Suboshi cornered Miaka in a side street when at last he found her, and pinned her against a wall, then muttered dangerously, "What kind of flowers does Yui-sama like?"
"Um...Suboshi, let go of me."
Suboshi sprang away from her, then paused, holding her at arm's length. "What kind of flowers does Yui-sama like?"
"White roses with Spanish moss and gardenias," Miaka recited dutifully, then waited as Suboshi scrawled it on his arm. After he had done so, she raced away.
Suboshi, meanwhile, raced back to the flower shop, where the stunned attendant was still waiting.
"I'd like a bouquet of - " he looked to his arm " -white roses with Spanish moss and gardenias."
"All right sir," said the rather taken aback attendant, then wrapped up a bundle of flowers and gave it to him.
"Wow! They're so pretty! No wonder they're Yui-sama's favorite!"
The attendant smiled.
Suboshi sighed, then took 10 of his 27 yen and gave it to her.
After that, he set out to find his Yui-sama. And he did find her.
However, for Suboshi, there will always be difficulties.
She was being attacked by that same stupid group of thugs. Suboshi leapt into the fray, gallantly swinging ryuuseisui above his head. "Yui-samaaaaa!!!!!"
"Suboshi!!!!"
Ryuuseisui began whirling all around and quickly dismembering the evil dudes. Suboshi shielded Yui's eyes from the carnage in his embrace. The author had a heart attack from being too sappy.
When ryuuseisui had finished its job, it settled back into Suboshi's hands, and he gently led Yui away from the now very bloody back street.
"Yui-sama, it's all right now. You can look."
She lifted her head, and smiled as Suboshi presented her the flowers, which had managed to survive this ordeal, while somehow retaining their perfectly white colour.
"Suboshi, I love you!"
Chichiri nearly collided with the young girl who emerged from one of the better but more disused palace rooms.
"Oh, excuse me no da!"
"That's all right, it's my fault."
"Who are you no da?"
"Yume Kin-yuki," she said, for about the fourth time that day.
"Chichiri no da!" He put out a hand.
She shook it.
//We are simply standing here staring at each other...HAND IN HAND! Ahh// She dropped his hand. Chichiri smiled.
"Sorry no da, guess I just lost track."
"Da..." she agreed distractedly.
Chichiri laughed. The masked monk felt rather strange, and he wanted to go fishing to sort out his feelings. He politely took his leave of the young girl.
She realized that Chichiri's course of action was a good one. Really. Probably fishing did help a troubled mind. Chichiri had a lot of faith in it, and he was generally right. She tied her kimono up out of her way, and borrowed a fishing pole from the gardener.
Setting up her little can of boiled corn under a tree near Chichiri's big rock, she cast her line and began to fish.
She got a bite suddenly, and in surprise yanked hard on the line, and considering the fish was pretty small, went flying backward. Before she hit stone, she felt herself caught in strong arms. As Chichiri helped her to her feet, she thought, //Oh, not again//
"Arigatou, Chichiri-san."
"You need to be careful no da! You could have been badly hurt no da. Watch yourself, okay no da?"
"H-hai."
"Oh...Kin-yuki no da?"
"Hai?"
"I'd like you to have this no da." He held out a small ornate comb. She took it, and placed it in her hair. She smiled at him, a little sadly. He wondered what she was thinking
//The gods hate me//
"You-you do?"
"Of course! You've saved me so many times, and I just - I can't help it. I love you."
Suboshi leapt into the air, both hands extended in a peace sign, yahoo-ing at the top of his lungs: "YES!! YOU HEAR THAT, SUNKAKE BABA????? SHE LOVES ME!!! TAKE THAT!!!"
"Suboshi...are you okay?" Yui was having second doubts, fired by the fact that she appeared to have confessed her love to a lunatic.
"I'm fine!! I've never been better!" He took her hands and began to dance her around. "Oh, Yui-sama, I've waited so long to hear you say that!! AND NOW, SUNKAKE BABA HAS TO LET US GET MARRIED!!! If you will of course!"
"Yes, yes I will, but what are you talking about?"
Suboshi calmed down. "Yui-sama, all this time, I've been trying to get you to say you loved me so that Sunkake Baba would take me to see the gods so I could get the money to buy a little house in the country, marry you, and live there with you!!"
"Oh, Suboshi, how romantic!"
"Just WHO are you calling Sunkake Baba?"
"Soi," Suboshi said swiftly (alliteration!).
"Uh-huuuuh. You know, I don't think you need that little house in the country very much."
"Oh, Taiitsukun, I've done my best, Yui-sama said she loved me, what more do you want?"
"Respect."
"I can handle that!"
