Title: Rain (chapter3)

By: aki sakurazuka

Beta(ed) by Hao's Offspring (aki: Arigato! ^^)

Warnings: shonen-ai, yaoi, whatever you want to call it, fine by me.

Pairings: I don't need to say, right?

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine. not even a hair on Hao's head.*sob*

Reviewers:

Rai-chan- Yay! I'm on your fav. Authors list! This is the first
time anyone's bothered to add me at all! *cries for happiness*
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next chapter to you soon! ^^
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October 12th cause of computer problems.)
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tortoise died the other day, my computer got sold off, now I'm
using someone else's.*wails*
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beginning if I get a lot of demands! ^^)
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THINK Ren won't die, I just think, haha.
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some work but overall it's a nice site. Why don't you add a
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Yoh sat on the hard , cold, hospital bench in the waiting room. He watched the big luminous face of the clock hanging on the wall as the seconds and minutes ticked by, waiting and waiting for some news of Ren. The emergency ward sign above the doors still glowed red. Meaning Ren was still in critical condition. It had been nearly an hour since Ren was admitted.

/Ren, please be okay.! /

Then a doctor came out from the emergency ward's doors.

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Hao looked out of the school windows. Still raining. how was he going to get home?! Finally, he decided to just run back as the skies still seem unmerciful and dark. The gods appeared to be angry today ("Not that it's my fault, I didn't try to destroy the world again!" Hao thought)

Hao grabbed his bag and walked down the deserted empty corridors. Even the cleaning ladies had left, it was long after the schooling hours already.

But just an hour after that.erm.incident.

***

'Excuse me, are you Asakura Yoh?' the young doctor who had come out of the ward's doors asked Yoh, rather nervously though.

'Yes, is Ren okay?' Yoh said at once. "Erm. there's a problem~' the doctor began.

/Oh, no! /

'~ there's a shortage of blood in the hospital's blood bank. We can't call the other hospitals either since the phone lines are down, it'll be too late for your friend even if we did that.'

Without a moment to lose, Yoh told the doctor,' I'll donate mine.'

The doctor nodded and called for a nurse.

***

Hao finally got home. Of course, he was soaked to the bone. He wondered where was Yoh and Ren though. He'd tried calling Ren's sister, Tao Jun to find out, but the problem was.. The electricity and the telephone lines were not working. They'd forgotten to pay the bills.

"Damn!"

***

After donating his blood, the nurse left Yoh in the hospital's cafeteria so that he could eat something to regain back his energy after losing about half a liter of blood. The cafeteria was rather empty, with only a few doctors and nurses who were taking a break in one corner.

Feeling slightly tired, not to mention anxious, Yoh sat down at one of the many empty seats and tables in the cafeteria. Just then, he spotted a row of phone booths just a few meters away from him.

"Maybe I should call home."

After trying to get through the house's phone lines about nearly fifteen times, (every time, there was a female voice saying the number had been disconnected due to unpaid bills) Yoh finally gave up. He decided to try calling Tao Jun, feeling slightly guilty that he hadn't given her a thought as he really had forgotten all about her.

And that it was her brother who had gotten hurt in the first place.

***

Tao Jun, sister of Ren, the lady of the powerful Tao family not to mention a rather skilled shaman in controlling the dead herself was sitting in the darkness of the living room. The circuit had tripped when there was too much lightning and electrons in the air, and although she was a capable and independent lady herself in more than one ways. she did not know how to switch the circuit back on.

Nevertheless, our valiant lady decided to try her hand at turning back on the electricity. Armed with a powerful torchlight, she set off down the hallway to the power box. A vast array of switches sat neatly before her eyes when she opened it. Very odd how something so deceptively simple looking could be so difficult to understand and harder to beat than fighting with another powerful shaman.

Experimentally, Jun flicked on a few switches. Nothing happened. She flicked every switch in the box and still it didn't worked. The room was still as dark as before and the lights did not miraculously blink to life.

Furious with herself for not taking the time to learn these simple things before, she sat down on the sofa, deciding to wait for Ren to return.

That's when her mini-sized Nokia cell phone started beeping out "Going Under" by Evanescence. (A/N: That's her ring tone.)

***

It is really odd how one's priorities can change so quickly in the strangest circumstances. Just half an hour ago, Hao had been worrying about how to get back home in the rain, and now he was worrying about the unpaid bills. Not that they didn't have any money but. the mistress of the house, Anna a.k.a the Mistress of Torture, was going to kill him later.say by making him do ALL the housework.(Hao does not like housework, who does anyway?) (A/N: You see, Hao's duty is to pay the bills, run the errands, Yoh cooks and cleans the house and Anna watches the television ^.^)

Still,at least he could maybe make a phone call to Jun later on the way to pay the bills.Saying a prayer to the gods, although personally he does not really believe, to be safe from Anna's wrath, the Yoh's infamous twin, the former-nearly-got to-be Shaman King went to his room to get the money and change his clothes before going out again in the rain. Also, he went to the store-room to get an umbrella of course. ( He just changed, he doesn't want to get wet again.)

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Praying that her brother would be okay, Jun rushed out of the house and called a taxi to take her to the hospital once Yoh told her the news.

The taxi sped away in the rain, with Jun urging the driver to drive faster.

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TBC~

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Aki: Finally, PMR is OVER! I can play all day now..yay! Inu: What about your fics? Aki: Yes, yes I'll update them.*sigh* Inu: She wants to play Ragnarok 24/7 now..They've got lots of people there. Aki: Anyone who's playing can look for me, my character name's youko and a thief ^^. Inu: She'll update after she gets some reviews. Aki: Not just some, a LOT would be a better word. Inu: See, she's eveil again *sigh* Aki: Am not. The more the merrier after all, as they say. Inu: Anyway, after reading the fic, make sure you review! The faster she gets reviews, the faster she'll update her fic. Aki: Exactly! ^^