Shaman King Fan Fiction ❯ Ivy, Shaman Runaway ❯ Romeo and Juliet Syndrome ( Chapter 24 )

 

Romeo and Juliet Syndrome

I was up late at night standing watch over Yoh when I heard some commotion downstairs. I was about to go to check it out, but no sooner had I gotten out into the hallway, Poison Ivy herself came running up the stairway. I ducked back into Yoh's room so she wouldn't see me.

 

She didn't notice me as she walked past my master's room. I watched her as she journeyed down the hall to her own room. `What was she doing out so late? Probably visiting some man; it seems to fit her harlot-like personality…she's no go for Master Yoh.'

 

As soon as I had thought this Ivy came back out of her room in a pair of Yoh's pajamas. She slowly sauntered down the hallway toward Yoh's room. I hid in my memorial tablet as she entered, so that I could watch her and not be noticed spying.

 

She sat down on the edge of Yoh's bed and sat starring at him as he slept. Occasionally she would gently brush a stray piece of hair from his face softly so as not to wake him. He slept on, not knowing that she was present.

 

She traced his facial features with a finger, going over every detail. `What is she doing here? He's not even awake, and she's fondling him!'

 

Yoh, feeling someone touching him in his sleep, did not wake, but reached for her hand and trapped it in his strong grasp. He pulled it closer to him, unknowingly forcing her practically on top of him.

 

“Yoh…hehehe...I think we're a bit young for this. Besides darling, forcing yourself on me won't work. You already have a fiancée, anyway.” She chuckled lightly, sitting back up straight and liberating her hand from his. Before she let go of his hand completely, she slipped a red rubber band off of her wrist and onto his. Ivy bent over and kissed him on the cheek. Suddenly her tone turned serious. “I'm no good for you. If you stay around me for much longer I might tempt you to betray Anna…you wouldn't normally even think of that. I'm corrupting you, Yoh. Slowly, but surely I'm Poisoning you. Stay away from me. I'm warning you. Anna loves you, and I just can't break my own big sister's heart.”

 

`Sister!!' I nearly choked. `Anna and Ivy are sisters!! Oh my GOD!!' If I had had anything in my mouth we would have had a spit take.

 

“You are tempting me to though.” Ivy continued her little monologue, still unaware of my presence. “It will never work out between us. Classic star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet thing. Of course you won't understand…maybe you never will. But if I have to break your heart, I will. It will hurt you, but if it saves Anna some pain...—well, you'll see. Goodnight.”

 

She stood and left leaving behind only her rubber band, and bright red lipstick on my master's cheek. I made sure she was asleep before I went to confront Yoh. It didn't take very long at all seeing as she was unconscious as soon as she lay down.

 

“Master Yoh!” I called softly at my shaman's ear. No response. “Yoh! Wake up! We need to talk about this `Ivy' character.” I gently shook him.

 

“Ivy…” He moaned in pleasure.

 

“Master Yoh?” 0.0 “What are you dreaming about?” I worried about him sometimes.

 

“Oh, Ivy…” Yoh groaned, talking in his sleep.

 

“Never mind. I'm not sure I want to know…” I trailed off. “YOH!”

 

“Huh?!!?” The boy sat straight up in bed at the loud noise so close to his sensitive ears. “Oh…hey Amidamaru. What time is it? It can't possibly be time to get up yet! And I was having a good dream, too.” The lazy shaman grumbled.

 

I raised an eyebrow skeptically at him. He was acting very strangely as of late. “And what kind of good dream would have you moaning `Ivy' every few minutes?”

 

Yoh's face flushed as he avoided eye contact, “You don't want to know…was I talking in my sleep or something?”

 

I nodded. “Yes, and it's a very fortunate thing that Anna didn't hear you, or you'd be a goner.” I warned him.

 

Yoh gulped at the thought. “Yeah…wait, didn't you want to talk to me about something?”

 

I had almost forgotten. “Oh, yes. It's about Ivy.”

