Bishonen Beware

Chapter One

A young, reddish-brown haired girl wearing a large black backpack stood alone at an airport, impatiently tapping her foot, glancing at her watch every few seconds, and giving an impatient sigh.

"Flight One-Seventy-two from Finland is now arriving. Please meet departing passengers in the lounge." a nasal voice suddenly said over the loudspeaker.

"YESSSS!" the girl yelled loudly, pumping her fist in the air and ignoring the people's stares. She took off for the lounge at top speed, dodging trolleys and startled adults who had to jump out of her way.

She would shout 'Gomen' once in a while, and receive blank looks from everyone. One child looked up at their parent and asked, "What'd she say Mom?"

"I'll tell you when you're older." the woman replied, looking quite disturbed, and pulling her child away.

When the red-haired girl arrived at the lounge, she looked frantically around, starting to look worried, when a voice with a funny accent called out, "LANA!!!!"

She whirled around, and saw an older girl with black and red hair walking her way with many baggage's in tow and a dark-blue backpack on her back.

"RIINA!!!" she called out happily, and ran up to the girl, nearly tackling her with a hug, to which she responded with an almost bones crushing bear hug. When the young red head was able to breathe once again she grabbed a few of her bags and pulled her towards the door.

"How are you doing? How was the trip? What do you wanna do first?" the smaller girl asked in one breath.

"Whoah! Whoah! Slow down, kittling!" the older girl laughed, a pair of fangs flashing in the light when she did.

"But I'm hyper!!!!" Lana replied, grinning and hopping from one foot to the other, exposing a set of fangs also, though smaller.

"I'm Riina. Nice to meet you hyper." Riina said with a straight face, before cracking up.

'PSSSTTT! Will you two just get out of the airport already?! I can't breathe!' said a voice in both girls' heads suddenly.

Lana turned her head slightly, and whispered to her backpack, "Hang on Faia. We'll be out in a few minutes."

"Awww, how could you stuff her in that thing!?" Riina scolded, quickly pulling Lana out onto the street, then attacking her backpack.

"Come on out, Faia!" Riina said cheerfully, pulling a black cat out of Lana's carry-on, then cuddling it.

"Come on! You gotta see the apartment!" Lana said happily, dragging her friend down the street.

They came to a large apartment building, and Lana led them up to the fourth floor, to a *cough* 'interestingly' decorated room. There was incense and candles in several places, along with three daggers lying around, a rack on the wall displaying several swords, two beds with star and moon comforters, a small fountain the shape of a mountain with wolves on it, a painting of the face of a black cat sitting on a low, square table, a computer in one corner, along with a radio/CD player, and phone, and an air hockey board in the other corner along with a TV. There also seemed to be a million cute, cuddly stuffed animals everywhere.

"Welcome to 'Home'." Lana said, rolling her eyes. Faia jumped out of Riina's arms, settling herself on a plush pillow in front of the TV.

Riina carefully took a dagger to her hand and looked curiously around. "I love the decoration.... " she said, smiling warmly. Then she noticed something among the stuffed animals and picked up one that looked like a cute little devil. "Hey, I didn't know that you kept this all these years!"

Lana waved her hand like shocked from the thought of throwing away one of her beloved plushies. "Of course I did! I couldn't throw a way my own shoulder devil." she smiled.

"I'm glad you could come to America on you trip." Lana said, flopping down on a beanbag covered with the constellations.

"Me to." Riina laughed, taking a seat on a black wooden stool and looked through the window. "It's very....."

"Weird?" Faia supplied, yawning and stretching.

Riina giggled. "That would about describe it. By the way kittling, did you want to show me that 'special book' you found?"

Lana's eyes started glittering "OMG Riina, you're gonna love it."

"What? You finally found the book you're supposed to do your homework from for school?" Riina chided.

Lana sweatdropped, and coughed, saying, "Er, no. I haven't found that one yet."

"Typical." Riina said, and dodged a pillow Lana threw at her.

"If you wanna see it, we gotta go to the library. They wouldn't let me check it out." Lana told her impatiently.

"....Don't tell me you found the book from FY!?" Riina exclaimed in disbelief.

