Chapter 10
Mission to rescue yui,
Back in konan,
Hotohori knelt at the golden statue of suzaku and prayed for the safety of both Bella and miaka,as hotohori got lost in his thought's
"he check'ed on rin before he came here," "he was starting to think of her as his own as the other two," hotohori spoke,
"Suzaku lord of our proud land," "please guide the priestess of suzaku and the priestess of the shikon no tama," "for they alone will bring peace to konan," "they alone will fulfill their duty," "and serve you and your people," "please guide them and let no harm come to the,"
"Miaka and bella is the only one's who can use suzaku power and save all of konan from destruction," "Bella is a valued asset as well," "if she fall's under kuoto's command," "we will all be doomed," "I doubt miaka will be able to defeat Bella if that happens," "and neither any of us could do it," "me more so" please suzaku protect them both,
meanwhile With tamahome, nuriko and chichiri in the hut,
What is taking them so damn long, tamahome slammed his fist on the table,
"They should be back anytime now," nuriko eyes lit up in amusement,
"Didn't they mention a name before?" "Yui.. Was it?" Tamahome remembered the name
"when he first met them," "there was another girl," and she had blond hair," "miaka and Bella also mentioned that yui was their friend,"
"Yui's their friend," chichiri decided to ask,
"Maybe they found a connection," "no da," "we where talking about kuoto's priestess with they mention it," "no da," tamahomes eyes grew bigger and stood up immediately,
"I know where their going," "nuriko stay with my family," he ran off before the cross dresser could retort,
"What the-," "your just going to leave us here!," nuriko yelled in outrage,
"Speak for yourself," "no da," nuriko looked behind him and saw chichiri disappearing back into the hat,
meanwhile With Bella and miaka,
"Um," "pardon me can you please point us in the direction of kuoto?" Miaka asked,
Bella trailed behind her with dios on her shoulder and the pup's on kiarra, along the trip dios managed to hurt his leg,
the old man nodded and told the, they would have to go through the forest and fallow the trail at the other end you will find yourself in kuoto, thanking the man, they went off quickly,
"Miaka," "why are we in such of a hurry?" Bella asked her cousin, as she walked next to her, miaka closed her eyes for a moment and stopped, causing her cousin to stop as well,
"I don't want tamahome to reach us," "I don't want to endanger him anymore," Bella looked at her questioningly ,
"What on earth are you talking about?,"
"Remember what chichiri told us?" "He told us that innocent people would die on our account if we are not careful," "I don't want tamahome to die for me," "it's to much for me to bear," "I can't let him die," "he has a family to care for," "I don't want them to suffer because of me," miaka was about to tear up, but Bella grabbed her hand a smiled,
"All right," "then if that's what you want dear cousin of mine," "your wish is my command," "now let's be on our way," "oh miaka," "I hope this all work's out for you," "I have a feeling that something is going to happen,"
They continued to walk through the forest until they reached the center of it, bella stopped abruptly, miaka looked at her cousin questioningly,
"What's wrong Bella?"
"Shhh!" "Stay right were you are," miaka did as she was told until she heard growling from the bushes, miaka froze and nearly peed herself,
"Umm," "Bella," "please tell me that was your stomach," she was answered when a tiger jumped out of the bushes to a bolder,and not to mention it looked hungry,bella told kiarra to take shiori shippo and dios to a tree so they won't be seen,
"Miaka," "move out of the way now!" *GROWL!*,
miaka was paralyzed as she stared at the tiger, and bella was just yelling at her to move, the tiger lunged and was about to sink its teeth into miaka, Bella jumped to knock miaka out of the way before kicking the animal in the face, Bella glared at miaka and wanted to slap her cousin, but it's not the right time for that,
"When I tell you to move," "you move you bloody baka," miaka nodded, a little taken aback from her cousins harsh tone she just used,
Bella felt around for the jewel and was relived it was still their, turning her attention back to the tiger, she was caught off guard when it pounced and pinned her down to the ground,
"Oh snap," "you have some fowl breath stinky," Bella's eyes widened when the tiger put a massive paw on her throat and was about to bit her head off,
"Duck!"
