What Happened : Usagi woke up from her little nap, then Tomite and the others talked about going to Konan to meet up with the Suzaku Seishi. Who are mortal enemies of the Seiryuu Seishi. Usagi and Seiya ate almost all of the food in the entire restaurant.
Back on the Starlight bus, Yaten started glowing a green color and was transported to Kaen's house in the Ancient Chinese World. ((Slow poke :P ))
Michiru let Haruka get up and Haruka went to the window and looked out at the rain starting up, Hotaru joined her. Haruka contacted Ami on her communicator watch. Rei got up and yawned at Chichiri's place. Suddenly after finishing a sentence about getting to Seiryuu No Miko Tomite grabbed his chest and fell over unconscience. Everyone looked at him and shouted his name, confused. Haruka closed her communicator and went over to see what was up with him. Then suddenly the same thing happened to Usagi and shortly afterwards, Seiya. (Who fell onto Tomite). Haruka felt Usagi's forehead and found her burning up. Hotaru tried to heal Usagi's fever, but couldn't. Haruka slammed through the front door and ran through town shouting for a doctor. While she was doing that a man came out of his house and told her to show him to her friends. She led him back and he took a look at the three of them. Hotaru took a piece of cloth and soaked it in a puddle from outside then went inside when she saw Haruka run in with the Doctor. The doctor identified the cause as poison, then said he couldn't do much about it. He said they could go to Mt. Taikyoku in Konan and try to find someone named 'Taiitsu-kun' who could help heal them. Haruka quickly called Ami back and told her to leave Hokkan right away. She told Ami to pick up Minako in Sairou then come down to Konan with the others and meet up with them all there. They said goodbye and Ami, the half-asleep Mamoru, and Taiki decided to start getting ready to go.
After a try, the doctor managed to drag Tomite through the mud and puddles outside to his home where he could work on him. Haruka tried picking Usagi up and fell over. Then she tried again and immediately picked her up. She tried a one time to pick Seiya up by his hair and couldn't then Hotaru tried dragging him too and couldn't. Finally Haruka got a grip on his ponytail and dragged him to the doctor's office, through the puddles and mud too. They got them there, and laid them in beds then left them to the kind doctor's care.
Back in Hokkan, Ami dragged Yaten along, as Mamoru picked up Makoto, and Taiki carrying Rei yet again. They walked a little ways out of town then decided they should try to find some transportation and went back to the town. They looked around for a bit and Taiki spotted a Taun Taun Dealer. They went over and tried to buy some Taun Tauns but they didn't have any money that the dealer would take. So they tried to trade things for them instead. Taiki suggested trading Yaten and the dealer said there weren't many pretty girls around so it was a possibility. Ami said they should probably actually keep Yaten. A stableboy brushed some of the Taun Tauns in the back of the stable, as the dealer asked if they had anything else to trade. The dealer suggested trading hair since it's in the market these days as he eyed Taiki's ponytail. Ami suggested a 'nice little place in the middle of town'. ((. Ami-chan… I'm telling Soi about that one.)) The dealer said he didn't have a place of his own and asked what number it was. Ami said she wasn't sure but could show him to the place. The dealer grabbed the stableboy and told him to go check it out. So Ami led the stableboy back to Kaen's house. The boy introduced himself as Saitoh. They checked out Kaen's house then went back, Saitoh told the dealer that the house wasn't all that great but they should give the Taun Tauns to them anyway. So, the dealer gave them a sled and two Taun Tauns to pull it. Saitoh told them not to hurt his animals or he'd hunt them down and they'd suffer a long slow death. Mamoru and Taiki got onto the backs of the TaunTauns and they loaded everyone else into the sled then headed for Sairou. Once they got there, the Taun Tauns passed out and they dragged the sled around town. They let the Taun Tauns run home after they woke up, then they went to Chichiri's and found Minako. They stayed there to rest. Michiru woke up back at Shabu Shabu, read the post-it note, then dragged Setsuna through the mud and puddles to the Doctor's. There she talked to the doctor and tried to help out a little.
Meanwhile, Haruka and Hotaru went to talk to a horse dealer in Kutou. The boy there had a very foul mouth and Haruka had to suggest to Hotaru to go play in the puddles to get away from him. Hotaru played in the puddles and caught little frogs while Haruka talked to the boy about yen and ryou. Finally Haruka said she'd just go to the place down the street instead, and the boy relented. He said she could have her first rental free but later she'd have to pay with REAL money. So she got Hotaru, and the two go onto a horse then set off for Konan Country through the rain. Haruka talked to Hotaru, and Hotaru told her she just wanted to go home and forget about all of this. Haruka told her that wishing wouldn't do them any good. She then talked to Hotaru, asking her if she knew the difference between killing in the heat of battle and murder. Hotaru thought she did, and said that that assassin she had killed had become like all she was angry at at the moment. Haruka told her she hadn't told Michiru and Setsuna about it. The rain got much heavier and they found it hard to see. Haruka shielded Hotaru from the rain with her body and Hotaru fell asleep then.
