Written by: Hoshihikari4ever
Disclaimer: I do not own FY!
Spoiler: Whole Series plus OVA's plus Side stores
Parings: Miaka/Hotohori
Note: "…." = talk Italic/Underline = words on paper, scrolls, etc… Italic = thoughts/dreams
Chapter 2* * *
"Who?? Dare? Who did Miaka find? Read faster Yui! I need to know who she found…." Yui did not reply. Keisuke jerked the book away from her hand. "Dam it, Where the hell did Miaka end up in? She was nearly raped!!" "but was saved…" "Hai, but I have a feeling that I don't like who it was…the book hinted fear from my sister…." Tetsuya nodded. "Well. You got the book, Keisuke, go read, don't want to wait any longer, need to know if Miaka is safe…." Keisuke stared down at the book, with a frown, obviously frustrated at the book. "Sorry guys, but we got to get back to Miaka later, the book's setting changed again…."
Far off, In another land…in a separate empire…a meeting was held.
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"So as I was saying…Kuto has declared war on the Konan for the past five years…." I didn't take in a word his advisor had said. I was tired and sleepy, not interested in the least of Kuto's daily threats on my empire. Besides this, like always my mind was off someplace else. As always, someone else occupied my mind, someone I knew would never belong to me, someone who had appeared and disappeared from my life, like thin air.
Miaka, my dear old Miaka, my Suzaku no Miko…where are you now? Are you happy, are you safe? Will I ever see you again? I know we will meet again. I'm sure of it. Miaka, my Miaka, when will you appear once more. I know you will…How you may ask, I do not know….but I have a strange feeling a feeling that everything's reoccurring again. Somehow, I am once more alive. Somehow, Miaka, I know you will arrive again….Miaka where are you…..all I could think about is you. You're five years late, you were suppose to come when I was 18, yet now I am how old? 23?How long, how many more years are you going to torment me Miaka, how long are you going to pop up in my dreams, not just as the Suzaku no Miko. Oh no, not only that…in my dreams Miaka, you were more then the Suzaku no Miko. You were mine. You were my wife, you were the empress. You were the one I held, the one, which I shared my body and soul with. The one, which I embraced, the one, which I kissed. Miaka, you haut me. Did you know that, you haunt me. It's worst now, now that you've come and gone. Miaka, my Miaka, when, when are you going to arrive? Oh when, when will you deliver me from this life of loneliness…When Miaka, when can my dreams become a reality?
My eyes lids began to drop. Sleep was finally unbearable, yet I was trying as much as possible to stay awake. Finally all I could see was blurry shapes of my advisors speaking, without a single sound. Then everything dissolved.
~Dream begin~
I was standing in the middle of a crowed street. People brushed this way and that. I knew at once that this wasn't Konan. All of a sudden from nowhere, red light glowed a few blocks away. My heart pounded, as the thought of Miaka, swept through his mind. Not caring that I was the emperor, I sped off towards the light.
There standing before me, a couple of inches away, was a women with auburn hair, and a strange set of clothes. "Miaka!" I called out, but she did not seem to have noticed me.
"Hey miss…." I turned around to see a blonde beckoning towards the women. I looked back at Miaka who I was pleased to see backing away. "Hey miss, you new here…why don't I show you around…." "Miaka, don't go with that man. I'm here. I'll take you away, I'll take you somewhere safe…" Neither person seemed to have heard me, or in fact see me, for neither cast a glance towards me. "Alright…." Miaka said. "Miaka, can't you hear me? I said stay away from him!" She followed the man. Having a terrible feeling about this, I followed the two.
"Well, well look what we have here…what do you say men, why don't we have some fun…" The men crowded towards Miaka causing her to back up towards the wall. I stood in front of Miaka, daring them to take a step closer. My sword held out in front of me. "If you touch a single piece of hair on Miaka, I swear, I swear, I'll kill you…" No one seemed to notice me. "Dam it! You listening to me! You better leave now, otherwise I'll kill you…last warning!!"
Without warning, two men ran past me. I swung my sword at them and watched my sword go right through them. "Dam it!" It was then that I realized that I was invisible. That I could do nothing, but watch. Still I did not give up hope. I swirled around as two hands grabbed Miaka and threw her to the floor. Another two came up and held her down. She started to kick. For once I cursed at my luck. Desperately, I tried, to pull the men off, but being invisible as I was, I could do nothing. " Dam it! What is the meaning of this? Why can't I protect the one I so desperately loved? Why in the time of need, could not protect you. Miaka!!!"
I watched helplessly as the men bore down on her. They laughed evilly. "Tama….Tamahome!!!!" She yelled.
"Tamahome? Miaka, he isn't here! Don't you see that. I'm here Miaka. I will protect you. Give me a chance" Once again I felt bitter at the mention of his name. "Why him Miaka!! Why Tamahome! Can't you see I'm here? Can't you see, I'm trying to protect you! Miaka, can't you call out my name, at least once? Oh Miaka! Why? Why him!"