Bella did as she was told, and she felt the weight of the tiger being knocked off her, Bella inhaled greedily and couched from the soreness of her throat, miaka gasped as she saw tamahome stand infront of them, challenging the tiger to attack, with his mark glowing bright red while he glared at the affecting animal, the tiger seeing that he was out numbered and left, Tamahome was relieved to see that she was ok,
"Hey," "would you mind," *cough,* *cough,* "giving me a" *cough* *cough,* "a hand here" *cough* *cough*?, he looked down to see Bella coughing at his feet, he held w hand out to her and help her up,
"Oh real great," "I have whole's in my outfit," "but good thing I brought a extra one,"
"hey guys," "I'm gonna go change," "and I'll be back in a jiffy," "miaka would you keep tamahome busy while I go change into my uniform," "if I catch you peeking you will have a castrated boyfriend," Bella left after winking at them, miaka blushed and tamahome looked at her in wonder,
"What's a castrated boyfriend?" Miaka swaet dropped and whispered what Bella ment into tamahomes ear, after miaka was finished he held on to his privates and paled in horror,
"Oh forget I even asked," miaka nodded it was silent for awhile until miaka decided to break the ice,
"Uummmm... Hi," miaka waved awkwardly, she could tell tamahome was angry with her,
"What in the seven layers of hell where you thinking?," he bursted out, miaka looked away in shame,
"What would of happen if I didn't show up?" "You and Bella would be tiger food right now," "no one would of heard you scream,"
"We were doing just fine," "I appreciate your help," "but we don't need it," "please go back to your family," "I can't endanger you like this," "if you keep putting your life on the line for me," "you'll probably lose your life," "I don't want that to Happen," "not you," miaka whispered the last part and turned her back to him, tamahome realized what she was trying to say and hugged her from behind,
"You idiot," "I'm here to protect you," "when you where gone 3 whole months I couldn't stop worrying and thinking about you of every minute and every second of the day," "it was then I only realized what I feel about you,"
meanwhile With Bella in the bush's,
Bella watch her cousin being embraced by tamahome, as they continued to embrace each other, then hotohori popped in her head but she shook it away immediately,she needed a clear head for this mission, and not worried on her feeling's,
Bella finished dressing, Bella went over to her pup's and her nekko's and picked them up, she going to send them back to the palace to be with rin, she smiled and came out of the bushes,
she just heard miaka tell tamahome that she was hungry and told him that she will wait right here for him while he went to go get her horse she has food on the horse, Bella knew it was a lie but it could work to her advantage, she looked down at her pups and her nekkos and she knew she didn't want to take them kuoto with her,
"they needed to go back," "so they can be with their sister," before tamahome left Bella called out,
"Hey tamahome would you mind taking shippo shiori and kiarra and dios with you?," "and put them in nuriko's care," "and tell him to keep them safe for me please," "and tell rin i love her," tamahome nodded and took the precious cargo and in his arms and his shoulders, when he was out of hearing range, Bella turned to miaka,
"We're on our own for now," "so let's get going before he catches on, miaka nodded, they walked out of the woods quickly and jumped on a cart full of hay,
"hey miaka," "don't this remind you of our hay ride inside of konan," miaka nodded, the rest of the ride was silent,
meanwhile With tamahome,
Dark came when tamahome looked for miaka's horse for her food, he told nuriko bella's message, and gave the pup's and the nekko's to nuriko and who looked at him curiously,
"Damn there no food on this horse," tamahomes eyes widen in realization,
"Damn it to hell!" "Nuriko," "I'm going to kuoto," "and you ride back to the capital to tell his majesty what happened," and take the pups and the nekkos with you, "and make sure you tell rin you love her for bella," ordered tamahome as he climbed on miakas horse, nuriko was bewildered,
"But why are you going there for?"
