I don't have FY. Haha I love it when Tasuki is mean to Miaka :D it's so random lol

"Can we stop and rest? My feet hurt," whined Miaka. Tasuki twitched.
Mitsukake looked around, "I suppose we could stop here." (hehe I don't think he's had a single line yet... I felt sorry for him and gave him one x.x)
After that, Miaka instantly flung herself to a sitting position on the ground, whining idiotically about how hungry she was and how badly her feet hurt. Hotohori slowly found a place to sit down, pulling his sword out of the sheath, just staring at it fascinatedly. (maybe he'll kill Miaka!! :D that would... almost make up for his being icky to Nuriko. But nothing, even the extermination of the stupid one can make up for people wronging Nuriko!) Mitsukake sat down somewhere being boring. Tasuki remained where he was, thinking of what he would say to Nuriko, who, unbeknownst to Tasuki, had wandered off on his own to find some quiet place where he could go to be alone.
Just as Tasuki had finished his wonderful plan, he whipped around, his mind set on telling Nuriko just how he felt. He saw Miaka, Hotohori, and Mitsukake... but no Nuriko. Hesitantly, he walked up to Miaka.
"Aa, Miaka?" he cringed slightly as her repulsive face turned to look at his. "D'you know where Nuriko is?"
She looked around, "No... but he should be back. Why?" "No reason... I just wanted to talk to her." Tasuki's face contorted in self-disgust as he said what he was about to say, "Miaka... Can I talk to you since Nuriko's not around?"
"Sure!"
"Ok... Before I start, I'd just like to say that you're the damn ugliest girl I've ever seen, but... Well you're always rattling on and on to me about your love life... So I'm gonna rattle to you about mine. I figure you owe me."
Miaka stared at him blankly. "Spongecake!!!1"
"It's Nuriko... I mean, I know I've only known her a little while... but I love her," he sighed, thinking how pitiful it was that he was talking to Miaka, "And it's fucking not fair... She's all infatuated with that Hotohori bastard and there's nothing I can do about it... Last night I even TOLD her that I loved her... and she IGNORED me! Just stood there for a while before being all 'let's go back to inn' -"
Miaka cocked her head to the side a little, "I didn't realize that you were... that way..." she added as Tasuki paused.
"What? You don't think a bandit is capable of love?"
"It's not that. Just...you know... gay."
Tasuki jumped back a little, "What? Where the fuck you pulling these crazy ideas from?? I ain't no gay! I'm talking about Nuriko! It would be gay if I were talkin about how much I loved Hotohori or Mitsukake or you or something! You sick fuck! I like GIRLS."
"Yeah... But Nuriko..."
"Yes! Nuriko! Remember her? The OTHER GIRL?!"
"But, Tasuki... Nuriko's a boy..."
Tasuki burst out laughing.
"You mean... you didn't know that?"
"What?" he abruptly stopped laughing, "She is?" Confusion. "No she's not! Just when I thought you couldn't get any stupider..." he got up and walked over to Hotohori, sitting on his knees in front of him.
Hotohori looked up from his sword. "Yes?"
"Is Nuriko a guy?" To the point.
Hotohori looked at Tasuki a moment before nodding. "Yes... he is. You didn't know that?"
"What?! Ahh no!!" he buried his face in his hand, "How?" Tasuki was rather alarmed.
Hotohori just looked at him, trying to figure out exactly what the bandit's problem was. The emperor contemplated as Tasuki went on.
"But she's so damned pretty! And her hair! It's all silky! And her face!! She's too pretty! And she smells like fucking flowers!! Alright. Obviously, you like to fuck with people's heads. My head doesn't like to be fucked with, so just stop. God... What's wrong with you people?"
Stress management classes? Hotohori thought. "But you were WITH her! The hell's up with that? If she's a guy then how come you pulled your whole big stunt with her and Miaka?" Tasuki stood up and started pacing in front of Hotohori. "How come no one TOLD me? I mean it's not like you can just look at her and go 'well that's one hell of a man!'"
"I thought you would have figured it out..." Hotohori said, his calm tone a total contrast to Tasuki's insanely loud, uneasy one.
"Ahh!!!! Is there anything ELSE that I was supposed to figure out?" Hotohori thought, vaguely wondering if Tasuki knew that he was the emperor or not...
"You know what? You're lying! There's no way that a hot girl like Nuriko is a guy. This is all some weird kind of a joke. This is-" he cut himself off as Nuriko walked back toward them from a small path he had been walking on. Nuriko stopped as Tasuki stared at him, something akin to anger in his eyes.
He was almost afraid to ask, "What...?"
"These people," Tasuki gestured around with his eyes, suddenly raising his voice, "These people! Apparently find it fucking hilarious to scare the hell outta me!"
Nuriko took a step back, "What..." he was confused, but very aware that something was not right.
"They're trying to tell me that you're a guy!" he laughed a little, running a hand through his hair.
Nuriko's eyes flew very wide.
"What's wrong? I know they're just messin' with me..." he took a step toward the purple-haired seishi, who took another step back.
Nuriko swallowed, almost muttering, "It had to be sooner or later..."
"WHAT THE FUCK!" he felt Nuriko cowering under his harsh voice and words, but did nothing except continue, "Holy shit! You mean you're... FUCK!" he threw his hands down to his side, taking a few steps around in a small circle. "HOW?!"
Nuriko took a few more steps back before turning around and running away.
"Wait!... erk... ah... oh shit... I DIDN'T MEAN IT!" Tasuki took off running after a quickly fleeing Nuriko, nearly tripping as he sped through the thick underbrush. "Nuriko, I'm sorry!"
Nuriko suddenly stopped, Tasuki almost slamming into him as he tried to stop as well. Nuriko stood there for a second, trying to catch his breath, "I should have told you... And I shouldn't have ran off..." Nuriko turned to look to see if he could still see Miaka and the others. All he could see was forest.
"Shit... you shouldn'a run off so damn fast..." Tasuki said, catching his own breath, walking over to a large rock and sitting on it. He waved Nuriko to come over to him. Nuriko followed, standing in front of the bandit. "But... Why didn't you tell me? It woulda made things one hell of a lot easier."
Nuriko was silent for a moment, trying to think of the reason why he hadn't told him. "I guess..." he looked down at his hands, "At first it didn't occur to me at all... I just assumed that you knew. But then by the time I realized that you didn't know... I was afraid you wouldn't like me if I told you..."
"Shit... well... I know now and I still like you. I like you for things other than your... well, fuck... you don't have those. But yeah. Like I was saying--"
"Tasuki... I'm sorry..."
"I'm the one trying to apologize here!"
"No. I'm sorry about last night..."
Tasuki sighed, "So am I. But..."
"Don't do it!! Get away! Far far away!" Tasuki's brow furrowed as he tried to ignore bad Tasuki, who was yelling loudly into his ear.
"Whajoo sayin'? Doncha LOVE'er??" good Tasuki had gotten drunk again.
"Her!" bad Tasuki scoffed, "'Her' is a GUY!"
"Awha?"

