Kaleidoscope
by IceFire and J

Back again and writing on a daily basis! We don't know when the story will end seeing that we didn't have a plot to begin with. But we'll just go with the flow and let the spirit take control of all I do...-J
*punches J's lights out* ahem. Anyways, thanks for all your reviews! Great encouragement. Btw, in this story, everyone's abit older than they're supposed to be. It's a little further down the SK timeline. Yoh's 19. You do the math.-Icy

*Disclaimer of sorts*
We, the butthead writers of this silly sausage of a fic claim absolutely no amount of ownership for anything that has offended you in one way or another. Any sickness or rare disease contracted while reading this does not have any relation to us. We don't have a cent on us so don't bother sueing us unless you really like kitty kibbles.

Chapter 4 -"Realisation"

All was not well in the Asakura mansion and its two young occupants. There was a whole lot of shouting, banging, wailing but nothing really out of the ordinary. Neighbours had learnt to simply tolerate the racket than to complain seeing how volatile the girl was.
"Yoh! Get your butt in here now!"
The exhausted shaman dragged himself into the room, sleep definately waging war on him. Eye bags had grown to the size of garbage bags under his eyes (fine, I'm exagerating a little) and his skin had turned to the colour of frozen pork. Well, not really. But he WAS really tired. The baby wouldn't stop its wailing tirade. And neither would Anna stop her shouting seige on his eardrums either.
"Nani?" he wheezed, hands still clutching a mug of coffee. "If it's about the laundry, I was going to get it..."
Anna rolled her eyes. "I was going to tell you to take a rest, but seeing that you're so eager to get to work..."
Yoh's eyes lit up. "Nonono... I could do with some r and r."
Anna smiled. She seemed to be doing alot of that now...
"Good. Now sit here while I go get the laundry."
In normal circumstances, Yoh would have been shocked out of his senses but right now, all he could think about was lying down and getting some shut eye before...
THUNK.
He blinked his eyes open. He was definately certain he had heard a THUNK. Sitting up on the couch, he surveyed the room till his eyes met with a spluttering black mass sitting in the fireplace.
(They have a fireplace?-J)
(Well, now they do.-Icy)
The spluttering black mess looked up the the shaman and gave something like a sooty grin.
"I've come to tell you-" the mess began before pausing to cough out a hurricane of blackish smog. "The identity of the parents of the baby."

~TBC~
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(Just joking!!!-J)

Hao leaned back in his massive armchair, stroking his chin in deep thought. "I see..."
Maiden nodded, leaning back in her own chair opposite his and popping some kitty kibbles in her mouth. "That's what Horohoro said anyways. Now I'm regaining faith in my predictions."
Hao grinned. "Which one? The one about the world being destroyed by mutant snails or the one with Yohmei growing some hair?"
Maiden shot him a dirty look. "I'm talking about the one about the child's parents being powerful shamen. Those two are definately the ones. Powerful, yes. I think they are some of the most powerful shamen I've ever seen in action."
Hao coughed. "And where does that leave me?! Besides, I can't believe you trust Horohoro. I mean, the guy's lies are like bananas! They come in big yellow bunches! He even said he wasn't gay. How far can lies go..."
Maiden rolled her eyes. Men...
"I trust every shaman and take his word seriously."
"Including mine?" smiled Hao.
Maiden glared at him spectulatively. "I make exceptions sometimes."
"So are those two really the parents?"
"I have reason to believe so. They seem to fit the parts to the tee."
"I see... Soka... But they are a bit of an odd couple to have a child..." pondered Hao aloud, pinching a kitty kibble in between his fingers before tossing it into his mouth.
"You're a bit of an odd chef to bake such magically delicious cookies." Maiden retorted. Hao blinked.
"I didn't bake them. I bought them from the pet shop down the street."
Maiden promptly barfed.

