Hey it's me again! I hope you enjoyed the first Chapter. And I think you will like this one even better! It had a lot more...action. I guess is how you would put it. And I even made it longer than the first chapter to make up for the shortness of the previous one! So yeah enojoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fushigi Yuugi!
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Chapter 2
Chichiri now interrupted them, "We should probably go back to the castle now. No da," He said smiling at the twins.
"Castle!" Aiko said in surprise.
"Yeah the emperor is letting us stay there." Tasuki said winking at Chichiri not to say anything. So Chichiri just nodded in agreement.
"Oh…wow that's pretty nice of him," She said nodding her head. "It'll take us a while to get there though…." She said thoughtfully.
"Nope only about two seconds." Tasuki said grinning.
"What? You can't run that fast oni-chan…EEK!" Aiko started but was cut off as he grabbed her and they were transported through the kesa. After arriving in the palace where they hade left Aiko appeared frozen stiff just staring ahead with her mouth hanging open.
"Are you alright no da?" Chichiri asked concerned.
That snapped her out of her shock, "You stupid-stupid oni-chan!" Aiko said annoyed teasingly but angry as she beat him with her fist playfully. "Shoving me into that!" She complained hitting one more time for good measure and huffing aggravated as Tasuki laughed hysterically.
"What is so…oh she's here!" Nuriko chirped as he saw the girl who definitely resembled her twin brother. He scooped her up playfully as she looked startled again.
"Well hello…" Aiko said smiling as she was placed down on her feet again.
"Love the braid," Nuriko laughed seeing as it resembled his only red in color.
"Thanks." She chuckled. "Yours too." She mimicked motioning to his braid.
"I see we're going to get along just fine…" Nuriko chuckled to see the laughing chibi Tasuki with bumps from Aiko's 'beating'. Nuriko then did a double take looking from Aiko to Tasuki. "Oh wow you guys really do look a like." Nuriko said smiling. He then held up a hand to whisper to Aiko, "They look better on you." He said jokingly for Aiko to laugh and Nuriko to grin.
Then Chiriko came up to the small group, "Hello Aiko," He said kindly blushing just slightly.
"Hey," Aiko smiled down at the child.
"My name is Chiriko and I'm a celestial warrior as well," Chiriko beamed.
"That's so cool Chiriko!" Aiko smiled. "Well…I guess you guys should call me Keiko now," She said chuckling lightly at the new name.
Suddenly she was tackled from behind, "Keiko! Finally I'm not the only girl!" Cried an overly joyed Miaka.
"Eep!" Keiko cried as she hit the floor but then turned to see Miaka. "Hello Suzaku no miko," She said with a grin knowing now this is who she must be. Then the girl was hoisted up by Tasuki who then helped Keiko up.
Mitsukake came up and smiled at her, "Hello Keiko. I'm Mitsukake,"
"Hello," Keiko smiled. She was still looking at everyone and trying to see if she still remembered all their names.
Hotohori was on his way somewhere and stopped and looked down the hall to see the rest of the group together and then he saw someone else. He had been informed eagerly by Miaka that they had found Keiko and was told countless times that it was a woman. But actually seeing Keiko he froze. He saw her how she had Tasuki's red hair but it suited her with her eyes that shone with happiness and her outfit may not have been royal robs but she looked wonderful none the less in his eyes. He nodded slightly. He was going to enjoy the company of this warrior. He then was about to go off as Miaka cheered out to him, "Hotohori come meet Keiko!" She called over to him.
He sighed to himself wondering if this was going to be awkward…he was the emperor after all. He came over and saw Keiko in a busy conversation with her brother. Miaka tapped her on the shoulder, "This is Hotohori!" She chimed happily.
Keiko turned around and smiled at him. 'Does she not know? She…doesn't act like she does,' Hotohori smiled inside at how she had no clue he was an emperor. "Hello Keiko." He said.
When Keiko turned she saw what she thought was the most handsome man in the world. She smiled at him and wondered how on earth she was going to concentrate with him around. "Hello," She answered. 'Oh my god…he's gorgeous and oh…great…no!' She mentally slapped herself. 'I can't fall in love with another warrior geeze what am I thinking!' She thought.
Miaka stared at Hotohori. 'Ohh…I think I get it," She thought smiling wondering why Hotohori acted almost shy around Keiko. "Come on Keiko I'm going to take you to your room,"
"My room?" Keiko mimicked confused staring at her with a confused look.
"Yeah the emperor is kind enough to let us stay in his palace." Miaka grinned at how Hotohori shot her his attention now at how she wasn't giving away who he was.
