Kida: Tamahome...WHY YOU TRY KILL YOURSELF?!

Tamahome: I didn't, you idiot!

Kido: Dude, you let your guard down.

Kida: I'm ashamed. I have an interest in a guy that can't keep his guard up...

Tamahome: *Sweat-drops* You people are crazy. Kida Tenshi does not own Naruto or Fushigi Yuugi. She only owns Aika Hitsubasa and other OCs.

After learning from Soi that Nakago did not in fact rape her, the Lady Aika set out immediately to find Tamahome. But Tamahome had been captured Tomo and his joy at seeing Lady Aika again was cut short when Tomo's feathers pierced him from behind.

"NO!" Aika screamed in anger and sadness. Tomo smirked and his shell Shin glowed.

"Aika!" Amiboshi shouted. "Concentrate or you'll be trapped inside an illusion!" Inside the illusion, Lady Aika has fallen in love with a boy named Aono, not realizing he is really Tomo in disguise. "No! Remember Tamahome, Aika!" Tomo smirked as his nails became claws and the markings appeared on his forehead again.

"Yes, call me Tomo."

~0~

The three were taking a break from looking for the file at the moment. Naruto and Sasuke were asleep, having stayed up longer due to worry for Aika. Shikamaru was currently reading the book.

'No, don't let him fool you. Open your eyes, Aika!' Shikamaru thought. Sasuke and Naruto slowly woke up. Naruto let out a loud yawn as he stretched.

"So what's going on with Aika and the others?" Naruto asked.

"Go back to sleep, would ya?!" Shikamaru snapped making the Uzumaki and Uchiha jump.

"What's with you, huh?" Sasuke asked.

~0~

"Huh? No kidding, Aika," Sakura said to her.

"You want us to believe you're going out with Aono now?" Yui asked.

"Yeah, I am," Aika smiled as she walked with Yui, Sakura, and Ino.

"He is like so popular with all the girls. Just like Sasuke!" Ino said to her.

"Well, the truth is, that's not all we're doing either," Aika said to them making them hum in question. Aika blushed as she looked ahead.

"Wipe that dirty look off your face and start talking, girlfriend," Yui said giving her a look.

"And we kissed too!" Aika smiled brightly. The girls glared at her before attacking her.

"What are you thinking?!" Yui exclaimed.

"You should be working on your shop!" Sakura said.

"We have to work too! So we don't get to fantasize like you do!" Ino said to her.

"Ino! Sakura! You have Sai and Sasuke for crying out loud!" Aika exclaimed.

"Aika," Aono said making all four girls fall to the ground. "Good morning," he smiled.

"G-good morning, Tomo," Aika blushed lightly with a smile. Yui smirked.

"Good morning, Aika," Yui acted as Aono before hugging Sakura. "Come on, let's kiss again like we did last night."

"Oh no, we mustn't. Not right here in public," Sakura said acting as Aika.

"Ew! You guys are so gross!" Ino laughed.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Aika shouted with a tick mark. "You guys are so mean!"

"Really, I am happy for you that you two finally got together," Yui said to her.

"Yeah. Thank you, Yui," Aika smiled at her.

"How about we head to the book store? I heard they have some new material there," Ino said to them. Everyone agreed and went to the book store. Once there, the four girls found books while Aono looked around.

"I thought you said 'new material'," Sakura said to Ino.

"Some of it is new, but I guess they also brought some used books to," Ino shrugged. "Hey, look at this. This old dictionary sure have a lot of marks and scribbles in them, don't they?" She said looking at her book.

"Yeah, they sure do," Aika agreed as she looked through hers.

"Yeah, somebody probably wrote down where all the dirty words are," Yui joked.

"Here's one. It says: 'go to page 581 and read carefully'," Sakura said before they all looked through it.

