"Damn!"
Miaka opened her eyes. It was dark in the room, and she knew it would be a long time till the sunrise. She gave out a silent mumble. She slowly sat up. She saw Yui still asleep in her bed. Miaka gave a slow yawn and lifted her arms in a stretch. She stopped and turned. She saw Tasuki, holding his knee, on the floor next to Yui's desk. She covered her mouth and let out another yawn. "What are you doing up?"
Tasuki took his mind off his knee and looked up at Miaka. "Huh? Oh Miaka! Sorry...I didn't mean ta' wake ya'." He looked up upon the desk. "I couldn't get no sleep so I...uh...kinda was lookin' at all the strange stuff ya' got in this room." Tasuki grabbed his knee. "I kinda hit my damn knee against the desk too."
Miaka let out a small giggle. "What are you so interested in over there?"
Tasuki got off the ground and picked up a pencil off the desk. "This kinda. See...I kinda waz' playin' with it. It writes... but it ain't a quill, and it ain't got no ink."
Miaka got off the mattress and walked over to the amused fang boy. "It's a pencil. It is a writing contraption in our world. It doesn't use ink to write but lead instead."
"Lead?"
"Yeah... and this little pink thingy erases the lead markings." Miaka grabbed a piece of paper and the pencil from Tasuki. She placed the paper on the desk and started to scribble on it. Soon after, she erased everything. Tasuki stood in wonder. She showed him many other desktop items that he might not know. Hours passed like minutes.
"What are you two doing?" Yui sat on her bed and saw Miaka flicking the lamp on her desk on and off. She rubbed her eyes. Miaka and Tasuki didn't respond. "Hey!"
Miaka stared up at Yui. "Huh...oh sorry Yui."
"What are you two doing by my desk? It's seven in the morning."
"I was just showing Tasuki a few things. He was up all night looking at stuff. So I decided to explain them to him." Miaka turned the lamp switch off. 'I wonder... if Tasuki was so amused by a pencil...wait until I take him to the movies.' She let out a small giggle.
"Miaka... what are ya' gigglin' about?" Tasuki started to fiddle with the lamp switch, still wondering how it worked.
"Oh nothing really. So Yui... what time do you want to leave?" Miaka walked over to the bed and sat down by her best friend.
"We can leave anytime you know. How about at nine?" Yui stood up. "But first we have to decide how to get Tasuki out of my mom's house and get him into more suitable clothes." Yui looked at Tasuki.
"What's wrong with my clothes?" He tugged at his white pants and shirt.
"Nothing fang boy. Haha! It's just that in this world we wear something more...more...proper." Miaka didn't know if proper was the correct term to use. "Hey I know...we can get my brother, Keisuke, to fix him up!"
Yui smiled. "And Tetsuya!" She smiled wider.
"Ok... Yui let's get dressed!" Miaka looked at Tasuki. "Um...I'm sorry Tasuki, but we'll have to stick you back in the closet."
Tasuki knew where this was going. He didn't say a word and grumbled all the way to the closet and shut the door behind him. When it was shut all the way, Yui heard him mumble, "Ya' better hurry up." She couldn't help but laugh.
Yui put on some jean shorts and a yellow shirt, while Miaka put on one of Yui's best black skirts and a pink shirt. Miaka then put her hair in a high ponytail and tied a little pink ribbon on it. They put on some make-up and accessories. 'I know Tasuki will like my outfit,' Miaka thought.
Soon after, they opened the closet and saw Tasuki practically sleeping with his usual snore.
Miaka stared at him for a while. "I knew that he should have gotten more sleep." She bent down and tried to wake the bandit.
Tasuki peered opened his eye and gave a devilish smile. He leaped up and tackled Miaka, and he started tickling her mercilessly. "This is fer' sticking me in the closet." His hands went all over her stomach and under her arms.
Miaka squirmed to get loose, but to no prevail all she could do was laugh. "Tas... Tasuki...hehe...p...please stoppp...haha!"
He obeyed and stopped. He was practically laughing himself. He looked at Miaka, who was still trying to catch her breath. His eyes nearly bulged out and started to drool. The outfit she had on made her look gorgeous. He contained himself as much as he could, well he stopped drooling anyways, but his eyes were transfixed on her. "Miaka I like ya' outfit." He tried to say the compliment as normal as he could, but a small blush came over him.
