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The next day, the seishi were all on foot except for Hotohori and Miaka, who were riding the only horse. Miaka kept saying that she heard a flute, and Hotohori said : "If Miaka said she heard it, she heard it!" Then they got to a village, it was Tamahome's village ! They remembered that it was where they found Chichiri. Miaka was thinking about Tamahome's family, then she remembered that Tamahome's father was sick, she grabed Mitsukake by the hand and raced into the village. As they were running, they pass Chuei, Tamahome's brother, running around and looking for a doctor. Then he saw Miaka  and said: "Miko-sama! It's you! PLEASE help me! My father's in a LOT of pain, and all the doctors can't help!" Mitsukake kneelt down and told him, "Don't worry, son. Where's your father?" 

Tamahome's father was lying on the bed, looking very ill. Mitsukake held his hand over him, and the nifty character starts glowing. After a few minutes, Tama's father's eyes opened slowly. "Where am I?" Chuei was so happy, but Mitsukake looked really and groaned. Miaka asked him if he was all right, and he said yes, he just needed to rest a little bit 'cause he can only heal people once a day. Chuei ran back with some money, but Mitsukake refused it. He said he prefer that his father had some fresh fish and he asked some for Tama-neko too. Then Chuei ran as fast as he can and the other seishi enter the house.

Little Yuiren tugged on Miaka's arm and asked, "Where's Oniichan?" Miaka sweatdrops and pretended to be asleep, but Tasuki whacked her upside the head with his fan and told her not to pretend she's sleeping! ^_^ Hotohori looked around at Tamahome's small house. "I never imagined such a small, dirty, wretchedly poor family existed... I MUST better politics to help even the poorest of people!" 

Then Yuiren came up and tugged on Hotohori's coat. "What is it, child?" he asked. "Young Lady, are you my Oniichan's wife?" she said. "Oh but I'm a MAN, little one." he replied. "But you're too beautiful!" Hotohori loved this and hugged Yuiren, saying about how the young ones were always so honest. Tasuki and Miaka watched with enormous sweatdrops. 
 
"I got the fish!" Chuei was at the door, his hair down like Tamahome's instead of up in the bun. Miaka apparently thought he looks a LOT like Tamahome and jumped over Chuei, yelling, "TAMAHOME!" "I'm CHUEI! CHUEI!", he said. "Oh. Heh heh. Sorry!" ^_^' Chuei apparently caught the fish in the river instead of buying them. Nuriko though how everyone in his family was so careful with their money, and how Chuei looked so much like Tamahome. 

Later,Miaka was brushing her teeth and looked out the window. Hundreds of bats with glowing red eyes were hanging upside down from the tree outside. Miaka asked Nuriko, "Is this normal? Look at all the bats!" A blackrobed figure outside saw her in the window and said, "FOUND you, Suzaku No Miko!" Miaka was awakened by the sound of the flute again. She poked Nuriko, but Nuriko said he didn't hear anything! 

So Miaka got up and went outside to see what it is, and was confronted by the wall of bats. The bats flew down and started attacking her, biting her. Miaka thought that if she doesn't get away from Tamahome's house, she'll endanger his family AGAIN! So she ran off into the forest. Hotohori and Tasuki, still half-asleep, heard her yelling and chased after her into the forest. Miaka, triped over something and fell, and the bats latch into her, biting her. She screamed, and Hotohori ran up, swiping at the bats with his sword. His sword didn't do much damage so he told Tasuki, "It's up to you!" So Tasuki got his fan and "Lekka! Shien!" No matter how many bats he roasted, more came and attacked both the seishi as well. The assassin in the tree laught, telling the bats to kill both Miko and her seishi.
 
