SpiritsFlame: I want to type, you want to read, here's your story, well, my story really. Oh, and I own nothing, not even my OC's cause their based off real people, who I don't own. I think I will do the reply to reviewers, at the bottom. Maybe, if I remember.

"Party starts in 5 minutes!" Pirika shouted. Ren and Horo jumped

"We better get to work then." Horo said, grabbing the wrapping paper. In about 3 minutes their presents were wrapped and they were running down the hall to the party. They put their presents down on the table next to the others and sat down at the long table to await food. They were not disappointed. Tamao came out holding a three layer chocolate cake. Everyone started singing 'Happy Birthday' as Yoh blew out the candles. He, unsurprisingly, grinned. All the candles had gone out. Tamao cut the cake and handed each person a piece. She also handed a piece to the spirits who could actually eat it. Horo started eating his like the end of the world was fastly (A/N: whatever, so I missed a grammar lesson here or there) approaching, he had asked for seconds and thirds before anyone else ha finished their first. After everyone had eaten a fair share of cake, Yoh began to open presents. Horo had been correct when he guessed what everyone would be getting Yoh, Anna got him a battle suit, Manta, a book on the history of shamans, book marked on the chapter on the 'legendary' Asakuras. Ryu got him an Elvis CD, Faust and Eliza gave him a medicine kit. Ren got Yoh headphones; Horo got him an MP-3 Player. Yohs family gave him a book on all the languages, saying that now that he was Shaman King, he needed to be able to talk to everyone. Pirika had given him an Ainu blanket that said Nipa, or chief on it in Ainu. Last but not least was Lyserg. He handed Yoh his present, and Yoh started to tear the wrappings off, when suddenly the door burst open, reveling… Hao!

"Hullo outo-chan! Sorry I'm late, but I had my own party to attend, it's my birthday to you know!"

"Gaaa! HAO! Run away!" shouted Chocolove. Horo stretched out a hand and calmly grabbed the back of Chocoloves shirt as he ran past.

"Cool it, dude." He said. "He's not doing anything, is he?"

"He's here!"

"Oh, crashing his twin brother's birthday party, how diabolical. No wait, Yoh, you invited him, didn't you?" at Yohs nod, he continued "So the only thing that Haos done, is well, being late." He let go of Chocolove, who sat back down, slowly. Hao sat down next to Horo, with Yoh on his other side. He grinned a thanks at Horo. Horo, being Horo, grinned back.

"Open the present." Lyserg said. Yoh nodded, than took off the rest of the wrappings. It was… tickets!

'What are they?" Yoh asked

"Tickets for May 19th!"Lyserg replied. Horo froze, May 19th, May 19th, what was happening on May 19th? He knew it was something important.

"What for?" Yoh asked Oh yes, May 19th was the day of his

"Author convention." Lyserg said. "Normally, only authors and their editors can get in, and their friends and family. Well, actually, it's a book signing, than all the authors and their friends/family/editors go to this private party to chat. It's normally really hard to get tickets but I managed so- Hey Horo, you ok?" Horo had just taken a sip of water and choked on it, and was currently coughing like crazy. Ren pounded him on the back a few times, which hurt. After about 10 seconds he stopped coughing.

"That hurt!" he said to Ren, than told everyone that he was fine, water had just gone down his windpipe.

"Anyway." Lyserg continued. "I know that Yuki Shindou, Sasuke Uzumaki, Haru Yuki, and Nuye Paskuma will be there!" Lyserg concluded. Pirikas head shot up and she was staring at Horo. --uh oh-- she though, she did know that Nuye Paskuma was her brother, how could she not? --Well, that explains the coughing fit.-- she thought. Now, how to get Horo out of this mess. She knew that he had been really looking forward to this A-con (A/N: short for Author-convention) and he couldn't go with Yoh, there'd be no Nuye Paskuma there, but how could he not go with Yoh and everyone. Suddenly she had an idea.

"Horo." She said "You can't go, you have a dentist appointment from 12:45 to 4:45, at since the A-con is from 1 to 5, you'll have to miss it." Pirika patted herself on the back, mentally, for this quick thinking as Horo shot her a look of gratitude. Everyone voiced their disappointment, but no one argued, who would argue with Pirika? There was total silence, than

"Who wants to play twister?" Horo shouted. This caused instant uproar. Apparently, twister was a very popular game. After about half an hour, there were only three people on the twister game. Horo, Ren, and Ryu. Yoh was spinner.

