Disclaimer: I don’t own Shaman King….

Giving a shot at trying to write a shaman king fic… so here it goes.

Just in case you guys have questions here, I changed Anna’s trademark bandana to a scarf. Why? Because when I feel inspired enough to draw her its going to be a scarf. Not a bandana, she’s to pretty to have a crappy red cloth around her head.

Summary: During the Shaman era, the Asakura Clan was said to have disappeared due to trying to stop a deathly fate upon their country. For years their country has honored the clan and their success, but 10 years have passed and they have already been nothing but a legend and a myth. The Kyouyama Clan has been appointed to run the country, and the head of the clan’s daughter is a strong itako. After an attack upon her, a boy had saved her and the head appointed him as her bodyguard for the time being. Something lies within their path that is blocking them from crossing… but what?

Fight for the Shaman Queen

Meeting You

“Uwahhh…” A boy of 18 yawned as he rolled out of his futon and rubbing his tired, and sleepy eyes. His white yukata hanging off his well-toned body, only to be held up by a tight rope wrapped around his light 6-pack torso. (A/N: Sounds hot XD)

Sluggishly walking to the washroom and dragging his feet along the floor, he took off his yukata and dipped into the onsen. “Ahh. This feel soooo good.” He closed his eyes and sat in the water. He closed his eyes and almost fell asleep when…

“ YOH! Hurry up and get out here! Your breakfast is getting cold!” A gentle, yet death-frightening voice of a woman known to be his mother yelled out.

“Hah. Yeah, yeah.” Slightly startled, he slowly got out of the soothing water and wrapped a towel around his waist. He did his morning routine, and changed into his usual button up T-shirt and a black pair of pants with random belts hanging all over, and went straight to the living room where his parents and grand parents await.

“Ohayou minna” Yoh greeted cheekily at his uptight family.

“Yoh, do not greet your parent that way. That includes your grand parents too.” A woman with long black hair chided her son softly. “Mikihisa! Say something to your son!” Next to the woman sat a man, well in his late thirties. Across sat a short old man, who had gray hair and traits of male pattern baldness. Next to him was a old woman sipping her tea quietly, with her glasses on and her eyes closed.

“ Miyako why do you have to yell at him today? He did it every other da- I mean. Don’t disrespect your parents!” Her husband sweated heavily at the glare his wife was giving him, and went on giving him a small lecture that was pretty much all just rambling.

“We don’t really mind my daughter. As long as Yoh continues his training, let him feel free to continue calling us what he wants. Besides, he has been doing quite well so far.” And old man sitting on the floor, feet tucked under him, said. Right after he had said that, for some reason the old woman’s glasses seemed to shine.

Yoh caught this and used this chance to get away. When her glasses shine, this can’t mean that anything good will happen. “That cool Yohmei-jii chan. I’m gonna go out for a walk. I’ll be back soon!” Walking to the front door and as he put his sandals on, he saw him mom come running to him holding a piece of paper.

She handed him a list with some groceries and asked, “Could you go and pick these stuff up for me? I need them for tonight’s dinner, and we need to restock on food.” Yoh smiled, nodded and left.

“It’s been 18 years since that day… I wonder if our fate will ever change.” Her eyes darkened and her vision fell to the floor and right then she felt her husband’s presence behind her.

“I get the feeling that something’s going to happen today. But if it doesn’t, I guess we’ll just have to keep on waiting till that day comes.” Mikihisa smiled at her in reassurance and both went back to the living room.

Yoh’s POV

It’s going to be a long way to walk down a mountain so might as well retell my whole story to myself. Well first off, my name is Asakura Yoh, currently the heir to the Asakuran Clan. Currently is a strange word to use but just for the record, I wasn’t actually the first born. According to Kino-baa chan’s history lesson, there was someone before me. My twin actually, if my memory tells me so. Basically I think he was a twin gone bad. Somehow he got his spirit after he was six months old, and I guess someone decided to kidnap him and manipulate him so they could control him and his powers.

Something tells me that he’s just a baby gone bad. I know he’s my brother and I shouldn’t be talking crap about him, but everyone always says that twins have this weird twin connection of some sort. And according to my twin telepathy, I say he did everything that he did, on his own free will.

Anyways, back to my story. Well about 2 months after he was ‘kidnapped’ a war broke out between us, the Wind country, and the Fire country. It was deathly and a lot of shamans went to fight for our country only to end up being killed by the Fire Country. Our king had to go head front and face the enemy along with his royal guards. When they got there, they were all burned to death on the spot without even lifting a finger.

According to Kino-baa chan, the one who was to do something like this was our own kind, and even worse, my own brother. I shivered at the mention of that word I’ve really come to hate. Kino-baa chan said somehow they ‘manipulated’ him with their psychic and hypnotic powers, but I said he was evil enough on his own. As our own blood, my family took on the task taking him down, but supposedly he was way to strong. But with the combined power of ten people they were able to seal away his powers temporarily at the cost of their own lives.

My family did this to protect the only and youngest child to the family, me. My mom and dad were the oldest of the siblings in the clan, and Kino-baa chan and Yohmei-jii chan were the oldest of the old. So the rest of the Asakuran clan decided that they would sacrifice their lives, all for me to live. Supposedly, their main goal was to distinguish the Asakuran clan, and they knew that we were living in the Wind country. We didn’t want the entire Wind Country to turn on us either so remaining of my family decided to live secretly on the top of a mountain.

Everyday I train harder and harder to become what’s expected of me, but sometimes I think it’ll never be enough. I’m not trying to put myself down, but seriously I can’t even beat my own dad more or less Yohmei-jii chan. I know my spirit, Amidamaru, is strong and all… but I feel like my efforts are always in vain. Maybe if I find the right person to train me, then I’ll be strong enough. Speaking of Amidamaru, where is he? By now he’s usually freaked me out by now.

