"So the offence didnt work?" "No, my queen." Amiboshi bowed before Miryuu, trying to hide his shame. It was his fault for underestimating the Miko... Miryuu waved a hand dissmissively. "You can be quite assured, that if you werent a seishi your head would be mine. Amiboshi gulped. "However, since you are, I have no choice but to let you live. This time, however, Im sending your hopefully more capable twin-" "Suboshiko!"Amiboshi knelt befor her, hands clasped. "You cant! Suboshiko is only a CHILD!" Miryuu glared at him. "Questioning my orders, Amiboshi? Your twin has proven to be quite proficient in entwining arts. Im sending her. Is that CLEAR?" "Hai, Miryuu..." Amiboshi turned away, clenching his fist. If Suboshiko suffered...then they would know the true pain of the hin race. *^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~* Harmonychan productions presents A Fushigi Yuugi OVA: Ripples in the water OVA 4: Seiryuu Seishi Suboshiko *^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~* "How is she?" Tamahome walked in, tossing a yen peice into the air. K-chan reached up and caught it. "Thanks...whos it from?" "Chichiri...he says he feels bad about staying here for free and all..." Tamahome rolled his eyes. "Sometimes a guy is too honorable... K-chan sighed. "Welll, shes not awake yet...its been 2 days!" Tamahome shook his head. "im not suprised. A release of a dose of Ki that bad could take one of the best martial artists out for a week..." K-chans eyes got blurry. "So basically I should be glad shes not dead?" "Umm..."(Oh god, what have I done...) "H-CHAAAANNNNN!" K-chan screamed and glomped her midsection. "NOOOOOOOOO-oh!" someone tapped her on the forehead. She looked down. "Jesus, K-chan..." H-chan shook her head. "Stop screaming. My head hurts..." "H-chan!" K-chans eyes filled with tears. "Youre awake! Your alive!" "Well, who the hell could sleep through that kind of racket?" H-chan sat up. "What happened?" K-chan sighed. "it was so beautiful...you risked your life for love!" H-chans mind whirled back to the last night. "What the hell was I THINKING?!?! I coulda died!" K-chan swatted H-chan in the head. "I told you, you risked your life for love!" "So-" "It was beautiful!" "But-" K-chans eyes turned red as she screamed. "DARNIT! DONT SPOIL THIS FOR ME!" H-chan shrunk back under the covers. "Ummm...yes. Well, uh, wheres Chichiri-san?" Tamhome stepped forward. "Kotori, dear...Id like to talk to your friend for a second if you dont mind." "Alright...Ill bring Chichiri some food. Does she know about-mph!" Tamahome glamped his hand frimly on K-chans mouth. "ill tell her." he whispered. "Tell me what?" K-chan sighed. "Dont be dead by the time I get back....Kay, H-chan?" She shut the door and left. H-chan stared up at Tamahome. "Whats wrong? Am I dead? This cant be heaven..." Tamahome glared down at her. "Youve been awake for 15 seconds and your already insulting my home?" "You...live here?" H-chan looked around the barely laden room. She spotted K-chans teasured "Piyo piyo!" t-shirt in the corner. "Is this your guyses room?" "Yeah, but for the past few days its been yours." "Oh!" H-chan bowed the best she could from her sitting postion. "Thank you for taking such good care of me..." She looked down at her arms. They were bandaged up and tied off tight. "what..." "Your arms got some burning from the feathers. They should be okay now." "Thank you for-" "Chichiri did that." Tamahome looked away. "he has a very powerful instinct to take care of people. He always has been a guidance conselor type, even when her was very young. We grew up in the same village.We both left, too, for our own reasons. I needed to make some money, and Chichiri..." Tamahome gave her an inquisitive look. "Do you know much about Chichiris past?" H-chan thought back to that day they were riding to Tendo.'You would get engaged around 16, have a family by age 20...da.' "I dont think he likes marriage..." Tamahome sat on thge edge of the bed. "When he was just 18, he and his fiancee and his best friend were inseperable. Untill the day when his best friend kissed his fiancee." H-chan blinked, stunned."Is that why-" Tamahome went on. "She considered herself 'impure' and killed herself, crushing Houjin, or as you know him, Chichiri." "How terrible..." "Thats not all." Tamahome stared down at the bed. "After the death, Chichiri went over the deep end. He chased his best friend into a showdown fight by a river that was flooding...I dont know all the details, but somehow or another the friend ended up in the river. Chichiri tried to save him, but it was too late...some log came outa nowhere and hit him in the face, forcing him to let go. He still blames himself. The scars are from the log...thats why he wont let them heal. Do you understand why Im telling you all this?" H-chan shook her head, trying to hold back a tear. (Poor Chichiri-san...he must be in so much pain...) "H-chan...Youre one of Kotoris best friends...I dont want you to hurt yourself over Chichiri." "Did K-chan tell you?" H-chan sighed. "She never can keep things from her boyfriends..." "BOYFRIENDS? THERE ARE OTHERS?!?!?" Tamahome grabbed a tonto blade from the floor. "No! No! Just you!" (Mental note...possible blackmail later from K-chan...) Tamahome wiped away his sweatdrop. "Good. anyway, I really think you should just give up on Chichiri...for your own good." "Sorry, Tamahome." H-chan looked away. "But I cant let him do it. You cant give up on life just because you felt some pain in the past, can you? No way!" Tamahome just stared at her. "H-chan..." "Dont bother! Im on a mission!"H-chan jumped out of bed, grabbed her Kasa, and began to hop inside. "Ill seeya for dinner! Make me some chicken!" "Wait! H-chan!" *vooop* "...whats chicken?" *^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~* "Dadadadadadada...." Chichiri 'da'ed tunelessly as he twirled a fishpole. "Finnaly Ill get my fishing done no da!" He threw the line out into the depths, shooting for the fishers