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Warnings: Um, violence and Hikaru.  Need I say anything else?

~Betrayed Trust: An Evil Revealed!~

Inside a bedroom decorated in tones of lavender and pink Hikaru, Vidal, Henry, and Kara were sitting.  The room, besides the pink rug and lavender carpet, seemed strangely emptied, as if someone had recently moved out of it.  Kara and Henry were seated on the uncovered bed, Vidal had grabbed a wheeled chair from the desk near the bed, and Hikaru was pacing back and forth in front of the three.  She paced from the desk to the window at the head of the bed and back to the desk several times.

Finally she looked up at Vidal.  "You go first.  You tell what led up to this whole fuckin' mess."

Vidal shifted in the chair, very uncomfortable under the gaze of the other three.  "I had just gone to the church, ya know, and then I went home.   I mean I came here."  His voice started out high and got lower as he became more serious.  "By that time, Kara was already going out with me, ya know?  I had even proposed to her.  That's when I was surprised, ya know?  Henry, Kara, and I have lived in this condo for a couple of years, ever since we started college.  We were best friends.  That's when I was surprised.

"I opened the door to the apartment, and what I hear is… well… the sounds of people having sex.  I thought it might have been Henry, but then I noticed that it was Kara's door that was closed.  You can imagine that I felt betrayed.  I had automatically assumed the worse.  But actually, I didn't quite assume the worst.  The worst I found out when I self-righteously slammed into their room and found Kara with Henry in the bed.

"I think I lost it, right then, because I went and grabbed one of my daggers from the wall in his room.  I-"

"Wait a second," Hikaru interrupted him.  "You have daggers in your room?"

Vidal nodded miserably.  "Both Henry and I have daggers from when we were in a street gang.  We knew it wasn't smart to keep them around, but we decided we needed a good reminder of how stupid we were to join a gang in the first place, and having a dagger hanging on the wall worked, I guess.  The only good thing that came out of either of us joining the gang was that was where we met each other."  Hikaru nodded her understanding as Vidal continued his story.

"So I took the dagger and went back into Kara's room.  I was so angry."  He sighed and slumped his shoulders.  "I didn't know I could get like that.  I actually went back and tried to kill them, maybe just to hurt them.  I still don't know.  Both of them had some semblance of clothing back on by that time.  I fought them, and luckily Henry was able to stop me.  He wrestled the dagger away from me, though I did get cut during the struggle, and then he knocked me out by hitting me on the head."  Vidal closed his eyes, and Hikaru could swear she could see tears threatening to leak out.  She paused in her pacing and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder until he had himself composed again.

She turned to Kara.  "Let's stop there.  Now, you start from where it began for you."

Hikaru's older sister swallowed against a lump in her throat.  She could truly see that Vidal regretted getting angry with them.  He wasn't even showing them bitterness over what they had done.  "It all began," she said quietly, "when Vidal left to go pray at the church.  He had recently asked me to marry him, and I really thought that was what I wanted."

"The rest started innocently enough.  Henry and I went and talked for a bit, and we decided to play a game of poker.  It was pretty stupid of us, but we decided that the loser of each round would have to drink a bit of some alcoholic drink.  We knew Vidal had a large supply that he never even touched anymore.  We took one bottle of whiskey, and then both of us slowly got drunk.  We both have very low levels of alcohol tolerance."

So that's why the whiskey bottle was open! realized Hikaru as Kara continued to speak.  Kara and Henry… they must've drank enough to get a normal person drunk.

"I don't know exactly what happened after that.  Sometime while we were cleaning up after the game and put the whiskey bottle we had used back in Vidal's room, both of us bumped into each other.  I don't know exactly what happened after that, but I do know that we ended up in the same bed.  We were slightly drunk and having sex when Vidal came back."

She shrugged.  "You heard what happened after that.  When Vidal was knocked out, we bandaged his wound and cleaned up after the place.  I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to stay or if Vidal would stay angry, so to be safe, Henry and I packed up our stuff and rented a hotel room."

Hikaru raised an eyebrow.  "Together?" she asked, with a ton of meaning behind that one word.

Kara looked at Vidal with sorrow and shame, but she nodded.  "Yes.  I… I decided that I think…" She paused.  "I think that… I want to break off the engagement."  She looked down at her lap, unable to meet Vidal's eyes, and slid her engagement ring off of her finger.

