Kissed by the enemy

Konnichiwa, minna-san! Let's get on with the third chapter, shall we!?

Oh oh oh! I just thought. . . that maybe Soi could find her feelings for Tasuki first, and then Tasuki second. Huh? Is that good, or what? But then, Tasuki will be the first to reveal his feelings, an' then Soi. Am I smart?

And. . .also, sorry for the earlier chapters, if they ended too quickly. I have no clue what's up with me when it comes to these kinds of romance fics.

::Tasuki pops up out of no where::

Tasuki: Y'gotta help me! I don't like this pairing at all, an' next thing y'know, she's gonna pair me up with Miboshi!!! That ol' geezer!!! Or maybe even Hikitsu or Tomite. . .or Subaru!! I'm in hell!!!!!!::gasps:: She'll probably pair me up with Taiitsu-kun. . . ::shudders:: She needs help!!

RBC: Don't worry, Tasuki-Sama! I'll probably pair you up with Tama-Neko next!! Maybe have Miaka and Tamahome break up and have a pairing with you and Tamahome!!

Tasuki: ::faints::

RBC: Just kidding!! That will never happen. Don't worry!

Oh yeah, I'll answer some reviews before I forget! Well, question number one was. . . how old is Soi!? I thought she was in her twenties, but she's only nineteen. I have an info card for her that I got from one of my tapes a few weeks ago. Pretty surprising, huh?

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Fushigi Yugi, and as I said before, "Sue me, and DIE."

Tasuki was scared. He was really scared. So scared, he didn't even know what to do. He watched as Soi walked closer and closer.

Tasuki leaned on the shield, knowing it was against the gentleman's code to hurt a woman. He gulped once more.

"Tasuki!!" Chichiri yelled. "it's no use, this barrier's too strong!" He, Mitsukake, and Chiriko could hear the faint heartbeat of Tasuki. They knew something was happening.

"Chichiri, exactly. . .which Seiryu warrior is with him?" the boy genious asked.

"That lightning. . ." Mitsukake said.

"Yes. . . it's her. . ." the monk held up his staff. "something's happened between those two, and we have to save Tasuki!"

Soi walked up close to Tasuki, and pulled down his jacket. The bandit struggled to get away, but the woman held him close. She gave him a deep kiss, like last time, and Tasuki's eyes widened once more. He felt. . . funny. Like he got drunk, but without the sake. He felt drowsy. He could faintly hear the worried screams of his friends, the Suzaku seishi.

"Tasuki! Wake up!" Chichiri yelled. With the help of Chiriko and Mitsukake, he was able to break through the barrier, only to see Tasuki fainted in the arms of Soi. She grinned. The boy genious gasped.

"Too late. He's mine." Soi said. She disappeared, along with Tasuki.

Chiriko screamed, as though his older brother was being killed in cold blood.

Tasuki opened his eyes a few hours later, the drowsyness going away. He was in a tent. And it was. . .very. . .hot out. The bandit got up, and walked outside.

He was in a Kutou Army Camp in Sairo Desert. Recalling the events that had happened, Tasuki thought about what his friends were doing. Were they worried? Of course they were, he was their friend. Or. . .so he thought.

"You're awake." Someone said. Tasuki quickly looked to his right, and saw the woman, the one with blond hair, the one who was Miaka's friend.

"Yer Yui, right?" he asked.

"So. . .you still remember me. Yes, I'm Yui." The girl walked passed Tasuki into the tent with water, and then walked back out. "Soi brought you here, but then quickly left to find Nakago."

"So. . .you people are gonna keep me fer a hostage, eh?" Tasuki asked.

"No, not really. I'm not really sure what's going on, but Soi asked if she could bring someone." Yui looked up ahead. "that's them. They're back." Two horses came to the camp, Soi and Nakago, who's arm looked like it melted. The woman helped the general into a tent, and Yui and Suboshi rushed in. Tasuki didn't know what to do, but see what was happening.

"Your arm melted!"

"I treated him on the road, but it is a serious injury."

"Nakago, who did this to you?"

Tasuki sat in his tent. He learned about what had happened to Miaka and Tamahome. Nakago was talking to Tomo (some Seiryu Seishi who was a queer), and said he hadn't 'raped' Miaka.

That freak. Nakago was trying to defile the Priestess of Suzaku so she wouldn't be able to summon the beast god. Jeez, what a lowlife scumbag, well, at least Nakago had reasons, and wasn't a freakin' pervert like Eiken.

"Are you still awake?" a woman's voice said, snapping through his thoughts. Tasuki jolted up, only to see Soi.

"What do you want!?" the bandit demanded.

"What? The same question?" the woman sat down. "it's really late. I was just checking up on you, and you're not asleep."

"What are you? My mother!? Sheesh, yer jus' like her," Tasuki ran a hand through his hair. "'Go to sleep or die!' " Soi giggled a bit. "Why're ya bein' so nice anyway?" the woman thought for a moment. Why was she being nice to him? Tasuki was her enemy, and her hostage for herself. She shrugged.

"I'm not so sure. . ." Soi answered. "I don't know. . ." Tasuki frowned.

"Yer up t' something, aren't ya?" he said. The woman slowly shook her head.

"N-no. . .no I'm not." She answered.

"You are up t' somethin'. I can tell." The bandit crossed his arms.

"What makes you so sure?" Soi asked with a glare.

"Yer bein' all nice t' me." Tasuki answered. "it's bad news."

"Bad news, you say? What if I'm trying to have peace for once, hm?" the woman asked.

"Peace? Gee, I dunno. Yer from Kutou, and that means yer settin' a trap." The bandit said.

"Kutou. . ." Soi whispered. She didn't really like her home country. Most of the people there were snobs. Her parents had sold her to some people when she was a child, and later was found by a young Nakago. Nakago. . .

