Chapter 3....and a note:

Kotori (K-chan) and Haruka (H-chan) are AMERICAN STUDENTS. thats why
their 
friends willl have english names. I gave them Japanese names because I 
thought they fit into the cast better that way....I mean, Chichiri
falling in 
love with a girl named "Heather" or something...it would be wierd. 
Here we go...


When you finish a book, of course, it is a total armagadden for the 
characters. All of the events and people are wiped away. 

Sometimes, though, emotions can be so strong they can even defy the
rule of 
the sky...
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The room was dark, totally devoid of colors. The sevant crept in
quietly. 
"Princess?"

"what is it?" The sharp voice of the princess Miryuu came from the dark
bed. 

"Ah, Amiboshi has reported in from Tendo village...the otherworld
activity 
was no fluke! Suzaku no Miko and the seishi Chichiri have come to get
the 
seishi Tamahome and the otherworld girl....just listen, princess."

The servant opened a clam. the strains of music floated into her ears.
There, 
clearly, were 4 strands of Suzakus chi. Amazing how Tomo had rigged all
this 
up...

"Tomo."

"Yes, princess?"

She sat up, her red hair flowing down her back. Her dark blue eyes
flashed. 
"So the story begins again. My parents...I will give them what they 
request...prepare my bath."

"Yes, princess." Tomo bowed and swept out of the room.
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"BWAAA-HAHAHAAAAAAAA!"

"Another round! Another round!"

"Hey hey, chug it down!"

H-chan and K-chan sat together in the Sake Maru tavern, trying to
ignore the 
general drunkards and watching their respective airens drink. Tamahome
was a 
boisterous drinker, always wanting to slam down another pint. Chichiri
hadnt 
even finished his second glass. He drank, as he did everything else,
with 
caution. H-chan watched him dreamily.

"Hey H-chan! H-CHAN! Come back to us H-chan!" K-chan snapped her
fingers in 
fron of her friends face. "Would you pay attention? I asked how you got
here 
in the first place..."

H-chan shrugged. "Reciting along with the tape...I guess that
incantaion has 
power in our world too. I was just tryina translate for my Japanese 
lessons...that reminds me, how come they can understand us? And how
come we 
can understand Japanese?"

"I dunno. Its like how Miaka understood Chineese. I guess its the magic
of 
plotholes." K-chan shrugged. "Besides, who cares? I recited a line from
that 
manga you loaned me, and now I have my anime boy!"

"Kotori..." H-chan gave a exasperated sigh. "You cant get married! Your
only 
15!"

"16 is the expected age for marriage around here..." K-chans eyes went 
starry. "Besides, hes Sho-NEN....heroic-"

"And he treats you right. Yeah, I know!" H-chan slammed her fist down
on the 
table. "How do you expect this to work anyway? Youve only known him for
a few 
weeks-"

"You can fall in love in an instant."

"Yeah, well, what about the age difference? Hes, like, 18-"

"Love dosent know age."

"Well, what about-"

"True love overcomes all boundarys."

"KOTORI, YOU ARE EXASPERATING!" H-chan yelled and slumped down in her
seat. 
"Oh well. So this is a popular nightspot around here?"

"Yeah, the drinks are great, and the flutist is kawaii..." K-chan
pointed and 
giggled. "Isnt he just so-"

"Oh, stifle youself!" H-chan laughed. "He is cute..." He looked so
earnest, 
standidng there and putting his heart and soul into his flute. The way
his 
hair fell over his eyes...(What am I thinking?) H-chan blushed. "I
dunno..hes 
not my type..."

"So what IS your type? Blue haired masked monks?" K-chan giggled again.

H-chan blushed. "Cut it out!"

K-chan nudged her. "Oh, I know that look! You liiiiiiiiiike him!"

H-chan blushed and stared down at her drink. "Oh...youre mean,
K-chan...so 
maybe I do. You should see him without the mask...."

"Oh, Ill bet youve seen him missing more than his mask!"

*scilence*

"H-CHAN! YOU DIDNT!"
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"Hey Chichiri, why dontcha finish off that glass and have another?"
Tamahome 
laughed. Chichiri watched with mild astonishment. He had drunken quite
a bit 
of liquor and didnt show a sighn of it. "How are you still consious no
da?"

"I have a healthy constitution."

"Thats an understatement no da..."

"So Chichiri...Whats up with you and the otherworld girl?"

"Nothing no da!" Chichiri glared at him. "You have a dirty mind no
da..."

Tamahome shrugged. "Youre too shy. You dont get anything without
looking for 
it. Thats how I found Kotori..."

Chichiri sighed. "Tamahome, Im happy for you, but this is such a change
no 
da! You used to only care about money no da."

Tamahome looked away. "Well, since mom died a year ago, Ive had to take
care 
of my dad and my little oneechans...and clothes dont grow on trees, you
know. 
I always wanted to marry rich...but now my plans have changed. I could
be 
poor forever and still be rich with her." Tamahome shook his head.
"Boy, 
listen to me babble! Must be the booze..."

Chichiri stared at him. "Its not babbling if you mean it no da.
Emotions are 
very powerful things no da..."

Tamahome winced. There he was, babbling on about how happy he and
Kotori 
were, and poor Chichiri had lost his fiancee only a few years ago.
(Baka!) he 
yelled at himself. He cleared his throat.

"Seriously, tho, how are things with the Miko? You think shes up to
this?"

Chichiri shrugged. "I really dont know no da. She cant ride a horse,
she 
blushes quite frequently, and shes pretty scared nan no da..."

Tamahome snorted. "We cant have a coward for a miko!"

