Title : What are the odds?

Rated : T

Author : Tokyo Fox

Disclaimer : Aw come on now; You know I don't own.

TF: Sorry about the long wait but the muse of ideas saw fit to give me writer's block on this fic.

I also desided to make a whole series of stories that has all and/or most of the SK girls getting together with Manta until I run out of ideas or girls... Which ever comes first... But from now on I'm finishing the story unless it's a Vote for your fav pairing stories.

In any case here's the next chapter... Even though I'm only getting reveiws from two or three of the 300 plus hits...

For those two or three i'm glad you enjoyed it but now it's nearly done...How sad... As for you non-reviewers.. Next time try reviewing... That's what inspires me to write more stories and chapters.

And that goes double for the ones that said that they would like to see a Pirika/Manta pairing in my forum question and didn't review!

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Chapter 5 : Girl troubles pt 2

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The next day Manta had a one big headache on what to do. Pirika wasn't talking to him and... Manta became of aware of Yoh tapping him on the shoulder.

" Um; What is it Yoh? Can't you see I'm having a nervious breakdown. " Manta asked.

" I just wanted to check on you... If you don't mind me saying so but you're really down in the mouth. " Yoh said.

" That's an understatment.. I like Ryoko well enough where I don't want to hurt her and yet I.. I... I've had a bit of a crush on Pirika since I first met her but I was afraid that she's so beautful wouldn't like me. " Manta bluted out and looked relived that the truth was out now.

" You have?! I never noticed... But then again I never really noticed that a few girls around this school think you're cute ... In fact I just learned that two girls we know of think you're cute and that's just in this classroom. I guess I was too busy thinking that all girls were more intrested in in guys like me, Ren and HoroHoro. " Yoh said.

" Looks are not everything. I know this guy who liked this beautful girl a lot and tryed be friendly hoping that she would like him the same way and she ended up going out with a guy who's face looked like it lost a war to acne...

Don't get me wrong the guy who lost to the guy with the acne wasn't the best looking guy out there but at least his face was clear of acne and didn't have pockmarks where they got popped. " Manta said.

" Acne? Eww! Man, I'm glad I don't have that...All those big ugly yellow bumps too... " Yoh said with a shudder.

" In any case you get the idea. " Manta said.

So what are you going to do? Yoh asked.

" Well I think I can get a date with Pirika again and talk it out but I'm not too sure what to do about Ryoko. " He said glumly.

Yoh really felt sorry for Manta... He had to help Manta but there was the small matter of his bet with Anna... Maybe he could presude Anna to give up on the bet... But it didn't matter if he could or not.

His friendship with Manta was more important to him than some dumb bet and if Manta really did want to be with Pirika then he would help him.

" Well you could set her up with HoroHoro; From what I've heard she went on a date or two with him. " Yoh offered.

" Hmm, That might work... I'l give it some thought. " Manta said

Yoh started to leave only to be stopped by Manta who grabbed his shirt.

" Just a second. I want to know more about a certian bet you made with Anna that I just learned about today. " Manta said in a overly calm voice.

" I'm in trouble aren't I? " Yoh said as he turned to face Manta.

" WHAT DO YOU THINK? " Manta said with his whole head looking like a red beet and Yoh sweatdropped at the sight...

Meanwhile at the same time somewhere else Anna was doing her best to convince Pirika to talk to Manta...

" Why should I talk to him? "

" Oh come on; You know full well that it wasn't Manta's fault... " Anna said.

" What does that have anything to do with me? " Pirika asked

Anna gave her a knowing look... " I know that you enjoyed your date. "

" WHAT!!?? And what makes you think that? " Pirika asked as here face turned a bit red.

" Oh come on I saw that look in your eyes when Ryoko kissed him... I guess that date of yours went better than I first thought if you're jelious of Ryoko already. " Anna said with a smirk.

Pirika blushed a little more... Oh god.. She noticed that? ... Now that she thought about it she had wanted herself to be the one kissing him... But could she really have fallen in love so quickly?...

" Of course you could let Ryoko have him. " Anna said sensing her chance to fan the flames of desire.

" OVER MY DEAD BODY! " Pirkia yelled without thinking about it and when she relized what she had said her face turned even redder and she wondered how in the heck did she fall in love with Manta so quickly...

She briefly wondered how her brother would take this news as Anna began to make suggestions on how to win Manta's heart... Hey... Now that she thought about it where was her brother anyways?

She hadn't seen him since Ryoko kissed Manta after the squabble that had resulted from Ryoko's intro...

But before she could do or think anymore about it Anna managed to distract her with a very adult suggestion causing her to blush and think about doing it at the same time... Then she told Anna to please stop but she continued to tease her and soon Pirika was trying to stop Anna from continuing to make more of them and she forgot all about her brother...

As for HoroHoro he was at Ren's house and was pacing the floor back and forth until poor Ren couldn't take it anymore..

" OK! That's enough you twit! " Ren

" WHAT DID YOU CALL ME? " HoroHoro yelled when he relized what Ren called him after a few seconds.

" You heard me! You've been pacing my floor since

Ryoko kissed Manta... If you like her so much you should tell her. " Ren said.

" But, I don't know what to say. When we dated; All I could think of was talking about was ghosts and being Shaman King. " HoroHoro said.

Ren slapped himself on the head.

" Oh crying out loud I thought I was kidding about you being a twit; Even Yoh would know better than to talk to a girl about ghosts when you're on a date and he's about as hopeless as a boy gets when it comes to girls." Ren said

What do I talk about then? HoroHoro asked failing to notice that Ren called him a twit again.

" Oh for the love of... Try talking about the latest music.. Books... Movies...Her eyes.. Use some imagination! " Ren said.

" Ok, Ok I get the message! I'll talk to her tomorrow. " HoroHoro said.

" Fine! Now do me a favor and go home already before I throw you out! " Ren said with his best fed up look.

HoroHoro sweatdropped and hastily made his exit.

The next day HoroHoro managed to ask Ryoko out on a date that afternoon who to his surprize agreed to date him...

To be continued...

Well that's it for this chapter. There is one thing I do have to say about this chapter. The part about Manta talking about that guy he knew is based on something that happen to me and so it's sort-of a true story but with some needed ad-libbing but I'm betting I'm not the only guy who lost a girlfriend to some girlfriend-stealing jerk!

Umm.. sorry got carried away there.

In any case...I'm finsihing up this story in the next chapter and it's going to be a short chapter unless I can think of something to add that'll help it but at least it'll be done.