"Heiga-sama!"

"nani?" Hotohori stormed out to the proch. "Are they back?" The miko
and two seshi had been missing for three hours. it was dead dark, and the 
whole palace was up in arms. Hotohori was exhausted, but he knew he could 
not sleep untill the matter was
resolved. 

Now it seemd it was.

Nuriko knelt on the porch, next to the missing party. The 
rest of the seshi gathered about as well, K-chan jumping
down beside her fallen freidn. "H-chan!"

H-chan sat, legs crossed, dubbing ehr ehad. her shirt was ripped, 
and she looked sick. She easily collapsed into K-chan.

"Yada..."

"Huh?"

"Dont ever drink, K-chan...its messy..." She raised her head and
looked over at Chichiri. Mitsukake was buisly addressing his wounds.
Chichiri was trying to swat him away. "My wounds arent
as bad at Tasuki's no da..."

"Don' worry about me." Tasuki muttered, staring down at the floor.

Hotohori looked down at H-chan. "What happened? Who did this to you?"

Tasuki looked up, eyes full of pain. He opened his mouth-

"It dosent matter." H-chan said quickly. "All that matters
is that its over and we are all safe. Oh, and...Hotohori-sama!"
she cried with sudden realization, he hand onher neck. "The shinzaho!"

Chichiri shook his head. "Its no good...Suboshiko escaped with it."

Hotohori shook his head. "I feel that there is a story hwere you arent 
telling me..."

His eyes met H-chan, and his expression softened. "Allright. We'll just have 
to go get the other shinzaho." He sat and folded his hands.
"Ill have to cotnemplate this..." he yawned and closed his eyes. 

"Suzaku, tell me the way..."


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Ripples in the Water
Chapter 21:Kokoro no Yakusuko
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A half an hour passed. Finnaly H-chan got up the courage to break the mans 
concentration.

"So, Hotohori...how do we GET the new Shinzaho?"

Hotohoris eyes were closed in regal contemplation, his hands folded in his 
lap. A light murmuring fell through the air.

"Hotohori?" Nuriko poked her fiance. "Are you praying?" 

"Dzz..." He slumped against a wall, dead asleep.H-chan giggled. "Geeze, youd 
think he was just a kid..."

"Out of the way!" 

"Sunakake-baBAAA!!" Tamahome squealed and hid behind K-chan, who rolled er 
eyes. "Youre STILL afraid of her?"

Taitsu-kun sighed and rolled out a map of the four countrys. She had 
highlighted a route to the last country, Hokkan. A 
Nyan-nyan appeared above, feet nearly dangling out of her large blue shoes. 

"Nayn-nyan!" H-chan yelled. "Did you take care of my shoes?"

"Haiii!" The Nyan-nyan cheered. "Nyan Nyan take very VERY good care of shoes!
 Now Nyan-Nyan take very VERY care of Tasuki!" The Nyan-nayn  screwed up her 
face, studying the now-horrified Tasuki. "Tasuki very VERY burned! Nyan-nyan
 help! Nyan-nyan fix now!"

"%$#@" Tasuki whimpered as he was sucked into a pink bubble of Nyan-nyan 
energy. He had learned by now not to fight the Nyan-nyans, but merely let 
them "help".

Migenrou looked up at her brother with a mixture of pity and mirth. "Ja, 
Ni-chan!"

"Shut the %$#@ up, Migen-" *POP!* The Nyan-nyan and Tasuki dissapeared.

"Ne, Nuriko?" Migenrou looked over to nuriko. "Can we go on a walk? I want to
 go, but Im scared to go by myself."

Nuriko hid a smirk."Hmm, let me see..."(Migernou, afraid of something? Had 
to be a front.)She poked Hotohori again. He was out cold. she clapped, and 
two palace aids rushed forward.

"Hai, Nuriko-sama?" tehy said, bowing frantically.

"Please carry Hotohori-sama to his room. And bring me a lantern."

"Hai!"
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Nuriko lokked down at Migenrou as the walked along the garden path. She was 
whistling a cheery tune and walking the border of the garden, trying to keep 
a straight line with her feet. Nuriko giggled despite himself. The little
 girl was so kawaii...just like Kouran...

