The Fire that Burned Suzaku

By: Angel

Disclaimer: I don't OWN Fushigi Yuugi or any character in the story but I really wished I did ^_^ This story takes place after the second OAV!

Chapter Two: Bandits, Blackguards, and Love Potions?

"Miaka, are you okay?" Tasuki asked as he looked into her eyes. "Why am I feeling this way? I feel like…before…" He thought to himself.

"Of course I am fine Tasuki, it's not that I can do anything about it right?" Miaka said sadly.

"Miaka…cry…do it. I won't make fun of you this time, I promise."

"Maybe…Taka and I aren't meant to be. Maybe we were never…" Miaka couldn't finished becauseTasuki grabbed her and held her tight. "Tasuki…"

"Don't say that! Don't ever say that! This is not the Miaka I know. The Miaka who loves Tama so much that she would give her life just to save him. I know you hurt and I know you love him so stop pretending it doesn't matter DAMIT!"

"I do love him Tasuki, but soon he won't even remember anything! Not me, not you, not anything or anyone from this world! I love him Tasuki, I love him so much…I don't…" Miaka was pulled by Tasuki out of the cave. "Tasuki! Where are we going?"

"We are going to talk to Taitsu-kun! I think there is something she isn't telling us!" Tasuki said as he grabbed Miaka's hand and pulled her along.

"What? What do you mean?" Miaka said thinking of what he meant herself.

"I think there is more to the story of the legend of The Universe of the Four Gods, I also think the old hag is keeping something from us!"

"Who are you calling an old hag Tasuki?" Taitsu-kun said as she appeared before their eyes. Tasuki turned white as a ghost and he looked liked he saw a ghost, "he never changes…" She said with a deep sigh.

"Taitsu-kun.." Miaka said softly, "who are you really?"

***

"Yui…you don't understand do you?" Tetsuya said as he turned away. "It doesn't matter if you lose sometimes. Sometimes losing is a part of life, it might be to your family, friends, and even strangers. You can't keep expecting to win or being first choice for everything."

"So you would choose…" Yui started.

"To answer your question Yui, I wouldn't choose any of you two. I practically watched Miaka grow up, but even if I didn't, I would always get to know her before claiming I like her." Tetsuya explained.

"Why did you love me? Or maybe you never did!" Yui started to get upset.

"Why are you upset! What you did was very selfish and immature! I thought you were the mature one, the reasonable one, and the one who always got her head on her shoulder. It seemed I was wrong! I really think you should think things out, think of what you have done! I feel like I am talking to a disobedient child!" Tetsuya yelled as he ran out the door. "I am sorry Yui…" He silently said.

"I am sorry Miaka…if only…if only you didn't…" Yui said as she looked at a picture of her and Miaka. Yui suddenly noticed that Miaka's picture was vanishing. Yui quickly got up and ran out the door. On the floor was a shattered picture frame. In the photo, both Yui and Miaka was vanishing slowly.

***

"If you kids still insist on knowing the truth than here it is!" Taitsu-kun said as a huge mirror appeared before their eyes.

Inside the mirror there was an image of a little girl not older than six, she fell into the lake and was drowning. Suddenly a little boy not older than ten ran towards the lake and jumped in. He quickly pulled the little girl out and use a strange light to save her. He than disappeared. What he didn't expect was that the little girl saw his face before he could totally vanish. The mirror image started to fade away.

"I don't understand…what…" Miaka didn't finish, she looked back into the mirror and saw an older girl, eighteen years old maybe. She was been held by a young man who looked very much little the little boy who saved her. Miaka continue to look at the mirror.

"I love you with all my heart." She said as she held him tight.

"Soon we can be together and than our dreams will come true." The young man said as he kissed her.

"It won't happen." Another male voice said. As he stepped into the light, both the girl and the man both looked shocked. The girl thought the man looked a lot like the man who is holding her. Hai-kun on the other hand knew his brother was up to no good. "You really think you can be human brother?" Jai-kun said with an evil smile.

"Jai-kun what do you want?" Hai-kun said as he held the girl tighter.

"I don't want anything…yet anyways. I just came here to tell you father is looking for you." Jai-kun said as he disappeared.

"So he's your brother? He doesn't seem friendly." The girl commented.

"Don't worry about him, I will be back. Don't worry about me okay? Take care of yourself and…" He placed his hands on her still flat belly. He kissed her one last time and disappeared.

