Fushigi Yuugi Fan Fiction / Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ Sibling Rivalry ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

Ok. I know I screwed up. I should have worked more on this fic, but I didn't. Can I still beg for forgiveness or am I doomed to listen to David Moo sing the classics forever? I hope I don't have to listen to that. I would rather listen to nails on chalkboard.

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Chapter 8

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Xellos stared into the rows of pointy teeth and he not-so-happy puppy they were attached to. "Kawii!" Xellos smiled and patted the monster on the head. "He's so cute! Reminds me of my master!"

Ashitare's eyes widened in shock as the purple haired mazoku scratched him behind the ears. Soon he grew mad as the stupid man continued to call him names like 'puppy-puppy'. He growled in extreme anger.

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Nakago looked up from his cup of sake as he heard a loud cry of pain coming from the dungeon.

"What was that?" Soi looked up from the book she was reading.

Nakago smirked and sipped his drink. "It seems Ashitare has met our guest."

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Xellos flinched in pain and patted the puppy's head as Ashitare continued to growl, this time with Xellos's arm in his mouth.

"Never have I...felt such...pain..." Xellos choked out. Tears streamed down his face. "I am so bringing you home with me!"

Ashitare kept his teeth clamped onto the arm and looked up at Xellos. 'This idiot likes this?!?!' He thought with disgust. 'Blondie and him would really get along...' Ashitare growled even lower at the thought of his 'master'. 'If that's what he wants...'

Ashitare snarled and jumped Xellos.

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The Seiryuu seishi, well...the sane Seiryuu seishi, not Nakago and Miboshi, looked towards the dungeon in shock. The screams of pain were sickening to the stomach. After thirty minutes of nonstop screaming all went quiet.

Nakago motioned for a guard to come. "Get that man up here, if he's still alive that is."

A few minutes later the guard returned with the purple haired annoyance. He still smiled the way he did when he entered. He looked a little ruffled, but (to the surprise of everyone) not very damaged.

"I like your puppy."

Everyone exchanged looks.

"Sir..." The guard approached Nakago. "Ashitare looks...um...beaten...what should we do?"

Xellos pouted. "I didn't beat him! He lunged at me and we...wrestled..."

"Those screams were...Ashitare's..."Soi paled.

"Leave us." Nakago ordered. Everyone didn't give it a second thought and cleared the room faster than you could say 'Fushigi Aguki.'

"Boy." Tomo huffed as the door shut behind him. "That guy is fruitier than I am."

"That says something." Soi snorted and turned her back him.

"Shut up you whore!"

"Make me you cackling clown!"

"I think I will!"

"Bring it on, Bozo!"

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Nakago and Xellos looked at the door as a scream of rage was heard outside then two thumps then silence. Nakago turned his attention back to what he was about to ask. "Will you help me take over the world?"

Xellos smirked. "Let me think about it...No."

Nakago shrugged. "Than you die."

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Amelia hummed to herself as she walked to the bath. She heard some of the women speaking, and it seemed Nuriko was in there right his moment. Amelia really liked her. She was smart and funny and she didn't seem to take any badmouthing from anyone.

She wanted to have more 'girl time' with someone who acted like a girl. Not that she was saying Lina wasn't feminine, it's just...Lina wasn't feminine. And whenever she and Fillia got into giggly gossip mode, Xellos would pop in. Sylphiel was a very nice girl too. It's just Sylphiel was never around. As for the last real female who roamed with the small group...she was...well...Martina was just plain psycho.

Amelia smiled as she entered. "Nuriko-chan!" It was only polite to acknowledge when one enters. Who knows how the other woman would act if Amelia walked in unannounced.

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Nuriko sighed as he relaxed in the bath. The emperor had the right idea, taking a nice long soothing bath. It really relaxes you.

He stretched. It was also nice to just not think about being a girl. For the moment. It was always so hard to think of excuses to why he had to bath and change and do everything else alone. He really didn't want anyone besides the other seishi to know his little secret.

"Nuriko-chan!" He heard Amelia's peppy voice.

"Oh crap..." He hissed and ducked beneath the bubbles. A few seconds later Amelia showed up all smiles.

"How are you?"

"Fine..." Nuriko gulped and looked around for his robe. The big violet silk stupid thing was lying next to the exit, which was exactly half the room away from his current position. "You?" Better try to play it normal. That way she doesn't suspect something and might give Nuriko a window of opportunity to make a mad dash for it.

"I'm good." Amelia smiled and got into the pool sized hot bath. "So...What's up with you and the emperor?"

Nuriko flushed many shades of crimson. It seemed his face couldn't decide on a color. "Hotohori and me?" He squeaked. "Nothing I...we're just friends!"

