Yay! I'm finally done this chapter!

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Pil-Z: Glad you like it. Oh, the CD cover. Yeah…well, it's Hilary Duff. I hate her; if you like her, don't feel insulted by it, but I just really don't like her.

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Xo Kurai oX: Yep; fun's starting to begin…but of course, they have to find Miaka first, which is what this chapter is basically about.

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"Okay; we can go now" Amiboshi announced. After at least three hours for combing for the lost phone book and fifteen minutes of searching for Miaka or Yui, they had finally found many possible places where she could be. One was an address for a K. Yuki. They knew from Tasuki and Chichiri that Miaka's brother's name was Keisuke; the second was one for Y. Hongo, and the third, was for a T. Sukanami.

"Hell; if all these turn out to be the wrong people, we'll be the unluckiest people in the world" Yukari commented.

"They'd better not be wrong" Tasuki said, "Or I'll burn that goddamn phone book"

"You will not! We spent three hours looking for it" Hikitsu said, sending a very threatening glare at Tasuki for even suggesting it.

"Fine" Tasuki pouted.

"Well, we should split up right about now…" Suboshi said, "Make this quick"

"Okay…let's see…to make sure we cause as little chaos as possible…Nuriko, Tasuki and Hikitsu will be in one group; Amiboshi, Suboshi, Sai and Yukari; and Chichiri, Tokaki and I" Subaru said, "Everyone okay with that?"

They all nodded, but before they separated, Sai pointed one thing out, "You forgot the fact that Tasuki causes trouble wherever he goes…or have you forgotten the mall already?" she asked.

"Hey!" Tasuki protested, "Not my fault; that stupid vendor person gave me coffee!"

"Anyways…" Hikitsu said, "My group will go to K. Yuki's apartment, the twins' group can go look for Y. Hongo, since we assume it is Yui Hongo the phone book was talking about and she is their priestess, and Chichiri's group can go look for T. Sukanami"

"Sure, no da!" Chichiri agreed and took the piece of paper with T. Sukanami's address on it. They others left also, each group taking one piece of paper with their destination written on it.


Unfortunately, as soon as they had gotten to the section of town where the apartment was, they spotted something deadly…something that was lethal…something that gave them a reason to scream…a candy shop.

"Nooo; you're not going in!" Nuriko shouted, pulling the back of Tasuki's shirt, "No way; we're trying to cause as little chaos as possible, not as much" he said.

Hikitsu sighed as he watched. This was going to be a long day; he could tell.

"Tasuki; we are looking for your miko. Does that not matter to you?" he asked. Tasuki stopped struggling long enough to answer, "I want candy first!" He sounded very much like a little child who was whining for an expensive toy.

Hikitsu rolled his eyes and gave his fingers a slight snap. Immediately, Tasuki stopped struggling and was frozen stiff. Nuriko sweatdropped, "You realize that we have to carry him if he's frozen, right?"

Hikitsu just raised an eyebrow as he stared at Nuriko. Then, a staring contest began, with Nuriko trying as hard as he could not to blink and Hikitsu calmly staring. Of course, considering he had an eye patch over one eye, he could have been cheating and Nuriko would never have known. Finally, Nuriko reluctantly blinked.

He sighed and picked up the frozen Tasuki, "Why do I have to all the manual labor?" he muttered.

"Do I even need to tell you?" Hikitsu asked.

"Guess not"


"Ahhh…think of a happy place…think of a happy place…think of a happy place…" Sai muttered, sounding very much like she was under a torture of some sort; her eyes snapped shut furiously and her hand latched onto Suboshi's ryuuseisui as he led her through the department store.

"Y'know…it's not that bad…" Suboshi said, looking at Sai with a look on his face, "Nothing to get this upset over"

"Yes it is!" Sai insisted.

"Um…actually…"

"YES IT IS!" Sai shouted again. Suboshi shrugged, one end of his ryuuseisui in his hand as he pulled Sai forward. They were lagging behind Amiboshi and Yukari, who kept sending them incredulous looks as they proceeded forward.

"Ahhh; one day, I'm going to kill either that or I'm going to kill whoever put these posters up…"

"Uh…you do that" Suboshi said, giving a tug on the ryuuseisui. Unfortunately, he hadn't counted on the fact that Sai had been holding onto the ryuuseisui so tight and so, she tripped and as much as she tried to keep her eyes closed, she couldn't help but open them for a mere second. In that second, she saw the most horrible thing on earth. As she opened her mouth to let out a stream of swear words, Suboshi clamped his hand over her mouth, "Keep quiet" he said, "Remember…no trouble?"

Sai nodded and screwed her eyes shut again as she stood up. Suboshi rolled his eyes and glanced around. All around the store were posters of a girl with blonde hair and well, she was the exactly person that Sai had threatened Tasuki with before. He had to admit; it was scary after a while.

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they got out of the department store.

"Well, that took forever – thanks to Sai" Yukari said, grinning.

"Shut up; you know I have an unexplainable burning hatred for her"

"Yeah, we know" Yukari said, sighing.

"Well, shall we get going?" Amiboshi asked, leading the way. The other three followed obediently. However…

"GAH!" Sai screamed, when one of the posters blew at her, landing right on her face, giving her a full, uncensored (for it was so horrible that it needed to be censored) view of that, or so she called it.


