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AN:Uhh.lemme think. Hmm OH! I'm having second thoughts about the whole Chichiri+Jana thingy. She prefers Tatara, but wouldn't that kinda be like the anime? First seishi and miko.blah blah blah. What do u think? Again, ill tally up the votes and decide later. No chapter 11 till theres been enough votes. Cuz that's when the relashinship/friendliness grows.But with WHOM!?!(in the Suzaku seishi part, I am NOT GOING IN ORDER!!!!!!!!!)After a few chapters, Grace's part will just disappear completely and intertwine with our parts.
Chapter 10:The palace.
By:black crystal
Jana looked at him strangely and grabbed his hand without warning. She slowly and carefully examined the character on his hand. Lasso.was he really one of her seishi?Chichiri had just told her she HAD seishi, but never what powers they had or what they looked like or what their character was. He LOOKED nice enough, but what if this was just another plan to capture her? Ever since her second capture Jana had been very very careful of everyone she met.
"Shouldn't we go check up on your monk friend? He looks injured." Came Tatara's voice.
Jana looked up suddenly and began to run back to the bar. Chichiri! How could she have forgotten?!?Behind her, she heard footsteps coming and looked back. Tatara was also running. He was yelling at her to be careful. Of course she'd be careful! Who did he think she was?! Melissa? Or Grace? She was scoffing while running towards the bar and just when she turned her head around after telling Tatara that she WOULD BE CAREFUL.she ran into someone and crashed to the ground. A hand helped her up and she winced at her side, which may have been bruised during the capture. Jana looked up and gasped. It was Chichiri, but that huge bump on his head was bleeding. He looked at her cheerfully.
"Oh good no da. You are ok no da. I was just standing in line when the person behind me whacked me with something heavy no da. I'll be ok no da. No need to worry no da."
He looked behind her and frowned when he saw Tatara.
"Who is he no da? Did he try to hurt you no da?"
Jana shook her head.
"this is Tatara. He says that he is one of my seishi."
Chichiri smiled and held out his hand. Tatara just frowned slightly.in an undervoice he told jana:
"There is something strange about this one. I know that Chichiri is not of the Byakko seishi and is of the Suzaku seven.but there IS something strange about him. his chi. In my former life I have identified his chi before and I believe that this is not Chichiri."
Jana shook her head.
"You're crazy. Of course this is Chichiri. Ill prove it to you."
She used a loud voice and asked Chichiri who the new Suzaku no miko was.Chichiri looked taken back and asked in a little higher and sqeakier voice,"what do you mean no da?Why do you need to ask me this no da?"
Jana frowned at him. Ideas about that Tatara was right began to form in her mind.
"But.CHICHIRI knows who the miko is. she is YOUR miko isnt she?"
"Oh.of course I know. It's.Naomi?"
"No."Jana said, shaking her head,"who are you?"
"Chichiri" figeted and suddenly stood still.
"So,"he said in a dark and low voice that was unlike his own,"you have found me out. I am indeed not Chichiri. I knew from the moment your seishi came that you were going to be suspicious. That is why I have it all planned out!"he cackled in a high voice. His features began to change into one of a man with opera makeup on his face, a hat with 2 long feathers, and wearing an opera costume.
"Kekekekekee.yes. I think you have guessed it. I am Tomo, of the former seiyruu seven.and I shall be the one to send you all TO OBLIVION!!!!KEKEKEKEKEKEE!!!!!!"
** Melissa's part**
Melissa groaned as she loaded the last of her things onto the horse that Taiitsukan had oh-so-generously left behind. Tasuki came up right behind her, carrying his things. Melissa's eyes popped out. He was carrying a light bag and his tessen.
"THAT'S IT!?!?!"she asked him. Her eyes still as huge as saucers.
"Yup! Unlike you women with your fucking I need this and I need that and oh- I just would DIE without THAT, I just need some personal belongings." He said, smirking.
