Ashuri: no, Hao is not gay, he's just doing it to annoy Yoh. Why? Cause Yoh is fun to bug. I wasn't thinking of harry potter when I wrote the thing on mind reading but yeah it's quite similar.
Hao: I dun wanna do this.
Ashley: do it.
Hao: sigh. She doesn't own shaman king.
Chapter three: Rain Talk.
Unbeknownst to Yoh, Hao was indeed watching him and hearing his thoughts on whether or not he was dangerous. If he only knew. Yoh's thoughts switched to food and Hao smiled. Yoh was a little too innocent for his own good. It was going to get him into trouble, but it could be fixed.
He turned his head sharply at the slightest noise, which turned out to be Yoh's fiancé walking toward the house, wearing a brand new rain coat, which was now what, her second one. And speaking of rain, Hao focused on the droplets of rain, hating it's existence, but knowing it's importance. Maybe it was a good thing humans invented umbrella's, though Hao didn't feel to compelled to use one. He just didn't want to get wet, and the umbrella was red so that was a slight bonus.
Turning back to the itako, he saw her enter the house and Yoh's thoughts were full of sudden fear. Hao chuckled. Yoh was easily scared. But then again it was Anna they were talking about. From a distance Yoh was obviously trying to explain something to her. From his thoughts Hao figured about Yoh's new found ability to cook.
Anna apparently didn't take it to well and forced him to cook to prove to him that he could and would be cooking, and like before, Yoh's subconscious was taking over by the voice that entered Yoh's head, when Hao decided it should, and made the food much to Anna's delight, as Yoh still tried to explain that it was a fluke.
Hao smiled. Yoh should trust in his own abilities.
He saw Yoh's face fall as Anna instructed him to clean the house as punishment for leaving her alone yesterday to fend for herself. Hao sighed. She was eventually going to be a problem. At that second a car drove past and splashed water in his direction, soaking him from head to toe.
Cursing himself for not paying attention, he hissed, eyes trailing after the car as it sped out of sight. Fucking humans. Your existence is futile. You're an abomination. You and your pollution. He had the strongest urge to demolish the thing, however such a noise would attract Anna and Yoh, his cover might be blown, too many factors to gamble with, so he decided to let the car and driver live. For now.
Turning back to Yoh, he heard him grumbling as he started to clean and calling Anna a lot of things he could never dare to say to her face because 1. She might kill him. 2. He was generally a nice person and nice people don't do that. As Yoh moved around the house mopping and sweeping, Hao suddenly saw him trip and fall head first into a large bucket. Hao couldn't help but laugh. "Oh poor Yoh." he said.
With soaking wet hair, Yoh got up, still grumbling and managed to clean the rest of the house without anymore accidents, only to find out how late it was and that Anna had gone to sleep. Hao heard him cures inwardly and stomp of to take a bath. Figuring since he was already wet, Hao discarded the umbrella and ran over to the house and watched Yoh enter the hot spring bath area. Living in a hotel had it's perks.
And so did being a stalker.
He watched Yoh wrap a towel around his small frame and he struggled to find the soap and shampoo, which skidded away from his when he dropped it on the floor. Hao shook his head. Yoh was hopeless. Yoh managed to retrieve the soap and shampoo bottle before it fell into the spring, and he washed himself throughly before climbing in and soaking his sore limbs.
Knowing Yoh would eventually sense him, unless he fell asleep, Yoh's thoughts told him he hadn't, Hao went over and crouched down across from Yoh and waited for him to realize he was there. It took a minute, but Yoh opened his eyes and stared stunned. "Hao." Hao smiled at him, and saw him blush slightly, and Hao had a good suspicion why. "Your thoughts betray you Yoh." Yoh blinked slightly and turned away.
Hao chuckled. It was fun to embarrass him. "How long have you been here?" Yoh asked and Hao flatly answered. "Since you wrapped the towel around you." If possible Yoh blushed more. Why does it not bother him at all? He heard Yoh think. Maybe cause I'm intolerant to things like that and its not such a big deal when you know the truth.
"Why are you here?" Yoh asked then. The boy was really dim-witted. "I told you. I'm your stalker." "But don't stalkers stalk from a distance?" he asked. Ok maybe not. "Yes. But where's the fun in that?" Hao asked, purposely looking Yoh up and down. Yoh shrugged. "I don't know. I'm not a stalker."
