Althe: Glad you all liked my last chapter! Don't worry! Nuriko's not gay in
this fic^^ he actually proves something to his group, but you'll know what
I mean in the future chapters. In this chapter, Aya thinks Nuriko's a girl
because of his magnificent looks. *Sigh* Nuriko....^^ I'm soooooooooooooo
jealous!
Oh darn. Aya, I now realize I still have feelings for him^^ Oh well! It doesn't matter. I'll get him in my other fics...
Enjoy!
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Ayashi No Ceres Entering the World of Angels and Hell- Meeting Fushigi Yuugi
3. The Feeling
*****
-'No,' he thought to himself.
'No. I'm not going to let the same fate to happen to this girl like Kourin. I won't let it happen. I won't.'
Nuriko clutched the reins on the horse tightly. He only had one option left.
'I'll save you.'-
The horse gained speed as if it wanted to hit someone.
Nuriko held onto the horse even more. He couldn't lose. He wouldn't.
"Come on.." He said quietly, as he neared closer to the girl. "Just a little closer."
Beads of sweat appeared on Nuriko's brow. He tried to wipe it off with his hand, but they were still clutching the reins tightly, too scared to move. His knuckles turned paper white as he tightened his grip.
He squinted his eyes. They were becoming unfocused again. He shook his head frantically. He had to concentrate. The life of a girl depended on him.
The heat was really getting to him.
He was sick.
Mitsukake told him this, but Nuriko refused to be healed.
'You need to heal other people that's more important,' Nuriko told him before they started their trip to Mikinto.
Now as Nuriko looked back, he regretted every word that came out of his mouth. His sickliness was really aching him and might be the cause of this girl's death if he didn't fight it.
Nuriko shook his head again.
'Concentrate Nuriko! Concentrate!'
-----
Aya lay there, tired and ready to die.
Her body felt like a bolder and sounds of hooves kept pounding her ears.
'Ceres...' She thought to herself weakly. 'Why can't I move?'
Aya heard a voice and started to strain her ears to listen and focus, but they kept on resisting, giving Aya painful surges to her head.
Aya finally heard Ceres clearly.
'You are being saved. Be patient.'
Aya felt like crying, but her body was too tired and heavy to even bother giving a flinch now. The wind blew dry dirt onto her clothes and hair.
'I don't want to be saved,' she thought to herself mournfully. 'I just want to go back to Aki and my friends. I want to go home. Please.'
There was no answer or Aya couldn't hear it, but she knew what Ceres had said.
'No.'
Was she trying to put her to the test? Pointless now because she was tired and sickly.
'Take me home. I don't care. I don't care. I want to go home. Take me home. Please.'
Her ears rang in alarm as if Ceres was yelling in her ear. It was painful to listen to anything at the moment.
'What about me Aya? I want to go home too, but I can't!'
Aya opened her eyes as if she was as light as a feather. Tears swelled her eyes. 'The tennyo who lost her feathered robe.'
She body felt weak as if it was ready to collapse.
Aya's mind swam with countless thoughts.
She finally realized that she didn't care. Aya didn't care. She didn't care if Ceres was in pain. She didn't care if she died in this world and failed to do something heroic. She just wanted to go home, the place that she yearned more than anything else.
Her eyes became too weak to withstand the pressure to open them anymore and they closed. But before Aya blanked out she saw a purple-haired girl on a horse heading towards her.
-----
Nuriko saw the girl open her eyes.
For a few seconds he thought he saw her stare at him with a dazed look. The girl closed her eyes again and the thought disappeared from his mind.
'I have to hurry,' Nuriko thought to himself.
He pulled on the reins absentmindedly, his eyes still on the girl.
The horse was finally a few inches away from colliding to the girl.
Nuriko let go of the reins and with both of his hands and reached for the unconscious girl. Once the horse felt the reins break free from Nuriko's grasp it seemed overjoyed and started a rampage
Nuriko knew what he had to do.
He jumped out of the saddle and landed beside the girl. As quick as a flash, Nuriko grabbed the girl's arms and rolled towards a stonewall safe from harms way.
Nuriko held the girl tightly as the horse headed towards them.
The horse suddenly stopped in its tracks. It seemed as if all the energy was drained from its body.
