Chapter 5: Midnight Stroll

It was peaceful for about five minutes, before the first pencil landed.

"Piss off!" yelled Lee, rubbing his cheek.

"Dude, it was just a pencil…"

"I don't care, it was fuckin' sharp!"

Hao rose up out of his seat and walked over to the black board and took out some coloured chalk from the desk draw.

"Hao, what are you doing?" asked Yoh not wanting to get into anymore trouble.

"Drawing."

The guys watched as Hao drew something that started to look familiar, until he moved out of the way and allowed everyone to see.

"You prick!" yelled Ren, "Rub it off now!"

Ren glared at the chalked picture of him and Horo kissing.

"Hao, that looks nothing like me." Horo complained.

"Yes, his ass is much bigger now rub it off!"

Horo turned round and gave Ren a look that said 'what the fuck…!'

Hao saw it and burst out laughing, "H-Horo, I think you're sharing a room with a pervert!"

Ren felt his cheeks grow hot.

"Well it's better than sharing a room with you Hao."

"Maybe so, but-"

Hao spun round and caught the paper-ball that came his way.

"Ew, Ricky you sick fuck!" he yelled, and dropped the ball to reveal spit all over his hand.

Ricky, finding it hilarious, burst out laughing.

Hao ran up to Ricky and dived on him, making the chair fall backwards with Ricky on it.

"...Uhh... Yoh...?" asked Choco, poking the sleeping Asakura.

Hao popped his head up and looked at Yoh and smiled. "He's catching up on his beauty sleep."

"Beauty sleep? For that he'd have to sleep for like a month!" said Lee, and started laughing.

"He must be real tired..." said Choco.

"He is."

"Ha, what were you two doing all night!" he laughed.

"Well Yoh was moaning most of the time."

Yoh suddenly shot up, "Hao!"

"What?"

"...What were you moaning about?"

"Probably Hao." said Ren.

Yoh stiffened, "Huh?"

"He's such an annoying asshole... oh hi Hao."

Hao glared at the Tao, then sighed.

"I'm sorry," he apologized, and walked over to the Tao, holding out his hand.

Ren glared at his hand; then shook it, only for Hao to clamp his other hand over Ren's and press hard. Ren pulled his hand away and looked at the back. There, in ink, was the words 'Tit-head of a Tao'.

"You bastard!" he yelled, and was about to go for the twin when a pair of arms locked around his body and pulled him close to theirs.

Ren felt himself blush slightly; it didn't take a genius to know who was embracing him. It was the way that Horokeu was holding him that made him bubble up inside, just being so close to him made him want to feel that way forever, but to Ren, forever was to short.

He sighed sadly as Horo released him.

"Sorry about that," he said, "I-"

"No, its ok... you don't have to apologize..."

"No, I want too, I shouldn't have grabbed you like that..."

"Augh, just kiss already!" said Hao in frustration, watching the two turn different shades of red.

"Hao, fuck off." said Horo plainly.

"Dude, that was so a gay moment... its so sweet..." said Ricky, seeing the two.

"Right!" said the teacher, entering the room. Hao, Horo and Ren quickly sat back down whilst Ricky clumsily picked up his chair and sat back on it. "So far so-" The teacher paused when he saw the picture in the board. "Hmm..." he said, and stared at Ren and Horo, who both looked away.

In his seat, Hao had to cover his face for his body was shaking uncontrollably.

"Asakura Hao, do you think this is funny!"

Hao couldn't breathe, yet managed to summon a reply. "I think its fuckin hilarious!"

"Indeed." he said in a sarcastic tone.

After five minutes of sitting in silence, they were all let go.

"…We should do that again some time…" said Andy.

"Yeah." Agreed Hao and Ricky.

It was twelve o'clock at night when Ren was woken by a quiet knock at the door.

'Augh, for fuck sake, what asshole would be knocking at the door this late at night!'

Ren tried to ignore it, but the knock came even louder.

'Damn it!'

The Tao kicked the covers off and stumbled across the room to the door, opening it slightly.

"What the fuck do you want!"

"Just wondering whether you two would like to come for a midnight stroll with me and Lee."

"Thanks but piss off, I'm knackered."

"Oh yeah?" said Lee, a huge smirk on his face.

"Lee, Hao, go the fuck away and never come back."

Ren was about to close the door when Hao blocked it with his foot. He pushed on it hard to make it close, but Hao wouldn't move.

"What the hell do you want from me!"

"Just wake Horo and ask if he wants to come," he replied, "and if not, we'll go."

Ren grumbled and walked up to Horo's bed and nudged him.

"Horo, Hao and Lee won't to know if you'd go for a midnight stroll with them."

"…mmm…"

"…Horo…?" Ren shook him slightly, "Horokeu, wake up… wake up damn it!"

"…What…?"

Ren sighed, "Lee and Hao won't to know if you'll go for a walk with them."

