Disclaimer:  All the Fushigi Yuugi characters belong to Watase Yuu and the other various organizations that have paid big money to own a right to say that they own these characters.  So please no suing cause if I did have big money then I would have been one of those people to have paid big money to say that they had a right to own one of these seishi.  ^_^

Finding nothing in the pantry and too lazy to microwave the leftovers, Mnekov poured herself a bowl of cereal and milk.  She then headed for her favorite spot, in front of the computer.  On her way to the computer she spotted a note addressed to her on the dining table.  It was from her mother telling her she'll be gone all day having with a friend and had a list of chores for Mnekov to do.  Mnekov rolled her eyes at the list and let if fall back down on the dining table deciding to do it tomorrow, perhaps. She turned on the computer and connected to her internet provider.  She checked her email and answered each and every email that had been waiting for her the week before, when she had sworn off touching the computer to study for her finals.  After spending about two hours replying to all the incoming mail, Mnekov was steered into web surfing, checking out what other interesting web sites have newly emerged.

As Mnekov was about to disconnect and spend the next hours in front of the television vegetating, she happened upon an interesting little web page.  It was entitled "Suzaku no Webpeiju".  The background was black and on the top of the page was the picture of a huge scarlet bird with its wings spread out as if to embrace the reader in it's fiery embrace and bring her inside into another world.  Trailing behind the phoenix bird were flames of red feathers that seemed to emanate with a strange crimson light.  Interested, Mnekov scrolled down to read the writings written below the image.  Pay homage...  It read.

Smiling to herself, Mnekov was suddenly reminded of one other particular book.  Curious, she clicked on the image of the bird.  "Well...", she reprimanded the computer, after nothing happened.  "Phooey, knew it was too good."  Sighing, Mnekov got up from her chair only to be blinded by a bright crimson light coming forth from the computer's monitor.  Shielding her eyes with her hands she looked at the monitor but only saw an intense red light which seemed to grow brighter and swallow up the whole room.  "Ohhh...nooo...,"  Mnekov bemoaned feeling as if she was burning as the light grew stronger.  Then all of the sudden the light was gone and everything was as they were.  As they were, except for the seven strangers crowding Mnekov's living room.  They were dressed strangely in ancient Chinese costume and looked at the bewildered girl in front of them as if waiting for her to say something.

Mnekov, who found herself on her butt on the floor, looked at the strangers and enthusiastically jumped up onto her feet.  "Aiya!! I can't believe it.  You guys are really here."  Mnekov couldn't hold back her excitement as she looked starry eyed at the people in front of her.  Composing herself, she decided that introductions were in order.  "Watashi wa Mnekov desu.  Anatatachi wa......"  Mnekov couldn't continue having only taken two semesters of Japanese two years ago.  "Damn, how do you say you guy's are in my house," she thought out loud to herself.

"Ano, Suzaku no Miko-sama."  A timid little boy came up to Mnekov.  "You don't have to strain yourself.  We can speak English pretty good.  Actually, we speak in binary code but with the help of the web master of our page we are able to translate anything into any language that require us to best communicate with our Miko."  Mnekov looked dumbstruck at the cute little child.

"Wow!  You guys speak English?"  The boy smiled and nodded at his Miko.  "Ureshiiii...Arigato, Chiriko."  Mnekov bent down and gave her little seishi a big hug.  "And you don't have to call me Suzaku no Miko.  Mnekov is fine."

Mnekov stood up and offered her hand to the giant standing beside Chiriko.  "Hello, Mitsukake, my name's Mnekov."  Mistukake shook the proffered hand and greeted his Miko.  "Wow you look cuter in person."  Mitsukake blushed as Mnekov decided to investigate every nook, cranny and pore on Mitsukake's handsome face.

"Ah..what are you doing, no da?"  Chichiri inquired as Mnekov was about to open Mitsukake's mouth and see what perfect teeth he had and big too. (^_^.)
Mnekov pulled herself away from her examination and grinned at Chichiri.  "Ahh, nothing. Hi."  She took Chichiri's hand in both of hers and shook it trying to keep her excitement from showing but not doing a very good job.

"She's stranger than Miaka."

Mnekov sneered at the direction of Tasuki and Tamahome, who quickly put on an innocent looked and grinned at their Miko.  Mnekov slowly approached the two seishi's trying to appear menacing.  She put each arm on one seishi and put each in a head lock and pulled them in close.  "You guys are so cute.  But you guys are already taken."  She gave them a pout.

