Also! This chapter is for my good friend Chi-chan n.n she's the bestest and the fact that all good spawns from her as well as all evil (lol) makes her ever better! PLUS she and I were totally having fun flirting on halloween, she as Hotohori and me as Nuriko.
To Chi: glompers me have love not dare speak name!! And make sure you review!!!!
Disclaimer: Gah. I forgot to put one in the last chapter. Sorry.. anyway I don't own anyone in this story 'cept for some random people.. though most of those are my friends. If I owned Fushigi Yuugi there would be less of Nuriko and Hotohori dying and more of 'em kissing. And since you don't see them kissing I guess that means I don't own it. Sorry.
Warnings: This chapter has some shounen ai!! Plus as I write this I'm eating some candy. It's not much but it's enough to get me hyper. Also some slight cursing.
I've decided to make this a TasukixChichiri fic as well. This is because I happen to love that couple. And I have some friends who are reading that don't really like HotohorixNuriko but LOVE TasukixChichiri.. you know who you are! Anyway what other couples do you guys wanna see? Please tell me!!!
Chapter two: What the hell is a Suzaku?
I walked into my fourth period class. Study Hall. Sighing I looked around and found that the only empty seat was next to a girl with brown hair. I thought it was cute that she had it in two very round very tidy buns. I sat down and looked at her. She had headphones on and her music was just loud enough for me to sort of hear. I blinked. "Excuse me.." I said quiet at first. When she didn't respond I lightly tapped her shoulder and repeated myself a bit louder. Blinking, she paused her music and turned to me.
"Yes?"
"Are you listening to Dashboard Confessional?"
The girl smiled happily. "Yeah."
"I couldn't hear it all too well but it sounded a lot like 'Saints and Sailors'."
She nodded. "Yeah. I love this song." I smiled widely. At my old school there was no one that liked any of the same music as me. Other then Kishuku. They always looked at us like we were decapitated rats when we walked down the halls humming something by Dashboard. Just because it wasn't.. well gangsta'. Maybe... just maybe.. I'd found someone I could talk to outside of Kishuku.
"What other music do you like?"
"Uh.. I like a lot. I really love Brand New. But I havent found many fans of them. Everyone looks at me strangely when I ask them if they listen to any 'Brand New songs'"
"Oh my God.. Brand New is my favorite band!" I exclaimed excitedly. "And I get the same look when I ask.. well I've only asked a few people but still."
She giggled and held out her hand. I took it. "My name's Miaka."
"I'm Ryuuen."
"I've never seen you around Ryuuen.. and I know you werent in this class before.."
"I'm new. My friend Kishuku and I are exchange students."
"Oh yeah.. I think I remember Saihitei talking about that."
I blinked and before I realised what I was saying I said it, "you mean that really hot guy with the long hair..?" I stopped myself. I could feel myself pale. I hoped she wouldn't understand what I had said. I was scared.
She nodded then blinked in confusion. "Wait.. 'hot'..?" Miaka looked me right in the eyes and with complete seriousness reached oug and put her hands on my chest. "Okay.. so you're flat.. that must mean.." she smiled happily. "Awww.. how sweet!!"
"What..?"
"Don't worry.. I won't tell Sai."
"Tell him what..?"
"That you think he's hot." She smirked and I bit my lip. Miaka smiled, seeing that I clearly didn't want to stay on the topic of Saihitei anymore. "So.. what other music do you like?"
"Oh, pretty much anything that's not rap."
"Yeah.. ya know if you add a 'c' to the beginning of rap it becomes 'crap'?"
"Yeah. And if you add an 'e' to the end..." we burst into giggles before I could even finish. I couldn't believe how comfortable I was getting in the presence of a perfect stranger. Miaka and I talked and joked in a similar fashion until the bell rung.
"What class do you have next?" I asked.
"Lunch!"
"Reall? Me too!!"
