"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: Chapter 04 is completed and up! And yes, some shamans are going to lose their clothes in this chapter. This chapter the game actually starts.. So prepare youselves for the worst.. or the strangest, whichever works for you. And we're trying to eliminate the OOC-ness for Hao in this chapter, it may be easy since he doesn't really do anything here, but still.. Minna, enjoy and review!.. and keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times.. it's gonna be a long and bumpy ride…

Oh yeah, just as a warning to you all, in the future, there may be some shounen-ai warnings, due to the game of course, so prepare yourselves… if not in this chapter, in future chapters… if at all…

-Ren

And I highly doubt there will be any parings (sorry Bratty) other then what Ren just mentioned. This means no YohxAnna and definitely no RenxHorohoro or anything remotely related to it (Ren would set my house on fire.. and chase me down the street if I even suggest it… one of the bad things about having a pyromaniac, especially one who worships the ground that Tao Ren and Asakura Hao walk on, know where you live.)..

-Anna

Oh yeah, Lyserg actually did rejoin Yoh-tachi after Hao was defeated.. (I just finished watching the series recently).. so for this fic, just forget that happened okay? ^_^ (Thank you Ren-Tao-kun for bringing that to my attention earlier..).. Oh, and Anna doesn't have the Shikigami anymore.. but in this chapter disregard that (I started this chapter a while ago.. before I finished the series.. so there still may be some minor things like that.. suman..)

-Ren

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Chapter 04: "Pass the rope, Please."

Lyserg: What the hell was that?

Everyone still stared blankly at the giant hole that now resided itself in the tearoom wall of the Asakura residence.

Anna: I don't give a damn what that was! But SOMEONE is going to PAY for THAT WALL!!

Remembering the past events that had occurred that same day, Anna shoots her eyes at Iron Maiden Jeanne, Marco and Lyserg.

Anna: X-LAWS!! ::points at the three of them:: You three owe me a new onsen wall. ::points to the hole in the onsen wall that the X-LAWS created to make their initial appearance::

Jeanne: God does not mend the walls of sinners such as your selves…

That was probably not the smartest thing to say at that moment, for Anna shot an evil glare at Jeanne that deemed worthy of only Hao, along with taking out the 1080… most likely to either call out the Shikigami, or to strangle the X-LAWS, either way, foreseeing the incredible danger of this situation, Yoh interrupted.

Yoh: Oi, Anna… are we going to start playing now? ^_^;;

Hao: Yeah!!! Let's play so that I can defeat-you-ALL!!!!!!!! Hahahahahaha!!!!!!

Anna interrupted Hao's moment of joyous laughter.

Anna: Fine!

Anna was clearly annoyed now.

Anna: Now if ANYONE wants to ask questions first, FIRST make sure that you're semi-INTELLIGENT!, THEN ask… otherwise, you ALL are going to answer to ME!!

Apparently, today was the day that Horohoro preferred to die, because almost instantly he shot up, and caused instant panic to everyone's, especially Yoh's, faces. Yoh tried to keep him from standing up, to avoid facing Anna's wrath, but failed miserably.. [Ren: Why? Nobody knows…]

Horohoro: I WANNA GO FIRST!!!!

Horohoro looked very pleased with himself due to reasons unknown, but Anna just stared at him, with her stony expression… unchanged, although a bit more annoyed than usual.

Anna: … if you don't have an interesting, or intelligent question, you all will face the consequences… understand?

Horohoro nodded a little too happily to be agreeing with a major threat to his, and everyone else's, lives.

Horohoro: Oi, are there any restrictions?

Anna:  Restrictions?

Horohoro: Yeah.. like things I'm not allowed to ask.. 'cause they're naughty or uhm.. something…

No one had a clue where that question came from… or why Horohoro would be thinking of "naughty" things… but they kept silent, in fear of the answers they might get.

Anna: No.. anything goes, and I mean anything… unless it's abysmally stupid.

Horohoro: ::grinned very widely:: Okay!!

Horohoro's snicker about that caused everyone to back away.. fearing the things he might have in store for any one of them.

[Anna/Ren: Here's where the game officially starts..! Muahahahaha!!]

Horohoro happily looked around the circle, looking for his "victim".. then if possible, his grin grew even wider…

Horohoro: Okay! I got it!

Horohoro was staring straight at Ren's direction, which was nearly completely expected, and which also made Ren a little nervous…

Horohoro: Truth or dare?!!!!...

Oh man, here it comes… the moment of truth… it looks like Horohoro is going to give a bit of payback for the car incident that occurred earlier that day…

Horohoro: Jun!!!

What?...

That's right.. Horohoro's target was not in fact Ren, but his older sister, Jun. Why? Only Horohoro himself knew…

Jun herself was extremely surprised, for she too thought that Ren was going to be picked.

