Untitled as of yet part 2, a FYFF

Untitled as of yet...

by Aoimaru

Note: Watasi Yuu's characters don't belong to me. =^-^=

part 2

What's the buzz?

Rumor spreads fast, especially if it's a country's only form of entertainment. The Mt. Reikaku bandits did eventually realise that their precious tessen had been stolen and soon jumped into the action of getting it back.

Kouji sighed. After all his hospitality she had to go and pull this. He had no worries about getting burned by the thing, only he and the old boss knew how it worked, the latter was long dead. He was a bit unnerved by the fact that even though he had been appointed the new leader of the bandits, the iron fan still refused to produce fire for him.

The bandit lept over a fallen tree and continued through the woods. Genrou had left quite a trail. At first he had thought it was a deer trail, but there were blantent foot prints cast in the mud.

He stopped short. What lay befor him could not have been real. Cast off to the side of him lay the tessen's box and directly ahead lay the charred remaines of... something...

"......." his eyes went wide. "She... she couldn't have..." He stepped back slowely. "G-genrou!" he hollared desperatly. He had to find her. If she could use the tessen, that ment...

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K-chan's ears picked up the sound of shouting. "Dammit!" She spat. "They've found out!"

She lept down the cliffy rocks to a small stream where she fell forward and drank gratuitously. The fan was heavy on her back and she turned and lifted it from the holder she had made from string ties to it. She held it over her head and then shouted "Yoush!"

"Damn right you'd be happy," A voice said scornfully behind her.

She turned around slowely. She had been caught. "Uh...hiya...guys!" K-chan noticed that Kouji, her one hope, was absent.

"So... how'r we gonna' teach 'er a lesson?" said one, cracking his knuckles.

"I vote we gut 'er!" another chuckeled menicingly. "Teach you to decieve us!"

K-chan gulped. She took a step back, her foot hitting the water of the stream and suddenly felt the burning on her arm again. Her eyebrows furrowed and she lifted the tessen over her head. Maybe if she just scared them a little they would go away.

"Rekka..."

"Stop!" A voice rang out. Kouji lept down from the woods like a gazelle on steroids and slid to a stop directly in front of her, blocking the other bandits from view.

"Kouji! What are ya' doin'?" One cried out.

"..." He panted softly, unable to find anything to say. "She...she..." He turned to the bandits, then back to K-chan. Suddenly, he dropped to his knees and bowed. "Our new leader." he said.

The bandits gawked. They blinked again. Had they heard that right? This... this girl, no older than eighteen was their leader? "Kouji-sama, what's goin' on?"

He sat up. "The boss appointed me in charge when He died. But only the true leader can use the tessen...and I... well... she can."

They gaped again. "How much have you been drinkin'?!" one yelled.

Kouji sighed. "Genrou, show 'em yer' stuff."

K-chan smiled insanely. She pointed the iron fan at a random tree. "Rekka... Shinen!"

It was instantly reduced to ashes in a blaze of light.

The men were speachless. One by one, they fell to their knees, then to a bow.

"All hail Genrou-sama!"

"Oi!" K-chan hollared, raising the tessen over her head, tears of joy in her eyes.

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Time passed like a dream. It had been nearly a year, and the winter gave way for spring once again. Neko yawned in the sunshine. The morning at Mount Taitioku was just as beutiful as it had been the last three hundred had been. Still, Neko regretted not being able to leave. She was in a new world, but deprived the ability to explore.

She leaned against the railing to the porch, her purple silk night-dress flowing in the morning breeze.

Her training had come a long way since she first came here, but she was not nearly as powerful as she had potential. But... there had to be more than this. She still had to find k-chan, if she was here at all. Neko wondered if her friend had looked for her, or if she was sitting back home reading what was going on in a book, like they had in the real Fushigi Yuugi. But if she had come into this world too... Neko had to see if she was all right.

She began to get dressed, pulling a white high-necked cotten chinese-style shirt over her head and then putting on a pair of thin black stove-pipe pants that where oddly tight but loose at the same time. She left the top few buttons undone to her shirt, exposing the silver ankh that hung at the shallow of her throat. Sitting on her bed, she sighed. Suddenly, something gold caught Neko's eye and she turned.

Leaning against her wall was a Buuhdist priest's Shokaju, a long rod-like staff with a gold ornament on the top which jangled because of four rings that hung from it. She had practiced with one for some of her spells, but never owned one herself. It was the simbol of a traveler, the noise made by the rings representing the "do not kill" philosophy, warding off any insect or small creature the holder may tread apon on their journey.

Neko slowely got up and approached it, hands shaking slightly. It was a message. Ahe lept over to her dresser and retrieved her old black and red sachel, art supplies and comics still in it. She then stuffed some change of clothes and other posessions into it as well. Her attention rested on the top of it, andshe saw resting on a piece of crimson velvet a necklas. She gently picked it up and gased at it. It had been a birthday present from Taitsukun and the Lailais. Small, clear red beads made up the majority of it, but occationaly there was a much larger green bead one with a blue feather hanging from a tiny gold bead attatched to it. Chichiri's dharma beads... her dharma beads. She held it to her chest, smiling fondly, then put it on and picked up her bag and the staff, tossing the blue cape over her shoulder and placing the bamboo hat on her head. She looked around the room and smiled once again.

"Sayonara, Mount Taitioku no da."

With that, she vanished.

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Kounan lay just south of Mount Taitioku, it's buisy streets bursting with humanity as the merchants opened their shops for buisness. A deep whispering became aparent to Neko's ears. It was the talk of Mikos... priestesses. She steadily continued on her path down the center of the street.