"Great! Wanna walk there together?" Miaka, like me had put all her things in her locker before study hall since neither of us had anything to work on. So we were free of that but I still had to meet Kishuku at his locker.
"If you don't mind me stopping to meet someone really quick."
"Not at all." I led the way to Kishuku's locker. We were there for no more then a minute before he showed up.
"Hey Ryuuen." He smiled at me then blinked at Miaka. I smirked as I saw a light flush come to his face and judging by the way Miaka had taken to staring at her feet I could tell she was blushing as well.
"This is Miaka." I said cheerfully.
"Hello.. Miaka.." Kishuku mumbled.
"Miaka this is my bestfriend Kishuku. Isn't he cute? But then again you'd have to look at him to see." I tilted her head upwards so that she had to look at him. She was blushing a very interesting shade of pink.
"Sure.."
"Good! Now then.. I just remembered I had to do something. I'll find the cafeteria on my own. Miaka can you show Kishuku the way once he puts his stuff away? Please?"
"O-okay.."
"Good!" I ran off to the cafeteria. Both me and Kishuku had already been shown the way so I had no trouble getting there.
I got my lunch and went looking for a seat. Looking around I saw Saihitei sitting with some friends in the far left corner of the room. His friends included a quiet looking guy with blue hair, a thin ponytail and long gravity defying bangs who was sitting next to a loud looking (yes looking) firey haired boy about the same age. At the table across from him the young boy from my history class sitting with a very large person who looked much older then I knew he was... or at least then I thought he was. Along with them sat a group of girls. I smiled when I saw that two of of the girls were the same two in my history class.
"Ah, Ryuuen!" Saihitei called out. I waved. "Come and sit." I walked over and took a seat next to him. "This is my good friend Houjun." He pointed to the blue haired one.
"Hello." I said cheerfully.
Houjun nodded at me. "Hello."
"I'm Genrou." Said the red head. He couldn't help but smile he was as loud as I thought.
"Where is your friend?"
"Kishuku? He's coming." As if on cue he and Miaka walked throught the doors. They seemed to be having an easier time talking now although both were still red in the face. Miaka led him to the table. Kishuku sat next to me and Miaka next to him.
Saihitei smiled. "Hello Miaka."
"Hiya Sai!" I blinked over at her food. It looked like Miaka had bought five or six lunches plus the fact that she was pulling out some snacks from home from her bag.
Me and Kishuku watched in amazement as she gobbled it all down.. very, very quickly. It made me sick. I almost pushed my own food away but a sudden fear that she would grab and eat that came to me so I started to slowly eat.
When I finished with my food Miaka looked at me. "Hey, Ryuuen.. you said you liked Brand New right?"
I nodded. "Not just like.. LOVE!!"
"Do you know the lyrics to 'flying at tree level'?"
"Of course!!"
"Really I love that song. It's my favorite Brand New song!!"
I smiled at her and softly sang to myself. "We were doomed from the start, as lovers are. Why am I doing this? Digging my own grave. Though it's shallow, I would lie in it." I knew all the lyrics by heart. Kishuku did too so he started to sing along.
"We're down in the basement, in the dark, after we crash your car."
Miaka joined us in singing, "Hoping fast that my arrow, hits the mark, so you know who we are. Please keep the reporters a baaaaay!!" It was great to have someone else singing along with me other then Kishuku!
And soon the three of us were singing choruses of "we all have sizeable scars. We got it! You'd break it all apart. We got it! We can make it work like this, like this, like thiiiiiis!" Although some of the table were more quiet about it then most.
I hardly noticed the fact that we were recieving glares from a lot of people. We were just having so much fun! After the song was over me and Miaka started to giggle. Kishuku was still singing "like thiiis" quietly.
"Wow.. I've never really randomly broken off into song before." I said to Miaka. I felt like I was in some weird musical. We spent the rest of the lunch singing random songs. It was a blast!!
