Chapter 5

The door slammed open, revealing the eavesdroppers, Aoi, Chichiri and Nuriko. Aoi, Chichiri, and Tamahome's fingers all pointed at Huan-Lang, almost speechless.

"TASUKI?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" They all shouted together. Finally everyone noticed that others were in the room. Aoi's finger made its way to stroking her chin.

"Ah, I see. I thought that name sounded familiar."

"Where did you guys come from?" Usagi and Izumi asked.

Aoi continued ignoring their questions. "I thought that name sounded familiar..."

"Were you guys listening through the door?" Red-haired Tasuki asked.

"That does not matter!" Aoi balled her palm into a fist. Her hand shot back out pointing at the black-haired Tasuki once again. "You!" Her palm opened and faced upwards as if she were lending a hand. "My brotha! This is the appointed time! Your destiny awaits you! Come! Let us fulfill our destiny!"

(A/N laughing hysterically to the point where tears are streaming down my face I am so sorry!!!! I just had to put that in! Along with another one I think you guys might like... oh and if u haven't seen comic party... u probably wont get what just happened. So don't worry about it!)

"So you have it figured out?" Izumi asked.

"TELL US NOW!!!!" Tamahome insisted.

"Tasuki... I think we need to calm him down." Usagi said.

"Alright, wait one second." Tasuki searched his pockets. He pulled out something small and hidden. He walked over to Tamahome and shook the object above his head.

"Tama, Tama, here's some cash!" Tamahome went on all fours and playfully tried to grab the coin. Izumi giggled. Tamahome came back to his senses, straightening up and yelling at Tasuki.

"Damnit Tasuki! I said not to do that anymore!"

"If you don't want it, I'll take it!" The black haired Tasuki declared.

"Here you go!" Tasuki threw the coin on the other side of the room, Tasuki and Tamahome followed like a puppies playing fetch. They jumped on the coin and started fighting over it.

"Aw!!!! They're so cute!!!" Izumi burst out giggling. Everyone except Izumi was a little creeped out. The black-haired Tasuki ran over to Izumi and rolled on his back with his tongue hanging out. Izumi giggled and rubbed his tummy.

"So getting back to what you were saying." Chichiri said.

Aoi had gotten contacts by now, but she was wearing her glasses at the time with her contacts in her coat pocket and with eye solution in the other pocket.

Aoi pushed up her glasses with her middle finger. "Ah yes. As I was saying..." She stroked her chin some more, the whole time she was talking.

"This is only a theory but bare with me will you? I think that the story reproduced the characters after they left to go to the other world."

"If that's true then the book-"

Aoi stopped her mid-sentence sending a cheery, intelligent glare.

"The book can make copies of itself and of the people in it."

"Wow!" Izumi stopped rubbing Tasuki's stomach and actually paid attention. "I never would have thought that this book had the smarts to do this! The book can never die! This book is too intelligent for its own good."

"As am I." Aoi stroked her chin. "Ah, if only I had a beard." Everyone stared at her in fright. Slowly everyone backed away from her.

"What is going on here? Am I the only one that is confused?" The black-haired Tasuki asked snapping out of his puppy state. Tamahome regained his pride and humanly instincts and stood up.

"I know this is a little confusing for you right now, but we will explain all later." He said seriously. The black haired-Tasuki stared at him a little creeped out. "You took my coin..." He said.

"It was mine!"

"Stop fooling around!" Nuriko said hitting Tamahome over the head. Surprisingly, he didn't go flying into the ground. Mouths dropped all over the room including Nuriko's. "Okay, we have a real problem here."

"Make that three more problems." Taka, Mitsukake, and Hotohori came running in the door.

"How'd you-"

"No time, the girls are unconscious and we don't know how to get them up. Mitsukake's powers aren't working. It looks like they're all suffering from something." Hotohori exclaimed. Everyone gasped. Everyone ran out the room except Tamahome. He stayed in the room with the black haired Tasuki.

"What the hell is going on?" Tamahome asked.

"That's what I would like to know!" Tasuki yelled.

Everyone ran to different rooms. Usagi ran to Yume's, Izumi ran to Emi's, Aoi ran to Miaka's and anyone that didn't go with those three went to Yui's room.

When Usagi got to the room she just burst through the door.

"Yu...me?" She stopped at the door. No one was in Yume's room.

'How is this possible? Everyone else is here but her. She should have been here too.'

Tasuki looked in behind her.

"What the hell? Where is she? Did she just get up and walk away?" He looked down at Usagi's shocked face. Her eyes started to water up. He placed a hand on her shoulder, shocking her.

"Tasuki?"

"Whatever you do, do not cry. I can't stand crybabies." He said wrapping his arms around her. She blushed slightly.

"Mm hm." She nodded wiping away her tears. "Thanks."

"Usagi! Tasuki!" Izumi called from down the hall. "Come quick!"

Usagi broke free of Tasuki's hold and ran down the hall, Tasuki a little way behind her. She ran into Emi's room in order to see Emi lying in her bed tossing and turning.

"What's going on?" Usagi asked.

"I don't know, she's been like this for a while. I think that maybe she's waking up."

"Or she could be fighting something in her sleep." Tamahome said sitting on Emi's bed.

"Well how do we help her?" Usagi asked.

"We can't. She has to help herself." Mitsukake explained.

"What? We can't help her?"

Mitsukake shook his head.

Usagi's eyes glazed over creating her eyes to look hollow.

"Usagi?" Tasuki asked. She didn't answer. She fell to her knees crying.

"Why can't we help her?! Why? Damnit!" She cried.

"Usagi!" Izumi came over to comfort her but she pushed her away.

"What if she's about to die?! We have to be able to do something!"

"Think about this rationally, what can we do? I don't have my power anymore. It would take much practice to gain my power back."

"THEN START PRACTICING!!" Usagi screamed.

"Usagi! Usagi relax! There is another way." Usagi looked at Tasuki with hope in her eyes. "Think about it, we found another me didn't we? All we have to do is go find the other celestial warriors all over again and we'll find another Mitsukake."

"Yeah but didn't you see back there? The other Tasuki has the personality of Tamahome, which means that he's probably Tamahome on the inside but Tasuki on the outside."

"That doesn't really make sense..." Tasuki complained.

"Okay, uh, let me explain this in a way you'll get it..." Izumi thought for a second. "Nope, no possible way."

"That's cruel."

"Let me explain," Mitsukake tried. "If he has the soul of Tamahome but the exterior of you, then its most likely that he will have the powers of Tamahome instead of you. Plus there's the fact that he was found here instead of on your mountain, and didn't he say that he was training out in those woods? That definitely sounds like Tamahome to me."

Usagi got up from the ground but her head stayed lowered.

"So what you're saying is that even if we find the Mitsukake in the book, he could just be a different celestial warrior to what we're used to?" She said shuddering.

Everyone hesitantly answered. "Yes."

Emi groaned and immediately, Usagi's eyes flung to her. She watched her friend toss and turn and look as if she were about to die. She was sweating now, sweating badly. Usagi couldn't stand it.

"Okay," She lifted her head and looked Mitsukake in the eyes. "Please, try to gain your power back. You still have the training of a doctor so you can at least take care of her and everyone else right?" Mitsukake nodded. "Alright. Meanwhile, all the rest of us will go out and search for the others. Most likely, they will be in the same places considering they're just being remade by this dammed book." Usagi turned to face Izumi and Tasuki. "Are you guys ready?"

Tasuki and Izumi exchanged glances and smiled.

"Lets rock." Izumi said.

TO BE CONTINUED