'The Shishiseishi will be drawn to their priestess...' the words of the old hag rang in Neko's head.

"Guess it's true. I seem to be on the right track." She thought aloud.

The most important thing now was finding K-chan. She stood up straight, head facing forward and Shokaju leaning against her shoulder as her fist came down into her palm with a startling cry of "Yoush!". She stepped forward dramatically and shaded her squinted eyes, looking left and right comically. "Now, If I was K-chan, and was sucked mysteriously into the world of my favorite comic book a year ago, where would I be now?!"

The oncoming traffic hissed profanities and cries of "Get off the street if you're just gonna stand there, bozo!"

Neko blushed and put a hand behind her head comically. "Gomen no da." She took a couple steps to her right under the awning of a restaraunt.

Come to think of it, she hadn't had breakfast yet. The cat-faced girl then slid into a seat, placing her bag and hat on the table. Within minutes, a steaming cup of tea and a plate of pork buns appeared on the table infront of her and she gladly made them vanish. Neko leaned back after sipping the last of her tea and sighed.

Suddenly, something occured to her... money. She had forgotten money.

Her eyebrow twitched and she gently set the cup down. Sweating perfusly, she casually picked up her bag and other belongings... then took off at full spead toward the door.

"Hey! That person didn't pay their bill!!" A random character from the background yelled. That just made Neko run faster.

The road became a comical parade as the girl in monk's clothes ran down it's leignth, followed by several shouting waiters. This caught the attention of some guards and so they too took up the chase.

"Daaaa!!" Neko choked as the company that followed her steadily grew. She took a sharp right, darting down an alley and toward the woods. She was gradually making a distance between them but they where hot on persuit. She dodged through deer paths now, slipping on the occational wet leaf and tripping her way up another mountain.

Abruptly, she senced something. She skidded to a halt and looked around, shokaju drawn infront of her just in case.

"To pass the path, ya' gotta' pay th' toll," said a gruff dissembodied voice.

Neko paled and her look narrowed. "I really don't have time for this nonsence, no da." she said, looking around for it's source. Four men dropped down from the trees around her and stared at her crossly.

"D..da.." she stuttered. "Omo, hiya. Listen. I will gladly pay you back for the usage of this path as soon as I have money... I-"

The tallest of the bandits approached the girl and pointed at her staff with a sly grin. "Plenty of gold right there, Honey."

Neko gulped and stepped back. 'Looks like it's time to test my training...' she thought, and twirled the staff to her side. "Want it? Come and get it!"

She had to get by quickly befor her persuers caught up, and this taunting seemed to get their hackles up.

"Fine! You're diggin' yer own grave, chick!" he snarled and drew a dagger, dodging forward.

"Hup!" Suddenly, the girl was behind him, and hit him on the head with her staff.

He cursed loudly and spun around again, slashing horizontally with the knife. He looked rather foolish as he then realized that she now was crouched on his head. How did she do that?? She hit him again with the shokaju befor leap-frogging over him and running down the path.

"Gomen! I really don't have time to play, no da!" she called over her shoulder.

Not seeing where she was going, she ran head-on into someone's chest. She bounced off and landed sprawled out on the ground, dazed.

Thirty angry bandits circled around her and the five from before ran up to close the gap behind her.

"Aaaaa..ha ha ha. Hi." She laughed nervously. "I'm dead, aren't I?"

The brawly man in front of her cracked his knuckles, leaned over and grabbed the front of her shirt. He then punched her in the gut and she collapsed, unconcious.

"Tie 'er up and bring 'er to da' boss." He said, shoving her limp body at the other men.

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Neko awoke and realised that the reason the ground seemed to be dancing around her vision so was because she was slung over someone's shoulder. The man hoisted her down painfully to the wooden floor of the building, her hands tied behind her back.

"Genrou-sama! We found this vagabond in the woods and she refused to pay da' toll!" the man announced.

Neko tried to look up at the person called "Genrou," but saw that his back was turned to her.

"D-da?" Neko squeeked.

Genrou jerked. "Da?"

'That voice!' they both thought and 'Genrou' whirrled around.

"K-chan!"

"Neko!"

They both said this at the same time and Neko jumped up as the two dosey-doed, (This was rather hard on Neko's part, being that her hands were still tied behind her back)

"Meowy meowy!"

"Lemur! Since when are you the leader of the bandits?!" Neko shouted, tearing for joy.

"Oi! Since when do you dress as a monk?? You're a girl! Where have ya' been that they couldn't find ya' decent clothes??"

K-chan cut Neko's ropes and to the bewilderment of the other bandits, she was brought into the main room where their leader and the intruder began to reminiss.

to be continued...

Chapter 3: "Best Friend"

The Rant:

Hey! I finneshed another chapter! =^-^= A little note on the titles... I name them acording to what ever song I had stuck in my head at the time. This one was "What's the buzz?" from Jesus Christ, Super star (An eccelent play! =^-^=) Last one was the Chichiri/Tasuki single "Aoi jyuu" etc etc. (It has a real long name) Which I just put down in english. And "Best Friend" is one of Yui's vocal memory songs... it's gotta be the most bubble-gum song on the CD, and I *had* to get it stuck in my head! AAAArrrggg!

Re: my life~ K-chan actually does say "oi" all the time IRL, and I occasionally say "no da" too... most of this stuff frightenly is based on reality. Seriously. Jo-chan often yells at me if I don't say "No da" at least occasionally. This is how we would act if we where in the FY universe... ooo... I think next time there's going to be some nifty magic using and fight sceans, as well as getting some new characters. =^-^=

Questions? Comments? Send them to Chichiri_chan@fushigiyugi.com =^-^=

nothing interesting down here. =^-^=