I felt a hand creep from my shoulder, and I laughed. “Hey Amidamaru. How’s it going?”

“Ah. Yoh-dono! I can never scare you anymore. You have truly master the art of sense your own spirit.” The ghost samurai semi-materialized and started floating next me. “Where are you going today Yoh-dono?”

“I’m just taking a walk, and restocking on our food supply.” I squint my eyes up at the sky and just realized that it was starting to take a little long. “Oi! Amidamaru, I gotta go quick before the sun even starts to go down. Say hi to the gang if you see them for me.” I jumped off the side of the mountain and started sliding down the rocks. Within a few minutes I was in the forest running down a pathway I created. In half an hour I got all our supplies that’ll last us for about a month and start back home.

“Whew! This load is a little heavy today… Or maybe I’m just a little bent out of shape.” When I got down the middle of the forest I heard a loud crack with the sound of a falling tree following the sound. I put the sack of food down and went to check out what the heck was going on until I heard another crack, following a horrifying… SPLAT.

I cringed at the sound and got really pissed off. I went through all that trouble so I could bring no food home for dinner tonight?! Oh no, Yohmei-jii chan is gonna go crazy and cranky without his evening tea. I still have some money and some time left. Maybe I could scrape them together to buy a little more stuff. Hopefully my they’ll forgive me.

I was about to leave when I heard a hoarse voice go, “See how strong I am girly, you don’t have enough strength to compete with me. Just give it up and come with us. I promise to be gentle.”

Aside from the ugly ass looking guy, I saw the most beautiful girl in my entire life.

Author’s POV

Her fierce brown eyes glaring at her aggressor, the golden blonde hair covering half her face. That small black dress hugging her body perfectly and the crimson red scarf hanging from her neck. “Woah.” Was all Yoh could say to himself as he was sucked into her beauty.

Yoh was knocked out of the trance when he heard a harsh yet gentle and smooth voice yell, “Let go of me you creep!” Right then she used her free hand and slashed the man across his face leaving three red, visible lines, trailing blood down his cheek.

“You bitch!” He threw her against a tree and her left arm hit the tree hard. She fell to the floor nearly unconscious but then she saw a person come out of nowhere and kicked her torturer’s face. Surprise, all she could see was his well toned body as he landed back on the floor and angry, yet gentle brown eyes glared angrily at the man. And right then, the girl fell into unconsciousness.

Yoh had kneed the man in the face with so much force, he had no doubt that he had just shattered the bone in his jaw. As soon as he got back onto the floor he quickly rushed to the aid of the unconscious girl to check up on her. See that she was okay lifted a big weight off his shoulders.

“Hey kid, I found her first. Go find your own girl to play with. She’s mine!” Yoh was shocked, but not at the fact that he survived but at why he could still even talk.

Yoh stood up, teeth and hands clenched tightly, eyes going dark and energy building up. He turned around to look at the man but kept starring at the floor. “You’re gonna pay for that. Hurting other people when they didn’t do anything to you.”

“What’re you going to do little boy? Hit me? Hah! What a joke. Now run along and let the grown ups finish their work.” He reached out to push Yoh aside only to get his hand twisted in a three sixty motion. The man grabbed his arm in pain and feel onto his knees trying to get a hold on himself. He looked up to see Yoh pick up the girl into his arms, thinking that this was his chance for revenge he attempted to kick and trip him.

When he put his plan into motion, right when he almost had him, Yoh had disappeared with the blonde. Wanna be Hulk stood up looking around in a daze, wondering where he could have gone. “Come out you chicken!”

Yoh reappeared right in front of him and continued on with a bright smile, “Have a good trip.” And with that with nearly five times as much force than before, Yoh kicked him on the opposite side of his broken jaw sending him flying through, who knows how many, trees.

Yoh watched for a minute, still watching the trees fall, and snapped out of his daze when he felt a warm substance dripping down his arm. He knew it had to be the girl so he quickly rushed to a place at where he could patch her up. Through a trail that Yoh had marked and memorized led them to a medium sized lake. The calm and soothing water glistening at the sun brought a warm sensation to the area. The soft blue color of the lake brought the cool feeling to one’s heart. All around were healthy green trees, and grass. Lying in group were different sorts of flowers that spread through the area.

Yoh laid the girl against a tree and found the source of the blood. It wasn’t an extremely harmful wound but enough to make her bleed down her arm. He took off his button up shirt and ripped off its sleeves, making one a long strip cloth. He walked to the lake and drooped the other sleeve into the water, enjoying the warm feeling of the water.

He rid her arm of the blood and wrapped the dry cloth around her arm, tied a knot strong enough to keep it on for a while. While cleaning her arm Yoh discovered a silver bracelet with katakana on three plates and two kanji on each. It read ‘ 恐山　アンナ’. “Kyouyama Anna… Kyouyama. I’ve heard that somewhere before. Lemme think.” Yoh pondered for a minute or two then. “Ah! I remember, the daughter to the head Kyouyama clan. Wow. I didn’t I would be able to meet her, more or less see her. Good thing everyone knows where she lives, or is that a bad thing… O well gotta take her back. But just so she doesn’t get cold.” He draped his torn shirt over her small body hoping that she wouldn’t get cold while he took her home.

He picker her up in his arms and less than a second, the lake was alone and quiet once again.

In town

Residents in the town all gathered outside to see what on earth was hitting their roof tops. Looking around and asking neighbors what was going while nobody seemed to know.

