Chapter 15

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Italic stands for thought / dreams

'Italic with single quote stands telepathic voice'

[Stands for voice from the past]

-Stands for telephone-

Underline stands for letter

"Quote stands for dialogue"

Bold stands for emphasis

Bold italic stands for a dangerous tone

Hao's Condition

Anna raised an eyebrow when Shouyo, Ren, Manta and Faust stared at her, "What?" she asked coldly.

Manta and Faust flinched from the coldness of her voice, Ren tense and looked at Shouyo while trying not to looked scared.

Shouyo laughed cheerfully, she never gets tired with the overreaction they do when Anna involved. It's just so funny how they can get so scared of Anna, even Faust who just meets with her, or maybe Faust has met Anna before, she doesn't know but it's definitely funny. "Anna, I want you to do me a favor." Shouyo started, waiting for Anna to look at her, "Can you call Eliza from the next world? She can be Faust's Guardian Spirit, and I remember that there's a technique about healing in Chou Senji Ryakketsu, he can help us then if we ever wounded".

Anna's face still the same, "Fine, but you need to do something for me in return later." she said passively.

"Okay, Thanks, Anna." Shouyo agreed cheerfully.

Anna took off her Sen Hachi Juu, her rosary with 1080 beads, and closed her eyes, "First for my mother, second for my father, and third for all my friends that support me all the time." Anna said, "If you heard my voice, answer, if you hear the the sound emanate from this rosary, come." her eyes glowing white light as she entered trance state and shaking her beads.

Many small hitodama appeared and formed the figure of beautiful woman with blond hair, "Eliza." Faust whispered as his eyes filled with tears.

Eliza turned and stare directly at Faust, "Faust." She said calmly with voice filled with happiness and love.

They hugged each other tightly, then Faust pulled apart to bowed his head to both Anna and Shouyo, "Thank you very much, Anna-san, Shouyo-san." He said politely and truthfully, "Please let me help you with everything I can".

"Then you can work at my inn once the fight end." Anna answered right away, "And you can help us if any of us ever wounded later, just like what Shouyo said." She looked at Shouyo and raised an eyebrow, "Come to my room later tonight, you have to return the favor".

This time, Manta was the one to sprayed his drink, "Anna! What the heck are you thinking?!" he exclaimed in shock and red cheek.

"I should be the one to ask, Manta." Anna countered with knowing smirk, "I'm not a person with dirty mind like you".

Manta's face reddened even more and he hit his head to the table, "Oh, forget it, I'm sorry." He said weakly, Shouyo giggled at the sight and stood up, Manta's head lifted and he looked at his friend, "Where are you going, Yo-kun?".

"I want to take a walk by myself, my head still a bit dizzy after all, and I need to do something in private." Shouyo explained calmly with a reassuring smile, she waved at them and left the cafe.

Shouyo walked to the forest and she is very careful with her every move, actually she planned to do this at night, but since Anna want her to be in her room at night, she need to do it now. Once she get into the forest, she moved to much deeper part of the forest so that no one will see her teleport. She frowned a bit when she smelled a unique mix of smoke and Cinnamon, the smell of Asakura Hao, she can tell that Hao is still far away, but Hao is moving towards her, so she hoped that Hao will still too far to see her. "Mighty Air Around Me, Listen to My Voice." She started, she sighed in happiness and relief when the wind swirling around her, she take a quick glace towards Hao's direction, "Teleport." There's no need to say any name or location if she only need to teleport herself, so she can teleport more faster than when she did it with someone else, unfortunately, she isn't fast enough this time.

Hao was sitting on a tree branch when he felt the strange energy come into the forest, he had felt it before, exactly when Hanagumi fought against the girl that defeated his Shikigamis, the energy of Shouyo. Hao smirked, he jumped down from his previous spot and slowly walked to the place where he felt the energy while hiding his presence. He already near the girl when all of the sudden the girl looked straight to his place, Hao hold his breath for a moment, he is sure that he hide his presence perfectly, but the girl looked like she knows that he is there. Then the girl's mouth moved as if she whispered to someone, a whirlwind engulfed her silently and she disappeared from sight, Hao blinked, "Who is the girl actually?" He wondered to himself, "It's looked very much like when I teleported with Spirit of Fire".

