Hao: Ashuri does not own shaman king.

Ashuri: yeah. Not so many reviews as last time but that's ok.

Spiritsflame: Kawii! (I hope that means cute, and not some horrible swear...) More soon! Oh, ans when I said every one hate aHoro I got it mixed up with the wrong fic! GOMENASAI! I'M SO SORRY! That's alright. No worrys. And cute in Japanese is spelled 'Kawaii". You forgot the other 'A'.

Gift-of-the-elves: aw, Ren does care... a little. Yey hope to hear more soon k! And thank you for holding back on your evil urges to make Horo suffer Rens nasty mood while hes sick. He better get better, poor Horo. Bye Bye! Rock-On! Yeah Horo really didn't need to suffer, no matter how much I wanted him too.

Kimbob: Yay! Ren's so nice! Poor Horo... It sounded really bad there at first. I love the traffic jam and radio humor! Keep up the ACE work! Yes the humor was awesome! Its was fun writing it. Heh. Thankies!

Anonymous: Next chapter! PLEEZ! *begs* your begging has been granted.

Ashuri: and without further ado, considering the absence on my part-

Ren: -which is another way of saying she was to lazy-

Ashuri:- here is chapter six.

Chapter six: Ren's dream.

It was a long, long, long, hallway. A long hallway with doors, situated on both sides, as far as the eye could see. Nothing really interesting about that. It was so completely deprived of interesting facts, that if Ren had not been dreaming, he strongly believed he would have fallen asleep again. What was with this dream anyway?

Its not like he was prone to dreams. He had them once in a while. And they were normally interesting, like maybe about killing someone. But this one, was very high on the weirdo scale, next to Yoh's obsession with oranges and Soul Bob, and Horo's new found ability to keep himself sick when he's supposed to be getting better.

Ren sighed. Judging by the fact that he had been so tired early today, after having to run to the store several times, to get medicine and food for Horo, he kept throwing up and his fever wouldn't go down, he knew he wasn't going to wake up anytime soon, and so he decided to make the best of his weirdo dream. He started walking down the hallway.

What's with the doors? He thought. Should I open one? He stopped in front of a door. The door was big and painted purple in color. Not lilac, not lavender, but dark purple. And it sported shiny brass handles, so shiny that they reflected the unseen light. How boring. He thought again and opened the door. He stared.

Ren stared at Horo with a very strong look of displeasure, wearing a flowered apron and holding a feather duster in his left hand which was placed on his hip. "You promised you would go shopping."

Horo smiled weakly. "I'm sorry Ren dear, but, you see it snowed and I really wanted to go snowboarding...and-"

"What did I tell you!" Ren thundered. "If you want me to stay here with you, you have to help out! I'm tired of doing all the work! I think I'll just leave!"

"No!" Horo said jumping up and down. "You can't leave me!"

"Then get your act together or I will!" Ren said and left the room.

Horo followed. "I'm sorry, Ren."

Ren rolled his eyes. "I'm sure you are."

Horo wrapped his arms around Ren's waist and Ren stopped dusting. "I really, really am."

"Fine. Just don't do it again."

"I love you Ren."

"I love you too Horo." And-

Ren slammed the door shut. That was disturbing. He leaned against the wall. Oh god. Now having opened the door, wishing he hadn't, he believed that they either showed future events or past, and that the thing he was dreading was going to happen. He shuddered. Crap. He gave the door a very ugly look and ran down the hall away from it.

After a while of running he stopped in front of some doors that were painted sapphire blue and had shiny silver handles. After what happened with the last door Ren serious wondered if he should dare to open it. Curiosity, got the best of him however. Reaching for a handle he thought that maybe if he played along, the dream would end faster. Gripping the handle he prepared for the worst. He swung it open.

"Please, enlighten me. I agreed to go out with you , and you decided that the best place for us to go, would be to a gay bar?" Ren asked trying to sound cool and calm, but the anger was showing in the way he was gripping the glass.

"Yep." Horo said happily.

"You dense irritating miniature beast of burden," Ren whispered to himself.

"What was that?"

"Nothing." He sighed. Maybe the evening go by fast?

Some dude walked up to him. "Oi darling, do you really want to enjoy yourself with me?" he asked.

Ren gave him a smile. "Sorry, I couldn't possibly entertain the thought of spending time with someone who splits infinitives."

The dude obviously hadn't understood a word he said, but left regardless. Horo's eye was twitching. Ren was enjoying this.

"Horo," he said. "He was hitting me. I think you should hurt him."

Horo didn't need telling twice. He got up and picked a fight with him. As the glasses got thrown, Ren concluded that maybe the evening wasn't a total loss.

Ren closed the door slowly. He turned away and walked down the hall. That was disturbing as well. He shuddered again. The last place he wanted to be, besides in bed with Horo, was in a gay bar. Or was it the other way around. He looked around hoping to spot something so he could beat himself on the head, but found nothing. He sighed and made the whining noises he was now prone to making when something didn't go his way. Horo was now trained to do whatever Ren wanted when Ren whined, however, Horo was not there and he was cold.

