Fushigi Yuugi Fan Fiction ❯ The Girl and the Curse ❯ The Girl and the Fight ( Chapter 4 )

Author's Note: I am going to correct the past miss spellings since I finally got the right spellings of everything. I hope that the mystery character will become clearer with this chapter, after all this is her introductory chapter. Hope you like this chapter and hope every one is still interested in this story. Thanks to every one reading.

 

Emily: Hmm…… How about we have our mystery girl introduce herself and do the disclaimer!

 

Mystery Girl: Well I don't really want ta' tell you who I am so you will have to wait for that, and I don't really want ta' say the disclaimer ether so NO!!

 

Emily: If you refuse then I will erase you from my story so (yells next part) DO IT NOW!!

 

Mystery Girl: (gets scared) Ok. Emily aka antyem13 dose NOT own Fushigi Yugi and never will. (snickers) She can't even control her own characters so how could she control the likes of Yuu Watase-sama's characters.

 

Izumi: (laughing) You got that right. (continues laughing)

 

Emily: I really don't like you two some times. (goes off to sulk)

 

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`This' = Thoughts of character.

 

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Chapter 4:

 

The Girl and the Fight

 

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The girl looked at her with confusion showing in her amber eyes. `Hay, her eyes look just like Tasuki's,' she mentally noted.

 

“Where am I?” asked the girl rather groggily.

 

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Izumi stared at the girl for a moment. `It feels like I know her, but I've never seen her before in my life. What is going on here?'

 

“You're on Mt. Reikakuzan, with the gang of bandits that hide out here,” Izumi told the very confused looking girl.

 

“Whazsat?” asked the girl, she still sounded groggy.

 

“It's a mountain in Konan. That's the country that you're in,” Izumi tried to answer.

 

“Konan?” the girl repeated, in a disbelieving way. She looked at Izumi as if she was crazy. “You really think we're in Konan?” she ended up yelling this question causing the people out side of the door to jump slightly.

 

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Kouji looked over at Tasuki, “Do you think that means it's safe to go in now?”

 

“How the hell should I know? The only way to find out is to go in and see.” Tasuki looked at the door, and then looked back at Kouji. They both shrugged, not sure what to do.

 

“I say we try it,” said Kouji quietly. “What about you?”

 

“As long as you're the one in front,” answered Tasuki.

 

They pushed the door open slowly. They stepped into the room while looking at what was going on inside. The sight that met them was… well weird. The girl in the strange cloths was staring at Izumi like she was some kind of bug. Izumi was staring right back at the girl her expression a mixture of worry and confusion.

 

The girl started past Izumi to the two men that had just entered the room. “Holy Shit,” she said with wide eyes and mouth agape.

 

“What?” said Izumi as she spun around to see what the girl was looking at. “It's just Kouji and Tasuki. What's the big deal?”

 

“Daisuke? Is that you?” she looked closer at Tasuki “No you're not him. The eyes are different. Whoa that was so weird,” the girl was now talking to herself more then to the others in the room.

 

Izumi froze at the sound of her brothers' name. She quickly slipped into the mask she used to hide from the world. It was something she had perfected during her life, to hide all emotions. She stiffened the only one in the room that didn't notice was the girl on the bed. “Who are you?” she asked the girl with unnatural calmness in her voice. Her voice was perfectly even, it was void of emotion.

 

“My names Michi, but I think that I might be in a dream right now,” she said this with an odd expression on her face.

 

Izumi didn't doubt her she seemed too shaken up to lie that well. She still wondered why she had called Tasuki, Daisuke, but she figured that it was a mystery that would have to wait for another day.

 

Izumi stepped closer to Kouji and Tasuki “Do you think we should try to convince her that it's not a dream?”

 

Kouji and Izumi looked at each other then looked to Tasuki. He noticed the two of them staring at him “What?”

 

“You're the only one here that has any experience dealing with someone from another world, like Michi,” said Kouji.

 

“Oh… Well… But Miaka didn't think she was in a dream,” he said still looking confused.