"He is!" Keiko sounded shocked. "That's nice of him…" She said wondering what it was like to live in a palace.
"Yeah we've been staying here for a while." Tasuki said smiling at her.
"Oh." Keiko said looking over at her brother who was ginning again like an idiot. "What's wrong?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
"Just wondering what dinner is gonna be like." Tasuki said teasingly.
"Why would dinner be different?" Keiko asked.
"No reason." He said. "Well I'm gonna be off. See ya a little later sis."
"Wait…where are you going?" she asked looking almost afraid already and he paused.
"Well….around. Miaka here wants ta take ya to ur room so be good and go with her," He said teasingly. She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Fine," She said grabbing Miaka's arm and about to walk off. But Miaka took the whole grabbing arm thing and held tightly practically running which ended up dragging her behind him. Everyone else was splitting up but Nuriko hung back looking at Hotohori.
"You look…interested?" Nuriko said raising an eyebrow wondering if the emperor had finally gotten over Miaka. And if he couldn't be with the emperor then he was going to find the perfect match for him.
"Interested!" Hotohori asked almost jumping.
"Yeah…with a certain bandits sister?" Nuriko asked eyeing him suspiciously. "Which would probably be good for you…" Nuriko continued. "Well we're still going to get Tamahome tonight…and Tasuki will be gone…" He tested.
"And what difference does that make?" Hotohori asked wondering if all this was so easy to see.
"You like her." Nuriko said proudly and decided to go off now and let him continue on his way. About an hour later he was out walking again and he saw Keiko again. She had somehow managed to escape from Miaka when Nuriko came and got her and she was informed on the situation with Tamahome so she went to look for her brother.
"Are you okay?" Hotohori asked seeing her looking around clearly lost in the palace.
"Oh!" Keiko said now seeing him. "I uh…well looking for Tasuki…" She said changing her gaze to be elsewhere. "I…heard about Tamahome. I'm sorry you know…I want to help but I've been told already I can't go." She chuckled at how absurd that sounded. "I've been told that before too…" She said taking her arms to cling the railing on a gazebo and lean against it.
"I'm sorry it's only that…Chichiri can't hide everyone's chi." Hotohori said trying to explain.
"Mhmmm…" She answered nodding slightly that she 'understood' that. "But…" She said smiling slightly, "I don't think….he'll leave that quickly." She chuckled and he looked confused. "He wants to run off and impress Miaka that he can fight. Actually…I think it's more of he wants to protect her." She said wiping at one of her eyes. "No matter," She said smiling again.
He looked a little disappointed and it was more of how he couldn't help her get through what she was going through…Tasuki had left her after all…he couldn't imagine that being an easy thing to go through.
"Come on guys! Everyone is about to leave!" Nuriko said popping up out of nowhere and scaring Keiko. He then grabbed the two and walked/ran quickly to the room everyone else was gathered in.
"After everyone was assembled in the room they began to say a few things before everyone left.
Tasuki came up to Keiko, "Hey. I'll be right back all right?" He said smiling. "I'll be fine," He said shrugging it off seeing that all day she was worried about him and he had avoided her to avoid a confrontation.
"I know." Keiko smiled back and he smiled too thinking she had gotten over it and finally realized that he would be okay. So he walked back over to the group who just started placing the kesa down.
"Hey Keiko…you never even said what your power was…" Nuriko asked trying to change the topic.
"You really want to know?" Keiko asked quickly.
"Yeah!" Nuriko said looking excited.
"Wind," Keiko whispered and looked at Nuriko with a smirk as she took off and flew into the kesa right before the portal closed.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Tasuki yelled as they landed in a tree and his sister was in a branch above him.
Keiko smirked down at him, "You thought you could get rid of me that easily?" She asked raising an eyebrow but smiling triumphantly.
"You weren't suppose to come because you could get seriously hurt!" Tasuki chided.
"And you couldn't?" Keiko countered.
"Would you two stop bickering and get me out of the tree?" Miaka pleaded.
"Yeah no problem." Keiko said waving a hand to fly Miaka out of the tree safely and place her down on the ground then climb her self out. Miaka hugged her at the bottom as a thank you. Tasuki was scowling and looked ticked of at his twin.
Chichiri sighed seeing Keiko had followed them along with Mitsukake's cat. Miaka came up with a bright idea to have the cat lead them to a certain tree they were meeting Tamahome at. When they got there Miaka waited happily…but time began to pass.
"Where is he?" Keiko whispered to Tasuki.
