Title: Reishin
Author: Redeim/Mykah
Pairing: Hotohori/Nuriko, Miaka/Taka
Summary: the Suzaku seishi are now living in modern Japan, and Miaka and Taka are married with one child. Hotohori found Nuriko and told him his feelings for the strongest seishi. When Miaka and Taka ask the couple to come with them to the adoption agency, they didn't expect to adopt a child themselves.
Author's Note: I wrote this a few YEARS ago… -dies- But I decided to fix this up, at least.
-goes over her FY info to make sure she remembers enough of it- x.x
Nuriko's PoV
When Hotohori and I went to the adoption agency with Miaka and Taka, we hadn't planned on adopting a kid ourselves…
Let me back up a bit. I'm Nuriko. My boyfriend, Hotohori, Taka, and four other friends of ours are Suzaku warriors. About five years ago, Miaka finished her role as priestess. During her exploration through the book, The Universe of the Four Gods, she met all of us. Five of us died in some sort of battle against the Seiryuu warriors.
Once Miaka got back to this world, she met Taka. They fell in love as quickly as in they did in the book world, got married, and had a daughter named Hikari. As Hikari grew up, Miaka and Taka traveled around Japan looking for other reincarnated seishi.
Meanwhile, Hotohori had found me. Having regained his memories much earlier, He helped me regained mine. We became a couple after he explained he didn't realize he loved me until I died, probably the strangest thing to think about. We later found Tasuki, and eventually met up with Miaka, who had found the other four.
When Hikari was four, Miaka and Taka decided they wanted to adopt a child. But they were too chicken to go alone, so Hotohori and I went with them. Considering I still cross-dressed, no one gave us strange looks, to everyone beside the four of us, we were two just couples-two girls two guys- who might adopt a child.
When we walked into the adoption agency, Miaka and Taka explained to the secretary that they wanted to adopt a child, but didn't know where to start. The secretary asked them questions, while Hotohori and I just sat in the corner, being their support and making sure Miaka didn't eat all the candy on the desk, even though the candy was glass.
After a while, the secretary took all the millions of papers they filled out, and led the four of us to a room where little kids were playing.
"Are you two going to adopt a child, too?" The lady asked, it took us a few moments to realize she was talking to us...
"What? Oh no. We're just here to help them decide." I said, pointing to Miaka and Taka. The lady smiled.
"I'll be in the corner if you need me." She told us.
Miaka and Taka were already looking around, and Hotohori and I were just relaxing in another corner.
A little girl of about four or five walked up to us. She seemed a little short for her age, and had greenish-brown hair and navy blue eyes. She was an odd one indeed.
"Hi!" She said, smiling. She reminded me of someone...Though I couldn't place who.
"Whatch'ya doing?" She asked us.
"We're being bumps on a log." I replied monotonely.
"Can I play?" She asked innocently.
I looked at her and laughed. "Sure." I responded. She sat down next to us. Still smiling, she leaned closer to me and latched onto my arm.
"Ah! Kid! What are you doing?!" She looked up at me, her face showing a bit of sadness.
"Y'know what? You remind me of my daddy. Before he got remarried. I had two daddies! Though at first I only had one. But I don't remember my mommy." She rambled. Hotohori and I looked at each other. 'She's had experience with a gay couple raising her!' We seemed to share the thought, both of us smiling like idiots. We walked over to the lady who was sitting in the corner silently reading. I ended up dragging the girl with me, because she clung to my leg once I got her off my arm.
"Umm. Excuse me... Can we see this girl's biography?" The lady looked up from her book.
"Ahh...Yes, Reishin."
Wow...The name sounded familiar...but why?
"Here you go." Looking through her bio, I realized that yes, this girl was raised by two guys, she's been in the adoption center for two years, and she was six. It didn't tell Hotohori or me much, but it told us enough.
"We'd like to adopt her. I think we'll have some...similarities to her last family." I explained. The lady looked up from her desk.
"Oh? How so?" I smiled slightly.
"Well... You see… We're both guys..." I said quietly, shyly.
"Well, y see...sir"
"ma'am, please."
"...Ma'am we're trying to encourage her to not to go with another same-sex couple..."
"Why?" I asked, annoyance suddenly rising in me, "What does it matter?! Shouldn't you worry more about the child's happiness than the gender of the parents?" I asked. The lady sighed.
"Well I'd love to get her a home with loving parents without having to worry about gender...But, it's against the law!" (Just pretend.) I looked at Reishin. She looked at me, still holding onto my leg, tears welling in her eyes. Looking back at the lady, I asked, "Can't you just make an exception just this once? Practically everything but my birth certificate says I'm female!" She giggled, and so did Miaka, only louder. The lady sobered and shook her head.
"I'd love to...But I might get fired if I do..." Deciding to play devil's advocate, I turned towards Reishin.
"I'm sorry Reishin, you seem like a nice girl...really. But we're not allowed to adopt you. I really wish we could. It's not allowed. You can ask your next family why not...Who knows...Maybe by then, we would've been allowed..." I looked over at the lady, who was staring at us. I could tell she wanted Reishin to go to a good family. She took some papers from her desk.
"Well, are you going to fill out the papers, or will your boyfriend do that?" I smiled. She was a nice lady... Hotohori and I started filling out the papers as Miaka and Taka filled out the papers to adopt a baby boy that looked a lot like Tamahome's brother did when he was a baby.