I love all the reveiws I'm getting for this story, I don't have alot, but they're all so nice, thank you all of you that have reveiwed this story! I tried to get this chapter out as fast I could, but I'm on a tight schedule so you may have to wait a bit. I tried to get this chapter out while still attempting to make it good, well, enjoy the chapter, you may have to wait a bit for the next
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Chapter 11: Summoning Suzaku
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(Kibou's PoV)
There was an awkward silence, I didn't know how to answer her. It was a long awkward silence, I knew I should've kept quiet. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!" yelled Genrou's voice from ahead. We quickly went to him and saw him tied up. "Chichiri you sure take your damn time when your trying to pull a joke! Kibou? Why the hell are you here?"
"I came on my own," I said quietly.
"What happened to your arm?" he asked seeing my clothing completely stained with blood that was now dripping. I covered it, I felt no pain but I had a numb feeling going throughout my body when I did touch it. Chichiri pulled up my sleeve and saw that my arm was growing very pale and the bone seemed to have cut through my skin since it was that broken. When Chichiri turned my arm over I almost felt like puking when I saw the bone poking out of my skin. Blood oozing around everywhere. Chichiri touch it and that when a horrible pain went throughout my body. I screamed in pain. He slowly turned it to ther other side, tears of pain blured my eyes.
"How'd this happen?"
I looked to Miaka, she looked really sad. I looked down so Chichiri wouldn't see my face. "I was trying to protect Miaka."
"I'm so sorry, Ohne-chan, you were hurt because of me!"
I faintly smiled. "Don't worry, this arm's dead so it doesn't feel much pain." I said as tears slid down my cheeks.
"But your crying..."
"I'm ok, don't worry."
Miaka sniffled, she was crying. "You always say that, you almost drowned that one time when you tried to save me!"
I bit my lip, I didn't remember that.. "Miaka...To tell you the truth...I lost my memory, I slowly gained it in the last 6 years."
"We'll have to head back, no da. This seems pretty bad." said Chichiri still holding up my arm.
I shook my head. "Don't end this mission because of me... I'm fine."
"Ohne-chan.."
"Well, I'll look around for Tamahome, all of you stay here, no da." he said changing back into Nakago. Miaka brought out a small hankercheif to wrap around my arm. A small peice of paper fell out, before I could ask, Genrou tightly wraped my arm so my vision went white in pain. I had forgotten what I was going to ask, but before I knew it, Miaka tied Genrou to a pole and ran off. I got up but then fell to the floor. "Miaka! Wait, don't go!" I yelled.
I tried to run after her but my strength was getting weaker by every step I took because of the blood loss. Chichiri soon came back, "We have to get going, we're found out, no da...What happened? Where's Miaka?"
"She went back to that damned tree!" I yelled getting up.
Chichiri untied Genrou and Chichiri helped me up and quickly transported us to the tree. I held on to Chichiri as Genrou went to save Miaka before she was hit by numchucks. Genrou and Tamahome started to go into a battle, but I still couldn't do anything because of how rapidly I was losing my blood, the cloth didn't do much for me. I was begining to get weaker by the moment, but I had to help, knowing Tamahome, but now possesed, Tamahome could kill Genrou. I watched the fight helplessly. Genrou was getting completely beaten up we could only watched, when Genrou shot out flames from his fan and that's when Miaka woke up. It was when Genrou told us to escape we tried to but couldn't, something suddenly blocked off our power. Nakago appeared soon after, he was doing it! That loser! Chichiri transported us away from there but I managed to get up. I drew my sword. "Kibou, get down! You can't fight him!" Chichiri yelled in a low whisper.
I came out to him, my arm was still bleeding as heavily as it had been. Nakago smriked when he saw me. "Your not going to be much of a fight."
I held up my arm. "I have one good arm, I've survived off that for 6 years, give me what you got!"
The symbol appeared on his forehead and threw me against a tree. I felt something come up my throat quickly and I coughed a painful cough that made my head throbb. I looked infront of me, blood, I should've excepted that.
"Hey, leave her alone, you were fighting me!" Genrou yelled. Nakago turned to him and Tamahome started to choke Genrou with the chain of his numchucks. I quickly ran to Nakago but he immediatly sent me flying. I was too weak to catch my balance so I crashed to the ground and I felt more of my body break. I couldn't move anymore, but I tried to get up, when I did, I cut the chain of Tamahome's numchucked and collasped but I didn't faint. I heard a flute start to play, a counter spell tune...Who was playing that? The next thing I saw was a red light that surrouded the whole place and I was in Chichiri's arms. "Kibou are you ok?" he asked worriedly.
