Summary: Chapter 1: Jiaying just moved into Ukiyoe town and happens to join the Kiyojouji Paranormal Squad and she's about to spend her weeks in the Nura Clan's mansion. Apparently, someone she doesn't want to meet found her here in Japan.
Zen, her life saviour seems to be curious about her whole existence, but all he could do now is to wait...
Warnings: Probably some grammar mistake, Genderswitch Rikuo (as seen in .net/s/7381982/1/Feelings).
Disclaimer: I do not own Nurarihyon no Mago, OC characters belongs to me.
Ukiyoe town – Nura Reika's house. Earlier today at school, her classmate, Kiyotsugu, nominated that they spend their week at Reika's house. His excuses was Reika's house looks haunted, and it seems to be the most perfect place for the team to hold out an investigation about youkai.
Jiaying, the Chinese girl who just transferred to Ukiyoe Middle School not long after Yura tags along with the team. She's a pretty much open minded girl. Since she doesn't has any plans on spending her holiday, she decided to give it a go.
Dressed up in her white dress and a light yellow sweater, she take off her sandals and steps into the main house of the Nura Clan. Her crimson pupils scans around the house, somehow, she gets a really weird feelings in here. It's either she's being paranoid or there are people staring at her.
She shrugs the feelings off and follows the others into a dojo hall, where they would be spending their nights in.
"Are we done here?" Jiaying asks if there's any other stuff her friends need help at.
"Nope~!" Toori, the girl with jet black hair, pony-tailed at the back replies.
"Alright. I'm going to the bathroom for a bit."
Bathroom is just her excuse to walk around the mansion, touring herself. Even though Reika said that she will be back, the girl with medium length ashen hair could barely wait any longer.
Normally, a mansion like this would be noisy around this time, since the workers would be busy preparing lunch for everyone who live in the manor but – the silence made it feels like it's a deserted place.
Actually, Jiaying is hiding some truth in herself too. She knows the deal about youkai of Nura Clan, but she pretended like she doesn't know anything and she can't sense them at all.
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As the young ashen haired female is wondering around, she accidentally stumble across someone's leg. Jiaying nearly fall, but somehow she manages to get her balance back to her feet. She turns around, staring at the figure that doesn't seem to be flinching an inch from the impact.
She is slightly shocked from seeing a male with khaki hair sleeping near the screen door, his leg was stretched on the corridor, creating obstacle for anyone who doesn't pay attention on their way. She kneels in front of the male who appears to wear a dark blue kimono with red details over the sleeves and neck while humming a sound of curiosity to herself.
Jiaying holds out her hand and wave it in front of the unknown person, checking if he's awake, or dead asleep. Huh?. At this rate, people will trip over this 'sleeping log' over here.
"Mister~? Helloooo?" She calls while shaking him slightly.
She could hear a slight groan coming from the khaki haired male, but it was for a short period before the groan stops and the gentle snore continues. He seems beat, probably she should leave him alone.
"Zen-sama!" calls a voice from a far.
Jiaying nearly panics from the voice, since that other person might think she's trying to do weird thing on the khaki haired male. Lucky for her, she's standing behind a wooden pillar, her figure can't be seen by the side. She could hear wings flapping closer to her.
"What is he doing, sleeping here! He would catch a cold!" the small figure, who appears to be Karasu-Tengu fly towards them.
She could hear the smaller figure muses to himself, nagging, just like an old man. Laugh nearly escapes her throat, but she holds back and turns around to run away from the scene. She saw Karasu-Tengu. That's not a good sign for the young heiress, Reika, since she's trying her best so her friends won't see the youkais living in this mansion.
Karasu-Tengu could hear footsteps from his side getting further away. All he could catch are the sight of a female running away from the place.
'Who was that? Is that one of Reina-sama's friends?' he thought.
"What's all the traps about?" questions Zen, the khaki haired male who just woke up from his slumber.
Well of course, he's attacked by Karasu-Tengu's nagging, telling that it's not good for his health if he catches a cold from sleeping at the corridor. Karasu-Tengu asks Zen if he knows the girl who just ran away earlier, but it was to no avail. Zen slept like a log, thus he did not notice anyone's presence with him before.
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"Eh,... where did everyone go?"
That is the first thing that comes out from Jiaying's mouth after she steps into the well furnished dojo. Probably she went on tour to herself for that long, even her friends left her and travel by themselves. She scratches the back of her head and turns around, heading out from the dojo to look for the Kiyouji Paranormal Squad. Probably they're around at temples or somewhere.
'Lets just take a random guess.'
Unlucky for her, she ends up at the wrong shrine. There goes 30 minutes of walking to the shrine, all to no avail. This is when she remembers, she has a communication doll! She facepalms herself and searches inside her bag for the doll that resembles her... in a freaky way.
Beep beep!
"Uwah!" She jolts in surprise as the doll buzzes, half ringing in her hand.
