"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: W have returned!!! Muahahaha!! ::coughs:: Anyway.. Wow, 6 chapters. we never intended the fic to be more than 3 x.X. Anyway, welcome to the 6th chapter!.. And for those who actually bother to read the reviews, there are 2 things we should point out.
The reason Itako no Anna reviewed Chapter 05, is because that chapter was written entirely by Vx Tao Ren xV (as a detached birthday gift for Itako no Anna).. and went along and wrote many things that weren't planned in the first place.. such as the truth given, and the appearance of Opacho. Also, Itako no Anna and Fear Tamao the Mighty [Ren: ^_^;;.. I still can't believe she chose that name..] are sisters, which is why their reviews have dashes replacing spaces. No, they're not stupid [Ren: Though for Itako no Anna, that statement is very much debatable.. ::insert grin here::] [Anna: SHUT UP!! OR I'LL SING THE ENGLISH SHAMAN KING THEME SONG FOR YOU!!!].. they just have a messed up, space bar-retarded keyboard.That being said, we'd also like to apologize for the excessive Horo bashing.. although.. I think it may last for one more chapter. we're gonna lay off for a while. [Anna: We are?] [Ren: Yes, we are..] [Anna: Why?] [Ren: O.o. well. I don't think Horohoro (Maliksgirl. not the actual Horohoro.. although I don't think he'd appreciate it either..) is appreciating it very much.. plus remember what she wrote, I almost made Pilica cry with the last chapter..] [Anna: Yeah.. but that's never stopped you from tormenting people before..] [Ren: True, Then. maybe it's an extremely belated birthday present for Horohoro.] [Anna: Whatever....] Anyways, this chapter is going off track with what was originally planned out for this turn.. so it may be a little choppy and random. but I'm feeling a bit bored after getting 6 paper cuts and successfully managing to stab myself in the hand with a box cutter all in the time span of 5 minutes.. so randomness is good! It gets rid of boredom! Oh yeah.. and Hao OOC-ness.. though I'll try to make him as in-character as I can. So.. On with the fic!!!!
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Chapter 06: "Looks are Deceiving.. when you're Wearing a Dress"
Needless to say, the little game of truth-or-dare that has been set up has hit off with quite a rocky start, and it's going to get worst. During the last turn, Ren's turn no less, Pilica had to give Horohoro a lapdance. which made Horohoro pretty mad. Okay, mad is an understatement, but you get the idea, right? Either way, since that last turn ended, which was around 2 minutes ago, there has been a glare-fest going on between Ren and Horo, and it doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon.
Now the question still remains, who's going to go next?
It seems that with every turn, disaster and humiliation was sure to follow.. thus ultimately resulting in an act of revenge.. which was usually through a dare given the next turn. Oh what a nice game this has turned out to be.
Since we left off, which was now around 5 minutes ago, there has been an irritating silence that was interrupted every so often by the "bickering" of Ren and Horohoro, but it usually lasted 2 seconds. Anyway, the silence was deafening as the group just sat there. like they have been for the pat 5 minutes.. Okay, 4 minutes and 52 seconds..
Anna was sitting in her spot, looking what you may call peaceful [Ren: For Anna, anyway..], and has an over look as if she were drinking tea, eyes closed and everything. As the second hand on the clock ticked to the 12, and officially marked the 5 minutes of waiting, Anna opened her eyes, with her regular, stony expression.
Anna: Ttaku.. is anyone going to take the next turn?
Everyone then resumed from their silence and looked at each other.. wondering who the next person would be.. or if they should take the turn themselves. However, the ony two that didn't do this, was Ren and Horohoro, who just continued to glare at each other from their spots which were across the room/circle.
Anna: ::looks at everone looking at everyone else:: Urgh.. Fine, it looks like I'll take matters in my own hands and--
Yoh: Masaka, Anna.. you're going to go?!?! I didn't know you were that brave!
Anna: ::slowly glares at Yoh while continuing her sentence:: .pick someone myself.