Nuriko grolwed at himself. Kouran was gone...

"Nuriko-sama?" Migenrou looked up at Nuriko, who wore a slightly twisted 
expression. "Whats wrong?"
  
Nuriko shook her head and gave ehr best cute smile. "Nothing, Migenrou-chan! 
I was just thinking of how much you act like my little sister..."

"You have a little sister?"

"Yes...her name is Kouran." Nuriko stared off at the sky in memory. 
"She always used to stare at the sky, just like this, searching for my 
constellation. She was so jealous of me!She wanted, more than anything, 
to be in the imperial palace. She saw the emporer only once, when he passed 
through our village...

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"Kouran! Kouran! Theyre coming!" Ryuuen ran in front, cheerily waving a paper
 flag he had made. His gasping little sister struggled to keep up. 

The two looked nearly alike. Noone would have guessed that Ryuuen was a year
older than Kouran, much less that Ryuuen was a boy. His mother always tsked 
at him over it. "Ryuuen-kun! Those beautiful eyes and that beautiful hair is
 such a WASTE on a boy!" She always laughed. "Ah well, youll grow out of 
it...youll be so HANDSOME!" 

"Aw, mom..." Ryuuen was always embarrased by his mothers cuckling. Besides, 
he relished the deep bond between him and Kouran. Kouran was his pride and 
joy. He always braided Kourans hair and taught her games and songs, and in 
return, Kouran would make him snacks and just generally be adorable. The 
two were best friends...

Now he reached back and put Kouran on his shoulders. "Kouran, can you see 
anything?"

Kouran gasped in awe. "Its the imperial procession! Its so BEAUTIFUL..." 
Ryuuen stretched, desperately trying to get his head up enough to see the 
imperial carriage. It was a deep red, adorned with gold carvings of the 
Suzaku. Soldiers marched, bringing up the rear of the procession. They had 
come too late to see the parade, but Kouran had seen enough.

"Oh, its so beautiful..." Kouran gasped. "I want to marry the Emporer, 
and live in a big palace just like Konan!"

Ryuuen rolled his eyes. "I know, I know.."

"Im going to go catch up with them!" Kouran hopped down off of Ryuuens 
shoulders into the road, and precisely into the path of an oncoming carriage.


"Kouran! WAIT!" Ryuuen charged forward, but not in time...

"Aaa!" Kouran only had enough time for a shreik of horror before her small 
body was trampled by the horse-drawn carriage. She lay there, face twisted in 
pain, then fell still.

"Kouran?"Ryuuen whispered, eyes filling with tears.

"KOURAN!"

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Migenrou gasped. "Thats so SAD...she died?"

Nuriko shook her head. "No, Kourans still alive."

"Does she live in you? Is that why you dress up like a girl?"

"WHAT?" Nuriko stopped for a moment, stunned. Then he regained her composure,
 and put on his best ladylike mask of politeness.
"-Ever do you mean, Migenrou-chan?"

Migenrou rolled her eyes. "Gomen nasai, but Ive known you were a boy from day
 one."

"B-but HOW!?!" Nuriko sputtered.

Migenrou shrugged. "I lived in a bandit mountain. They werent ALL yaoi, but
 a few of them...liked to do that sort of thing. Their boyfriends always 
tried to pass them off as girl bandits! Tasuki taught me how to figure out 
who was what. I learned to spot 'em at a young age. Knowing the secrets of 
bandits can do you alot of good when it comes down to a favor."

Nurikos eyes widened. "Tasuki?"

Migenrou laughed. "No WAY." Nuriko breathed a sigh of relief. "So, why didnt 
you tell on me?"

Migenrou shrugged."I didnt think it was my buisness. Plus, maybe you were 
doing it for Hotohoris benifit, so people didnt find out they had a yaoi 
emporer or something."

"Hotohori YAOI?!?" Nuriko laughed. "No way."

"But now its okay, you see!" Migenrou cheered. "Now I know that youre just 
being your sister!"

