Author's Note:

Well, this is my second serious try at fanfiction (my other FY fanfic here on fanfiction.net, Fushigi Ryuu, being the first). This one is a kind of cross between a "new miko" and a reincarnation fic. It takes place about 400 or so book years after the series, with a new miko and a bunch of reincarnated shichiseishi.

I'm also throwing in a little bit of my own ideas, with a cycle and stuff. Most of that is explained in the prologue.

Disclaimer:

I don't own Fushigi Yuugi...though sometimes I wish I did. No characters mentioned in the prologue belong to me, though some of my original characters will be showing up eventually.

Warning:

No warnings for this chapter, but there will be shounen ai (guys who like guys) in the future, as well as Tasuki language.

Atarashii Inochi
prologue: Suzaku-sama's problem...

Once upon a time there was a universe contained in a book. It was created by the great Taiitsu-kun(1), who continued to watch over the world from her spot high up on a mountain. There were also four gods to this world: Suzaku, Seiyuu, Genbu, and Byakko. They were all animals, though they also had very nice humanoid forms that many fangirls drooled over. And each god had seven warriors, called his shichiseishi, to serve him.

Every hundred years in the book, one teenaged girl from the real world would get sucked into the book to become a miko to one of the gods. That girl would collect the shichiseishi of her god (the four of them took turns getting mikos) and summon her god, who would then posses her body. Then she got three wishes from the god and was returned to her world.

The shichiseishi were humans. Well, humans with a little extra power. They lived and died like normal humans. What was special about them, besides the powers they had, was that they were reborn, over and over and over again. They changed bodies, and lives, but they always had the same soul, and so often ended up much the same each time. They were only reborn when it was getting close to the time of the coming of their miko though.

Then one time around in the cycle it was time for Suzaku no Miko to appear in the book. The chosen girl this time was a Japanese girl by the name of Yuuki Miaka, though why Suzaku chose her we'll never know. She was brought into the book, and her best friend Hongo Yui was sucked in as well.

Yui was promptly sent back as the mistake in bringing them both in was realized. But it was too late. Seiryuu, one of the other gods, had noticed her, and had decided to break the rules a little. He later brought her back in, as his own miko. It was only about a hundred years early…

Having two mikos in the book at one time caused problems, and caused a war to form between Suzaku's people, the empire of Konan, and Seiryuu's people, the empire of Kutou. Trickery and treachery occurred, and Miaka's first attempt to summon Suzaku ended up failing, because of a mistaken seishi.

In the end things were set straight, kinda. Miaka eventually did summon Suzaku, after all but two of her side's shichiseishi were killed. Seiryuu was summoned as well, and all of the Seiryuu shichiseishi were killed. And then both Miaka and Yui were returned to their world.

Oh, and Miaka fell in love with the Suzaku shichiseishi Tamahome. Normally this wasn't something that was allowed. It had happened between Byakko no Miko and one of the Byakko shichiseishi, Tatara, not too long before, and Byakko had had to deny their love. The problem was that when a miko fell in love with a shichiseishi she usually wanted him to come back to the real world with her, and that just wasn't good. The seishi needed to be in the book, so his soul could be reborn in a new body in time for the next miko.

Suzaku, unfortunately, was a softie for a good love story. When he possessed Miaka after she summoned him he realized just how much she loved Tamahome. And he decided to let them be together. Of course, because Tamahome was killed fighting Seiryuu, he was unable to be with her that way. Instead, his soul was reborn as Sukanami Taka, in the real world, and they got to be together that way.

Unfortunately, Suzaku didn't realize until four hundred years later, when his next miko was to arrive, just how much of a problem this was going to be…

-one hundred-something years ealier-

"Taiitsu-kun!!!" Suzaku exclaimed. "Why are Seiryuu's shichiseishi being reborn??? It's my turn!"

The red peacock god was furious and confused. He'd been out looking at the land, just for the fun of it. And then he saw a human who glowed with blue light, the light of Seiryuu. When he checked closer he realized it was one of the Seiryuu shichiseishi, Nakago.

So he'd gone straight to Taiitsu-kun. She was the one in charge of having the shichiseishi reborn in time for the new miko's arrival. She was supposed to be having his shichiseishi reborn, but instead Seiryuu's were. That wasn't good.

He had burst into her palace without warning, knocking over a few Nyan-Nyans in the process. In his haste he hadn't even noticed that Seiryuu was with Taiitsu-kun. In fact, the blue dragon, in human form of course, was smirking at him.

"You have a wait another hundred years, chicken boy," Seiryuu said, and Suzaku glared at him, having realized he was there. "Because of your screw ups last time around I get to go before you now."

"My screw ups!" Suzaku exclaimed. "You're the one who couldn't wait and had to get his miko then. It was you who caused the problems!"

"And you are the one who brought Yui here in the first place," Taiitsu-kun said. "Thus, you are going to wait another hundred years. It is Seiryuu's turn right now."

"…That's not fair…" Suzaku said, pouting. It didn't do any good though. Taiitsu-kun just stared at him, her expression that of the angry, but caring mother. She was, after all, doing it for his own good.

"Isn't he going to have anything bad happen to him?" Suzaku asked. "I wasn't the only one at fault!"

"Seiryuu no miko's wishes are severely limited this time around," Taiitsu-kun said.

"Yeah, you're not the only one being screwed over, chicken-boy," Seiryuu threw out, and Suzaku glared at him.

"At least I'm not an overgrown lizard," he shot back, storming out of the room angrily to wait the next hundred years for his seishi to start being reincarnated and his miko to show up.

Taiitsu-kun sighed. It was going to be a very long couple of hundred years.

notes

1. I don't particularly want to be fried by the ugly one...so she's the great Taiitsu-kun.