Curious about why Soi had said Kutou, and why she was thinking, Tasuki waved his hand in front of her face.

"What?" the woman asked.

"Why're you thinkin' so much?" the bandit asked. Soi slapped his hand away and stood up.

"Why should I answer you? You ARE the enemy, aren't you?" she asked. She walked out of the tent, leaving Tasuki dumbfounded.

'What was with the sudden mood change?' he thought.

It has been a few days since Tasuki was kidnapped, or should we say, banditnapped. Chichiri, Chiriko, and Mitsukake were in an illusion set by Tomo. They broke free, and helped save Miaka from being defiled by Suboshi. As they were led to the real Sairo, by Tamahome's master Tokaki, Miaka looked around curiously.

"Where's Tasuki?" she asked. Chichiri, Chiriko and Mitsukake were silent. "did anything happen to him?"

"Well. . .he was taken by the Seiryu Warrior, Soi, no da. . ." the monk answered.

"What!? Why!?" Tamahome yelled.

"That's one of the problems." Chiriko said. "we don't know."

Tasuki walked alongside the carriage, where Yui and Nakago sat in. Soi followed behind him.

"You might get to see your friends the Suzaku Seven again," Nakago said with a smirk. The bandit groaned. It's a wonder how he lived through all of this yapping of "you might finally get to see this," or "you'll get to see that," for the past few days. It got so annoying. But still, he thought he was going to be tortured, and not be treated as a guest since he was captured by Soi.

Anyway, the Seiryu Seishi were on their way to Sairo. Tasuki had met Miboshi, and at first he thought he was a kid. But then, Yui explained that Miboshi was actually more than a hundred years old.

Tasuki freaked. . .

And Soi had been avoiding him since that night they had talked. The bandit was still wondering about that. But, the woman was walking behind him, so you wouldn't really call that avoiding. . .unless she was ordered to.

The group was only outside of Sairo, and they decided to stop and rest. Tasuki sat down, glad he could rest, since they had been walking for hours, man. . .Yui and Nakago are lucky that they get to sit down.

"Hmmm. . ." the bandit looked up, to see what he could think of on what he was thinking that he was forgetting (that sounds confusing). "Ah!" Tasuki got up. He had to ask Soi why she was avoiding him. There's gotta be a reason.

The bandit looked around, and saw Soi sitting on a blanket, eating an apple (sounds like a picnic). Tasuki made his way over to the woman.

"Soi!" he yelled. Soi looked up, to see Tasuki saring at her with his arms crossed. She jumped and quickly looked away, taking a bite out of the apple. The bandit plopped down beside her, into the sand.

"Why're you avoiding me?" he asked.

"I. . .I don't know what you're talking about!" Soi answered. She took another bite. Tasuki sighed, and grabbed the apple.

"Hey!" Soi yelled, as the teenager took a bite. The woman took it back, and bit into the apple, not caring that Tasuki had.

"Well?" he asked. Soi sighed, and threw away the apple core.

"Well. . ." she began. ". . .I'm not sure why. . ." then she glared. "why are YOU being so nice?" the bandit blinked, and turned red.

"I asked YOU the question! I expect you t' answer it!" Tasuki looked away.

"YOU should answer MY question FIRST, because I'm older than you, so hah!" Soi said. The fiery boy looked at her with a grin.

"Doesn't that make you an old maid gramma?" he snorted. The woman smacked him in the back of the head.

"Nakago, why are those two getting along so well?" Yui asked.

"Hm, it seems as though they've somehow linked as friends, and not enemies. . .I wonder what the other Suzaku Warriors would think. . ." Nakago answered with a smirk.

"Huh?"

::one hour later, after the Kutou Army went off into Sairo::

"What's the matter, Chichiri?" Chiriko asked. The Suzaku Seishi were standing in front of the pagoda, where Miaka had run off to. She saw Tamahome almost kiss Xi Fang. Miaka then told Tamahome to meet her in the pagoda. Legend says, that if a couple kisses there and sundown, they'll be fated together forever.

After Tokaki asked where Miaka was, Tamahome answered, and the master yelled at him for letting her go on her own, and that there have been monsters killing several people there at the pagoda.

Now, there they stood, Chichiri, Chiriko, Tamahome, Tokaki, Mitsukake, and Subaru.

"I don't know. . .I sense some Seiryu chi here. . .and a familiar chi, but also someone else. . ." Chichiri answered.

"That must be Tatara, the keeper for the Priestess of Byakko's Shinzaho." Tokaki answered. "I am not sure about the other one though. . ."

"Maybe it's Tasuki," Mitsukake spoke up.

"Gee whiz, it's like a friggin' maze in here!" Tasuki whined, with his hands behind his head. "I shoulda jus' payed attention to where Soi an' Yui were, an' then I wouldn't be lost alla sudden." He walked around blindly, not worried about being attacked, because Miboshi had everything under control.

The bandit heard several coins dropping, and monsters screaming. Then he heard some other people.

"Come on!!"

"MY MONEY!!"

"Hey. . .that sounded like. . ." Tasuki leapt forward. He was sure he just heard Tamahome yelling 'My money.' But the other voice was old. . .

Tasuki kept running, and found himself at a dead end.

"Darn it," Tasuki cursed under his breath. And just when he thought he would finally be with his REAL friends. The bandit looked up.

"Suzaku. . .you hate me, don't ya?"

Jeez. . .some ending for this chapter, huh? I just went brain dead, right there, because I have all these mental notes of what's going to happen next, BUT I didn't plan out what was going to happen right there. I'm still thinkin'.

Anyway, don't expect me to hurry it up, because I have school, and school's important! I don't wanna be a dumb high school drop out. Well, if I was, I would be a SMART high school drop out. BUT it's not gonna happen.