Chapter 4

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Funbari Onsen

It's all happened so fast, Manta had lead the way to Funbari Onsen, but when they just entered the inn, Anna ordering Manta around right away. Shouyo frowned and interrupted Anna's order, then Anna yelled at her not to opposed her, when Shouyo refused though, Anna move to slapped her.

It's only a few minutes after she arrived at the inn, but looked what happened, Shouyo has a glare contest with Anna, she had caught Anna's slap and grip the blonde girl's wrist firmly. Anna growled in anger, "I still have my left hand!" then the left hand flew to slap her.

Shouyo snorts and caught the other hand at ease, "I don't like it when anyone solve every little problem in violence way, so please don't try to slap me again, or else, I will be the one to slap you later." She said calmly, but there's bit coldness in her voice, "Oh, and you didn't give me a chance to said it before, but I will be the staying in this inn for a while".

"I won't accept you in this inn!" Anna shrieked in high pitch, she shot a death glare in Shouyo's direction.

"What's with all the ruckus?" A new voice interrupted the chaos, then a woman with a long brown hair and onyx eyes emerged from a room that looked like a kitchen, "Oh my, we have a guess?" she smiled at Shouyo.

Shouyo smile at her, she released Anna's hand and bowed to the woman, "Nice to meet you, I'm Shouyo, I will be staying here for the time being." She said politely and smiled warmly at the woman.

"Oh! I always thought I had seen you before, Yo-san, you look so much like Keiko-san! It's like you are a younger version of her!" Manta yelled suddenly, his voice colored by shock and surprise.

Keiko and Shouyo blinked at the same time, then they staring at each other for a long time, then they grinned, "You are right." They said together, then Keiko ignoring Anna's fumed and shake hands with Shouyo, "I'm Asakura Keiko, nice to meet you, please think of this inn like your own home, Shouyo-san." She said warmly.

Shouyo froze even if her smile still on her face, Asakura? She thought in disbelief, no wonder she looked like an older version of me, she must be my birth mother then, how unfortunate that I lost my memories of her, she looked like a kind person. She unfreeze and bowed again to Keiko, "Thank you, Keiko-san." She said softly, she decided that it's better to know her first before judging her.

Then another three people come down from the upstairs and a man come out from the kitchen, one of them is a woman with miko's attire. A woman with a long black hair that went down to her knees gasped in surprise, "Oh, Yo-chan! You are here already? I was just going to go to fetch you up." She said cheerfully.

"Luna!" Shouyo greeted cheerfully and bowed deeply, "Thank you for your help with enrolling me to the school." She said gratefully, "I came here with Manta, we had become friends so quickly".

Luna smiled warmly, "I see, but there's no need for you to bow so deeply, Yo-chan, it's just a simple matter." She walked and hug her, "You are so big already, the last time I see you was 8 years ago, wasn't it?".

Shouyo nodded and smile, "Hey, who is this?" A cheerful voice rang from behind Luna.

Luna smiled and moved aside so that everyone can see the new occupant of the inn, "Let me introduced her, she is Shouyo, a friend of mine, she will be staying here for the time being." She said calmly, then she started to introduced the others, "Shouyo, the man over there is Ryu, he is the one who is in charge of cooking." She gestured for a tall man with weird hair.

"Hello, missy, My name is Ryuunosuke, but people called me Ryu or Bokuto no Ryu." He said politely as his hair miraculously turned into a shape of heart, then he marched up to Shouyo immediately, "Please become my girl and my best place".

Luna and Shouyo snickered, Luna knows very well that Shouyo is actually a boy named Asakura Yoh, and Shouyo find it really interesting and funny that just because she is wearing a girl clothes able to make guys to proposed her, or him.

Then Ryu's hair cut short in a flash, or maybe seems like a flash because no one pay attention at all, "You are really stupid, take a look at the mirror, she is too good for you." Another cold voice snapped sharply at Ryu's proposal.

