Well, it ends up I'm forced to put up another 2…but I swear I'm not going to let her do that to me again. If you care, here's the next chapter.

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Chapter 5: Stories of the Past

"Don't worry," Jun laughed after seeing Horohoro's expression. "Ren has plenty of money! In fact, he has more than any other Tao besides En. In American dollars he must have somewhere around $100,000,000."

"That Much!" everyone yelled in shock.

"Sister, you said you wouldn't tell," Ren whispered angrily.

"Woops."

"So, that whole prostitute mumbo jumbo was a joke?" Horohoro yelled at Ren.

"Well, I might have left out a few details," Ren said avoiding eye contact. "Don't worry, like I said, I'll pay"

"Wow, Ren, that's more money than we all could ever make or get…" Lyserg said with a shocked expression.

"And they say doctors make a lot of money," Faust laughed. "But I don't get it Ren, why didn't you want anyone to know how much money you had?"

"Well, I always wondered if a girl said she loved me, would it be because of my power and money or because she truly did love me," Ren replied.

"Wow, that's deep, Ren." Yoh said.

"But look at where he ended up," Hao snickered with a hand covering his mouth. "Hey, Ren! What was with all that 'she' stuff, huh?"

"Well," Ren replied with his eyes shut with an anger mark visible "My life had an unfortunate twist of fate and I met…THAT." He pointed to Horohoro. "I remember it like yesterday: he was talking, I insulted his intelligence, and we fought. At that moment I had no idea of what was to happen to me, we both still fought a lot afterwards, you know. But slowly and slowly the fighting was less and less…and…you all know the rest."

"Wow," started Horohoro "Ren, my story isn't as deep: We had all journeyed, looking for Dobie Village. This is after you left, Lyserg. Anyway, getting back to the story. We were all tired and we sat down to rest. Ren sat next to me on the ground. I looked his way and closed my eyes, thinking of all the things we went through. I opened my eyes and thought 'Damn, I think I like, Ren.' And that's it…heh, you know, I kept on denying it, though." Horohoro started to laugh.

Everyone thought Horohoro denying that sounded impossible.

"Ugh. I think I would have preferred it if I never heard your story," Ren said.

"Hey, what's wrong with my version of the story?"

"Never mind, anyway, back to my story, I denied it too and worried about how this was going to work, but one day I was so relived that I felt like I was flying," Ren sighed. "The reason, I'm sure you're all wondering, is because I heard Horohoro say 'I sure miss Pirika, I wonder how sis is doing. She's supposed to be more mature than me even though we're the same age, but I bet she's still crying about how I'm gone.' I was so happy! He had a sister! A sibling! Someone just like him except a girl! This was my chance to be straight again! When we all got back to Tokyo I met Pirika. I admit, she was quite attractive when I saw her, but she didn't have Horohoro's charms, so I let go of the idea and thought that it wouldn't be so bad if I was gay. Of course a minute later it hit me that Horohoro might not like me back, so when I left for China to visit for the weekend I just locked myself away in my room and cried a lot. I didn't eat or drink so I lost ten pounds. Yes, I, who am already as thin as a stick, lost ten more pounds! Of course, I'm betting all my money that Hao is thinking that I look as fat as a log compared to him, but anyway, when I got back Horohoro started pestering me a lot and hanging out with me a lot. I was annoyed, of course, but I was also having fun with him, scary. After a month of staying with them, Horohoro started to flirt by saying the worst things imaginable. I repeat, 'you look like a beautiful ice cube, your eyes are as yellow as snow when someone with a dirty boot steps on it, your hair is as dark as the dried skin of a dead seal, you have the voice of a wolf when someone steps on its tail, you look as sexy a wild polar bear.' FOR GOD'S SAKE! WHO GETS TURNED ON WITH THESE STUPID PICK UP LINES? AND WHEN HAS A POLAR BEAR EVER BEEN SEXY? He used these lines over and over until I finally shut him up by kissing him! I thought that he would gasp and leave me alone, but he started embracing me and turned that kiss into a FRENCH kiss!" Ren gasped for air after shouting for that long. "Well, now that we're clear about what happened, I'm going back to the hotel." Ren opened the door to the stairs and left.

Silence…

"Hey Ren, my story goes on too!" Horohoro went on in a voice that was loud enough for Ren to hear. "I admit, I did say those things to you, Ren. And who could forget that wonderful kiss?" Horohoro sighed. "Well, we kissed, as I said, but instead of being happy when I turned up the heat on what I thought was supposed to be a romantic moment, not a way to shut me up, Ren got surprised! Here I was, thinking it would make him happy, and he just widens his eyes…for the first 5 second, anyway, after that, it was all action, don't smirk Hao! It wasn't that type of action, yeesh. Anyway, we both left after that and pretended like it never ever happened, you know, like we fought and squabbled again. I still kept on flirting with him…when you guys weren't looking, of course. I sent him love letters everyday, and being together all the time saved me postage stamps! A lot of postage stamps! But as soon as I passed him the letters, he would just stare at it and then he would crumple it up and throw it away…But that never stopped me, never! I continued and I was rewarded one night while we were all sleeping outside. I was by the corner, far off from the rest of the group. I woke up to a sound and saw Ren there, half-naked with a blanket. I smiled and the whole night was full of passion between Ren and I…" Horohoro finished with a smile.

Everyone's jaws dropped, except for Hao who had a big grin on his face.

THUM THUMP THUMP!

Ren just came out of the stair room "We…" he gasped "…Did…not…do that! He made it up!"

A/N: The next one will be the last one. Maybe after that, I'll remove this whole story so no one will have to see it again anymore. I won't have to see it again after that too. I thought no one actually read it but I'm surprised with all the reviews that this has gotten so far. Well, I think I'll tear this whole thing down after the next one, hopefully, if Flame-chan doesn't blackmail me with all my drawings by threatening to show them to other people.