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Chapter 2: the phone and the 4-yr-old kyonshi

Long boring days turned into long boring weeks, and long boring weeks turned into long boring months without so much as a letter or phone call from Pilika or Horo. 2 months after they left, everyone (except Horo and Pilika of course) sat at the table minding their own business. Yoh was fanning Anna, Faust had his hand beneath the table doing god knows what to Eliza, Lyserg was running in circles around the table being chased by Ryu, Manta was doing something on his laptop, the spirits were doing…spirit things, and Ren… Ren was drinking milk counting to 33, 33 times because he was so bored he felt he would explode. Who knew Horo was so…well interesting.

After Ren had counted to 1089, he slammed his head on the table, and at that precise moment the phone rang. Unexpectedly Ren was the first to get up and answer it. It wasn't Horo but rather it was Pilika and she seemed pretty worried. Ren put it on speaker.

Ren: Mochi Mochi

Pilika: Hello? Ren? Can you put it on speakerphone? I need to talk to everyone!

Yoh: hey Pilika! What's up?

Pilika: Oh guys we need you! Horo is so depressed! He's taking a shower right now. He didn't want me to call but I'm so worried please can one of you come down here and talk him into going back? We can't do much more but he doesn't want to leave. The X-laws are pretty sure that Hao did this but…I'm not so sure I mean didn't you defeat him Yoh?

Yoh: um…yeah but I didn't really kill him…

Yoh trailed off and Ren thought he saw him blush…ever so slightly. He shrugged off as a trick of the light

Pilika: He's still alive! So it really COULD be him!

Yoh: uh…umm it's POSSIBLE I guess…but I really don't th-I mean it doesn't seem like something he would do

Anna: and what makes you so sure Yoh? You didn't know him that well! Or is it just a twin thing!

Yoh: …can I opt not to answer that?

Pilika: I'M STILL HERE YOU KNOW!

Anna: Oh sorry. We'll continue this talk later Yoh

Pilika: Anyway I was wondering if Ren could come.

Ren: why ME!

Pilika: no reason! Goodbye guys –le click-

Yoh took this opportunity to run for it. He ran even while Anna was calling him and threatening him with training. He ran out the door across the street and then up a tree. Anna quickly summoned her cousins spirit Chuck the beaver (Don't ask, inside joke) who chewed down the tree, but Yoh was nowhere to be seen.

Meanwhile----

HORO! Ren called! He said he really misses you so I invited him over, pilika said, lying through her teeth, through the bathroom door.

She pressed her ear to the door to hear his reply but she heard nothing. Absolute silence. She knocked on the door. Still nothing. She became worried. She started banging on the door hoping he had just dozed off but still there was no answer. She opened the door and saw Horo lying in an empty bathtub with a small pool of blood around him. At first she thought he had tried to commit suicide but then noticed a hole where the faucet had been, just big enough for a young person to crawl through it. She screamed. When she ended her scream she heard through the tunnel "watch your back cause you're next! MWHAHAHAHAHA!" She dragged her brother to his room, first checking the room for a place for a stranger to get in and the bandaged his wounds. She hadn't the slightest idea how to tell the living from the recently dead so all she could do was pray that he was alive.

In the bathroom a kyonshi the size of a four year old climbed out of the cabinet and hid behind the dresser in Pilika's room.

Back at the inn----

Ren rubbed his eyes. He did not just see Yoh, the SHAMAN KING, run away from his own house, go up a tree and physically disappear…ok maybe he had but he still didn't think it was possible. Everyone else was in a similar state of shock, but no one but Manta knew what had really happened, and he knew that Yoh was coming back. Someone tapped Manta on the shoulder. He turned to see Tamao looking at him with worried eyes. "where din Yoh-kun go?"

"I can't tell you yet, but he's okay I promise." Relief showed in her eyes and she hugged Manta who blushed. She whispered something that sounded like I ship the glue, but he paid no attention to it, since it didn't make sense anyway. Besides his brain was to numb to respond. He always got this feeling when she hugged him and he wondered why.

"Manta wipe that goofy smile off you're face your making Tamao blush!" Manta spun around and there stood non other than Hao! He wasn't surprised though, he knew of his secret visits to the inn. Everyone else on the other hand was shocked, not for the first time that day. Ren put his hands on head and half screamed half yelled "This is to much!" Hao looked at him pointed his finger at him and said "sleep" and Ren fell to the ground. Hao looked at his pointed finger with interest. "I've always wanted to do that!" then he bowed said goodbye and disappeared.

Half an hour later Ren woke up and went to his room and started packing muttering something along the lines of 'fuck that bastard why do I have to go baby sit him!' in Chinese

Okay not as long as I hoped it would be but cliffies all around! YAY! Anyway second chapter YAY! Thank you for reviewing reviewers! More reviewers more chapters! Also please vote yes or no if you'd like to see the rating go up and a lemon or 2 added (in MUCH later chapters)

More on that later. Please ease the ever so possible writers block by suggesting scenes you'd like to see! I may or may not use your ideas but it's nice to have canned food stored for the hurricane :P that made almost zero sense but you get the idea