A/N: How many months has it been? 4? 5? I can't remember… Anyways, this is the update you guys have been waiting for…

Yume: God, PH! Finally!

PH: -stares- I am trying my very best to ignore you, hun... Well, I can't keep people waiting forever… Here's the fifth chapter to Istupid Cupid!

Yume: She's only doing this because Gaiaonline's going whack…

PH: -takes butcher knife out-

Yume: Uh-oh…

Melissa: -pops out- Nuuuu! Don't kill her!

PH: -stops- Umm… Since when have you been in my fanfics?

Melissa: I… really have no idea… -sweatdrops- But I'll stay and watch though… -grabs popcorn-

PH: Alright… -grabs butcher knife-

Disclaimer: I have no idea where this plot came from, but I don't own Shaman King… Or any of the songs used here… K? K.

o.O.o.O.o

Chapter 5: Sitting Down Beside Myself

February 3, 2005

Mission Log No. 3

Pirika and I have been successful lately. It's twelve in the morning and she had gone down for some milk.

We left Yoh and Anna in the library this afternoon. For some strange reason, Anna kissed Yoh when she sensed my presence. Operation: Ice Queen is still ongoing and I'm still working to correct the errors of the love potion. Even though she kissed him, it doesn't necessarily imply that they are in love.

I'm on my cellphone with Jeanne now, so I have to cut this short.

Asakura Hao

"You ok in there, Hao?" Pirika seemed to be talking to nobody as she walked the streets of Tokyo alone.

"I'm quite fine," Hao yelled back in his tiny form.

Pirika wasn't really alone, she had cupid on her side. A pregnant silence reigned over the pair. It was seven in the evening and Pirika seemed to have lost her usual chattiness. Besides, it would look very odd if people saw her talking to air. Neither one knew what to say, anyway. They had just witnessed Anna and Yoh making out in the library.

"You know," Pirika started as they entered an empty street, "Ren was supposed to pick me up an hour ago."

Hao was silent. He too was wondering why they hadn't left earlier. Yoh and Anna were still locked in the library and after their lips touched, Pirika started walking away.

"He never came, huh?"

Pirika stuck her radio earphones in her ear.

Hao thought of Pirika's prodigal boyfriend, Ren. He didn't know what kept her with him. Ren seemed like a jerk to him, though. He shook the thought off and kept his silence.

As if I'd care with their sordid affairs.

Unknown to him, though, Pirika was fighting back the tears that were showing in her blue eyes.

"This is WRAU 98.3! This next song goes to all the broken-hearted people out there! Firewater by Yellowcard… It's one of my favorite songs and I hope it becomes yours too!

"You sat me down beside myself,
To show me all the reasons I was wrong for you…
Was this for real? It's hard to tell,
'Cause it was such a beautiful mess we had got into…

I'm gonna overcome this, paper hearts can't win this time…
And all along I should have known this wasn't your dream, it was mine…
I know you wanted me to give up this life to be,
Everything I was back when you had the hands my heart was in…

I was never good at goodbye...

Can I swallow this bottle whole?
So this brain in my head can forget your face…"

o.O.o.O.o

Yoh gasped for breath, he was panting as he and Anna broke apart. His eyes were still closed and he gently opened them. For a second, he was shocked to see himself in front of him. Then, he remembered that it was really Anna. She looked as shocked as he was, though, as if she didn't know what she was doing.

"We kissed, didn't we?" Anna asked, straight to the point.

"Ummm… yeah… I guess…" Yoh mumbled.

"You know, I can actually tell that you were feeling my…" Anna paused and thought, "…Backside right there."

"Ummm… Well, kinda…"

Anna's hand twitched and made contact with Yoh's cheek- painfully. Her hand left a huge red spot on the right side of his face.

"Ow! You kissed me first!" Yoh exclaimed.

"Technically, Yoh, it was you because I'm in your body," Anna explained.

"That doesn't even make sense!"

"Yes, it does," Anna sighed, "Now, let's go back to what we were doing, shall we?"

"Kissing?"

Anna slap was harder this time. Yoh now sported two red marks on both cheeks.

"Finding a way out, pervert."

As soon as Anna said those words, the library door creaked open and Amidamaru and Manta came bursting in.

"Master Yoh!" Amidamaru called out, "We've been looking for you everywhere! It's seven o'clock!"

"We're right here, old buddy" Yoh grinned, "So… It's been that long?"

Yoh suddenly felt his face flushing.

"You seem to be all red, Master Yoh," Amidamaru commented.

"It's just hot in here," Anna straightened the tie that she had put in Yoh's usually bare uniform, "I'm very hungry and Tamao better have dinner on the table when we go home. Well? Let's go."

