Chapter 5

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Thought/ Dreams/ Event from the past

'Telepathic voice'

-Telephone-

Letter

"Dialogue"

Emphasis

Dangerous tone

"He is late." Was what Anna said when she saw that it was passed 8 and Yoh hadn't returned yet.

"Maybe he is having a hard time." Manta said to try and calm the fuming Itako down, "I mean, he had to go and but enough food for all of us, it's sure it's a hard thing to do by himself".

Anna's eyebrow twitched and she slapped Manta, "No, he is slacking off again." She huffed with a crossed arms, she then glanced at the tied up Spirit, "That's mean you are going to stay in that condition until he return".

"Yoh-dono." Amidamaru said sadly twin river of tears downing his cheeks.

An hour passed quickly without Yoh returning to the house, "Che, that stupid lazy ass." Anna growled as she stood up, "It's late, I'm going to sleep." She then stomped into her room and slammed shut the door.

Ren and the rest were looking at Anna's closed door before to the clock on the wall, they were getting worried, because as much as Yoh like to slack off, he would never late more than two hours.

"I wonder if Yoh-kun is alright." Manta mumbled in worry as he looked at the entrance of the Living Room, hoping to see his best friend soon.

"Yoh-dono . . ." Amidamaru said in worry as he also looking at the direction of the entrance.

Their worry were not for nothing. Morning came and the group waking up from their slumber, they all had fallen asleep in the Living Room while waiting for Yoh to return, but still no sign of Yoh coming back what so ever.

"Yoh hasn't come back yet?" Anna demanded as she walked out of her room.

"No, Danna hasn't return yet." Ryu said in worry.

"Then what are you waiting for?!" Anna demanded as she released Amidamaru from her hold, she pointed at the door, "Go and search for him!" She barked out in anger while glaring at every person or Spirit in the room, they gulped and were out in an instant, with dust trailing on their tails.

Once they were out of sight, Anna's body get slacked as she leaned on the wall, "Yoh, where are you?" She asked softly as she looked at the ground in worry, concern could be seen clearly in her eyes.

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Where the hell is Yoh? Ren thought to himself as he looked around, only to find that their unspoken leader had, indeed, gone missing. He was walking near the row of shops when his foot caught in something, making him stumble a bit. He looked down to see a plastic bag filled with food, the food being scattered around as if the bag had been thrown from quite a distance. He narrowed his eyes and looked around the street to see two more plastic bags with food were in the same condition, his eyes narrowed even more as his suspicion raised.

This much of food . . . Yoh must be here before he disappeared, He thought as he looked around to see if there's another proof of Yoh being there the night before, his eyes caught something orange and he frowned, Could it be? He thought as he walked closer to the item, his suspicion was proven right. The orange item was Yoh's Headphone and it's near the wall, as if something had slammed into Yoh, causing the boy to lose grip of the plastic bags and hit the wall, which then causing his Headphone to drop to the ground.

Ren's eyebrow twitched as his Tongari grew longer, Someone kidnapped Yoh, he growled as he picked up Yoh's Headphone and stormed off into the meeting place with a scowl on his face. When he arrived in the meeting place, the fountain in the center of the Village, the rest were already there.

"Anyone found a clue?" Horo Horo asked the rest.

"No, I didn't see him anywhere." Ryu said in defeated tone.

"I have checked the forest and cliffs, I couldn't find him there either." Amidamaru said as he floating in the air in his Hitodama form.

The rest also said their failure, "Of course you wouldn't find him anywhere." Ren said angrily as he arrived in the group.

"What do you mean?" Chocolove asked in confusion.

"You know something, Ren?" Manta asked as he noticed the scowl on the Chinese Shaman's face.

Ren showed Yoh's Headphone to them, "I found this near Silva's shop." He told them with anger clear in his voice, "Someone kidnapped Yoh".

"What?!" Amidamaru gasped in shock and worry, "Who would do something like that?".

"Possibly X-Laws." Chocolove said with a frown, "I heard that they had gone out of the Village last night".

"Now that you mentioned it, Yoh-kun had disappeared from last night, considering he didn't come back in time for Dinner as Anna told him to." Manta said thoughtfully, "X-Laws left last night as well, it's too much of a coincidence".

