a/n Okay, this takes place after the OVA, with a slight (maybe more) change. Tamahome never went back with Miaka, and it has been several years now. Chichiri, Tasuki, and Tamahome are traveling together. Also I'm not very good at explaining scenery, so here is an idea.
More a/n I redone the first two chapters. For those of you who has read and review, thank you very much. I am really sorry for this taking so soooooo long. It is recomened to re-read the first two chapters. You do not have to. The third chapter is in progress. I need help on what I should do. I'm wondering if I should start it off from the end of chapter two, or do Chichiri's POV, or both. Please let me know.
Disclaimer: I own nothing of FY. I do own, however is Anzai, he is my character, I made him up.
The scenery is the river is on the north, running west to east. With a forest to the north of the river, running along the same way the river is. There is also a forest on the south side, but up the river about 50 yards. The guys are walking on plain land and they can see the river and forest on there right side. There is also a forest in front of them, but several hundred yards away.
"words being said aloud" 'thoughts'
Chichiri, Tasuki, and Tamahome are all walking down the path to Mt. Reikaku. It has been several days since they all decided to go visit Kouji and the bandits. Tasuki's been getting anxious to go; he wouldn't stop talking about the good ol' times he have had with the bandits. Tamahome and Chichiri are happy to see that Tasuki is finally cheering up. He has been feeling down for being away from the bandit's stronghold for a couple of years.
"Sooooo, Tasuki, what's the first thing you gonna when you get back?" Tamahome says looking back at Tasuki.
"Ahhhhhh," Tasuki says stretching. "I'm gonna have a biiiiiig party!"
"With the way you're looking, I say that you are going to crash, when you get there."
"Hmmm, that's one possibility. But I think I'll get drunk first, then crash. Man, I'm tired!" Tasuki says turning to Chichiri.
"Chichiri, why can't you just poof us over there!? We've been walking for days." Tasuki says complaining as usual. Chichiri just looks back at him. He had to feel sorry for the guy he does look miserable. His head looks as if it's being weighed down with 100 pounds of weights. His back is hunched, hands hanging to his sides, and he's dragging his feet.
"Tasuki, quit being such a baby and take it like a, AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Tamahome see's Tasuki pulling out his Tessan and makes a run for it, but didn't quite get away in time.
"Rekka Shinen!!!!
You see the flames coming out of his Tessan, heading its way to Tamahome. Tamahome sees the flames coming right at. He turns super deformed. Arms waving up and down, and legs going side to side. He knew he wasn't going to get away on time.
I'm not being a baby!!" As Tasuki says, frying Tamahome. Satisfied, Tasuki puts his Tessan back, puts his arms into a fold position across his chest and looks at Tamahome with a smirk on his face.
A burnt to a crisps Tamahome turns and pounces on Tasuki. Tasuki just side steps and Tamahome flew by and fell flat on his face. Tasuki turns to him "look whose being a baby, now" as he says watching Tamahome clutch his nose and almost in tears.
Tamahome gets up, dust himself off then turn to face Tasuki once more and gives him the look of death. Tasuki actually felt a shiver go down his spine 'if I ever seen Tamahome looking scary, this look beats it'. Tamahome then gets down on his hands and swings his right leg out and trips Tasuki to the ground. He did it so fast that Tasuki didn't have time to counter it, instead he lands with a big THUMP right on his butt, Tamahome then jumps on him. The two are rolling around on the ground trying to punch the lights out of each other.
Chichiri sweat drops as he watches the two rumble on the ground. He just smiles and shakes his head. 'Those two will never change. Maybe I should stop this?' seeing that the two are really getting into killing each other.
"AH-HM. Maybe we should take a break, no da." Tasuki and Tamahome stops chocking each other, but their hands are still around each others necks. Sitting cross legged, they look up at Chichiri, than look at each other with the evilest faces in the world. They just stayed in that position for a couple of minutes, to Chichiri it seemed like ages. They finally gave in and took Chichiri up on the suggestion.
Tamahome and Tasuki got up off the ground and dusted themselves off. All three of them look around for a good camp sight. They are all walking there separate ways when Tamahome and Tasuki heard Chichiri.
