WAH! Hiya! I'm so HYPER right now! It's a rare mood for me so I must REVEL in it! HAHAHAHA! So…Thanks once more to all my readers as well as reviewers since I know a lot of people read and don't review. SHAME ON YOU! T-T I would review for you….BUT! A special thanks must go out to my 2 favorite reviewers Silver Pain and Youkai Goddess! Why are they my favorites? Cuz they review all the time of course! And cuz Silver Pain is so patient on my reviewing her story…; Heehee….Yes…so thanks! I shall hopefully continue to do these updates swiftly-like. And I'd just like you to know that the ONLY reason I'm getting these done this fast is cuz I feel so guilty about ya'll not knowing what's coming next. Oh. And you won't find out who the blonde dude is yet. Sorry Silver Pain! But I have to tell what happens to the other 3 girls right? It can't all be about Rika! glares at Rika for taking up so much time Oh! And one more thing! NO ONE has guessed which charie is based off me yet! TT I feel so hurt! Can you not tell? She's the most beautiful one! Anyway! Enough stalling! Forgive me please! bows But I am hyper you know….On with the story! Enjoy!

Yuko woke slowly with a vague feeling of sadness. Stretching, she sat up and blinked sleepily at her surroundings. "What the―" She started and became instantly wide awake. A flood of memories from the day before came rushing back to her. "Oh…" she sat silent and still.

"Lady Yuko?" Nakago's voice startled her out of her reverie.

"Oh!" Yuko jumped. "Nakago! You startled me."

"Forgive me, Lady Yuko," he bowed deeply. "It is time we continued our quest."

"Quest?"

"Yes, Lady Yuko," Tomo answered her. It was the first time she had heard him speak, and her first thought was that he sounded rather nasally, like he had a bad cold. "We must gather together the last of our companions."

"Companions?" Yuko looked around, confused. "I don't understand."

"Lady Yuko, you are our Priestess. We are the Seiryu seishi."

"The what!" Yuko stared at him dumbfounded. "What the hell is that?"

Nakago looked at her, face expressionless as usual. "Here in this land we have four ruling gods. The Seiryu seishi serve the Dragon god, Seiryu. You are the Priestess. We need you to summon Seiryu for us."

"Uh…huh…" Yuko looked skeptical. "And I'm supposed to believe this…why?"

Nakago held up a hand that suddenly became engulfed in an intense blue light.

Yuko gasped. "So it wasn't a hallucination! You really did pick that wolf up and throw him!"

Nakago nodded slowly. "The rest of the gods' seishi are our rivals, but," he paused, "the Suzaku seishi are our sworn enemies. They shall die at all costs!"

Yuko blinked. "Okay. So what do I have to do?"

Nakago glanced at her, "You must summon Seiryu."

"Oh. Okay. So how do I do that?"

"You must remain purest of the pure and call upon the powers inside of you."

Yuko blinked again, "Remain purest of the pure? Wait a minute! I have to be a virgin!"

"But of course!" Tomo interjected.

"No way! There goes my plans to get laid!" Yuko wailed spinning around and wringing her hands. "I don't want to be a virgin! That was the whole point of going to America! To get laid! Now I can't even do that!" She whirled around to face Nakago. "Get someone else to do it! There's no way I'm gonna stay a virgin!"

Nakago smiled in bemusement. "I'm afraid you are the only choice we have. It is you…or destruction."

"Damn!" Yuko cursed. "Why me! Fine!" she reluctantly agreed. "I'll do it. But you have to promise me that I can get laid after helping you."

Nakago nodded, "I'm sure that can be arranged, Lady Yuko."

"Good!" Yuko nodded smiling once again. "I waited this long, a little longer won't hurt. Now what?"

"We wait for the other Seiryu seishi to arrive," Nakago explained. "They have surely sensed your life-force by now and are making their way here as we speak. In fact, a third seishi arrived while you slept."

"Really?" Yuko was excited. "Where? I want to see whom I'm supposed to be doing this for!"

"As you wish, Lady Yuko," a small voice agreed.

Yuko looked around eagerly to see the warrior. "Where are you?"

"Here, Lady Yuko." The voice was at her feet.

Yuko looked down into a pair of strange eyes. Long brown hair fell straight down to about the mid-shoulders and swung as the small girl looked back up at her. She was dressed in robes as would befit a priestess; and in her hand, she carried a toy that looked like a spinning top with a sharp point on the end. "A kid!" Yuko asked Nakago in disbelief.

The child raised her toy and suddenly she was floating in the air level with Yuko. Once again, Yuko stared into those strange eyes. They were slitted like a cat's and just as yellow. They were definitely not natural. "I am more than a mere child, Lady Yuko. I am older by far than I look. I have the ability to use the body of any host I choose. That is my power as a Seiryu warrior."

"That's awful!" Yuko cried. "That poor kid!"

"She was of course near death when Miboshi found her," Nakago cut in smoothly. "Otherwise he would never have taken her body like that. In a way, she will live on thanks to him; and he does need a body in order to exist himself."

"Oh," Yuko sighed in relief. "I thought you just took her body over!"

