Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Fushigi Yuugi characters…I only own
mine…the random bandits and thugs, well no one owns them, authors just hire
them for bit parts every now and again.
"Nope, don't recognize it." Yuki blinked, and took a bite out of her sandwich.
"Are you sure?" Kira sat across the picnic table from Yuki and stared.
"…Yup. The Emperor in Medieval Stars was Kuhishi, and there was no bandit in THAT part of the play…" Yuki thought about the script she had given the acting class, and nodded to confirm she was absolutely positive.
"Dang…" Kira sighed and slumped over on the table.
"Hey all! Kira-sempai, what's with the long face?" Jaki strolled up the cement path, and sat with the two girls at their table in the center of the courtyard.
"Kira's stuck on this name she heard yesterday. She attacked the wrong theatre group, but she doesn't know which one." Yuki put down her sandwich and shrugged. "She was asking me if any of MY plays had an emperor named 'Hotohori.'"
"And?" Jaki picked up an apple from Yuki's lunch and started eating it.
"None of my plays have anyone named like that…" Yuki gave him a sharp glare, and continued eating her lunch.
"Hmm… Hotohori aye?" Jaki thought for a moment. "Well I can't say I've ever heard the name but maybe one of the teachers has."
"Yeah…well first I'm going to eat lunch…" Kira sighed, and opened up her bag. "Hey what the…"
"What is it?" Yuki tried to look over the table and down into Kira's school bag.
"It's that book…" Kira took the old book out of her bag and laid it on the table.
"Mystir-rex Theatre : Fills day Revolution?" Jaki tried to read the French title on the strange book.
"Mystérieux Théâtre : Fils de Révolution," Yuki gave Jaki a stare that seemed to scream 'you-idiot.' "It means… Mysterious Play: Son of Revolution…"
"I can see that…" Jaki scoffed and pointed to the book who's title had changed languages from French to English.
"What in the world?" Yuki stared at the book, and Kira blinked.
"Hey wait a second…" Kira opened the book to the third or fourth page and stood up. "There it is!" She exclaimed earning strange looks from the surrounding students.
"There's what?" Yuki leaned over and her eyes widened. She grabbed the book and read down the page. "No way!"
"What?" Jaki leaned and read the page over her shoulder. "WHAT! That's not possible!"
"They stole my character!" Yuki looked like she was ready to maul something…anything.
"Hey wait," Kira took the book and stared. "But this is exactly what happened last night! The festival…when I fell asleep on the rooftop…when I attacked…It's all here!" Kira flipped through the pages and came upon a blank one. "Hey what gives? The story stopped…"
Yuki stared and the look of incredible rage became one of confusion. "What do you mean 'stopped'?"
"I mean it just stopped, as in ended, finished, no more…" Kira handed the book to Yuki.
"There was a flash of light and the assassin faded into the breeze…" Yuki read the last line of the page and stared. "This isn't right…" Yuki stared, and handed the book to Jaki.
"Maybe you were right, Kira-sempai, and the book is magic!" Jaki laughed and closed it. He shook his head, and laughed again at his joke (that just happened to be true). With that Jaki waved his hand and left. "Later galls."
"Well the bell's going to ring soon, so I'll meet you in my studio after school." Yuki stood up and walked off in the direction of her next class.
"Kira!"
Kira looked up to find Yuki standing above her, looking down. "Oh, hi Yuki- chan." Kira blinked, and stood up. She had been sitting down on the ground near the door to Yuki's Studio.
"You forgot your key didn't you?" Yuki rolled her eyes and took out her key to open the door.
"Yeah yeah, but that's not important. You see I figured out how this thing works!" Kira held up the book titled Mysterious Play. "It took all day but I think I've got it!"
"Alright! Show me!" Yuki almost dropped the key as she opened the door. Both of the girls walked inside excitedly. The studio was roughly twenty feet by twenty feet and resembled a garage. It had a few tables and a desk with a computer. There were coke cans and empty ramen cups scattered across the floor along with many pieces of paper and a few unfinished scripts of Yuki's.
"Watch!" Kira walked into the center of the room and shoved the random piles of trash out of her way. She set the book on the ground and stood up. "Now the first time I was sucked into this stupid thing I tripped over it. The second time, I'm pretty sure was the same thing. So then if I trip over it now I should get sucked into the book, right?"
