Cushla stood in the middle of a line filled with the most beautiful women she had ever seen. She looked from side to side and wondered what was going to happen next, she hoped she didn't have to prance around in a bikini or anything like they had back in her world. She looked around the room, there were many men dressed in all different colours on each side of the room. There was a isle in the middle of them and a rather large chair at the back, probably where the emperor sits or something she thought.

"That emperor should be coming soon," whispered a girl standing next to her.

Cushla nodded and looked forward and continued looking around the room, she noticed Tasuki and frowned as he smirked at her and looked away. Cushla was just about sick of standing and wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, how long would she have to pretend she was just so in love with the fucking emperor. Just then a man walked in slowly, his long hair flowed behind him as he sat in his seat and looked around smiling. What a prick, thought Cushla, She couldn't believe she was pretending to love some up himself creep though she didn't really know him at all he just looked annoying. She smiled sweetly like the other hundred ditzy girls in the line. He sat there looking at each one of them from a distance. Was he just going to choose some pretty girl or something that had no brains at all and would turn old and ugly sooner or later, she thought. He stood up and walked down the isle and walked up and down the line of girls asking for there names and smiling. Finally he came to Cushla.

"Hello, What is your name?" he said in a soft voice that made her stomach fill with butterflies.

"Cushla, Your grace" She curtsied like the other girls.

"What a beautiful name" He said as he smiled and walked to the next girl.

This was stupid she thought. She didn't love this man, why was she here. Finally he had finished going along the line of girls and sat down and it looked like he whispered to a man beside him that stood up and began to take girls out of the line one by one. You could see the tears coming across some of the leaving girls faces and some of them looking with anger and storming off. She wished she was one of the ones that got to leave, she wanted to leave, but no she had to be stuck here. There were 50 girls left, she was happy Grace was still there and so was a few of the girls she had meet before including Liana. Liana looked at her and frowned as she looked away and smiled sweetly at the emperor. Cushla rolled her eyes and nearly yawned, but remembered it might be rude and stopped herself. The emperor stood up and looked at everyone with his bright eyes and then he began to speak again in a gentle voice that still seemed to be able to reach the whole room.

"I'm sorry to those girls that had to leave. If I could choose you all, I would but unfortunately I can't. Anyway, I would like all of you to choose one of your many talents and you will perform in one hour, so choose carefully and I'm sure they all will be lovely" O my god, thought Cushla, I have no talent I will have to ask Tasuki for a suggestion or maybe I can just get out of here.

She watched the other girls walk into the room they had first been in. Cushla walked slowly towards Tasuki and he sniggered.

"I can't believe you made it this far. What are you going to do now for a talent, dance around naked or maybe you can whine and complain on stage?" He said and chuckled.

Cushla growled and whacked Tasuki's arm when she was sure know-one was looking.

"Well I have to find something to do and stop making such stupid suggestions and help me get something together. Lets go to your room and find something to do" She paused and thought about how bad that sounded. She saw Tasuki's eyes widen. "Not like that, you moron!"

Tasuki closed the door behind him as they entered his room. He looked at her and raised a eyebrow. She looked around the room; it had blue painted walls and a bed in the corner and a table with a few chairs, there was a rug on the ground printed with the same bird she had seen before, this was so weird she thought.

"Ok, Well what are you going to do then?" He asked.

"Well that's what I was asking you, if I knew why would I ask!" She snapped back.

He scratched his orange hair and it looked like he was actually thinking for a while before he finally said something. "Can you sing or dance?" he said, It had taken him that long to think of just that.

"I can't dance, but I can sing. What can I sing then?" she said, She to scratching her head.

"I don't know. What about 'Fuck me, Mr Emperor'" He said and burst out laughing.

She burst out laughing as well, Thinking that other girls were acting like they would sing something like that, but then she thought again about what she could sing.

"Over the Rainbow" She said.

"What the fuck is that?"

"A song made for a movie" she said looking puzzled.

"Movie? What are you talking about? Are you crazy?" he said staring at her.

"No of corse not. I'm not from around here, I some how just got dropped in here or something" She said He looked at her and stared. "Suzaku no Miko?" he finally said.

"Suzaku what? Huh?" she replied looking rather puzzled.

He stared at her for a minute and stood up.

"You have to win this round so you can get to talk to the emperor in the next round, He needs to know that you are not from around here and you should tell him as soon as you have the chance. I would tell him, but he wouldn't listen to commoners like me." He said in the first serious voice she had never heard before.

"Right. Ok then" she said and looked at him weirdly and walked out of the room since she had not realised that a hour was nearly up.

[Ok now this story is getting weird, It will get better soon for those people who hate the kind of beauty crap o.o; This story is completely random. I have decided that I might cut out most of the normal Suzaku senshi! Don't worry Tasuki, the emperor and Tamahome are going to be saved =P]