Fushigi Yuugi OC AU/Rewrite

Chapter 6. Even if I Die...

Tw: suicide and self harm

"Wha...?" I gasped as I looked at the girl who seemed to be a mirror image of me. "You rush around without any regard to anyone else, what a naive, selfish girl you are." The girl hissed. "B-But... who are you?" "Who am I? I am you dummy. The 'you' reflected in the mirror." "You are... me?" 'Was I really this hostile towards people?' "Ice? Ice?" I quickly turned around as I heard Tamahome's voice and sighed in relief, sure that's he'd be able to get me out of here if I couldn't figure something out. "Out of my way!" The mirror-me pushed me to the side and casually stepped through the mirror as if it wasn't even there.

"You can remain here and eat to gather your strength up. Not like you'd be able to do anything anyway." She chuckled. "Wait a minute! Let me out!" I pounded my fists against the once again solid mirror. "Oh shut up! You're so whiny! And I for one think Hotohori is an amazing catch that I can't believe you're allowing to get away. You're going to let the fact that you don't actually feel anything for him stop you from becoming an empress?" She smirked at me triumphantly. "I love him, and I'm going to stay here with him forever. 'I don't want to go back to my old world, I want to stay here as the Priestess of Suzaku where everyone adores me~' Sounds convincing, doesn't it? It'll be loads of fun being an empress!"

The girl snapped and the mirror disappeared from the forest, leaving me with a one way view, I could see out but no one could see me in here. "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show! Hahaha!" "No wait, come back! Let me out of here!" I continued banging on the mirror to no avail, the reflection left and I was once again alone. "No one outside can see or hear you, don't you understand? Try to break my spell, Icess. If you really are the Priestess of Suzaku, prove it to me now!" A mysterious voice called out to me from inside the mirror world. "Who's there?!" I turned around to look, but this time there was no one around.

I looked back at the table of food in this world and remembered what the reflection said, "eat and recover your strength". I wonder if this was supposed to make this test 'fair'? So I could be in top form? I shook off my thoughts as I walked over to the table and ate until I was full and full of energy. "Alright. Now tell me, who are you?" I slammed my hands down on the table as I spoke to punctuate my words.

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Tamahome came back to Nuriko and Hotohori after searching for Ice. "Any luck?" "No, your highness." However at that moment they all heard footsteps and when they looked up they all saw Ice heading towards them. "Ice..." "Where the heck have you been?! What happened to you?!" Tamahome grabbed her shoulders as he looked at her with concern. "Uhm... nothing." She chuckled and came closer to Tamahome, getting close to his face. "Where you worried about me, Tamahome?" She smirked. He looked at her with confusion and raised an eyebrow. "Uh, not really. I figured you could probably handle yourself, or you'd yell if you needed anything."

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I groaned and rolled my eyes as I watched the clone interact with the others. "Guys, she is nothing like me! Figure it out already!" I banged on the mirror in frustration. Hotohori walked up to her and Tamahome with a smile. "Well I, for one, am glad you're safe." "Darling!" I watched in shock as the reflection threw herself at Hotohori, wrapping her arms around him and clinging closely. "Forgive me, darling." It seemed I wasn't the only one who was shocked, because Nuriko looked like she was about to have a stroke. "I-Ice! What do you think you're doing?!" "Oh, Nuriko. Does this upset you?" The girl looked at her with a bored expression. "Upset me?! Why you little...!" "Oh come on, isn't it about time you give up on Hotohori? It's just ridiculous, after all you are a man."

My eyes widened at her words and I clenched my teeth. "What the hell is this...? If this keeps up, she'll have everyone hating each other!" I dragged my nails down the mirror in anger as I heard Nuriko scream. "How could you tell them?! You promised! It-It was a secret!" Nuriko sounded on the verge of tears as she ran off into the forest, leaving Tamahome and Hotohori shell shocked. "I can't believe it... To think there's another man who is almost as beautiful as me." Hotohori remarked. "Well, never mind all that, come with me Hotohori. I have something to tell you, in private." I watched as the girl dragged Hotohori off so they could be alone and I noticed Tamahome was glaring at her. Was he suspicious of it? Please, someone just figure it out already!