At the source of the noise lies the culprit Yoh, with Anna in his arms, jumping from roof top to roof top at a lighting speed. Unaware of the ruckus he was causing, he continued to go towards the estate that the Kyouyama clan reside in. A few minutes late Yoh walked up to a big estate holding Anna in his arms. He smiled at her unconscious face and proceeded to the gate.

He walked up to the guards and went, “Excuse me… But I kind of have someone here that you guys might want back.” The guards looked at each other and then at Yoh. They squinted their eyes at who he was holding and as shock and surprise came rushing at them, they called upon their shaman spirits and immediately told them to find the Head Kyouyama.

“Um. Wait right here and don’t move, someone will be out to tend to you.” Once they saw someone rushing to the gate, they quickly opened it for him.

“Anna!” A man in his early late thirties came rushing out.

Nice outfit. Kick ass red kimono. Crazy white belt… he reminds me of when mom is part timing as a priestess. Yoh sweatdropped at the thought, and went on walking towards the man. Nervous as heck, Yoh just hoped he wouldn’t find out who he was. “Kyouyama-sama. It’s an honor to meet you.” Yoh bowed down as best he could holding Anna in his arms.

“What on earth happened?” He seemed worried about his daughter, but who wouldn’t be?

“Well, I was walking through the woods and then I saw your daughter being attacked by this guy, and I decided to save her I guess. Not that I’m bragging or anything, but I just thought she could use some help getting rid of him.” Yoh tried to explain as briefly as he could without getting the wrong idea about him.

“Hm. I’ll trust you this once, but do not take advantage of this. Please come in.” They walked down the pathway leading up to a large, traditional, Japanese home. Cherry blossom trees occupying the aisle along the walkway. Yoh stared at the yard in awe, especially at the water fountains. He had never seen anything like it, the closest he could get to seeing something spitting water out was when he went to the bathroom.

“This way.” They walked down a hallway leading to a sliding door that had a piece of paper labeling ‘Anna’s Room’. The father pulled out a futon for his daughter and let Yoh set her down. Yoh look at her face one last time before turning away to her father. “How can I ever repay you for saving my daughter?”

Yoh eyes brightened at the thought and smiled widely. “Well you see, before I went to save your daughter my stuff got destroyed and I need-”

“Say no more. Please come with me.” He walked out the door and turned left down the hallway.

Yoh walked after him but not before tripping over the table next to him and causing a thump. It wasn’t very loud but it was loud enough to stir Anna into waking up. Right when Yoh had recovered from the fall Anna had awoken and saw the back of her savior jogging out the door. When Yoh shut the door, Anna bolted up in her position. By moving to fast Anna discovered a new sting on her arm with a cloth that cover the wound and a torn white shirt in her lap.

Just realizing that he hero had just left she tried hard to get out of her futon to change and chase after him, but she was too sore. Taking it slowly she took off the dirtied black dress and carefully pulled another black dress on, except this one went down to her ankles and split from the sides of her thighs and down. Struggling to just put on the dress she did her best to rush out to find her father, and hopefully her rescuer.

With Yoh

“Hai. Here you go. This should be able to cover the expense.” He handed Yoh a bag filled with money. The brown haired boy stared at it with awe. “By the way, I never fully introduced myself. My name is Kyouyama Kouhei. I am the head of the Kyouyama clan, and so far the leader of this country.”

Yoh snapped out of his daze and smiled cheekily at Kouhei, but then his cheerful smile faltered. “I really can’t accept all this money. This is way more than I had to begin with, please take the left-over back.”

“No it’s fine. You gave up belongings just so you could save my daughter, so please take it.” He pushed the bag back into the boy’s hands, and Yoh looked at the bag then back at him. His frown turned back onto a smile and said, “Arigatou Kyouyama-san. I should get going now, my grandparents will be mad if I don’t hurry back soon. Bye!” Yoh took off down the walkway towards the gate.

“Wait! What’s your name boy?”

Yoh stopped in his tracks and turned around and yelled, “It Yoh!” And with that he took off once again.

Kouhei muttered to himself, “There’s something about that boy that I just can’t really put my finger on. He seems so familiar, resembles someone I used to know… but who.” He furiously scratched his head and grumbled. He looked out and Yoh was still jogging down the path almost reaching the gate. Then he heard “Otou-san!”.

“Anna! What’re you doing out here? You’re suppose to be sleeping! Don’t tire yourself out too much, you’ve been through a lot today.” Attempting to get her back inside, Anna interrupted.

“Where is he?” Anna was gasping for her breathe since she had run from her room all the way to the front porch, which was no short walk.

“Who? Oh the boy? He’s right ther…” The older man pointed his finger at the gate but shockingly he wasn’t there. There wasn’t a trace of him left, and the gates didn’t even seem to have opened the tiniest bit. “That’s weird. He was just there no more than a second ago” he murmured.

“Did you get his name?” Finally catching her breath she waited for her father to answer.

“Oh yes I did. He said his name was Yoh.”

“Just Yoh? Nothing else? No last name?”

“He didn’t tell me.” Kouhei saw Anna’s excitement fate. “But I’m sure we’ll see him again. There’s something I need to address you to, but first, why on earth were you in a forest on the opposite side of the town?”

Anna froze.

Again… With Yoh

“Whew! I’m finally done, for the second time of the day. If I hurry I can still make it with enough time to sprint up the mountain.” But that girl I met today. She was so beautiful and that fierce attitude. I like that, it’s cute. Maybe I’ll see her again one day.

After walking a few miles through the forest he finally reach the base of the mountain. Surprisingly he found his trustworthy Samurai spirit at the pathway up the mountain. His little spirit came flying at him going, “Yoh-dono are you okay?! What happened? Where were you? Did you get hurt? Did you do something stupid again?”

