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An: Yes I'm back with another one of my infamous Hotohori/Miaka pairings. Only this one is multi-chapter. It involves my characters from my story Dawn of a New Beginning, which despite the fact I haven't updated it in a year and a half I have not abandoned. ^^;;; However I posted the first few chapters to DNB on a mailing list I belong to and asked people's opinion of it and one person remarked that they liked it but they wished it had been a Hotohori X Miaka story. The idea intrigued me but I stuffed it to the back of my mind and its only just come back to me reacently. I've wanted to write a longer Hotohori/Miaka fic for a while anyways. So I came up with this idea, why not write an H X M fic using my charaters from Dawn of a New Beginning but instead of following the same plot as that story, why not come up with a different one? So here you have it folks. The story will still take place in Delika and for the most part the characters backgrounds are pretty much the same except for a few minor changes. Oh and this story takes place after ep 21 only Tama never comes back to kill her and Amiboshi attacks earlier so the Chiriko in this story is the actual real Chiriko. Sorry to blab for so long but here's the story Enjoy!
Miaka awoke, her head slightly pounding and feeling dazed and confused. Ugh what happened last night? I went to Kutou to get Tamahome… Her eyes widened as everything came rushing back to her. After I came back I tried to… She shuddered at the thought that she had nearly ended her own life. And then Hotohori saved me and then he told me he loved me and kissed me. Miaka blushed a little at that last thought. A small moan broke into her thoughts. She glanced to her side and was met with a sleeping emperor. Hotohori was sprawled half on the bed half in the chair he was sitting in. He was sleeping deeply and peacefully. Miaka couldn't help smiling at the sweet picture Hotohori made. He shifted a little drawing his hand closer to his heart; a hand Miaka now noticed was holding one of hers. He stayed with me and held my hand all night? Her head tilted to the side, a loving smile on her face. I just might be able to fall in love with him. Hotohori shifted a little and opened his eyes, his face lighting into a brilliant smile when he saw Miaka. He sat up and stretched, wincing a little at the pain in his back from sleeping in the awkward position. "Ow!" he said as he unkinked his muscles.
Miaka giggled at him. Hotohori turned and smiled at her. "Good morning, Miaka, did you sleep well? Miaka nodded. "I did, what about you? That posistion didn't look very comfortable." Hotohori smiled a little ruefully. "I slept fine, although I am a bit sore." "We should probably get up the other will be wondering-" The door to Miaka's room suddenly burst open. "Hotohori-sama! Miaka-chan something's gone wrong!" Chichiri stood in the doorway looking slightly disheveled. "Chichiri what's wrong?" Miaka asked. "The Universe of the Four Gods has been burned!" the monk said. The miko and emperor looked at each for a moment then back to the monk with horrified eyes. What are we going to do now? Miaka thought.
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"Kutou has burned Konan's Universe of the Four God." Chichiri explained. All seven seishi plus Miaka were in Hotohori's private chamber gathered around a table, Miaka and the Emperor had taken the time to throw on some clothes before they rushed to join the others. "Then how are we supposed to summon Suzaku?" Chiriko said. He was the newest Suzaku seishi. He had only been with them a week. The old Chiriko had actually been a Seriyuu seishi in disguise. They were all out in the gardens one afternoon when Chiriko's flute playing had suddenly turned nasty. He revealed himself as Amiboshi, one of the Seriyuu seven. He was using the sound waves made by his flute to try and injure them, when the real Chiriko had shown up and disrupted his spell with a leaf whistle. Tasuki and Nuriko had chased Amiboshi out into the city when and onto a bridge, they had him cornered on the ledge of the bridge when the stone gave out and he plunged into the river. They hadn't seen any sign of him since.
"I don't know Chiriko. We needed all seven seishi plus the scroll to summon Suzaku. Even if we did manage to get Tamahome back, we would still be unable to summon Suzaku." Chichiri explained. Miaka flinched and her eyes filled with tears at the mention of Tamhome's name. Nuriko, noticing this moved his chair closer to her then pulled the distressed Miko into his arms, Miaka buried her face in her friend's chest a she sobbed silently. The others all stared at her a moment with worried expressions then turned back to the problem at hand. "Is there anyone we can ask for help or information?" Mitsuakake asked. Chichiri frowned a thoughtful look on his face. "I don't know, there might-" "Taiitsukunn. She may know something." Miaka interrupted lifting her head from Nuriko's chest and staring at her seishi.
The seishi looked blinked at their miko then looked at each, surprisingly Miaka's suggestion was a good. "Good idea, Miaka-chan! That's a good idea na no da." Chichiri said as he and the others smiled at the girl. Miaka perked up a little at that, her face losing some of the emotional stress she was under. "Then lets go see Taiitsukunn!" Miaka said, smiling brightly. "I'm already here." An old voiced rasped. "AHHHHHHHHH!!!" All seven people jumped out of their chairs and hit the floor at the appearance of the ugly old lady, although Miaka ended up in Nuriko's lap since he still had a grip on her when the Creator had appeared. "Taittsukunn!" Miaka exclaimed. "Wha-What is that thing?" Tasuki exclaimed looking horrified. "Its Taittsukunn na no da!" Chichiri explained. The seishi sat up and looked at the old woman.