"A guy!!"
"Bu'... Deybeena GUY deholTIME! Ishnot lik' she jus... SHUDDNLY ishaman! Dinja love'er whenshe wuzzaLAdy?? Ishda same Lady..."
Tasuki blinked. Good Tasuki actually had a point. It wasn't like suddenly Nuriko wasn't the same person as before... Nothing had changed.
"But..." Tasuki picked up where he left off earlier, "Even if you're a guy... Hell, I never thought I'd be sayin' anything like this..."
"No! No damn it! NO! DON'T DO IT!" bad Tasuki screamed.
He took a breath, "But here goes. Even if you're a guy, I'm still in love with you," he said, brushing off his shoulders, sending good and bad Tasukis flying away, "I love you for everything about you... not just for the fact that you're the only decent girl around here. And decent is an understatement! I wasn't lying when I said you were the prettiest girl I'd ever seen!" he continued. Nuriko wondered what he was getting at, as did Tasuki, "But I know that you don't like me that way... so I'm just kinda embarrassing myself by saying all this cause you're probably thinking how stupid I am... but what I'm wanting to say is that I love you for who you are. Heheheh... I've always hated girls anyway... damn nasty, tricky people..."
Nuriko blinked. "What?"
"I love you," Tasuki repeated, "But not in some weird gay kinda way! It's just kinda like the person I love just happens to be a guy... and I know for sure that nothing's gonna change the fact that I love you."
"Tasuki..."
"...Yeah...?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because... I love you. I really love you," he turned his head to look at Nuriko, who was looking at him puzzled. "And you wouldn't have to worry about me chasing around some ugly pig behind your back... There's no reason why I would..." he laughed, "You're the damn prettiest girl ever... even if you're not a girl. And... Last night... Being rejected by you... That was the worst feeling in the whole world," he sighed, almost unaware that he was still talking out loud, "But not because I was rejected. Because it was you. So it's kinda stupid that I'm putting myself through this again, I guess..."
"Tasuki..." Nuriko interrupted, staring off into the sunlit woods, "You're not."
"Not what?"
"Being rejected."

Tasuki turned around, grinning his fanged grin, "You don't know how damn glad I am to hear that..." he reached over and hugged Nuriko, who held onto him tightly.

Nuriko wasn't sure when he realized it. Well, he only realized it just before he said it, but how long he'd felt it was another story. Looking back on the past few weeks, he wondered why he didn't realize it earlier. He was always seeking Tasuki out... He was always the one he wanted to talk to, wanted to be with.

That night, due to the lack of a town, they were forced to spend yet another night in their tents. Nuriko had just been putting out the fire and was about to head into his and Tasuki's designated tent. He crawled in. Tasuki was already in there and had laid their blankets.
Tasuki grinned his lopsided grin, "You know... I think this whole sharing a tent thing isn't so bad after all..." he said enticingly.
Nuriko stifled a grin, but was unable to stifle a laugh as Tasuki suddenly pulled Nuriko close to him.
"You know, Nuriko..." Tasuki started lazily, "I still don't believe that you're a guy."
"What?" Nuriko looked at the other seishi quite seriously, "You mean after all that happened yesterday you don't believe me?"
"I'm afraid not," a suggestive grin spread over Tasuki's face, "I think you're going to have to give me some proof..."
The purple-haired seishi blushed a little. "Tasuki!" he said with mock disapproval.
"Hey I got an idea."
Nuriko was almost afraid to ask what it was, fearing that it would have something to do with 'proof.'
"I don't know where the hell we are... But I'm sure there's a village somewhere around here..." he started to explain, leaning on his side, his head propped up on his elbow.
"And your point?" Nuriko ducked down so that his face was close to Tasuki's.
"I was thinking we could ditch these people and go off on our own."
Nuriko thought for a moment before answering, "Alright..."
Tasuki laughed, "Let's go..." he grabbed Nuriko by the hand and pulled him out of their tent.
"Tasuki, are you sure? What about Miaka? We have to protect her... What if she needs us?"
"She found us once... She can find us again." Tasuki grinned, pulling Nuriko off into the shadows. And so Nuriko ran off with Tasuki.