How Yoh and Anna fell in love...

Based on manga chapters 183 to 196.

Yoh is Anna's fiancee, in Yoh's family only strong female shaman could qualify to be a Asakura bride, because that was the tradition, The first time they met was when Yoh was ten years old. He had left Izumo with his newly met mochirei, Matamune, a nekomata that was passed down in the Asakura home for generations. Anna was up on Osore-san, so that was where he was headed.

Yoh and Anna didn't start to well, the first thing she told him was to die and he was in her way, and every childhood memory with Anna in it ened with Yoh crying, but somehow Yoh fell in love with her, Anna acts like that because she is a spirit medium, her powers are to read minds and feelings of people, thier empathy. Anna hated her powers because all the secrets she found made her turn it into hatred and it was buried deep within her so that one she couldn't take it anymore that she created a oni or demon.

Yoh's cat Matamune told Yoh how to defeat it, and save Anna but Matamune would los his life, Yoh didn't want his friend to die, but Matamune told Yoh is if he grew as strong as "that person" later in the future, he would be able to meet up with the nekomata again. Yoh saves Anna, the only time he defeated her oni was when she admit that she loved him as well, loved him more than she hated the world. Yoh lost Matamune and he became that bear necklace that Yoh wears.