dream: a big fat fish. "Cmon, fishfishfishfish no da, fish no da, fishfishfish no da..." The line began to tug. "Wow! Its huge no da!" He began to reel it in. (Ill bet this could feed Tamahome and Shinja for a month no da!) He began to see the form of the fish as it came in...slender...almost feminine... "Cheng!" H-chan stuck her head out of the water, waving a kasa full of small fish. "H-chan no daaaa!" He gave the line a tug and pulled her in."What are you doing on the other side of my line no da?" She shrugged. "I told the kasa to make me appear near you. I showed up there, saw a swarm of fish and your line and decided to make myself usefull. " She grinned. "Now that youre done fishing-" "H-chan...sit down no da." She plomped down in the grass. "Hai, Chichiri-san?" He tried to glare at her through his mask. "You did a very foolish thing no da...I thought you would be killed no da! You didnt even know how to use the wings...that was a huge peice of luck no da!" He shook his finger at her. "If you would have died, we would be down a miko...and Id be down a Haruka no da!" He smiled at her. "And since youre our only Haruka, that would have been awful no da!" "Hai...Im sorry!"She blushed. (This...this is the guy with the horribly painfull past? He seems okay...but I guess hes good at hiding it. Hes too brave! Just for this...he deserves a new girl! A perfect girl! And who better for the job than-) "A-ano? Ano?" Chichiri was poking her in the shoulder. "Are you okay no da?" "wah!" H-chan looked around her. Darkness had fallen, and a confused Chichiri was staring at her. "Ano? Is something worng no da?" "Oh! I just...wanted to take you flying!" She waved her feather, and the wings appeared, shimmering red in the new dusk. "Oh! How are you going to-" "No problem no da!" He zapped himself into SD. "You can just carry me like this no da! I lose quite a bit of weight this way nan no da!" "Alright!" She ut on the wings and scooped him up in her arms. "Im gonna figure out how you do that some day..." *^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~* "Ne, Tamahome?" "Yes, Kotori?" The two lounged around in the living room, trying to finnaly get some rest after taking care of their "guests" for the past few days. K-chan was trying to learn to knit (without much success) and Tamahome was counting yen. K-chan finnaly snorted in exasperation and threw the knitting down. "What did you say to H-chan this afternoon?" Tamahome looked away. "Nothing..." "Are you-ah!" Yellow ribbons shot out of the window, twining them both. The ribbons wound around and around the room, untill K-chan and Tamahome were trapped like flys in a spiders web. "Nani yo?" Tamahome began to struggle. "Dont bother." A girls voice cackled from the window. "The more you struggle, the tighter they get! You cant fight against the power of the Seiryuu seishi-" A female version of Amiboshi dived into the room, the ribbons they were entwined in wound around her lower arm. "-Suboshiko!" "You...you..."K-chan threw herself forward, trying to get out of the ribbons, Her face started to turn red. "cant...breathe..." "You cant fight...this is the easiest way to kill you..." Suboshiko started to giggle maniacally. "and when your gone, I can go after your Miko friend..." *^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~* "Whahahahahaaaaaaaa!" H-chan soared through the air, doing loop-deloops and laughing. She held Chichiri tight, too afraid of dropping him...how bizzare this was! A day ago, he had been holding her...today, she was scooping him up like a child. The wonders of SD... It was amazing. It was like jumping off of a swingset into a feild of stars...each burst upwards brought her closer to the diamonds. Nothing she had ever done was as great as this... "H-chan!" Chichiri tugged her sleeve. "Isnt this great, Chichiri-cha-um,san?" Damned SD... "Yes, but...we need to go down no da! Your friends are in trouble no da! I can sence a powerful evil in the cottage no da..." "Oh no!" She turned torwards the cottage. "Uhoh...Chichiri-san?" "what no da?" "Um...can you steer?" *^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~* K-chan began to get dizzy. (oh god...I really dont wanna go like this!) Suboshiko began to cackle and cackle...."Soon! Soon you will know-" *CRASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH* "Nani yo?" Suboshiko stared down at the heap next to her. "A doll?" "I AM NOT A DOLL NO DA!" Chichiri sparng up to his full size. "Suzaku Sichiseishi Chichiri-" "And Suzako no Miko!" H-chan said, coming in through the opened window. "Sorry bout that, Chichiri..." "Um, no problem no da..." Chichiri laughed, rubbing a spot on his head. He raised his hand, and yellow lightning flew out, breaking Suboshikis ribbons. "Ahhhhhhhh!" The electricity went through the ribbons, burning Suboshikos arm. "Why...why did you! Augh!" ((Suboshiko!)) ((Oniisan?)) ((Come back!)) ((But the girl...)) ((Youre hopeless without your ribbon! Come BACK!)) Suboshi hissed at them all. "You got lucky this time, Miko. But Ill be back with my brother..." She jumped out of the open window, still cackling. H-chan ran over to K-chan. "Oh K-chan...You okay?" "You baka!" K-chan readied a mallet. "Throwing Chichiri through the roof!" "It was a diversionary tactic no da!" Chichiri stood Tamahome up. "They must be still planning something...its just not safe to stay here no da. how fast can you pack, Tamahome-kun no da?" "Pack?" "Its not too long to Konan from here no da..." *^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~*^_~* "Suboshiko...how did this happen?" Amiboshi inspected the crisscross burns going across her arms. Suboshiko winced." Would you be carefull? It was this guy...Suzaku Sichiseishi Chichiri he said...." She shrugged. "Theyre just little burns..theyll heal..." "No, theese things will leave scars...Theese are bad. Hold still." Amiboshi readied some soapy water, mind burning. "Suzaku Seishi Chichiri...youre gonna pay for this..." END CHAPTER 4!