Note: Hmmm… Do I really have any to say? Well… Just to tell you that this Fic is almost over so if you haven't told me your fav. SK pairings, tell me now!

Oh yah… MAJOR character mess up here. You will see why in later chapters... Muhahahaha.

Chapter 25: Missing… Or are they?

"So what did they ask you?" Hao asked. He sounded upset but he covered that with a smirk. "If you would sacrifice your life for her's?" Yoh laughed.

"No, nothing like that." He said as he continued looking out the window. "They asked me if I really like Anna, more then anything."

"And?" Yoh paused for a moment.

"Well… I know I do…" Yoh answered.

"More then oranges?" Hao asked as a thin eyebrow slowly rose. Yoh laughed nervously.

"They asked me that too." He said.

"So?"

"Well, I care about Anna more then I care about everything else. But if I am to choose from Anna and an orange…" Yoh paused and stared dreamily into the sky. Hao sighed, knowing what he would say next. "I would choose…"

"HOW CAN YOH CHOOSE AN ORANGE OVER YOU!" Back in Anna's room, Pirika was blowing up. "I MEAN, I DON'T GET IT! YOUR SKIN IS SOOOO MUCH BETTER THEN A STUPID ORANGE'S CAUSE AN ORANGE'S SKIN HAS LUMPS! AND IT'S ORANGE!" Anna sighed while Tamao stayed silent, watching her prance and stomp.

"Pirika… It's Anna being compared to an orange not you." Tamao said, sweat dropping. Pirika calmed down for a second.

"Yah… Why aren't you worried like me?" Pirika asked.

"Cause I am not crazy like you." Anna said rubbing her temples and flicked her finger on Pirika's forehead.

"Ow!" Pirika whined. "That hurts!"

"What are you going to do about this Anna?" Tamao asked, looking at her blond friend get up.

"Nothing I can really do about it." Anna said. "I mean, oranges aren't humans so I don't really need to worry."

"But Anna! He likes oranges more then you!" Pirika told her.

"But I am not the protective type. I hate it when people won't let anyone speak, see or anything related to their crush. I hate those type of people and I don't plan to be one either." Anna told her. "He likes oranges, ok. He has his rights to like who ever he wants."

"Anna…" Pirika said quietly and smiled. "You are right. I was going way over the top." Tamao giggled.

"WAYYYYYY over the top." She made sure she stretched out the word WAY. Pirika stuck out her tongue at her pink haired friend and beamed up at Anna with stars in her eyes.

"You will forever be my sensei Anna!" She said. Anna and Tamao laughed.

"Well for your first lesson, get out of my room." Anna said. "I need my sleep." There was a knock on the door and Pirika opened the door to find Jeanne standing there, an unhappy look was on her face.

"What is EXACTLY going on in there?" She asked.

"Nothing." Pirika said with a shrug.

"Well I would like it if you kept it quiet!" Jeanne told her. "Some of us have things that NEED to be done!" Pirika blinked and watched her walk away.

"Eesh, what's her problem?" She asked as she closed the door. "I have never seen Jeanne act like that before."

"Yah, neither me…" Anna said and then shrugged. "Thou shan't wonder what thou should not know."

"What?" Pirika asked and Tamao giggled.

"Shakespeare." She explained.

"Oh, that old language that no one but the cave people understands." Pirika said nodding. "Ugh, so hard to understand!"

Yoh paused. "Which is better Aniki? Anna or an Orange?" Hao clutched his hair, making sure that he didn't damage it with his rage.

"ARE YOU THAT DUMB YOH!" He yelled. "Wait… Don't answer that." Yoh laughed.

"Well, I don't know. I mean, Anna's really nice but so is an orange." His eyes literally twinkled as he thought of them both, hands clasped together as if he was praying. Hao stood in the shadows watching him, with a bored and dull look. –I know you all saw the part where Horo told Yoh and Manta his Shaman dream. Well Hao is standing in the shadows like that when Yoh is in the dreaming spotlight- One can only wonder how they can be related.

"Yoh… can you just answer me and daydream in your own room?" He asked.

"Oh right." Yoh said with a laugh as he returned back to his normal stage. "Well… I don't know…" Hao listed a thin eye brow. "I don't want you to get mad." Hao sighed.

"Didn't we talk about this already?" He asked.

"Yah but you still like her right?" Yoh asked, with a concerned look.