"Im not being my sister!" Nuriko snorted. "Im being Nuriko!"

"I know that." Migenrou said. "But youre living out Kouran's life! The 
empress thing, the robes, even that imperial hairstyle!" Migenrou 
gestured to Nurikos thick puple brad, laced with flowers and ribbons. 
It flowed down her royal robes, shimmering in the light of the paper 
lantern. Nuriko turned red. (I didnt realize...but I do look so much like 
Kouran wanted to! ) Migenrou sighed. "Its so sweet...I wonder if Tasuki 
will dress like a girl when I die."

Nuriko laughed. "Somehow I doubt it."

"Yeah, me too." Migenrou smiled, and they continued down the path.

"So, Migenrou-chan? whyd you want to go on a walk?"

"I need you to promise me something."

"Hai?" 

Migenrou turned, dead serious. Her eyes glimmered. "I want you to watch over 
my Ni-chan?"

Nuriko dropped the lantern in suprise. "Shimatta!" Migenrou scooped it up 
and handed it back to him, carefull not to catchthe flame on the flimsy 
paper frame. "Migenrou, why?"

Migenrou shook her head, bearing her fangs with indignation. "He always 
rushes into things! Always gets himself into trouble!" She stomped. 
"I didnt realize it, before this morning...but he could die as a 
shichiseishi! I dont want to lose my Ni-chan!" Migenrou looked down 
at the ground. "If I lost my Nic-han, Id die for sure!"

"Migenrou..."

"Promise me!" Migenrou grabbed hid arm. "Promise me youll look after him? 
Just try to make sure he dosent do anything stupid?"

Nuriko closed her eyes and smiled. She drew Migenrou into a hug. 
"Of course, Migenrou-chan. But why me?"

"'Cause..." Mienrou trailed off, muffled against Nurikos regal robes. 
"No reason."
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"wah, wah, wah..." H-chan sang tunelessly, getting ready for bed. Her and 
K-chan were sharing a room again, and H-chan had kicked Tamahome out. 

"GIRLS ONLY!" she had yelled, slamming the door in his pleading face. 
K-chan came in a few minutes later, glaring at her. "Whyd ya kick him out?"

"Cause I never get to talk to you without him around! If this is the way 
its always gonna be, give him a brown wig."

"Nani?"

"Cause hes gonna replace me COMPLETELY!" H-chan yelled, fists balled at her 
sides. 

"Awww..." K-chan gave her vehement friend a hug. "You spaz too much. You 
know your my best friend, ne? So dont sweat it! You should never let a boy 
come between friends, ya know?"

"Hai." H-chan flomped down on her futon. "But you know, youre gonna have to 
leave him one way or the other..."

"Huh?" K-chan looked at her confusedly. "Whys that?"

"Well, when you go back to our world of course...youll have to eventually. 
You have to see your parents, get your stuff...and who knows if you can 
come back?" H-chan sighed. 

"Well, at least youll be there!" K-chan gave her a smile, then noticed she
 wasnt smiling back. "You are coming back, arent you?"

No reply. K-chan hissed. "H-chan! You cant stay here!"

"And why the heck NOT!?!" H-chan smirked at K-chan. "In my old life, I was a 
nobody. A less than nobody.A picked on, insulted, tortured less than 
nobody. here, im honored and respected! And I have a BOYFRIEND!"

"Well, then, Im staying too!" K-chan fumed.

"K-chan! You cant! Your parents will freak!" 

"H-chan..." K-chan sighed, and came and sat on her friends bed. 
"Were nakayoshi. Weve spent most of our adolecent life joined at the hip. 
If I go back without you, im not just a nobody..." K-chan smiled at the 
stunned H-chan. "Im a lost, yoshi-less nobody!" K-chan grinned. "besides, 
they just dont come as handsome as Tamahome back home!"

"K-chan..."

"Nani?"

"ARGATOU!" H-chan gave her freind a bone crushing hug.

"H-chan?"

"What?"

"I CANT BREATHE!"

"Hee...gomen nasai..." H-chan released her friend, who sat gasping and 
holding her throat on the bed. "Jesus, H-chan! Its a hug, not a massacre!"