For Vidal, time seemed to freeze as the shock hit him.  The last bit of hope he had had just shattered into a billion pieces like a fragile glass chandelier that had been cut from its fixture.

Never in her life had Hikaru ever felt more like slapping her older sister.

Vidal's face paled as he stared at the ring that Kara was holding out towards him.  Tears of pure anguish welled up in his eyes, and some of them spilled over to create their salty tracks down his face.  He got up from his seat stiffly and walked to the door.  He opened it and prepared to leave, but there was one slight roadblock.

Everyone else in the house, from Tahir down to Rei, had his or her ears against where the door had been and appeared to of been eavesdropping.  When the eavesdroppers saw the upset Vidal, they carefully moved out of the way as large sweatdrops appeared on their heads.  Now Vidal continued to walk, now uninhibited, away from the room.

Back at the room, Tahir was cursing under his breath.  "Stupid idiots!" he finished.  "I'll follow him and make sure he doesn't do anything idiotic or suicidal again," he told Hikaru.

"No, I'll go!" she told the purple-haired man.  "It's my fuckin' sisters fault in the first place!  I'll go get him!"

"You'll probably end up yelling at him," Tahir responded dryly as he leaned across the doorway, effectively blocking the redhead's exit.  "That wouldn't help.  It's a good thing that he recovered as much as he did today.  It was just this morning when he tried to kill himself, remember?"

Hikaru blinked.  "Just this morning?  Man, it's been a long day!"

"That is true.  See you later!"  With a wave, Tahir went to see where Vidal had went.  They heard an exclamation of surprise, followed by a yell of, "SUZAKU!  WHY DOES THE SUICIDAL ONE HAVE THE POWER TO TELEPORT?!"  Another pause was followed by, "Eheh… at least I get to drive his car so that I can search for him!  The keys are right here!  Yay!"  The others heard the sound of the front door opening and shutting.

Everyone sweatdropped after they listened to Tahir's monologue.  Henry and Kara both had bewildered looks on their faces, but then both recovered at about the same time.  "Vidal tried to kill himself?"

Hikaru nodded sagely.  "That's right.  Vidal fuckin' tried to kill himself because of you gettin' screwed by lover-boy over there," she said as she jerked her thumb in Henry's direction from her place by the door.

Lee and Rei were no longer by the door.  By the time the first curse word was out, Lee had led Rei away from the door to preserve her uncorrupted language.

Kara blushed.  "Never mind that.  Can you please tell us what is going on here?"  The reincarnated bandit nodded, and she began to explain what had happened.

"All right, I'll tell ya.  It all began last night when Tsunami an' me were watchin' that anime called Fushigi Yuugi…

***Outside the restaurant…***

After finishing up dinner and going, Rayna had gone back to the restaurant to keep an eye on the people who she guessed might be Chiriko and Miboshi.  They had also finished dinner, and they were chatting in the parking lot near a nice black car.  She listened to their conversation from within her shiny red sports car.

"Hey, Tsunami," said Warren to his date.  "Since your sister isn't here, why don't I drop you off at your house?"

Tsunami smiled and nodded.  "That would be fine, thanks. Let's go."

Ten minutes later, Tsunami arrived at her house and saw that nobody was home.  "Hikaru must still be at her new friend's house.  Do you want to go in with me and hang out for a bit?" Tsunami asked Warren.

He smiled.  "Sure!  I'll beat you at whatever we do!" he said as they walked in.  "Why don't we play a PlayStation game?"  They went down the tiled entrance hall and turned left into the living room where Tsunami had received her seishi power only last night.

[What's a PlayStation?] questioned Chiriko inside Tsunami's head as she hooked up the game console to the large television.  She gave a quick explanation that included some memories from her lifetime.  [Oh!  That sounds interesting,] he commented.  [Can I try playing it for a while?]

[Sure!] she replied cheerfully as she continued to untangle and plug in various wires.  "None of these are working…" she muttered as she tried another set.  "Hey, Warren, can help me with these cables?"

A cold voice that sent chills up her spine replied, "I am not Warren.  I am Miboshi.  And I am now going to kill you, Chiriko of the Suzaku Seishi."

Tsunami froze and turned around.  She saw Warren, but now it was with Miboshi's face and holding Miboshi's prayer wheel in his hands.  "Warren…?"

