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Chapter 2: In which I dispose of a problem and fool around a lot. (-_-)

First things first, I needed to dispose of my useless cousin. I went to the kitchen, after more questioning, and prepared myself to face my cousin. "Oh MIAKA!!" I yelled, hoping for her to come out alone. She did, with her mouth full of food. "Yeth?" She asked, before realizing who I was. "OOH! COUTHIN!" She yelled, food spraying out of her mouth. I wiped off my face. "Hello Miaka, dear. Your mother is dreadfully worried about you and I believe you should go home." she gulped, swallowing her mouthful, and looked at me expectantly. "Huh?" she asked. I sighed. "GO HOME NOW!" Miaka blinked her big green/brown eyes at me. "What did I do?" she asked. I grabbed her hand. "Miaka, it pains me so to say this, but I'm afraid your brother is at his deathbed. You are needed in our world now." Miaka's eyes filled up with tears. "NO! KEISUKE! WAAAAAHHHH!" she wailed loudly. I hugged her in attempt to hush her up. "It is time you returned." I said. In the instant of her grief, a shimmering red light began to surround her, and she began to disappear. I smiled.
Once rid of her, I could finish as planned. If my calculations were correct I had about a half a day before she would return, furious that I lied, but unable to stop the evils I was to commit soon. Oh, life was grand.
The first person on my list of people to sabotage was the hardest, and the easiest. By seducing Tasuki, Tamahome was sure to get jealous! Yay! Now to find them…
I walked around the palace for about an hour before I ran into Chichiri. He was meditating by himself quietly. I screwed up my voice as squeaky as I could make it sound, and approached him. "Hi Chichiri!" I squeaked, "Where's Tamahome and Tasuki?" Chichiri looked at me strangely. "Weren't they with you no da?" I blinked. "No. I was eating then I went for a walk and got lost." Chichiri smiled. "Oh, no da, I think they went to the hot springs a little way from the palace no da." I nodded, did my best Miaka smile, and skipped in the direction Chichiri had pointed. He was going to be harder to corrupt than I had previously believed, that smile made me think nice thoughts! If he began to guess I was not the real Miaka, I might be forced to dispose of him and his smiling little cutie pie… NO! ONLY EVIL THOUGHTS HERE! I forced myself to forget the smile and concentrate on finding the bath.
I reached the bath and was about to enter when someone snuck up on me and grabbed my arms from behind. Screaming, I turned to face my captor, only to find a grinning purple haired…guy. "You dummy you scared me outa my mind!" I yelled, pulling away from who I guessed to be Nuriko. Nuriko smiled. "Gonna take a bath with Tama-baby?" he asked, in a teasing tone. I pouted. "No, not a BATH. I was gonna see- uh- if they were ok in there." My original intent of seducing Tasuki would work better if I acted innocent and made him come to me. Nuriko pulled off his shirt (*fangirl drool*) and opened the door to the bathing area thing. (a/n: I'm thinking of the place in the Kutou palace where Yui was bathing that one time, But this is in Konan) My eyes widened as I saw not two but 4 totally hot guys in bathing suits and a little kid I took to be Chiriko. (Let's pretend they had bathing suits in ancient China- Miaka's doing) I hadn't believed my cousin when she explained the looks of each of her warriors, but now I did! WOW! I rushed past Nuriko and greeted them squeakily. "HIYA MIAKA!" the little kid yelled. I waved at him. One of the guys was hovering near the edge of the water, arguing with Tamahome. (I heard plenty about THAT guy from Miaka) Nuriko ran over and shoved the orange haired guy into the water, who yelled on impact and threatened to kill the crossdresser. I sweatdropped (ah, the life of an anime character) and pushed Nuriko in. "Are you guys having fun together?" Nuriko came up from the water and glared at me. "Yeah, why don't you join us?" still in my school uniform, (I go to the same school as my cousin) I shook my head. "No thanks" Too late Nuriko grabbed my ankles, and before I knew it I was being dunked by my own warriors. "Hahahaha! I gotcha Miaka!" Nuriko yelled, dancing around me in the water. Tamahome swam over and helped me sit on the edge. He carefully removed my jacket. "My love, shall I avenge your honor?" He asked, gazing into my eyes. What was with him? He didn't even notice I wasn't Miaka? Might as well play along. I removed my shoes and socks, rolled up my sleeves, and jumped into his arms. "No, I got it!" Nuriko wouldn't escape from me! Using Tamahome as a springboard, I landed on top of Nuriko and pushed him under the water. Laughing and giggling, we played around till dinner, when Chichiri came in and put a stop to our nonsense when we pulled him in the water.
Drat! I thought, as I sat at the table stuffing my face. I hadn't accomplished anything! This wasn't as easy as I had thought. Tonight I would have a talk with Chiriko. How could I corrupt him? Cuss words? Dirty jokes? He probably heard enough of that from Tasuki. I needed some thing more subtle.
I was awoken from my pleasant daydream by a poke in the ribs. "OW!" I exclaimed. Tamahome looked at me funny. "Are you gonna eat that?" he asked.
"Of course I am!" he looked disappointed as I shoved the rest of whatever was on my plate into my mouth and grinned, hoping he wasn't trying to imply I usually let him have my food. *_* He went back to eating.
Things were unusually quiet when I finished eating. Were they guessing that I was an imposter? I shivered at the thought and started a conversation. "Chiriko, wanna go for a walk later?" The little boy, oblivious to my intentions, agreed heartily. "Sure Miaka! Can we go by the river? Can we?" Nuriko frowned.
"Not without someone else." I cursed quietly. "I'll watch him Nuriko, I don't know what you're so worried about." He glared. "You might fall in." My mouth dropped, then I remembered I was Miaka. "I'll be really careful! We'll bring Tama-neko too!" Hotohori nodded. "That is fine with me." Yes! Everything was working out! I looked at Tamahome, who was sitting beside me still pouting, and touched his hand. "When we get back, ok?" He perked up immensely and the rest of the Seishi sweatdropped.