Chapter 4: Still April Fools
Horo sat on his bed and looked at the clock which was on the floor.
8:00am
'Wonder whether I said April Fools too soon… I should have given him more time to reply… even though he didn't reply, just stood there like an idiot… but what would people say…? What would they think if they knew…? Horokeu Usui… gay… in love another guy… Ren's family would never accept it anyway… why'd he tell me to stop playing with his emotions…?'
Horo sat there, drowning in a sea of thoughts, when suddenly a bell rang.
'Oh well… better get going…' he thought glumly, picked up his books, and walked out into the hall.
"FUCK!" he yelled, and ran back into his room, quickly realizing he was still in his boxers.
Ren entered the Art classroom and sat down quietly, noticing that Horo wasn't around.
"Now, today were going to do a painting about our emotions and the way we feel… you may do abstract or none-abstract, but you mustn't copy off of anyone or an object in the room."
Everyone started to paint whilst Ren just sat there.
'Why the hell does everything have to relate to what goes on in my private life…?' thought Ren, and picked up a paintbrush. 'Oh well… who knows, this 'painting your emotions' thing might be… fun…'
Ren painted for a few minutes, his mind focusing on what had happened earlier, when the teacher came up behind him and looked down at his work.
"Very impressive Tao," she said, and looked at the painting.
Ren blinked three times before it had finally sunk in that he'd actually painted what he had.
The door swung open and in walked Horo, his face bright red.
"Sorry I'm late." He said, and handed her a note with an explanation on it.
Ren jumped when the teacher burst out laughing and watched as Horo stood there, his cheeks going even redder.
"…Nice painting…" muttered Horo as he walked past Ren.
'Shit!'
Ren quickly covered the painting up.
"It was just… something to do in my spare time…"
Horo just shrugged and quickly caught on about what to do.
The Tao glanced at what he'd painted and smiled. He'd painted most of it subconsciously, and it looked magnificent.
Ren had done a pure black background and a purple shadow. The shadow was walking towards something, for in the darkness of the painting, a blue flame flickered.
"…Ren…?" asked Horo, nudging the Tao beside him.
"Huh?"
"…Are we still… friends…?"
It took a few seconds for it to sink in, but eventually Ren nodded.
"Yeah…" he said, and looked at his painting, "Friends."
Else were, Hao, Yoh and Ricky had French.
"Parlez-vous français?" whispered Hao to Ricky who was sat to his left.
"Parlez-vous I have no idea what the fuck you just said." He muttered in reply.
"I said do you speak French?"
"Leek."
Hao stared at Ricky, "…Don't you mean Oui…?"
"Oh well, knew it was something along those lines."
Hao sighed and turned to Yoh who was sat to his right. "P-"
"Oui. J'mapelle Yoh."
"…You speak French…?"
"Actually no I'm just paying attention."
Ricky and Hao looked at the board.
'J'mapelle' – my name is...
"Wow, ya know… I never noticed this before…" Ricky said, studying the two, "But you two are twins…"
"…Right…" said Hao, and patted Ricky on the back, "And… you only noticed that we look alike and have the name Asakura, now…?"
"…Dude… you're twins…" Ricky stood up on the table and gathered everyone's attention. "Dudes and dudets, these guys are twins!"
Hao sighed and pushed Ricky off the table, "…Moron…"
"Twin! …Augh man, my balls… their bruised…"
"Oh Yoh, you know that something I was going to tell you…" began Hao, "Well, its April Fools!"
"…Really…? Wow."
"Yoh, what's the matter…? You're so… sarcastic, all of a sudden…"
Hao leant closer to Yoh and whispered into his ear. "…Was it about-"
"Hey shrimp," said a boy in front of them, "Give us' a pencil!"
"Get one yourself…" muttered Ricky, sitting back down.
"Your forgetting who you share a room with Marrot." He threatened.
"I believe that would be a moron." Said Hao. "Scott, leave Ricky alone, he didn't do anything to you."
Scott leaned back and took the pencil Yoh had in his hand off of him.
"For your own safety, I suggest you give that back…" began Ricky, "Not only is Yoh related to Hao, but he's a twin, and as far as I know there is one good twin and one evil twin, and I don't know who's the evil twin."
"Whatever," said Scott, "He doesn't look so tough to me, neither of them do." With that, Scott shoved Yoh. "See, totally spineless." He leaned his chair on Yoh's table and banged on it with the back of his chair, making the table rock.
"Hold on a sec." Said Hao, and stood up, pulling the table back.
Hao, Ricky and Yoh watched as Scott flew backwards, and without a table to support his rocking, he fell to the floor.
