AN:

*one of the two authoresses walks to the stage*
*ahem* Hi minna! I'm Lana's co-authoress during this fic and I'll be your host in this chapter.
*twitches as the audience boos*
I know, I know, I said Lana would be taking this chapter, but she's being a bit busy at the moment. *sweat drops and dodges flying, rotten vegetables*
They took it better than I though…oO
*throws the keyboard to Lana to behind the settings* YOU take the next chapter kittling!
*sweeps a kasa from behind her back*
Chichiri: Hey, that's MY kasa no da!!
*Hehee..* ^^; Enjoy the chapter everybody! *dissapears to the kasa*

Disclaimers:

We DON'T own the Fushigi Yugi, or it's characters. If we would, would we be writing this fic? *thinks for a second* … Don't answer that… uu;; But we DO on the other hand, own our selves (*dryly* Oh, joy…) so please don't use us whit out consulting us first! (…Or we shall haunt you for the rest of your lives and the next 10 of your incarnations…) Thank you! ^^

Chapter 6:

Good Morning!

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"Oy! 'Bout time ya got here, mate!" Kouji called to Chichiri and the girls when they walked in the door.

"Where's the coffee?" Lana asked, forgetting for a second where she was, only remembering that it was morning.

"Cough-hee?" Chichiri repeated, looking confused.

Riina hit Lana on the head. Bad move. She'd forgotten about Lana's slight hangover.

"WHY THE HECK DID YOU DO THAT?!" Lana yelled, holding her head and whimpering.

"Aw geez, sorry kittling. Come on, let's eat." Riina said apologetically, steering her friend to her seat.

"Rice?" Lana asked, peeking out from behind her fingers at the table.

"Yep, hope you know how to use chopsticks." Riina teased.

Her eyes widened as she saw Lana's fierce attack to the rice bowl. Kouji's jaw fell from the sight and Riina could almost swear that Chichiri's eye slightly widened behind his mask.

"On the second thought, don't answer that." She said dryly. "I wasn't thinking quite straight."

"Goodh murnin' tho you thoo." Lana smiled through the mouth full of rice.

"*shiiigh* You wouldn't happen to have any more of that tea? I think I'm going to need it" Riina asked from Chichiri, who was slowly sipping his tea.

"Hai. Of course no da." He smiled as he poured some tea on her cup. "What was that … "chough-hee" Lana just mentioned?" he asked curiously.

"Oh that. That's just a drink from where we come from." Riina tasted her tea carefully "It kind of wakes you up and gives you some energy. A little like tea actually, but much, much more effective. Hey. This is actually pretty good. What is it?" she asked as her eyes lightly lit up and she poured another cup.

"It is just ordinary black tea no da." Chichiri answered carefully, noticing her sudden change.

Lana quickly looked at her friend and swallowed the rice as she recognized the look on her face.

"Oh, Gods. Heeelp." she groaned theatrically.

"Somethin' wrong kittling?" Kouji asked.

"How strong would you say the black tea would be? And DON'T call me kittling!!" Lana lightly whacked Kouji to the head with her chopsticks.

"Ow. Well, it wakes ya on the mornings, but that's all." Kouji shrugged, rubbing his forehead.

"He'heeelp!" Lana moaned theatrically in despair and rolled her eyes. Now both Chichiri and Kouji were looking at her in confusion.

"Nobody can't stand her when she's being hyper." She thumbed at now over cheerfully grinning Riina, who was drinking her third cup of the tea and almost bounced on her seat.

"Speaking of which," Riina chirped, almost singing "Have any of you seen a dark blue backpack lying around?" she asked offhandedly, playing with her cup.

"Oh yeah. We found something like that from under the table last night. Why?" answered Kouji.

"Nothing important, just some of my personal stuff and like that," She waved her hand slightly grimacing "Just some things that I'd hate to lose."

"What have you done to it?" Lana suddenly shouted from under the table. "It isn't here!" she poked her head from under the table, glaring Kouji and making Riina to sweat drop.

"Genrou took it to his room, so that nobody would steal it." Kouji face faulted.

