The Ainu and the Tao


Summary: Ren has been acting weird lately, especially around a certain Ainu girl, though no one really pays it much heed. However, when Pirika gets so angry at him that she says something very cruel to him, his reaction is one that no one some would have expected.

Genre: Romance/Drama

Written By: Sevetenks, the Ultimate Fusion


Hika-chan: Seve-sama wishes he owned anime's like Shaman King, but he does not.

(Mostly POV)


The Ainu and the Tao

Pirika Usui P. O. V.

Hello. My name is Pirika Usui. My older brother is Horokeu Usui, but he likes to be called Horo Horo. We are Ainu people, we come from the north and stuff. Onii-chan understands that cultural stuff a lot better then I do since he spent more time learning the Ainu culture to become a shaman.

I trained my onii-chan really really hard for the Shaman Tournament, which only comes around every five hundred years. Our dream was to make a place for the Koropokkur, ice spirits who live underneath lily pads. Onii-chan's partner spirit is one, her name is Kororo.

Onii-chan lost the first round of the tournament to Yoh Asakura, and at the beginning, I hated him. But now we are all good friends. In fact, onii-chan and I live with them when it's summertime on the mountains, which it is currently.

Today was just like any other day. Tamao and I were talking in the kitchen, Ren was nearby drinking his oh so precious milk, Ryu was training with onii-chan and Yoh outside, Yoh's friends Manta was with them, Anna was watching soap operas, and a temporary visitor, Faust the Eighth, was resting in one of the many guest rooms.

Tamao got up to pour herself a glass of iced tea, unsweetened, and I looked over at Ren. He is quite the enigma. What do I actually know about him?

He is rude, arrogant, and mean to onii-chan. He supposedly had a bad father, but I doubt that. I say it's just an excuse he hypnotized into onii-chan and the other's heads. But it might be true… For Kami's sake, his sister's lover is a zombie. A ZOMBIE! As in dead person!

However, there's just one other thing that is kind of a problem. Ya see… I sorta got a crush on him… It started recently, and I began to notice odd things. Like whenever he's in deep thought, if someone interrupts them, he doesn't yell at them like he used to, he just blinks and blushes. He looks at me a lot. I bet he's thinking about tricking me into giving onii-chan too much training again. Last time, it was a bad experience when onii-chan got heat stroke.

He's looking at me right now in fact, I can feel his stare on my back. I turned to look at him and grinned.

"Need something?" I ask curiously. He stares, then turns away, closing his eyes and drinking more milk. He has a whole carton next to his glass. Crazy, cute, hunky, nutcase…

(Sevetenks: Hunky… (shivers))

I hear the door slide open, and in walk Horo Horo, Yoh, and Ryu. I smiled when onii-chan gave Tamao a quick kiss before plopping down across from Ren and next to me.

"Hello onii-chan!" I say cheerfully, grinning. He looked like he had fun, and Kororo is sitting on his head, smiling down at her partner. Soon, Anna came in and we started eating. Faust was with Eliza probably, and when they are alone, they er… Well, you know what adults in love do, right?

Soon, we were all talking and eating, I was teasing Tamao about what my nephews and nieces might look like, and Horo Horo wasn't helping her out, he was too busy with what he usually does at the table. Argue with Ren. Now, despite my crush on Ren, Horo Horo will always come first in my book.

"Oh yeah?" yelled Horo Horo. I hadn't heard what they were arguing about, but I decided to listen in anyway.

"Yes." Said Ren plainly. "You are."

"No I am not!" snapped Horo Horo, glaring at Ren angrily.

"You are…" insisted Ren, grinning evilly. Man, that grin makes him look soooooooo…

"I am not!" yelled Horo Horo, flailing his arms around.

I have had enough!

"Yes, you a-" started Ren, but I interrupted him.

"SHUT UP!" I screamed, silencing everyone. "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS PICK ON ONII-CHAN? HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU! I BET THAT YOUR 'OH SO TERRIBLE DADDY' WAS A NICE GUY COMPARED TO YOU!"

Ren abruptly stood up and left the room, looking down for some reason, What's the big deal? He had a "bad" dad and I insulted him. Big deal, at least he had a father. Me and Horo Horo were orphans…

Horo is standing up. He ran after Ren, why is he doing that?

"She didn't mean it! Ren!"

I notice the looks Ryu and Yoh are giving me, and I realized maybe that wasn't such a smart thing to say…

End Chapter One


Sevetenks: Well, my first Ren/Pirika. I'm toying with an idea for a Hao/Macchi (please read Dreams!)

Sevetenks, the Ultimate Fusion