Miaka smiled and looked down at herself. "Yeah, it's Yui's, but of course everything looks better on me." The Universe of the Four Gods book slammed in the back of Miaka's head. She fell to the ground and moaned with pain. "Ow!" She peered behind her and saw Yui with her hands on her hips. "YUI! It was only a joke."
"You deserved it. Besides, Tetsuya likes the way I look, and that's all that matters." Yui smiled.
"Of course he would, he's your boyfriend. He has to say nice things about the way you look..." Miaka practically paused and got ready to be hit in the head again, but nothing was thrown at her.
Yui just smiled. "Of course by the time I'm thirty, I'll still look good in my clothes. You on the other hand will get fat from all the food you eat to fit anything...Hahaha!"
Miaka fisted her hands. "Not funny Yui!" All she could do was watch as Yui laughed at her.
"Come on. Damn...this is a reason I hate women...always to worried about what they look like." Tasuki crossed his arms.
"So Tasuki, your saying you would go out with a fat ugly woman." Yui controlled her laughing, but started again.
"Oh come on Yui don't make fun of him." Miaka skipped to Tasuki's side. "Well let's go call Onichan!"
"For the last time yes, he is here Keisuke!" Miaka held the phone somewhat annoyed. "Yes that's why I need you to bring some of your clothes for him...yeah Yui wants Tetsuya to come...I don't know..........yes he did, but he disappeared in the book by a black light. I figured that he would be back in this world, but Yui-chan said that it wasn't plausible...well just hurry over here, and we'll tell you the whole story...sure bye." She put down the phone.
"Miaka? Who the hell were ya' talkin' to?" Tasuki stood in the living room doorway.
"It was my brother, he's bringing some clothes for you."
"Your brother? I don't see him."
"Oh I was talking to him on the phone...oh yeah you don't know what a phone is." Miaka spent the next twenty minutes trying to explain the workings of a phone. Even though, Tasuki still had a hard time understanding.
"Ok." Yui entered the living room. "My mom will be out all day. I'm just glad that she decided to go to work early this morning before any of us woke up. Well before I woke up anyways." She stood looking suspiciously at Miaka and Tasuki. "Are you sure you two were just talking all night?" Yui sat down on her recliner.
"Yui! Come on get serious!" Miaka sat down on the couch. A slight blush filled her face.
"So what did you talk about with Keisuke?" Yui leaned back in the chair.
"I told him that Tasuki was here with us, and of course, to bring some clothes for him. He asked if I knew where Taka was. I told him I didn't know."
Yui looked at Miaka. 'I wonder.'
Tasuki nearly jumped from the couch and grabbed his tessen. "What the fuck was that!"
"Settle down Tasuki, it was just the doorbell." Yui got up from the recliner and walked to the front door and opened it.
"Where is he? I wanna see him!" Keisuke looked over Yui's shoulder and saw Tasuki standing, looking at him confusingly. Keisuke jumped over Yui. "Oh my God! Your actually here!" He grabbed Tasuki's hand and started shacking it. "Oh wow! This is great. Your cooler than I remember!"
"KEISUKE!" Miaka held her fisted hands at her side. "We didn't invite you over her to gloat with him!" Miaka walked over to the two men. "Where are the clothes?"
"Tetsuya has them." He looked towards the door.
Tetsuya walked in wheezing. "Keisuke... you...could have...waited." Yui, who was on the floor in front of the door because of Keisuke, got up and hugged him, and they walked towards the living room.
"I swear Keisuke, you sometimes get to excited." Tetsuya relaxed himself on the couch. He looked up and saw the very confused Tasuki. "Hey...so your Tasuki. Here." He lifted the bag he was holding in his right hand. "This is some different clothes Keisuke and I picked out. We though they might look cool on you." Tasuki grabbed the bag. "We'll help you to get them on. Come on Keisuke." Tetsuya got off the sofa and turned to Yui. "Don't worry girls. We'll be right out. Then we'll talk."
"They stayed in their for nearly an hour!" Miaka forced herself off the couch. "I can't stand waiting anymore!"
"Settle down Miaka. They did bring quit a bit of clothes. Besides it isn't even near nine o'clock yet. We have plenty of time." Yui tried as much as she could to settle Miaka down, but all seemed to fail.
"KEISUKE! Hurry up in there!" Miaka banged on the bedroom door.
The door opened. It slammed hard into Miaka's face. "Miaka!" Keisuke looked down at her on the ground. "Haha...that's what you get for standing behind the door."
