My first Shaman King fiction, hope you like it and review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman king's characters, if I did, I'll pair Ren with Hao without a second thought! If not Hao, then HoroHoro…then Yoh, I guess… eh… better stop my ranting!

Summary: Sets a week after the shaman fight was delayed due to Hao going against the rules and his fight with Yoh, they're in Japan at Yoh's waiting for the shaman tournament to take place again. When Ren was taking a walk one night he finds the one person he never thought would see again, Hao, unconscious, and takes him in to tend on him. But seems that their relationship grows more than expected. What will Ren's friends say about the whole matter?

Warning: This will be yaoi… so, I'm warning you from now, don't like this stuff, then don't read; I don't want to have people saying how sick I am 'cause I write something they don't like blah blah blah… you're warned.

On with the story!

My Destiny

'Why?'

Ren was walking aimlessly at night; things went horribly wrong in the shaman tournament.

'Why do I feel like this?'

He went across a wide field, he didn't know what time it was now; he had been walking for sometime and didn't care about going home or reassuring the others about him, not like he did before.

'Why do I feel empty? Like I lost something… important?'

With a sigh, Ren turned around about to return, "I don't want them to fuss all over me…" he mumbled to himself.

However, when he was half way there, something caught his attention. He was about to ignore it, but felt like he just had to see what it was.

The thing, or rather person as Ren came to realize, was slumped on the grassy ground, their clothing were all dirty and muddy, there were also tattered in some places.

Ren ran to them and fell to his knees to make sure they were ok, however, his heart almost skipped a beat when he saw the person's face.

The person was none other than Yoh's older twin.

Asakura Hao…

After Yoh had defeated Hao, no one knew what happen to the older Asakure, not that they weren't happy, the were glad they got rid of him, but not Ren; he felt sadness ran through him when he realized, at the time, that Hao was nowhere to be found, he didn't know why, but he felt sorry for him.

Hao was almost like Ren, they both wanted the same thing; clean the Earth from the humans. Well, that was before Ren met Yoh anyways.

Ren's eyes softened as he moved Hao's head to his lap, unlike Ren, Hao wasn't given a second chance, it wasn't fair to him, Hao was only misunderstood, and Ren was sure that behind Hao was kind, sensitive person with a soft heart.

'Tao Ren, I'll make you mine!'

Ren smiled at the memory, he remembered Hao telling him that before he disappeared. Ren had been angry then, he didn't like the idea of being controlled by someone all thanks to his father.

Ren shook his head not wanting to go there with his thoughts, 'Besides, I have someone to take care of.'

Ren heaved Hao up, he wasn't able to carry him bridal-style 'cause Hao was taller than him, which made it a difficult task for Ren.

After a full minute of thinking of a way to carry Hao, Ren settled on carrying him on his back instead. It took him a few minutes to do so without any help, but he made it in the end.

He shifted Hao slightly to make sure that he won't fall off, and when he was satisfied, started walking back.

'But,' Ren mused suddenly, 'How will they react when they see what I brought with me, or rather who?'

He tilted his head to the side, trying to imagine their reactions.

Yoh probably won't care as long as Hao doesn't threaten anyone's' life.

HoroHoro and Chocolove wouldn't trust him and keep an eye on him.

Manta would keep his distance from Hao.

Anna would make sure to take advantage of him in his stay over; she would never miss a chance like this.

Ryo would do as Yoh would; the guy was like human dog.

Faust would stay silent, not showing much reaction.

Lyserg, now Ren just knew, will go into fits, god only knew what the British boy would do. Probably try to kill Hao and then Ren for bringing him in the first place.

Ren had to smirk at that, 'Like he can? Over my dead body will I let him harm him.'

Ren stopped as he saw his destination, the lights were out, signaling that they were asleep or were setting together in one of the rooms, he sighed and started walking again.

"Don't worry," he said when he felt a warm breeze go by, "I won't let anyone bring harm to him; he's under my protection, Spirit of fire."

The spirit appeared next to him and gazed into his golden eyes; looking for any traces of dishonesty, Ren gazed back, not breaking the eye-contact.

After a few moments the spirit seemed satisfied disappeared, but Ren knew it didn't go away, and he didn't mind at all; the Spirit only wanted to be with its master.

Finally when Ren reached the door, he opened it and peered inside, "Oh, good! Now let's see if I could get into my room without anyone noticing me."

He quickly moved through the halls and into his room without being detected; he had heard them chatting and chattering with each others in his way. He carefully laid the unconscious boy on his futon and started removing his clothes to tend on him.

Hao's body didn't seem to be affected much, just some small bruises here and there. Ren put his hand on Hao's forehead and sighed; the Asakura had a fever, but nothing serious, though.

Ren stood and went out to find the first-aid, some cold water and a cloth.

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In another room, the others were awake, talking and laughing. "Anyways anyone's seen Ren today?" Yoh asked lazily.

HoroHoro scoffed, "The guy is just being his old self; he went off lurking somewhere out." Chocolove nodded, holding his chin thoughtfully.

Lyserg laughed, "Come on, guys, he isn't that bad and you know it."

"Yeah, I just can't stop teasing him, he's so fun to annoy!" HoroHoro chuckled and they all joined him. "But, really… don't any of you know where he's now?" Yoh said slightly concerned.