Horohoro: Soo… which is it?

Horohoro sounded way too anxious… scary.

Jun: Oh.. uhm… dare…

Ren: Dare?

Jun: Isn't that what keeps the game fun, Ren?

Ren had no answer.. but feared what Horohoro had in store for his sister… wouldn't you?

Horohoro: Dare huh?.. hmmm…

Horohoro looked around and saw a potential subject…

Horohoro: I dare you to sever Pyron's head!!!

Jun gasped at this… much to Anna's surprise, this was not an incredibly idiotic dare, it was decent… good maybe… and Horohoro seemed quite pleased with himself to have come up with such a good dare within minutes. Jun was pretty much still speechless..

Ren wasn't too surprised at this dare, if she had done it.. she could always sew him back together. But then again, Pyron's head never came off to his memory, and Jun wasn't the one to dismember it in the first place either…

Needless to say, Lee Pyron was the most surprised… he just worriedly looked at Jun. Jun looked back at him.

Anna: Jun, you have a choice, if you don't want to, you don't have to… but you have to take a penalty, which will also be decided by Horohoro, but you won't have a choice on that one. It's your decision.

Jun was at a loss.. in her mind anyway. As to everyone's thought, Jun was completely unable to chop off the head of her faithful mochirei…

Jun: I think… I think… I'll take the penalty…

Jun sounded unsure of herself, but decided that anything was better than what she was currently sentenced to do… or was it?

Pyron was also extremely relieved and thanked Jun for her decision..

Anna: Are you sure?

Jun nodded her head.

Anna: Okay..

Anna seemed like she was going to enjoy herself now.. things were now going to extremely interesting…

Anna: Horohoro, now you need to think of a penalty, no matter how straining it may be on your brain.. and make it good.

She stressed the last part, and Horohoro started thinking… a lot… then remembered his little "naughty dares" question from a few minutes before. The smile from before had returned.

Horohoro: Okay!!! Penalty time! Kakugo shire! ::Pose!::

Okay.. this was a very scary sight… especially since he was snickering like no tomorrow.

Horohoro: Jun!! ::insert snicker here:: I dare you to, ::insert snicker here.. along with a very low voice that people use when they usually say something perverted.. accompanied with hand gestures:: flash us all… even Ren and the spirits… and Manta.

Ren: WHAT?!

Okay.. now everyone, and I mean everyone, including Anna, and even the X-LAWS and Hao, were completely speechless.. Horohoro was standing in the middle smiling, obviously pleased with himself.

Pilica: ONIICHAN!!! YOU'RE SO SICK!! ::Hits Horohoro over the head with the frying pan that Anna had hit Hao with earlier::

Horohoro: Itee~~ ::his previous smile and snicker returns when he thinks of the situation for which he was hit::

All things considering, this would be difficult for Jun to do discretely, since she was wearing her "Panda Magic" dress with the dragon on it.. [Anna: Kind of difficult with a dress on, isn't it?].. And being Jun, she wouldn't want to reveal more than she had to.. right?.. especially to her younger brother and all of his "friends".. [Ren: You know he'd never admit it…]..

…wrong…

Jun was refused an opportunity to change into some "appropriate" clothes for this particular task. So, she would have have to pick up her dress from the very bottom… Poor, poor, Jun..

The circle of Shamans… and Manta, now turned into a line that was facing Jun… poor, poor, Jun.. Jun was standing there.. completely red with an expression that can be interpreted as "I'm gonna cry" with a little bit of "I swear I will kill you all".. but I digress, she was standing there, very red.

Anna: Okay,.. let's go and get it over with…

Hao: ::coughs loudly with his regular happy/evil smile on his face::

Everyone turns to Hao..

Hao: ::points to the direction of the door::

Everyone turns to the direction of the door.. to see Ren lurking away rather quietly.. no one probably would have noticed if Hao didn't "say" anything about it.

**15 Minutes Later…**

Ren has been tied to a chair with a rope.. and put in the front of the line… Poor, poor, Ren.. he got front-row seats…

Ren: What the hell is wrong with you people?!?!?!

Horohoro: Heh.. what's the big deal, Ren? I wouldn't mind it if it were Pilica…

Ren: There's a five year age difference!! Five years!!!! It's totally different!!!!!!

Anna: It doesn't matter.. it's not Pilica-chan.. it's Jun.. so deal with it. Now, let's get this over with.

Jun is still standing in front of the line… but is now much redder than before, considering her little brother is right in front..

Anna: Let's get on with it already!!!! ::Is obviously annoyed by all of the delays of the game::

Jun blushes as she hold onto the bottom of her dress… pauses.. then slowly brings it up so her knees… to her thighs…

Horohoro is smiling very uhmm.. pervertedly.. until—

Horohoro: WAIT A MINUTE!!!

