Disclaimer: Fushigi Yuugi doesn't belong to me!……..wish it did……..but it doesn't.

Authors Note: I'm back with a new chapter! Yay me! I was checking and noticed that my one year

Anniversary has come and gone; I find it sad that in one year I have only posted 7 chapters when the whole damn story is finished in my head! Its true I know what's going to happen in every chapter and how it ends, I even have the last lines all set up to go! I have to hurry and type them up, any who, enough rambling, on with the story! Enjoy…………!

Ch. 7: Friends or Enemies?

He sat on the bench, trying to fade into the background. He had his legs and arms crossed, the hood of his sweater pulled up to hide his grayish-black hair and face. He sat waiting, waiting because his intuition told him to.

It had been a month so far, a long month of searching and failing. A month, since he'd left his home and friends, well what he thought were his friends, behind.

'Why?' he asked himself. If it had been the right thing to do, then why did he feel so guilty? Chuin sighed, life was so complicated. One month ago, he had left his friends, studies, and pretty much everything behind, to go in search of answers. 2 weeks before he had left, Willow had disappeared with out a word.

Willow was one of the best friends he'd ever had and would ever have. Sure, he loved his other friends, but with Willow, it was different, it was special. She knew what it was like to have no parents; the only difference was that she'd had her grandfather to raise her, while he had had no one, that is until Willow had come along. To him, she was his family.

2 days had gone by before Chuin had noticed that he hadn't seen or heard from Willow. On the third day, he'd gone to her apartment, only to find no trace of her. By the end of the week he'd been frantic with worry, it hadn't helped that Ayuru and Kean hadn't helped or in fact that that's when he had noticed that they didn't care at all and that they were a little too close for comfort. In the end, Chuin had ended up stealing Kean's spear key to Willow's apartment, only to find it empty. She had left without a word. When he'd informed Ayuru and Kean, they had laughed it off.

A week after that he too had left, he needed answers, especially after the incident with Ayuru.

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Chuin lay on his bed fast asleep, which was a feat in its own. Ever since he'd found out that Willow had left he hadn't been sleeping well, he was that worried.

As he slept, he was unaware of the person that had silently entered his room and stood in the shadows gazed at him with icy blue eyes. He was oblivious of him as he stalking out of the shadows and came to stand at the side of his bed. He didn't notice until the person sat on his bed and touched his face with a cold hand, this was what awoke him. Chuin looked around with sleepy eyes to find Ayuru leaning over him.

"Ayuru?"

Then it happened, so fast that Chuin didn't have time to react. Ayuru pushed him back and roughly kissed him. As his hands started to wonder, Chuin reacted by trying to push Ayuru off him but Ayuru was stronger.

"Relax," he whispered into his ear. "You'll enjoy this."

"No! Get off me! Ayuru what the hell is wrong with you! Get off!" As he struggled, Chuin remembered something, every guy's weak spot. With all his might, he brought his leg up fast, kneeing him 'down there.' This had the affect he needed to get away. Running from the room, he took his keys and a sweater. He ended up at Willow's apartment. Luckily he still had Kean's key.

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That was the night that the memories had started. It wasn't all of them, but they still confused him. He wasn't sure what to make of them; they seemed so real yet so unbelievable. There were no such things as Celestial warriors and young girls that could call forth great Gods, right?

The next day he'd returned to the empty apartment he shared with Ayuru and Kean, packed and had left. He'd been in search of Koutoku (Amiboshi) and Shunkaku (Suboshi) ever since. They where away at a competition for Shunkaku, who excelled in martial arts and a concert for Koutoku, who was a master with the flute. It was lucky for him that they were both in the same city.

And so that's what he'd spend the last month doing, searching for two of his past and present companions, who might not have their memories back yet. He still wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.

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As Chuin waited, he was unaware of the two sets of eyes that watched him. They hid in the shadow of a big willow tree, its weeping branches swaying in the wind.

Looking at them you would think that they were the same person, the only difference was their clothing. They had the same face, same eyes and the same hair. Twins.

One stood, leaning against the tree, his arms crossed over his chest, while the other one sat at the root of the tree, his elbow resting on one of his knees. They booth had their eyes trained on the man sitting on the bench many feet away from them.

"So, what do you think?" asked the one standing.

"I can only think of one reason for why he is searching for us here," replied his twin. "I mean he could have waited for us to return back home, but it's been a while and still he looks."

"Maybe he can't go back."

"How so?"

"Come on Aniki, you know what Nakago was like in the past. Sure, I don't remember anything yet but from everything that you've told me, he seems like a bastard."

Koutoku sighed. "Shunkaku how many times do I have to tell you? Ayuru is different then Nakago, in many ways."

"That's what you say," Shunkaku stubbornly fought back. "Then there's the fact that you won't tell me about my past and I know there's something about Willow you're not telling me as well."

Koutoku looked away from his twin, not wanting him to see the sadness in his eyes. "I don't want to talk about it."

Shunkaku sighed and let it drop. He knew his big brother better then anyone else, if he did want to tell, he wouldn't, so he changed the subject. "What do we do about him then?" He indicated toward the bench that Chuin sat at.

Koutoku, glad that his brother had dropped the subject, replied. "As I see it we have two choices. We go to him and find out what he wants or we leave him be and keep watching him."

Shunkaku pushed away from the tree and stretched. "I say we get this over with. I'm getting sick of following him everywhere; I have better things to do with my time." With that said he started for the bench. Getting up, Koutoku followed his twin, lost in thought.

This was not the first time that his brother had asked about his past and this was not the first time he refused to answer. How do you tell your little brother of 2 minutes and 14 seconds that he'd been a murderer, he'd killed innocent children for crying out loud! It would kill him to know this. No matter how tough he acted on the outside, Shunkaku was one of the nicest people he knew. Then there was also the fact that he would freak if he knew he had killed one of his best friends. Knowing about Willow was even worse. Willow was a like a little sister to them, to find out that they had all been enemies and had contributed to her death as Nuriko would end up destroying him. Koutoku couldn't tell him all this, this lifetime was like a second chance for him, for them all, and he wasn't about to destroy it.

However, Koutoku also had his own selfish reasons for not talking about the past. He hated what he'd done in the past, because of him so many had suffered. In the time he had spent with them, he had come to love the Suzaku Celestial warriors as friends. Keeping the truth from them had been one of the hardest things he'd ever done, especially after seeing that they were all good people, not the heartless people he'd been lead to believe.

For as long as he could remember, Koutoku had been able to remember his past but had kept quiet; his memories weren't happy ones. When they had meet up with Ayuru, Kean, and Chuin, Seiryuu Celestial warriors, he'd been happy to see that they too had been given a second chance, but still he'd kept his silence. He'd kept it when they had meet up with Willow, Suzaku Celestial warrior Nuriko, well a female version of him but Nuriko nonetheless. He'd even kept silent when she and Ayuru had started dated. Now it looked like it was time for the truth to be heard.

With a sigh, Koutoku quickly caught up with his twin and fell in to step beside him. As they approached the bench, he silently gave up a prayer to any deity that could hear him, 'Please, let the past stay in the past.'

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A.N.: cliff hanger! Hehe, u can blame ShyGirl1988 for that, no just kidding. Me and her have a challenge going on, I have to finish Willow's Calling by next summer and she has to finish her fic by March break. Hopefully I can! Root for me people!

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