Horohoro whistled rather merrily while making his way through a park on his way home. After being released from a tiring interogation by the Asakura elders, he was granted leave and took off. Seating himself down on a bench, he reached into his pocket to take out a small wooden flute pilika had carved him from scratch.
"What in the world are you doing with that stick?"
Horohoro looked up to see Ren glaring down at him, a leash tightly clenched in his fist. At the other end of the gnawed leash was an overly energetic dog that seemed to be disco dancing on the spot.
"I didn't know you had a dog, China boy." Horohoro beamed. "But he does have a surprised look on his face..."
Ren sweatdropped. "That's because you're looking at his butt."
"Oh..." Horohoro... ohed. "What are you doing here anyways?"
"Walking Jun's dog. Looks like she is occupied stitching muscle head's brain in so he can think without toilet paper stuck to his forehead." Ren grumbled, wrapping the overcoat tighter around himself.
After a long moment of silence (approximately 3 seconds), Ren turned to Horohoro and asked in a low and serious tone. "Is what you said true?"
"About what?"
"The baby's parents."
Horohoro sighed, having gone through this a million times. "Yes yes yes. I throughly believe that Anna and Yoh are it's parents."
Ren blinked. "But you told Manta that they were Hao and Jun's. Then you told Jun that it was Yoh and Tamao's. Then you told Tamao that it was..."
"I know what I told them." snapped Horohoro. "But I really know the true identity of those two. I'm as sure as that's a squirrel."
Ren sweatdropped again. "Horohoro, that's a duck."
"Whatever." Horohoro said, waving his hand around in the air. "But I'm sure about this. I have a gut feeling. And my gut is hardly ever wrong."
At that very moment, the unidentified couple were arguing. But who? I have not a clue... Yet... Anyways, this goes out to all the Yoh and Anna fans out there who bothered reviewing! -J

Yoh sighed. Trying to argue with Anna was futile. He cradled the tiny Yomaru in his arms, gazing down at the overly adorable infant. Yomaru gurgled happily, smiling its toothless grin that seemed to melt the boy shaman. He smiled back weakly.
"We'll find your parents soon, Yomaru-chan," Yoh whispered, mostly to himself than to the baby. Yomaru had the lightest of brown eyes that seemed to sparkle with a familiar warmth and glow. A warmth he once saw in the eyes of his fiance when she was actually calm. That one time on the rather large bump of grassy earth that could count as a hill when she smiled.
(There you go again! The word 'hill' would more than suffice.-J)
(If you can't understand the art of language, so be it!-Icy)
(Hmmph!-J)
As I was saying... Blah blah blah when she smiled. It was a time stopping moment. A moment permanently ingrained in his memory. The sound of the birds, the feel of the breeze, the euphoria, the smell of...
...Pee?!
"UGH!!!!" Yoh yelled out, lifting Yomaru clear of his soiled jeans as he rose to his feet. Holding the laughing baby at full arm's length, he raced to the bath room to clean himself up.
"Aw man..." he whined. "What did ya do that for?!"
Icy and J sniggered.
"AND WHAT IS SO FUNNY UP THERE?!" Yoh sreamed.
"Nothing nothing..." J mumbled.
"I day couldn't get any worse..." Yoh muttered, retrieving a towel from the shelf to clean himself with.
"We'll see about that..." Icy grinned, typing furiously into the keyboard, her weapon of choice.
Manta promptly rushed into the bathroom, waving a pair of tweezers and a small empty bottle.
"Yoh! I have a way to find oout the true identity of the parents!" he gasped excitedly, having run all the way from... wherever he ran from.
"Shoot."
"I need a sample... And it's right there on your pants."
Swiftly, before Yoh could step back, Manta had gone to work, extracting pieces of the sodden cloth till there were only shreds of what remained of his jeans.
"I'll be back with the results tomorrow, Yoh-kun!" he hollered, runnning out and back to... wherever he was off to.
At that very moment, who else decided to walk in but Anna. She promptly started laughing at the sight of Yoh trying to retain as much decency as possible with his two hands as shields.
"Those boxers look so funny!" she managed. "I mean, like, the TELETUBBIES?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!"
~TBC~
For real this time

How was that? Liked it? Hated it? Please R and R (read and review, not rest and relax). We're churning out stories out of the tops of our heads here... Suggestions would be lovely... Oh wait... Did I just say 'lovely'?-J
Hahahaha... Teletubby boxers... J, I think you have one of those... Hahahaha.....-Icy