Hao decided to wait in the forest, since he somehow had a feeling that the girl will come back to the forest. Sure enough, after waiting for about half an hour, the wind swirling again, this time, Hao moved forward to the spot in front of the whirlwind in a second using his teleportation ability. The result is worth the effort, the girl screamed in surprised and fell right on her butt the instant she saw him, Hao chuckled softly, the girl's shocked face was priceless.

"Hao! You really. . .!" The girl moaned when she noticed who is in front of her, "What if I had a heart attack?" She tried to stand up but hissed in pain and fell again, "Ah, now I had a twisted ankle." She pout at him.

Hao chuckled again, "You are really an interesting girl." he said calmly and knelt down on one knee to inspect her ankle, the girl make a WTF expression but her cheek has a faint red tint, "Just a twisted ankle, I can fix this in an instant".

The girl make a face, "But?" she asked.

"But you have to go on a date with me." Hao said calmly with an innocent smile, "What do you think?".

""What do you think what?" The girl hissed, "I refused, I can just go back to the house and have Faust help me." She looked away, her pout returned to her face.

"If you don't want to, I can just simply take you with me by force and kill all of your friends." Hao taunted calmly, he smirked when the girl's face grew pale rapidly.

"No, no, no! Please no!" The girl pleaded frantically, "No, Please no! I will go on a date with you, but please don't kill them!" Her expression become really horrified, "Please".

Hao's smirk widened, "Then, since the fight only start next week . . . we will go on a date tomorrow from afternoon until night." He whispered to the girl's ears seductively, "We will meet in this forest again in this exact place, you have to be here at 11 or I will kill them." The girl bit her bottom lip and nodded weakly, "Good, now, I will get your twisted ankle healed, but it's hurt a bit at first".

The girl nodded again, she stared at her lap as Hao grab her ankle gently, Hao get the ankle in the right position, causing the girl to hissed a bit, then he use his healing ability to fix the problem. "Thank you." The girl mumbled still with a pout on her face, Hao smirked, the girl's pout make her even more cute, "Mind if you let go of me now?" She glare at the ground while her mouth still pouting.

Hao released the girl's leg and stood up then walked a few steps, "Don't forget the deal." He said calmly and disappeared with a burst of flame.

"Aaaaargh!" Shouyo groaned as she hit her head to the wall many times, how come she had been that careless, she should teleport to another place! Why the hell she teleported to the same spot again? And why the hell Hao was standing in front of the spot she was disappeared before?! "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid stupid, stupid, stu-" her repeated self-mocking words cut off by Anna's sudden voice from the doorway.

"What are you doing? Are you stupid or what?"

Shouyo groaned again, "Yes, I'm so stupid." She said regretfully, "I make the greatest mistake in my life." She heard the door shut and then a hand landed on her shoulder.

"What happened?" She asked quietly, she heard the concern in her voice, the tone that she never used in front of other people.

Shouyo stared at her with annoyed expression, then she told her what happened, not all of them though, there's no way she can tell Anna that she had gone to hunt for a deer to drank it's blood, it will make Anna freaked out or disgusted at her.

"So, you had to accepted the date with Hao." Anna make a conclusion, Shouyo nodded miserably, "The time is tomorrow at 11 A.M?" Shouyo nodded again, making Anna smirk, "Leave it to me then".

"What?" Shouyo blinked and stared at Anna in perplexed expression, "What do you mean?".

Anna's smirk widened, "Just go to my room tomorrow morning after breakfast, think of it as the payment for my help this afternoon." She said calmly.

Shouyo frowned, "What do you mean, Anna?" she asked again, but Anna didn't answer and simply chuckled darkly to herself, causing her blood to run cold and she shivered slightly.

To be continued . . .

Yoh : (Shiver) What does Anna planning again?

Hao : We have a date at last.

Yoh : You forced me Hao.

Hao : What? You want to flee? Do it and I kill them all, and it's not that Anna would let you.

Froim : I won't let him either.

Yoh : Meanie (crying twin waterfall of tears)

Hao : Review and Froim will make the next chapter really interesting. (smirk)

Next Chapter :

"Wait Hao, you didn't say that we will do this!"

"What do you mean? Every couple do it on their date."