Ren looked at them before frowning and looking around, "Where's Lyserg?" He demanded when he didn't see the green haired boy.

Silence followed his question before their face all turned into worry and fear, "Don't tell me . . . Lyserg-chan going out with X-Laws again?" Ryu asked fearfully with pale face.

Horo Horo hit his right fist into his left palm, "That's the most possibility." He growled out angrily, "He betrayed us again and kidnapped Yoh with X-Laws".

"But why?" Manta asked in confusion and worry, "Why would Lyserg do something like that?".

"Hao." Anna's voice rang out suddenly, they jumped and turned around to see the Itako standing with her arms crossed, a scowl on her face, "Hao is alive and has been seen in the Village since yesterday afternoon, that stupid brat must think that Yoh had somehow siding with Hao and kidnapped him for information".

No one could counter that, because it was what had been going around in their mind from the time they realized that Lyserg was not in the Village as well, they just didn't want to believe that the British boy would be so stupid to think that Yoh had betrayed them.

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"Hmm, seems like there's a ruckus over there." Hao commented as he bit down his Curry Bread, they were currently relaxing around in a cafe while having their breakfast, "What's all that about, I wonder?".

"I will go take a look, Hao-sama." Luchist said as he took off his hat and put it on his chest, before wearing the hat back and took off.

Hao looked at Luchist's back and the crowding of people curiously, still eating his bread as he did so. Now, when people saw him like that, they would think that Hao was cute being curious and munching on bread like that. Too bad that he was still Asakura Hao, even when he was acting like a curious child, his mere presence alone was intimidating enough to make people stay clear from around the area he was in.

"Hao-sama, do you want another bread?" Macchi asked after Hao finished the one he had.

Hao turned to her and drank up his water before shaking his head, "No, I have enough." Hao told her before looking up when he heard Luchist coming back, "So, what is it, Luchist?".

"All of Yoh-sama's friends are running around searching for Yoh-sama." Luchist said with a frown, "It seems that Yoh-sama went out last night to get Dinner for everyone, but he still hasn't return yet. He didn't have his Guardian Spirit with him, so his friends are worried something had happened to him".

Hao narrowed his eyes, "Stay guard." He ordered them before closing his eyes and started searching for Yoh's presence, he frowned when he didn't feel Yoh anywhere inside the Patch Village. He inhaled deeply three times to calm his nerves, it would do him no good to get worried right now, then he opened all of his senses to the fullest.

Right away, the smell of foods and drinks assaulted his smelling sense at the same time as the noise from the people in the whole Village bombarding his hearing, making him thinned his lips in an effort to withstand it. He inhaled deeply again to calm himself and stay still for a few minutes to adjust with his new senses, so he could get a better understanding about his surroundings.

He found out that the X-Laws were nowhere to be found in the Village, along with Yoh's friend, Lyserg Diethel. That fact alone was enough to get him worried, since that would mean that the green haired boy had rejoined the X-Laws, which would also mean that he had left Yoh's circle of friends again. When he felt Yoh's presence to be at the same place with Marco's and Lyserg's though, far away from the Patch Village, his worry turned into panic in an instant.

His eyes snapped open and he stood up abruptly, causing his chair to fall back and his followers to stared at him in surprise. "Get back to the house and stay there until further notice." He said as calmly as he could, without letting his panic to be seen, before turning around and teleported to the outside of the Village right away. He looked around to make sure no one was around before jumping forward, by the time he was back on the ground, his form was no longer that of a human.

A big white Fox with nine tails instead of one, with fur as white as snow, only turned black at the tips of it's ears and tails, and body as big as that of a full grown horse, was standing on his place. Fire Red eyes instead of Onyx Black were glaring at whatever lay ahead of him, he growled loudly in a mix of anger and worry before taking off in the direction where he felt X-Laws's and Yoh's Furyoku.

To be continued . . .

Hao : Wait! I'm the Ninetails?!

Froim : I won't spoil the surprise ^ ^

Yoh : Hao with a pair of Fox ears on his head? Wow, he looks cute!

Hao : You wanna die, Yoh?

Yoh : Nope ^ ^

Hao : Then don't call me cute, even with those ears, I will manage to look Elegant! (Huffed)

Froim : Don't worry, you will see how the others would react later ^ ^

Yoh : Please Review ^ ^