Disclaimer: same as every time..I do not own Fushigi Yugi..I do own Nain
and Salre, and now u know who they both r!
"Ow!" She looked down to her leg and found blood beginning to drip down the side. A long gash had formed. She looked around her, but found nothing.no one. She was in the middle of nowhere and no one seemed to care. She had been sent here against her will. She had left the only place she had been happy in.
She had left when Nain moved away. They had promised to seek each other out if they ever needed it. Salre had wanted to seek out Nain since the day she had been sent to this horrible place. An American horse ranch that didn't even harbor guests in the summer, had a thousand acres, and no one to talk to. That is where Salre had been sent. The owners, who Salre was forced to be staying with, were both rude, ruthless slave drivers. It was a wonder they were still alive with each other.
Salre shook her head and touched her wound. She lifted her head to find that there was nothing around her, not even a grain of hay, so Salre was confused. Even her horse, Black Faith, was in the stable today. It was a very cold and windy day with snow falling everywhere. The snow had lightened up, however, and Salre could see only white acres. Nothing was around that could be the source of the wound.
Salre looked down to the wound again and found blood staining the snow. Salre looked at it strangely and covered the wound. The bleeding however wouldn't stop. Salre gave up and didn't worry. She had lost plenty of blood before...in the accident...it had brought her to Nain's and it had brought her here. She kept walking "home" and found, when she got there about two minutes later, that the bleeding had somehow stopped. A name formed on Salre's lips from nowhere.
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"Why is there a sword in the desert!?" Nain yelled in confused frustration. Yui however, was determined to remain calm.
"A battle of some sort."
"Obviously...but how the hell did we get here!!!??" Nain put her hand to her wound then winced slightly in pain. Yui came over to look at it.
"Doesn't look very good to me.." You said.
"AHH!!! Am I gonna die?"
"I don't think so."
"How well do you think you know what you're talking about.? How much longer do I have?"
"Umm.."
"Can we help you two?" A voice came from behind Nain and Yui. They jumped in unison, and turned their heads.
Two blonde boys stood behind them, looking at them carefully. One of them had a harsher look than the other, but their relation as twins was strikingly evident. Nain stared at them and could only gape..where are we? her mind asked them. Yui, however, found her voice and used it.
"We don't know how serious this wound is, and." it took no more. The gentler looking of the too knelt next to Nain and looked at her leg. He looked at the wound for only a second before declaring it was "hardly serious at all". He took a band of deep red cloth he had wrapped and tied around his arm and pulled it from him. His twin brother looked on, but was frequently stealing glances at Yui, who was stealing a few herself, though she was doing it for reasons of precaution.
Nain squeezed her eyes shut momentarily as the cloth tightened around her wound, but she quickly opened them when she realized that he had been staring right in hers. Nain worried slightly about the fact that he wasn't even looking at the wound as he bandaged it, but she was losing herself in the eyes that were gazing into her.
"Done yet?" his brother asked impatiently from behind him. He looked from Nain and nodded. He stood and then offered his hand to Nain. She took it with no hesitation, and she, too, stood.
"I am Amiboshi, and this is my twin, Suboshi," he said as he walked back to his twin -Suboshi- and turned to face both Nain and Yui.
"I'm Yui," Yui said curtly.
"And.I'm Nain," she said trying hard not to stutter. Her heart was fluttering for some reason at the sight of Amiboshi. They turned and began to walk away. Amiboshi threw one last glance to Nain, and smiled slightly before going on his way.
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"Could you explain this all to me?" Miaka asked Hotohori. "This maiden stuff..and this Suzaku."
Hotohori finally caved. Miaka, Tamahome, and Hotohori had been walking for a few hours now, and that was all that Miaka could think about. And she thought rather openly.
"Suzaku is the God of the South; the red bird," Hotohori began. Miaka leaned closer to him to listen. "A priestess is to come to our world from another in our times or peril. Right now, war is upon our world because the Emperor of Qu-Dong is preparing to attack Hong-Nan. The Emperor of Qu- Dong wants only to control the four sections of China. Each section is protected by a God.
"Ours, the South, is protected by Suzaku, and the North, East, and West all have their respectable Gods. But we are in peril in the south, so you were summoned by Suzaku to be our Miko."
"Who's priestess?"
"Suzaku's. You need to find your seven warriors of Suzaku that correspond with the seven constellations of the south. Then, it is your obligation to summon Suzaku."
"And then you get three wishes. You wish for peace.and then whatever you want," Tamahome ended for Hotohori. Miaka stared at Hotohori and Tamahome through wide eyes. What were they talking about?
"So I'm some kind of priestess? I have to summon a God...and I have to find seven warriors?
"Seven Celestial Warriors of Suzaku, to be exact," Tamahome corrected her. "You're the maiden, you at least aughta know."
Miaka looked at Tamahome in confusion. "So I have to find seven people who say they're warriors of Suzaku?"