The scene quickly turned like time was turning. Miaka and Tasuki saw some scenes of the girl being alone and it seemed like she was just waiting. The villagers than disgraced her for being a Priestess and having a child out of wedlock. There was scenes of the Priestess living in an old broken down shack and working as a servant for the rich. Than there was a scene where the Priestess meant a young man who she fell in love with. The images started slowing down.

"Why can't you forget him?" The young man in the mirror image said.

"I can't because I love him and I don't understand what happened. How could he just leave me like this?" She started to cry. "I waited for him for three years…he still haven't come.."

"I love you dearly, I am rich and can take care of you and I will find your baby. Please marry me, you need someone to take care of you." The young man pleaded.

"Okay Karin, let's get married…" The girl finally said. She did love him, he was always there for her. Why shouldn't she marry him, she thought.

The week before the wedding, the Priestess woke up to see Hai-kun standing over her. "It's you!" She shouted with hatred.

"I did it! I finally could live with you and our baby!" He said exictly. He didn't' even noticed that she was angry. "I found a way to be human."

"I don't care!" She shouted.

"What? What happened to you?" He said worried. He grabbed her hands and noticed that her hands weren't soft and graceful as before, they were rough and dry. As he held her hands he closed his eyes and saw everything that happened to her. "Three years? I have been gone three years?"

She quickly grabbed her hands away. "I am getting married this week."

"No! You are getting married to me! You love me!"

"I don't! Not anymore!" She cried.

"Do you love him?" He asked.

"All that matters to me is that he won't leave me!"

Hai-kun saw the pain and angst in her eyes. He reached into his robe and pulled out a scroll. "Please keep this, you might not feel anything for me but I just want you to know that I will always love you. Even when you marry and have another man's child. He was about to disappear when he stopped and looked back. "I will find our child…trust me…" He was than gone.

The Priestess didn't know that the scroll contained 95% of Hai-kun's holy powers. She always kept the scroll with her, she never let it out of her sight. Her wedding day came and she was getting ready for the ceremony. "Why can't I forget him! I can't just do this! It would be unfair to Karin, he is so kind, I can't do this to him!" She said to herself. She quickly ran out the door to look for Karin. When she opened the door she saw Karin with another person. The other guy looked very familiar, he than turned around and looked at her. "It's you!"

"Hi Priestess, nice to see you again. Let me finish him off and we can get going." After Jai-kun said that he killed Karin with one blow.

"NO!"

"Don't worry about him, he's just me. A part of me that should of died a long time ago. I despise myself when I look at him. He's so weak and foolish. But don't worry our wedding will go on. I am taking you as my bride." Jai-kun suddenly felt a warm light enter him. "Now, I am whole. I am Karin, the one you love aren't I?" He said as he transformed to Karin.

"No! I don't love you! I love Hai-kun!" She yelled.

"Don't be dumb, come with me and we can share the world together! My other side, my human form was to weak to persuade you but now that I am whole again things will change." Jai-kun was about to grabbed her when his brother appeared.

"Get away from her! Why are you doing this to her?" Hai-kun asked as he prepared to fight his brother.

"Because brother, I want everything that is yours."

"I don't care about anything else, you can be father's heir. Just leave her out of it."

"No brother…I want her too. She is the only girl you love, and I believe I have fallen in love with her myself." Jai-kun answered truthfully. He blasted a attack at Hai-kun.

"Hai-kun!" The Priestess said as she ran over to him.

"Even if I die, please believe me when I say that I love you. I never meant to leave your side. I believe that we will meet again. I found our child, as long as you and our child is safe, I will happily die." Hai-kun said as he slowly got up.

"Why are you so weak brother? What happened to you?" Jai-kun asked. "I understand now, to become human you must lose all your holy powers. That was very foolish of you. It's okay, when you die, I will take care of her for you."

"You won't live to do anything!" Hai-kun gathered all the powers he had left and blasted Jai-kun with it. Jai-kun than countered and blasted Hai-kun's life force away.

"NO! Hai-kun!" The Priestess ran towards Hai-kun. "Don't leave me! Please don't leave me again. I don't want to live if you die." She started to cry.

"I will always be with you…the scroll I gave you…" Hai-kun said in a weak voice. "Use the scroll to make all your wishes come true, and be happy. I love you…forever…"

"NO! NO!" She cried as she held on tight to his limp form.

"Let's go!" Jai-kun said as he came towards her.

