"Miryuu-sama, Im confused!" Suboshiko frowned. "How
 are we gonna call Seiryuu if we don't have a miko?"

Miryuu smirked. "What taitsu-kun dosen't realize is,
 the two shinzaho together are powerful enough to call
 Suzaku without a miko. With a miko, you only need
 one."

"So, what are we gonna do?"

"Were gonna follow them and steal the Shinzaho-no
 matter what."
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A Fushigi Yuugi OVA:Ripples in the water
Part 14: He's more powerful than he let on!
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"Ne Chichiri-san, we're too serious."

"Nani no da?" He peeked down at H-chan, who was
 leaning against him with a scowl of frustration.

H-chan wrinkled her nose. "It seems that any time we
 get together, we have a scene. You know what Id
 really like, more than anything?"

"What no da?"

H-chan scootched towards the water. "Id like to go for
 a nice walk along the river." She stared over it,
 then trailed her fingers through the water, making
 the stars patterns waver and splash. "No pressure, no
 quests, just a nice walk."

Chichiri sighed. "I don't think we can do that no da."

"Why not?" H-chan grinned. "'fraid I might get fresh?"

Chichiri raised his eyebrows. "Now that you mention it
 no da..."

"Kidding! Kidding! But, seriously, why?" 

Chichiri sighed. "It's what I've been afraid of no
 da...I think we may have to seperate when you call
 Suzaku no da."

"What?" A pang went trough H-chan. Leave Chichiri now?
 After all this?

"When Suzaku is called, the job is over...the previous
 mikos all went home. If you aren't a citizen of our
 world, you cant stay..." Chichiri stared out over the
 water, blue bangs bobbing in a slight breeze, face
 wrinkled in worry. "It's just the way it works no da."

"But..."H-chan stared up at him, questioningly. "What
 if I made a wish to  Suzaku to become a true citizen
 of this world?"

Chichiri started. "H-chan...you'd miss your world a
 lot no da!"

"Not really..."H-chan leaned back, staring up at the
 stars. "School sucks, No one respects me, my parents
 yell at me all the time, my sister's a
 brat...besides..." H-chan giggled. "There ain't no
 shonens back home like YOU!"

Chichiri blushed. "H-chan, no da..." Then he smiled.
 "I'll talk to Taitsu-kun, see if I can figure out a
 way to get you back and forth between worlds no da."

"Arigatou, Chichiri!" *GLOMP!*

"AAhhhh!" he laughed. "Let go no da! Let go-"
 Footsteps sounded in the distance.

"Shhh!" H-chan clamped a hand onto his mouth.
 "Someone's coming!"

They quickly hid (Chichiri Sded, H-chan ducking down)
 amongst the reeds. Two pairs of footsteps followed,
 both stomping.

"Whoever it is, they are PISSED..."

"Ni-CHAN! You @#!*head!"

They simultaneously sweatdropped. "'rou-chan and
 Tasuki..."

"Ni-Chan, that's %$#@ and you KNOW it!"

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 Tasuki marched off, arms folded, ignoring his
 screaming 'rou-chan. 

"Ni-chan, that's %$#@ and you KNOW it!" 'rou-chan
 stomped her foot, bearing her fangs in a menacing
 snarl.  "I can take care of myself! I want to come!"

"No &^%$in way you're goin' on a boat." Tasuki glared
 at her from over his shoulder. "You can't swim."

"NEITHER CAN YOU!"

"So?" Tasuki turned around, growling.

'rou-chan screeched in annoyance. Tasuki laughed
 menacingly. In responce, she jumped into a tree and
 flipped over his head, trying for a neat kick in his
 stomach-

but Tasuki grabbed her by the foot. She hung upside
 down like a butcher-shop rabbit, flailing and
 screeching, until Tasuki did the one thing that could
 finialy shut her up.

He flipped her over and gave her a hug.

"Ni-chan?" 'rou-chans muffled voice murmured. "What
 the %$# is this for?"

"Migenrou..." His voice lost its accent and jeering.
 "Moms dead. Dads gone. What do I have left if I lose
 you?"

"Kouji?"

