Ashuri: ok new chapter. Heh, should be interesting. I wonder how long this fic is going to be? Thanks for the reviews!

To: hollylurveshidca: I don't know that the towels thing was. It was just some random thing, like trying to make people angry when their trying to have a shower and they don't have towels, or some annoying person, cough cough, comes in and flushes the toilet. Hm.

To: it's me!: technically, everyone knew that Horo likes Ren, see chapter two, and so they wouldn't be so surprised. The only people who don't know are Horo's family and the rest of Ren's. Yes, the Ainu people have phones. They went and stole electricity and telephone poles, attached them to their house's and now have phones and tv. (Shrug) I don't know what type of show he would watch, considering he probably doesn't watch that much tv. But it would probably be one with a lot of fighting in it. Cards do not appeal to people who swing kawn do's around, but I stuck yugioh in there cause I like that show, hate kaiba and wanted the character to behave weirdly. English AP? I just take normal English classes, and yes I want to make a living out of writing. I've been told by my teachers that I have a beautiful writing style and I love to write. Fanfics are kinda hard to write, that's why I prefer my own stuff most of the time. (Gosh this is such a long answer.)

To: Ya#1fanny: um well...let your imagination run wild and pick any random idea that would come to your head over what he said...cause I don't know either. Oooo plushie! Thank ya.

Hao: hey make Horo your disclaimer.

Ashuri: why?

Hao: cause I don't want to do it anymore.

Ashuri: he's eating.

Hao: that is not a viable reason for me continuing to do this?

Ashuri: sure it is. Now come on get a move on.

Hao groans: she doesn't own...(sigh) shaman king.

Chapter fourteen: Annoying siblings of doom.

Ren stared at the small, portable mini desk calendar in his hands, and reached up to grab the pen, that was for some reason behind his ear, even though he knew he put it there on purpose, to avoid it rolling away from him, or losing it in his sheets.

Lets see, he thought. Jun stuck me in the stupid mental asylum on March fourteenth. He circled the date. And I got released on April fourteenth, which means I was there for a month. Complete waste of time. He circled another date.

Horo left a week before I was released. And since its almost the end of April that would mean... He clicked his tongue, gazing at the calendar, and drawing random things on the side of it, thinking. That would mean, Horo's been gone for three weeks.

Ren sighed and chucked the mini calendar into the corner of his room, and laid down on the bed, sad for the fact that its smell was depleting, and now smelt like laundry detergent.

Three weeks was a long time, and then again so was a month, and he some how survived that, even though Jun had intervened to stop anything really bad from happening. Maybe that's why his sibling had taken up residence in his house for the time being. To make sure he didn't hurt anyone, or himself for that matter, or do anything stupid. It annoyed him to have her there, hovering over him, making sure he was eating, and sleeping, which were not at the top of his things to do list.

The thing that was at the top was: GO FIND HORO!

But he couldn't, Jun had locked the doors. And was always sitting there in the living room, delaying any escape on his part, which he didn't know why she bothered. What was it too her if he decided to go and find Horo.

He said this to her once and she replied, "Prika thinks your sick remember? Sick people don't show up on other people's door steps." Which he decided was a valid answer but still didn't like it.

He wanted to find Horo, so he could end the immense amount of pain he was currently feeling, which could only be caused, as Jun speculated, by Horo not being there. She called this H.W.S. Horo Withdrawal Symptom.

"This symptom was caused-", he had to sit for an hour listening to her babble on about this and he swore he fell asleep at one point, "-when said person, is no where near the person experiencing H.W.S. The person experiencing said symptom, is only infected when that person, starts to feel affectionate feelings toward said person, and can't be without them-", this was the part where Ren fell asleep.

He then awoke to her saying. "The only way to be rid of H.W.S. is too be with said person." She had also set up diagrams and posters and held a mini puppet show on the thing. Afterward Ren told her, she need to go to D.I.M.I. Upon hearing this, she paled and desisted.

But truth be told, he was missing Horo greatly, as much as he didn't want to admit it, and was still desperately trying to figure out his feelings and how to possibly say the words Horo wanted to hear. However long hours of brooding didn't help, and he was still stuck at square one.

Ren snuggled deeper into his sheets, preparing to go to sleep, when Jun shouted up the stairs. "Ren! Come down stairs!"

"Why?" he yelled back.