"…Bastard…" he muttered.
"Get this through your thick head, touch Ricky, you'll get hurt, but touch Yoh… and you'll die a slow and painful death."
Ricky once again stood up and started to applaud, "Lets hear it for the Twins!"
"…Ricky… shut up and listen, it's to do with Ren and his Gwan-dao…"
Ren sat there, painting yet another painting about his emotions and feelings. He glanced at Horo who was working hard on his peace of art. His eyes scanned the paint and the markings over and over again, until he finally smiled and placed the dirty paintbrush in the water pot.
"Finished." He sighed, and looked down at his work. Ren could tell by his face that he was happy with it. Ren leant over and took a look.
'Is that hinting something…?' he thought as he looked at the blue and purple lines twirling around each other. Horo had covered the whole page in two lines of paint, one blue and one purple. They were intertwining, dancing across the page. Ren's eyes widened as he spotted something that the lines spelt out. 'It's a coincidence… it has to be… there's no way in hell he'd do that on purpose!'
Horo smirked as he read the word, if you studied it hard enough you could see it, but if you just glanced at it or took a quick look, it was invisible.
"Why's it say love?"
Horo froze. 'Crap, he saw it!'
The blue haired boy looked at Ren and stuttered. "W-well, you s-see… I- ya know, I don't know… I only just realized it when you pointed it out to me…"
Ren looked the Ainu in the eyes, and Horo looked away.
"Is it fuck, you did that on purpose!"
"No I didn't… and besides, just what are you suggesting?"
Inside, Horo was smirking; he knew Ren wouldn't say that he thinks Horo fancied him.
"I-uh, nothing I- oh fuck off and do ya painting!"
Horo laughed, but shut up when Ren glared at him.
Ren continued to do his own painting.
"Tao, do you think that is necessary?" asked the teacher, appearing behind him.
"Completely." He said sternly, and continued to paint the blackness of the background.
"Very well, but I must say, its pretty gruesome… is that… is that Asakura Hao!"
This caught Horo's interest and he immediately stood up to take a look at whatever Ren was painting.
Ren had painted his Gwan-dao rather large at the side of the page surrounded by white lightning, the background was pure black, and down the right hand side was a comic strip.
The first box had a picture of Ren and his Gwan-dao, second was Ren holding his Gwan-dao to Hao's throat, and finally, Horo sniggered when he saw a painting of Hao on the floor and a puddle of red paint around him, which was intended to be blood.
"That's going on my wall." Announced Ren, and put down the brush.
Five minutes later, the bell went and they walked back to their room to collect their things for next lesson.
On the way, Ren spotted Ricky in the crowd.
"Ricky!" shouted Ren, trying to get his attention, "RICKY!"
"Hey dude… did you know Hao and Yoh are twins…!"
"Yes, now were is my Gwan-dao!"
"What the magic sentence?"
Horo came up behind Ren, "Ricky just give him it…" he moaned, getting tired of all the fuss over Ren's Gwan-dao.
"No, not until he says the magic sentence."
Ren growled, "Ren is a wuss who gets his ass kicked by a tit-head of an Ainu."
"Nice." Said Horo sarcastically.
"Dude… I can not believe you just said that… cool!"
"Yes, yes, now were is it?"
"Well… the thing is… I dunno man, one minute I was like 'wow' you know, admirin' the cool blade thingy and the next I was like '…bummer…'"
"…In other words… you lost Ren's Gwan-dao…?" asked Horo.
Ricky sighed, "Sorry man."
"No problem dude." Said Horo, and low-fived Ricky before he disappeared into his room which just happened to be on the left-hand side of Horo and Ren's, room 10.
Horo and Ren were about to unlock their door when Ricky came dashing out of his room, "Hold up man, I- I just remembered somethin'!"
"What?" asked Ren impatiently.
"…I know were your Gwan-dao is…"
"Really? Were!"
"I'll show you." Said Ricky, and pulled Horo away from his door, "But he has to come too, you both do… otherwise… otherwise I'll… cry… I mean it man, don't make me cry!"
"But I can't," said Horo, and pulled his arm free from his young friends grip, "I'll be late for class."
"No you won't… I'll take the blame… really… I will… I'll say I have a bladder problem and my zipper got stuck and I called for help and you two came…"
Ren looked at Horo, "He's trying to keep us away from our room…"
Horo and Ren both pulled away from Ricky's grip and walked up to their room.
"No, you can't go in there!" said Ricky, and dived on Ren, "It's dangerous, there's a gas leak, you'll all DIE!"