She answers the call with a slight shocked face, but then relieves because Kiyotsugu tells her their current position. However, the sigh of relief doesn't last that long because Kiyotsugu says that Kana and Yura has been missing.
"I-I got it! You and the others go back to Reika-chan's house... I'll look for Kana-chan and Yura-chan!" She answers.
She shoves back the doll to where it belongs and covers her face with her palms and sighs deeply. Now where can I find them? She thought. Kiyotsugu said that he tried to call for the two of them, but it can't be reached.
"Ah, what is this? The fènghuáng is playing with her human friends?"
A/N: en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Fenghuang
She perks her head up fast, looking around for the suspiciously familiar voice. It can't be...
"Oh yes, it is me, the húli jīng. The one that causes you to leave China and go to Japan. Luckily I managed to find you here, my bride." the voice replies to Jiaying's inner thought.
A/N: en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Huli_jing and I changed its gender ;D
She clicks her tongue out of annoyance and shoots the golden needles made out of her fine feathers towards the direction of the male fox. The leaves shuffles as the male leaps down to dodge her attack. He knows himself best, once he got hit with those needles, it means the end for him.
"What do you want from me, you trickster?" she replies harshly.
"Tsk tsk. I've came this far to find my missing bride. The Heavenly Nāgas seems to be the one who hid you from me... Unforgivable."
The male fox has been assaulting her sexually, physically and mentally since the past few years. Someone from the main house leaked out the information about a phoenix living with the Nāgas there, and thanks to that, many people tries to kidnap her.
It was her brothers who gave the idea for her to run to Japan for a while, and they will join her once they solve the problems at the main house which might take about few months.
The male fox charges at the female, slashing his nine tails towards her so she couldn't flee. Jiaying steps on top of the male's head and kicks him from behind so he would fall down with her pinning him on top. She takes out her dagger that she's been hiding under her sleeve, threatening to cut his neck if he dare move a muscle.
"Wah! That's my bride! It's my lost here! ...But if you kill me, you could never find your precious human friends~" He says with a loud laugh, breaking the tense moment between them.
This is when she's caught off guard. Did húli jīng got her friends? She clicked her tongue once again, frowning.
"Where are they?" She roars.
Golden flames merges with her dagger, creating a high temperature heat on the fox's neck. He doesn't cry out of pain however, he continues on laughing since he manages to provoke the young female this far.
"You're naïve, my dear fènghuáng..."
Slash!
Blood spurting out from the young female's mouth, chest and stomach. Somehow, she manages to escape at the second the fox lunching his another raid on her. Jiaying's body is surrounded by golden flames as she jumps on the tree, trying to find a way to escape.
The young female transformed into a beautiful golden phoenix, with the wings of swallow and the tail of peacock. She's severely wounded. She careless about it since she need to find her missing friends. If they were taken by húli jīng for real, then, she can't rest just yet.
Meanwhile, the Nura Clan's mansion is having an uproar about the Kyuso Clan's attack. Zen heads out to aid the injured by his own will, since his sworn sister already head out to save her friends who got captured by the Kyuso Clan.
As he is riding the Oboro-guruma, he sees something identical to a big golden bird. To be honest, it's pretty, and he never see anything like it, but... somehow, the bird is flying weirdly. That is when he notices the blood dripping off the golden bird's body before the bird's wings stop flapping and its body threatens to fall.
The khaki haired male panics and orders the ox-cart to fly low near the golden bird as he catches it.
"What the hell is this...?" He mumbles softly as he catches the phoenix into his arms and lays it down on the cart's seat.
Severely wounded, the beautiful bird. He brings out his ointment and starts to heal the golden bird's injuries. Zen has no idea that this bird is actually the girl who stumbled across his sleeping figure earlier in afternoon, not that he know what this bird is actually.
He grits his teeth and tells the ox-cart youkai to turn its course back to the Nura Clan's mansion, since he doesn't has any proper medical instruments to stops the bleeding of the unconscious bird.
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"Ah, Zen-sama!" the hair youkai says in surprise, noticing that Zen waltzes down the cart with blood drenched on his kimono.
"You're wounded?" Karasu-Tengu who happens to be there panics. He flies around Zen, checking if he's injured anywhere, since judging from the quantity of blood drenched on Zen's kimono, it must be one hell of a big wound.
"No no, it's not me. It's this fella over here." He replies with comical sweat drop on his head, trying to calm Karasu-Tengu down.
He put away his left arm, revealing a golden bird wrapped in his cape in his right arm's embrace. He asks for his medical implements so he could stop the blood instantly. He works on Jiaying's wound gently, not willing to injure the bird more.
"W-what's that thing?" Kejoro asks curiously as she hands over white bandages to the khaki haired male.
"I don't know, never seen anything like this." He replies.
Both of them looks up to Karasu-Tengu, hoping he would know something... and it seems that their guess are right. Karasu-Tengu seems to be surprised from looking at the golden bird. They're waiting for the tengu to say something patiently.