"Taiistsukunn, is there anyway to summon Suzaku now that the scroll has been burned?" Miaka asked. "There is, but it involves a long and dangerous journey. You must go to Hokkan, the land of the north first and recover the Shinzaho. Do you wish to accept this Miaka?" Taitsukunn looked at the girl. Miaka nodded a determined look in her face. "Then I will-" The old woman stopped talking as a wave of immense power hit their senses. The Creator's eyes widened. "It can't be! There must be some mistake." She turned to the Suzaku seishi. "We must go to my palace at once." She held out her hands over the group and in the next instant they found themselves in her palace in the room with the huge mirror. "What's going on?" Nuriko asked.
Taitsukunn ignored him for a few moments as she looked at the blank mirror. Nothing appeared on it but apparently she got whatever information she wanted. She turned back to the seishi. "It is as I feared, the shinzaho has been destroyed, not only the one in Hokkan but the one in Sailo as well." "There were two of them?" Hotohori asked. "Yes and both were needed to summon Suzaku. The Shinzahos were holy relics that were created when Genbu and Byakko were summoned. The god's powers were infused into items that the mikos had with them at the time of the summoning ceremony. After the mikos left some of their seishi chose to guard the relics against any evil minded person who wanted them. They could hand over the relics only to a true miko." Taitsukunn explained.
"So that means I can't summon Suzaku?" Miaka asked, then gasped as a sudden thought occurred to her. "If I can't summon Suzaku, then Yui-chan can't summon Seriyuu right? They needed all seven seishi to summon him and they lost Amiboshi. So they needed the Shinzahos as well didn't they?" Taitsukunn nodded. "They would, if they lost all seven seishi but Amiboshi is alive and in Sailo. All they need is to look for him, but they're not the ones I'm worried about." The Creator said. "Who destroyed the Shinzahos?" Chiriko asked. "I don't know, all I know about him is that his name is Tenkou. Tenkou was a god worshipped by Nakago's tribe, but they turned from him many years ago." The old lady closed her eyes a moment then looked hard at the seishi.
"There is another way for you to summon Suzaku, but it would require you to make a journey three times more dangerous then the one for the Shinzaho would have been. You must journey to another world." She paused at the collective gasp. "My home world?" Miaka asked. "No one completely different. This world is called Delika. Many centuries ago, Delika was having trouble with its magic, so they asked the four gods' and me for help. We helped them, but only if the gods of that realm agreed to guard the most powerful of the Gods' relics. The Hearts of The Four Gods. The Hearts are pieces of a stone that carries the essence of one of the four gods in it. Delika was asked to care for the Hearts because if anything happened to this realm the hearts could be retrieved and any damage to this realm could be repaired. The Hearts can also be used as a last result for summoning a deity." The seishi's mouths had fallen open in shock at this revelation.
"Now you must make a choice you can either stay here or go to Delika to retrieve Suzaku's heart. If you decide to go all of you must go, including Hotohori. Don't worry Konan will be looked after while you're gone." Taiitsukunn said noticing emperor leaning forward about to say something. "So Miaka do you accept this quest?" Miaka looked around at her seishi, who all nodded. "I do, I'll find the heart." She said. "Very well. I will contact Minerra the Queen of the Delikan gods and ask her to arrange a guide for all of you. You'll be leaving sometime tomorrow, so I suggest you rest, I'll have the Nyan-Nyans make up some rooms for all of you." With that Taiitsukunn left them alone, leaving them to wonder just what they had gotten themselves into.
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Night had fallen over the mountain palace; the stars were bright twinkling jewels against the blue-black of the night sky. Miaka sat by herself on a rock overlooking a Koi filled pond. She had a lot on her mind tonight. The upcoming journey was taking up a huge chunk of her thoughts but mostly she thought about Tamahome and Hotohori and how she felt about them.
"Miaka? You should be sleeping, tomorrow is going to be a hard day." Miaka whipped her head around to see Hotohori dressed in a robe, with his hair loosely bound back in a ponytail. "Hotohori what are you doing here?" "I went to check up on you and you weren't in your room, I grew worried and started to look for you." The seishi said coming and sitting by the miko. Miaka smiled at him. He was worried about me? Hotohori's always been so nice to me. The emperor smiled back and gently drew Miaka into a hug. She laid her head down on his chest and closed her eyes. He was so warm and she was so tired. She felt safe and protected and a little loved lying in his arms. Maybe I should give Hotohori a chance now that Tamahome is gone. She thought just before she fell asleep.
Hotohori smiled gently at the sleeping miko. He knew he should probably put her in her room and then go to his, but he wanted to hold her like this for a while longer. Only tiredness overcame him and he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep, cradling his beloved Miaka in his arms. A lone Nyan-Nyan passes by them a while later. She looked at them for a moment, then materialized a blanket out of nowhere and covered the sleeping couple. She walked away feeling happy with herself that her duty had been done.
Well should I continue it or dump it? Let me know! Review or e-mail me at saturamelsi@hotmail.com