The horse knelt down beside Nuriko and the girl. It licked her pale cheek.
Nuriko sighed a huge relief and started to get up.
He couldn't.
He was too tired and drained from that lifetime experience.
Just like Aya, he wanted rest.
Nuriko closed his eyes gratefully and drooped his head lazily. His hands were tightly against the girl's, hugging her tightly and quietly.
He could feel eyes and heads pop out of house doors and windows as he lay there silently. Many eyes were staring at him, but he didn't care. It was usual now that he was trying to protect the Suzaku priestess.
Mumbles started around the area as children cried of joy and started to crowd around the horse and pet it gently. The horse took their pets as compliments and accepted them politely.
Nuriko's shirt was slightly ripped near the shoulder and his forehead was bleeding, but all in all he felt refreshed, but tired.
"Nuriko! Nuriko!"
-----
Chichiri looked up at the sky as he rode on his horse.
He felt something strange. As of a hand had grasped his heart. He hadn't felt this way since Miaka entered this world. He could tell Chiriko felt the same way.
"What is it Chichiri-san?" Chiriko asked quietly, looking up at the sky as well.
Chichiri looked at Chiriko sternly.
"It's heading from Mikinto no da," he said finally.
Chichiri looked at the other two horses in front of him. They were also looking up at the sky. They could sense it too.
But what did it mean?
-----
Tasuki looked up at the sky as he rode on his horse.
He felt something strange. As of a hand had grasped his heart. He hadn't felt this way since Miaka entered this world. He looked at Tamahome and Mitsukake. They could also sense it. But Miaka did nothing.
She couldn't sense anything.
"Miaka," Tasuki said, nudging her with his elbow.
"Hai!" Miaka smiled looking at Tasuki gaily.
"Do you sense it?" he asked, looking back at the sky absentmindedly.
"Sense what?" she asked curiously at Tasuki.
Miaka looked up at the sky as well. Nothing. Only a blue cloudless sky. What could be important about that?
"There's nothing there," Miaka said at a now drifting Tasuki.
Tasuki looked at Mitsukake.
"Mitsukake!" Tasuki called from his horse.
Mitsukake nodded.
"Hai!"
They both tugged on the reins carefully so the horses wouldn't go on a rampage again. The horses went a bit faster, pounding at the parched dirt road.
Tamahome looked from behind him. Chichiri was speeding up too. He must have sense the force.
"Chichiri!" Tamahome called over the loud thumping of the horses.
Chichiri waved.
"Do you think one of the senshi are in trouble?"
Chichiri shouted loudly, "Don't think so no da! It's something else no da! We must hurry to Mikinto no da! Hotohori-san and Nuriko-kun are probably already heading to the source no da!"
Tamahome nodded.
"Right! Faster Mitsukake! Faster!"
-----
Hotohori collapsed to the floor breathing hard. He had lost his breath as the horse went faster and disappeared into a corner.
'Such nonsense is not suited for a king,' he thought to himself irritated.
After sitting on his stop for a few minutes, Hotohori got up and was about to start chasing them again, but stopped.
Hotohori looked up at the sky.
He felt something strange. As of a hand had grasped his heart. He hadn't felt this way since Miaka entered this world.
What was going on?
The force was strong and close.
His eyes widened as he saw feet appear in the sky. The body and head began to appear out of nowhere.
It was a girl.
'Priestess,' Hotohori thought in his mind. 'It's another nomiko.'
The girl started to fall. Hotohori was going to run after her, but stopped.
The other senshi's were coming. He could feel it.
Hotohori turned around and started to head for the entrance. They'll need him to fill them in.
-----
The others were nearing the entrance.
The five senshi's saw something fall from the sky.
"What was that?" Chiriko called over the horse's sounds.
No one answered. They were all to dumbstruck to speak. Even if they could speak at the moment they couldn't answer his question.
As they reached a few feet away from the entrance they stopped their horses.
The town inside looked like a wreck as if a mad horse stormed through it.
Wood and cargo were scattered on the road. Foods and fruits were squashed and dented.
"What happened?" Tamahome and Tasuki said suspiciously.
Soon enough, as they said those last two words, Hotohori appeared towards them.
"Hotohori! What happened?" Miaka cried frantically.
