A Very Good Liar
Disclaimer: As much as I wish it so, Shaman King will never be mine. God knows the havok I'd unleash. By the way, they're all eighteen, Pirika's seventeen, Ren lost most of his fortune and changed his clothes, Jun owns the ski resort, Ren is taller than every girl, except Jun, and he's still fairly short, Yoh and Anna are dating and still engaged, Jun is about twenty, Horohoro is still a baka (idiot, stupid), and their names are supplied from the manga.
This fic revolves around RenPirika, though there are hints of YohAnna and HorohoroTamao.
This fic is rated PG13 as of now for adult situations and language that might not be suitable for those under the age of fourteen, rating may go up...
I have also changed the way I do fics to make it easier on the eyes. My new chapters in 'You Are My Perfect' will be changed as well.
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Quotes:
"Communing with nature is fun!" Yoh Asakura
"Sorry I'm so boring." Yoh Asakura
"GRANDPA DON'T HIT ME!" Yoh Asakura
"We've finally found it, OUR HAPPY PLACE!" Ryunosuke Umemiya (Ryu)
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Chapter One
Holiday Paridise And An Unexpected Surprise
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Noone's POV
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"Hey Tamao, wanna go snowboarding with me?" Horohoro asked the timid girl, shoving two yellow coupons in her face. They clearly printed, 'Free pass to the Shaman Ski Resort! Shaman couples only! Participants will recieve one free room for a period of two weeks, plus exclusive, five star, continental breakfast with lunch and dinner! Attend a banquet dedicated to the grand opening, rooftop rooms include kitchen, bathroom, and fifty inch television! Other activities listed on ski resort grounds. Offer valid for two weeks only. So the guests may evaluate the quality of our hotel, stay is a maximum of fourteen days, or untill grand opening.'.
Knocking Horohoro out of his stupor over a fifty inch tv, Tamao pointed out, "We aren't a couple, Horo-kun." She blushed as Horohoro's face brightened as he marveled at his...moment of genius, "Yeah, I know that. But that doesn't mean they do!" Her blush deepened as she took note of his pleading eyes. The pink haired girl sighed and said, "I'd be happy to go with you, but what if everyone else feels left out?"
"I already thought of that! I gave two to Ren, I don't know who he thinks he'll bring though, and I gave two coupons to Yoh and Anna. Jun owns the resort so Ren'll probably be there, he has to get money from his sister.." Horohoro rambled on, oblivious to the fact that Tamao said she would accompany him.
"I'll be happy to go with you Horo-kun..." she said, inturupting Horohoro's comments about indoor pools and theatres. Horohoro enthusiastically picked her up and spun her in circles until a voice sounded from the doorway "Awww, that's so sweet I think I've become nauseated." Ren was wearing a black hoody with a gold dragon on the chest, his jeans were black and slightly baggy on his muscular frame. Adourned on the right pantleg were two fighting dragons, one red, and one silver. (AN: These clothes are so cool I think I'll have them custom made someday!) Clutched in his right hand was his kwan dao (AN: The spear, work with me people!)
"Back off, Tao!" Horohoro yelled, landing Tamao safely on the ground. The puple haired, chinese shaman glared, "Why don't you make me back off, ainu!" The two boys lunged at each other, Ren had tossed his kwan dao into the hall, wanting a fist fight with the weaponless Horohoro.
Pirika, who was walking through the halls, saw the kwan dao hit the floor. Knowing there was going to be a fight between her hot headed brother and the short tempered Ren, she ran to prevent her brother's further injury. As soon as she stepped into the room Horohoro jumped back in surprise, unhappy that he had not landed a punch. Ren, too stopped short, catching himself from falling because of the unplanned, abrupt halt. Pirika glared at Ren, but Ren was rewarded when her icy look turned upon the baffled Horohoro.
"Onii-chan (older brother), I just stiched you up yesterday!" Ren had no reprieve from torture when she looked at him. But instead of a glare, Pirika wore a bright smile.
"Hey, you're actually wearing the clothes I gave you for Christmas!" A tinge of pink appeared on black clad shaman's cheeks, Horohoro took an unhappy note of this. "So, what of it?" Pirika smiled wider when she glanced her infuriated brother, "Oh, nothing. It's just that, maybe you like me more now..."
Ren turned every shade of red and then some. If they were different people and he was a spectator, he would have found this humourous, a frigid guy blushing at a few remarks made by a best friend's little sister while the older brother stood fuming at the side. Unfourtunately, this was his situation, and he did not find it amusing in the slightest. Until he saw Horohoro's surpressed rage.
Catching onto Pirika's scheme he put on a fake stutter, "M-Maybe you, you can find out by, coming w-with me to the ski resort?" Pirika blushed and fidgeted with the end of her light blue sweater. "Anything you want, Ren..." She inwardly grinned at her brother's reaction. 'Ren looks so cute when he blushes. It's kinda wierd, he actually would look innocent if we weren't playing a cruel joke on Onii-chan.'
