Disclaimer: The plot is owned by no one else but Micelle… so if you don't like it… then you don't… however the anime and the character are not hers…sad isn't it?
Hope you like this chapter, sorry for the errors…
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Chapter 8
Yoh was watching TV quietly that night when a ring from the phone interrupted.
Yoh looked horrified at the phone behind him.
"That's her." Yoh uttered as Amidamaru appeared behind him, looking frightened too.
The reason why these two are scared is that they were watching the Ring 0-2.
"Master Yoh, answer it." Amidamaru said looking at Yoh.
"I don't want to. What if it's her? And then she tells me that I only have 7 days to live! I can't bear the thought! Why don't you? You're already dead."
"I don't want to… she's really scary."
To think that these two warriors are sacred of a girl that crawls out of the TV is really ridiculous especially if you know that Yoh is a shaman, a person that can see the dead all the time, and Amidamaru is well… he's already dead.
And so with a lot of encouragement from Amidamaru, Yoh had the courage to pick up the phone.
"H-Hello…" he uttered almost in a whisper.
"WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG! ARE YOU WATCHING 'THE RING' AGAIN!" Ren's voice shouted from the phone.
Yoh sighed in relief, as well as Amidamaru.
"Ren! How're you?" Yoh asked cheerfully completely forgetting the thing about the 'you-got-7-days-more-to-live issue.'
"Fine. I found Pirika and she's already sleeping. We're coming home tomorrow. By the way I think it would be really wise to let Horohoro know about this. She missed him so much." Ren said.
"Okay. Got ya."
"And one more thing." Ren added as Yoh listened well, "STOP WATCHING HORROR MOVIES IF YOU ARE SUCH A COWARD! GROW UP YOH YOU'RE ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY GHOSTS MUCH WORSE THAN SADAKO!" Ren shouted to the point that Yoh have to move the phone away from his face. When Yoh listened to it once more Ren hang up.
"Then they're fine." Yoh said smiling cheerfully and going back to Amidamaru, when he suddenly saw a girl crawling out of the TV!
"Oh, hello. Where did you came from?" He asked calmly, grinning sheepishly.
"Um… from the TV?"
"Oh… I'm Yoh and this is Amidamaru." Yoh said showing Amidamaru who just waved happily.
"Is this Chocolove's house?" she asked hoarsely.
"No. He's not here."
"Dammit. Wrong TV again. Arigatou and sayonara." She said as she crawled back in.
"I wonder what's her name?" Yoh just uttered as Amidamaru's jaw dropped finally knowing who the girl was.
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Ren saw himself alone in a grassy field… the wind was brushing his hair… the wind was delightful but somehow depressing, it was a deadly lullaby and because of that he decided to go and leave that place…
Unfortunately someone grabbed his shoulder as if telling me 'don't go Ren, don't leave me… don't worry I'm here.' Then…
Like in his usual dream there was Horohoro… kissing him warmly.
"Horohoro…" Ren thought as he succumbed to him.
However now the dream didn't end right there and there…
"Ren…" a dainty tiny voice echoed… barely audible.
Ren pulled back from Horohoro and looked around…
Ren looked back at Horohoro whose face was dark, covered by the shadows… he was looking down unable for Ren to see his face.
"Why did you do that?' Ren asked angrily.
"Don't you know that because of you… you're sister keeps on insisting that I'm a gay."
"But are you?" a gentle voice asked, not coming from Horohoro since it was in a higher pitch. But Ren didn't notice that one.
"OF COARSE NOT! And you know why?"
"Why?"
"Because it's her I love and not you!"
Horohoro then looked up… but it wasn't Horohoro anymore…
It was Pirika, dressed in Horohoro's clothes and was keeping her hair like that of her brother.
Pirika pulled the bandana letting her hair wave in the wind.
"It was me… all this time… I was the one you are dreaming of… not my brother but…"
"Pirika." Ren suddenly pulled the girl closer to him, crushing her in his embrace.
"I knew it… I'm not a gay."
"You aren't…" Pirika uttered and with that the two suddenly fall on the grassy field.
Ren stred at Pirika's orbs doesn't even believing himself that it was Pirika.
"Is that really you?"
Pirika nod, smiling at him.
"Good…I'm happy."
Ren then closed his eyes and leaned towards her, capturing her lips.
Pirika slowly closed her eyes too…
But when Ren opened his eyes he found himself inside his room in the onsen.