"Ok look. In this world, it's one man for himself." Hao explained. "When it comes to love, you don't think of anyone but yourself." Yoh frowned.

"I don't like that way." He said. Hao shook his head and smacked Yoh on the head.

"But did I ask you?" He asked. Yoh pouted. "Anyway, when it comes to a girl who is very special to…" Hao paused when he noticed Yoh was daydreaming again. He tried very hard to resist smacking his brother on the head with anything he can grab but he couldn't. He grabbed a pillow and smacked Yoh across the head.

"Ahhhhh!" Yoh yelled, clutching his head. "Why do you always do that!"

"Cause you daydream too much." Hao answered. "Now choose!"

"I don't know…" Yoh said with a shrug. Hao sighed and walked over to his bed. He let out a gasps and pounced on Yoh.

"WHERE IS IT!" He yelled.

"What!" Yoh yelled. "Where is what!"

"You know very well what I am talking about! Now where is it!" Hao yelled.

"Huh?" Yoh thought for a moment. "Oh THAT!" Hao glared at his twin. Yoh whimpered and melted into a little melted version of Yoh. Quiet literally. Hao looked at him with disgust as he picked up little… err… Yoh. It was as if Yoh was now Jell-O or something.

"Yoh…" He mumbled.

"I can't remember where I put it Aniki." Little Yoh said sobbing. Hao took a deep breath and walked towards the door, little Yoh still in his hands.

"Where are we going?" Little Yoh asked. He eyes grew wide. "NOOO! ANIKI! NOOO!" Hao ignored him and knocked on the door. The door opened and he lifted Little Yoh.

"He's your problem now." He said and turned to leave, muttering to himself whether or not Yoh was really his brother or not.

Anna blinked, looking at… Little Yoh.

"And why are you so… Little?" She asked. Yoh sobbed.

"Family problems." He lied. Anna sighed.

"Fine, you can stay for a while." She told him. Yoh beamed and jumped out of Anna's grasp, bouncing off her walls. Anna sighed and closed the door. No wonder Hao gave Yoh to her. She walked into her room and found Yoh bouncing on her bed, in his usual size of course. No more little Yoh.

"So um… What did you do to Hao?" She asked.

"Ummm…" Yoh laughed nervously. "Well…"

"Never mind, I know the answer." Anna cut him off. Yoh whimpered.

"ANNA! WHAT SHOULD I DO!" He yelled.

"Stop crying on my bed?" Anna said calmly. "Now what is that… Family problem?" Yoh paused. Should I tell her? No, no! I can't!

"Yoh?" Anna waved her hand in front of Yoh's face.

"Oh I just remembered!" Yoh yelled, jumping off her bed and startling her.

"W-What?" Anna asked as Yoh skipped to the door.

"I remember where I put Aniki's Charmander doll!" He yelled as he hopped out of his room. He ran into his room and sighed. Thank god that was over. He wouldn't have lasted another second in that room with her. "Now… For Aniki's Charmander doll…" He mumbled as he started looking in his room, humming the Pokemon theme song. "Yata!" He yelled when he found the orange dragon doll and beamed. Still in perfect condition!

Anna blinked and stared at the door. "What the…" She blinked. "Hao likes Charmander?" She then giggled at the thought. "Well too bad. I know that he likes Pokemon but he doesn't know that I like the Bubbles from the Powerfuff Girls." There was suddenly a tap on her window. Anna blinked and walked over, finding no one there. She opened the door and stepped out and onto her balcony. Seeing no one, she turned to leave. Suddenly, a pair of hands grabbed her from behind. She tried to scream for help but someone clasped their hand over her mouth so she couldn't. Then someone covered her head with a bag and she was consumed by darkness.
Pirika yawned and rubbed her sleepy eyes. She then blinked.

"W-What!" She yelled. How did she end up in Ren's room! She started to panic. "If he sees me, I will be doomed!"

"I see you are awake." A voice started her. She let out a yell and jumped back. "D-Don't scared me like that ever again!" She yelled, pointing at the Tao who rolled his eyes.

"You were the one who barged into my room you know." He pointed out.

"Ugh, whatever." She mumbled, containing her blush. "What happened?"

"You fell asleep on MY bed." Ren told her.

"Oopsie!" Pirika said with a giggle. "So where did you end up sleeping? On the floor." Ren turned beat red.

"I WOULD NEVER DO SUCH THING!" He yelled.

