Kaleidoscope
by Icefire and J

Back by popular demand-J
It's only a few reviews man... Geez... What an airhead.-IceFire
Actually we were going to stop at chapter two but since you readers are so sweet, we decided to cancel our honeymoon and write more for you guys.-J
? x_x What?!-IceFire (gets ready to strangle J for spouting rubbish)

Yoh rubbed his temples, his eyebrow twitching rather violently. He had a splitting headache. And for several reasons too. One, he had a sinking feeling about that baby now napping in Anna's room. Two, there were not enough cookies in the cupboard. And three, all the thinking was giving him a brain overload.
"What if the baby is really mine?" he pondered aloud, scratching his head. "And what if we run out of curtains? I can't possibly wrap that baby's bum with my school homework..."
"That's exactly why you're going out now."
Yoh turned around to see Anna standing behind him with a rather bemused smile on her face. Well, not exactly a smile. More like a smirk. And evil one.
"Go buy some diapers," she ordered, pressing a small wad of notes in his hand. "Or YOU will be the substitute."
Her fiance shuddered at the thought of being attached to a baby's bottom before quickly rising and bolting out the door.
Anna sighed. Any second now...
BANG!
The door slammed open. "Erm..." began Yoh, a slight tinge creeping up his face. "What do diapers look like?"
The itako rolled her eyes and delivered a customary punch to his face. She picked up the dozing Yomaru in her arms. "Looks like we'll have to go with you. Might be a learning experience for you."

(This is turning out to be a bad chapter...-IceFire)
(Well, then put in some romance!-J)
(?? o.O-Icefire)
(*rolls eyes* Forget it. Leave it to the J-man! I'll cook up some Yoh Anna for you guys out there!-J)
(Oh THIS will be interesting...-IceFire)

Hao picked his way along the ailse, randomly picking things off the shelf and tossing them into his growing mountain of foodstuff in his trolley. He was in a good mood, having had the chance to revamp his wardrobe to all sickeningly flowery articles of clothing.
The awesomely powerful shaman (couldn't help myself-J) was about to select a rather large packet of doggy nibbles when he heard a familiar trio of voices. One was most definately his brother's and the other belonged to his rather ferocious fiance. The last one was a rather annoying wail. Curiously, he stuck his head round the corner to watch, popping some kitty kibbles like popcorn.
"Make it shut up!" Yoh exclaimed, stuffing more toilet paper in his ears having run out of tissue. Yomaru promptly planted a kick in the complaining shaman's face, gurgling cheerily for a second before returning to his wailing.
"Can't you see I'm trying here?!" Anna huffed, landing a slap solidly on his cheek that didn't have a footprint on it. Yoh rubbed his sore cheeks grumpily, swearing under his breath.
"If I didn't know any better, I would think you were really his mother... Equally violent the two of you are..."
Anna turned a slight red bordering on purple. This was either from anger or embarassment. It could have been both judging by the constantly changing colour of her face, making her resemble slightly a sunburnt chameleon.
Yoh laughed, grabbing her hand lightly and dragging her off in search of the elusive diapers. Hao chuckled to himself, abandoning his about-to-explode trolley to follow the couple, popping more kitty kibbles.
"Hmm... This stuff is good..."

Horohoro yawned, savouring the taste of the icy liquid. He tipped the entire glass down his parched throat, returning it to the table. This was great. Good drink. Good food. Good snow outside. This was paradise... And this was... A dream.
The icy haired shaman woke rather uncomfortably at the knocking of Kino's stick on his head. Sitting up abruptly, he was slightly stunned to find himself in an unfamiliar room. The strange scent of tea ingrained in aging wood burned his nose, and the cackling of a shadowy figure in the corner did less than nothing to put him at ease.
"Finally. The father is awake." Yohmei laughed. "You really put our togas in a twist back there with my grandson."
"Hey! How was I supposed to know?!" Horohoro retorted. "I haven't seen Tamao in years!"
Yohmei stopped cackling. "Years?"
The ice shaman nodded, tugging his shirt back on. Somehow it had been lying on a rather suspicious looking bench next to his futon. "Three years to be exact."
Kino stopped tapping Horohoro's head. "You're not the father then..."
He shook his head again, rising from the crumpled futon only to find that his pants were missing. Yohmei cracked up again.
"That baby's not mine." Horohoro sighed, pulling his pants on amid the laughter of Yohmei. "I just said it was so I could get rid of Ren."
Kino stared at him. "The gay boy? I thought..."
"I'M NOT GAY!!!" Horohoro burst out. The old couple stared at him incredulously.
"Right... And I'm the queen's mother." Yohmei said, giving his butt a healthy scratch before getting a stick pierced in his head.
Kino stared at Horohoro. "Then who is the father? And the mother at that. I know Tamao is not the mother. I made that up to make the father confess."
The young shaman glanced at Kino seriously. "You won't believe it when you hear this but..."

