Fushigi Yuugi Fan Fiction ❯ The Girl Who Didn't Believe ❯ The Decision ( Chapter 3 )

The Girl Who Didn't Believe

Hello to all, again! Wow, this is my third chapter already! Special thanks to Metajoker, Riverwood and NaTTie for being my first three reviewers! Let me tell you that the Fushigi Yuugi TV Series Songs Complete Collection rocks, big time man! Okay, maybe except the part where Nakago sings "Blue Eyes Blue". Can anyone sound so stiff and cold? BBRRRRR… Well, enough nonsensical chatter on my part, onward with the story, and folks, please remember to review, okay?!! Gomen first for any future spelling or grammar mistakes. Arrigato gozaimasu!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Fushigi Yuugi characters. I do own Kitten and Sable, though.

`Thoughts'= character thoughts

########## = in another place

Again, that's all I can think of now!

Chapter 3- The Decision

The small group trudged off towards the meditation room. Chichiri and Sable were in the middle, same as before, so as to prevent any future squabbles that might occur between their friends. Tasuki and Kitten were sulking.

"Sou ka…you're Chichiri of the Suzaku shichi seishi, right?" asked Sable, in an attempt to break the awkward silence.

"Hai, no da," Chichiri answered.

"Sable, you're asking such a stupid question. You practically glue your eyes to this weird fellow every time he comes out on screen, and you sure as heck know him inside out. His past, his everything, and I bet you know the color of his underwear, too. And now when you finally meet him, what do you ask him? "You're Chichiri right?" Geez.… Ouch! Itai! Itai! What was that for! I was only telling the truth!"

Sable blushed furiously and gave Kitten a few more deserving whacks on the head.

"GRRRR…Kitten, you shoot your big mouth off again, and I will personally make sure that you will return home in seven excruciating, painful pieces. You got that?!" Sable whispered menacingly.

"Ouchie," Kitten winced, rubbing her sore head. "Okay, okay, I get the idea." She lowered her voice even more. " Heheheh. I had a nagging suspicion that you liked our blue-haired monk back home. Now it is more or less confirmed. OUCH! Okay! I will not say anything! I promise! What are good friends for, anyway?" Kitten paused for a little while before continuing, "Of course, it wouldn't hurt if you were to add a little incentive to keep my big mouth shut, ne?"

Sable rolled her eyes and turned away from Kitten. Sometimes, she wondered what prompted her to choose such a moron for a friend.

"Is there anything wrong, no da?" Chichiri asked.

He and Tasuki had witnessed the entire Kitten-bashing session earlier, with Chichiri sweatdropping and the said redhead cheering with delight.

Sable sighed deeply with relief. Chichiri had not heard, after all.

"Uh…iie. Kitten was being stupid as usual."

"Hey! I heard that!"

Then, Tasuki decided to add his piece too.

"Haha! Even your friend knows what an idiot you are!"

"You shut your trap! CARROT HEAD!"

"WHAT!"

Chichiri and Sable stared with amazement as the duo started hurling insults at each other again.

Their eyes flew back and forth. It was starting to resemble a tennis match.

"They never stop, don't they, no da?"

"I gotta agree with you in this. Let's break them apart before it turns violent."

"Yeah, no da, let's."

For the second time that day, Kitten and Tasuki were forcibly pulled apart. The remaining of the walk to the meditating room was pretty uneventful, with Sable and Chichiri in between the sulking duo again and an awkward silence, covering them all.

When they finally reached the room, Taitsukun was already waiting for them there, trademark scowl and all.

"What took you guys so long?" She demanded, only to see a rumpled Kitten and Tasuki. "Forget that I asked. I already know the answer."

She continued.

"I believe you two, Sable and Kitten, already know the reason why the both of you are set here, so that leaves Tasuki and Chichiri."

"Hai." The four chorused.