"Just cause!"

"I'm going to sleep. So go away!"

"But Ren, Horo's back!"

"That's nice." He blinked. Horo was...back? In an attempt to start walking before he got off the bed, he tripped over his feet and fell to the floor. Getting up and cursing himself for being clumsy, he made his way over to the stairs and went down, missing the last three and falling, into Horo's arms no doubt.

"Be careful Ren. Don't hurt yourself," Jun said.

Ren gave her a look and stood up properly. Then he looked at Horo, who was smiling slightly, as though something was bothering him, and pushing his hair out of his face as he wasn't wearing his normal hair band. Ren tried to constrain his thoughts but it didn't work. Damn...so good looking.

He had been about to throw himself into Horo's arms, when he heard someone say. "Horo! There you are!" Ren blinked and turned towards the door and tried very hard to suppress a groan. It was Horo's sister. Prika. She flipped her long blue hair behind her back. "I thought I had lost you."

Ren shared a look with Horo and he muttered quietly, "She begged me to bring her. I said no and left without her but she followed. I thought I would lose her when I got into the city. I did. But she probably found your address in the phone book."

Ren sighed. Great. This was going to be swell.

"I'm sorry," Horo muttered. He didn't look happy either.

Prika smiled at them from the doorway, then faced Ren. "Hi Ren!" The next second his vision was obscured by a long mane of blue hair as Prika began hugging him. "I haven't seen you in so long!" she squealed.

Ren stared at her and had the strongest urge to slap her, therefor by knocking some sense into her. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Horo didn't look very pleased, and his eye was twitching slightly.

"Um let go," Ren said.

Prika released him from the hug but still latched on to him, and Ren came to the sudden conclusion that he didn't remotely like younger people. They were too annoying. Then again, the same thing could be said about older ones. Especially those who were in your family and knew exactly how to push your buttons.

"Prika, Ren clearly stated that you should let him go," Horo said pointedly.

Prika appeared to ignore him. Ren sighed and heard Jun snickering. Annoying siblings. "Hey Ren," Prika asked.

"What?"

"Will you go out with me?"

"What!" Horo and Ren said at the same time.

Prika gave her brother a look. "Will you go out with me? There's this really cool moving playing-"

"Prika, Ren just got over being sick. He doesn't need to be gallivanting around town," Horo said sounding annoyed.

"Oh that's right. But he should be better now," Prika said.

Ren opened his mouth to say something but Horo jumped in. "He doesn't want to go out with you."

"How would you know? Did you even bother to ask?"

Ren opened his mouth again.

"I don't need to ask. Just let him go!"

"No," Prika said. "We're going to go to the movies!"

Ren sighed. He had a very bad feeling about this. Horo grabbed his other arm and attempted to free him from Prika. "No your not!"

"Yes we are!"

"No your not!"

"Yes we are!"

"No your not!"

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

They repeated back and fourth all the while pulling Ren to and fro between them. He sighed again, and got fed up. "Guys, I'm not a yo-yo!" he shouted. However they didn't stop. Jun wasn't helping matters as she was laughing her head off.

"God dammit Prika let go!" Horo said.

"Humph. Fine," and she released Ren's arm and he and Horo fell to the floor, Ren on top of him.

"Nice Prika thanks," Horo said.

Prika crossed her arms and looked really grumpy. "Your so mean Horo. You never let me have any fun."

"It not a matter of you having fun," Horo said, helping Ren and himself stand up. "Its about Ren."

"I know he's your friend but why do you care so much?" she asked idly.

"Never you mind."

"But I do mind though."

Horo opened his mouth but Jun, who had regained her calm composure after her laughing fit, said, "A movie sounds good. Why don't we all go!"

And much to Horo's and Ren's displeasure, they suddenly found themselves stuck in the uncomfortable movie theater chairs, with a bucket of popcorn, waiting for the movie to start. They probably wouldn't have minded it much, if they girls weren't there, Prika had yet to release Ren's arm again.

Ren had been warned to not murder anyone, or he was going to suddenly find himself before a shrink again, by Jun no less, and countered this by threatening to send Jun to D.I.M.I. for her little discussion on H.W.S. And she shut up immediately.

