Chapter 11
Going separate ways and confession,
Miaka and yui held onto each other, while bella tried her best to protect them,
nakago had read the scroll of suzaku and saw right through them, he looked at Bella and nearly smirked at the girl's determination, "but still no fear," "this girl is odd," "but their was surprisingly no hatred earthier," "well none that he could detect anyways,"
nakago looked around to miaka and saw she was clinging to lady yui and looking back at him with terror,
"I suspected by the way this girl was dressed," he said,
while still looking at miaka, Bella had just noticed that she wasn't included in his suspicions,the ungly old emperor did the first this that must popped in his head,
"Arrest that girl!" He pointed at miaka, solders surround the three girls,
Bella eyed the solders and them nakago before she plotted out a strategy, she looked at all the solders and saw that he was blocking the nearest exit, she knew there was no way to escape with out making some sort of distraction, and just her luck to a solder just walked into the throne room,
"Sir," "I'm sorry to interrupt but there seems to be Intruders that have broken through the main gate,"
Bella smirked, and whispered to the girls,
"Now is are change to escape," they looked at her dumbly, but they caught her drift when her heal connected with a solders jaw, as he fell to the ground,
Bella punched another solder before grabbing miaka which who was holding onto yui tightly, they fallowed her lead out the door, nakago looked back and saw that they were escaping,
"Go after them," "just make sure that lady yui and the shikon miko is not harmed in anyway,"
"Yes sir!" The solders scattered to go search for the three girls,
they searched most of the rooms and closets, Bella, miaka and yui hid in a room that that was filled with antiques, a guard peeked inside the room once but due to the darkness he couldn't see them, when the door closed again, all three of them let a *sigh* of relief,
Yui had seen the music box and twisted it while talking to miaka,
"So what do we do now?" Miaka looked at her with twinkling eyes,
"we'er going to take you back to konan with us," "we just can't leave you here in this place now can we," yui looked at her questioningly,
"How come?" "They treated me with respect for the past three months," miaka shook her head violently,
"But," "if you stay here," "they'll make you the priestess of seiryuu!," "when that Happens we would become enemies," "yui," "I don't wish to,"
miaka was cut off when Bella grabbed yui's wrist, making sure to be gentle, there on her wrist was a scar, bella eyes narrowed, "could it be that yui had tried to kill herself?"
"What's this yui?" "Did you try to-," miaka grabbed yui's wrist,
"Did that general guy do this to you?" Yui snatched her wrist back,
"No you got it all wrong," "nakago has taken good care of me ever since he found me," "this must've happened when miaka was sent back to our world," Bella Looked doubtfully but she let the matter rest, "they'll find out sooner or later,"
"Oh yeah," "why is that nakago guy is the only good looking man around here any way?" Yui smiled,
"He's probably a foreigner," "like how Bella look's different from us," miaka got the wrong idea and her mind slipped somewhere it shouldn't and got slapped by Bella, Bella started to explain what she meant,
"A foreigner is from another country you idiot," "like how I was a american before I was transferred over here," miaka looked at Bella and nodded and she finally got what she meant, she giggled at her own stupidity her uncle charley was married to a american so she nearly forgot all about that,
"No wonder why you and yui are best in our class,"
"Well your pointing to the obvious," "plus we have the looks to go along with it,"
Bella and yui high fiver each other, then the door opened again, everyone scrambled to the big box to the far end of the room, the solder peaked inside looked around for a bit before leaving, before the fat ugly one announced,
"Nothing here," "let's move along and check other rooms,"
meanwhile With tamahome and chichiri,
One guard after another guard fell at tamahome's feet, if only they stayed down, tamahome beat all the solders with no mercy and put all his anger into the fight, he smirked when his symbol glowed brightly as he stood proud, when a Hansom blond man dressed in armor walked towards him,
"You are one of the suzaku warriors?" "Tamahome is it?" Tamahome just smirked,
"And your dead," tamahome jumped up and twirled to make a attempt to hit the pretty boy in the face, his plan failed when nakago flicked his wrist at his ankle before hitting his face, Tamahome winced as he landed right behind nakago,
with one knee propped up and the other on the ground, tamahome clutched his ankle and and hissed in pain, "that's impossible!" "He didn't even touch me!" "This guy good!", nakago turned to face him,
"Did you know tamahome," "that brave fools end up dead?" His tone was mocking and it made him want to punch him more than ever, unfortunately he couldn't move, nakago walked towards a frozen tamahome,
tamahome looked back to see chichiri casting a spell on bloodie,
"Go find the girls," "I'll keep him frozen for now," "no da," tamahome smiled his thanks before taking off in a flash, nakago smirked,
"So your friend is a suzaku warrior as well," and as easily broken out of the spell, which made chichiri stumble but disappeared in a jiffy,
"The suzaku warriors," "how vary amusing," as he walked back to the palace,
meanwhile With miaka and yui and Bella,
"The scroll!," miaka yelled, Bella made *hushing* noises to make her load mouth cousin to stay quit, yui neared miaka and asked,
"What do you need it for?"