“Hey! I resent that last remark of yours Amidamaru. If I tell you what happened, will you help me get to the top of the mountain?” The spirit attempted to nod his head, only to make Yoh laugh.

Yoh told his spirit the entire story with buying groceries to Anna, to meeting the head of the Kyouyama clan, to him giving him a whole bag of extra money. One would expect another to be excited for each other but for this case it’s not so good.

“You met Kyouyama Kouhei?! Yoh-dono, what if he found out who you were! Our country would be in danger and everyone will be after you and your family. You didn’t tell him anything right?” the samurai was frantic, floating all around his master.

“Chill Amidamaru. I only told him my first nothing and nothing else, so don’t worry so much. I doubt that I’ll even see her ever again.”

“Her, Yoh-dono?” teased Amidamaru.

“Whah? Nothing. I said them! I didn’t say her, why would I be thinking about someone I barely know?” Yoh turned the opposite way, blushing furiously. But then again, I really do want to see her again…

“Yoh-dono ready to go up?”

“Huh? Yeah I’m ready!” Amidamaru materialized into his full ghost form and when Yoh touched him, he transfer his furiyoku into Amidamaru making him a physical being able to touch solid objects. Yoh climbed onto his back and hung onto his armor.

It wasn’t a long ride up to the top of the mountain, but for some reason Yoh felt that today’s trip took longer than usual. Maybe it was because he kept on thinking about a certain blonde hair girl, with brown eyes, and tight body he just wanted to ho- What the heck am I thinking! I just met her and here I’m going all weird on myself. Get a hold of yourself Yoh, don’t let your emotions hinder our goal.

“All right then.” They reach the top and Yoh jumped off his back, immediately Amidamaru returned to his spirit ball form and they start to walk into the door. Right when he opened it, his mother attacked him head on, hugging him so tightly that he could barely breathe.

“Mom… Can’t… breathe! GAh!”

“Oh I was so worried Yoh! You didn’t come back when you said you would and I started to worry so much. I was going to send the entire shaman realm to search for you.” The boy sweatdropped at the sight of his mother worry so much over him. It had to admit it was always funny to see her do things with her powers because its usually for completely useless things. Like this time for example. Yoh didn’t mind his mother being overprotective or anything, he loved her just as much as she loved him. And so with the rest of his family.

“Yoh, what took you so long?”

The teenage sighed and told them the entire story, without leaving any details out.

“You were lucky enough to get away without the head asking for your last name.” His father pointed out the oh-so obvious point. He saw Yoh just daydreaming and not paying any attention to them. Mikihisa looked at his wife, and mother and father. They all smiled at each other knowing that it was that time already.

They left Yoh alone in the living room and walked outside near the mini pond they had built. Outside Yohmei spoke first, “So the time has come. It is only a matter of time before he wakes up. And Yoh isn’t even nearly as prepared as he should be. We need to find someone who will train him, way better than we can.”

Kino spoke up, “We all know of the prophecy but we have to wait till the time is right. Let the boy choose his own path, and that path will lead us to the one who will train him. Let us just trust the future of the Asakuran clan. Even if it is in the hands of a mere boy.”

“But you forget who he is Kino. He is not just a boy. He’s OUR grandson, and we’ve done everything in our power to teach him well. We just have to trust him.” The two couples stared at the clear sky and hoped for the best.

Snapping them out of their daze Yoh told them from the door he was going to see his friends and he promised that he’ll be back before dinner started.

“Amidamaru! Let’s go find Horo and Ren.” He jumped off the cliff to land on the rock below and quickly jumping from rock to rock till he finally reached the bottom. Taking off towards the forest he took a few detours and finally found the hangout where all his friends that knew his secret were. He knocked on the door and entered into the room.

There he found the gang all together. Ren, Horo Horo, Pirika, Tamao, Ryou, Lyserg, Jeanne, Faust and Eliza. They weren’t a very big group but enough for everyone to keep each other entertained. But even if he did find the gang all together, he saw the most awkward and embarrassing thing ever.

He had just walked in on all the couples making out and Ryou sitting in the front holding a ghost timer that had how many minutes they were lasting. Yoh nervously chuckled at the sight and just let them continue what they were doing, obviously too absorbed in each other to even care that they were apparently have a contest.

“Yoh-dono!’ Ryou went up to him and gave him a bone crushing hug. The man with the funny hair was what Yoh used to call him but now that he has a name they were finally on first name basis. The rest of the group heard the name Yoh and immediately stopped what they were doing. Everyone was panting and out of breathe, the sight made Yoh feel a little jealous that everyone had a special someone except for him.

He was just waiting for the right girl to come along and slap him into his place. “So we going to get working or are you going to sit around and suck each other’s faces out?” Yoh smiled innocently at them.

They all looked at each other and bursted out laughing. Horo Horo came up to him and put a hand on his shoulder, “Yeah, let’s get to work.”

Kyouyama Estate

“What?! You’re not serious are you dad?! I don’t need a body guard!” Anna slammed her hand on the table.

“Anna don’t be so stubborn! If the boy weren’t there to save you what would’ve happened to you? You could’ve been killed!” Kouhei tried to persuade her only to be rejected several times, yet he kept trying.

“Well I’m not dead yet am I! Trust me dad I can take care of myself, I don’t need a bodyguard.” She was prepared to walk out the door when he brought him up.

“What if I were to tell you, that I’ll find that boy that saved you that day, and make him your bodyguard. What would you say about that?” He used the ultimate trap on her. He knew clearly that she would go to any extent to find him again.

“Fine. But only for a little while. I need to repay him for saving me, I don’t like be in debt to other people.”