"Miaka! Are ya' alright?" Tasuki ran up from behind Keisuke.
Miaka opened her eyes. She stared up at Tasuki and was amazed. He wore jeans, a white T-shirt, and a blue jean jacket. He looked like a super model. She was practically speechless.
"These clothes feel a little itchy, and they made me take off my jewelry. Do I look ok Miaka?" Tasuki tugged at his jacket collar. Miaka didn't say a word, but she just smiled.
"I think that's a yes." Tetsuya peered at Tasuki in the room.
"So let's go talk Miaka." Tasuki grabbed her hand and picked her up. He carried her to the couch in the living room and sat down beside her.
Miaka snapped out of her trance. "So what do you want to talk about first brother?"
"I heard that Taka was in the book with you and Yui. Miaka you told me that he was taken away by a black light. Was he taken into the book by the same light?" Keisuke sat on the floor and leaned on his hand.
"I really don't know brother. I was in the book when he was taken into it. But...but Yui was last with him before he was brought to Tasuki's world." Miaka and everyone stared over to Yui. "What light took him in Yui?"
"You know. Now that I think of it...it was clear...almost white." Yui stared towards the ceiling. "I never really recalled it until now."
"So we know that there is a black and white light. Is their two more gods then? Or maybe they're from some other force. Taka could be in danger." Miaka's brother got off the ground. "How did you get into the book Yui?"
"Seriyu took me in."
"Seriyu?" Tetsuya's sunglasses feel forward to the tip of his nose. His eyes looked really bewildered.
"Yes. I don't know why, but I was. He could have been unsealed. I don't know how though."
"We'll you three have fun. Tetsuya and I will go to the library and try to find any information about ancient china that might mention any other gods." Tetsuya and Keisuke said later, and they walked out of the apartment.
Yui looked over at Miaka. "Are you ok?"
"I don't know Yui. I'm a little worried now about Taka. I never thought that he could be in any danger."
Tasuki made a daring move. He put his arms around his miko. "Don't worry Miaka, Taka will be alright."
"Tasuki's right, besides were supposed to have fun today." Yui stood up and walked towards the kitchen. "Let's eat a good breakfast and we'll be off."
The sound of breakfast lifted Miaka's spirits and she ran to the kitchen herself.
Miaka opened her eyes. It was dark in the room, and she knew it would be a long time till the sunrise. She gave out a silent mumble. She slowly sat up. She saw Yui still asleep in her bed. Miaka gave a slow yawn and lifted her arms in a stretch. She stopped and turned. She saw Tasuki, holding his knee, on the floor next to Yui's desk. She covered her mouth and let out another yawn. "What are you doing up?"
Tasuki took his mind off his knee and looked up at Miaka. "Huh? Oh Miaka! Sorry...I didn't mean ta' wake ya'." He looked up upon the desk. "I couldn't get no sleep so I...uh...kinda was lookin' at all the strange stuff ya' got in this room." Tasuki grabbed his knee. "I kinda hit my damn knee against the desk too."
Miaka let out a small giggle. "What are you so interested in over there?"
Tasuki got off the ground and picked up a pencil off the desk. "This kinda. See...I kinda waz' playin' with it. It writes... but it ain't a quill, and it ain't got no ink."
Miaka got off the mattress and walked over to the amused fang boy. "It's a pencil. It is a writing contraption in our world. It doesn't use ink to write but lead instead."
"Lead?"
"Yeah... and this little pink thingy erases the lead markings." Miaka grabbed a piece of paper and the pencil from Tasuki. She placed the paper on the desk and started to scribble on it. Soon after, she erased everything. Tasuki stood in wonder. She showed him many other desktop items that he might not know. Hours passed like minutes.
"What are you two doing?" Yui sat on her bed and saw Miaka flicking the lamp on her desk on and off. She rubbed her eyes. Miaka and Tasuki didn't respond. "Hey!"
Miaka stared up at Yui. "Huh...oh sorry Yui."
"What are you two doing by my desk? It's seven in the morning."
"I was just showing Tasuki a few things. He was up all night looking at stuff. So I decided to explain them to him." Miaka turned the lamp switch off. 'I wonder... if Tasuki was so amused by a pencil...wait until I take him to the movies.' She let out a small giggle.
"Miaka... what are ya' gigglin' about?" Tasuki started to fiddle with the lamp switch, still wondering how it worked.
"Oh nothing really. So Yui... what time do you want to leave?" Miaka walked over to the bed and sat down by her best friend.
