DESTRUCTION OF SHIJINTENCHISHO
Disclaimer: I don't own Fushigi Yuugi. Yuu Watase owns them.
A/N: For this chapter there will be a lot of things about Mikaru, but of course the center of the story will be on the mikos. There will be some Chinese (Mandarin) in this chapter. I'm sorry if they are not that good, they are just pieces from my Chinese class. I don't remember them that well.
Thanks for the reviews
Lavender Wings – OO You're not supposed to know that! Ack!
Lavender-Stone – Saa, Mikaru tte seishi kana…hehehe…Takiko&Rimudo, Suzuno&Tatara, Miaka&Tamahome. For Yui, it'll remain a secret…hehehe…
Chapter Three: Fulfillment of a wish
"Mikaru do you have the kanji character?" Miaka asked.
"What is that?" Mikaru asked.
"This is a character." Amiboshi said, showing her his shoulder, where his own character glowed.
"Amiboshi!" Yui exclaimed as she pointed as Amiboshi's red kanji character.
"You're a Suzaku seishi!" Miaka exclaimed.
Suboshi looked at his own kanji character; it was blue, just as normal.
"Why?" Suboshi asked as he looked back at his older brother's shoulder.
"How odd." Was all Tamahome could say.
"I think I know why. When I fought Tomo in order to protect Miaka-san, I wish I was a Suzaku seishi, if it was possible." Amiboshi said quietly. Yui gasped and Suboshi looked at his brother with a shock expression.
"Strange things have been happening; we can't expect any stranger things." Takiko said.
"Well Mikaru, have you ever notice any kanji character on you?" Suzuno asked.
Mikaru thought for about ten minutes. "…I think so…my fingernails…" Mikaru said. "I see them whenever I practice with my sword."
"Them! How many characters do you have?" Miaka exclaimed.
Mikaru held her sword and ten small characters glowed purple on each of her fingernails. They were all the same character.
"This is strange…I'm pretty sure she's a seishi but I don't know who her miko is…" Yui said in a really serious tone.
PIN PON!
"It's the doorbell, I'll go check." Mikaru said as she returned her sword back in its sheath. She went to the main entrance and walked all the way to the gate. The computer checked her fingers and eyes then opened the huge gate. There stood, Yuki, a popular guy at her school, who hits on every girl he sees. She didn't know the others were watching her from the window.
"Kyaaah! Yui-chan, Mikaru is being visited by her admirers!" Miaka exclaimed as they all went back to their rooms to give Mikaru "some privacy" to talk with her lover (or boyfriend?).
"My Mikaru, you're still as attractive as when I first met you. For the ninety-ninth time, I am asking you to go out with me." Yuki greeted with a smirk on his face.
"Go away, Yuki." Mikaru said coolly.
"If you go out with me, our popularity at school will rule. No one will be more popular than us: two popular people in love." Yuki said sounding sarcastic yet with a slight trace of a dreamy tone.
"Not even in your dreams! Go away, I'm busy, you pervert!" Mikaru said with disgust as she turned to push the "close the gate" button.
But Yuki knew what she had on mind so he pulled her by the wrist before she was able to push the little button on the wall.
"Let me go! You…!" Mikaru yelled as she tried to pull her wrist from his tight grip.
"Lucky me, your parents don't care. Come with me, my love. My car is waiting for us." Yuki said as he stepped closer to Mikaru, cornering her between the brick wall and him.
Just as he was about to steal a kiss from Mikaru's lips, Amiboshi, who saw them from his window, came out from the house.
"Now, who in the world are you?" Yuki asked in his annoyed tone
"Release her." Amiboshi said quietly as he pulled Mikaru by her forearm from Yuki.
"Keh! I'll come back for you, Mikaru." Yuki threatened as he left.
Amiboshi gave her a comforting hug and Mikaru hugged him back, trying to hold her tears.
"Amiboshi-san, arigatou gozaimasu and I'm sorry for causing you trouble, this is the second time…I'm really sorry…" Mikaru apologized.
"Has he been like that? Or is this the first time?" Amiboshi asked.
"It's not the first time…he's worse at school…" Mikaru confessed.
---Flashback---
"Mikaru, the paparazzi is taking pictures of you again." One of Mikaru's classmates whispered.
There stood Yuki with a camera and an album of Mikaru's pictures. Some girls behind them giggled, saying, "Yuki-kun is looking at our direction! Kyay!"
"Hmph, I don't get why girls like him. I'm so disgusted. He's so perverted and hits on every girl in the world." Mikaru said.
