Disclaimers: I don't own Fushigi Yuugi.

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Narrator's POV

Hikitsu waited until Uruki closed her eyes and her breathing became normal. He then stood and went to go get Hatsui.

he called when he got to the seishi's door. Uruki-san woke up. Hatsui was soon in Uruki's room sitting the same chair that Hikitsu had been in a few minutes earlier checking her over.

Why didn't you call me when she was awake? He asked. I wanted to talk to her.

Um... She... Um... Hikitsu blushed a bit, but likely Hatsui couldn't tell because of the dark room. She asked me not to go... Even through the gloom, Hikitsu could see Hatsui's eyebrows shoot up as he considered what he had said.

So... You did?

Um... Yes...

That's... interesting... Yes. Very interesting... Soon after that, he finished examining Uruki and stood up. She seems to be fine. There's no sign that she was ever hurt, he said, baffled by his findings. It just doesn't make any sense. Just earlier today, it looked like she was going to die. Hikitsu said nothing. He thought that it was probably better to keep his mouth shut about his little chat with Genbu. I suppose that when Genbu does work for us mortals, he does it well...' he thought as Hatsui left her room, still muttering to himself about how strange it was. Then, guessing that he was allowed to stop watching over Uruki because she was well again, he left the room and went into his room. He knew that very soon, all the rest of the seishi would know about Uruki's sudden recovery and be bombarding him with questions about what happened. He had to think of a good lie before then...

The next morning, just like Hikitsu had predicted, all of the other seishi knew that Uruki was well. He suspected that everyone in the palace knew. He was, once again, like he had predicted, bombarded with questions about it throughout the entire day. Each time he was asked, he said the same thing.

I'm not really sure. She suddenly started to have trouble breathing, (Well, this part was true) and she began to glow with a strange green light. It was almost like Genbu himself was visiting her to helping her. Then, somehow, she was healed.

People in the city were calling it a miracle, and Hikitsu had to agree with them, although not for the same reasons. He had called out to a god, just like he had so many times in the past with no results. And the god had come. But even more miraculously, he was alive to remember it. Maybe, someday, he would tell the others the truth, but not then. The only person who he told what had really happened was Uruki. He felt that she, at least, had a right to know. But he begged her not to tell anyone else. To his relief, she told him that she wouldn't. The only thing that he didn't tell her was how he had told Genbu about how he felt about her. That remained his own private secret.

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Uruki's POV

Now that we have all of the Genbu Seishi and the Genbu no Miko, we must begin to prepare for the summoning of Genbu, the emperor told us. It was a few days after I had gotten up and we where all assembled in the thrown room sitting at a long table. By I meant all of the other seishi as well as Takiko, all of Heika-sama advisors and other important people from all over our frozen country. Our cold, miserable, country, that even some of it's occupants hated. With it's freezing wind and snow that could freeze you in a matter of seconds. I had to wonder why in the world Kutou would want to take us over anyway. Was it just for our land? We did have quite a bit of land, for all that our army was small. Or perhaps it was for our natural resources. There were many, but we hadn't figured out for to mine all of them yet. Could they have found out how to get at them? Or perhaps, and this seemed like the most likely reason to me, they didn't even have a reason and just wanted to kill us all.

But... Heika-sama, do you know what we must do to summon Genbu? Asked one of the many people in the room, I'm not sure who. Heika-sama smiled a bit. Then, he turned to Takiko.

Takiko-sama, do you remember that scroll that I gave you when you first came here with Tomite? He asked my miko. She thought a bit and the said, Do you mean that old, tattered green one that looked like it was falling apart?

Yes. That's the one. Do you still have it?

Of course. It's in my chamber. Why? She asked curiously.

Will you get it? She hesitated, as if she would rather stay there and make her answer her question, but soon left. If a few minutes, she was back and carrying a tattered green scroll. I looked at it, puzzled. What could Heika-sama want with such an old scroll. It looked as if someone handled it, it would rip.

