Discliamer: I don't own shaman king so please... I'm tired of this message...

(NOTE: I made some OOC characters there but I just added them for extras to spice up the story or whatsoever, they are just nothing but decorations ok? They are not a part of the main story but just plainly EXTRAS and nothing more...)

WARNING: This chap may be a bit, 'not suitable for children'... There may be a short rape scene but it was interrupted by our savior- just read to know...

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Chapter 5: The answer

(dismissal, 4:00 pm)

Pirika walked along the noisy corridors of the school still very pessimistic, heading to the lockers when she met some of the rich kids along...

"Hey, Usui! Do you know the news?" Natsumi, a daughter of a CEO of a very big wine company, Pirika's classmate asked.

"Huh? Uh... No... actually I'm not in the mood, please excuse me..." Pirika helped herself move out of the bunch of the rich gals.

"Well, don't blame us if you don't have a companion this night, everyone is going to the party, ya'know?" Another girl said.

"Party?" Pirika stopped walking. She never heard of a party being held this night, or was she just really a geek to be uninformed...

"What a geek, you don't know about the infamous model from Germany, Matisse Matilda's birthday?"

"(smirks) Well, we can't blame her, she's the poorest geek here, how would she know?"

"Ma- Matilda? She's back again here in Japan?" Pirika asked skeptically. Did they mean Matisse Matilda (Macchi), one of the members of Hana-gumi, the bitch that served Hao before? How come?

"Of course! And she'll start studying here in Tokyo High tomorrow as a 12 grader! Next time, will you start reading magazines to have yourself up-to-date, geek..."

Suddenly they heard some screams in the background.

"Hey! Look over there! It's Tao Ren! AAAGGGGHHHH!" As usual, every dismissal, when Ren goes to the parking lot to drive home, girls would scram to him and leave whatever they do or whoever guy they were with just to ask Ren out or whatever...

The rich gals left Pirika alone and went to the parking lot too. Pirika just looked at him from afar, being surrounded by lots of rich, hot gals... it just made her more pessimistic...

(POV)

"(sighs) That kiss... I knew he never meant it... Of all the rich, beautiful gals, I knew he would never choose me, If I knew, he kissed lots of girls before and told same things to them... I better stop dreaming... He's rich, I'm poor, we have big differences... He'll never be mine..."

She was awakened from her thoughts when she saw Ren staring back at her from afar while standing besides his car, still surrounded by his rich fangirls...

She just sighed evaded her pessimistic eyes from his and walked away... she could still hear the girls:

"Hey! where are you looking at! Why are you looking at that geek! We're here for you!" The girls asked Ren, still staring at Pirika, walking away.

"Ren, I can't be the one for you..." She whispered as she was walking away, still listening to the stupid converstaions around that pierces her soft heart...

(after a couple of hours)

Pirika was just sitting alone on an abandoned seashore... feeling the cold wind brush against her skin, she knew she can't go to the party cuz she's not invited and she doesn't care about it... but she still feel doubtful about Macchi, Hao's follower, would be back as a rich model from germany? It had nothing to do with her so she wasn't invited... She also knew that Ren and Jun were surely invited to the party, they were rich... and besides, she expected that Ren could be with another girl that time so she just feel rejected and hopeless, so hopeless she wanted to kill herself...

"Damn! I wish I didn't love him!" She threw a stone to the sea angrily, but the stone didn't went that far... her sadness made her weak...

Suddenly she heard some heavy footsteps behind her, she looked back but it was just too dark to notice their faces, all she can notice is they were all tall and strongly built and they were carrying deadly weapons...

"Hey bitch! Looks like you're misplaced..." One of them said.

"Uh... D- don't worry... I- I won't tell anybody about this... I- I..." Pirika was about to run when the other guy pulled her back and threw her to the ground.

"KYAAA!"

"Where do you think you're going huh?"

Pirika can't answer... she was just too scared... she can feel cold sweat running down her forehead... the other one clenched her wrists with his strong fists... she can't run...

"Well, you can make up for running in our teritorry if you got some cheese over there..." One of the guys pulled her bag and searched for some money around but found nothing...

"I don't have money! P- please leave me alone..." Tears ran down her azure eyes as she begged the robbers.

"Rubbish!" The one holding Pirika's wrist, also forcedly searched her pockets and found her wallet with the 10, 000 yen in it, still unspent...

"NO! PLEASE! DON'T TAKE THAT!" Pirika cried out.

"(grinning evilly) Hehehe... no money huh? So what's this?"

"Please... that's the only life I had..." She whined.

"Ok guys! Looks like we have another party tonight!" The one holding Pirika forcedly brought her closer to him and put his hands under her skirt and brushed his rough hands to her smooth legs...

"NO PLEASE!" She cried some more...

