What? Only one chapter today?! Grin and bear it! *laughs* I'm focussing on the Seiryuu seishi at the moment, seeing that they've just got their memories back. It's time for *drumroll* Ayuru!
Ayuru
Shouka avoided Kaen, Shunkaku, Koutaku and I all lunch, instead, spending her time with Myojuan. I suppose it was inavoidable, since they were in love in their previous life but I still think she shouldn't lower her standards! Shouka was really furious at Shunkaku, who was acting like Suboshi, obsessing over Koutaku and Yui, and Ken and I, who were catching up on very old times. Kaen and I both agreed, last night, that things are better in this life, that we don't nessessarily like who we were but can't ignore it. History lesson will be interesting, to say the lest, what with all the little Suzaku seishi buzzing around, but at least with myself and Chuin present, I trust the Seiryuu seishi will get a fair role in the mini-series and be accurately portrayed. Actually, it is a bit hard to rely on Chuin for support as he is a firm believer in "artistic license" and has become one of the unofficial leaders of this whole project.
Lunch would have been quiet without Shouka except Shunkaku made about three times as much noise as usual so it made up for it. I'm with Shouka-chan on this one, I liked him better before!
At the lockers, Oguchi and Chuin were cornering people.Uh oh, not a good sign. I heard Chuin say to Kouji,
"You! Come to the LGB group after school!" Kouji was squirming and quietly freaking out.
"Ah, leave the poor bandit alone!" Kaen laughed to Oguchi.
"Yeah, you soul-sucking monk! Why don't you possess yourself a body with a life?" I laughed.
"Souls aren't all I suck!" said Oguchi, grinning. I gave him the finger, knowing what he was getting at. He turned on me.
"You are showing up, aren't you?"
"Uh... I said I'd go somewhere with Kaen," I lied.
"Go where? What is he talking about?" Kaen asked me.
"Kaen! Help me convince Ayuru to make an appearance at the LGB group!" said Chuin.
"Oh no! The gayness is contageous!" smirked Kaen, "But I guessed you were bi in the threesome with Shun-chan." Everyone had been talking quietly and ignoring us but it was a bit hard to after what happened next.
"Threesome?!" screamed Chuin, "Am I doomed not to sleep with Nakago in this life too?!" Everyone in the hall stopped, turned and stared and him then started edging away.
"Shut up!" I hissed, "I didn't touch Shun-chan anyway! Besides, the whole thing happened while we were half-drunk!"
"Oh, but you wanted to!" Kaen smirked, enjoying my embarassment, "I often wondered afterwards who turned you on more!"
"Shut up!" I hissed. She wouldn't.
"Sorry, Tomo-kun, but I think you're doomed in this life too!"
"Slut!" shouted Chuin.
"Fag!" countered Kaen.
"Shut up!" I shouted for the third time, "Please, not this again! Learn to share!"
"Share?" asked Chuin happily, "Ooh! Sounds promising!" Kaen looked at me in pure horror.
"Tell me you're joking, please!" she begged.
"Well, I can't blame you both for wanting me as I am very sexy, but I have my eyes on someone else so give up!" I replied.
"What?!" Kaen screamed, "WHO?!" Uh oh, bad move, I shouldn't have said that. This is bad, I'm losing my touch!
"It's..." Chuin started, unfazed, probably used to being unwanted, but Oguchi covered his mouth.
"Tell you at the LGB group," he said, getting us back on topic.
"Okay, that's it, we're going!" Kaen hissed.
"Miboshi!" I shouted. Oguchi grinned.
"Whatever works!"
"What's this with Kouji anyway?" I asked. Kaen slapped her head in despair.
"It's spreading!" she wailed, "It must
be something in the water!"
"At least I have a chance, kakakakaka!"
Chuin cackled.
"Not as much of one as I do!" Kaen snapped.
"Oh yeah? You can't even do that stupid spell anymore!" Chuin replied.
"How would you know?" Kaen hissed. Chuin jumped as the lightning bolt singed his hair. Kaen screamed as the illusion bashed her repeatedly over the head with a pencil case. They glared at each other. I raised my hand and they both jumped back.
"Can he still...?" Chuin asked nervously.
"I don't know but are we willing to risk it?" Kaen asked. They both gulped.
"We'd better get to history," Chuin said, latching onto my arm. I groaned. This was not a good time for them to resume old arguments. I allowed him to drag me away, Kaen screaming abuse at him, and eventually found myself in the history classroom. Luckily, in history, Chuin was back in director mode.
"We've got the cast organised, all we need is Yui to agree, she's a bit uncertain," Taka reported.
"Costumes, how are we going to get them done? I am not an emperor in this life, how are we going to afford them?" Saihitei asked.
"Myojuan could fund us, no da, he's rich. We could make some too, no da," Houjun said.
"Apart from Hotohori-sama's outfit as the emperor," Ryuuen objected.
"And my armor," I added.