Tasuki scowled but then looked at his sister, "How the hell should I know?" He hissed back. He was still pissed that she had snuck along. Keiko looked disapprovingly at him and huffed a 'fine' then turned to lean back against the tree behind Miaka.
The next few minutes were a blur as they were ambushed by Nakago and attacked. Miaka had the 'brilliant' idea of charging at them and got herself captured and when Keiko went to retaliate Tasuki grabbed her to have Chichiri grab the two and disappear.
Now hidden Tasuki was still grumbling about not making his fan work and Nakago's damn barriers. Keiko was pissed too, "We just let them take her?" She asked angry even in whisper form. "What the hell? She's the Suzaku no miko! Our job is to go at any length and I mean any including dying to save her and we just poofed away!" She hissed looking threateningly at Chichiri.
Tasuki now looked shocked for a minute, "Don't ever say that again," He said back angry.
"What?" Keiko looked confused now.
"That you'll die! You don't need to die at the moment! So you wanted to freakin' attack Nakago?" Tasuki said chastising.
"Uh yeah?" She asked as if that was stupid. "I will die for her if it comes to it!" She hissed back angry. "And…yes I would attack Nakago why the hell not? I can handle you can't I? Everyone else should be easy!" She sneered.
Tasuki looked ticked off but was silenced by Chichiri, "Would you two stop no da?" He asked. Both twins looked a little angry at the arguments abrupt stop. "I have an idea on how to get Miaka back no da," He said smiling. After Chichiri had 'executed' his plan they found themselves tied up in a room inside the palace.
"Lovely plan." Came a complaint from Chichiri who then gagged her too. Tasuki was already throwing a fit to the side of her. A while later he emerged back in the room as the form of Nakago still with Miaka who had a wounded arm. He was poofed back to his forming and was quizzing her trying to get the information from her on who did it but she wouldn't answer.
"Well I'm going to go get the scroll no da." Chichiri answered changing to Nakago as he left again.
"Hey Miaka…seriously…your arm looks like someone attacked you…and won? Who the hell did it?" Keiko asked starting calm but getting angrier through out her sentence. Miaka still refused to answer either of them.
"Hey look at that!" Miaka asked pointing to something behind them and Tasuki like an idiot looked to have Miaka tie him back up and she went to tie Keiko as well who didn't let her.
"Nice try," Keiko said smirking. "Now where is it you wanted to go and let's get going,"
Miaka beamed up at her, "Back to the tree." Miaka answered.
"Alright," Keiko answered and they left a fuming Tasuki alone in the room for Chichiri to find. When Tasuki and Chichiri went to the tree they found only Miaka standing there. A panicked Tasuki ran towards them but then he saw another man and it was Tamahome and he had num chucks that lashed out at Miaka. Only they never hit their target as Keiko dodged in front of her having her left forearm bleeding now. "Miaka…why the hell….did we come back here if he is the one that attacked you!" She asked through tightly grit teeth.
Tasuki was startled none the less to see his sister reappear first off then to see her injured then to realize who did it and to realize who it was meant for. Easy to say…he was exceedingly pissed. Chichiri looked more startled as the two reached the girls. "Watch them Chichiri," Tasuki said as he stood up. Keiko went to complain but Tasuki looked threateningly at her so she stayed quiet. He had a heated discussion with Tamahome to suddenly begin fighting him. It looked like a death match. Tasuki had been so pissed he got his harisen to work.
Keiko was stunned for a few seconds and then when Miaka's words finally sunk in it her.
"Please stop Tasuki! Tamahome stop it! Why are you doing this!" Miaka called out for about the twentieth time. Keiko ripped harshly away from Chichiri.
"Damn it Miaka! Have you not realized that they aren't listening!" Keiko yelled.
Chichiri went to speak to her but she shot him a death glare. Nothing was stopping her now. She was going to help her brother whether any of them liked it or not. She got up and walked daringly into the battlefield. When Tamahome went to hit Tasuki after pushing him down she moved swiftly and quickly to him then her leg smacked him in the head catching him off guard.
"You won't lay another hand on him…" She said glaring. Tasuki looked up at her and at first was speechless then pissed realizing what she was doing.
"Get the hell away Keiko!" He yelled.
"Shut up Tasuki!" She yelled not taking her eyes off her new opponent.
"Ha-ha you have a girl protecting you know?" Tamahome sneered at both of them. Keiko didn't move as she stood there he realized she wasn't going to be going anywhere anytime soon. "Alright if you insist." Tamahome said smiling evilly and he charged at her now with Tasuki behind. Keiko stood her ground until he shot out his weapon for her to duck and then reach up and grab them for him to pull back harshly with her following. Keiko held on for dear life although it hurt when she came back to him she took her end and twisted up and turned around to be behind him with his arm behind his back painfully.
