Chapter 26
and having fun before the mission, and the star gazing festival
Meanwhile in konan,
Miaka stood outside tamahomes door,debating to knock, Tamahomes chamber,
"why did I decide to come here for?" Then miaka remembered,
before she could even think on it she felt someone poke her shoulder, miaka turned around only to see tamahome with a freaky face, miaka started to stomp on tamahomes face,
"Oh ok," "I give up," "geez,"
as they went into the room for some tea, as they sat at the table drinking, tamahome thought out load,
"A normal girl would of screamed or squeaked," miaka didn't catch what he said,
"Huh?" "What was that?" Tamahome only waved his hand to wave off the comment,
"Well anyways," "what bring's you here at this time of night?"
"Oh nothing really special," "I just wanted to see you that's all," tamahome leaned his head on the back of his hand smugly,
"Well darn!" "I hoped you would enjoyed to stayed the night with me!" Miaka grabbed the tea pot and was about to pour hot tea all over tamahome,
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TAMAHOME!" As miaka was standing on the table,
"Oh I didn't say anything at all!" "So chill,"
after miaka calmed down, tamahome started to look at miaka longingly, how hotohori and bella use to be before they got together, miaka looked up and realized tamahome was looking at her,
"Um," "do I have something on my face or something?" Tamahome only smiled and let his thoughts out,
"I was only thinking that if you would come and see me like this all the time," "like how Bella and hotohori did before they got together," tamahome got out of his seat and went over to his dresser,
"Miaka," "I managed to save some money," "you see after all this I think I have grown up a lot," "and I was thinking of moving out on my own," "I might be able afford to build a house soon," "if you would be happy with a little house to start with," "but knowing Bella and your family will not allow that," "and well I would like to start a family in all with yours as well," "I would like to have a son one day," "so I just thought," "well I guess I'm trying to say is,that is that I wish to live that life with you!" Miaka asked stupidly,
"You mean with me?" Tamahome slammed his hands on the table,
"Of course you!" "Who do you think I am talking to?" "If we would live together I want to do everything correctly," "and I know we won't be back for quite some time," "I would like to ask my father," "and your father and family to sit down and talk if you don't refuse me that all," "I wish you to marry me miaka!" miaka looked up at tamahome dumbly,
"Please miaka," "please marry me," miaka got out of her seat to respond to tamahome,
"Oh it's all to sudden," "I can't I'm only 15 years old," tamahome walked over to miaka,
"That's a perfect age to get married," "I'm the right age as well," "Bella got married to his highness and she is 17," miaka turned around,
"The right age?" "Is it really?" "Bella did it because she knew she was truly In love," "plus she deserves the happiness," then tamahome spoke up,
"I have been thinking about this for awhile now," "I will promise you I will work hard," "I will never let you suffer," "plus the portal will be open for the family and us to go back and forth after this is over," tamahome placed his hand on miakas shoulders,
"It's not that!"
"I will protect you and love you," "for long as I live," "I promise to make you happy miaka,"
"Oh tamahome," miaka sqeezed her eyes shut,
"Oh my god," "your not being serious are you?" "All what your talking about sound's so ridiculous," "hah Bella messed her life up totally bad,"
"Miaka?" Tamahome was confused on what's going on,
"Oh tamahome," "I think you got the wrong idea about me some how," "oh geez wow asking me to marry you," "your joking right," "hahaha," "I'm the priestess of suzaku and your just a suzaku warrior," "Oh come on it dose't mean since I'm affectionate with you dose't mean I want you," "that's just laughable," "I'm only messing with your head tamahome," oh all men are always thinking with their dick," tamahome grabbed her wrist,
"Your not serious are you!" "At a time like this your not being serious miaka?" "Answer me right now," miaka looked up at tamahome, with a straight face as best as she could,
"Yes tamahome," "thing's have changed," "I don't feel the same about you anymore," "Bella would probably drop hotohori like the next day's meal after she finished with him," "hahahah," "come on this is just sad," "it's just puppy love," "all we where gonna do was probably have sexy and never talk again," "so don't take it so seriously,"
"well that's what I came here to tell you," "well night night tamahome,"
tamahome was in shock he didn't realize miaka left his chambers,
"Why miaka?" "Tell me why miaka!"
meanwhile with miaka,
Miaka walked down the halls, her heart was breaking at all she just said, she felt guilty on what she said about her cousin she going to be mad at her on that part, as miaka fell to her knees and cried her sorrow at what she just had to do,
"Oh it's no use!" "We can't love each other anymore!" "Forgive me tamahome!" "And forgive me Bella!" "I know your going to be mad at me after you find out I trashed talked you in a way that your not," "forgive me,"
meanwhile the fallowing morning,
"MIAKA!" "HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO ME!" "GAH!" Hotohori and aro was holding Bella back from harming her cousin,
"But Bella!" "I did what taiitsuku told me!" Miaka was backed against the wall,
"YES!" "YOU NOT ME!"
