A/N: Haha… Iba talaga ka-summer ang kapamilya… If you guys are wondering what this means, it means "Summer together with the family never is the same!" It's my favorite TV station's ID… Anywho, Enough with my summer grumblings… Let's get on with my favorite part… the Disclaimer! Just kidding!

Disclaimer: It's the same every chapter, isn't it? And I still wish I owned Boracay…

Chapter 6: I Won't Say It

Ren and the others quickly made their way to Pirika's room and the sight they beheld sent a gasp to exit their mouths. Lun-Lun was on her knees and Pirika was clutching a dagger and brandishing it over her neck, as if to slash it open any moment.

"Nii-chan! What the hell are you doing!" Horo yelled at his sister.

Pirika uttered words in pure Chinese, a feat she couldn't normally do. Her voice was unlike her own, and her eyes had turned cold and murderous.

"She said 'You killed me and my family, now I'm going to kill this girl before you!'" Jun translated, "Somebody stop her!"

Ren lunged into Pirika without hesistation and grabbed the knife from her cold hands. Pirika gave a struggle as Yoh, Horo and Ryu joined in on keeping her at bay. Slowly, Pirika submitted to the force holding her down and her eyes went back to normal. She swooned and fell to a faint in Ren's arms.

"This is not good," Manta mumbled, "We should really do something now."

Ren carried Pirika and laid her gently on the bed. She began to stir and wake up.

"What happened?" she asked them.

"Nothing," Ren whispered softly, "Go back to sleep now, ok?"

Pirika closed her eyes again and went back to sleep. Lun-Lun approached her nervously and checked her temperature.

"The fever is still there," she said, "And it's increased."

"Lun-Lun, keep a close watch on her, understand!" Ren yelled angrily to everyone's surprise, "Another fiasco like that will not be tolerated any longer! Let us take our leave from this room, we have lots of work to do."

Everybody followed Ren out the room except Horo, who was staying with Lun-Lun to guard Pirika. All of them were clearly awestruck at Ren's behavior, even Anna and most especially Jun.

"Ryu, let's go prepare dinner, shall we?" Manta said, sensing something brewing from inside Ren that could burst any moment.

"Right behind you, little brother," Ryu slapped Manta playfully on his back, causing him to tumble on the floor.

"I'll help them!" Yoh decided to join too, but stopped when Anna gave him a disapproving look.

"I have to perform a summoning ritual tonight at exactly midnight," Anna said, "This is so that we can assure no flaws are made in the ritual and that the spirit will be able to hold it's ground on earth. And Yoh, Jun, you two are going to help me gather up Kino and Lian's stuff."

"Why's that Anna?" Jun asked.

"It'll make the bond stronger," Anna answered, "Now let's go, I want this over with so that I can go to bed."

"But what about us?" Ren asked angrily, "I'm not weak! I can help you!"

"Stay by Pirika's side," Anna told him in a hushed tone, "I can see that she needs you now."

Ren looked away from Anna, clearly out of words, for she had read him right. Anna suppressed a smile of discovery.

"We go after dinner," Anna said, "Let's go, Yoh, I'm starving."

Ren began to leave, but Jun paced a hand on her brother's shoulder.

"You're hiding something, little brother, I can see it in your eyes," Jun told him softly, in a tone she had never used before, "What are you feeling for Pirika?"

"Nothing!" Ren snapped at her as he began walking down the stairs, "I'm just worried about… about what would happen to the Taos reputation if another girl gets killed in this house."

"Ren," Jun stopped his brother from walking away again and beckoned her to sit on one of the steps, "Sit down."

"Why should I?"

"Because we've never had a talk like this all our life," Jun said matter-of-factly, "All our life we were to busy training and fighting to consider our sibling relationship. I just discovered a while ago that I didn't really know you and you are my brother, I've lived with you all my life. Ren, I want to make up for the lost time between us and bridge the gap that we have. Now sit down and tell me."

"Jun, you're going soft-" Ren began laughingly, but Jun cut him off.

"Aren't you, Ren?"

Ren finally sat down at her words.

"It's not like I chose to have this!" Ren's fingers were curling into a fist, "I'm not weak! But whenever I'm… I'm around her… I get…"

"Butterflies in your stomach? Act mushy? Sentimental? You feel really silly, but you like it? And when you're around her, the room suddenly melts and it's only the two of you around?"

"Uh…" Ren gulped, wondering if he should tell his sister the truth.

"Spit it out, Ren."

