Disclaimer: I don't own FY. Simple, ne?
Warnings: I don't think I need these anymore, so these are the last warnings: Hikaru's bad mouth and mild spoilers for episode 44.
Note: My penname has been changed from "Chibigreenwizardmon" to "Chibigreen Tanuki."
~Venting Emotions: Demon~
Tsunami woke up suddenly from a nightmare about Chiriko's death. He was very silent as she breathed deeply to ease her fears. {Chiriko?}
[Yes?]
{Do you regret it? Having to die like that, I mean?}
She could feel him contemplating it. [I regret,] he replied, [that I had to die so young. But I did not regret dying as I did. Instead, I am glad that I was able to protect my friends. It was painful, yes, and dreaming about it is… fairly discomforting. However, if I had to do it again, I would.]
{You're a brave person, Chiriko-chan.} But I'm not…
[And so are you,] Chiriko retorted as he felt her guilt. "You're just like me," he told her aloud before realizing that he was now in control of the body. [I'm sorry; I didn't mean to do that!]
{Don't worry! You should be in control for now because I can't speak, and, frankly, I want to rest. I'll make sure to keep an eye on you, so that you don't mess up. And… try to speak in a higher voice, so that you sound more like me.}
With some relief, Chiriko took full control of the body. True, it is strange to be a girl, but not doing anything makes me feel confined! Being the one guiding the body made him feel like he was stretching after a very long nap.
He slid out of the bed and quietly walked out of the room. The new Tasuki was like the old Tasuki, but extremely overprotective. Hikaru would be very angry if she found Tsunami out of bed.
When he reached the living room, he noticed that Hikaru was asleep, and a super-deformed Vidal was trapped in her arms. [Should I inquire as to what happened?]
{Don't speak yet. It would confuse them, and Hikaru would probably get worried if she knew that I had a split personality.}
[What should I do, then?] He regarded the trapped Vidal curiously.
She thought it over. {Go back to our room. They can sort it out. And besides,} she thought to him as he followed her advice, {I think that they make a cute couple.}
He stumbled, but was able to maintain his balance. The idea of Tasuki and Chichiri as a couple had never occurred to him. I don't think that they were attracted to each other in Konan… but, then again, Chichiri was always good at hiding his feelings. However, Tasuki was not, and I do not think that he ever showed attraction to Chichiri… right? Thinking that way was giving him a headache, so he quietly slipped back into his room and asked Tsunami to give him lessons in acting like her.
*******
Hikaru's eyes opened, and she groaned as painfully bright light hit her eyes. She knew that she had drunk too much if her headache was that bad. She shifted slightly in the seat and felt a warm body next to her. Again, she cracked an eye open, only to see that Vidal was trapped in her arms. She lifted back a hand.
"Ya fucking pervert!"
A smack resounded through the room as the redhead's fist connected with the mage's face. Hikaru sat up angrily and raised her fist again.
Vidal rolled off the loveseat and got away from Hikaru. "Hikaru, I didn't do anything!" he said desperately as she pulled out her infamous tessen. "You're the one who grabbed me!"
She seemed to grow larger as her flaming temper became almost tangible. "Ya let me let ya take advantage of me?"
"No, you know? I didn't do anything!" The tessen was pulled back. "Really! I just sat there because I couldn't get away! You were holding me too tightly, you know?!"
Hikaru primly dropped the tessen from its "attack" position. "Oh. Okay." Then she covered her ears. "Ooh, all this noise is giving me a headache," she moaned.
Nervously, Vidal backed up. "You were making most of it, you know," he mentioned. She glared at him. "Hey, calm down, calm down. I have to go now and do some homework, and everyone else has already left except for Kotori and Tsunami, but I think that both of them are asleep now. Goodbye."
"I guess I'll call you sometime. 'Bye," she said grudgingly.
Fighting a unexpected urge to kiss her, Vidal turned and left.
Hikaru watched him go, and when the door closed, she abruptly felt lonely. Now, that's just fuckin' silly. Though I feel that somethin' like this happened sometime before this, I know that it hasn't. Is this somethin' that Fushigi Yuugi didn't show?
***Two days later…***
"Yo, Tsunami!" Chiriko turned to wave at one of Tsunami's fellow anime addicts. Because of Tsunami, he knew that the young man's name was Derrick, the twin brother of Erick. The two were so alike that she couldn't tell them apart, but only Derrick would say "yo." They had been absent for the past three days because of the flu.
As usual, Tsunami was meeting with her friends outside the large school library, which was a large building, completely separated from the main body of the school. Today, only Derrick and Erick would be coming because their other friends, including Hikaru, had homework to do.
"Hi!" Chiriko called back cheerfully. He had managed to get the knack of imitating Tsunami's voice perfectly, thanks largely to the fact that he was in her body. Even Hikaru had been fooled, and he had made up some excuse as to why Tsunami had gotten her voice back.
"Watch any new anime while we were gone?"
"No. I was busy this weekend." [Am I doing well?]
{Yes. Don't worry so much.}
"That's too bad. We weren't able to do anything, either, but Dad got us the last tape of Evangelion."
"Was it any good?"
Erick answered with a negative shake of his head. "Yes and no. It was very depressing, but it was great. But, you know, that wasn't the strangest part of our weekend. On Friday night, just after we got the flu and couldn't come over to your house, we had some strange dreams."
Next, Derrick began the story. "We didn't tell you this before, but two weeks before that, we had a dream that both of us got hit by strange blue lights. Then the signs of Suboshi and Amiboshi began to glow on us. We didn't see anything weird about that 'cause we had shared dreams and thoughts before that. All because of our twin ESP."