'Wow, I'm really lucking out lately. I actually haven't felt this relaxed in a long time. It's like everything's going the way I want it to,' Aika thought with a smile as she read. Her eyes suddenly widened when she saw the 'Ogre' character. 'There it is again. Why-? Why is my heart pounding? Ogre, the constellation Tamahome. Name of one of the ancient civilization constellations. The Gods of the east, west, south, and north were Seiryuu, Byakko, Suzaku, and Genbu. Each God was assigned seven regional constellations. Tamahome is one of the Seven Stars of Suzaku, the God of the South,' she silently read. "What does it all mean? I've never heard of any of it before," she said out loud.

"Aika," Aono said placing a hand on her shoulder. "How about we train together?" He asked making her blush a bit.

"How about we train together?" Yui acted as Aono as she hugged Sakura again. Aika punched the two to the sky.

"I told you to quit doing that!" Aika exclaimed with a tick mark. 'Still, I get the shivers just looking at his face and my first kiss…' she blushed as she thought about it.

"Aika?" Aono asked getting Aika's attention. "Listen to me, can you come over to my house tomorrow or on Sunday? You want to, right?" He asked smiling hopefully.

'No way! I can't do that! He's a pervert! Tomo's a pervert! He asked me to be his girlfriend yesterday and today he asked me to come to his room!' Aika thought with a nervous look.

"Aika, you're expression gives you away," Yui muttered.

"Well, I thought you might want some help with your shop," Aono said to her.

"H-help with the shop?" Aika blinked.

"What did you think we'd do?" Aono asked amused.

"N-nothing! Anyways, it sounds like a great idea. Maybe I can see if I'm missing anything from my inventory list," Aika smiled at him. 'God, I've been around Naruto and Kakashi too much. Their perverted ways are rubbing off on me.'

"Okay, then I'll pick you up, Aika," Aono said with a discrete smirk.

~0~

"Oh yes, give your body and soul to the one you love. To the projection of me in your self-created world of illusion," Tomo smirked.

"Monster," Amiboshi hissed.

"You cannot rescue the Priestess from the shell or the dream world she has chosen, Amiboshi. Your power is not great enough to cripple the strength of my clever spell," Tomo cackled. "No one's is," he added looking at Aika in the shell.

~0~

Tamahome groaned and sweated as he laid in bed, a bandage wrapped around his head.

"A-Aika…" he muttered. The door opened.

"Well? How is he?" A man asked as a woman walked up.

"I still can't tell. His flesh wounds are fairly light," the woman replied as the man walked over to Tamahome.

"Hm, that's a miracle after fall from that cliff," the man said.

"But something else is causing him a lot of anguish and pain," the woman told him.

"Let me see. Where does it hurt?" The man asked Tamahome.

"Feathers…in my back…my blood…" Tamahome muttered in his sleep.

"I see. This should take care of it," the man said snapping his knuckles. He then pressed some pressure down on Tamahome's chest making the young man groan before waking up.

"A-Aika?" He asked thinking he saw her. The image of Aika faded to reveal a young girl with black hair that was in braids. Tamahome sat up quickly with a gasp. "Where am I?" He asked seeing an old woman, the young girl, and the man.

"Don't be afraid. You're in my home. You seemed to be under some illusion spell," the man said to him.

"Illusion? I see, that was it," Tamahome said as he remembered Tomo 'stabbing' him. "Dammit, he got me," he gritted his teeth.

"I released you through a pressure point. You can move now. It may have been an illusion, but the shock would have killed an ordinary person, but not one of the Suzaku Seven, right, Tamahome?" The man asked.

"But how do you know who I am, sir?" Tamahome asked shocked. The man removed the wrap that covered the lower half of his face. He had white hair and a beard. Gold hoops in his ears.

"It's been eight years. Your body's grown quite a bit, but I recognize you just the same," the man smiled.

"You…Master!"

~0~

Aika waited at the bridge, looking at the stream running underneath it. She was currently dressed in a red off the shoulder, short sleeved dress. The skirt of the dress flowed to above her knees. She also wore black knee high boots that had two inch heels.