Tamahome shook his head. "The Seven warriors of Suzaku, Seiryu, Byakko, and Genbu all have a symbol for each constellation, but the four are differentiated by their color. The symbols appears when the powers of that warrior are in use, or in some cases, their power comes when their symbol does."
Miaka merely stared at the two men. She looked from one to the other and began to accept this strange new truth.
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Nain and Yui turned to each other after Amiboshi and Suboshi walked away.
"Why didn't you ask them where we are?" Nain asked Yui.
"I don't trust them," Yui stated. "But I know you didn't ask because you were too busy looking at that boy."
"Amiboshi."
"Whatever...you could've asked."
"Well...what's done is done.. so what are we gonna do?"
"For now, lets find a place to stay and then we'll think."
Nain and Yui both stood in silence and began waling in the direction Amiboshi and Suboshi had come from. There had to be a place to stay somewhere...didn't there. Nain and Yui walked for a few hours. They were getting hot and tired and wanted only to rest. But the hot sun told them if they stayed in one spot, they would burn and become dehydrated. Not that that wasn't occurring already..
They were climbing a slight hill and Nain lay on the sand at the top and rested her head. "I can't...It's too hot.."
Yui caught up with Nain who had been slightly ahead. "Nain!"
Nain raised her head and looked before her. They could see a small town and that's where they went. Yui pulled Nain up and they walked quickly to the town. They tried to stay in a inn like place, but they had no money.
"So we found the town..now what?" Nain asked Yui. They sat in the shade of a building, partially hidden from the view of the people milling around them.
"How am I supposed to know?" Yui snapped. Nain became silent and pulled her knees to her chest. She was worried, but she thought of Amiboshi. She didn't know why her thoughts were straying to him at this time, but they did. Nain saw him vividly in her mind. She saw his eyes..those gorgeous eyes that pulled her to him, even in her thoughts...
Nain shook her head as a dark figure walked by them. Yui stood and grabbed the long cloak he wore on his back. "Do you have some water?" He turned to look at the girls and his eyes registered shock as he captured the vision of Yui. The girls looked at him strangely, with his blonde hair and very rough features; he was a scary man to look at. He quickly shook the look from his eyes, and pulled out a flask containing water.
Yui took it gratefully and took a long drink. Nain waited patiently for Yui to be done, and drank to her little hearts content when the flask was given to her.
"You have no money," the guy stated. Yui nodded. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them before Yui and Nain. He turned and walked quickly from the girls.
They got up and used the money to get a place to stay and they locked their door. They were getting strange and frightful stares from some of the men gathered in the rooms below. They only opened their door for the water they had requested and then stayed I their all night alone.
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"Ow!" She looked down to her leg and found blood beginning to drip down the side. A long gash had formed. She looked around her, but found nothing.no one. She was in the middle of nowhere and no one seemed to care. She had been sent here against her will. She had left the only place she had been happy in.
She had left when Nain moved away. They had promised to seek each other out if they ever needed it. Salre had wanted to seek out Nain since the day she had been sent to this horrible place. An American horse ranch that didn't even harbor guests in the summer, had a thousand acres, and no one to talk to. That is where Salre had been sent. The owners, who Salre was forced to be staying with, were both rude, ruthless slave drivers. It was a wonder they were still alive with each other.
Salre shook her head and touched her wound. She lifted her head to find that there was nothing around her, not even a grain of hay, so Salre was confused. Even her horse, Black Faith, was in the stable today. It was a very cold and windy day with snow falling everywhere. The snow had lightened up, however, and Salre could see only white acres. Nothing was around that could be the source of the wound.
Salre looked down to the wound again and found blood staining the snow. Salre looked at it strangely and covered the wound. The bleeding however wouldn't stop. Salre gave up and didn't worry. She had lost plenty of blood before...in the accident...it had brought her to Nain's and it had brought her here. She kept walking "home" and found, when she got there about two minutes later, that the bleeding had somehow stopped. A name formed on Salre's lips from nowhere.
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"Why is there a sword in the desert!?" Nain yelled in confused frustration. Yui however, was determined to remain calm.
"A battle of some sort."
"Obviously...but how the hell did we get here!!!??" Nain put her hand to her wound then winced slightly in pain. Yui came over to look at it.
"Doesn't look very good to me.." You said.
"AHH!!! Am I gonna die?"
"I don't think so."
"How well do you think you know what you're talking about.? How much longer do I have?"
"Umm.."
"Can we help you two?" A voice came from behind Nain and Yui. They jumped in unison, and turned their heads.
Two blonde boys stood behind them, looking at them carefully. One of them had a harsher look than the other, but their relation as twins was strikingly evident. Nain stared at them and could only gape..where are we? her mind asked them. Yui, however, found her voice and used it.
"We don't know how serious this wound is, and." it took no more. The gentler looking of the too knelt next to Nain and looked at her leg. He looked at the wound for only a second before declaring it was "hardly serious at all". He took a band of deep red cloth he had wrapped and tied around his arm and pulled it from him. His twin brother looked on, but was frequently stealing glances at Yui, who was stealing a few herself, though she was doing it for reasons of precaution.
