Title : What are the odds?
Author : Tokyo Fox
Rated : T
Disclaimer : They wouldn't sell SK to me so must disclaim.
Notes :It's time for Manta and Pirika's first real date but HoroHoro trys to interfere! All this and more as everybody in the fic begins to take sides!.
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Chapter : Movie date.
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The silence that followed Pirika's question was quickly followed by bulging shocked eyes from everybody. Even Anna was caught by surprize with her jaw dropping like the rest of them but somehow Manta managed to squeak out a " Ahh! GULP, eer, Umm, sure" .
HoroHoro quickly objected and Ren was oddly silent and Ryo wished him good luck. Tameo looked a little irked and poor Yoh was crying because he couldn't deside if he should be happy for Manta or worried about losing his bet with Anna! As for Anna she looked like the cat who ate the canary once she got over the shock.
The next afternoon in spite of HoroHoro's consent objections Pirika got dressed for her date and when he saw the blue dress and makeup ; He said it reveiled a little too much of her legs and chest and that she was too young for makeup. Blah blah, Blah...
But Pirika pointed out that he had dated girls that had dressed the same way and so he had no right to object to it. But HoroHoro was ready to continue his objections when Manta arrived.
" Hi Manta! " Pirikia greeted him with a big smile.
" Wow! You look great Pirika! " Manta said in a truthful tone of voice.
" You look pretty good too. " Pirika said as she fussed over the way he dressed.
HoroHoro watched on dumbly as Pirika fussed over Manta's look...
" See you later brother ." Pirika said as they left for their date.
What THE! Blast it! He had let himself get distracted and now they were going out on their date... There was only one thing he could do now...
SABOTAGE THE DATE!
A half-hour later found Manta and Pirika in a line at the theater with HoroHoro not too far behind as he hid behind a parked car a little .
Did they have to hold hands and why did Pirika and Manta keep looking at each other? No matter he'd wait until he got a chance to make Manta look bad in front of Pirika... Suddenly the parked car moved out of it's parking space and hit a mud puddle as it moved out and spattered him in muddy water...
...Manta and Pirika were enjoying themselves but had yet to talk...
" Nice day isn't it?--- Oh man... I can do better than that! --- Sooo what do you want to talk about? " Manta asked nervously.
" Hmmm... Well I heard that the movie is supposed to be popular with the couples. " Pirika said with a mischivous smile.
" Really? I wonder what kind it is.. " Manta said without reliezing what Pirika was implying.
" Well we're about to find out. " Pirika said as she laughed under her breath over the fact that Manta had missed the hint.
" Want to get some popcorn and drinks? " Manta asked poilitly when they got in the lobby.
" Oh yes; But with only a little butter on the popcorn. " Pirika polilty said.
" Hey; That's the way I like it too! " Manta said relieved to learn that they had something in common.
" I guess we do have a few things in common... You want to know something i hate about my brother? It's the fact that he overbutters the popcorn! " Pirika said with a yuk face!
" Yeah I know what you mean. Yoh is the same way! " Manta said with a smile.
They were soon in the movie and much to the horror of Manta it turned out to be a splatter flick... Pirika was watching it calmly enough when she noticed that the other girls were burying their faces into their boyfriends chest...
Then she looked at a scared, sick Manta. A mischiefous grin overcame her and she gave a fake scream and buryed her face into Manta's chest...
Manta nearly screamed when it happen but then he felt protective and happy having Pirika so close to him and held her head close to his chest...
Pirika hadn't expeted him to do that and she was about to pull away but was soon relized that it kind-of felt nice... She lost her intrest in pulling away... She now knew why it was so popular...
The movie was soon over and Pirika wanted to eat much to poor sick Manta's dismay but he didn't say no and they took a walk though the nearby park to go to the nearby cafe and they were followed by HoroHoro who had been waiting all this time because the manager had refused to let him in the movie theater covered in mud.
But that wasn't about to stop him... Then he heard a growl behind him when he hid behind a bush because they had stopped for a drink of water and he didn't want them to spot him... When he turned around he saw what had to be the biggest and the only doberman pincher in all of Japan. He ran with the dog behind him as he screamed.
He relized as he ran that would have to find another way to put a stop to Manta and Pirika dating. And while he was at it maybe get some allies... But first to get rid of this stupid dog!
...Meanwhile...
" Hey, Did you hear someone scream just now? " Manta asked as he drank some cocolate milk to help his still queasy stomach.
" Most likely someone who came from the movie." Pirkia said calmly.
" I guess You're right... Not that matters since whoever or whatever it is going the other way. " Manta said... It was then that something came to his mind. Something he had not relized until now...
" Hey Pirika; I just relized something. You don't have a ghost! I mean your brother is a shaman right? So why don't you have a ghost? Don't you want to become a shaman? " Manta asked with a puzzled look.
Pirika looked at her tea for a moment before she could answer him...
" I was wondering when you'd relize that one. To be honest the village we come from only allow men to be shamans and it did bother me at first but then one day I relized it takes a lot of work to be a shaman; Not to mention lots of responsibilitys that I didn't want. So I don't want to be a shaman... We're both alike in that way too. " Pirika replyed with a small smile.