"Okay, stop that!" Subaru said, slapping Tokaki across the head when he started drooling at another passing girl, "Have some decency; she looks like she could still be in middle school or something"

"Yeah, no da"

"But…" Tokaki said.

"Oh Byakko" Subaru said, rolling her eyes. The she glared, "Tokaki, as your wife, it is my duty to prevent you from become a pedophile"

"I'm not gonna…" Tokaki protested.

"Besides, we have to look for the apartment, no da"

"Can you just teleport us, Chichiri"

"Okay, no da!" Chichiri said. He concentrated and almost instantly, they were all teleported to the front door of a house.

"Is this it?" Subaru asked.

"It would seem so" Chichiri said, ringing the door bell. After a few moments, the door opened and…

"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Chichiri protested as someone leapt on him.

"Chichiri!" Miaka said excitedly, "What are you doing here? Why are you here? How did you get here? Are the others here too? I can't believe you're here!" she looked behind you, "Subaru! And Tokaki! You're here too?"

"Hai, Miaka" Subaru said, smiling, "Long time no see, huh?"

"Yeah…" Miaka stopped, "Hey; come in"

The three trooped in and followed Miaka. There, they heard a slight crying noise. Miaka disappeared for a few moments and reappeared again with a toddler in her arms, "Sorry" she said, "Oh yeah; this is Hikari"

Chichiri smiled, "Well, we came to talk to you about something, Miaka…"

"Yeah? What's going on?" Miaka asked.

"It concerns the book…"


"Professor Yuki" Keisuke looked up when his secretary opened the door to his office.

"Yes?"

"There are three men here asking for you. One…is swearing very violently at another…" she said, "And there's a woman with purple hair who claims she's a man…she's very strong, sir, and another who looks young but has long white hair"

"Purple hair…strong…and looks like a woman, huh?" Keisuke asked. Realization hit him, "It can't be" he muttered as he ran out of the office. He stopped in his tracks when he saw that it was.

"Y-you're the Suzaku seishi!" Keisuke said aloud.

"Oh yes, let's all just forget the Genbu seishi" Hikitsu muttered sarcastically.

"A what?" the secretary asked. Keisuke turned around sheepishly, "Uh…nothing, really; don't worry yourself over it. If anyone calls for me, tell them I'm busy"

"Yes, sir"

Keisuke closed and tightly locked the door to his office. He opened a mini-fridge, "Beer?" he asked.

"I'll take one!" Tasuki said immediately. Keisuke tossed one to him and one to the other two also, "So…what are you doing here?" he asked calmly, although he was panicking inside. If they were here…did that mean that Miaka, Taka and Yui; would they be pulled into the book again?

"We have a problem on our hands…" Hikitsu began. Keisuke listened with unwavering attention as Hikitsu and Nuriko (Tasuki was forbidden from inputting any information seeing as how he always managed to get some swearing in the sentence and every time he did, he swung his tessen dangerously – very dangerously) took turns to explain everything that they could.

"Okay, I think I got it" Keisuke said, "But I'm not completely sure where the book is right now. One thing I do know is that I should call Miaka and Tetsuya to tell them this" Keisuke, "Why don't you wait a while? It'll be quick and then we'll meet the others somewhere"

"Sure" Nuriko agreed, grabbing the tessen from Tasuki to stop him from swinging it around like that.

"Hey!" Tasuki protested, but Nuriko ignored him as they listened to Keisuke make his phone calls.


"Excuse me" Amiboshi said, "Does a Yui Hongo live here?"

The woman at the front desk looked up, "Friends of hers?"

"Yes" Amiboshi answered.

"Well, neither she's not around this time of day. Neither is her husband…"

"Where would she be?"

"Well, she has mentioned before that she takes art courses at the University. So, I suppose she'd be there"

"Thank you very much. It was very helpful" Amiboshi said politely. The group left the building and began to walk in the direction of the university.

"Are we even sure it's this university?" Yukari asked.

"Well, Yui-sama was always studying and she would of course, aim for Tokyo University" Suboshi said reasonably.

"Good enough…" they reached the campus, "Let's see…where would her class be?"

"Hey…I know…" Suboshi said, "Play your flute, aniki"

"Why?"

"Well, Yui-sama will probably recognize it or know that it's out of place and she'll come to investigate or something"

Amiboshi shrugged, deciding to give it a shot. He put the flute to his lips and began to play a calming and almost haunting melody. Yukari looked surprised; she had never heard him play before and she had to admit, he was really good at it.

A few moments later, just as Suboshi predicted, a blonde haired girl came running out of one of the buildings, a bunch of papers in hand. She came to a stop in front of them, panting from running to quickly, "S-subo…s-shi?" she asked, "A-ami…boshi?"

"Hai, Yui-sama" Amiboshi said, "We need your help…if you don't mind"

"No…of course not; but why would you need my help?" Yui shot them a quizzical glance.

Fifteen minutes later, after the introductions and explanations were complete, Yui gave an understanding nod and pulled out a cell phone, "I'll call Miaka…" she said, dialing. Another ten minutes later, the pressed the 'end call' button, "Well, she said that Keisuke called her too and we're going to meet up at her house"

"Alright; fine with us"

"We'll go in my car" Yui said, leading them to the parking lot, "The quicker the better"