"Speaking of the fang-boy, where is he?" Lana asked as she climbed from under the table, looking around to see a glimpse of a familiar flaming hair.

"Genrou's always been a late sleeper. And there he comes by th' way." Kouji chuckled as everybody turned to see a sleepy looking Tasuki to slowly walk to the table.

"And the living dead walks again." Riina muttered to Lana who tried to hide her smile.

"Ohaiyo 'Chiri." Tasuki yawned as he tapped Riina's shoulder and sat cross to her. Tasuki stirred his eyes and tried sleepily to fix his gaze to blinking Riina.

"Is it just me or is there som'thing different on ya 'Chiri?" Everybody stared Tasuki in disbelief.

"Anou, Tasuki-kun…." Chichiri coughed and sweat dropped next to Tasuki as Lana and Kouji snickered from their seats.

"Charming. This is the first time I've been thought for a guy." Riina smiled to Lana. "I don't know should I be insulted or flattered." She purred and gave a wry smile for Tasuki. "Insulted for being thought for a guy, or flattered for being thought for your koi*, Tasuki." She patted innocently her eyelashes to Tasuki, who was now suddenly fully awake and realizing his mistake.

* AN: koi = lover or beloved

This was too much for Lana and Kouji, who cracked up in a hysterical laughter, leaving Chichiri sweat dropping and bright red Tasuki snarling to them.

" I'M NOT A FQ#¤%(* GAY!!!" he shouted to them, baring his fangs.

"Oh, really? That's not what Kouji told us…" Riina teased. Now it was Kouji's turn to sweat drop.

"Come on Riina. They're not gay, and you know it. Stop teasing them." Lana laughed and punched the older girl to the shoulder, making her to chuckle.

Tasuki growled something incoherent about how he hated women, and how the world would be a better place whit out them.

"I didn't quite catch that last one Tasuki. Would you repeat it? I left my Tasuki-English dictionary at home." Lana smiled dangerously to Tasuki.

"Honey. He's a man. You're not to supposed to understand them" Riina noted dryly to Lana "They don't have enough of brain cells to come up with a coherent speaking."

"Point." Lana giggled.

"Though that "Grumph-English"-dictionary could be handy sometimes." Riina added mock thoughtfully, and they both brusted out laughing. After a few moments they were finally able to gather them selves.

"Whoo boy." Lana still giggled as she brushed few tears from the corner of her eyes.

"Mornings are murder." Riina agreed as she tried to calm down.

"How should you know? You always sleep over the noon…" Lana teased the hyperly grinning girl.

"Point." Riina smirked.

The whole incident had left Tasuki, Kouji and Chichiri face faulting, as they watched the two girls laughing for something incomprehensible thing and they had already lost the red line of the joke ages ago.

"What wouldn't I give for a toast…" Lana sighed as she poked the rice on her bowl with the chopsticks.

Riina looked at her friend sadly and bite her lower lip thoughtfully. Soon she perked up and poked Lana.

"What do you say, if I would say that we'd take over what ever they call over here a kitchen and see if I can come up with something what we could call a breakfast?" she grinned over enthusiastically as she stood up and pulled Lana up with her.

"But. But. Do you even know where kitchen is?" Lana argued as she was being promptly pushed towards the nearest exit.

"I'll follow my nose…" Riina chuckled as they stepped out of the door.

"You can actually smell something over here?" they could hear Lana commenting loudly as the door swung shut behind them.

Tasuki, Kouji and Chichiri sat few moments totally stunned, staring where the two girls had just disappeared and you could almost hear the crickets chirping. Then they slowly looked at each others and blinked several times.

"What … th' fuck …did just happen?" Tasuki finally asked slowly with wide eyes.

"I'm not sure if I wana know." Answered Kouji with as wide eyes as his redheaded friend.

"Next time, I'd suggest not to give black tea for Riina no da." muttered Chichiri.

"What?" asked Tasuki in confusion.

"She's the older one of them, Tasuki-kun. The redhead's name is Lana, if you remember na no da." Chichiri explained with a sigh.