Yoh: ::Nervously laughs his sheepish laugh while sweatdrops under Anna's glare::
Manta: {Heh.. poor Yoh-kun. I'm kind of glad I'm not playing.}
Hao: Baka otouto.. even if Anna chooses him, he'd probably be too afraid, and dare himself to skip his turn.. ::chuckles::
Yoh: ::to Hao:: Are you kidding! Anna would shoot me if I did that! ::realizes what he shouted and starts to sweat::
Hao: See.. You're not even brave enough to say something like that in front of her. No wonder you couldn't beat be.. ::Matter of fact-ly:: I mean, you don't even have enough courage, guts, or.. heh.. lets face it.. you're not man enough to do anything that could be considered unnerving, to your fiancée, and you end up looking like an idiot. I'm glad that you didn't become the Shaman King.. you'd have to ask Anna permission before even taking the position.. if you got it of course, which you didn't.. ::smiles his regular happy-yet-somehow-evil smile::
Anna's eyebrow ticked up slightly at Hao's remark, while Yoh started an argument with his brother.. [Anna: Similar to when Yoh and Ren where yelling at each other at the end of their Shaman Fight ^_^]
Yoh: What are you talking about?! Not man enough! At least I look more like one than you do! Your hair is at least 2 feet longer than mine!
Hao: ::calmly with his smile on his face:: That just shows that I have better taste than you.
Yoh: Better taste?! You wear a poncho!! A PONCHO!!! [Ren: This isn't Hao-Sama's clothes-bashing.. I absolutely worship his outfit.. it's just for the story]
Opacho: ::hops up:: Opacho wears poncho, too!!
Everyone: .
Hao: Well at least my outfit has a lot of contrast.. which adds to it's marvel and majesty, if I may say so.. unlike them! ::points to the X-LAWS while still smiling::
Lyserg: ::automatically gets mad from the remark.. even though Lyserg never actually designed the X-LAWS uniform.:: What was that?!?!
Hao: You heard me.. or is all of that garbage that the weird girl preaches, clogging your ears?
Lyserg: HAO!!!
Hao: ::chuckles:: I'm sorry.. it's not my fault you have no judgement. Although like otouto.. you seem to have no taste either.. I saw what you wore before you joined the weird girl's group.. [Ren: Again.. no outfit bashing.. it's just for the sake of the story]
Lyserg: What?! Well at least I don't wear clothes like a Patch!
Hao: Well, I was a Patch at one time.. and I actually look good in a poncho.. and besides.. my clothes are actually gender-specified.. unlike yours..
Lyserg: What are you talking about?!
Hao: Well.. I've never actually been mistaken as a girl before. Unlike you.
Lyserg: Are you kidding?! Look at you! You reek of feminine features!
Hao: Well.. maybe a tiny bit.. but that just proves that I'm prettier than you.. and at least I'm man enough to admit it..
Lyserg: I'll prove to you who's the man between us!!
And that, just marked the continuation of the game.. it took an insult and a couple of arguments.. but it is continuing.
Lyserg: ::a bit calmly, to Jeanne:: Jeanne-Sama.. may I please punish Hao my own way?
Jeanne: If you wish to do so, Lyserg Diethel.
Lyserg: Arigatou, Jeanne-Sama..
With that, everyone looked up at Lyserg, pretty much expecting him to take the turn.. and begin a new battle within the game.
Lyserg: Anna-san.. I will take the next turn..
Anna: Alright..
Lyserg: However, I am afraid that I need your assistance to punish this sinner. I'm sorry.
Anna: ..
Okay.. not that many people wanted to team up with Anna for anything.. but Lyserg? Lyserg barely knows Anna and is asking for her assistance? Anna especially didn't like this.. but she didn't say anything.. so the game proceeded..
Lyserg: Truth or dare?. Hao!!! [Anna: Wo~w.. we didn't see this one coming..]
Hao: Dare.
Lyserg: This will show everyone.. who the true man between us is.
Absolutely no one.. especially Anna.. liked where this one was going.
Lyserg: I dare you, Hao, to.
Everyone edged in a bit in anticipation.. Even Ren and Horohoro who were now interested in the game again.. Anna just stared at Lyserg..
Lyserg: to. ::closes his eyes:: to strip Anna-san and wear her clothes!!
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Anna: What?!?!