The Priestess took the scroll out and started to read out of it. She now understood everything. Hai-kun wanted to become human to be with her. Everyone on Earth wishes to posse the power to be a god but Hai-kun was willing to seal all his powers up to be with her. She smiled as she continued to read out loud. "For once I can do something for him…" She said to herself.

"What are you doing?" All of a sudden Jai-kun saw four gods appear before him. They looked like his brother but different for they resemble animals.

"I want Hai-kun to be alive!" She cried.

"That wish we can not do, for as gods of holy powers we can not take a life nor

give a life …make another wish." The four gods said in unison.

She was silent for minutes and than finally has an idead. "Can you exchange a life?" She asked.

"Only if the other is willing…"

"I have my wish…I want to take Hai-kun's place, I wish for him to have all his holy powers and remain a god!"

"Than be it." The gods said as two bright lights emerge from the skies and took the girl's life to give to Hai-kun.

Hai-kun slowly opened his eyes, lying in his arms was the women he loved more than life itself. "No, why did you do it?"

"I love you Hai-kun, I don't want to live if you didn't. I never stopped loving you, I never will…" She now lay limped in his arms.

Although Gods never cry, Hai-kun couldn't help but shed tears for the one he loved. "JAI-KUN!" Hai-kun said as he started to glow.

The images faded. Miaka was crying and she leaned into Tasuki for support. Tasuki himself was trying hard to not show his weak side.

"The rest is like I told you, Hai-kun's battle with his brother, the chosen warriors and how Hai-kun's holy powers were all sealed into the scroll." Taitsu-kun said.

"Taitsu-kun why did I never hear they say her name? The Priestess I mean." Miaka asked.

"Her name is Kaijin. It was the last word Hai-kun spoke before he died."

"Wait a minute lady, you still haven't answered our question! Who the hell are you?" Tasuki said as he blocked Taitsu-kun path.

"I am the child Hai-kun and the Priestess gave life to. Enough of that, I sent Chichri off to do something for me. I want Miaka to stay with Tasuki, don't leave her side. We have trouble approaching us soon so be prepared." Taitsu-kun said as she disappeared.

"She's still hiding something I know it!" Tasuki said. "Come on Miaka, we got to get going I don't…Miaka?"

"I am so selfish…I can't believe that I felt that it's unfair for me and Taka to be apart. You have to fight for the one you love, you can't just expect things to go right. That's what I expected…" Miaka said sadly.

Tasuki watched sadly at Miaka's misery, "I'll go get us some water for the trip okay Miaka?" Tasuki looked at her one more time than ran off. "Big dummy! She always blame herself, Tama your one lucky man…"

"Didn't I just tell you NOT to leave her side!" Taitsu-kun yelled.

"AHH! Oh my god! Don't do that I am too young to die of a heart attack!" Tasuki shouted as he breathing heavily.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, nothing… so what do you want?"

"I want to let you know something. Although Miaka is erased from her world, there is still people who will not let go of her memories. They still can remember her and this world."

"That's good, and here she is so worried about that. Thanks for telling me that, but why didn't you tell Miaka?" Tasuki asked with a suspicious face.

"It's better she didn't know. What I want to tell you Tasuki is very important! Tamahome soul can come into this world to see Miaka only if you let him." Taitsu-kun said as she looked at him.

"That's great, Miaka will be so happy to hear that!" Tasuki was about to get up and leave when Taitsu-kun zapped him.

"Why don't you let me finish. If Tamahome is to travel her and reside in your body, you will weaken each time, depending on how long he is in there"

"Oh I see now, so I shouldn't let him use my body too long right? Gotca!"

"Wait and listen! You will die if you keep Tamahome's soul in your body, you will die and Tamahome will be here! Are you listening to me!" Taitsu-kun yelled after Tasuki who was whistling away. "I know he heard me…"

"Miaka!" Tasuki yelled as he looked for her. "Where the hell is she?" He suddenly heard her scream. "Miaka!" He ran around the trees and smiled.

"Hey Genro, I caught myself another Priestess!"

"Koji!" Tasuki smiled as he and his best friend did there little dance.

"Ow! Thanks you for dropping me!" Miaka yelled as she got up.

"So what are you two doing here?" Koji asked.

"Well we were going to find a place to stay…" Tasuki said.

"Don't say anymore you two are staying with us and that is final! Don't worry Genro, we still have your old room like it was before. It's funny, a strange Priestess came into our lives and took you from us and now that same Priestess brought you back." Koji said as he winked.

"What the hell you talking about Koji!" Tasuki said as he hit Koji in the head.