'Left hand red!" he called. Ryu fell over, somehow missing Horo and Ren. This caused Horo to have to reach over Ren, doing his best not to fall on him. Suddenly Kororo grinned. It was a kinda creepy grin; she floated over to Bason and whispered something to him. He glanced over at their masters, than began to grin in a similarly sinister fashion. Kororo flew over to Amidamaru, and said something to him. He glanced over at the two playing twister, and he started to grin maniacally. (A/N: Can Amidamaru and Yoh talk mentally? Well, here they can). Seemingly randomly, Yoh glanced at Amidamaru, surprised. He glanced at Kororo and Bason, before is gaze flickered to Horo and Ren, then his own grin turned slightly sinister. All of this took place in about 3 seconds so no one noticed anything strange. Yoh spun the spinner, which landed on right hand green.

"Left foot blue!" Yoh called, winking at Kororo. Horo and Ren soon discovered what Amidamaru, Yoh, Kororo, and Bason had already known that it is impossible to move to this square without falling over. Horo overbalanced and fell, right into to Rens lap. Both of them turned red. 'He's so soft' both of them though once or twice and neither of them made a move to get up. Horo started to relax.

"Um, Horo? Wachya doin?" Ren asked, blushing. Not that he minded. Horo turned even redder and jumped up, apologizing profusely. 'Oh shit. I was just sitting in Rens lap, and I was snuggling! Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit'Kororo, Bason, Amidamaru, and Yoh were thinking similar swears, but for a different reason. Ren was thinking 'He…, he was just sitting in my lap, and practically snuggling, not that I minded, but still!' There was an awkward silence.

"Er…"Hao began "Did I get any presents?"

"Oh ya, I got you something!" Horo said, thrilled at the change in subject. He ran to get something out of his room. He came back with two things in his hand, one he handed to Hao, the other he put on the table. Hao tore off the wrappings, looking like a little kid at Christmas, and Horo realized that this was the first time that Hao had ever gotten a present. Ever. One by one, each person left the room to go get their present for Hao, even though most of them were things that they had gotten from their room, and though that Hao'd like. As Hao tore the wrappings off another present, he snuck over to Lyserg.

"Here" he whispered "Give him this." He handed Lyserg the ticket, the one that had been for him but he 'couldn't go' Hao, meanwhile, was thrilled. He'd never had a birthday party, or presents, because he'd never had anyone who wanted to celebrate that he was alive. The only people who had actually bought him stuff ahead of time were Yoh, Ren, Horo, and Pirika, 'cause Horo told her that Hao'd be there. Yoh had giving him a pair of pants almost like his old ones, but the material was blue, and the red was green. Ren gave him a box of candles, for the Spirits of Fire to…entertain itself with. Pirika had given him a nonflammable blanket that said 'yup' or 'big brother' in Ainu. Horo gave him an ultra rare, super expensive, valuable copy of Nuye Paskuma's book, FireFlies. It was rare because Horo's editors had though 'well, we like it, but I doubt the public will, after all, it was written by a kid.' Because it was his first book, they'd had no idea how well it'd sell. And they had only sent one copy to each store, than somehow lost the manuscript.

"Where did you get these?" Hao cried as he waved the book around his head in um, oocness.

"I have a few connections."

"Thank you!" Hao shouted as he glomped him. Ren felt a stab of jealousy, he wanted to glomp Horo, but he couldn't, not without ruining any image, but also, he had no reason to glomp Horo.

"Ok, ok,' Horo laughed, pushing the still squealing Asakura off him. "Lyserg still hasn't given you his present." Hao stopped squealing.

"You got me a present?" he almost whispered, shocked.

"Y, yes." Lyserg stuttered, than handed Hao the ticket. "It's um, tickets for the A-con of the Golden Dragon publishing Co., which, as you guys know, is where Nuye Paskuma, and all the others write to." Hao stared at him, still in shock.

"Hello?" Lyserg asked, waving a hand in front of Haos face "Hao? You there?"

"ARIGATO!" Hao shouted glomping Lyserg.

"Um, guys?" Horo started. "I have a kinda game we can play." He was gladder than ever that the others didn't know who he was.

"Oh, tell us!" Tamoa said.

"Well, has anyone ever heard of 'Secret Santa'?"

"Isn't it that game where you put peoples name in a jar, and than have people choose other peoples name, and whoever's name they pull, they have to give them stuff anonymously?"

"And this s relevant…how?"

"Well, me an' Kororo thought it's be really fun if we did did that, only its obviously the wrong time of year for Secret 'Santa' so it will be called Secret 'Shaman'" a few people sweatdropped. "So! I've written everyone's name in the jar, but instead of pulling out the names your self, your spirits will pull the name for you!"

"Why?"

