Fushigi Yuugi Fan Fiction ❯ Hyoushou ❯ Prologue

Hyoushou ("Icicles")
please send Adara yaoi manga donations so that she has
something to do other than to write this piece of travesty,
like translate sweaty boysex for the general populace. ^^;

disclaimers: Watase Yuu and assorted other parties own Fushigi Yuugi, the characters Hikitsu and Tomite, and the names of the characters. She also dictated how Takiko, Urumiya, and Hatsui look. Everything else is mine.

This is a Genbu story, as you should know from the summary. I decided to apply my twisted little fangirl mind to the Genbu-tachi and see what I could come up with....

The names of some Genbu shichiseishi have two different spellings I've seen; for simplicity's sake, I'm going with the ones in the official English translation of the manga (volume 3 freetalk: "Tell Me More About the Universe of the Four Gods"): Inami (over Iname), Uruki, Naname (over Namame), Urumiya (over two or three different ways to say his name), Hatsui, Hikitsu, and Tomite. Please don't tell me that one is more correct than the other (particularly Inami/Iname, since most people use Iname), because quite frankly, I don't care. The only spelling not taken from the freetalk is 'Naname,' which is an alternate romanization for the one given there.

I know very well that the capital of Hokkan is Tolan; Dailen is a made-up city in the "boondocks" of the country, the equivalent to America's "Wild West" in the 1800's.
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"Hey, did you hear that?" A little girl's voice was whispering in the darkness. "Mommy, did you hear that?"

"Umm. It was nothing." The golden-haired young woman pushed away the child's hand gently, not really even awake. "Go back to sleep, Meilan. It's late."

"There's noises outside, Mommy!" Meilan, blond-haired as her mother, insisted. "People! Maybe it's the people fighting, the people Daddy's fighting!"

"Fighting?" Inami sat bolt-upright, pushing her yellow hair out of her eyes. Then she relaxed. "No, sweetie, it doesn't sound like fighting- at least, not the kind you're talking about."

"Why are they fighting at our house, Mommy?" Golden curls shook as the little girl tilted her head inquisitvely. "No one ever fought here before."

"I don't know." Why, exactly, had they ever moved to Dailen? The place was swarming with just the type of men that would swarm over a decent family's front yard with their brawl-

A girl's scream pierced the sounds of fighting outside.

"That's it. I'm going to find out what's going on out there." Inami stood up, pulling her robe tightly around her, and turned to her daughter. "You stay in here. I'll be right back."

"But Mommy-" Meilan protested, brown eyes huge in her small face.

"But nothing. I'll be fine- Mommy's the big bad witch that wants to eat them, remember?" Inami almost smirked as she reached for the slender staff leaning against the doorframe.

"What," Inami raised her voice as she stepped outside, "is going on out here? Do you have any idea how late it is, and whose yard you are in?"

"Lady Inami!" Someone shouted, she wasn't sure whom- it seemed that a small crowd had gathered in her back yard, centered around the pond. "Stay back! There is a demon here!"

"A demon. In my pond." Inami said slowly as she walked towards them. "Do you have any idea whatsoever how moronic that sounds? I suppose you're going to the red-light district to call that tavern wench that can supposedly exorcise spirits, too, aren't you!"

"Not a tavern wench," came another voice's reply, "a tavern boy. Besides, we've already got him- and he won't do anything to help us! Not a thing!" Now the voice was shrill.

"Says that it's not even a demon, and that's why he can't help us!" Another frightened voice spoke up. "He says she's a girl, but what girl just comes out of the sky and falls into a pond! A demon one, that's what!"

"She's not a demon!" A boy's tenor broke in angrily. "I'm afraid of what you'll do when the Genbu no Miko arrives, if you react like this to a girl falling in a pond! For all you know, she is the Genbu no miko! Isn't that what you're supposed to believe when a girl falls out of the sky with a green glow?"

"Everyone, out of my yard!" Inami almost snarled, "Except for this so-called demon and this boy, since he seems to be the only one here with his head on straight!"

Everyone ignored her.

"What does a tavern whore know about demons?" The first person spoke up again, this time scornfully. "For all this defending her, you're probably a demon, too! No normal person looks like you do!" The group began to advance towards the pond, where Inami could make out a person standing in the water and one on the bank.

"Get back!" The boy said shrilly, his voice rising almost to a soprano- curious, since he sounded a bit too old for his voice to still be changing. "Get away from her, now, or I'll make you!"

"Make us?" Someone asked, and burst into coarse laughter. Inami's eyes were slowly adjusting to the dim torchlight outside, and she could make out that the figure on the edge of the pond was a slim, androgynous figure with long pale hair, while the one in the water was equally androgynous, draped in sopping-wet dark hair. "I'd like to see you try anything! You're nothing but a pretty little freak, a demon just like her-" The man had reached for the figure with pale hair, presumably the boy, but was cut off by a scream.

It was a chilling, unearthly sound that seemed to penetrate Inami's skull, though not painful- at least, not painful to her. Several of the people nearest to the pond had fallen to their knees, and several others had begun to flee. It- or rather, some undertone to it- sounded almost like a spell. It was angry, powerful, and- it seemed to be controlling chi, though whether it was the boy's or that of the people around him, Inami didn't know.

In short, it should have been impossible.

"GET OUT!" Inami roared when the scream ended, and the few who remained rushed to obey her. The boy and the drenched figure in the pond remained, an eerie green glow coming from the vicinity. They were both ignoring her- he seemed to be trying to convince her (or at least, Inami assumed it was a girl from what had been said) that it was safe to leave the pond now, he wasn't going to hurt her.

"All right," Inami turned to the two remaining people, "I expect to be told what just happened in my yard."

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I know that was short, but this is just a prologue! ^^;;