Disclaimer: I don't own Pirika (teary-eyed) Hao (sobbing) and even Ren (cries) I don't even own the anime (wails louder!) however (smiles evilly) I do own the plot (laughs hysterically.)

Sorry for the typo errors… I'm so sorry.

Now…

Hao's the father?

Fact or fiction…

Let's see…

Chapter 3

The next day Ren and Pirika were awfully quiet waiting for the right time to call a meeting inside the onsen. They wanted to tell everyone what they had discussed last night… but they seem to can not find the right timing for it.

"Ren…" Pirika whispered tapping Ren's feet with her feet.

"What?" Ren hissed since they're just sitting next to each other.

Pirika gestured her eyes towards Anna, probably saying that they should start to say it now.

Ren answered her with feet with his right foot.

"You say it." He hissed.

Pirika pouted.

Anna suddenly stopped eating putting her bowl down and then closing her eyes.

"If you two have something to say, say it now before I lose my temper."

Everybody eating on the table suddenly stopped and looked at Anna…

"What is it Anna?" Yoh asked as soon as he swallowed what he was eating.

"I believe Ren and Pirika have something to say. Hm?" Anna's cold gaze suddenly went to Ren.

"What is it Ren?" Horohoro asked sitting at the other side of Pirika.

"Nothing…" Ren answered blushing and averting his gaze from everyone's eyes.

Pirika instantly stepped on his foot, making Ren shout a bit.

"What's the problem Ren?" Yoh asked.

"Coward." Pirika whispered.

"I'm not a coward… okay!" Ren snapped finally facing every one of them, "I need to tell you something. But I'll say it after we eat."

"Then let us eat in peace… is that so hard to do?" Anna said coldly.

Everybody then continued to eat while still being anxious to find out what Ren will say. They can't really object… Anna said eat then they eat.

Finally after all have eaten then settled in one of the biggest room in the onsen, which was near the porch. Ren prepared himself for what he was about to say.

But since Ren was shockingly shy Pirika finally decided to stand up in front of all of them…

"What do you want to say Pirika?" Horohoro asked.

Pirika then inhaled and exhaled sharply calming herself.

"Well last night while I was walking…"

"What you're walking in the middle of the night! Don't you know that in you're condition you should take lots of rest." A familiar voice suddenly interrupted from the door.

It was not a voice from anyone in the room. It must be a newcomer, a very familiar guest who suddenly decided to drop by.

Everyone looked at it and saw Yoh's look-alike leaning on the door, crossing his arms and smiling nonchalantly at them.

"Hao… don't you know were in the middle of a meeting! And you're disturbing!" Anna scolded.

"Oh… how rude?" Hao pouted as he stepped in.

"I heard Pirika's pregnant. Is that true?" Hao asked as he scanned Pirika from head to toe.

"Y-Yes… how did you know?" Pirika asked being threatened by the way Hao looked at her.

"So this is the result of what I did… I swore I used a condom that night…but well I shouldn't think otherwise since I know very well that the Asakura seed is very powerful. Am I right Yoh?" he said maliciously as Yoh looks at Anna fearfully and Anna just glared at him frightening the younger Asakura.

"So it was you!" Pirika shouted.

Horohoro suddenly stood up. It was getting colder once more.

"And I thought my search would take forever. I never knew the suspect would come and give himself to us… now YOU'LL PAY!" Horohoro shouted but before he could charge a shadow suddenly passed by him and attacked Hao.

Horohoro didn't even make a move.

Hao instantly saw this and dodge it making him stop for a while letting everyone see who the attacker was…

"Ren!" Pirika shouted seeing the Chinese Shaman attacking the onmyouji with his kwan dao.

"Heh? Looky here I smell a jealous Tao." Hao teased as Ren kept on attacking him. When his kwan dao suddenly got stuck on the floor Horohoro took his turn to charge Hao with his oversouled snowboard.

"And I sniff a flaming brother." Hao continued to tease as everyone watch their fight.

"Yoh… could you tell your pet monkeys to not destroy our house completely." Anna ordered to his poor fiancé.

"But Anna…" Yoh could only mutter.

The fight then went on and finally the two cornered Hao.

"Let me do the honors Horohoro. I've been waiting for this day to come." Ren said.

"Why? I'm her brother. I should do this." Horohoro insisted.

"But I can handle him even more than you could." Ren said.

With that Pirika finally snapped. She ran in between Hao and the two as if she was protecting Hao from them.

"What are you doing Pirika?" Horohoro asked, confused.

"Get out of the way so we could kill him already." Ren shouted.

"You want to kill a poor Shaman without a power spirit? Don't you have any dignity anymore?" Pirika shouted.

Hao just looked at them with not so much as a smile on his face.

"Why are you protecting him?" Ren muttered angrily gripping his kwan dao tighter.

"Hao will never be a poor Shaman even if he doesn't have any power spirit." Horohoro said, "so stand out of the way Pirika!" he ordered.

"But Oniichan… Ren… do you want my child to grow up without knowing his real father? A bastard? Can you bear the thought of killing my son's father? Please let Hao live, not for him, not for me but for my baby… please." Pirika begged.

"So you're really going to accept a jerk like him?" Ren asked, obviously annoyed.

"Yes…even what he did was against my will. It is already done." Pirika said bowing down a bit and clenching her fist.