"Wow Kira, you actually used logical reasoning! That's got to be a first!" Yuki smiled and laughed at her friend.
"Ha ha Yuki. Well… Here goes." Kira took a deep breath, and walked forward swiftly. She caught the book with her right foot and fell over it opening the book in the process. There was a bright flash of light and for once in the history of the building; Yuki Nonaka's studio was well lit.
"It worked! I was right!" Kira sang as she jumped down from the tree she had landed in. "Maybe I can figure out how to work it so I can land on the ground next time…" Kira laughed and stared up at the sky.
"Yeah great it worked…Now help me out of the tree please." Yuki was hanging upside down from one of the lower branches. Her skirt and part of her jacket had been caught on the tree and she looked very unhappy about it. "Hurry and get me down or I'll have to get a new pleated khaki skirt!"
"Yuki? How'd you get here!?" Kira helped her friend out of the tree and onto the ground.
"How should I know!…oooh man my skirt is totally ruined…" Yuki stared at the large hole in the side of her skirt and sighed.
"Well, wherever we are and however we got here…we're here!" Kira looked around. They seemed to have landed in a row of trees that bordered a path leading into some important city.
"Well we might as well look around. Get some proof that I haven't gone as looney as you…" Yuki snickered and skipped down the path a few feet.
"Hey wait up!" Kira laughed and followed after Yuki.
"Slow-poke!" Yuki stuck out her tongue and jogged along looking over her shoulder at Kira. "You can't catch me!"
"Yuki look out!" Kira ran faster and yelled at her friend.
"What?" Yuki turned face forward and slammed into some poor individual. Not only did she knock him down but also she tripped over him and almost landed on his cat. "WAH!!!"
"Mitsukake! Are you alright?" A small child with light blue colored hair ran up to the man Yuki had knocked over.
"What happened, no da?" A monk with light purple hair set into a Mohawk came walking down the path after the child.
Kira froze and stared at the monk. He was the same man that had attacked her with the staff only yesterday. His expression was impossible to read, he seemed to be smiling for no apparent reason. Kira was prepared to back away when she remembered Yuki.
"Ow… Kira did you get the number of that bus?" Yuki stood up, and rubbed her head.
"Nope, but I think the guy you ran into is named Mitsukake." Kira pointed to the two men helping their friend off the dirt.
"And just how do you know that?" Yuki brushed the dirt off her dark jacket and stared at Kira.
"Well for one, they called him that. But search me, they could have sworn in Chinese or something…" Kira rolled her eyes, and walked up to her friend.
"I thought you were the multi-lingual one…" Yuki sighed and turned to check out the three fellows off to the left of them. "Hey! Sorry about that!" Yuki yelled over to the three guys. All of them were now standing and Mitsukake seemed to have gotten his bearing back. The three were giving Yuki and Kira the strangest stares.
"Do I know you from somewhere, no da?" The monk's attention seemed fixed upon Kira.
"Uh…I don't think so…" Kira laughed nervously and smiled. This only caused the monk to raise an eyebrow and become even more curious (or suspicious…whichever you prefer).
"Well…We'd better get going Kira. I have to go to the mall and buy a whole new outfit thanks to you and that damned book!" Yuki grabbed Kira by the arm and dragged her off down the path in the direction they had come.
"Yuki! I don't know how to get out of magic books that suck you in…and unless you took a special elective last semester that I don't know about, NEITHER DO YOU." Kira struggled to get free of her friend's grasp to no avail.
"…Wait you don't know how to get out of here!?" Yuki dropped Kira and stared at her incredulously. The two had reached the tree they had fallen into.
"Not really…it just kinda let me out the last couple of times…Not to mention I was always dressed as Kurare before…" Kira stood up and brushed the dust off her pants.
"Great! Just GREAT!" Yuki threw her arms up.
"Give us all your money!" A rather gruff voice barked at them.
"Excuse me, I'm trying to have an nervous breakdown over here!" Yuki turned and yelled in the direction the voice had come from. There were three large angry looking men with swords that resembled machetes.
"Give us your money! NOW!" The largest of the three yelled and held out his machete.
