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This may scare younger viewers

Who: The Mankin Cast. Srsly, the whole damn cast.
Where: Cherrygrove (Pokemon Centre)
When: 18th June
Summary: Meeting the Brainbreakers
Rating: PG - 13
Log:
Anna strode full of purpose into the town, pointedly ignoring any locals as she trotted at a brisk pace towards the Pokemon Center. Where she would find her son. That was still odd to think about. Her son. Asakura Hana. Waiting with Tao Men, son of Ren and Jeanne. She allowed herself a small smirk at that. Ren and Jeanne. Oh, she was going to have fun with that.

But that was for later, right now, she had more pressing matters. Like her sick child. Whose illness she logically blamed on Ren for setting the two kids off for Cherrygrove in the first place. Stepping out of the heat and through the automatic doors of the Centre, Anna cast her gaze about for her son and his distinct looking travelling partner.

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It's not hard to find them. Hana and Men were seemingly one of the few stupid enough to try traveling straight through the weather, which means Hana's loud coughing and sneezing was relatively easy to hear.

The boy was still curled up in the towel the Pokemon Center had given him, shivering none the less at the cool while Ryu nuzzled his trainer's leg worriedly. Hana glanced down, patting the Pokemon, before looking back up and spotting the woman.

"Mom-" ACHOO! "-my!"

Had he been in better condition, he likely would've rushed right over.

As soon as she spotted them she immediately walked over. Despite seeing him in video, meeting face-to-face made the resemblance shocking. He really was her and Yoh's son. Not that she'd doubted that. Maybe she just assumed any children they had would be much more like Yoh than herself. There was a very small flutter of nerves about meeting her son for the first time, something she quickly beat into submission.

Her eyes flickered to the Tao heir for a brief moment. It seemed the exhaustion of coughing had caused Men to fall asleep, Tai curled up atop his head. Anna returned her gaze to her son, nodding her head at him, not entirely sure how she was supposed to greet her future child.

Now that she was closer, however, Hana pushed himself up, going over and hugging Anna tightly, discarding the towel with another cough.

"I hate snow," he said grumpily, sneezing. "When I see that - ACHOO! - idiot, I'm going to - cough - kill him!"

Ryu made a soft Lar, going over to hug Anna's ankle, apparently thinking that it was group hug time. His trainer didn't bother to pay any attention to him, just keeping snuggled in his mother. Who cared if she was short now? Or hadn't become his mother yet? Mommy was mommy.

Anna's eyes widened in shock as Hana squeezed her, she paused for a moment, unused to such displays of affection, especially towards herself. She felt herself blush slightly as she slipped her arms around the young boy and held him close. It was... Different. But at the same time it wasn't weird. It felt natural.

"Mmmmm." Was the only noise of acknowledgment she made when he spoke. She seemed more preoccupied with his health than his grudge. Motherly instincts, or what she guessed were motherly instincts, kicked in. Deciding to ignore the small creature attached to her leg, Anna crouched slightly, picking up the discarded towel and held it against Hana's nose. "Blow."

Larrrr came again from Ryu, who apparently thought that Anna was his mother and was attempting to snuggle into her leg as much as Hana was into her normally. The boy didn't seem to notice her shock, only pulling back a little when she kneeled.

Obediently, he did, making an unhappy 'hgnr' noise.

"'uck."

"Uck." She repeated, in somewhat of an amused tone, an amused tone for Anna, anyway. Putting the towel aside and reminding herself to pick up a new one for Hana before they left she paused again.

She gently brushed his bangs away from his face and leaned forward, kissing his brow for a fleeting second. Frowning at the heat, she spoke in a displeased tone, words completely contradicting her earlier actions. "You look terrible."

Then Anna focused her attention on the small green thing latching itself to her leg. "And this is?"

Hana blinked at the kiss, but closed his eyes with a somewhat feverish murmur. He was still burning up, and the cold Pokemon Center hadn't helped matters, even after he and Men had gotten dry.

"Yeah. That's Ryu."

"Larvitar!"

The small Pokemon pipped cheerfully, smiling up at her. Hana dug his hands into his pockets, swaying a little on his feet.

"Where's Daddy and everyone else?"

"Ryu, huh?" She just quirked an eyebrow at it.

"They'll be here shortly. They're only behind me. You know how slow your father is." Or at least, she guessed he did.

But it seemed someone wasn't happy with Ryu's affections. Totodile burst out of its Pokeball, giving a cry of "Dile!" before wrapping its arms around Anna's other leg and glaring at Ryu.

