Word Count: 351.
Rating: G Summary: Suzaku doesn't want to know why she hates Touda.
Author's Notes: I wrote this one a while ago and now have found out it's completely wrong according to Chinese Mythology, but here it is anyway.
She couldn't stand the serpent. Traitor! Murderer! Sneak! He'd even tried to kill Tsuzuki after all the shinigami had done for him.
Of course she knew that it had been on Tsuzuki's orders and the others kept reminding her that due to their own decision to equip him with a control device it was impossible for Touda to disobey Tsuzuki's orders.
She did her best to ignore that information, though. Hating Touda for the crimes he'd committed was easy. If she started thinking about it logically she might have to re-examine her feelings and look into the reasons behind them.
Suzaku was guardian of the south. That made her the most powerful fire shiki in GenSouKai, or at least she thought it should. It made her uneasy that another fire shiki should be powerful enough to possibly defeat her in a fair battle, but little could withstand hellfire and Touda was fast and precise. He didn't have to top her power output, if only he hit the right spot and even if his first strike missed he was tough enough to survive hers and would still have the power reserves for several more rounds.
Suzaku herself tended to spend most her power in her first attack. A second was rarely necessary, but when it was she found herself struggling. She was well aware of that, but apparently unable to do anything about it.
She'd often resolved to try Touda's style in her next fight, just for practise, but whenever it actually came to a fight she was so excited, or impatient, or angry that she threw everything she had into that first strike. Fire shiki were impulsive and emotional creatures and it was almost impossible to control that.
Touda's level of control was something highly unusual, downright unnatural, in fact. He shouldn't be able to do that any more than she was. He should burn with the power of his emotions like any other fire shiki.
Of course, if he did, he'd burn things as frequently as Suzaku did and then GenSouKai would be a scorched and blackened ruin by now.