"Okay, here goes. Chichiri, Tasuki, listen well. I have called both of you up to Mt. Taikyoku because of these two girls here. They are from the mikos' world and the reason they are here is because Kitten, the girl whom you were no doubt fighting with AGAIN earlier, does not believe nor like the Universe of the Four Gods. After hearing days and days of," Taitsukun glared at Kitten, " "constructive criticisms" from her, Suzaku and the other three gods finally decided to seek my permission to bring Kitten and her friend, Sable to our world so that they can see that it really exist. And as you can see here, I've granted their request."

"Constructive criticisms? What constructive criticisms? And what does everything got to do with Chiri and I?" Tasuki demanded.

"Wait, I have not finished. Well, from what I have heard, apparently she repeatedly told Suzaku that he can shove the Universe of the Four Gods up his………well, you get the idea. I also believe that she said some other things to the other gods too, come to think of it. But that's not important, for now."

Tasuki's eyes widened.

"What?!! She insulted the gods AND she is still ALIVE?!!"

Kitten, on the other hand, had a very different reaction. She jumped around waving her fists at nothing in particular.

"HAH! I had an inkling that you could hear me, bird brain! Now that it is confirmed, let me tell you what I REALLY think of you guys up there! YOU…UUUUMMMMPPPPPPPHHHHHHH!"

Sable, upon seeing that the clouds had turned dark at Kitten's sudden outburst, had very wisely reached out from behind her friend and slammed her hands on Kitten's mouth.

Tasuki and Chichiri sweatdropped as Kitten tried valiantly to resist Sable's effort.

Taitsukun shook her head and continued.

"Well, regarding the interesting question that you have asked me, Tasuki, I am glad to say that, since the girls are not from here and all, guess who are going to have to bring them around?"

Tasuki paled visibly.

"Oh no………sweet Suzaku, not………US?!!"

"Correct."

At that, Tasuki began muttering dark expletives that caused everybody's eyebrows to shoot way up.

Even Kitten stopped struggling.

Sable had released her hold on Kitten's mouth. She was that surprised. She was going to travel with the two Suzaku seishi?!!

"Oh no…Taitsukun please tell me that it isn't true. That Tasuki and Chichiri aren't gonna be our guides. No offense to Chichiri here, but with Tasuki as our guides, we might as well be better off traveling ourselves!" Kitten exaggerated.

Tasuki glared at Kitten.

"I am not that lousy!"

"Am too!"

"Am not!"

"AM TOO!"

"AM NOT!"

"AM TOO!"

"AM NOT! WHY YOU, STUPID…!! REKKA SHIN…"

"As entertaining as it is becoming, I have to say that it is ENOUGH!!"

A tessen wielding Tasuki and a SD Kitten turned to see a vein-popping Taitsukun and as usual, the sweatdropping duo, Chichiri and Sable.

"My decision is final! The remaining two Suzaku shichi seishi, Tasuki and Chichiri, WILL escort the two girls that came from the mikos' world, Kitten and Sable, thus effectively being their GUIDES in the Universe of the Four Gods for their six months stay here. The two seishis WILL lead the two girls through the four gods' respective domains, namely Konan, Kutou, Hokkan and Sairo. They WILL serve as friends and companions to the girls, and if need be, rise to become their protectors in times of danger."

"NANI?!! DANGER?!!" the four echoed stupidly, their differences temporarily forgotten.

"Yes, didn't I mention that?" asked Taitsukun innocently. "Well, there are danger, and then there are DANGER…"

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?!! I thought you told Sable and me that this is a holiday! What kind of holiday is this if it is dangerous?!!"

"KIND OF. I distinctly remembered that I said kind of." Taitsukun added slyly. `And by the way, Kitten, did you really think that my children would really let you off that easily after all the insults you threw at them?"

"Aw…SHIT." Kitten hissed.

Sable shook her head sadly

"We're SO dead."

