miAka anD taMah0mE's LovE stoRy!!!

[Lorraine Khang]

The girls arrive in a foreign world, and without any time to figure out what has happened, they are attacked by 'girl trafficers' who sell girls. Yui is grabbed, and Miaka hurls herself at Yui's attacker, temporarily knocking him out, but they are out-numbered. Out of nowhere, a man appears and attacks the men, saving Miaka and Yui. He is tall and handsome, with a red character blazing on his forehead: the sign of the ogre (oni). The attackers flee, leaving Miaka and Yui with their savior.



They thank him and ask for his help, but he replies that 'appreciation should be shown by money', to which Miaka searches for some cash to give him. As she does this, Yui chases after him angrily, he flees, and she is absorbed by light and brought back to the real world. Miaka finds the money in time to see Yui has disappeared and the man with her. She hitches a ride on a cart to find the man and learn where he took Yui. She believes he has kidnapped Yui.

Miaka: 'That guy was good looking, but he kidnapped Yui-chan, so I won't forgive him'

Once in the city, she spots her handsome savior, and runs to catch upto him. She loses sight of him, and asks everyone around her if she saw a handsome man with the sign of the ogre on his forehead. A strange man approaches her in a friendly manner, and tells her the man with the ogre character is his friend, and he will take her to him. Meanwhile, word has travelled fast of a strange girl that arrived in Konan (the name of the city they're in). The man with the ogre hears all this and wonders if it is one of the girls he rescued.

The strange man with Miaka brings her to a dirty, poor street, and out come evil men who want to rape and sell her. The strange man is with them, and they prepare to attack her. She defends herself, in a most hilarious scene, attacking them with 'western wrestling' moves like 'Hip Attack' and 'Body Slam'. She was doing pretty good, when the man who brought her there pulled her by the leg, knocked her down, and pinned her beneath him. Things looked very scary for Miaka, when again, out of no where, the man with the ogre sign appeared, he quickly attacked the girl trafficers and saved Miaka.

In the touching scene that follows, Miaka looks at her savior with tearful, and fear-filled eyes, and grabs the man in a hug. He looks surprised but touched. She asks him where Yui is, and he replies he doesn't know and turns to leave again, but Miaka is not about to let him get away so easily. She grabs him, makes him fall down, and says she won't let him go until he tells her where Yui is. He surrenders, waving a white flag, gets up, and says 'I don't know', to which Miaka begins to chase him, and he runs away from her.

They run across the city, Miaka begging him for help: "Don't you have any kindness? A girl seprated from her friend. I'm roaming around an unkown place. Are you a MAN??!!', she asks frustrated. To which the man stops abruptly and says 'Shit, what a rotten thing to say. You're not important because you don't have any money (okane). If you ask someone, expect to pay." He holds out his hand. "So give me in advance."

Miaka: You always talk money. is it such a big deal to you? to which he replies., 'Yes as a matter of fact.'. Miaka gets angry and accuses him of having sold Yui and yells out that he is a girl trafficer causing quite a scene. The man embarassed, picks Miaka up and runs with her away from the crowd she has formed.

Miaka threatens that she will tell everyone he is a trafficer unless he helps her. He says 'But I'm NOT a trafficer' 'I know' she says, to which she is promtly dropped on the ground. Miaka apologizes and tearfully tells him that she needs help to find Yui, because she feels sorry for her, both lost in a strange world, and unable to get back home. The man feels moved, sighs, and decides to help Miaka.

At that moment, the emperor of Konan travels through the city, and the man comments to Miaka that the emperor is rich and that with one gem from his crown, it would be easy to find Yui. Miaka runs upto the emperor's carriage and tries to talk to the emperor. She causes a scene and the soldiers get angry and get ready to kill her for 'disrespecting' the emperor. Miaka had no idea her actions could be misconstrued, and had thought it perfectly allowable to talk to the emperor. Just as she is about to be beheaded, her savior comes and rescues her again.