“Great! I’ll send out the news soon. It’s bound to get to him before the day ends, unless he’s somewhere we can’t find him.” His defense weakened and Anna went in for the kill.

“I’m not allowing anyone else but him be my bodyguard. And if its not him, I’ll get the bodyguard you hired and burn him alive. Understood father?” Anna asked menacingly.

“Okay… I got it” Chills crawled up the spine of the Head of the Kyouyama clan, by just the mere word of his own daughter. He knew she wasn’t joking about this, she really wanted to find him. I can’t believe he’s had such an effect on her. Took her months to even open up to the maids and this boy just swoops and carries off her feet and made her fall desperately within a day! That has definitely got to be a record. Kouhei thought to himself.

“Well? What you just sitting there for? Hurry up! I’m going out for another walk.” She saw him protest but before he could she said to him reassuringly, “I’ll be more careful this time. I promise you I won’t get into any trouble.” Without another word she was out the door and to the gate.

“That guy. Who on earth is he? He didn’t even have to try to kick that guy and he went flying. I swear if it’s the last thing I do I’m going to find him.” Anna walked for a half an hour, all the way across town and finally reached the forest.

She reached down to rub her ankles from the soreness of walking too much. Wandering into the forest she started to walk around, letting her feet take control, for another 20 minutes she was led to a semi large house. It wasn’t too plain nor was it filled with exciting and clashing colors, but it was just simple enough for someone to live there peacefully.

Assuming that no one lived there because it was quiet and the house the looked abandoned, she started to walk around the house. She got to the backyard and was amazed by the scenery. There was a pond with some fish in the middle of the area, many trees surrounding the place to give it a very soothing feeling.

Anna took a walk around the pond looking at all the different colored fishes, admiring the scenery around her. She took a deeper walking into the back forest and for a few more minutes she found an isolated area. No trees or flowers, just the sunlight and an extremely large tree in the middle of nowhere.

“Ah!” From out of no where, a gust of wind shot out suddenly, blowing away Anna’s scarf from her neck. Running after it she tried to catch it, yet as she tried getting closer it flew up higher and higher. In no time her red scarf was hanging high up on a branch upon the tree.

She stared up at the hanging red cloth, knowing that there was no way she could even reach it. She circled around the tree twice, thinking about a way to get up the tree. Finally she stopped walking in circles and walked to a tree, sat down and leaned against a tree. I’ll just close my eyes for a bit.

Little by little Anna’s eyes lids felt heavier each second. In less than a minute Anna was completely asleep.

In a distance there was a distinct laughing made by Yoh and his friends. They were all sparring with each other at first but then sparring became to just childish fighting. Then just fighting came to tickling and then they all starting just joking around and laughing on the ground. It took them about an hour to even start to relax more or less to stop laughing.

“You know, I think we should go home you guys. It’s getting late.” Yoh chuckled while scratching the back of his head.

“Yoh! You silly bird brain! It’s only like four.” The pink haired girl made fun of Yoh. (A/N: Silly bird brain? Who says stuff like that?! Apparently Tamao does… And I don’t know if they had clocks or could tell time back then. But in this they can)

“Tamao, bird brain needs to train. Can’t always be playing around with us. We’ll come see you another day. Bye bye!” The blue haired shaman put his arm around the blushing pink girl.

“Hurry retard, we better hurry. I want to catch that new Chinese restaurant before there’s too many people. Let’s go Pirika.” The Chinese boy walked away with his arm wrapped around Pirika’s waist.

“Shark boy, you better get your hand off my sister!” Horo Horo ran after Ren, yelling at each other. The rest of the gang left laughing at the two immature teenagers.

At a distance Yoh stared worryingly at his friends, and decided to shrug it off. He started to walk the opposite way. The sun wasn’t down yet so he just decided to take his time and walk home.

“Ah! Free day, no training, just one full day of fun! If only…” He reached the place where he supposed was the most important spot in the forest, assuming that the reason the big tree was there for a reason. “How’s my favorite tree today. Hah?” There was a crimson red cloth tangled to a branch. He was going to leave it alone but once again a black dress caught his eyes.

Shocked, he saw the same exact girl he encountered a few hours earlier. He got close to her and got on knees and got closer and closer and…

Anna’s eyes popped open and shoved him off. “Who the hell are you? Trying to take advantage of me, well just to let you know! I’m tougher than I look!” But she soon trailed off seeing to who the guy actually was. “You’re from, that time. You’re the one that saved me.”

They stared at each other for who knows how long, then Yoh, just realized what was happening, got up blushing and looking away from her. “Um. What’re you doing here in the forest? No one’s here this time around.” Remembering his manners he held out a hand to help her up.

Right when she touched his hands, Anna felt a tingling feeling go up her arm and down her body. Hesitating she grab his hand tightly and let him lift her up. “My scarf got stuck up in the tree, and since I can’t even get up there I just thought I would wait for it fly down I guess.” Anna knew it was a stupid idea but she had no other option.

“Want me to help you get it?” Anna stared at him as if he was crazy, but she shrugged it off. As long as she got it back.

“Will you?” Yoh nodded his head with a boyish smile on his face. “Wait what’re you doing you idiot?!”

Yoh swept her off her feet and into his arms, unaffected by her slapping, he walked closer to where her scarf was. “What’re you doing! Put me down now!”

Without another from Yoh he was right under the branch her scarf was hanging on. Anna felt a rush of wind and shut her eyes closed. Immediately she opened her eyes when she felt that it was safe. Shocked she found her on top of the tree where he scarf had lied.

Surprisingly the branch was no small or flimsy little stick. Where she was standing right then, the ‘branch’ was thick enough to let three people to stand side by side with plenty of space for them sit down.