'I have the lucky shuriken Tomo gave me right here near my heart,' Aika smiled as she felt the shuriken that was on a chain around her neck. 'God, I never thought I would be going to his house so soon in the relationship. I'll have to introduce myself to his family,' Aika thought to herself. She tried to imagine his parents. 'Well, I hope they'll like me. I also hope I don't make a complete fool of myself. What if I stutter? What if I act too shy?'

"You don't have to be so nervous," Aono said with a bit of amusement. Aika jumped a bit and looked at him with a blush.

"Maybe just a little," she said with a sheepish smile. She linked her arm with his and walked with him. "Sorry about that," she said to him.

"That's all right. Hey, let's take a short cut by the library," Aono smiled at her as they walked. Aika gasped slightly when she saw the library. She walked up to it.

"I've been here in this library before," she said looking up at it.

"What's wrong?" Aono asked walking up to her.

"I'm sure that Naruto and I have been here. Yui too!" Aika said trying to remember.

"So have I. So has everyone in school that I know," Aono said raising an eyebrow. "Come on, let's go."

"I think…something important happened to me in that building," Aika murmured, keeping her eyes on the library.

"It's all in your head. You know, I have some real tasty cake at my house," Aono tempted her.

"Cake? What kind of cake?" Aika asked.

"Double chocolate," Aono smirked.

"Oh, messing with a girl's love for chocolate. Just cruel," Aika joked making him chuckle before they started walking to his house again. They made it Aono's place then. "Hello?" She called before they walked up the stairs. She saw no one around. 'Nobody's home,' she thought, her eyes narrowing slightly in confusion. They then made it to Aono's room.

"Come on in," Aono said letting Aika into his room. Aika looked around with a smile.

"Wow, you keep your room so neat and clean. Not like Naruto. He always used to keep his room a bit mess until he married Hinata," she said to him.

"Well, I don't like to let things get out of place," Aono smirked, quietly locking the door.

"Oh look, the library," Aika mused looking out his window. 'Why does it keep bothering me? Something happened there,' she thought. She then turned with a smile. "Hey, Tomo, we should go to the library a little later. Can we? There's something I wanna look up in there," she said to him. She was then shocked when he hugged her from behind. Aono then gently turned her head and kissed her, making her eyes widen. 'Is this it? Is this were I cross the line? The line where most would consider me a woman?' Aika thought before pulling away. "Hold on a sec!" She said with a nervous expression.

"Uh-I don't get it. What's wrong? Aren't we going together now?" Aono asked her.

"Yeah, but you said we would be going over inventory today. To see if I needed help with the shop. Besides, we're only sixteen! And somebody might be home, ya know," Aika said nervously.

"Nobody else is home. You and I are here all alone now," Aono stated making Aika's eyes widen a bit. "You know I love you, Aika. I always have," he said pulling her into his arms. "Don't you love me? Is that the problem?" He asked bringing her back to arm's length.

"No, that's not it," Aika shook her head.

"Then what is?" He asked her. He closed the blinds and suddenly Aika was on the bed only in her underwear. "It's all right. Don't be afraid," he said softly as he tossed her dress to the ground.

'I do love Tomo, so it's okay. I believe that…but something's bothering me, deep in my heart. What is it? What am I supposed to remember?' Aika thought as Aono removed his shirt. She then thought back through the day. 'That's right! The library. It did happen there. That's where it started,' she thought back. She remembered when she had dropped that book only to see a path of red lights leading her to the reference room where Naruto found her. That's when they saw the book called The Universe of the Four Gods. "Tomo, Naruto and I did go into that library and we did find an old book there," Aika stated surprising Aono as Aika remembered. "What was the book called? Yeah, and then as we began to read it, I was taken into the book."

"What are you talking about? That can never really happen. It must have been a dream. Just a bad dream, forget it," Aono whispered before kissing her. Aika kissed him back.

'A dream? That must be it. A dream…' she thought until she remembered the scenery of Konan. 'The world inside the book was just like you would imagine the ancient civilization would be like. And there was an Emperor and a big palace,' she thought as she started remember Hotohori.

