Goki-Goki here again! To bring chappie seven now ^_^!!

Chapter 7: The gift

Ren moped the garage lazily, he was done in less than an hour. "I gotta go to the mall with the guys!" he dressed up quickly and ran out the house. -Tomorrow`s Yoh`s birthday.and my Hao`s too. I wonder what can I give to my baby?- he just couldn't decide on what to give to the shaman who hated humans and who only had own his clothes. Ren arrived to the bus stop when he saw a familiar face: Nicrome. Nicrome turned to see Ren hatred all over his face. He was wearing some dark jeans and a red, large shirt. "It is you, Ren Tao" he whispered furiously. "You`ll pay for everything you`ve done!". Ren frowned "Still with the song that I killed your brother? You know I can`t do nothing about it!" Nicrome just got more furious "No, you murdered my brother -and- stole my boyfriend!"

"What? Hao`s not your boy!"

"Well maybe not yet"

"What do you mean with yet?!"

"I always loved him since I met him! His heart should be mine!"

"Yeah right, now leave -us- alone, k?"

Nicrome growled and left quickly disappearing around the first corner. "I`ll recover Hao-sama`s heart, even if I have to hurt him to get it!" said Nicrome to himself smiling when a plan entered his mind. *******************************************************************

"Hey guys, what would Yoh like?" asked Manta while Horo Horo and Ryou looked at the stores in the mall.

"Um, maybe he`d like a tuxedo ^^" answered Lyserg.

"Nah, I'm sure he`ll prefer food!" responded Horo Horo.

"Oh come on! There must be something better" replied Ryou.

"Hey guys! I`m here!" said Ren waving his hand. The boys met his friend quickly to continue searching for Yoh`s present. Manta looked at Ren strangely, Ren felt a bit nervous.

"What`s wrong Manta?"

Manta stared at him for quite a while, then he spoke "Any suggestion for Yoh`s present?"

"How about new headphones with Mp3s included?"

"Sounds great, but can ya afford it?" asked Ryou

"Of course I can, I'm Ren Tao!, um, I'll give you the money and ya search for the present, while I'll search for some things Jun asked me"

"Ok Ren, then lets get goin!" Horo Horo, Lyserg and Ryou walked to the nearest electronic shop they could find, Manta stayed.

"Hey Ren. what are you really going to search for?"

Ren fidgeted for a while "Ok ok, I'm gonna search for something for Hao, tomorrow is his birthday too, remember?"

"Are you two.friends?" asked Manta a little awed.

"No.he is much more than just a friend for me, and I'm the only person he can really rely on, I'm trying to help him, maybe if I succeed, he can be with us"

"Well if he really needs help.its ok, but you must be careful"

"Come with me Manta, I don't know what to give him; he hadn't received a birthday present in any of his 13 years"

"Oh that's a problem.um.new clothes? Chocolates? A cake?"

"I want to give him something special"

"Um. a laptop?"

"He hates technology!"

"@_@! I dunno!"

"Lets check that store, it looks so mystic"

The spiked boy and the little boy headed to the mystic store, its walls were pitch black with strange symbols painted on them, strange wind bells clanged from the ceiling, some shelves were filled with figurines and weird things, in the last wall some swords could be seen, what caught Ren`s and Manta`s attention was that strange dagger. Its edge was made of gold, with many symbols on it, its sheet was covered with shinning gems and diamonds forming a strange sign, and it looked quite mysterious.

"Excuse me" said Ren looking to the salesperson "How much is that dagger?" The girl attending the store looked at him unexcitedly, then turned to see the dagger

"That dagger has a legend with it, it is said that whoever owns it, will find the right way to go, and it brings bliss. Well, it`s 200,000 yens, kind´o expensive, ne?"

"I`ll pick it up tomorrow, is it ok?"

"Ok, ok do you want me to pack it?"

"Yes, it`s gonna be a birthday present"

After paying half of the cost, Manta and Ren left. "Wow that sure was expensive" expressed Manta.

"Just the best for my Hao"

"Your Hao?" asked Manta scared "Eeek! You mean he`s your.!?"

Ren`s face turned all red "Well that`s true"

Manta said no word until finding the guys with the new headphones. They were way so cool. "You made a good work picking it out" said Ren inspecting the headphones. After playing some videogames, the boys returned to their houses, waiting for tomorrow, they had prepared a surprise party for Yoh.