"The scroll is the only way I can find the suzaku seven," "when I do that," "we all can go home!"
Yui was filled with so much happiness, "so they really didn't forget about me," "I'm so glade," "nakago was wrong," "miaka did not forget about me at all,"
then they heard a *thud* out side of the door, Curious as ever, Bella opened the door and peaked out to see a hurting tamahome face planted on the floor, she open the door fully,
"Tamahome what in world happened to you?" Miaka and yui snapped out of their happy conversation to see a pained tamahome clutching his pained ankle,tamahome looked up and smiled when he saw yui,
"Hey, your yui right?" Yui blushed,
"You remember me?" "Of course *groan*," tamahomes attention was back on his aching ankle, miaka put a hand on his shoulder and asked,
"Who did this to you?" Tamahome smiled at her,
"It was that blonde guy," "hes pretty good fighter I give him that much,"
"yui felt so happy that he didn't forget about her," "but she felt taken aback," "how nakago could do this to tamahome," "he has been nothing but caring towards her,"
"Nakago did this to you?" "Don't worry I'll have a word with him," "I'll order him to give me the scroll," "and tell him to let us go as well," "I have a feeling that he will listen to me," "wait here I'll come back after we talk," miaka and tamahome looked at her doubtfully, Bella spoke what they were thinking
"Do you really wanna get caught again?" yui giggled and said confidently,
"Don't worry," "I have a good feeling he would not hurt me," "I'll come back I promise," with that yui ran off to find nakago , miaka was gonna go after her but Bella stopped her,
"I'll go," "if anything go wrong," "I'll come back," miaka stay with the invalid over there,
"Who the hell are you calling invalid you comeback here!" Bella snickered as she heard his protested going down the hall to go find yui,
"Why did you lie to me?," "did you want to get rid of me that much?," miaka looked away from tamahome and he opened the music box to let it play it's melody,
"I told you," "I didn't want you to get hurt," miaka trailed off, the silence that fallowed was awkward and unbearable,
meanwhile With Bella
Bella fallowed behind yui silently, she masked her presents so she wouldn't be caught, but she will not interfere unless if needed to, that's when the flaims of hell will pay a visit to her victims, besides she wants to have a talk with pretty boy, there are a few things that she wants to be clear on,
Bella slowed to a stopped when she heard voices on the other side of the curtained door way, Bella listened intently when she heard yui speak,
"Nakago give me the scroll," nakagos voice fallowed,
"Ah," "priestess of seiryuu," "I'm glad your ok," "what about the shikon miko?"