Manta walked silently out the door. Yoh and Anna walked out together. Their hands brushed against each other and the touch was almost electric. Yoh couldn't see any emotion in his usually cheery eyes with Anna's soul behind them, but he felt a couple of her hard layers melt away as she let her hand get entwined with Yoh's.

"Don't think…" Anna started but was silenced by Yoh's smile.

Anna looked away to hide an unmistakeable blush.

God, what's happening?

o.O.o.O.o

"Oh my God," Pirika stared at the dinner table, "Tamao, this is awesome! And you look nice too! Where did you ever get that outfit?"

Tamao blushed a deep red. The dinner they usually had was more like a feast now. Everything was perfectly laid out and the dishes looked exquisite. Tamao was strangely dressed up like a French maid.

"Aruga!" Horo came in, "You look HOT Tamao!"

"Shameless pig," Pirika tripped Horo just as Anna and Yoh came in the front door with Manta looking very somber.

"Yoh, I need to talk with you," Manta pulled Yoh aside.

"Yeah?"

"It's… Its…" Manta started wringing his hands, "It's Tamao!"

Yoh blinked at Manta. He started grinning goofily and elbowed him.

"So, y'got a crush on the little lady, eh?"

"Yoh, it's more than a crush!" Manta gasped, "I'M IN LOVE!"

"Wow, good for you, buddy," Yoh grinned even wider, "Listen, I'm also thinking… I want to… That maybe Anna and I… We could-"

Before Yoh had finished speaking, Manta was already beside Tamao. He looked like a lovesick little puppy trying to get the girl's attention. Tamao merely nodded and smiled at Yoh's direction.

"Do you like the food, Yoh?" Tamao purred in a sultry manner, "I made it for you, you know."

"Eh?" Yoh blinked in confusion at her, "I'm going upstairs to change."

Yoh escaped from Tamao just as Jun and Ryu with their lips locked in a disgusting sort of way. A very annoyed Ren came in after them.

"Stop gnawing your faces off," Ren snapped, "They've been like that for at least two hours now. Go get a room, you two!"

Ren slumped on a chair and Pirika went to him. Horo caught his eye for a flicker of a second and smiled.

"Tired?" Pirika asked.

"You would if you were chased by a screaming mob of fans on your way home just because Ryu's dating your sister," Ren scowled at her.

"Aren't you gonna say anything to me, by the way?"

"Like what?"

"'I'm sorry I never got to fetch you' maybe?" Pirika snapped.

"We didn't talk about anything like that."

"But you fetched me everyday until now, didn't you?"

"Damn it, Pirika, just leave me alone!"

Pirika was taken aback and felt her insides squirming. Ren looked away from her and grabbed a plate. She got up and marched up the stairs, her steps resounding after her. Anna shook her head and took a sip of her drink. The rest of the meal was deathly silent, except for the clanking of utensils and Jun and Ryu's giggles.

o.O.o.O.o

"Yoh?" A knock came at the door.

Yoh was putting on Anna's PJ's. his eyes had been lingering on the two bumps on Anna's chest.

Alright, so I DO like Anna's boobs.

Yoh buttoned Anna's PJ's and got the door. Tamao stood there, looking at him shyly.

"Yes, Tamao?" Yoh said.

Tama went in the room and closed the door. Se put her hands on Yoh's chest. Yoh stepped back quickly and stared at her.

"What are you doing?" he continued backing away.

"I…" she looked at him with sad eyes, "I love you, Yoh…"

"Wha-?"

"Kiss me, please," Tamao reached out.

"Whoah! No!" Yoh pushed her away, "I have a fiancée, Tamao! Stop it!"

"But… I want you…" she extended her arms and pinned Yoh onto the wall.

"I'm a girl, right now!" Yoh exclaimed, trying to shake her off.

"I really don't care…" Tamao was surprisingly strong for her, "I love you… Yoh…"

She was merely an inch from Yoh's face when the door burst open with Manta on the other end.

"How dare you!" Manta marched over angrily and kicked Yoh's shins.

Tamao let go of Yoh and looked at Manta angrily. She took off on her heels and left both of them.

"I have no idea what came over her," Yoh tried to explain, but Manta was now chasing Tamao.

"Wait for me, my love!"

Anna stood on the doorway, her face expressionless.

"I didn't do anything," Yoh got up and faced her.

"I wasn't asking," Anna turned and left as well.

Yoh sighed and let himself fall on his bed. The pain in his shins was still throbbing.

"I'm getting hurt too much today."

o.O.o.O.o

Anna gritted her teeth and her fists were clenched.