*Sigh* "I'm sorry I didn't mean to get angry," "just when Alice told me this morning about her vision of what happened last night," *sigh,* "you really didn't have to break up with the poor guy," "and break his heart," "all you had to do is," "not to have sex," "you just have to remain a Virgin until the summoning," "but it's ok you didn't understand," "dear cousin," as her husband and her father let her go, Bella held her cousin into her arms,
"It's ok my dear cousin," "cry all you want I'm here for you," as hotohori and aro walked away to leave the two cousins alone,
"It was so hard you know!" As miakas tears cleared up, just in time when nuriko and tasuki came up,nuriko spoke up cheerfully,
"Well good morning to you Bella!" "And miaka!" And tasuki *yawned* out his good morning,the two cousins looked over in their directions,
"Hey nuriko!" "How are you this fine morning?" Bella asked out cheerfully so they wouldnt think nothing's wrong, then nuriko spoke up again as the walk closer to both of them,
"Hey Bella," "miaka," "me and tasuki was just chit chatin about going out on the town tonight," "with a few others for the star gazing festival," "I think his highness is going to go with Bella," "well so what do you think?" "Don't you think we all should go!" "And make a night of it?" Nuriko spoke cheerfully, as miaka looked over to see tamahome,
"Oh good morning tamahome!" Miaka walked over to tamahome with out a care in the world, everyone looked at her like she was nut's, then her continued,
"There is a star gazing festival tonight!" "Most of us are going!" "So why don't you just join in as well," as miaka walked away from tamahome deep in though,
"this is best for both of us," "I have to stop thinking about tamahome and start thinking of think mission,"
"Hey you see that princess," "nuriko," "she just blew him off," as tasuki whispered in Bella and nuriko direction,
"Yeah I did see it tasuki with my vary own eye's," Bella only nodded in confirmation and walked on to her and her husbands offices, as nuriko and tasuki went on either side of tamahome,
"We can only imagine that he said all the wrong things again," "Like he always manages to do," nuriko said cheerfully, as she patted tamahomes chest,
"Yeah man!" "What did you do?" "Come on man you can tell us," tasuki asked cheerfully, tamahome looked up with a evil look in his eyes, as he beat both nuriko and tasuki and left them laying in chibi form,
"Ehhh," "I think he don't wish to be bothered," nuriko groan out and his body twitched,
meanwhile in Bella and hotohori's study,
"You see hokon is a mountainou's country," "so we must be prepared for the weather there," hotohori spoke out in his business tone,
"Well us vampires won't need it weather will not affect us," "but we will wear it to play off so our enemies wont catch on to us," aro spoke up, as the vampires agreed,
"Good I idea aro!" Caius spoke up,
"I must agree," Bella and hotohori spoke together,
Meanwhile in kutou,
"Suboshi?" Yui asked out of confusion,
"Lady yui," "about yesterday," "I wanted to apologize for being so rude to you,"
"It's ok," "don't worry about it," "I had to help a good friend through her grief," "I'm just Happy you look a bit better today," yui smiled at suboshi,
"Yes," "thank you," "well anyways," "lord nakago sent me here to tell you to come to the shrine of seiryuu right away!" Suboshi spoke with a bright blush,
meanwhile in the shrine of seiryuu,
"What in the world are you doing nakago?" "I thought you only bowed to the emperor," "or did seiryuu show up even after our failure,"
"You must look vary closely, lady yui,"
"Eyes?" "Do you know what it mean's?"
"I'm sure you heard of taiitsuku," "she represents the yang," "this one represents the yin," "I have conjured him here on your behalf,"
"Yui hongo," "if you wish to summon seiryuu," "you must listen carefully," "I'm about to tell you how to summon seiryuu,"
"Summon seiryuu?" Yui asked out of confusion,
meanwhile with miaka and chichiri,
Chichiri was sitting On a rock and fishing as miaka sat down right next to him,
"Are there any fish around here?"