Bella held her breath, "what in kami's name dose he want with her?" "It better not be for those dead solders in the hall,"
"What do you want with Bella?" "
"Good question yui!" "I would like to know myself!" Thought Bella intently as she continued to listen,
"She is a valued asset for our victor against konan," "when you summon seiryuu and defeat the priestess of suzaku-,"
"I refuse to be the priestess of seiryuu," "nakago!" "I will not fight miaka she is my friend," "and I will not let you use Bella," "you lied to me when you told me that miaka had forgotten all about me," "now give me that scroll," "I'm going to konan with miaka and Bella,"
"You tell him girl," Bella thought happily, Bella was relived, "yes," "but she still felt uneasy Like something going to happen or to go wrong," "something told her this is not going to end well," "and normally she right in things like this,"
"Very well," "Bella heard gripping sounds and she noticed that nakago voice lowered to a low whisper,
"Have you forgotten the pain you went through 3 months ago?" "That you suffered beacuse of your so called friend wasn't there," "she left you and didn't come back," "what make you think she came back here for you?" "It was I who saved you even when you tried to kill yourself," Bella *gasped* slightly,
"what the hell happened 3 month ago?" Bella heard yui snatch her wrist back, she heard her soft retreating steps,
"I will let you go," "come to the shrine hall if you change your mind,"
Bella hid behind the curtains as yui passed her, when yui was gone, she made herself known to nakago,
"What happened to yui 3 moths ago?" Bella glared at nakago who towered over her
"Ah," "lady Bella," it nice that you finally show yourself," Bella narrowed her eyes and hoped he would catch on fire,
"I asked you a question," "and it's rude to not answer it,"
"That is for lady yui to tell you," "now come with me-,"
he tried to grab her wrist but was taken aback when his hand made contact with electricity, nakago looked at the girl and saw that she was engulfed herself in a barrier,
"I'm not finished with you yet pretty boy," "why did you face tamahome?" He arched a eyebrow,
"He was breaking into the palace," "that's enough of a logical reason for me to face him,"
"True," "but I sense there's more than your doing your duty," nakago turned fully to her,
"Really?" Bella was starting to get annoyed by his stalling,
"What were you planning on doing with him," "general?"
"He's a suzaku warrior," "it's our destiny to destroy each other,"
"Bella knew what ever kuoto had against konan," "she couldn't never change that," "but what should she to do," "whatever she can do to help those in need,"
"If you make one wrong move," "I promise you that you will not live through this," nakago smirked at her threat,
"the words of a woman," "what good is there in them?" He Heard bella growl low so he decided to humor her more,
"If you are in desperate need on information," "Listen closely," "on the boarders of konan," "kuoto's armies are invading the villages," "and your emperor is having a hard time suppressing the uproar," "you should know in a mere battle between emperors," "the one man who rules konan and his army so little will never win over kuotos," he saw Bella's eyes twinkle,
"You really like to brag don't you?" "we'll see what the outcome of this madness shall we,"
When Bella turned around to walk away, "villages are being attacked!" "Tamahomes family leaves by there!" "I have to do something,kuzo!" With one last glare of death at nakago,
"If anyone of my family or anyone I hold dear get's harmed," "nakago," "be ready for a slow painful death," "I mean painful," the threat made him smirk, but doubted her words, he spoke again,
"If you want to meet up with your companions then I suggest you come with me,"
"Why would I?" "They would not go to the shrine hall,"at nakagos smirk,he grabbed Bella's wrist and disappeared,
the next thing Bella knew she was being thrown on the tiled floor of the shrine of seiryuu room next to miaka who was curled up in pain,
this shrine seemed to be built to keep anyone who is a suzaku warrior out, and give the priestess great pain other than the seiryuu, yui however was standing over miaka and glaring at miaka coldly, then her eyes spotted Bella,
"Bella?" "What on earth are you doing here?"