"Miaka and bella are going to try to get yui back," "their heading for kuoto right now," "and I need to catch them before it's to late,"
"Wait," "what do I tell your family tamahome," tamahome stopped for a moment
"All my life," "I never cared about anyone but only my family," "their happiness always came first," "that's why I never had a girlfriend," "ever since miaka came into the picture," "well," "she wormed deep with in my heart," "and I don't wish to lose her," tamahome didn't know why he said all that but, for him, it was enough,
Chuei peeked outside of the hut and made eye to eye contact with his older brother, chuei knew he was in love and understood his brother completely, the little boy smiled, nuriko just looked at tamahome
"Tama," "tama," "tama," tamahome turned to nuriko and said
"Quit it," "it's not like I'm going to die," nuriko gave a thumbs up,
"we'll be waiting for you to back Onii-chan," "and tell Bella née-San that we will play with her again sometime," chuei waved happily and tamahome smiled and left to go to kuoto,
meanwhile With miaka and Bella,
The man who was driving the car stopped to stretch his mussels, he went to the back of the car to unload the hay and say two girl's fast asleep,
"May I please have another helping," asked miaka as she stretched out her bowl,the woman in a simple pink kimono only giggled and refilled her bowl, the man was kind enough to let them stay in their home for the night, bella shook her head as she watched her cousin gobbled down another bowl,
"Where are you heading again?" The man asked kindly, Bella replied seeing that miaka was busy eating,
"We're on our way to kuoto to see a friend," "it wasn't a lie and it was t the exact truth either," the man nodded and asked again
"Where are you two girls from?" Miaka answered before she could,
"She the priestess of the shikon no tama," "and I'm the priestess of suzaku," said miaka, the couple looked at each other and smile,the woman spoke,
"You have such a large imagination there,"
"Probably as big as her appetite," causing everyone to laugh, miaka observed the couple,
"You both seem really in love," both beamed and grinned,
"We were married two months ago," they said happily, Bella and miaka smiled good naturally,
Night passed, morning came quickly,Bella and miaka was able to get Another ride from a kind merchant which who going pass kuoto borders, after thanking the kind couple they were off on their mission to save yui again, miaka left a message for tamahome with the couple,
When they reached the gates of the kuotos borders,they thanked the merchant and got off, walking towards the entrance miaka started to feel uneasy,
"What happen's if yui isn't here?" Bella looked back and *sighed*,
"Do you want to give up?" Miaka snapped up and shook violently,
"Never," "beside's we came this far," Bella smirked at her cousin taste of real fear,
"Then walk," miaka smiled, Bella has a way of changing your mind, upon arriving at the gates, they were blocked by not so good looking solders, their armor where mostly in colors of blue and green where the colors of konan is red and orange,
miaka cringed behind bella when she saw the guards, they look really rough and they look like they wouldnt be vary nice, Bella smiled charmingly at the solders,
"Hello good gentlemen is their a problem?" She saw the guards blush a little she smirked mentally, "fools,"
"Nothing at all my lady," "but we request to see your passports,"
miakas eyes widened at the word my lady, "bella had somehow gain some respect from them," Bella scratched her head pretending to think,
"Passports eh," "let me check our pack," the guard's nodded and Bella rummaged through their bag discreetly whispering into miaka ear,
"Miaka," "I'm going to lie to them to see if we can by pass them," "do play along," miaka nodded slightly, Bella pretended to look worried,
"Oh dear!" "Those nasty bandit's took more than out money!" "Oh now what should we do?" "what should we do?" Bella pretend to sob, miaka put her arms around her cousin and said dramatically,
"If only some people could help us," miaka turned to the bewilder guards, and continued to lie,
"I'm sorry you see my cousin here had a miscarriage," "and her husband left her right after the incident," "we were on our way to kuoto to visits the grave of her dearly departed child," "but we were attack along the way by bandits," "they not only take our money they took our passport,"
"oh the cruel! Cruel world!" "The irony of it all!"Miaka tried to sob as well, but Bella was laughing her head off that brought tears to her eyes, the guard were at a loss for words and was about to let the girls pass anyways, but they saw a slight smile on miakas face and immediately seized them,
"You dare to lie to us!" They pointed a spear at the girls throat and demeaned to tell them who they really where then they noticed something,
"Their cloths are really odd,"
"Could one of them be the priestess of seiryuu," Bella got a evil idea and laughed Evilly,
"Well I thought you where morons," "but then I can see that you are well trained," "I am the priestess of the shikon no tama," "and my cousin here is the priestess of seiryuu," "we where on our way to the palace to pledge out allegiance to your contrey," "but since you won't let us pass," "we'll go to konan," "after all those little passports are more important than us," Bella and miaka started to walk away but the solders stopped them,
"How do we know this is not some kind of trickery?" One solder pointed his spear at Bella throat, and she didn't even flinch, suddenly, the solders where froze in place by a invisible force, Bella looked behind them and she saw chichciri, with his fox smile in place, she winked at him and telling miaka to move,
"We can't move," said one of the guards,
"Let's go miaka," miaka nodded and fallowed, they have not taken 5 steps away when a different group of solders were coming their way, one of them was wearing different attire than the rest symbolizing he was high ranked than the rest,