The man yells at her, and makes her cry, to which he says 'Don't cry. I'll look for your friend out of respect for your bravery.' At this point, they introduce themselves, and we learn, the man's name is Tamahome. They smile warmly at eachother and Miaka says that she has no reward for Tamahome, for helping her. He says 'Don't worry. I'll take one now', and he looks at her tenderly, and kisses her on the forehead. (Great Miaka and Tamahome moment)

The soldiers see them and try to attack, but a red light surrounds Miaka and Tamahome. Miaka begns to disappear, she sees Yui in the real world at the library, but can't contact her. When she reappears, the emperor orders Miaka and Tamahome to be both taken and imprisoned. In the prison, Miaka dreams of Yui as her mother, and wakes up from the nightmare clutching Tamahome.

Tamahome asks Miaka what she is and what the red light was. She can't answer that but talks of Yui and how she knows now that Yui has gotten back to the real world. Her eyes fill with tears and sadness of not knowing how to get back home, and Tamahome tells her:

Tamahome: Don't cry, don't worry. I'll help you. I already got my payment from you in advance (meaning the kiss). He smiles at her.



They escape the prison through the help of bubble gum. In a funny scene, Miaka blows a bubble, making the guard think she is a monster, and he loses the keys which Tamahome catches. He looks at her to tell her 'great job', and then gets scared by the gum covering her face, and crashes into a wall, yelling MONSTER! (HAHAHAHA!)



They escape the prison, and Miaka has given Tamahome a stick of gum, to which he is ALL excited about and says he won't give it back to Miaka, even if she asked. She says 'It's only bubble gum! You are so stingy.' The two enter a dark room, and see a statue of Suzaku. They become separated, and Miaka wanders outside of the palace, and runs into a person who looks like a beautiful woman.

Meanwhile, Tamahome is searching frantically for Miaka, but gets caught by the soldiers. They carry him to the place where Miaka and her companion sit talking. Her companion grabs her and tells her to hide. Miaka watches as Tamahome tells the guards he doesn't know where Miaka is, and they begin to hurt him. Miaka rushes out and yells at the guards not to hurt Tamahome.

Tamahome: Miaka! Why are you here?

Miaka: Because I can't leave you behind.

A soldier grabs Miaka from behind, and she screams. Tamahome's symbol blazes, he breaks the ropes he's been tied in, attacks the soldier and protects Miaka. 'If even one finger touches her - I'll take care of you' he threatens the soldiers.



At this point, Miaka's companion stops the fighting and takes Miaka and Tamahome under his care. We learn that he is the emperor, Hotohori, and is a MAN, Miaka is shocked because he is so beautiful, and promptly goes to feel his chest. 'Flat...that means he has some other mysterious body part somewhere', to which Tamahome comes and says 'Don't go that far!' and knocks her out of the emperor's way. (heeeheheh:) )

In the next set of events, Hotohori tells Miaka about the legend of Suzaku and that she is the girl of the legend, Suzaku No Miko. He asks her if she will accept the role as Miko and she does. With this, Miaka learns both Miaka and Tamahome are 2 of the Suzaku seishi, out of 7, which are needed to call forth Suzaku, to protect Konan, to grant Miaka's wishes, and to return her home.

The next morning, she wakes up from a nightmare where she's asking her brother, Keisuke, for help to return to the real world. She wakes up holding Tamahome's hand. Tamahome is in her room because she is depressed, and he tells her that Hotohori is worried about her. Miaka looks up at Tamahome:

Miaka: And were YOU worried about me?

Tamahome: Yes

Miaka: I'm happy.

Tamahome: You're news all over the country . . . because of Suzako No Miko, I can live in this palace . . .

Miaka: Don't bother yourself - I'm not lonely. If I were to worry - it would be about where to get fresh underwear.

Tamahome then grabs Miaka and holds her tight.

Tamahome: Don't be unreasonable. When you feel like it, cry hard.

Miaka: Yes

Tamahome: As an exception, I will be your brother, without charge.

He hugs Miaka tighter and Miaka collapses into his embrace. She think to herself 'So warm...'

