SM: The second part.

Name: Second date. Why?

Couple: HoroRen.

Horo's apartment

"So am I Ren." Horo said softly as Ren ran off. Horo wanted to run after the boy but he didn't want to upset Ren even more. Horo felt his heart shattering. He got up and walked into his apartment. He grabbed the movie and popcorn that he had dropped on the floor when he went after Ren. Once he was inside he slammed the door and threw the things onto a coffee table before he collapsed onto the sofa.

Horo let hot tears fall down his face. He had really believed that he had a shot with the Chinese boy he was completely infatuated with, not only that but he thought that he loved Ren. Now his heart felt like it was being pulled from his body. "Were you just stringing me along Ren? Do you really not care?" He asked the air. He sat up and threw the side lamp at the, "I HATE YOU REN!" He yelled as the lamp smashed on the wall, even though he didn't mean it. Why? Why did he run off? We were having a good time. He thought to himself. Why did he have to break my heart?

After their first date Horo had wanted to go on a second one so badly. Yet he was very scared about being rejected, he knew that he wanted to be with Ren very badly and if he was rejected his heart would brake into a thousand piece's. Now he felt even worse then if Ren had flat out rejected him, Ren had lad him into believing that Horo actually had a chance of being happy with him, becoming more then just close friends, however now Horo realised that Ren was a jerk and a fraud.

Horo cried even harder. He had gotten so close; he knew that he had set himself for getting hurt. He had always believed that Ren wasn't as bad as everyone thought he was, how he was proved wrong. He still wanted to be with Ren, even though he had hurt him, even though he had pushed him away, even though Horo's heart now lay broken on the floor. Horo still didn't know what was wrong with Ren, and he still didn't know why he was hurt so much. All he knew was that he wanted to be with Ren.

Ren sat on the park bench. It had only been ten minutes since he had ran away from Horo. He still didn't really understand why he did it. All he knew was that he had to get away from him. The only valid reason was because of something his father had once said.

"Tao's cannot love. If you try to love someone they will only be hurt, as well as hurting you. You can never be with anyone!" His father had said that after killing Ren's old girlfriend. En had found out that Ren had a girlfriend and had immediately set about destroying her. He said that Ren will only be with the person En wishes him to be with, anyone else will perish.

Ren wouldn't be able to live with himself if Horo was killed by his psychotic family. "I'm so sorry Horo." Ren said to no one tears falling from his eyes. "I know I hurt you. I really didn't want it to be this way." Ren eventually made his way back home. When he entered Jun came up to him and was surprised to see him crying, but when she asked him what happened he only cried harder and ran to his room.

The next day, Yoh's house

Horo sat down in front of the TV. The whole day Ren had been avoiding him, he had tried to talk to the a few times. He hated Ren for how he had treated him but he desperately wanted to talk to him. He still cared about him, no matter what. Every time Horo got anywhere near the boy he would leave the room or start talking to someone else.

Horo had finally managed to get Ren alone, he had been outside training and Horo walked up to him. Ren had tried leaving but Horo had anticipated this and grabbed the younger boys wrist, when Ren tried to hit him away he pinned the Chinese to the floor.

"Tell me what the hell is going on." Horo hissed at the small boy. Ren shook his head and tried to escape, yet failed because Horo was heavier, older, taller, and had a larger frame then him. "Ren, please I know that you didn't mean what you said. Tell me what the hell happened yesterday."

Ren looked away from Horo. "I just don't feel that way about you. And it disgusts me that you feel that way towards me." Ren lied, truly he didn't know how he felt towards Horo, but he did know that it wasn't disgusting he felt faltered that Horo liked him.

A small wet droplet fell onto Ren's face. He looked up and saw that Horo had tears in his eyes; they ran down his cheeks and fell onto Ren's face or ran down his chin and got soaked into his shirt. "I'm sorry if I disgust you Ren. However my feelings aren't going to change any time soon." Horo let go of Ren, he crawled off him and sat down on the grass, his hands in tight balls on his lap. "I don't even know why I like a self-centred egotistical murderer like you, but I do and I always will."

Horo got up tears still streaming down his face. He turned to leave the Tao, who was still sprawled on the ground. "Ren . . ." Horo said not turning to face him. "Aishiteru." He then left Ren alone.

Ren just watched the boy leave. What did Horo just say? Ren thought to himself. Did he just say he loved me? OMG! He did! Ren couldn't believe it. Horo had just said the most important thing to Ren after Ren had basically told Horo that he found him disgusting. He had no idea what to do, should he tell him that he didn't mean it, that he didn't think he was disgusting, that he would like a proper second date, that he wouldn't mind being Horo's boyfriend. Except that all led to the same problem . . . his father.

However Ren knew the only way to protect Horo is not to be with him, even though he wanted to. He should leave Horo and never come back, never see him again. It hurt Ren to think of a life without Horo, even though they never were properly together, and if he left Horo he would have to leave his other friends.

Maybe if Ren left then Horo would get over him. So that's why he found himself on a plane to Chine three days later. Little did Ren know that Horo had promised himself to never forget or stop loving Ren.

And he never did . . .

With me

SM: Gosh I'm mean. I know that I ended that really badly. Do you want another one to go with that, you know Horo going to China a year later or something? I'll gladly write it HoroRen is my second favourite pairing and HaoRen is only slightly above it.

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