"Well, as I said, Suzaku, Genbu, Byakko and Seiryu will come up with challenges for you all and I am guessing, no, make that sure, yes, sure that it would be dangerous. As far as I know, the god whose domain you are on will mete out the challenge that you will face there. You are also to spend equal amount of time in each domain. So…I am suggesting that you start with Konan, seeing that Suzaku might be more lenient towards his own seishis."

Tasuki stared at Taitsukun.

"Oh no. Oh no. Oh shit. This is not real, right?! RIGHT, CHIRI?!"

Tasuki was yelling at an equally stunned Chichiri.

"Uh…no da?"

"I can't fucking believe this! We just merely escaped fucking death when we summoned Suzaku two fucking years ago and now this! Oi, Hotohori, Nuriko, Chiriko, Mitsukakae?!! Do you fucking really want us to go up and join you like fucking NOW?!! Can't you guys wait for a few fucking more years?! I still have things that I need to fucking do, you know?!! " Tasuki lamented to the skies.

Taitsukun interrupted.

"Can you stop being so over melodramatic, Tasuki? I do not think that my children will kill you off just like that. They'd just make your journey more…interesting."

"Yeah, right. Interesting. Ye gods, I'm gonna die!" Tasuki bemoaned.

Suddenly, Kitten cut in. Her amethyst eyes shone with determination.

"Wait, Taitsukun. Tasuki is right. This journey might prove to be fatally dangerous. And since it is me who had offended the gods, let me do the journey by myself. There is no need to force them to follow me. After all, who is willing to place themselves in danger for someone whom they do not even know," her gaze flickered to Tasuki. "Or let alone like? I know I wouldn't. So, onegai, let me go by myself and leave the Suzaku seishi in peace."

"She is right."

Kitten half-turned, only to hear Sable's agreement. Her heart sank. She had been hoping that Sable would accompany her. Guess that she is wrong, after all.

"She's right," Sable repeated. She walked up to Kitten, maintaining eye contact with her friend at all times. "Leave the seishi alone. I'm sure that BOTH of us can manage. After all, we just need to travel around, right? How hard can that be?"

"SAB!" Kitten, upon hearing Sable's words, pounced on her friend for a hug. "I was afraid that you'd leave me to travel by myself."

"You baka, do you really think that I would let you go adventuring without me? Fat chance!" Sable gave Kitten a playful cuff on the side of her head.

Taitsukun stared at the two girls. She had not expected this sudden change of events. In her experience, girls, both from this world and the other, tend to depend overly on their male counterparts, more often than not asking for their help rather than looking for ways to solve the problems themselves.

`But than,' she reminded herself, `these two were hand chosen by Suzaku to fit his seishis' personalities. So if they are anything like Tasuki and Chichiri, they won't resemble or even follow the trend of the main crowd. I'd better do well to remember this. Well,' Taitsukun thought, `since the girls have made their stand, I have no choice but to force Chichiri and Tasuki's hands. I wonder if guilt would do the trick.'

"Sable, Kitten, are the both of you very sure? This might sound like some great holiday adventure to you, but in fact this particular trip is fraught with many dangers and perils, none of them suitable for girls like you two. Furthermore, none of you know nor understand the culture or etiquette here. It would be extremely easy for both of you to blunder, make enemies and needless to say, get into a lot of trouble. This world is not as friendly as the one that the two of you were acquainted with back home. In fact, it is downright hostile, especially to girls. There are slave traders, and not all bandits are as nice as Tasuki here. If you are caught by any of them, let's just say that they'd make you suffer a fate worse than death. Thus said, are you both still very certain that you'd want to make this journey on your own?"

Grimly, the girls nodded.

Tasuki and Chichiri were, however, not that restrained. Tasuki blanched and Chichiri was frowning. After all, being occupants of said world, they both knew and had time and again been first hand witnesses of such happenings. What disturbed them furthermore was that stuff like that occur regularly and that if Kitten and Sable were really to travel all by themselves, chances are that they won't even survive six hours, let alone half a year.