Horo turned the key and pushed the door open.
…Nothing…
Ricky climbed off of a swearing Ren and walked into the room. "…Oh well, April Fools…"
"Hold it." Said Ren, blocking the door, "This has something to do with Hao doesn't it."
"…Hao…? Why Ren, perish the thought."
"It does." Said Horo, finding it obvious Ricky was lying.
"You two are always plotting about how to ruin my life."
"…True, only this time you're not the victim."
Laughter broke out in the school grounds and Horo and Ren ran to the window.
"What's going on…?" asked Hao, appearing in the door-way, secretly low-fiving Ricky.
"My… My boxers… there…"
"On the flag pole…?" finished Ricky.
Ricky and Hao legged it as Horo charged after them, shouting and cursing.
"YOU BASTARD HAO! AND YOU RICKY! I'LL GET YOU BACK, I'LL GET BOTH OF YOU!"
The next few lessons went by fast, until at last, they were in last lesson.
Hao, Yoh, Ricky and Andy sat on one side of the room, one in front of the other, whilst on the other side sat Ren, Lee, Horo and Choco.
A/N: Faust and Choco don't come in this story much at all, sorry bout that.
Andy had short black hair, as did Lee, but Andy had a fringe gelled up (if you know what I mean) and his eyes were brown instead of green like Lee's.
Ren, Lee, Horo and Choco looked up as four paper-balls came their way, landing on the table.
Ren frowned and ignored it, Lee flicked it away, Horo stabbed it with a pencil and Choco sat on it.
Another paper ball came Ren's way, landing on his lap. He frowned again and opened it.
'Open the other one baka!'
Ren reached for the other one and opened it.
'Here I was just lyin' in the snow with my legs wide open saying 50p a go!'
The Tao glared at Andy who was sniggering. 'Baka!' he mouthed, but that only made Andy laugh more.
Lee had flicked three paper-balls off of his desk when finally, he opened it.
'Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me, so tie me up and throw me down and show how much you like me!'
A/N: I got that from someone's bio, so don't give me credit for that one.
Lee sniggered and glanced at Ricky. 'Dirty sod.' He thought, smirking at the note.
Horo looked at the note with holes in it.
'Ignore it Horo,' he told himself, 'It's from Hao so it will obviously upset you…'
Eventually curiosity got the better of him and he opened it to find a picture of a pair of boxers on a flag pole.
Horo tore it in half.
Yoh sighed when a paper ball landed lightly on his table from Hao.
'Why don't you join in…?'
"Because I don't want too." whispered Yoh.
"But it's fun."
Another paper-ball landed on Yoh's table, only it wasn't from Hao, it was from Horo.
'Tell your brother he's a knob-head with no knob.'
Yoh passed the note back to Hao, and when Hao finished reading it, he passed another note forwards to Yoh.
"Hao!" said Yoh, shocked at what he put.
"What?" he asked innocently.
"That," said Yoh, shoving the note in Hao's face, "Is wrong!"
Hao laugh quietly at his note which read: 'Tell Horo he's wrong because I do have a knob, it's only you who's seen it.'
Yoh sighed.
"Look Yoh, your leaving Choco out… just throw him a note."
"And say what?"
"…Let my people go…?"
Yoh just glared at Hao. "No thanks, unlike you, I don't throw notes in class and I don't upset my friends and make racist comments."
"How is that racist…? It's from the Bible!"
"You know how that's racist, you don't say things like that… it's mean… and besides, if someone had one blue eye, one brown, you wouldn't call them, and-"
Hao sighed and threw a note to Choco, who opened it and laughed.
"…What did you put…?" asked Yoh, looking at Choco who was crying with laughter.
"Only 'Why'd the squirrel swim on its back? To keep its nuts dry' It's not really that funny…"
Suddenly the bell rang, and another day of learning was over.
"The following must think I am too old for teaching and am blind. Hao, Yoh, Ricky, Andy, Choco, Ren, Horo and Lee, please stay behind for a thirty minute detention."
"Now see what you all did!" yelled Ren across the room.
"Quality time with friends, what more could a dude ask for." Smirked Ricky.
"I will be back when your detention is up, and if I find that there are any disturbances I will give you all a three hour detention on a Saturday."
"Sir, yes sir!" yelled Ricky, saluting the teacher.
The teacher just glared at the boy and left the room.
"So… who shall we attack first?" asked Andy, looking at the row of friends on the other side of the room.
Unicorn13564: So, what ya think? Little assholes aren't they. MUWHAHAHAAAAAA! REVIEW!
