Hikari: Since so many people asked for it, I decided to continue this story. As a warning, I'm not sure what the ending will be, so if anyone has any sugestions I would love to hear them.

Ren: Hikari Aiko does not own Shaman King, but she does own her own ideas. And she hopefully owns the milk she promised me.

Hikari: ...

Ren: Then just read. I'll get my own milk.

Breaking Point

Chapter Two

"You could at least try to save him," Horo yelled at Anna.

"There's no use," Anna sighed, her face remaining expressionless. "He's already dead by now."

"How can you say that so casually," Horo shouted, running out of the room.

"Because it's true," Anna whispered to the spot Horo had been occupying only moments before.

"I'm not going to let you die Yoh," Horo said as he ran down the hall towards the bathroom where his passed out friend was. He was not the brightest one out there, and had not thought of trying to help Yoh after calling the abulance, only of yelling at Anna for not doing something to prevent all this. She worked him like a slave everyday, it only made sense that one of these days he would snap like this. Horo knew that he had done poorly on his finals and that, although Yoh never showed it, he was taking the death of Hao really hard as well. Why did Anna not see this?

She probably did, but just did not care. That had to be the reason.

Horo keep running down the hall until he reached the bathroom, inside, Yoh was still lying motionless on the floor, surrounded by his own blood. It looked like red silk, beautiful in a sick kind of way.

Horo shook the morbid thoughts of blood and death from his mind as he knelt down beside his fallen friend to check for a pulse. There was a softly beating one to his relief, but there was no telling how long Yoh would hold up.

"They're here," Ren said from the doorway. He too had his gaze resting on his fallen friend. He too thought all the blood looked like red silk. But he quickly stepped aside to allow the paramedics to pass through. They rushed over to Yoh, Horo only just barely having enough time to get out of the way.

"You two," one of the paramedics shouted, a girl in her late twenties with shoulder length blonde hair and serious emerald green eyes. "Out of here right now. We have to work. There's also a police officer who wants to talk to the both of you."

"Going," Horo said, stumbling past Ren and out the door, with his Chinese friend on his heels, walking slightly more steadily though.

They both walked slower than usual down the hall to where they could hear a police officer questioning Anna. But they still arrived at their destination sooner than they really wanted to. It was hard enough to see Yoh like that, to have to tell someone they did not know about it, it was just a bit too much.

But, none-the-less, they walked into the room to see a police officer in his early thirties talking to Anna. He had shaggy blonde hair that covered the tops of his emerald green eyes. To Ren he looked disturbingly like the female paramedic in the bathroom. To Horo, he looked like someone who would be none too comforting in this sort of situation.

Of course, the real shock was Anna. She had tears streaming down her face and was ringing the bottom of her black dress like a nervous school girl. It was such a difference from the normally calm and collected, if not emotionless Anna they all knew. It was even a contrast from the Anna Horo had left only minutes ago. Crying, that was the big thing. Anna, the ice-queen itako never cried. Only when Yoh almost died did she let a few tears loose, but never had she looked like this.

"Hey," the police officer said with a friendly smile. "Two more to join the party. Anna, you can go now. Do you need anything?"

"No," Anna said curtly. "I'm fine." Then she abruptly stood up and exited the room at a normal pace like it was any other day.

"Alright," the man said with another smile. It was like he was trying to make everyone feel better about something that he knew was a lost cause. "Which one of you wants to go first in telling me what lead up to all of this?"

"I will," Ren volunteered, glancing sideways to see Horo almost in tears.

"Great," the man said. "You can just call me Kat, it's easier that way. Now, what did you see?"

"Yoh was abnormally stressed out with finals and the recent death of his twin brother," Ren started, trying to keep his voice as emotionless as possible. "Then he was training hard so he did not have enough time to study. He failed most of his finals. Then he started acting moodier, angier. Until today, when he went into the bathroom and then Horo found him about a little while later."

"Thanks," Kat said. "You're Ren, right?"