Ren shivered. He felt like something was going to happen. After walking for a while, he stumbled upon a pair of pink doors with gold handles. He didn't want to open anymore, but one of them flew open anyway.

"What's this?" Ren asked shaking the chocolate box.

"Chocolate." Horo said.

"I meant like what's its for?"

"Valentines day," Horo replied flushing.

"Oh." said Ren. "But I thought that on Valentines day, women give chocolate to men, so that they would see them as potential girlfriends. And a month later men would give gifts back to women."

Horo blinked and his blush increased. Ren noticed and smiled. "Thanks Horo."

It was short and Ren wanted to gag. Gross. If Horo ever gave me chocolate I'd beat him with it. This dream was seriously disturbing. He felt like he would need therapy after it was done. He sighed. When was he going to wake up?

He froze. Something was behind him. He could feel it. Ren turned slowly wishing he hadn't. He was staring into the eyes of a large, white, stuffed rabbit. Ren jumped back. "What the hell!?" The rabbit blinked and Ren wished he had his kawn do.

The rabbit spoke to him. "You love me Ren. You know you do."

Ren backed up.

"Come on Ren. We'll have a wonderful life together." Ren made his whining noises. "We'll be happy!"

He glared at the rabbit and ran away. It was a dream. Just dream. It couldn't hurt him. How wrong he was. The rabbit, in one giant leap, pounced on him and pinned him to the ground.

"You love me Ren!"

"No! Leave me alone!" Ren yelled and his eyes snapped open.

His heart was pounding as he gazed wide eyed at the curtains covering the window. He had almost been squashed by a giant rabbit. He sighed and started to laugh, psychotically. "It was a dream! Heh. Heh." He placed his hands over his eyes and continued to laugh silently. After he was finished he laid there and made fun of himself for being frightened. Then wanted to beat up Horo, for the rabbit sounded like him. "Stupid Horo."

A hand landed on Ren's cheek.

"Huh." Ren looked over his shoulder and found himself sleeping next to Horo. He yelped and toppled off the bed. The yelp woke Horo.

"Good morning Ren," he said.

" . .Here?" he said noticing that he was in his own room, the not the guest room, where he was currently sleeping.

"Oh. Well you were very tired yesterday and you didn't really want to go all the way to the guest room, so you kinda crawled in and went to sleep."

"Intentionally?"

"Yeah." Ren hit himself on the head. "Baka." Then he got up and locked himself in the bathroom. He looked kinda pale, probably from the dream and he still looked tired. But he decided to not dwell on the dream, as the dream was bad news. Splashing cold water on his face, he felt it was better to ground the issue.

When he exited the room he found Horo by the door doing the potty dance. "Finally!" he exclaimed and ran into the bathroom.

Instead of standing there and listening to Horo relieving himself, Ren wandered back into his room, to get dressed there for a change. He had just been about to pull a clean shirt over his head when he spotted, a white stuffed rabbit.

He stared at it. It was the same one in his dream. He was so busy staring at it, that he hadn't realized that Horo, who was now standing in the doorway, was staring at his partially naked body. He did notice when Horo made some noise of longing. Ren sighed and put his shirt on. "Here we go again." he muttered.

"Maybe you should walk around without a shirt," Horo said.

"For who's amusement? Yours or mine?" Ren asked. Horo didn't answer.

Ren didn't really want to argue over the, "I love you factor" this early so he pointed at the rabbit and asked. "What the hell is that?"

Horo laughed. "Pirka sent it to me two Christmas's ago."

"And you still have it?"

"Yeah why not?" "Aren't you a little too old to be sleeping with stuffed animals?" Ren asked.

"I don't sleep with it." replied Horo.

"Right," Ren said. "What's the big deal about it anyway?"

"Big deal!? It almost squashed me!"

Horo raised an eyebrow. "Squashed you? Ren are you feeling alright?"

"Yes. I am perfectly fine. I am perfectly sane." He stared laughing psychotically again.

"You sure?"

"Yeah." Ren said nodding and laughing. "Fine," he almost walked into the wall. "Just fine." Ren disappeared downstairs and started to make breakfast however when he got there, there was a gift with a note tied to it.

Ren started at it and finally opened it. It was chocolate cake. Ren's mouth watered. "Chocolate!" He stared at the note. It read: Maybe one day this dream will come true. Its all I'm wishing for, to be with you. Happy Christmas. Horo.

Due to the fact that Ren had said he would beat Horo with the chocolate if he ever gave him some, and the fact that he felt the note fit with his weirdo dream, he yelled at Horo to get his lazy ass down the stairs.

When Horo arrived, he looked kinda scared. "Y-yeah?"

"Thank you."

Ashuri: this chapter is super weird, but I needed to add something before we get to Christmas so yeah. Ren was acting kind psychotic. Oh well. He's on the verge of cracking. I put this chapter off to long. Probably because I got stuck on what to write, and I have super long nails, and that impairs my typing. Its annoying. Anyway. Please read and review.