CHAPTER 6
" YOU BOTH WHAT?"
Yoh was smiling. It was one of those times in which a smile bore many different faces, as he looked at all sides of his friends in the coffeehouse, all the way from Lyserg to Ryu to Ren to Horo to Hao. Even Hao's face had a small look of amazement on it. But Yoh's grin was smug, embarrased, accomplished, weary. . .but generally rather damn happy about the attention and the accomplishment that he had made.
" We kissed, that's right." he said, blushing slightly as he tried to drink from the cup held in his hand.
" So how was it?" Horo asked eagerly. " Was it wet?"
" Ice was practically skidding across the lake." Yoh said dryly. " If the kiss was wet, our lips would have been tinged with ice."
The others laughed.
" Were her lips soft, Yoh?" Hao asked, smiling softly at his brother.
Yoh blushed once again before smiling. " Yeah." she said. " Really soft."
The others let out whistles.
" Way to go, Yoh!" Horo said, smirking, patting Yoh on the back. " I'm surprised at two things; why she actually accepted the kiss and kissed you back, and secondly why you didn't get slapped by her in the first place."
" Being in the right moment." Ren said, sipping his coffee calmly.
" And how do YOU know all the fancy stuff?" Ryu asked curiously.
" Mind your own buisness." Ren muttered, suddenly taking a strong interest in the floor tiling.
" Anyway," Hao said, getting up, a huge grin on his face. " We'd best be off."
Yoh blinked. " Where?"
" To a club." he said matter-of-factly. " If you want to get better at girls, you have to see a professional pick one up."
" Thank you." Ren smirked.
Hao raised his eyebrows at Ren. " What do YOU know about picking up girls?"
" Back when you were still fondling your teddy bear." he said.
The others gasped.
" That was uncalled for, Ren." Horo said.
" You're mean." Ryu said.
" But I'm amused," Hao said, his lips twitching. " At how good you really are. Why don't you come along with us? After all, I'm sure you're interested to see my little brother's first courtship lesson."
Yoh blushed to the roots of his hair. " Quit calling it that." he muttered.
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Hey Hao, can I come too?" Horo asked eagerly. " I haven't had a
girl-friend in a long time and I was hoping to get some of your advice."
" Sure." Hao said, his twitching lips widening into a full, broad grin. " The more the merrier."
" Says who?" came an icy voice, and the five of them jumped in shock.
" A- - -ANNA!" Yoh yelled, jumping behind the chair he was sitting and hid behind Hao. It was an impassive performance, and it was taking all of his friend's wits to keep themselves from laughing out loud.
" Where are you going tonight?" she asked silkily. " You promised to bring me out to dinner."
Huge sweatdrops appeared behind Yoh's head. " Something came up, Anna. . ." he said meekly. " I'll bring you out tomorrow."
She just glared at him for a moment before her attention turned to Hao, who smiled rather nervously at her. This lasted for the next ten minutes or so, and the others were doing bets on how long it would last, when Lyserg suddenly spoke up. " If you want, I can make dinner for you." he said, giving her his most gentle smile ever. She raised her eyebrows, turning in his direction.
" Huh?" Ryu gasped. " If Lyserg's going, I'm coming too!"
THIS won Anna over. Even though she was looking foward to a night with Yoh, having a great feast by the one-and-only Ryu wasn't a total loss. She seemed to look satisfied, Yoh thought hopefully in his head. " Alright then." she said, rather sulkily. " But don't be back too late. I'm suspicious of anything that has Hao inside it." Hao seemed to gulp at this, but she ignored it, and walked out of the coffeeshop.
They all breathed sighs of relief.
" So what exactly happened after the two of you kissed?" Ryu asked Yoh with a bemused expression. " She acts like nothing happened at all."
Yoh sighed. " Well. . ." he said. " After we kissed my hormones won me over. . ."
" Oh crap." Horo muttered, while the others groaned.
" Then she kicked me in the groin again, and she told me if she wanted me to be forgiven I would have to do something worth her while. . .and I chose to treat her to his huge, fancy, high-class diner. She agreed, and we were supposed to go today."
Ren whistled. " Boy, you really suck with the ladies."
" Yep." Lyserg agreed silently.
Hao looked at the clock.
It was eight thirty.
" Great." he said. " Let's get it started."