"On the couch?" Pirika asked, pointing to an armchair.

"No and it's called an armchair." Ren corrected her.

"Same thing." Pirika said rolling her eyes and got up with a yawn before stretching. Her PJ top was a small tank so when she stretched she revealed her bellybutton. Not much but to Ren it was considered to be a lot. He turned around, face beat red.

"Anyway, I'm going to go now." Pirika said, not noticing that Ren turned away. "See you." She gave him a peck on the cheek and dashed out of his room before he could yell out "KISAMA!"

"Ok everyone, time to train!" Coach yelled. Everyone groaned.

"Do we have to? We have been training alllllll week!" Horo complained.

"And you are going to keep training allllll week." Coach snapped back. "Now time for a head count." He quickly counted and frowned. "Where are Pirika, Tamao and Anna?" Everyone blinked.

"I saw Tamao in the breakfast table!" Macchi yelled out.

"Mari saw Pirika leave Ren-Kun's room." Mari said. Everyone looked at Ren who turned beat red.

"What have you been doing?" Hao asked with a whistle while Horo's eyes grew red.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SISTER!" He yelled.

"KISAMA!" Ren yelled, shoving the Ainu away. "Nothing!"

"So why was she in your room?" Hao asked with a smirk. Yoh laughed.

"Well Ren and Pirika are dating right?" He asked.

"No!" Both Ren and Horo yelled. Just then, Pirika and Tamao came running into the lobby.

"GUYS! GUYS!" They yelled.

"Huh?" Everyone turned to see panic in their faces.

"Guys! Anna's missing!" Pirika yelled.

"WHAT!" Everyone yelled. "Are you sure she didn't just take a walk or something?"

"Yes." Pirika and Tamao said breathlessly. "Her bed looks untouched and her bags and stuff are still there."

"Maybe she did just go for a walk." Horo said with a shrug.

"But she would have told us." Pirika said. "Or at least left a note."

"Oh what are we going to do!" Pirika panicked.

"Ok, calm down. I'll tell you what we won't do." Coach Denbat told them. "Panic."

"Well what other smart idea do you have?" Hao asked.

"Yah! Anna is missing!" Macchi yelled.

"She might be kidnapped and held ransom!" Tamao yelled.

"I really doubt it." Jeanne said rolling her eye.

"Oh don't worry, we have Ren. He'll give us the money." Horo said laughing. Everyone jumped him at once.

BOOM, KA-POW, SMACK, WHAM, CRACK, WHACK, BANG –Please Wait A Moment!- AHHH! EEEEEAAAAAAA! OWWWWWW! EEEEKKKKK! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLP! ABUUUUUUUUUUSE! #$#&$#$&

"Alright! Break it up! Break it up!" Coach Denbat yelled. "I said stop it NOW!" No one listened to him.

"Please children. We need to calm down." Meene said. "Please stop fighting." Everyone immediately froze and sat back down, smiled in their faces besides Horo since he was the one who got beaten up. "Now we must calm down if we are to find Anna."

"Sorry Meene. We are just worry about Anna." Jeanne told her.

"Yah, for all we know, she could be kidnapped or murdered!" Macchi yelled.

"Yah! We have to save her!" Yoh yelled.

"Fret not, for I am right here." Everyone turned to see Anna standing there with a small smile.

She looked a bit different though. Her eyes looked a bit different as well. Yoh couldn't quiet point out why Anna looked so different but left it be since no one else seemed to have noticed.

"Anna! Where were you!" Pirika yelled, tackling her friend to the ground. "We were so worried!" Anna smiled, though her smile wasn't really a pleasant one.

"I have been nowhere but my room." She answered and she got up, brushing herself off.

"But we were in your room and you weren't inside." Tamao told her.

"Then perhaps at that time, I was at the breakfast table." Anna told them with somewhat of a wicked smile. "I was quiet hungry for food which to crave my starving stomach."

"Oh…" Pirika blinked. "Yah, we must have missed you."

"Why are you talking so strange?" Macchi asked with a look.

"Oh no reason." Anna said with a giggle. "I am just practicing."

"Practicing Shakespeare language?" Hao asked with a weird look.

"Sounds like something Jeanne would do." Nichrome said with a chuckle. Jeanne made a face but ignored their comments.

"Are you sure you are alright Anna?" She asked.