"Yeah, I already have Miaka.  But who does he have?"  Tamahome pointed a thumb at Tasuki.  "I thought he didn't like girls."

"Heh.  He's got Kouji."  Mnekov whispered to Tamahome.

"Shut the &*#@ up.  Kouji and I are just friends."  Mnekov and Tamahome looked at Tasuki.

"Oh, hoho."  Tamahome goaded.

"Why you, Obake-chan..."

"Tamahome, do you mind."

"No, not at all, Mnekov."  And then we see a Tasuki size hole on Mnekov's roof and a Tasuki missile heading for the outer atmosphere.

"He shouldn't have said that, na no da."

Mnekov sweatdropped at the hole.  "You're going to have to clean that up you know."

Then, Mnekov turned to face the prettiest man she's ever met.  She almost swooned, but Mnekov doesn't swoon and caught herself just in the nick of time ^_-.  "Hotohori!!"  She run up to Hotohori put one arm on Hotohori's neck and the other on his waist and dipped the man, who is about twice the size of Mnekov, halfway down to the floor.  Then she savagely planted one wet sloppy kiss on Hotohori's lips.  (Hey, I might not like him that much but I'm not stupid.  He's still dreamy ^_^;;).  After five minutes or so, when Mnekov was beginning to feel light headed and her lungs where screaming for air, she broke away from the kiss and pulled her hands away, dropping Hotohori down on the floor.  Mnekov smirked at herself and relished at the look of shock on Hotohori's face.

"Ano..?"  A voice cut through the stillness and silence as the other seishi's were observing their new miko.  Mnekov, hearing the familiar and most welcome voice, turned to it's source to confirm her assumption.

"NURIKOOO!!!"  Mnekov took one step towards Nuriko's direction then launch herself right into Nuriko's arms.  Being in top shape and the strongest of the seishi Nuriko had no trouble catching all of Mnekov's 120 (or more 0_0) pounds in mid leap.  Mnekov possessively put her arms around her favorite seishi's neck and planted kisses all over his pretty face.

"Uhm.....Mnekov.....Keeper-sama,"  Nuriko said in between kisses.

Mnekov momentarily detached herself away from her main objective, which was somewhere around Nuriko's neck ^_^, to acknowledge what Nuriko was saying.  "Hai?"  She asked enthusiastically.  When Nuriko didn't say anything, Mnekov followed his gaze, after she finished looking dreamily into his eyes, and looked at the other gawking seishi.  "What?"  Nuriko gently put his unrelenting miko down and thought he'd go over the rules with his miko.

"Well, first of all, we're your seishi and we're here to serve and protect you.  And--"

"I know.  I know that already.  I've read the manual."  Mnekov pouted at Nuriko, who smiled at his impatient miko.

"Well, then."

"I hope she's not going to be pouring all the jello and whip cream on me."  Tasuki commented.  "I'm still trying to get the smell of lime jello and whip cream off from "Fun...Our Way".  (It's a fic by Ritz, she one of the loony members of the FYML.  It's really great.  I get to glomp on Nuriko there too ^_^.  Go read it and her other great fics.)

"Uhm, Mnekov, don't you think Chiriko's a little to young for this?"  The ever sensible Tamahome queried.

Mnekov thought for a moment.  "Oh yeah.  Chiriko will you come with me for a minute."  She extended a hand to Chiriko, who took it candidly.  "You guys stay here, I'll be back in a sec."  Mnekov and Chiriko disappeared into one of the room and minutes later Mnekov came out with a grin on her face.

"Okay.  So, what shall we do."  Mnekov smirked and rubbed her hands together in impatience, undecided on what to do first.  Finally coming to a decision she went over to Chichiri put her mouth next to his ear and whispered.  Chichiri nodded his head in understanding as his miko gave him his instructions.

"Hai, no da," he exclaimed happily and took his infamous dimension bending kasa and merrily disappeared into it.  "Saraba, na no da."  Mnekov's grin only widened as the seishi's number dwindled.

"Where's he going?"  Asked the impertinent Tasuki.  Mnekov smiled seductively at Tasuki.  Tasuki paled as images from "Fun...Our Way" came to mind.  Mnekov intertwined her right hand with Tamahome's pulling him along as she headed for Tasuki.  Then, she coiled her hand on Tasuki's left arm and looked at Tasuki with innocent puppy dog eyes.

