Disclaimer: If I owned Fushigi Yuugi,Tasuki would be mine! ALL MINE!!!
Author's Note: Here goes my story...This one's got a twist. It's set about a year since Nuriko died, and a strange new person comes to town....
Tasuki idly played with his harisen as he stared out of the entrance to the hut. He was extremely bored, as all the others had gone to the market to get food. Xao-Qin, the village they were staying in was tiny, being nothing more than a few huts, a marketplace, and a medium sized pond, all grouped together in a desert oasis. Tasuki, being the one most of the villagers were afraid of, was left to guard their possessions, as the villagers tended to be notorious thieves. They couldn't help it, being so isolated that they took every item that would possibly make their lives easier. In the distance a voice sang a familiar song, and Tasuki joined in, whistling the complex tune.
His peers knew nothing about a part of him he hardly ever showed. That part was his love for music. He had loved to listen to his sisters sing as a boy, and even as he grew up, that love stayed. A lone figure approached, a solitary figure on horseback. Tasuki shielded his eyes against the glare of the late afternoon sun, and when the figure got close enough, he did a double take at what he saw.
Heheh...Gotta love a teasing ending....It's short, but it get's longer as you go. I just wanted to get the story up before I forgot about it....