I nodded. "That was pointless, wasn't it?" I said faintly. "I have wisdom my ass, I'm not smart at all...How's Genrou?"
I looked to him, he fainted. I'm not surprised, he got beaten pretty bad. "He fainted, but he'll be ok.."
I then looked over to Miaka, she was crying, before we were completely in Konan, I looked back, Tamahome was standing there looking at us. I looked back at Miaka. "Miaka, don't worry, he'll pull through." I said feeling more weak.
"He's gone, nothing worked!" she sobbed.
I fainted soon after, my head hurt and pain was all over my body. It felt as almost every bone in my body was broken, probably was. But my body couldn't take much more pain and just made me faint.
"Kibou, thank you." echoed a female voice that had a familiarity to it. Black was all around me, I couldn't see who was talking or myself.
"Who's there."
A young lady, I reconized her immediatly, Kouran. "Kibou, thank you." she repeated in the same echoy ghost like tone.
"F-for what?"
"But you'll fail." she said her voice getting deeper and sounding evil. "...You shall fail." her eyes started to glow red and a black ghost arose from her and came towards me, It looked as if I was looking into the face of Death, it's eyes, all I could see were it's eyes, cold red eyes that showed death and despair.
"You will fail all your goals!" a different voice seemed to say in a loud whisper right in my ear.
My eyes snapped awake and I could feel cold sweat streaming down my forehead and I was breathing heavily. I looked to the side, Houjun was in a chair, sleeping. He didn't have his mask on. "Houjun?" I whispered.
He opened his eye. When he saw me awake, he smiled. "Glad your awake. Mitsukake bandaged you up but didn't know if he wanted to heal you or Tasuki first, both of you are hurt pretty bad...Tasuki wants you to get healed first."
"...That stubburn fool." I said looking to the ceiling. "I'm not that hurt."
"Well, a bone did break through your arm so you know, you'll have to figure, no da. I'll get Mitsukake, no da."
He got up and left the room, I looked up at the ceiling again, as if it came out of my dream, I faced Death once again, my mouth went dry and I couldn't scream. a snake emergred from the hood and slithered down to me. I couldn't move, I was still weak and I was completely paralyzed. The snake started to slither up my stomache and up to my chest, it came to my face and approached me as if to bite. I could see the vemoneous syliva dripping and burning onto the blanket. It hissed at me again. I screamed.
Someone burst through the door. "What's wrong Kibou?!" Houjun exclaimed running to my side, the snake didn't disapear, it didn't look up at Houjun either, I looked back to the ceiling and a hundred bugs crawled around as I saw Death among it. I felt my body shaking as the snake continued to hiss. A claw came towards me from Death. "Kibou, talk to me! What's wrong?!"
"Can't you see it?! Help me Houjun! Help!!"
Houjun reached his hand out to me but then the snake was about to bite it. "No! Don't it'll bite you!"
The claw reached me and started to choke me, I could feel it. "Houjun!" I said barely whispering.
I don't know what happened next but I was out and in Houjun's arms. He was hugging me tightly. "Kibou, what's wrong?"
My breathing quickened a bit but then slowed down. I couldn't speak, my mouth was still so dry. I kept shaking. He layed me down on the bed and nothing was there. "Mitsukake..come in." he said still looking at me worriedly. The door opened, I didn't turn my head, I didn't want to really see a stranger, an animal jumped on me...Tama? I looked to my side. "Juan?" I asked confused to see the familiar face of Juan as Mitsukake instead of a complete stranger.
"So do you want to be healed first?"
I was still shaking a bit. I wasn't sure. "Go ahead, Mitsukake." Houjun answered.
He put his hand over my body. "Healing forces!"
I felt the strength come back into my body and somehow, my bones seemed to realign. I sat up feeling wonderful. "Now I see why you became a doctor. Thanks Juan...Or Mitsukake. But does it really matter who you heal first?"
"I can only heal one person a day." he answered.
I nodded. "I see."
"Get a bit of rest before you go around anywhere." he said leaving the room.
Once the door was closed, I remembered, the horrible visions I had. "Are you ok, Kibou?"