Miboshi bowed his head slightly, "Never to a child, Lady Yuko."

Yuko nodded. "Good, but how did you know where we were?"

"All of us can feel your presence to some extent, Lady Yuko," Tomo answered. "You are far more powerful than our last priestess, so it is more difficult this time. You are able to hide your life force better than she. In this way, however, we are able to find you no matter where you are."

"Neat," Yuko laughed. "Mieri would love―" her words stilled. Tears formed in her eyes but refused to fall. "Yeah…Mieri would have loved knowing that someone knew where I was. She was always saying that I got into more trouble without her and Rika and Aya." A single tear slipped free.

"There, there," Nakago stood by her side. "It won't do any good to cry. We must find the other warriors and summon Seiryu."

"So where do we start?" Yuko asked sniffing quickly and taking a swipe at her eyes. "Do we just wait until they all come to us?"

"Not precisely, my lady," Tomo bowed slightly. "We shall move in their direction and they in ours. It is faster this way."

"So…" Yuko looked around. "How many more seishi do we need again?"

"There are seven seishi for each god. We only need two more."

Yuko glanced at him out of the corner of her eyes. "Are you sure you can count? There are seven seishi and only three of you."

"I'm afraid you'll have to make that five," a voice said behind her. "We are sorry it took so long."

Yuko spun around to see two boys walking towards her. It was immediately obvious that they were identical twins. "Oh! And who are you!"

The closer of the two bowed. "Suboshi."

"I am Amiboshi."

Yuko nodded not sure what else to do. "I'm Yuko. Nice to meet you."

Suboshi turned to Nakago. "We are here. When do we launch an attack on the Suzaku scum?"

Feisty, isn't he? Yuko smiled to herself a little. Well, whatever these Suzaku seishi have done, it must have been pretty bad for everyone to hate them so much.

"We will not attack the seishi until we are at full strength. Then, we will move with caution. I don't want to repeat our last attempt."

Suboshi's face twisted into a snarl. "I want another chance at Tamahome! He'll pay for what he did to me!"

Yuko raised an eyebrow but said nothing. She turned to look at the other twin. Amiboshi, was it? He stood shifting nervously from one foot to another. If his brother was right at home, Amiboshi looked downright scared.

"Ah, Amiboshi. The sheep has returned to the fold," Nakago also turned his attention to the quieter twin. "And how does it feel to be the only one who survived? Did you grovel and beg before that priestess to save yourself?"

Amiboshi flinched. "I have only recently gotten my memories back, Nakago. If you'll remember, it was Tomo who pushed me away."

Yuko noticed that at the mention of this―whatever it was―Suboshi frowned and moved slightly until he was between Amiboshi and Tomo. This is better than a damn soap opera, Yuko thought with delight. This trip could be fun! Her mind deliberately pushed away thoughts of Mieri.

"And it was you who helped the Suzaku no Miko and Tamahome escape our trap!" Tomo growled in a low voice. "For that, you should have died and not me!"

Yuko blanked. "Do what!"

Suboshi spoke up in his brother's defense. "He was confused! The Suzaku no Miko had tricked him!"

"And you!" Tomo rounded on the younger brother. "You stood with him! To the point that you killed me!"

Yuko backed up a step. This was getting a little weird. Suboshi had killed Tomo? That was impossible! Tomo was right there! "What in the world is going on!" she whispered fiercely.

Suboshi glared, "I will always stand with my brother. We may not always agree, but we are still brothers." The look on his face said that he could and would kill again if it meant saving his brother.

"Suboshi, that's enough," Amiboshi laid a hand on his twin's arm. "Bickering among ourselves is not going to solve anything." He turned to face Tomo, "I have chosen my side willingly this time. I no longer walk blindly into it."

"See that you do not get 'confused' again," Tomo stared with hostile eyes. "It would be a shame if I were to grow confused on the battlefield…"

"Enough!" Nakago shouted. "There must be seven to summon Seiryu. This time there is no Shinzaho to make up for a lost seishi. We will all stick together and get along. Now, Lady Yuko, what is the matter?"

"Tomo said Suboshi killed him!" Yuko stated in disbelief. "That's impossible!"

"Not so impossible, Priestess," Tomo bowed. "We have all died with the exception of little Amiboshi here," he glared for a moment then continued. "But a strange power has brought us back. Your power perhaps?"

Yuko shook her head slowly. "I don't have any powers. Not like you guys have."

"On the contrary," Nakago disagreed, "You have powers as a priestess. We have but to find them."

"For real?" Yuko stared at hands in awe. "So I can blow stuff up?"

"It is possible…" Nakago glanced at her in amusement. "But we shall have to find out. I doubt that this will be as simple as it sounds."

"Aw!" Yuko let out a sigh. "I wanted to have cool powers!"

Nakago smiled down at her. "We shall discover them in time. For now let's move on towards our next seishi. I believe you will like this one."

"Oh, really?" Yuko moved to walk beside Nakago with Tomo and the twins following behind and Miboshi floating overhead somewhere. "Who is it?"

"The only female seishi we have. Her name is Soi."