School had ended. Let me tell you that was the best day of school I had ever had. A quick look at Kishuku told me he felt the same. We were walking back "home" humming some of the music we had sung at lunch when a hand grabbed my shoulder. I screamed.
"Ryuuen!!!!" It was Miaka.
"Get your hand off me!" She did. I smiled and turned to her, blinking when I saw that the rest of the table was there. "..Er, yes?"
"We were wondering if you guys wanted to go get some ice cream with us!!"
Saihitei smiled, "my treat."
I didn't even have the chance to speak before Kishuku laughed. "Well.. if your buying then sure!!"
I nodded in agreement. "Yeah. Sounds good to me... what.. what're you staring at?" I was blushing. Saihitei had suddenly given me this strange look.
"Eh.. nothing.." he smiled. "Sorry. I was just thinking. I didn't mean for you to think I was staring."
"Don't listen to him. He was staring because you're so cute." Miaka said with a loud snort. "Isn't he cute?" She gave her friends a look that clearly told them that if they wanted to live they would agree. So they did. I couldn't help but blush again.
Genrou laughed boisterously. "Look!! He's blushin'." This only made me blush more.
"Sheesh.. I've never seen you blush like this Ryuuen. Well.. almost never." Kishuku gave me a look. I never really was into the blushing thing. Infact I never really blushed at all unless I was around Kishuku.. and now Saihitei. I looked down at the ground waiting for my cheeks to get back to their normal heat.. and color.
"It looks as if Ryuuen doesn't like this much. I think you guys should stop taunting him." At that moment I was ready to HUG Houjun.
"But Houju-"
"No buts Genrou. You people need to know when it's time to stop." He smiled kindly at me. Houjun was cute but I didn't blush.
I did, however smile my biggest and most friendly smile at him. He winked at me.
Genrou grummbled and turned away. "Fine."
"Genrou..." Houjun walked over to him placing a hand on his shoulder as he whispered something to him. I thought at that moment that the two must be close friends. Just the way they smiled at each other told me that. I looked over at Kishuku, he was currently having a conversation with Miaka while Saihitei walked next to them talking softly on his cell phone.
I was at a loss at what to do. I wasn't used to, well, hanging out with such a large group of people. I of course knew how chatty I was but never had many friends to chat with. And now I just walked quietly looking at the ground. Suddenly I was afraid that I was acting way too incorrectly! I knew I had to do something so they wouldn't question me. So I looked around again Genrou had taken to reading signs quietly to himself smiling at my chance to strike a conversation with someone -and happy to stop my silence- I turned to Houjun.
"So Houjun.. how do you like school?"
"It's better then my last school." He answered with a somewhat distant look.
"Really? It's better then my last school too. I'm happy I found some friends here.. and some Brand New fans." I said happily earning another smile from Houjun and a wink from Miaka.
"Ah we're here." Came Saihitei's voice- seemingly out of nowhere.
"Woohoo!!" This, of course came from myself. Miaka giggled. We all walked inside and got our ice cream we then sat at the only empty table in the whole place.
"...Great.. there's nowhere to sit." I looked over to see the kid from history. I waved, feeling silly since I had never even spoken to the kid but he waved back. In face they walked over to us. "Hello Saihitei." He said pleasently. "Do you mind if we sit here with you?"
Saihitei blinked up at the boy. "Ah, Doukun." He smiled. "Of course. That is if you all don't mind." No body did. The two sat down.
"Thank you. We would just walk back home with our icecream but Myojuan's house is very far and my house is much further then his. Even this would not cause too much of a problem but it looks like it is going to start rain soon as well."
After that we ate our icecream in peace. Well for awhile at least. Half way through my black cherry cone I noticed that Houjun and Genrou were gone.
"...Um.." I didn't want to sound stupid. But I was really worried after they didn't come back for quite some time so I asked. "..Where'd Genrou and Houjun go.."
Miaka giggled. "I dunno. But I can guess." She smirked in a strange way.
"...Why am I scared of that face."
