Disclaimer: FY belongs to Watase Sensei. I'm just writing a fic pertaining to her creation. Thanks for the reviews! Sighs…is this fic unpopular or something? I think…is it because of my style of writing? I got seven hundred over hits for this…unbelievable…
"Pitiful fools. They cannot go against the will of the gods. Miboshi, have the Suzaku's Taisukun eliminated as soon as possible. I do not want her to meddle in our affairs. Right now, she's trying to find out why there is still chaos in Kutou. The Taisukun there is already dead. Byakko's and Genbu's Taisukun would not be a problem. Find her."
The handsome young boy with chocolate brown hair and dark green eyes lifted his head slightly and hesitantly. "The Taisukun of Suzaku's will not be easily defeated. I am only at the age of fourteen. I would need more power."
"That would be the one thing I cannot give."
"I understand."
The young boy leapt up from his kneeling position on the floor, head lowered. He was trying to hide the guilt in his green eyes from the monster in front of him. As he walked, he muttered, "Chiriko…I would have to apologize if I had to kill you again. You've been like a little brother to me in heaven. We'll meet in heaven again at the same time. Forgive me, warriors of suzaku. Forgive me, everyone."
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Wham! Bang! Crash!
"I need to…rest."
Frrooom! Screams were heard after the flames appeared.
"Ha, the great Nuriko saying that he needs rest? Where did your damned strength go? What, you've run out of muscle?"
"You are not the one reincarnated as a woman!" Miaka said in defence of Nuriko, her voice a bit louder than the chaos. "Women tend to get tired more easily!"
"I'm not tired," Miiru said indignantly. She controlled the minds of some able bodied men to fight the battle for her. Ren did the same, except that he also fought with his fist.
"You are not moving around! You would get fat one day!" Nuriko retorted. She leaned on a wall, panting heavily. "I find that aimless fighting is not doing any good! I shall find the source! Miaka, you hide! The rest, focus on keeping the monsters at bay!"
"I will come with you." Nuriko turned to see brown eyes looking kindly at her. It was Hotohori, and it seemed that he was not helping at all; he's got no sword. "I find myself very left out in here."
"Miaka needs you most, Hotohori, now that Taka is not here. Take her to the most remote place you could find and keep low. I could be comforted with the fact that it's you with her. I would not say the same about everyone else," she said, earning glares from her friends.
Hotohori smiled gently, although slightly hurt that Nuriko did not want him to help her.
"Just don't take advantage of her, Hotohori! She's married!" Nuriko joked.
Hotohori had to chuckle. "I know her husband would not forgive me!"
With that, he took Miaka away and disappeared.
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"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS NURIKO THINKING? THIS IS SURELY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT EMPEROR TO GET COSY TO HER! SHE'S MY WIFE, HOTOHORI! MY WIFE IS MIAKA!"
"Taka, please calm down. They haven't done anything yet to each other…" Keisuke interjected.
"YET! YET! LATER THEY WILL! SHE'LL COMMIT ADULTERY!"
"Tetsuya, you would think Taka was devastated when you said Hikari died in the book, before you told him that that was actually a curse. This was a thousand times worse than that! Please be sensitive and only update relevant information…" the phone was snatched from Keisuke's hand.
"DON'T LISTEN TO THAT DUMB BROTHER OF MIAKA'S AND LISTEN TO ME! TELL ME EVERYTHING THAT HAD HAPPENED!"
Keisuke snatched back the phone. "Get what I mean?"
Tetsuya's voice was shaky. "Yeah…"
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Nuriko was climbing rooftops and leaping nimbly from one to another. "Nuriko, I have to demand you to stop!"
"Huh?" Nuriko stopped in her tracks when she remembered that cold voice. "Nakago? I thought…you have to stay with them? They need you!"
Nakago caught up to her. Nuriko stood rooted to the spot, mouth open at the absurdity. Nakago, the former general of Kutou, was leaping and climbing rooftops?
"I do not think that I would be of much use to them either. My ki blasts work best if they are aimed at only one person at a time, and I usually take out the leader, not its pawns. Tasuki's fire could burn out multiple foes quickly. But not for long if you stand here in shock!" it was this comment that jerked Nuriko out of her shock.
"If you are sure you want to come… then…" Nuriko shook her head and stopped beating around the bush. "I think the leader must be there, where the demons were originating from. If we make our way there, search for the source, okay? Ignore the others. They are most likely pawns." Nakago followed her finger to the forest and nodded.
"So be it. Let's go."
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Hotohori brought Miaka to the place he deemed safest – his house. No demon lurked there and he was thankful. He took out a spade. "I need to go to my brother's grave. Care to come with me, Miaka?"
"You miss him so much to the extent of unearthing his bones once in a while?" Miaka asked, wide-eyed. Hotohori smiled and shook his head, taking out an extra mirror. Miaka sighed at the predictability. Even in civilian's clothes, Hotohori looked regal and proud, the exact same aura as when he was an emperor.
"I left my other mirror lying on the ground. Also, I had buried my sword next to my brother's grave, so that a part of me could always be with him."
"Oh, and I want to ask you…"
"Yes?"
"I know that you are poor and everything…but why did you have such a big house in such a bustling city?"
Hotohori laughed. "Oh, Houki found me living in this village and decided to make it more comfortable for me to live in…she loves me so much…"
"Like Nuriko…"
"Miaka?" Hotohori believed he had heard wrongly.
"Oh, I was saying that she loved you just as much as Nuriko. Nuriko was complaining about Houki some time ago, about the amount of money Houki splurged on her."
"Oh…"
"Hotohori, you sound disappointed."
"Nothing, let's go."
Nuriko did not really love me anymore...but that is understandable, considering how I treated her in her last life. Still, we've got a second chance at living…might as well right the wrongs. However, I've a feeling that there is more than one person in our group vying for her love this time…
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"How in the world am I going to find Taisukun?" Miboshi asked himself.
He got no answer. He reasoned, though, that Taisukun would appear before the Suzaku warriors. He would follow their every move. Also, he could protect Chiriko from the dangers he could be facing later. Miboshi did not like the purple-haired seishi. He was convinced that she was trouble.
But that might be because she had already died before he even met the Suzaku Seven. "It's a pity that Tomo did not meet Nuriko," he thought, chuckling to himself. "Legends say that she was a crossdresser. They would go well together. But this life was different. It's time to see darkness take over the world."