"Aika, will you help us save Konan? Please. In exchange you will be granted anything at all you wish for," Hotohori had told her.

"Anything? You mean…I could finally be happy? Open my shop and…have my family back?" She whispered. "I'll do it! I'll become the Priestess of Suzaku!" Aika said determined. Aika's eyes widened. 'The Priestess of Suzaku? And the Emperor's name was…' Aono's eyes narrowed as he knew she was remembering.

"I am Hotohori of the Suzaku Seven, sworn to protect and defend the Priestess of Suzaku," Hotohori had told her. Aika then remembered Yui being there.

'A-and Yui's become the Priestess of Seiryuu!' Aika thought.

"You must retrieve the Shinzahou and then you will be able to summon Suzaku. You must not let the Seiryuu Seven get the Shinzahou before you," Taiitsukun had told her.

"This is…all wrong. It's wrong. Let me go! I know I am still inside the book!" Aika shouted pushing 'Aono' away. "You're not the one I love! You're not!" She glared angrily at him. "After I summon Suzaku, I'll stay here in this world forever."

"We'll never be apart again, Aika," Tamahome had told her. It's then the symbol on his forehead glowed. Ogre.

"Tamahome!" Aika shouted, arms covering her chest as Tomo's eyes widened. His hair grew out and wrapped around her limbs. She groaned as he struggled.

"I have to admit, you surprised me. You have broken the spell of Tomo of the Seiryuu Seven. Quite unexpected," Tomo said as the red circle on his forehead appeared with the black arrow on his nose.

"You're him," Aika growled with anger.

"But even though you clearly see the truth now, it's too late. Because if you're not a virgin, you cannot ever summon Suzaku and that is the plan," Tomo smirked at her. He then cackled when she started struggling more.

~0~

Amiboshi watched as Tomo concentrated on the illusion, his eyes closed.

'Tomo's concentrating all his life force into the shell. If I'm ever going to escape, now's the time,' he thought as he struggled. 'Come on, Amiboshi. Wake up!' He thought until something snapped and he screamed.

~0~

"No! Let me go, you pervert! You jerk!" Aika shouted as she struggled.

"Tsk, what a discourteous young lady. The boy's scream excited me much more than yours," Tomo said bored until he tightened the hair around her.

'No…Tamahome. How do I get out of this?'

~0~

Amiboshi then started playing his flute making Tomo's eyes widen.

"Amiboshi!" He exclaimed to see the boy free and indeed playing the instrument.

'Aika, I'll give you my strength. Please try to break out of this illusion!' Amiboshi thought.

~0~

Aika stopped when she heard the flute.

'A flute? His hair is loose!' She thought as she looked at the hair. She reached down and saw the necklace that Tomo had taken off her neck. She grabbed it and stabbed it in the red circle of Tomo's forehead. Tomo screamed in pain.

~0~

The shell shattered stunning Tomo.

"Wha-? The shell!" Tomo exclaimed. It's then Aika appeared laying on the ground in nothing but her underwear.

"Aika!" Amiboshi called. He ran over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Say something," he said to her. Niko meowed and pawed her hand.

"Stand aside, Amiboshi," Tomo said while Niko hissed at the clown face. Amiboshi stood. "To the very end you deny your allegiance and obstruct my spell!" Tomo said before using his magic on Amiboshi who was sent flying in the air. His jacket and most of his shirt was ripped off from the impact of the spell. Amiboshi landed on the ground with a grunt, pained.

"A-Aika, no," he murmured. He got up shakily. "I promise…I will protect you with my life," he said as he collapsed to his knees beside her. Tomo cackled as Amiboshi shakily stood again.

"Looks like you have more than enough difficulty protecting yourself. Now hand over the girl and give up this distracting game play," Tomo said before attacking him with fire covered rocks. Amiboshi played his flute, creating a protective barrier. He kept playing as the rocks bounced off the barrier.

'I wish…I wish I could have been born one of the Suzaku Seven. I do,' Amiboshi thought. Aika slowly woke up.