"I think so...But couldn't you see it? The snake? Death?"
He shook his head. "I didn't see a thing."
"I-I must've been hallucinating or something...Oh well, I'm ok now. Where's Miaka?"
I heard someone run down the hallway and then someone burst through the door. "Miaka's missing!!" Kourin yelled.
I jumped up immediatly, and we quickly came to a lake where the emperor had saved Miaka. Houjun checked her pulse. "She's ok!"
I looked to Kourin, she was frowning....And Houjun said something that I didn't know of her, what was it? We went inside and I walked with Kourin inside as everyone went ahead.
"Kourin.."
"You could stop calling me Kourin." She said. "Just call me Nuriko, it jsut seems best. Besides, Kourin doesn't seem to fit me anymore since I'm accepting myself for what I am."
I looked at her a bit confused. "For who you are?"
She looked at me a bit strangely, then smiled. "You don't know, do you?"
We both stoped. "I'm a man."
My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe this, Kourin was too pretty to be a man! "I can't believe it!...You can't be!"
She undid her shirt and I saw the exact proof. No breasts. I couldn't believe this.. "So your gay?"
"I don't really like to put it that way." she...or he said.
"Well, you are in love the the emperor, you know, liking the same sex...I mean, you know."
He nodded and laughed a bit. "I guess your right...but I really wish, I could take Miaka's place.."
"Yeah, considering, Miaka loves Tamahome."
"But there's no chan-"
"No." I said interupting him. "Yes, he did swollow codoku (I don't know if that's how you spell it, and I don't feel like looking it up, so I'm sounding it out...) but you should know that the love, that I've seen so far, is incredible. And knowing how stubburn Tamahome is, deep inside, he's still there, and he'll come through, for Miaka, his family, and everyone who's important to him. He won't ve gone."
"You really look out for him don't you?"
I nodded. "I think of Tamahome as a little brother..His family is like my family."
We got inside, I saw Genrou in wraps, I felt bad, I was healed first...But who knows what would happen if I was healed the next day, those visions...I could've been literally scared to death. "You two took your time." Genrou said.
I sat down against the wall on the floor and sighed. "We could do what we want, we have time."
I looked around, one of them wasn't the real one, and I saw him right away. Why was he still here? Didn't they take him away yet? "Hey Chiriko." I called out.
The blonde boy looked up to me, everyone looked to the two of us, now I understand, they were probably seeing if he made a move or not, he might just be here so they'd stop searching. "Were you the one who was playing the flute?"
He nodded. "You play pretty well, can I see your flute?"
He got out a small tannish flute and handed it to me. I looked at it, it was pretty plain. "Can I play it?"
He hestitated for a moment. "Sure.."
I felt good vibes from him, he wasn't evil, he couldn't be, maybe he was just confused... I brought it to my lips and started to play a tune, I had named it Cradle song, since, somehow, it seemed to fit. After, everyone was dead silent. "Who are you again?" he asked.
I smirked and I looked to everyone, they were all glaring at me, telling me not to say a thing. "I'm Chiriko."
Everyone sighed heavily. They saw it coming. The fraud looked stiffened. I smiled. "Don't worry, we won't hurt you, we would've done it weeks ago, when they knew that Chiriko was found, heck Chichiri knew for 6 years. What's your name?"
He backed against the wall more. "A-amiboshi." he answered.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
He stayed silent and just looked down. "Your probably in this for every wrong reason." I said. "Who sent you?"
"Nakago." he answered.
I nodded. "Then that answers everything. Nakago. As I've seen, Nakago tends to munipulate everything to show a fake truth. What did he tell you?"
"H-he told me..You guys were the ones that were going to start the war." he said a bit quietly.
That low life bastard, what is he doing to these people? "You've been with us for a long time, right?" he nodded slowly. "You've seen around us long enough to see our personality, we want to bring peace, not war. Nakago is a blood thirsty bastard that loves war..more in likely. I'm pretty sure he's using the preistess of Seiryu for some sick purpose." I was starting to get really frustrated, Nakago frustrated me, I hated him.
I tried calming myself. "Ok..I'm ok....Amiboshi..Your fighting on the wrong side."
"..Then what should I do?"
