Chapter 2! Ren's way OOC in this chap for some reason, so I understand if you leave me some corrective criticism. not too proud of this chapter. Oh well!

Disclaimer:I don't own Shaman King

A new day had risen, and the Flame Inn was just the same as it always was. Loud, obnoxious, snobby, laid back, and strict all rolled into one. Some might call it hell, but to the shamans, it was home. One particular Shaman was having a pain getting the smell of creek off of her.

"That stupid jerk! Does he have any idea how hard it is to clean creek gunk out of your hair!" Pirika whined, scrubbing away. She had taken 3 showers already and still felt dirty. After finishing up, she grabbed a towel and proceeded to dry off. Making her way out of her bathroom, she sighed and began to dry her hair off. Mistake number one was walking out of the bathroom. Mistake number two, was forgetting that there was no lock on her door.

"Ainu! Breakfast is ready!" The door slammed open. "if you don't hurry up it'll get..." Ren stopped and his eyes went white. "cold." He finished quietly.

Pirika, eyes and mouth opened wide with shock, stared at him. Her towel still up in at her hair, left her in a very... exposed position to say the least.

Ren couldn't help it. He was staring. But he had enough sense to ease slowly out the door and shut it. "Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap." Ren was shaking madly, his back to the door. "Okay, option number one, beg for mercy and never speak to her again. Option number two, apologize, and die. Option number three, run away like a coward, and live."

The door slammed open so hard, it flew off its hinges. Pirika stood over the shaking Ren, baseball bat in hand. "TAO REEEEEEEEENN!" She screamed.

"ALL THREE AT ONCE!" he decided. He took off running. "I'm sorry Pirika! Please forgive me!"

"DIEEE!" Pirika continued to chase him. By the way, she's wearing the towel, okay? No naked running.

Yoh, Anna, Horo, Faust, and Manta all sat at the table eating their breakfast, Yoh reading the paper. Suddenly Ren smashed into the table.

"HELP ME! SAVE ME FROM THE DEMON!" Ren screamed before running off again.

"GET BACK HERE SO I CAN RIP YOU APART TAO!" Pirika was quick to follow.

Faust raised his hand, "I call body!"

Anna sighed. "You are one messed up guy aren't you?"

Horo looked at Manta. "Was that..."

Manta looked at Horo. "Pirika chasing Ren in a towel with a baseball bat? Yeah."

Yoh looked at his paper. "A four letter word for idiot..."

Everyone but Yoh: "BAKA!"

Yoh gasped. "THANKS!"

Ren continued running as fast as he could. Until he finally ran out of energy. He collapsed on the ground panting. "So this is where the great Tao legacy ends." He muttered to himself. "I suppose Faust can have my body parts for later." He didn't even get to finish thinking before Pirika pounced onto him.

"Hello TAO." She smiled evilly relishing this moment. "Did you enjoy that view, cause it's going to be the last thing you ever see."

"If it makes you feel any better, it was an accident." He sighed, knowing that wouldn't help. "And it would be great if you'd stop sitting on me."

Pirika blushed and stood up. "Pervert. I'll kill you right now." She raised the bat, and stood over him.

Ren coughed a bit and his eyes widened. He could see up her towel. As much as he hated to admit it, he was enjoying this. Maybe there was a way out of this. "Hey, Ainu. Nice legs you've got there. Maybe you'd like to stand a bit more over my face? I can't quite see that well."

Pirika Blushed madly, squeezing her legs shut. "Pervert. You really need to shut your mouth, and watch what you're looking at."

"But I can't do anything about it." He smirked. This was working well. If he could get her flustered enough, she'd leave to go get properly dressed, and then he could escape. He sat up and grabbed her waist pulling her down on top of him. "I can't help it if you're beautiful." He whispered this hugging her against him. Inside, he was laughing maniacally.

Pirika's eyes widened and she blushed as she felt him pulling her onto him. "Beautiful?" She asked. "Thought you said you hated me."

"Well, I'm a pretty good liar." The maniacal laughter inside of Ren had suddenly died. No matter how much fun he was having, was starting to wonder exactly what was driving him. Looking at her, he realized she was very pretty. It was starting to get to him. "Damn it." He mentally scolded himself. "Calm down!" His thoughts were interrupted when he remembered his intent. He pressed his nose against her hair softly and inhaled. "You smell nice." He said smiling. He really meant it too. She did smell very good. 3 showers will do that after all.

Pirika was freaking out. She knew she shouldn't be letting him do this. He was just trying to get under her skin. But she couldn't help it. All the nice things he was saying, being in his arms like this, it was enough to make most girls go crazy. She snuggled against him much to his and her surprise and let out a sigh. "Ren Kun..."

Rens head shot back and he stopped breathing for a second. "P-Pirika...?" He was suddenly being overpowered by this moment. He began to realize something. For a long time now, the two of them had been "friends". Constantly bickering, but still getting a strange feeling in their gut when they were finished. Ren had never really noticed it before. Even now, it wasn't quite clear to him. He wasn't sure if he really had feelings for the blue haired girl he was holding, but at the moment, that was all he wanted.

Pirika was getting very comfortable in this position. She always had found him cute, but never thought anything of it. She suddenly realized something was really wrong with this picture and shoved herself off him, running toward the Inn as fast as possible.

Ren lay there, his arms sprawled out by his sides, looking into the sky for a minute. He slowly got up, made his way to the creek, slid into it, buried his head under the water and let out a very loud exasperated groan. Bubbles rose up all around his head. Right now, he REALLY needed a cold soak.

Pirika had quickly made her way into the bathroom and had locked herself in. Clutching her hand to her chest and shaking silently. What the hell had just happened!

er... yeah. wrote this at like, 12:00 AM so whatever. not as good as I expected. Review anyway! The next chapters will be better! I promise!