*THUNK* "^%$# you, 'rou-chan!" Tasukis voice got back
 to normal, accented by Migenrous happy giggles. 

"You too, Ni-chan." The two continued, laughing, off
 up the path.

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Chichiri and H-chan looked at each other for a second.
 Thus was one of the defining moments between the
 sexes, as they turned to each other and said
 simultaneously:

"Scary no da!"

"That's so CUTE!"

"What do you mean, cute no da?" Chichiri gave a very
 kawaii but confused look. "They curse at each other
 and yell no da! They seem to hate each other no da!"


H-chan shook her head. "Chichiri, did you ever have a
 little sister?"

"Once..." Chichiri sighed. "Before the flood..."

"Well, I have one...boy, she was a brat. About the
 only way you can show you care is by telling
 sometimes...isn't it?

"I guess so no da..." Chichiri paused a moment,
 reflecting on his little sisters constant meddling.
 "Did she really drive you crazy no da?"

"Hai!" H-chan nodded. "But my older sister was the
 worst. Always bossing me around! Same with my 
parents! Always yelling...it drives me NUTS!"

"H-chan..." Chichiri slumped against a tree, staring
 up at the stars. "Your parents don't yell at you 
cause they're mad, they yell cause they want you to be
 careful no da. Remember when I yelled at you when you
 were playing with Tasukis fan no da?"

H-chan stifled a giggle. "yeah...no offence, but that
 was pretty cool..."

Chichiri sighed in exasperation. "H-chan...you could
 have fried yourself no da! I was worried about you
 being caught by the seiryuus...or scarring
 yourself...or-hey!"

H-chan glomped onto him. "Chichiri...you're too cool.
 Can we go back now? I'm sleepy!" Chichiri sighed at
 the giggling girl on his arm. "Okay no da...you're
 too much, H-chan no da!"

"Hai..."H-chan grinned, then yanked off Chichiri's
 kesa. "A-ano!" Chichiri turned red. 

H-chan looked at him funny as she spread it on the
 ground. "What? How else will we get back?"

Chichiri sweatdropped. "Ah no da..." 

(She's definatley going to take some getting used to
 no da.)

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Chiriko sat alone by a pond in the palace's courtyard.
 He dropped a stone into the water, and watched the
 ripples. Geeze, he was a wuss. Staying back from the
 festival just because of Migenrou!

But it was safer...he reflected on all the times that
 he had made a joke, and her eyes had just seemed to
 almost glaze over...He was constantly confusing her
 because of his vocabulary and knowledge of the world.

(Its great to be like this...but I'm so different from
 everyone!) he sighed. "It's just so stupid...after
 all, I wouldn't have met Migenrou in the first place
 if I wasn't smart..."

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Tasuki wandered around the field, completely bored. He
 had been offically expelled from Keitou no college,
 at least for the third time that week. He knew if he
 came back and pleaded a sad enough case, he would be
 allowed back in, but it was a pain...


This time it was because of his tutor. His tutor, a
 well meaning, kind young girl from the outskirts of
 Konan, had simply become fed up with "that stupid
 fanged imbecile!" as she had delicately termed it. So
 now he was out, out on his ass-

"Until I find another tutor!" He mimicked Keitzu's
 stern voice. "%$#@ing college. I should have picked
 jail!"

He stomped along, mercilessly kicking rocks and trees
 and little boys-

Ooops...

He ran back to where the little boy was huddled over,
 crying. "Oh, suck it up!" Tasuki rolled his eyes. "It
 was a light kick!"

The kid looked up. An unusually cute little boy's face
 streaked with tears. That just infuriated Tasuki
 more, after all, there was nothing he could stand
 less that a cute little kid.

But to his suprise, the kid scowled at him. "I'm not
 crying about that!"

"Then what? Not that I care." he quickly amended. 

The kid stifled a sniffle. "The other kids all make
 fun of me cause I'm smart!"

Tasuki laughed. "So what? Just cause they're stupid
 little %$#@heads!"

Chiriko cradled his face in his hands. Tasuki sighed
 and sat down beside him. "I thought you were smart!"

"I AM SMART!" The kid jumped up, and a red flash was
 on his foot-

Tasuki gaped. "You're a Suzaku Shichseishi!" 