Chichiri went livid. "Tamahome no da! Shes just scared because shes in
a new 
world no da! If you got sent out of your world to another one without
any 
warning or help-"

"I KNEW IT!" Tamahome burst out laughing. "You do like her! I KNEW it!"

Chichiri glared at Tamahome, chugged his drink, and slammed the glass
down on 
the bar. "Another pint no da!"

Tamahome rolled his eyes. "Chichiri...I didnt mean it..."

"Youre easier to deal with when Im drunk nan no da!"
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"Miryuu..."

Miryuu sat straight up in her bath. She stared down at her left thigh,
where 
her mothers symbol glowed. "Yes, okaasan?"

The ruminating voice of her mother flowed in her mind. "They discovered
a 
miko?"

"Hai."

"And an otherworld girl there, for pretty much no reason?"

Miryuu nodded.

"Well, then daughter, now is the time to move. They are both in a
tavern, or 
so Amiboshi said, so the seishi will be pretty drunk...and the miko
cant 
really defend herself. You realize what you need to do?"

Miryuus voice was calm, but emotion threatened to overflow. After all
this 
time, all this waiting, she would finnaly get her parents revenge from
the 
land of the dead. The pain and terror of the Hin race would be felt by 
Suzakus seishi. "Kidnap the otherworld girl and force her to become
Seiryuu 
no miko...and kill Suzaku no miko."

"Good girl." An breeze of wind blew by her cheek, an etheral kiss. "We
both 
love you very much...you know that."

A tear slipped down her cheek. "Yes, mom. I love you too."

"Good. Now tell Amiboshi the orders.You can communicate through Tomo's
shin 
clam."

"Hai, okaasan."
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"Oh, thats so ROMANTIC!" K-chan cooed. "He REALLY said he would protect
you 
from anything?"

"Shhhh!" H-chan whacked K-chan in the head. "Do you really want the
whole 
world to know?"

K-chans eyes went starry. "But its so sweet..."

H-chan sighed. "Youre impossible-hey, look at that!"

K-chan stared over at the flutist. Rays of blue energy began to gather
around 
him. A blue symbol glowed on his arm. Suddenly the melody of the flute 
changed. it was high and pericing, and everyone began to scream, frozen
in 
place.

"Hah! Feel the power of Seiryuu!" The flutist began to stride torwards 
K-chan. "Now, Seiryuu no miko-gah!"

A red feather cut through the air, lighting on the flute.It cracked and

exploded. "My flute! Who did that..."

"Me! It was me! All me!" H-chan stood up and glared at him. 

A few feet away, Chichiri sweatdropped and Tamahome slid to the floor
in an 
acholholic stupor. "So much for subteltys no da..." H-chan strode
torwards 
Amiboshi and held a finger out. "Look I dont know what this is all
about, but 
you cant have K-chan. Shes about the only person in this world or any
other 
who will watch Anime with me! In the name of the moon, I wont allow
it!"

"Thats okay, Youll do." Amiboshi  grabbed her by the arm. She began to
squirm 
and squeal. "Leggo!"

"Afraid I cant do that..." Amiboshi picked up a long shard of his flute
from 
the ground and raised it over her chest. "If youll just wait a
minute...youll 
be free..."

"Cheng no daaa!" A burst of yellow lighting knocked the shard out of
his 
hand. 

"Who did that? What is this? Who ARE all you people?!?"

"The Suzaku sichiseishi Chichiri, here to protect his Miko!" Chichiri
strode 
forward and yanked H-chan from his grasp. He picked her up, smiled at
her, 
and carried her over to the bar. "You should really be more careful no
da!"

"Ill remeber that." H-chan waved a feather and put on her wings. "Ready
to 
trash this guy?"

"Youd better stay out of this, no da...you havent practiced enough with
those 
feathers no da!"

"but Chichiri-san..."

"I cant take anymore of this bickering!" Amiboshi raised his hand in
the air. 
The splinters of flute began to dance. 

"Oh shimatta..."

The shards flew at Chichiri. Red streaks of blood dripped down his arms
and 
legs. "Daaa!" he yelled as two of them flew at his sleeves and pants, 
knocking him over and pinning him down.

H-chan looked around the room. Tamahome was drunk, passed out. K-chan
was 
frozen in place to her seat, to paralyzed by her fear to do anything
but 
point.

"No! Chichiri-san!" H-chan spread her wings and flew in front of him.

"H-chan! Move it!" Chichiri strained to get up. A few more shards flew
across 
his face, ripping his mask to shreds as it fell .

"No! I wont let you hurt him anymore!" H-chan fired feathers at the 
fragments, exploding them .

(She figured that out quickly no da...)

"Hiding behind your Miko? What a coward!" Amiboshi snorted. "What kind
of man 
are ya?"

H-chan growled, glowing with red energy. "You wanna know? Ill tell you
what 
kind of man he is! Hes a kind, sweet man, one who guided me through an
alien 
world! He protects me and comforted me, and forgives my every mistake!
I care 
for him-" She spread her wings wide, and a ocean of feathers began to
fly at 
Amiboshi. "and I wont let you hurt him!"

Chichiri stared up at the enfolding scene. Amiboshi jumped out of an
open 
window into the night, badly burnt but alive. The shards holding his
clothes 
down vanished as Amiboshi left, so he jumped up to catch H-chan as she
fell. 

She coughed. "Chichiri...you ok?"

He smiled down at her. "Just fine no da. Dont worry...I wont let you
go."

"Hmm..." H-chan murmured and fainted.

"K-chan...can you please lead me to your house? H-chan needs to be
tended 
to..."

END PART 2!

Some notes:

"Cheng!" Means "Tada!" or "Here I am!"