Luna gestured for the single spike haired boy, "And that's is Tao Ren, he came from China, and the one beside him, the one with blue hair is Horo Horo, he came from Hokkaido." She said calmly, like a boy cut clean an older man's hair is a usual sight, Luna then raised both hands to her side in gesture for everyone, "Excluding Manta, everyone here are Shamans, Manta is ordinary human who happened to be able to see spirits".

"Luna!" Keiko gasped, "She is just a normal human, it's better for her to keep in the dark, people fearing Shaman normally." She scold her friend.

Luna shook her head and winked at Shouyo, "Shouyo is like Manta, she can see spirits, so it's alright." She chuckled softly, "Oh, let us introduce our Guardian Spirits then".

Ryu grinned, "Mine is Tokageroh, he was a bandit from 600 years ago." He proudly introduced as his Guardian Spirit appeared from thin air.

Then all the spirits come out, "This is Amidamaru, he is a spirit of a Samurai from 600 years ago." Luna said as Shouyo walked towards the samurai spirit, "He is more like my bodyguard that a spirit partner".

Shouyo stared for a moment, she has another rare ability, but it's already with her from childhood, she can sense people's feeling and aura. She smiled, "You are a good spirit, all of the spirits in this inn are all good, but. . ." she looked at Anna, "Why is it yours feel bad?" she raised an eyebrow.

Anna huffed, then she take out her beads necklace, an Oni materialized behind her back as she hold the beads, "I'm an Itako, but also Oni Summoner, this is the mini version of Oh Oni, he is my partner." She scowled, "And here I thought you would run like a scaredy cat when you find out, I'm sorry about my rudeness before, I don't want people to say bad stuff to me when they find out about my ability." She looked straight to Shouyo's eyes, "Ordinary human normally fearing my ability, and I thought you are one of them".

Shouyo smiled, "It's true that Oni Summoner's power is from the realm of Darkness, but as long as you are not harming others, there's no reason for me to fearing you. Nice to meet you, Oh Oni." She said cheerfully as she walked to the small version of The Oni of Ozorezan, "I heard so much about your power, that's mean that Anna is a strong Shaman as well".

"Heh, you are a strange girl, normally people would scare of mom." The Oh Oni answered with a smirk, "I like you, please be a good friend with mother." Then he disappeared again.

"Mother?" Shouyo blinked at Anna, who sighed in answer of her questioning look.

"I was the one who make him born in the past, I have this strange ability to hear people thought when I was small, when a new year that time, all those thought invaded my head and I created him by combining many different size Onis." Anna explained as she closed her eyes, "If it's not for Keiko-sama and her mother, Kino-sama, I won't be able to stop him from killing humans then".

Shouyo smiled, "I see, then you learned to be an Itako?" she asked, Anna nodded but not saying a thing. Shouyo nodded back and looked at the others, "Who is that Chinese Warrior?" she changed the subject.

"He is Bason, my Guardian Spirit." Ren answered, then pointed at the small spirit on Horo Horo's shoulder, "That is Kororo, a coropocle, Horo Horo's Guardian Spirit".

"Hey! I should be the one introducing her!" Horo Horo yelled.

Shouyo chuckled, then she turned to Keiko, "I don't have a Guardian Spirit." Keiko said with a warm smile, "Do you happen to have a Guardian Spirit?".

"More like a friend." Shouyo said calmly and a small fairy with a pair of crystal clear wings flying beside her, "This is Mizuno, a Water Fairy, I can't use any Shamanic ability, but we are a good friends".

Luna raised her eyebrows, "You never told me about her before." Commented calmly.

Shouyo grinning sheepishly, "Yes, I found her 3 years ago when I was walking around the lake." She admitted.

"She is the exact opposite from Anna, isn't she?" Horo Horo commented, earning a slap from Anna, "What?! She is not so violent like you!" that earned another slap from Anna.

"Shut your stupid mouth." Anna snapped and stormed off from the living room.

Keiko claps her hands, "Alright, enough with talking, Shouyo-san, you must be tired, please take a bath in the Onsen." She interrupted kindly and showing Shouyo when she can find the Onsen.

To be continued . . .

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