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It was ten at night when they reached the club, and Hao wrapped an arm around Yoh's neck, grinning at him. " What do you think, Yoh?" he asked, a smirk plastered on his face, which had not been wiped off since that afternoon. " This is where you can get all the practice you need. A nightclub."
" But I don't need a girlfriend." Yoh said aimlessly. " All I want is Anna."
" This is the first step, kiddo." Hao said, ignoring Ren who was rolling his eyes. " In order to get up and seduce Anna, you have to get the flow. The escence, the right stuff. This is where you have to build up your confidence, and always remember one thing. ' Girls are crazy over you'. Even though you're hairy and balding, which you're not really, of course. . ." he said quickily at Yoh, who was touching his head fearfully. " You just have to have the positive attitude, and girls would seem like they're crawling on the ground begging you for sex."
" I like that." Yoh said, grinning at the thought.
" Imagining Anna in a lingerie?" Horo asked cheekily.
" Actually a nurse outfit, but I wouldn't mind that." he answered.
" Alright." Hao said, folding up his sleeves. " I'll show you how it's done."
" Wait a minute." Ren said, suddenly paying attention to their conversation. " If we're going to show him examples of being smooth, I think I should be the one showing it to him for the first try."
" Oh yeah?" Hao said. " Why?"
" Because I started young." Ren said.
" How young?" Hao asked.
" Back when you were still. . ." Ren started.
" . . .Fondling your teddy bear." Horo finished for him. " Come on Ren, it's getting old. Why don't the both of you show him how it's done?"
Ren smirked. " Fine with me." he said. " Who do you want to target?"
Hao looked around the bar and pointed at a girl who was sitting down at the bar. Ren raised his eyebrows and turned around to face Yoh. " Watch and learn, my friend." he said, making his way over to her. He leaned in on her, and bent down lower so that they were just noses away from each other. She clearly was experienced; she just glared at him coldly. " What do you want, kid?"
" My friend wanted some advice on girls, so I wanted to come over and. . ." he started.
" . . .Wanted to show him a beautiful girl?" she finished for him wirily.
" Actually I was going for ugly skank." he said, grinning broadly, enjoying the sight of her raise her eyebrows to the maximum, she smile off her face disappearing in mere seconds. " He's not so attractive himself, so I was hoping for some slut like you going over and give him a kiss."
" How dare you!" she yelled, outraged, forgetting all dignity at once.
" Why?" he said smugly. " What are you going to do? Throw your pantyhose at me?"
She got up huffily, ready to walk away when he gripped her hand. She spun around, glaring at him angrily but stopped when he smiled at her. " I was just kidding." he said. Then he leaned in closer to her. " I just wanted your number."
She blinked, and looked down and noticed that in his hands were a pen and a sheet of paper. He winked at her. " If you may." he said.
There was a moment of silence when she bit her lip in defeat and took the pen from him, and carefully started to write.
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" A club?"
Tamao, Tao Jun and Pirika smiled at her. " Yeah, Anna. You should just blow off some steam once in a while." Pirika said, folding her arms on her hips. " I know a perfect one. . .I heard that Hao went there a lot."
" So?" Anna said, bored, and continued to eat the food that Lyserg and Ryu had prepared, who both were now resting in the living room.
" That means that a lot of hot guys would be there too!" Tao Jun said, winking at her.
Anna sighed. " I'm engaged, if case you haven't noticed."
" Then just go there for fun!" Pirika said. " Flirting around with guys. . .getting their numbers and just ditching them off! Get free food and drinks from them just by showing them your slender legs or look down your top!"
Anna raised her eyebrows.
" I have new respect for your brother." she said.
" Come on Anna. . ." Pirika whined. " It's going to be fun. Plus, you could just give them your number, and purposely let Yoh get it. Imagine how cute he would look and act when he's jealous! Didn't you ever wonder how he would be like if suddenly guys started calling you, requesting for you to go out with them?"
Anna would have been disgusted, but somehow she seemed amused by the idea.
" Anna-san?" Tamao asked nervously.
Anna smirked, getting up from where she was.
" That sounds interesting." she said, followed by hearty cheers from the three other girls.
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" Not half bad, Ren." Hao said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. " She not only wrote down her handphone number to you, she also added her fax, house, office and pager number. Plus, she added in her e-mail number and particulars."
The others laughed.