She was caught by surprise when Ren took her hand and started gently pulling her out of the room. "Lets go and converse elsewhere." When they were out in the hall he picked up his kwan dao, with a last glimpse into Horohoro's room he smiled, amused at the image of the purple Horohoro and the embarassed Tamao trying to hold him back.
Ren led Pirika downstairs to the living room, where the both of them broke into laughter. "He actually believed it!"
"Ren?"
"I thought he was at least a little more intelligent than that! I don't think a six year old could have fallen for a prank that impossible."
"Ren."
"Just a minute, I'm not done insulting your brother's intelligence."
"Ren!"
"What?" Ren asked, a little disappointed that she interrupted his fun. "Either we tell him the truth, or we play out our lie. He's going to tell everyone what we did!" Pirika explained. Ren mulled it over for a second, "We could kill him."
"Ren!"
"Just a suggestion. Or there's blackmail." Pirika glared at him, much to his discomfort, "Nothing illegal."
Ren sighed, "Fine, if your poor excuse for a brother speaks a word of our previous situation, then he'll be humiliated when we tell the truth. I think we should play this out some more. Besides, it's kind of fun." Pirika blushed, Ren saw her pink face and blushed as well "Not that! Causing your brother to become infuriated!"
"Oh yeah, that." Pirika said sheepishly. Ren was about to launch into an outburst over how she could forget that it was a prank, but was interrupted by the sound of someone clearing their throat. The pair looked over to Yoh and Anna, who had been sitting on the couch, innocently watching tv. That was from Pirika's perspective. To Ren they were listening in on his conversation.
But thats just Ren...And Pirika...Holding hands...In Yoh and Anna's perspective.
Yoh had a sly grin slapped across his face, while Anna was staring pointedly at their interlocked hands. Pirika blushed and immeadiately pulled away, Ren leapt away like a frightened rabbit. Both of them turned an interesting shade of pink, so interesting, in fact, that Yoh decided to tease his friends a little before Anna draged him away. (AN: As much as he may enjoy that.) "So, just a guess, Pirika's going with you to the resort, Ren?" he asked the crimson-faced boy.
Ren paled considerably, finally gaining control of his blush. "Of course," he replied, facing Pirika "But only if she wants to." Pirika smiled, taking the coupon he held out to her "Let me go get my snowboard."
As she walked up the stairs to her room, she heard the barrage of questions that Yoh and Anna launched at Ren. She also heard his answers, they were answers that would have melted her heart, had any of them been true. Her room was right between Ren and Horohoro's (AN: Go figure.), when she looked into Horohoro's room she saw his dirty clothes strewn about the floor, and a massive mess of failed plans to assasinate Ren (AN: Gee, wonder why? Could it be because he's an over-protective baka? Nah, couldn't be.) thrown about the computer desk. His computer was on, an inssesant buzzing noise emmited from it as it struggled to hold all the useless progams and information her brother put on it (AN: Poor computer.)
In Ren's room there was nothing on the floor, his papers were neatly stacked on his computer desk, his kwan dao lay resting agaist the wall, and his laptop was closed and shut down. She marveled at the fact that her brother was so different from Ren. How they had become best friends, Pirika assumed, was because they liked the compitition that the other gave them. Even if Ren always won, Horohoro seemed to like being competitive with him. Competitive over everything but her. (AN: Obsessive, ne?)
Dropping the subject of her brother's current hatred for Ren, she slid open the door to her room and walked over to the closet. Pulling out her dark blue snowboard, she admired it's scratch-free surface that she had polished and waxed so many times it would make your head spin. Now she would be flying down the slopes of the 'Shaman Ski Resort'. She'd never been to Spirit Mountain before (AN: I know, not very original, but I'm having a brain fart right now.), she and Horohoro had been training for the shaman tournament, and now that Yoh was the Shaman King they had some free time on their hands.
'Why couldn't I just go with Horohoro? Well, duh, we both have blue hair, are obviously related, and he's going with Tamao. For some reason it doesn't feel wrong, going with Ren. He actually asked if I wanted to come! He's just a good liar.' Pirika sighed, "A very good liar."
"You wouldn't be talking about me, would you?" said Ren, who was standing right next to her, having slipped into the room unoticed. Pirika jumped up in surprise, making her snowboard fall out of her lap and onto the floor. Both of them reached down to grab it, thier hands collided. Pirika blushed and pulled away while Ren made himself busy with picking up and dusting off her snowboard.
"Here you go." He said, handing the snowboard to her. She took it and sheepishly said, "Thank you." Ren frowned "Are you okay?" he asked, stepping nearer to her. Pirika sat down on the bed, "I'm fine. It just doesn't feel right, playing such a mean trick on everyone. Yoh and Anna didn't have to know..." Ren sat down next to her and looked at the floor "You're right. I didn't have to tell them, but the lies just fly out of my mouth before I can take them back or think them over. If you want, after we get into the resort, we can stage a fight. Something that would make it look like we broke up. We could even do it in front of your brother, because he'll probably tell everyone out of sheer joy."