"Yes," Ren replied shortly. He glanced over at Horo once more, his eyes seeming to say, sorry, your turn.

"Thanks then Ren," Kat replied. "Your turn now. Can I get your name?"

"Horo," Horo mumbled under his breath.

"Speak up kiddo," Kat said. "I just need to know what you know about all this. For official stuff and all, we need an account of the incident."

"Everything Ren said was right," Horo mumbled.

"You must know something else though, seeing as you found him," Kat said, urging Horo to say more.

"I was the one who found him because he had been in there for a long time," Horo continued slowly. "Longer than usual that is. So I knocked on the door and got no response, and then I got nervous and knocked down the door. Then there was the blood and I ran over and checked for a pulse, then ran to call 911. And here you are because of it."

"So you agree that Yoh was very stressed," Kat said.

"Yes," Horo said, wondering why he was being questioned more than Ren was.

"And what is all this about his brother," Kat asked.

"Yoh's twin brother Hao recently died in a fire," Horo said. "And Yoh was taking it harder than he would show. And things were just very busy around here. But we all could hear Yoh cry on most nights. He was just depressed but wouldn't let any of us help him. And now, I just wish that we had. Then maybe none of this would have happened."

"What's done is done," Kat said. "Thanks for telling me all this. You guys were a lot of help. I think the others left and I'm guessing you can visit your friend in the hospital in a day or two. They just need to make sure he's stable. And I wish you all luck and I hope you keep your hopes up. This was minor to what we've seen in the past. As long as he gets blood, everything should be fine."

"Great," Horo said sarcastically. "Let me find a container for all my joy."

"Hey," Kat said. "I know the doctors at the hospital they're taking your friend too. They're really good, if there is a one percent chance of your friend living, they will make sure he lives. And I think there is about an eighty percent chance of him living and at this hospital, those odds are greatly in his favor. So cheer up, and help out that poor girl, she looked horrible when she left."

"She's the reason for all of this," Horo shouted, losing his cool.

"What," Kat asked, his curiosity piking.

"Anna is the cause for all this," Horo said, his voice lowering slightly. Ren had come back over and grabbed his arm in hopes of making him be quiet, but he had already said it, there was no taking back his words now.

"And how is that so," Kat questioned, taking a seat once more.

"She over-worked him until he just snapped," Horo continued. His words were firmer now, like he actually believed what he was saying. "And then she acts like it doesn't matter, like she doesn't care what happens to him."

"What sort of work did she make him do," Kat asked, ignoring the last part of what Horo had said.

"She had him on an extensive work-out schedule to keep him in shape," Ren interjected. "He also did a lot of cooking for the household and stayed up late only to get up early the next morning."

"And how long was this going on for," Kat asked, nodding his thanks to Ren for calming down his friend.

"As long as we knew Yoh," Ren said. "But it was really bad with exams coming up and all, then with the added trauma of losing his only sibling things were just getting worse. Anna was not the cause of all this, she just could have been a bit more helpful. But we don't blame her and she is taking it far worse than we are as I could obviously tell." At this last part, Ren shot an accusing glance over at Horo, who had his head bowed in shame of his outburst.

"I see," Kat said. "Now, are you two sure you've said everything?"

"Yes," the two boys said in unison.

"Good," Kat smiled. "Thanks for all your help. Now I can take care of all this legal stuff. Remember, go and see your friend tomorrow. He should be fine."

"Great," Ren and Horo replied in sarcastic unison. Kat just decided to take no notice of the two boys being rude, and instead went out the door to his car. At least they were through part of this ordeal. Now, to pray that Yoh was still alive.

Hikari: Wow, I never expected to keep this story going. Thanks to everyone who reviewed this story and I hope all of you like what I wrote. Remember, I need suggestions for how you want this story to end because so far, I don't have a decent ending. Well, Read And Review!

And I know that Horo seemed a little Ooc, but I figure that it was because he was so shocked about Yoh, and I just really wanted him to say that.