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AN: Sorry for the long wait. Don't worry, I have not abandoned any of my stories. They're just on a slight hiatus because of my hectic scheduling of work and school. Enjoy this chapter!

Ch23

Miaka had gone to school, leaving both Usagi and Tamahome at the apartment with Keisuke. Tamahome was still resting while Keisuke was serving the young princess tea. He noticed that when Usagi was looking a bit pale. "Are you okay, Usagi-chan?" he asked, "Should I call a doctor?"

Usagi took a sip of the tea and sighed. She did feel a bit sick and it didn't help that she haven't had much of an appetite the night before. Whatever she was able to swallow and eat wasn't much and it also came back out. She thought it was weird since usually it was in the beginning of her pregnancy when she had trouble eating. Hearing Keisuke's question, she shook her head. "I'm fine, Keisuke-san," she said softly, "It's just my pregnancy acting up."

Keisuke looked at Usagi's stomach with a worried look. "So, when are you due?" he asked. When Usagi looked at him, he frantically added, "I mean, I heard that your pregnancy is less than nine months. And I'm pretty sure that you've been pregnant for at least four months already."

"I don't know," Usagi replied. Keisuke stopped talking and looked at her. "Each pregnancy is different. When I was pregnant with Sakura, it was for five months. With the twins, it was for seven months."

"WAIT! So that means that you could be going into labor any day now!" Keisuke shouted, anxiously, "What are you going to do if you end up giving birth here?"

"Don't worry, it's not time yet for me to give birth," she said. She took her cup and took a sip, before putting down her cup with a worried look on her face. "But if I do end up going into labor, you best hope that I'm far from this city or there won't be a city to return to." She glanced up to see Keisuke to see a distressed look on his face. "Is something wrong, Keisuke-san?" she asked.

"Why are you all right with Miaka being Suzaku's priestess when you know that she'll be eaten after making those three wishes?" Keisuke demanded to know. He knew full well that it wasn't the princess' fault that his sister is the priestess but she still should've warned her the minute they met.

"Just because she's the priestess, it doesn't mean that she'll be devoured," Usagi said, "As long as the priestess has a strong will to live, then she'll be fine. After all, didn't the Byakko no miko survive and live to a ripe old age?"

Keisuke looked down in embarrassment that he forgot about the priestess who was finally able to reunite with the man she loves after being separated for decades. However he had the right to worry when it's his kid sister who is now constantly running into trouble and danger ever since she became acquainted with the book. A sharp sound of glass shattering caused him to look up.

Usagi had been drinking her tea again when she felt a surge of energy coming from the inner part of the city and dropped the cup, causing it to shatter. She turned her head to see a tower of blue light rise up from the center of the city and gasped, "Seiryuu…"

Keisuke stared at the tower of light and immediately got up on his feet. "You mean that dragon god?" he shouted, "What the hell is gonna happen once that giant blue dragon's gonna show up in the middle of the city?"

Usagi stood up slowly and continued to stare at the tower of light. She closed her eyes and tried to focus on the auras to see if anybody else beside the Seiryuu no miko is there. Her eyes flashed open when she had sensed that Miaka and Nakago were also there; heading in their direction frantically was Tamahome. Then out of nowhere, Yui's presence had vanished and a large phoenix had taken her place. Her blue eyes immediately snapped open when she realized what had happened; Yui had used her last wish to release Suzaku from his imprisonment and was ultimately swallowed up by Seiyuu.

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When they felt Seiyuu and Suzaku's auras, Byakko and Genbu had paused abruptly in their running around in trying to calm their children, when in fact it was them who were freaking out, and fell down to their faces. The two gods got back up and thanked the lucky stars that their wife wasn't around to witness that.

Katsuya, Katsura, and Sakura all looked at their fallen fathers with blank eyes, wondering what in the world had just happened. Sakura turned to the four guardians that stayed with them and asked, "What's with them?"

All four outer warriors sighed at the same time, "Who knows?" and carried on with their work on getting the children preoccupied.

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"Suzaku-sama and Seiyuu-sama have been summoned," Ami announced, causing everyone to stop in their cleanup in the aftermath of the small invasion.

"So what now?" Rei asked, "Once the gods are summoned, they lose all knowledge about themselves and everything around them. They might even become very violent with each other if they happen to be in the same area."

"Imagine what would happen if Usag-chan ends up in the same area as well," Minako said.

"I thought you said that they lose all knowledge of themselves and everything around them?" Tasuki said, hauling up a bunch of debris off the floor.

Makoto shrugged her shoulders. "Whether or not their minds forget, there is a chance that their hearts still remember," she said. "With any bad luck, they would remember how possessive they are of her too," she groaned.

"How is that bad luck?" Chichiri asked. Despite his heart was still heavy from the lost of his dear friends and emperor in the heavy invasion that turned out to be a diversion for their enemy, he couldn't help but worry about his two friends in the other world and the young princess who just might lose her two husbands.

"Let's just say that it's not a pretty picture to see," Minako said, scratching her head in confusion. At the confused look on the two seishi's faces, she groaned. "Have the two of you ever witness a battle between two wild animals when it comes to the right to breed? You know, like lions or bears?"

The two nodded their heads. Chichiri had traveled around the land and had seen many of these situations and knew it's best to avoid them during those seasons. Tasuki had lived in the mountains for most of his adolescent life as a thief and had seen male animals fighting to get to a female.

"Now ignore the wild animals part and add two angry gods in the same situation," Rei explained, "Do you see what we're talking about now?"

The two males thought quietly about it and immediately, their faces turned pale. "Oh shit," they whispered, thinking about the types of destruction that might occur to Miaka's world.