 

Kouji rested his hand on his chin (in the classic `thinking' pose) as he thought. “Well if we try to convince her that it's not a dream, she'll just think that her dream is trying to convince her its not a dream, so I guess we should just let her figure it out on her own.” He didn't look like he thought it was the greatest idea in the world but no other idea looked as good as that one.

 

Tasuki nodded in agreement at his friend statement.

 

“Yea I guess,” said Izumi rather dejectedly. She still looked worried, and just a little confused.

 

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The girl just sat there for a wile after the three people she met left. She was still trying to determine if this was a dream or not. She pinched her self a few times. `If it is a dream then it's one that hurts. I don't think I've ever had a dream that hurt before. So… does that mean it isn't a dream? Oh man this is just too confusing. For now I say it's real, after all this is not like any other dream I've had. None have been this real before.' It seemed like she had come to the conclusion of her thoughts, but then she started to doubt herself.

 

She had never been a very confidant person. She always took forever to make a choice about almost anything. People always saw her as strong, really she felt incredibly weak. She would put up the façade of being strong to help herself cope, it was all that she could do to make herself feel more… worthy… of… living.

 

She was no stranger to feeling guilt. She had always felt that things were her fault even if in reality there was nothing she could do about it. She knew when she had begun to blame everything on herself even if she would never admit it. It was when she was 15. Not long after her 2 best friends had died.

 

She could still remember clearly, the events leading to the deaths of her two closets friends. Those events came back to haunt her in her dreams. She felt it was her fault that they ended up dead. How could she not? If she had not fought with them they wouldn't have left from her house and been killed in the car accident that clamed both their lives. She figured that she should be over such things by now, after all it had happened so many years ago.

 

She realized that she needed to stop her thoughts before she completely ruined herself with grief. She did her best to turn her thought back to the situation at hand.

 

After forcing her mind to think about where she was, she found that her thoughts took her immediately to the woman that she had first seen. She happen to look remarkably like her mother, other then the hair, her mother's hair was bright red, and gorges. Michi had been cursed with her fathers' hair, it was plain old brown. But her hair was frizzy instead of the nice tight spiral curls her father had. Plus she had inherited his build, her shoulders were far too broad and she felt as though she had little to no feminine features. Her only good feature, as far as she was concerned, was her eyes. She loved her eyes, they were deep amber colored, and to her they looked like dark honey. She figured that if she was ever to find a guy they would like her for her eyes.

 

She paused to try and figure out how her thoughts had turned to her eyes of all subjects. `Well I really do like to think about them, for some odd reason.' She almost slapped herself for this. Sometimes her thoughts were just plain weird. Before she had time to think any thing else her eyes slowly drifted closed. She hadn't even realized that she was tiered.

 

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Izumi tried to go about her day as if finding a girl that was from another world was no big deal. She was failing miserably.

 

Her mind kept on drifting back to what she had felt before the girl had woken up. She was sure that she had never seen that girl before in her life, but at the same time she was sure that she new her somehow.

 

`Shesh this train of thought is even more confusing then thinking about Tasuki.' She immediately smacked herself hard on the forehead. `BAD MIND, BAD MIND, I am NOT going there right now dam it! Why does my mind enjoy torturing me with thoughts of HIM? AHHH no, no, no, no, no, no, NO MORE THOUGTHS OF HIM!!!' She continued mentally screaming at herself, until someone walking up to her interrupted her thinking.

 

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Tasuki was still bugged by the fact that there was, yet again, a girl from another world here in Konan. Of cores he just happens to be one of the people that ends up having to deal with it to. `Just when I thought all of that crap was done with, something else happens. With my luck I'll end up having to stay with `er until she gets back to her world too. SIMATTA!! Suzaku I'm startin' ta' wonder if bein' one of `yur seishi is a curse and not a blessing.' He sighed heavily, he didn't really think things could get any weirder after Izumi ended up here, but he'd been proven wrong. Now there was the possibility of having two girls in the strong hold. `Man why can't I stop finding these stupid girls in distress, I'm gonna' end up draggin' my self to an early grave with all these dam adventures if I'm not careful. If only these weird girls would stop suddenly popin' up then I would just be fine.'