 

“What about Ivy?” He asked. I finally was holding his attention span for more than a few minutes.

 

I took a huge breath before I tried to give it to him gently, “Yoh, she's a lying, conniving, conning, cheating, harlot. She's going to hurt you; I just know it! Whether it be physically, emotionally, physiologically, or some other way; she's dangerous, Yoh. They don't call her Poison Ivy for nothing. Just the other night when Opacho brought her things to her she had been up walking around in the middle of the night. She said that she couldn't sleep. I bumped into her and we talked for awhile before someone knocked on the door. She opened the door and there stood Hao, of course, she yelled at him and attacked him, but the thing was how she attacked him. She oversouled me into your sword Yoh, and attacked using our Halo Blades move! The only thing was the way she oversouled was a mix of integrating me into her own body, and into the sword. It was so weird! Her oversoul was way more powerful than we could ever hope to be, and her furyoku is up there with Hao's! She deadly Yoh; she could easily take us all out without even using a sixteenth of her furyoku up! Then after Hao negated her attack and kissed her goodbye, she didn't even say anything about him being there just because he asked her not too! Of course I was waiting until now to inform you, but she's a threat, Yoh.”

 

He smiled at me. Smiled! After I had said all those horrible things about Ivy. He smiled! “I know, Amidamaru. I know she could pull a knife or a gun on me anytime. I know that if I get seriously involved with her that she'll drop me in a matter of days for some other guy. I know that no matter what she's going to hurt me, but I honestly don't care.” He finished with the goofiest grin on his face that I have ever seen.

 

My ghostly hand immediately snapped up to rest on his forehead. “Are you feeling alright, Yoh?”

 

Yoh fell over backwards with a gigantic frustrated sigh. “Amidamaru!! I'm not sick!!—Wait I take that back. I am sick! As sick as they come! Amidamaru I'm lovesick!!”

 

I still refused to believe that the lazy, oblivious, clueless-when-it-comes-to-girls, shaman that I first teamed up with had fallen so fast for his fiancée's twin sister. “Yes, you're sick alright. I'm going to get Faust. What should I tell him the symptoms are?”

 

Yoh sighed again as he began to list: “Whenever she's around I get this jolt of electricity up my spine, and my heat-rate increases ten-fold. Sometimes when I try to sleep at night, all I can see is her face. And all I can dream of is what it would be like to actually kiss her. I know she's kissed me before, but those were all fakes; I want her to really kiss me, not just because she wants something. I need her to; if I could get one real kiss out of her I could die happily. If just once she could touch me and mean it, instead of just toying with me just to see me sweat. I can't settle for Anna anymore now that I've met Ivy!! Oh Amidamaru what's wrong with me? Here I am talking myself in circles. I've never felt like this before! I need her so badly, I—“

 

“—Yoh! Stop! You're rambling like a madman! Just like if you were…in love—oh my GOD!! Yoh! You're in love!!” I finally realized what was happening to my young friend.

 

“Have you ever been in love Amidamaru?” Yoh gazed up at me innocently.

 

I openly laughed at the idea of me being in love as I answered, “Me? In love? No!! I never—“ I started, but as soon as I denied ever being in love a face resurfaced in my memory. It was a face with onyx eyes. I remembered those eyes. I remembered chest length light brown hair. I remembered a warm laugh, and a sly smile. I remembered a trim frame with the perfect amount of lines and curves. I remembered the long, hot summer days training a young girl to be a samurai. Likewise I remember the cool, summer nights that went by all too fast when we were looking up at the stars. I remembered how she wept at my death and clutched my blood-soaked body. I remembered all the afternoons she would come and sit by my grave talking to me. I remembered answering her even if she could not hear me, the ghost standing just feet away from her. I remembered all the secrets she told me. I remembered watching her get older. I remembered watching helplessly as they lead her off to be put to death. “Yes.” I answered. “I was in love once…maybe I still am…” I remembered Aikido.