Title : What are the odds?
Author : Tokyo Fox
Rated : T
Disclaimer : I'm not the one who made and owns SK... SOB!
TF: In this chapter You'll see a bit of Anna and Yoh pairing that I needed to do to keep the story going.
As for the ideas one reviewer gave to me ; Thanks I was able to use most of them for this fic but I need Manta short in this fic to keep the humor in the story... But if i ever do another Pirika/Manta pairing I'll keep it in mind.
But I plan on doing some other Manta/Girl pairings first. Including; Most of the SK girls and yes Anna too . ---AU Natch -- But for my next one I plan to do is Manta and Skuld from Ah My Goddess!
Yeah you read it right! Manta/Skuld! It should be a intresting one.
P.S. Let me know which SK girl you'd like to see get with Manta next.
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Chapter 2 : The Carnival
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The next day...
It proved easy to make everyone think that it was a group outing... In a way it was the truth but with a little personal planning of her own. All she needed to do now was make sure that Manta and Pirika got "lost" together and let nature take it's course but then HoroHoro found about the bet and the plan and had a few words before it could happen...
" NO WAY! I'm NOT letting my sister date Manta ! " Horo said angerly.
" I thought you liked Manta. " Anna said with a frown.
" I do! But not with my sister! " Horo objected.
" I do believe that you're afraid that she'll like him more than the other boys she's dated. " Anna said with a twisted smirk.
" Oh give me a break... In any case; Give me one good reason why I should let you do this! " Horo demaned to know as he stood up from the table.
" I'll tell your sister about that redhead girl you were dating when you said that you were NOT dating her. " Anna said with a promising threat.
" YOU wouldn't dare to blackmail...What I'm I saying? You're blackmailing me now!... Wait a sec you don't have any proof that I was dating her. " Horo said with relief.
Anna prodused a picture of the two of them kissing.
" GHAA! Where did you get that? " Horo demanded to know.
" I took it when I saw the two of you on a date and I knew a picture might come in handy. " Anna said with an evil grin.
" That's no fair! " Horo said with an angery look
" Yep! Now you wouldn't want your sister to find out you lied to her; Right? " Anna said with a winning smirk.
Horo sat back down in semi-defeat.
" All I can say now is if Manta breaks Sis's heart I'll... Well I'll do something. Blackmail or no blackmail. " Horo grumbled.
" I highly doubt that Manta would or could do anything that would hurt your sister's feelings. In fact it would be the other way around since your sister is the more experienced of the two when it comes to dating. " Anna said in her matter of fact voice.
" What's that supposed to mean? " Horo asked because he was thinking that Anna might be implying something about his sister...
" It means that your sister has been on dates with plenty of boys... Unlike Manta who's only dated one girl at the most since i've known them both. " Anna stated flatly.
" HUH? Manta has dated girls since we've known him? " Horo and Yoh both said with looks of disbeief.
" There was the one that I know of ... Don't you remember Yoh ? He was with that blackhaired girl at when we were out shopping that one time. I can't belive you forgot that one " Anna said coldly.
" He was? " Yoh looked on dumbly.
" Yes! He even said they were on a date! " Anna looked as if she was about to get mad at Yoh.
" Oh yeah that girl... I thought that Manta was kidding me. " Yoh replyed with his lazy dumb grin look.
" THEY WERE HOLDING HANDS WHEN HE SAID IT YOU TWIT! " Anna gave Yoh her death glare and Yoh sweatdropped as he shrank into Chibi mode before her.
" But she was an amazon! I had to look UP at her! She must've been nearly 6 feet tall. " Yoh replyed in his defence.
" Six feet? But Manta's so short ! " Horo said with eyes bulging out.
" Honestly! I can't believe you two! Don't you know that it's rude to think that Manta can't get a date because he's so short? Besides she wasn't that tall but I'll admit that we did have look up a little." Anna said as she glared at them for being so stupid.
" But... " They said together.
" No buts about it; A person shouldn't be judged by their height. " Anna said with a glare that made them want to crawl under a rock.
" Still I can't believe that Manta has had a date since I've known him and with such a tall girl. " Horo said glumly.
" Well Manta's has gotten more popular at school since he no longer trys to talk to his fellow classmates about ghosts since he now has us to talk to about them. " Anna said calmly.
" Wait a sec,.. How do you know that? You're not in his class. " Horo looked confused.
" For one thing I hear him talking to Yoh all the time after school and two ; Genius here tends to forget to take his lunch and I have to bring it to him and I saw Manta talking with his classmates lately. " Anna replyed as she pointed to a grinning Yoh.
" I'll be darn... I had no idea that you were taking lunch to Yoh. " Horo said with a surprized look in his eyes.
" Well I do... AND WHATEVER YOU DO... DON'T YOU DARE MENTION IT TO ANYONE ELSE! " Anna yelled with a death glare so bad that Horo went into Chibi mode and ran around in a little circle in panic.
Anna calmed down and continued to talk..
" In any case i've noticed a few girls talking to him more and more. So I want to hook him up with a girl that I like for him before he gets hooked up with one I don't like. " Anna said.
" But why my sister? " Horo asked in spite of his fear of Anna's responce.
" BECAUSE I THINK THEY MAKE A CUTE COUPLE.. HAVE YOU GOT A PROPLEM WITH THAT? " Anna yelled with a cold stare that screamed; Don't question me like that again!
Horo froze in front of the cold stare and managed to sqeak out a " No Ma'am" before laping into silince...
...Later that night at the carnival...
Oddly enough it proved all too easy for Anna to lose Manta and Pirika because the huge crowd did it for her. In fact they had nearly lost each other as well. So it was no surprize that the two of them were holding hands to keep from getting lost.
However it was making Manta a little nervious because he sort of liked Pirika and he wasn't blind to the fact that she was a beautful girl.
" So what do we do now? " He asked her.
" Anna did say for everyone to meet in front of the carnival in a couple of hours if we got seperated ; So let's go ahead and have some fun together. " Pirika said with a happy smile.
" Together?... The two of us?... Uh... Yeah, Sure... Why Not? " Manta said suddenly nervious because this almost felt like a date...
Pirika had to grin at Manta's obvious nervious reponce.. So he could see her as a girl... And not just a friend who happen to be a girl... Maybe she should try and see how much more of a girl he saw her as..
" Let's go on some rides.. " She suggested.
" Uh sure. " Manta said as he managed keep himself from running away.
...Meanwhile...
Anna and Yoh now found themselves all alone too and Yoh was feeling a little romantic with just the two of them ...
" Hey Anna! Let's go on this ride! " Yoh
" But... But... That's the... The tunnel of love! " Anaa complained
" I know... " Yoh said as Anna turned an intresting shade of red but didn't say no as he grabbed her hand and led her to the tunnel of love which started their own little date!
...Two hours later the gang found themselves together again...
Anna coluldn't belive that she and Yoh had... And to think this was only a plan to get Pirikia and Manta together but then when she saw Pirkia smiling she knew that she had managed to get things started but now the hard part would be convincing Manta to ask Pirika out on a real date for the two of them...
" So did everyone enjoy themselves? " Anna managed to say with a strait face.
Pirika responded quickly.
" I sure did... Who knew that Manta could be such a fun date... In fact... " She turned to Manta.
" Say Manta how about going to a movie together? Just the two of us? " Pirika asked with a great big smile...
To be continued!
TF : Bwhahaha! Evil cliffie! At first I thought I'd have Manta ask but then I relized that Pirika made more sense... In any case I will have HoroHoro to try to interfere and maybe have Ren,Yoh and the OC girl Anna mentioned interfere with them too; But for now I need more reviews and suggestions.