 

`Ya didn't seem to mind much when Izumi popped into yer life.' An opposing voice in his head said. His face promptly turned red with embarrassment. He was far from used to thinking such thoughts, or anything near even being happy that a girl was around. While he didn't happen to be gay, he really did hate women. True he found them physically attractive once in a while, but to him that was all. He thought most girls were like his older sisters and mother, not someone he would want to spend time with.

 

He turned his thought back to the situation at hand. Mostly about what was going to happen with the girl that had shown up from another world. More then likely he would have to wait until Chichiri came back to visit. After all, the wondering monk usually knew when something weird was going on. `I hope I won't hav' ta' see that ol' hag on Mt. Daikyokusan.' The thought of seeing Tai Itsukun's hideous face made him shudder involuntarily. He could have sworn that she got that grotesque face of hers from someone's worst nightmare.

 

While he was thinking he was wandering the halls of the stronghold. He wasn't really paying attention to where he was going, but he didn't have to. He knew this place better then any one. It was his favorite place in the world, and the only one he had ever really considered home.

 

He wandered into the Big room as most bandits called it (the place where every one eats, I don't really want to call it a dining room because it's also where everyone relaxes). He still wasn't really looking around him, he just headed over to one of the more comfy cushions on the far side of the room.

 

He flopped down onto the cushion, feeling like his head was about to explode when he looked more carefully at his surroundings. He was rather surprised to find that he was sitting right next to Izumi.

 

“Hi there, I'm guessing that you were thinking about something rather important, yes?” she said.

 

“What makes you think that?” he asked with a brow raised in question.

 

“Well you walked over here staring at me but not actually looking at me, and I said your name a few times and there was no answer.” She said smirking.

 

“Oh, yea I was thinking,” he answered his face relaxing slightly.

 

“So….?” she said, trying to get him to elaborate.

 

He looked at her for a moment trying to decide weather to tell her or not. “I was thinkin about Michi, and why she's here, and what's gonna happen with her now.” He answered with a slight frown.

 

“Hmm… that's a big subject to think of at once,” both were silent for a few moments, thinking about what was just said.

 

Tasuki didn't really want to continue thinking on this subject, he decided to try and change it.

 

“So what where you doin in here?” he asked her.

 

Her eyes snapped back to him for a brief moment then back to the ground. “Just sittin here like usual. Thinkin about weather I should go out to the training grounds at the moment.” She knew that if she had told the truth, as to what the subject of her thoughts was, she would never here the end of it, from both him and Kouji.

 

She smirked suddenly as she realized something. “You know I still haven't seen you fight, Tasuki. I'm startin to wonder if you can.” She was still smirking.

 

He looked over at her still slightly in shock as to what it was she had just said. “How bout I take you out there and fight you!!” He was yelling at her now, every one else in the room looked at them for a moment not knowing what their leader was doing.

 

Izumi smiled, this was her intention all along, she was feeling agitated ever since dealing with Michi. Fighting with Tasuki was the best way she could think of to get rid of that agitation. “Fine by me, but there has to be a few rules. First no using the fire from your Harisen, and no using your seishi speed, deal?”

 

“Why not the speed, you afraid that with it I'll beat ya too easily?” He was slightly calmer now, but not much.

 

“Na, I just want to give you an excuse when I win,” she said smugly. `That's one of my better comebacks, nice.'

 

Tasuki glared at her. “Outside now,” he hissed at her.

 

She smiled back at him, her smile was not one that was pleasant, instead her smile seemed to be filled with hate, and malice.

 

Tasuki nearly flinched as he saw the look in her eyes. It was not something you usually saw in the eyes of an opponent in a friendly battle. It was more like what you saw from an opponent that wanted you dead.

 

The tension out side on the training field was so thick you could have easily choked on it; it was all coming from the two figures in the center of the crowd, both standing ready to fight.

 

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Michi woke up with a start; she could have sworn that her brother had just tried to kick her.