Chiriko sniffled. "So, what's it to ya'?"

Tasuki held out his arm, raising his symbol. "So
 seishi have to stick together. Ill go kick those kids
 asses." Tasuki staked towards the kids, who were
 staring at Tasuki with an astonished, horrified look
(though not nearly as astonished as Chiriko). 

"NOW HEAR THIS, YA LITTLE $#@!S!" Tasuki picked up
 what appeared to be the lead one by the collar. "ba-
uh,ba-" He struggeld to get out of Tasuk's grip , but
 to no avail. Tasuki began to shake him. "IF YOU KEEP 
%$#@ING MAKING FUN OF MY FELLOW SEISHI, I WON'T JUST 
%$#@ING KILL YOU, ILL %$#@ING MUTILATE YOU!"

He dropped the kid to the ground. "Understood?" He
 growled.

The kid just stared up at him for one second, then
 passed out.

Tasuki laughed. "WAHHAAA! GEN-CHAN is the MAN!"

Chiriko smiled up at him. "Wow, mister, that was cool."

"No problem. Where do ya' live, kid?"

"I'm an orphan. I live at the Katsura orphan-"

"Not anymore!" Tasuki grabbed the kid by the hand.
 "You say you're smart? I've got a %$#@in deal for
 Ya'..."
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And just like that, Chiriko had gone to the college
 and began to train to be a bandit. Despite constant
 begging, he couldn't get anyone to fight him (and how
 was he supposed to get a good battle scar without a
 battle?) but he still did pretty good, except for
 Migenrou...

HE just couldn't talk to her. He just used even bigger
 words when he got flustered, and after awhile, he had
 just given up on talking to her. It wasn't fair....

"Oy, Chiriko!" 

Speak of the devil...there was Migenrou and Tasuki,
 his "father" and "sister"...Migenrou almost always
 managed to look especially beautiful in the
 moonlight. 

"C'mon, Chiriko!" She yelled, grabbing his hand, "we
 gotta go back, its time for bed..."

"Oh, that would be acceptable..."

"Huh?"

"I meant...yup."

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K-chan woke up to a shining sun. She stretched,
 finding no Tamahome. He must have gone off for some
 breakfast. She sighed and rolled over-

ADORABLE! she had to clamp a hand over her mouth to
 keep from squealing. (that was just the type of
 person K-chan is, after all.)

There was Chichiri and H-chan, curled up under his
 kesa. She was snoring slightly, one arm draped across
 a flat on his back Chichiri.  "Daaa..."

(Kawaii! He "da's" in his sleep!") She grinned an
 evilish grin. "Should I wake her up?"

"Bakaaa..." 

"Nani?" K-chan looked down at H-chan, who had one eye
 open to glare at K-chan. "You think I was asleep?"
 she hissed quietly.

K-chan sighed. "Baka!"

"Daaa...." Chichiri rolled over, and flomped directly
 on H-chan, who turned bright red. "Da!" she
 whispered. 

K-chan giggled. "Ne, you want me to wake him up?"

"No way!" H-chan giggled, in the throwes of joy. "Why-"

"Chichiri! H-chan!" Tasuki stood in the doorway,
 leering eerily. "The miko needs to STAY pure!"

"Tasuki!" H-chan sat straight up, knocking the still
 slumbering Chichiri to the floor. "Baka ya rou!"

"I'm the baka! %$#@ing wrong again, Miko-SAN!" Tasuki
 snorted. "We have to call Suzaku, and if you-"

"TASUKI! WE ARENT DOING ANYTHING!" She slammed her
 fist down on the ground. "HE'S ASLEEP!"

"Da..." Chichiri yawned, got up and stretched. "Not
 anymore no da...Ohayu, Tasuki-kun."

"Ohayu, Chichiri!" Chiriko came into the room and 
bowed. "Taitsu-kun says to get up, she wants us to
 leave IMMEDATELY!" Chiriko stuck his tounge out at
 Tasuki.
 
"See how to do things with out making a scene?"