"Who knows," "no da," miaka gave chichiri a dead pan look,
"I been kinda wondering for some time now," "why do you where that mask?" "Oh sorry!" "If you don't wish to talk about it that is ok!" As miaka waved her hand in front of her, chichiri only look at miaka, then miaka continued,
"It seem's to let you smile all the time," "it remind's me of how Bella use to be before she came here," "I wish I had something like that like both of you," "for awhile nor I am forced to cut off from the people I love most in the world," "at least I still have a few," "but this may be the best thing for tamahome,"
"When I found out that yui was In love with tamahome," "I thought I could distance myself away to be respectful," "and step to the side for them," "then tamahome was so blunt about his feeling for me," "and so was yui," "and that's why I ran away at first," "and Bella helped me through that," "but good did it do for me to hide the truth huh?" "I just wanted to be truthful with them both because I love them," "Bella helped me out with that as well,"
"Your blessed to have bella as family," "and the voltori and the cullen's as well ad his highness," "and for yui she dose't know what she want's," "your just having a hard time choosing between your love and your friendship,"
"You sound like Bella," as chichiri took off his mask, and he continued,
"Even though which one you choose," "you will lose one of them in the end," "no da," "I had to learn that the hard way as well," "no da," as chichiri turned to look at miaka,
"this is how I got this scar," "no da," "it happened when I was 18," "I was just a kid back then like tamahome," "I had a fiancee and a best friend that I loved dearly,'' "all three of us where vary close," "we where all friends and vary happy," "but then one day the person I thought who was my best friend stole my fiancée,"
"So what did you do?" Miaka asked out of curiosity, chichiri continued,
"I completely lost my head," "I was so angry and hurt at the time," "I didn't realize what I was doing," "I know I didn't wish to do that," "it was a horriable accident," "my best friend died," "crying hard at that moment I realized how much I really loved him," "that's how and when I got the scar," "no da," "even though it haven't healed," "I know people will get upset at my disfigured face," "no da," as chichiri put his mask back on,
"that's why I always wear a smiling face over the wound," "no da,"
"What should I do?" "WHAT SHOULD I DO CHICHIRI!" "AND I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN FIGHT YUI LIKE THAT," "AND I DON'T THINK IT WILL SOLVE ANYTHING,"
"Well there is the only thing I could tell you," "which is the same thing Bella has told you," then nuriko and Bella yelled and broke them out of their thoughts,
"Ooooohh miaka!"
They looked back only to see nuriko waving happily with Bella on hotohori's back with Alice and jasper and rose and emitt and esme and carlilise,with them,
"MIAKA!" "Pooka ka!" Everyone started laughing at nuriko silly mood, miaka got up and glared,
"Oh shut it will you!", as chichiri continued,
"I'm sure yui still loves you," "no da," miaka turned around to look at chichiri,
"She loved you more than she puts on," "she just lost at this point in time," "and don't know how to find her way back," "but in the end she will," "Bella agree's with my idea on this,"
"Well I don't understand what you just said," "but that you for listening to me!" As miaka ran away to get ready for the festival,
Meanwhile at the star gazing festival,
"Oh my god!" "This is awesome!" Alice shouted out, as she looked at everything around her, Bella and hotohori was looking there best, as so did everyone else,
"Oh wow!" "I haven't been in the city at night before," miaka blurted out cheerfully,
"Yes dear cousin I have to agree it is quite dazzling," and her husband walked behind her,
"I know isn't our kingdom a work of art my love," Bella smiled up at her love of her life,
"Yes my dearest," "yes it is," as they kissed each other, they where broken out of there kiss when miaka shouted and pointed at a stand,
"Look!" As nuriko and miaka started to drool,
"let's go eat,"
""yes let's," tasuki spoke up,
"Didn't we just have dinner," as Bella poked his arm, and pointed over where they where,
"What the hell!" Slouching everyone went over to the stand,
"i'll take one!"
"Yeah me to!" As the mecherant gave them there snack
"This will be our desert," their eye's sparkled at the sight,
"Give us some has well," miaka spoke up,
"Oh I knew you guys wanted some as well!" "You guys couldn't resist could you!" "Huh!"
"You couldn't could you!"
"Oh shut it will ya!"
As tamahome watched everyone enjoy themselves from the palace,
"Oh this is the best thing I ever tasted!" Bella was in shock, at the flavor bursting in her mouth,
"Isn't it my angel,"
"Hey tamahome should of come out with us," as miaka spit of her snack on her cousin, as she slap her,
"Hey watch it dear cousin!" "That just nasty!"
"Sorry sorry!" As miaka continued coughing, tasuki spoke up,
"Yeah that guy has been real moody for some reason," "is he P. or something,"
as tamahome continued to watch from his spot, as he started to freak out from confusion, in chibi form with his arms waving about as he scatter about yelling,
"I DON'T GET IT! I DONT GET IT!"
As tasuki continued,
"He act's like miaka dumped him or something," "hey I think we should just stay clear from him for a while," as miaka spit out her snack once again but on Bella's face,
"Grrr!" "Damnit it miaka!"
Bella starte to shake her fist at her cousin as her husband held her back, until she felt something against her back side,
"Oh my dearest," "are you holding something in your pant's," "or are you just happy to see me," as she wiggled her but into his boner,
"Mmmmm," "oh I am real happy to see you my love," as he started to nibble on her neck, tasuki started to yell at them,
"Will you to stop it!" "Geez!" "We don't need to see you two dry hump each other!"
"But I wouldn't mind her to do that with me!" Then bella smacked him,
"Shut it pervert!"
