"Horo!"

"Hi guys." There was a silence, in which they all stared at him.

"Lady, Gentleman, and Yuki"- "Hey!"- "I Present to you, Nuye Paskuma, also known as Usui HoroHoro!" There was more silence.

"Well." Hao said finally, "That explains a lot." which made them all laugh awkwardly

"Oh, you know each other?" Mandi asked, pretending to be surprised. Yuki rolled her eyes.

"Uh, let's, uh, eat." Yoh suggested. There were nods of agreement and everyone dived into their food, trying to kill the awkwardness. Horo sighed, he should have known this would have happened. He got off the stage and started to leave the room, where he would go, he did not know, but anywhere than where his friends were. Suddenly Ren, who'd been watching him the whole time, said

"Hey, Horo, where ya goin?" he called, Horo looked back at him, surprised, wasn't Ren mad at him?

"Away." he replied. "Aren't you mad at me?" Ren, and everyone else, who had looked up at Ren's shout, looked surprised.

"No, why would we be?"

"Because I lied."

"Well, technically, you didn't lie, you just never told us." Ren pointed out logically "Anyway, we should have guessed."

"Oh?" Mandi asked.

"Yeah, after all, Horo wrote just like Nuye." Ren said

"Oh?" Yuki asked. Horo grinned,

"Yeah, here, I'll tell you the story."

---Flashback---

"Come on Horo, You have to, everyone else has."

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"I'll pay you."

"– How much?"

"Enough."

"No, there is no way I'm going to write a fanfiction on Nuye Paskuma's books."

---Later---

"I can not believe I let you talk me into writing a fanfiction on Nuye Pakuma's books."

"Ok, first, make a SN."

"Done."

"What is it?"

"'ToWriteToTellOldStories'" (A/N: For those of you who've forgotten, Nuye means 'to write' and Paskuma means 'to tell old stories' in Ainu)

"...I don't get it."

"You wouldn't."

"Hmph."

---Even Later---

"What the hell Horo! Did you, like, find some sight that had an exert from the next book and copy paste it!" Ren exclaimed. Not even bothering to wait for an answer he took the poor pieces of paper Horo had printed the fic out on and went looking for the other Nuye fans in the house. Which was pretty much everyone.

---End Flashback---

"Speaking of which, did I ever tell you--"

"NO Chocolove!"

"But anyway Horo, the point is, we're not mad at you for lying. We're not exactly happy, but we know why you did it."

"We do?" Hao asked. Lyserg kicked him.

"Ow! I mean, uh, how! How, ur, stupid of me. Of course we do!" he said quickly.

—Later—

"Bye! Come again! Bye! Write more Nuye-sama!" Mandi called as the shimmered back to the hotel. The appeared in the lobby. Yoh landed on the couch, stretched out with his legs crossed. Ren landed on a small chair with a blushing Horo on his lap. The other, except Lyserg and Hao, landed on their feet in various places around the room. Yoh was smirking as Horo climbed, a bit reluctantly, off Ren.

"My bad."

"Hey." said Horo to cover his badly hidden blush. "Where are Hao and Lyserg?"

Since the most votes were for HaoLyserg as a side pairing, and do to writers block, it is sorta here right away. If you don't like it, you can just skip the rest of this chapter. There's nothing huge r anything, and this will probably be the biggest HaoLyserg scene I have unless the reviewers want more, the rest will be really small and with no warning like this. But once again, if you don't like HaoLyserg, stop reading this chapter and wait for the next one. .

"Oh, right." said Yoh, moving off of the couch, leaning against it before snapping his fingers. Hao fell out of thin air above the couch, landing face up on top of it. Without giving his twin time to recover, Yoh snapped his fingers again and Lyserg fell out of thin air onto Hao. Ren was shocked to see that Lyserg's face was as read as the Sprit Of Fire's and that Hao's cheeks were a faint pink. Horo, who, along with Yoh, had known, or at least guessed, that Hao and Lyserg liked each other, although he had yet to figure out where the hell it came from, because most people would usually not end up falling in love with someone who had killed their family... He glanced at Yoh who was wearing his 'concentrating' look, a.k.a. his 'I'm about to use my Shaman King powers, but specifically telekinesis' look. Horo saw why as he glanced back at the two on the couch. Lyserg was still blushing and stammering apologies as he climbed off the very-not-protesting Asakura. He got almost stood up when he was suddenly jerked back down onto Hao. Said former-plotter-of-world-domination's face turned bright red and if Lyserg's face got any hotter, Horo would start making s'mores. Horo glanced quizzically at the Shaman King, who, while smirking like a mad man, pointed at one of the straps of Hao's kickass pants, which had "somehow" gotten wrapped around Lyserg's waist. Neither of the two shaman's in question noticed Yoh pointing, which may or may not have had something to do with the fact that Lyserg's mouth had somehow gotten caught on Hao's. Horo, Ren, and Yoh decided that now was as good a time as any to make a tactful retreat. The other shamans had preceded the by several minutes. As soon as they had left the room Horo and Yoh started snickering.

"Well, that was...random." Ren said, which made Horo and Yoh laugh harder.

"Matchmaking's a lot easier when you're Shaman King." Yoh said. He and Horo high. fived. Ren looked confused. Do you have any idea how hard it is to unclip the straps on Hao's pants, wrap it around Lyserg's waist and reclip it, all without them noticing." Yoh continued. Horo rolled his eyes.

"I don't think either of them would have noticed if you hade ripped his pants off, fillen them with lead, then put tied them together with it." Horo and Yoh snickerd.

"It might be funnier if it wasn't true."

"Yeah, there hopless." Horo said. Yoh replied in Ainu, knowing Ren wouldn't be ale to understand.

"Like you aren't the same way about Ren." Yoh said (A/N: I lost my Ainu/English paper so... it's in italics, not Ainu, but pretendit's in Ainu, k?) Horo mearly glared at him and didn't answer.

Gomen! I swear Ill write more next time, but I've been at camp and D.C. and more camp and havn't had ANY time. But I'm back and will be for a while, so next chapters gonna be long and soon... I hope