" Man, it looks like a resume." Horo said, grinning.
" But you're amazing, Ren." Yoh said, nodding his head. " But I don't understand why you insulted her."
Ren smirked at him. " That's my secret to facing women." he said, drawing a chair. They were sitting at the bar at the moment, but they were crowded around Ren, who was in the middle, soaking up all the attention. " You see, Yoh." he started, sipping the drink in his hands for dramatic effect, and even Hao had to admit he did it really well. " The less attracted you seem towards them, the more attracted to you they become. It's basic knowledge anyway. If you go up to her exclaiming how ravishing beautiful and hot she looks, she'll just see you as another one of the losers that beg her for days just to get to kiss her palm. That would give her no thrill in ditching or even ending up in bed with you."
The others let out whistles.
" I didn't know you were that good at this sort of thing, Ren." Horo said, his face suddenly dawning with absolute admiration. And Ren took in every ounce of it. He smirked in his largest one yet, and there was yet once again that moment that he surged up in the atmosphere, and it seemed that that was the perfect " Tao ren" moment, and his mouth was already wide open when Hao smiled and got to his feet.
" If you have to use that sort of cheap tactics to get women, Ren, you're nowhere near me in sharmanic abilities and courting women both." Hao said, dustring his coat calmly with an air of distinct arrogance.
" Oh?" Ren said, trying desperately to sound calm, but the peak of his hair was edging slowly and slowly to the top of the ceiling. " In that case, would you mind telling me how you would do it? Mind you, I only took fifteen seconds."
" Chicken wings." Hao said. " Choose a girl, Yoh."
" Me?" Yoh asked nervously. " I don't know. . ."
" Anna's not here, if case you know." Horo said cheekily.
" I know THAT," Yoh said hotly, while the others laughed. " But I just don't feel comfortable choosing girls that I find alluring while Anna's in my head most of the time. Or all of the time, to say that."
" Alright then." Ren said, starting to get irritated about Yoh's almost inhumanly low hormones. " Get that girl over there. Glasses, crossed legs, tight lips, a book in her hands, four guys already around her that are good-looking and a glass of iced water before her. . .on a coaster. Good luck to YOU, Hao."
Hao rubbed his chin thoughtfully. " You really thought deep into that didn't you?"
Yoh and Horo raised their eyebrows.
" What's wrong with a coaster and iced water?" Horo asked.
" Are glasses bad?" Yoh asked.
Hao and Ren looked at them like they were retarded for a moment before sighing. " A coaster glass is one sure sign that she's not having a good enough time here. When you're at a club you order a beer, whisky, a small wine at least. Iced water is keeping things on a professional basis, showing that she wants to stay sombre at all times. Also proving she has no plans on getting drunk." Ren said.
" Glasses go with that same rule." Hao said patiently as looks of understanding dawned on the two of their faces. " Girls wear contacts when they go clubbing. Glasses are a no-way inside a nightclub like this."
Yoh nodded. " Oh. . .I get it." Yoh said.
" So." Hao said, winking at Yoh. " Watch me at work. This will only take me five seconds.Yoh, count to five. Pause when I pass my handphone or a pad and pencil at her. When she gives it back, continue counting."
The peak of Ren's hair shot up higher than ever before.
" That son of a. . ." he started, but stopped halfway at the sound of Yoh's counting.
" One. . ."
Hao brushed past the four men and said something to her.
" Two. . ."
She laughed.
" Three. . ."
He tossed his handphone at her.
" Four. . ."
Yoh paused.
She passed it back.
" Five. . ."
Hao walked over, smirking as four men started at him from the back, three staring from the front. In the screen of his handphone, there was a number. Even Ren was speechless, his mouth opening to say something but shut it again quickly.
" Well?" Hao asked. " What do you think?"
And by their dumbstruck faces, it was easy to understand what was going through their heads.
Wow.
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" Are you ready, Anna?" Jun asked Anna with a dreamy air. The four girls had just entered the club, and within seconds everyone's eyes were on them. Men had taken their picks to hit on them when they reached the bar or dance floor, while some ladies just stopped whatever they were doing at stared. A blue haired girl with a halter top and mini skirt, a pink haired girl who was well endowed but whose shirt was so tight that if she bent over it would have ripped in half, a green haired girl who was just wearing a tight cheongsam but was attractive all the same, and a brown haired girl with a skirt so short men could practically see up it without even peering at her from below the stairs.
