"Of Revenge, Deceit… and Snowcones"

-Vx Tao Ren xV, Itako no Anna

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Disclaimer: Shaman King obviously does not belong to us, it belongs to Takei Hiroyuki-Sama in all of his majesty.. So please, don't sue us… it's not worth it..

Author's (Ren and Anna's) Notes: Another chapter finished.. [Ren: In only one day! Yatta!] The truth-or-dare will start in the next chapter, hopefully.. but in the mean time please enjoy this one. Warnings fro OOC-ness.. Gomen.. but it was unavoidable on the most part.. Sa! Please enjoy! ^_^

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Chapter 02: "Human Recognition"

It's life as usual in the Asakura household. Sure Ren's car is still in the onsen, but only because Anna refused to let him drive it through the wall like he had originally intended on doing. Yoh, Manta, and Pilica were still outside after running away from Ren. Where the were..? Nobody knows.. but they're probably long gone by now. Horohoro… well.. needless to say, he's knocked out for now, after his beating from Ren. Ren was sitting in the kitchen.. drinking his three glasses of milk… And Anna was in the tea room, in her usual position in front of the TV when all of a sudden—

??: WHAAA~T!!!!???

The earth must have shook at that moment as Kyohyama Anna started to inflict damage upon the television set… Why?..

TV Announcer: Please excuse this interruption..

That's why. A special news bulletin had interrupted the TV show that Anna was watching.. And needless to say, Anna was upset… very upset. The special report continued to play…

TV Announcer: We are here to inform you about a potentially dangerous teenage rebel who attempted a rather strange act at an amusement park today. The alleged activist known as "Hao-Sama", [Ren: Here's where the OOC-ness comes in] by the members of his group who were taken into custody for their association with the act, tried to completely disassemble the Lego-Land amusement park today.

As soon as Anna had heard this, she had stopped punching the TV, and her jaw had completely dropped due to the insanity of the situation. Hey, you would too, right?

??: Heh. To think.. the day that Hao was finally captured.. it was done by local police.. for a crime so idiotic, you would think Horohoro were in on it.. disassembling an amusement park made out of children's blocks.. Ha! It seems to me that Hao had finally lost his mind, although that was sort of evident long ago, since he appears to be interested in you.

Yeah.. that's right. Ren had heard the announcement as well. And as soon as Anna was about to take action upon his insult to her—

??: ANNA~~~!!!!!

Yoh had returned from his ventures with Manta and Pilica around the streets of Funbari. The three of them had seen the news report on the TVs in an electronics store window.

Yoh: Hao is a fugitive!

Manta: So.. I guess he isn't dead after all.. Ne, Yoh-kun..

At this moment… Jun and Pyron walk in through the door after following Ren there [Anna: Took 'em long enough..]

Jun: Hello everyone. I just dropped by to make sure that Ren doesn't murder that Horohoro or his sister.. along with any pedestrians for that matter.

Pyron: Tao Jun.. where is that kid anyway?..

Jun: ::notices the smirk on Ren's face:: Oh no.. are we too late?

Pilica: Oniichan is dead!! ::starts to cry::

Ren: Relax. I didn't kill him… yet.

Pilica then runs around the house screaming "Oniichan!!! Doko ni iru yo?!!"

Ren: Neesan.. have you also heard about Hao?

Yoh: HAO IS A FUGITIVE!!! ::starts running around in circles with his hands in the air::

Everybody blankly stares at Yoh for that extremely random moment.. which is still continuing..

Amidamaru's hitodama [Ren: Ghost spirit-ball] appears to try and calm Yoh down.

Amidamaru: Yoh-dono! Please stop!

Manta then walks up to the insanely panicking Yoh and hands him an orange, which automatically gets his attention. Yoh then sits himself down at the table.. and begins to roll the orange while saying the usual "Funga fufu.." over and over again.

??: Chicche~na..

Recognize that line? Well you should.. because at that moment, the Spirit of Fire showed up right outside of the Asakura household.. and there was none other than Hao.. sitting on the right hand of his giant mochirei [Ren: Main spirit…]. Hao jumps to the ground and dusts off his poncho as he starts to walk toward the front door. At this time, Yoh had stopped rolling his orange and put his attention on his "fugitive" brother/ancestor.. as did everyone else.

Hao's arrival less than pleased everyone in the Asakura residence by now. Ren and Anna were glaring at him; Manta was pretty much scared out of his mind, but didn't move; Jun and Pyron were standing their ground; and Yoh just watched Hao as he walked towards him with a combined expression of angry, and dumbfounded.

At that moment, Pilica came running down the stairs with Horohoro in her net.. and was dragging him down the stairs rather painfully.. when both of them noticed Hao approaching. Pilica, after releasing her brother, hid behind him, while Horohoro just stared at Hao while mumbling to himself, "Hao no yarou.."

Hao just smiled as he entered the house and approached Yoh.

There was a moment of silence among everyone in the house. Even the spirits who had appeared didn't say a word, not even the usual opening "Bocchama" or "Yoh-dono".

All of a sudden, the silence was finally broken..

Hao: Otouto!!

Hao beamed as his smile grew wider as he started to jump up and down while clapping his hands together as if he were seven years old, even though Hao didn't do that when he was seven. [Ren: He killed Lyserg's parents instead ^_^]

Everyone was in complete and total shock… except for maybe Anna..