His smirk was wiped right off and then it was Melissa's turn to smirk as Kouji led out Tasuki's horse. It was so loaded with bags and trunks of belongings that she could only just make out the horse's head. She burst into hysterics while Tasuki muttered about maybe taking off some things and that if she wasn't his miko, she would be SOOO dead right now.
They kept taking off bags, along with the two people begging and stomping their foot and saying stuff about family heairlooms, Melissa and Tasuki only had about one or two bags each. their horses were a lot happier too, Melissa's named Lightning and Tasuki's named you-damn-horse-that cant-even- take-14-bags-of-crap.well, melissa renamed it Sandy, due to its sandy color.
They rode off, waving good-bye to Kouji and the other bandits, whom were wishing both of them good luck on not letting the other person get to their nerves.(too late for that!)The two horses trotted off into the shadows of the trees lining the path to the kingdom of Konan.
After about 3 days of arguing and glaring daggers at each other, they arrived in the capital without any problem. Tasuki led her straight to the palace, saying something about how Hotohori might be there.Melissa looked at him strangely but didn't say anything, dueing the the fact that he stole the last piece of food away from her untouched plate while she was going to change after a bird pooped on her jeans. They rode along in silence and Melissa took in all the new sights. Tasuki had already seen it too many times to be amused and rode on in a bored looking trance.
Many people recognized Tasuki and said hello, well.or ran for it. Apparently, his hot temper was known around these parts.Melissa started looking at the shops while Tasuki talked to an old friend he saw. She ran over and started looking at all the different things. She marveled at a crystal necklace and used the money that Kouji had given her before she left to buy it. It was light blue with an elaborate golden frame. The chain was of gold too. This was the country of Suzaku and they prefered red.but her favorite color WAS light blue. She put it on and ran back to her horse. She looked around for Tasuki.but he was nowhere to be seen.
Melissa asked the man beside her if he had seen a man with orange-red hair and he said no. She kept asking everyone she saw.There was a tap on her back and she turned around. A soldier was standing there. He looked at her with cold eyes and ordered her to come with him but Melissa refused. The man grabbed the reins and began to pull the horse over. Another soldier was behind him, making sure that she had no way to escape. Melissa was frantic now. Where was that damn bandit when she needed him!!?!?! The soldiers stopped and she looked over his shoulder.a young man of around 18 stoof there, his dark brown hair tied in a loose ponytail and staring at the soldiers. He had a royal stance but his robes were not of the royal family's.
"Let her go."was all he said, and yet there was a commanding tone in that simple sentence.
The soldiers shook their heads and perpared ti push him out of the way. Before they even had a chance to move, the man had pulled out a sword and began a fight. Within 2 minutes, it was over. The soldiers moaned and groaned on the floor and the man walked over to her. Melissa pulled back her horse and looked around. There was nothing she could use to protect her.(when in panic, no concentration, no powers. Not yet. They still beginners)
"hello miko. I am Hotohori, at your service."
He swept down in a bow and melissa stared at him blankly.
"uhh ok. Do YOU know where Tasuki went?"she asked.
He pointed to right behind her, where Tasuki was riding towards them with a happy grin on his face when he saw Hotohori. Melissa took an angry look apon her face and began to scream at him.
"WHY DID YOU LEAVE AND WHERE DID YOU HAVE TO GO THAT WAS SO IMPORTANT!!??!"
"I NEEDED SAKE!!!"
"YOU ENDANGERED ME FOR SAKE!??!"
"well.yes."
Melissa's face turned to that of fury.but then, she smiled. Tasuki held his hands over his head in case she wanted to hit him.but there was nothing. She had gone over to see Hotohori's character and left him. He offered to take them to the palace and melissa eagerly agreed.
On the ride there(he had his own horse too) he told her about his son, Boushin, whom was ruling the empire now. Melissa listened with rapt intrest and Tasuki scowled as he followed them. So she was ignoring him now was she? I'll show her!
