Disclaimer: I don't own Fushigi Yugi or Sailor Moon
AN: I am soooo sorry for the long wait. Things had been so hectic for me since I last updated. First I got reports to write for school and then finals. Then came my summer job where I'm now teaching creative writing and Spanish. And last but not least, the biggest problem of all…I GOT WRITER'S BLOCK!!!! Sadly, not just for this chapter, but for all my other stories as well. T-T
But when I started to get some ideas, I had to hurry up and finish watching animes my cousin lent me because I have to quickly return them before she returns back to college and check over all the tests, classworks, and homeworks I assigned to my students.
Ch16
The small group arrived at Sairou with an elderly couple standing outside of their home waiting anxiously for the arrivals to come out of the carriage. Subaru, a seishi of Byakko, along with her husband, Tokaki, had waited for the minute that the wife of the god they served would appear. They held their breath when the curtain parted and then they saw a young man walking out.
The old man leaned over his wife and whispered into her ear, "Didn't Byakko-sama say that the only boys would be the princess' two sons and that all the princess' companions are females?"
Subaru's eye twitched as she pulled onto his ear. "We're having the honor of having our god's wife staying with us during her settlement here and all you can think about are girls," she thought angrily, ignoring his painful cries, "Just what am I going to do with you."
"Hey, are you two the seishis that Byakko-sama talked about?" Haruka asked. She stared at the two, who were ignoring her. One of them was an elderly lady with enough energy to beat the crap out of a, what she would think, lecherous husband. Her posture staggered a bit as she glanced back in, staring at her girlfriend, "Are you sure we're in the right place, Michi-chan?"
Michiru stepped out of the carriage, sighing, "What are you talking about? I highly doubt Byakko-sama would send us to the wrong place, Haruka."
Tokaki stopped his struggling against his wife when he heard Michiru's voice. All of a sudden, it was like the gods had sent him straight to heaven, or rather send heaven straight to him. He turned around to see a young beautiful lady gently chiding the man (in his POV). He disappeared from his wife's side and appeared in front of Michiru. "Pretty lady!" he shouted, almost jumping to embrace a shocked Michiru.
Before Subaru could pull her lecherous husband back, she watched as Haruka stepped in front of the oncoming man and punched his face. "Get the hell away from Michi-chan, she's mine," he (still in the Byakko seishis' POV) snarled.
"Haruka, please stop resorting to violence all the time," a soft voice called from inside the carriage, "The last thing I want is for the kids to be violent. It's bad enough that Sakura gets her father's arrogance towards the other seishis, but the last thing I want is for her to start hitting everybody she hates."
"Kaa-san!" a young girl's voice shouted, followed by the previous voice laughing.
"Hai, koneko-chan," Haruka said in a reluctant tone. She looked away and stepped down from the carriage. She held a hand to Michiru and helped her down. "It's not my fault," she muttered, like a small child who was not permitted to play, "Blame the old geezer."
Usagi followed after all her guardians and children had gotten down. While all of them were coming down, only Haruka seemed to notice the large pool of drool Tokaki ws creating as he was leering at the girls, but when Usagi came down, it seemed like the puddle became a flood as the single line of drool transformed into a waterfall. Haruka's jaw clenched as she struggled to not beat the crap out of the lecher. "If someone won't stop that bastard, I'm going to…"
"ACK!" a loud painful cry caught their attention. Everyone looked on to see Subura standing over an unconscious Tokaki, who has swirls in his eyes. "Look at all the pretty girls," he said in a drunken manner.
Subura had gotten annoyed at her husband's constant stripping of the guardians' clothes with his eyes, one of them was a mere child to begin with, but when he started to have lecherous thoughts about the gods' wife, it started to get annoying. "Why did I marry you so long ago?" she said, shaking her head.
Usagi couldn't help but giggle at the two elderly warriors. "You must be the seishis Byakko told us about," she said. She walked over to Subura and bowed slightly. "Thank you for allowing us to stay here."
"Oh no, it's actually quite an honor to have you stay with us," Subura said, shaking her head. "My name is Subura, and this is my good for nothing husband, Tokaki. If he does anything that makes you uncomfortable, you could just beat him up."
"My name is Usagi. These are my children, Sakura, Katsura, and Katsuya, and my guardians, Setsuna, Michiru, Haruka, and Hotaru." Everybody bowed down to their hosts.
Subura noticed how well behave and how beautiful they all were. She took notice that the guardians and children each emitted a different colored aura. She figured that the colors meant which god they serve or came from. Subura couldn't help but smile. It was like the gods were getting tired of people giving the wrong impression of them so they sent those who know them personally.
Sakura glanced at Subura and smiled gently at the motherly image the seishi portrayed. She glanced over to her mother, noting the tired expression on her face. "Kaa-san, are you okay?" she asked.
"I'm just a bit tired, that" Usagi said, "I feel like I'm carrying triplets this time, rather than twins." She let her eyes gaze down on her slightly swollen stomach. "It still amazes me how fast they take to mature before giving birth and how fast they take to grow up. I just found out that I'm pregnant again and in less than half a year, I'll be in labor and then they start to grow up really fast."
"That's how they are. In the beginning, they'll grow fast, but the minute they reach to the ages between five and ten, they'll start to age slowly," Setsuna said.
"They'll look young for the rest of their lives," Haruka said.