"Over here, no da." Chichiri looks around 'not bad'. The river is just 50 feet to the north of the sight. The river runs west to east. There is a forest, on the north side of the river, running the same way. There is a forest on the south side of the river, but it's about 50 yards up the river bank. There are nice big boulders to sit on, though they don't look to comfortable. And you can put a camp fire right in the middle of the boulders.
Tasuki and Tamahome show up to the sight. Tamahome sits tiredly on the boulder closest to him 'beating up Tasuki sure can take a lot out of me'.
Tasuki looks around "not bad, Chichiri", as he pats him on the back. Then he goes and takes the boulder across from Tamahome, and looks at him "see that river over there?" Tasuki says, with a nod of his head, looking at the river behind Tamahome. "Why don't you jump in and cool yourself off? Heh, heh."
Tamahome turns around, looks at the river and smiles, then turns back to Tasuki with a serious face. "Tasuki, don't make me throw you in that river." Tamahome says, looking as if he could do just that at any second. Tasuki just turns a lighter shade then normal. He looks back to the river, then Tamahome again, and then just looks down at the ground seeming to find it fascinating. He starts to mumble some pretty good words to say aloud, but nobody can hear him because it is to low.
Chichiri takes off his kesa and kasa, puts them down along with his staff, then he sits on the boulder between Tamahome and Tasuki. Hoping to keep what Tamahome has said from happening.
Seeing Tasuki looking rather uncomfortable, and Tamahome looking like he's trying to form a plan on how to throw Tasuki in the river. Chichiri decided to mention something about food, since he was getting hungry anyways.
"What should we eat for dinner, no da?"
Tamahome perks up as if he got the perfect plan. "I'm thinking maybe fish, since there is a river over there." He says pointing over his shoulder, and looking at Tasuki, giving him an evil smile.
Tasuki looks up from the ground to Chichiri and was about to suggest that Tamahome go get them a deer or two. Then he notices Tamahome giving him an evil smile. "What are you looking at?" 'I should have paid attention to what he said, damn it!' Then he thinks back trying to make out what he had said. Then as if finally getting it through his head, "if you think I'm getting near a river you got a whole new world coming at ya."
Tamahome sits there just starring at him and shaking his head. "Ah, come on Tasuki, you're a mountain bandit, aren't you? The river should be part of your life. And beside, you haven't caught us anything to eat in a long time. In fact, I don't think you've ever even tried."
"He has a point, no da" Chichiri says, agreeing with him.
Tasuki looks at Chichiri then at Tamahome. 'They're both starring at me. I really don't wanna.' He puts his head down in defeat.
"All right, fine I'll go catch us some fish, can't guarantee they won't burn to a crisp" Tasuki says as he gets up and starts walking towards the river. 'Maybe that'll make them change their mind.' Tasuki's walks away smiling to himself and with his hands on the back of his head.
It took Chichiri and Tamahome awhile to register that they both do not feel like having burnt fish. Tamahome gets up from his spot "well, one of us have to make sure that don't happen." He looks at Chichiri, who is just sitting on the bolder staring hard into space. "Guess I'll be that one." 'What was up with that? Maybe he's starving' He then walks to the direction Tasuki took off to.
As Tasuki walks up to the riverbank, he looks across it "Wow, its gotta be at least a half a mile across. This means the river is pretty deep." He says turning a little pale. Tasuki walks up the river bank, stopping several times to see which is a good shallow spot to toast some fish. He walks about a mile away from where Chichiri and Tamahome are waiting. The further away he got, the more he is walking in the forest.
Tamahome is looking around for Tasuki, he can see his foot prints, but no Tasuki "Looks like that idiot's walking way up the river bank, probably looking for the shallowest spot he could find. Oi, Chichiri should teach him how to fish with a stick and string." Tamahome continues to walk up the riverbank, following Tasuki's footprints. He stops, than looks up, he notices that the river starts to run through the forest. The scenery would have kept him staring at it for awhile, if he weren't looking for Tasuki. The trees are on both sides of the river bank. They are full of nice green leaves. The branches of these trees hang over the river, and in it. The way the sun shines on the river, it enhances the view, as if everything is glowing. If it were the moonlight touching the river, it would seem that the forest and river were magical. As you look further into the forest, the river shrinks in size, all the way down to 6 feet across. Tamahome sees that Tasuki's foot prints have made their way into the forest. Tamahome looks one last time at the view, and then continues to follow the footprints.