I thought for a moment, what could he do, he couldn't go back... "How about, since, you know, it'd be hard for you to choose either Suzaku or Seiryu, be neither,"
Now everyone looked confused, including Amiboshi. "Yeah..They may come looking for you, so hide your energy as long as you can, so they can presume your dead and go to Sairou, Sairou has alot of nice people around there, I'm sure someone is bound to take you in."
I got up and handed him his flute. "Let us summon Suzaku, we'll bring peace, not war, you could go now...If you want."
He got up. "I guess your right...I'll be-"
"Wait, You'd probably want some food to go on your journey, come on, come with me." He followed me out the door where I led him to the kitchen. "Your making a goood choice, Amiboshi. I knew you weren't really evil minded, just tricked. Do you have family?"
"My Twin, Suboshi...He's a Seiryu seishi also.."
I nodded slightly, I opened the doors to the kitchen, no one was in there since it was their break time. I started to fix him something so he could make it through the journey. "He's probably being manipulated by Nakago as well.....Amiboshi, after all this, I promise I'll come back for you in Sairou, after I kill Nakago. Just hang on till then, k?"
I wraped the food in a small bag and handed it to him. Then I handed him a small pouch that was inside my dress. "You'll need money."
"Thank you, but why are you doing this?"
"You want this don't you?"
I lead him outside and gave him a horse that he could use. He rode out of Konan, looking back constantly. I knew he felt uneasy about this, but I guess it was for the better. The storm hadn't quite let up but it was slowing down, he'd stop somewhere eventually. I went back inside before the storm got worse. Once I got there, was a fight going on, well there was, I missed it, Mitskake was leaning down and healing Tamahome. I walked over to them, we could summon Suzaku now.. Miaka looked so happy with Tamahome, Tamahome was happy as well. I looked up to the emperor, he looked a bit sad. Poor thing, he was in love with Miaka as well. Miaka looked up to me and smiled. "Ohne-chan! Tamahome came back!"
I nodded. "Like I said."
The rain had now stoped, the blue sky started to emerge. We were going to summon Suzaku soon now, all the Suzaku Seishi have gathered. In fact, as I found out soon enough, it was the next day!
~*That night*~
(Chichiri's PoV)
I walked around the palace for a bit before I went to bed, I was a bit afraid for Kibou, especailly after what happened after she woke up. I walked near her room, her light was on, it was late..Why was it on? I opened the door slightly, she was in there, on the bed, hugging her knees and shaking. I walked in and she looked at me, deep fear was in her eyes. When I took a step near her, she back away from me. "Don't, stay away!"
She wasn't seeing me, what was wrong with her? I tried to walk over to her but she kept backing away. "...Houjun..where are you?" I heard her mutter.
I held my hand out to her. "It's me, Kibou, I'm right here."
I took off my mask and her eyes seemed less in fear. "Houjun.."
I came and sat next to her. "What's wrong?"
She then hugged me around my waist and started to sob. "Every time I try to sleep, it's right there! Death! It keeps attacking me!"
I patted her back gently. "It was just a nightmare, don't worry."
She kept shaking. "It won't stop, I don't know why they even started..."
"Don't worry, just go back to sleep, you need the strength." I said laying her down and covering her with her sheets. She held on to my arm. "Please don't leave." She had a tight grip on it, she was really afraid... I kneeled down to my knees. "Ok.."
"Thank you.." She soon closed her eyes and went to sleep. How long is this going to last....? Why did it start? Everytime, I swear, she was loosing her mind and acted like a child shooken up by a nightmare. I tried to get up but she had a tight grip on me, she was asleep but she was still frightened. "Houjun.." she muttered.
I looked to her, her eyes were open. "You could sleep on the bed if you like, I seemed to stop having these nightmares when your here...So please don't leave."
With an uneasy feeling came over when I layed down next to her. "..Thank you." she whispered and soon drifted into sleep. I blew out the candle and soon went to sleep myself, tomorrow was a big day, I needed rest, and so did she.
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I woke up with Kibou already up and about, I guess she was right, she didn't scream or anything while I was here. Why was that? Kibou wandered about somewhere else as Miaka prepared for the ceremony to summon suzaku, everything was now going smoothly. We were going to summon Suzaku and get all this over with...But Kibou, she's Miaka's older sister...What if she has to go back with her?
We were ready to summon Suzaku..But, something didn't feel right. I helped Miaka say what she had to say, and after she was done, nothing happened. Somehow, we had failed to summon Suzaku..
