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)
Sevetenks: In response to some of what XxMist-GliderxX said, I think I needed to clear some things up that weren't clear in the previous chapter.
First, Ren wasn't wearing his shirt because he was going to bed, but Horo Horo stormed in trying to apologize on behalf of Pirika. It shows that he didn't expect anyone to come after him, but I should have made that more obvious, shouldn't I?
Second, -chan is used at the end of a girl's name when you care about them or are being friendly or being cute. –kun at the end of a boy's name for similar reasons, though for characters like Rika Nonaka (Ruki Makino, Digimon) or Anna, they would not like being called '-chan' because it makes them look cute.
Chimon: And on with the show! And please don't report us, because those two things were important for you to know:(
The Ainu and the Tao
Horokeu Usui P. O. V.
As I walked away from Pirika, who was going to talk to Ren, I looked back. It seems like just yesterday I was running out of our burning house carrying a baby in my small arms, which grew up into my beautiful sister. Pirika never knew our parents, and I was only 2 or something, but still. We lived in the field for a few years, where I met Kororo, and she protected us even before she and I became partners. Then we went back to the Ainu village, about the time I taught Pirika to talk. One day, someone from a town nearby our burned down house where we lived, came and took Pirika away from me.
Well, I had been out at the time with Kororo, seeing the village elder. I was an official shaman then. As I arrived at our little hut, I saw someone taking my imouto away, I went crazy. I spent an entire year looking for her. It was how I trained to be a Shaman. I bought a snowboard in the first city I stopped at, it was really big for me, and I have grown into it now, but then, I was a kid who looked like he should be in school, wandering around in winter clothing with a huge snowboard strapped to his back, sometimes talking to someone who no one else could ever see.
I never had any friends, I lived alone with adults for the first important part of my life and the second important part I was searching for Pirika. I finally found her, she was labeled the freak who could talk to ghosts at an orphanage actually run by a bad shaman, but I didn't find that out until he came after me when I brought Pirika home.
And that was how I learned how to use the Oversoul, and then the elders taught me about Mana. I figured it out just as I saved Pirika. She treated me like a superhero for a year actually.
My point is, I love her to bits. I raised her. And now she's growing up. My little sweet imouto is growing up. So am I really. I mean, I love Tamao with all my heart, I really, truly do. She and Pirika are the two girls in my life, and I'd probably go nuts without them.
As Ren and Pirika slowly walk into the kitchen, holding hands, I smile. I have never seen either of them this happy. (Technically, I've only seen Ren happy once, and that was when we saved Jun from the big Tao guy, his dad. I later found out that was the second time his sister had ever seen him happy, so, you see where I'm going with this…) Well, I think my decision was the right one, letting Pirika pass. As long as Ren doesn't hurt her, and make her as happy as she looks right now, well then I don't have any problems with their relationship.
That is, of course, if they don't start making out in front of me. Well… That is a bridge we'll cross when we get to it, right now it's time to eat some of my sweet Tamao-chan's cooking!
Mmm… Apple pie…
THE END
End Chapter Four
Sevetenks: So, what did you think? I know it wasn't the best thing in the world, but the next (and FINAL) chapter is a fluffy little epilogue, and will be up in 3-5 days depending on how long it takes me to write it, since this was technically the epilogue, until about five minutes ago when I changed my mind. Till then, Ja ne!
Sevetenks, the Ultimate Fusion
