Warning . You know the drill -- shounen-ai, in the form of HoroRen and a very horny Hao.
Disclaimer . Don't own Shaman King.
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"Camp Happy Pants"
Chapter Five . A Day Off
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Three days when by with no sign of Lyserg whatsoever, and Troop 69 was beginning to worry -- not to mention notice a difference in the mood. Things just weren't the same without the sound of Lyserg's heavy breathing as he glared at Hao or his usual shouts of "Parent-killer!" and the like.
Hao himself was getting rather bored without Lyserg around to poke fun at; taunting the other troop members just wasn't good enough. To fend off boredness, Hao made up a new game, which he entitled "Get Inside Yoh's Pants" for obvious reasons.
Yoh wasn't too thrilled with Hao's "game" and quickly learned to avoid his twin whenever possible, even though he couldn't all the time. So, naturally, Yoh was relieved when Silva woke them up later than normal on their sixth day of camp and announced a free day.
"Yay! Free day!" Horo Horo screeched, jumping up in the bed that he now shared with Ren. His head slammed against the bottom of his former bunk, and he fell backwards, landing on top of his bunkmate.
While Ren proceeded to beat Horo to a bloody pulp, the rest of the troop changed into their uniforms and set off to do whatever they pleased.
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Yoh decided to begin his day off by getting some breakfast. He slowly took the long walk to the mess hall, where he filled up on camp food, then took to sitting under a tree by Lake Happy Pants. Little did he know, Hao was floating nearby.
Yoh soon dozed off, and Hao was on him like white on rice. As he reached his hands down to remove Yoh's shorts, Yoh groggily opened one eye.
"Hao, what are you doing here?" he asked, hoping his brother would back off. Hao looked him right in the eye and proceeded to reply.
"I'm here to put out the fire." At this, both of Yoh's eye popped open.
"What fire?" he questioned, looking around.
"The fire in your pants!" Hao shouted with glee, jumping on his little brother. As Yoh fought Hao off, Silva passed. He looked at them, shook his head, and grinned.
"Silly boys," he mumbled, continuing on to the art building. Inside he found Ryu hunched over a table. Next to him was Yoh's father, who was handing art items to Ryu every so often.
As Silva circled the table, he realized Ryu was making something.
"What do you have there?" he asked, leaning over the table to look at the item in Ryu's hand.
"Lyserg," Ryu mumbled in reply, not looking up.
"What?" Silva leaned down closer to Ryu.
"Lyserg," he repeated. This time he held up the item he had been working on.
In his hand was a disturbingly realistic mini-Lyserg, complete with little camp shorts. Ryu looked down at it and whimpered, then hugged it to his chest.
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Back at the lake, across from the spot that Hao had earlier molested Yoh, Ren was standing near the canoes. He looking around casually, pretending that he wasn't watching for Horo, but as he glanced at the archery field, Nichrome and his team appeared next to Ren.
"Looking for someone?" You shouldn't be out here alone, you know. The buddy system is always best, especially at camp," Nichrome commented as Ren turned to face him. "Isn't that right, Spike?"
Spike growled at Ren. Ren glared back. Just as Nichrome seemed to be giving up, Horo showed up.
"Gasp! Ren! Consorting with the enemy?!" he shouted, running to stand next to Ren.
"Do you even know what consorting means?" he asked.
"No, it just sounds good. Did I use it right?"
As the two began to argue, Nichrome motioned for his troop to surround them, and before Ren and Horo could do anything to stop it, they had been shoved into a canoe and were drifting out into Lake Happy Pants without an oar.
"Have fun! And remember to stick with your buddy!" Nichrome yelled after them. Ren watched it disgust as Troop Eight and their leader walked away laughing.
The canoe floated out for a while before they hit one of the three little islands in the middle of the lake. As they sat, Ren looked over at Horo.
"Well? Push us off so we can head back to shore, idiot," he ordered. Horo moved to do so, but stopped as he touched the island.
"No," he said, turning back to face Ren.
"What do you mean, 'no'?" Ren demanded. Horo closed in on Ren, putting his face inches from the fuming Chinese boy's.
"I mean, no. I'm not going to push the boat off," he explained. Ren let out a growling noise and jumped at Horo. As the scuffle broke out, their canoe began to rock violently. The two soon found themselves in the lake.
"I... can't... swim!" Horo gasped, bobbing up and down in the water.
"Stand up, moron. The whole lake is only waist-deep." Horo stopped failing and stood up.
"Lake water stinks," Horo stated after a minute. He leaned over and sniffed Ren. "You stink."
Ren slapped the back of Horo's head and trudged to the shore.
"Wait up! We both need to go change," Horo called after him, trying to run through the water to catch up.
As Horo chased Ren back to Troop 69's cabin, Manta and Chocolove passed them, on their way to the mess hall.
"What do you think happened to Lyserg?" Manta asked, looking up at Chocolove.
"He's not dead," came the happy reply.
"What if one of us is taken next?" Manta shivered at his own suggestion.
"Don't worry. If you get kidnapped, we'll look for you," Chocolove comforted, patting the short boy's head.
"That's good to know," Manta sighed.
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Back at Troop 69's cabin, a freshly changed Horo sat on his bunk. Ren, Yoh, and Silva were also in the cabin, but after a furtive glance around the room, he was sure none of them were paying attention to him.
He reached under the mattress and dug around for a second before pulling out an economy-sized bag of jelly beans.
While Horo munched happily on his jelly beans, he failed to notice that Silva had moved to stand over him. When the finally looked up, all hell broke loose.
"What are you eating?!" Silva shouted at Horo, causing him to shrink back. "Jelly beans are NOT camp food! You're NOT allowed to eat them! ... But I think I'll let you off the hook if you give me some, okay?" He held out his hand, and Horo handed him some jelly beans.
"Now," Silva added as he turned to walk away, "I don't want to see those jelly beans again, got it?"
Horo nodded and sighed, shoving them back under the bed.
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Later that day, about an hour before the set "bed time," Troop 69 was assembled in their cabin, basically doing nothing.
Chocolove and Horo had obviously gotten into a disagreement about something pointless, and Ren had joined into the argument after calling them morons. Yoh was sitting on his bed, pretending to ignore the eerie, perverted grin that Hao was giving him from across the cabin, and Ryu was moping with his mini-Lyserg.
Silva walked into the cabin and scanned the room before asking, "Where's Manta?"
Everyone looked up and also glanced around.
"I ate lunch with him, but he went off after that," Chocolove offered. "Did anyone else see him?"
No one spoke up until Horo exclaimed, "Maybe he was kidnapped like Lyserg!"
Silva gave a shifty glance to the side. "If anyone asks, he's sick," he told his troop firmly. "Can't have me getting in trouble, you know."
Troop 69 shot each other looks before nodding in agreement.
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a/n . Once again, sorry for the prolonged delay. Not gonna make any promises as to when the next chapter will be up, but we'll try to not take as long as we did this time.