"Gomemn, gomen!" H-chan noticed a packet sticking out of K-chans robe pocket.
 "Ne? Whats that?"

"Oh, those are the polaroids from Hokkan...why?"

H-chan shifted through the pile. "Souka!" she held one triumphantly pover her
 head. "K-chan, this ones going to a good cause, so dont get mad!"

"N-nani?" K-chan waitched in mild shock as H-chan summoned her wings and 
flew out the window. 

"Strange..." K-chan smiled. "Strange girl."
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Tasuki lay in his bed, a frown on his face. He was chewing himself apart. 
He couldnt belive what he had done...what an idiot. He should have KNOWN it 
was a spell!

And now what was everyone going to think?

The door creaked open. The seishi had been divided into 3 rooms in the 
palace. He had been laying there since the Nyan-Nyans dropped him off. 
So he didnt know who would be staying with him, of course. He winced, 
closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.(Please, oh please...dont let it 
be...)

Footsteps stopped in front of him. he opened his eyes to see maskless 
Chichiri smiling down at him. "Daijobu, Tasuki no da?"

Tasuki just rolled over, muttering something about how tired he was. 
A gentle hand reached over and tried to roll him back over. "You can 
ignore me forever, Tasuki...." Chichiris voice got serious as he sat 
on the bed beside him. "But Ill still be your friend no da. You said 
so yourself no da."

Tasuki glared up at him. "I dont wanna talk to ya!" He covered his face 
with a pillow. "I dont deserve to have a good friend."

"Tasuki." Chichiri gently pulled the pillow aside. Tasukis face was 
squinched up, a few tears coming out of his tightly shut eyelids. Chichiri
 smiled and put a hand on his forehead. "baka. Noones aware of the 
dormant things inside of him. I know you were only trying to help 
H-chan before...and even when you were unsder the spell, your intentions 
were good."

Tasuki slowly opened his eyes and sat up. he stared down. 
"She just...looked so SAD. I just thought she needed a Ni-chan. I always, 
always end up takin care of em..." Tasuki whimpered. "She was so sad at 
dinner...and then..." He stared up at Chichiri, innocent pain in his eyes.
 "This bein a man...I never thought it was so DIRTY."

Chichiri laughed. He put an arm around Chichiri. "Noones perfect, Tasuki. 
Thats why noone can be alone."

"Oh." Tasuki smiled, a small gint of a fang reasuring Chichiri more than a
 grumbled 'daijobu' ever could. Tasukis smioe faded. "But, what about 
H-chan?"

"What about H-chan no da?" Chichiri slipped his mask back on. 
"H-chan is my problem right now no da. I should apologize for that 
reaction....It mst have scared her no da." Chichiri shook his head. 
"I was suprised myself no da."

"Baka." Tasuki smirked. "'Noones aware of the doormant things inside of 
him no da!'" he squeaked in a high-pitched imitation of Chichiri. 

Chichiri stuck his tounge out. "Remind me to stop talking to you about 
serious things no da!"

Tasuki put on a look of mock innocence. "Me? what the %$#@ did I do?!? 
Just becaue the Oinus so $#@!in UNBALANCED-"

"Da-A!" Chichiri picked up a pillow and smacked him over the head. 

"YOu %$#@in MONK! Youre askin for it!" Tasuki picked up his pillow, 
and a pillowfight ensued.

A knock came at the window. "Ano? Anooo-oo? Tasuki-san?" H-chan!

Tasuki lookeed up from beside the bed, where he had a superdeforemed 
Chichiri cowering underneath. He frowned. "oy?" he asked in a rough voice. 

"I have a present for you! Come outside!" She peeked in through the window.

Chichiri poked his head out of the bed and glared at Tasuki, who was staring 
at the window with a dumb look on his face. "Hayaku no da!" 

Tasuki pulled the grate off the window and stepped out.
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Chichiri sat on the bed, a small smile on his face. The sky was so bright 
that night...he would take H-chan for a walk later on. 

"Chichiri?" a knock came at the door.