"Yes yes, and Nuriko's, Tasuki's, Soi's, Tamahome's, Kouji's, some of Miaka's and Yui's and all of my clothes, among others. I get the point. I could create illusions of some of the clothes and Houjun could cast spells for some of them so at least it isn't the biggest issue. We'll find a way, but let's work on the script at the moment," Chuin said.
"Script? We were there!" Ryuuen said, skeptically.
"The cast members who don't have their memories back will need it, no da," Houjun pointed out.
"We'll write it as it was, to the best of our recollections," Chuin said, "but the story is so long, we'll need to leave some bits out. I think we should only put in only what's nessessary otherwise it would be too long. I got the Universe of the Four Gods off Yui, let's summarise what we think should go in." And we worked on it for ages, arguing over some bits, trying to make as much of ourselves stay in as possible. By the end of it, we had the first few scenes drafted, mainly the ones where Mi-baka first shows up in Konan, but we decided to put the bits with the Mikos only when they are in the book because otherwise it would be too long. The story would follow Tamahome until he met Miaka, Miaka on the quest to find the Suzaku seishi, then switch to Yui and the parts in Kutou then alternate and show what was going on for both sides. Unfortunately for us, Seiryuu wouldn't get a huge part at first, as Yui wasn't in the book until later.
Ryuuen turned out to be nearly as good a director as Chuin and we placed him in charge of script writing and editing and costumes, along with Chuin and Saihitei. Oguchi had been recruited for scenery that Chuin couldn't illusion up. Chuin, Shunkaku, Houjun, Oguchi and Genrou were placed in charge of special effects, especially the ones of an explosive, dangerous or illusionary nature. Shunkaku also was put in charge of lifting heavy objects, with Ryuuen and Tetsuo, as his telekinesis was strong in this life. Koutaku was unanimously voted composer of the music for the series. Myojuan was the doctor for us, and healed anyone who needed to be injured in their part, as we decided that blood capsules would be too expensive, considering how many people ended up dying in the the whole thing. Doukun became the general organiser and helped edit the scripts. That left Taka, Saihitei and I to be the prompts, coaches and assistant directors to Chuin, who was basically trying to help with everything. We decided that we couldn't leave the Mikos and Kaen out, so Kaen was placed in charge of makeup (we wouldn't let Chuin near it, despite the fact that he is good at it in this life), Yui in charge of getting permission from teachers to miss classes and Miaka to be in charge of... what else? Food!
After getting all that done, we found ourselves ending the lesson having made more progress than all the other groups put together, who were still deciding on a legend to chose. We decided to try and make props in other classes, if possible, like art and woodwork, etc, and on that note, left the lesson. Kaen was waiting outside and together with Chuin, practically dragged me to the LGB group. Ryuuen, Chizuko, Mitsue, Haruki, Oguchi and basically everyone from last time were there but Mitsue practically went into shock when Saihitei showed up. I could see that without saying anything, they'd already made up. Meanwhile, Chizuko fumed over Kaen.
"What's she doing here?" Chizuko demanded, "She's a slut, and a straight one at that!"
"I'm with him," Kaen said, poking a thumb at me. Everyone looked at me.
"Blame Oguchi. He practically blackmailed me to show up," I replied. Everyone's gaze flicked to Oguchi. He grinned.
"Whatever works, right?" he said, lamely.
"He mentioned other competiton for me apart from Chuin!" Kaen said accusingly, while glaring hostilely at Chuin.
"Ooh! Watch the sparks fly! What happened there?" giggled Haruki.
"Oh, they just resumed a very old fight over me," I smirked.
"So who is the competition then?" asked Saihitei, obviously amused that once more, we'd found ourselves ending up in exactly the same situations, like we have since we both started high school. He also seemed happy to see my two comrades at each other's throats.
"None other than Houjun-san!" Mitsue said cheerfully. Saihitei and Kaen's mouthes flapped open simultaneously.
"Him?!" Kaen screamed, looking traumatised. Oh shit! Not good! She's going to shred my crush! Why me, Seiryuu, why me? Why do I have to be so damn popular? Not that I'm complaining, of course.
"As if he doesn't have enough on his plate already," Saihitei groaned, "this'll make Houjun-chan even more depressed than ever!"
"What? Is he okay?" I asked, concerned.
"Kouran, a girl he knew a long time ago, even before my argument with Kaen started, has shown up again and he's fallen in love with her again," Chuin explained.
"Oh," I said, flatly. First Myojuan, now Houjun, what's it with the tragic love stories reemerging? Why can't I just have a nice, simple crush for once? Must not give up, must not resign myself to have Kaen and Chuin bicker over me until the day I die!
"You don't seem too concerned, Chuin, is that because you're used to failure?" Kaen said. See? I'm right.
"Ooh! Nasty!" commented Haruki, from the sidelines.
"No! It's because I've decided to focus my attention on Ryuu-chan!" Chuin replied.