"Nothing!" Amelia snorted. "Yeah right! A single guy like that is not 'just friends' with a pretty girl like you! You're in denial! He so has a crush on you."

Nuriko laughed. "No he does not like me in that way! We're just friends!" Though I wish we were more than that...

"Denial! Denial!" Amelia laughed. "I've seem the way you look at him! Why don't you just tell him that! You are a lady of the court, why can't you two get together?"

You mean besides the fact he likes Miaka and oh...I don't know... I'M A MAN! "I just won't." Nuriko slipped lower into the water.

"I bet he's just shy."

Yeah, and I'm just blind to his shyness...

"I bet if you put some moves on him..."

He'll run away in terror.

"...he'll lighten up to you." Amelia moved closer. "You two would make such a cute couple!"

Nuriko edged away. "He's not shy. He's very upfront with Miaka."

"But you're not Miaka." Amelia gave him a worried look. "Are you ok? You look a little pale..."

"Just fine!" Nuriko moved farther away. "Really."

"You also look tense. Want a back rub?"

"NO!" Nuriko yelped and moved even farther away. "I'm quite sure I DON'T need a back rub."

"You are so tense though!" Amelia pouted. "It's not good to be that tense." She moved quicker than Nuriko anticipated...

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Tasuki and Chichiri sat on the floor of his room playing poker. "So...how long until your sister leaves?"

"She'll be here until she finds me and beats me."

Chichiri made a face. 'Well, the sooner you find her, the less harsh the beating, right?" Actually, Chichiri was scared to death of that woman and wanted her as far away from him as possible. Sacrifices had to be made to insure the overall safety of the country so it seemed only right to throw Tasuki to the lions. Everyone would agree with him.

He was about to voice his thought as a scream of utter terror shook the walls. "What was that?!"

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Everyone came running to the source of the screams. "Amelia!" Zelgadis was the first to arrive, sword drawn. "What happened?"

Amelia ducked behind the rock man. "I..I...I..." She stuttered. Her eyes were wide with shock and she was very pale. From the look of her, she had just gotten out of the bath. Her hair was wet and she wore a simple white robe that was too big for her.

"What happened?" Hotohori said calmly to the panicky girl.

"It was my fault." Nuriko stood in the doorway, blushing like mad. "I'm sorry!" He took a step toward Amelia.

She shrunk away.

"What did you do?" Zel growled.

"I was just taking a bath and she showed up and..." Nuriko trailed off. That was followed by a chorus of 'ooh's' coming from the Suzaku seishi.

"She's a...She's a...She's a..." Amelia pointed.

"She's a what?" Lina never looked away from poor Nuriko. "She's a traitor? A thief?"

"She's a man!" Amelia buried her face in Zelgadis' shirt.

The Slayers backed away. "A man..." Gourry looked dumbfounded. "But he's so pretty! How can he be a man? Men aren't that pretty!"

Hotohori's eyes flared as his gaze slowly turned to the blond idiot. "What did you say?"

"Men aren't pretty."

Everyone exempt for the big lummox backed away slowly from the emperor giving an evil look that rivaled Xellos's unhappy face. "Are you saying I'm ugly?!"

"No. I said men aren't pretty. Boy, and people call me stupid."

Hotohori fumed and reached for his sword. Luckily (for Gourry), Tamahome and Tasuki were dumb enough to grab the emperor and hold him back. "Let me at him!" Hotohori screamed.

Gourry's eyes widened. "Lina! Why is the pretty lady do mad?"

"Stupid!" Lina hit him over the head. "That's the emperor!"

Gourry looked at her stupidly.

"The ruler...like a king...rules over everything..." Gourry still gave her the 'deer-in-headlights' look.

"Oh for crying out loud!" Zel screamed. "He's a man! A vain, egotistical, narcissistic man!"

Gourry looked back. "That pretty lady is a man..." He pointed at Nuriko, who nodded, "And that's a man..." He pointed at Hotohori. "Are you a man?" He pointed to Miaka.

Miaka's jaw dropped. "I am not a man!"

"But they're prettier than you are and they're men!"

"Gourry, shut up."

"But-"

"Just shut up." Lina sighed. "And go back to your room. You won't be murdered there."

Gourry looked at the fuming woman and the fuming man-that-looked-like-a-woman-but-is-actually-the-emperor and quickly ran off in search of his room.

Lina sighed "Sorry about him, he's just..." Lina trailed off and her eye's narrowed. "You."

Tasuki 'meeped,' dropped his hold on the emperor and ran like there was no tomorrow. (Which in his case was very likely to happen)

"Get back here you little--!" Lina took off after him. Leaving everyone to stand there looking at one another.

"So..." Amelia broke the silence. "Nuriko, you're a man...Very interesting..."

"It is..."

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