Yoh set her down and making sure that she wasn’t going to fall let her go. “Um. What am I doing here?”

“You asked me to help you get your scarf, so here we are.” Anna stared at him as if he were crazy. “What’s wrong? Aren’t you gonna go get your scarf?”

“I thought you were going to get it for me. Not, I go by myself.”

“Since you’re here already, might as well.” Yoh shrugged and stared at her with a grin on his face.

“Fine.” Anna started to walk down the branch careful of not to slip. She looked over her shoulder and saw the boy staring at her.

Caught off guard Anna lost her balance, and fell off. Yoh quickly recovered from daydreaming and quickly landed on the floor. He slid out to catch her, scraping his back on the floor. Right when he caught her, she landed on top of him, cushioning her fall.

They stared at each other for a minute, frozen right on the spot. Quickly realizing they both got up and off each other, looking the opposite way. “Eheh. M-maybe I sho-should have gotten it back for you.” Yoh stuttered.

“Yeah.” Anna put a hand against her heart feeling it go a hundred miles a minute. She turned around and asked, “Could you?” with pleading eyes.

All Yoh did was smile, bent his knees a little bit and sprung up to the tree contain her scarf. He quickly untied the tangled scarf, releasing it from the tree, he held it tightly in his hands and went back to Anna’s side.

“Sorry about letting you go by yourself.” Yoh scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. “By the way, I never introduced myself. My name is Yoh. What’s yours?”

“I’m pretty sure you know who I am. My name is Kyouyama Anna, the daughter of the leader of the Kyouyama clan.”

“That was pretty straight forward. And yeah, I know who you are, I saw the bracelet on your hand when I found you earlier.”

“Oh yeah. You were the one at the time.”

“So, what were doing in the forest, with no bodyguard? I mean I doubt your dad would let you out here without protection. Especially when you’re so important to the clan.”

“I was just curious, I’ve never been to this side of the town, and then I saw a forest so I’d thought I would do a little exploring. Then I found out this weirdo was following me, and I think you know what happened after that.” Anna tried to explain as briefly as she could.

“Well, now you know how dangerous it’s out here. You should probably go home, it does take a while to walk back.” He saw her stare at the setting sun, wanting to spend more time with her he had an idea.

“Uh, how bout I walk you home, since you know, it’s dangerous out there.”

Anna looked at Yoh suspiciously, but nodded slowly, agreeing to his offer. “So how do we get out of this place.”

“Well, first we start walking.” Yoh pointed the obvious out.

Anna rolled her eyes and started walking the way she remembered. “Hey Anna, where you going?”

“Back to where I came from you smart ass! Jerk!”

“Woa woa! Hey I didn’t mean anything offensive. I was just joking around, com’on just lemme walk you home.”

After a few minutes of pleading Anna gave in and agreed to his suggestion. “The way backs this way, come on.” He walked ahead of her and just assumed that she was following him.

Trying to start up a conversation after 20 minutes of silence Yoh spoke up. “So. Um… Daughter of Kyouyama Kouhei huh? That’s pretty cool to have such a powerful and rich dad right?”

“Not really. He’s never home to eat dinner with me, always busy even when he’s suppose to have the day off, business trips, important meetings. I never get to have time with him, and when I want to have time alone, I go out and guess what! Everyone is ALWAYS staring at me and whispering about me behind my back. I never get someone who’ll see me for who I actually am.” Anna lost her temper for a second but then regained her cool.

“It’s alright. I mean you just have to learn to deal with it right? For me I would want to see how it is to live a life of luxury. All my life its been me to go out and buy food, do all the shopping, collecting money, going places to run errands, training as a shaman and-”

“YOU’RE a SHAMAN?! You mean as in shaman that can see spirits and ghosts and stuff right?” Anna cut him off and went right into his face to ask questions.

Scared, he slowly nodded his head. He saw Anna turn around and started to mutter incoherently. “Uh. Anna, is everything okay?”

She sharply turned around and looked him right in the eye, and all up in his face, noses barely touching. “So that’s why you could beat that guy without breaking a sweat. You’re like thirty times stronger than them! Why didn’t you tell me sooner!”

“Uh. You didn’t ask?” He saw Anna grumble and throw a tantrum but overall he thought it was pretty cute. The determined look on her face was pretty funny too. Wait. Determined?! For what?!

“Hurry up and take me back home. I need to talk to my dad.”

“In case you haven’t noticed Anna, we are home. We’ve been back since you started to yell me.” Anna glared at him. She took his hand, ordered the guard to open the gate, and quickly ran inside to look for her father.

After a minute of pondering around, she found him in the main living room. Anna made Yoh sit on the floor while she started to talk to her dad. “Dad did you know he’s a SHAMAN?”

Shocked, he quickly recovered and went on. “Yoh I have a request of you. Think of it like a job, would you consider being Anna’s bodyguard?”

“Bodyguard? You mean like protect her right?”

“Yes. Of course you’ll have to live here and listen to Anna’s requests. Most importantly go where she goes and protect her when she needs to be.” Kouhei explained to him the position and what and what does not get to do.

Yoh sat there thinking for a while. If I do, do this, I would have to leave tou-san and them to fend for themselves. Whose gonna buy their stuff, their food and all that other stuff, and make sure nothing happens while I’m gone? “I’m going to have to think about it. I need to talk to my parents about it, so I’ll get back to you on that.” Yoh got up and slowly walked out the door.

Kouhei turned to Anna just to see her staring at the closed door Yoh just walked through. “Anna, do you like him?” Shocked Anna retaliated.

