Come on, you know you want to review! It will only take 60 seconds! Pleeeeeeease? Happy chapter five everyone, and I don't own FY!
"Miyoko." The voice was sudden and sharp, completely unexpected.
"Tai Yi Jun!" Miyoko cried, falling backwards. "Sorry... You startled me!"
"You plan to start the search for the rest of the Suzaku Seven in the next few days," she said. "However, you must first return to your world."
"But why?" Miyoko asked.
"It is true that time passes at a slower rate in your world, but if you are here long enough, your absence will be noticed. The same goes for Hamatsu. When you are there, you must also give the 'Universe of the Four Gods' to someone you can trust to keep it safe."
"Well... all right, then. Shall I go right now?" At Tai Yi Jun's nod, she continued. "You'll have to inform His Majesty. I'll go get Hamatsu."
"No, Miyoko. You must go alone."
"Why?"
"You have the role of Priestess in this world, Miyoko, and Hamatsu does not. You are guaranteed to return, while I am not sure she would be able to. Understand?"
"I... I guess so."
"Good, then you must leave now," Tai Yi Jun said. Floating pink bubbles surrounded Miyoko. "Remember the time difference! Do not spend more time than necessary in your world."
And, like that, Miyoko returned to her world.
Soon after, the others learned that Miyoko had left. Although each knew she would return, they could not help missing her.
"Tamahome, you do realize you are chewing on a plate?" Lady Nuriko asked him. He was sitting on the balcony outside of her room, mindless munching away.
A deep enmity had developed between Lady Nuriko and Hamatsu by then. They could hardly stand to be in the same room. One day, tensions boiled over.
The day was about two weeks after Miyoko left. Tamahome had wandered off a few days earlier, saying that he'd be back. This left only Hamatsu, Nuriko, and Hotohori.
"NURIKO!!" Hamatsu shrieked. She stormed into the room where the Celestial Warrior was.
"May I help you?" she replied in a sweet tone.
"Give me back my backpack!" she demanded. "You had no right to take it! It's got all of my stuff from my world in there!"
"Sure, I'll give it back to you... AS SOON AS YOU PROMISE TO KEEP AWAY FROM HOTOHORI!!" she yelled. Then she sat back down and pretended to sniffle. "I've been in the harem for so long, and he only paid attention once he found out I was a Warrior... There's no way I'd give up on him for you."
"Fine then!" Hamatsu said. "I'll fight you!" Nuriko raised her eyebrows. "Come on! I can take you on. I'm a ninja accomplice."
Apparently she had forgotten about Nuriko's strength. Nuriko simply stood and picked her up. She flailed her arms, desperately trying to get in a hit.
"Now you listen here, missy," Nuriko began. That's when it happened–Hamatsu got a hold of the shoulder of Nuriko's elegant dress. There was a ripping sound, and Nuriko abruptly dropped Ha-chan.
The dress had ripped down to Nuriko's waist. "You... you're... you're... YOU'RE A MAN!!" Hamatsu yelled. Then she noticed Hotohori standing in the doorway, his eyes wide. He had been looking for Hamatsu. "Oh, Hotohori!" she said eagerly. "Um... are you okay?"
With the same look of utter shock on his face, he slowly turned and walked away.
Nuriko cackled.
"Well, I guess the truth had to come out some time," he sighed.
"I don't get it," Hamatsu said, slumping over in thought. "So... So you're gay?"
"I prefer cross-dresser if you don't mind."
"But I thought you were in love with Hotohori!"
Nuriko winked. "I am! Ha-chan, true love doesn't depend on your gender! We were meant to be!" he said, eyes sparkling. "Besides, I am a woman, just in this body. It's really not so weird. Ha-chan? Where are you going?"
But Hamatsu also stood and walked away in disbelief.
So the truth did come out at last–that Lady Nuriko was a man. This didn't stop him from cross-dressing, although he stopped wearing the bigger, more foofy dresses, saying they were too hard to move in.
After this episode, however, the relationship improved between Hamatsu and Nuriko.
"Actually, Hamatsu's at the library right now. She's going to spend the night at my house so we can study, and she asked if I could pick up some of her things," Miyoko said. 'She'll never believe you!' her inner-self thought. 'Hamatsu, studying?!'
Hamatsu's aunt gave her a strange look. "All right... You know where her room is..."
Miyoko breathed a sigh of relief. She ran to Hamatsu's room and piled some random clothes and other junk into a bag. After that, she went to her own house.
Nobody was home, and she didn't really care. She quickly scribbled 'Be back soon,' on a sticky-note and left it on the television. She didn't really like her family. Not that they weren't nice people, but her mother was insane, and her dad was just... kinda there... Her own little sister was a major pain. Her home life sucked, and often she had to escape her house to keep her sanity. Whenever Hamatsu's house wasn't safe to escape to, she went to the Yuki house. She had known them for years, and they had always been nice to her, even though Miaka, who was her own age, could be a major airhead.
She raided the pantry, taking care to include many caffeinated sodas. Then she went to her own room and stuffed the bag some more. She spied her camera on her dresser, and brought that as well.
"What if I never come back here?" she thought aloud. She glanced around her room, familiar, and painful to be in. She shrugged and grinned, and stuck some more junk in the bag.
It had been a few hours already, and she already missed her friends. Especially Tamahome... Just knowing that she couldn't go and see him any time was hard.
'Then is he real, or is he... just a character in a book?' she wondered as she walked along the streets, clutching 'The Universe of the Four Gods.' Then she decided it didn't matter. One way or the other... she really liked him...
Seeing the glowing neon WacDonald's sign reminded her that it had been a while since she had eaten, so of course she stopped. 'All of them, in fact... we're in completely different worlds! If I didn't know better, I'd say it was a dream, but it wasn't. I really met those people, and they really are my friends. I really am the Priestess,' she thought. "And I really am gonna sound crazy when I try and explain this to them," she groaned as she knocked on the Yuki's door.
"Miyoko!" Miaka cried. "Are you okay? What's the matter?"
"Nothing, Miaka!" she assured her. "Is Keisuke here?" He came down the stairs at that moment.
"Miyo, what's the matter?" Keisuke asked concernedly.
"Look, I've got to go, but no matter WHAT, keep this book safe!" Miyoko said, showing them the book. "What I'm going to say will sound crazy, but it's true. Hamatsu and I both fell into this book, and the story in it. I was made the Priestess of the beast god Suzaku, and now we've got to find all the Warriors of Suzaku in order to summon Suzaku."
The two siblings stared at her.
"At any rate, I have to go back now, I promised. I don't know," she hesitated, "I don't know if I will be back. So thank you for everything!" With that, she hugged them both.
"Miyoko!" they yelled as the blinding light filled the room. When both the light and the girl were gone, Keisuke picked up the book, and began to read. "Incredible," he whispered.