Kenko: People still remember me!! 3 3

Ren muse: You're kind of hard to forget.

Kenko: Awww...so sweet

Ren muse: I meant that in that you're crazy and scary.

Kenko: -- MEANIE POO

Ren muse: Isn't it time you some stupid comment about how hot my ass is?

Kenko: I don't need to.

Ren muse: Why?

Kenko: Cuz you made a comment about your hot ass already.

Ren muse: --''''

Kenko: awwww does Ren need a hug? HAOOOOOOO!

Hao: (tackle glomps Ren)

Yoh: ''''

Kenko: Awwww (click, flash, click, flash).

Yoh: She's busy right now, taking pics while trying to stop a nose bleed. So on behalf of Kenko, she'll like to thank all her reviewers. She luvs u much and is regrettably unable to personally thank her reviewers because she just lost her internets service and is just uploading her fanfics whenever she bums over her friends house. Once again thank you for reviewing. She'll go back to responding to all her reviews once she gets her internet service or when she gets to her college, whichever comes first. (MWAH)

Kenko: Yeah, what he said. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! (click, flash, click, flash)

Kami no Kaze 5

By Charred

Foggy Memories

I hate rain. I really do. Rain is not helping my fire spirit either. It's not happy. I'm not happy. I'm moping. Yes, I, the great Hao-sama am moping. About what you say? Well, I'm moping about the stupid rain. Well, not only the rain. The little encounter with Ren didn't make me feel much better.

Now...where is that nice pole I can bang my head against. I could really use one right now...wait there is a nice tree I could use...(bang bang) okay...not really working. Not working at all. This situation is not what I expected. Oye. When I told Ren that he would be mine back in the Shaman King Tournaments, I hadn't put into account that Yoh would actually reply Ren's affections. I should have realized that he would though, considering how he was a part of me. I always thought that Ren and I would be together. Love makes me so out of character.

Heartbreak the first time around is hurtful. Heartbreak the second time around is painful. Heartbreak the second time around spanning two lifetimes is borderline fatalistic.

I thought that when I cast a spell to help Ren reincarnate in time for the Shaman King tournament, that we're come back to the world together, when I become of age, I'll grab Ren, make him remember me, grab the Great Spirit, make a new world for Shamans, have Ren rule this new world with me and live happily ever after.

Idealistic wasn't I? I didn't put into account that Yoh would be separated from me and that everyone from the events 500 years ago would be reincarnated. There were only minor differences in this lifetime. Anna was my wife. Tamoe was my mistress. Horo horo was friends with Ren and was called Hiroto. Faust was the Asakura family physician called Fujisaki and his wife died at childbirth and was named Eiko. Ryu was the Asakura head butler. Manta was our neighbor.

Life was boring before my attempt at world domination. I was an advisor for the emperor and protecting Japan from time to time. I was wealthy and powerful. My wife was beautiful and intelligent; my mistress was loyal and sweet. But I was bored as hell. Everyday I felt as if something was missing.

As cliché as this sounds, my life turned around when I met Ren. Ren really hasn't changed over 500 hundred or so years. He is still as paranoid, sweet, shy, aggressive, possessive, beautiful, and intense as he was in his last lifetime. Ren also held the position as the heir of the Tao family and back then, he also greatly disliked his father. Back then, the Tao family was at it's height in power and Ren pulled a couple of strings and got himself a job as the ambassador to Japan for the Chinese emperor to get as far away from his father as possible.

I remember our first meeting very clearly. I was walking around the woods, looking for a good clearing to do some stargazing. I went to stop by a waterfall to get a drink of water and Ren was there in his birthday suit, meditating underneath the waterfall. I remember the first thing I thought was 'how the hell did that unispike of his stay straight even when his hair is wet?' I was also thinking 'wow, what a hot ass' but I was trying to deny it.

Ren being the show off that he is and was, threw his spear at me without turning around. Good thing Ren kept that bell on his spear or I wouldn't have heard it and I would have been nailed in the foot. He then turned around and for the first time, I saw his golden eyes. I've never seen anyone with eyes as intense as his. I was locked in his gaze for some time until I realized, I was acting real dumb. I managed to pull myself together. Me being the suave guy that I am, I said,

"Your eyes are as beautiful as the stars." For the record, I invented that pick-up line.

Ren's reaction was cute. He blushed. He cursed at me. Threw a rock at me. Told me that he was a MALE. His unispike grew. I just laughed. I told him my name. I asked him for his. He was still blushing and mumbled out 'Tao Ren'. I went to get his robe and gave it to him. He blushed again, looking like he'll pass out from all the blood rushing to his face. I think my smile was pissing him off. I started to pull out the things I needed for stargazing. He came over and asked me if I was a shaman. I said I was and we started having a long discussion about life, death, the Great Spirit, religion, nature, and humans. We argued, we finished each other's thoughts, and we joked.

In other words, I fell in love.

I didn't do much of stargazing that night. We talked until the sunrise. I think it was just us, but that sunrise was the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen. Ren had to leave because he had some meeting he had to go to two hours after sunrise. I gave him my hand to shake. He shook my hand and pulled him towards himself. He whispered to my ear.

"I like you Asakura Hao. You will be mine." Time for his comeback. He smirked and laughed. I blushed for the first time in my life. I remember looking at him until he disappeared from my view. I remember thinking, 'I can't forgive him for making me blush!'

I was hoping that his lines would jog his memory, but it did not. Life is not going according to my hopes. My other half snagged my boyfriend. And...I signed up for school in....5 hours. Looking up at the stars, I wonder why the Great Spirit put us all together. Is it to punish me for all the sins I have done? I may be the most powerful shaman in the world right now, but even I can not attain my greatest wish. I can't even hate my rival because, Yoh is a part of me and I do love him and I can not hurt him either. This moping is tiring. Time to turn over for the night.

Come back to me, Ren.