Chichiri have gotten tired of just sitting on the boulder and waiting. He decides to go gather some wood for a fire. "Having the fire all ready going, by the time those two get back, we can start cooking right away, no da." The word cooking made his stomach grumble. "Though, by the time they come back, the fire will be out." He thinks for a moment. "I guess I'll just have to go gather double the fire wood, no da." He makes his way towards the forest, knowing he'll find good wood there.
Chichiri walks around the forest picking up some good size pieces of wood. By the time it was dusk, Chichiri has gotten a good arm full, when he suddenly drops them. He felt a strange power go through his body, he's never felt this power before. He looks around frantically. He knew, while he was gathering wood, he has been feeling something, now what ever it is, it feels like the power is right on top of him. Now regretting about really not paying attention to this power he thinks he in trouble now.
"Who's out there!?" Chichiri yells. Suddenly he was lifted off his feet and thrown about ten feet and his back slams into the tree. "Ahh" He gasps, as the wind is knocked out of him. He lands on the ground hard on his front side. 'That really hurt, no da.' His back is hurting. It felt like white hot fire going up and down his back, but that didn't keep Chichri from getting up. He's struggling to get up, trying to get air back into his oxygen starved lungs. He ends up kneeling on one knee, and breathing in gasps.
"Show yourself!!" He says, panting, and clutching his chest, because it hurt too much trying to slow his breathing.
Chichiri struggles to get up again. This time he is successful. It was a slow process, but he managed. Using the tree for support, he looks around to see what it was that threw him. 'This is not good! This power…it's too strong!' Chichiri looks around, finally realizing that he did not get a respond, he says again, in a more commanding voice. "Show yourself!!"
"You should be careful what you demand," a deep voice snarls.
Chichiri looks around to see if he could find the person that did this to him. He couldn't see anything but trees all around. 'If I can't find him by looking, then…' He got off the tree. Steadying himself, he put his hands together, closed his eyes and started chanting, hoping he can find the person's exact location by his ki.
"You think you can find me that way!?" He says in a humoring and booming voice. This brought chills through Chichiri, because he also sounds way too confident.
Chichiri still continues with his chant, though. He is confused, because he cannot find his location 'Why can I not find him? It should be easy because of his power, unless he is hiding it from me? If that is the case, than I'm in more trouble than I thought.'
"I will just have to go to you, then."
Suddenly right in front of Chichiri a man appeared. Chichiri was shocked. The man was about a few inches taller than he. Wearing a black trench coat with silver seems. Under his coat, he has a silky dark forest green shirt, black pants and boots, almost like combat boots. (Think of it as Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix" Those clothes he wore at the end of the movie, were he's kicking the main agent dudes butt") He has no weapon of any kind, at least from what Chichiri can see. He has shoulder length blood red hair, his eyes are piercing blue and silver, stud silver earrings on both ears, 7 on the left and 3 on the right. He has broad shoulders, and really nice muscles. Not the kind that's to musclely, but just right.
'Tenko? Nakago? Ahhh, Tenkago!' Chichiri, thinks as a humongous sweat drop forms.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Chichiri says in a serious voice. He stands now as if he is defending himself.
"Such a typical question. If you really must know who I am, I am called Anzai. And what I want is not of your concern." He says, putting his right hand up to Chichiri's face attempting to get a hold of it.
"Not my concern?" Chichiri say whacking away Anzai's hand. "You're here, and you throw me with whatever magic you used. You want something from me?" 'What's with the guy, why is he just standing there?' Chichiri made a motion to put a protection barrier around him, but he was not able to as he is grabbed on the face by Anzai's right hand. His thumb a middle finger on Chichiri's temple.
"Ugh." 'The pressure, I must stop him.'
Chichiri graps Anzai's wrist, trying to get his hand off. "Fool, you think that I want something from you?!!! HA!! I only want to make sure that you are not in the way." With that, Anzai drained Chichiri of his energy. Chichiri's hands flop to his side, he is hanging limp in Anzai's hand. Anzai takes a look at him "to easy. I expected better from you" He just drops Chichiri on the ground.
The last thought that came into Chichiri's mind before he lost conscious was 'Tasuki, Tamahome'.