miaka *gasped* at the blue eyes, they were blue as the sky, miaka turned to bella who seemed to be memorized by the man,
Bella felt a Heavy presence seemingly press down on her, she traced the source to the guy with the blue eyes, his face was half covered by a strange blue cloth and on his head was a strange looking helmet,
"she could feel his malice radiate off of him," "and another feeling that she could classified as..sorrow?" She could feel this man desperation and sadness under that evil cold demeanor, it seems that he even masks his own emotions from himself,Bella felt pity and curiosity starting to bubble up with in her, Bella was reminded of sesshomaru, she shook her head from the though,
"G-general!" "W-were f-frozen!" Bella's eyes snapped back to the strange man,general? The man spoke in a deep baritone voice,
"By a simple spell?" "How pathetic," by the mere narrowing of his eye, the general dispelled the magic and managed to set his men free from their unmoving state,chichiri was awed at the generals skill and decided that they'll be having a hard time with this guy,
"Now," "tell me who are these girls are," spoke the general again,
"yep... Most defiantly he reminds me of sesshomaru," one of the guards replied,
"The brown wavy haired one claims that she is the priestess of four souls," "and who had a miscarriage and was left by her husband," "while the other one claims to be the priestess of seiryuu," Bella head snapped toward the guard,
"Hold it, you idiot," all at once, she elbowed them in the head,
"I thought you where smarter than that," "you baka," "but in case you haven't noticed," "that I had a miscarriages and that I had a husband was a lie," you baka, "I'm not even married," "how dense can a man be gah," Bella was poking the guard on the chest with a her most scary face that made the guard flinch and rub the sore spot on his head,
"Oh um, I'm sorry," miaka sweat dropped Bella can be embarrassing sometimes but she more shocked on how bold her cousin is,
"Now, now," "it was a misunderstanding," Bella glared half heartly but stopped anyways,
The general watched them with interest, "the girl claiming to be the priestess of seiryuu was trying to calm the other girl down," "while the shikon miko was fuming from the insult to her person," "he watched the shikon miko intensely," "he had believed in the priestesses of each capital," "but he would of never thought he would be alive when the shikon miko would appear," "and he know's what happen's when the shikon miko call's the beast god with either priestess," the man would of laughed at the exchange, instead he ordered,
"Tell the emperor that we found the priestess of seiryuu," "we will be arriving shortly with escort," the scout nodded and rode off,
"The priestess of seiryuu was important but the shikon miko intrigued him more," "he would not tell the emperor about the other just yet," "he know's the emperor would be much astonished when he told him that have the shikon miko in their care," then he saw that both of them were looking at him directly,
"We shall escort you both to the palace," miaka made a bold move by nearing him,
"Um," "well where kinda busy at the moment where looking for a friend of our's at the moment,"
"Let me through!" "I' m looking for someone!" "Let me through!"
"Where's your passport?"
I don't have one! Now let me through!
Bella and miaka whipped their heads towards the voice, tamahome was trying his hardest to get past the guards at the gate and it's making quite a fuss,
miaka clinched her teeth, I told him not to fallow, Bella looked at synthetic at her cousin,miaka closed her eyes and stated in a serious tone,
"I changed my mind," "let's go," "let's go now," the general ordered another one of his men to let miaka ride with them,
he urged his horse forward and stopped right in front of bella who looked up at him, it surprised him that this girl had a unusual color of brown for eyes he thought he was the only one with odd eye color, also this girl shows no fear only curiosity,
he held a hand out her, she only *sighed* and she placed her hand into his, her hands were so soft and gentle as she mounted the horse with grace and poise, this girl keep's sparking his interest by the minute, As they road off to the palace,
meanwhile With tamahome,
Tamahome had gotten her message for him and he was beyond pissed off, "didn't that girl understand that I care for her well being greatly?" "Don't she know that I love her?"
When he reached the gate he wasn't allowed to pass because he didn't have no stupid passport! He was about to kick their sorry asses but chichiri came out of the blue and stopped him,
"Please don't mind my friend here!" "He on the bottle," "ya know!" "He's crazy," "he don't even know what he is talking about," "hahaha," they disappeared into the trees,
"Chichiri what are you doing?" The monk put a finger to his lips,
"Shhhh!" "I think their taking the girls to see the emperor of kuoto," "they were escorted by solders," "no da,"
"What?"
"It's dangerous to walk in," "no da,"
meanwhile With Bella and miaka,
Miaka walked towards the emperor of kuoto who was sitting on his throne with the seiryuu scroll of the universe of the four gods, he was a ugly man with a beard and a mustache,
"he's ugly compared to hotohori," "well he's ugly period,"
"Well," "if it isn't the priestess of seiryuu," "well nakago," "do you Believe she is the priestess?" The general took off his helmet, waves of gold flowed over his shoulders with piercing blue eyes,
Miakas jaw dropped, "oh my kami he so hot!"
The emperor laughed almost manically,
"Now we have nothing to fear!" "Now that we found our priestess of seiryuu," "we don't have to worry about that little priestess of suzaku no longer!" "That little brat who rules over konan will soon bow down to me!'' "Hahahahaha!"
