to argue right now just go kill my brother's friends," he said surprisingly calm for once. "Stupid bitch," I heard him mutter as I walked away.

I went back to my tent where I pulled up my blood red hair, reapplied my dark make up, and put on a slightly tight black top and a long black skirt. Satisfied with my appearance I exited the tent and called Taki.

I had changed a lot since the attack, the superficial popular idiot Terra was gone and in her place was a new smarter and unhappy Terra. One thing hadn't changed though: I still deeply cared about my appearance no matter how much I tried to hide. Though now my aim was to look like a hot goth and not a sluty superficial idiot.

It wasn't exactly hard to locate Hao's brother and his friends. For one thing they were really loud, I'm surprised that people in China couldn't hear them.

I mean they just fight like twenty four seven. I decided to check them out before attacking them just in case there was anyone in their group that I didn't want to attack. So I watched them for a few hours.

It turned out that my sister had somehow gravitated towards their little group. How typical. She always did have a weak sense of judgment. I thought the older twin was supposed to be the smart one. Had she truly been smart she would have joined up Hao no matter how much of a spoiled bastard he was.

My sister however wasn't the only person in the group that interested me. It turns out that Ran's son was traveling with Yoh Asakura.

"And he seemed so smart," I told Taki. I sighed, attacking my sister was nothing, I didn't owe her anything but Ran had helped me and taught me everything I knew. How could I pay her back by trying to kill her son? "We're going Taki."

"WHAT?" Taki said, "But you said this was important. Why are you backing out now?"

"That's Ran's son," I said pointing to the boy.

"Oh. Hao's not going to like this," she said.

"Since when do I care what he thinks?"

Sure enough Hao went ballistic. He yelled, he burned things, he threatened my life, but I didn't care I just told him that I could not attack the son of the woman who had helped me so much and that was that.

"HAO!" I yelled after I finally couldn't take the abuse anymore. "I'm not going to attack Ran's son for your stupid little mind game with your brother! Now leave me alone!"

"But-" he started pathetically.

"I don't care! Now shut up and leave me alone or god help me I will burn down that fucking tent of yours!" I yelled pissed off. Now a normal human being (like the rest of his followers) would have noticed that it was now a good time to get away from the emotionally crazy and harassed girl. But Hao is what most people would call mentally challenged so he just didn't get it.

"Yeah right like you could set my tent on fire," he challenged coolly.

"I didn't seem to have any trouble last time," I said pissed.

"Yeah well last time you simply redirected my attack on your tent back to my tent. You can't generate fire out of midair," he said confidently.

"That's the same thing you said about the mind reading."

"That's a trick that anyone with enough furyoku could do. The fire comes from Spirit of Fire and I seriously doubt that you can copy Spirit of Fire. Plus even if you did set my tent on fire I could put it out in like two seconds," he boasted confidently.

"You just won't give up will you," I said twitching with pent up rage.

"Nope!" he said in a cutesy little annoying tone that made me twitch even more.

"Well then there's only one way to deal with this. Taki I believe you know what to do."

"I sure do," Taki said grinning evilly and taking out her nice sharp sword.

"Hey, what are you doing," Hao said scared as he began to back away from the cackling and slightly crazed looking jang-si. I entered my tent and sighed contentedly as I lay down on my bed to the sound of Hao's screams of terror.