Disclaimer – I do not own Shaman King or the characters in this story. I only own the OC(s) in this story.
Summary – While searching for a watch in Pirika's room, Ren stumbles across a letter to a guy, ''Asuya''. RenxPiri. My first story!
(Ren lives in Yoh's house. They do not have their spirits, and they are in the same high school. Ren and Pirika are the same age)
I've decided that their thoughts will be in Italics. A really big thank you to Exploded Toilet Bowl and Particles of Sand for suggesting it.
Someone asked me if Horohoro and Pirika were twins, since they were in the same class, and yes they are, but all the characters are sixteen. (You need to be sixteen to drive right? That's what my friend, sweetseptemberscars, told me anyway).
Exploded Toilet Bowl asked if I had spelt the title wrongly, instead of 'Jealousy', I spelt 'Jealously'. Well, actually I added an 'L' by accident and by the time my friend told me, it was too late to change... T.T and yes, I am a Singaporean. Read and review please!
Jealously
Still Tuesday, in the class
Ren was in class, listening to the teacher drone on and on about vocabulary and grammar. The lesson was about as interesting as watching two snails having a race under the hot afternoon sun. It was already taking him all his concentration to avoid banging his head on the table. I am a Tao! I must not show any weakness.
He rested his head in the palm of his hand and watched the clock tick. It was twelve fifty four, just six minutes to one o'clock. Five minutes fifty nine seconds, five minutes fifty eight seconds, five minutes fifty seven seconds... Ren yawned (after making sure nobody saw him of course), and then... smirked. There was a way, after all, to liven up the gloomy atmosphere.
He tore out a piece of paper from his notebook, and wrote 'Mrs. Ong needs to go on a diet'. He then drew a picture of a pigwith a hula-hoopunder the words, and folded the paper into a paper airplane. After making sure Mrs. Ong's back was turned, Ren took aim, and threw the paper airplane at her.
''Ouch!'' Mrs. Ong turned around immediately and glared at the class. The airplane had hit her on the back of her head. The class' sniggers stopped as Mrs. Ong gave them each a death glare and it seemed she knew who the culprit was for she glared at Ren for the longest time, as if searching his face for clues.
She picked up the paper airplane, noticed some words on it and opened it up. She was livid with anger when she saw the words 'Mrs. Ong needs to go on a diet' and the pig with a hula-hoop. Horohoro gave him a thumbs up from behind Mrs. Ong's back.
''Tao Ren! I want you out of the class NOW and stand outside the door till the bell rings!'' Mrs. Ong came right up to his seat, put her hands on her hips and yelled at him. Ren looked at the clock and smirked.
''What's makes you think I threw the airplane at you, Mrs. Ong?'' He put on an innocent face.
''Did you see me do throw it at her?'' He asked his fan girls and they all answered no. Ren turned back to the teacher. ''See? I told you I did not do that.'' Just as she was about to reply, the bell rang for dismissal. He threw all his things into his bag and ran out of the class. He heard her scream at him to come back but he just ignored it. Let her tell my father for all I care. It's not like he would bother anyway.
Ren raced to the school gates to wait for Pirika. Suzuka arrived before her however. ''Ren-sama! Ren-sama'' Suzuka ran up to him. Ren tried to pretend she's not there, but she was waving her hand in front of him and practically screaming in his ear, so it was a little difficult.
''Ren-sama, about the project Mrs. Ong assigned...How about I go to Ren-sama's house to do it?''
Damn. Forgot about the project. When was it due again? Oh right... Thursday. No! She's definitely not going to my house. Even if she did, we'll never get the work done.
''Sukuka, could you do that project yourself? I'm busy you see.''
She's not looking convinced. Ha! I know. ''You see... My father wanted me to do this really important job, so I can't do the project Mrs. Ong wanted us to do.'' Ren saw that she still wasn't so convinced so he put his hands on her shoulders and looked at her in the eye with a (fake) smile. ''Don't worry, I trust that you will do it right!''
Suzuka seemed to reconsider and after a few seconds, she looked at him with a bright smile. ''If Ren-sama wants me to do it, I won't let Ren-sama down! Bye!'' Suzuka skipped into her father's car which was waiting just outside the gates and waved till the car was out of sight. Not that Ren was looking at her. He was currently scanning the school for any sign of Pirika.
Damn. Where is she? Did something happen to her? He glanced at his watch. It was seven minutes past one. Where are you Pirika? It's already seven minutes! Ren waited for another three minutes or so when Pirika finally appeared, pulling Horohoro to the school gate.
What's Pirika doing, pulling her brother along with us? Hmm... Uh oh... What if she knows and she doesn't want to be alone with me so she got her brother to come along? Am I that horrible?
''Hi Ren!'' Pirika had spotted him and she waved her hand at him.
''Hi Pirika. Why did you bring Horohoro here as well? And why are you so late?'' Ren asked her.