Ren finally let his guard down and started to walk back in the middle of the room there he sat quietly…

Horohoro though was still standing there. He won't give up that easily.

"But are you sure he is the one?" Horohoro asked still not taking Kororo off his snowboard.

Pirika then turned to Hao.

Hao just smiled.

"He'll have to prove that to me." Pirika said, she then grabbed Hao's hand and pulled him to the other room. Horohoro was quick to follow.

"Don't follow us oniichan!" Pirika shouted.

"She's right this is between me and Piri." Hao agreed.

Pirika then shut the door closing the only entrance and the way out of the room.

Hao now has Pirika to himself.

That fact made Ren almost burn in fury.

"I wonder what they are talking right now." Horohoro asked.

Everyone just sat there and wait. They can't do anything anyway since Pirika said to not follow them.

"Do you think Hao could do such a thing?" Yoh suddenly asked.

"Are you crazy? You know what your brother is like! He's capable of doing anything if he just sets his mind into doing that and if no one goes in his way!" Ren shouted, making Yoh sweatdropped a bit.

"Okay…okay…" Yoh just said. There was no point arguing.

n.n

Meanwhile inside the room Hao and Pirika were sitting facing each other. Pirika was nervous. Even though Hao was already powerless he was still intimidating.

"Start talking Hao. Prove to me that you did this." Pirika said pointing at him.

Hao then smiled.

"Well it started like this… I was walking one rainy day…

Hao's story…

It was a rainy day and Hao was walking around with only an umbrella on his head and his mantle barely wet.

"I wonder where I could stay for the night." He supposed as he continued to walk.

Then from nowhere he suddenly felt someone pulling his mantle. When he turned to it he saw a small creature holding a leaf.

"Look like's Horohoro power spirit. What do you want little one?" Hao said as he bent down and talked to it.

After it made some noises Hao understood at once.

"So Pirika Usui resides in these parts… perfect timing because I need a place to stay for the night." He said as he smiles at the creature.

The small spirit led Hao to a field of coltsfoot where a small house was seen in the middle of the field.

But instead of going to the house the spirit pulled him to the field. There he saw Horohoro's sister lying on the ground, unconscious and soaked in the rain.

The koropokurus were all worried looking at Pirika.

Hao then bent down and picked Pirika up, carrying her cautiously.

From the story of the koropokurus, Hao learned that Pirika went out of her house because one of them got lost and she looked for it.

"Why didn't she bring an umbrella?" he asked.

The creature made sounds (translation: It wasn't raining when she started looking), Hao then understood.

Hao then laid Pirika on her bed, but the koropokurus said that she needed to change her clothes. She was soaking wet and it would not be good for her to leave her with these clothes on.

Though he didn't want to do it, he was left with no other choice.

He then undressed the girl and dressed her in robes. Pirika was unconscious all throughout the process.

Pirika had a fever that night. Once more Hao was left with no choice. He took care of the Usui that night as well.

When it was getting darker Pirika's fever started to go down.

Hao was sleeping soundly sitting on a chair while his head rest on the bed.

Pirika then started to mutter something in her sleep causing Hao to wake up.

She was shivering and muttering… "It's cold, it's cold."

With that Hao thought that maybe what she really needs is heat. He placed several blankets on her but it didn't work.

So at the end Hao slept beside Pirika whole night… giving her the warmth she needs

End of story

Pirika listened carefully to every detail…

She did remember that event…

That's the time her brother went away and went to Izumo to court Tamao… one of the koropokurus went missing and so she went looking for it until it eventually rained.

After that everything went black…

She also remembered something that night…

She was feeling not well, that's the fever, but when she tried to open her eyes she saw someone's head lying on the bed and sleeping… she didn't recognized it at first but there's something in her that tells her he was very familiar.

She also recalled that night when she was extremely cold…

Then a voice whispered in her head…

"Don't worry I'll not hurt you." And it sounded like Hao's voice.

"Oh no! It did happen!" Pirika shouted.

"See. I told you." Hao said, smiling at her.

Pirika can't believe it but still in the end it came perfectly clear.

Because of too much thinking, she didn't even realize that Hao went behind her. His arms were wrapped around her neck. Delicately he started to kiss her hair.

Pirika suddenly snapped and pulled away.

"Stop that! Not because I let you the first time means you can do it again."

"So I did convince you." Hao said.

Pirika looked down and nod a bit as Hao still went to her and embrace her.

"Don't worry Pirika. I'll take care of you." Hao said as he combs the strands of her hair with his fingers. Running through them and delighting him.

Pirika just let him this time, seeing that there's no use to fight… it's obvious that Hao has won.

xxxxx

Little did they know Ren, Horohoro and Chocolove (The Ren team?) with Yoh and Ryu were listening outside the door… hearing everything that happened inside.

Ren suddenly stood up, and walked away supposedly going to his room… but there was something up with him… as if something is just waiting to explode inside of him.

Horohoro on the other hand was shocked and a bit guilty for leaving Pirika all alone… slowly those emotions build up inside of him until he just fainted.

What's going to happen now? What will Pirika do? Is Hao the real father of Pirika's baby? I wonder if Pirika is going to have a girl or a boy.

I hope you like chapter and please review…

Thank you!