Hey, Everyone, it's me here. I just wanted to say that I have no idea when I last posted a chapter, so I'll have to check a bit later. But anyway, this chapter has to be the longest chapter so far! In fact, I'm sure it is but as some of you know, when there's more of something, there's usually a downfall, too—and guess what? You're right. Well…it's this: I am having a hard time getting everything ready and organized now that I switched from PC to MAC. My iBook is great but I might take longer to post the next chapter, but by then, I might have some idea with the whole thing and it might come out more regularly. Well, that's all, thank you for reading this and here's the next chapter.
Chapter 12: Sometimes, You're Much Better Off When You Don't Interrupt
"What? Come on, I know all of you really want to play!" Hao urged them on, but they didn't listen to a word that he said; he pouted. "You know that all of you are just dying to kiss me!" he said as he turned around with his arms folded over his chest as a smug smirk was on his face. "You all are just worried that someone else will kiss me just before you get your chance!"
"As if," Lyserg took the bottle, preventing Hao from going on for even longer about how beautiful and loved he was.
"I change my mind Lyserg, you can't go anymore. You didn't do anything on your turn so you must give the turn to someone else. I'll let you choose who can go though," Hao said suddenly as he gave Lyserg a bored look.
"Fickle," Lyserg muttered. He looked at the group. Who should get the chance to go on ahead and take over his turn? There were a few people who still didn't get the chance to go and deserved this turn but who should he choose? The one who didn't get their turns yet: Jun never got a chance, Faust just came, Marco…not much of a chance of letting him go and…was that it? No one else. Lyserg though for a bit. "Jun." he finally decided.
"I actually get a turn?"
"Yeah."
"…Really, me?"
"Yes. So, why don't you go ahead and spin?"
"My turn…"
"Yup, go ahead."
"It is finally my turn…"
"Well, what do you know, it is…So why don't you spin already?"
"Hmmm…this just doesn't feel real."
"You don't have to feel anything, just go on ahead now."
"I can't believe I'm actually getting a chance to spin that bottle, Lyserg."
"Neither can I at the pace you're going in."
"Oh, have I kept you and everyone else waiting?"
"Here you go." Lyserg put the bottle right next to Jun. He was trying so hard not to scream that moment.
"Fine, I will now spin the bottle!" The bottle kept on spinning and spinning until it pointed to…
"I'm cursed," Ren sighed. "I'm cursed. It's just the truth."
"Okay, which one do you want? Truth or Dare?"
"Oh for the love of—fine, truth."
Jun's eyes narrowed as she hid a smirk with her right hand.
Ren's eyes widened. This wasn't good. Every time she did that, it only meant trouble for him. Ren narrowed his eyes into a glare. "What are you thinking of?" he asked suspiciously.
"Me?" Jun said innocently. "Nothing. I was just thinking about what I should ask you, that's all." Jun paused and thought for a moment. "Okay, I got it."
"Go right ahead," Ren sighed.
"What," Jun started, "did you and Horohoro do for the twenty minutes when we were all gone?"
Ren looked at Horohoro and he didn't seem to be paying any attention to his turn; he was just talking to the others. This annoyed Ren. It was his turn and Horohoro wasn't even bothering to take a look at what Ren was doing. "Okay…" Ren said as an idea struck him. "We did plenty of things, Jun, many things." Ren noticed Horohoro look at him from the corner of his eyes and was satisfied that that got his attention.
"Really?" Jun asked curiously. "What kinds of things did you two do?"
Ren thought for a moment as Horohoro turned away again and began to talk to the rest of the group again. "Well," Ren thought out loud. "What could we have done? What did we do? Hmmm…now what was it…Oh yes, I remember now," Ren exclaimed. "What we did—or should I say, he did," Ren pointed to Horohoro, "Was…well, he passionately kissed a dog." Of course Ren had not seen Horohoro do that but he had to get him somehow, but the thought of what he said almost made him sick.
Instant attention from everyone, especially Horohoro.
"What!" Horohoro screamed. "I didn't do that! That's just disgusting!" Horohoro paused for and then a sneaky smile formed on his face, making Ren feel uncomfortable. "Hey, Ren, who was the one saying that they weren't sick?" Horohoro exclaimed with a grin, pointing an causing finger at Ren. "I know I didn't do that, I'm sure about that, but I guess he has a…" He turned to Ren.
