You'll Choke On Those Words
Dengon Mitsukai
Horokeu x Ren : Ren gets unbearably drunk at a party hosted by a school-friend and did something he desperately needs to remember – but can't. Will Ren be able to pick up the pieces and figure out his relationship with Horo?
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Disclaimer: Although I love the series Shaman King, I don't own it (Kuso!).
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Prologue: Nothing Feels Good Being Under The Gun
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The next day at school was the most awkward day Tao Ren had ever experienced. It was one of those gorgeous days, where the outside picnic grounds are open to eat at during your lunch period, and the smell of the finally-blossomed sakura flowers wafted into every crevice of the school so that you couldn't help but get a little excited that Spring was finally there. One of those days where you wear brighter colors, if it were not for the disgusting school uniforms they were forced to wear. A day for making plans and relaxing with your friends after school. A day made specifically for fun, and how dare someone not take advantage of such a day.
However, Ren felt like an outsider. An outcast. Like he was on the outer edges of the world's biggest inside joke, and the worst part was that the joke was about him. Like he had missed some excellent happening and now he was being punished for it by being the target of said happening. Somehow, it felt like everyone was… was laughing at him. He stared around darkly, thinking to himself, How DARE these insolent creatures laugh at him, Tao Ren. Did they realize who he was? Who his father was? The kind of power he possessed?
Ren walked into homeroom, and the giggles roared. What, were they morons? Did they honestly think he didn't understand that they were laughing at him, not with him? Did they truly think he didn't realize the situation he had thrown himself into? If only, if only he had not gone to that party! If only he could even remember what had happened!
Tamao, who was a friend of a friend to make a long story short, had held a spring party on Saturday. Ren, having nothing else to do but sit in his room and go online, agreed to go with Usui Horokeu and his sister Pirika. Now he wished he hadn't. The party turned out to be a major bust, so Ren fixated himself on drinking any kind of alcohol that approached him: beer, wine coolers, vodka, gin, anything and everything. However, he hadn't maintained any level of control (which normally Ren would have done) … and some things happened.
And that was that. Things happened. Which was very, very, bad. How could he allow himself to consume so much alcohol that he couldn't even remember what had happened? What things? What had he done to make himself such… such a leper, such an outcast? It had been bad, he realized soon after his hangover, and it would probably scar his high school experience. But he had never thought, even dreamed it would be as bad as it was. No-one spoke to him. No-one looked at him. It was like he was some sort of freak, someone to be hated, but for a reason.
A reason Ren was dying to figure out.
Horokeu had even stopped talking to him, which was crazy because they were best friends and had been since Ren could remember. Horokeu was the only person he could trust, the only person that, until this "incident", would stick by his side through thick and thin. And even his sister, Pirika, had developed into a good friend of his. Hell, even Ren's more distant friends, Yoh and Manta and Anna … even they wouldn't look him in the eyes.
Well, that was somewhat untrue. Horokeu looked him in the eyes – and immediately looked away, as if he wanted to say something but didn't have the nerve. And Pirika shot him a death look once when she caught him staring at Horo… Anna and Manta, however, had stayed away. And as for Yoh, he was on vacation in Izumo, taking care of his sickly grandfather. Ren supposed he would have to have Yoh on his side to figure this whole mess out.
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Ren grabbed his phone and dialed Yoh's home number. There was a moment of rings, and then, "Hello?" It was Yoh's slightly disinterested, slightly bored, slightly excited tone.
"Goddamn, Yoh, I need you." Ren explained his situation to Yoh.
Yoh took a moment to think, before he answered, "Damn, Ren, out of all the stupid things you've done… this takes the cake. So no-one's talking to you? Jeez. Must have been pretty stupid. But I'll see what I can do, what I can find out… you know… before they've all made up their minds to hate you."
Ren sighed. "I wish I knew what I've done…"
Yoh sighed with him. "Don't worry, it can't be that bad."
However, Ren thought, What would he know? He's not in the same trouble I am. My father always used to say, Hold your head up boy! It can't be that bad! … Well… this time… I think it really is that bad.
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