Disclaimer: If I owned FY, I wouldn't feel the need to write this. Since I don't, I get stuck with some wacky ideas that I have to write down. And so this story is formed.
Warnings: Hikaru gets really mad at one point in this chapter, so she begins to curse like heck. She also curses during a few other parts. Mentioning of underage (for the U.S., at least) drinking of alcoholic beverages. And here we start the romance! And this is a fun, mostly plot-less (unless you're talking about romance) chapter. So if you are scared of things with no plot, run awaaaaay. ^__^
~Interlude of Embarrassment: Piña Coladas and Underage… WHAT?!~
***Back at Vidal's condo…***
The front door slammed. "HELLO!" shouted Hikaru as she opened the door. She looked around and noticed that everyone was in the kitchen cooking. "Hey, Vidal, you have one heck of a nice car! Can I have it?"
"No!" came the negative reply over the sound of a blender.
Hikaru blinked. "Wow, I didn't know that you could fit so much "no" into a "no"," she muttered. "Geez, it's just a nice new Celica…" She threw the keys to his car on the sofa and then turned around and headed into the kitchen. At a small table, Tahir, Rei, Kotori, and Lee were sipping at some type of drink while Chichiri poured some ice into the blender and turned it on again. "What are ya makin', Vidal?"
"Piña coladas," he replied over the noise of the ice crushing.
She raised an eyebrow at that. "You're letting a kid drink alcohol?" She smiled. "That's so fuckin' cool!"
Lee snorted into his drink. "These are non-alcoholic ones, you jerk," Lee told her blandly.
She frowned. "What? Yer makin' piña coladas, and yer not even putting alcohol in them?" Vidal nodded while he worked at the blender. "That sucks. I'm gonna go find something else to drink."
The blue-haired reincarnated monk didn't pay attention to what Hikaru had said until about two minutes had passed. He heard some glass clinking and then went over what she said. "Daaa!"
Kotori, Rei, Tahir and Lee stared as Vidal suddenly became super deformed. Then he was running away from the blender, through the hallway, and to his room. The door was open, and Hikaru was seated on his bed holding a bottle of whiskey. Vidal was still super deformed, and he began running back and forth. "Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no!" he yelled. "You're not supposed to… That is, you shouldn't… Daa!"
She grinned wickedly when she saw the panicked expression covering his face.. "So, you're drinkin' below the legal age limit, huh?" She grabbed the cork and began to pull it from the bottle. It came out easily, and she carelessly dropped it to the floor. "Yep, this bottle's been drunk out of. I suppose you went to college with a hangover occasionally?"
"Only once…" he said helplessly as she drank straight from the bottle.
Hikaru raised an eyebrow. "You mean you actually did?" she asked between gulps. "I wouldn't of expected that from you." Then she thought about it, and grinned at the still super deformed Vidal. "Maybe I should have." She took another drink. "You've shrunk; did you know that? And your face is strange." His face did look like he had Chichiri's mask on.
He looked quizzically at her and then down at himself. "Daa! What happened! I'm small!" He began to run around in circles. "Da! How do I get out of this? Maybe if I go…?" As he said that, a "poof" sound that could have been taken straight from a cartoon was heard. In a puff of yellow smoke, Vidal got back to his normal size. "That was weird, you know?"
The tipsy redhead nodded as she took another long drink from the bottle. "Yeah… I thought for a second it was just the alcohol, but then I realized that you really had shrunk."
"You know, you shouldn't drink," he said feebly as she drunk from the bottle again. "You're below the legal age limit, too, and you've had at least enough to fill eight shot glasses by now."
He sweatdropped as she hugged the bottle. "No! I don't wanna give it up! I don't wanna!"
"Sorry, Hikaru, but that's more than enough…" Vidal said as he grabbed the bottle and tried to pull it away from her.
"No!" she said happily as she pulled it back. "There's still some left!"
He tried to grab it again, but when she again pulled it away he tripped and landed on her. The end result was Hikaru laying down on the bed with Vidal on top of her, and both were drenched in whiskey.