"You want a %$#@ing scene? Lekka-"

"Tasuki, no!" H-chan grabbed the tessen and held on
 with all her might. "That things super powered now!
 Did you forget? Until you learn to control that thing-
don't use it so recklessly!"

"Oinu, what do you know about Gen-chan's weapons?"
 Tasuki snorted. "Lekka!" 

"Tasuki?" Chichiri stood up in front of all to them,
 prompting them to scilence. "You should go pack no
 da."

Tasuki just sighed, put the tessen behind his back,
 and walked away. (You just can't stay mad around that
 $#@!ing monk!)

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"Ne, Taitsu-kun?"

"Yes, H-chan?" H-chan and K-chan, having nothing to
 pack, were sitting with Taitsu-kun and a few Nyan-
nyans by the boat. Something that had been bugging H-
chan for awhile...

"What happened to my clothes from the otherworld?"

Taitsu-kun wrinkled her nose. "Those ugly things? I
 have them here, though god knows why you'd want
 them!" She snapped, and H-chan clothes appeared: A
 Sailor moon T-shirt, jeans, some blue socks-and

"Oh god! Oh god! Where are my shoes?"

"Oh no..." K-chan rolled her eyes.

"What's wrong, H-chan?" Chiriko, lugging a pack behind
 him, stared up at her curiously. 

"My blue high-tops! My supercool, all-star, blue high
 tops! Where are they?" H-chan began to wail, grieving
 her beloved high tops.

Taitsu-kun snapped. "Nyan-nyan."

A fleet of Nyan-nyan appeared behind her. "Hai, Taitsu-
kun!"

"Where are H-chans shoes? Hayaku, she wants them back!"

The Nyan-Nyan ranks shuffled and moved until one Nyan-
nyan came forward, tripping clumsily. It lifted its
 skirts to reveal a pair of electric blue high tops.
 It was also carring a blue bookbag.

"K-chan! Your bookbag!" H-chan gaped, "you didn't tell
 me you brought it!"

"It never came up."

The Nyan-nyan came up in front of her and bowed,
 sweatdropping profusely. "Gomen! Shoes just so
 pretty...all otherworld stuff so pretty!
 Nyan-Nyan wish she live in other world with 
prettyness..."

"Aw..." H-chan knelt in front of the Nyan-nyan and put
 her hands on her shoulder. "Normally, I destroy
 anyone who touches my high-tops..." The Nyan-Nyan
 flinched, then looked up to see H-chan smiling. "But
 since you're so kawaii, Ill make an exception...keep
 them safe for me till I get back, ne?"

"WAI!" The Nyan-nyan knocked H-chan over with a hug. 

"Itee..." H-chan laughed. "I'm such a baka..."

K-chan stood on her tiptoes. "Ne, TASUKI! COME ON!"
 Everyone was gathered around the dock except for
 Chichiri, who was off getting the last of his stuff
 together, and Tasuki, who was hiding behind a statue
 in the garden. H-chan rolled her eyes. "Its not like
 I cant see you. Wuss."

"Oinu!" Tasuki stalked out, nervously eyeing the boat.
 Chichiri came up a few seconds later, twirling a
 kasa."Chichiri-san!"H-chan ran up and hugged him.

He smiled. "So affectionate...Are we ready to go no
 da? Where's Hotohori no da?"

Hotohori stepped out of the crowd. "I'm sorry to say
 that I wont be able to accompany you on this journey,
 but I do have things I have to take care of at the
 palace..." he sighed at Nuriko's glare, "I'm sorry,
 darling..."

Nuriko sighed. " I know...well, lets go." She turned
 to the boat, then dropped her pack. "Hori-SAMAAA!!"
 She rushed him into a big hug and kiss.

"Kawaii! "K-chan cooed. After the romantic interlude,
 they all began to go up the gangplank to the boat. 

Tasuki lingered at the back. (I'm not getting on that 
%$#@ing thing till I absolutely HAVE to.) Chiriko also
 was at the back, huffing and puffing over his huge
 load. "This thing's so HEAVY..."

Tasuki looked down and sighed. ($#@!ing kids.) He
 picked Chiriko up, pack and all, and put him on his
 back. "What the %$#@ do you eat, kid? ROCKS? If I
 fall down I'm gonna kill you! Stupid %$#@ing kids..."