"Nooooo, but I did find some sort of 'Movie' book that goes along with it. You just open it, and it's like a movie screen! It's so cool!" Lana said, smiling sympathetically at her friend's disappointed look.

"Well, let's go and take a look." she said cheerfully a second later, and stood up.

"Yayyy!" Lana exclaimed, putting Faia back in the backpack, and dashing out the door.

"Hey! Slow down!" Riina yelled after her as she grabbed her unpacked backpack, throwing it on her back and running after the other girl down the street to a large library.

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"Hello! Do you still have that book I asked you to hold for me?" Lana asked the librarian politely, who gave her a strange look, before nodding at reaching under the counter, her hand emerging clasped around a old book with a black cover.

"Take her home and makes sure she gets some rest after she's done." the woman suddenly told Riina who looked confused but smiled and nodded to the librarian anyway to avoid any trouble.

Lana muttered incoherently on the way to table and sat down with a thump.

"Hey! Watch it!" Faia complained in their heads as Lana set down the backpack she was in rather roughly on the floor.

"Okay. What was THAT all about?" Riina asked her, one eyebrow raised.

"Stupid people think I'm crazy. They say THEY can't see anything, but I do clear as day! Here, YOU take a look. Can't you see it?!" Lana said gruffly, pushing the book across the table at her.

Riina carefully opened the book, and gave a small whistle when she saw what appeared to be a movie stretched across the two pages she was looking at.

"Cool! Hey look, there's Chiri!" she breathed enthusiastically, pointing to where the monk appeared to be walking down a path with somebody.

"See?! Ha! In your FACE Lady! I'm NOT nutz!" Lana exclaimed, getting several strange looks. Riina sweatdropped and tried to look like she was concentrating on the book.

"*Err*, or it could be that we're BOTH crazy." Riina pointed out when she looked up again.

The two girls looked at eachother for a second, then Lana sweatdropped, and said, "Oh damn."

"So what's happened so far?" Riina asked, looking back down at the book hurriedly, deciding to avoid that topic at the moment.

Lana shrugged. "Mostly just Chichiri and Tasuki walking, camping out, then walking again. Nothing too exciting."

"Hmm." Riina muttered thoughtfully. "Well, it looks like they just got to Mt. Reikaku" she told Lana, pointing to the page.

"Really?" Lana asked, leaning quickly far over the table to get a better look.

Too far. Her and Riina's heads banged together, and both girls gave a yelp of pain, and accidentally slapped the book with their palms at the same time. Suddenly there was a flash of red light, and both girls had disappeared, leaving only an old, black book and a black backpack behind.

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"Ugh, you sure got a hard head kittling." Riina groaned, sitting up and opening her eyes.

She blinked a couple times, then rubbed her eyes and blinked again.

"I could have sworn I was just in a library." she muttered to herself. She was on the edge of a forest, looking an old stone building tucked away among the trees. She looked around some more, and noticed Lana lying on the ground a few feet from her, apparently out cold.

"Oy! Wake up!" Riina said loudly, shaking her shoulder.

Lana's only response was to say, "Just five more minutes, Mom." and roll over.

"Hey look, Tasuki's lost his shirt." Riina said airily, and Lana bolted up looking around with wide eyes.

"What?! Where?!" She suddenly noticed where they were, and rubbed her eyes, asking, "Riina, do you see a forest?"

"Uh huh." Riina replied, not noticing the crunching of footsteps behind them.

"Crap. We're screwed, aren't we?" she said flatly, looking around. Riina was about to answer when the both of the girls jumped a mile high when a twig snapped behind them.

"Nani, no da? Who-"
"What the F**K?! What are you doing on Mt. Reikkaku?!" Two voices exclaimed from behind of them.

Lana screamed, grabbing a nearby branch and whirling around to beat the living daylights out of what- or who ever had sneaked up on them.

When she saw who it was, she stopped dead, gulping.

"Riina? I think we died." Lana said shakily, looking at the two seishi standing before her.

"Oh, heavens!" Riina exclaimed weakly in Finnish, looking as if she thought she had suddenly gone insane.

"If you don't tell us soon..." Tasuki warned, reaching for his Tessen.

