Shiro Den: Gaiden One
Chapter One: The Lone Warrior
Disclaimer: I don't own Fushigi Yuugi. I may act like it, but I don't. I own the new characters. You'll know them when you see them.
Author's Note: I'm back and bad. LOL. This is the first of
the Gaidens. I got this idea after I
purchased three of the Gaidens for Fushigi Yuugi on-line. Some people might have thought that the
ending of the epic series, Fushigi Yuugi: The Next Generation, left some loose
ends. The series was complete in its entirety. I am so happy with the way things turned
out. This Gaiden is meant to focus more
on the other Suzaku seishi that came in very late into the story. I always thought that Mitsukake and Chiriko
were ignored in the series. Anyway, I
kind of sacrificed character development for plot development. This isn't too much like an OVA because some
of the characters from the series don't show up. Sorry. That's just the
way things are, and that's why it's a Gaiden.
This will be shorter and easier to follow than Fushigi Yuugi: The Next
Generation. As you can see, there is
going to be a focus on Shiro. I wanted
to add more dimensions to his character.
I saw a lot of If you guys wanted to see a certain relationship
develop…well…you'll see.
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Wei
Kuairong was the greatest fighter out of Konan since the legendary Tamahome of
the first group of Suzaku seishi. Wei
Kuairong was the second seventh Suzaku seishi.
His seishi name was Shiro. He
was known as the Castle. His reputation
had spread all over Konan.
He was the
last seishi who was located by the third Suzaku seishi, Hono'o. Shiro had an adamant, initial resistance in
following his destiny as a seishi. That
was until Sukunami Mariko, the Suzaku no Miko, tricked him into it by gambling
with him. Shiro had no choice, but to
comply with his miko. He was sixteen
when second coming of Suzaku and the other gods. That was two years ago.
Shortly after the mikos and first seishi returned to the other world,
Shiro set off wandering again. He was
now a full grown eighteen year old man.
His skill
in fighting was unmatched anywhere in all of Konan. His father was Kouji, the head of the Mt. Leikaku Bandits. His father was best friends with one of the
original Suzaku seishi, Tasuki. Shiro
called Tasuki "uncle." Tasuki was the
one who had Shiro's father come to Eiyou, the capital of Konan, during the last
summoning of Suzaku. Kouji and Shiro
were reunited after not seeing one another in two years. Shiro had left on a self imposed training
mission when he was only fourteen years old.
Actually, some might have said that he ran away from home. Shiro never considered it running away
because to run away from home one must be unhappy. Shiro loved his father, mother, younger brother, and adoptive
grandfather a great deal. He also had a
lot of respect for the other bandits.
His father had almost pleaded with him to come back to Mt. Leikaku for a
visit, but Shiro had stubbornly refused.
Shiro had disappeared without a single warning the day after Mariko had returned
to the other world. He assumed that his
business in Eiyou was over, so there was no need for him to stay.
Shiro
resumed his journeys throughout Konan.
He soon realized that he had had his fill of Konan, and decided to
explore more of Sailo. He had worked
his way through Sailo, and earned numerous titles in championship matches. He had also learned more fighting
skills. He could now kill a man by
using just his chi, but he never did it.
Shiro had adopted a code of honor that started when he was
fourteen. He never killed anyone
unnecessarily. He would give near fatal
injuries, but nothing that one couldn't recover from. He knew intricacies of pressure points and other methods that
caused pain. Rumor had it that Shiro
was more deadly than the Genbu seishi, Kokoro, who was a former assassin. Shiro had traveled all the way to Hokkan,
and challenged Kokoro in a fair fight and won.
The rumors weren't far off, but unlike Kokoro, Shiro could never bring
himself to kill anyone. At least he
could never completely close himself off and kill people. He did kill people sometimes. Perhaps, it had something to do with the
training he had received from his grandfather who was a doctor because he
always felt guilty, and he couldn't functions for days after killing
someone. He would move like a ghost
with numb exhaustion. Shiro knew how to
heal people as well as injure them. He
knew how to mix healing herbs and how to diagnosis people's aliments. He would have made an excellent doctor with
more training, but he spent his time training how to fight.
Eventually,
Shiro made his way to Kutou. Kutou was
recovering from the natural disasters at the time. He had put down his sword for a moment to be a healer in a small
village in Kutou, but resumed his journeys soon after. Shiro in the beginning of his training as a
warrior learned how to use several weapons, but after the summoning of Suzaku
he began to shed weapons. He would say
that it was getting too heavy anyway.
There were two reasons why he chose to discard his weapons: he wanted to
handicap himself in a fight, and he didn't want to hurt any more people. He soon only had a sword that was somewhat
blunt at his side. This would put him
at a disadvantage in fights, but he didn't care. He wanted a challenge. It
was getting harder and harder to find one.
It was starting to discourage him.
Worse yet with things so calm, he could recall all the people he had
killed. It was pulling him into a
darkness that he had never felt before.
Shiro had a reason why he chose to become a warrior in the first place,
but the reason had long since vanished.
He couldn't remember what the reason was.
Most people
spend their whole lives trying to reach goals and fulfill destinies. At the age of eighteen, Shiro was the
undefeated fighter in the four empires of the world. He was a Suzaku seishi who was present and survived the summoning
of the four gods. He was a master in
over a dozen techniques and a healer.
Shiro had achieved things that many people would have never dreamt
of. However, achieving so much at such
a young age made Shiro feel like there was nothing left to do, and he felt as
if he had already reached his peak. At
the age of eighteen, Wei Kuairong was an empty shell.
~ClareBear's Omake~
We can't have a series or
gaiden without an omake. The spirits
are back to give their two sense about everything that happens. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Nuriko: ClareBear
gives long Author's Notes, doesn't she?
ClareBear always does it to start, so the juices are flowing. What do you guys think?
Tamahome: I think
it's okay. Although, I prefer the
omakes.
Miaka: Could it
because we're in them?
Hotohori:
ClareBear's looked at the original manga and the translated manga. She found out recently that Yuu Watase also
does long Author's notes. She had to
look at an English translation to find that out, as if she didn't notice it in
the original Japanese. (Shakes his
head)
Mitsukake: I'm
glad that she's going to do more about the other characters. We didn't really learn that much about
Shiro, Shitsu, Kawa, and Taki. We also
want to know what became of Odayka, Hono'o, and Sei.
Chiriko: Don't
forget about Mariko.
Tamahome: There's
not going to be a lot going on this time with Mariko, Odayaka, Kawa, Taki, and
Sei. ClareBear's got plans for Shitsu,
Hono'o, and Shiro. Suzaku only knows
what kind of torture ClareBear is going to use on them…
