SaturnMax: Hiya all. I have finally decided to give Shaman King its own ficcy.
Ren: About time.
SM: Did I just use the Japanese version of your name?
Ren: Yes I believe you did.
SM: Damn. Alright I'll use the non-dubbed names. Even though I haven't got the slightest clue about that series, damn English and having it cut. Okay, it's Yoh/Ren, Horo/Ren. I don't want to say anything at the end of the chapter so I'm saying now, please Read and Review, I don't even care if there Flames.
At Yoh's house.
I have to tell him how I feel. Yoh thought to himself. He had been meaning to tell Ren for a while, only a couple of years. Ren, of course was oblivious to the way Yoh felt towards him.
Yoh walked the halls of his house nervously he had told himself for the pass few days that he would tell the Chinese shaman everything. Yoh was so in a daze that he didn't notice when he walked into Horohoro.
Horohoro also seemed to not be paying attention to where he was going. "Hey, Yoh." Horo said softly. "What are you doing up so early?"
Yoh blushed slightly but covered it up with a laugh. "Just waiting for Ren to get up. I have something I want to say to him."
Horo now seemed very interested. "That's why I'm up. I have to speak with Ren as well." He stated.
Yoh nodded to himself "What do you want to say to Ren?" He asked causally.
Horo blushed. "Um . . . just something to tell him. Well more of a confession really." He muttered more to himself then to Yoh.
"What kind of a confession?"
"Why do you care so much?"
"No reason."
"What do you want to say to him?"
"Something."
"What kind of 'something'?"
"A special kind of 'something'."
Yoh and Horo glared at each other for a while. Both knowing what the other intended to say to Ren, and wanting therefore to see Ren first. At that point Ren walked down the hall. Yoh and Horo both ran to him.
"Hi!" They said in unison, which freaked Ren out a little. "Can I speak to you?" Again at the same time.
"No." Ren said simply.
"Why not?" Yoh asked carefully.
"I don't fell like talking to two imbeciles early in the morning." Ren stated uncaringly.
"I'm not an imbecile." Horo said hurt.
"Yes you are." Ren spoke back, walking away.
Both Yoh and Horo watched him go. "He has a nice butt." Horo said dreamily. Yoh hit him over the head. "Hey."
Yoh and Horo both walked into the kitchen defeated. There was no Anna to boss them about; Yoh had broken of the engagement with Anna under the pretence of loving another woman, which in all honestly wasn't that far from the truth although one would not dare call Ren a woman. Chocolove was away for the weekend at a function called "How to get funny and impress your friends by saying jokes that they will actually laugh at." Ren found it in the newspaper and signed Chocolove up at once saying "If you must tell jokes, at least try and tell decent ones." Manta was with Lyserg in England, for heaven know what reasons. And Ryu was with the Dead Enders.
The only people in the house were Horo, Yoh and Ren. And it seemed like the first two intended to tell the later their feelings for him. Yoh and Horo were exchanging death glares when yet again Ren entered. He was in his fighting trousers with no top on, he had a towel around his shoulders, his hair was wet and wasn't in its usual spike. His purple hair was long, his locks glistening in the light from the windows, shimmering even more then they would have because they were wet. In this style it made his face more angelic and his golden eyes seemed to have more character to them.
Horo and Yoh gaped at him when he entered; neither of them had seen his hair down before. They watched him walk to the fridge and get out a carton of milk. "What are you looking at?" Ren snapped at them before drinking his milk.
"Nothing!" They both answered quickly, and then glared at each other.
"Whatever." Ren finished his milk then threw the empty carton in the bin. "If you need me I'll be training outside." Ren took a hair band of his wrist and tied his hair up, not in the spike but a pony tail type thing.
After a while Yoh got up and walked outside, Horo was still in shock. Ren was doing push-ups in the garden and Yoh just watched him, halfway through a push-up Ren placed one arm behind his back and did them one handed. Finally Ren stood up and looked over at Yoh curiously. "Pass me the towel." Ren said.
Yoh looked around and Saw that the towel that was previously round Ren's neck was lying on the porch. "Here." Yoh said throwing the towel to his friend. Yoh continued watching him as he wiped the sweat away from his face and chest.
Ren glanced at Yoh watching him. "Why is it that you and the snow bunny keep looking at me oddly?" Ren asked.
Yoh stepped foreword slightly. "Ren, I have got something really important to say to you." Ren nodded and walked over to the porch and sat down. Yoh sat next to him, "I have been meaning to tell you something for the longest time." It was harder then Yoh thought it would be. Ren was just looking, his golden eyes taking in everything about Yoh. "What I mean is . . . You know you're my best friend?" Ren looked a little shocked but nodded. "And that I care deeply for my friends." Ren nodded again. "I care more for you then any of my other friends. More then I did for Anna."
Ren just looked at him. "I don't understand." Ren admitted.
Yoh looked down at the grass. "I care for you more then a friend, more then I should for my best friend." Yoh turned back to a very confused Ren. "I think, I love you Tao Ren."