Tamahome tells her she must gather the seishi to call Suzaku if she wants to return home. Miaka then runs to find Hotohori and together the 3 try to figue out how to find the other seishi. Tamahome comments that he hopes the other 5 are all beautiful women, and Miaka throws him a dirty look, and says she hopes they're all handsome men.

Tamahome decides he shall fight all the men who have been gathered, Konan's finest men in regards to academic and physical value, in order to find who is a seishi. This fails. Miaka then decides she will anger the men until they fight which will cause their symbol to show. She insults the soldiers very badly, they get angry, and she runs, amazed that they would take her that seriously. One of them hurls a mallet at her, misses and it crashes into one of the pillars holding up the building she was standing in. It crashes around her, and Tamahome runs quickly to protect her. He lies on top of her, both buried deep under rubble and heavy stone.

Tamahome is using all his strength to prevent the stones from crashing down on top of Miaka and himself, and Miaka asks him why?

Tamahome: I said I'd protect you, so no matter what, I'll protect you.



Just as the weight is becoming too much, the 3rd seishi, a beautiful person, who appears to be a woman, named Nuriko, comes and flings the stones away as if they were flies. She saves Miaka and Tamahome. Nuriko takes an instant 'liking' to Tamahome and proceeds to lavish her attention on him. He, though, tries everything to get away from her.

As tamahome complains of his pain, Miaka thinks to herself: 'Tamahome, when you did that (saving her under the rubble). . . my heart was overwhelmed. He went that far to save me...because I'm Suzaku No Miko? . . . or? . . .'

Already, we see the bond these two have forged together. Now, Miaka gets very jealous over how Nuriko behaves with Tamahome. When she thinks of how Nuriko kisses Tamahome, she says how it 'pissed her off'. She decides she must get long with Nuriko, no matter how horrible Nuriko treats her or how much she goes after Tamahome. In a funny scene, Miaka is washing her underwear, and has just taken off her bra, when Tamahome runs in, sees her naked, she screams out 'Pervert!', while he tries to cover up his eyes (unsuccessfully), he tells her he just wanted Miaka to help him hide from Nuriko. This is imporant in showing how close he and Miaka have gotten since their first meeting.

Later, Miaka is doing chores for Nuriko, and Nuriko has just hurled a table at her. Along comes Tamahome, and Nuriko acts all pouty and asks why Tamahome hates her, to which he replies 'I don't HATE you', and this makes Nuriko gush over him. Miaka sees this, and hurls the table, trying to hit Nuriko, but hits Tamahome instead! (hahahahaha!)

Later that day, quitely thinking, Miaka sees Tamahome. He'd finally escaped Nuriko and came to Miaka. Miaka is happy to see him but says that Tamahome must be overjoyed becuse he is loved by a beautiful lady. To this, Tamahome replied 'DO you think I'm happy about it?' and he begins to walk away. Miaka, upset that he would be angry with her, tries to run after him, but falls, because her leg is hurt from the accident under the building she and Tamahome had been trapped in.

Tamahome looks at her tenderly and tells her that she is putting too much stress on her leg. Worried about the cut on her leg, he nurses it, and his eyes are bright, tender, and serious. Another seriously tender bonding moment!

In this following scene we see how Miaka has begun to have feelings for Tamahome. It is an especially revealing scene about Tamahome:

Miaka: Do you really like Nuriko?

Tamahome: Not in the least. . . She's not my type.

Miaka: Really?

Tamahome begins to laugh: Ah...I see you're jealous . . . I'm handsome, strong, kind, and marvelous. It's such a sin. Sorry. I want money more than love. (He begins to laugh hysterically)

Miaka: That's not right!!

Miaka then thinks to herself, 'If so, I feel sorry for Nuriko. It's not jealousy'. [ALOUD] 'Are you going to laugh forever? AAARGGHHH!!!'