'Amiboshi…' She thought. Amiboshi then used his flute to stop the rocks, getting rid of the flames, before throwing them back at Tomo. Tomo dodged them and appeared in front of Amiboshi again, this time with more Tomos around him, surprising him. He heard all the Tomos cackle. Amiboshi then screamed as he was stabbed multiple times with the feathers. He collapsed on the ground.

"How can you hope to contest me as you continue to miscalculate when you can't tell the real me from my illusions?" Tomo smirked.

"A-Aika," Amiboshi whispered as he tried to sit up.

"It's time to end this tedious torture. Time to die," Tomo smirked. He then let out a loud grunt of pain. Amiboshi looked over to see Suboshi.

"Get away from my brother!" Suboshi glared at Tomo.

"Suboshi…I-it's you," Tomo chocked out.

"Get away I said!" Suboshi shouted before using his weapon on Tomo. Suddenly Tomo was all cut up and bloodied, his clothes ruined and his hair cut off.

"N-Nakago….forgive me," Tomo said before falling to the ground, dead.

"Brother!" Suboshi shouted running over to his twin. "I'm here! I'm here," he said bringing Suboshi into his arms. "It's all right now. He's dead."

"Suboshi," Amiboshi murmured.

'Either I'm seeing double or Suboshi is really here with Amiboshi…' Aika thought, still a bit out of it.

"Amiboshi, why did you disappear for so long and let everyone believe you were dead?" Suboshi asked holding his brother close.

"I'm sorry, but I did not ever forget about you, Suboshi," Amiboshi stated. It's then the sun came up. "Brother, we have to stop. Stop attacking Aika and the others. We can't let Seiryuu be summoned. Come with me to…to Makan Village. We can start over with a new family, you and I together and live in peace. It's true. If we both drink the juice of the forgetfulness leaves then we'll forget everything. If you want to live with me in peace then drink, Suboshi," he said holding the jar up to his brother.

'Suboshi…' Aika thought as she watched them. Suboshi looked at the jar before putting the liquid in his mouth. He then kissed his brother, transferring the juice into Suboshi's mouth. He soon pulled back when he knew his brother drank it. Suboshi had tears in his eyes.

"Forgive me, brother, but I'm in love with Lady Yui," Suboshi told his brother.

"Su…" Amiboshi then lost consciousness and fell limp.

"Amiboshi!" Aika called with worry. Suboshi glared at her.

"It's been a long time, Priestess of Suzaku," he said getting up after laying his brother down. He then started walking towards her with a smirk. "I like that new outfit of yours. It's nice. What kind of a welcome is this? Come over here!" He ordered while Aika glared at him, covering her chest.

"No, stay away," she said as she stood. "Why do you all of you Seiryuu Seven have to act like such perverts?" She asked as she backed away from him while he walked towards her.

"It was your fault those men in Kutou accosted Lady Yui and violated her trust forever. So it's only fitting that the same thing should happen to you. Don't you agree with me?" Suboshi smirked at her.

"No! You've got it all wrong! Yui wasn't raped!" Aika stated until Suboshi grabbed her.

"I will defile you the same way she was defiled!" Suboshi told her

'Tamahome…are you really dead, Tamahome? If this guy does anything to me then I'm going to jump off this cliff too,' Aika thought looking over her shoulder. She backed up making some rocks fall. Suboshi smirked as he kept a hold on her.

"No you don't. Trying to kill yourself? I can't let you do that," Suboshi told her. Aika's eyes widened in fear.

"Tamahome!"

Kida: Dude, what is with the Seiryuu guys wanting to rape Aika?

Kido: I know! First Nakago, then Tomo, and now Suboshi! Um...sis?

Kida: Hm?

Kido: Look behind you.

Kida: *Looks behind her and gulps*

Tamahome: *Ready to kill Kida*

Kida: *Runs for the hills*

Tamahome: *Runs after her* I'LL KILL YOU!

Kido: Well, while they do that, we hope you enjoyed the chapter. Please favorite and comment!