"Hey! You'd better hurry, Sai-chan, you've got competition!" Mitsue laughed. Ryuuen turned red and appeared to be edging towards the door.
"One less person for me to kill," said Kaen, dangerous glint in her eyes.
"Uh oh," commented Mitsue, seeing the look on Kaen's face. Kaen snapped out of it.
"But I can't believe I'm losing you to a guy!" she wailed. Kouji was squirming towards the door, following Ryuuen's example, and we realised we'd forgotten all about him, he'd been quiet the whole time.
"Look, he's all embarassed!" giggled Mitsue, "Not a good first appearance here, huh?" She slammed the door before Ryuuen and Kouji could escape and they exchanged despairing looks.
"It could've been a helluva lot worse, ya could've been interrogatin' me," Kouji admitted.
"Good idea!" Oguchi said. I sighed with relief as the focus was now off me.
"Yeah, tell us you're life story!" Mitsue said, straight to the point, as she sprawled back down on the floor.
"I'm Kouji and I'm in deep shit," said Kouji, summing up the situation quite nicely, in my opinion. He was beetroot red.
"Mmm? Go on," Chuin prompted. Kouji shook his head.
"You tell 'em, I sure as hell won't," he said.
"It's about Genrou, right?" Ryuuen said, putting a comforting hand on Kouji's arm. Kouji shook it off.
"Yeah, I've got a thing for him but can't tell 'im, he'd never fuckin' understand," Kouji said.
"Are you out to him?" Chizuko asked, sympathetically. Kouji snorted.
"I'm only out to you people, as of this second," he replied, miserably.
"How do you know how he'd react then?" Chizuko asked.
"It's actually impossible to tell, with Genrou," Ryuuen replied, for Kouji, "he's pretty unpredictable. But he's your friend, right? Wouldn't he understand?"
"I dunno, I don' even know what the hell I feel anyway, let alone how he'd fucking react," Kouji replied.
"I think you should tell him. You never know," Saihitei said. Mitsue looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Coming from you..." she started, but Haruki
said,
"Yeah! Go for it! If he's a good friend, he'd get over it, realise it doesn't
change who you are!"
"You don't fucking know Genrou," Kouji muttered.
"It couldn't hurt to come out to him though," Chuin said.
"Ya think?" asked Kouji, miserably.
"Why not?" Oguchi said, but he sounded doubtful about the whole sceme. Perhaps he'd been in a similar situation in another life and seem how this might turn out but he didn't say anything else. I didn't either, I didn't know what to say. Kaen, being straight, kept her mouth shut for once.
"Hey! People! Now that's clear, I've got wicked news!" Ryuuen said. Everyone looked at him, expectantly.
"Myojuan heard about a Kyrosou concert and has booked a few tables! We can get the tickets off him half price!" Ryuuen said.
"A Kyrosou concert? Wicked! I'm in for sure!" Chuin said, enthusiastically.
"Me too! When is it?" asked Mitsue.
"Tomorrow night. There's her concert first then there's karaoke afterwards," Ryuuen explained. It was all at very short notice but then, all of Kyrosou's concerts are. She's an enigma, making only surprise appearances. Apparently she's given concerts in practically every country in the world, which leads to the question of how many languages she can actually speak, and is not likely to be answered any time soon. None of them were planned, of course, she just rocked up to some bar and started singing and so, a planned concert like this is as rare as a truthful politician.
"I can't go," said Haruki sadly, "I wish I'd known earlier."
"Ditto," said Chizuko.
"Why's he so free with the tickets anyway?" Kaen asked, suspiciously.
"One, he's rich, two, he says he's doing
this to end a very old resurfaced feud," Ryuuen explained. Oh, so
it's going to be a reincarnated seishi thing, then?
"I'll come, who else has already said
they are?" I asked.
"Houjun, Genrou, Kouji, Miaka, Taka, Tetsuo,
Doukun, Shunkaku, Koutaku, Yui, Chuin, me and now you. Kaen?" Ryuuen said,
counting off his fingers. She nodded. Saihitei and Oguchi quickly agreed,
probably as much for the company as for the concert. As the meeting broke
up, about half an hour later, we all wished Kouji luck. He'd need it.
Skipsida's Ravings:
This one is pretty long! About Kyrosou,
she's a character which I put in practically all of my stories, it's a
running joke. She appears in this, 2157, a medieval world, a dark ages
world, Atlantis, a psycho crossover and quite a few more other stories
I'm writing. Basically, whenever a musician is needed, she's there, she
is the character of author convenience and basically shows up everywhere
^_^ She's mine though, don't steal her or the idea! *growls and Arcanine
hands a cookie to pacify her*
What if Akugi:
Oguchi: I don't just suck souls *wink*
Doukun: *appears* Ooh! Do tell!
Oguchi: Why don't I show you? *wink*
Ryuuen: What's it with everyone trying
to corrupt Doukun these days?! *screams*