Hey! Look at me! Going for 2 updates in one month! So, someone make me a cookie or something!
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Miaka's seishi stayed watching over her like a hawk for days. Miaka felt that time was slipping by slowly, slower than ever before. But finally she was granted permission to get up and move around a little bit, and it was very limited what she COULD do. Which was not much.
"Come on Tasuki! Let me out of here" Miaka wailed
"No" came the patient response, something he had been working very hard on these past few days.
" Just for a little bit" Miaka complained
"No" Tasuki said, suppressing a sigh.
"Please I've been stuck in here forever! I wanna do something! Could I at least sit outside?" Miaka argued.
"I don't think yer allowed to" Tasuki almost ground his teeth; he was NOT built for patience.
"Please… You know, it says that the priestesses seishi have to do whatever she wants" Miaka tried, from a whiny two year olds perspective.
"Really? I don think that's what it said." Tasuki's patience was basically non-existent.
"Well, you have to serve me anyways. So there, do it" Miaka complained and pouted. Tasuki sighed and got up.
"You're leaving?" Miaka asked with a face like a lost puppy.
"I aint leavin. But yer jus gonna complain if I make ya sit here" Tasuki said with a bit of mischief back.
"I can go!" Miaka exclaimed
"No, well, not really. I'm gonna give ya a piggy back ride an yer gonna sit outside with me an stop complainin, yer givin me a headache" Tasuki said, going over to Miaka.
"REALLY!" Miaka said, she was WAY too excited. Miaka tried to jump onto Tasuki and forgot about her pregnancy, with speed born of a god, he twisted around and caught her, holding her bridal style.
"Okay, Its official, ya need ta quit while yer ahead, stop tryin ta do so much!" Tasuki chided her like an older brother.
Tasuki picked Miaka up and carried her easily throughout the hideout until they reached a hidden passage out. Not many people came through this way and they were more likely to avoid meeting Chichiri or a doctor this way. Tasuki carried her out and then gently set her in the soft grass. Miaka was quiet the entire time and was glad just to be out. Surprisingly Tasuki didn't talk either. She noticed there was a huge change in the seishi but couldn't figure out what. Just then Miaka heard a popping noise to her right.
Chichiri appeared, his happy smile worn in place. Miaka was expecting a lecture headed Tasuki's way for bringing her out here, but none came. Instead Chichiri took off his mask and sat quietly beside Miaka.
Together the seishi and their priestess looked out over the deep forest, on clear days, like today, they could see out over the small busy town nearby, but mostly it was the quiet hill with lush grass bordering the dense forest. In the summer, everything around Mount Reikaku was green, different shades, but very lush. But when it was most beautiful was in the fall.
In the fall, the leaves, of course, changed colours. The bandit hideout stood, a pearly white against the yellow, brown, and fiery reds of the trees. The red tiled roof blending in making the hideout look like a shining coliseum with an airy roof and spacious land. But Miaka had yet to see Mount Reikaku at its best.
For now the three friends just sat, staring over the hills and trees.
"Chichiri" Miaka suddenly asked.
"Yes no da?" Was his quick response.
"Do you always come here since I've been gone?" was Miaka's innocent question.
" No no da. I'm just here for a visit now no da. I have to go back soon, actually I am on the job right now no da" Came the monks thoughtful response.
"What are you doing?" Miaka sounded like a two year old asking why the sky was blue.
"Well, Tasiiskun wants me to look for new talent, people who are talented enough and responsible enough to use magic no da" Chichiri was actually very weary of searching, there were very few people in this day and age who fit that requirement.
"I could do it!" Miaka said. She almost seemed to be acting younger every day. 'Hey Tasuki… Tasuki?" When she looked over, her fire seishi was fast asleep.
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Miaka was lying in bed reading a scroll; it was a very simple one, but a scroll nonetheless. Chichiri had thought that since Miaka might be staying for a long time, she should finish what he had started to teach her from her first visit, how to read. Miaka was actually doing very well, and it would keep her still for hours. Just trying to finish one scroll. Currently she was reading a children's lullaby.
Chichiri walked into Miaka's room, with the midwife scurrying behind him. Miaka's midwife was a nice lady; she was short and talked very quickly. She had dull orange hair and was plump, but she knew all about her job and was good at what she did.
" How's it coming no da?" Was the first thing Chichiri said.
"Boring" Came Miaka's monotone response.
"Well, that's good no da. Maybe we should try something harder than that no da" Chichiri's thoughtful reply came.
"Absolutely not" The midwife chastised. "We are only a few days away from the pregnancy and I will NOT have this young lady any more stressed than she is living with these… men!" Came the crisp tone from the midwife, her feeling for the bandits obvious. Chichiri shuffled nervously.
"Okay than no da… um, I think Ill be back later to check on you no da" Chichiri said and hurried out.
The midwife hurried around, fluffing pillows among other things, and mumbling under her breath of how 'improper' it was for a lady like her to be near all these 'bad men'. Especially that red haired wolf guy, ordering her around, when she obviously knew what she was doing. Miaka listened, stifling her giggles as the midwife got out all of her anger.
"Um, ms…" Miaka asked tentatively
"Yes my lady, what is it" Came the warm response from the midwife.
"The man that you just scared out, the blue haired one, he isn't one of the bandits, he's my friend and he' a monk." Miaka said sweetly, a little too sweetly if you ask me.
"Oh! Really now, well I suppose I COULD have been nicer, but oh the poor dear, I was wondering why he was so nervous. I must have really scared him, well at least there is ONE good man around here" The midwife said getting back to her mumblings.
Miaka leaned into her pillows listening to the mumblings. All of the sudden Miaka felt that clenching pain in her stomach again. Although this time it didn't go away.
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Yeah, chapter four. Not quite sure where it is in length compared to the others. Hmmm, oh well. I have a cramp in my shoulder. I did it ALL in one night. Yay, I need a hug… Well Im off ta do… I dunno, sleep er sumthin.