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[Lorraine Khang]

Later that same day, Miaka finds Nuriko who is 'upset' over losing an earing her mother had given her. She lost it in a lake. Miaka says she will find it for Nuriko. Nuriko says that if Miaka finds it, Nuriko will protect Miaka as her seishi. Miaka says she will find it because the earing is something important - something Nuriko's mother gave her, so it has meaning and must be found. Little does Miaka know, that Nuriko made up the story about the earring, just to give Miaka more of a hard time.
As Miaka searches for the earing, she almost drowns, and cries out Tamahome's name. Tamahome was sleeping and in his mind, he felt Miaka calling for him and is startled awake. He rushes to find her. When he passes Nuriko's room, he hears Nuriko confessing her lie. He gets angry with Nuriko, calling her a pregnant dog, and tries to leave but Nuriko pulls him back and says Miaka deserves it. Nuriko says how jealous she is that Hotohori and everyone has all paid so much attention to Miaka. She says that is why she was chasing after Tamahome - deliberately - to make Miaka jealous.



Miaka then shows up. She and Nuriko exchange words and slap eachother, but then Miaka gives Nuriko a pretty pink pebble, to make up for the earring she 'lost'. Miaka tells Nuriko she will help her by hinting to Hotohori that Nuriko loves him. Later that night, Hotohori and Miaka are talking and Miaka attempts to tell him about Nuriko's love for him, when Hotohori confesses his love for MIAKA! Hotohori asks Miaka if she loves anyone, and immediately, Tamahome's handsome face pop into her head, and she smiles, blushing.

Hotohori pins Miaka beneath him on the bed, as he confesses his love to her, and he tries to kiss her, all the while Miaka thinks of Tamahome. She braces herself, but is not kissed, becasuse Hotohori finds both Nuriko and Tamahome eavesdropping. Now Tamahome has overheard everything and this worries Miaka.

The next morning, Miaka tries to talk to Tamahome but he is overly cool and reserved with her, knowing his place, now that he has heard the emperor confess his love for Miaka. Miaka, though, wants to know Tamahome's feelings for her. She has heard Hotohori's, but it is Tamahome she wishes to know of. She follows Tamahome and Nuriko as they go to the city, where she sees Tamahome advertise the gum Miaka had given him and tries to sell it. Miaka wonders if Tamahome only thinks she is useful for business.

Suddenly, the crowd of people accuse him of lying, saying the gum is fake, and start to get angry with Tamahome, but Miaka svaes him by taking off the hood she was wearing, and reveals that the gum is real, and that she, Suzaku No Miko, gave it to him.



In this funny scene, Tamahome instantly jumps down to Miaka, dons sunglasses and starts to act like Miaka's manager and encouraging people to get her autograph! The crowd goes crazy and starts to make a grab for Miaka and Tamahome. The couple escape and run to a safe place. This next scene is important.

Tamahome: Why did you do that?

Miaka: Because. You think I'm a nuisance.

Tamahome: I didn't say that

Miaka: So what DO you think of me?

They look at eachother - he doesn't answer. They get interrupted, by a gang of ruffians/the mafia who threaten Miaka and Tamahome. They see Miaka is Suzaku No Miko, brandish weapons, and the boss of the gang and Tamahome begin to bargain with eachother to BUY/SELL Miaka. Tamahome asks for 40 ryuuen for Miaka and Miaka thinks 'Tamahome - you're mean!' her face falls sadly, and in anger, she hits her captor.



Tamahome takes this sudden interruption to his advantage and attacks the other gang members, and his sign blazes. As the leader of the mafia charges at Tamahome with a knife, Tama just beats them all up quickly. Then he turns and says:

Tamahome: Some things are too important to be sold.

He goes over to Miaka who is sitting stunned by a wall. It has begun to thunderstorm and rain.

Tamahome: So let's go.

Miaka: Imbecile. You can't do business here anymore. What's worse, you could have been hurt. Why? Why would you do that? Go that far...for..for ME??!! (she is yelling in anger and frustration and wishes to know if Tamahome does these things because he cares for her)

Tamahome: Let's go

Miaka: (screaming) ANSWER ME!!!