Taitsukun sighed, but inwardly, she had taken note of the seishis' reaction and hoped that her instincts were correct.

"Okay, then, if this is what you two want, then it's what you two will get. I do not think that there is anything left to discuss anymore, since your decisions are already made up. You girls can leave now, to rest. Tomorrow, you will leave Mt. Taikyoku and that will mark the first day of your six months here, is that clear?"

The girls nodded and took their leave, clearly weary of the entire conversation.

Taitsukun watched them go before turning her attention back to the guys.

Tasuki looked at Chichiri.

"Dammit, but we do not really have a choice here, huh, Chiri? That is, unless, we want the girls on our conscience for the rest of our lives, ne?"

Chichiri sighed and nodded solemnly.

"Shucks, but shit like this always happens to me when there are girls around. After this, I am gonna keep a ten feet distance away from all girls."

Chichiri smiled and shook his head.

Tasuki is always contradicting himself. Always saying how much he hated girls, but never failing to turn to putty when said members of the opposite sex becomes upset or unhappy.

"Well, what are we waiting for, no da? Let's go tell Taitsukun, it's been so long since our last adventure, no da. Maybe this one will be better than the last, no da."

Taitsukun heaved an inward sigh of relief when she saw the two seishi striding determinedly towards her. Her gamble had paid off.

"Yes?" she asked, feigning ignorance. "I suppose that both of you will want to take your leave now."

Chichiri frowned whereas Tasuki looked suspiciously at Taitsukun.

"Uh…Taitsukun, no da. We have changed our minds, no da. We have decided to follow the two girls on this trip, no da."

Taitsukun arched an eyebrow.

"Oh? May I enquire about the reason why?"

Tasuki glared at the old woman.

"You damned well know the reason why, having manipulated us to do it. We can't just fucking leave the girls defenseless and alone, and you knew it. Chiri! Let's go and prepare for tomorrow!"

Chichiri watch his friend stalk out of the room and then removed his smiling mask. He turned towards Taitsukun.

"Tasuki is sulking, today, Taitsukun, so please do not be angry with him, no da."

The Creator nodded.

"I suppose you want to ask me why I've called upon you two for help, right?"

Chichiri nodded solemnly.

"Well, let's just say that Suzaku volunteered both your services, and leave it at that."

"Demo…Taitsukun…that doesn't make much sense…"

"Don't worry so much, Chichiri. Things will be revealed to you in time. I think your main priority now is to focus on this journey and not let anything distract you."

"I understand Taitsukun. Rest assured that Tasuki and I would do anything to protect the girls."

Thus said, Chichiri popped his mask back on, bowed and left the room.

`Well,' Taitsukun thought, `my duty is done for the moment. This proves to be extremely interesting. My sons, I wonder what you have planned for them…"

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Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods…

"Hey, Genbu, Byakko, the plan is already set in action!" Seiryu said. He had not bothered with Suzaku as the phoenix already knew and was pouting in a corner.

"Okay, then," Genbu said, "who wants to be the first?"

"I'm thinking Suzaku, seeing that Mother had already suggested for the four to go there first." Byakko answered.

Everyone looked at Suzaku, who was beginning to turn pink again, this time for a totally different reason.

"How can you guys be so mean to my seishi!" he whined.

The three gods looked at each other.

"Hey, Suzaku, your seishi wiped out most of mine." Seiryu answered nervously. It would not do if Suzaku becomes too upset.

"Yea, and took our shinzahos, too, you know." Byakko and Genbu added quickly, remembering what happened to Suzaku the last time he became too emotional.

"Demo…demo…" Suzaku was now an agitated pink.

"Aw, come on, Suzie," Seiryu coaxed, "let us have some fun, we promise not to rough up your seishi too much, won't we bros?"

The other two immediately nodded their heads.

At that, Suzaku immediately, turned red-hot PINK.