Anna: Hao. What are you doing here? Weren't you arrested today?

Hao: Sou! I was arrested… but those humans can't contain ME! Don't they know who I am?! I'm ASAKURA HAO!! I'm the future Shaman King! All bow down before me!! Hahahahahahaha!!!!

Everyone, including Anna this time, anime-sweatdropped while Hao continued to laugh in all of his glory.

Ren: Kisama… what do you want?

Hao: ::stops laughing abruptly:: Oh yeah! ::starts to freak out:: Oh my God! ::grabs Yoh and starts to shake him by the shoulders:: Do you know what day it is?!

Yoh is completely confused by Hao's recent behavior.. and Anna hits Hao over the head with a frying pan to stop him from shaking Yoh before he has a seizure.

Anna: It's August 30th… so what? [Ren: Happy Birthday to me!!] [Anna: Shut up.. you're not in the fic.. no presents for you.]

Hao: SO WHAT?! It's Blocken's birthday! That's what! [Ren: Look it up.. it really is.] I wanted to give him that amusement park for his birthday! So I tried to disassemble it.. it's much easier to wrap it that way.. but those stupid humans stopped me..

No one had a clue what Hao was talking about.

Horohoro: Who's Blocken?

Hao didn't appreciate Horohoro's remark very much. He then ran over to Horohoro and started to yell in his face.

Hao: WHO'S BLOCKEN?! Blocken is probably the strangest and one of the most valuable member of my faction! And today is his birthday! ::starts to whisper:: … and I'm holding a surprise part for him… ::beams:: and EVERYONE is invited! Even otouto and all of his strange friends!

At that moment, a loud crash can be heard coming from the onsen. From that signal, as if planned out in advance, very strange, opera-like, sacrificial music started to play.

At this point.. everyone, including Hao seemed to know what was coming next. And sure enough, from the onsen, entered Marco.. followed by Lyserg.

Everyone just stared at the two X-LAWS while they continued.. with the music still playing.

Lyserg: ::pointing:: Hao!

Marco: Please calm down, Lyserg Diethel. ::to Yoh-tachi and Hao:: Please behave yourselves for the entrance of our savior: Holy Girl Iron Maiden Jeanne-Sama!

From the direction of the onsen, Meene walks in rolling the Iron Maiden before her, while the holy music plays louder than ever.

Ren: If any of you messed up my car in there.. I swear I'll have you all burned at the stake!

Hao: IT'S THE RETURN OF CAN GIRL!!

Lyserg then screams the usual "Hao~!" while Marco takes out his gun and points it in Hao's direction.

Jeanne: ::from inside of the Iron Maiden:: Marco… I shall reason with these sinners..

Marco: Hai.. Jeanne-Sama..

Jeanne: ::emerges from the Iron Maiden:: Although my efforts have given me hope in the past, I'm afraid that the light of justice and peace has faded, and the world's common evil has returned. To bring justice back and to save the world, I hope to eliminate the sinners and evils with my determination and the will of God and the Iron Maiden. Hao… you have been given one more chance… Sa! Please… repent for your actions in front of God..

Hao: ::with a smile on his face, as usual:: Uhmm…… no. ::End X-LAWS music::

Just before the X-LAWS had any time for a response.

??: LY-SE-RU-GU~~!!!!

Something had crashed through the front door and was headed towards the X-LAWS… more specifically.. towards Lyserg. Anybody want to take a guess on what—or who it was? No need. Before anybody had time to react, Bokutou No Ryu was hanging all over Lyserg saying something like, "Ore no Ly-se-ru-gu has come back to me!"

Anyway, deciding that everything was a little too noisy, Anna decided to step in:

Anna: URUSAI--! [Anna: In other words.. SHUT UP! ^_^]

The house was completely silent while everyone's attention was then set on the itako.

Anna: Alright. Someone has to leave.. it's way too noisy.. and as long as ONE peson is out of here, I don't care who it is.. If not.. I'll personally escort one of you outside myself.. [Ren: That won't be pretty..]

Yoh-tachi then started to look at Hao and the X-LAWS. Hao refused to leave since Yoh didn't give him an answer about Blocken's surprise birthday party; Jeanne wouldn't leave since she was keeping an eye on Hao; Marco wouldn't leave since Jeanne wasn't; and Lyserg couldn't escape from Ryu. Meene then stepped up and spoke.

Meene: Jeanne-Sama…

Everyone's attention then shifted from Anna to Meene.

Meene: I trust that you can handle Hao alone.. with some assistance form Marco and Lyserg for insurance.

Jeanne: Yes, Thank you, Meene.

Meene: I will bring the Iron Maiden back to the ship as well, Jeanne-Sama.

With that, Meene took her exit and walked out of the house with the Iron Maiden through the whole in the onsen wall from which the X-LAWS made their appearance.

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Chapter 02 Owari ^_^

Sorry for the Hao OOC-ness.. but we kind of needed it

Ren: And I tried my best on Iron Maiden Jeanne's character. Hopefully I got it.

Anna: Next time, I think we'll actually get to the truth-or-dare..

Let the games begin! Please review ^_^