Chiriko laughed as he and Tasuki continued their
 obsentity filled trip up the gangplank to the large
 ship.

"SAYONARA, KONAN-KOKU!" Tamahome yelled from the dock
 as the ship began to pull out.

"Sayonara, Hori-sama..." Nuriko sniffled.

"Sayonara, beautiful palace hospital..." Mitsukake
 muttered.

"Sayonara, little cottage of my own..." K-chan sighed.

"Sayonara, wandering trips nan no da..."

"Sayonara, blue high tops..." H-chan sighed.

"Sayonara, 'rou-chan!" Chiriko and Tasuki yelled in
 unison.

A small voice piped up from below deck. "SAYONARA, NI-
CHAANN!"

Tasuki began to turn red. "Masaka..."

Migenrou, grinning nervously, poked her head above
 deck. "Miss me, Ni-chan?"
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"Minna! Dinner!" 

Everyone gathered in the bottom of the ship. Tasuki
 scowled down at his little sister. "I'm not %$#@ing
 talking to you!"

"And why the %$#@ not?"

"YOU KNOW WHY NOT!" Tasuki scowled at her. "Baka! I
 told you not to come!"

Migenrou stuck her tounge out. "And miss all the
 excitement? No fair, Ni-chan!"

"Ne, Chichiri?" H-chan sighed. "Cant you make them
 stop?"

He sweatdropped. "Can anything make them stop no da?"

"Good point." 

Nuriko came in, proudly carrying a large platter of
 fish. "I spent an hour on this! Everyone, thank
 Chichiri for catching such nice ocean fish!"

"Thank you, Chichiri!" came the grade-school sounding
 reply. Chichiri bowed politely. "Domo nan no da!"

"Minna," Tamahome said. "How long till we reach Sailo?"

"Approximately 2 weeks no da."

"2 weeks on a ship! %$#@! Tasuki put his head in his
 hands, turning green. "This sucks."

Tamahome grinned. "That should be enough time to teach
 Tasuki-san how to swim, ne?"

"LEKKA-"

"No!" H-chan grabbed the tessen away. "Tasuki, you
 have to be careful with this thing!"

Chiriko sighed. "Minna, how are we gonna pass all this
 time on a boat?"

"I know!" K-chan cheered. "I brought my bookbag! We
 can study!"

"Yeah! We can study!" H-chan cheered. Then she
 sweatdropped. "We can study...I forgot about the
 exams...I'm gonna fail!"

"You're bad at school, H-chan?" Chiriko looked shocked.

"Well, its definetly not a strong place for me." H-
chan sighed. Then she suddenly hit upon an idea. "Ne,
 Chichiri...what do you know about algebra?"

"Not much no da..." Chichiri laughed, a bit nervously.
 "I never even went to school no da."

"I could probably help you, H-chan..." Chiriko looked
 up at her slightly embarrassed. "That is, if you need
 help..."

"Chiriko-san..."

"Hai?"

"ARIGATOU!!!" H-chan swooped down on Chiriko, giving
 him a monster hug.

"Ne Chichiri, your girlfriend's molesting Chiriko!"

*WHOP*

"URESI, NI-CHAN!"
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A week and a half passed by on the ship, in which the
 group took on the postions needed to keep the ship
 going till they reached Sailo.

Chichiri became the defacto captain, trying
 desperately to keep the peace in a crew getting
 severe cabin fever,

H-chan, by her own insistance, was "assistant to the
 captain", a job which mainly consisted of glomping
 onto Chichiri when he wasn't steering,

Nuriko was the cook, Chiriko was the navigator, and
 Tasuki was the one who stood on the side of the boat
 looking green and wailing. 

K-chans only real job was to hum the "Gilligan's
 Island" theme song until H-chan whopped her in the
 head.

Migenrou's job, of course, was to follow Ni-chan
 around and make sure he didn't bail ship.

Little did they know of the insidous forces coming
 together to ruin the trip...

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The Seiryuu Seishi stood together on a rocky cliff,
 spying on the Suzaku Sieshis boat from Tomo's clam. 