"Finally the nightmare ended… and it turned out to be a dream." Ren smirked, being delighted.
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"ONIICHAN!" Pirika's voice echoed throughout the onsen. It seemed that Horohoro had come back.
Ren finally walked down seeing Horohoro checking Pirika's condition. When he entered Pirika's happy smile vanished from her lips.
"What is it?" Horohoro noticed and looked at Ren.
Ren was still awfully quiet.
"Did this guy been taking care of you?" Horohoro asked Pirika.
Pirika gave Ren a pleading look but Ren just turned away.
"Certainly, he was a good guardian." Pirika answered.
"What happened to your trip?" Yoh suddenly asked.
"It was very fun indeed." Horohoro answered as Ren sat on the floor leaning on the door.
"By the way I have good news." Horohoro exclaimed.
"What is it?" Pirika asked.
"Tam and I." Horohoro said pulling Tamao by his side, who instantly blushed.
"We're getting married." Tamao finished his sentence.
Yoh and the spirits cheered. Horohoro just grinned. Tamao was blushing.
Pirika on the other hand turned to Ren who sat there, face dark.
"Poor Ren." Pirika thought actually pitying the boy.
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Throughout the day Ren was pretty quiet.
Pirika always catches him looking towards Horohoro or her direction then look away.
While they were eating Ren didn't made a sound and excused himself. Pirika saw that he barely ate a thing.
"What's his problem?" Horohoro asked.
Pirika's face saddened as her brother asked this for she believes that she knows exactly the reason why Ren is acting like this.
"By the way Oniichan. Do you really love each other?" Pirika suddenly asked, her hands shaking.
Horohoro turned serious, and then smiled very wide.
"Yes… and I'm very sure about that." Horohoro answered.
Pirika then turned to Tamao who instantly blushed at the girl's look.
"How about you Tamao'neesan?"
Tamao just nod, that's all there is to it. Her eyes though hiding in her blushes was very determined and she surely knows what she was doing.
Pirika sighed and look towards the path where Ren went.
"What's the matter Pirika? Anything bothering you?" Tamao asked, noticing the sadness in her eyes.
Pirika shook her head and tried to smile.
"I'm fine."
"You sure?" Horohoro asked.
"Yup."
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Ren sat in his room staring blankly at the ceiling.
"What's the matter Master Ren?" Bason asked.
"Nothing… it's just that… never mind."
"Just what?"
Ren turned to his side and stared at the door where the only images he sees is of Pirika's
"Ever since I found out that it wasn't Horohoro I'm dreaming of… I started to… to…"
"To?" Bason uttered helping his master say it out.
"To get uneasy around her… it's like I'm very shy." Ren then sat up knocking his head.
"This is crazy! Ren you're such a baka! If you just have enough courage to tell Pirika how you really feel then everything will turn out fine." Ren shouted irritated with himself.
Bason tried to calm his young master as he shouts and screams.
Meanwhile on that note Pirika then passed through his room, she heard Ren screamed and that caused pain inside her heart. She wanted to stay and comfort the boy but his cry was so unbearable.
So she ran for it, going to her own room and locking herself.
She crouched near the door and cupped her ears. Though she was blocking any sound it seemed that Ren's every shout, scream and cry still echoed inside her head… and she can't keep it out.
"Ren…" she uttered as tears started to flow from her eyes.
"I should hate you… making me fall for you while you still like my brother…I hate you…" she sobbed.
"I know this is wrong but…why do I feel sympathy towards him? Why do I feel very sad to see him like this? Even if I know that he deserved it… desiring for something that can't be reach."
She leaned towards the wall and lays her head on it rolling to the side where she caught a glimpse of a picture.
She then crawled towards the picture and looked at it carefully.
It was a group picture, everyone was there… but it seemed to her that the only person her eyes can see was…
"Ren…"
He was crossing his arms with a tough look of annoyance. Pirika then noticed that her brother was beside him, his arm around Ren's neck while she was on Ren's other side embracing Tamao happily.
Though Ren looked tough Pirika still noticed a smile on his lips… it was barely noticeable but still can be seen.
"He seemed happy whenever with my brother…" Pirika uttered, as another tear rushed down her eyes and dropped in the picture.
"I mustn't fool myself… only my brother can make him happy… not me…"
Little did Pirika know that on that day, Ren was smiling not because of Horohoro but because he noticed that Pirika was beside him… and her gentle ways always cheered him up.
But of coarse she didn't know that…
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