"Fine, fine, come with me. Yui, you come too."
"Yes, Sunka - Taiitsukun."
The old hag glared. Then she began to dismember the author.
Tamahome was annoyed. He couldn't find any of the guys! This, of course, was mainly because Hotohori was in his throne room swooning over Kin-yuki, Mitsukake and Nuriko were in the herb gardens pretending not to see each other, Tasuki was sitting outside Kin-yuki's door, Chiriko was trying to find an algebraic equation for love, and Chichiri was calculating how many fish he'd have to catch and sell to get out of debt for the comb.
The martial (and marital) artist wandered around, when suddenly he bumped into a young girl of the palace.
"W-who are you?"
Is everyone expecting to hear Amiboshi tell Tamahome he's Yume Kin-yuki? Are you? Huh? HUH?! Well, you are really, really, incredibly...
RIGHT!!!!!
"Yume Kin-yuki, sir."
//Wow, she's so pretty...// "I'm dumping Miaka"
"If you do, you're dead meat."
"I said that OUT LOUD?"
"You got it, and let me tell you, if one more blasted Suzaku seishi says he's in love with me, I'm...I'm... I'm going to take drastic measures!!!"
"I'm not in love!" Tamahome announced.
"No?" The girl looked thoroughly relieved.
"I'm infatuated!!"
"I hate men with dictionaries."
"Why? If I have such a wide vocabulary, then I'm obviously wealthy and prestigious!"
//Sometimes I really understand why Shun wants to kill him//
"Look, you've already got a girlfriend. You can't go and break her heart!!"
"Oh yes I can!"
"Gah!! WILL YOU MEN LEAVE ME ALONNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!???????"
She fled.
Suboshi and Yui floated on a cute purple cloud to the heavens of Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho. There, the four gods awaited.
*Seiryuu Celestial Warrior Suboshi, why do you desire to see us?*
"Pinky here already knows."
"Suboshi, you'll get nowhere that way."
"Sorry, Yui-sama."
*Suboshi, we have heard from our brother Suzaku that you wish to wed the Seiryuu no Miko, Lady Yui*
"Did somebody dub you, or what? But yes, that's correct."
*Yes, in fact, we were cursed with dub. But that is another matter. So you want money?*
"Yeah, to buy a house in the country so I can marry Yui-sama and live there with her."
Byakko leaned back in a recliner and said professionally *So, you need money, right, pal? Well, you've come to the right place*
Suzaku poked his brother *You need to drop that 'private eye attitude'. Really. It's awful*
*Shut your mouth, chicken boy. Well, Suboshi, you'll definitely get money from us. We're the richest people in the universe*
*Richest gods, Byakko*
*Gods then. Anyway, it'll be easy to get you the money. But there is one condition...*
"Oh, not another ****in' test!"
*No, nothing like that. You must invite us to the wedding*
*And allow lizard boy to make the arrangements*
"I know we're going to regret this, but...sure!"
All the Suzaku seishi met in the great hall for lunch. They were also all talking excitedly.
"I met the GREATIST girl today!"
"Really? Isn't Nuriko jealous?"
"Nope! I also met a great girl, and decided to give up the whole gay thing."
"Whaddaya know."
"Well, I met a really lovely girl as well no da! We went fishing together no da."
"Yeah? Well, I'm glad you made a hit."
"I also met a very wonderful girl. I helped her dress this morning."
"Who volunteers to tell Chiriko what he just implied?"
"Not me no da!!"
"Well, with all you guys meetin' women and stuff, it's amazing ya missed the girl I met! Now there's what I call pretty!"
"Wow, Tasuki falling for a girl? That's what's amazing!"
"Nononono!! You want amazing? Mitsukake's head over heals too!"
"Really? Who'da thought he had it in him?"
"Well, I also met this girl, and I must say, Miaka is nothing compared to her."
"YOU JILTED MIAKA???"
"That's not the way I'd put it."
It, of course, didn't take them long to discover they all liked the same girl.
"Well, her name was Kin-yuki."
"That's odd. So's my girl's."
"And mine."
"Mine too no da!"
"My acquaintance also went by that name."
"The lady we met, too was called Kin-yuki."
"So was the girl I made it with."
"Yeah right you made it."
Suboshi's video taper was having a field day with all this.
Then came the final blow.
Kin-yuki walked past the lunching room, and heard all the seishi arguing. Finally, he gave up with the whole annoying, troublesome thing. He rushed into the room, and climbed up on the table.
"None of you love me, and none of you are leaving anyone else!"
"We do too love you!"
"I sincerely doubt you will, when you see..."
She reached up to the neck of her kimono, and tore it open to her waist.