"We can leave anytime you know. How about at nine?" Yui stood up. "But first we have to decide how to get Tasuki out of my mom's house and get him into more suitable clothes." Yui looked at Tasuki.
"What's wrong with my clothes?" He tugged at his white pants and shirt.
"Nothing fang boy. Haha! It's just that in this world we wear something more...more...proper." Miaka didn't know if proper was the correct term to use. "Hey I know...we can get my brother, Keisuke, to fix him up!"
Yui smiled. "And Tetsuya!" She smiled wider.
"Ok... Yui let's get dressed!" Miaka looked at Tasuki. "Um...I'm sorry Tasuki, but we'll have to stick you back in the closet."
Tasuki knew where this was going. He didn't say a word and grumbled all the way to the closet and shut the door behind him. When it was shut all the way, Yui heard him mumble, "Ya' better hurry up." She couldn't help but laugh.
Yui put on some jean shorts and a yellow shirt, while Miaka put on one of Yui's best black skirts and a pink shirt. Miaka then put her hair in a high ponytail and tied a little pink ribbon on it. They put on some make-up and accessories. 'I know Tasuki will like my outfit,' Miaka thought.
Soon after, they opened the closet and saw Tasuki practically sleeping with his usual snore.
Miaka stared at him for a while. "I knew that he should have gotten more sleep." She bent down and tried to wake the bandit.
Tasuki peered opened his eye and gave a devilish smile. He leaped up and tackled Miaka, and he started tickling her mercilessly. "This is fer' sticking me in the closet." His hands went all over her stomach and under her arms.
Miaka squirmed to get loose, but to no prevail all she could do was laugh. "Tas... Tasuki...hehe...p...please stoppp...haha!"
He obeyed and stopped. He was practically laughing himself. He looked at Miaka, who was still trying to catch her breath. His eyes nearly bulged out and started to drool. The outfit she had on made her look gorgeous. He contained himself as much as he could, well he stopped drooling anyways, but his eyes were transfixed on her. "Miaka I like ya' outfit." He tried to say the compliment as normal as he could, but a small blush came over him.
Miaka smiled and looked down at herself. "Yeah, it's Yui's, but of course everything looks better on me." The Universe of the Four Gods book slammed in the back of Miaka's head. She fell to the ground and moaned with pain. "Ow!" She peered behind her and saw Yui with her hands on her hips. "YUI! It was only a joke."
"You deserved it. Besides, Tetsuya likes the way I look, and that's all that matters." Yui smiled.
"Of course he would, he's your boyfriend. He has to say nice things about the way you look..." Miaka practically paused and got ready to be hit in the head again, but nothing was thrown at her.
Yui just smiled. "Of course by the time I'm thirty, I'll still look good in my clothes. You on the other hand will get fat from all the food you eat to fit anything...Hahaha!"
Miaka fisted her hands. "Not funny Yui!" All she could do was watch as Yui laughed at her.
"Come on. Damn...this is a reason I hate women...always to worried about what they look like." Tasuki crossed his arms.
"So Tasuki, your saying you would go out with a fat ugly woman." Yui controlled her laughing, but started again.
"Oh come on Yui don't make fun of him." Miaka skipped to Tasuki's side. "Well let's go call Onichan!"
"For the last time yes, he is here Keisuke!" Miaka held the phone somewhat annoyed. "Yes that's why I need you to bring some of your clothes for him...yeah Yui wants Tetsuya to come...I don't know..........yes he did, but he disappeared in the book by a black light. I figured that he would be back in this world, but Yui-chan said that it wasn't plausible...well just hurry over here, and we'll tell you the whole story...sure bye." She put down the phone.
"Miaka? Who the hell were ya' talkin' to?" Tasuki stood in the living room doorway.
"It was my brother, he's bringing some clothes for you."
"Your brother? I don't see him."
"Oh I was talking to him on the phone...oh yeah you don't know what a phone is." Miaka spent the next twenty minutes trying to explain the workings of a phone. Even though, Tasuki still had a hard time understanding.
"Ok." Yui entered the living room. "My mom will be out all day. I'm just glad that she decided to go to work early this morning before any of us woke up. Well before I woke up anyways." She stood looking suspiciously at Miaka and Tasuki. "Are you sure you two were just talking all night?" Yui sat down on her recliner.
"Yui! Come on get serious!" Miaka sat down on the couch. A slight blush filled her face.