"Because Kororo asked if the spirits could pick the names, and I don't see a problem with it."

"Um, ok." A few spirits floated/ walked/drifted to the jar. Kororo and Bason winked at each other as they both pulled out names. Only Yoh saw this, he knew what was going on, and thought that it'd be very fun to help them, So he did, as the Shaman King, he had some powers, which included healing, talking mentally to Amidamaru, seeing/knowing everything that happened, shape shifting, and other fun stuff. He concentrated, just a bit, this is Yoh we're talking about, and Kororo and Bason pulled the names they wanted. He decided to leave the other names alone. After every ghost had pulled, the results were this.

Yoh for Hao. 'What would aniki want?'

Hao got Lyserg 'Great! I'll give him cool stuff, and maybe when he finds out its me, he won't hate me!'

Lyserg got Ryu 'I have nothing to say, ur, think to that.'

Ryu got Tamao 'Does she like makeup?'

Tamao got Manta 'What should I get Master Yohs best friend?'

Manta got Yoh 'I'll give him a pillow.'

Chocolove got Pirika 'Ya! I got the one person with a sense of humor!'

Pirika got Jun 'Maybe she'd like a new dress?'

Jun got Faust '…'

Faust got Chocolove 'Where did Eliza go?'

Ren got Horo 'YAY!'

Horo got Ren 'YAY!'

"Ok, now that you each have a person, you have to give them something, at least one thing, if not more. Due to the fact that it is very hard to know what your person would want without someone knowing that it's you, everyone is going to make a list of the top three things that they want, and I'll put it up in the hall." Horo said, handing out paper and pencils. After 10 minutes of the sound of writing, the lists were finished and Horo took them up and put them on a random bulletin board.

"Ok, now come look at all the lists, but remember the stuff on the list of the person you picked. This game will last about a month, and I'll leave the list up until then." He stuck his tongue out at everyone, which Ren found adorable. The lists were as follows.

Yoh: 1. The Black Table, by Nuye Paskuma. 2. Pillow. 3. Shaman Kin 'crown'

Hao: 1. Fire Caller, by Nuye Paskuma. 2. Hair ties. 3. Nonflammable stuff

Lyserg: 1. the Black Table. 2. Um…a masculine haircut? 3. New, less girly, clothes.

Ryu: 1. FireFlies 2. How to Date the Girl of Your Dreams. 3. Good dating tips.

Tamoa: 1. Fire Caller. 2. Alice 19th 1-9. 3. Hair ornaments

Manta: 1. The Black Table (see a pattern?) 2. New Laptop, 3. 101 Ways to Get Taller

Chocolove: 1. The Black Table 2. The Big Book of Jokes 3. A clown suit

Pirika: 1. Ponytail holders and other hair stuff. 2. Clothes 3. A new bag

Jun: 1. Fire Caller. 2. Hair stuff. 3. New dress

Faust: 1. the Black Table. 2. Sabriel. 3. Um, well, I'm not going to write it here, let's just say it involved Eliza

Ren: 1. The Black Table. 2. Weapon Polish, 3. FireFlies

Horo: 1. Hair bands, not the girl kind, the kind Horo uses. 2. Clothes. 3. Pocky

"Ok, now that all the lists are up, go around and look at all of them!" Horo said. They did so. Horo's eye twitched slightly when he saw that everyone but he and Pirika had at least one Nuye Paskuma book on their list. Well, at least it'll be easy to get Ren stuff, he sighed.

SpiritsFlame: Wachya think?

Ren: It sucked.

Horo: --whacks him on the head—Don't upset her!

Yoh: Hey, where are your muses.

SpiritsFlame: Meh, no one else gets it, and it's too confusing, and they don't even read my story. So I'm using you guys, because it makes more sense. Now! My replies to reviewers, which I will try to do everyday! Sorry for the people who reviewed before, but this is only the response to chapter 6 reviewers. Gomen.

Lovebaby: Arigato, here's your update!

Aoi Umenokouji: Thanks for reviewing, ya the Horo being an author thing is random, but much fun! And Gomen on the grammer.

ExoticNectar: I'm glad you like the story. And the reason I have the OC as Yuki Shindou, is because the person my OC is based on is obsessed with Gravi, so….

gift-of-the-elves: HoroRen FOREVER!

Elemental-Zero: Heres the update! And my AIM and E-mail is on AOL

Drgn Prncss: -.-' baka. And random readers, I'm calling her this because I know her, I try not to insult good reviewers, just good friends. .

Dark Willow aka Admiral2: Arigato! And what a long name… I decided to copy paste instead of typing it all out, -.-'