Jun stops lifting her dress at her present spot..

Anna: What the hell is it now, Horohoro?!??!

Horohoro walks up to the chair that Ren is in and looks at him and smiles…

Horohoro: Oi, Ren… it wouldn't be right for you to have special privileges just because she's your sister, right?

Ren: ::Has his eyes tightly shut..:: Shut the hell up, you mindless git!!!.. [Ren: I had to put the "mindless git" thing in.. that insult has been plaguing me since yesterday.. ^_^]

Horohoro: Shouganee na… ::uses his fingers to manually hold Ren's eyes open::

Ren: Kisama ra!!!!!

Anna: Now can we get on with i—

Horohoro: One more thing..  ::Walks up to Manta and sits him on a stool in the front next to Ren's chair:: … that's better ^_^

Manta: O.O

Horohoro: Okay! Action!!! ^_^

Jun: ::takes a gulp, closes her eyes, and continues to lift her dress slowly from her thighs.. to her hips… to well… mission accomplished…

All the participants faces then started to shift…

Yoh just watched on.. with an expressionless face [Anna: That's new…], Anna watched on with her expressionless face [Ren: That's not..], Hao had his usual smile, Ren.. well.. Ren was trying to resist.. but didn't work since Horohoro was restraining him along with the rope, Horohoro was practically drooling [Anna: He's the one responsible for this, remember?], Lyserg just stood motionless and was blushing furiously, Manta's eyes were bulging out of his head, Jeanne was looking on sympathetically toward Jun [Ren: Gomen Jeanne-Sama fans.. I couldn't think of anything else!! T_T], Pyron was just there… watching.. trying not to have any expression.. while secretly "enjoying the show"…..

Marco: {Woah.. this girl has a nice chest… but will God punish me for this sin I have committed?...}

Amidamaru and Bason: {Damn, I wish I were alive again…}

Pilica: {… I have a long way to go… }

Ren: {My subconscious in permanently scarred… with the image.. of my sister…………….shameful…}

Anna: Okay.. you can stop..

Jun quickly pulled her dress down with remarkable speed and rushed back down and sat where she was before… looking down at the floor and blushing furiously to the point you can almost see steam coming out of her ears.

Everyone was still in their positions in the line, with the expressions previously mentioned.. to "take in and get over" the event that had occurred.

Anna: Sate to.. ::walks over to her spot in the implied game circle and sits down::…

Yoh then leaves and sits in his spot, followed by Hao, Lyserg, Jeanne, and Marco… Horohoro put Manta on the floor and untied a very petrified Ren and went to his seat across Jun, followed by Pilica.. then Pyron…

Ren and Manta… didn't move.. at all..

Jun looked up slowly to see everyone in their seats acting as if nothing happened (minus Horohoro's uber-happy smile).. then turned to see the statuette Ren and Manta..

Yoh: Oi, Ren! Manta! Come on.. Let's keep playing!!! ^_^

Manta started to walk.. but more like a rusty robot than an unusually short teenager.. and Ren… didn't move… at all…

Bason: Uhhmm.. Bocchama?

Ren didn't move.. at all… he didn't even blink.. scary….

Jun: ::sounding sad:: Onegai, Ren… Please come back and sit next to me…

Ren didn't move.. at all.. he blinked once and mumbled something too low for anyone to hear.. but can be guessed to be "Neesan…"…  he then got up from the chair and started to walk to his seat next to Jun.. a bit slowly though.. but not so much to anger Anna for the delay.. he then sat down… and looked straight ahead.. with a dumbfounded look on his face.. also, very scary…

Anna: Whatever… alright, who's next?

Jun: Horohoro-kun… I…

Everyone's attention then turned to Jun..

Jun: …I … just for that.. I.. I'm never going to buy a snowcone from you again!!!

Horohoro: Wha..?... ::cringes:: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of the birds within a 2 mile radius of the Asakura household flew away from this reaction…

Horohoro: Why?! You're my number one customer!! [Ren: She's his only one customer..]

Ren then stood up.. everyone's eyes shifted to him.. except for the crying Horohoro..

Ren: I'm going next…

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Chapter 04 Owari ^_^

Ren: Yosh! Now we're getting somewhere!! ^_^

Anna: Wow, that was long..

Ren: Yeah, but it's all good ^_^.. Bocchama's turn is next!.. Yay!!!

Anna: Be afraid.. be very afraid…

Ren: Kakugo shinasai! Horohoro no yatsu!! Hahahahahaha!!!!! (Let the mindless laughing commence)

Anna: Uhmm.. yeah… next time, it's Tao Ren's turn…

Ren: ::continues to laugh::

Anna: ::lurks away slowly::