Yoh: Are you serious, Lyserg?! Anna's going to murder you!!
Anna: ::slowly turns her head to glare at Yoh::
Hao: Okay.. I'll do it.. ^_^
Anna: ::quickly glares at Hao::
Hao: ::continues to smile::
Now, Anna and Yoh were definitely not the only ones surprised at this.. the eyes of everyone, except Jun, Jeanne, and Marco, enlarged to the size of dinner plates as soon as Lyserg said what he did.
Hao: ::Stands up:: Yosh! Let's go Anna.. I can't strip you if you're sitting, ne?
Anna: I never agreed to this..
Yoh: But Anna.. you never actually disagreed to it either.. and didn't you say anything goes before?
Anna: ::glares at Yoh::
Yoh: Ehehehehe.. ::Sweatdrop::
Anna: ::to Lyserg:: Something bad is going to happen to you.. very, very soon.
Lyserg: ::Sweatdrop::
Hao: ::Walks over to Anna and pulls her up:: Sa!
Anna: ::Glares at Hao::
Hao: ::Still smiling:: You know I can't help but feel bad for you.. It's true that I'll be left wearing a dress.. but you're not going to be left with anything.. he did say to "wear your clothes" which implies all of your clothes..
Anna: ::Quickly shoots her head back to glare at Lyserg further, but stops to feel tugging at the bottom of her dress::
By instinct, Anna directly tried to slap Hao, for trying to pull off her dress, even though he's supposed to be doing that, but not to her surprise.. Hao caught her hand, like he did before in America.
Hao: Now Anna, did you think that would work on me? Besides.. I can't strip you without touching your clothes now.
Anna: I hate you..
Hao: I know.. ::smiles::
Anna: ::to the rest of the group:: And I'm going to kill every one of you after this is finished!!!
The group just sweatdropped and wondered if this was worth being killed over.. but since Hao was involved, they would rather take the chance with Anna..
Anna just continued glaring at the group sitting around her.. But then she noticed that Manta got a nosebleed and fainted.. yet again.. then out of nowhere..
SMACK!
Something just rammed right up her nose and into her face. Pretty soon this thing was stuck and seemed to engulf her entire head. She was to busy glaring at everyone else to notice that Hao had already started carrying out his task. The thing that oh-so-painfully rammed Anna up the nose and now completely failed to come off, was her dress. or the dress that was being taken off by the person that she hated the most: Asakura Hao.
Being the rather angry person that she was, Anna got pissed off.. really pissed off.. She started to yell, but her voice was muffled being that her face was wrapped up in the black fabric of her dress.. She then resorted to stomping on the floor and swinging her arms in the air.. probably in a blind attempt to kill Hao.
Now Hao, being the overly-happy person that he was.. just continued pulling on the dress. and therefore pulling on Anna's head.. this was quite a sight to see.
Everyone was pretty much trying to conceal their laughter, or utter and complete shock of the ridiculousness of the situation: Anna, who was wearing nothing but her underwear and bra, having her dress pulled off by Hao. However the dress was caught around Anna's head, since it was forcibly removed, and Hao was now tugging on the dress upward, trying to get it off.. but also pulling on Anna's head. Anna was ranting and yelling, but everything was muffled, so no one understood a word that she was saying. And in addition to that, she was frantically waving her arms in the air as if trying to knock someone out. [Ren: LOL!!] [Anna: I'm going to kill you for writing this.]
Yoh: ::gets up and carefully approaches Hao, careful not to be knocked out by Anna's fists:: ^_^;; Uh.. Hao.. maybe you should stop and try again.. more slowly this time.. ::Attempts to take the dress out of Hao's hands::
Anna: ::muffled yelling::
Hao: No!
And with that "No!" Hao pulled his arms away to the side, and also dragging Anna's head the same way..
Anna: ::muffled yelling and screaming.. most likely various obscenities::
Everyone: O.O;;
Hao: Oh.. whoops. Eh heh. ^_^;;
Now not obviously understanding that he should take a different approach.. Hao just continued to yank on the dress in different directions, causing Anna to yell and scream louder than before. After 3 minutes of this.. The dress finally came off.. and left everyone with a rather disoriented and angry Anna. with very messy hair.
