1Well, if you care, this chapter is quite short. I would think that I would have more time to write since I have my Summer Vacation but it seems to be the other way around. Anyway, he's the next chapter.

Chapter 10: The Book

"According to the book, as long as no one disagrees, this is what Hao wrote as 'it's on!'…" Faust paused at all of this with an amused and confused expression on his face. "I guess you have to," he thought out loud. "But Ryu's dare was a bit vague. Did he mean kiss Jeanne and then play a 'little game' with Marco, does Lyserg get to choose which one to do in order, or does he have to do only one of them, or perhaps—"

"We get it already!" Horohoro shouted to the still talking Faust, annoyed slightly—he was never a man of patience, he knew that. As he picked himself up, he grabbed Ren's arm.

"What are you doing?" Ren snapped at the Ainu. "Let go of me!"

"Okay, so this is the plan: we'll force Lyserg to do it. Me and Ren will get Lyserg and Pirika and Tamao will get Jeanne," Horohoro explained to Ren. "And then me, Ren, Yoh and Faust will get Marco since he's such a big guy." He clapped his hands and pointed to Lyserg. "Let's move, Ren!"

"Are you saying that you and I will have to get him?" Ren asked in a tone that clearly showed that this whole thing was utterly ridiculous. "What's the point?"

"Come on, just shut up and do it already," Horohoro laughed. "You don't have to critiseeze everything I say!"

"...Criticize, Horo, that's criticize."

"Okay fine, critlize! let's just do this!" Horohoro clapped his hands again.

"Baka..." Ren sighed.

Getting Tamao to help them wouldn't be an easy thing to do, but Pirika somehow managed to convince her to help and they were ready and set to place this plan into action.

"I'll humor you, but only this one time," Ren warned Horohoro with a sigh, and then he grasped Lyserg.

The English boy was not going to let this all be easy. "Let go of me!" he demanded, struggling like a fish that was just taken out of the water. "You all are not going to get me to do anything!"

The struggling Lyserg did prove to be a challenge to Ren. "Hey, Baka, aren't you going to help me!" he yelled across his shoulder.

"Uhh…yes, right away," Horohoro replied, taking off his jacket.

"Great, just what we need: you doing us a strip show!" Ren yelled. "Why did you take off your jacket? At least wear a decent shirt! Put one on now!"

Horohoro rolled his eyes. "Yes, Mom."

"What did you call me!"

"Nothing, Ren, just hold on to him." Horohoro held his jacket with both hands now. "I know what I'm doing. Just trust me, and hold onto him for me."

A/N: I just have one request: could anyone who reads this give me a review instead of running off without one? Yeah, I'm talking to you. I just want to know what people think of the chapters. Flames are eagerly accepted as are kinder reviews–I just want to know what you think. Do you know how odd it is to have about 32 people (I have that much?) Put this as a favorite story, and it ends up that less than half reviews? Well, anyway, it's weird. Oh, and I thank all my readers and reviewers, just remember that I always accept ideas and suggestion. Till next time, ciao.