 

She looked around at the unfamiliar room, not quite sure where she was.

 

If she had thought about it for a moment instead of panicking she would have realized where she was. However she was far from used to doing things in a logical way. Instead she jumped out of the bed and began to check over herself rapidly. She needed to make sure that no one had messed with her and that she was all still there (she has a reoccurring night mare where she wakes up and limbs are missing, so every morning she has to make sure that she is all there).

 

After discovering that all of her was there and that she was not molested while she slept, she looked around the room more carefully. Suddenly she recalled the happenings, before she fell asleep. She looked out the window; the sun was still a little ways off from setting. More then enough to provide sunlight. `What in hell do I do now? I'm kind of hungry and I don't even know where I am, let alone how to get out of this place…man, where's a guide when I need one?'

 

Not long after her thought someone knocked at the door of the room. “Knock, knock. Who's there? Kouji second in command of the Mt. Reikakuzan bandits, friend to Genrou and Izumi, here to check on Michi. Oh Kouji come on it. Arigato.” While saying this he opened the door.

 

Michi was still rather stunned. “Um… Hi?” she was still very confused at hearing his introduction.

 

He tried not to laugh at the expression on her face. “It's nice to see you awake. Do you feel any better?” he asked.

 

“I… guess…,” her stomach chose this time to announce that it was hungry. She promptly turned red at this. “Ha, guess I'm kinda hungry,” she tried to laugh but it came out weak and unsure.

 

Kouji laughed gently. “Come on I'll get ya some food,” he waved for her to follow him. She did so cautiously, still not sure if this was a dream or not.

 

When they got to the eating room it was nearly empty. “Well that's odd,” said Kouji his brows furrowed in confusion. “Usually full at this time.”

 

“What is?” Michi asked not quite sure as what he was talking about.

 

He turned back to the girl at his side. “In here, it's usually crawling with bandits right now, but it's rather empty,” he paused for a moment but shook his head dismissing the thought, “but no matter. Let's get you some food.”

 

She felt like he wasn't saying something, but she followed him anyways. `After all since when is it my business to find out what he's not saying.'

 

He handed her a bowl of rice with some vegetables and some kind of meat mixed in. She thought about asking what kind of meat it was but thought better of it. She probably didn't want to know.

 

After she finished she walked outside following Kouji. She saw a large crowd apparently they were watching something.

 

“Hay, Michi make sure you stick with me ok? I don't want any of these idiots to try any thing.” He warned her.

 

“Kouji you don't have to worry about that. If any of them tries it they will wish they hadn't been born.” He gave her a doubtful look. “Believe me in my world, one thing they teach girls is that if a guy tries to do any thing to you that you don't want, just give him a good swift kick between the legs. I happen to be a black belt in karate and very good at kicking.” Her eyes took on an almost evil glint. Kouji flinched “ouch,” was all he said.

 

They made there way through the crowd towards the center where two people were fighting. It was almost too fast for her eyes to keep up with. Mostly she saw indistinct blurs, but she could tell that both knew what they were doing, masters at fighting, that's what they were.

 

She could see one red blur; it struck out at the brown blur, forcing the person back into defending themselves. Then the brown blur attacked it was hard to tell what the person was using to attack, it never was still long enough for Michi to get a good look at it.

 

She suddenly realized that she had no idea who was fighting and why. “Kouji who are those two, and why are they fighting?”

 

“Well as for who they are that's Genrou and Izumi, but I have no idea why they're fighting. They shouldn't be, I do know that.” He wore a look of concern on his face.

 

The two of them continued fighting; to her they looked like they could have taken on all of her high schools football team and all of the basketball team with no problem at all. They were an amazing sight to behold. Until something very unexpected happened…

 

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Izumi was pumped and ready for the fight, it had been a while since her last good fight, and she was more then ready for it.

 

She took her stance with practiced ease, it was almost second nature for her to be ready to be attacked.

 

Tasuki attacked her side. `He moves kind of like Daisuke used to, even uses similar attacks,' she thought sadly. While she was thinking she almost didn't doge an attack on her other side.