"I am not sick, you got that?" Ren growled, a bit red on the cheeks.
"So what did you do, Ren?"
"None of your business, Jun."
Jun giggled. "I guess I have to get you next time."
Horohoro slapped Ren playfully on the back. "C'mon! You can tell her everything we did!" he laughed playfully. "There's nothing to hide! Right, Ren? We just played some games!"
"You're making what we did sound a lot worse than it actually is, Horohoro," Ren mumbled with his eyes shut from irritation.
"Okay, come on, it's not your sister's turn anymore; it's yours now, Ren," Horohoro said in a sing-song voice. For some unknown reason, he was in an exceptionally good mood. "Don't worry everyone! I'll tell you what we really did!"
"Don't you dare," Ren hissed.
"We played CandyLand!" Horohoro said while laughing. "You know, that board game!"
"That was only because you wanted to play it and it was the only game there!" Ren yelled defensively to everyone.
With a smirk, Horohoro opened the closet and a mountain of various board games all came tumbling down. It ranged from famous ones like Monopoly and Sorry to smaller ones like Moods and PayDay. "Sorry, Ren," Horohoro chuckled, "I just wanted you to see you play that game! And if I had a video camera, I would show everyone but," he sighed sadly. "There wasn't one in sight!"
"Ren actually played," Hao said as he now pointed to CandyLand, "That game? I wouldn't be caught dead playing that!"
Jun just gasped at the thought of the whole thing. "I have got to tell Mother this!"
Yoh let out a soft chuckle, "You really got him, Horohoro! I only wish I was there to see it!"
"I knew it all along," Anna said calmly as she looked at Ren. "That he actually liked playing games like those."
"A boy his age should have grown out of such games like this one," Faust said matter-of-factly as he now took the board game to take a look at the recommended age. "This game is for kinder, you're a teenager."
"Shit," it was Hao again. "Someone actually got Near that game?"
"I didn't know Ren was the type to play games like these," Manta said in an unsure tone.
Even Tamao seemed to be lost for words at the whole thing. She just gasped.
Ryu stood there, gaping at the whole thought of playing a game that was so pink, so kiddy, so—he was lost for words too.
'Actually,' Lyserg thought as he sweatdropped, far away from everyone with his back turned at them. 'I STILL play that game…better not tell them that…or that I keep a pink teddy bear and sleep with it each and very night…And…that I can't sleep without it…"
"To tell you all the truth," Horohoro announced as he had just remembered the whole thing. "Pirika—Sis here—thought of the whole thing just before I left…you know, just in case I came back a bit earlier than planned!" He laughed at the whole situation again. "So, Everyone, cheers for her!"
Everyone clapped at her as she laughed, blushing a bit at all the attention she was getting just then. That is to say, everyone but one person was cheerful and clapping for her and that person was Ren.
Ren grabbed his Kwan-Dao from his side and tightened his grip on it as he looked at Pirika. "That little bit—"
"No you don't!"
WAM!
Surprised, Ren placed a hand on his right cheek—just where he was had been punched hard at. Shocked widen eyes then narrowed down into slits. "You," he snarled, turning around to Horohoro, with his Kwan-Dao in his hand. The halberd was then slowly brought right up in front of the Ainu's face, but he remained the same, not stirring a bit even though something so sharp was just an inch away. "Were you the one who punched me, Baka?"
"You can't say things like that about my sister!" Horohoro explained, hoping that those words would be enough to cover the reason why he had punched Ren. "I care about my sibling as much as anyone would!" he went on. "Like you and Jun! Like Hao and Yoh—okay, maybe not Hao with Yoh, but you get what I'm saying!"
"And what does that mean?" Hao asked, taken aback with what Horohoro was saying. "I treat my brother with a lot of love and respect thank you very much! And speaking of my brother!" He turned to Yoh and held up his empty glass cup, shaking it in the air slightly. "Lesser Half of a Brother! Get me a drink already! I'm dying of thirst! I'm getting dehydrated here! Shake a let, will ya!"
"Sure, Hao," Yoh said laughing, sweatdroping a bit. "No problem." He took his bottle and then headed over to the kitchen, bringing back a glass of water. "Here you are, Hao," he smiled as he placed it in his brother's hand.
Hao snatched the cup and then took a gulp. He stopped, enraged, and spat it all over Yoh's face! "I was drinking coke, dammit! Not water!"
"Sorry, Hao," Yoh sighed.