"Yes, quiet alright now that I have calmed the growling of my stomach." Anna told her with a smile too sweet for anyone. No one seemed sure about her answer but didn't rub it in.

"All of a sudden, Anna has turned into another Jeanne." Horo muttered to Ren who rolled his eyes.

"Anna, are you sure nothing happened?" Coach asked. Anna nodded.

"Nothing I cannot remember." She told him. Coach stayed silent for a while before nodding slowly.

"Alright. Off to practice then." He said. Everyone groaned.

"Do we have to?" Nichrome asked. Anna shook her head and started walking.

"The faster thee finish thy training, the more time thou shall have." She told them all.

"That's the spirit Anna!" Coach said proudly but watched her with confused eyes as she walked out.

"Is it just me or is Anna acting strange?" Macchi asked.

"Maybe she got kidnapped by aliens from outer space and got zapped by their mind control beam!" Horo yelled. Everyone stared at him with bored eyes before…

BOOM, KA-POW, SMACK, WHAM, CRACK, WHACK, BANG –Please Wait A Moment!- AHHH! EEEEEAAAAAAA! OWWWWWW! EEEEKKKKK! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLP! ABUUUUUUUUUUSE! #$#&$#$&

"I can't believe these hotels let animals stay." Macchi muttered.

"Where is his leash?" Ren asked. "We need to keep him tied up."

"Maybe he ran away from the pound." Nichrome said with a shrug.

"Either that or the pound doesn't want him." Pirika said with a sigh.

"Well you asked…" Horo mumbled as he tried to recover from his beat up.

"Phew! I thought Coach's training would NEVER end!" Pirika said as she sat down. "Where did Onii-Chan go? He promised me that he would bring me some water. Man I'm thirsty!" She sighed and paused when she heard the bush shake. She turned around to see nothing. She sighed and got up.

"Onii-Chan, you are so childish to play hide and seek again." She said as she got up and walked towards the bushes. "I found you!" She blinked when she saw that it was only a squirrel. –Are there squirrels in Australia? I have no clue so just bare with me- "Ooops, silly me." She said with a giggle. Just then, someone pulled a bag over her head.

"Hey! Onii-Chan! Onii-Chan! PUT ME DOWN! HELP!" She yelled. That someone lifted her and ran off with Pirika screaming.

"Did you hear that?" Macchi asked.

"Yah… Sounded like-" Yoh was cut off.

"PIRIKIA!" Both Ren and Horo yelled. They both raced towards the location in which the scream came from to find Pirika sitting there, her hands on her right knee.

"Owie…" She said with a frown.

"Pirika! Are you ok?" Horo asked.

"It hurts!" Pirika yelled in his ear, almost making Horo death.

"Ok, ok! Eesh, no need to scream in my ear like that." Horo said, examining her injury. "What happened?"

"I don't know…" Pirika said with a sniff. "I just remember someone playing 'Guess Who' and then I tripped over." Horo and Ren blinked.

"Guess who?" Ren asked. Pirika nodded.

"Yah, don't you play it?" She asked.

"Guess who is a stupid and childish game." Ren said folding her arms and looked away. Pirika pouted.

"Is not!" She yelled. "Tell him it's not!" She said to Horo.

"Ummm, can we talk about this later?" Horo asked. Pirika gave them both a look and folded her arms.

"Whatever." She mumbled.

"Hey! What happened?" The others said as they ran over.

"Nothing." Horo told them.

"NOTHING! I TRIPPED OVER AND HURT MY KNEE! YOU CALL THAT NOTHING!" Pirika yelled loudly in his ear.

"Yow!" Horo yelled, covering his ears.

"Pirika seems ok though." Yoh said with a smile.

"Yah, nothing to worry." Macchi said with a nod.

"Come on; let's get back to the hotel. Coach will probably be waiting for us." Nichrome said as he and the other began to walk. Horo got up and was about to help Pirika when he found Ren staring hard at Pirika.

"Why are you staring at my sister?" He asked.
"No reason." Ren simply said before turning away and walking off.

"Come back here!" Horo yelled.

"HORO!" Pirika yelled. "Come back here!" Horo paused.

"What did you ca-" He was cut off.

"We'll help her." Tamao said as she and Anna helped Pirika up. Horo looked at Pirika for a while before nodding and running off.

"Pray tell Pirika. How does your knee feel?" Anna asked.