"Oh my goodness, you're pregnant?" Subura gasped. She watched as a light pink blush came on her face. "Who's the father?" she asked, really excited about her god's wife with child.
Michiru laughed and said, "If you concentrate on it, you can tell whose baby it is this time." She glanced down at her charge's children. "Sakura is Seiryuu-sama's child and Katsuya and Katsura are Suzaku-sama's."
Subura saw that a white light was surrounding the womb and laughed in happiness. "It's Byakko-sama's child."
"What, really?" All the girls jumped when they heard Usagi scream in shock. They turned to see Tokaki was awaked and had his face pressed against Usagi's stomach and his arms.
Subura clenched her hands into trembling tight fists. "You…damn…lecherous…PIG!" she shouted, before pulling Tokaki off of her princess and threw him into the air. "What did I say about flirting with other girls like that? Especially the wife of our god!"
Haruka and Sakura laughed as they watched him sailing through the sky. "Kaa-san, I like her," Sakura said.
Katsuya decided that since Tokaki could fly that would mean that he could now fly with no worries. "Me fly too!" he thought excitedly. He then transported himself to the roof of the building.
Katsura glanced to the roof and just laughed as he clapped his hands. Everyone stared at the excited boy as he continued to clap. "Kay, flying!" he said.
"WHAT?" everybody shouted. They all quickly turned to the roof to see Katsuya standing somewhat unsteadily. They all ran to catch him when the young toddler jumped off with a giddy squeal. But before the young child fell to the floor, Tokaki appeared beneath Katsuya and caught him.
"Katsuya," Usagi said, taking the child into her arms, "Arigato, Tokaki-san."
Tokaki just smiled at Usagi and said, "My pleasure, Usagi-hime."
"Is there any way I can thank you?" she asked, smiling innocently. While she may not have noticed a lecherous glint in Tokaki's face, the others did.
"Well, I can't think of a better reward other than this," Tokaki said. He raised his hand up and placed it over her shoulders. "After seeing a beautiful lady, such as yourself, I can die happily," he sighed. Then his hand started to trail down to her waist as it slowly inched towards her butt (AN: sounds like a character from InuYasha, coughMirokucough) when he was suddenly grabbed and pulled away from her. Thinking it was his wife again, without turning around, he shouted, "Damnit woman, can't you let me flirt in peace?"
"Oh, congratulations, you actually knew that I am a woman." Tokaki froze when he recognized the voice to belong to a certain young man, he turned around to see Haruka looking at him with a feigning muse, but also demented grin on her face. "But even if you did recognize it, it doesn't excuse you from being a pervert!" Shouting the last word, Haruka threw Tokaki into the air once more.
Subura watched in amazement at the height that Haruka had thrown her husband. "Good job, Haruka-san," she said, clapping. She glanced curiously at her and asked, "So you're a woman, huh?"
Haruka shrugged her shoulders. "I don't see what gender has to do with this, but yes, I am a woman," she said.
Subura shook her head and laughed. "You sure surprised me," she said. She started to walk back into her home. "Come, you must be exhausted from your travels. I'm sure that you miss sleeping in a real bed after so long."
"Arigato, Subura-san," Hotaru said, "We were told to tell everyone that when Usagi-hime is in her room at night, no one is permitted to go in, by the order of the gods."
/-/
That night, the Suzaku seishis had finally made it to Sairou with the other warriors following behind. Rei and Makoto were laughing at the amateur warriors who were unworthy to be selected with the great honor of protecting a miko.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Tasuki shouted, still unhappy about the fact that the four had refused to nap them out of the illusions, or rather they outvoted Ami's vote when they counted the number of those who wanted to help.
"We were just sent to babysit you, not help you through your mistakes," Makoto said.
Rei laughed and said, "If you weren't smart enough to see through the illusion then you'll stand no chance against the Seiryuu seishis."
"Keep you voices down or you'll wake up the entire village," Haruka said, walking into the room they were all in, "You're late, you know."
"Yeah, no thanks to these guys," Tasuki said. The rest of his group just sat down and didn't argue, still too tired from their escaping.
"Our only purpose is to help koneko-chan. We were told to not interfere and in our vocabulary, it also means to not help you clean up after your mistakes," Haruka said, causing Tasuki to wince as she stomped closer to him. "If you couldn't get out of that pathetic excuse of an illusion then you're gonna get yourself killed when you face off the Seiryuu seishis." She rolled her eyes as Tasuki shrunk into a chibi size figure and inched away slowly. "I pity you guys for being stuck with these losers," she said, turning to her friends.
"And I envy you guys for having it easy," Rei said back, "You didn't have to travel in that hot desert and rely on Ami-chan's ice and water while these rejects allowed themselves to get tricked."
"Quiet down, Usagi-hime is asleep in her room," Michiru said, "It's getting late and you all should rest up and be prepared for tomorrow in case you meet the Seiryuu seishis."
Minako then started to shout for joy as she embraced Michiru tightly. "I can't believe that Usa-chan is gonna have another baby!" she said happily.
It was then that the other girls turned to Minako and completely forgot about the tired out seishis. "Are we really that pathetic?" they all wondered silently as they saw how easily they were tossed aside by the soldiers.
TBC
AN: To those who had waited patiently for this chapter to come, all I got to say is thank you so much for being so tolerant for my late updates. As I mentioned at the beginning, I got a bit of writer's block for all my stories, not just this one, so please be more wait just a little more longer for them to come.