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There! Finished with this chapter, I think that long enough, I don't know how long it'll take for the next chapter but I'll try to get it out soon!
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Chapter 11: Summoning Suzaku
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(Kibou's PoV)
There was an awkward silence, I didn't know how to answer her. It was a long awkward silence, I knew I should've kept quiet. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!" yelled Genrou's voice from ahead. We quickly went to him and saw him tied up. "Chichiri you sure take your damn time when your trying to pull a joke! Kibou? Why the hell are you here?"
"I came on my own," I said quietly.
"What happened to your arm?" he asked seeing my clothing completely stained with blood that was now dripping. I covered it, I felt no pain but I had a numb feeling going throughout my body when I did touch it. Chichiri pulled up my sleeve and saw that my arm was growing very pale and the bone seemed to have cut through my skin since it was that broken. When Chichiri turned my arm over I almost felt like puking when I saw the bone poking out of my skin. Blood oozing around everywhere. Chichiri touch it and that when a horrible pain went throughout my body. I screamed in pain. He slowly turned it to ther other side, tears of pain blured my eyes.
"How'd this happen?"
I looked to Miaka, she looked really sad. I looked down so Chichiri wouldn't see my face. "I was trying to protect Miaka."
"I'm so sorry, Ohne-chan, you were hurt because of me!"
I faintly smiled. "Don't worry, this arm's dead so it doesn't feel much pain." I said as tears slid down my cheeks.
"But your crying..."
"I'm ok, don't worry."
Miaka sniffled, she was crying. "You always say that, you almost drowned that one time when you tried to save me!"
I bit my lip, I didn't remember that.. "Miaka...To tell you the truth...I lost my memory, I slowly gained it in the last 6 years."
"We'll have to head back, no da. This seems pretty bad." said Chichiri still holding up my arm.
I shook my head. "Don't end this mission because of me... I'm fine."
"Ohne-chan.."
"Well, I'll look around for Tamahome, all of you stay here, no da." he said changing back into Nakago. Miaka brought out a small hankercheif to wrap around my arm. A small peice of paper fell out, before I could ask, Genrou tightly wraped my arm so my vision went white in pain. I had forgotten what I was going to ask, but before I knew it, Miaka tied Genrou to a pole and ran off. I got up but then fell to the floor. "Miaka! Wait, don't go!" I yelled.
I tried to run after her but my strength was getting weaker by every step I took because of the blood loss. Chichiri soon came back, "We have to get going, we're found out, no da...What happened? Where's Miaka?"
"She went back to that damned tree!" I yelled getting up.
Chichiri untied Genrou and Chichiri helped me up and quickly transported us to the tree. I held on to Chichiri as Genrou went to save Miaka before she was hit by numchucks. Genrou and Tamahome started to go into a battle, but I still couldn't do anything because of how rapidly I was losing my blood, the cloth didn't do much for me. I was begining to get weaker by the moment, but I had to help, knowing Tamahome, but now possesed, Tamahome could kill Genrou. I watched the fight helplessly. Genrou was getting completely beaten up we could only watched, when Genrou shot out flames from his fan and that's when Miaka woke up. It was when Genrou told us to escape we tried to but couldn't, something suddenly blocked off our power. Nakago appeared soon after, he was doing it! That loser! Chichiri transported us away from there but I managed to get up. I drew my sword. "Kibou, get down! You can't fight him!" Chichiri yelled in a low whisper.
I came out to him, my arm was still bleeding as heavily as it had been. Nakago smriked when he saw me. "Your not going to be much of a fight."
I held up my arm. "I have one good arm, I've survived off that for 6 years, give me what you got!"
The symbol appeared on his forehead and threw me against a tree. I felt something come up my throat quickly and I coughed a painful cough that made my head throbb. I looked infront of me, blood, I should've excepted that.
"Hey, leave her alone, you were fighting me!" Genrou yelled. Nakago turned to him and Tamahome started to choke Genrou with the chain of his numchucks. I quickly ran to Nakago but he immediatly sent me flying. I was too weak to catch my balance so I crashed to the ground and I felt more of my body break. I couldn't move anymore, but I tried to get up, when I did, I cut the chain of Tamahome's numchucked and collasped but I didn't faint. I heard a flute start to play, a counter spell tune...Who was playing that? The next thing I saw was a red light that surrouded the whole place and I was in Chichiri's arms. "Kibou are you ok?" he asked worriedly.