"Nuriko, you never told me you had a little brother."
"Um...Suboshi, let go of me."
Suboshi sprang away from her, then paused, holding her at arm's length. "What kind of flowers does Yui-sama like?"
"White roses with Spanish moss and gardenias," Miaka recited dutifully, then waited as Suboshi scrawled it on his arm. After he had done so, she raced away.
Suboshi, meanwhile, raced back to the flower shop, where the stunned attendant was still waiting.
"I'd like a bouquet of - " he looked to his arm " -white roses with Spanish moss and gardenias."
"All right sir," said the rather taken aback attendant, then wrapped up a bundle of flowers and gave it to him.
"Wow! They're so pretty! No wonder they're Yui-sama's favorite!"
The attendant smiled.
Suboshi sighed, then took 10 of his 27 yen and gave it to her.
After that, he set out to find his Yui-sama. And he did find her.
However, for Suboshi, there will always be difficulties.
She was being attacked by that same stupid group of thugs. Suboshi leapt into the fray, gallantly swinging ryuuseisui above his head. "Yui-samaaaaa!!!!!"
"Suboshi!!!!"
Ryuuseisui began whirling all around and quickly dismembering the evil dudes. Suboshi shielded Yui's eyes from the carnage in his embrace. The author had a heart attack from being too sappy.
When ryuuseisui had finished its job, it settled back into Suboshi's hands, and he gently led Yui away from the now very bloody back street.
"Yui-sama, it's all right now. You can look."
She lifted her head, and smiled as Suboshi presented her the flowers, which had managed to survive this ordeal, while somehow retaining their perfectly white colour.
"Suboshi, I love you!"
Chichiri nearly collided with the young girl who emerged from one of the better but more disused palace rooms.
"Oh, excuse me no da!"
"That's all right, it's my fault."
"Who are you no da?"
"Yume Kin-yuki," she said, for about the fourth time that day.
"Chichiri no da!" He put out a hand.
She shook it.
//We are simply standing here staring at each other...HAND IN HAND! Ahh// She dropped his hand. Chichiri smiled.
"Sorry no da, guess I just lost track."
"Da..." she agreed distractedly.
Chichiri laughed. The masked monk felt rather strange, and he wanted to go fishing to sort out his feelings. He politely took his leave of the young girl.
She realized that Chichiri's course of action was a good one. Really. Probably fishing did help a troubled mind. Chichiri had a lot of faith in it, and he was generally right. She tied her kimono up out of her way, and borrowed a fishing pole from the gardener.
Setting up her little can of boiled corn under a tree near Chichiri's big rock, she cast her line and began to fish.
She got a bite suddenly, and in surprise yanked hard on the line, and considering the fish was pretty small, went flying backward. Before she hit stone, she felt herself caught in strong arms. As Chichiri helped her to her feet, she thought, //Oh, not again//
"Arigatou, Chichiri-san."
"You need to be careful no da! You could have been badly hurt no da. Watch yourself, okay no da?"
"H-hai."
"Oh...Kin-yuki no da?"
"Hai?"
"I'd like you to have this no da." He held out a small ornate comb. She took it, and placed it in her hair. She smiled at him, a little sadly. He wondered what she was thinking
//The gods hate me//
"You-you do?"
"Of course! You've saved me so many times, and I just - I can't help it. I love you."
Suboshi leapt into the air, both hands extended in a peace sign, yahoo-ing at the top of his lungs: "YES!! YOU HEAR THAT, SUNKAKE BABA????? SHE LOVES ME!!! TAKE THAT!!!"
"Suboshi...are you okay?" Yui was having second doubts, fired by the fact that she appeared to have confessed her love to a lunatic.
"I'm fine!! I've never been better!" He took her hands and began to dance her around. "Oh, Yui-sama, I've waited so long to hear you say that!! AND NOW, SUNKAKE BABA HAS TO LET US GET MARRIED!!! If you will of course!"
"Yes, yes I will, but what are you talking about?"
Suboshi calmed down. "Yui-sama, all this time, I've been trying to get you to say you loved me so that Sunkake Baba would take me to see the gods so I could get the money to buy a little house in the country, marry you, and live there with you!!"
"Oh, Suboshi, how romantic!"
"Just WHO are you calling Sunkake Baba?"
"Soi," Suboshi said swiftly (alliteration!).
"Uh-huuuuh. You know, I don't think you need that little house in the country very much."
"Oh, Taiitsukun, I've done my best, Yui-sama said she loved me, what more do you want?"
"Respect."
"I can handle that!"
"Fine, fine, come with me. Yui, you come too."
