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Chapter 3
"Daaaaaa! What's going on around here? Why are all the Seiryuu seishi here, no da?" Suboshi, who sounded like Chichiri, asked.
"What!?! How the heck should I know? You're one of them, you should know!" Amiboshi, who sounded like Nuriko, replied heatedly.
"Uhm, pardon me, but aren't you supposed to be one of them as well?" Miboshi, whose manly voice for a little squirt like him sounded like Mitsukake, asked. "And by the way, why the heck do I feel a bit shorter today?"
"It's because you are Miboshi, the shortest member there is of the Seiryuu shichiseishi! You should know that already by now. And I probably must've drank too much milk last night, 'cause I feel much taller this morning," Tomo, who sounded very much like Chiriko, said. "And I thought I'm the shortest character in this story."
"Yikes! It's Tomo the homo! You slept with your make-up on, didn't you?" Yui, who sounded like Tamahome, exclaimed.
"Aaaaaaa! Is this supposed to be my punishment for drinking too much sake!?!" Soi, who sounded like Tasuki, cried. "I can't stay like this forever! Women are nothing but trouble! I hate women!"
"Aaaah! This isn't happening! No, this is not real! This is all just part of a horrible dream. This isn't real! This isn't real!" Nakago, who sounded like Miaka, squealed after his stomach growled with hunger.
"Calm down, just calm down everybody," Ashitare, who sounded very much like Hotohori, explained. "Let's just take it easy. We should be able to trace things up after we'll handle this in an appropriate and calm way."
All of them stared at him with eyes wide open. They all screamed with fright and then ran outside the house after seeing a man-beast creature inside the kitchen. Ashitare, who sounded like Hotohori, ran after them outside and yelled, "Where are you going? Come on you guys, we don't look our best in the morning you know."
They continued to scram towards the woods where they encountered another bunch of people. They stopped to stand face to face with the other group. They then realized that the people standing there are Miaka, Tamahome, Hotohori, Nuriko, Tasuki, Chichiri, Mitsukake and Chiriko.
There was silence for a moment.
After they had proven to themselves that what they saw was real, all of them, including the other group, chorused, "Eh look, it's us." Then there was silence once again for a moment.
"Hmmm, what a fine, handsome young man you have with you," Ashitare, who sounded very much like Hotohori, asked as he eyed the person who looks very much like the emperor.
"~Roars~. " Hotohori, who sounded, uh roared like Ashitare, answered.
"Hey! Wait a sec. Why the heck do you guys look very much like us?" Amiboshi, who sounded just like Nuriko, asked them.
"Beats us! We should be the ones to ask you that question!" Chichiri, who sounded very much like Suboshi, exclaimed.
"I suppose it is only fitting if you should be listening to what Nakago is going to tell us first. For a meantime, let us set aside the differences between us and find out whoever is behind this, since it is quite obvious that none of us is responsible for this," Yui, who is then in Tamahome's body, interrupted the argument. Then she bewilderedly looked at Miaka who is in Nakago's body and added, "Erm, *gulp* however, it doesn't mean that I've forgiven you for what you just did, Miaka."
"Yui," Nakago, who sounded like Miaka, was dumbfounded for a while. And then at the same time, she blushed (with Nakago's face for that matter) as she took a long stare at her former best friend who is now in her boyfriend's body. It is, after all, Tamahome's body in front her.
"Miaka, would you stop looking at me that way?" Yui, who is then in Tamahome's body, blushed too at the sight of Nakago staring at her like that, though she knows very well that it's actually Miaka staring at her- but has forgotten about it anyway.
"Eeeewww! Can you believe this? Two guys staring at each other... like that?!!! Ugh! Would you cut it out already? It's like so disgusting! Even worse than a woman!" Tasuki, who is in Soi's body, exclaimed.
"Baka! You are now a woman, brain of flea! I can't believe I could be so unfortunate to have my precious, beautiful body in your possession. And no, that's not all. The worse part is that I get to be in your skinny, puny li'l body!" Soi, who is in Tasuki's body, grumbled.
"Well at least my body is still not yet deprived of its purity. Right, Nakago?" Tasuki, who is in Soi's body, teased as he mischievously eyed Nakago beside him. But Nakago just answered him with a clueless blink. Tasuki was also surprised until the real Nakago, who is then in Miaka's body, patted his shoulder from behind. Only then did he remember that Miaka is in Nakago's body.
"Let's quit baffling around and listen to me. I think you ought to know what just took place inside the emperor's castle early this morning," Nakago, who is in Miaka's body, voiced out. Then he further continued, "Just this night, I sneaked into Soi's bedroom to check-up on her."
"Ehem, 'sneaked' into her bedroom? To 'check-up' on her eh? That figures," Tomo, who is in Chiriko's body, teased with hentai written all over his face.
"As I was saying, Tomo, I was just checking-up on her!" Nakago said while grabbing the dude by the collar and staring at him with eyes narrowing out of infuriation. The poor squirt just sweat dropped with a frightened smile that obviously pleaded for mercy. Then Nakago continued on as he vividly recalled what had happened, "Anyways, when I took a closer look at her in bed..."
(Start of Nakago's flashback)
Soi was entirely wrapped inside the sheets, thus revealing only her hair. It was then that she was caught talking in her sleep."No! Nakago is mine. All mine! You can't take him away from me, Yui," she murmured in between her soft snores.