I nodded. "That was pointless, wasn't it?" I said faintly. "I have wisdom my ass, I'm not smart at all...How's Genrou?"
I looked to him, he fainted. I'm not surprised, he got beaten pretty bad. "He fainted, but he'll be ok.."
I then looked over to Miaka, she was crying, before we were completely in Konan, I looked back, Tamahome was standing there looking at us. I looked back at Miaka. "Miaka, don't worry, he'll pull through." I said feeling more weak.
"He's gone, nothing worked!" she sobbed.
I fainted soon after, my head hurt and pain was all over my body. It felt as almost every bone in my body was broken, probably was. But my body couldn't take much more pain and just made me faint.
"Kibou, thank you." echoed a female voice that had a familiarity to it. Black was all around me, I couldn't see who was talking or myself.
"Who's there."
A young lady, I reconized her immediatly, Kouran. "Kibou, thank you." she repeated in the same echoy ghost like tone.
"F-for what?"
"But you'll fail." she said her voice getting deeper and sounding evil. "...You shall fail." her eyes started to glow red and a black ghost arose from her and came towards me, It looked as if I was looking into the face of Death, it's eyes, all I could see were it's eyes, cold red eyes that showed death and despair.
"You will fail all your goals!" a different voice seemed to say in a loud whisper right in my ear.
My eyes snapped awake and I could feel cold sweat streaming down my forehead and I was breathing heavily. I looked to the side, Houjun was in a chair, sleeping. He didn't have his mask on. "Houjun?" I whispered.
He opened his eye. When he saw me awake, he smiled. "Glad your awake. Mitsukake bandaged you up but didn't know if he wanted to heal you or Tasuki first, both of you are hurt pretty bad...Tasuki wants you to get healed first."
"...That stubburn fool." I said looking to the ceiling. "I'm not that hurt."
"Well, a bone did break through your arm so you know, you'll have to figure, no da. I'll get Mitsukake, no da."
He got up and left the room, I looked up at the ceiling again, as if it came out of my dream, I faced Death once again, my mouth went dry and I couldn't scream. a snake emergred from the hood and slithered down to me. I couldn't move, I was still weak and I was completely paralyzed. The snake started to slither up my stomache and up to my chest, it came to my face and approached me as if to bite. I could see the vemoneous syliva dripping and burning onto the blanket. It hissed at me again. I screamed.
Someone burst through the door. "What's wrong Kibou?!" Houjun exclaimed running to my side, the snake didn't disapear, it didn't look up at Houjun either, I looked back to the ceiling and a hundred bugs crawled around as I saw Death among it. I felt my body shaking as the snake continued to hiss. A claw came towards me from Death. "Kibou, talk to me! What's wrong?!"
"Can't you see it?! Help me Houjun! Help!!"
Houjun reached his hand out to me but then the snake was about to bite it. "No! Don't it'll bite you!"
The claw reached me and started to choke me, I could feel it. "Houjun!" I said barely whispering.
I don't know what happened next but I was out and in Houjun's arms. He was hugging me tightly. "Kibou, what's wrong?"
My breathing quickened a bit but then slowed down. I couldn't speak, my mouth was still so dry. I kept shaking. He layed me down on the bed and nothing was there. "Mitsukake..come in." he said still looking at me worriedly. The door opened, I didn't turn my head, I didn't want to really see a stranger, an animal jumped on me...Tama? I looked to my side. "Juan?" I asked confused to see the familiar face of Juan as Mitsukake instead of a complete stranger.
"So do you want to be healed first?"
I was still shaking a bit. I wasn't sure. "Go ahead, Mitsukake." Houjun answered.
He put his hand over my body. "Healing forces!"
I felt the strength come back into my body and somehow, my bones seemed to realign. I sat up feeling wonderful. "Now I see why you became a doctor. Thanks Juan...Or Mitsukake. But does it really matter who you heal first?"
"I can only heal one person a day." he answered.
I nodded. "I see."
"Get a bit of rest before you go around anywhere." he said leaving the room.
Once the door was closed, I remembered, the horrible visions I had. "Are you ok, Kibou?"
"I think so...But couldn't you see it? The snake? Death?"
He shook his head. "I didn't see a thing."
