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(((Hmmm...Well...with no one else from Suzaku here at the moment...I guess I'll just have to take some NPC's and get Miaka into some trouble ::evil grin:: Ok ok...so I won't...but so as to allow for more interacytion..(Until i can think of better to help or more Suzaku arrive enough to interact..I will compliment your post.

And Yui...Don't worry about the length of your posts...Short and to the point works well..and can be exactly what's needed at times.Makes for less backtracking in responses...even though that can work as well.

As for interaction on My part...I'm waiting on Ms. Chan again to continue...it seems every time you come back..I find myself entangled elzxewhere... sweatdrop ...this is notgetting me brownie points at all.. biggrin But then..I must do my duty!!! Anyway...long enough OOC P{ost...Moderator Little might give me lashings for this one...No..not Tomo...He's not allowed XD))





:::With the exception of the most recent items on the borderlands...Konan was still in quite the peacful state...very uneventful past the arrival of their preistess and gathering of the Seishi. It was mostly overlooked that her appearance was meant to "Save the Kingdom" from destruction or a great evil. For now...that evil was not to be seen. A group of small children playing nerby the hill scared a small flock of birds from where they had been resting on the nearby portion of the hill. They scattered into the air quickly, flying over head into the wind. Things were quiet...peacful...a place where one could rest on a hill and not be too worried obout what would happen to them...but then..nowehre is completely safe. A single bird from the flock circled down and perched on a nearby rock...it was larger than some of the others and by no means near as graceful in form or flight...it landed, pecked around and then turned towards Miaka, almost "regaurding" her....with a look that might almost be considewred...(Animal wise) as sinister:::

Subaru paused momentarily as she examined the long corridor before stepping inside, she paused again for a few moments however and then at last glanced around, her eyebrow raising rather high at his words, she had done what she had for a reason and it was necessary to do so...so long as they couldn't get into their temple they couldn't summon Seiryuu from what she could gather and that was invaluable, for her impressions of Nakago were not good.

Behind his handsome front there lay something more, something she did not trust, particularly due to his pale skin, he was even more foreign than her...and despite herself, she was always extremely wary of pale skinned creatures. Many times she had been aware that it was wrong to do as such, but some of their talk had often been blasphemus and as a devout follower of Byakko she had frowned upon their words, then again, Nakago was fairly devout to Seiryuu wasn't he? So, pale skin or not in som ways she could trust him, trust him to attempt to out smart her at every turn that was!

"What I did, I did for a reason," She replied calmly as she began to walk down the corridor again, tugging at the battered robes around her petite frame for a time as she contemplated which direction she wished to walk in next.

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"Wait!" Tatara roared towards the silver haired boy, drawing his mount to a stop as the young man swung round, his eyes narrowing at the stranger that now lay before him, "Thank you," Tatara continued, bowing his head briefly through respect, "I apologise for disturbing you but there is something of importance I must discuss with you," He added and waited for the man to accept or decline.

Neither, were aware of the approaching danger behind them...

|ooc: Damn guild system, thank goodness it's back now.|

Kitty, post, well I never!



::Face painted and luxuriously adorned, Ryo Chuin took the stage. He sung with inflections that made it almost impossible to understand the Jingju opera he sang. He played a Jing character to its utter perfection. In this show, he bore the bold feathers of a warrior, and the white face paint of a villian. It was a long play about a corrupt political system, and the young farm-boy who saves his country from destruction with certain Confucian ideology. This Sheng character played opposite Ryo, though they actually got along fairly well offstage. Onstage, Ryo made a marvelous villian, sinister and powerful. When the performance ended, and the actors had changed out of costume, the actors were assualted by adoring fans. Ryo, despite his vile character, was especially loved by the crowd. His face beyod the makeup was gorgeous, and his fellow actors had to help pry off some of the female admirers. He signed a number of autographs, but as usual, felt rather apathetic about the whole thing. He looked across the crowd, hoping to find a means of escape, but found himself instead staring into the eyes of a vaguely familiar looking young man. The young man, with beautiful chestnut brown hair and penetrating eyes, seemed to be holding something in his hand. Though not close enough to really tell, Ryo thought it looked a little bit like a seed. Intrigued, the fans almost seemed to vanish before him as he pushed his way toward the man. Ryo had almost reached his target when...::