Chiriko took over her body as Tsunami's mind faltered in shock.  "I had hoped for there to be no confrontation between seishi of different gods in this lifetime," sighed Chiriko as Tsunami's eyes darkened and her voice deepened slightly, "but I suppose that it was false hope.  But isn't it ironic that our reincarnations love each other?"  Chiriko felt afraid out of his mind, but he knew that showing it would do nothing.  After all, he remembered Miboshi more than he liked.

Miboshi made no reply except to spin the prayer wheel.  [We can't fight him!] Tsunami wailed.  [We're gonna die!]  As she thought/said that, Miboshi spun the prayer wheel.  All the windows and curtains closed, making the interior dark and like a scene from a nightmare as a dark energy gathered in the room.

A long, blue-scaled, snakelike demon lifted itself out of a black portal that had opened at Miboshi's/Warren's feet.  Pain coursed through Tsunami's body as the snake-demon bit her left leg and wrapped itself around her.  She would have screamed in agony, but Miboshi had already unleashed another spell that had stolen her voice away.

"I am going to make your death as excruciatingly painful as I can," said Miboshi with relish as he directed another snake-demon towards the already bleeding Tsunami.  It slithered through the air, closer and closer until Tsunami could feel its hot yet chilling breath on her neck.

Then the demon hissed and bit into Tsunami's shoulder and upper chest.  A squirt of blood colored her green shirt dark brown, and more of it began to leak from the demon's mouth.  Tsunami realized that the snake must have struck an artery because she began to feel more and more faint.

At different points around the town, six seishi and a priestess felt a pain course through their bodies.

Vidal, who had been considering drowning himself in the ocean, stepped back with a startled look on his face.

Kotori and Lee looked at each other with equally shocked expressions inside Vidal's kitchen.

Ira, studying in his dorm room, fell down as he felt the agony shoot across his whole body.  Tama came up to him and gently licked his face as he lay on the floor, panting and wondering what had just happened.

Tahir, driving in traffic, swerved and almost ran off the road.  Luckily, no one was hit.

Rayna, who had followed the couple to the house, found herself gasping for breath as the wave of pain hit her.  As she recovered, she ran to the house and began trying to break the now locked door down.

Hikaru, who had been explaining what had happened still, sat up straight as the pain hit her.  "Fuck!" she cried as tears glistened in her eyes.  "Something's happened to Tsunami!  She's dieing!"  Without stopping to explain what was going on to Kara and Henry, she raced out of the room as fast as she could.

~TBC~

~THE AKUGI!!!~

Warren: I am not Warren.  I am… A BIG, PINK BUNNY RABBIT IN A HUMAN SUIT!  *insane laughter*  (In Miboshi's place, a big, pink bunny rabbit appears holding a basket full of colorful prayer wheels with specially sharpened ends.)

Tsunami: @_@  Er… Happy Easter? (Runs away… far away.)

Author's Note: Well, that's this chapter out.  Something tells me I should be studying for my finals instead of typing…

Tsunami: Could I be of assistance?

Chibigreen: I wish.  But this has to be done in the real world… *sigh* That is, right after I finish rewriting that last "Tears of a Phoenix" chapter.  It sucked…

Hikaru: And what did you learn from that?

Chibigreen: I should never write a chapter unless the idea was inspired on a sugar high.

Cast of ToaP: You've got that right!

Chibi Chichiri from ToaP: Wait! If she's on a sugar high, crazy stuff will happen to us, ya know?

Chibi Tasuki from ToaP: Darn! You're right! We're all gonna freakin' die!

Chibigreen: EEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!

Jealous Cast of The New Warriors: This isn't your fic, you &%*#@! ToaP people!  (Everyone kicks their ToaP counterparts way over the horizon…)

Chibigreen: Well, they do belong in their fic only, anyways… But, since I seem to be advertising my fics too much, I'll also advertise some others.  First off is: Juri the Oracle by CLAMPraven.  Juri is a very interesting, plot-twisty fic.  A very nice job!

And second, I recommend several fics by Purple Mouse, including Another Story and its sequel, Yet Another Story.  (P.S.  I fixed this error.  It used to accidentally recommend them from Ryuen.  Gomen, Ryuen and Purple Mouse!  I still like both the authors' writing, you know?  I didn't mean to mix up the recommendation!  Ryuen is  a very good writer…)

I'll recommend some other FY fics next time.  If you have a fic you want me to read, and possibly recommend, leave the name of that fic in a review.  Peace!  ^___^

Sorry for the delay in getting this chapter out!