"What ever. I don't care as long as they stay th' hell away from me…" Tasuki muttered absentmindedly and looked around the table to get something to eat.

"Oy! Why didn't ya save anything fer me?" he asked with a hurt voice, when he noticed that every bowl and plate was already empty.

"That's what ya get when ya sleep so late Genrou." Kouji teased at Tasuki with a smirk.

"Shut yer yap Kouji. I'm gona get something from the kitchen." Tasuki was about to stand up from the table.

"The girls just went to the kitchen, or did ya just forget that Genrou." Kouji grinned and crossed his arms over his chest. Tasuki stared at him blankly for a second.

"Shit." he sat back down and crossed his arms across his chest.

"And th' hell I'm going there while they're in. The two of 'em gives me creeps." Tasuki sulked and leaned the wall. Suddenly he face faulted and slightly blushed as his stomach growled loudly in protest, making Kouji brust out laughing and Chichiri to chuckle.

"Oh, fucking fine." Tasuki sighed in defeat and stood up "Perhaps they've made something eatable." He muttered.

"Their cooking can't be any worse than what Miaka's was, no da. And she was the only one I knew that could even burn the water na no da." Chichiri assured for Tasuki with a smile, making him smile his fanged smile when the memories of his Miko flashed to his mind.

"Yer probably right 'Chiri," Tasuki chuckled and scratched his neck sheepishly. "Me'be I'm just barking shadows here." he glanced at Chichiri, who just calmly smiled his masked smile and lightly tipped his head.

"Aw, can it 'Chiri. Yer pushing your luck y'know." Tasuki growled heartedly to his fellow seishi and gave him a mock glare.

"I dun know 'bout you, but I haven't eaten in ages and I'm starving." Tasuki claimed as he headed towards the door.

"Hah! Don't worry buddy, they won't kill ya. Much. If yer lucky." Kouji laughed for Tasuki's turned back.

"LEKKA … SHIN'EN!" was the only response as Tasuki lightly charred the top of Kouji's hair and walked out of the hall.

"OY!!! That's not fucking fair Genrou!!" Kouji shouted in protest as the door once again was slammed close.

'Why the "#¤& I'm acting so edgily?' Tasuki pondered by himself as he walked down the unusually quiet hall.

'*hmph* I'm just probably being tired, that's all. We've been on the road for some time now.' he mentally shrugged and straightened his belt that held his Tessen.

Tasuki blinked in surprise when a short, fat man toddled towards him as fast as he could. Tasuki didn't know that the man actually could move so fast as he grasped the cook from his arm to halt him.

"What are ya fucking running fer? Shouldn't ya be in the kitchens where ya belong?" he asked roughly.

"Ya can't make me go back there even if you'd kill me!" the cook exclaimed hysterically, and tried to get free from Tasuki's iron like grasp.

"Wha'da ya mean?" Tasuki wrinkled his brows.

"Two girls! They suddenly appeared to the kitchen. And they're crazy! They threw me 'n my staff outa there! Just like that!" he explained with wild eyes.

Tasuki rubbed his temples, looking angry, and let go of the cook's arm.

"Get outa here. I'll take care of this." he snarled and marched onwards the hall, leaving the dumb fold little man standing alone to the hall.

"This is the *¤&/( why I hate women." he muttered as he reached the door and pushed it open.

Tasuki stood on the door way, gapping, for a moment before he stepped in. Lana was sitting on a table, swinging her legs happily on the air and snatched something from a bowl which was on her hands, with her chopsticks and tossed it to her mouth. When the door closed, Tasuki could see a smashed tomato and something else he couldn't recognize slowly dripping down the door.

'No wonder the cook was running.' he thought to himself.

"This is good." Lana said to Riina, who was standing next to the stove, frying something on a pan.

"Thanks. The lonely life of a student teaches you rather rabidly the secrets of creative cooking" she smiled and put something, that smelled good, from the pan to a plate next to her. Suddenly Lana looked up, noticing Tasuki and waved her chopsticks to him in greeting.