::Tomo woke up from his rather pleasant nap with the traces of a smile on his face. He had been dreaming about that handsome Byakko lad. He let the dream fade and focused on sensing the whereabouts of his fellow seishi, and what kind of trouble they were in now.::
((There, my vain attempt to apply my world music class' study of Jingju))

"The abuse of the beast gods is something not even I shall permit," Subaru replied smoothly as she murmured a few quiet words and clapped her hands together. There was a brief pause and then her hands began to glow with a white light that slowly extended up her limbs and completely enveloped her. It seemed to pulse and destroy the clothes that hit rested against before they were replaced by newly fitted robes.

One of Subaru's favoured spells, a spell to make herself look semi respectable again even though it rarely got her hair right. In fact it was exactly that that caused her to frown as she pulled out the small mirror like object from her sleeve and stared at her reflection for a very long time. Her hair no longer hung down around her shoulders, but instead it had been pulled up into a tight bun and she really hated it in that form.

"Oi..." She sighed and shook her head as she snapped the mirror shut and lifted her hands to tug her hair out of its binds, "However, more importantly," she continued with her previous conversation and glanced round at Nakago with pursed lips, "If one does attack my home then one will receive retaliation, you are right you would do the same however I am able to do it with much more style." She pointed out and released a small chuckle as she split the strands of hair into two piles and began to braid one side.

"I am not sure if you are good with your hands but..." She stood with the unbraided side towards him and offered a wry smile, "Be a dear and braid that side for me please."

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"Alright then," The silver haired man replied at last and raised a brow, placing his hands on his hips as he observed the bowed head of Tatara. It was with that however that Tatara's head rose and he smiled somewhat at the response...

"Firstly, might I ask your name?" Tatara began, causing the man to raise his eyebrow even higher.

"Hahm Lan-uan..." He replied, canting his head to the side before he shook his head, "However, people do call me Tokaki on occasions." He added, almost as an after thought as though the name of a Byakko seishi was nothing of a surprise nor a priveledge to him.

"Well," Tatara murmured and shook his head, "I believe you are one of the people I was sent out to retrieve," He explained and leant forward on his mount to get a closer look at his 'team mate', "My name is Tsuonie Kasaru, but many know me as Tatara. I was sent by Subaru, another Byakko seishi...I don't kno her real name and I think she's up to know good in Kutou...for that I do feel sorry for them but, she said it was necessary to gather as many of us together as possible."

"Er...Why?" He enquired, causing Tatara to shrug.

"I have no idea what goes on in that woman's mind...I do trust her judgement though."

"Right," Tokaki murmured, not sounding particularly sure of what had been said, so...if he thought about it, this man knew who he was, had sensed him and had been sent by another seishi who could sense him all the way from Kutou and they weren't telling them why they needed him. Something just didn't add up. "So...are there any decent looking women where we would be heading?" He enquired curiously causing Tatara to pause and look thoughtful.

Well there were interesting beings there, very handsome beings...but women? He hadn't really noticed but he assumed that if he said yes then the man might come with him.

"Oh yes!" He replied at last, trying to insert as much enthusiasm into his voice as possible.

((oh thank god T__T))

Slowly flicking her eyes open, Miaka calmly awoke. She then lungend foreward and englufed Tamahome's arm and hand into her mouth screaming, "MEAT BUN!!" she chewed for a minute and then opened her eyes reliezing...it wasn't a meat bun.

Miaka flung herself back and looked straight at Tamahome, "Eh? Tamahome!" she said smiling, "Your back! she then sprang foreward and gave him a hug, "I was...really worried about you, so what brings you here!"

"All the more reason that the emperor is not the one who makes the calls on such things. That is left to the priestess."

