Disclaimer: You know how it goes. None of these characters belong to me, but this story plot does! And please don't sue me I'm broke… Gods, Christmas is the time for spending lots of money!
WARNING: This is yaoi, m/m, slash, boy/boy sexual relations so if you are underage or scared of this story perverting your minds, please leave immediately! I am not responsible for your actions past this point! And for the rest of you… thank you for reading and remember to review ^ . ^
Pairs: Hotohori x Nuriko, Tasuki +/x Nuriko (later), Nakago x Nuriko
Notes: When everything is perfect in life and you are with the one you love, nothing can go wrong. But when this love goes awry, who can be there to pick up the pieces.
Willow's Heart-- The ExchangeI must call Nuriko in here now… I hate to hurt him but I know that this will not work out. Hotohori the emperor of Konan motioned for one of his guards to go get Nuriko so that he could speak with the smaller seishi. I have to break his heart.
"Hotohori-sama? You wanted to speak with me?" The emperor looked up into rose petal eyes that now held a hint of confusion.
"I… I don't think this will work out between you… and me. I need someone who can give me an heir." That stunned the other boy.
"What do you mean, Hotohori-sama?"
"I mean that sleeping with you was fun, but that's all you'll ever mean to me!" Hotohori yelled and realized in his mind that those words were not the ones that he was supposed to say. He couldn't take it back though because he realized that it was much too late.
"I… Is that all I've ever meant to you? Your toy! Someone whose emotions you can play around with? How could you? You knew how I feel about you and now you do this!" Nuriko bowed his head in anger and willed his tears not to come. "I trusted you with my heart, Hotohori. Can you not see that I am truly in love with you?" He whispered softly at that last part.
"I would never be in love with something like you." The emperor said coldly and that is when Nuriko's heart broke. His tears came without his biding and as they flowed down his ivory face, the willow-marked seishi ran out of the room leaving the emperor standing in his room alone.
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"Hehe… this is perfect. Emotions are such a horrid thing." Blue eyes flashed with power and hate. A mouth moved casting a spell over the crystal they were watching. The image on the crystal was of Suzaku Shichi Seishi Nuriko. A bright blue light flooded the dark room.
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Nuriko kept running until he reached the garden. The violet-haired seishi collapsed in the dirt and sobbed. Now he was truly alone. Oh Kourin! If I never lost you this would have never happened! I want you back Kourin! I need you imouto!
"Onii-chan?" Nuriko looked up and saw someone that was impossibly alive.
"Kourin?"
"Onii-chan!" The little girl ran up to her big brother and hugged him with vigor.
"Imouto! But how…" He looked down into her eyes… the mirror image of his own. Nuriko saw his sister. The one that he loved, the one for whom he gave up his identity. "I'm so happy to see you again, Kourin. I can't believe you are here!"
"Neither can I, Ryuuen-chan, why are you letting people push you around, Onii-chan?"
"I do not know. I feel horrible."
"Then come with me… I know who can help you." Nuriko sensed something wrong. In his happiness to see his sister again, Nuriko did not sense the strange presence that was coming from Kourin.
"Who… Who are you?"
"Kourin… I am your sister."
"No… you are not my sister. I sense something strange. Seiryuu power!" He turned back to Kourin and saw that she was glowing with vivid blue light.
"That's right." A harsh voice was coming from her mouth. "I am sent by Nakago to take you in." The thing that looked like Kourin started to whisper a spell and Nuriko was trapped in a blue cage. A bright light flashed violently against Nuriko's eyes and when the smoke around the cage subsided, Nuriko was gone. The evil in the form of Kourin stood behind a nearby tree.
Miaka and the rest of the seishi ran to the spot where the bright light had come from, the light that had practically blinded everyone at the dinner. "What was that?" Miaka yelled as she ran.
"I do not know! We should check it out na no da!" Chichiri ran beside her. "It was blue power and that probably means Seiryuu no da!" They all made it to the field opening and they saw something strange. A blue cage was floating a few feet off the ground and right underneath it, a few strands of violet hair.
"Nuriko." Chiriko whispered. "What has happened to him?"
"He wasn't at dinner and the last person to see him was you, Hotohori!" Tasuki pointed at the emperor with an accusing finger. "Do you know what happened to Nuriko?"
"I have no idea. I was talking to him before dinner and then he went back to his quarters. I didn't think anything was wrong."
"You want to know what happened to Suzaku's guardian Nuriko?" They all turned towards a little girl that had just emerged from behind a tree. They all gasped.
"Who are you? You look like Nuriko!" The little girl smiled and tucked a loose strand of violet hair behind her ear.
"My name is Kourin. I am Nuriko's dead imouto and I have taken Nuriko to live with me. I miss him."
"That's not true! If you were anything like Nuriko, you wouldn't have done that!" Tasuki all but screamed at the figure in front of him. Chichiri, who was beside him, whispered a spell past his mask and suddenly, the form of Kourin started to stretch and turned into an ugly demon. Its skin was covered by boils and was completely black. Its eyes were blood red and the utter horror of the monster was the fact that it hurt Nuriko in some way… they just needed to find out how and where the violet-haired seishi was.
"Tell us who you are and where Nuriko is!" Miaka yelled. "We want to know!"
"Sorry, but I'd give my life away before I tell you. How annoying: the Suzaku Miko and the seishi. How terribly stupid." The thing grinned evilly revealing several rows of rotten teeth and an air of bad breath. "However, if you want to know what drove pretty boy down here, ask your heika." The others turned towards Hotohori, ignoring the beast for just a few moments giving it time to escape in a flash.
"Fuck! How did it get away?" Tasuki swore. "We hafta go find Nuriko. We can't sit around an' do nothin'! And you, Hotohori, have to explain to us what that fucking thing meant by those words."
"It doesn't mean anything. It was just a diversion so that it could escape." Hotohori stated firmly and the others agreed after a thought, but there was one person who was still glaring at the emperor. Tasuki.
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Nakago, general of Kutou, stood outside the dungeon in which the Suzaku Shichi Seishi Nuriko was being kept. Just to think that one of the Suzaku Seishi is in my grasps and under my control. It took most of my energy to change him completely, but now that I have him under my control…He looked inside and almost smiled. Nakago had to admit that Nuriko was beautiful, gorgeous even. Under my control, in more ways than one.
"Nngh." Nuriko woke up in a dark, cold dungeon. "Captured by Seiryuu. This just shows how worthy I am of being a Suzaku Guardian." Tears fell unbidden, streaking his perfect skin. "I'm not worthy of being a Suzaku Shichi Seishi!" He yelled in frustration and suddenly, a blue light surrounded him and as it died so did Nuriko's Suzaku empowered soul and his memories.
Nakago entered and stared hungrily at the younger boy before him. Nuriko stood there, a blue aura marking him, and utterly naked. In the small of his back was a blazing blue sign… Dead.
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Oki… Can anyone suggest what will happen to Nuriko next? And there will be yaoi between Nuriko and Nakago soon. I luv strange couples! Arigatou for reading this minna-san!! Please R&R!
~Nuriko no Tenshi~