Hao smiled and appeared behind Yoh, making him jump. "You should try it. It's quite fun." he said causing goose bumps to cascade up and down Yoh's arms. "Don't-" he heard Yoh squeak. "Don't what?" Hao asked leaning closer, so his words were right in Yoh's ear. He could see Yoh shaking violently, but knew Yoh, still basically had no idea what was going on.
Ignorance was bliss.
Hao was basically tormenting Yoh for his amusement, more so the Yoh's. He just loved to see him uneasy. He could feel Yoh's growing uncertainty as though it lived within his very skin.
After a short space of time, Hao laughed evilly in his ear and pulled away smling. Yoh looked positively frightened, though his facial expression was kinda hard to read. Hao himself didn't really know why he was there in the first place. He speculated that it was because he wasn't going to be around Yoh for a while, and he couldn't miss the opportunity to torment him.
Hao returned to the area where he had been before, in front of Yoh. Yoh's deep brown eyes gazed softy and fearfully into his. He could see something there, but he didn't know what it was and his thoughts yielded nothing. Hao smiled slightly. "Well Yoh, as it's my duty as your dopple ganger, let me give you some advice." he paused for a minute before continuing. "Get stronger. Your going to need to be."
He could tell you wanted to ask why but decidd against it and nodded. "Oh and be good. I don't want to come back and find you've done something bad." Hao added. No pointg in anything if he ends up dead or useless. Yoh nodded and went to retrieve his towel still aware that Hao was watching him.
He quickly wrapped it around himself. Hao snickered again. The boy really was to innocent, but he would find a way around that, but it was best to tred carefully now, gain Yoh's trust and have his acutal intentions revealed at a later time, as he knew they would. The Asakura's couldn't hide it from Yoh too much longer before Yoh started asking questions.
Hao sighed, remembering something unpleasnt which caused Yoh to turn and look at him again and Hao could tell Yoh, desperatly wanted to turn away from him and go back inside. He wandered over to Yoh and repeated what he said making sure Yoh understood. "And no slacking." he said. "For if you do I shall know." He could see that Yoh wanted to move as he became uneasy over being stalked trying to take back what he said in his last dream.
"It's to late Yoh. What's said is said." Yoh was obviously still not used to Hao hearing his thoughts as he looked slightly shocked. Silence fell between them and then a cat from somewhere decided that Hao's head looked comfortable as it jumped down on top of his head.
At that poin Hao forgot about being patient and stealthy, and being quiet. He ripped the cat of his head and chased after it, trying to set it on fire. It didn't work to well as the cat seemed able to avoid all his attacks. The cat eventually disappeared and Hao was very annoyed and Yoh looked shocked. Hao didn't remotoly care at the moment, regaining his calm composer was hard.
"It was just a cat Hao." Yoh said. "It's not just a cat! It's a highly malicious feline who figures it can nap anywhere!" Hao snapped. He hadn't used that tone with Yoh yet, so all Yoh did was shrug and stare. "Poor cat." "It doesn't deserve your sympathy!" Again Yoh shrugged. "It's just an animal. It doesn't know better."
Hao couldn't believe it. Yoh was defending the bloody cat. "You didn't have to try and set it on fire." "Don't defend the cat to me!" Hao snapped for the second time. Yoh blinked and shivered. "I'm gonna go inside now." he said backing up. Hao followed him with his eys, making Yoh walk faster, until he tripped over the escaped shampoo bottle.
Hao sighed laughing. What a klutz. Yoh moanedd slightly, sitting up and rubbing his head where it had hit the stone. Hao watched midly concerned. "Ow! That hurt!" excalimed Yoh. "Well that'll teach you to never walk backwards on a wet floor with run away shampoo bottles." Hao said. "And if you weren't in a hurry to get away from me, you would have gone slower."
Yoh stared up at him with eyes full of hurt and he pouted. "Your mean." Hao laughed. You can't even guess how mean I really am. This is nothing. He stared at Yoh. He was so easy to embarrass. Maybe it was because he was so trusting. When Yoh felt that he was better he stood up and walked to the door. "Goodbye Hao." Hao smiled mischievously. "Goodbye Yoh."
And he disappeared in a suddenn burst of flames.
Ashuri: done. Finally. Stupid chapter. Sorry it's so late. I had other things to think about like a requested fic which should be up and OOA and crappy school work. This chapter is really short..but uh yeah. Read and review.