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Disclaimer: Taka would be rolling in money if I own this…just joking! No money for you Taka!

Nuriko nursed a bleeding arm and looked at the monsters. She hit another one away. "I wish we had found Mitsukake first!" she muttered. Suddenly, the monsters had all disappeared. It seemed as though the owner had recalled them back.

She heaved a sigh of relief and turned around right into…

Taisukun with her nyan nyans. "Heal heal, fix fix, we are going to get you healed!" Her arm was healed almost immediately.

The leaves rustled and Nuriko saw an unfamiliar boy looking right at her and Taisukun. "You are…who are you?"

"I am me…oh, you never met me before, did you?" Miboshi asked. Nuriko scowled in reply, arms raised in defence.

"I've never met a good lot of people the Suzaku seven had. And through their stories, I found that I've only met five of the Seiryu seven. You must either be Tomo or Miboshi. And I do not like those characters much either."

"Oh, even Nakago could not recognize me in my original form. They always thought I was born a baby or something."

Nuriko's eyes narrowed. "So you must be Miboshi. I, Nuriko of the Suzaku Seven shall protect Taisukun with my life!"

Taisukun's hit was hard. "Ow! Taisukun, that hurt!"

"I am not an old lady who needs protecting!"

Nuriko's eyes widened. "So, you agree with Tasuki that you are old?"

"NO!"

"Ow!"

Miboshi had to envy the closeness between the Suzaku seven and their Taisukun. I never even met my Taisukun…

"Humph, I will still live on even after death!" he yelled, raising his sceptre. He was hit by a circle item and he fell unconscious.

-

Nakago was seriously rethinking climbing the century-old tree. Miboshi had made it seem so easy, just climbing up. He, the Great Nakago, however, had fallen five times in a row and counting. Feeling a little bit humiliated, Nakago decided to give up. He blasted the whole tree down in irritation.

-

Taisukun threw a soul transferring mirror at Miboshi's direction. It hit him and then it hit Nuriko, who had no time to dodge away. Both fell unconscious. "Oops, my bad…this is supposed to take out the soul of the being it hit…if it hit another one, then the soul would be transferred and…"

She decided it would be a good time to disappear. "Retreat, Nyan Nyan, retreat!"

-

Two figures came flying down. Nakago instinctively caught the one he care more for. Strangely, it's Miboshi. He stirred and opened his hypnotic green eyes.

Nuriko had fallen whole down into the undergrowth. "Nakago, I would appreciate it if you caught me instead."

"Sorry, Nuriko. I am supposed to catch the one I cared more, but…why in the world is it Miboshi?"

"So you like me more?" Miboshi asked, batting his eyes.

"No."

Nakago dropped Miboshi unceremoniously into the undergrowth, grabbing Nuriko and ki-blasting Miboshi far away. "We have no time for this. Let's go!" they disappeared into the darkness of the forest.

Miboshi was left behind, sitting innocently on the roots of a tree, eyes unfocused. "Nakago…what are you doing with me beside you? Huh? Am I dreaming or something? Unless…TAISUKUN!"

After venting out his anger on a few trees, Miboshi decided to find another way out of the forest. Suddenly, a red light appeared above him. He paused.

-

Hotohori and Soi appeared in the fighting site. "There's… no one here…" Soi said, a bit disappointed. Hotohori was feeling worried.

Just then, Nakago appeared, bearing Nuriko in his arms. "Where are the rest?" he demanded. Nuriko pushed Nakago away.

"I am not that DAMNED Nuriko, dammit! I am Miboshi, you gay freak!" Nuriko said huffily. "Nakago, if you are always gay, you should have chosen Tomo in the first place, and not get stuck between Soi and that gay!"

Hotohori was confused. He pulled out a mirror. "Take a look at yourself, then. Just don't break it."

Miboshi snatched the mirror. "See, I am myself, Miboshi, with beautiful purple hair…wait a second, that's not me! This is that purple-haired man!" he exclaimed, dropping the mirror, shattering it.

"For your information, Miboshi, she's a woman," Nakago said, over the sobs of Hotohori. "No wonder I caught Miboshi instead!"

Soi counted the pieces of broken glass. "This is seven years of bad luck, Miboshi."

"Like I care! I am always unlucky!" Miboshi retorted.

"You got to pay for that mirror!"

"It is only a mirror, you damned emperor!"

-

Chichiri had been leading them in circles. "No da, I'm confused, no da!"

"Why is it that that damned Nuriko's chi keeps hopping from one freaking place to another? Could it just stay in one danged place?" Tasuki grumbled.

"We agree."

Ren and Miiru had to lean against one another to rest. "Lead us back to the fighting place!"

"Hey, I've found Nuriko's chi again, no da! It's back at the place where we've first encountered monsters, no da! However, a few flashes of Nuriko's chi were at the forest no da…"

He found no one listening to him. "Da?"

-

Keisuke fell. He fell for a long time before even falling on a solid thing. "Luckily, this place is soft…"

"You BAKA!" Keisuke found himself flying and then falling again. He was caught by swift hands. "You should known better than to fall on a woman like me!"

"Huh? You are not a woman!"

Nuriko looked at herself in disgust. "Not now, I suppose, but I usually am a woman! Men's bodies are disgusting on me!"

"Gee thanks."

"Sorry, I never knew you are a man."

"WHAT?"

"Wrong sentence again. I seem to be insulting everyone…"

"Pause, who are you? The book never described you."

"Who are you then? Why did you fall from the light of Suzaku?"

Silence prevailed. Keisuke and Nuriko were staring at one another in silent observation. Nuriko broke the ice. "So? If you've nothing to ask or answer, I'll be going. I've got to find my friends. Nakago brought me here and now I've no idea as to how to get out…"

"You are…"

"I am Nuriko of the Suzaku seven. I don't suppose you knew Miaka, did you?"