"Let go!" She hissed in his ears. What happened next Keiko didn't expect as he flipped backwards crashing her into the ground painfully with a small cry. By this point she had let go of the weapon and it came crashing down on her again this time her rib cage. "Damn it!" She screamed as she pushed herself up quickly and started dodging his attacks. She only dodged though…she never took the offensive position. Although she heard Tasuki screaming at her in the back ground she didn't worry because Chichiri had strong hold on him.
Now Tamahome was getting at her as she began to tire. He hit a few times now and harshly to add. Now came a time when she couldn't move much at all. So she took the next best thing…flying. She took an ounce of strength she had left and sprinted using the wind as her power to propel her fast she glided up quickly covering the small distance between them in the blink of an eye as she tackled him harshly to the ground and she was using the wind to push them both to the ground at that spot. "Now stop….already…okay?" she pleaded trying to get him to wake from what ever the hell was wrong with him. The rest of the battlefield was quiet for about two minutes at the shock of turn in events. Now Chichiri had finally gotten a passage to get them out. He looked over at Keiko and got Miaka and Tasuki through the portal who looked like he was about to just burst. With either tears or anger…he wasn't sure which.
"Bitch get off of me!" Tamahome screamed confused at what was going on.
"Tamahome wake up! What the hell happened to you?" Keiko pleaded.
Chichiri now got close enough he actually felt the rush of the wind surrounding just those two. "Keiko let go!" Chichiri demanded. "Let go we're leaving!" He said.
"We can't leave him!" She yelled.
"Keiko let go of him!" Chichiri said desperately trying to figure out how to separate the two since if he were to reach for her he would just be shoved down by the force of the wind.
"Just get out of here Chichiri!" Keiko yelled at him. "Leave and get them fixed! I'll get back on my own!" She yelled angry at him. "GO!" She yelled when he didn't move.
"Keiko I won't leave you here!" Chichiri said almost angry back at her.
"Oh yeah? Well I won't leave him here so just get the hell away!" Keiko yelled. Chichiri was reluctant but now the portal was closing. "Get out of here!" Keiko continued.
Chichiri didn't get another choice as she stopped for a split second to send him head first into his portal then redirect her attention to the problem at hand.
Nakago now emerged from where he had been watching. "Now my dear where did you learn a lovely trick like that?" he asked in his usual calm voice. It appeared eerie to her. "But I am afraid…that it is time for you to let go…" He said putting his hand up.
The next thing Keiko knew was she was surrounded in a blue light that burned her body as darkness took her. Tamahome shoved the unconscious beaten girl off him.
Nakago already knew what he wanted to ask so Nakago answered first, "She was covering you…there was no way you would have been injured…and now I want you to ruff her up a bit more…then take her with you to go kill the Suzaku no miko. Oh and be sure…Tasuki sees his sister before you leave…" Nakago said with an evil smirk. Tamahome nodded in agreement as his orders were filled out.
Back in Konan…
"You what!" Hotohori yelled after settling Miaka in her bedroom. "You left her in Kuto!" He asked again as if he wasn't hearing right.
"But no da…I told you…she shoved me back in the portal…" Chichiri was trying to explain for the tenth time what happened. Nuriko looked like he was about to throttle the monk.
"Chichiri…" He started calmly. "We just met Keiko…and learned her ability was control over wind…" He carried on like it was a board meeting pacing, "And then…" He said turning back to face Chichiri, "You left her in Kuto already beaten by Tamahome who she never hit unless you count tackling him so you guys could get away!" He yelled. Although he was very proud of the girl he was deeply concerned with what was going on. "She's in Kuto? Wounded?" He added again now really showing his fury. "Hell only knows what they'll do to her there!" He added throwing his arms up in the air to then grabbed the window sill tightly to where it cracked. So he let go startled for a minute and silence filled the room.
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See! See! I told you it had a lot more action! I hope you enjoyed it! I worked hard on it...even if you dont think so lol. So yeah I hope to have Chapter 3 up soon. Yeah but let me know what you think of it. I'll take suggestive critisism as well if you insist...or suggestions that i will give you credit for if used. And I want to take a poll! I have an idea of what i want but just to see which one you guys prefer...would you rather have her go with Hotohori or Nuriko? Hm? Yeah let me know which one you guys would rather have!
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