"So what did you talk about with Keisuke?" Yui leaned back in the chair.
"I told him that Tasuki was here with us, and of course, to bring some clothes for him. He asked if I knew where Taka was. I told him I didn't know."
Yui looked at Miaka. 'I wonder.'
Tasuki nearly jumped from the couch and grabbed his tessen. "What the fuck was that!"
"Settle down Tasuki, it was just the doorbell." Yui got up from the recliner and walked to the front door and opened it.
"Where is he? I wanna see him!" Keisuke looked over Yui's shoulder and saw Tasuki standing, looking at him confusingly. Keisuke jumped over Yui. "Oh my God! Your actually here!" He grabbed Tasuki's hand and started shacking it. "Oh wow! This is great. Your cooler than I remember!"
"KEISUKE!" Miaka held her fisted hands at her side. "We didn't invite you over her to gloat with him!" Miaka walked over to the two men. "Where are the clothes?"
"Tetsuya has them." He looked towards the door.
Tetsuya walked in wheezing. "Keisuke... you...could have...waited." Yui, who was on the floor in front of the door because of Keisuke, got up and hugged him, and they walked towards the living room.
"I swear Keisuke, you sometimes get to excited." Tetsuya relaxed himself on the couch. He looked up and saw the very confused Tasuki. "Hey...so your Tasuki. Here." He lifted the bag he was holding in his right hand. "This is some different clothes Keisuke and I picked out. We though they might look cool on you." Tasuki grabbed the bag. "We'll help you to get them on. Come on Keisuke." Tetsuya got off the sofa and turned to Yui. "Don't worry girls. We'll be right out. Then we'll talk."
"They stayed in their for nearly an hour!" Miaka forced herself off the couch. "I can't stand waiting anymore!"
"Settle down Miaka. They did bring quit a bit of clothes. Besides it isn't even near nine o'clock yet. We have plenty of time." Yui tried as much as she could to settle Miaka down, but all seemed to fail.
"KEISUKE! Hurry up in there!" Miaka banged on the bedroom door.
The door opened. It slammed hard into Miaka's face. "Miaka!" Keisuke looked down at her on the ground. "Haha...that's what you get for standing behind the door."
"Miaka! Are ya' alright?" Tasuki ran up from behind Keisuke.
Miaka opened her eyes. She stared up at Tasuki and was amazed. He wore jeans, a white T-shirt, and a blue jean jacket. He looked like a super model. She was practically speechless.
"These clothes feel a little itchy, and they made me take off my jewelry. Do I look ok Miaka?" Tasuki tugged at his jacket collar. Miaka didn't say a word, but she just smiled.
"I think that's a yes." Tetsuya peered at Tasuki in the room.
"So let's go talk Miaka." Tasuki grabbed her hand and picked her up. He carried her to the couch in the living room and sat down beside her.
Miaka snapped out of her trance. "So what do you want to talk about first brother?"
"I heard that Taka was in the book with you and Yui. Miaka you told me that he was taken away by a black light. Was he taken into the book by the same light?" Keisuke sat on the floor and leaned on his hand.
"I really don't know brother. I was in the book when he was taken into it. But...but Yui was last with him before he was brought to Tasuki's world." Miaka and everyone stared over to Yui. "What light took him in Yui?"
"You know. Now that I think of it...it was clear...almost white." Yui stared towards the ceiling. "I never really recalled it until now."
"So we know that there is a black and white light. Is their two more gods then? Or maybe they're from some other force. Taka could be in danger." Miaka's brother got off the ground. "How did you get into the book Yui?"
"Seriyu took me in."
"Seriyu?" Tetsuya's sunglasses feel forward to the tip of his nose. His eyes looked really bewildered.
"Yes. I don't know why, but I was. He could have been unsealed. I don't know how though."
"We'll you three have fun. Tetsuya and I will go to the library and try to find any information about ancient china that might mention any other gods." Tetsuya and Keisuke said later, and they walked out of the apartment.
Yui looked over at Miaka. "Are you ok?"
"I don't know Yui. I'm a little worried now about Taka. I never thought that he could be in any danger."
Tasuki made a daring move. He put his arms around his miko. "Don't worry Miaka, Taka will be alright."
"Tasuki's right, besides were supposed to have fun today." Yui stood up and walked towards the kitchen. "Let's eat a good breakfast and we'll be off."
The sound of breakfast lifted Miaka's spirits and she ran to the kitchen herself.