Both he and Hikaru turned a bright red at their compromising position. "Vidal, get the fuck off of me."
He tried and his head immediately ran into the whiskey bottle. "OW! Can you please move the bottle? Hitting glass with your head hurts, you know?"
Still lightly red, Hikaru removed the bottle. "If you hadn't tried to take my whiskey away, this wouldn't of happened." She pouted. "It was only a bit of whiskey. Why did you have to try an' take it away?"
"You're not supposed to drink," Vidal replied as he carefully got off of Hikaru. This is way too embarrassing. What would somebody think if they walked in here right now? Then he tripped on the cork that Hikaru had dropped on the floor earlier and he fell back on the bed. This time, their foreheads smashed together. Both of them blushed when they realized that their lips were almost touching.
Unfortunately for them, Lee walked by the room on his way to the bathroom. His eyes widened when he looked inside. To him, it certainly looked like they were rather… occupied. He looked from the bottle of whiskey, back to them and their drenched clothes, and then back to the bottle of whiskey. It certainly looked like it would lead to a scene from a hentai fan fiction or some type of romance novel.
His mouth opened and a comment came out without him really thinking about what he was saying. "What the heck?! Hikaru and Vidal are making out?!" He instantly regretted saying it out loud when he remembered one important fact – Hikaru's flame-throwing fan.
"Uh-oh…"
*******
In the kitchen, Tahir, Rei, and Kotori listened as Lee shouted, "What the heck?! Hikaru and Vidal are making out?!" from somewhere else in the condo.
Tahir's eyes widened, and Kotori noticed. She hadn't understood the term used by Lee. "Tahir, what's "making out" mean?"
Tahir blushed as he tried to think of a nice way to put it. He couldn't think of any modest way of explaining it, especially because Rei was in the room, and she was too young to need this subject to be explained. Why am I blushing? It's not embarrassing or anything… Well, it kind of is. But how can I explain this? "Making out is two people getting all over each other, but not quite doing it."? No, she probably wouldn't understand what it was. "And sometimes it can be as far as actually doing it." No, I definitely cannot explain it that way. Oh, this is embarrassing. I'm going to get Lee for putting me in this position.
Kotori was staring at Tahir as he spaced out with a large blush on his face. She didn't know what he was thinking, and she had a feeling it was related to certain things that guys and girls (as well as sometimes guys and guys or girls and girls) did together.
"It involves kissing and hugging and being really close to another body." Can I put it that way? Maybe… Tahir was continuing his thoughts. …I think I would like to kiss Kotori… What? What did I just think? She's a girl. I'm a guy. I'm gay! I don't want to do that… do I?
He mentally kicked himself for even the thought.
No, no, no! I don't really like her that much… and, I have a strong feeling that she's meant for someone besides me. I wonder where all these emotions are coming from? Is it something to do with me being a seishi? …I wonder…
His thoughts were shortly interrupted. In the house, everything had been quiet for a few seconds after Lee's shout. Then suddenly there was a loud bump as if something hit the ground. That was followed by a large screech on the part of Hikaru. "LEEEEE!!"
A cry of, "We weren't making out, you know?" was also heard on Vidal's part.
"Shit!" shouted Lee out loud. Hikaru must have drawn her tessen, because the next thing that was hear was:
"REKKA SHI-"
"NO, HIKARU! NOT IN MY CONDO!"
"AAAH!" screamed Lee as another "bump" was heard. "YOU ALMOST TOOK OUT MY EYE!"
A crash was heard, and then, "Nooooo! That door was expensive! Stop it, please! WAAH! What are you trying to hit me with it for? I didn't do anything!"
"You tried to take my whiskey away, and then you fell on top of me! I'm gonna get you for that, you pervert!"
"AAAH!" both Lee and Vidal were screaming now. Then there were sounds of running and people bumping into things. Tahir thought he could hear something hard whack someone every once in a while, and he briefly wondered how it felt to have a diamond tessen smash into you. He decided that he didn't want to know.
Everyone still in the kitchen sweat-dropped. "Rei, do you think Lee will be all right?" asked Kotori with concern.