"Yes!" Ren stood up suddenly, as if he let go of a heavy burden, "I do! I do feel those things! And when I feel them, I get… I get… weak…"

"No, you don't get weak!" Jun suddenly grinned at her brother, "You're not weak! Ren… you've… you've fallen for Pirika…"

"No I'm not!" Ren countered, "Love makes people weak! And I am definitely not weak! If there's one thing that keeps people in this earth weak, it's love! If there's a prize for rotten judgment, I guess I've already won that. No girl is worth the aggravation, that's ancient history, been there done that."

"Who do you think you're kidding, Ren?" Jun shrugged her shoulders as Ren started to go back upstairs, "She's the Earth and heaven to you. Try to keep it hidden but I can see right through you. Ren, you can't conceal it, I know how you feel and who you're thinking of."

"No chance, no way," Ren kept denying as Jun stalked him, "I won't say it, no…"

"You swoon, you sigh…" Jun smiled even wider and threw her hands up in the air, "Why deny it?"

"It's too cliché!" Ren blustered out as he kept walking to his room, "I won't say I'm in love!"

"You keep on denying who you are and what you're feeling. Ren, I'm not buying, I saw you hit the ceiling! Face it like a grown-up, when are you going to confess that you've got it bad?"

"I won't say anything!"

"Give in, Ren, check the smile you're wearing!"

"This scene you're making just won't play; I'm not going to say I'm in love!"

"You're doing flips; I can read your lips!"

"Get off my case, Jun, I won't say it!" Ren opened the door and slammed it in Jun's face nastily.

"Ren," Jun slowly opened the door and found Ren lying on his bed with a pillow on his face, she sat next to him, "Don't be proud… It's ok… You're in love…"

Ren took the pillow off his face to reveal himself smiling at his sister, something Jun never saw him do before. He sat up and smiled some more.

"At least not out loud," Ren looked at his sister in a new light, "I won't say I'm in love…"

"I knew you'd come to it, Ren…" Jun also did something she never did before and hugged her little brother, "I'm so happy you've found her."

For a moment, the two emerged themselves in sibling affection, until Ren broke away.

"Ok, too much love!" Ren exclaimed and Jun smiled at him, "I still have my sanity to maintain, you know."

"Well, it's nice we had this talk," Jun said, "We'll see you at midnight, Yoh, Anna and I will be going to the old Ainu village to try and sneak in inside Kino's shrine- thingy- and get a bit of his stuff."

They both made their way out and Ren made his way to Pirika's room again. Instead, he found Horo and Lun-Lun making out beside the door. Ren raised his eyebrow and the two noticed his presence.

"Stupid fluffy Ainu snow bunny!" Ren muttered under his breath, "And to think you're supposed to be guarding your sister."

"Hey, I was just having a bit of fun," Horo shrugged in a really silly manner that got Ren boiling with anger, "Anyway, Pirika won't mind, she still asleep."

"Huh! I'm sure you'd mind if a psychedelic ghost murders her while you get hot with your girlfriend!" Ren retorted.

"Kill-joy git," Horo mumbled.

"Fugly bastard," Ren uttered.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!"

"SHUT UP! WOULD YOU GUYS JUST SHUT UP!"

They both turned around and saw Pirika had woken up and was back to her moody, hyperactive self.

"I don't want anyone to fight for my sake," Pirika said angrily, "You guys are all so stupid! Especially you, Horo! Now, bow down and say sorry!"

"Pirika…" Ren, instead of bowing down, went to her bedside, "You're back to yourself…"

"Not really… My head still feels like it's going to burst," Pirika sighed and giggled, "I just want to shout a bit at Horo."

"Yo, Ren, Nii-chan!" Horo called out, "We've got to grab a bite-"

"Or the nearest bed," Ren muttered out of earshot.

"-guard her, Ren."

"He is such a jerk," Pirika succumbed to her pillow as soon as Horo and Lun-Lun got out of the room.

"You said it," Ren also leant on the pillow and looked at Pirika's face.

"What?" Pirika smiled at him.

"Nothing," Ren seemed a lot more confident as he spoke to Pirika now, "You just look a lot prettier than you usually are from this lighting."

"But the lighting's always like this," Pirika was turning red now, due to the fact that she never heard him talk that way before and that the fever was now creeping up on her.

Ren's heart started beating fast and the familiar jolt in his stomach came again. He held Pirika's hand and started moving his face closer to hers. Pirika moved away a bit and Ren stopped what he was doing.