Nakago just sweat dropped after that. However, he realized that there was something wrong. Her dark copper hair has gone lighter, more like an orange shade, and her body's curves had just changed. And as he tried to move closer to her, she smelled like sake. When Nakago figured that there was really something fishy going on, he abruptly removed the sheets from her to reveal that Soi has turned into a boy with fangs- plus the smell of sake! She still remained asleep after the sheets had been removed and then suddenly gave Nakago a fatal blow on the face.
"Take that, Suzaku no Miko! That's what you'll get for butting in," Soi said while dreaming of knocking off Miaka.
Although that blow wasn't actually powerful enough to bring Nakago to dreamland as well, that punch sure was strong enough to bring the stars right down to earth and dance around him. After the stars were done whirling around him when he had gained full consciousness, he went outside the room when he encountered a soldier on patrol.
"Huba! Huba! What brings you here, babe?" the soldier taunted. Angered, Nakago delivered a blow to the guard's face that was powerful enough to bring the latter to dreamland and bring some of the pieces of his teeth to the floor. Strange though, why had the guard mistaken him for a babe? And what if Soi, who has then turned into an orange-haired fang boy, wasn't just dreaming back then but was actually seeing what she really saw in her room and had just mistaken it to be part of her dream? Alarmed, he instantly looked at his own reflection using the unconscious soldier's shiny armor. Hard but true, he really has taken the form of the Suzaku no Miko. It was hard for him to accept at first. He ran to Amiboshi's room to check up on him. Hard but true again, he could hardly believe his own eyes when he saw Amiboshi turned into a Suzaku shichiseishi with beauty cream on his face! And the same goes to the rest of the other Seiryuu shichiseishi- Miboshi has outgrown his bed and sheets with a man's
full-grown body that he could hardly even fit into his little bed; while Tomo has shrunk into a cute little kid; and Suboshi has turned himself into a blue-haired scar-faced guy.
"This doesn't get any worse than this!" Nakago frustratingly said. As he stood beside an open window, he overheard two amazed guards talking outside the castle.
"Look! Do you see that? It's true, it's true! The legend of the beautiful princess is actually real!" one guard exclaimed as he pointed to the sleeping creature with such heavenly beauty inside the cage. No doubt Ashitare hasn't been excused in this strange phenomenon either. And the last person to have crossed his mind is...
"Lady Yui!" Nakago exclaimed.He rushed to her room as fast as he could to find her body transformed into.... "It's that wimp from Konan!"
(End of Nakago's flashback)
"Who you callin' wimp, you blonde?" Tamahome, who is in Yui's body, exclaimed.
"Daaa, take it easy. We don't have time for this, no da," Chichiri, who is in Suboshi's body, tried his hardest to calm down Tamahome who is in Yui's body. Nakago, who's in Miaka's body, just turned his head away and smirked.
"Alright, knock it off. Why don't we find the culprit fast! I'm tired of being in this li'l squirt's body. Let's not waste time," Mitsukake, who is then in Miboshi's body, said.
"Eh, that's not nice!" Miboshi, who is in Mitsukake's body, bent down on him and asked while pushing his index finger into the kid's chest. Then he rubbed his former body's bald little head and said, "Don't forget, we're in each other's bodies, got that?"
"Ehehe, *gulp*, right. By the way, doesn't it feel weird to be talking to me who is then in your body? It's like talking to yourself, right? Ehehe," Mitsukake replied nervously. When Miboshi turned his back on him, he thought, "Wait until I'll get back into my own body, I'll teach that dinky li'l kid a lesson on respecting his elders!"
"Um, pardon me li'l tabby, but what do you suggest we should do to find that darned psycho that's responsible for this?" Tasuki, who is in Soi's body, asked.
There was silence for a moment.
"Uhh, 0_0; we take the boat?"
And quite surprisingly, everyone agreed! o_0;
"Uh, where would we get a boat, no da?" Chichiri, who is in Suboshi's body, inquired.
There was silence again for a moment.
"Uh, 0_O; over there!" Mitsukake quickly pointed to a beach very far away from the woods.
And quite surprisingly again, everyone agreed! o_0; (actually it's really 12:32 in the morning and my mind is all cranking up, so I hope you'll give me a break :D)
And so they traveled all the way to the beach in the hopes of finding a boat.
"So after we find ourselves a boat, where should we head to?" Hotohori, who is in Ashitare's body, asked.
Miaka, who is in Nakago's body, smelled something and interrupted, "Hey you guys, did you smell something? It smells like glazed chicken and beef curry with fried onions!" Then Miaka's stomach growled. "And I haven't had breakfast this morning!"
But Hotohori just ignored what Miaka's been saying and persisted to get a response to his question, "So where will we go to after we get on a boat?!!" The man-beast emperor eyed little bald Mitsukake beside him. Hotohori continued, "Well, this is supposed to be your idea, so you should know the answer to my question!"
"Well,"
"Well?!!"
"Well, uh, as I was saying, there is no definite location to the culprit's whereabouts, and,"
"And?!!!"
Suddenly, Tamahome, who is in Yui's body, interrupted the argument, "By the way, has anyone seen Miaka?"
"Uh, Tammy, I hate to tell you this, but I think Miaka's lost," Amiboshi, who is in Nuriko's body, finally said his lines while there is still beauty cream all over his face!
To his horror, Tamahome screamed to the top of his lungs, "MIAKAAAAAAA!!!"
(The ending theme "Tokimeki no Doukasen" now plays.)
To be continued in Chapter 4...
Fushigi Yuugi© 1995 Yu Watase/ Shogakukan, TV Tokyo, Studio Pierrot/Telesuccess Productions. 1 "The Confusing Game"
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