***

Things were normal back in Miaka's world. People went to work, kids went to school and life was just in peace.

Yui was walking home from school when she saw a girl who looked like Miaka walk by her. She quickly turned around and chased after her. She kept running till she hit a dark ally. Yui stopped.

"Aren't you going to come in? You did follow me all the way here…"

"What? That voice…it can't be…"

"Hello again…Lady Yui." The figure came out of the dark to face Yui.

"Nakago!"

***

"Wow! This place is nice." Miaka said as she admired the bandit's hideout.

"It's home…" Tasuki said.

"I know what I can do! I will cook us all something to eat!" Miaka said happily.

"That's great, fine dinning tonight!" Koji said, he than looked at Genro who was waving both his hands and saying "No, no, you'll all die!"

"What did you say Tasuki?" Miaka asked as she picked up a large table.

Tasuki made a puppy dog face and said, "I don't want you to wipe out my gang, we haven't been defeated. It's going to be bad if we all die from your terrible cooking…" It was to late the table is how on Tasuki's head.

"They are weird…" Some of the members said.

"I think Genro likes the Priestess, it seems he's nicer to her than any other girl." Koji whispered to the others.

As Tasuki and Miaka was fighting Koji and the gang planned something to help their former gang leader. "I still got a bit of that potion we stole from Kotou. Let's use that!" Someone suggested.

"Genro will noticed, so let's put it in the Priestess's food. Not to much okay?" Another gang member said.

"Yeah yeah, I know."

"Hurry up!" One of them rushed.

"Stop rushing me…oops…" He accidentally poured too much.

"What? Is it done?" Koji asked.

"Yeah it is!" One of the gang member brought a large bowl of soup for Miaka. "Priestess, have some soup first before you cook, your probably hungry. It's…" He didn't finish because Miaka grabbed the bowl and ate it within seconds.

"She hasn't changed…" Tasuki with a smile. Miaka has changed, in many ways thought Tasuki thought. She's a bit taller, but of course I am taller. Her hair is quite long now and her girly bangs have grown out. Tasuki started to slant his head to look for anything different about her.

"What are you looking at Tasuki?" Miaka asked as she eyed him suspiciously.

"Hey, don't get on my case about wanting to look at you. Only Tama was foolish enough to want to look at a tomboy like…Ow!" Tasuki groaned as a chair flew across the room and landed on his face.

"I guess this is the only women you can't handle eh Genro? Who would of thought the great Genro would be beaten by a little girl…" Koji commented but than got two chairs thrown at him.

"I am not a little girl!" Miaka yelled as she stuck her tongue out at Koji and stormed out of the room to cook something to eat.

Koji noticed that Tasuki couldn't help but smile as he watched the Priestess of Suzaku go. "Genro? I need to talk to you."

"What is it Koji?"

"You know she can't stay here right? The kind of lifestyle we live is not for a girl like her. I wouldn't want anything to happen to your women."

"My WHAT!?" Tasuki said shocked.

"Your women, isn't that why you ran off with her when we first kidnapped her?"

"No, no, no you got it all wrong. Miaka is like my little sister, I protect her because she is the Priestess of Suzaku." Tasuki explained.

"Uh oh…" Koji said when he remembered the love potion.

"What?"

"Umm…we sorta thought that you two were an item. We umm slipped love potion in her food… was only trying to help you Genro!"

"WHAT! You did WHAT!" Tasuki exclaimed in shock of what Koji said.

"Umm I think you should go to her…" Koji said but Tasuki was already out the door. "Just a little sister huh?"

"I can't believe that happened, holy shit, if anything happened to her I will never forgive myself. Tauski ran up and down the hideout looking in every room. He couldn't find her. "If anything happened, I don't know what I would do. What TAMA would do!" Tasuki looked and looked but couldn't find her. He than heard some noises in his old room. Tasuki took out his fan and opened it slowly.

"Hi Tasuki…"

"Mi…a…ka…" Tasuki's jaws dropped. Miaka was sitting on his bed and she has a cloth like material wrapped around her. Her hair was wet so it looked like she took a bath, a hot bath. "I'm sorry Miaka…" Tasuki was about to turn and leave when all of a sudden Miaka jumped into his arms and held him tight. "What are you doing? I am was worried about you, now that I see your alright, I'll go and wait for you outside."

"I am not alright…I want to be held…by you Tasuki." Miaka asked in a soft voice.

"What! You don't know what you are talking about Miaka…umm Miaka…what are you doing in this room?"