"That's... the fènghuáng... How did it end up here in Japan?" Karasu-Tengu says as he fly towards the golden bird.
"What do you mean? This thing isn't from Japan?" Zen asks.
"Not really. The fènghuáng are commonly said among the Chinese yaoguai, which practically the same as youkai in Japan. It's said that this mythical bird is really powerful that many people seeks for it, but there are no evidence of its existence." Karasu-Tengu replies.
"If it's that powerful, then how come it appears out of blue with severe wounds?"
"How should I know?" Karasu-Tengu flaps his wings in annoyance, comical vein pops on his head.
As they are talking, the golden bird in Zen's embrace gleams a bright golden light. Its figure starts to grow, slowly, its taking a shape of an unconscious young female. Of course, the three youkai are surprised from this.
"Wh-what the hell?" Zen jolts in surprise, but he's conscious enough to not let the female fall from his arms.
"E-eh! Isn't that-?" Kejoro covers her mouth with the sleeve of her kimono. Her eyes widens slightly.
"She's Reika-sama's friend!"
"What?"
"Anyway! Bring her in first! Zen-sama, take care of her. Kejoro, prepare her bed. We'll ask her more questions after she recover."
The crow tells the younger youkai to do as said. He thought that the heiress of the Nura Clan knew about her friend's origin already, and she's Reika's friend, so he can't just leave her dying and cold. Probably I should ask Reika-sama about this later... he thought. Just that, what could possibly cause the severe wound on the phoenix? He might want to ask his sons to investigate about this later.
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Three days has passed since the incident when Zen saved the mythical phoenix from dying. He found out that she's his sworn sister's friend. She hasn't wake up ever since. In a day, he checks the wound on Jiaying's body for few times, but... she heals like a monster. It's like she's able to regenerate while she's unconscious, thus healing her severe wound in a day maximum.
Today, he checks her wound again, but it looks like... they are never there. Not even a scratch or bruise. Even so, she just won't wake up. In the other hand, Reika tells her friends that Jiaying headed home few days ago and unable to join them for the week because she doesn't want them to be worried.
"How's she, Zen-nii?" Reika asks as she slides the screen door close, walking next to Zen who has been watching over her friend since the past few days.
"Still unconscious. Her wounds are completely healed though." He replies while lowering his body and lays on the tatami floor.
Zen seems to be tired as well. Seems like he can't stop thinking about what just happened to Jiaying. He knows that she's in danger, but he's unable to protect the young male himself. Zen, the bird youkai is a specialist in making poisons and medicines, but as he grow up, his health starts to decline. Reika told him many time not to get too worked up... like now.
Few times already, he starts to cough a lot because lack of sleep.
"Zen-nii, go to rest." Reika demanded while taking out the futon from the wardrobe.
The heiress sighs and tugs on her sworn brother's hand, dragging him so his head would be on the futon. He yelps from being dragged harshly, but he doesn't fight back. He knows himself that he needs rest.
"Ah, thanks. I'll leave the rest to you then." Zen says as he fixes himself so he would lay on the futon comfortably.
Zen put his right arm so he would be pillowing his head as he look at the side where Jiaying is laying unconscious. He closes his eyes, breathing in and out softly before drifting into his dreamland fast.
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It's noon, the day after. The khaki haired male brings up his hand to his eyes level, blocking the irritating sunlight from waking him up from his good sleep. He grunted softly and turns around to look at Jiaying's futon.
"Oh.. She's awake..." He mumbles to himself, closing his eyes once again.
Wait, what? He shoots his body up quickly, searching around for the young ashen haired female. Just then, he hears a soft snore, coming from under his blanket. His eyes blinks in curiosity, his fingers working on the blanket, pulling it aside.
Zen's eyes widen slightly from seeing the ashen haired female sleeping next to him, inside his blanket, her right arm rested on his lap. The young youkai male blushes from the embarrassing sight...- but he doesn't push her off. Instead, his long slender fingers shuffles slowly to Jiaying's ashen locks, touching it softly. He's half scared that he would wake the other up, thus catching him doing this to her.
"Longwei ge ge... I don't want to go to Japan..."
The bird youkai stares at the frowning expression of Jiaying. He heard her muttering words in Chinese, but like hell could he understand it. He pulls his fingers back, sighing softly. Is she having a nightmare? He thinks. He's only judging it from her sleeping expression. There's no way someone would frown in their sleep if they're having a good dream.
"Hey kid... wake up."
A/N: Haha~ So... I tried to make the story longer.. Please note that English is not my native language, so I'm still learning. *expanding my vocabulary* ;D Chapter 2 will come later.
Anyhow, thanks for reading~ Please give me review, okay?
Currently fixing; Itaku x Reika's stories.
Oh by the way, I drew Reika's picture a week ago, so I want to know what you guys think of it! Not sure how to show tho...
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