—Reihaido Asagao—
The Asagao temple is currently the residence of Shiba Aikune, of the Phoenix clan, the former Phoenix clan Champion, Shiba Ujimitsu, & the Phoenix clan Thunder, Isawa Tadaka. It is the home of Asako Seijaku, Asako Akira, & Agasha Gensou.

This is the residents of Asagao Temple's record on what's happening in Rokugan or in the temple, not always in that order.

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Aikune-piyo, Gengen-piyo, Ujimitsu-piyo, Tada-piyo are all members of the Piyo-piyo Brigade!
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Sunday, December 29, 2002

Gensou wrote:

We still have Jiro and company with us, as they're snowed in. The pass going down was covered in a snowdrift last 22th, and they remain. Asagao is very happy, with so many people about, and so many piyo-piyos cheering them. Uona-piyo is here for a visit, having lost her way.

Tadaka-piyo launched this harangue against the absent Aikune, saying it wasn't good Aikune-san was so pretty, as he is prettier than the women, and who'd want to marry our girls and set up alliances if the head of the clan is prettier than they? I suppose Ujimitsu-piyo's constant replenishment of his coffee cup is the cause. Other than that Tadaka-piyo had barely spoken a word.

Jiro is Zhang's right hand man, and plays the flute. He has been playing folk songs from his lands every night, and it stops the men from being too rowdy. Seijaku has a handy mallet anyway if any dare approach her with less than honorable intentions, and of course there's Aikune-piyo and Gen-gen-piyo.

I wouldn't be surprised if she is better protected than any of the Four Winds.

Wednesday, December 25, 2002

Seijaku wrote:

Merry Christmas!

I dressed up Aikune-piyo in pretty clothes today, and put a headress on him as well, to prove he was the prettiest piyo-piyo in the bunch. As I can't let him dress up as "Empress" alone, I dressed up Gen-gen-piyo as well in a handsome Emperor-style clothes.

Gen-gen-piyo laughed when he saw Aikune-piyo, but then Tadaka-piyo pointed out they were dressed as a pair, and I had to stop Gen-gen-piyo as he chased Aikune-piyo around, piyo-piyoing his disapproval in being married to the other piyo-piyo. I thought it was very pretty. :)

I got a new furoshiki from Akira-neechan, and an ino with beautiful birds from Gen-gen.

Monday, November 25, 2002

Gensou wrote:

Training with Ji-chan--er, the ronin band which have come up to Asagao to feel the peace wash over them, is strenuous, and very good. I have not had such hard training in ages.

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Seijaku wrote:

We saw Aikune-sama off today. He needs to do his duties as the Shiba daimyo. Gen-gen offered to escort him down but Aikune-sama refused, saying i shouldn't be left alone, with Asagao so near the Dragon mountains. I thought they were being silly. Neechan Akira will be back in a week's time, and with her and Gen-gen and Ji-chan's fellows around, I am sure we can manage to keep out of trouble.

Now where is Aikune-piyo?

Aikune wrote:

Today was peaceful, and so I decided to go down and visit Yaruko. It has been a while since I have descended from Reihaido Asagao. It is peaceful, now that I have tied the abomination up. I found him lying in wait for me with a trap in sight.

Right now I am contemplating if he will make a good dinner. Ah, well, Seijaku would just summon it again, so I should not even bother. I will not be back for a month or so, I will wait till winter, when all the skirmishing and battles will stop, before I return. It is time for me to take my place again among my clan.

Now I must order someone to send this bundle of annoyance back else I will be stuck with it for the rest of my month. I need a break from his amubush attempts.

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Gensou wrote:

Drat that Aikune! For one--that noogie hurts. Also, Seijaku-san will never think of me as a suitor. And here he is saying that there was hope for me in courting Seijaku-san--

I know full well Seijaku-san would never think of me beyond a childhood friend. I'm not hoping at all, and here, Aikune-san says I should try giving her some offering. I am never much good with the matters of courtship. I should know myself.

Seijaku-san...if I was only Gen-gen-piyo I know you love me.

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Seijaku writes:

My dog Panda woke me up this morning. I was sound asleep when I felt something licking my feet. I paid no attention, too deeply asleep, just kicked at whatever was there. There was quiet for a few moments, and then a loud bark just by my ear, then a persistent tugging at the back of my sleeping clothes. I gave up trying to sleep with a dog snarling at my neck, and simply stood up, dragged him out of my room by the collar, and started to dress.

When I came out Panda was doing what we called "steeple-chasing". He was running around everything and anything as if he was in a race or being chased by an imaginary person. Too sleepy to react I just watched him, occasionally goading him to go round and round when he seemed about to stop. That went on until Gen-gen found us, and he was surprised to see me up so early. I pointed to Panda and said he woke me up, and Gen-gen said Panda must've gotten confused, and woke me up instead of him. Gen-gen, it turns out, had been having Panda wake him up every morning so he could make the dog breakfast.

I have a smart dog. He knows the hand that feeds him.

Aikune wrote:

I found Gensou-san practicing kyudo early this morning, but he was not staring at the target. Instead he seemed entranced by a sight to the right of the practice range. When I glanced to see what it was I at first saw the abomination hopping around Tadaka-piyo, then looked on further and saw Seijaku-san amused by those antics. He didn't even sense my coming nearer, when he usually is aware of everything around him. I managed to noogie him for his lack of attention.