“No way! Who would like that guy! I’m going to go talk him into staying.” She ran out after him and reached him before he really left.

When she caught up to him he was just standing there in the middle of the road. Sensing her presence he began to speak, “ You know, ever since I was a kid, my parents expected a lot out of me. My grandparents depended on me more than my parent did. I had training for almost five hours a day, I was home-schooled, depended upon to buy food and run errands. I didn’t understand why they had me do such things when I was a kid, I was always complaining. But they said someday all my training would pay off. Until then I was still complaining, when I hit fourteen they told me something I never thought would happen. Until then, I worked even harder since I knew the truth, I would avenge my clan and restore my family’s honor no matter what. So I’m not really certain that I can do like another job when I have my own mission to complete. I will talk to my parents about it but I can’t guarantee you that I’m allow. I’ll get back to you as soon as I get an answer, for the mean time just wait. Will you?”

Anna was shocked at his explanation, she never knew that he had such a troubled childhood. Even now his entire family depends on him. She slowly nodded and walked closer to him looking down.

Yoh could see some red on her face and asked, “Anna are you okay? Your face is kinda red.” Suddenly he felt something soft against his cheek, shocked as he was, he just stood there watching Anna’s retreating back. She then suddenly stopped and turned around with a blushing face.

“I’ll be waiting for your answer, and don’t take this the wrong way. I was just saying thank you for the save earlier.” And with that she left back to her house.

For a period of time Yoh was still standing there, he put a hand on his cheek, and smiled. Quickly he rushed home wanting eagerly to talk to his parents.

Going fast and jumping from roof top to roof top, the tree to tree. And you get the point with the mountains. Once he got home he rushed to the living room, “Tou-san, Kaa-san! I need to talk to you.”

Yoh explained the entire situation to everyone in his family. They listened quietly to him tell his story quietly. “Please consider of letting do this!”

“Go out for a second Yoh.” Mikihisa waved him out. “What should we do?”

“I think it would be a good idea.” Miyako announced.

“We’ve taught him everything know. He’s strong enough to take both you and I on Mikihisa.” Youmei agreed with his daughter. (A/N in-law? I’m not sure) “Kino? What do you think?”

All three members of the remaining Asakuran clan stared at the old woman sipping her tea, waiting for an answer. She spoke, “Yoh, come in here.” Yoh slid the door opened and walked in. Kino continued, “Do you know who Kyouyama Anna really is? I’ve heard from various rumors from the spirits that say about eighteen years ago when we were to fight the Fire country, there was a surge of energy that spread of to people of this country. Ones that couldn’t handle it only lasted two maybe three months after they received the energy. The reason they die is because they are all just regular humans, unlike us shamans and itakos, they have no way of releasing that energy. All I know for sure there was one that survived. The mother of Kyouyama Anna, she wasn’t a shaman nor a itako, but her husband was. Because at the time she was still pregnant, a lot of the energy was transfer to girl, which saved her from a quick death.”

They all sat down listening to Kino quietly, “ It was almost eight months after our clan had sealed the fire spirit and Anna was born. She is one of the only ones who survived the great energy surge, and I bet you wonder why she’s alive. No she is not a shaman, but an itako. A very strong-willed and powerful one at that, this is why I will let you go. You don’t have to worry about us, we’ll find a way to get things, or we could just ask your dear friends.”

“Arigatou gozaimasu Kino-baa chan! I’m gonna go give Anna the good news!” Yoh thanked them excitedly but was stopped by his mother.

“Yoh I think you should take some stuff with you. Just go now, we’ll be fine.” Putting a bright smile on his face, he went to kiss his mother and grandma on the cheek, and hugged his dad and grandpa. Without another word Yoh left. Right when he left everyone turned to Kino.

“What’s the real reason kaa-san?” Her son questioned her and looked at her funny.

“Why that is the real reason son. But there is more to it. Not only is she a very strong itako, I know very well from the spirits that she wants to marry someone who eligible to make her the Shaman Queen. Since we’ve been aiming for the Shaman King title against Yoh’s twin brother, it’s the perfect choice. I’m very sure she’ll train him to become much stronger, and besides, he has motivation now.”

Everyone nodded in understanding what she just said. In their hearts, they hoped this plan will work. The future of the Wind country depends on it.

Yoh finally finished packing and told his parents and grandparents that he was going to leave. He didn’t bring much with him except that of several sets of clothes that had to be washed at least once a week.

Eagerly, Yoh couldn’t wait to tell Anna the good news so he started to sprint as fast as he could, and when he arrived he asked the guards to let him in to speak to Anna. Recognizing him they opened the gate and let him through.

Maybe I should do a little wandering before I go find Anna. Yeah, I think I’ll do that. Before reaching the front porch he took a turn to the back without having to cut all he hallways.

When he got there he found a beautiful tree standing in the middle of the backyard, surrounded by other trees. He spoke to himself, “This kinda looks like the one back at the forest. The one where I found Anna, I think I’m starting to like big trees.” He walked towards it and found a rope type of ladder hanging down. He looked up and not to his surprise he found Anna up there sleeping.

To himself he whispered, “Yep, I’m definitely starting to like big trees.” Without using a ladder, he quietly jumped onto the branch Anna was sitting on. He stared at her for a moment, taking all her beauty. The way her chest moved up and down slowly as she breathed. The light bluish glow the moon gave off and hitting her radiant skin. The way her lips parted as she slept.

Yoh smiled at her cuteness, but not wanting her to freak out like last time, he softly whispered her name, “Anna, wake up. If you stay out here too long you’ll catch a cold.” He put a hand on her shoulder.

Feeling a warm touch on her shoulder, Anna opened her eyes and used her fist to rub her eyes. Squinting at the face in front of her, she finally focused on who he was.