Ren and Horo shared another look. This was not the reunion, after three weeks, that they had wanted. A nice dinner or something, would have been more down the line, the being in stuck in a theater with their sisters, who were for some stupid reason acting very giddy. They both concluded that it was because, the movie they were forced to see, was a chick flick. And they both contemplated falling asleep, which, after they had consumed their popcorn, happened. And they awoke, with Ren's head on Horo's shoulder, which would have been a very awkward situation if Prika had spotted them, which she didn't.

Yawning the two of them followed the girls out of the theater. While they were discussing the movie, Horo and Ren managed to sneak off, and be alone.

"It was really lonely without you, Ren," Horo said. "I may have saved more sanity with you there."

"Yeah but I'm the mentally unstable one remember? How much sanity do you think you would have saved?" Ren asked.

"Oh a good deal."

They walked around for while, discussing what went on in each others absence. Ren even filled him in on H.W.S. which he found very funny. By the time they had run out of things to talk about they had made it back to Ren's.

"Hopefully Prika will stay at Jun's," Horo said as Ren unlocked the door.

"She's not staying here. No matter what she says or does. Considering I only have one guest room."

"That's currently not being used," said Horo closing the door behind them.

"But she doesn't know that," Ren said. "She doesn't even know about your feelings for me."

"Yeah I tried to keep that a secret."

"Good job." They went up stairs.

"You know she has a crush on you, Ren."

"Yes. I am very aware of that."

"And?"

"And what?"

"What do you think about that?" Horo asked.

"Horo, in the past month, I've had so many people interested in me, that I really don't care about who else likes me," Ren said sitting on his bed.

"Except me right?"

Ren smiled slightly. "Of course you."

Horo smiled. "Good." He sat down on the bed as well. "Now-"

BRING-BRING.

Ren whined. "I am going to disconnect that bloody phone!"

Horo quickly pulled Ren into his arms. "Then don't answer it." He kissed him.

Ren tried to enjoy the moment but the ringing of the phone was getting to him. He pushed Horo away and disconnected the phone. "Much better." He turned back to Horo. "Now-"

DING-DONG.

"I despise doorbells!" Ren said angrily.

"Uh, Ren."

Ren glared as the doorbell continued to ring, then grabbed his kawn do and proceeded downstairs as Horo followed. When he got down there, Prika and Jun were there.

"Hi Ren." they said but he just zoomed right past him.

"Uh Ren?" Jun said.

"You've caused your last disturbance doorbell! DIE!" and he jabbed his kawn do at the little button, which the constant dinging, annoyed more then it would have normally.

"Um Ren, if you keep doing that, you'll break it," Jun said.

"That's the point!" Ren hissed. He hit the bell on more tine and it broke.

"I am victorious! I am the almighty bring-er of death to doorbells! Muah ha!"

"Ren's finally gone insane," Prika commented.

Jun sighed and didn't say anything. All Horo said was "Excellent." Which clearly meant he was going to annoy Ren to within an inch of his insanity, just to cover up the awkwardness of Prika's comment and not reveal that Ren had spent a month in a mental asylum.

Ren came back inside and brandished his weapon at their sisters. "You. What are you doing here! Go away!"

Jun actually flinched.

"Now Ren, be nice," Prika said.

"We're just visiting." "Yeah well visit some other time. Now get out of my house."

"Ren your being really harsh!"

"I don't care. I'm tried of being bothered by people! Now leave me alone!" Ren said loudly.

Afraid of being murdered they started toward the door. "Horo, that means you too," Prika said.

"No It doesn't," Horo said.

"Yeah it does. Leave me alone applies to everyone."

Ren rolled his eyes. "No, Horo is staying." He sighed. "Besides you had him alone to yourself to annoy for three weeks," he added in undertone.

Prika looked upset, but stomped out of the house after Jun anyway.

"Well that's a very good way to clear a room."

"Yes, very," Ren said putting his kawn do away and being immediately swept up into Horo's arms.

"Now that we're alone, again."

They shared a few passionate kisses before they realized that they were to tried and couldn't stay awake another moment. So slowly they climbed up stairs, crawled into bed, still fully clothed, and were asleep before you could say "Goodnight."

Ashuri: yep another chapter, to add to the weirdness. Poor Ren and Horo couldn't spend anytime together because Prika was bothering them. This chapter is shorter the last two, but all my other ideas are for chapter fifteen, and I still don't know how long this story is going to be. Hmm. Anyway RXR please.