Shaman King Fan Fiction ❯ A Place For My Head ❯ The Challenger Arrives! ( Chapter 1 )

Shaman King. Not mine. Good story though. Sue and receive my last tic- tac. If you really need it, I'll just give it to you.

Anna sat at the table and waited for her fiancée to return. Yoh had been out training with Manta and Amidamaru for over twelve hours now. She had sent three ghosts to check up on them and had been pleased to hear that he was hard at it. She sighed; Yoh was progressing even faster than she had anticipated. She smiled a little to herself. He would make a fine shaman king. She would try to live up to the title of shaman queen as his wife. That particular thought had been bothering her lately. She would one day soon be his wife. Having many days to ponder that fate had her thinking of some very strange, yet relevant things. What would he expect from her? She would no longer wield the power she did now over him. The tables will soon turn against her and she would have to follow his lead. She had given herself a headache thinking up all the things he could have her do as some form of revenge. Scrubbing floors, making the meals, tending the yard...there was any number of things. One night she had been watching a movie where the main character's lover had been doing just such things to her after her abuse of him. As she was washing the floors, he grabbed her and took her upstairs. The relationship changed after that. They had become lovers and he was very demanding of her. What would it be like to make love to Yoh-kun? Would he even want her like that? Did he see her as anything but an annoyance? She sneered. That was not at all a likely turn of events. She cringed at the sudden lump in the pit of her stomach. What would did it matter? Yoh was Yoh, and he would attend to his commitments. Whether he decided he did not really want to or not. He would take her as his wife as he had promised. Moreover, that was all that mattered, right? She rolled over and turned on the television. This line of thinking was getting her nowhere. It was better that she space out now and think of some new kind of training for Yoh than focus on what lay so far ahead in their future. After all, even when he became Shaman King, surely he would take some time before making good his vow. They were still very young. He could always wait at least a year before going on with the marriage.

"Do you feel some affection for your little Shaman?" came then a smooth voice from the shadows.

Anna tensed suddenly. She felt around slowly with more than her senses and began to shiver. She could not get a reading on whom or what inside the house. She took a good many deep breaths. She slowly rose and reached for her beads. Not that she needed them to summon simple spirits, but they were always good to have close. Her trepidation only grew as she found them gone. Clack. Clack. Whipping her head to the right side of the room, she saw her beads enclosed by lightly tanned hands. Her beads were tossed to her then, her reflexes just fast enough to catch them. A figure slowly faded into view. She would have relaxed as that face became clear, but the person that that face went to did not have the knowledge to do what had just been done. Her beads were stolen; and her every sense evaded as this person had simply slipped in.

"Who are you?"

"You should be more polite. You never even invited me in. I had to do that for myself. Anna Kyouyama, I presume?" he asked softly.

Anna narrowed her eyes at the intruder. He looked exactly like Yoh! That in itself was unnerving enough. She nodded. Where was the damage in him knowing that he had found the right person? He merely smiled and crossed the room, over to her. He raised a hand to her face and reached out to touch her cheek. She withdrew sharply. He chuckled as he looked into her smoldering eyes.

"Beautiful. Are you going to answer my first question? Do you care about your current fiancée?" he asked.

"What do you know about Yoh?" she asked quickly.

"I know a lot. Almost every intimate detail of his life. That is how I know about you. You, my little Anna, are the one I have come here to learn about now."

"Why is that?"

"Because you belong to him." Anna bristled at that.

"I belong to no one. Bear that in mind," she snarled.

"Oh, but you do. Were he to be the one to win the Shaman King tournament, then did he not vow to make you his queen? No need to answer, I already know. But to answer the burning question that is festering in your mind: I know everything that there is to know about Yoh Asakura simply because he is my twin brother. And I will have all that he lays claim to. That includes you. Now I think it's high time that you answered my question."

Anna backed away slowly. The power was radiating off of him now. She knew that he was dangerous, but to this degree? She was actually starting to feel something not un-akin to very real fear. A gentle hand came to her cheek, jarring her from her thoughts as she debated trying to fight him herself.

"Relax. I've been here for hours. Just watching you. I could have done anything that I wished to you and I didn't. this time. Tell me. What do you feel for your presumed," he swept in close enough to breathe in her ear. "...Shaman King?"

She was about to tell him off. She was going to tell him to mind his own business. She was about to kill him with her bare hands. But she suddenly had no will to at all. He was behind her and his mouth was on her neck, nipping and sucking at the tender skin there. Though her traitorous body hummed in delight, her mind screamed for freedom. Her actions were no longer her own. And this was how Yoh and Amidamaru found them as they returned from the day's workout.

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