Anna looked as if steam were coming out of her ears.. and obviously didn't care what the others were doing.. She rammed her fist into Yoh's face.. sending him flying towards Ren. Ren simply ducked forward, putting down a bottle of milk, and Yoh proceeded to fly directly into the wall (as he was screaming, of course).. creating yet another hole.
Ren: ::with giant hole behind him:: Baka me.. ::continues to drink his milk::
Anna: ::to Hao:: ::completely red in the face, obviously from rage:: Hao!!! I am so going to KILL you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hao: But Anna, you can't do that yet, I still have to take off the rest of your clothes.
Anna: What?? ::looks down at herself:: ::starts clenching her fists::..
Hao: See? I have to take off all of your clothes, remember? ^_^
Anna: .. You know what! Forget it! ::starts taking off the rest off her clothes herself:: You can roll over into a ditch and die if you think that I'm ever letting you touch me.. No! Ever letting you come anywhere near me, EVER again!!!!! ::Crumples her under garments into a ball, and throws it into the kitchen, via the hole in the wall.
Horohoro: Hey! People eat in there 'ya know!!!! Now I'm gonna feel like I'm eating your panties during dinner!
Anna: ::Shoots her head around and glares at Horohoro::
Horohoro: ::obviously afraid:: But.. we can always go out to eat now and then..
Anna: ::stomps back to the edge of the circle and sits in her seat.. and folds her arms and closes her eyes.. in a complete and total rage.. but she's now completely naked..::
Hao: ::still standing, takes off his poncho and drops it::
Opacho: ::runs to catch the poncho.. and then when it does [Ren: To us, Opacho is genderly challenged.. so We will continue to write 'it'.. don't like it.. too bad..], sits on the floor and starts to fold it very carefully, not to create wrinkles...:: Hao-sama's poncho too great to get wrinkles.. ::continues to fold:: [Ren: And if you never noticed, Opacho's grammar is also a bit broken up.. and since I'm obsessed about accuracy.. the same will apply here.]
Hao: ::Now takes off his shoes and places them on the floor.. since he didn't take them off when he first arrived at the house..::
Opacho: ::Runs and takes the shoes and puts them next to his neatly folded poncho, which was now in front of his seat::
Hao: ::Takes off his very, very, very cool, floofy, magestic pants, and folds them himself [Ren: His pants are too important to let anyone else fold them!], when he's finished, Opacho takes them and runs to Hao's seat, placing them on top of his poncho::
Everyone just turned there heads from side to side as Opacho ran back and forth with elements of Hao's wardrobe each time.
Hao: ::now in nothing but a pair of boxers.. which are unsurprisingly black with flames spreading from the bottom.. puts Anna's dress on over his head, as it slides down is body, he still wears is usual, overly-happy smile.
As Hao returns to his seat, Opacho clears out of the way, as if Hao was a figure of royalty, although to Opacho, he probably was. If you look really closely, you could almost see Hao walking a bit.. girly-er than usual, which Lyserg probably noticed... When Hao is finally seated, he thanks Opacho for treating his clothes as if they too, were royalty, and again, to Opacho, they probably were, and looks back into the circle.. to find everyone staring at him..
Hao: ::blinks:: Wha~t?
Lyserg: ::whispering to Horohoro, who was sitting next to Jeanne:: I told you he couldn't be straight.
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Owari!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh wow! I can't believe this chapter is finished!!! I've had this thing on hold (after half of the chapter was written) for around 2 months (Which is also when the Author's notes were written)! I hope you didn't get confused.. since we skipped (Well, I decided to skip) an entire turn from our original plans.. Anyway.. since I got my internet back on (Thank God for Optimum Online).. the updates will hopefully come faster.. hopefully..
-Ren ^_^ ( I think this is my favorite chapter ^_^)
[Anna: Well.. it isn't mine.. ::glare::]
Anna: Next time.. What do you get when you combine, Asakura Yoh, Tao Ren's glaive, and a dare from Hao?
Ren: Nothing good. Nothing good at all.
Review onegai shimasu~~!!!
