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A Relaxing Vacation
By Fireworx
Chapter Four: Day Two: Repairs.
"Hand me the hammer, onegai..." Yoh said, as he glanced over to Horo.
Horo, Ren and Yoh were stuck to fixing the hot springs... the management was pretty disappointed about it, and Yoh had to give in.
"Hai... we'll fix it." Yoh replied, with a huge sweat drop.
"Consider it as training, Yoh." Anna's voice said. This made Yoh gulp.
"Anyway, goodluck, Yoh..." Horo said.
Ren nodded to this.
"Ara... but you two... were the ones who destroyed in the first place..." Yoh stated.
Horo and Ren looked at him in a "your point?" look.
"Neh... Horo-kun..."
"What?" Horo blinked, looking up at Tamao who was staring at him with a blinking face.
"Maybe you should help, too... I don't really know about Ren-kun, but I'm asking you as a favor... since I'm a bit angry about yesterday."
"Heh? Yesterday?" Horo repeated. He though about it for a moment before blushing furiously. "I'll help, Yoh!"
"Ts... then I will too." Ren said. "No way am I going to be stuck with girls the whole day."
So... there they were. Horo and Ren arguing occasionally, and Yoh trying to do it by himself... but taking an awful lot of breaks.
Pirica and Anna had gone out to the local mall nearby, and Tamao was with them handing out snacks.
"Thanks, Tamao." Yoh said, between bites from cookies that Tamao had made herself.
"H-hai..." Tamao replied, blushing.
Horo, from the other side scowled quietly upon watching this.
"The Ainu is jealous..."
Horo scowled again and looked at Ren. "Jealous? Why should I be jealous?"
"You like Tamao." Ren replied, matter-of-factly.
"What makes you say that?" Horo replied, ready to pounce on him and pull his hair out.
Ren seemed to think about it... sarcastically. "You're so nice to her. You don't treat her like you treat us."
"Yeah, well she doesn't treat me like you guys treat me."
"Whatever." Ren shrugged.
This got Horo even angrier. "How about you and my sis, then?! It's disgusting, yeah, but you two obviously have a thing for each other."
Silence.
"WHAT?!" Ren yelled.
"Ah, hit a vein, didn't I..."
Yoh and Tamao stopped talking and looked over at the two.
"Ah... calm down, you two..." Yoh said, waving his arms around a bit.
"Bason!"
"Kororo!"
Tamao yelped and started to back away.
"Amidamaru!" Was the loudest.
Ren, Horo, Bason and Kororo all stopped and had huge sweatdrops as they look at Yoh, who had Amidamaru ready for battle.
Yoh was fuming... flames in his background. He rarely did this... in fact, he never really did.
"If... if... you don't stop, and this place gets wrecked again..." He started. "Then... "
"Y-Yoh..." Horo gulped.
"Then Anna's going to make me suffer more, understand?!" He yelled.
Silence.
"I don't want to suffer mooore..." He whined, turning chibi and banging on the wall.
Bang.
The wall fell down.
"I don't know my own strength..." Yoh laughed nervously.
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"Who are you getting that for?" Pirica blinked.
She was with Anna... the fearless itako. They weren't that close, though. Nobody was close with the itako, except Yoh himself.
"Yoh." Anna replied.
Pirica smiled and glanced at it. It was an audio CD. "He likes that kind of music?"
"He'd better. I'm the one buying it for him."
Pirica nodded with a sweatdrop. "Ah..."
Anna smiled faintly at her. She did that alot more nowadays. "He begged me to get it for him."
"Oh..." Pirica replied, she understood now. "So, how is it with the two of you now?"
"Same."
"I see..."
"How about you and Ren?"
Pirica was a bit shocked at this question. Nobody actually asked her that before, and it was Anna who asked her now. She never really thought Anna cared about stuff like that.
"What about us?"
"You like him, right?" Anna replied, not even looking at her.
"No."
Anna nodded. "Okay..."
"Well, maybe just a little bit..." Pirica whispered. "He can be sweet sometimes."
"Like the apology scene last night..."
Silence.
"W-wha--!?" Pirica sputtered. "How'd you know about that?"
"Yoh has weird senses... his sense of hearing is awfully sensitive."
"And...?"
"He told me about it last night." Anna replied. "But I don't really thing it's that much of a big deal... so don't worry."
'But nothing ever seems like a big deal to you... just Yoh becoming the Shaman King.' Pirica thought to herself. "I see... thanks, Anna."
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"Meat buns!" Horo said.
Tamao gave a little sweatdrop. The two of them were out at the local grocery for now. Yoh wanted more snacks, and Tamao said she'd get them for him. Horo came along for the reason of... it's a grocery. There would be food. Food food. He loved food!
"Ara..." Tamao blinked as Horo grabbed some meat buns. "I feel like I'm with a kid..."
Horo laughed, but ignored her saying that nonetheless. "What else?"
"Ren-kun asked for milk..."
"Ts... and you agreed?" Horo asked her, a bit of anger in his voice.
"You really hate Ren-kun that much...?"
"Yeah."
"Ah."
"But that's besides the point." Horo said as he followed Tamao to the dairy products. "You don't have to do everything people ask for. You don't have to buy Yoh everything, or follow everything Anna says, and most of all... you don't have to get milk for stick-haired Chinese guys."
Tamao giggled.
"What?"
"Stick-haired chinese guys, hmm?" She replied, smiling at him.
Horo scowled at her as she pointed out that he had pointy hair and was a Chinese guy too.
"Don't worry. I like helping out." Tamao said, patting his hair. She stood on the tips of her toes a bit, since he was taller than her. "Stick hair!"
"Yeah. Pushover. You're kinda a pushover... I hate pushovers, they follow everything others say and can't decide for themselves."
Tamao froze. That hurt. What he said hurt... she retreated her hand which was playing with his 'stick-hair'.
"Gomen..." She replied. "But I can't help it. It's just who I am."
She smiled weakly at him and set off to find the milk.
Horo blinked. He really was that tactless... the hurt expression on Tamao's face was on his head.
He walked over to her and tapped her shoulder.
"Hmm?" Tamao asked, milk in her hands. "What is it?"
"Sorry..." He apologized. "I didn't mean that."
"Apology not accepted."
"Eh?!" Horo replied in shock. Was this really Tamao?!
Tamao laughed. "I'm kidding. Just showing you I can do it... not being a pushover, I mean."
He pouted his lip a bit. "Ah. That was just mean."
She laughed. "Anything else you want before we leave?"
"Sake!"
Sake?!"
"Yes, sake." He grinned at her and grabbed a box of sake nearby.
"But... but... that much will just get a person drunk."
"Yeah, that's it." Horo replied.
"Ehh?!" Tamao replied, with huge sweatdrops.
"I'm going to get Ren drunk!" Horo grinned. "They say drunk people never lie. I'm going to prove that moron wrong! He said he hates my sis, I'll just get him drunk and find out!"
"That doesn't sound very older brother-ish..."
"Aheheh..."
To Be Continued...---