The Wife of Four
Disclaimer: I don't own Fushigi Yugi or Sailor Moon
Ch17
Usagi knew full well that she should wake up to see her friends again after a long time, but she just doesn't want to move away from her warm comfortable pillow. Snuggling even closer, Usagi pressed her body against the warm substance hoping to continue sleeping, only to be awakened by chuckling. Opening one eye, Usagi saw Byakko watching her with a soft smile on his face; smiling back, Usagi just snuggled even closer.
"Usa, you should get up now," Byakko said. He wrapped his white tiger tail around one of her legs, causing her to giggle.
Trying to hold in her laughter, Usagi's body shook. "But I don't want to get up now," she complained, "I'm tired."
Byakko smirked as his talk moved upward to her thigh. "Well, I didn't hear you complain about it last night," he teased, enjoying the red blush on his wife's cheeks. He lifted his body up as the blanket slipped down to his waist, ignoring the whine coming from Usagi. He crawled on top of her as he nuzzled his face against her neck. "In fact, you were saying how much you didn't want to go to sleep. Shall I remind you?"
Usagi felt her face heat up even more as one hand held her neck close to his lips and the other hand trailing up and down her side. "Pervert," she whispered, turning her head, "You're just as bad as the others."
Byakko lifted his head up and rested his forehead against hers. "But you still love us," he said. He leaned down to plant a kiss when somebody knocked on the door.
He felt his head drop in disappointment as Usagi turned towards the door and asked who it was, only to see that it was Subaru who was telling her that breakfast was ready. "I'll be there in a minute," Usagi said.
As Subaru left, Byakko was ready to kiss Usagi again when another knock interrupted him. Getting annoyed with the interruptions, Byakko shouted, "WHAT?"
Tokaki had never heard Byakko's voice before so when he heard a man's voice coming from the princess's room, he thought that it was probably someone trying to harm her. He burst in with the intention of rescuing the princess but when he saw her slightly naked body, he froze and began to drool, never noticing a very angry Byakko glaring at him intently. It wasn't until he felt a huge killing intent coming form the other end of the bed and turned to see a white haired man with a tail curled around his waist. He painfully swallowed his breath as he realized that he was openly eyeing his god's wife right in front of him.
Byakko got up as his clothes appeared quickly on him. He grabbed the blanket and covered his blushing wife before stalking over to the shaking seishi. "What gives you the right to look at MY WIFE that way?" Byakko shouted, holding up a hand where a metal dagger appeared and threw it.
Tokaki jumped up and ran off screaming in a high pitched voice, "Gomen nasai, Byakko-sama!" But no matter where he ran, the dagger followed and if he tried to run away by teleporting, the dagger does the exact same thing.
He ran right past his wife, who just shook her head at him, not even bothering to help him as he pleaded. "I told you your lechery will cause the death of you," she said, turning around to continue with her chores.
Back in Usagi's room, Byakko closed the door and turned around to see Usagi dressing quickly before somebody else decided to burst into her room. He sighed in disappointment of not being able to have a continuation of what happened the night before. He walked over to Usagi and wrapped his arms around her. "I guess I better start heading back," he whispered. He brought a hand to her long blond hair where a white lily appeared and was fastened in. He sighed yet again as he muttered, "And here I was hoping to have another session before I leave."
"Oh knock it off, you're acting like a child," Usagi said, "I hope this baby doesn't inherit your perverted habits." Byakko just laughed and held her body closer. Usagi rolled her eyes and said, "You're probably the reason why that seishi of yours is perverted as hell," ignoring his laughter with a small smile on her face.
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The eight senshis arrived into the dining room to see a large variety of dishes; half looking normal by Xi-Fang, Subaru and Tokaki's adopted daughter, while the other half looks like the food was either created for or by aliens, or rather by Miaka. Judging by the sick look on everyone's faces as they ate Miaka's cooking, they knew that they should stick with the food that looks normal. So as they ate, they watched the drama as Miaka glared at her friends' poor attempt to cover up their sudden outburst of being poisoned. They were immediately surprised when they saw Tamaki suddenly insulted his girlfriend's cooking, and not in a teasing way, but in a much harsher tone, causing her to run out of the room.
"That's just cruel of you," Makoto said, crossing her arms.
"I know her cooking probably sucks, but did you really have to be that brutal," Rei said, "Even we're not that heartless."
"How tragic," Minako sighed, shaking her head. Her friends all stared at her in confusion. "The poor boy's trying to get the girl to hate him."
"Any reason why?" Haruka asked, "Last time I saw them, they were all lovey-dovey."
"Well, you do know that once a miko completes her job, the one wish the gods can't grant is to allow them to live in any of the worlds together," Ami said, "My guess is that he decided to break it off now so it won't hurt as much later."
"That has got to be the stupidest thing I had ever heard," Rei said, "If you're going to be separated, then you should spend more time together to create memories that you'll remember for the rest of your life, not make her hate you; that'll just make it worst."