Yui held nothing against Bella because
she knows bella isn't in love with tamahome and knows he not her type, and also when she was reading the book,she had nuriko chasing bella for her to love him,, and Bella was starting to get close to the emperor, "and she never wore her uniform in those three months," "she knew that Bella had nothing to do with this," "so she was wondering why her friend was here,"
Bella had noticed something had happened between them, it must of been bad for yui to come here with miaka, she inhaled and fighting the pain in her body and stood up of face yui,
"Yui," "stop this now," "why are you doing this to miaka?" "She dosn't know why your doing this," "neither do I," "please,"
Bella gripped her aching side's and watched in dismay, as yui did not listen and kneel next to a *gasping* miaka and pulled her hair,
"Of course you don't know!" "How could you know the pain I went through the first time I came here?" "You tricked me didn't you!" "You didn't come here for me!" "You came back only because of your love for tamahome!" "You had it easy!" "but for me it was the complete opposite!", "you had someone to care about you!," you had Bella and tamahome!,"
shouted yui, she had uncontrollable tears coming form her eyes, she roughly let go of miaka's hair and stood up once more,
"Let me tell you something miaka," "I love tamahome more than you do!," "and I'm going to take him for myself!," "you can rot in here for all I care!," "nakago,"
nakago appeared next to yui, who started to walk away,miaka struggled to speak,
"I don't understand yui," "I thought we where best friends," yui *scoffed*,
"Best friends," "hah!" "Those are hallow empty words to you!" Turning to nakago, yui gave the signal,
"Don't hurt bella,"
"As you wish,"
nakago symbol glowed on his forehead, glowing blue he out stretched his hand released a force to miaka's hunched form,
Bella saw this and was weak to use her own energy,even in her demon form, she leaped in front of miaka and shielded her cousin from the energy with her body, the force was strong that it still hit the both of them,
Bella received the full force of the attack gashes and cuts covered her whole body, rendering her in a state of unconsciousness, Miaka however got minor wounds and nothing to serious,
Yui looked back her eyes widened when she saw Bella in the state she was in,she turned to nakago and clung to his armor,
"I told you not to hurt Bella," "what have you done?" Yui rushed over to Bella and carefully placed her head into her lap,
"Bella please be allright," Bella started to regain her control and tried to sit back up,
"Yui," "I don't want you to fight with miaka," "it wouldn't be fare if your my friend," "while your fighting with my cousin," "miaka dose't know what happen to you," "so what do you think I do know as well," "so,... Please... Come with us," bella fainted once more, yui clinched her teeth,
"Bella you can't stop me now," "miaka has betrayed me," "and if you don't watch out she will do the same with you as well," "no matter what happens," "I'll always will be waiting for you, "and think of you as my sister I never had," "now rest,"
yui tucked a Piece of hair that was in Bella's face behind her ear stood back up and walked back over to nakago,
"Finish miaka off," "and make sure you stay clear of Bella this time,"
nakago merely nodded, and shot another wave of energy that shot miaka acrossed the room she nearly hit the door but mysteriously stopped,
meanwhile with Tamahome and chichciri
Tamahome banged on the huge door's of the shrine, yui and miaka had entered, he heard miaka scream,
he tried to go in but he was stopped by the barrier before the doors shut automatically, ever since then he been trying to smash the doors with his fists, then chichiri appeared,
"Damn!" "It's closed shut!" "No da," "it's heavily warded and there no way in," "no da," chichiri brows furrowed in concussion, tamahomes fisted clinched to his slides,
"Can you try to get inside?"
"I'll give it a try," "no da," chichiri began chanting and found himself on the other side of the door,
"just Im time to," miaka was flying towards the doorand
"caught her just in time," "That was pretty close," "no da," "you could cracked something just with that speed," "no da," nakago eyes widened a fraction,
"A warrior that can pass through warded barriers,"
chichiri started to chant once more, the monk disappeared and reappeared by Bella's side, he used a barrier to shield them from,
"BOOOM!"
"... Explosion,"
When the smoke cleared, nakago released yui from his protection and looked at the gate to see a glaring tamahome, yui looked scared, worried and confused,
"Tamahome,?"
"Don't worry lady yui," "there still is the barrier," stated nakago confidently,
Tamahome saw miaka and bella wounded next to chichiri, he was seeing red from the sight of them, tamahome charged straight through the barrier,
"What,..." Tamahome shielding his face from the force of the barrier, he could feel the barriers electricity singe his body which hurt like hell but he kept moving,
"Did you..."
His mark glowed brightly at his show of power, every step he took earned him a bloody gash,
"Do to..."
Even his outer clothing was being disintegrating, exposing him to more of the painful force, with his screams and groans, tamahome ran through destroying the troublesome barrier,
"Miaka and bella!"