"Come in nan no da." 

Taitsukun swept in, strangely unaccompanied by Nyan-nyan. 
Chichiri sprang to his feet and bowed. "Taitsukun!"

"Chichiri..." She bowed back. The gruffness in her voice suddenly gave 
way to compassion. "I have news for you. It isnt good news."

"How bad can it be no da?"

Taitsu-kun closed her eyes. "May I suit down?"

"Of course no da!" Chichiri fluffed a pillow for her to sit on. She 
settled herself on the bed, then turned and looked Chichiri in the eyes.

"If H-chan stays here, she will only last another 3 years without dying. 
At the most."

Chichiri involuntarily flinched. It was as if someone had just smacked 
him in the face. "Wha-waht do you mean?"

"Let me explain." Taitsukun turned away, hands folded in her lap. The gruff 
angry Taitsukun was gone, replaced with the compassionate old woman who 
had tooken Chichiri into Mt Leikyaku for training. That woman wouldnt not 
admit it under any circumstaces, but she cared for Chichiri like a son. 
That woman did not want to be the one to tell Chichiri this...

"Have you noticed how H-chan didnt eat much in the beggining of this? 
Did you notice how she kept falling asleep in the beginnning?"

Chichiri thought back. They had, indeed, rarely stopped for meals. 
He nodded.

"She eats regularly now. Thats because, in her wolrd, time moves much more 
slowly than ours. In her world, I doubt even a day has passed."

Chichiri shook his head. The journey...meeting everyone...the long journey 
for the shinzaho...HCirikos death....all in one day? "I dont understand no 
da."

"Her metabolisim has sped up to match this world. Unfortuantely, her 
body has to work very hard to be able to move as quickly in time as our
 world does. Burining all that food, making herself get up, and even 
move so much faster. Simply put, her body will totally exhaust itself 
in three years time."

"I see no da." Chichiri tried to refrain from grabbing her, 
hsaking her shoulders, telling her she MUST be wrong...

But Taitsukun was never wrong. 

Chichiri sighed. "How am i going to tell her no da?"
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Tasuki hopped off the ledge to the ground below.
Unfortuantely, he misjudeged the distance to the ground.

"Oww! %$#@!" He sat up as H-chan glided to a stop in front of him. 
"Konbawa, Tasuki-san!"

He glared at hwer. "No use pretending you feel like trying to be nice me."

She looked annoyed. "Tasuki-san...you cant help what you did. It was the 
Seiryuu. I know, in the beggining, you were just being nice."

Now it was Tasukis turn to look confused. "You didnt think-"

"Not for a second." H-chan grinned. I knew, somewhere in there, 
you were as scared as me. Hey, look at this." She took a single 
feather from her wing, a long one from the inside. She rose into 
the air, holding it over her head mencaingly as she rushed one 
of the tall palace trees.

"Hiyah!" She lopped a large branch off of the tree. It crashed down 
at Tasukis feet. "See? I could have cut you in half with just 
one of my feathers. Had I thought it was your intention, its what 
I would have done...but I knew you wouldnt go through with it."

"Why not?"

H-chan gave him a genuine smile, the stars sparking in her eyes. 
"Because...thats not you. Youre not like that, not at all. Youre 
kind and loving."

Tasuki turned red and glared at the stars. "Yeah right. Youre too soft,
 Suzaku no Miko!"

"Really?" the edge returned to H-chans voice. "Then...explain to me..why 
did you take me out in the first place?"

"Uh..." Tasuki looked confused. "I dunno."

"Its your kind heart, thats all. Would I have saved you if you were so cruel
 and coldhearted?"

He thought back to those small but infinetly strong arms, scooping him out 
of his funeral pyre to safety. He stared at the sky. His voice became soft.
 "The miko no hoshi. See it, H-chan?"

"Dont change the subject, baka!"

Tasuki continued, unrelented. "My constellations awful close to yours, 
almost as close as Chichiris. I guess that means Im supposed to take care o
f ya." He turned to her, rolling his eyes, a measure of mock-annoyance in 
his voice. So..I guess I have a new Ni-chan. How many of you little %$#@s am
 I gonna have to watch over, anayway?!?"