They arrived at the palace and Melissa gasped. It was beautiful.The palace itself was large and reigning. Hotohori looked at the guards and they nodded. The doors opened and they were admitted inside. The gardens were spectacular, with shades of pink, red, white, and yellow. Coming towards them was a younger Hotohori-look alike. He was wearing emporer's clothes and greeted them.
"father. Welcome back. Is this the miko? I am emporer Boushin."
Melissa was already gone, off to look in a room that she had glanced at and found full of shiny and pretty things.
**grace/vortex**
"I'LL KILL YOUUU!!!!!!!!!!..."
came grace's last scream at Suboshi as they fell through the hole onto a plush carpet. It was an apartment and a man was inside. Suboshi ran past him, saying something about how annoying and loud Grace was and how he needed a break.and a hearing aid.
Grace grinned.
"Hi. So you're the tennyo. Little short aren't you?"he smirked.
Wrong thing to say. Grace pounced on top of him, using a pillow she found nearby to wack him over the head again and again.and again.and again.and, oh lets just say she had fun.
"NO**hit**ONE**slap**SAYS**punch**ANYTHING**wack**ABOUT**thump**MY**thunk** HEIGHT**wham**AND **bruise**GETS**crunch**AWAY**hits him again**WITH **etc..** IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Suboshi came out of the room and immediately walked back, saying he had forgotten to feed the fish. Out of the corner of his cut lip, the man yelled that he had no fish.
The stranger groaned and tried to sit up, but he was too beat up. Grace thought she heard him say that he was Tomite and that he should have let Hikitsu take this job.
She took a bag of saltine crackers off the table and bagan to munch.
TBC.
THE chapters will be getting slower because thanksgiving break is over.=(awww. But dun worri.ill still be posting a chapter once every 2 days..i think. REVIEW? I need encouragement!**inner voice** ur begging melissa. O_O.Uhhh So what if I am! ^^;
AN:Uhh.lemme think. Hmm OH! I'm having second thoughts about the whole Chichiri+Jana thingy. She prefers Tatara, but wouldn't that kinda be like the anime? First seishi and miko.blah blah blah. What do u think? Again, ill tally up the votes and decide later. No chapter 11 till theres been enough votes. Cuz that's when the relashinship/friendliness grows.But with WHOM!?!(in the Suzaku seishi part, I am NOT GOING IN ORDER!!!!!!!!!)After a few chapters, Grace's part will just disappear completely and intertwine with our parts.
Chapter 10:The palace.
By:black crystal
Jana looked at him strangely and grabbed his hand without warning. She slowly and carefully examined the character on his hand. Lasso.was he really one of her seishi?Chichiri had just told her she HAD seishi, but never what powers they had or what they looked like or what their character was. He LOOKED nice enough, but what if this was just another plan to capture her? Ever since her second capture Jana had been very very careful of everyone she met.
"Shouldn't we go check up on your monk friend? He looks injured." Came Tatara's voice.
Jana looked up suddenly and began to run back to the bar. Chichiri! How could she have forgotten?!?Behind her, she heard footsteps coming and looked back. Tatara was also running. He was yelling at her to be careful. Of course she'd be careful! Who did he think she was?! Melissa? Or Grace? She was scoffing while running towards the bar and just when she turned her head around after telling Tatara that she WOULD BE CAREFUL.she ran into someone and crashed to the ground. A hand helped her up and she winced at her side, which may have been bruised during the capture. Jana looked up and gasped. It was Chichiri, but that huge bump on his head was bleeding. He looked at her cheerfully.
"Oh good no da. You are ok no da. I was just standing in line when the person behind me whacked me with something heavy no da. I'll be ok no da. No need to worry no da."
He looked behind her and frowned when he saw Tatara.
"Who is he no da? Did he try to hurt you no da?"
Jana shook her head.
