Ren sighed boredly.
It had been five days since their argument.
On the first day, Horo tried to apologise but was ignored.
On the second day, Horo didn't say anything to Ren, but acted kindly towards him still.
On the third day, Horo didn't show up for school.
Neither did he on the fourth day, or on the fifth day, and the fact had been keeping Ren slightly on edge, not to mention bored out of his mind.
Weird, thirteen years of his life spent in solitude crumbled at a year and a half of exposure to idiots. He'd just have to train a little more often, that's all.
So here he was, on another school day, and there was still NO SIGN of Horo.
Which, to be honest, was BAD as tomorrow they were supposed to conduct the main phase of the plan, and without Horo, the entire thing was completely redundant.
And it wasn't like Horo was at his apartment. On the contrary, Ren had gone over to Horo's at the end of day 3, let himself in (wink, wink), seen that nobody was home and took it upon himself to feed the poor kitten until the ice shaman returned from wherever-the-fuck he was.
He tapped his fingernails against the hard wood of his desk irritably.
It's not like he was worried. Because Taos do not care about other people, let alone worry about them.
But he couldn't extinguish the niggling feeling in the back of his mind; in the pit of his stomach.
In other words, he knew Horo had probably gone snowboarding without Kororo again, fallen off of a cliff and was resting at the park ranger's hut.
Ahh, memories.
Their teacher left the room, probably to get worksheets or some shit like that, and Ren was instantly pounced on by three of the "HoroRen fangirls".
Unfortunately for Ren, the Glare of Your Doom proved ineffective, the girls ignoring it completely to ask him of Horo's whereabouts.
"Why should I know?" he asked in response, not bothering to hide the tick his eye seemed to have developed.
One of the girls rolled her eyes as if it was the most obvious thing in the world before answering smoothly with a "Because, you're his boyfriend!".
Ren didn't take this to heart. They probably used a similar excuse for forgetting homework or birthdays. He looked away, instead scowling at the window frame.
"Hey! Sorry I'm late!"
Ren's head snapped back to the front, where Horo was waltzing in as if he'd never been absent. A vein in Ren's forehead popped in anger and he resisted the urge to throw his chair at the ice shaman, glaring back out the window.
Unfortunately, his patience could only last so long.
"Ren, you're seriously hurting Horo!" Yoh exclaimed at lunch, trying to hold the Chinese teenager back, "I know you missed him, but jeez!"
Ren calmed down suddenly. "Che. It's not my fault that one look at his ugly mug makes me want to beat it in." he snapped, flicking his head off to the side.
"Aw, Renny missed me!" Horo cheered as if he hadn't even heard the comment. Ren growled and stormed off.
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"Hey, Ren! Dude, wait up!"
Ren's eye twitched fiercely and he sped up, trying to put distance between himself and the idiot.
"Ren!"
Not long now… maybe he could push Horo off of the train…
"Ren! I said I was sorry, dude!"
"NO," Ren whirled around, jabbing a finger into Horo's chest, "You never said sorry, Ice-brain! You never bloody said ANYTHING-"
"Ow, Ren, you're poking me really hard..."
"-AND not ONLY did you not say ANYTHING to me or to Yoh or to anyone-"
"Seriously Ren, I can feel the bruise forming…"
"-You ALSO left your poor cat to STARVE!"
Horo's face blanked.
"Shit, I knew I forgot somethi—"
BANG!
"Ahh, DUDE! INTO THE BUS SHELTER?!"
Ren forced himself to not pummel Horo to death any more than he already had and turned around, heading for the train.
"Okay," Horo gasped when he finally caught up, "You win, I'm sorry."
Ren paused.
"If you were sorry… you wouldn't have worried me like that…" he mumbled inaudibly, his bangs covering his eyes, "You're such an inconsiderate bastard, Horo."
Horo couldn't help but grin. He walked around so he was in front of the smaller teenager and leaned in slightly.
"So… does this mean you missed me?"
Ren glared up at him, but found himself unable to answer.
The fact that Horo had just decided to use his mouth for better things had nothing to do with it, either.
Ren sighed and wrapped his arms around Horo's neck, tiptoeing slightly and leaning into the kiss hungrily.
Someone pushed them in their rush to get to the train and they broke apart, flustered, and looked away from each other in embarrassment.
"Am I forgiven?" Horo asked suddenly, a cheeky grin spread over his features.
Ren scoffed.
"Hardly."
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I am well aware this is utter crap, but you people seriously need to come at me with pitchforks if you want me to update!! Actually don't…
I'm not really in a HoroRen fandom right now, and I'm halfway through writing a multichap KuroFai (Tsubasa Chronicle) fanfic. So if any of you like KuroFai too, come check it out in a … month or two XD infact, come check it out in a month or two anyway, KuroFai is a similar relationship to HoroRen (in my POV it is anyway).
If you haven't read Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, I hugely suggest you get yourself onto One Manga dot Com and read it, it's fucking AWESOME.
I shit you not :)
Also, this chapter puts Ignorance Is Bliss on Hiatus. I'm sorry, but as you've seen, this is going nowhere fast.