"Shut up bitch!" He pushed her to the ground and tied her hands and legs so she can't move, and also placed a duct tape on her mouth so she can't scream...

The other robber ripped her clothes open and started to kiss her neck unmercifully... she tried to scream but it just sounded muffled and can't be heard... The other one hit her head with a baseball bat which made her half unconscious...

As the scarlet fluid ran down her head, the other robber started ripping her skirt, making her half naked...

"Hehehe... now let the fun begin..." He was about to rip her panties when they heard someone said...

"How delicious is she? Would you guys mind sharing her to me?"

The voice sounded familiar to her... it was...

She finally went fully unconscious...

(after one day)

"WHERE AM I!" She jolted herself from her day-long sleep. She looked around and found herself in a hospital, she had a bandage wrapped around her head, she almost can't remeber what happened, all she can remember was she was almost raped... she found Horohoro sitting besides her bed, sleeping.

"Onichan?" She said waking him up.

"So finally you're awake!" Horohoro hugged Pirika...

"Long time no see, onichan... uh! by the way, what happened?"

"You- you were almost... raped by a gang of robbers..."

"Yeah, I know but... what happened after it, who brought me here, who saved me?"

"You must thank Ren..."

"Ren! H- how come?"

(POV)

"I can't remeber he saved me... I thought he was... on the party? I'm so confused!..."

"So, where is he?" Pirika asked eagerly...

"He was... (eyes getting pessimistically serious) ... just go to the next room..."

She pulled the dextrose off her hand and hurriedly ran to the next room...

"Ren!" She yelled banging the doors open just to see Jun, Pai Long, Bason, Chocolove, Yoh and Manta sobbing at the body covered with blanket from head to toe lying on the bed...

"W- why?"

She also felt like bursting to tears... is it?

"Please... don't tell me!" Tears ran down her azure eyes as she slowly went to him...

"Ren... Why?" She asked uncovering his face from the blanket... "You're so stupid!" She cried some more hugging his cold body...

"You shouldn't have saved me..."

She suddenly felt a hand stroking her back... he looked back at him to see his golden eyes staring at her...

"KYAAAAAAAAAA! BAKEMONO!" She yelled, dashing away from him...

She looked at everyone just to see them laughing until they cry...

"HAHAHAHAHA! YOU'RE TRICKED!" Yoh laughed.

"(blush) GRRRRRR! HOWE DARE YOU!" She went too mad... but at the same time, relieved... he's still alive...

"What the hell's going on here?" Ren asked sitting up the bed, rubbing his painful head, tied with bandages.

"Well..." Jun just smiled.

"B- but how come, he's body's so cold?" Pirika asked.

"Aircon, duh..." Horohoro suddenly came with Anna.

"So, you teamed on us!" Pirika yelled.

"Hehehe... it was all planned by Chocolove..." Manta said.

"OK, OK! Let's get the hell outta here..." Chocolove winked at Ren as he pushed Yoh and Manta out with him with Jun, Pai Long, Ran and Bason trailing behind.

"Hey! W-where are you going?" Ren asked.

Finally Ren and Pirika were all alone...

"Ano..." They spoke together...

"Ok, you go first!" They spoke again together...

"You first..." And again they spoke together... he covered her mouth...

"Ok, go and speak..." He removed his hands away from her mouth to let her speak.

"Ano... Thanks a lot... (blushes) for saving me..."

"Thanks? You don't need to thank me..."

"(sighs) As usual you're still a braggart even in this situation... (smiles)"

"It's my job to protect you, even it causes death... maybe if you died... I did kill myself brutally..."

She smiled...

"Now I want my payment..." He said smirking.

"Payment?"

"I saved you so you should pay me..."

"Huh? I - I'm sorry, I don't have money to pay you, remember, I'm robbed..."

"To hell with the money... I don't need those... I just want a very simple thing..."

She was too puzzled... but finally she smiled... she slowly leaned her face and kissed him softly on the lips...

"Is that what you mean?"

"It was still insufficient..."

He kissed her back, deeper than usual... he licked her lips begging for entrance... she never hesitated to let him enter... their tounges warmly intertwined with each others'... feeling their warm affection for each other...

He could hear her moan... he loved to hear it... it makes him know she liked it.

"Ren..." She broke out. "You never answered my question!"

"What?"

"Do you feel the same for me?"

Suddenly the door bursted open with Chocolove, Yoh and Horohoro stumbled...

"Ooppsss... hehehehe..." Chocoloved laughed.

"What the hell are you doing there? You're listening, aye?" Ren asked pulling out his kuan dao...

"Uh oh..." Chocolove, Yoh and Horohoro ran away fastly before they get killed...

(back to Pirika)

"So what was that again?"

"You never told me if you feel the same for me..."

He just smiled.


My God...I hate this chap! It sux! Anyway, I'll make up for the next chap...