"Because you know it'll be a face you'll have to live with once," she lowered her voice so only I could hear, "you and Sai get together."
"Eh? Miaka you're crazy." But I was blushing and my thoughts had fallen to Saihitei before my brain could process what she had just said. "Oh my god!!" I suddenly exclaimed. "You don't mean.." my face must've gotten redder. "..Wow.. I thought they looked close..."
"You thought who looked close no da?" I looked up to see Houjun who suddenly had blushed and covered his mouth. "Ah. Sorry."
"No da..?"
He laughed. "I thought I'd gotten out of the habbit of saying that years ago!"
"Houjun! Why the fuck didja run off like that!?" Genrou's voice was loud and angry. Houjun looked at him his eyes saddened for a moment.
"...I don't want to talk about it."
"Well you should! You can't just tell me something this big an' run away from it when I want ta speak ta you about it!! This is fucking insane!!"
"Stop yelling.. people are staring at us."
"Do you think I really fucking care!?"
I didn't know what to do and from the looks of it the others didn't either so we just watched.
"Look.. Genrou. You should be happy I even told you at all! I wasn't planning on saying anything it's just with.. ya know.. you seeing the picture and.. I'm sorry you'r upset but I mean it can't really effect us too much anyway.. can it? It's not like she's still.." Houjun went quiet.
"..Sorry.." Genrou said quietly. "I didn't mean ta upset you."
"..No.. don't be sorry. I'm the one who upset YOU." A chorus of "sorries" went on for a few more minutes each of them finding new things to be sorry for. Then they both sat down again. They and the others went on with their normal conversations but not Kishuku and I.
"..Um.." I pulled Miaka aside. "..I don't get you.."
"Huh?"
"One minute your friends are having a fight and you don't even ask them about it afterwords? Do you happen to know what they were fighting about? Because I know if Kishuku or I get into fights with people we never go on like nothing happened. I know that he always wants to know the facts and I do too.. so.. do you know why they were fighting?"
"No." She said simply. "..Look Ryuuen there's something you should know. If you're going to hang around with us you should know that every single person sitting at that tabe, well maybe not Kishuku I dunno, but anyway.. they all have really short fuses. Although each of them shows it differently. I have a short fuse too.. it's almost like we really see red and go crazy... Genrou usally attacks something or someone. Houjun becomes really quiet.. and cold. He normally walks away and won't talk to you for the rest of the day if he's pissed. But it's better then most of us. Houjuns really good at controlling his anger. The only problem is when he gets mad at Genrou it just makes Genrou worse because he hates being ignored. So these fights are common to us."
I bit my lip. "When.. when you 'see red' do you.. blank out? Like one minute you're standing there being taunted or something and the next your attacking?"
"..Something like that. Why?"
"..Because that's the way that me and Kishuku are. When we get really mad we don't know what's going on and-"
"Ah Miaka!" I was cut off by an old woman walking up to us. "There you are. I've been looking for you."
Miaka just stared blankly at the short wrinkled thing in front of her. "..Uh.. who're you?"
"Who I am is not important. What is important is your destiny! Now that that the seven and the miko have gathered you can finally set off to rescue Suzaku, who was sealed away many hundreds of years ago."
"Suzaku?" Miaka asked blinking at the woman.
"Yes. Suzaku-" this time it was me to cut HER off.
"Hey.. granny! What the heck is a suzaku?"
To be continued.
Sorry it took so long and it sucks so bad but I had some slight writers block! In the next chapter I'll have more on Suzaku's role in this and go into the problems in Houjun and Genrous relationship. Also keep an eye out for my future Fushigi Yuugi fic "Body Writing" which stars Amiboshi and Suboshi..and don't worry they're NOT together in it. Also keep an eye out for a side story to this I plan on writing which goes into Houjun and Genrou. But I won't be writing that until I reveal the main point of that in this!
Ooh and these are the lyrics to Flying at Tree Level! Great song you should hear it.
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