Book Four: Returning to the Past

Chapter One: Journey before Hokkan

Keisuke walked into the living room the next morning with a towel wrapped around his shoulders, since he was about to take a shower. He glanced down at the couch where Tetsuya was lying across with his feet up fast asleep. He smiled as he sighed, picked up the Universe of the Four Gods that was lying on the coffee table, and sat down on the opposite couch to read it. Just as he opened it, Tetsuya stirred and turned to his friend.

"Morning" Keisuke smiled.

"Morning" Tetsuya said sleepily as he sat up, "What are you doing?"

"Thought I check up on Miaka and the others" Keisuke replied, "They've been there long enough by now, to have settled in."

"You're right" Tetsuya yawned, "But shouldn't you wait till your mom's around to read that?"

"She's asleep. I'll give her an update later."

"All right" Tetsuya said, "Will you at least wait until I have gotten a glass of juice."

"I'll talk loud."

"Okay" Tetsuya nodded walking into the kitchen.

"Let's see" Keisuke replied as he flipped it open, "The Priestess of Suzaku and the Suzaku seven returned to the capitol of Konan, but when they arrived there, they discovered" Keisuke paused.

"Yea" Tetsuya urged him as he walked back in with a glass in his hand, "They discovered what?"

"They discovered a slight change in their environment."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"I don't know."

"Does it mention Yui?"

"No. Nothing."

Keisuke and Tetsuya looked at each other with deep concern.



Meanwhile in Konan things had definitely changed. As Miaka and the Suzaku seven stood in the throne room they could feel it. Hotohori was talking with one of his advisors, asking to see his wife.

"But your majesty, you haven't even chosen an empress yet" the advisor replied.

"That's not possible" Hotohori said, "Are you certain?"

"Yes, your highness the last I remember you were helping the Suzaku seven and the Priestess get prepared for a trip to Hokkan."

"Yes" Hotohori nodded, "That's correct. They did got to Hokkan."

"Did, your majesty? When? You just had the boat commissioned a few days ago."

"A few days ago?"

"This is all starting to sound just a little bit too familiar" Nuriko spoke up.

"What is it Nuriko?" Miaka asked.

"Well, doesn't this seem like just before the first time we went to Hokkan?"

"The first time?" Tasuki raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean by that?"

"I think he means the first time you know?" Chichiri replied.

"I know that, but how is that possible?" Tasuki yelled.

"How could we return to that particular point in time?" Hotohori said.

"Not only that, if that is the point in time we have returned," Miaka replied, "Then Yui and I we're enemies right now."

"Miaka" Taka rubbed her back.

"She's not here is she? And neither are the Seiryuu seven."

"So we basically have returned after we tried to summon Suzaku the first time. And we were on our way to Hokkan. Is that right?" Nuriko scratched his head.

"I guess so" Mitsukake replied.

"Well that's just stupid!" Tasuki said in an outburst, "I mean why would we return to that point in time? And if that's the case, are we going to have to do that all over again?"

"I don't want to do it all over again" Miaka shook her head, "I can't bear for Yui to hate me all over again. I can't," she cried.

"It's okay Miaka" Taka replied holding her, "This is obviously some type of trick of Tenkou's or Ren's."

"Tamahome!" Chichiri suddenly shouted.

"What?" Taka looked at him.

"Look at your hair you know!"

Taka reached back and felt the pigtail in the back.

"Oh my gosh" Miaka exclaimed, "Taka" she held her hands over her mouth.

"This is how my hair was back then, before Suboshi cut it off" Taka replied.

"Then there is no mistake" Hotohori said, "We have returned to that time."

"Maybe" Chiriko spoke up, "But I don't know."

"What do you mean Chiriko?" Miaka asked.

"Well, I've been talking with some of the guards around here, asking when I arrived. They said I came too late for the summoning of Suzaku."

"Well we know that Chiriko" Taka said.

"Yea you showed up after that jerk who was posing as you, well he wasn't really a jerk, tricked us," Tasuki added.

"Yea but that's the confusing part" Chiriko replied, "The guards said I was late, that you weren't trying to summon Suzaku with seven but six."

"That doesn't make any sense" Miaka said, "I mean we thought we had all seven and then you showed up."

"And I would just like to point out that I would never make such an error" Hotohori replied proudly.

"Not to mention Tamahome here" Chichiri said, "Would have never come back from Kutou."

"That's true" Taka agreed.

"You're not listening to me" Chiriko held up his hands, "None of that happened."

"What?" Miaka said.

"I shall explain" Chiriko sat down as the others leaned in to listen, "We're definitely in some sort of alternate reality I'll give you that, but the difference is things happened differently. Tamahome never went to Kutou. Instead he traveled with Miaka and Nuriko and his highness to find the other warriors."

"Okay" Taka said bewildered crossing his arms.

"Once found, only five I might say, you returned to Konan."

"And then we tried to summon Suzaku without the last warrior?" Miaka replied.

"That doesn't sound like us" Taka said.

"No" Chiriko shook his head, "I arrived and we tried to summon Suzaku but we were still too late."

"Why?"

"It seems to me" Chichiri spoke up, "That someone has stuck us in this illusion, but they didn't get all the information about what happened you know?"

"That makes more sense then anything else" Nuriko replied.

"But who could that be?" Taka said, "I mean could it be Ren? He might not know?"

"And if is just an illusion" Miaka replied, "What on earth happened to Yui and the others?"



Yui awoke in her bed. She sat up and looked around the room. She was in Kutou, so she sighed and leaned her head back on the pillow.

"How could you do this to me Miaka?" she replied, "How could you betray me?"

A knock sounded at the door and Amiboshi entered.

"Suboshi?" she looked up.

"No Lady Yui it's me Amiboshi" he replied as he entered.

"Amiboshi?Oh right you're the twin?"

"Uh yea. Are you feeling all right Lady Yui?" he looked at her with a suspicious look.

"Yea why?"

"Um. Aren't you worried about Miaka?"

"Miaka? Why would I be worried about that traitor? And how do you know her?"

"Um I don't. Good night Lady Yui" he left the room in a hurry with a close of the door.

Yui stared at the door for a moment with a weird look on her face, then laid her head back down on the pillow.

"It's just as I feared" Amiboshi thought, "Something's not right. Something's very wrong here."



Authors Note: Hello! Thanks for the great reviews! I will try to get as many chapters as I had planned done this week! So keep reading!

Next Chapter: Amiboshi leaves Seiryuu

Amiboshi leaves his brother to join the Suzaku seven!