I watched as the men were about to rape her. "Miaka" I cried helplessly. "At least try to defend yourself! Don't just lay there! Miaka, can you hear me? I want you to get up and fight them. You hear me Miaka! That's a direct order!" It was no use. No matter what I tried, I could not get their attention.
Finally I heard an icy cold voice, one which I could recognize anywhere. The voice of my enemy. "Get down, low…" I watched as Miaka did so. A jet of blue chi flew right through me and killing all the men on top of her.
I slowly stood up to my feet, and faced the man who I knew the chi belonged to. I was surprised when I saw that he wasn't alone. The man next to him, surprised me the most.
"Hotohori…" I jumped at being addressed, by Miaka. "Help me please…" "Miaka…I'm right here Miaka…" I turned to touch her shoulder, but my hand went right through. Then I felt myself being dragged away, and the scene disappeared.
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"Whoa! Check it out! Hotohori somehow has psychic powers!" "Yeah! He witnessed what Miaka went through, exactly what he went through, do you think it's part of his Seishi powers? Like even ones that he didn't or we didn't know of…" "Perhaps Yui…but I think its more then that…I mean come on, everyone knows how much he loves Miaka….poor guy, rejected by my sister…If I was her, I would have picked the emperor…" "who wouldn't…?" Yui rolled her eyes. "If she had fallen for the emperor, then Tamahome would have been mines…" Tetsuya stiffened. "You still love that character from the book?" "I suppose….I mean he's all that a girl ever wants…." Tetsuya's face darkened. Yui clasped her hand over her mouth. "Not that I don't love you Tetsuya…" "Its just he's more then I can ever be huh, with powers and stuff…." "No, Of course not…" She hugged tightly. "He's fake remember…he's fake and you're real…your loves real, and his was well fake…." "I wouldn't say they're fake. True they exist only in a book, but to Miaka and to me they're more then real…even though I've never met them before…I feel we're connected….this book, its made me believe in things that only little kids do….and each time I see this book, each time I see how the words magically appear before me, I believe in it just a little more. This world in the book, is too real to say that its only a fairy tale…" "Well spoken Keisuke, well spoken…" His friends clapped their hands in approval. Keisuke smiled weakly.
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"and I think that it's too our benefit to…." The advisor paused, and tilted his head up to look at his emperor, who's eyes were shut. "Heikia-sama?" There was no reply. The other council members too looked up at their emperor. "Heika-sama…." Still no reply. "Anno, I think this meeting is over…." "yes, let him get some sleep, we can continue this tomorrow….." The head advisor stood up and the others followed suit. They were almost at the door when red light suddenly consumed the room. "What the heck is going on? Where's the red light coming from?" The advisors squinted their eyes to look for a clue of some sort that would tell them where the light was coming from. "Hey look, I think I see something…." "What….?" "On Heika-sama's neck! His Seishi symbol 'star' it's blazing….It's the one that's emitting the light…." "What is this suppos…." The man was cut off when the light suddenly died down.
"MIAKA!!!!!!!!!!!!" The emperor's eyes flickered opened. His scream echoed through the palace. "Miaka!!!" he called out again. The council members immediately rushed forward to aide their emperor, surprised to find him panting and sweating. "Miaka…" was all Hotohori could repeat over and over again. "Heika-sama…its alright….you're safe here…..whatever happened was just in a dream….you were sleeping." The emperor turned to face the man who spoke. "Here? Where's here….." "The palace….in the meeting room…you fell asleep and I think that you must have had a nightmare of some sort….It triggered your Seishi powers….your symbol was blazing…." "It was?…..and your telling me that I was here all along, that I didn't leave this chair, that all was a nightmare, that nothing happened" "Hai…." Hotohori let out a sigh of relive. "It was all just a dream…Nothing happened….It was all just a dream…..Miaka's safe….she's safe and what I saw was probably a hallucination caused by being too worried about Miaka….that what I saw never happened…." He repeated over and over again, more as to reassure himself then to his advisors. The advisors only nodded. Finally one of them spoke. "I'm sure that whoever this Miaka is, is safe…." Hotohori only nodded, still unconvinced that all was just a dream.
It felt so real. It was too real to be a dream. Miaka, where are you? Are you safe? Are you still in that other world, safe at home and hopefully you are happy. Suzaku, please give me a sign, any sign to show that Miaka's safe, and perhaps still pure. Show me something, give me a sign of some sort, anything to reassure me that she is safe right now.
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Miaka stared at the two men. They both were older, then she last remembered. One was wearing a blue helmet with a dragon engraved on it which she knew was covering his blonde hair. He was still wearing his shogun outfit. On his forehead, the mark 'spirit' still glowed faintly. The man next to him was dressed in black and dark blue. He was wearing a blue bandana, one, which was slightly darker, then his blue hair. At his waist was a pair of num chucks. Both pairs of blue eyes were icy cold, and emotionless.