"Fine!" "fine!" Nuriko spoke up to clear the air,
"Never mind everything," "we are here to enjoy the star gazing festival," "let's just have fun ok!" "It will be our last free time," "unless our break and bed down's when we leave here," "and on the ride over," "right you guys," miaka looked up,
"Yeah!"
As nuriko hopped up and started to look around as all the other couples walked away so it was just them three,
"Sooo what do I wish to eat next!" As tasuki jumped out of his seat and grabbed ahold of nuriko in annoyance,
"Quit making that face!" "You look like a starving pig!" As he tried strangling nuriko,Miaka only could smile,
"I get it everyone is trying to cheer me up," "once we set out on our journey for hokkan," "we won't have time for fun and games," "only when we bed down or stop for break's," miaka didn't notice everyone came back from wondering, as she jumped up and fist pumped the air,
"Ok!" "Everyone lets have as much fun tonight as we can!" "Before we go!" Everyone fist pumped with her,
"yeah!" "Let's do it!"
As everyone stayed together and went to each place, they where broad at the show they put on, the couples seemed to enjoy the firework display,as Bella and miaka started to play a bow & arrow game, which Bella won't loads of prizes and shared them with her cousin,as they went to a strongest person contest, they saw a man try picking up a vase, and asked,
"Can anyone here put do me?" "No one!" The man asked smugly,
until nuriko came up and lifted the guy and the huge vase,as everyone thumb's up each other, and looked back at nuriko spinning the fat dude on his finger, and yelling out,
"How long do you think I can keep him spinning?" "Huh," "anyone can take a guess?" "What do you say!" As everyone started to clap for nuriko performance, as miaka saw a flute like amiboshi,no one didt realize Miaka took off, until nuriko came up,
''Hey Lookie!" "I won prizes!" Tasuki and everyone turned around to see if miaka saw,
"Hey miaka where do you want to go off to next?" Miaka? Everyone started to look around for their missing person,
meanwhile with miaka,
Miaka stood where amiboshi fell I to the dangerous currants, as she threw flowers into the water and started to prey for the dead seiryuu warrior, until she was snapped out of her prayer when tamahome walked up from behind her,
"So your praying for amiboshi?" Miaka turned around quickly to see tamahome,
"Tamahome?"
"We have to talk," tamahome started to walk away, he turned around to see if she was fallowing,
"Oh ok," "fine then,"
as miaka started to fallow,they went to a ally so no one would bother them, unknown to them they where being watched, miaka was against the wall and tamahome stood infront of her,tamahome let out a stressful *sigh*,
"Ok what did taiitsuku say to you?"
"She didn't say anything, nothing at all," as tamahome slammed his hand against the wall right by her head,
"Your lying to me!" "I asked you to marry me!" "And I was being quite serious about it!" "Do you really think I would just go away with a snap of your fingers," "I heard the fight that you and Bella had this morning!" "Tell me why you said no to me!" "The truth this time!" "Not no cock and bull crap!" "If you don't," "I'm gonna grrr!"
Miaka closed her eyes as she started to tell tamahome, and remember what taiitsuku told her and Bella,
Flashback,
"Now one more thing miaka," "and you must listen to want I have to say closely," "things would be more demanding and more difficult than before!" "But you have your cousin one of your guardians,"
"What do you mean by that?" Miaka asked of of confusion,then taiitsuku continued,
"You must not have to much intimacy with the opposite sex," "until you summon suzaku," "the line between the priestess and the warriors must not be crossed!" "The priestess of suzaku body must remain untouched and a virgin!" "If you so wish to summon suzaku you must abandon your love for tamahome!" "Abandon your love for him at once!"
End flashback
"Abandon your love for me?" Tamahome spoke sadly,
"Yes it was so hard," "bella even tried to talk her down," "it hurt to much," "but now,"
"WE CAN'T LOVE EACH OTHER OR IT WILL RUIN EVERYTHING!" "OUR WHOLE MISSION!" Miaka yelled as tears streamed down her face,
"So that what it was," "it asking a lot," "giving up our love for each other," "not to touch you," "to kiss you," "don't make me laugh," "she thinks we can do that until suzaku is summoned," "so until suzaku is summoned I can't touch you," "Kiss you or embrace you!" Tamahome punched the wall out of anger, he wanted to touch her so bad,as his hand lingered by her face,
"Oh ok fine then,"
as tamahome started to run away, miaka turn her head to watch the man she loved dearly run away,as he stopped running as turned around and smiled at miaka,
"Ok miaka until suzaku is summoned I will protect you as a warrior of the suzaku seven!" "But once suzaku has been summoned!" "I will make you the happiest bride In the world my love!" "We would out beat Bella and his highness!" "Ha hah!" And tamahome ran away again, miaka only smiled tamahome,
"Yes once suzaku has been summoned!" "You will make me a happy bride!"
To be continued,