Tamahome: It's not important (quiet voice, subdued, with his back to Miaka)

Miaka: It IS! - Because I..I'm IN LOVE WITH YOU! (she gasps stunned she said that to him)

Tamahome: (with his voice still sad, seemingly unfazed, and his back to her still) Sorry. I don't feel the same. I protect Suzaku No Miko. Let's go home. The emperor will be worried. (he begins to leave)

Miaka is overwhelmed by the fact that Tama doesn't feel the same, reaches out for him but her vision blurs, 'Ta - Tam', she tries to call to him, but she faints and falls to the ground. Tamahome rushes to her, screaming her name frantically. Miaka has fallen sick, and come down with a fever.

Later, at the palace of the emperor, Miaka is being nursed. Both she and Tamahome are being plagued with the memory of Miaka's admission of love. When Miaka wakes up she thinks to herself:

Miaka: I've found myself in love, and I have already lost him. (she begins to cry)

Hotohori then enters her room and tells her, they have decided to take her to Taitsukun - who can send her back to her world - so she can recover - as she is homesick and called for her mother and brother while alseep with the fever. Hotohori hugs her and asks her to promise to come back to him after she is better.

As Hotohori hugs Miaka, she thinks to herself of how Hotorhori worries so much about her, and cares so much for her. She thinks if she goes back to her world, she can forget about Tamahome, and the fact he doesn't love her. She thinks she can then apologize to Tamahome and say sorry for telling him she loved him.

Tamahome overhears Hotohori and Miaka talking and hears Hotohori telling her to come back to him. He stands up and leaves, with a sad face. Nuriko sees him and attacks him from behind.

Nuriko: What's with the grief stricken face? It's your own fault for dumping her!

Tamahome: Shut up! It has nothing to do with you!

Nuriko: Yes it has! If I don't do something, the emperor won't notice me, so would you kindly apologize to Miaka and then the emperor will be mine!

Tamahome: You're d**ned selfish!

Nuriko: What? Aren't you a man? You hurt her. You love Miaka don't you? what a pity - you're jealous of the emperor!

Tamahome: Jealous? Hmph! Me? Let's stop kidding. I just met Miaka a short time ago. ME? I only have a soft spot for money - O-KA-NE (he ennunciates each syllable of the word for money). That's why I'm not jealous. (and with that he walks away from Nuriko, and leans against a pillar, looking up at the sky with a sad face and thinks to himself, 'jealous huh?'. (so we KNOW he is jealous and DOES care for Miaka but won't allow himself to have feelings for her! DOH!)

The next day, the emperor (Hotohori), Nuriko, Tamahome, and Miaka all gather together to go see Taitsukun. Miaka looks at Tamahome loading the horses. He sees her looking at him, and looks back at her. They both see eachother looking and startled, both turn away fast! Nuriko blasts flames through her ears and around her as she screams 'HOW FRUSTRATING!!' (I'm with you Nuriko - I wish those 2 would get together already! )

That night, they rest, and Miaka is in pain, because the fever is back. Nuriko approaches and tells her of a lake that can cure diseases, and it will make her feel better. While Miaka leaves for the place, Nuriko finds Tamahome sleeping, picks him up by the feet and drags him across the ground till he's woken up (with major bumps on his head!). She tells him that Miaka has a message for him - 'I'll wait for you by the lake'. To which Tamahome replied 'WHY ME???' and Nuriko says: Be a MAN! Don't hurt the girl's feelings!'

Miaka, in the meantime, has undressed herself and is submerged in the lake, when she sees something in the lake which grabs her and she screams!

Tamahome is walking through the woods saying to himself, 'I'm going but it's not because Miaka asked me to...just because I'm bored' (he says this in a way that lets ya know even HE doesn't beleive what he is trying to make himself beleive. We, the viewers, aren't fooled either. We KNOW he wants to see Miaka.) Then he hears Miaka's screams and sees her in the lake and dives in to help her.

Tamahome is now in the water and has not resurfaced. Miaka stands in the water, worriedly calling out Tamahome's name. She cries out 'Tamahome's been eaten by a snake!!!' and starts to sob. Tamahome pokes his head up out of the water.

Tamahome: Don't bury me yet.