Hotohori was huffing and puffing as he reached them.
"Nuriko's horse went wild," he said breathlessly. "It stormed through half the city..... The force. The force. Did you sense it?"
The senshi's nodded, leaving Miaka clueless.
"What happened to Nuriko?" Tamahome asked, getting off Mitsukake's finally relaxed back.
Hotohori shook his head.
"Don't know, but a girl fell from the sky towards Nuriko's direction... do you think she's a nomiko?"
Chichiri shook his head in disagreement.
"The feelings different. I don't think The Universe of the Four Gods transported this girl. She got here by some other transportation."
The other's nodded in agreement.
"But how?" Miaka asked curiously, looking at the senshi's serious faces.
"No time to answer," Hotohori said, "We have to see if Nuriko's alright."
-----
"Nuriko! Nuriko!"
Nuriko lay there, motionless and silent. He friends were calling him frantically, but he was too tired to move.
He still lay there as they neared him.
"Nuriko! Are you alright?" Miaka cried, crouching low beside Nuriko.
"Fine," he mumbled quietly.
"I will heal you Nuriko. You are injured and ill," Mitsukake said, raising his healing hand towards him.
Nuriko forced all his strength for another task. He grabbed Mitsukake's hand and painfully shook his head.
"No," he coughed dryly. Blood from his forehead was dribbling down his cheek and neck.
"But-"
"No!" he said more loudly now. "Use it on the girl. She's ill."
Tasuki shook Nuriko by the shoulders.
"Are you crazy man??? You're half dead! Stop being this jackass hero and take his god dam offer!"
Nuriko shook his head furiously. More pain surged through his head.
"She's the girl who-who dropped..from the sky," he said weakly, pointing at the sky.
They all looked up. The energy from the force was gone, but there hearts were still vibrating from the experience.
"She..she needs to be healed," he said again.
He couldn't speak anymore. The pain was too much and his throat was too dry.
Nuriko could feel Chichiri put a hand on his shoulder.
"We'll heal her at a hotel in this city, don' worry Nuriko. You did a good job."
Nuriko relaxed. The feeling of this girl still vibrated in his mind and heart.
*****
Althe: Good eh? ^^ I'll try to make stuff more exciting in the next chapter.
Please R+R! ^^
Oh darn. Aya, I now realize I still have feelings for him^^ Oh well! It doesn't matter. I'll get him in my other fics...
Enjoy!
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Ayashi No Ceres Entering the World of Angels and Hell- Meeting Fushigi Yuugi
3. The Feeling
*****
-'No,' he thought to himself.
'No. I'm not going to let the same fate to happen to this girl like Kourin. I won't let it happen. I won't.'
Nuriko clutched the reins on the horse tightly. He only had one option left.
'I'll save you.'-
The horse gained speed as if it wanted to hit someone.
Nuriko held onto the horse even more. He couldn't lose. He wouldn't.
"Come on.." He said quietly, as he neared closer to the girl. "Just a little closer."
Beads of sweat appeared on Nuriko's brow. He tried to wipe it off with his hand, but they were still clutching the reins tightly, too scared to move. His knuckles turned paper white as he tightened his grip.
He squinted his eyes. They were becoming unfocused again. He shook his head frantically. He had to concentrate. The life of a girl depended on him.
The heat was really getting to him.
He was sick.
Mitsukake told him this, but Nuriko refused to be healed.
'You need to heal other people that's more important,' Nuriko told him before they started their trip to Mikinto.
Now as Nuriko looked back, he regretted every word that came out of his mouth. His sickliness was really aching him and might be the cause of this girl's death if he didn't fight it.
Nuriko shook his head again.
'Concentrate Nuriko! Concentrate!'
-----
Aya lay there, tired and ready to die.
Her body felt like a bolder and sounds of hooves kept pounding her ears.
'Ceres...' She thought to herself weakly. 'Why can't I move?'
Aya heard a voice and started to strain her ears to listen and focus, but they kept on resisting, giving Aya painful surges to her head.
Aya finally heard Ceres clearly.
'You are being saved. Be patient.'
Aya felt like crying, but her body was too tired and heavy to even bother giving a flinch now. The wind blew dry dirt onto her clothes and hair.