Tamao.

She didn't know why, but she hated every fiber of Tamao's existence.

o.O.o.O.o

"Why do you let him walk all over you, anyway?" Hao questioned Pirika, who was lying very still in her bed.

The both of them were oblivious to the scenes that had unfolded in Yoh's room. Although Hao knew what was happening, he ignored them and had directed his attention at Pirika. Hao was now dressed in a pink set of pyjamas. Pirika was still wearing her school uniform.

"I can't sleep," Pirika muttered, "I'm going to get me some milk."

Pirika went out the door and Hao propped his laptop on his lap.

"Jeanne," Hao said, "Status?"

"On Anna?" Jeanne's tired face flickered on the screen, "Hmmm… I can see confusion… What's going on?"

"I really have no idea, but I'm about to find out," Hao nodded at her, "You look like you haven't been sleeping a lot, Jeanne. Are you alright?"

"I haven't been sleeping a lot, you idiot," Jeanne scowled at him, "You're making me work all night! Now, why don't you get off your butt and start WORKING! Ok?"

Jeanne turned off the screen and left Hao staring at static.

o.O.o.O.o

Pirika tiptoed on the hallway, everyone seemed to want to go to sleep early.

I don't blame them.

As she tiptoed past Horo's room, she noticed that the lights were still on.

"You don't want me in here, then?" a familiar voice said.

Pirika stopped in her tracks. It was Ren. She pressed her ear against the doorway. She never really cared much if she was eavesdropping.

"It's not that," Horo was now saying, "Pirika might wake up or something. Besides, this is a mistake."

"A mistake?" Ren was purring, "Do you think that this is a mistake?"

A silence followed the conversation.

"I love you," was what she heard a while after.

Pirika gasped at that. Her brother… And Ren…

She fell to the floor in a heap. Hao appeared beside her suddenly and sat down with her.

"So, you knew about this?" Pirika whispered.

Hao merely nodded.

"All of you are liars!" Pirika hissed and ran away from him.

"Whoah! Where are you going?" Hao ran after her.

As he reached the bottom of the stairs, he watched Pirika stride across the room and out the front door into the cold night. Hao sighed and opened his cellphone.

"Jeanne, I won't be able to work tonight."

"And I was never good at goodbye...

Can I swallow this bottle whole?
So this brain in my head can forget your face…
Can I swallow this bottle whole?
'Cause I'd rather be dead than make more mistakes…

Today I couldn't stay awake,
Feels like I'm drowning in this firewater lake…
I won't be sleeping much tonight,
It's not the same without you lying by my side…
(Right beside me…)

Can I swallow this bottle whole?
So this brain in my head can forget your face…
Can I swallow this bottle whole?
'Cause I'd rather be dead than make more mistakes…"

o.O.o.O.o

A/N: God, is this a long chapter… I'm sorry for the cliffie again, I seem to be chasing time these days… And I'm not able to go on the internet during weekdays anymore… My computer's getting really annoying as well… Anyways, I was looking at my reviews a while ago and I have to reply to you guys… Btw, I changed the rating to T... Heehee...

Review lord- I'm so sorry for not being able to update! Here it is! And yeah, there's the jealousy formula you asked for! Enjoy! –wink!-

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Cj-kun- Chicken Little and Kevin Covais from American Idol look the same… Honestly… Even though one's a chicken and the other's human… O.o

Feathertop- Don't start beating up your cousin, lil Gee! –huggles- Me misses all of you!

Kaekagwhatever- -poke-

You guys should open up me Gaia! Ish really cute! And I have lots of G-Goggles… I'm selling them for 15g a piece! I hate seeing them in my inventory… PM -kimitots- if you want one of them!

This chappie is dedicated to the following people: Gee, Miah, Gee, Lyander (No flames from you, please), Gee, Louise, Gee, Tin2x, Gee, Ryan/Fluffy-chan, Gee, Chonki, Gee, my little Melissa, Gee, Michael, Gee, Fluffy (Brandon Fluffy, not Ryan Fluffy), Gee, Muffy, Gee, Alex and his fluffy afro (-glomps-), Gee, Shannon, Gee, Timmy (-tackles-), Gee, Katie (WE MISS YOU! COME BACK!), Gee, Zack, Gee, Kiley, Gee, Josh, Gee, The Sexy Doctor Reverend C's To The Nizap Batista Crabman Abdul To The Extreme Cubed (don't ask), Gee, Buddha, Gee, people who hate Hitler and did I mention Gee?

Chonki ish smexay. 'Til next time! Your reviews are loved, people!

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