"Waiting for you silly, I have been waiting a long time…kiss me Tasuki."

"What! No, no, no you are not yourself. You should lay down and sleep okay?" Tasuki

said as he pulled her towards the bed. "Sleep now okay?"

"I do feel tired…Tasuki can you sleep with me?" Miaka asked as she looked at him.

"No! Miaka, umm how about I stay with you. Don't worry and go to sleep okay?" Tasuki said as he looked at her. "What am I going to do? It's like before at the inn except this time I am the one that can stop this. Why does she make me feel this way, she's just like my little sister right?" Tasuki asked himself.

"Tasuki…I love you…did you know that?" Miaka whispered.

Wow, that was a long chapter for me…I hope you guys like it so far. This is NOT a lemon fiction, it will get interesting though. This chapter is suppose to be longer but I cut it in two so the second part will be Chapter 3. I will also put the previews for Chapter 3 up later this week. Chapter 3 will be called: Tasuki's Choice. In this Chapter Tasuki will let Taka come into his body so that Miaka can see him. He doesn't tell her that he will die if he allowed it too many times. Yui is also disappearing from her world and no one knows why. Keisuke will find a big secret that linked the two worlds.

TTFN ~Angel~

Chapter Three: Tasuki's Choice (Previews)

"No you don't Miaka…you love Tama…not me okay?" Tasuki said in a kind voice but there was a small hint of sadness in it.

"But your wrong…I love you Tasuki…let's live here together forever…just me and you…" Miaka said sweetly as she held his hands.

"What the hell are you talking about? Stop saying THAT! Don't say those words unless you mean it!" Tasuki shouted. When he realized he scared her he tried to smile, "your so silly Miaka, the love potion is just making you say foolish things, have some rest and you will be better tomorrow."

"Is it because you don't feel the same way?"

"What? I…I…go to sleep Miaka…" Tasuki tried to changed the subject.

"Can you tell me how you feel Tasuki…how you really feel about me?" Miaka started to get up. Tasuki quickly grabbed the sheets and mummy wrapped her, he was hoping that the towel won't fall..

"Miaka I don't have time for this, just go to sleep so that the love potion will wear off. You will get back to normal, eating a lot and loving Tama. I think you should put clothes on first…I am going to leave so you can change." Tasuki was about to get up when Miaka climbed onto his lap. "Miaka!"

"If you don't believe me than I will show you…" Miaka lifted her face up and kissed Tasuki. Tasuki was shocked but than he closed his eyes and kissed her back.

I know this is wrong…I shouldn't do this. Miaka and Tama belong together, she only loves him…but maybe tonight…just for one night, Miaka can be mine. I know she doesn't mean anything she says or remember what she says and does in the morning, but I will always remember…everything Tasuki thought. He gently grabbed Miaka and continued to kiss her. When Tasuki ended the kiss he stared into Miaka's eyes and whispered words only she could hear. "I love you too Miaka, didn't it ever occur to you that I don't want to be a brother to you…" Tasuki could see that Miaka was about to cry so he held her tighter.

"Tasuki…my head hurt…" Miaka whispered in her normal voice, not the soft seductive voice she was using.

"Miaka! Your…"

***

"What are you doing here?" Yui asked as she stared at Nakago, she couldn't believe it.

"Lady Yui, why does it seem you aren't too happy see me?" Nakago said.

"What are you doing in this world?"

"The Seriyu Seven goes where ever their Priestess is." Nakago came closer to Yui.

"Stay away! I don't understand it! Everything that is happening…Miaka,,,Seiryu,,,all your doing?"

"You give me too much credit, I couldn't do that even if I wanted to. You on the other hand can. Do you want to see your friend again?"

"You are dead! How can that be?" Yui shouted as she saw his form, he was transparent.

"I thought you knew Tamahome killed me?" Nakago asked sarcastically.

"I know that! I am asking how you are here? Why are you here? Didn't you go reborn and start over?"

"I can't." Nakago said simply.

"You can't stay here to live among the living! It's different in this world!"

"Lady Yui…didn't you know that you are dead?"

I finally got it up! I am hoping the full Chapter Three will be up next week. I will try my hardest! Chichri will come back in Chapter Three and we learn more of what is happening to both worlds. Tasuki doesn't tell Miaka that he will eventually die if he keeps letting her see Tamahome. Taka, Keisuke and Tetsuya discovers a big secret, Yui goes with Nakago to see the other Seiryu Seven.