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Ren: What are you on now?
SM: Happiness!
Ren: That in itself is amazing.
SM: Stop it.
Ren: And she's back to her usual angry/morbid self. Joy.
SM: I said stop it!
Ren: But you love me.
SM: Maybe I should hand you over to Hao and Shark. Speaking of which if I get 37 reviews I will do a special one-shot funny fic of them arguing over Ren. So review!
Ren: Double joy.
SM: So you are the one that stole my sarcastic nature. I might not be able to update for a while, and by the way sorry about my totally lousy updating already. On with the ficcy!
With Yoh
Yoh put the phone down as he heard the other end hang up. Ren. He thought. What is a Sharok? He walked downstairs. They had released him from is imprisonment on the understanding that he was never to see Ren again, is dad didn't actually agree to he. Then again he never really did agree to anything much.
Yoh walked into one of the training rooms looking for his father, and he found him sitting cross-legged talking to his spirits. "Dad?" Yoh asked nervously approaching the masked man. "Can I ask you something?"
Mikihisa stood up and looked over at his son. "Of course, Yoh. What is it?"
Yoh stood and looked up at his father. "What is a Sharok?"
That made the usually grave man even more so. "Why do you ask?" nervously.
"There is a Sharok with my friends. What is it?"
Mikihisa frowned, behind his mask. "They are creatures that feed upon the emotions of shamans and they become an extension of the shaman. It feels what the shaman feels and cares about exactly what the shaman cares about. They become very dangerous when the shaman has strong feelings and can become out of control. It can control the shaman to a certain extent. However they can control any shaman and if the shaman is strong it can feed of off his energy and create a body of its own, leaving the shaman in a weakened state. In most cases the Sharok kills the shaman in his weak condition because it thinks that the shaman is what is stopping it from getting what it wants.
"I think that it if your friends are with one then I wish them the best of luck. Maybe they will be able to survive with one. However I hope that they are not the target that the Sharok is after otherwise . . ." Mikihisa looked at his son carefully. He was about to speak again when a phone rang.
Yoh looked around then felt the phone in his pocket; Ren had gotten it for him for his birthday. Who would be calling him? He took the phone out and pressed the green button, receive, he carefully put it to his ear. "Hello?"
"Otouto?"
"Onii-chan?" Yoh asked, his father looking at him oddly.
"So, how are you little brother?"
"Why are you calling me, Hao? And how did you get this number? Aren't you meant to be dead?" Yoh was now utterly confused.
"In this order; because I want to, I took it from Ren, and meant to be dead does not actually mean I'm dead."
"Okay . . . so where are you?"
"I'm with your friends. Did you know that there's a crazed Sharok here that wants MY Ren?"
"What do you mean your Ren!"
"He is mine. Or soon will be."
"Since when were you interested in Ren, Onii-chan?"
"Since I felt like it Otouto. And I wanted him in the shaman tournament he just didn't know he wanted me as well."
"Why did you call me again? Is there actually a point to this?"
"Well yes there is. I want to know what Ren's favourite colour is. Do you know it?"
"Gold/yellow and black. Why?"
"I intend to give the Tao a present?"
"Why?"
"To show I love him."
"Hao!"
"Yes, Otouto?"
"If you hurt him I will kill you again."
"That's not a very nice way to talk to your big brother. Is that supposed to be threat? I didn't think you could do threats."
"I'm just warning you." Yoh hung up his phone and looked at his father. "I'm going back. Dad, can you keep Anna and my grandparents busy for a few hours so I can get a safe distance away?" His father nodded and Yoh went to go think of a way to get back to his love.
Yoh's house, at night
Hao sat watch the gently rise and fall of Ren's chest. He sat on the side of sleeping Chinese's bed watching the Tao carefully. Hao's brown eyes were fully of lust as he gazed at the peaceful shaman. His earlier call to his brother satisfied him, he could hear the anger in his other-half's voice and that amused him no end. He was happy in causing Yoh distress; he had something that Hao knew he will never have, Ren's admiration. Hao moved some of the younger boys purple hair away from his face. Hao thought he was looking into the face of an angel; Ren was so beautiful Hao couldn't stop staring at him, his pale skin shone in the moonlight that seeped in from the window, his rhythmic breathing hypnotised Hao. The cool breeze from the open window stirred Ren's hair and Hao felt like he was in heaven.
Hao had never felt the way he did towards Ren with anyone else ever before. Not in all his lives had he seen such perfection as he now sees in Ren. His heart ached for Ren and his mind was only focused on one conquest; Ren's love. That was all that Hao wanted, he had lost his opportunity to create a shaman's only world but now he didn't even care about that, and he didn't even want revenge for his death.