"He treats you differently though." One of her friends said.
"I don't want his attention." Mikaru said.
As they walked by the corridors, Mikaru felt a hand grabbed her waist, pulling her. She turned around and saw Yuki with his arm around her.
"Let me go, they'll think I am going out with you." Mikaru said coldly.
"Isn't that nice? They'll talk about you and me, together." Yuki said darkly.
Mikaru slapped him and said, "I don't want to be any mile nearer to you!". Then she left him.
"You're mine." Yuki whispered, grinning
---End of flashback---
That night, Kaito saw them but didn't bother to talk to them. He just went straight to his room, too tired to do anything else.
The mikos and seishis slept with confused thoughts. So many things have happened today: Mikaru, an unknown seishi and Amiboshi a Suzaku seishi…It was already midnight when they heard a high-pitched scream. It was Mikaru's voice. The seishis and priestesses were awakened by this and so they went to check on Mikaru. Amiboshi got there first, followed by Rimudo. Her parents thought she and her friends were only having fun and causing all the noises. It was Yuki, trying to take Mikaru with him, out of the window. When Yuki saw them, he panicked and lost his balance, causing him to fall down along with Mikaru. Rimudo used his wind to stop Mikaru from falling and Amiboshi jumped out of the window and played his flute. Hearing Amiboshi's music caused Yuki to run away from them. Tamahome and Miaka rushed and hugged their great-granddaughter.
"Rimudo-san, hontou ni arigatou gozaimasu!" Mikaru said.
"We better be more careful." Tamahome said as Amiboshi came in (he went all the way to the entrance to get in again).
"Rimudo, Amiboshi, arigatou." Miaka said.
So they went back to sleep. Yui, the last to become a miko, had a dream: She could feel strong power and it was pulling her towards this mysterious force. Suddenly the force disappeared and there appeared, the Shijintenchisho. Takiko, the first miko, also had a dream: She was staring at a temple and she was holding the ancient manuscript her father had translated. As she entered she felt a strong power pulling her towards the wall of the temple. Miaka and Suzuno had the same dream: they were facing each other and one of them was holding something as hot as fire while the other was holding something as cold as dry ice. The next day, Yui woke up to find herself embracing the Shijintenchisho. Where did it come from? The four priestesses shared their dreams to each other – again (with Mikaru though she's the only non-miko girl in the house. They're not going to leave her out, are they?). This time, they are pretty sure that someone or something has summoned them to do something with the Shijintenchisho.
"Maybe there is some information in the temple you saw in your dream, Takiko-san." Suzuno said.
"If there is, we don't know how to get there." Takiko said.
"Let's check the Shijintenchisho." Yui said as she picked it up from the table and began to scan the book for any information about a temple.
"Did you find anything?" Miaka asked.
"No." Yui said, sounding disappointed.
"I didn't think so. It was my father who translated that manuscript – wait perhaps the manuscript has some information!" Takiko said as she headed back to her room.
Takiko came back with a bunch of ancient scrolls on her hand. She sat down and began looking at them one by one. For thirty minutes, she read and read and read.
"I'm sorry, I can't read Chinese but there's a kanji of a temple here…" Takiko said as she showed them.
"Then let's go to China." Mikaru said.
"How! We don't have passports and visas." Yui said.
"Uh, everything in the airport is different now. It's all by family. Our family already has a passport and visa for every country so we won't need one for each." Mikaru said. (A/N: remember they are rich, they have all the visas)
"Aiport is where the airplanes are…uh airplanes are like cars and ships but they fly to get you into a different country/empire…and uh, people need passports and visas to get into airplanes…" Miaka explained to the confused Takiko.
"Oh…"Takiko said.
That night the five girls told the six seishis that they will fly to China. It also meant explaining "fly" and "airplanes" to the seishis (with the exception of Tamahome, of course).
"Shouldn't you let Kaito know about this?" Tamahome asked Mikaru.
Mikaru shook her head and said, "No, they don't care about what I am doing anyway. I won't even bother to listen to what I say. It feels like a don't have parents at all." Mikaru looked away to hide her tears.
Tamahome could sense her crying, no matter how much Mikaru tried to hide it. To Mikaru's surprise, Tamahome embraced her like how a father would do to his daughter and whispered, "Well, Miaka and I are here, we care for you."
The next day, they went to the airport without anything but money and id's (They can just buy their clothes there, can't they? Why waste your energy carrying heavy suitcases!) Technology was indeed better because they reached China in no time.