Anna gave an irritated sigh and rubbed her temples.

Yoh had honestly no idea how Anna managed to walk so fast, no matter for the weather. Sure, he knew they were about to meet their son from the future, so it made sense she would want to get there in the shortest time possible, come hell or high water. And it wasn't like he didn't care just as much as she did, he just couldn't help being a little slower.

"Annaaaa..." Yoh whined as he entered the Pokemon Center building, trying to catch his breath. "Are we there yet... ?"

Hao had entered the building shortly after Yoh, looking a bit better then he had been before thanks to the warm weather. He was curious about his nephew, especially one that had proclaimed him Shaman King.

"Come now, Yoh. It wasn't that bad of a walk." No, it actually had been. But Hao had been sick whereas his little brother had just been lazy. He wouldn't admit to the sickness, however.

"Yeah, I know," Hana replied, just leaning his head against Anna again and closing his eyes. He'd admit it -- having any version of his mother here made him feel better.

Ryu gave a confused look to the Totodile, apparently blissfully unaware of its jealous glare.

The young boy perked up at the semi-familiar voice, pulling away a little to look towards the door.

"Daddy! Uncle Hao-sa-sa-sa-"

ACHOO! Hana made a choked, 'gluh' noise.

"Hao-sama..."

Totodile flailed one of its arms at the other Pokemon, its other little paw still gripping Anna.

Deciding to ignore the quarrel, Anna straightened and patted her son's head as he rested against her. Turning her head and spotting Yoh and his brother, she nodded at them, hand still resting in the young boys hair.

Hearing a vaguely familiar voice, Yoh turned into the direction it was coming from. Upon spotting the kid next to Anna, his cheeks turned bright red. Meeting your son for the first time like that was really odd, but there again, being a shaman itself wasn't something people would consider to be 'normal', either.

"Ahaha, hi there!" he greeted him, waving awkwardly at the boy.

He rolled his eyes in an annoyed manner as Yoh blushed, not seeing any reason why he should. It wasn't as if it was some big secret. The two obviously cared for each other, and this would have happened sooner or later back home.

"Still sick, I see." The tone was not reprimanding at all, more so amused. Honestly he didn't know what to think of Hana, but the boy was most certainly his nephew with how much he looked like both of his parents.

Yoh was just lucky that Hana was sick, otherwise the greeting might have gone similar to the first time they met - well, Hana met HIM, anyway. As it was, he sniffed loudly, rubbed his already sore nose, and waved a little too.

"Hi, Daddy. Uncle Hao-sama.

"And yeah, I'm still sick, 'cause of that stupid Horohoro."

Yes, he was still going to blame the ice and hail on him. Hana turned his head, dropping into a fierce sneezing fit for a minute before making a soft 'geh' noise again, groaning.

"That couldn't be possible, Hana. None of us have our powers here." Anna tucked some stray strands of Hana's hair behind his ears as she spoke. "Besides, the ainu isn't here anymore."

"I think it's more Rens fault for sending you out in a hail storm." She said as a castoff comment.

She raised an eyebrow as his fit went on. "Bless you." She commented before she gave a small sigh and moved towards the counter to ask if they had any tissues.

The thought of Horohoro being responsible for the hailstorm had never occurred to Yoh, really. Neither had he realized the Ainu was gone.

"Wow, seriously? He went back home?" he asked, staring at Anna.

He shivered slightly at his fiancée's comment. Knowing that making her angry was equal to digging one's own grave, he felt really bad for Ren.

Yoh came closer to his son, not blushing anymore, but still clearly flustered. He wasn't even sure what he was supposed to say, really.

"Eh?"

Hana looked up, giving Anna a completely baffled look. They didn't have anything here at all? He looked slightly disappointed at the thought of Horohoro disappearing; now what was he going to use as a punching bag?

"Good riddance."

Oh well. At least Hana didn't have to suffer being annoyed by him. He laid his head back against Anna, before looking up at Yoh.

"What?"

When she returned with tissues for Hana and he leant against her, Anna blushed faintly at his continued display of affection but didn't comment. Instead she just passed him the items and rested her hand atop his head again, looking at Yoh expectantly, with one eyebrow raised.

At her feet, Totodile seemed to boiling towards an argument about who out of Ryu and himself had ownership of Anna's ankles. The water Pokemon wasn't to happy about Ryu's continued ignorance of his yelling. Anna had selectively decided not to pay them any attention.

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