"Da!" H-chan gave him a breif hug. "Oh!" she reached into the pocket of her 
robe. "I have a gift for you!"

"Not that heart? Its was so $#@!in GAUDY!" Tasuki laughed.

H-chan laughed too, out of relief more than anything else. "Like id give 
such a precious gift to a taseless robber like YOU! Those earrings were 
it from ME!" She held out the polaroid to him, holding a glowing feather 
over it so he could see.

Tasuki gasped. It was a picture of him, Chiriko, Migenrou, and H-chan. 
Tasuki was grinning and giving a huge thumbs up. Chiriko was laughing, 
sitting on Tasukis shoulders, one arm around his forehead. H-chan hovered 
in the background, sticking her tounge out and giving Tasuki and Chiriko 
bunny ears. Migerou was yanking on Tasukis arm, laughing.

It was a perfect shot. Tasuki choked a little. It could have been sadness, 
could have been memory...

He turned to H-chan. "Domo arigatou...gozaimasu."

"I thought youd like a shot of all of us...all your Ni-chans."

"Hey! Who said you were my Ni-chan?!?" Tasuki stuck his tounge out.

"You just did, baka!" she hollered, swatting him.

They both laughed, getting into a friedly shoving match. They didnt hear the 
soft footsteps approach...

"H-chan no da?" Chichri stood before them."Come walk with me no da!" H-chan 
turned to Tasuki. "I think id best be goin."She winked at him and walked off 
with Chichiri. "Ja, Tasuki-san."

"Ja, Oi-"

"DONT CALL ME THAT!" She yelled as they walked into the distance, Tasuki 
laughing wildly.
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The two walked together, H-chan fiddling with Chichiris gift she had hidden 
in her pocket, Chichiri just staring ahead. H-chan recognized it as tre 
place of their fisrt real argument and shuddered.

Finnaly Chichiri came to a stop, under a blooming tree. The white petals 
reflected the moonlight as they slowly drifted around them.

(The man gets an A for mood...) H-chan blushed despite herself. 

Chichiri held out her necklace. "From before no da...someone found it on 
the ground in the hotel, and brought it here while you were out with Tasuki 
no da. But I have something we need to discuss no da...Its nothing that bad 
no da." Waht was he SAYING!?!

"Arigatou!" The oblivious H-chan retied the clasp and put it on. 
"Still works." The beads jingled softly as she settled them down on 
her neck. She then rustled around in her pocket. "I got you something 
while I was in town."

"H-chan?" Chichiri sighed. She was never able to pay attention...

"Here! Look!" She pulled out the silver heart. "The guy said it was very 
special."

Chichiris eyes widened. "This thing IS very special no da...its a kokoro no 
yakusuko no da."

H-chan sounded out the words. "Heart promise?"

Chichiri gently tapped the top of the heart. The sounds of a music box f
illed the air. The tune was strangely haunting, and for some reason made 
H-chan very sad. "Whats the song?"

"Its called 'Itooshi Hito no Tame Ni.'
Its a song about a miko no da. Very popular song with the village girls 
no da." Chichiri slipped off his mask. "To give it to someone means you 
will always hold them in your heart no da. Its a promise that nothing 
will seperate you...not even death."

"I had no idea." H-chan murmured.

Chichiri smiled. "Well, I cant expect you to learn all of Konans customs so-"


"Its perfect then!" H-chan threw her arms around him.

"Nani yo no da?"

"Its a promise from me..."H-chan wrapped his fingers around it. "That I wont 
go back to my world, that I wont go anywhere...without you."

"H-chan..." Chichiri wrapped her in a huge hug, almost sobbing. H-chan could 
feel his body shudder, but she just hugged hiam all the harder.

H-chan was sad. Things had been so much more serious lately, so much 
more...sad. It seemed like things were rushing to a point, that the end was 
coming, Suzaku would be called...and then what?

H-chan shook the strange thoughts out of her head. She was with Chichiri, 
after all. whatever happened, she would be safe.

END Chap 21!