 

She quickly knocked his sword aside and brought her fan up to strike his face but found that her path was blocked with his sword.

 

“Hay, I thought I told you no seishi speed,” she growled at him.

 

“Who says I'm usin' it?”

 

“You have to be…… unless… no you can't be that much faster then me, can you?”

 

He smirked mischievously. “Do you really wana' find out little onna?”

 

She glared viciously at him. “Don't ever call me a `little girl,'” she hissed.

 

She charged at him blindly not caring where she hit him as long as he felt pain. She ended up going for his head. To him it looked like she was trying to behead him. `Wow' he thought, `that's something that I really don't want to feel.'

 

He blocked her tessen from hitting him, but he didn't see her fist in time to doge it. He felt the impact of her rather strong punch on his cheek. Stunned was too small a word he was utterly shocked at what had just happened. He stared at her for a moment not knowing what was going to happen next, she just stood there breathing hard.

 

“If you ever call me little onna again, I will not hesitate to kill you,” she said it just above a whisper, only he herd it. She threw her tessen into the ground angrily, half of it seemingly disappeared into the ground. She turned and walked purposefully away from the still shocked bandit leader.

 

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Michi stared at the aftermath of the fight with wide eyes. She looked up at Kouji questioningly.

 

“What the fuck just happened?” she asked, her voice was bordering on panic.

 

Kouji looked just as confused as her. “I have no fucking clue.”

 

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Tasuki stood there blinking for a few minutes. He still couldn't figure out as to what he could have done to warrant such a harsh reaction. The first idea he could come up with was the little onna comment, but that shouldn't have been any where near that big of a deal.

 

He felt some one lightly smack his arm, as he looked over he saw Kouji.

 

“What was that? You obviously did something major to piss her off. What was it?”

 

He just stared at him for a moment still shocked at the turn of events that this day had taken. “Kouji buddy, if I knew I would definitely tell ya so you could avoid doing it on accident.”

 

Kouji gave him a disbelieving look. “There is no way in hell you could do something to piss her off that much and not know what it was.”

 

Tasuki looked back at him like he was growing a second head. “You have got to be kidding me.” His voice almost sounded serious, almost.

 

Kouji paused for a moment, calming down considerably in that time. “Actually knowing you and women, you are dense enough to not know what you did.”

 

Tasuki promptly face-vaulted. (For you non anime people that is when someone falls on their face usually from surprise) When he got up you could see his face was red. “Did ya think I was joking, you baka,” he screamed.

 

The crowd of bandits dissipated during Kouji's and Tasuki's conversation, leaving only Michi standing there not knowing what to do. She timidly poked Kouji in the arm to get his attention. “Um…… what now?”

 

Kouji gave her a blank stare. “What do you mean?”

 

“Shouldn't someone go after her? She looked pretty upset,” after saying this Michi felt like kicking herself `why do I always cave and show that I care, DAM.' She waved her hand in the air as if brushing something aside. “Never mind. I'm gonna go see if I can find her.” She turned on her heal and walked swiftly towards the path the young woman named Izumi had taken.

 

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As soon as Izumi was sure no one could see her she took of running. She didn't know what she was running from. Maybe it was from the face she had seen after she had punched one of the only two people she had come to trust in long while. She reached a large lake, one that she would have found breathtaking under different circumstances, hell she had found it breathtaking the first time she saw it.

 

Her mind drifted back to that day not more then a week ago.

 

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“Hay Genrou, come over here for a second,” Izumi yelled with a smile. Kouji was standing sitting next to here looking like he wished he was somewhere else. (This is before she started calling him Tasuki just so you know)

 

He walked over reluctantly. “What do you want?” His voice displayed his agitation.

 

Izumi completely ignored said agitation. “Well Kouji told me about a lake that's not too far from here, that I wanted to go see. But Kouji won' take me so would you?” She put on her cutest puppy dog eyes she had and clasped her hand together pleadingly.