And while he was at it, tamahome landed a powerful punch that hit in nakago stomach, making t nakago fall to his knees in pain,
Yui and nakago could no believe their eyes, "tamahome was able to breech the barrier of seiryuu shrine," "yui felt a pang of hurt and jealousy," "tamahome made it through the barrier because of his love for miaka," "it's all for miaka isn't it," "yui's hatred grew more after seeing tamahome really dose love miaka," "that little traitor will get her's in the end,"
Tamahome ran straight to miaka and Bella, chichiri handed miaka to tamahome,
"Tamahome," whispered miaka,
Bella stirred and once conscious again, she stood up shakily and looked at yui sadly, yui looked back at her with a sad smile, Bella clinched her teeth and her fist at her sides and let her tears fall,
"I'm so sorry yui," whispered bella as she took a step facing nakago and yui,
tamahome and chichiri looked at her like she was crazy, "she might as well be her heart is being ripped in to two,"
"Tamahome chichiri," "go in that hat of your's and take miaka with you," "I'll fallow after," Bella looked over her shoulder with a sad smile,
"I promise," tamahome shouted at her
"Are you freaking crazy?" "Come on let's go!" Chichiri who was listening and activated his magical hat and gave it to tamahome,
"Go on," "we'll keep pretty boy here occupied," "no da,"
as he said that nakago let another energy blast which only bella back handed to the side, all of the, in the room could feel her energy in the room,she was glowing pink and her eyes held death for the victim it's meant for, Tamahome looked at yui, which who was behind nakago,
"We'er leaving!" "Come on!," his out stretched hand seemed tempting,
"Come one!" Yui almost grabbed his hand but was blocked by nakago,
"No priestess,"
he sent another energy wave towards tamahome, it was chichiri who blocked it this time, the attack was alittle more powerful than the last one, causing the mask on the monks face to melt off and made him kneel on his knees,
"Go now!" Tamahome looked at yui one last time and stated,
"I promise I will come back for you," before disappearing, chichiri looked back at bella who was still glaring at nakago,
"It's your turn," "no da," Bella directed her glare and said,
"Go," "I'll be fine,"
something in her voice made him obey and cringe at the same time, as soon as he was gone Bella sent a ball of pink energy at the hat, destroying it, marking sure no one fallowed them, looking back at yui and nakago, Bella cursed and clutched the jewel around her neck and started to glow a blinding pink light again and disappeared,
meanwhile with Yui and nakago,
Nakago bowed waste deep, and apologized for what he did,
"I'm sorry that i have let them escape," "lady yui," "I did not expect them to break through the barrier," yui walk away from him and said,
"It's alright," "they won't fall easy," "what fun would that be?" Yui's voice was cold dark and cruel filled with hatred ,
"It's to bad that bella did not stay though," nakago stood from his groveling position,
"I have a feeling that she will be ours in due time," yui looked at him
"remember nakago I still disapprove of you using Bella as a weapon," "I will not let you harm her again,"
"Am I understood!"
"Yes lady yui"
meanwhile With Bella
Bella healed herself pretty quick, she had used her anger to fuel her energy, some of it went to her healing ability's,and her access power obeyed her will to teleported to the village's outside of the boarder, with some power still pumping her will to move along,
Bella made her way to the chaos, and true to pretty boy's word's kuoto's men all dressed in black and fighting some of the konan solders,
there were still villages that were caught in the middle of the feud, Bella ran into a burning hut, a woman a man and three kids were sobbing outside of it, My babies, cried the women
Bella didn't wait for permission to access the burning hut, she just plunged herself into the flaming home, the wooden floor's and wall's where all on fire she hoped the baby's survived all the smoke,
Bella ripped a piece of her clothing and tied it around her face so she could breathe Easier, she narrowed her eyes and crept slowly in search for the children, the smoke made her eyes water but she kept going, Just when she was about to pass out, she saw a broken down crib with two bundles in it, Bella ignored the smoke and dashed towards the crib and knelt down beside the bundles, she carefully removed the cloth to make sure they where the baby's,
Bella smiled and grabbed both of the baby's and dashed out of the burning hut, the crying family saw her dashing out of the hut and ran up to her, the baby's were unmoving, the mother of the baby's let a pained cry to see her baby's didn't survive,
Bella heart broke for the family, and prayed for the jewel to save the baby's, and hope it will work, a pink glow formed from her neck after the glowing stopped there was crying, Bella heart jumped that she saved the lives of the two baby's, she handed the revived baby's to the parents, who looked at her thankfully,and praised her for what she had done, even though they didn't know how she did it,