"I-I must've been hallucinating or something...Oh well, I'm ok now. Where's Miaka?"
I heard someone run down the hallway and then someone burst through the door. "Miaka's missing!!" Kourin yelled.
I jumped up immediatly, and we quickly came to a lake where the emperor had saved Miaka. Houjun checked her pulse. "She's ok!"
I looked to Kourin, she was frowning....And Houjun said something that I didn't know of her, what was it? We went inside and I walked with Kourin inside as everyone went ahead.
"Kourin.."
"You could stop calling me Kourin." She said. "Just call me Nuriko, it jsut seems best. Besides, Kourin doesn't seem to fit me anymore since I'm accepting myself for what I am."
I looked at her a bit confused. "For who you are?"
She looked at me a bit strangely, then smiled. "You don't know, do you?"
We both stoped. "I'm a man."
My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe this, Kourin was too pretty to be a man! "I can't believe it!...You can't be!"
She undid her shirt and I saw the exact proof. No breasts. I couldn't believe this.. "So your gay?"
"I don't really like to put it that way." she...or he said.
"Well, you are in love the the emperor, you know, liking the same sex...I mean, you know."
He nodded and laughed a bit. "I guess your right...but I really wish, I could take Miaka's place.."
"Yeah, considering, Miaka loves Tamahome."
"But there's no chan-"
"No." I said interupting him. "Yes, he did swollow codoku (I don't know if that's how you spell it, and I don't feel like looking it up, so I'm sounding it out...) but you should know that the love, that I've seen so far, is incredible. And knowing how stubburn Tamahome is, deep inside, he's still there, and he'll come through, for Miaka, his family, and everyone who's important to him. He won't ve gone."
"You really look out for him don't you?"
I nodded. "I think of Tamahome as a little brother..His family is like my family."
We got inside, I saw Genrou in wraps, I felt bad, I was healed first...But who knows what would happen if I was healed the next day, those visions...I could've been literally scared to death. "You two took your time." Genrou said.
I sat down against the wall on the floor and sighed. "We could do what we want, we have time."
I looked around, one of them wasn't the real one, and I saw him right away. Why was he still here? Didn't they take him away yet? "Hey Chiriko." I called out.
The blonde boy looked up to me, everyone looked to the two of us, now I understand, they were probably seeing if he made a move or not, he might just be here so they'd stop searching. "Were you the one who was playing the flute?"
He nodded. "You play pretty well, can I see your flute?"
He got out a small tannish flute and handed it to me. I looked at it, it was pretty plain. "Can I play it?"
He hestitated for a moment. "Sure.."
I felt good vibes from him, he wasn't evil, he couldn't be, maybe he was just confused... I brought it to my lips and started to play a tune, I had named it Cradle song, since, somehow, it seemed to fit. After, everyone was dead silent. "Who are you again?" he asked.
I smirked and I looked to everyone, they were all glaring at me, telling me not to say a thing. "I'm Chiriko."
Everyone sighed heavily. They saw it coming. The fraud looked stiffened. I smiled. "Don't worry, we won't hurt you, we would've done it weeks ago, when they knew that Chiriko was found, heck Chichiri knew for 6 years. What's your name?"
He backed against the wall more. "A-amiboshi." he answered.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
He stayed silent and just looked down. "Your probably in this for every wrong reason." I said. "Who sent you?"
"Nakago." he answered.
I nodded. "Then that answers everything. Nakago. As I've seen, Nakago tends to munipulate everything to show a fake truth. What did he tell you?"
"H-he told me..You guys were the ones that were going to start the war." he said a bit quietly.
That low life bastard, what is he doing to these people? "You've been with us for a long time, right?" he nodded slowly. "You've seen around us long enough to see our personality, we want to bring peace, not war. Nakago is a blood thirsty bastard that loves war..more in likely. I'm pretty sure he's using the preistess of Seiryu for some sick purpose." I was starting to get really frustrated, Nakago frustrated me, I hated him.
I tried calming myself. "Ok..I'm ok....Amiboshi..Your fighting on the wrong side."
"..Then what should I do?"
I thought for a moment, what could he do, he couldn't go back... "How about, since, you know, it'd be hard for you to choose either Suzaku or Seiryu, be neither,"
Now everyone looked confused, including Amiboshi. "Yeah..They may come looking for you, so hide your energy as long as you can, so they can presume your dead and go to Sairou, Sairou has alot of nice people around there, I'm sure someone is bound to take you in."