"this is Tatara. He says that he is one of my seishi."
Chichiri smiled and held out his hand. Tatara just frowned slightly.in an undervoice he told jana:
"There is something strange about this one. I know that Chichiri is not of the Byakko seishi and is of the Suzaku seven.but there IS something strange about him. his chi. In my former life I have identified his chi before and I believe that this is not Chichiri."
Jana shook her head.
"You're crazy. Of course this is Chichiri. Ill prove it to you."
She used a loud voice and asked Chichiri who the new Suzaku no miko was.Chichiri looked taken back and asked in a little higher and sqeakier voice,"what do you mean no da?Why do you need to ask me this no da?"
Jana frowned at him. Ideas about that Tatara was right began to form in her mind.
"But.CHICHIRI knows who the miko is. she is YOUR miko isnt she?"
"Oh.of course I know. It's.Naomi?"
"No."Jana said, shaking her head,"who are you?"
"Chichiri" figeted and suddenly stood still.
"So,"he said in a dark and low voice that was unlike his own,"you have found me out. I am indeed not Chichiri. I knew from the moment your seishi came that you were going to be suspicious. That is why I have it all planned out!"he cackled in a high voice. His features began to change into one of a man with opera makeup on his face, a hat with 2 long feathers, and wearing an opera costume.
"Kekekekekee.yes. I think you have guessed it. I am Tomo, of the former seiyruu seven.and I shall be the one to send you all TO OBLIVION!!!!KEKEKEKEKEKEE!!!!!!"
** Melissa's part**
Melissa groaned as she loaded the last of her things onto the horse that Taiitsukan had oh-so-generously left behind. Tasuki came up right behind her, carrying his things. Melissa's eyes popped out. He was carrying a light bag and his tessen.
"THAT'S IT!?!?!"she asked him. Her eyes still as huge as saucers.
"Yup! Unlike you women with your fucking I need this and I need that and oh- I just would DIE without THAT, I just need some personal belongings." He said, smirking.
His smirk was wiped right off and then it was Melissa's turn to smirk as Kouji led out Tasuki's horse. It was so loaded with bags and trunks of belongings that she could only just make out the horse's head. She burst into hysterics while Tasuki muttered about maybe taking off some things and that if she wasn't his miko, she would be SOOO dead right now.
They kept taking off bags, along with the two people begging and stomping their foot and saying stuff about family heairlooms, Melissa and Tasuki only had about one or two bags each. their horses were a lot happier too, Melissa's named Lightning and Tasuki's named you-damn-horse-that cant-even- take-14-bags-of-crap.well, melissa renamed it Sandy, due to its sandy color.
They rode off, waving good-bye to Kouji and the other bandits, whom were wishing both of them good luck on not letting the other person get to their nerves.(too late for that!)The two horses trotted off into the shadows of the trees lining the path to the kingdom of Konan.
After about 3 days of arguing and glaring daggers at each other, they arrived in the capital without any problem. Tasuki led her straight to the palace, saying something about how Hotohori might be there.Melissa looked at him strangely but didn't say anything, dueing the the fact that he stole the last piece of food away from her untouched plate while she was going to change after a bird pooped on her jeans. They rode along in silence and Melissa took in all the new sights. Tasuki had already seen it too many times to be amused and rode on in a bored looking trance.
Many people recognized Tasuki and said hello, well.or ran for it. Apparently, his hot temper was known around these parts.Melissa started looking at the shops while Tasuki talked to an old friend he saw. She ran over and started looking at all the different things. She marveled at a crystal necklace and used the money that Kouji had given her before she left to buy it. It was light blue with an elaborate golden frame. The chain was of gold too. This was the country of Suzaku and they prefered red.but her favorite color WAS light blue. She put it on and ran back to her horse. She looked around for Tasuki.but he was nowhere to be seen.