"Hi ya Tasuki! Whuz up?" she smiled cheerfully.

"Oh, hi Tasuki! want some breakfast?" Riina also looked up and gestured him to come closer. "There's enough for everybody. Self service." she smiled for the bandit.

"Kittling, off." she said calmly whit out even looking to Lana, who was starring Tasuki starry eyed.

"Whaat? I didn't do anything." Lana said in mock hurt and grinned.

"You don't need to. I know what you were thinking." Riina teased her and put the pan off.

'I DON'T want to know what they're talking about...' Tasuki face faulted.

Tasuki hesitated for a moment before stepping closer the girls. On the table there were fried eggs and thin slices of fried roast on a plate. On a large bowl were small pieces of different fruits, vegetables and salad, and for his amaze, noodles, that were cut short. There was also cold chicken, some flattened rice cakes with an open honey pot and a chunk of cheese being put forth to the table. In another bowl there was cold rice mixed wit steaming pieces of boiled vegetables.

Tasuki's stomach growled out loudly again as he sniffed the delicious scents of the weird mix of a food, making Lana to snicker and Riina to hide her smile.

"I'm sorry 'bout the earlier." Riina twitched apolitically as she offered Tasuki a plate and chopsticks, which she managed to find.

"I had drunk too many cups of the tea." She smiled as Tasuki took them from her.

"Hah. Now that was an understatement of a century." Lana snorted as she picked some pieces of fruits from her bowl.

"Why, thank you." Riina grinned to her friend like it had been one of the greatest compliments.

Tasuki shook helplessly his head as he watched the two of them. He would never understand women.

"Ya two do know that yer crazy." He snorted goodheartedly with an amused smirk as he picked up a mix of food to his plate

"We know." Lana and Riina chorused.

"And she's supposed to be the saner one of us." Lana giggled and poked Riina with her chopsticks. "The world is doomed…" she rolled his eyes.

"Oy! I'm not that bad… I'm a lot worse…" Riina laughed.

Suddenly Riina snapped her finger and looked like she had just remembered something.

"Lana, keep him here, while I'll go and search my pack from his room, okay?" Riina smiled as she pronounced every word carefully with a cheerful tone.

Lana frowned a moment, turning the words on her mind. Soon her face light up from understanding.

"No fair. How do you suppose I'm going to do that?" Lana smiled and tilted her head.

"Use your imagination." Riina chided "Don't worry, I won't take long." she assured as she turned around.

"Heeeyyy!!" Lana protested loudly and blushed bright red when she realized what she had just said.

"Be right back!" Riina waved her hand from the door and disappeared.

"Where did she go?" Tasuki asked curiously with wide eyes. "I haven't ever heard a language like that before."

"Hmm? She said she had forgotten something and she went to get it." Lana answered, like nothing was wrong and picked a rice cake and carefully put some honey on it.

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And hi again! I'm back!! ^^ *bwahahahaaaa* *ahem* Just kidding. Anywhoz. I am putting this chapter up already 'cuz we're having winter holidays over here in Finland and I'm leaving to home for the next week, so I won't have the chance to update for a while. I think the next chap should be ready for publishing iiiiin… *counts with fingers* 'round three weeks from now?

In the mean while you can comfort yourselves with these replies for the reviews we've gotten. ^^ And with the info that I'll try to write some more during my break… ^~

Neko-ane– Thank you for the sympathy. But hey, nobody's perfect. We just do our best while we're hanging around here! ^~

Songwind  - Thanks!! ^^ *hilarious laughter* Actually, that scenery never even crossed my mind while I was typing. (Though I played with few interesting ideas… ;p) But that could have been one rather good option….. But for what is gonna happened… Who's gona find the bag…. Who will kill who… *tun tun tun duuuuun* You need to read the next chapter luv! ;) (sorry, I don't want to spoil)

Alatril Carnesr - *turns chibi, waving her hands frantically* I updated! I updated!!! Dun kill me!!! *chuckle* And I can tell you some more of the life in Finland, if you like. ^^