Ah...so Gensou-san holds little Seijaku-san in affection...we must promote the match.

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Aikune wrote:

Which Yami no Matsuei Character are You?
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Oriya Meibu- Oh, you're smooth. As the owner of the KoKakuRou, a restaurant/brothel, you're very mellow and can often be seen smoking a pipe. As Muraki's only friend (well, only non-incapacitated friend, anyhow), you use your government ties (as in, the men who come to use your services owe you favors to keep quiet) to get him out of trouble. You groan and mumble about how you probably shouldn't be his friend anymore, and you're right, but you care about him no matter what you say. You yourself, while morally ambiguous, are someone who keeps their word and upholds honor.

Most--curious...these tests Seijaku-san shares with us seem unusual. And what is this "magic talking chicken?" Is it another abomination like this one? *points to Aikune-piyo*

Gensou wrote:

Which Yami no Matsuei Character are You?
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Muraki Kazutaka - Megalomaniac psychopathic child molesting bastard! You're a crazy sonuvabitch, if not a beautiful one. You're a doctor who originally started out as a decent guy, but then your quest to stop people from dying turned into a thirst for power, which has made you into the scary monster you are now. You're very, very showy, and when you know what you want, you do everything you can do get it.

I believe this is wrong...I knew I should have stopped taking the test when I got Hisoka, like Seijaku did.

Saturday, November 9, 2002

Aikune wrote:

One of the piyo-piyos (not the damned abomination) had discovered a relaxing way for them to spend an afternoon. Ujimitsu-piyo, the smallest among them, have always fitted in Akira-san's coffee mug, and from thereon extolled the virtues of the coffee bath, as he calls it. The other piyo-piyos, most skeptical, would only try it if it somehow calms the abomination down, as they have also been most annoyed at his neverending supply of cheerfulness.

All of them conspired to get that abomination into the large coffee bath,specially designed to take in his immense girth. Even Tadaka-piyo, usually aloof when it comes to matters concerning the Asagao Temple, joined in the amusing and difficult task to drop the struggling abomination in the bath. Gen-gen-piyo, as Seijaku-san calls the cheery bird with a likeness to Gensou-san, had an arrow dipped in a soporific aimed at the abomination the whole time, in case he decides to escape. It is singularly one of the strangest sights we could have seen, and Akira-san and her sister could hardly contain their mirth.

They finally succeeded, after much hardship. There was a loud screech of a chirp before the abomination started feeling the effects of the coffee bath. Now he is currently still floating there, content. And we now all have an afternoon free from his never-ending cheeriness. This is a good day to visit Yaruko-chan.

Aikune-piyo piyo-ed:
[note: this had been an almost exact translates based on Aikune-piyos chirps.]

That bad human my master likes a lot is bad, bad, BAD! I knew it--he only wants my master's affections for himself, that's why he's so mean when I want to play with him. And he's not even as good-looking as me! Piyooo! No wonder he wants to get rid one me! But I want to get rid of him first!

But this coffee bath sure is relaxing! Piyo...

Seijaku wrote:

Has anyone seen Aikune-sama? He had disappeared for more than an hour already. Gen-gen thinks a bakemono has eaten him, and I whacked him for even suggesting such a thing. I sent Tadaka-piyo and Gen-gen-piyo to look for him. I'm sure those two would do just fine. Aikune-piyo is still in the bath, much to my relief. A bouncing bundle of piyos needs to relax.

I hope this doesn't mean he'll be twice as cheerful afterwards...X_x

Friday, October 18, 2002

Gensou writes:

Seijaku's amused that her pet dog and Aikune-piyo had managed to keep Aikune entertained (read: tied up against a tree) for more than an hour without anyone realizing it. Had I not been passing by I would never know how long Aikune could have remained there. But then I had the idiotic and absolutely insane brilliant idea to set him free.

I used him as target practice. With fine results, if I may so boast.

Yes, I somehow managed to aim my arrows at my clansman even with him swearing fit to be tied (forgive the pun) and fire them close enough to cut his ropes but not close enough to nick him. After a round dozen of arrows he was free. Had this been any other circumstance I would have gladly used a true arrow, instead of rope cutting ones, had he not been Shiba Aikune, to whom Seijaku-san is devoted.

Well, then, back to cooking and cleaning the temple.

Aikune writes:

I will catch that cur, strangle him, slaughter him, cook him, and serve him to Seijaku without her knowing it was her beloved pet. The deaths of a dozen Lions will not compare to what I have prepared for the creatures that have the gall to pretend they were not at fault for my spending around an hour or so tied to a tree.

And Gensou! What can I say about that dolt? He could've killed me with one of those arrows, but do you think he was repentant? Of course not! He just blinked stupidly at me and said I was still alive, no problem then. If that no violence rule was not in effect I would have taken the outmost pleasure in ripping his limbs from his body. The gall of that Agasha to use me for target practice! He will die for the transgression!

Mad! Everyone that lives here is mad! And Seijaku's the worse of the lot. She actually believes that the cur and that abomination had nothing to do with my getting tied up.