Everything was meaningless to him. Everything except the perfect shaman he was looking so intently at. He didn't want it to end, he knew that when Ren woke he would see the golden eyes that captivated his loves emotions and pain, but he feared that Ren would turn him down and hate him even more then Hao already knew he hated him. The wind came again causing Ren to shiver; Hao pulled the blanket to cover more over his sleeping beauties body so he wouldn't be cold.
Hao thought it best to leave before the cold awakens his precious love and Hao would be shouted at. Usually he wouldn't care about scornful words but every hateful word from Ren was like a needle through the centre of his heart. Hao leaned over and planted a soft kiss on his loves forehead before standing up and exiting the room. Before he closed the door he whispered, "Goodnight my only love. I will always look after you, even if you don't want me too, for I will always hold you in my heart."
Yoh's house, morning
Ren opened his eyes to the blaring sun. At the sight of the intense light he closed his eyes quickly but he knew he had to get up so he braved opening his eyes again. This time the sun wasn't the problem it was the maniac leaning over him. Red eyes shining into Ren's golden. Ren quickly kicked the Sharok onto the floor. Unfortunately it wasn't as hard as he had hoped it to be because it was first thing in the morning. Shark quickly got up and smiled.
"What?" Ren yawned. His mind was still in shock from having someone leaning over him for a wakeup call. Shark kept smiling at him, "Stop it! What do you want?"
Shark crawled onto Ren's bed and put a hand on either side of him so he was basically leaning over him again. "I love you." Shark said. Ren glared at him and was about to say an insult when Shark plastered his lips on Ren's. he grabbed Ren's wrists and held him tight. At that point Hao came in and pulled Shark off Ren.
"That was not part of the rules!" Hao yelled at him. Ren looked at him in shock, rules to what.
Shark glared at the pyromaniac. "The rules didn't prohibit it. And you aren't allowed to interfere remember." Horo came in and looked around the room. "Horo," Shark yelled at him. "Was kissing allowed?" Horo shook his head. "Damn you. I will kill you."
"Not allowed to kill off the competition remember." Hao said triumph. "Actually kill him, then he will be out of the way and you will be disqualified."
Ren stared at them all in horror then decide to ignore them and left the room. He quickly took a shower and changed in the bathroom with the door firmly locked so none of the love sick teenagers could disturb him. However when he walked past his door again he could still hear shouting about rules. He shook his head and wondered what competition they were talking about but then again maybe it was best that he didn't know.
Hao grinned at the blue haired shaman that was now pinned to the wall by an infuriated Sharok. At least he could see some violence today. "What did you just say?" Shark hissed.
Horo was utterly petrified. "I . . . I don't remember." The truth was he knew full well that he said that Ren had expressed many times that he cared for Horo and that Ren would never love Shark.
Hao was very disappointed when Shark let go of Horo. "I guess I should go and check on Ren." Shark said and left, but not before he gave Horo a swift kick in the leg. Hao stood staring at Horo in distaste then he teleported downstairs.
Ren was sitting in the living room reading a book. Hao was the first to reach him. Ren ignored the older shaman, but that was a mistake. Hao wanted attention and he always got what he wanted. He decided to get his loves attention by leaning on his shoulder and reading the book out loud. "Simian looked over the ship. 'A storm is headed our way!' he called to the crew. 'We have to steer the other way and reach . . ." Ren covered Hao's mouth with his hand.
"What do you want, Hao?" Ren asked pointedly. Hao kissed Ren's hand, the Chinese shaman jerked back. Hao didn't take the hint and leaned over Ren, staring at his eyes. The sunlight was shining in the Tao's eyes causing them to sparkle a magnificent gold. Hao looked at him in deep passion; he wanted nothing more then to be accepted and loved my Ren. The look in Ren's eyes showed him otherwise.
Hao drew back and got up. When he looked at Ren all he saw in his loves eyes was loathing towards the older shaman. Hao felt pain hit his heart, all he wants was never to be his and he hated that more than anything. "I really do love you Ren." He muttered.
Ren glared back. "And what am I supposed to do about that?"
Hao shook his head and was about to speak when Shark ran in. "Ren I love more then anyone does." Shark said quickly. Ren turned his glare onto Shark.
"What is it that I heard about a competition?" Ren asked slyly.
Hao and Shark looked at each other. "It is a competition to find out who loves you the most." Shark said. "And to find out whom you love." Hao added.
Ren laughed. "That's not a fair competition." Shark and Hao looked at each other. "Yoh isn't here and if I remember he confessed his feelings first."
Shark and Hao both looked murderess, not a big change for Hao. "Do you love Yoh?" Shark snarled, if the answer was yes he would find the Asakura and kill him.
Ren got up and walked to the door. "If I tell you then there would be no need for your competition and I would hate to spoil your fun." Ren turned to look at the two confused teenagers, before he left he said. "But as I said, if Yoh isn't here it's not a fair competition."
With me
SM: A competition for Ren's love. Who will win?
Ren: I know who.
SM: No you don't,because I don't even know. '--; Please Review!