'I don't want to be saved,' she thought to herself mournfully. 'I just want to go back to Aki and my friends. I want to go home. Please.'
There was no answer or Aya couldn't hear it, but she knew what Ceres had said.
'No.'
Was she trying to put her to the test? Pointless now because she was tired and sickly.
'Take me home. I don't care. I don't care. I want to go home. Take me home. Please.'
Her ears rang in alarm as if Ceres was yelling in her ear. It was painful to listen to anything at the moment.
'What about me Aya? I want to go home too, but I can't!'
Aya opened her eyes as if she was as light as a feather. Tears swelled her eyes. 'The tennyo who lost her feathered robe.'
She body felt weak as if it was ready to collapse.
Aya's mind swam with countless thoughts.
She finally realized that she didn't care. Aya didn't care. She didn't care if Ceres was in pain. She didn't care if she died in this world and failed to do something heroic. She just wanted to go home, the place that she yearned more than anything else.
Her eyes became too weak to withstand the pressure to open them anymore and they closed. But before Aya blanked out she saw a purple-haired girl on a horse heading towards her.
-----
Nuriko saw the girl open her eyes.
For a few seconds he thought he saw her stare at him with a dazed look. The girl closed her eyes again and the thought disappeared from his mind.
'I have to hurry,' Nuriko thought to himself.
He pulled on the reins absentmindedly, his eyes still on the girl.
The horse was finally a few inches away from colliding to the girl.
Nuriko let go of the reins and with both of his hands and reached for the unconscious girl. Once the horse felt the reins break free from Nuriko's grasp it seemed overjoyed and started a rampage
Nuriko knew what he had to do.
He jumped out of the saddle and landed beside the girl. As quick as a flash, Nuriko grabbed the girl's arms and rolled towards a stonewall safe from harms way.
Nuriko held the girl tightly as the horse headed towards them.
The horse suddenly stopped in its tracks. It seemed as if all the energy was drained from its body.
The horse knelt down beside Nuriko and the girl. It licked her pale cheek.
Nuriko sighed a huge relief and started to get up.
He couldn't.
He was too tired and drained from that lifetime experience.
Just like Aya, he wanted rest.
Nuriko closed his eyes gratefully and drooped his head lazily. His hands were tightly against the girl's, hugging her tightly and quietly.
He could feel eyes and heads pop out of house doors and windows as he lay there silently. Many eyes were staring at him, but he didn't care. It was usual now that he was trying to protect the Suzaku priestess.
Mumbles started around the area as children cried of joy and started to crowd around the horse and pet it gently. The horse took their pets as compliments and accepted them politely.
Nuriko's shirt was slightly ripped near the shoulder and his forehead was bleeding, but all in all he felt refreshed, but tired.
"Nuriko! Nuriko!"
-----
Chichiri looked up at the sky as he rode on his horse.
He felt something strange. As of a hand had grasped his heart. He hadn't felt this way since Miaka entered this world. He could tell Chiriko felt the same way.
"What is it Chichiri-san?" Chiriko asked quietly, looking up at the sky as well.
Chichiri looked at Chiriko sternly.
"It's heading from Mikinto no da," he said finally.
Chichiri looked at the other two horses in front of him. They were also looking up at the sky. They could sense it too.
But what did it mean?
-----
Tasuki looked up at the sky as he rode on his horse.
He felt something strange. As of a hand had grasped his heart. He hadn't felt this way since Miaka entered this world. He looked at Tamahome and Mitsukake. They could also sense it. But Miaka did nothing.
She couldn't sense anything.
"Miaka," Tasuki said, nudging her with his elbow.
"Hai!" Miaka smiled looking at Tasuki gaily.
"Do you sense it?" he asked, looking back at the sky absentmindedly.
"Sense what?" she asked curiously at Tasuki.
Miaka looked up at the sky as well. Nothing. Only a blue cloudless sky. What could be important about that?
"There's nothing there," Miaka said at a now drifting Tasuki.
Tasuki looked at Mitsukake.
"Mitsukake!" Tasuki called from his horse.
Mitsukake nodded.
"Hai!"
They both tugged on the reins carefully so the horses wouldn't go on a rampage again. The horses went a bit faster, pounding at the parched dirt road.