The 'snake' turned out to be a drift log, as he points out to Miaka, and she realized he can see her breasts and her naked body. Both blush and turn around. 'I didn't see anything!' Tamahome yells out automatically!' and then both get quiet....

Miaka is thinking 'This is my chance. Apologize Miaka. Tell him you're sorry you said you love him. That it was just a joke. [pause]

Miaka and Tamahome together: SORRY!! (GOMEN!!)

Miaka's eyes get wide as she realizes Tamahome said sorry!

Tamahome: When you said that (said I'm in love with you) What I said was unkind. It was the first time a woman said she loved me. I thought it couldn't be. I didn't know how to answer. For 17 years, there's only been money on my mind. I'm still that way. But I'll take you to Taitsukun's place. Recover as soon as possible.

With that Tamahome leaves the lake and walks away. And then NURIKO drops from the trees and is mad cause she thought Tamahome would surely have made a play for Miaka!

Miaka is angry and screams: 'NURIKO!!! That means you deceived me!! (suddenly smiles) THANKS!!' and she hugs Nuriko.

Nuriko: Unhand me

Miaka: (still hugging) It's great! Tamahome doesn't hate me!



While Miaka hugs Nuriko she loosens Nuriko's shirt and sees that there are NO BREASTS on Nuriko. Nuriko is a MAN! Nuriko admits as much, and we see cute shots of Nuriko's embarrassment at being exposed and Miaka shocked beyond belief.

The group go on their way the next day (Miaka has kept Nuriko's secret). At a dining stop, Miaka notices Hotohori isn't with them and searches for him. She finds him and he tells her he doesn't get many chances to be on his own and stare at mountains. He compares himself to a bird in a cage. Miaka tells him that he is a free bird now and to fly wherever he wants. This makes hotohori smile and he hugs Miaka, telling her she is a nice girl, and very kind. Tamahome and Nuriko stand behind them, Nuriko is LIVID cause it's a tender bonding moment between Hotohori and Miaka, and Tamahome also looks a little hurt and mad too.

Later, Miaka and Tamahome are walking through a forest, and Miaka runs and falls, and her skirt flares as she goes down, giving tamahome a GOOD look at her panties. She covers herself up and asks Tamahome if she saw anything. He lies and says no and adds: 'Besides, it's not like I care, if you had bigger breasts and were sexier, I'd admit you were a woman. I don't feel a thing when I see you naked.'

This hurts Miaka very much and she hits him and screams 'Tamahome, you idiot', and runs tearfully away. Here is the famous scene where she is trapped in the mirror and the evil Miaka takes her place in the real world. The evil Miaka tries to hurt Tamahome and Hotohori and reveals Nuriko is a man. As Miaka sees all this, she knows she must do something before the evil Miaka kills Tamahome and Hotohori, so she breaks a plate and stabs herself in the chest with it, that way it will kill her evil self. She doesn't think twice about this. All she thinks is of saving her seishi and doesn't care what happens to herself.

Some poignant moments in this scene: Tamahome shows jealousy when evil Miaka hugs Hotohori and calls him her darling, and tells Hothori to come with her for a provate talk, and later, when the evil Miaka is defeated, and the real Miaka is on deaths door, Hotohori and Tama draw their own blood to save Miaka - Tama uses the same broken plate to slice blood from HIS chest, and when Miaka wakes up, it is Tamahome's name she says first, and in addition to that, she touches his face tenderly, and stretches it around comically. Tamahome then hugs her with happy relief that she is ok!
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[:.Jessie Han.:]

*Lorraine*

Wow...You liked Fushigi Yuugi too? ^___^ Same here! But Miaka and Hotohori will be my pick...Hehehehehe..=D

Miaka Yuuki,The Suzaku No Miko (left) and Tamahome,The 1st Suzaku Seiishi (right)

[:.Jessie Han.:]

Yay! Hotohori looks soooo cute! ^___^ I've been crushing on him since I was in 2nd Year Highschool...Weird eh? Nyahahaha...^___^

Emperor Saihitei/Hotohori of Konan (2nd Suzaku Star Warrior,The Water Snake) and Miaka Yuuki,The Suzaku No Miko