All of a sudden everyone heard some eerie flute music. The bats, too, seem to be confused by the music, let go of their prey, and started smacking into trees as if the music was confusing or hurting them. The Kutou assassinwas astonished by this. Then the tune changed, becoming high-pitched and painful. The assassin screamed and held his head. The music shroll higher and higher. Then the flue player appeard. The music hit some unbearably high note, and the assassin's eyes rolled back in his head. He fell out of the tree, dead, startling the Suzaku people. The flutist walked over to the Suzaku people. Miaka said, "So it was you who was playing!" The boy noded, and fell to the ground. The seishi rushed over to him, and noticed a red character on his ankle... he' was a seishi! The boy said, "My name's Chiriko. My parents were killed in that burning village over there." This upseted Hotohori, and Miaka stared up at the sky. "We found the last one, Tamahome!" 

Nakago was standing in a darkened room with a birdcage. "So they've found the last one." He took the little canary out of its cage and hekd it in one fist. "But they won't find it so easy from now on." He clenched his fist, and the bird's singing abruptly stoped. He smiled as a few yellow feathers drift to the floor. 
 
The next morning, the seishi were all taking leave of Tamahome's family. Yuiren had latched onto Miaka's legs and won't let go. "I WANNA GO WITH ONIICHAN'S WIFE!" ^_^ She was getting hysterical as Chuei tried to pry her off. Chiriko watched this, then started playing a very soft, peaceful tune. Yuiren all of a sudden slumped to the ground, and Tasuki smacked Chiriko, asking him why he was messing with the little girl's mind. "She's asleep!" Tasuki sweatdrops and fell over, and Chiriko explained he put her to sleep, and she'll have pleasant dreams. The seishi all ride off. 

Chichiri (well, a superdeformed still Hotohori ^_^) was lying on his back, waving his feet in the air. "I am SO bored, no daaaa.....I wish they'd come back, no daa....." One of the vassals surprised him and told him that Miko and all the seishi have returned! "Hotohori" vanished in a poof of smoke, scaring the bejeezus out of the poor vassal. Chichiri, as Hotohori, zoomed down the hall, and poofed back to his normal form, holding hands and jumping up and down with Miaka.  Tasuki freaked out, and said, "What the hell is THAT???" ^_^'

The seishi were standing outside, and Chiriko wondere where Hotohori waas gone. Nuriko said, "You mean you don't know?? He's.." Then Hotohori, in full goofy royal uniform interrupted him. The seishi who didn't know that he was the emperor stared at him in complete shock. Tasuki yelled, "THE EM-PER-OR???" 
 
They were eating dinner, and Tasuki was nervous because he had been rude to the emperor. Hotohori, who was enjoying this, says that it was okay, they were all seishi together. Miaka said, "What about summoning Suzaku?" Hotohori said, "Well, the details of the ceremony are partially in my mind. But first we need to get Tamahome back." Miaka said she'll go back to Kutou and get the scroll AND Tamahome. Chichiri cheerfully piped up, "I'll go with her, no daa!"  Chichiri said that first they should contact Tamahome in Kutou, to set up a meeting place and to give him some warning. Miaka said, "We can DO that?" Chichiri nodded, and told Miaka to get ready, he'll make the necessary arrangements. 

Tamahome was staring out the window, when he heard Chichiri's voice. "Tamahome-kun! Can you hear me?" 

Nakago was walking around, and stoped. "I sense the chi of a Suzaku seishi. They're up to something." 
 
Miaka was getting ready then ran down the hallway to where Chichiri was. Tasuki, Nuriko, and Hotohori watched her go. Tasuki yells, "Hey MIAKA!", but Hotohori told him to let her be, she had been looking forward to talking to Tamahome for so long. 

Tasuki got very confused. "Wait a second! I don't get it! I was POSITIVE the emperor and Miaka were in love! Wait! Could it be.....A LOVE TRIANGLE???" Nuriko smacked Tasuki into a wall and told Hotohori to ignore "the insensitive jerk." Hotohori looked at Miaka running and thoughht, "Good for you, Miaka!" 

Chichiri was standing in front of a folding screen. "There you are! Sheesh. Women take so long to get ready, no daaaa..." he told Miaka that he warned Tamahome that they're gonna contact him. He placed a ward on the folding screen and started whispering some spell. "This has a time limit so get right to the point!" The screen faded out, replaced by a familiar silhouette....

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