"Now you just wait a minute!" Everyone's heads turned to the owner of the voice,Bella stood at the entrance of the room, looking really really pissed off,
"I can't believe you left me out there to Rot blondy! She said as she stomped up to nakago, who merely raised a eyebrow in amusement,
"I believe I left you with the other guards to escort you here," Bella *huffed* and crossed her arms,
"Those pervert's tried to grope me," "so don't be shocked that you find some dead solders," "I suggest that you teach your men proper way to treat a lady," with that
said Bella gave nakago the finger and flipped her hair and did alices pixi walk over to miaka, which looked at her cousin crazy,
"What did you just do?" Bella shrugged,
"Nothing no other women would do to a pervert when they tried to grope you," miaka thought for awhile,
"Point taken," Bella turned to the emperor, who was watching in interest,
"As for you," "watch want you say about the emperor of konan," "I wouldn't be so confident if I were you," "I mean really have you met the guy?" "For all you know," "he's more than what he is letting one," the emperor eyed her skeptically,
"And you know this how?" Bella *huffed*,
It dosn't take a rocket genius to know not to underestimate your opponent," "ya know," "I suggest you take lessons from blondey here," Bella nodded towards nakago,
who was watching her talk back to the emperor in amusement,said emperor seethed in anger,
"who the hell dose this girl think she is?" "I should have you killed for you disrespect," "you insolent woman," Bella growled,
"I really wish you could," "you want to try?" "I do have the time for Another person to try to kill me," "so bring it on old fart!"
The emperor let his anger get the best of him and sentenced the girl to death, the solders where already surrounding her,all Bella could do is smirk,
miaka was speechless, "maybe Bella was more than pissed off than she thought,"miaka watched in horror was all the solders attracted her cousin which was unarmed,nakago was ageist this but he was curious on what this girl was capable of doing,
Bella smirked evilly when she kicked the first solder in the face who tried cutting her head off, she merely jumped on his sword and kick him in the face, breaking his neck, then she swooped down and kicked a solder in the air and let him sail acrossed the room, she saw two of them trying to aim for her heart she dodged them both they pierced each other before falling onto the cold ground,
Bella laughed at the way the fell, she caught one trying to pull a cheap shot and kicked him in the air, Bella executed a round house kick as three solders tried to attract all at once, she grabbed a dagger from one of the solders before she elbowed his throat and them threw the weapon at another mans forehead, blood splattered on the walls that's if frightened miaka that she screamed and cried,
Bella heard her sobs and screams and felt bad, looking back at the two remaining solders who were cowering at her feet, she swiftly knocked them unconscious, she looked back at the horrified miaka, she growled in frustration, before the jewel around her neck glowed bright pink, all the occupants in the room had to shield their eyes, as the light faded, everyone saw Bella in the middle of the room,
while all the solders who she had killed where being brought back to life, Miaka looked at her cousin which she was looking back at her pleadingly,slowly, miaka got up from her position and hugged bella,
"I was so worried about you," "don't do that again!" Bella was relieved and hugged her cousin back,
"I thought you couldn't heal anybody but yourself?" "What happened?"
"It was the jewel who brought them back to life no me," "but I'm not sure if it would happen again or not," miaka nodded and continued to hug her cousin,
The emperor was speechless so was nakago,never have they seen a female so skilled in Combat, that girl finished off their best men in 12 minutes, and not to mention bring them back to life, the emperor asked,
"Who are you?"
Nakago snapped out of his thoughts and dismissed the relived solders and answered for Bella,
"She if the priestess of the jewel of four souls," "and she just showed us enough proof that she is," the emperor nodded before grinning,
"Oh this is just wonderful!" "Now we're unstoppable!" "Hahaha!" Bella narrowed her eyes and growled,
"I will not be used as a weapon you ugly old fart," "if you don't wish for what happen to your men to you," "I would rethink that,"
nakago decided to but in before she could insult and rant even further even though it is amusing,
"Your highness their is another one I would like you to meet," "and I think you shall find her interesting," through the curtains came a girl dressed the same as the other two but had short blond hair, miaka and Bella's eyes widen,
"Yui?.." Yui's eyes widen in shock,
"Miaka...? Bella...?" Miaka wasted no time and ran straight towards yui, hugging the girl like mad and dropping her pack in the process,spilling the contents, bella didn't noticed but walked more calmly and offered a comforting hug,
"Well which one of the three is the priestess of seiryuu?" Asked the emperor,
Nakago spotted a familiar red scroll and picked it up,he untied the string and started reading it,
"Your majesty," "she carries the scroll for suzakus universe of the four gods," miakas head snapped up and looked at nakago with wide eyes, bella released herself from the embrace and about to go and snatch back the scroll, but only one thing passed in her mind right now was of *kuzo*,
To be continued