S a c h i n o S h a g e k i H o s h i
Chapter Two
By Choctaw-chan
Disclaimer: Shaman King is not mine.
A/N: Yaoi; male/male romantic and sexual relationships. Don't like, don't read. Don't say I haven't warned you. (putting this up again, just to reinforce my point)
A/N: Basil will be in this. He's the guy who has the spirit with the mirror on its stomach, (I actually believe his spirit was a steel spirit) and he was killed by the X-Laws.
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SORRY FOR THE SLOW UPDATE. I HAD VACATION HOMEWORK. –Cries-
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Sitting at the kitchen table, eating his breakfast, and having a staring contest with an orange, Yoh grinned when he heard Ren chasing after HoroHoro with his Kwan Dao.
"Horokeu Usui!" An angered voice raged throughout the Onsens. "Stay out of my room!" Next came the sixteen-year-old Ainu boy rushing to get away from a certain, fuming Chinese shaman.
"Ahh, Ren! Stop, I only came in to tell you breakfast was ready!" Horo defended, quickly putting the kitchen table between the two.
Yoh turned to watch them. Lately, The causes of these brawls had become more personal.
Horo would actually go into Ren's room and wake the Chinese boy. Ren however, hadn't really insulted Horo with anything more personal than the usual putdowns. The way Horo dared to sit on top of Ren's stomach until he woke up, only lead Yoh to believe there was something going on. Ren was denying it when asked, only continuing to every morning: wake up, grab his Kwan Dao, and chase Horo around, swinging his weapon randomly at the bluenette.
"You were this close to my face, this close!" Ren pinched his thumb and index fingers together, trying to emphasize his point.
Horo only snorted, looking away almost guiltily.
"Hah!" Ren exclaimed, turning to leave.
Yoh held a laugh back, when the Ainu latched around Ren's waist, preventing the other from leaving. "Horo-Horo, detach yourself at once!"
Horo-Horo shook his head, his grip tightening for no reason, burying his head in Ren's lower back.
THWACK!
The bluenette landed on his butt on the kitchen floor, as an even more pissed off Ren, left the room. Yoh snickered slightly at the sudden, and unexpected display of affection, that earned Horo a knock on the head.
Horo pouted. He really liked Ren, but… he wasn't sure how Ren would react to the news, and he'd possibly have to tell his parents about it, but they probably wouldn't take it so well, either. If anyone out of the three people, Ren would understand the situation more, and not his parents.
So, the Ainu stayed in denial. He'd been told before, that being in denial wasn't a good thing, but he didn't want to lose the Chinese shaman as a friend.
Horo stood, and headed outside. He'd put off the issue until later, when he could actually conjure up the courage to confess to Ren, about how he felt.
Yoh sighed. It had been a couple days since Hao had come, and asked forgiveness. He'd also promised to come back and visit. Frowning, Yoh cupped his cheek with his hand.
Maybe Hao wouldn't come because everyone else was here. Maybe he thought they hated him. Yoh shrugged to himself.
"Asakura Yoh!" A certain Itako's voice echoed in his ears. He jumped off his chair, standing at perfect attention like a soldier. The blond girl only rolled her eyes at that.
"Time for your forty-mile jog." She told him. "And no slacking off!"
She hustled him outside. "Also, don't come back until you find this piece of rice!"
Yoh groaned at this task. His father had made him and his friends complete the same task before, during the Shaman Tournament, to ready him for his fight with Hao.
Anna handed the grain of rice to one of her Shikigami and it disappeared with it. She repeated herself. "Don't come back without it."
"Aye Aye, capie-tan." Yoh saluted and jogged off.
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Yoh looked around. He was about ten miles from the onsens, so he had decided to look around for the rice. Anna wouldn't have hidden it closer to the onsens, and that was a safe bet.
"Rice grain, where are you?" Yoh called.
"Idiot."
Yoh turned around. He saw a boy around his age, with shoulder length black hair and green eyes standing there. He'd seen the boy before, but he couldn't recall where…
"Well Asakura Yoh, you're still doing those pitiful tasks your fiancée plans, hmm?"
Yoh wanted to ask who the boy was, but he felt a random, slight anger, for the boy sounded… "Quit talking like Onii-chan." He said firmly. Where did that come from…? Yoh's eyes widened slightly.
"Well at least you figured out who I work for. Just try and decipher my name this time." The boy held a smug look on his face.
Yoh remembered. The boy's name was Basil, but since one of Hao's comrades was near by, then he must be too, and that all he cared about. "Where's Onii-chan?" He asked.
"Why is Hao-sama the only thing you care about right now?" Basil grumbled. "Didn't you come to find this, anyway?" Basil held up a grain of rice.
Yoh's eyes lit. "Thanks for finding-"
Basil crushed it between his them and index finger. "Ah, sorry." A smirk spread across his face. Yoh sent him a glare. He didn't like Basil at all.
"At least take me to your camp, or wherever you are staying…" Yoh asked.
"I guess it couldn't do much harm." Basil thought out loud. Yoh's face lit up a bit. "Come on." Basil started to walk off. Yoh hurriedly followed behind.
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"Ren, I'm sorry!" Horo called for the Chinese shaman. He was feeling extremely lonely and he regretted that he had hugged Ren like that. The bluenette looked around. No Ren…
"Where are you…?" Horo whispered to himself.
Ren was sitting in a tree, staring towards the yard. "Bason, I don't get it…"
"He loves you." The warlord said quickly.
"I know that!" Ren growled. He crossed his arms over his chest, angrily. "You're not helping."
Bason floated around the tree in circles. He didn't want to leave his master's side, but he was so bored.
"I don't understand how he could love me after all the torture I put him through." Ren finished his earlier statement.
"Well, I do."