"Hey, you stopped speaking Shakespeare!" Tamao said with a giggle. Anna rolled her eyes and looked at Pirika who was rubbing her knee.

"Much better thanks." She said with a hyper smile and nodded. "Well shall we go?" They nodded and started walking.

"What time is it?" Tamao asked. Pirika looked at her watch and bit her lip.

"Hmm we are late." She said. "Let's take the short cut."

"Short cut?" Tamao blinked.

"Yah. Come on!" Pirika said as she grabbed Tamao's hand and dragged her off, walking as fast as she could. Minutes later, they came to a dead end.

"Uh Pirika… This is a dead end." Tamao told her. "We must have made a wrong turn."

"No, no wrong turn." Pirika told her.

"Huh?" Tamao asked, turning around.

"Thou shan't worry for what thou dost not understand." Anna told her.

"What?" Tamao blinked. "H-hey, what's going on?" She asked as she was pushed through a door and into a dark room.

"It's a secret." Pirika said with a giggle. Tamao let out a scream and that was all that was heard.

"Where are they?" Horo muttered, pacing back and forth. "They should have been back by now. It's been at least 3 hours!"

"Calm down, I am sure they just when shopping or something." Yoh said.

"Well it's a good thing they are not here because I have a… Situation to talk about." Hao said seriously.

"Go on…" Nichrome said, getting comfortable.

"Has anyone noticed how strange Jeanne and Anna have been acting?" He asked.

"Yah, Pirika too." Horo said with a nod.

"Does anyone know why?" Nichrome asked.

"It all started when Anna went missing right?" Hao asked. Everyone nodded.

"Anna was alone…" Ren muttered. "Or so she claims. Then Pirika was alone when she claims that she tripped over and someone was playing 'guess who' with her…"

"Yah… but why would Pirika yell out just because she tripped over?" Yoh asked.

"Pirika never screamed because she skinned her knee." Horo said tapping his chin. "Something else must have happened."

"Maybe someone tried to steal her money or something." Nichrome said with a shrug. "And she thought someone was playing 'guess who' with her until she notice something and she screamed. I don't know. Anything is possible."

"What do you think Aniki?" Yoh asked. Hao looked like he was in deep though.

"I think it's something more." He finally said.

"What do you mean?" They asked him. Suddenly, the girls burst into the room.

"That was scary!" Tamao said with a giggle.

"Where were you guys!" Horo yelled.

"We went to catch a movie." Pirika said with a smile. "You should have seen Tamao's face!"

"It was scary so whatever." Tamao said shaking her head and swatted the air. "I need to go upstairs now. Need to change."

"Yah, you have been stuck in that outfit for '3 hours'." Pirika and Anna mocked her, quoting the words "3 hours" with their fingers.

"Precisely." Tamao said with a nod and ran, not walked, ran towards the elevator.

"I need it change. I have been in this for like 3 hours." Pirika said mocking Tamao. Anna giggled.

"You really sound like her." She said.

"Hey, looks like Anna stopped the Shakespeare talking!" Horo yelled. Anna and Pirika rolled their eyes and walked towards the elevator muttering stuff to each other. Jeanne got up and followed them, joining in the chatter.

"This is definitely weird…" Nichrome muttered.

"Yah… Jeanne doesn't seem as friendly as she use to…" Lyserg pointed out. –I seem to barley seem to mention Lyserg lolz. Oopsie!-

"I know…" Yoh said nodding and shrugged. "Maybe it's because we are all tired and cranky."

"Hmmm…" Hao was still in deep thought. "Maybe…" He said slowly. "But whatever strange happens, be sure to report."

"What is this? Boy scouts?" Horo asked. "If you see a bear, report back immediately so we can make a bear bag." Hao cocked an eyebrow before throwing Yoh at him. Both boys laid on the floor, just about knocked out while the others walked towards the elevators.

"Really… Who let that animal loose?" He muttered.

"I should report this to the hotel manager…" Ren muttered. "Or complain at least…"

"You do that…" Hao muttered.

Soooooo… What do you think? I always wanted to speak/type with Shakespeare language. I find it so much fun to. I got some of this especially the language Anna uses from this guy at DeviantArt DOT com. His name is Bleedman and his art is like SUPER. I love his Grim Tales From Down Below. Anywayz, I got some of the ideas from him… The language part anyway. So… Did you find anything strange with the girls? MAJOR character mess right? Hehe, sit tight and you will know why!

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