Tamahome looked from behind him. Chichiri was speeding up too. He must have sense the force.
"Chichiri!" Tamahome called over the loud thumping of the horses.
Chichiri waved.
"Do you think one of the senshi are in trouble?"
Chichiri shouted loudly, "Don't think so no da! It's something else no da! We must hurry to Mikinto no da! Hotohori-san and Nuriko-kun are probably already heading to the source no da!"
Tamahome nodded.
"Right! Faster Mitsukake! Faster!"
-----
Hotohori collapsed to the floor breathing hard. He had lost his breath as the horse went faster and disappeared into a corner.
'Such nonsense is not suited for a king,' he thought to himself irritated.
After sitting on his stop for a few minutes, Hotohori got up and was about to start chasing them again, but stopped.
Hotohori looked up at the sky.
He felt something strange. As of a hand had grasped his heart. He hadn't felt this way since Miaka entered this world.
What was going on?
The force was strong and close.
His eyes widened as he saw feet appear in the sky. The body and head began to appear out of nowhere.
It was a girl.
'Priestess,' Hotohori thought in his mind. 'It's another nomiko.'
The girl started to fall. Hotohori was going to run after her, but stopped.
The other senshi's were coming. He could feel it.
Hotohori turned around and started to head for the entrance. They'll need him to fill them in.
-----
The others were nearing the entrance.
The five senshi's saw something fall from the sky.
"What was that?" Chiriko called over the horse's sounds.
No one answered. They were all to dumbstruck to speak. Even if they could speak at the moment they couldn't answer his question.
As they reached a few feet away from the entrance they stopped their horses.
The town inside looked like a wreck as if a mad horse stormed through it.
Wood and cargo were scattered on the road. Foods and fruits were squashed and dented.
"What happened?" Tamahome and Tasuki said suspiciously.
Soon enough, as they said those last two words, Hotohori appeared towards them.
"Hotohori! What happened?" Miaka cried frantically.
Hotohori was huffing and puffing as he reached them.
"Nuriko's horse went wild," he said breathlessly. "It stormed through half the city..... The force. The force. Did you sense it?"
The senshi's nodded, leaving Miaka clueless.
"What happened to Nuriko?" Tamahome asked, getting off Mitsukake's finally relaxed back.
Hotohori shook his head.
"Don't know, but a girl fell from the sky towards Nuriko's direction... do you think she's a nomiko?"
Chichiri shook his head in disagreement.
"The feelings different. I don't think The Universe of the Four Gods transported this girl. She got here by some other transportation."
The other's nodded in agreement.
"But how?" Miaka asked curiously, looking at the senshi's serious faces.
"No time to answer," Hotohori said, "We have to see if Nuriko's alright."
-----
"Nuriko! Nuriko!"
Nuriko lay there, motionless and silent. He friends were calling him frantically, but he was too tired to move.
He still lay there as they neared him.
"Nuriko! Are you alright?" Miaka cried, crouching low beside Nuriko.
"Fine," he mumbled quietly.
"I will heal you Nuriko. You are injured and ill," Mitsukake said, raising his healing hand towards him.
Nuriko forced all his strength for another task. He grabbed Mitsukake's hand and painfully shook his head.
"No," he coughed dryly. Blood from his forehead was dribbling down his cheek and neck.
"But-"
"No!" he said more loudly now. "Use it on the girl. She's ill."
Tasuki shook Nuriko by the shoulders.
"Are you crazy man??? You're half dead! Stop being this jackass hero and take his god dam offer!"
Nuriko shook his head furiously. More pain surged through his head.
"She's the girl who-who dropped..from the sky," he said weakly, pointing at the sky.
They all looked up. The energy from the force was gone, but there hearts were still vibrating from the experience.
"She..she needs to be healed," he said again.
He couldn't speak anymore. The pain was too much and his throat was too dry.
Nuriko could feel Chichiri put a hand on his shoulder.
"We'll heal her at a hotel in this city, don' worry Nuriko. You did a good job."
Nuriko relaxed. The feeling of this girl still vibrated in his mind and heart.
*****
Althe: Good eh? ^^ I'll try to make stuff more exciting in the next chapter.
Please R+R! ^^