An old woman approached Takiko and said, "Ní zăo!"
"Uh…" Takiko began.
Mikaru noticed this and rushed to her aid. "Duíbuqĭ. Tā shi Okuda Takiko. Zhōngwén tā bù dŏng. Wŏmen shi rìbĕn rén." Mikaru said, trying to recall her Mandarin (Chinese).
"Aa." Was all the old woman said then she left.
"Mikaru, you can speak Chinese?" Miaka asked.
"Some basic stuff, I'm not really fluent. I am half Chinese too, my mother is Chinese." Mikaru said.
"Oh." Miaka said.
"Miaka, Tamahome is Chinese in case you never noticed." Yui said, half-laughing.
"Ah Tamahome chuugoku-jin dake?" Miaka joked.
"What are you saying!" Tamahome answered back.
"Takiko-san, maybe one of these seishis can read the scroll." Suzuno said.
"Ah sou desu ne!" Takiko said as she took out the scroll.
Tatara, who was feeling better, borrowed the scroll from Takiko. He read the place out loud but the names of the places seemed to have been replaced by a new one. So Mikaru, who knew both ancient and modern place names, guided them to the place as Tatara read the scroll for her. They came upon a really old temple. There was no one and nothing inside the temple but the four wall cloths of the four gods: Genbu, Byakko, Suzaku and Seiryuu. Takiko walked towards the Genbu wall cloth, followed by Rimudo.
"I first saw this when you told me about Genbu's legend. That was when we first met." Takiko said.
"Yeah, you were even freaking out that time because you thought I was a woman. Not to mention you even threw the pillow on my head!" Rimudo said looking at the blushing Takiko.
Takiko touched the wall cloth and to her surprise, it glowed green. Seeing this, the three other priestesses agreed to touch their own wall cloths. Suzuno touched the Byakko one and it glowed white; Miaka touched the Suzaku and it glowed red; Yui touched the Seiryuu cloth and it glowed blue. As they did so, the old wall was replaced by some kind of a screen displaying the peaceful mountain of Taikyoku. Suboshi touched the screen-like wall and his hand went through it.
"Should…" Suboshi hesitated but continued, "…should we go in…?"
"I'll go with you, brother." Amiboshi said as he pulled Suboshi with him, into the mysterious wall.
Rimudo went next, followed by Tamahome and Nakago.
"Suzuno, Takiko, Miaka, Yui, aren't you going in?" Tatara asked.
"It might disappear if one of us leaves before you guys. Go on, Tatara, Mikaru. All four of us will go together." Suzuno said.
Tatara went through followed by Mikaru. Then the four priestesses went in. They were all falling from the sky. Suboshi used his whip to hang on a tree; Amiboshi used his flute to summon and gigantic bird; Rimudo used his wind, Tamahome jumped with ease (since his specialty is martial arts) Nakago used his psychokinesis power to send a flat wood to get to the land safely. Tatara used his seishi power to make a tree sorta catch him. All six seishis got down safely.
"Kyah!" Miaka and Mikaru screamed in unison as they fall down from the sky.
Now who will Tamahome save? Tatara caught Suzuno, Rimudo used his wind to bring Takiko down (and he even hugged her) and Nakago used his powers to make Yui float in the air and fall down slowly. Seeing that Tamahome didn't know who to catch, Amiboshi offered to catch Mikaru. He's not going to catch Tamahome's wife, is he? Miaka was for Tamahome to catch. When they all got down safely they gathered together.
"Should we go look for Taiitsukun?" Miaka asked.
"She probably knows how to destroy the Shijintenchisho since she was the one who created it." Suboshi said.
Dictionary:
Arigatou gozaimasu: thank you
San/kun/chan: used after people's names
Hontou ni: really/truly
Ní zăo: good morning
Duíbuqĭ: (I'm) sorry
Tā shi Okuda Takiko: She is Takiko Okuda
Tā Zhōngwén bù dŏng: She doesn't understand Chinese
Wŏmen shi rìbĕn rén: We are Japanese.
Chuugoku-jin dake: Are you Chinese?
Sou desu ne: You're right/yes, that is so
A/N: Tamahome isn't the kind of person who would say those things (he said to Mikaru) to anyone but Miaka, but he cares a lot for his relatives and love ones. Nakago actually cared for Yui! Oh yeah, if I forgot to translate any Japanese words included in any of my chapters, please tell me. Anyway, the next chapter will follow if I receive reviews.
Is there a way to destroy the Shijintenchisho?
hope you like the story