Ren would have continued, but Pirika threw her arms around his neck and gave him a big hug. Ren, not being used to such emotion, stiffened with shock. He didn't even know what to do, so he said, before he could think about it, "Get off." Pirika let go of his neck and folded her hands in her lap. "Sorry, that'd be great. I just don't like lying to people." She put her hand on the back of her neck and blushed.
"I don't like it either, but I'm better at ignoring my emotions than you are. Sometimes, I find that lying to myself makes me forget about that. I wish I could stop that. " Ren said as he got up, he walked over to the door and paused before saying, "But sometimes that's a good thing." He then walked downstairs, leaving a befuddled Pirika blushing at the wall.
Halfway down the stairs, just out of Pirika's earshot, Ren encountered a now sober Horohoro (AN: No, he wasn't drunk, he was just angry.). Ren clenched his fist, preparing himself incase Horohoro attacked him. But instead of starting a fist fight that he would surely loose, Horohoro sat down on the steps. And put his hands in his lap. "You won." He whispered, much to the confusion of the Chinese shaman.
"What?" Horohoro gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, "Don't you get it! She's all yours! Pirika chose you, of all people! Did you know that she had an arranged marrige all set up for her for after we got home from the resort?"
"No. She didn't tell me-"
"That's because she didn't know." Ren was startled by this. Even Yoh knew of his engagement, and that was when he was just a kid. "Maybe this is for the best?" Horohoro looked up at him, "Yeah, I guess she wouldn't like being married to an idiot from the village. " He said as he stood up, the smile back on his face. "But if you ever hurt her, Ren Tao, verbally, mentally, or physically, I'll hunt you down and make you rue the day you were born." Ren also smiled and shook Horohoro's extended hand.
"I look forward to it, Ainu." Horohoro released thier shake and stretched. "Huh, can't be too bad having an arrogant, chinese, rich boy around my sister. Just like old times, ne?" With that he walked up the stairs, and into his oh so filthy room. Ren walked down the stairs and past Yoh and Anna, who were sitting close together on the couch. He cocked an eyebrow and walked into the kitchen, grabbing a glass and filling it with tap water. Just as he was gulping down the last couple of sips, Horohoro walked into the kitchen.
"Oh, hey brother-in-law." Ren spit out the water, then started gasping for air as Horohoro pounded him on the back. "Hey man, you okay?" Ren shook his head vigorously to clear the water and spittle that had rebounded onto his face. "Why the hell are you calling me that?" he asked the laughing Horohoro, fearful of the answer.
Horohoro looked at him as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, which it was. "Well, I called my parents and cancelled her engagement. We talked it over, and they called your mom and dad. They then decided that an egagement was to be arranged between you two, both of you having shaman blood and all. Your mom and dad thought it was a great idea, they thought you'd never get married!"Horohoro's speech had been in vain, though. Ren's brain had shut down at 'And they called your mom and dad.'
Ren was now trembling and clutching the edge of the table. His knuckles were white and his face was pale, the sentance was replayed over and over in his head as his eyes dilated. He snapped back to reality (AN: Oh, there goes gravity!) as he heard Tamao call Horohoro from upstairs. Horohoro started walking away and Ren franticly thought of a way to stop the madness.
'Married! The hell I'm getting married! He's joking, he's figured out my prank now he's playing one on me... He's not joking! That's it, I'll tell him it's a prank! He'll have to cancel it! This can't turn out like this! Not again!'
Ren opened his mouth to stop Horohoro, but no sound came out. His stomach felt like it was chewing on lead, preventing any movement at all, his eyes burned because he hadn't blinked. 'Shit! What do I do What do I do? What do I do? I can't get married, even if it is to a pretty, little, Ainu girl- No! Okay, so your getting married, WHEN EVERYTHING WAS JUST A PRANK! I'll just calm down first. Then I'll call Jun, she'll convince Mother and Father to call this whole thing off. Pirika doesn't even have to know that we're engaged. Okay, first... I have to stop Horohoro.'
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Yeah, the characters may seem a little OOC, but all in all, don't you just wanna push that little button at the bottom of the screen and give me a good review? I ask my readers to please inform me of any mistakes or even spelling errors, and I will fix them to the best of my abilities. I also want some advice, flames are good advice...
If anyone has any ideas, I need a made up character, prefferably male, to act as Pirika's shaman friend. This friend can be from her village, anywhere you want. Don't worry, I'll give you credit for it. This character has to be made up, and plays a very large part in the plot of the story. Because, to put it mildly, I'm drawing a blank. Call it a temporary brain fart.
I'm not going to have Lyserg or Jeanne in this story, because I know almost nothing about them, Hao will probably only be mentioned slightly unless I recieve further information about him, same goes for Lyserg and Jeanne. And because I'm too lazy to look it up, I'll be using American dollars instead of Japanese yen.
As for the little comments that Horohoro and Ren made about old times and Ren's thought of 'not again', those are hints to a plot that will later occur in the story.
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