Part 1 – Nuriko's New Game!

AN: It all starts with that fun little game you play with your friends. For those of you that don't know the rules to "Would You Like to Buy a Duck?" here's an example of how the game is played:

#1: Would you like to buy a duck?

#2: A what?

#1: A duck.

#2: Does it quack?

#1: Of course it quacks, it's a duck.

#2: Would you like to buy a pig?

#3: A what?

#2: A what?

#1: A duck.

#2: A pig.

#3: Does it oink?

#2: Does it quack?

#1: Of course, it quacks, it's a duck.

#2: Of course it oinks, it's a pig.

#3: Would you like to buy a cow?

And so on and so forth until you've added so many people that your brains become fried, your tongues become tangled, and everyone stops playing this never-ending game that drives people insane!

AAN: I have a lot of short chapters in this, so don't get annoyed with me.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fushigi Yuugi. I don't own the crazy game, "Would You Like to Buy a Duck?" but I do own my story! So I get the plot, (lucky me) Watase Yuu gets all the fun characters, and whoever was stupid enough to come up with this messed-up game, gets the credit for their mental illness. (no offense to anyone that enjoys the game incredibly, of course. ^_^) On to the reading no da!!

~ Suiren-chan

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Would You Like to Buy a Duck?

Nuriko frolicked around, looking for someone that he could ask. Miaka just taught him this really fun new game, and he wanted to get someone to play it with him. Miaka was really sick of it since she spent two hours straight to get Nuriko to learn the rules. She thought back to how confusing it was for her.

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"All right Nuriko, I ask you if you want to buy a duck – "

" – and then I say 'a what' right?"

"Yes, then what?" she questioned him.

"I…no…you say 'a duck' and then I ask if it quacks!" he smiled.

"But you don't have to ask if it quacks, remember, you can ask any question." Miaka felt like she was explaining a game to a four-year-old, but Nuriko was having a great time.

"Yup, I could ask if it swam, or if it ate crackers, or if it was really small, or if it was blue and green with purple polka-dots, and your answer would always be the same!"

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Miaka smiled inwardly as she looked at his triumphant face. That game is hard to master! Because of that fact, she also warned him that Tamahome, Hotohori, Tasuki, Chichiri, Mitsukake, and Chiriko probably wouldn't understand the strange brain teaser even if he did explain it to them, but Nuriko was bound to try anyway. Good luck guys.

He wandered aimlessly through the palace where they had been staying, and then outside on the grounds.

"Where is everyone when you want them? Normally you can't get rid of them!" Nuriko said out loud, even though no one seemed to be around to hear him. Suddenly, Nuriko spotted Chiriko on the road walking towards him from the opposite direction with his nose in a book.

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Poor Chiriko. Well, hopefully our genius is smart enough to get himself out of this "game," if you can really call it that. Find out in the next chapter!