Expecting
Well I haven’t written any fanfiction in about a year and a half so I’m more than rusty. Zelel mother’s day story was very inspirational.
I just hope this is understandable because my grammar and spelling have never been the best. What I tried to do was show what everyone was thinking about Anna’s pregnancy. I think I veered from that by getting too much into Yoh and Anna, but tell me what you think and please someone be my beta and correct me on my mistakes.
Expecting
No one expected Anna to be a very good mother.
Not that she wouldn’t take care of any children she had. On the contrary, her children would most definitely be well feed, well groomed, well mannered, and well educated. There was no doubt they would be properly trained and become powerful shamans.
But these things do not a good mother make.
Anna was stern, strict, unyielding, and at times uncaring. So when Anna became pregnant most of Yoh’s friends not only took pity on him (having to deal with Anna was enough let alone a pregnant Anna) but also the luckless child growing inside her.
What would the Itako know about raising children? She had no mother of her own, she was not very close to Yoh’s mother Keiko, and Kino was even worse than Anna when it came to strictness. Some people say you can tell how good of a mother a woman will make by watching her interact with other peoples children. That being said, no one had ever seen Anna take an interest in children. In fact if ever a babysitter was needed Anna was always busy. Not that she was ever high on the list of people you would want to leave your kid with, if even on the list at all. Honestly, who would want to come home to their child scrubbing the floor or any number of tasks the Itako was sure to come up with.
The only indication of what kind of mother Anna would be came from her treatment of Yoh, her fiancé turned husband. No one would ever forget the grueling training, cooking, housework, and daily slaps Yoh endured at the hands of the Itako. If she could treat the man she supposedly loved like that then there was little hope she would treat her child any better.
To her credit, Anna did ease off after the shaman fight. This was more because of a change in hobbies than anything else. With the opening of the inn Anna’s attention shifted from Yoh to the full time job of running the hot spring. Yoh’s chores lessened only because the staff took care of most of the housework. With no shaman fight, training became more of a daily workout than a form of torture.
When questioned by his friends on how he felt about becoming a father Yoh simply smiled and said he was happy. When asked about Anna and her parenting skills his usual reply was “Anna will be Anna”, or the famous “Everything will work out”.
That was about as far as anyone got. No one was about to risk their lives and question the Itako on how she thought her parenting skills would be. No one wanted to die an early death. Tamao was perhaps the only one who ever ask Anna anything about the baby and those question never veered far from clothing and nursery items.
Yoh and Anna talked little about the baby. The only conversations anyone could recall them having, at least in public, centered on mundane things like doctor’s appointments and what she should or should not eat. Yoh took it upon himself to cook Anna what he called “healthy meals”. Meals which on more than one occasion Anna had deemed “Unfit for human consumption”. Yoh never argued with her and simply re-cooked her something more eatable.
Everyone took it as a good sign that Yoh was showing so much concern for his child’s well being. If Anna couldn’t do it Yoh could always take up the role of the caring parent.
That pretty much summed up everyone’s feelings of Anna’s ability to mother. What no one took into consideration was what Yoh kept saying, “Anna will be Anna”.
No one expected Anna to be a good mother, but Anna never did what was expected of her.
I just hope this is understandable because my grammar and spelling have never been the best. What I tried to do was show what everyone was thinking about Anna’s pregnancy. I think I veered from that by getting too much into Yoh and Anna, but tell me what you think and please someone be my beta and correct me on my mistakes.
Expecting
No one expected Anna to be a very good mother.
Not that she wouldn’t take care of any children she had. On the contrary, her children would most definitely be well feed, well groomed, well mannered, and well educated. There was no doubt they would be properly trained and become powerful shamans.
But these things do not a good mother make.
Anna was stern, strict, unyielding, and at times uncaring. So when Anna became pregnant most of Yoh’s friends not only took pity on him (having to deal with Anna was enough let alone a pregnant Anna) but also the luckless child growing inside her.
What would the Itako know about raising children? She had no mother of her own, she was not very close to Yoh’s mother Keiko, and Kino was even worse than Anna when it came to strictness. Some people say you can tell how good of a mother a woman will make by watching her interact with other peoples children. That being said, no one had ever seen Anna take an interest in children. In fact if ever a babysitter was needed Anna was always busy. Not that she was ever high on the list of people you would want to leave your kid with, if even on the list at all. Honestly, who would want to come home to their child scrubbing the floor or any number of tasks the Itako was sure to come up with.
The only indication of what kind of mother Anna would be came from her treatment of Yoh, her fiancé turned husband. No one would ever forget the grueling training, cooking, housework, and daily slaps Yoh endured at the hands of the Itako. If she could treat the man she supposedly loved like that then there was little hope she would treat her child any better.
To her credit, Anna did ease off after the shaman fight. This was more because of a change in hobbies than anything else. With the opening of the inn Anna’s attention shifted from Yoh to the full time job of running the hot spring. Yoh’s chores lessened only because the staff took care of most of the housework. With no shaman fight, training became more of a daily workout than a form of torture.
When questioned by his friends on how he felt about becoming a father Yoh simply smiled and said he was happy. When asked about Anna and her parenting skills his usual reply was “Anna will be Anna”, or the famous “Everything will work out”.
That was about as far as anyone got. No one was about to risk their lives and question the Itako on how she thought her parenting skills would be. No one wanted to die an early death. Tamao was perhaps the only one who ever ask Anna anything about the baby and those question never veered far from clothing and nursery items.
Yoh and Anna talked little about the baby. The only conversations anyone could recall them having, at least in public, centered on mundane things like doctor’s appointments and what she should or should not eat. Yoh took it upon himself to cook Anna what he called “healthy meals”. Meals which on more than one occasion Anna had deemed “Unfit for human consumption”. Yoh never argued with her and simply re-cooked her something more eatable.
Everyone took it as a good sign that Yoh was showing so much concern for his child’s well being. If Anna couldn’t do it Yoh could always take up the role of the caring parent.
That pretty much summed up everyone’s feelings of Anna’s ability to mother. What no one took into consideration was what Yoh kept saying, “Anna will be Anna”.
No one expected Anna to be a good mother, but Anna never did what was expected of her.