I got up and handed him his flute. "Let us summon Suzaku, we'll bring peace, not war, you could go now...If you want."
He got up. "I guess your right...I'll be-"
"Wait, You'd probably want some food to go on your journey, come on, come with me." He followed me out the door where I led him to the kitchen. "Your making a goood choice, Amiboshi. I knew you weren't really evil minded, just tricked. Do you have family?"
"My Twin, Suboshi...He's a Seiryu seishi also.."
I nodded slightly, I opened the doors to the kitchen, no one was in there since it was their break time. I started to fix him something so he could make it through the journey. "He's probably being manipulated by Nakago as well.....Amiboshi, after all this, I promise I'll come back for you in Sairou, after I kill Nakago. Just hang on till then, k?"
I wraped the food in a small bag and handed it to him. Then I handed him a small pouch that was inside my dress. "You'll need money."
"Thank you, but why are you doing this?"
"You want this don't you?"
I lead him outside and gave him a horse that he could use. He rode out of Konan, looking back constantly. I knew he felt uneasy about this, but I guess it was for the better. The storm hadn't quite let up but it was slowing down, he'd stop somewhere eventually. I went back inside before the storm got worse. Once I got there, was a fight going on, well there was, I missed it, Mitskake was leaning down and healing Tamahome. I walked over to them, we could summon Suzaku now.. Miaka looked so happy with Tamahome, Tamahome was happy as well. I looked up to the emperor, he looked a bit sad. Poor thing, he was in love with Miaka as well. Miaka looked up to me and smiled. "Ohne-chan! Tamahome came back!"
I nodded. "Like I said."
The rain had now stoped, the blue sky started to emerge. We were going to summon Suzaku soon now, all the Suzaku Seishi have gathered. In fact, as I found out soon enough, it was the next day!
~*That night*~
(Chichiri's PoV)
I walked around the palace for a bit before I went to bed, I was a bit afraid for Kibou, especailly after what happened after she woke up. I walked near her room, her light was on, it was late..Why was it on? I opened the door slightly, she was in there, on the bed, hugging her knees and shaking. I walked in and she looked at me, deep fear was in her eyes. When I took a step near her, she back away from me. "Don't, stay away!"
She wasn't seeing me, what was wrong with her? I tried to walk over to her but she kept backing away. "...Houjun..where are you?" I heard her mutter.
I held my hand out to her. "It's me, Kibou, I'm right here."
I took off my mask and her eyes seemed less in fear. "Houjun.."
I came and sat next to her. "What's wrong?"
She then hugged me around my waist and started to sob. "Every time I try to sleep, it's right there! Death! It keeps attacking me!"
I patted her back gently. "It was just a nightmare, don't worry."
She kept shaking. "It won't stop, I don't know why they even started..."
"Don't worry, just go back to sleep, you need the strength." I said laying her down and covering her with her sheets. She held on to my arm. "Please don't leave." She had a tight grip on it, she was really afraid... I kneeled down to my knees. "Ok.."
"Thank you.." She soon closed her eyes and went to sleep. How long is this going to last....? Why did it start? Everytime, I swear, she was loosing her mind and acted like a child shooken up by a nightmare. I tried to get up but she had a tight grip on me, she was asleep but she was still frightened. "Houjun.." she muttered.
I looked to her, her eyes were open. "You could sleep on the bed if you like, I seemed to stop having these nightmares when your here...So please don't leave."
With an uneasy feeling came over when I layed down next to her. "..Thank you." she whispered and soon drifted into sleep. I blew out the candle and soon went to sleep myself, tomorrow was a big day, I needed rest, and so did she.
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I woke up with Kibou already up and about, I guess she was right, she didn't scream or anything while I was here. Why was that? Kibou wandered about somewhere else as Miaka prepared for the ceremony to summon suzaku, everything was now going smoothly. We were going to summon Suzaku and get all this over with...But Kibou, she's Miaka's older sister...What if she has to go back with her?
We were ready to summon Suzaku..But, something didn't feel right. I helped Miaka say what she had to say, and after she was done, nothing happened. Somehow, we had failed to summon Suzaku..
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There! Finished with this chapter, I think that long enough, I don't know how long it'll take for the next chapter but I'll try to get it out soon!
~*Cosmicmoon