Takiko handed the scroll to Heika-sama and took her seat. He opened it (surprisingly, it didn't rip) and laid it out on the table for all to see.

All the instructions for setting up the ceremony is in here. It's complicated, but with the right equipment, it should be easy enough, he said. Once everything is ready, it tells us how to purify the Genbu no Miko- he nodded to Takiko -and go about the summoning. After that, we don't know what to do, but I'm sure that Genbu will tell Takiko how to make her wishes. And if he doesn't... then we'll deiced what to do then... The rest of us nodded in understanding. We discussed, or argued about, however you want to think of it, the ceremony for a while longer and Heika-sama even went so far as to read what the scroll said about preparing for the ceremony out loud to us. It was so detailed that just reading the first half took the better part of an hour. But we needed to know these things. The next morning, we would begin to prepare to summon Genbu. It felt... strange, I suppose. That would be the only feeling to describe how I felt right then. We had gone through so much, and now it was almost over.

Slowly, once we where done, I stood up and stretched my cramped legs. I had been sitting down to long. I should go on a walk in the gardens to get these cramps out of my legs. If I don't, I'll never get to sleep because of the pain,' I thought as I stepped outside and began to make my way towards the gardens. It would also give me a chance to sort out my feelings.

This nightmare of hell was about to end. Once Takiko had summoned Genbu, I could go back to my village. So why didn't I feel happy? In fact, I had a horrible feeling in my gut that something awful was going to happen. I shivered, and not because of the cruel wind outside. I didn't like that thought. Not at all. Nothing could happen. Not now. Not when things were finally falling into place. Not when this entire ordeal was almost finished. I took a deep breath, trying to clear my thoughts with the sweet scent of the flowers growing in the garden. I had always like flowers...

I don't know how long I walked through the gardens. Eventually, my feet led me back to the door and I walked back inside the palace. I began to walk back to my room so that I could go to sleep, when it happened. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Hikitsu kissing another girl in a room that had the door open. I stopped and simply stared. I just couldn't tear my eyes away.

I asked in a small voice. He pushed back from the girl, in what seemed like an almost forceful way, and towards me to see who had spoken.



I-I-I'm sorry! I stuttered quickly turing away. I-I didn't m-mean to in-intrude. I... I'll just l-leave now. I quickly ran off.

Uruki! Wait! I can explain! I heard Hikitsu yell after me. But I didn't wait. I didn't want to see him. Tears ran down my cheeks, blinding me. But I didn't care. Nothing mattered anymore. How could I think that a great guy like Hikitsu wouldn't be taken? Of course he was. He probably wouldn't was a stupid little girl like me. I stopped and leaned against one of the many thick polls that heaps the palace up, unable to run anymore, sobs racking my body. Why? Why, Genbu? Why couldn't you have just let me die. I... I want to die. Maybe... Maybe I should just commit suicide... Maybe...' I thought. But no... I can't. I can't die yet. Once Genbu is called... Yes... Once Takiko had summoned Genbu. Then... Then I'll end all of this... I'll end all of this pain...' Before, I hadn't realized how tired I was. I tried to stand so that I could go back to my rooms, but found that I could not. Finally, I curled up in the hall, and fell asleep with my tears still streaming down my face...

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~End of Chapter 29~

Hm... This was mostly a pointless chapter, wasn't it. But I got a bit of a cliff hanger at the end, didn't I? Anyway, PLEEEEEEEEEASE REVIEW!!! I haven't gotten a review since chapter 23! I mean, really. If you read this fic, review. If you like it, then I want to know. If you hate it, then tell me why. Most stories about the Genbu Seishi get hundreds (literally) of reviews, but mines only gotten 22. That's not even one per chapter! Personally, I feel like that's pathetic, and it makes me feel pathetic. And I don't like feeling bad. So please make me feel good and be a nice little person and review. Thanks! More coming soon.

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