 

He gave her a blank look. “Why me, just go ask one of the other bandits, almost every one here knows where the lake is.”

 

She gave him a very fake look of shock and horror. “What if one of them tried to take advantage of little me?” her voice was an odd squeak. (Her sad impression of a `girly girls' voice)

 

Again she received a blank stare. “How do you know I won't take advantage of you?”

 

She smiled brightly, “Well you always say you hate women so I won't have to worry.”

 

He let out a sigh. “Fine whatever just hurry up so we get back before dark.”

 

She squealed in delight at having gotten her way. “Thanks Genrou,” she yelled as she ran back into the stronghold for her boots. She ran back out just was quickly, almost tripping herself from putting on her boots while running.

 

Genrou laughed at the antics of the overly excited girl. She stood up swiftly, trying to regain what small amount of dignity she could. Not that the two men would let her. The defiant look on her face earned her a laugh from Kouji too. She gave them a disapproving look, then let her shoulders sag in defeat while letting her expression change to something akin to depression. In short she let herself look utterly pitiful.

 

Genrou laughed softly one more time, then took pity on the girl. He gave her a few pats on the back. “Come on lets go see the lake.” His mood considerable improved from watching the rather strange girl that has entered his life suddenly.

 

They walked side by side on the path to the lake. She took a deep breath just letting what was around her sink in. She loved being in the woods, sometimes when she was little she used to sleep out side on purpose so she could hear the sound coming from the forest at the edge of the village. She smiled happily not noticing the strange look she was receiving from the man walking next to her.

 

“You really are strange,” he said laughing slightly.

 

She turned to him, not realizing that she was still smiling. “Why am I strange?”

 

He looked at her like she was rather clueless. “Yer sittin there grinin like an idiot for no obvious reason and you can't figure out why yer strange?” He raised an eyebrow in question.

 

She bit her lip for a moment, then glanced up at him as if she was trying to see if he would make fun of her. “I've always liked the woods,” she said softly, suddenly she found the ground in front of her very interesting “ever since I was little. It's almost like it draws me to it like I can't help but love being near all of the life that the forest contains. It almost makes me want to stay in the woods forever, but I don't think I would make it.” She quickly glanced up at him, trying to gauge his reaction to what she had just said. She would never admit it but she was worried about what he would say. It just so happened that he was the first person that she told about her love of the forest, other than her family.

 

He just looked at the ground for a few moments after hearing her explanation. “Yea I can understand that,” he said unconsciously nodding slightly.

 

She let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding. She relaxed a great deal, somehow that small exchange made her feel like she could trust the energetic bandit with almost anything.

 

Before they realized it they had arrived at the lake. The sun was just starting to set, making the lake appear to be on fire with the reflection of the fire in the sky. She gasped, knowing that the site would be something she would never see again; she tried to burn the site into her memory. After a few minuets she stopped trying to memorize the sky. “Beautiful,” she whispered softly.

 

“Yea, it is,” said Genrou from behind her. Her eyes shot open, as she spun around. When she saw that it was Genrou she calmed down somewhat, just breathing hard from the sudden rush of adrenalin.

 

He looked at her like she was an idiot. “What the hell was that?” The exasperation was very clear in his voice.

 

She gave him a sheepish look for a moment then quickly looked down at the ground, seemingly finding the small rocks at her feet fascinating. “I… um… kind of forgot that you where there,” she squeaked as she turned back to the lake in front of her.

 

He sweat dropped, as he raised a brow in confusion for a moment. But as his confusion past he found the situation quite funny, he couldn't help but laugh at the strange circumstances.

 

As she realized he was laughing at her she blushed, somehow it made her rather depressed that she could have been so stupid to have forgotten that she was not by herself. She let out a dejected sigh. `If only I weren't a sentimental fool when nature is involved.' She had unintentionally reviled quite a bit about herself to the strange red headed man that she had recently come to know, too much for her comfort. In the time she had used for thinking a curtain red head had let his laughter die and finally come to a stop.