"That's it." Lana said calmly, letting her stick drop to the ground.

"That's what?" Riina asked, looking confused.

"That's it. I'm fainting." Lana told her, and promptly collapsed.

"Daaaaaa." Riina sweatdropped, staring at her fallen friend. "Wait a minute! You can't pass out without me!!! Wake up!" she exclaimed after a second, shaking her roughly.

"Leave me alone." Lana insisted, keeping her eyes shut.

"Daijubu no da? Is she alright no da?" Chichiri asked worriedly kneeling next to Lana.

"Oh, she's fine. She's just being an idiot." Riina smiled sweetly as she tried to wake her friend.

"That's it! Get yer "¤%/!¤(=/* ass off the ground! NOW!!" Tasuki growled.

Lana cautiously opened one eye, then the other, slowly getting up to stand in front of the two men.

"We're taking you to the bandit fortress where we can keep an eye on ya." Tasuki told her flatly.

Lana looked at Riina worriedly, who slowly grinned "Great! Lead the way!"

Lana finally caught on that this was real, and she was going to see the ACTUAL hideout, and grinned also, pumping her fist in the air a giving a whoop.

Tasuki and Chichiri looked at eachother, looking greatly disturbed, and Tasuki face faulted "How d'd i just got t' feeling that this ain't necessarily a GOOD thing..."

"Depends on who ye are." Lana replied, grinning widely, and then with great exaggeration, bowed low, sweeping her arm out, and saying, "Lead the way."

Riina sweatdropped for Lana's act. As Tasuki walked past of them, she exaggeratedly inched away from Lana, leaving Chichiri between the two of them. "Honestly, sometimes she scares me..." she said in mock worry.

"OI!! You take that back RIGHT NOW!!" Lana snarled bearing her fangs. She started chasing the now laughing Riina around Chichiri.

"DAAAA! Will you two calm down na no daaa." Chichiri sighed with a worried look on his usually cheerful face as he tried to grab the girls from their sleeves.

"Daa! Are you nuts? Not when she's 'bout to kill me!" Riina panted and started running towards Tasuki, when Chichiri finally grabbed a hold of Lana's shirt and yanked her to stop.

"Lemme go, I won't hurt her… bad!" Lana said, with a smirk, and finally stopped fighting when Chichiri begged her to calm down. "Oh fine." Lana sighed, then turned to Riina and said in mock warning, "You live… for now."

"Right, I tremble in fear." Riina replied, rolling her eyes.

"Stop yur yakking and keep moving." Tasuki growled, roughly turning Lana around to face the fortress and giving her a push to get her moving.

"Geez, you're a jerk when you're confused, aren't cha?" Lana snarled, looking at Tasuki in growing annoyance.

Tasuki looked about ready to explode, but Chichiri said suddenly, "Oh look, we're here, no da." This distracted Lana for a second, and she turned, blinking in awe at the large stone structure before her. Out of the corner of her eye, Riina saw Chichiri breathe a sigh of relief that the fighting had stopped.

"Don't worry, she's not always this strange, or so full of, er, 'energy'." She assured him, and could have sworn Chichiri let out a sigh of relief.

Lana snorted, and said, "Yeah, like you're not as crazy as me."

"Oy! Genrou! Welcome back!" a voice called, a both girls turned, and saw a blue-haired man run up to them.

"Kouji!" Lana squealed, then saw the look from all the others, and told Riina defensively, "What?! He's one of my favorite characters too!"

"How do you know Kouji?!" Tasuki growled at her, looking like he was about to grab her by the collar of her shirt, but at the last minute, Lana dodged.

"Don't." Lana said, voice hard. Riina grimaced, and recalled how Lana HATED to be manhandled.

"Group hug!" Riina suddenly yelled, going chibi, and pulling Lana, Tasuki, Kouji and Chichiri all into a tight hug.

"WHO and WHAT the heck are you guys!?" Tasuki exclaimed, trying in vain to break Riina's hold.

Lana blushed heavily as she was pushed up against him and Kouji at once, though trying to hide a giddy smile, and said in a small voice, "This is going to take some explaining…"