Chapter 5: Welcome. The four gods meet Yuko.
Miaka held tight onto the girl trying to prevent her lifting of the ground. 'What is going on! Who is this jerk!' thought Miaka as she held down Yuko. Yuko's teeth sank deeply into the bandage leaving only small holes. A blade suddenly appeared between her and Sytou, having her and Miaka fly back. Tamahome caught Miaka, while Tasuki caught Yuko.
"Rekka Shinen!" yelled Tasuki as he held out an iron fan in front of Yuko.
Wooosssshhhh! The bandages instantly went up in blazed of fire. The fire quickly began to creep up the bandage.
"Wow," whispered Yuko despite the situation.
Nuriko instantly stepped forward a tree in his arms.
"HA!" cried Nuriko as he slammed the tree onto Sytou. "Got ya!"
"Oh really?"
Everyone turned to see Sytou standing in a tree looking down on the celestial warriors, Miaka, and Yuko like they were insects. That really ticked Tamahome off, as he jumped up to bring the boy down to earth.
"If you're going to say something then say it when you're at the same level as the person!" yelled Tamahome as he reared up for a good punch to the face.
"And humans should learn their place," replied Sytou calmly.
Tamahome flung his fist right into Sytou's face only to see it make contact with Sytou's fist, tightly grasped over it. Caught in a daze of shock, and confusion Tamahome slowly began to fall back to earth. The others stared in shock too, the only one ever to capture Tamahome's fist like that was both his master and Nakago.
"Yuko!"
Yuko looked back to Sytou's masked face. She was in a complete daze, everything was happening so quickly that she didn't know what to do.
"I'll let you go for now, but take heed. That power will be ours," claimed Sytou as he rushed off.
"Wait! What power?" yelled Yuko, but he was already out of reach. "What in the world is going on?"
"We're all looking for that answer but we were hoping you could answer that."
Yuko turned her gaze to see Hotohori staring right at her his sword out of its sheath. 'So he was the one that cut my bonds,' thought Yuko as Hotohori sheathed his sword again.
"I wish I could help, but I don't know what's going on myself," replied Yuko.
"Either way we're not safe. Lets go to Tai Yi Jun. She might know what is going on. No da," replied Chichiri.
"I think your right," replied Chiriko.
Chichiri took off his hat and held it out to the others. Mitsukake was the first to step in, and then Chiriko, Hotohori, Nuriko, Miaka, and Tamahome, the last to go into the hat were Tasuki, Yuko, and Chichiri. Yuko just simply gaped at what had just happened.
"Alright lets go," said Tasuki as he pushes Yuko toward the endless void in the hat.
"What? Wait!" cried Yuko just as she entered the void. Tasuki and Chichiri soon fallowed.
The mist swirled around Yuko's ankles as she slowly opened her eyes, but all she could see was mist.
"Where am I now," wonder Yuko to herself.
"Your with us, still in the universe of the four gods."
Yuko spinned in the direction of the voice to four men staring at her, as she them. They all looked handsome Yuko couldn't help but blush. Each was different on his own one had bright red feathered wings, another had Chinese dragon horns on his head, another had a tigers tail trailing behind him, and the last had a snake coiling around his body.
"Who are you and where did the others go," asked Yuko.
"I am Genbu, this is Byyako, Seiryu, and Suzaku. We are the four gods," replied Genbu as he and the others looked down on Yuko.