"It's this one." Yoh wheezed, leaping up to grab the large packet of diapers from the top shelf, sending down a shower of baby diapers that buried him completely.
Anna conveniently plucked one from the top of Yoh's head, walking off to the counter to pay. Spluttering, Yoh scrambled out of the pile, baby wipes sticking out at odd angles from his hair.
"Nice hairdo bro." Hao commented from the next counter, paying for his entire trolley full of kitty kibbles. Yoh scowled back. "What's up with the cat food?"
Hao glanced at the half eaten packet in his hand. "This? It's food man." he stated, popping a handfull in his mouth. Anna made a face before turning to the cashier and handing over a wad of cash.
"Let's go." she said curtly, grabbing the diapers in one hand and Yomaru in the other.
It was a rather silent walk home. Well, if you didn't count Yomaru's wailing as noise. They were about half a mile from home and two minutes after Yomaru had finished his wail brigade when Anna gestured to rest on a rather large bump of grassy earth that could count as a hill.
(Why couldn't you just say 'hill' and get on with the story?!-J)
(Description is the key.-IceFire)
(Yeah right... And I'm a pig with wings.-J)
(Oh? You're not?-IceFire)
(*grinds fist against palm*-J)
A slight breeze picked up, whipping a whirlwind of cherry blossoms in the air. The calming scent of fresh air filled his senses and the distant sound of chirping songbirds entertained his mind. This was perfect. A perfect time to tell her. Tell her everything. He was about to turn to her when he heard the unfamiliar but nonetheless pleasant sound of laughter. Anna was... Laughing?!
"You've got something in your hair." she smiled, smothering her laughter and turning attention to her fiance's wet wipe hair style. Then began the process of removing the oddities. Yoh grinned sheepishly, letting her slowly trail her fingers to pull out the wet wipes from his hair. It was a once in a blue moon situation. It was... Perfect. Everything was. And it was time to tell her that...
"Yoh-kun!"
Yoh glanced up rather irritably at a small bobbing head in the distance, quickly approaching him. He swapped the scowl of having his moment ruined for a big grin.
"Manta! What's up bud?" Yoh waved back. "We're just on our way back."
Manta smiled. "I have some news for you guys."
"Well, what is it?" Anna deadpanned, the smile dropping from her face.
Manta took a deep breath. "WellonourwaybacktoHao's'DEATHSTAR'westoppedandHorohorosaidthathewasthedadthenRenpunchedhislightsoutandnowhe'ssayingthatheisn'tthedadandnowedon'tknowwhothedadis."
Silence.
"Huh?!" Anna and Yoh both asked, completely not catching the small boy. Manta rolled his eyes.
"I said 'WellonourwaybacktoHao's'DEATHSTAR'westoppedandHorohorosaidthathewasthedadthenRenpunchedhislightsoutandnowhe'ssayingthatheisn'tthedadandnowedon'tknowwhothedadis.'"
Yoh rubbed his temples. Another headache was on it's way. "Can you please say that slowly?"
"We don't know who the dad of that thing is." Manta said simply, pointing at the sleeping bundle in Anna's lap. Yoh sweatdropped.
"I thought we had that figured out long ago."
The smaller boy sighed. "Didn't you listen to a word I said?"
Yoh shrugged. "It all seemed like one word to me."
"Well, now we know a few things. One, the baby's parents are still unknown. Two, Ren is gay. And three, Hao likes Kitty Kibbles. That straight enough for you?"
The two bewildered teens on the ground nodded quickly.
Manta wiped a sweatdrop from his large head.
"There is one thing Horohoro knows though and that is..."
~TBC~
That is one stupid chapter-Icy
I know I know...-J
Well, reviews please. We don't have a 4th chapter in mind so ideas would be great!-Icy
Yeah... In the meanwhile, I'll go search for more kibbles... Writing this fic makes me hungry...-J

*Please R&R!!! Thanks alot! :)

What a sick looking face...-Icy
Hey! It looks like meeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-J
That explains alot...-Icy