"Is it time to strike, Miryuu-sama?" Amiboshi growled.
 "I wanna get those bastards!"

Miryuu nodded. "But don't try to take them out with 
your flute music! Just follow the plan."

"But Miryuu-sama..."

"Trust me..." A small, evil smile formed across her
 face. "Its more fun this way."

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"So, H-chan, you put the X here..."

"Auugh, this is so CONFUSING!" H-chan whimpered.
 "Arigatou gozaimasu, Chiriko, but maybe we should
 knock off for tonight..."

Chiriko, H-chan, and K-chan sat on the dock with K-
chan's Algebra 1 book, trying desperately to explain
 factoring to H-chan's disfunctioning mind. Tasuki sat
 on the side of the dock, looking green and moaning.
 "I %$#@ing HATE ships!"

"Tasuki-san...Its just a few days more!"

"Not helping, Chiriko." Tasuki growled.

A high, thin flute music pierced the air. "Nani?" H-
chan murmured. 

Chichiri ran out on the deck. "Minna! Cover your
 ears!" He clamped his hands firmly on H-chan's ears.
 "Its Seiryuu chi, but its not directed at us..."

The winds rose. Soon the little boat was tossing and
 turning on the waves.

"%$#@!" Tasuki lost his balance and fell overboard,
 kicking and flailing.

"Shimatta! He can't even swim!" H-chan broke free of
 Chichiri, running to the side of the ship. 

"H-chan no da! Don't do anything stupid no da!"

"Gomen, Chichiri!" She yelled as she dove into the
 water. "Its instinct!"

"H-chan!" Chichiri ran to the side of the boat. "Baka
 no da! Get back up here no da!"

"Don't worry, I'm licenced with the YWCA!" H-chan swam
 out to the trashing Tasuki, but was soon engulfed
 with waves. "Shi-"

The strains of Amiboshi's flute were broken by another
 one, a high whistle. Chichiri looked over in suprise
 at Chiriko who was whistiling a high tune out of a
 small red flute. ((Chichiri-sama, can you hear me?))

((Chiriko! You can-))

((Hayaku! Put me over them!))

Chichiri quickly made a bubble to float Chiriko over
 Tasuki and H-chan. As the bubble floated over them,
 the sea clamed. Soon there was a circle of calm water
 of H-chan and Tasuki.

Chiriko stopped whistling. "Hayaku, follow me to that
 cliff!" He pointed over to, where in the distance,
 the faint outline of a cliff was clearly visible.
 H-chan began to doggypaddle over to the
 spot, dragging Tasuki by the collar. Chichiri
 contemplated diving in the water, but was pretty sure
 H-chan had a pretty good hold on things...and who
 would have known it about Chiriko? The little one was
 obviously a bit more powerful than he let on.

"Stop, Chiriko no da!" Chichiri hollered, straining
 against the wind. "H-chan, throw me your feather no
 da!"

H-chan grabbed the feather out of her pocket and
 floated it to Chichiri. He waved them off, feather
 glowing in the dim. The wind had pushed clouds in
 front of the sun, creating an almost-night. "Ill be
 able to track you now no da! Go ahead nan no da!"

He watched with a sigh as they dissapeared into the
 dark mist. "That baka no da...always throwing herself
 into harms way nan no da!"
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"Damnit!" Suboshiko growled. "The kids powerful!"

Miryuu frowned. "Fine. If that's the way its gonna
 be..." The blue symbol began to glow on her thigh.
 "Let it be that way!"

"Miryuu! Be carefull!" Tomo grabbed her shoulder. "Are
 you strong enough-"

"Uresi! I'm fine!" Miryuu threw him off, then raised
 an index finger high in the air...
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After about 15 minutes, they reached the cliff.
 Chiriko quietly floated down, then the two of them 
pushed and tugged the sputtering Tasuki onto the 
shore. 

"Baka!" H-chan growled, still bobbing in the water.
 "Now I'm SOAKED!"

Tasuki glared at her. "I didn't need savin', oinu!"

"Oh, yes you-"

They were cut off by a bolt of electricity that fell
 from the sky-

right in front of H-chan.

"IYAAAAAA!!!"

End Chapter 14!