Oh great! Out of the people here, why did I have to meet them! This isn't good. I better get out of here, but how, its obvious now that Tamahome won't save me. Its obvious that he doesn't care about me. Then who, who else could save me? Who else…
Faintly a figure of a man flashed through her mind. His black hair and golden brown eyes, stared into her own. A wide smile flashed across his face.
That's it! Why didn't I think of him sooner. Why did I only think of Tamahome. You love him…admit it Miaka, you love Tamahome, and that's why it took you forever to think of someone else. True, I do love Tamahome, but not like this, not with him like this. He's left me once more…
"Hotohori….Help me please….." Miaka whispered under her breath. For a fleeting second I felt a hand touch my shoulder. I looked down to see nothing. "Miaka, I'm right here Miaka…." Then I felt the hand disappear, as if unwillingly pulled away. "Hotohori…." I mumbled again. There was nothing, but his fait whispered of what he said before. Still, it was enough to reassure her that she was not alone, that the emperor was forever with her.
Arigatou Hotohori…Arigatou…Thank you for being here, thank you for reassuring me that I'm not alone.
Finally Miaka slowly stood up and stared at the two men before her. "Nagako…Tamahome….." A smile spread across the shogun's face. "Suzaku no Miko…." He whispered. Tamahome instantly took out the num chuck. "The Suzaku no Miko?" he asked again. "Hai…." Nagako confirmed. "The enemy…." He threw the num chuck directly at Miaka with perfect aim. Miaka, having had experienced with the evil version of Tamahome, wanted to jumped to the side, but was rooted to the floor. The num chuck hit her squarely in her stomach. She instantly crouched over in a ball in pain. Nagako only smirked.
Tamahome ran up, picked up his num chucks and began swinging them at her, the same way he did to Tasuki, only this time it was to Miaka. Each swing struck her harder and harder. Miaka could do nothing but lay still on the floor. "Enjoying this Suzaku no Miko…." Miaka did not reply. "Your beloved Tamahome's been trained the past five years. Trained to kill, trained to become emotionless of all feelings….This time even your emotions won't bring him back…." The shogun paused. "Tamahome, who is your top three enemy and at what cost are you going to do to make sure they die….?" "The Konan emperor Saihitei Seishuku, also known as the Suzaku king Hotohori….the Suzaku no Miko Miaka Yuki, and her six other Seishi…..and I will make sure I personally kill them, and if I fail the price shall be death…." Tamahome said, as he continued to carry out his task. "and Tamahome….what do you think of love…." "It is a weakness sir, the world does not need such a foolish thing….." Miaka tried not to listen, but it seemed impossible. "good Tamahome, now let me finish the task…." "Hai, sir…." Tamahome picked up Miaka and threw her to the floor away from both of them.
Nagako slowly approached Miaka. "Well Miaka does it hurt? What hurts more your heart or your body….Does what Tamahome says have any affect on you at all?" Miaka gritted her teeth. "Tamahome….Tamahome died a long time ago, and being so it can never affect me…" Nagako seemed surprised. "That's not what you would have said five years ago…." "What happened five years ago is dead and gone, its in the past, I just accidentally landed here…." "Oh, accidentally?? I do not think so…..I'm telling you, what happened five years ago is true, it did happen. Let me guess, the only reason you're back is because everything is reoccurring again eh?" "How did you know…." "Oh, I am very observant. Everything's been the same except for now…that is, now that you've appeared, history shall change. You shall die, here and now…" The shogun walked up to her and bent down. "You see, with you gone, Suzaku cannot be summoned, and if Suzaku cannot be summoned then Konan is dead….your beloved emperor shall soon be kneeling before me begging me for mercy…..He will surrender, otherwise Konan will taken over by force, and because he's too human he won't want people to die." After hearing this Miaka only chuckled, laughing loudly. "Even now, you still don't know Hotohori….kill me if you want I can't stop you…..try to take over Konan if you can….I know for sure Hotohori would rather die then surrender!!!" "Very well then die!!" Nagako lifted up his hand and held a chi spell. "There's nothing more important to him then his country his people….You can kill me if you want. That won't stop him from defending his beloved land…." Miaka closed her eyes, waiting to die.
The blast never came. Miaka slowly reopened her eyes to see Nagako had lowered his hand. "What's the hold up. Can't you kill when you want to….are you afraid that'll I'll come back and haunt you…." "No…" "Then why?" "Because I'm afraid I can't kill you just yet…." "Huh? What do you mean…." "You see, I have to disagree with what you said about Saihitei…..from what I've heard you are his universe. …. That you are his reason for existing….from what I've heard he's suffering from unrequited love…Is that true…." Miaka did not reply. "Is it true….?" "So what….that doesn't change anything…." "Oh…I'm afraid it does…I'm afraid it changes everything….once again, I see the path to victory, and this time you are my key to victory and success."
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Done! Alright Chapter 2 is done. I hope you guys stick with me! This story's only starting to heat up. Please…please….please….take time to Review!