Shaman King Fan Fiction ❯ Ivy, Shaman Runaway ❯ The Love of My Life�And Her Sister ( Chapter 47 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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The Love of My Life…And Her Sister

I had been trying to avoid Anna for several days now, but it was getting increasingly harder to think up excuses to leave the room whenever she was around. I could tell it was beginning to annoy her when she cornered me in the hallway one night.

“Yoh!” Anna snapped at me as she backed me up against the wall, slamming her left hand to the side of my head. She pressed her face close to mine as she glared.

I could feel my heart rate increase dramatically as she got closer. “Y-yes, Anna?” I managed to mumble. “I-is there a problem?” I grinned sheepishly.

This only seemed to add to her fury, “`Is there a problem?'! What do you mean `Is there a problem?'!? Of course there's a problem! You've been avoiding me this whole week! I demand an explanation!”

“Avoiding you? I'm sorry, have I been avoiding you?” I played innocent.

“Yoh, don't play dumb with me; tell me why you've purposely been avoiding me! Please, Yoh…” I could see small traces of tears in the corners of her eyes beginning to form.

“Oh, Anna…” I looked gravely at the delicate girl before me; she was crumbling right in front of my eyes. “I-I I'm so sorry…I…I'm sorry…” I couldn't think of anything else to say. “Why is it that I always end up hurting the ones I love?” I muttered to myself. Anna heard.

“Love?! Y-you…you mean me?!” She was completely stunned.

I shifted my gaze away from her with a dazed look plastered on my face.

“Yoh?” she took my face in her hands and turned it towards her, studying it for any hint of emotion; there was none. “Yoh? Do you love me?”

I snapped back to my senses at her question. I had no idea how I felt about her. I didn't know any more. Ivy had left my heart in mixed up pieces, and I honestly didn't know how I felt about anything. “I…”

Anna waited with baited breath for my answer, and I felt horribly guilty about what I was going to tell her.

“I have no idea Anna. I'm so sorry; I shouldn't be stringing you along like this, but I…I just can't help it. I'm so sorry, Anna…you don't deserve this at all, but I…it's all my fault…” I stumbled through an apology nowhere near good enough for what I was doing to her.

“Yoh…” Anna smiled lightly at me as she circled her arms around me. “It's not your fault at all…it's Ivy's.” Anna held me closer as she bit out Ivy's name like poison.

“Oh Anna…” I placed my own arms around her waist and sighed. “I wish you wouldn't talk like that…” `They never will get along...—what am I saying? Of course they'll never get along! Ivy's been gone almost a week or so now, and she's not coming back. They will never see each other again, so they never will get along…they'll never get the chance. It's a shame that sisters fight like that…'

“How would you have me talk then?” Anna bit back, pulling away from me slightly. “She tried to steal you from me, Yoh! I don't know any other way to talk about her!—Well it doesn't matter anymore; she's gone now and she's not coming back.” Anna pulled me back into her embrace. I don't know if she was trying to hide her face or not, but it didn't matter: I felt the hot tears she was trying to hide as they fell upon my shirt.

“Please don't cry, Anna; it's not worth it—I'm not worth it!” I lifted her head so that I could wipe away her tears.

She swatted my hand away bitterly, softly growling under her breath. She scowled as she cried even harder.

“Anna, please don't be mad at me. Oh God, I'm so sorry…” I begged.

“Shut up!” Anna softly moaned. “I'm not mad at you, you idiot; I'm mad at myself! It's not your or Ivy's fault! It's mine! It's mine…” Anna sunk to the floor in a crumbling, damp pile of sorrow.

I sunk to my knees and encircled her in my arms, having no idea what so ever what she was talking about. “Anna?”

“I'm so sorry Yoh, I was so jealous of her! I hated her for the way you looked at her and smiled at her and the way you held her and the way you loved her like you could never love me!” Anna choked on a sob before she continued. “I didn't want to lose you, so I…Oh Yoh, I love you so much, and I couldn't let her take you! Please don't hate me; I'm so sorry! I…I-I…it's my fault she left! I—“

“Anna! Stop!” I couldn't take it any more; Anna was completely breaking down in front of me, and I could tell she would faint before long if she continued. “There's no need for you to apologize; you've done nothing wrong…” I ruffled her hair a little and kissed her on the forehead. “Besides, I could never hate you. Ivy left of her own free will, it's not like you threw her out. Everything will work out, Anna, you'll see.”

She stopped sobbing long enough to look me in the eye and whisper, “You have no idea what you're talking about Yoh. You'd never be able to forgive me if you knew what I did…I'm so sorry…I love you Yoh.”

Anna snuggled back up against me and resumed sobbing softly. I sat there with her in my arms, stroking her hair until she cried herself to sleep. I scooped her up in my arms and carried her to her bedroom.

“Dude, you are still totally crushin' on Ivy.” A voice chuckled from Anna's bedroom's doorway.

I turned to see Horo Horo standing shaking his head at me. A wide grin slowly spread over my face as I rolled my eyes at him. I looked back at Anna one last time to make sure she was really asleep before I walked out into the hall, closing the door behind me. “So what if I am?”

“Dude, just teasing. Shame she up and ran like that though…I could tell she really liked you…” Horo tried his best to comfort me.

“If she had liked me, she would have stayed.” I sighed bitterly.

“Asakura, she did like you. That's why I'm so worried about her. It's not like my sister to run like that.” Two golden yellow eyes approached us from out the darkness.

“Hey! Yoh and I are having a man-to-man conversation here! There's no room in this hallway for cats!” Horo spit at the advancing form of Ren.