"Don't worry Tasuki, I have a job for you too."  She grinned and the three disappeared out the front door.  Mitsukake, Hotohori and Nuriko looked at each other wondering what the were suppose to do while the other's were away.  However, they did not have very long to wait because Mnekov once again reappeared through the front door.

"Okay!  Four down, two to go."  She almost cackled as her plan came to fruition.  The three remaining seishi sweatdropped as they saw the look on Mnekov's face.

"Ccchh...cc."  Mnekov looked down towards the source of the faint noise.  "Myko!!"  Mnekov picked up a black and white (and may I say adorable, even though he's kind of mute ^_^;;) cat, who sat on the floor on his haunches trying to get his mistresses attention.

"Mrew.."  Not to be outdone by Myko, Kymi (my sister's tabby) rub up on Mnekov's leg.
Mnekov's eyes visibly light up as she looked at both cats.  "Oh yeah.  Mitsukake, you like animals right?"  Mitsukake only nodded not comprehending where Mnekov was going with this.  "Can you pick Kymi up,"  Mnekov lifted the foot the tabby was rubbing at to indicate that this cat was Kymi, "and come with me."  Mistukake did as he was told and followed Mnekov out the back door.

Moments later Mnekov came back and had a broad smile plastered on to her face.  She smiled at the two seishi left and sighed.  "Okay now what are we going to do."  It wasn't a question.

Nuriko smirked and shook his head at his miko/Keeper(oh I mean of the braid of course ^^)/seishi.  Hotohori, being the just and idealistic man that he is, just looked at the two not understanding.  He had sat down around the dining table as he waited for Mnekov to return from the backdoor.  He was thinking of Kounankoku and hoping that everything was all right.  Nothing devastating has happened in the past few days and he had trusted Houki to look after things as he answered Suzaku's call.

"Hotohori?"  Hotohori snapped away from his musings to look up at Mnekov who had a pile of papers and envelops in her hands.

"What are these?"

"Bills."  Mnekov said plainly and plopped down the stack in front of Hotohori.

Hotohori sweatdropped.  "What?  What am I supposed to do with these?"

"You're emperor, right?"  Hotohori nodded.  "And you're rich, right?"  Once again Hotohori nodded.  "And your supposed to do anything I want right?"

"Well, technically--"

"Are you saying you wouldn't do this for me?"  Right then Mnekov produced a hanky out of nowhere and started chewing on it and looked at Hotohori with tear strained eyes.  "You're not going to do this for me because you don't like me, cause you think I'm not as pretty as you, because I'm not--"

"No, no."  Hotohori tried to calm down his seemingly distraught miko.  "Uhm....just what exactly do you want me to do?"

"Pay my bills."  Mnekov pouted and Nuriko snickered in the background.

"Ah."  Hotohori was shocked.  Mnekov did the whole teary eyed routine again and finally Hotohori broke down and agreed to do some of her bills.

"Wai. Arigato."  Mnekov smiled and gave Hotohori pen, paper, and some Alka-Seltzer (I've heard it helps during tax time ^_^).

"What about me?"  Nuriko asked innocently.

"Don't worry Nuriko.  I have something special in mind for you."  (grin)  Mnekov wound the slightly wet hanky around Nuriko's eyes.  "Just close your eyes and follow me."  Hotohori looked as Mnekov guided Nuriko into an adjacent room.

After a few minutes of disorientation the blindfold was removed from Nuriko eyes.  He looked around at the small room in wonder.  "A-re?  What?  What are we going to do here?"

Mnekov grinned at the confused look on Nuriko's face.  Then she started looking and scrounging around the cabinets and brought out some special tool and utensils.  She put some on the metal contraption in front of Nuriko and gave him some kind of wooden stick.

"It's almost one o'clock and I'm hungry.  The others will be hungry soon.  You better cook us something."  Mnekov opened the refrigerator and took out some meat and vegetables.  "Kay?"
Nuriko looked dumbstruck at his miko.

"Oi!  Mnekov.  Tamahome wants to know where we're suppose to put the grass cuttings after we're done with them."  Tasuki poked his head through the kitchen door.