Ren twitched, looking down from the tree. There stood the Ainu of the moment. The Chinese boy lept from the tree, heading off.
"Stop running away from me." Horo's tone was serious. He caught onto Ren's wrist.
Ren turned to face Horo. "Let me go, Ainu-baka!"
"I won't." Horo insisted for the boy with the tongari to stay put.
"I need to say this again." Horo said, looking into Ren's eyes, he saw the boy falter a little. "Aishiteru."
Horo planted a light kiss on Ren's lips. The said boy, leaned slightly into the kiss, but he quickly caught himself, and moved away. Horo looked hurt.
His mind was screaming for him to say what he'd always said in a situation like this. A Tao was never taught to love. It never came out.
"I love you too."
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A white wolf growled.
Chocolate eyes met with amber ones.
Yoh's eyes widened, his mouth opened a little. "I won't hurt you, and you won't hurt me, ne?" He said quietly to the wolf.
Basil had left him a while ago, to wander off on his own. The wolf didn't relax. Yoh had a feeling he was close to Hao's camp, but he wasn't sure.
He edged around, trying slowly to walk past the angry canine. He didn't want to upset him more.
"Shh, I'm not going to hurt you…"
Without thinking, he started to run. The wolf chased after him.
With a 'thud', Yoh was forced to the ground, a wrinkled, white muzzle in his face, growling lowly, teeth shinning.
The wolf opened it's mouth wider, bringing its face closer to Yoh's.
"Cha-Ookami, leave my brother alone!"
The wolf looked up, pausing. Yoh rolled over as best he could. The younger shaman stared up at his brother. "You're upside down, Onii-chan."
Hao raised a delicate eyebrow. "I'm not, you are."
Yoh pushed the wolf off of him and stood up. That earned him a growl.
"Kipcha, quit it!" Hao ordered. The wolf shut up.
Yoh looked from his brother to the wolf, and back again. "Why was he chasing and trying to kill me?"
"You were entering our camp. Kipcha was only being protective." Hao gave a light laugh. "Kipcha's a girl, anyway."
Kipcha raised her head proudly.
Yoh only had a faint blush creep over his cheeks slightly. "Gomen, Ookami-san." He muttered.
"Well, why are you here, Yoh?" Hao asked curiously.
"Huh?" Yoh blinked. "I just felt like visiting."
Hao gave a slight, barely noticable nod. "I'm sorry. I haven't come to visit you like I said I would…"
Yoh blinked.
"I've been..." Hao sighed. "Busy, I suppose."
"It's alright. I just wanted to know that you were okay." Yoh gave a grin. He had a feeling something was wrong though, but he brushed that feeling aside upon seeing his brother give him a grin.
"Oh yeah," Yoh exclaimed, causing Hao to look puzzled. "Do you have a grain of rice?"
"…That's an odd question, Otouto." Hao commented. "Why?"
"Anna's gonna kill me if I don't come back with the grain of rice that she had her shikigami throw into the middle of nowhere which are really your shikigami and told me I couldn't come back until I found it and then Basil crushed it and now I need a new one!" Yoh finished, breathing hard.
Hao merely blinked. "Pausing every once in a while, might help you not be so out of breath, Otouto." Hao said, amused.
"You're not helping me, Hao!" Yoh pouted.
"Sorry, but I don't have rice at camp."
Yoh began to run around. "WHAT AM I GOING TO DOOOOO!"
"We can go buy some, however." Hao said.
Yoh stopped running, and grinned. "Of course we can!" He grabbed Hao's arm and marched off, dragging his brother with him. "Let's go!"
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"He's been gone for way to long." Anna said, waiting for Amidamaru and Manta to listen. However, neither were listening.
"Yoh-dono seemed slightly depressed since a couple days ago." The samurai spirit commented.
"Do you think something happened?" Manta asked.
"I do. I just don't know what."
Anna eavesdropped a bit before wanting to know what was going on. "Go make dinner Manta, I need to talk to Amidamaru."
Manta nodded, leaving to the kitchen, to help Ryu cook.
"What were you saying before, Amidamaru?" Anna asked.
"Well, Manta-kun and I were conversing, and we both thought Yoh-dono seemed a bit…distracted."
"I've noticed too, but he's always distracted." Anna uttered.
Amidamaru shrugged. "He seemed more worried about something, rather than distracted, actually."
"I see." Anna nodded. "At least it a change from the random mood swings and depression moments, that had been happening after the end of the Shaman Tournament…"
The spirit nodded. "It appears so."
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"Do you really mean that Ren?" Horo asked. The common saying: A Tao was never taught to love, played through his head.
The Chinese boy nodded, almost timidly. He didn't want to be hurt again, like he had been in the past. That's why he pushed Horo away.
Horo searched the other boy's eyes for the truth, which they held, but they also held a splinter of fear and hurt. And hope, as well. "What's wrong, Ren?"
Ren looked down slightly. "Nothing. Don't worry about it." Starting to leave Horo's loose embrace, he turned.
Arm's wrapped around his waist, restraining him from going any further, however. "Of course I'm going to worry, Ren."
Ren didn't turn around to face the Ainu however. "I-I'm sorry, but…"
"Ren, what are you afraid of?" Horo asked quietly.
Saffron eyes widened slightly. "I'm afraid of nothing."
"Please tell me the truth."
"I'm…" Ren paused. "It's nothing."
"You're afraid of being hurt, aren't you?"
Though the Chinese boy didn't say it, exactly, his eyes betrayed it.
"I'll never hurt you. I'll never try to. I promise you that."
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Well, there's the second chapter that took so long to update. Hope you enjoyed. Read and Review. : )
Cha-Ookami- "Cha" is an affectionate nickname Hao calls the wolf. "Ookami" means "wolf" in Japanese. (Hao also calls her, "Cha-chan".)
