Spur of moment thing. Don't ask. I was reading more Dragonlance--wait, all I read IS Dragonlance. Forget me. Just read the story. Beware of drabble and multiple kisses. o.O SOMEDAY I SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE FREAKIN' ULTIMATE PURVEYOR OF RENXPIRIKA. FEAR ME, MORTAL. This could count as a spin-off of "This Love"...as if "Haircut" never happened, or something. Right! If you like RenxPirika, and you like my fic, go and read my other RenPiri story, "Haircut". AND REVIEW.

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Disclaimer: Did you know I own Shaman King? Did you know Hao is really, really ugly? Did you know the way Mari speaks is annoying? Did you know a lot of people like RenxAnna (BLEH!)? Did you know that the only reason I write disclaimers is because it adds more letters to my fic? -bright, fake smile- NOT. Hao is hot. Mari's way of speaking is cute and Rin-ish. Barely any people like RenxAnna (thank Paladine!!). And I don't own Shaman King. Darn.

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Why

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Pirika let the warming, cleansing water course down her body, inevitably wetting down her hair to her body. She sighed. That just washes out all the mousse I put in my hair, she thought. Not that anyone would care how I look. Yoh, of course, was with Anna, Horo Horo was courting Tamao, Hao was 1) evil, 2) interested with Jeanne, and 3) missing, Tao Ren was untouchable, and Lyserg was too busy being dramatic to be of any notice. (No offense to Lyserg fans. )

Turning the faucet knob until the water eventually fell to a small drizzle, then stopped, Pirika stepped out of the shower and grabbed a fluffy white towel from a rack on the wall. Drying herself off, she took another, longer towel, wrapped it around herself, and opened the door to the bedroom outside. Wondering why in the first place she had come to Jun's house with a schizophrenic maniac (also know as Tao Ren, the shaman who had first injured Yoh, then joined his little posse), the Ainu walked out of the marble bathroom and into Tao Ren's chest, who had obliviously been going to take a shower, unknowing that Pirika was in the shower. Two things happened:

"HENTAI!"

And, of course, the fatal slap.

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Ren rubbed his red cheek angrily, his hand automatically straying to his spear every now and then. Ho glared murderously at the happily-humming Ainu sitting in front of him. Apparently she had forgotten the incident very, very quickly.

"I've seen Anna-san and Yoh-kun do this all the time...but...why do people close their eyes when they're about to kiss each other?" asked Pirika suddenly, staring up at the magically enchanted ceiling that was spelled to mimic the weather outside and swinging her legs back and forth.

Ren stared at her, running his finger up and down the handle of his spear impatiently. "Why do you want to know?" he retorted arrogantly.

Pirika looked down from the ceiling to him for a moment, smiling. Ren shuddered at her naïveté. "So when someone falls in love with me someday I'll know!"

Ren slapped his forehead. "Women are so strange..." he mumbled. To Pirika, he suggested dryly, "It's probably because their lover's face is so ugly they don't want to see it when they close in?"

"BAKA REN!"

A second slap, on the other cheek this time.

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Someday, people will not just remember me for becoming Shaman King (yeah right!), they will also remember me for having survived so many of that onna's slaps, Ren thought glumly, now rubbing the other side of his cheek. Women were so sensitive.

Pirika was seated in front of him again, having forgotten the slap scene--again. "Why do people close their eyes when they kiss...?"

Take two, Ren thought, his hair twitching. Is someone out there spiting me? (HAHA, YES, THE AUTHOR IS TORTURING YOU! Don't worry, no more slaps though. Just...a lot of kissing. ;;; But that's what you've been waiting for, hasn't it?!!)

"Do you want to experiment?" Ren inquired sarcastically, polishing down his spear this time.

"Okay!" the Ainu agreed cheerfully, causing Ren to fall back. Quickly sitting up again, he looked at her incredulously.

"Your brother will kill me."

"I'll just make him run 10 more kilometers of training."

"What do I get out of this?"

"You'll get to kiss me?"

"Someone as ugly as you?"

"Hurry up and kiss me already! Unless you want to get slapped again..."

Ren hurriedly grabbed her and kissed her roughly, then pulled back.

"So?" the Tao breathed slightly hard, trying to ignore that fact he just might have enjoyed the kiss.

Pirika looked at him dazedly. "...That was too fast, can we try that again?" she managed to murmur.

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If it was possible to get drunk on kissing, that was what was happening to Ren. He was starting to see Pirika in a new light. He was starting to see the WORLD in a new light.

It was kind of scaring him.

It was also, dear reader, scaring the author.

Settling back on the floor next to Pirika, he stared up at the dark, star-embroidered ceiling, his finger tracing the constellations thoughtfully. "So, did you figure out the answer yet?" Ren whispered to her.

Pirika smiled at him innocently. "I'll figure it out on the way."

"What way?" he teased her.

She countered with hitting his shoulder. "Be serious or I'll send my brother on you!"

They stayed in silence a few minutes more after, until Ren finally spoke up.

"Wo ai ni."

Pirika gazed at him pensively. "I like the sound of that. Wo ai ni. It's Chinese, right? What does it mean?"

"I love you," Ren answered simply.

Another silence. Then,

"I think I just might love you too."

"...Think?"

The two engaged in a massive tickling fight, not noticing a giggling sound behind the doorway.

From their station near the door, Jun looked at Pailong, who flipped the lens closed of that small video camera he was holding, finishing the recording. "It's about time they got together, isn't it?" she asked, smiling angelically. Pailong smiled back, and placed the tape with all of Ren and Pirika's little tryst on the floor next to him, leaning towards her inescapably.

With the two couples wrapped up in each other, no one saw Hao slip in, grin maniacally, grab the tape, and run off to mail it off to Horo Horo.

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Owari

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-smiles evilly- I love making Hao do all my pranks. XD Review, please, or I'll discontinue Haircut...yes, I'm serious, I will, please review. PLEASE. AHHHHH. Might have made Ren off character. Darn. Ja ne 'till the next RenPiri fic I write............