"Are you going to…" Pirika gulped, "Kiss me?"

"Well," Ren guzzled, "I… I think so… Um… do you like me to go away?"

"Are you kidding!" Pirika held on to Ren's hand, "I just didn't want it now, I haven't brushed my teeth today and you'd probably find me with bad breath and-"

Ren grabbed Pirika somewhat roughly on the shoulders and brought her to his lips, not caring about words anymore. Pirika was taken aback by Ren's sudden action that her eyes grew wide, but they gently closed as they both lost themselves within each other's grasp. Pirika melted into Ren's passionate embrace, something that she yearned for him to do since the day she had fist met him.

"Wow…" Pirika broke away a half hour later with her eyes still closed, quite forgetting her raging fever, "Ren… did you just-?"

"Whoah… I just did…" Ren touched his trembling lips, "Was it bad?"

"Are you kidding me? Does it matter?" Pirika laid her head on Ren's shoulder as she slowly began falling asleep again.

"Um…Pirika…" Ren whispered, "I wanted to tell you, for so long… I… I love you…"

"Ren, I've waited for those words," Pirika smiled at him drowsily, "Can you sing for me again? Just this once, please?"

"What am I, a jukebox?" Ren started having his moody attitude again.

"Pweeeeeez?" Pirika gave her puppy-dog-eyes look.

Ren just smiled and began to sing the chorus of a song in Chinese:

What is this feeling I just can't explain?

When you're near, I'm just not the same…

I'm tryin' to hide it, so why can't I show it?

It's crazy… how could it be?

I'm falling for you…

Finally, my heart gave in…

And I'm falling in love…

I finally know how it feels…

So this is love…

Ren caressed Pirika's sleeping face, feeling the only emotion he had not learned to feel. Now, he'll say it, but not out loud…

"Wo ai ni, Pirika Usui…"

Ren slowly fell asleep himself, with the girl he loves in his arms.

Suddenly, as though he's only been sleeping a couple of minutes, Horo Horo's watch beeped on the side table, reading 12 o'clock am.

A/N: FLUFFFFFFFFFF! Full of FLUFFFFFFFFFFF! FLUFFFFFFFFFF! Even Jun is getting FLUFFFFFFFFFFFFYYY! But it makes me sneeze… Anyways, Ren's singing again… Heheh… who knows he has such a nice voice… I wonder if he really has one… If he has I'd totally have a crush on him! Just kidding! Anyway, thanks to Carlos Vinci for the snow bunny inspiration… hehehe… Anyway, let's see… Ah! My REAL favorite part: Reading and replying to your reviews! The most reviews I ever had! Warm fuzzies to all you, my loyal reviewers! Ahem…

RuiHanasawaSux- OMG! Five reviews! Warm fuzzies to you! You're Noypi, ba? Hehe… You know Japoy Lizardo, then… He's the Tae Kwon Do guy… I don't know, he just popped out of my darn brain and I don't have any name going on in my head, so I wrote it down! Lol!

FeAtHeRtOp- Glad you looooove the spaces, Baby Gee! I just hope you love the stories too! And man, I loved your new AnnaxHao fic! Although I still think AnnaxYoh is better! Warm fuzzies to you, Gee-kun!

pendulum-swing- Haha! Know what? I did consider Faust at first, but I just couldn't figure out how he's going to get to the rest house in the first place! Heheh… I'm striving to keep this story together as hard as I can… And I'm still running out of ideas! Warm fuzzies to you! Lol!

reader- You have the most unique nickname here! Do you accept warm fuzzies? Hehehe… And since you said please, here's my update!

Carlos Vinci- Lorns, mayu bal-an mo kung ano ka! Haha… Now I'm speaking in my native tongue! Here's your fluff, feast on it! And I don't have to explain the bit of ooc here, right? Admit it, all you want is lemons and lemonade! And Japoy could roll you up into a ball and dribble you around ten times before you could say "Quidditch", so, get off my case! BTW, no warm fuzzies for you, accept some cold fuzzies instead!

Draguzta- Wow… Thanks for finding it nice! Neways, welcome to my reviewers list! Lots of warm fuzzies to you!

You're probably wondering why this chappie is longer than the usual. Well, it's because I'm making up for the lost fluffiness for the last chapter and that my extra-mushy muse (hey Chonki, I finally have a muse!) Yume Ai got hold of me. That's also why I'm giving warm fuzzies to everyone! I'll be waiting for your reviews! Rock on!