A chill ran down Chiriko's back.
"Then, this Friday," Erick continued in place of his brother, "we had dreams that we actually were Suboshi and Amiboshi. We have memories of their lives and everything. Does that make any sense to you?"
Chiriko handed control over to Tsunami. She nodded and lifted up the hem of long skirt. Shining above her sandal's strap was Chiriko's symbol. As she let the edge fall cover it again, Chiriko took over control again. "It makes sense because I'm Chiriko."
The twins were staring at her. "Whoa, Tsunami," said Derrick, "When did that happen?"
"Friday. The rest of the Suzaku Seven have already gathered, and Miboshi is gathering the Seiryuu." He hesitated slightly before continuing, "He's been trying to kill me."
"What?! Does Warren know about this?" Erick was concerned over his friend's health.
"He's been absent the last couple of days…"
"But have you told him?"
"No, but he knows…" He stiffened as a hand was set on his shoulder.
"Of course I know," Warren/Miboshi said sweetly. The grip on his shoulder grew harder, and Chiriko gritted his teeth to keep from crying out in pain. "In fact, I'm wondering how poor Tsunami got her voice back… after I took it away!"
Chiriko smashed Warren's hand off of his shoulder and turned to glare at Warren. "I'm not Tsunami," he said in his normal voice. "I'm Chiriko, and I'm speaking for her… Miboshi. So leave both of us alone."
"I don't want to hurt you," Warren said sadly as he spoke for himself. "Miboshi does, and I can't really stop him."
Erick and Derrick were staring at the two of them. "Y-you can't be serious!" Erick said desperately. "This is all just a joke, right?"
On the other hand, Derrick's reaction was one of anger. "I don't believe you! You bastard, how could you try to hurt Tsunami?" He clenched his fist. "You try to hurt her again, and I'll see if I can still use Meteor Balls!"
A sneer came onto Warren's face as Miboshi said, "Idiots. Suboshi and Amiboshi were always gullible idiots. If you tried to harm me, my demons would destroy your bodies – or perhaps just take them over."
"You'd never be able to summon Seiryuu then," Chiriko said quietly.
Warren told Miboshi, {Remember our bet.}
[Fine.] "The soft-hearted imbecile who is my reincarnation made a deal with me, so I am going to restore Tsunami's voice now." He motioned with his fingers, and a blue light came out of Tsunami's body and went into Miboshi. If she badmouths me, I will take great pleasure in painfully extracting her voice again.
Blinking, Tsunami opened her mouth to speak. "Thank you, Miboshi."
What? She's thanking me? Why? "It's just a simple spell," he said arrogantly instead of asking.
"It may be, but you did not have to do it, even if you did have a deal with Warren. So, thank you."
"You may be thanking me, but what does Chiriko think? Is he grateful?"
Chiriko once again controlled the body. "Of course not. In this life, you try to kill my reincarnation and me. In another life, you possessed me and I had to kill myself to protect my friends. You are a demon. You do not control them; you are one of them."
The cold words, coming from the kind and unassuming Chiriko, struck at Miboshi's mind. "I have to kill myself to protect my friends. You are a demon. You do not control them; you are one of them." He's said that before… he's said that before… NO! He fell to his knees, clutching his head in pain. "You've said that before. When? Why? I just don't know… I JUST DON'T KNOW!" And with that shout, both Warren and Miboshi passed out. Their unconscious body slumped to the ground, and Tsunami barely caught it in time to keep his head from hitting the pavement.
~TBC~
~Akugi~
Hikaru: *in her sleep* Fried…pea…cock… *begins to chew on Vidal's hair* Yum… Tastes like f*ckin' chicken…
SD Vidal: My hair gel tastes like chicken?!
Chibigreen's Ending Rant: A note: The Genbu seishi and the Byakko seishi will not be appearing in this fic. I mean, I think Tatara is the coolest, and the other seishi are pretty neat, too, but there's just not room in this fic for more people. Sorry.
Sorry for not updating in a while, but a weeklong vacation was suddenly extended without me being notified first. Anyway, I have two new muses. Here's their introduction…
Chibigreen: I got two new muses! I think that they're replacing Chiriko-san.
Chiriko: Thank Suzaku! Now I will not be tortured as frequently.
Chibigreen: You wish. I decided to keep you. Back to the muse bit…
Rime: I'm not getting replaced, am I?
Chibigreen: No, you're too cool. I can create good characters. I can create good characters. *A doorbell rings, and then a cardboard box drops on the floor. In a glow of white light, it opens magically to reveal…*
Rime: An egg. Your new muse is an egg? It's half my height, but an egg?
Chibigreen: Shh. It hasn't hatched yet. *As she speaks, the egg cracks open.*
Rime: It's… it's…
Nyo: Kawaii, kawaii!
Chibigreen: Exactly, Nyo! *Two baby dragons are sitting in the box. One is a black dragon with green eyes, and the other is a white dragon with blue eyes.*
Rime: There's two of them?! They're… too… cute… for an angst muse to stand!
Chibigreen: Meet Crystal, the black one, and Snow, the white one. They're twin, female baby dragon muses.
Rime: *Falls to the floor, twitching.*
Snow: *Chirps.*
Crystal: *Growls.*
Chibigreen: I agree, Snow. He's weird. And Crystal: No, you cannot bite the comatose angst muse.
This story is going to have a side story for Miboshi. It's called Death's Angel.
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CHIBIGREEN'S MUSES LIVE OFF OF REVIEWS! But is that a good thing, or a bad…?