Ren turned his face forward. "I have to train, Yoh." He got up and threw his towel down as he got up and started doing sit-ups at the same spot he was previously doing push-ups, ignoring Yoh completely.
Yoh watched him for awhile unsure if he had been rejected or not. Deciding to not interrupt Ren while he was training, the last person who did that ended up in ER (cough Chocolove cough) he got up and left. When he entered the main room Horo was there. "What did you say to him?" He asked softly.
"I told him how I felt." Yoh stated.
"How did he take it?" Horo asked nervously. "Did he feel the same for you?"
"I don't know. He just said he had to train."
"Do you think I have a shot?" Horo asked. Yoh shrugged.
"Do I?" Yoh asked. Horo shrugged.
Later on
Ren still had his hair in a pony tail (a/n I like the pony tail) but had put on his battle shirt. Ren was sitting in the main room reading his book peacefully, and then Horo came in. "Hi Ren."
Ren sighed deeply. "What is it?"
"Nothing." Horo said. "Cant I just come in and say hi to you?"
"No." Ren answered shortly.
"Can I talk to you?"
"No."
"Please, it won't take long?"
"No!"
"No, to it not taking long?"
"No!"
"Or no to talking to you?"
"Yes."
"So I can talk to you?"
"What? No!"
"You know that I am talking to you already?"
"Fine what do you want?" Ren said completely annoyed.
Horo smiled and sat next to Ren. "Can you put the book down?" Ren glared at him and put a marker in his book and put it down. "Do you hate me?"
"No." Ren answered slowly. "Why would I hate you?"
"Because I get on your nerves."
"Horo, that isn't exactly a hard thing to do." Ren admitted.
Horo tried to look Ren in the eye, which is hard when the said person is looking at the floor. "Ren for some time I've been meaning to tell you something. About how I feel towards you. It's just that you're a hard person to tell this kind of thing to." Horo took a deep breath then said in one go before he lost his nerve. "Iloveyou." Ren looked confused, so Horo tried again. "I love you."
Ren stood up, picked up his book and left the room. When Horo tried to look at his face it was unreadable. After some time Yoh came in. "How'd it go?"
Horo looked up at his friend. "Same as you I guess."
"So, what now?" Yoh asked.
"Try and get Ren to say something to us about it, I guess." Horo answered sadly.
Later, again
Yoh and Horo were in their room talking about random guy things. Ren walked in and looked at them both. Yoh and Horo had stopped talking. "Why did you both say that to me?" Ren asked. "Is it one of your strange jokes or games?"
Yoh stared at Ren, How can he even think that? He wondered. "No, never!" Horo yelled. "What do you think about it?"
"I rather not think about those kinds of things." Ren said and exited the room completely forgetting about why he went in there to start with. Ren walked outside and jumped up to grab hold of the roof, he pulled himself up and sat down staring at the stars.
Yoh followed Ren, telling Horo that he needed some air. Yoh did what Ren did and watched Ren looking at the stars. "Aren't they pretty?" Yoh said. Ren nodded. "Can I sit next to you?"
"Do what you want." Ren answered. "Did you really mean what you said?" He asked after Yoh had sat down.
"Of course." Yoh said bewildered. "Why would I lie to you?"
Ren looked at Yoh then back at the heavens. "Why?"
"Why, what?" Yoh asked, really not knowing what Ren meant.
Ren laughed. "Why do you feel that way towards me?"
Yoh looked at him trying to put his feelings into words was hard enough but coming up with the reasons for them completely impossible. "Because you're . . . you."
"That doesn't make any sense to me."
"I love everything about you." Yoh decided to go with the easy way out.
"Examples."
Yoh sighed. He wanted Ren to at least except his love, not try to analyse it. "I like you hair, especially when it's not in that spike."
"I like it in a spike."
"Then why isn't it in one now?"
"Because I couldn't be bothered to do it today."
"Anyway." Yoh continued, hoping not to anger Ren, even though Yoh thought he was cute when he was angry. "I like how you always act strong, even when you don't feel it. I like how your eyes have so much emotion in them. And I think you look hot." Yoh ended with a silly grin. "So what do you have to say?"
"Nothing." Ren said flatly. "I can't change what you feel. And at the moment I'm confused about how I feel so I don't want to even begin to understand what you feel."
Yoh decided to take his chances. He moved from beside Ren to behind him. The Chinese shaman either didn't notice or didn't care about Yoh's movement. Yoh then slide his hands around Ren's waist very carefully, Ren blushed a deep red at that but didn't stop him and pretended that he didn't notice. Yoh took this as a sign and lightly pulled Ren closer so his head rested on Yoh chest. Ren closed his eyes so he didn't have to look at the shaman holding him.
"I love you." Yoh muttered softly. Yoh lightly slide one hand under Ren's shirt so he could feel Ren's muscles. Ren closed his eyes tighter and mumbled something under his breath. Yoh withdrew his hand and left it at holding Ren close to him. They sat there for an hour not changing their position even slightly. It was one the best nights in Yoh's life.