"DO NOT CALL ME SUZIE!!"

"Oh-oh." muttered Seiryu. "Wrong time to name call."

"Come on, Byakko, what are you waiting for? Let's go NOW!!" Genbu urged.

The two older gods poofed and disappeared. Just in time, too. For the pink Suzaku kind of began to swell up.

"SHIT, not me again." Seiryu groaned.

Suzaku continued to bloat. Seiryu winced, knowing what is going to occur next. And indeed, it happened. Suzaku exploded.

Into a huge ball of flames, to be exact.

Sighing, Seiryu shook his head again. He then summoned water to put out the fire (A/N: Seiryu is the god controlling water or something).

The extinguished fire revealed an ugly, featherless, pinkish (A/N: What else?) chicken-like bird. Ever seen a plucked chicken? That's what the bird looked like. It was squawking incessantly and irritated the heck out of Seiryu.

Almost immediately, Genbu and Byakko poofed back in again.

"Oh, I see that Suzie is ugly again." Byakko said.

"Byakko, you know, you have a knack for saying the obvious." Genbu added dryly.

"Nice of you two to disappear and leave me to deal with Suzie. Very nice of you. By the way, both of you missed out on the magnificent fireworks." Seiryu said scathingly.

Genbu and Byakko shuddered.

"No thanks."

"I'd forgo that gladly. Too bad we didn't miss the ugly ending, too," said Genbu, staring at Suzaku.

Byakko guffawed.

"It never fails to amaze me that an elegant, handsome creature like Suzie could look so ugly at birth. I'm surprised that Mother didn't flush him down the toilet the moment he was born."

Suzaku the now ugly, featherless, pinkish chicken-like god squawked again. This time indignantly. It appears that though it looked diminished, it could still understand what is being said.

The three gods look at him, then at each other.

"Okay…" Genbu said cautiously. "So who is going to baby-sit this time?"

"Not me." Byakko replied.

"Not me, either." Seiryu hurriedly answered. He remembered the last time he had to baby-sit infant Suzaku. Suzaku's mindless squawking had driven him up the wall and left him deaf in the ear for a month.

Genbu frowned at Seiryu.

"What do you mean by, "Not you, either."? YOU are the one who caused him to explode, so YOU should take care of him."

Byakko grinned at that. "Seiryu always cause Suzie to blow, so when is it not him?"

Seiryu growled at that.

"Stop it! I didn't mean it anyway…MATTE! I got an idea!" Seiryu smiled with unholy delight.

"What is it?" Byakko asked, still grinning. Seiryu always come out with the most stupid ideas.

"Since, Suzaku is supposed to come out with the challenge first, why not we just throw him to his seishi and let that count as his challenge to them? Since it takes around a month and a half for him to go back to normal and that raising baby Suzie here is gonna be as hard a challenge as it is going to get, so why not? None of us even need to be bothered with Suzie! I, for one, think that it is an excellent idea!"

Genbu and Byakko stared. And stared. They stared at baby Suzaku. They stared at Seiryu. They stared at each other. Then they burst out laughing.

"HAHAHAHAH!! I…HAHAHA…think that it is a…GASP…great idea!!" they both roared.

Seiryu grinned. The next one and a half month is going to prove to be extremely interesting.

Well, that ends chapter three! Hope that it is quite okay! I myself think that the dialogue between Taitsukun and the two couples was quite boring, though. Maybe I will try to edit that part. As for turning Suzaku into a plucked chicken-like thingy, gomen! I just cannot resist! I think some of you out there do know the folklore of the `rebirth' of the phoenix. If not, please read Harry Potter! HAHAHAH! Please don't flame me for making Suzaku so undignified! I really cannot help it. As you can guess, there will be quite a few mayhem as the four try to take care of their infant god with disastrous results! Well, this ends the endnote. Please be a good soul and review! Arrigato gozaimasu! >__^