Characters:
Caesar – HotohoriOctavius – Mitsukake
Antony – Chichiri
Brutus – Tamahome
Cassius – Nakago
Casca – Soi
Trebonius – Tomo
Ligairus – Ashitare
Decius – Miboshi
Metellus – Suboshi
Cinna – Yui
Artemidorus – AmiboshiSoothsayer – Taiyijun
Clitus – Chiriko
Strato – Tasuki
Pindarus – Nuriko
Calpurnia – HoukiPortia – Miaka
Scene 5
Inside Tamahome's tent on the border of Hong-Nan & Qu-Dong, during a war.
[TAMAHOME is seen arguing with NAKAGO]
Tamahome: Sheathe your dagger, Nakago. Your anger does not scare me.
Nakago: Have I lived so long to only become a joke to you when sadness and sickness
troubles you?
Tamahome: I was also angry when I said that.
Nakago: Then let us forget what we were fighting about.
Tamahome: Then let us drink some sake.
[Drinks]
Nakago: I did not think you could get so angry.
[Drinks also.]
Tamahome: Nakago, I am burdened with many grieves. Miaka is dead.
Nakago: Miaka… dead?
Tamahome: She is dead.
Nakago: How?
Tamahome: She became worried and depressed. While the servants were not around, she
swallowed hot coals.
Nakago: Ah, well, I shall leave you now.
Tamahome: Good night.
[NAKAGO exits. TAMAHOME sits & reads.]
[GHOST of HOTOHORI enters.]
AHH! Ho-Hotohori!
Ghost: You are an evil person, Tamahome.
Tamahome: Wha-why are you here?
Ghost: To tell you that you shall see me again.
Tamahome: I will?
Ghost: Yes.
[Exit Ghost]
Scene 6
A part of the battlefield, by a hill.
[NAKAGO & NURIKO enter, stopping by the hill.]
Nakago: This hill is far enough. Tell me, are those my tents that are on fire, Nuriko?
Nuriko: Yes, sir, they are.
Nakago: I sent Ashitare to see whether those troops are friend of foe. Nuriko, would you
climb the hill and tell em what is happening.
[NURIKO ascends the hill.]
What do you see, Nuriko?
Nuriko: Holy Suzaku! Er, sorry, sir. I meant to say Seiryuu.
Nakago: Never mind that, what do you see?
Nuriko: Ashitare is surrounded by a crowd of troops, and he has gotten off his horse.
Now the troops are shouting for joy!
Nakago: Enough, come down.
[NURIKO comes down.]
Come here, Nuriko. Take my sword and kill me.
[NURIKO stabs NAKAGO.]
—Hotohori, you are revenged even with the sword that killed you.
[Dies]
Scene 7
At the end of the war, on another part of the battlefield. Tamahome, Tasuki, & Chiriko have been running away.
[Enter TAMAHOME, TASUKI, & CHIRIKO.]
Tamahome: We are pretty much defeated. Come here, Chiriko.
Chiriko: Yes, my lord? What would you like to say?
Tamahome: Why this, Chiriko. Hotohori's ghost has appeared to me twice at night. I
know my hour has come.
Chiriko: Do not say such things, my lord, Tamahome!
Tamahome: No, I am sure it is, Chiriko.
[Low alarums]
I beg you, Chiriko, to hold my sword so I may run onto it.
Chiriko: That is not a duty for a friend such as I. I will not do it, Tamahome.
[Alarum still]
Run, Tamahome. Run while you still can! Please do not stay here.
Tamahome: I say farewell to you all; and you, Chiriko. I also say farewell to Tasuki, who is waking up from a hangover.
Chiriko: Please run, Tamahome!
Tamahome: Go! I shall follow.
[Exit CHIRIKO.]
I am honored that you stay by my side, Tasuki. Hold my sword, and turn your face while I run upon it. Will you, Tasuki?
Tasuki: Give me your hand first. Good-bye, Tamahome.
Tamahome: Farewell, my dear friend, Tasuki. Br still now, Hotohori. I did not kill you
half as willingly as I kill myself.
[Dies]
[Enter NURIKO, MITSUKAKE, & CHICHIRI]
Mitsukake: Tasuki! What happened?!
Tasuki: Tamahome killed himself.
Nuriko: Aww, poor Tama-kins.
Mitsukake: How did he die?
Tasuki: I held his sword for him as he ran onto it.
Nuriko: WHAT?! YOU DID NOT TRY TO STOP HIM?!
Tasuki: What does he have to live for anymore? Miaka is dead, you know.
[CHICHIRI starts a speech about TAMAHOME, completely ignoring NURIKO & TASUKI's fight.]
Chichiri: He was the noblest warrior of all, ya know. He was the only conspirator that
did not envy Hotohori, ya know. Tamahome only though of the good of Hong-Nan, ya know. His life was gentle, and to all say the world, "This was a man!" ya know.
Mitsukake: What should we do with his body?
Tasuki: Tamahome served Hong-Nan, Suzaku, and Miaka well.
[TASUKI pulls out an iron fan that was strapped to his back.]
So let us burn his body!
Nuriko: You are only looking for an excuse to burn something with your fan, right?
Tasuki: Yes… So can I?
Chichiri, Mitsukake, & Nuriko: Go ahead.
Tasuki: Yay! REKKA… SHINEN!
[Fire shoots from the fan, igniting TAMAHOME's body on fire.]
Nuriko: Well, I do believe a celebration is in place. You did just win a war, Chichiri.
Tasuki: Yay! Sake!
[All exit.]
D/C: I don't own Julius Caesar or Fushigi Yuugi. Let's just leave it a that.
A/N: Thanks for reading! Please review!