Suddenly Suboshi jumped out of seemingly no where and threw his ryuseisui at Haruka. It smacked her shoulder and she turned around, confused. Two assassins appeared at Suboshi's side as the rain started to clear up a bit. Suboshi commanded Haruka to turn over Byakko No Miko. Haruka replied "No way in Hell!" She started her horse off, trying to lose them. The first assassin shot an arrow at her which missed. The .second rode up and slammed into her wounded shoulder with his 'banana blade'. ((. Don't ask… -_-)) She struck out at the second assassin's stomach but missed. Suboshi appeared in front of her and threw his ryuseisui at her again. The ryuseisui went straight through her chest. Suboshi said Byakko Seishi were so cute. Haruka made her horse rear up and slam into Suboshi. The first assassin used a dagger on the horse and sliced it. The second one tried to hit it with his banana blade and missed. Haruka tried slamming a fist into one of the assassins and missed again. Suboshi threw his Ryuseisui at her again, and gave her another deep wound. She grabbed Hotaru and tumbled off the horse with her. Her seishi symbol glowing bright on her forehead she ran at Suboshi with a punch and landed a nice one. The first assassin went to get Hotaru when Haruka turned around and blasted him with focused chi and away from Hotaru. She stood over Hotaru, blood trickling from the side of her mouth as she shouted. The second assassin ran at her with the banana blade, which she caught and crushed, making her hand bleed at the same time. The second assassin saw that and ran. Suboshi tossed his ryuseisui at her again, and landed yet another deep wound. Haruka, much beaten by now, dropped to her knees next to Hotaru. The first assassin tried grabbing Hotaru and Haruka slammed a fist into his gut, her hand nearly going right through him. He fell over dead. A yellow aura started glowing around Haruka as she asked why they were attacking Hotaru, since she was just a kid. Suboshi replied that he was just a humble servant of Seiryuu No Miko. Haruka got to her feet, aura glowing, and ran at Suboshi with a flying sidekick. She slammed into his jaw and broke it, then fell to her knees again and told Suboshi to leave before she ripped him apart. So Suboshi left, saying he'd get her next time. Haruka, blood flowing from nearly everywhere, crawled over to Hotaru then collapsed on top of her, hiding her and protecting her from the rainwater that washed off some of her blood.
Seiya suddenly woke up and told the others that he'd had a bad dream about Haruka getting beat up really bad. Michiru used her mirror to check it out but all she saw was a handsome young man with red hair and fangs standing next to a bed.
A young man with flaming red hair and a metal fan attached to his back rode up and found Haruka. He took her and Hotaru back to his house on Mt. Lekaku in Konan. When she woke up he told her his name was Genrou. He said it was a good thing she wasn't a female because he hates females and that he took all of her 'strange' money (yen). They talked about how Mt. Taikyoku wasn't far and how Suboshi was a weakling compared to most Seiryuu Seishi. ((He is… his dice were just being toooo nice…. ::grumbles:: )) Haruka struggled to sit up in the bed, ready to go off to Mt. Taikyoku. Genrou said if she kept moving like that she'd lose more blood, and she was already running low. Then while Haruka moved like that Genrou noticed that she was female and said she had him fooled. Haruka kept trying to sit up, saying she had to get to 'Taiitsu-kun' for her friends. Genrou threatened to tell his bandit friends that she was there if she didn't sit still and let him take care of it. So she agreed. Genrou headed for Taiitsu-kun's as Haruka called Michiru on her communicator. Haruka kept telling Michiru not to worry about her and Hotaru. She told her to watch out for Suboshi then they said goodbye.
Genrou got to Taiitsu-kun's and she transported them back to Genrou's place. She talked to Haruka about helping her friends. Then Taiitsu-kun transported them to Genrou's too. Taiitsu-kun brought little helper girls called Nyan Nyan along with her. They went over and cured Tomite, Usagi and Seiya of the poison. Michiru went over and gently took Haruka's hand as Setsuna talked to Taiitsu-kun. They all talked to Taiitsu-kun after awhile and commented on how Seiya could become famous for promoting Hair Club for Men, since he was whining about Haruka dragging him around by his hair. Taiitsu-kun asked them if they had all 7 Seishi on either side. They said they'd lost a Byakko Seishi and they weren't sure about Genbu. Nyan Nyan went over and tried to 'fix' Genrou's fangs. He got angered and fried them with the metal fan on his back that shoots fire. (Called the tessen). Taiitsu-kun told them that is they had all 7 Genbu Seishi and retrieved their ancient scroll 'Four God's Sky and Earth'. Then they could call Genbu that way. Setsuna called Ami on her communicator. ((Interesting OOC convo there and before that… heh.)) and Taiki picked it up. Setsuna asked him where they were, they told her then Taiitsu-kun transported them all to Genrou's house. Taiitsu-kun handed Setsuna a crystal to throw against the wall when they needed to call her. Then she disappeared with her Nyan Nyan, leaving them all to rest.