Rei nodded as she sipped her cold piña colada calmly. "Yes. Big Brother gets into fights all of the time, but he never ever gets hurt."
"I hope you're right…"
"Shouldn't we stop the fight?" asked Tahir while listening to various sounds of smacking and clashing. Then, as he heard another crash, he answered himself. "Never mind. I'm sure that they can take care of themselves."
*******
Vidal ducked as Hikaru threw one of his heavy college textbooks at his head. Luckily, it landed on the sofa, and nothing was broken. It was just bad luck that she had found his stack of textbooks. Now she had a dangerous weapon (besides her tessen) and she seemed to be intent on causing him and Lee severe pain.
On the bright side for both Vidal and Lee, Hikaru wasn't carrying the whiskey bottle anymore. Vidal just regretted the fact that he might need to buy new bed sheets after his had an encounter with broken glass.
If the fight hadn't been going on, perhaps someone would have heard a knock on the door.
Deciding that being hit with a book on computer programming was not a good idea, he made a dash for the front door in a desperate attempt at escaping. As Lee hid behind the sofa, Vidal ran for the door in SD form. Again he did not realize his decrease in height until he realized that he could not reach the door handle.
He flattened himself against the door as Hikaru came forward with an open tessen pointing towards him. "DAAA! Hikaru, you don't really want to hurt me, right?"
Again no one heard a knock on the door.
Hikaru smacked the tessen against her hand as she slowly approached with a smirk on her face. "BWAHAHA! I'm sure this won't hurt at all!" She pulled back her tessen. "REKKA-"
A feminine voice, muffled by the door, called out, "Vidal! What is going on in our apartment? You haven't answered the door yet, and I can hear you in there!" A key was heard turning in door, and then it slammed open before SD Vidal could move out of the way. He pushed by the door until he was slammed between the wall and the door.
A lady in a white tank top and blue jeans with blue hair, as well as a man in denim shorts and a black T-shirt with even darker blue hair, stood in the doorway. Both were staring at Hikaru, and she was staring at them with her jaw unhinged.
Hikaru gulped and then tried to slip out of the room, but the girl spoke up. "Hikaru. What are you doing here?" she asked. She slowly punctuated each word, as if she were talking to a small child. Hikaru froze, and then turned while wearing a tight smile.
"Er, hi, Kara… Didn't notice you were there… Er, nice to see you again… big sister…" She had her tessen carefully hid behind her back.
"I'm sure," replied Kara. "But I don't consider myself as part of your family any longer."
Hikaru exploded, "Dammit, why not? You just don't fuckin' get it, do you? The whole fuckin' family loves you, even if you're not Mom and Dad's real kid! Hell, I'm adopted, too! Why do you act so fuckin' selfish? Tsunami misses you like hell sometimes!" By the time she had finished her curse-filled rant, her face was slightly flushed and her hair was tousled.
Kara flinched back as if she had been slapped, and the whole condo was horribly quiet for a few seconds. Even the sounds of chatter that had been coming from the kitchen had stopped. "Is there anything else you'd like to add?" she asked quietly while not meeting Hikaru's eyes. The stranger who had come in with her put a comforting hand on her shoulder.
She couldn't think of anything to say for a few seconds, but then she grinned with fangs showing. "Yeah. You smashed Vidal with the door." She pointed to the door that the man, whom she didn't recognize, was still holding open. The man hastily let go of the door and shut it, and an SD Vidal fell over backwards. Part of his face was red where it had smashed against the wall.
"That hurt…" he said as he stood up.
"Um, Vidal," said Hikaru. When he looked at her inquisitively, she pointed at him and motioned with her hand. He looked down, and when he realized he was SD, he went "poof" again in a cloud of yellow smoke and went back to his normal size.
Kara sagged against the man. Both looked so surprised that Hikaru burst out laughing. "BWAHAHAHA! I guess you didn't expect that one. How about this one?" She pulled out her tessen and pointed it towards Vidal. "Rekka Shi-"
Vidal's eyes widened. "No, Hikaru! You might hurt someone no da!"
