Hey; I'm back with chapter…uh…11? Yeah, 11! AHHH! Precious computer…(hugs the computer) um…yeah…sorry; I have a sore throat and can't talk at all so the computer is the only way I really can talk without sounding like a demented old witch so I'm grateful to it!

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Mint drop: What? Akito's a girl? WTF? That's messed up…so…very messed up…now all my opinions are shattered! NOOO! (recovers quickly) oh well; eh…Akito seemed kinda okay…(shrug) doesn't matter…hey; wait…how'd they know Akito's a 'she'; is there an OAV for Fruits Basket or something?

Xo Kurai oX: Well, I don't think they'll all get killed, but you never know. I could get in a really bad mood one day and actually do it…hopefully not, though, huh? Or I'd have no one to torture in my story!

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Yusagi: Wow; so many reviews! YAY! And yes, I know some of my information is messed up and weird, like the hospital thing, but I try not to make those mistakes. Usually, it's a result of my mind wandering while I'm typing and so I type something completely different. Sorry! And I'll try your suggestions!

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It was early in the morning and the sun could barely been seen in the sky, but its rays dutifully spread across the land. In the local high school, Mr. Sato, the principal gave a yawn and stretched as he walked across the parking lot. It was a new day and he couldn't wait…

However, one sight of a group of students sitting on the school steps made him freeze in his steps. No…not again; he thought that he would at least have another day before she came back…with them.

"Mr. Sato" Sai greeted wryly, "Good to see you again" she said, her voice thick with sarcasm. Mr. Sato could just feel his stress coming back just at the thought of her in the school again.

"Decided to come back have you?" he asked in the same tone of voice as she did, "Why so early?"

"Hn…figured I'd get stuff over with before Nuriko's fan girls come milling in" Sai said.

"What stuff?" Mr. Sato narrowed his eyes suspiciously. He glared at the group around her; each one stared back at him without even blinking.

"I came to register a new student; Mr. Sato, meet Yukari Maeda" Sai gestured to the red haired girl beside her wearing what was obviously an outfit borrowed from Saiyami; a red and black t-shirt with black jeans that was slightly to long for her and a bunch of weird looking bracelets dangling at her wrist. But still, Mr. Sato was amazed; if he guessed right, she would be the daughter of Hideki Maeda, one of the most important people in the medical community.

"Nice to meet you" he finally said, "If you'll follow me to my office, we'll fill out the proper forms…"

"No need Mr. Sato" Sai waved a fully completed registration form in front of his eyes.

"Where'd you get that!" Mr. Sato yelled.

"Oh; went through your desk before you got here"

"My office is locked!"

"It's a secret" Tokaki said, grinning.

Mr. Sato stared up at the sky for a moment, mumbling something along the lines of 'oh my sanity…' before he looked back at Sai, grabbed the registration form and marched into the school. As soon as the front doors slammed shut, the group burst out laughing.

"See; now, isn't troublemaking fun?" Sai asked. Yukari nodded and stared into the distance, "Hey; people are arriving"

Sai's eyes widened, "Nuriko; it's your fans…run!"

At those words, all the seishi leapt up and ran into the school, hoping the fans didn't see them. Sai and Yukari walked behind; Yukari was very confused and laughed when Sai told her what had happened last time Nuriko's 'fans' had gotten to him, "Poor guy" Yukari said.

"Hey; Shimizu's back" one of the fans remarked as they passed her in the halls, "And she brought another freak with her"

Sai rolled her eyes, unfazed by the remark, "Go fuck yourself, Kana"

Yukari glared at Kana. She hadn't even been at this school for an hour and here was somebody, making assumptions about her and calling her names. She hated people like that; those who judged by appearance rather than personality, "Yeah" she agreed, "And while you're at it, why don't you do the world a favor and curl up and die?" she asked.

Kana wrinkled her nose, "And who are you?" she asked.

"Yukari Maeda" she answered, rolling her eyes.

"I'm Kana" she said, knowing the reputation of Dr. Maeda and very sure that this was his daughter.

"Did I ask for you name? Noooooooo" Yukari said, "So shut the fuck up"

Kana gave a sniff, "Why don't you do that?"

"Well, because-"

She was interrupted by Sai letting out a string of curse words. Sai turned to Kana, "Go and be a bitch elsewhere…'cause right now, we gotta go" she pulled Yukari away just as Mr. Sato came out of the office.

"Hey; how'd you know he'd come out?" Yukari asked, surprised at Sai's precise timing.

"Instinct" Sai grinned, tapping on her head, "Now, let's go find everyone else, shall we?"

Yukari nodded. Seeing as she had no idea where everything was in the school, she followed Sai around until they stopped in front of a group of lockers next to the Art room, "Well, they didn't blow anything up this time" she said jokingly. Yukari's eyes widened, "Did they blow something up before?" she asked.