Author's Notes: Muwahaha! We have plot! …or the beginning of it… So has it gotten better? *sniffles* Wow…the first cliffhanger! If you want the next chapter please tell me how I'm doing… Well Off to write chapter 4 La la la…
"Nope, don't recognize it." Yuki blinked, and took a bite out of her sandwich.
"Are you sure?" Kira sat across the picnic table from Yuki and stared.
"…Yup. The Emperor in Medieval Stars was Kuhishi, and there was no bandit in THAT part of the play…" Yuki thought about the script she had given the acting class, and nodded to confirm she was absolutely positive.
"Dang…" Kira sighed and slumped over on the table.
"Hey all! Kira-sempai, what's with the long face?" Jaki strolled up the cement path, and sat with the two girls at their table in the center of the courtyard.
"Kira's stuck on this name she heard yesterday. She attacked the wrong theatre group, but she doesn't know which one." Yuki put down her sandwich and shrugged. "She was asking me if any of MY plays had an emperor named 'Hotohori.'"
"And?" Jaki picked up an apple from Yuki's lunch and started eating it.
"None of my plays have anyone named like that…" Yuki gave him a sharp glare, and continued eating her lunch.
"Hmm… Hotohori aye?" Jaki thought for a moment. "Well I can't say I've ever heard the name but maybe one of the teachers has."
"Yeah…well first I'm going to eat lunch…" Kira sighed, and opened up her bag. "Hey what the…"
"What is it?" Yuki tried to look over the table and down into Kira's school bag.
"It's that book…" Kira took the old book out of her bag and laid it on the table.
"Mystir-rex Theatre : Fills day Revolution?" Jaki tried to read the French title on the strange book.
"Mystérieux Théâtre : Fils de Révolution," Yuki gave Jaki a stare that seemed to scream 'you-idiot.' "It means… Mysterious Play: Son of Revolution…"
"I can see that…" Jaki scoffed and pointed to the book who's title had changed languages from French to English.
"What in the world?" Yuki stared at the book, and Kira blinked.
"Hey wait a second…" Kira opened the book to the third or fourth page and stood up. "There it is!" She exclaimed earning strange looks from the surrounding students.
"There's what?" Yuki leaned over and her eyes widened. She grabbed the book and read down the page. "No way!"
"What?" Jaki leaned and read the page over her shoulder. "WHAT! That's not possible!"
"They stole my character!" Yuki looked like she was ready to maul something…anything.
"Hey wait," Kira took the book and stared. "But this is exactly what happened last night! The festival…when I fell asleep on the rooftop…when I attacked…It's all here!" Kira flipped through the pages and came upon a blank one. "Hey what gives? The story stopped…"
Yuki stared and the look of incredible rage became one of confusion. "What do you mean 'stopped'?"
"I mean it just stopped, as in ended, finished, no more…" Kira handed the book to Yuki.
"There was a flash of light and the assassin faded into the breeze…" Yuki read the last line of the page and stared. "This isn't right…" Yuki stared, and handed the book to Jaki.
"Maybe you were right, Kira-sempai, and the book is magic!" Jaki laughed and closed it. He shook his head, and laughed again at his joke (that just happened to be true). With that Jaki waved his hand and left. "Later galls."
"Well the bell's going to ring soon, so I'll meet you in my studio after school." Yuki stood up and walked off in the direction of her next class.
"Kira!"
Kira looked up to find Yuki standing above her, looking down. "Oh, hi Yuki- chan." Kira blinked, and stood up. She had been sitting down on the ground near the door to Yuki's Studio.
"You forgot your key didn't you?" Yuki rolled her eyes and took out her key to open the door.
"Yeah yeah, but that's not important. You see I figured out how this thing works!" Kira held up the book titled Mysterious Play. "It took all day but I think I've got it!"
"Alright! Show me!" Yuki almost dropped the key as she opened the door. Both of the girls walked inside excitedly. The studio was roughly twenty feet by twenty feet and resembled a garage. It had a few tables and a desk with a computer. There were coke cans and empty ramen cups scattered across the floor along with many pieces of paper and a few unfinished scripts of Yuki's.
"Watch!" Kira walked into the center of the room and shoved the random piles of trash out of her way. She set the book on the ground and stood up. "Now the first time I was sucked into this stupid thing I tripped over it. The second time, I'm pretty sure was the same thing. So then if I trip over it now I should get sucked into the book, right?"