"-nen," she finished very, very quietly. A little flame went out of the top of the fan and sizzled the tip of Vidal's peacock-like bangs. The jaws of Kara and the other man hit the floor at the speed of sound.
"You're anime characters?" shouted Kara as soon as she recovered.
"No! We're just little green aliens from fuckin' Mars!" Hikaru said sarcastically.
Vidal finished putting the fire out of his hair and said, more calmly, "Perhaps. What we are is the Suzaku seishi."
"Y-You are? How come neither of you ever told me?"
Vidal's eyes narrowed. "Because," he said in complete seriousness, "I only found out after you cheated on me and I – stupidly – tried to kill you and Henry," he said while gesturing towards Kara and the stranger – Henry. A bitter tone was embedded in his voice.
When what he said had sunk in, Hikaru nearly dropped her tessen. "What the fuck?" she said while glaring at Kara. "You cheated on him?" Then she rounded on Vidal before she could answer. "And you fuckin' tried to kill them? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
Hikaru heard some feet rubbing on the carpet and twisted around. Then she could see that Lee was peeking out of the living room and listening. Tahir and Kotori also were looking from the kitchen to where they were standing.
"All right, then. We're gonna go to another room." She glared at Vidal, Henry, and Kara. "And then we're gonna straighten everythin' out. And I mean everythin'. Let's go." Gesturing for them to proceed her, the tense group of friends and former friends walked down the hall. They turned into an empty and clean bedroom, and then Hikaru shut the door behind them.
*******
At the restaurant…Tsunami smiled at Warren as she carefully lifted a piece of sushi with her chopsticks. When she looked down at her plate, she did not notice the look that appeared on Warren's face. It was a look of extreme hatred, and somehow Warren's eyes shrunk down into the same shape as the pupils of a cat. But by the time her eyes were back on Warren, the look was gone, and his eyes were back to normal.
Perhaps the only person in the whole restaurant that noticed something was wrong was sitting a few tables away. Rayna had noticed the changed look, and in that split second she had recognized the look from the Fushigi Yuugi anime. Her thoughts grew very concerned, and she clenched her chopsticks so firmly in her hand that her knuckles turned white. Miboshi! The Chiriko-look-alike is with Miboshi! She knew that she would have to do something soon, as the look-alike was obviously in very great danger.
~TBC~
~THE AKUGI!!!~
Hikaru: (holding whiskey bottle) No! I don't wanna give it up! I don't wanna!
Vidal: Okay! Then let me join you! (His kasa appears in his hand, and out of it plops cases of sake.)
Hikaru: Cool hat! Can I have it?
Vidal: No! The kasa is mine!
Tahir: (walks in) Oh, a fishing hat! Can I have it? I fish a lot!
Hikaru: I want it! It can carry a ton of booze!
Tahir: No! It's mine! Mine!
(Hikaru and Tahir tackle poor Vidal to try to take his hat.)
Lee: (watching from doorway) And when they finish, I'll steal it and sell it for lots of money! ^_^
(A random fire blast from Hikaru's tessen quickly fries him as the fighting continues.)
Author's Note: Now I'm putting in a little recap to help everyone keep the characters straight. These are their previous names, their reincarnation names, and their gender. Remember that some characters haven't had big parts yet.
Miaka – Kotori (fm)
Tamahome – Lee (m)
Hotohori – Rayna (fm)
Nuriko – Tahir (m)
Chichiri – Vidal (m)
Tasuki – Hikaru (fm)
Mitsukake – Ira (m)
Chiriko – Tsunami (fm)
Miboshi – Warren (m)
Kouran – Kara (fm)
Hikou – Henry (m)
And should I include more hints at Tahir x Kotori? Should I progress the Vidal x Hikaru/Hikaru x Vidal moments? Tell me your opinions in a review, please!
Thanks to everyone who reviewed! It made me feel all warm and fuzzy. In fact, I felt so warm and fuzzy that I was eventually inspired to write a FY story that takes place in the Harry Potter world. What possessed me to do something that weird? Miboshi. ^__^ Just kidding, you know? But for the first chapter, it already got eight reviews! Sugoi!