" I don't see why YOU had to tag along too." Anna said, crossing her arms across her chest. " What if Pai Long found out that you were here frenching other guys? God knows how many men he would kill."
Tao Jun flushed in spite of herself. " Look, just get in there and have fun alright?" she said. " I'm curious to see what a good little kid like Yoh would do; or at least how pissed he would be to see his future wife kissing some other guy in a nightclub alright?"
Anna would have blushed if she didn't catch the last word.
" How would he know if I was here?" she snapped.
" Because I caught Ren talking to Bason about beating Hao in his own game and in his own turf. . .so I figured that he would be here. And since Ren is here, Yoh and the rest should be here too." She glanced at Pirika. " And that includes your brother too."
Pirika smiled. " That's good." she said.
Tamao bit her lip but said nothing.
" Well, I wonder if you ever came to a place like this before, Anna?" Jun asked Anna heartily. Anna just shook her head silently and raised her eyebrows at the two ladies kissing each other on a bar table. " Then you clearly wouldn't know what to do when men start to hit on you from all sides of the bar. Knowing a hot lady that you are, no doubt something's going to happen to you today."
" G. . .Guys hit on Anna-sama all the time." Tamao began timidly.
" That 's different, Tamao-san." Pirika said. " I can't beleive that you came here with me twice and still seem so inexperienced. Keep your chin up, Tamao, and try to hook up with some gusy at the end of the day."
" And YOU planning to get any?" Tao Jun asked her while Tamao blushed all colours of the rainbow.
" If there are any hot looking guys, yes." Pirika said.
Anna rolled her eyes. " In any case, I'm just going to find Yoh."
And the other girls followed in her footsteps.
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" Okay Yoh, you go." Hao and Ren said.
Yoh gulped and sighed, sitting himself down on a chair. " I feel weird doing this by myself. . ." he said. " Horo Horo, can you do this with me? At least if I get rejected I wouldn't get rejected alone."
" Okay." Horo said brightly before raising his eyebrows. " So are you saying that I'LL get rejected?"
" Yeah he is." Ren said, smirking.
" YOU!" Horo roared, pointing at Ren.
" Alright, quit it." Hao said. " Why don't the both of you go? "
" Yeah." Ren said, dropping his fourth mug of milk. " Because I'm getting bored."
The three of them glared at him for a moment before Yoh smiled. " Okay." he said.
" Choose that girl over there." Hao said. " She looks easy enough. Horo, there's another one over there who seems like she wants a man desperately. They're alright looking. Just try to practice on them. Don't break their hearts though." He added in a warning tone as Horo's face split into a grin, followed by Yoh and Horo slumping off in seperate directions.
" You want to give him someone easy?" Ren asked. " Wouldn't it be better to give him someone incredibly hard so she would ditch him so he would know how being rejected feels like? If the girl's easy and she likes him, what the Hell do we do when he gives her his number? Knowing the stupidity in him that's what he'll do! And you know what? Anna wouldn't be jumping with joy either!"
Then he stopped at Hao's smirk.
" Oh you wouldn't." he growled.
" I thought it would be better to make Anna jealous." Hao said, smirking. " Wouldn't it be better to make Anna pounce on Yoh instead?"
" That's stupid and juvenille." Ren snapped. " I'm going to get more milk."
" Okay." Hao said. " There's an ice-cream van outside."
" Oh shut up." Ren said, walking off.
Hao smiled and looked at the back of Yoh talking to the girl. " I guess she likes him." Hao said, nodding to himself as Yoh smiled sheepishly as she laughed. He crossed his legs and was about to turn around to check out Horo's progress when his eyes widened at what he saw/
Or who he saw.
She was beautiful. Ravishing, more like it. But it was more of her character he was afraid of.
" Hello, Hao." Anna said, in a mock sweet tone.
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A glass cracked.
" Ah! Lyserg! Are you okay?" Ryu asked.
" I'm okay, Ryu-san." Lyserg said. He raised his eyebrows at the midnight sky. " I think something's about to happen. . .Ryu-san."
" Mm." Ryu said. " Me too."
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" Anna!" Hao said in a mock cheerful voice, standing up abruptly to prevent Anna from seeing Yoh for obvious reasons. Her arms were crossed across her chest, her lips pursed as she glared at him with a distinct coolness.