“I will choose to ignore that comment.” Ren glared up at Horo Horo. “Yoh, I've come to talk about Judo—Ivy—whatever she calls herself now…”

“Come to think of it, you even drink milk like a cat! Hahaha!” Horo mused to himself. “Wait. Sister?! When did this happen?!”

“Idiot. Judo is Ivy, and Ivy is Judo. Judo Tao is my younger sister, and Ivy Kyôyama is Anna's little sister. They're the same person.” I rolled my eyes and laughed fondly at my friends arguing like an old married couple.

Horo was in total shock now “OMFG!!! ANNA AND IVY ARE—“

I quickly clamped my hands over his mouth to stop him. “Anna's asleep, and she doesn't know!” I hissed. “I think it would be better to keep it that way since Ivy's abrupt departure seems to have taken a pretty harsh toll on her already. I don't want to see Anna hurt over this…” my voice trailed off as I glanced back at Anna's door.

Horo caught my gaze, and his mouth dropped to the floor. “You're playing both sides! Oh my God! Yoh, my man you are such a playa! Hahaha!” Horo wrapped his arm around my shoulders, and play punched at me. “Way to go, Yoh! You've got twins fawning over ya! Dude, you've got to show me how you're pullin' this off! I mean, how are you going to have both Anna and Ivy when she comes back?”

I twisted myself out of Horo's grasp and sighed, about to say, `Ivy's not coming back…', but Ren interrupted me.

“How dare you!” He grabbed me by the collar of my shirt, and slammed me up against the wall.

“Ren!” Horo tried to pull Ren off of me, but Ren threw me to the ground before Horo could do much about it.

“Ren?” I looked up at him scowling; it was easy to read the disgusted look painted all over his face.

“Dude, what gives?” Horo tentatively approached Ren, but thinking better of it, turned to help me off the floor.

“How dare you handle my innocent baby sister like that Asakura!” Ren drew his Kwan Dao and pointed it at my throat.

“She's no baby, and definitely not innocent if you know what I mean.” Horo muttered suggestively.

Ren turned on him, “Don't speak of my sister like that!” Horo went flying and crashed through Anna's bedroom door.

Loud shrieks were heard from within, and when I turned to look, Ren threw me to the ground again while my back was turned. I landed face first on the ground, and when I tried to get back up, I noticed two bare feet standing in Anna's doorway. I looked up slowly at the person standing in front of me, and observed the scowling face of Anna.

She did not look happy at all. I felt especially sorry for the unconscious form of Horo Horo that she was dragging out of her room behind her by his hair. She stepped over me, and let Horo's body drop to the floor beside me. I got a nice view of her red lace underwear though. I mentally slapped myself for acting like my older twin, and got to my feet so that I could observe what Anna planned to do to Ren.

She walked straight up to Ren and glared one of her icy glares that she was famous for. “What the hell is going on?”

Ren glared back, still infuriated at my treatment of his sister. “That idiot Asakura is a dirty, cheating, lying, player!”

Anna's glare intensified as she took Ren by the collar and seethed, “How dare you insult my fiancée like that with that pack of lies!”

I stepped in and tried to clam Anna, “Uh…Anna? It's kind of true…”

She turned on me and growled, “Stay out of this Yoh! I'll be the one to judge what's true or not!” She snapped her attention back to Ren who was muttering angrily.

“How can you still protect him even when he's cheating on you and plotting an engagement to another woman behind your back?!”

“Oh shut up! It doesn't matter what he's done; I love him, and Ivy's never coming back!” Anna retorted.

Ren smirked slightly, but still retained a glare on his face, “You sound so sure of yourself…that she's not coming back, I mean. I find it funny that Ivy disappeared while she was with you. She left without saying anything to anyone but you, Anna, and she seemed to have made her decisions very hastily. Everything that has happened is so unlike my sister. I smell a rat, and everything points to foul play. So Anna, what did you do with the body?”

Anna looked as white as a sheet, and about ready to collapse. Somehow she managed to gather enough strength to punch Ren out before half fainting in my arms.

“Anna?!” I carried her back to her bed and tried to wake her.

“Yoh?” She asked weakly.

“I'm here. Anna, what happened between you and Ivy?” I asked urgently.

“I didn't kill her, if that's what you're worrying about.” She tried to sit up, but found she didn't have the strength. Some of the color was coming back to her face though. She looked really upset, and tears were returning to her eyes.

“Please Anna, don't cry…what's wrong?” I softly urged.

“You still love her even if she's never coming back, and for a moment you seriously thought that I was capable of killing her…” Anna sighed softly as she pulled the covers over her head so that she didn't have to look at me sitting beside her.

“Anna!” I moaned. “I know you could never kill anyone! I'm so sorry! God I'm such an idiot…how many times do I have to make you cry before I learn…I'm sorry…” I lifted the covers off of her and apologized some more.

She looked up at me and shook her head sadly. “You really are an idiot…but still I love you…”

“Why don't you just cut your losses, Anna and leave me?” I asked.

“Because I love you moron…I wouldn't be able to leave you even if I wanted to.” She rolled her eyes at my stupidity.

“I wish you would just leave me; all I'm doing is hurting you, and I can't stand to see you in pain…” I moped.

“It would hurt worse if I never saw you again.” She sat up and gently placed a light kiss on my lips. “Goodnight Yoh. I love you…”

“Goodnight Anna.” I smiled down at her, already asleep.

“I love you too…” I added even if she wouldn't hear me. `But I also love Ivy more…this could be a huge problem…' “I promise to make everything all right again…someday. Somehow…”