''Oh! Asuya stopped me in class and wanted to walk home with me but I told him I needed to teach you something so he left so I was a little late. Brother told me to pull him here when he heardthat you wanted me to teach'' Pirika haven't even finished her sentence about the brother part when her brother quickly covered her mouth.
''Hi pointy head... well, Pirika wanted me to accompany her so well, I came! Right Pirika? Ouch!'' Horohoro yelled as Pirika bit his hand. He hopped around on one foot and held out his throbbing hand to Pirika.
''No! Of course not! You told me to pull you here!'' Her tone softened when she saw her brother's red hand which had swelled to the size of a pumpkin. "Just don't put your hand over my mouth again."
So... It's just Horohoro being overprotective. Serves him right for trying to keep Pirika from telling me the truth. ''Pirika, shall we go now?''
''Go? Where?'' Pirika asked him.
''Yeah. Where. Don't you take my sister out without telling me. If you're going somewhere with her, I'm going too.'' Horohoro puffed out his chest and stood in front of Pirika with his hands out. If Pirika isn't here now, I would have long strangled his neck.
''Fine. You can come along too.'' Ren walked to his car while they followed. He opened the door of the seat where Pirika had sat on Monday. He motioned for her to go in and sit, but Horohoro rushed in before Pirika could, sat down, crossed his arms, and refused to budge.
Ren glared at him and finally, opened the car door of the seat behind Horohoro. Pirika climbed into the car and sat behind Ren. Her brother hurriedly told her to sit behind him which Pirika did. Ren slammed the door after he got in and started driving.
I swear I'm going to kill him some day. Having him with us is bad enough, but now he has to get Pirika as far away from me as possible? I better make sure he doesn't interfere.
''Hey, why don't you just ask my sister to teach you now and you drive us all home? She can teach you at home too right?''
''I don't feel like going home right now. If you want, you can go home without us. I'll drive you back home if you want.'' Ren said calmly, hoping that he would just take up the offer and leave them alone.
''No thanks. I don't trust you with my sister. So... Where are we going?'' Horohoro asked.
''Since I'm feeling pretty happy right now, I'll treat Pirika to a drink and a movie.'' Ren answered, keeping his eyes on the road. I'm not that stupid to treat Horohoro to food. He will eat and eat and that will surely amount to say... a hundred or two. He was the one who wanted to tag along anyway. Ren thought, recalling the last time he had agreed to treat him.
Pirika and her brother looked up in surprise. ''Hey! Only Pirika? What about me? I'm hungry too!'' Horohoro exclaimed, rubbing his tummy and tears flowed down his cheeks. ''Pirika my dearest sister... You wouldn't leave your brother to starve would you?''
''I'm your ONLY sister. Ahh... Well... Ren? Please? Just treat him this once?'' Horohoro nodded vigorously in agreement.
Ren looked at them and immediately shrunk back a little from the puppy faces the two was giving him. His eye twitched. No way. How could the Usui power be so powerful? I... Must... Resist! No! I can't do it! It's overwhelming! It's overpowering me! No! I... Must... Not... Give... Up! After ten seconds of inner struggle...
''Fine,'' Ren said curtly and turned back to his driving. I can't believe I lost to them... Who knew the two could be so convincing when they wanted to...
Horohoro almost leapt in joy, but didn't, for fear of damaging the car and Ren would decide not to treat him after all.
''But,'' Ren said, while Horohoro replied ''But what?''
''Your limit is twenty dollars.''
There was a moment of silence and... ''Noooo! Please Ren! I'm begging you for the first time ever! Just twenty dollars for food! Pirika... help me persuade him please?'' Pirika shook her head. ''Twenty dollars for food is a lot already.'' Horohoro sighed in resignation.
''Oh, and I forgot to mention. The twenty dollars includes the movie tickets. So... Let me see... you have only eleven fifty left for food. Be thankful I'm even treating you at all. Take it or leave it.''
''Fine, fine. Eleven fifty it is.'' Ren was surprised. Hmm... He agreed so quickly without a fight? Something is going on in his mind. It better not be some evil plan of his again.
Ren thought for a few more seconds and discarded that idea. Nah, what could he think of anyway? I better concentrate on my driving now.
Hi! It's me again! I really really hope you enjoyed this chapter... I'm sorry for updating so slowly, well, I just didn't have the mood to write any stories. But when i reread the reviews you have all given me, I would feel really inspired! Well, I'm not sure whether to write a NejiTen (from Naruto) story so I just want your comments! So... should I write? Just tell me whether you like the idea. Oh, and just wondering, does "Grrr..." really make Ren sound like a dog? If it does... Oops... Sorry Ren... I know you're not a dog...To Pearl, Happy Birthday! (Although it's two days away...) Review please!
To any Mrs. Ongs here, including my former teacher(if she's here), I'm so sorry! I'm not implyingthat you need to go on a diet, it's just that that's the way this story goes and it's just Ren playing a fool! So... I really hope you won't get angry... You can change the name to any thing you want in your mind! You can just pretend it's Mrs. Lim if you want! So don't get angry please... (Sor ry to any Mrs. Lims here too...)