" Me? But I don't have the ability to become a shaman. " Manta stated with a doubtful face.
" Yes you do. Look at Ryo he couldn't even see ghosts before he became a shaman. Imagine what someone already with the power to see ghosts could do. The truth is you're lacking confindence and deep down inside you don't want become one. " Pirika said truefully.
" But nobody ever told me. " Manta said with an unhappy tone.
" They were trying to be kind... But prehaps it was more cruel not to tell you otherwize because you might've gained more confindance in yourself. " Pirika said in a thoughtful tone.
" .. Oh well...I guess the die is cast for us... We don't what to become Shamans...But thanks for telling me." Manta said with a smile.
" You're welcome! " Pirika said as she stared into his eyes and without relizing it they began to draw close for a kiss...
But before anything could happen a female voice intrerrupted them.
" Manta! What are you doing with this girl? " Asked the girl.
Manta looked up and gave an eep because it was Sora; The blackhaired girl that he had been dating when he had ran into Yoh and Anna while on their date; he had hoped that he had seen the last of that girl because she had been such a nutbar!
" This is Pirika, We're on a date. " Manta said in hopes of making her want to leave.
Pikira wondered who this girl was then she relized that Manta had told this girl that they were on a date and for some reason that made her happy!
" Do you know this girl Manta? " Pirika asked coldly towards the girl who she took a instant dislike too.
" She and I dated before I learned that she's a nutbar! " Manta said in hopes of driving Sora away again.
" I AM NOT A NUTBAR! " Sara yelled angerly.
" Oh really then why did you try to hurt Sakura when all I was did at the time was say hi at the time? " Manta asked her.
" Because I don't like it when my guy talks to any girls! " Sara growled with a crazed look in her eyes.
" See what I mean Pirika? A nutbar. She always flys off the handle when she's dating a guy. " Manta said to insult Sara... Or did he?
Pirika looked at the girl... She was cute enough but she looked like she was ready to kill her for being with Manta.
Manta got up from his chair and went to Pirika and asked her if she minded if they went somewhere else to continue their date and when she said yes they quickly left Sora behind but she did manage to yell that she wasn't though with Manta yet!
Meanwhile while the two of them enjoyed their date Anna had called up their friends who had been there when Pirika asked Manta out in order to find out what they intended to do about the fact they had started dating. Right now she was waiting for them to respond..
" Well? " Anna asked as her impatience began to show. She wasn't worryed about the ghosts because they would go with whatever their closest human friend would say and she already knew where HoroHoro stood which was a good thing because she had been unable to contact him.
Finally Ren broke the silence.
" I've desided that I will do nothing. I really don't care if they date or not but I do hope that Pirika doesn't break Manta's heart because I count him as being among my friends now. " Ren said flatly.
" I think as a man that Manta should have a girl he can count on and I think Pirika is such a girl and if anyone interferes with their possible future happiness will answer to me. " Ryo said in his overly dramatic way.
" I..I can't do it! Ever since Pirika asked Manta I've been thinking about that one time that Manta kissed me and... Well I can't deside if I'm happy for him or jelious of Pirika! " Tameo replyed unhappily.
As for Yoh he began cry. If he went against them he could lose his best friend. If he went with them he'd lose the bet! But deep down inside he already knew the answer but it still hurt...
" I'll help Manta and Pirika be a couple if that's what they want! " Yoh said crying over his lost bet.
Anna smiled over Yoh's reaction.
" Relax I really didn't expect you to go with the bet so I'll cancel it but only this one time. " Anna said with a strange grin.
" You mean it Anna! Thank You! " Yoh cryed in relief.
" Of course I didn't mean it! Get ready to sweat for the next two weeks! " Anna said with that grin again.
Yoh began to cry even more.
" I knew it was too good to be true! " He said as he cryed a river of tears...
To be continued!
TF : Well another chapter done. At first I planned this fic to go on a little longer but the lack of reviews has made me deside to cut it short even though the reviews have been good there's just not enough of them for me to convince me to make it bigger so there're only three more chapters to go!
if your wondering about HoroHoro's reaction I got it from my parent's response to my sister going out on her first date... Poor girl... And gave it a bit of a twist... As for the dog... Horo's reaction was for the fun of it. But you will not see too many doberman pinchers on the loose anywhere! Much less Japan!
As for the movie part I swiped it from another anime and gave it my own tiny twist and splatter flicks are a reference to a lesser known Japanese fan following of rather bloody and gory flims and as you have guessed by now the main reason that Japanese boys bring their dates to such movies is so their date will cuddle with them...
...Not that they're fooling anyone... But they do have their fans of this kind of movie just like us though it's in decline in the states and maybe japan as well...
As for Pirika's statment... Well I don't recall seeing her with a ghost of her own even though her brother is a shaman. I simply tried to get into her mind as to why she'd not be a shaman. But I expect to see some other ways of doing this fact/idea/whatever now that I've pointed out this out. But if you ask me it had something to do with her brother... In any case that's it for this chapter.
Now some reviews would be nice!...