The Ainu sat up and began to get out of bed, "Sure, give me five minutes."

As Horo walked out the door, Ren called him back in.

"What?" he asked.

Ren pushed Horo's jean pockets in. "Your pockets were inside-out."

"…Uh…huh…"

Horo quickly left, leaving the Tao with an evil smirk on his face.

The three friends walked down the corridors in pitch black nothingness.

"Fuck!" cursed Hao as he walked into something hard.

Horo and Lee laughed.

Suddenly a light ahead of them caught their attention.

"Augh bastard, it's the janitor!" whispered Lee.

"Who's there?" he asked.

"This reminds me of Harry Pot-head…" Horo sighed.

"Meow!" meowed Hao, making a rather cute cat noise.

"Baaah!" laughed Lee.

"Hey, you kids go back to your rooms!" he scolded, even though he couldn't see them as he was shinning the light in all the wrong places.

"Fuck, run!" whispered Hao, and the three ran off down the corridors.

"…Anyone know were we are…?" asked Hao after they were far from the janitor.

"…Well its kinda hard to tell since were walking in pitch black."

Hao and Horo didn't notice that Lee had stopped walking.

"Its kinda quiet isn't it…" said Horo.

"Yeah…"

"Lee… you ok? …Lee…? L-"

Horo cried as he fell down the steps of the stairs, yelling and cursing most of the way down.

"Lee, you could have warned us…"

"He could have," said a voice, "Only I wouldn't let him."

Hao knew it was Scott.

"Traitor…" he mumbled.

"Sorry." Lee apologized.

"Fuck… hey is that Scott?" asked Horo from the bottom of the stairs, who was now limping back up.

"Yeah." Replied Hao.

"Asakura," said Scott, getting Hao's attention, "I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to me in French."

Scott took one step forward to the silhouette of Hao, but stumbled over something and began the fall down the stairs.

"…Uhh…" said Hao, confused.

"Ricky slipped a note under my door saying 'The girly bastards got himself in some deep shit'." Said Yoh, appearing out of the shadows.

"…And you immediately thought of me…?"

He saw Yoh's figure nod.

"You're my brother; you mean the world to me… and that rope you gave me sure came in handy."

"Yeah, but I meant to use that for something else…"

Even though it was dark, Yoh sighed for he knew Hao was grinning.

"Hey, a little help here?" said Horo, clinging to the stair railing.

Lee walked up to Horo and helped him to lean against a drinking fountain.

"…Hey, wonder what this does…"

Lee pressed a small button and water emerged, spraying Horo's shirt.

"Dumb bastard…" he muttered.

"Ha, ha… sorry…"

"Anyway, you guys continue your walk or whatever; I'm going back to bed."

With that, they watched as Yoh disappeared.

After a few seconds of standing around, Horo sighed.

"Come on, let's go…"

All three silently agreed and walked back to their rooms, which, coincidently, were all next to each other.

"Room 9 were Horo and Ren, room 8, Hao and Yoh, and room 7, Lee and Andy."

Horo pushed the handle down to his door, yet it didn't open.

"Damn… thing…" he muttered, before rummaging through his pockets for the key. "What the fuck!" he yelled, searching his pockets more desperately.

"Having trouble Horo?" smiled Hao, but his smile faded when his door too was locked.

"Hey Lee," said Hao, "Your door open?"

"No, the bastard must have locked it, and my fuckin key is missing!"

Ren smiled, 'Your pockets are hanging out Horo.' He thought, and threw the key in the air and caught it.

"Hey… did Yoh and Andy insist on putting your pockets inside your jeans…?"

Both boys sighed, "Yes."

Horo thought for a moment about this little set-up, when an idea so brilliant, came to him. It was so brilliant it was… well, brilliant.

"Ah-ha!" he yelled, and took out a library card.

"What's so great about a library card…?" asked Hao.

"…Watch and learn…"

Hao and Lee gathered round and watched as Horo slipped the card through the door and started to jiggle it… within seconds, it snapped…

"Bastard!" he cursed, throwing the broken half on the floor.

Hao and Lee started to laugh.

"Were stuck out here, in the middle of the night, in the dark, all alone, and you two think its funny that were locked out of our own rooms!"

"Aww, scared Horo?" taunted Lee.

"No."

"Oooooh!" said Hao, pretending to be a ghost.

Lee chuckled.

"I have no problem getting in my room, all's I have to do is slip a note under the door and I'm in."

"Uhhuh." Said the two boys; unconvinced.

"I'll prove it to you."

Hao got out a bit of paper from his pocket, wrote on it, and slipped it under the door.

Hao waited a few seconds, then they heard the key quickly being turned and the door swung open.

"Night guys." Smiled Hao, and walked into his room, closing the door and locking it behind him.

Unicorn13564: Bless, wonder what Hao wrote? All will be revealed in due time…