A little too close for comfort Anna freak and fell off… again. This time Yoh was prepared and before she even got near the ground, he already had her in his arms. “You have really got to stop doing that. I don’t need to save you from these fake dangers you know.”

Embarrassed at the situation she retorted, “Well, I was just testing you to see if you were ready.” He set her down while she continued, “Let’s go see my dad. I want to let him know you accepted, and we need to find you a room to stay in.”

She dragged him by his hand and quickly walked towards the house. She went straight to what he remembered as the living room and slammed the door open. She saw her father look up and watched him speak up, “Yoh, your back! That was fast though, not even an hour and you made it back. That’s a shaman for you.”

“Cut the crap dad, and lets get back to the point here. Where is he going to stay?” Anna let her father ponder for a minute.

“Well, right now all the rooms are occupied by the maids and workers in the North Wing. And the South wing there are only five rooms. Lets see, one room for the living room, One room is mine, her room, Anna’s room, and the only one left is the guest room. But that’s right next to Anna’s. Is that okay with you?” They both stared at Anna.

“It’s fine with me, I don’t really care. Besides if I’m attacked he could come over faster. Let’s go Yoh.” Once again she dragged him by the arm, and towards her room.

“I definitely think there is something very familiar about him. But I just can’t remember.” Kouhei brushed the thought away and just continued sipping his tea.

Down the hall and to the right was where Anna and Yoh where. “This is your room. It’s smaller than the rest but I think you’ll be comfortable here.”

Yoh sweatdropped at the word ‘small’. It was far from small, it was probably the same size as his kitchen, living room, bathroom combined!

“Uh sure… Small.” Anna was about to leave when Yoh interrupted, “Can I know where the bathroom is? I need to take a shower, I smell like sweat.”

“Yeah, its right across the hall. No one will interrupt you cause no one but us are on this side of the house. So you don’t have to worry about someone barging in. We share the same bathroom, my dad has his own separate one. And I warn you, if I catch you peeking, I’ll kill you.”

“I won’t! I swear on the Asaku- I mean my life!” Anna looked at him suspiciously and walked back towards her room.

“Yoh went back to his room and grabbed a towel, and on the way back he thought, That was a close one. I almost blurted out our own secret. Anyways I should wash my shirt first. Or else it won’t have time to dry.

He stripped off his own clothes and washed his body first. Wrapping a towel around his waist he walked to the outdoor onsen and slipped in. He soaked for at least ten minutes before coming out.

“Shoot!” Just realizing that he forgot his sleep clothes in his room he quickly pulled on his pants. He slowly slid the door and quietly tried to sneak back to his own room.

Unfortunately Anna heard him come out and needing to use the bathroom she rushed out the door quickly and bumped into, a still wet, Yoh. Both falling down Anna had more time to recover but for Yoh, his reaction was a little slow since his mind was on getting back to his room to change.

Anna leaned up and rubbed her back a little, looking for the source of what she hit, all she saw was a hot and well toned body lying on the floor still kind of wet. When she saw him get up, his lean muscles were very visible and clear as he moved. Blushing madly, Anna scrambled back into her room and slid the door closed before he could notice.

Yoh rubbed his head and went, “What the heck was that. Felt like I bumped into someone, couldn’t be Anna cause she was in her room. Ahhh.” Yoh yawned and brushed it off. He prepared everything before he went to bed. He was prepared to go and ask Anna what time he should wake up but he was certain that she would be asleep by now. And the last thing on his mind was of nothing but the one and only Kyouyama Anna.

In Anna’s room about a minute after they crashed into each other, Anna was still holding her thumping heart, pounding like crazy Anna asked herself, What’s this feeling. I can’t stop it! My chest feels so weird. Yoh, what’re you doing to me. And without another word Anna fell asleep without getting ready for bed or anything. All she did was lie on the floor of where she sat.

Yoh woke up all of a sudden, decided to check up on Anna and see if she’s doing okay. He knew it was stupid to do such a thing, but he couldn’t help it. Getting out of his futon, walked out his door and stood in front of Anna’s. Careful not to make a sound he gently slid the door open. He looked around to see if she was sleeping, but instead he sees her just lying on the floor next to the side window door.

Yoh smiled a little and went up to her. Can’t believe she fell asleep here of all places. The doors open and its cold outside… Does she want to get sick? Walking to the corner to get her futon ready he set everything into place. He picked her up into his arms, and gently place her on the futon. He bent down next to her ear and whispered, “Oyasumi nasai, Anna.” With that he brushed his lips against her forehead and left.

Without Anna waking up and throwing a tantrum, all that came out of her mouth was a simple, “Oyasumi… Yoh.” And with that she snuggled into her warm blanket and fell into an even deeper sleep.

TSUZUKU!

OMG finally first chapter done! If you guys didn’t read it too detaily I understand. I’m not sure why I wrote it so long, this chapter took me like 3 days to write. T-T couldn’t think of anything and I didn’t want Anna to be so nice. I’m planning on mking her Hard core next chapter.

What’s to come! Here’s a preview for you guys who want a taste of the next chapter.

Anna reveals to Yoh about what she wants him to become. So she starts his intensive training. There will be more YohxAnna in the next chapter, and maybe soon there will be a LEMON for all you pervs out there. I’ve never written one super detaily, so I wanna start with this fanfic. If you guys review enough for every 10 reviews I’ll make a lemon so R&R. If you don’t want one… I’ll warn you guys and you can skip it. But still R&R please.

From Aimless

PS- If you guys can figure out the name that comes from Aimless then i promise to update in two weeks. Hey what do you expect! I have finals this week.