" Where is he, Hao?" Anna asked.
" What are you talking about, Anna?" Hao asked, smiling. " And what are YOU doing here in a nightclub by yourself? I didn't think you were the kind of person who sneaked out of house from your fiance to hit nightclubs."
" Don't try to be cute." she snapped. " I was dragged here with Tamao, Tao Jun and Pirika. They just went off to hit on boys by theirselves. Now where is he? I'm not going to ask you again."
" That's what they always say, and they ask again." Hao said jokingly, but the smile faded from his face as her glare got fiercer. " You look really beautiful tonight, Anna." he said. " Is it just me, or did your dress get tighter?"
She raised a hand to slap him but his hand launched out and grabbed it, and pinned it behind her back. Within seconds they were noses apart, a smirk on his face. " God, I forgot how beautiful you were." he whispered.
" Let go of me." she hissed.
Inside his head, he was storming for ideas. He was hoping to advert her attention towards him at first, but now that he had her FULL attention, he had no idea what to do next. The only ray of hope he had left was to piss her off and anger her until she stormed off, giving Yoh a chance to walk away. Or run, most hopefully. His tongue darted out to lick his lips, and was surprised to see Anna blush slightly at that, biting her lip coyly. " Hao, if you keep doing that, I'll have to. . ."
" Kick me?" he asked, almost secretly hopefully. It was one of Anna's most famous things to do, actually. After beating or mauling up the person as much as she could, she would stomp off or stalk away.
" Kiss you." she whispered.
His eyes widened.
" What?" he asked.
" Now. . ." she began throatily. He shuddered in absolute shock as he left her left hand graze his thigh. " Where is Yoh?" Her lips were barely inches from his at the moment, and if Hao jsut bent down a few inches. . .
" He's talking to a girl at the end of the bar. . ." he started without thinking.
She snapped, wrenching her hand from his grasp and pushed him out of the way. Hao hit the bar table, half-shocked by her sudden motions, and half-amused that for once he was beaten by a girl in two things; strength and seducing. " So it was all an act, wasn't it?" he whispered to himself. " Not bad. Not bad at all."
Then his eyes widened as he got to his feet, hopefully to pull Anna away from looking when. . .
He noticed her slack-jawed, staring at the scene of Yoh talking to the other girl, his hand on her shoulder, her hand on his waist.
" Ohhh. . . .shit. . . ." he muttered.
END CHAPTER 6
What did you think of it? Don't worry, it's not the end of the world. Yoh and Anna WILL get back together if not the next chapter then the chapter after that. But Anna WILL make Yoh insanely jealous in the few chapters to come though. SPOILER! Sorry to everyone who waited so long for my LONGEST update ever! I guess with the holidays over, life has slowed down by a lot with all the STUPID excess homework given. Chapter 7 will be up soon, so please look out for it in the M section! Please don't abandon me! Boo hoo:( ( Sorry, just watched some emotional Korean movie)
ReAdEr ReSpOnSeS
King of Chaos- - -My thought exactly. Watch it in the M section from chapter 7 onwards.
Exploded toilet bowl- - - -Lolz. Thanks. Yep, Hao's smooth, but Ren ain't shabby either. It's definite I have to move the story to M if Hao's going to show Yoh the more. . .intimate moves. . .Don't expect any yaoi thought. Lolz.
blackyuki- - -Yep.
Peacemaker- - -Haiz, time. It's running through my fingers like water. WATER! I tell you! WATER! Ahem. . .right. . .
hannah-asakura- - -Yeah, and Yoh has to go up there and mess it all up.
Satori-chan- - -Mmm? Oh sure, it's
YamiandAnzu4ever- - -Sorry for not fufilliung your wish. . .haiz. . .But I'll be quicker in chapter 7.
Anna- - - -Yepz.
azimataiji- - - -Aw, don't say that. . .Thank you. I think your stories are pretty cool too.
YumeTakato- - -Iffy? I think Hao's pretty cool too.
hannami08- - - Lolz. Yeppppp.
Orphen27- - - -Ha ha. Thanks for the compliment.
merissala- - - Hey, no worries.
Inu n Shaman Fan- - - -Yep.
Jojo-Kyoyama- - -Once again, time is not on my side. . .
Frank S- - - -Wow! Really? Thanks!