"Wow Kira, you actually used logical reasoning! That's got to be a first!" Yuki smiled and laughed at her friend.
"Ha ha Yuki. Well… Here goes." Kira took a deep breath, and walked forward swiftly. She caught the book with her right foot and fell over it opening the book in the process. There was a bright flash of light and for once in the history of the building; Yuki Nonaka's studio was well lit.
"It worked! I was right!" Kira sang as she jumped down from the tree she had landed in. "Maybe I can figure out how to work it so I can land on the ground next time…" Kira laughed and stared up at the sky.
"Yeah great it worked…Now help me out of the tree please." Yuki was hanging upside down from one of the lower branches. Her skirt and part of her jacket had been caught on the tree and she looked very unhappy about it. "Hurry and get me down or I'll have to get a new pleated khaki skirt!"
"Yuki? How'd you get here!?" Kira helped her friend out of the tree and onto the ground.
"How should I know!…oooh man my skirt is totally ruined…" Yuki stared at the large hole in the side of her skirt and sighed.
"Well, wherever we are and however we got here…we're here!" Kira looked around. They seemed to have landed in a row of trees that bordered a path leading into some important city.
"Well we might as well look around. Get some proof that I haven't gone as looney as you…" Yuki snickered and skipped down the path a few feet.
"Hey wait up!" Kira laughed and followed after Yuki.
"Slow-poke!" Yuki stuck out her tongue and jogged along looking over her shoulder at Kira. "You can't catch me!"
"Yuki look out!" Kira ran faster and yelled at her friend.
"What?" Yuki turned face forward and slammed into some poor individual. Not only did she knock him down but also she tripped over him and almost landed on his cat. "WAH!!!"
"Mitsukake! Are you alright?" A small child with light blue colored hair ran up to the man Yuki had knocked over.
"What happened, no da?" A monk with light purple hair set into a Mohawk came walking down the path after the child.
Kira froze and stared at the monk. He was the same man that had attacked her with the staff only yesterday. His expression was impossible to read, he seemed to be smiling for no apparent reason. Kira was prepared to back away when she remembered Yuki.
"Ow… Kira did you get the number of that bus?" Yuki stood up, and rubbed her head.
"Nope, but I think the guy you ran into is named Mitsukake." Kira pointed to the two men helping their friend off the dirt.
"And just how do you know that?" Yuki brushed the dirt off her dark jacket and stared at Kira.
"Well for one, they called him that. But search me, they could have sworn in Chinese or something…" Kira rolled her eyes, and walked up to her friend.
"I thought you were the multi-lingual one…" Yuki sighed and turned to check out the three fellows off to the left of them. "Hey! Sorry about that!" Yuki yelled over to the three guys. All of them were now standing and Mitsukake seemed to have gotten his bearing back. The three were giving Yuki and Kira the strangest stares.
"Do I know you from somewhere, no da?" The monk's attention seemed fixed upon Kira.
"Uh…I don't think so…" Kira laughed nervously and smiled. This only caused the monk to raise an eyebrow and become even more curious (or suspicious…whichever you prefer).
"Well…We'd better get going Kira. I have to go to the mall and buy a whole new outfit thanks to you and that damned book!" Yuki grabbed Kira by the arm and dragged her off down the path in the direction they had come.
"Yuki! I don't know how to get out of magic books that suck you in…and unless you took a special elective last semester that I don't know about, NEITHER DO YOU." Kira struggled to get free of her friend's grasp to no avail.
"…Wait you don't know how to get out of here!?" Yuki dropped Kira and stared at her incredulously. The two had reached the tree they had fallen into.
"Not really…it just kinda let me out the last couple of times…Not to mention I was always dressed as Kurare before…" Kira stood up and brushed the dust off her pants.
"Great! Just GREAT!" Yuki threw her arms up.
"Give us all your money!" A rather gruff voice barked at them.
"Excuse me, I'm trying to have an nervous breakdown over here!" Yuki turned and yelled in the direction the voice had come from. There were three large angry looking men with swords that resembled machetes.
"Give us your money! NOW!" The largest of the three yelled and held out his machete.
Author's Notes: Muwahaha! We have plot! …or the beginning of it… So has it gotten better? *sniffles* Wow…the first cliffhanger! If you want the next chapter please tell me how I'm doing… Well Off to write chapter 4 La la la…