"Argh.  You're suppose to put them in the garbage bags and throw and put them in front.  I told you that already.  Do I have to do everything myself."  Mnekov looked as if she was about to rain down blows on Tasuki.  Then she looked at Nuriko and her attitude miraculously change from an reprimanding boss to a helpless girl.  "You'll cook something right, Nuriko?  I'm hungry and all I know to cook is some noodles and rice."  She added a pout for good measure.

Nuriko sweatdropped and couldn't say anything else.  Thinking that things might have gone worse Nuriko picked up the meat and set to work.  Meanwhile, Mnekov herded Tasuki out the backdoor to tell him what to do again.

Outside, Mistukake had put Kymi and Myko in a little enclosure, while he was giving Lara and Elvis a bath (^_^ we have dogs too and yes the other one's name is Elvis.  It was my aunt's idea.)  Mnekov looked at them and was amazed that Elvis wasn't moving around and splashing water on everyone.  "Wow, Mistukake, you're so good with animals, Elvis would never let anyone give him a bath."

Mitsukake only nodded in acknowledgment to his miko's praise.  Mnekov glanced towards the lawn where Tamahome was busy raking the grass.  "Oi, Mnekov," he shouted as he saw Tasuki and Mnekov heading towards him.

Mnekov looked around at the yard.  "Wow!  Everything looks so clean.  This lawn needed a good mowing after all that rain and the gardener has been pretty lazy about coming over.  Good job Tamahome."  Then Mnekov spotted the little corner near the house that was bear of brushes and flowers.  "Waaahhh."  Mnekov ran to that spot and kneeled down.  "What happened to my mother's orchids."

Tamahome looked at his distraught miko.  "Well, they looked dead so Tasuki and I decided to take 'em out and throw them away."

"They were sick, they're still getting over the late winter season."  Mnekov took each of the seishi's ears in her hands and pulled them down to her level.  "You better find each and everyone of them and replant them on the exact spot that you found them on!"  Mnekov growled at the astonished seishi.

"Okay.  Okay.  Ow  $*&@.  That hurts."  Mnekov let Tamahome's ear go and twisted Tasuki ear.
"Will you please not say that again.  Or I'll...." Mnekov twisted Tasuki's ear a little to get her point through.

"Aahh.  Hai!  Wakatta!  Wakatta.  Just let go!"

"Good."  Mnekov grinned and let go.  "Okay now get back to work.  Tamahome after your done doing that you can go ahead and clean my room.  Oh wait...Chiriko's there taking notes for me for my Spring classes."  Tamahome looked up to from the dirt to his pensive miko.  "Ah you know what you can clean the bathroom and vacuum.  Okay."

"Hai."

"Oi.  Tasuki!"  Mnekov shouted at Tasuki who was about to bring the trash bag over to Tamahome.

"Come 'er.  I have something for you to do."

"Ah, hai."  Tasuki dropped the bag and quickly did followed his miko.

"Here."  Mnekov handed him a sponge and a bucket.  "My truck needs a little cleaning.  I've been meaning to do it but I haven't had the time."  Then, she left the dumbstruck seishi wondering what he was suppose to do with the sponge and bucket.

Mnekov returned to the kitchen to find Nuriko happily whistling a tune while tossing a some lettuce and onions into the saucepan.  She got herself a soda, sat on the kitchen table and made googly eyes at Nuriko.  "Hmm...I could spend all day like this."  Nuriko turn around to the sound of the voice.

"Did you say something, Mnekov?"

"Oh nothing.  Just glad you guys are here."  She grinned at Nuriko, who grinned back.  "What'cha cooking?"

"Uhm--"

"DAA!!"  Mnekov literally jumped out of her seat as Chichiri suddenly appeared out of nowhere.  Nuriko giggled at Mnekov's disposition who was now out of her chair and on her butt and most of all wet from her drink.

"Ah, @%#& you scared me!!"  Mnekov pulled herself to her feet and took the rag from Nuriko's hands and tried to wipe the soda off of her.  "Oh great I'm going to have to change again."

"Gomen no da, Mnekov.  But I got those manga that you wanted, no da."  Chichiri took a bag out from his infamous dimension bending kasa and gave it to Mnekov (just like Santa ^_^).  Mnekov grabbed that sack away from Chichiri and delightedly undid the bindings.

"What?"  Mnekov looked at the piles of Japanese manga.  "I said manga as in the fruit not manga the Japanese comic book."  Mnekov pouted at Chichiri.