 

“Come on we better go or we won't get back before dark.” He again patted her on the back in a gesture of understanding, or at least that was how he meant it, she took it as a way of tormenting her for her inattentiveness earlier.

As she followed she mentally prepared herself for verbal abuse of the teasing kind. Yet every time she was sure he was about to say something, there was nothing but the sound of their steps. It was rather strange them walking in silence like it was no big deal, in truth it was the longest period of time in which the bandit was quiet that she had ever witnessed, and considering that he was almost never quiet unless he was sleeping this was very strange. “Hay Genrou what's with the sudden silence?” she asked.

 

He jerked his head up “Huh what da ya mean?”

 

She sweat dropped. “This is the first time I've ever seen you quiet when your not sleeping, and even then your not that quiet,” she razed her eyebrow with her comment.

 

“Oh, yea I guess I was bein kinda quiet. I was jus thinkin `s all.” He responded, ignoring the implied insult.

 

She put on a look of mock supprise and let her mouth hang open, “You mean you can think!” she said slightly louder then usual.

 

He shot her a soft glare. “Better th'n you can.”

 

She shrugged and kept walking. He raised an eyebrow “What no insult back?” he asked.

 

“Nope not a one, bandit boy,” she said. “Speaking of witch,” she drew his attention to the area they had just entered, “you're home.”

 

He looked around quickly taking in there location. “So we are, let's go get some dinner.” He waved for her to follow, and she did.

 

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She drifted back to her present situation. `WHY!! Why didn't I just let it go? It's not like he could have known what he was saying, so why did I react to it? What's wrong with me… why do I always act like every one's out to get me? Kami-sama, why do I always hurt like this? Her mental anguish continued as she held her head in her hands and sat on the shore of the lake. She drew her legs up in front of her and laid her elbows on them, she put her head in between her arms and clasped her hands together over her head, this was how she sat when she was in pain. It was a small comfort to her, though she never could figure out why. It made her feel small, insignificant, like she could just be overlooked by everything and allowed to be at peace.

 

While she let herself go in the pain she felt she began questioning many of her decisions and actions. `Why do I always leave when it gets hard or when I have to risk getting hurt? Why do I take on challenges that I know I can't win? Why am I always attacking anyone that might actually get close, why do I always act like I let someone get close when really I have all my walls up, why can't they tell the difference?' Her emotions came to a head as she screamed out her final question. “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?!?”

Then she just sat there letting all of the tears go all the while regretting that she couldn't hold them in like she had promised herself she would.

 

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Kouji and Tasuki watched Michi stride purposefully down the path that Izumi had taken until they could no longer see her. Nether of them thought it was a good idea to bother an obviously very pissed off Izumi, but they also didn't know how to stop a very determined Michi. Instead they settled for staying the hell away from the whole issue.

 

Kouji looked over at Tasuki. “Gen do ya think we should do somthin here?”

 

Tasuki looked back at him with a very worried expression. “You know that is not the kind of question to ask me!”

 

Kouji drew his eyebrows together in thought “Yea, you know we're screwed if I'm asken you for advice on dealin with women.”

 

They both walked slowly back to the stronghold, each lost in there own thoughts.

 

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To Be Continued………..

 

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FINALY the end of the chapter!!!! (Authoress falls down dead (not really))

 

First thank you to all of the people who reviewed. You guys really don't know how much you helped me. Queen of Monkey Magic (thanks for the encouragement and for spotting those errors (they do look very weird spelled that way)) Kristall (thanks for the understanding and I cant answer your question because it would give some stuff away (by saying I cant answer it I just gave away the answer so I'm kind of answering it)) and last but not least casptercat22 (thanks for the praise, it means a ton to me).

 

Author's Notes: Wow this chapter was way, way to long. But I just couldn't find a good stopping point, as it is this was the stopping point I chose so you guys wouldn't have to wait even longer to get some more of this story. (pants for breath) I will try to be a little quicker with the next update but my school starts on the 5th, so things are going to get a little hectic for me. Hope every one has enjoyed this story and will continue to do so, your strange authoress, Emily.

 

9/4/2006

 

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