Nain squeezed her eyes shut momentarily as the cloth tightened around her wound, but she quickly opened them when she realized that he had been staring right in hers. Nain worried slightly about the fact that he wasn't even looking at the wound as he bandaged it, but she was losing herself in the eyes that were gazing into her.
"Done yet?" his brother asked impatiently from behind him. He looked from Nain and nodded. He stood and then offered his hand to Nain. She took it with no hesitation, and she, too, stood.
"I am Amiboshi, and this is my twin, Suboshi," he said as he walked back to his twin -Suboshi- and turned to face both Nain and Yui.
"I'm Yui," Yui said curtly.
"And.I'm Nain," she said trying hard not to stutter. Her heart was fluttering for some reason at the sight of Amiboshi. They turned and began to walk away. Amiboshi threw one last glance to Nain, and smiled slightly before going on his way.
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"Could you explain this all to me?" Miaka asked Hotohori. "This maiden stuff..and this Suzaku."
Hotohori finally caved. Miaka, Tamahome, and Hotohori had been walking for a few hours now, and that was all that Miaka could think about. And she thought rather openly.
"Suzaku is the God of the South; the red bird," Hotohori began. Miaka leaned closer to him to listen. "A priestess is to come to our world from another in our times or peril. Right now, war is upon our world because the Emperor of Qu-Dong is preparing to attack Hong-Nan. The Emperor of Qu- Dong wants only to control the four sections of China. Each section is protected by a God.
"Ours, the South, is protected by Suzaku, and the North, East, and West all have their respectable Gods. But we are in peril in the south, so you were summoned by Suzaku to be our Miko."
"Who's priestess?"
"Suzaku's. You need to find your seven warriors of Suzaku that correspond with the seven constellations of the south. Then, it is your obligation to summon Suzaku."
"And then you get three wishes. You wish for peace.and then whatever you want," Tamahome ended for Hotohori. Miaka stared at Hotohori and Tamahome through wide eyes. What were they talking about?
"So I'm some kind of priestess? I have to summon a God...and I have to find seven warriors?
"Seven Celestial Warriors of Suzaku, to be exact," Tamahome corrected her. "You're the maiden, you at least aughta know."
Miaka looked at Tamahome in confusion. "So I have to find seven people who say they're warriors of Suzaku?"
Tamahome shook his head. "The Seven warriors of Suzaku, Seiryu, Byakko, and Genbu all have a symbol for each constellation, but the four are differentiated by their color. The symbols appears when the powers of that warrior are in use, or in some cases, their power comes when their symbol does."
Miaka merely stared at the two men. She looked from one to the other and began to accept this strange new truth.
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Nain and Yui turned to each other after Amiboshi and Suboshi walked away.
"Why didn't you ask them where we are?" Nain asked Yui.
"I don't trust them," Yui stated. "But I know you didn't ask because you were too busy looking at that boy."
"Amiboshi."
"Whatever...you could've asked."
"Well...what's done is done.. so what are we gonna do?"
"For now, lets find a place to stay and then we'll think."
Nain and Yui both stood in silence and began waling in the direction Amiboshi and Suboshi had come from. There had to be a place to stay somewhere...didn't there. Nain and Yui walked for a few hours. They were getting hot and tired and wanted only to rest. But the hot sun told them if they stayed in one spot, they would burn and become dehydrated. Not that that wasn't occurring already..
They were climbing a slight hill and Nain lay on the sand at the top and rested her head. "I can't...It's too hot.."
Yui caught up with Nain who had been slightly ahead. "Nain!"
Nain raised her head and looked before her. They could see a small town and that's where they went. Yui pulled Nain up and they walked quickly to the town. They tried to stay in a inn like place, but they had no money.
"So we found the town..now what?" Nain asked Yui. They sat in the shade of a building, partially hidden from the view of the people milling around them.
"How am I supposed to know?" Yui snapped. Nain became silent and pulled her knees to her chest. She was worried, but she thought of Amiboshi. She didn't know why her thoughts were straying to him at this time, but they did. Nain saw him vividly in her mind. She saw his eyes..those gorgeous eyes that pulled her to him, even in her thoughts...
Nain shook her head as a dark figure walked by them. Yui stood and grabbed the long cloak he wore on his back. "Do you have some water?" He turned to look at the girls and his eyes registered shock as he captured the vision of Yui. The girls looked at him strangely, with his blonde hair and very rough features; he was a scary man to look at. He quickly shook the look from his eyes, and pulled out a flask containing water.
Yui took it gratefully and took a long drink. Nain waited patiently for Yui to be done, and drank to her little hearts content when the flask was given to her.
"You have no money," the guy stated. Yui nodded. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them before Yui and Nain. He turned and walked quickly from the girls.
They got up and used the money to get a place to stay and they locked their door. They were getting strange and frightful stares from some of the men gathered in the rooms below. They only opened their door for the water they had requested and then stayed I their all night alone.
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