Everyone's mouth was agape at how Hao just treated Yoh, but they didn't say anything—they were used to Hao saying one thing and doing the total opposite by now. But Anna's eyes flashed with anger. "Only I can treat him like that!" she screamed at him, enraged, giving him a hard bash in the face, in which the mere word "Punch" would not have even begun to describe it.
The sound of cracking bones were heard as she hit him in the face
"My beautiful face!" Hao yelled, touching it with his hands to see if it was fine or not. "MY FACE!"
This all was so ridiculous that he was no longer angry anymore—not by a long shot. With a sigh, Ren spun the bottle but not without Hao irritating him the whole time as it spun as he had found out that his face was, indeed, just the same and as beautiful as before.
"You know you want to play Spin the Bottle. You do, don'tcha?" Hao hollered. "Kiss the person that it points to!" He had emphasized on the word 'kiss.'
The whole time, Ren sat down, his back facing Hao. He knew that Hao was trying to get at least him on his side, but the more he tried to get Ren to join, the less he wanted it; it was not like he wanted to do it in the first place but Hao just made it worse. Ren swore that Hao must have been a really bad salesperson in his past life. Not a wicked ancestor of Silva, but an evil salesperson.
"Don't you want to play Spin the Bottle Instead, Ren?" Hao continued to chirp. "It'll be fun! You can kiss…!" He paused to think. "Who would Ren want to kiss? Hmm…Oh!" Hao clapped his hands together as person struck him as someone Ren would want to kiss. "You can kiss Ryu if you play!"
"What! As if I want to kiss that hairy ape!" Ren growled.
"Excuse Me!" Ryu said heatedly.
Once again, Hao went into deep thought. "…You can kiss Yoh! I know you always wanted to, Ren!"
"No!"
"Hmm…OH! You can kiss Lyserg!"
"What? As if!"
"Oh," Hao said as realization dawned on him. "You want to kiss me! I get it! You were just too shy to say that, that's all. I must say that you have good taste. Well, I prefer to save myself for the ladies, but if this is what it takes to get you to play, I'll even stoop low enough to—"
"I DON'T want to kiss you!" Ren screamed as he jumped away from a Hao that was attempting to Kiss him.
Hao hit himself on the forehead. "Of course, you want to kiss Horoho—"
Before he could finish, his face was met with a fist. "Tell me," Ren said as a vein popped up from his head, "Why are All the people you listed…Males?"
Hao blinked. "You want to kiss Tamao then!" he asked eagerly as he grabbed a Tamao that was attempting to run away and out of the room from everyone. "Here!" he said with Tamao right in front of Ren.
"NO! You just don't get it!"
"Okay, okay," Hao said before Ren could even say a word. "You want to kiss Pirika, right?"
"No! What to do you think I am, a man-slut or something?"
"If you don't want to kiss, then what do you want!" Hao asked.
"I just want—"
"Oh! Ew…You want THAT, huh? But from who?"
"What?" Ren yelled. "No! That's just disgusting!" "I want—"
"So you want me to kiss someone in front of you as a show?" Hao suggested. "Yoh? Anna? Which one? As much as I don't want to kiss a guy, the only guy who is worthy is Yoh because he's my other half and the only girl who's worthy enough for me is Anna. So Yoh? Fine, but you do realize that I'll only do this for you." He grabbed Yoh roughly by his collar, bringing him closer to him.
"Uh…I think I left the water running in the bathtub!" Yoh shouted and he ran off to the bathroom.
"NO!" Ren shouted. "That's not what I want and all and all I can say is thank god that Yoh had to do something, sparing me from a show that would be beyond scary for words! What I want is just—"
"Me to kiss Anna?" Hao suggested one again. He blushed a little with a sneaky smirk. "Well…if you insisted. I guess I'll do it."
Ren placed a finger on his forehead as he leaned on his arm. I think I'm going to get a bad headache…
Yoh came back, drying water off from his hands with a towel. "Great, I just came back in time!" he smiled. "Hmm? Did you get hurt, Hao?"
"So," Hao said, this time with a throbbing red slap mark on his left cheek. "What do you want, Ren?"
W/C: This chapter's the longest one I've done, huh? I know my chapters are not that long to begin with but I'm just going to say that I hope I don't ever end up doing another one like this one! Man, I'm pretty sure that this covers up for that short chapter that I posted last time…don't you think?