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Disclaimer: I really wish Yuu Watase sensei could influence the producers to make an anime with all the character novels of Fushigi Yuugi! Granted, Ayashi no Ceres and Absolute Boyfriend and her other manga are nice, but Fushigi Yuugi is by far the best! Sighs…I guess she's doing her best…

Tasuki was overwhelmed by emotions. One of them, anger, was directed at Miaka for eating all his food. Another was confusion, when the spell was taken off the two of them, Nuriko and Miaka. It was sixteen years spent since their last meeting and Miaka looked as young as any of them! And Nuriko was as beautiful as ever, only losing to…maybe Hotohori or Houki. The thing was, both of them seemed totally unaffected by the 'Priestess of Suzaku' theory.

Nuriko readily accepted the job like it was a piece of cake. Hell, it was easy to keep one's virginity, but there would always be others to thwart the plans. If the Seiryu Seishi were reincarnated too, that means the Priestess of Seiryu, Yui, would most likely appear. And Tasuki's impression of Yui was not very good. To add to that, there was his feelings left over from the past life Ryuuen…

Tasuki shook his head, trying to clear all thought from his head. "Hell, and to think it was a few hours ago in the damned evening that danged Mount Reikaku had some peace and quiet…now it's late into the darned night! And tomorrow we'll be setting off! Chichiri said he was going to buy some food with leftover money Nuriko gave him, the women said that they are finding berries, and so that left me…"

Tasuki's head snapped up at the thought. "What the hell are they doing, sneaking off to find damned berries at this time of the night! They would be poisoning us with damned mushrooms instead!" He ran in the direction of the forest, knowing that he would not get lost in there.

Chichiri

"I just wanted some grains, no da! The bandits badly needed starch in their diet, no da!" the blue-haired monk explained to a closed door. "They wouldn't sell me anything in the middle of the night, no da…"

"Aniki, this monk needs help!"

"Yeah, he really needs…are you buying rice? My music can make you full instantly! Want to hear beautiful music from my flute?"

Chichiri immediately recognized them as Seiryu Warriors and took off his mask hurriedly. They almost never saw him without his mask in their last life. "My friends are in need of food, no…" he hurriedly stopped himself.

"So, they need rice? Our dad had a lot in his store! He is selling rice, in fact! Right, aniki?" the boy without the flute nudged his twin.

"So he really needs food, not music…" the teenage boy with a wooden flute, eighteen years old, looked crestfallen. "We can give you what we could spare…even more, if we could…just for forgiveness…"

"Aniki, I do not think he remembers! He changed a lot from a long time ago! No mask, no language problem…he would be totally hopeless in remembering if he was so different!"

"So I observed, Suboshi," the boy said flatly, clutching his flute tightly. "At least we had one another, brother. Don't bring up past lives when we knew that what was done, was done…sorry, monk, we thought you are somebody else. Please, follow us and receive some rice, hopefully enough for your friends."

"Wait, Amiboshi, no da! You remember? Why did you not say so, no da?" Chichiri asked, putting on his mask again. "How did you both remember? I did not reincarnate, so I had no difficulty, no da."

"We got lucky. We are twins again in this life. It was Aniki's reincarnation wish. And my wish was to have a good, happy family with two parents who would live a long time, unlike our parents in the previous life."

"Suboshi and I compared dreams together and found that hey corresponded greatly. However, nothing really permanent stayed in our minds and we forgot them. One day, I saw Nuriko and Nakago gazing at our fields. Nuriko looked bored out of her mind and Nakago was just staring into space. Just then, sick of the boredom, she (she is a she, right?) punched a nearby tree down, declaring that she will never come on an arranged date with Nakago again if they were this uninteresting…that was when I recalled the time Nuriko punched me irrationally because of the time I blew soothing music for Hotohori…and the rest came flooding back, the rape, the…"

"And so, Aniki called out for me and beckoned me to come out. One look at the disgusting blonde with the petite woman and I remembered everything. The girl, I remember seeing her only once, when I killed Tamahome's family. The General, Nakago, I hated with all my heart! And I remembered the injustice both of us inflicted on the Suzaku Warriors, to Ashitare, to everyone, we both wanted to say sorry. We thought we are reincarnated for that sole purpose."

Chichiri shook his head, his blue bangs bobbing up and down. "No, you both are boys greatly influenced by your surroundings, no da. No sorrys would be accepted, no da. Everyone understands, no da. With the exception of Taka, everyone had forgiven you both with time, Amiboshi earlier than Suboshi, but still forgiven, no da."

"We are determined to live a good life this time, and I want to see who else I would get to love besides Yui. And I want to see Aniki get a girlfriend. If not, well, we'll take comfort in the thought that we still had each other."

"Suboshi, you sounded less bitter, no da."

"That's because Aniki is here with me, Chichiri! Don't you dare kill my Aniki, or you shall face the consequences!" Suboshi joked. "And here is our home!"

Chichiri was expecting to see a hut. The result was actually the opposite. "This… is as big as an official's house, no da!"

"Wrong, it was a merchant's house! Dad changed jobs a few years ago and ended up pretty rich now! Suboshi and I had to bury some money in fear that Dad would squander it!" Amiboshi smiled. "And, I earned the capital for the business using my music! I've become quite famous in the Four Countrys of the Gods! We got a lot of rice, so don't worry!"

He opened the storage door and huge sacks of rice came tumbling down upon him. "Ouch! They've squeezed too many sacks of rice in there…"

Chichiri held out his hat to receive the sacks of rice, insisting that they accept Nuriko's money. Amiboshi grinned. "You are so fun to be with, you know that? Pity, I did not get know the Suzaku Warriors better…you all seem so bonded…"

"And you both seemed most human in the Seiryu group, no da. I shall leave at first light, just load the sacks into the hat, no da. I shall tell you what had happened to us before you joined us, after you disappeared in the flood, after Suboshi's massive killing, after Miaka's so-called rape, after Suboshi's death and after your involvement with Tenkou, no da. I'll tell you about the time a second priestess came to our land and what happened after that, no da. I'll tell you what we are doing now, no da."