::He smirked as she all but accused him of making an assault on her home specifically...but also meaning her home...Sairou, and her stroking of her own pride meanwhile. He was no expert..but he knew how to braid, and this would keep her from running about for a while...would keep her in close proximity, and she was ever continuing to add to her already beautiful form...so he indulged her as he continued.::

"Style is not neccessarry as lng as the job is done. And if one attacks my home..." ::He paused in braiding...flashin back in his mind to thet day when Kutou attacked his tribe...His smirk became a frown, so close to changing everyhting...and this beautif creature was barring his way...He snapped back to the task at hand:: "...There will be retalliation."

::There was a very menacing tone to his words...not to be completely presumed to be concerning what she had done to them here and now...but enough that she might take it for that, even though to him it meant so much more.::

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::Another Byakko Seishi...this could be a very good thing...or a very bad thing. Having two of them might make capture more difficult...but two Seishi for the price of one would surely please Nakago greatly. Now none of them were aware of any of their abilities...that information had not been given to them, so they decided that the best way to go about this would be one swift strike, try and get them both out of commision, without killing...Nakago had made that perfectly clear. They were to be brought alive. He had not specified "they" but what applied to one surely applied to the other. With not but a sound, and barley any motion they communicated with eachother signals..reading eachother's eyes and formulated the plan. Three would go for each from all different directions. Whoever got to each first would attempt to incapacitate the victim, and then the others would be there for backup. Finally it was set up, and one of them tossed a rock into some nearby shrubbery to scare some birds out into the air to possibly provide a distraction, and then they moved.::

::From trees bushes and seemingly out of nowhere the six emerged and converged on the prey. The first one reaching Tokaki raising his knife to bring the hilt down on the back of his head and neck, trying to knock him out cold, and the one reaching Tatara weaved silken threads and began to arc into a circle arouynd him with intention of tying him up with them::

::Not nearly as talented at braiding, she easily finished before him, and he continued silent as she spoke. There was no indication of anything until her last statement...there was no way she could Know what she was accusing him of, but he still flinched enough for her to feel the strain against her hair::

"A simple girl who is destined to save the land from destruction. You know her even less than we do...but of what we have seen...she is very strong willed...despite her physical situation which has been imposed upon her. The state of Kutou caused that which has befallen her..and She with ou7t help...intends to change that...with or without the power of Seiryuu."

::He paused a moment finishing of the braid...it was not a perfect match to hers, but it was decent. He stepped cooly atround her, not yet decided on what to reveal or not, trying to determine how it would influence everything.::

"I'm afraid your question is aimed at the wrong person...If you want to know what would be wished for...you should ask her...but...That is something...I cannot allow...not in light of the mischeif you have caused thus far."

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ninja ninja ninja (Elites: Orange concerning Tatara, Green Tokaki)
"Let's get ready to Rumble!!!!"

::The knife weilding elite had never had his prey dissapear and thus stumbled forward...the force from his strike causing him to stumble, he recovered quickly however, and followed him as he danced around making a lot of noise. Well trained...his eyes never btrayed the other two that were approaching Tokaki. He moved slowly back and forth as Tokaki Moved, miming preparation for another strike.

The first reaching Tatara continued encircling him, weaving the threads up and down as he circled tightening them enough to hold, but not enough to try and cut the flesh. Significant resistance by Tatara might cause such...but he did not want to intentionally harm Nakago's prize. Seeing that the first had succeeded in beginning the capture, the second pulled out a small vial and poored its contents onto a cloth. It was a specially designed concoction used to dull the senses and put the subject under. He waited for the first to make one more circling pass and then moved forward behind Tatara clothi in hand grabbing his torso with one arm and placing the cloth at his nose and over his mouth to both muffle screams should there be any, and have the potion take its effect. The third backed of, seeing that the other two appeared to have everyhting under conttrol, and he retreated to the nearest tree...not completely forgetting about him..but taking watch over this other who seemed to be making mre immediate trouble.::

::The second stopped abruptly as Tokaki dissapeared fromt here initial target location and reapeared...more or less right in front of him, but still his back to him. The third adpter quickly and manuvered behid the second and moved in parrallel with the dancing Toakaki waiting until h thought he could catch him off gaurd. The se con...now regaining his own compsure...took a step back and then lept in the air with intention to come down within reasonable area of the prancing young man and hopefully land a blow to knock him either into the first or second who were on either side::