Unicorn13564: …Ok, because you all keep goin 'Anna, wtf! How can that be Anna?' and haven't noticed something yet, I decided to update again coz your all goin fuckin crazy! XP Lol.

Chapter 5: Target Locked

Ren sat up quickly, his eyes wide and his breathing uneasy. As he slipped back into reality, he became aware of the voices around him.

"Anna stop!"

"Don't worry Yoh; you'll get these back right after you've finished moving the rest of my furniture."

"No! Please Anna! I need my headphones! I'll never survive!"

Ren turned to see Anna clutching Yoh's headphones, and Yoh down on his knees, begging to have them back, whilst Manta was stood there awkwardly, watching all the drama between Yoh and his headphones.

Anger began to rise up inside the Tao as he continued to watch. He could have heard the name of Horo's tormenter, could have found out who was torturing him so; but no… Yoh had to yell out Anna's name so that it subconsciously appeared in his dream.

"You dolts!" he yelled, getting to his feet and clutching his hands into tight fists. "I could have put an end to everything! I could have found out Horo's tormentor!"

Everyone was surprised at Ren's sudden outburst, but was even more surprised at what he said.

"…What…?" asked Manta dimly.

The Chinese shaman glared at Manta, "Nothi-"

Ren stumbled back slightly as Anna's left hand collided with his cheek.

"What the fuck!" he yelled, instinctively putting a hand on his throbbing cheek. He looked at Anna, a dark glow reflecting off her body, and a look on her face that could only make Ren mutter one sentence. "…Holy fuck, I'm gonna die…"

"HOW DARE YOU RAISE YOUR VOICE AT ME!"

Ren back away, ready to make a break for it.

"NO ONE EVER RAISES THEIR VOICE AT ME!"

"I-I-I" he stuttered.

"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! DON'T YOU DARE COME BACK UNTIL I SEND YOH TO COME GET YOU!"

Ren legged it; running for his dear life, for standing up to Anna would mean the end of his very existence.

A certain shaman wondered down the streets once more, thinking of were Horo could possibly be. Thinking of everything, yet coming up with nothing, and with the nightmare haunting him… it was very hard for one to focus on what was ahead of them.

Ren's mind began to falter as he thought about the gruesome images that formed in his mind of Horo's body being found in a ditch somewhere.

He was lost so deep in his thoughts that he didn't realize he had wondered out into a main road, and he didn't realize the car that was coming right at him.

Ren snapped out of his thoughts, just as the car collided with his body.

A woman screamed as she saw the young teens' body fly through the air, and skid a few feet.

"Call an ambulance!" she shrieked, "Somebody call an ambulance!"

The nurses and doctors pushed a young boy on a trolley through double-doors.

"Ok, we've got a young teenager with no identification on him. Unconscious when we arrived at the scene but we managed to wake him, he has a broken rib, badly bruised arm and a gash across his abdomen."

"Quickly, he needs to be taken to theatre immediately!"

'W-What's going on…?'

Ren was confused. He could feel great amounts of pain all over his body, and people were muttering something about him going to theatre. He felt something prick him, and a nurse rub his arm.

"It's going to be ok." She said, her voice sounding distant. "Were just going to put you to sleep for a while. Don't worry, everything will be fine."

A doctor was stunned when Ren, given his physical condition, was able to reach up and clutch the nurses' uniform. "…Horo…" he choked, beginning to feel the drug kick in, "…You must… find… Horo…"

The nurse was slightly confused as to who 'Horo' was, and watched as the hand released her clothing, and went limp.

The Ainu sat there, his wrists cut and sore from him pulling on the chains, and his back sliced in places were the whip had struck him.

He looked up as the figure entered the icy dungeon, walking down the steps and looking down at his prisoner.

"I have some news for you Usui."

Horo looked up, wondering what this information could be. He felt a stab of fear as he saw a smirk spread across his face.

"It's about Ren…" he waited for Horo's response, but got none so continued. "The idiot was probably out looking for you, and ended up getting hit by a car. He's in a hospital, his injuries severe."

Horo sat there, looking up at his capture, searching for any signs of him joking, of it all being his way of torturing him, but when he finally realized that it was true, he refused to accept it.

"N-No… you're wrong… YOU'RE WRONG!" Horo yelled, and clutched onto his trousers. "IT'S A LIE!"

"No." he replied calmly, and shook him off. "You know it isn't."

"I-Is he alright? Is Ren alive? Is he going to be ok! Tell me!"

"…No… he is alive… but he's not going to be ok. I can guarantee you that."

"What? No, leave Ren alone! Don't touch him! Don't you fuckin touch him!" the young Ainu spat, looking up at him with our hatred in his eyes.

"Yes, like I'm really going to do as you say."

"Why are you doing this? I thought Ren was your friend, I thought we all were!"

"Friends? Were not friends! I'd rather die then be friends with that ungrateful, arrogant little weasel!"

"He's not ungrateful!"

"Oh but he is! He doesn't appreciate every moment and every second he gets to spend with a certain shaman! He doesn't care about him! Doesn't comfort him when he's down! He gets to spend all the time in the world with him, yet chooses not too! Instead he chooses to ignore him, pretend he doesn't exist! He's so ungrateful because he doesn't see what he has!"

"Which is what exactly?"

"You!"

With that, he left.

Horo let his tears stain the stone floor as he cried, then started to pound the floor with his fists. "BASTARD! FUCKIN BASTARD! …Bastard…" He fell silent for a second; then began to talk quietly to himself. "Ren… I know you can hear me… I know you can hear what I'm saying in the back of your mind, listen to it because someone very dangerous is coming to hurt you, someone who was once a friend but is now an enemy. Please, don't trust him, don't believe a word he says… find me Ren, come and find me. Your Tao Ren… you can do anything…"

Unicorn13564: What the hell is wrong with you people! Did it not occur to you that it said 'he' about the figure? And if it said 'he' then how can it be Anna! Man, are you guys observant. -.- (laughs hysterically) XP lol.