Melissa asked the man beside her if he had seen a man with orange-red hair and he said no. She kept asking everyone she saw.There was a tap on her back and she turned around. A soldier was standing there. He looked at her with cold eyes and ordered her to come with him but Melissa refused. The man grabbed the reins and began to pull the horse over. Another soldier was behind him, making sure that she had no way to escape. Melissa was frantic now. Where was that damn bandit when she needed him!!?!?! The soldiers stopped and she looked over his shoulder.a young man of around 18 stoof there, his dark brown hair tied in a loose ponytail and staring at the soldiers. He had a royal stance but his robes were not of the royal family's.
"Let her go."was all he said, and yet there was a commanding tone in that simple sentence.
The soldiers shook their heads and perpared ti push him out of the way. Before they even had a chance to move, the man had pulled out a sword and began a fight. Within 2 minutes, it was over. The soldiers moaned and groaned on the floor and the man walked over to her. Melissa pulled back her horse and looked around. There was nothing she could use to protect her.(when in panic, no concentration, no powers. Not yet. They still beginners)
"hello miko. I am Hotohori, at your service."
He swept down in a bow and melissa stared at him blankly.
"uhh ok. Do YOU know where Tasuki went?"she asked.
He pointed to right behind her, where Tasuki was riding towards them with a happy grin on his face when he saw Hotohori. Melissa took an angry look apon her face and began to scream at him.
"WHY DID YOU LEAVE AND WHERE DID YOU HAVE TO GO THAT WAS SO IMPORTANT!!??!"
"I NEEDED SAKE!!!"
"YOU ENDANGERED ME FOR SAKE!??!"
"well.yes."
Melissa's face turned to that of fury.but then, she smiled. Tasuki held his hands over his head in case she wanted to hit him.but there was nothing. She had gone over to see Hotohori's character and left him. He offered to take them to the palace and melissa eagerly agreed.
On the ride there(he had his own horse too) he told her about his son, Boushin, whom was ruling the empire now. Melissa listened with rapt intrest and Tasuki scowled as he followed them. So she was ignoring him now was she? I'll show her!
They arrived at the palace and Melissa gasped. It was beautiful.The palace itself was large and reigning. Hotohori looked at the guards and they nodded. The doors opened and they were admitted inside. The gardens were spectacular, with shades of pink, red, white, and yellow. Coming towards them was a younger Hotohori-look alike. He was wearing emporer's clothes and greeted them.
"father. Welcome back. Is this the miko? I am emporer Boushin."
Melissa was already gone, off to look in a room that she had glanced at and found full of shiny and pretty things.
**grace/vortex**
"I'LL KILL YOUUU!!!!!!!!!!..."
came grace's last scream at Suboshi as they fell through the hole onto a plush carpet. It was an apartment and a man was inside. Suboshi ran past him, saying something about how annoying and loud Grace was and how he needed a break.and a hearing aid.
Grace grinned.
"Hi. So you're the tennyo. Little short aren't you?"he smirked.
Wrong thing to say. Grace pounced on top of him, using a pillow she found nearby to wack him over the head again and again.and again.and again.and, oh lets just say she had fun.
"NO**hit**ONE**slap**SAYS**punch**ANYTHING**wack**ABOUT**thump**MY**thunk** HEIGHT**wham**AND **bruise**GETS**crunch**AWAY**hits him again**WITH **etc..** IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Suboshi came out of the room and immediately walked back, saying he had forgotten to feed the fish. Out of the corner of his cut lip, the man yelled that he had no fish.
The stranger groaned and tried to sit up, but he was too beat up. Grace thought she heard him say that he was Tomite and that he should have let Hikitsu take this job.
She took a bag of saltine crackers off the table and bagan to munch.
TBC.
THE chapters will be getting slower because thanksgiving break is over.=(awww. But dun worri.ill still be posting a chapter once every 2 days..i think. REVIEW? I need encouragement!**inner voice** ur begging melissa. O_O.Uhhh So what if I am! ^^;