"How can we ever repay you?" Asked the mother as tear's of joy sprung from her eye's,
"Wait just outside this village," "and take every survivor with you," "make sure you do not get caught," "and wait there for me or any konan solder," "I will come back for you I promise,"
they nodded, and did as they were told gathered all the remaining surviving villagers of their village and waited for her to come get them,
Bella saw them gather every one, and let a *sigh* of relief, she was glade that she came use the jewel to revive, but she won't abuse the power only I'd needed to be used,
Bella went deeper into the battlefield, she crept unseen and helped other people and told them where to go,five hours later Bella came out of the villages with a good number of konan solders and many horses, she took from the fallen enemies,
they headed straight for a group of thankful citizen's where waiting for them, bella gave them the horses and gave them her next orders,
"The survivors of this village will ride to the konan capital!," "you will only stop for when the children need food or other important needs!" "When you buy
food," "you continue on your way do not stop," "when you reach the capital tell them that the shikon miko," "Lady Bella sent you," "and you to be treated with in the palace until I return!" "Seek out the emperor hotohori," "and tell him that i sent you and he will see to your needs!" "Ten solder's will be escorting you!" "And the rest will be coming with me to the next village," "don't worry when the priestess of suzaku fulfill her duty," "you people will be free and don't have to worry about danger," "but do I make my orders clear," they all nodded and thanked her, the praise never stopped,
Bella had regained most of her energy, and turned into her demon form for more energy and power while walking with the solders to the next village, she automatically healed herself and healed the men,
they looked at her with honor and respect,as she led them through their mission, "if it wasn't for her they probably lost most of the people and solders," "so they are grateful to the lady bella for the help she offering and time she putting out,"
"she would be a great empress some of them thought," "so fearless and kindhearted," "the perfect match for their emperor," "and they noticed the eye's the emperor gave her," "so they hope it happens,"
Bella had requested a change of cloths since her school uniform was well erm reviling from her dive into the burning hut,now she wore a black haiori that came up to here breast so her stomach showed, with two tails behind it as if she had red wings,along with her mokomoto over her sholder liker her adopted brother had, and purple tight pant's, a pink Obie along around her waste, he cloths bore the konan symbol curtsy of the solders who where with her, she had tied her hair up and requested weaponry,
bella did the same thing with the other villages and gave the same orders and send them out with ten solders and she got new ones to replace them, They been at this for three weeks now, and she finally reached tamahomes home town, bella didn't waste any time she barked the orders and dashed towards tamahomes home, she saw nothing but ashes she was about to have a panic attack,
until she heard kid's crying she speed over to where she heard the crying, and she saw tamahome family in the village square being held captive, tamahomes father was about to be hanged while tamahome's brother's and sister's where huddled together with other kid's crying,
Bella heart broke at the sight, and took off before it was to late to save his father, Bella had dashed to and kicked the man In black and in the face and broke his neck, before he pull the lever to end tamahome's father's life,
"Bella," tossed him on her shoulder with all her strength and leaped off the stand, everyone watch in awe as Bella laid the sick old man next to the kid's while knocking out kuoto solders at the same time,
Bella had defeated all kuoto's men then the area and started to bark her orders to everyone, they all nodded and went to the boarder like she said, Bella waited or some solders to help her with tamahomes father, tamahome's father looked at her with tearful eyes and thank her, they all promised to meet her back at the capital,
After everyone left Bella leaned against the wall to rest for awhile before they head back to the capital, until she felt a pain in her chest, and she looked down, and she screamed in horror at the arrow in her chest, Bella saw the the guy and shot evil baka and turned him to ash and passed out,
The solder's where startled when they heard a scream, and they ran back and they saw Bella laying on the ground passed out with a highly poisoned arrow in the middle of her chest, he yelled
"Lady Bella had been hit and been poisoned," "we must take her back to his majesty right away," The solder put her on his horse after taking the arrow out, and got on behind her, no time to waste,
To be continued,