"Well, you could say that…" Sai said.

"Hey Sai, Yukari; what took you two so long?" Subaru asked, bounding over.

"Oh; we couldn't risk causing trouble" Yukari explained.

"Are the fans gone?" Nuriko asked tentatively, peeking over the two girls' shoulders.

"As far as I can tell" Sai told him. He gave a sigh, "Thank god"

"See what modeling can do?" Tasuki asked, "You pretty-boy"

"Shut up!" Nuriko said, punching Tasuki, but of course, seeing as he had superhuman strength, Tasuki went flying into one of the lockers and made a gigantic dent.

Hikitsu shook his head and turned to the three girls, "Be prepared…this will be a long day"

"Don't remind me" Sai said, groaning, "I need my Tylenol" she moaned. Almost immediately, a bottle was handed to her. Subaru rolled her eyes; with that many seishi around, Sai had gotten many headaches and as a result, the seishi made it a habit to each carry a bottle of Tylenol around in case she ever got a major headache, because then she got pissed off, and when she gets pissed off…

"Ugh…ready to be tortured?" Sai asked as they trudged to gym class.


Yukari and Sai both let out similar groans when they got back to the apartment. What an awful day. Both found places to collapse in and didn't move for ten minutes. In gym class, they had the misfortune to play dodge ball as a 'fun' activity. However, with the seishi, no activity is really 'fun'. Not for unsuspecting students anyways. Eventually, almost all of them had a bruise somewhere on the body. Then, there was Math class when all the fan girls were in the class and they had all jumped Nuriko. Unfortunately, he was standing next to Tasuki and Tokaki. Tasuki ended up trying to flame the girls – fortunately stopped in time by Hikitsu – and Tokaki, being the pervert he was, tried to feel up some of the girls, luckily stopped in time by his wife. With that over with, Amiboshi and Suboshi decided to cause trouble in science by pretending the frog they were to dissect was still alive with the help of Suboshi's seishi powers making it move and bounce all over the room. It had caused such a panic that Sai had needed five Tylenols before her headache went away. Then in Art – oh god, Art – Chichiri in his chibi and caffeine-hyped form had thought it would be fun to stick his fingers in the paint and draw things all over Tasuki's face. This had led to an argument induced mainly by Tasuki and then, eventually the whole room was covered with fingerprints of paint. This time, it was Yukari that needed the Tylenol because Sai had already given up on ever getting rid of her headache by then.

"Um…I think we should leave them alone for a while…" Tokaki suggested. Subaru was also very exhausted by the events of the school day. However, she was doing her best not to kill her husband and everyone who tried to even mention the word, caffeine.

"Yeah…" Nuriko said, inching away to the living room. There, they sat down and eventually someone brought up an important subject. One they hadn't discussed in a long time.

"So we still really don't know why we're here…" Hikitsu said.

"Well…I dunno; but a few days ago, I could swear I saw a phoenix, but…when I looked again, it was gone no da" Chichiri said.

"Me too…" the other Suzaku seishi said.

"I saw a tiger" Tokaki blinked, "A white tiger"

"I saw Genbu" Hikitsu said simply.

"Seiryuu" the twins chorused.

"What do you think it means, seeing them here?"

"Maybe it means that they have something in store for us…and they're definitely the ones who brought us here"

"But why are we here?" Amiboshi asked, "There's no real reason; there's no priestess, or real evil, and why are we with Sai? She's definitely no priestess…not that I'm complaining about her or anything, but really, if not for a priestess, like we're all born to protect, why?" he asked.

"Maybe…maybe Sai has something to do with this? She's no priestess, but…"

"But as seishi, we only protect the priestess, don't we?"

Suddenly, Subaru walked in, glaring, "I'm still pissed at you guys, but I have something to say" she said.

"What?" Tokaki asked.

"Did anyone just see a white tiger in here besides me?" she asked, "Or was I hallucinating?"

"A white tiger?"

"Yes…it was on the couch next to Sai and Yukari and there it had its paw on an old red book that was really frayed"

"Red book?..." Chichiri asked, "Did it say Universe of the Four Gods?"

Subaru nodded, "I was wondering why it said that"

"That's the link between our world and the priestesses' world no da!" Chichiri said, "So…if Byakko had its paw over it, maybe…he wants us to find the book"

The others agreed and then, one of them gave a yawn, causing everyone else to yawn.

"I think it's time we go to sleep" Hikitsu suggested. Everyone nodded and found a comfortable place to sleep in the room where Sai and Yukari were. Before that, Chichiri made sure to cast the barrier spell and then, he too joined everyone else into a deep and dreamless sleep.