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Usagi was finally able to leave the clutches of her white-haired husband. When she gave him a kiss, hoping it to be the last one, he had decided to have another round, much to her dismay. As she complained about being hungry, he had summoned Makoto to bring some food for Usagi and him and to watch over the children. And to make matters worse, when the other three noticed that Byakko hasn't returned, they all came into her room and began to fight over her.
Sometimes it just surprises her the way that people had always described the gods to beings who are always dignified and nonhuman, but if they had lived with them for as long as she had, they can see how human they can be, especially when it comes to her. Like this one time when they discovered that she was pregnant with Sakura, Seiryuu fainted. Or when she was giving birth to the twins, Katsuya and Katsura, Suzaku was flying back and forth, pulling his hair and screaming as if he was the one giving birth until Genbu got annoyed and knocked him out. It's as if the minute they got married, they began to have their humanity given back to them or they developed human personalities.
Her face grew red as she remembered what had occurred on her wedding night. She had spent the last night in Konan with a huge festival taking place in the capital city. The procedure to get her ready was the same for a miko. She washed her body in pure water, making sure that her body was all clean and spotless. Her outfit was a long sleeve pink dress with the designs of a red phoenix, green dragon, white tiger, and a black tortoise in their respectful places on the dress. After giving her brother a last hug and kiss, Usagi turned to kneel in the temple of Suzaku by herself; gently, she spoke of her loyalty to the four gods and how she would forever serve them.
And that was the first time she had met her guardians. All eight females came forward and introduced themselves as her guardians and protectors. Usagi looked at them and when she saw that they all have emotions and control over their own hearts, she knew right away that they'll be really good friends. Setsuna held her hand out and the minute their hands touched, Usagi noticed that the scenery around them had changed from her Konan home to a glamorous palace.
Usagi sighed and decided to walk towards the dining room when she saw Miaka run out of the compound, she curiously wondered why she was in a hurry and assumed that she was jut running an errand for Subaru. She continued on when she spotted her children looking into Tamahome's room. "What's wrong, children?" she asked.
"Mommy! You here!" Katsuya shouted. He jumped into his mother's arms without warning, causing her to fall on the floor.
"Momma, where you go?" Katsura asked. His head tilted to one side as he watched Usagi's face turn bright red. "Momma, why your face red? You sick?" he asked.
Usagi just laughed nervously at her son as she carefully got up. "It's nothing for you to worry about, Katsura," she said, patting him on the head. "So what happened here?" she asked, peeking in to see Tamahome clutching his stomach in pain as Ami gave him some medicine.
"The idiot ate something poisonous that miko of his made and now he's suffering for it, " Sakura said.
Usagi rolled her eyes. It appears like her daughter had inherited her father's hatred, or rather dislike, for the seishis of Suzaku, even if she does love her phoenix father, who also dislikes his warriors at time, to death.
"Has anyone seen Miaka?" Subaru asked, walking down the corridor, "I wanted to ask her to do something for me."
Usagi stared questioningly at the old woman and asked, "Didn't you send her on an errand? I saw her leave the compound not too long ago."
Subaru looked shocked to hear that the miko just ran off by herself as Usagi was confused as to what was going on. Xi-Fang stepped out of the room and gasped, causing everyone to stare at her. "She might be heading towards the temple," she said.
Tokaki was heading over to his student's bedroom when he heard what his daughter had said. "What is she doing over there? That place has been off limits due to the increase of monsters crawling around that area!" he shouted.
Xi-Fang bowed her head down apologetically and whispered, "I accidentally told her the legend of the temple. I told her that if she gets a kiss before the sun sets at the temple with the one that she loves, then it is meant that the two of them will be together for the rest of their lives."
After hearing that, Tamahome got up and hurried as fast as he could towards the temple. Tokaki kept a strong grip on his shoulder. "You stay here, I'll go get her," he said, but to his dismay, the blue-haired warrior ignored him. "What do you think you're doing? Once she completes her role as a miko, then she is sent back to her world. There's no way for the two of you to be together, not even the gods can grant you happiness. Your love is only going to bring you two pain at the end."
Usagi glanced down to her hands clutching onto her dress. She knew the story of what he was talking about. Byakko had told her the story of his miko who was also in love with her seishi, and a wish she had made was to spend the rest of her life in his world, sadly, that wish cannot be granted by the god. She knew that Tokaki believed that he was doing the right thing in helping Tamahome, but the way he was approaching it was wrong.
"I don't care," she heard Tamahome said. She glanced up and saw that he saw smiling sincerely at his teacher. "I love Miaka with my entire being," he said, "And I don't care if we'll be separated at the end cause I'll do anything to find my way back to her." And with that, he immediately ran off, ignoring his teacher's screaming his name and everything around him. If he had just turned around, then he might've seen a soft grin on Usagi and Subaru's face when he said that.
AN: The dialogue and certain events might be a bit different from the manga or anime. That would be because I forgot the exact events of what was being said. The last time I had watched the anime was a year ago, I remember the major events but not the exact dialogue. Also I wish to thank everyone for their patience and hope that you're happy with this chapter.