"He went to his room a few minutes ago." a voice said behind them and they turn to see a glaring Anna, "Why are you awake 'till now, Yoh?"

"Uh…I- wait, Ren's here?" Yoh almost was stuttering, "Why didn't he come here with us?"

They looked at each others and shrugged; who knew how the Chinese shaman thinks?

A grin suddenly came across HoroHoro's face as he thought of something, "Hey, guys, you wanna come to Ren's room with me?"

"What for?" Manta asked, "He may be tired and doesn't want anyone bothering him now."

"Don't be a kill-joy, Manta! Just follow me, come on!" with that he practically jumped to Ren's room. The others had no choice but to follow, "Why do I have bad feelings about this?" Ryo whimpered.

When they reached the door it was closed and no sound came from inside the room. They glanced at one another and then back at HoroHoro, "Open it!"

"Why me? You want him to kill me?" HoroHoro almost shouted. They sweat-dropped, "It was your idea anyways…" Lyserg pushed him closer to the door, "Now, do it!"

HoroHoro lost his balance and came crashing on the door, opening it by that. Yoh and his friends stuck their heads inside, not before praying Ren wouldn't rip Horo's head off for disturbing him.

HoroHoro was down face first, they turned their eyes to the futon, but it seemed that Ren was fast asleep that he hadn't heard anything.

"Strange," Chocolove raised a brow, "I know that Ren is a light sleeper; he should have woken up by that…"

Yoh blinked, "Really?" Chocolove nodded, and Yoh turned his head to the futon again, that's when he something, "Uh, guys?"

"What is it, danna? Ryo asked.

"Emm, does Ren have brown hair?" Yoh pointed at 'Ren' and they looked there to see locks of long brown hair were indeed there.

"Brown hair…?" Chocolove and HoroHoro shared a worried look then nodded. HoroHoro crept closer to the person, who seemed to be asleep in the futon, and slowly removed the cover off of them, only to go pale, shriek and crumble backwards.

The others also saw who HoroHoro saw and paled also, well, not Yoh, who only blinked stupidly, and Faust anyways.

"What's Hao doing in Ren's room and in his futon?" Yoh asked the one million dollars question.

"Ren…" HoroHoro finally regained his ability to talk, "Where's Ren?"

Their eyes widened and Lyserg's mind finally registered it was Hao who was there in front if him in Ren's place, with Ren missing. As soon as he realized that his eyes narrowed and he got ready to fight the sleeping shaman, "HAO!"

However, as he was about to arrack the fire shaman, he felt a sharp thing being pressed on the back of his neck, "Move forward and I'll slice your neck."

Lyserg froze, and then turned around, as did the others, to see Ren standing by the door holding the first-aid and the stuff he brought in one hand and the other was pointing his Kwan-dao to his neck, "Get close to him again, I'll make regret ever being born," Ren glared, eyeing them, "All of you!"

"Ren!" HoroHoro exclaimed, "You're alive-ACK!"

Ren had poked Horo's nose, still glaring, "Of course I'm alive; did you think an unconscious boy could harm anybody?" he sneered.

"But, Ren-kun!" Lyserg shouted pointing at Hao, "He's unconscious now, what will you do when he wakes up? He'll hurt you then the rest of us! We need to kill him right away, and there's no better chance than this!"

"I don't care," Ren stepped between them and Hao, "But, now, he's hurt and under my protection; so if you have anything against it and want to kill him or get rid of him, then you'll have to pass or even kill me first." he looked at each one of them, "For now he's staying here, do you have a problem with that, Anna?"

"As long as he pays for his stay, I don't care what happens." she said coldly, crossing her arms.

Ren nodded, "That's fine, I'll take care of that."

"Good," she turned to leave, "But I don't want him messing, or burning around."

Ren watched Anna leave then returned his attention back to the others, "If you don't mind, I'd like you all to leave too; I have stuff to do and then sleep."

"Ok, I feel sleepy too," Yoh, yawned and left, followed by Ryo, Chocolove. Manta glanced back at Ren then Hao, after that ran out, "Yoh-kun, wait!"

Lyserg was quiet at first, then glared at Ren, "I'm warning you, Ren. Hao's isn't trust-worthy; he'll kill you as soon as gets better." with that he stormed out.

Ren sighed and looked at HoroHoro, who was the only one left, while placing his Kwan-dao on the corner and getting the stuff ready to tend on Hao, "And I suppose you want to warn me, too?"

HoroHoro looked unusually serious that Ren thought it was something important, "I knew it was all an act."

Ren cocked up an eye-brow, "Horo?"

As Horo was looking all serious and all, he broke into a huge stupid grin, "So, tell me, Ren," Horo wiggled his brows at Ren, "How long were you two been at it?"

"Uh…?" it took Ren only a second to understand what Horo was talking about, and you could hear the sounds of Ren beating the hell out of Horo with his Kwan-dao.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Ok, this turned out different than what I thought, but I think it wasn't that bad. Anyways, what Horo meant with 'I knew it was an act' was in the shaman tournament, he thinks that Ren pretended to hate Hao.

Well, I hope it was good enough, please tell me what you think.

Miako6