Fushigi Yuugi Fan Fiction ❯ Watching Yui ❯ Watching Yui ( Chapter 1 )

STANDARD ISSUE DISCLAIMER:

Greetings! For those who have no clue who I am. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Lance
the Flamesniper, Fic author par mediocre (there are some that would disagree there on both sides).
As my title hints this is going to be a Fushigi Yuugi story. My first ever attempt at such a thing.
I don't own Fushigi Yuugi. Yuu Watase is owed that Great honor. Pioneer sells the videos
I've watched (Subtitled ones at that) so they get SOME credit too. I don't work for Yuu (Though that
would be SO cool!) or for Pioneer. That being the case I'm not making any dollars, pesos, yen, rubles,
pounds or deutchmarks off this work. All I'll get is e-mail and lots of it I hope. I LOVE e-mail and write
back when I can. But enough about me. On with the story.

Watching Yui
by
Lance the Flamesniper

As we ride to Genbu with her short blonde hair in my face, I wonder once again what kind of
perfume that is she's wearing. It's the most trivial thought I could possibly have with those murderous
Suzaku Seishi on their way, and I would chastise myself for thinking it, if only I could. It's an alluring
smell, her perfume, like jasmine blossoms in bloom.
I shake away thoughts like that. My brother would tell me to quit daydreaming were he still alive.
I miss my twin, Amiboshi. He raised me when our father and mother died. Sometimes at night I can still
hear the soft song of hypnosis he'd play to help me sleep. Unfortunately, he's not alive anymore. I wonder
which one killed him? That purple-haired woman? The dark-haired man whose family I killed? The Emperor
perhaps? Or maybe the Priestess of Suzaku herself killed him.
Nakago's orders still ring in my ears. "Protect Lady Yui, Suboshi. Guard her with your life."
I don't see why he bothered to even order such a thing. He's already rode ahead with that man-beast
Ashitare and the other Seiryuu, except for Soi and I. Soi was sent "play" with the Suzaku on their boat. I
wish he'd sent me. Tamahome and I have a few bits of unfinished business...
"How much further to Genbu?" Lady Yui yells back at me, snapping me out of my reverie.
"A few more days My Lady. But, we'll be stopping up ahead this evening. Where Nakago's camped."
"Oh good. Could you not hold me so tight? I can barely breathe!"
I blush slightly and loosen my grip. She turns back to watching the road and once again I'm breathing
in her perfume. I still think it's ridiculous of Nakago to make me watch Lady Yui, though just between you and
me, I've been doing that from the start. It's true! Since I met her I've thought about her often, usually to the point
of distraction.
Maybe it's those beautiful, yet ice cold blue eyes. Or how soft and shiny her downy blonde hair looks.
Hell, maybe it's that damned perfume that sticks in my mind. Of course, it could be that out of everyone in the palace
in Kutou, only she comforted me when my Aniki died.
I don't think she knows what I did that day I left the palace, or that Soi had to come save me from getting
pummeled by Tamahome. I'm not sure how she'd react to the knowledge. Looking back at what I did makes me wonder
if I'm any better than those monsters that killed my parents. Or maybe I'm worse....
I shake my head and take a deep breath to clear my thoughts. Only instead of doing that, I get a nose full
of jasmine blossom. And there she is again in my thoughts. Perhaps if I told her how I felt...No! I won't, yet.
I'll suffer my thoughts, distracting as they may be. I love her and someday I might tell her. But never the
less, I will not fail. I'll keep watching Yui.