"A-re?  I didn't know that manga was a fruit too, na no da."  Mnekov's pout only grew poutier.  Chichiri sweatdropped and took the sack from her.  "I'll go get it, no da.  Don't worry, no da.  I'll get it right this time, na no da."

"No."  Mnekov grabbed the sack away from Chichiri.  "I wanna keep these too."  She grinned at Chichiri and batted her eyelashes at him.

"Well, I better go, no da."  Chichiri was about to disappear into his kasa again when Mnekov grabbed his arm.

"Chichiri, can you get me some of those Japanese ice cream in the rice things?"

Chichiri thought for a moment.  "I think I know what you mean, no da?"  Then he disappeared into his kasa.

"Shame on you."  Nuriko admonished.  "You should act your age."

Mnekov pouted at Nuriko.  "I do too."  Nuriko only raised his eyebrows at Mnekov and continued with what he was doing.

A few hours later....

"Ahh..I'm stuffed."  Happily cried a contented Mnekov.

Tasuki yawn and crashed on the couch.  "Ah...I'm tired."

"I don't think I've ever worked so hard in my life."  Tamahome joined Tasuki on the couch and after a few seconds, both had drifted off into sleep.  Chiriko curled up on Tasuki's lap and also fell asleep.

"I think I broke a nail."  Hotohori looked at his beautiful hands.

"I you broke more than that, no da, Hotohori-sama."  Chichiri wondered if there will be anything left of the royal treasury when they get back to Kounan.  Chichiri looked at the sleeping figures and was looking for a space where he could fall into.  He looked at the big area on the carpet in front of the television and decided to join Myko and Kymi in their nap. >^^<

Mistukake was already snoring on the dining table and Mnekov helped Nuriko put a blanket on all the exhausted seishi.  After that Mnekov joined Nuriko on the love seat and curled up next to him.  Nuriko turned on the television. ;-p

After a few minutes the front door opened and Mnekov's sister entered the front door.  "I'm hom--."  She looked around at the strange men in the living room.  Then she looked at Mnekov.

"Who are these people,"  she whispered quietly so as not to wake them up.

"They're my seishi."  Mnekov replied curled around to a half asleep Nuriko.

"Yeah, right!"  She raised her eyebrows at her sister unbelieving.  "Ooohhh, is this Hotohori."  She pointed to the sleeping emperor.

"Yep."

"He's cute.  (She's not an FY nut but she likes Hotohori.)  Hey!"  Mnekov's sister looked around the house.  "The house looks so clean and the lawn is mowed.  And is the color of the house a lot whiter than the usual one.  How'd you do that?"  She looked curiously at Mnekov, who was playing with a lock of Nuriko's hair.

"The guys offered to help me with the spring cleaning and Tasuki wanted to paint the house again."

"I don't even wanna know, do I?"  She took one look at Mnekov and headed for her room.

Mnekov cuddled deeper into Nuriko's embrace.  She was glad that all her chores were done and that she had nothing more to do.  It had been a very tiring and productive day.  Myko jumped up onto her lap and looked questioningly at his mistress.  Mnekov reach out and scratched Myko's chin.  Contented Myko curled up on Mnekov's lap and took a nap.  Mnekov looked at all the sleeping seishi and at the very clean, almost sparkly room.  She grinned.

Mnekov stood up and looked around the house.  "Hey Tamahome did a pretty good job, the carpet looks spotless."  She took out some pen and paper and her face took on a thoughtful look.  "Hmmm...what should we work on tomorrow."  She looked at the slumbering seishi for ideas.  "Ohhhh...they're so cute."  She looked at her felt tip pen and edge closer to Hotohori.  "Kakakakakaka."

Mnekov looked at her handiwork.  She had an evil grin on her face.  Each of the seishi had a black mustache drawn on them.  And Tasuki had a pair of black glass frame drawn around his eyes.  "Being Miko does have their perks."  ^_^

And okay the little poem was a bit corny but hey I'm still new at this give me time and I'll try to make things rhyme.  ^_^  Wai I just made that rhyme.  One step.  But if you can say it better then give me a holler.

Comments, suggestions, and if you just want to get in touch with me and borrow one of the seishi ^_^ email me at mnekov's mailbox  (we can probably work something out.)

Tamahome:  50 gold ryu!!
Tasuki:  (bonks Tamahome with tessen)  Don't start that again.