"Yes, Sunka - Taiitsukun."
The old hag glared. Then she began to dismember the author.
Tamahome was annoyed. He couldn't find any of the guys! This, of course, was mainly because Hotohori was in his throne room swooning over Kin-yuki, Mitsukake and Nuriko were in the herb gardens pretending not to see each other, Tasuki was sitting outside Kin-yuki's door, Chiriko was trying to find an algebraic equation for love, and Chichiri was calculating how many fish he'd have to catch and sell to get out of debt for the comb.
The martial (and marital) artist wandered around, when suddenly he bumped into a young girl of the palace.
"W-who are you?"
Is everyone expecting to hear Amiboshi tell Tamahome he's Yume Kin-yuki? Are you? Huh? HUH?! Well, you are really, really, incredibly...
RIGHT!!!!!
"Yume Kin-yuki, sir."
//Wow, she's so pretty...// "I'm dumping Miaka"
"If you do, you're dead meat."
"I said that OUT LOUD?"
"You got it, and let me tell you, if one more blasted Suzaku seishi says he's in love with me, I'm...I'm... I'm going to take drastic measures!!!"
"I'm not in love!" Tamahome announced.
"No?" The girl looked thoroughly relieved.
"I'm infatuated!!"
"I hate men with dictionaries."
"Why? If I have such a wide vocabulary, then I'm obviously wealthy and prestigious!"
//Sometimes I really understand why Shun wants to kill him//
"Look, you've already got a girlfriend. You can't go and break her heart!!"
"Oh yes I can!"
"Gah!! WILL YOU MEN LEAVE ME ALONNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!???????"
She fled.
Suboshi and Yui floated on a cute purple cloud to the heavens of Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho. There, the four gods awaited.
*Seiryuu Celestial Warrior Suboshi, why do you desire to see us?*
"Pinky here already knows."
"Suboshi, you'll get nowhere that way."
"Sorry, Yui-sama."
*Suboshi, we have heard from our brother Suzaku that you wish to wed the Seiryuu no Miko, Lady Yui*
"Did somebody dub you, or what? But yes, that's correct."
*Yes, in fact, we were cursed with dub. But that is another matter. So you want money?*
"Yeah, to buy a house in the country so I can marry Yui-sama and live there with her."
Byakko leaned back in a recliner and said professionally *So, you need money, right, pal? Well, you've come to the right place*
Suzaku poked his brother *You need to drop that 'private eye attitude'. Really. It's awful*
*Shut your mouth, chicken boy. Well, Suboshi, you'll definitely get money from us. We're the richest people in the universe*
*Richest gods, Byakko*
*Gods then. Anyway, it'll be easy to get you the money. But there is one condition...*
"Oh, not another ****in' test!"
*No, nothing like that. You must invite us to the wedding*
*And allow lizard boy to make the arrangements*
"I know we're going to regret this, but...sure!"
All the Suzaku seishi met in the great hall for lunch. They were also all talking excitedly.
"I met the GREATIST girl today!"
"Really? Isn't Nuriko jealous?"
"Nope! I also met a great girl, and decided to give up the whole gay thing."
"Whaddaya know."
"Well, I met a really lovely girl as well no da! We went fishing together no da."
"Yeah? Well, I'm glad you made a hit."
"I also met a very wonderful girl. I helped her dress this morning."
"Who volunteers to tell Chiriko what he just implied?"
"Not me no da!!"
"Well, with all you guys meetin' women and stuff, it's amazing ya missed the girl I met! Now there's what I call pretty!"
"Wow, Tasuki falling for a girl? That's what's amazing!"
"Nononono!! You want amazing? Mitsukake's head over heals too!"
"Really? Who'da thought he had it in him?"
"Well, I also met this girl, and I must say, Miaka is nothing compared to her."
"YOU JILTED MIAKA???"
"That's not the way I'd put it."
It, of course, didn't take them long to discover they all liked the same girl.
"Well, her name was Kin-yuki."
"That's odd. So's my girl's."
"And mine."
"Mine too no da!"
"My acquaintance also went by that name."
"The lady we met, too was called Kin-yuki."
"So was the girl I made it with."
"Yeah right you made it."
Suboshi's video taper was having a field day with all this.
Then came the final blow.
Kin-yuki walked past the lunching room, and heard all the seishi arguing. Finally, he gave up with the whole annoying, troublesome thing. He rushed into the room, and climbed up on the table.
"None of you love me, and none of you are leaving anyone else!"
"We do too love you!"
"I sincerely doubt you will, when you see..."
She reached up to the neck of her kimono, and tore it open to her waist.
"Nuriko, you never told me you had a little brother."