Miaka and Taka make numerous trips back and forth between the worlds, meeting Tasuki, Chichiri, Taiitsukun, and the spirits of the dead seishi Hotohori, Nuriko, Chiriko, Mitsukake. It turns out that each of the seishi was in possession of a stone when they got back to their world. The stones, seven of them in all, are important memories that belong to none other than...you guessed it, Tamahome. Taka needs these memories back, or he's going to fade away forever. (Doom music here.) The stupid thing is, they've got to go find the stones because the spirits don't have theirs on them. (Hotohori, Nuriko, etc. are ghosts wandering around the country, and don't know where their stones are.)
While they're searching, they run into tons of problems, like Nuriko's big brother, for one, who used to be a total sissy that tagged along with Nuriko and his sister. Another was Chichiri's friend, or rather ex-friend. A lot about Chichiri's past was revealed, like...when he was young, he had two best friends, a girl and a guy. He had been engaged to the girl until he found her with his other best friend. The girl had broken the engagement off, saying that she could no longer be with him. Later there was a flood and everyone died...the girl and best friend included. Chichiri had been there, and watched as his best friend died. (Don't get the wrong idea here, Chichiri didn't just stand there and watch his friend die. He had been caught in the flood as well, and was trying to keep hold of his friend with one hand, and a board or something with the other. Only, this spiky log came along and put out his eye *yuuuuck*. He let go of his friend's hand, and his friend died. That's how he got that scar on his eye. Unsolved mystery clarified.) He felt so much guilt about it that he never really was interested in fixing that scar. Well, this best friend guy comes back to have revenge on Chichiri; he works for Tenkou.
Another important struggle-thing was with Miaka's family members. The "fine" guy who transferred to her school had this way of hypnotizing everyone at school and making them all try to stalk Miaka. However, Taka managed to almost-kill the guy. The guy's sister, Miiru, then made her move, latching onto Miaka's bro Keisuke and turning him against Taka and Miaka's relationship. She also took some of Taka's blood and got some weird thing injected into him so that he couldn't get near Miaka. (Miaka eventually fixed that.)
What eventually happened, however, was that Miaka and Taka went to Tenkou's dimension with some other seishi. Tenkou then used Miiru as a shield to block the seishi's blows. Stupid jerk. (What was really the case with Miiru was that she and her brother had loved each other and they had given themselves to Tenkou in order to be together.) But Miaka and Taka, with the power of their love (Oh, geez. Sounds corny huh? I thought the first series was a lot better than this one. Especially when I got to that one part when Chichiri's friend hypnotized Tasuki and Tasuki went after Miaka...) defeat Tenkou.
Hotohori's son grows up to be a good emperor like his father was; Chichiri continues to travel; there's a picture of the little girl Mitsukake gave his life for, giving flowers to a dark-haired little boy (think reincarnation of Mitsukake); a little kid looking like Nuriko (carrying HUGE, HEAVY-LOOKING bolts of cloth) stares at another little kid glancing in his mirror (looks like oh-how-beautiful-i-am Hotohori...); Tasuki has fun with Kouji (his old buddy from when he lived with this mountain gang thing); Chiriko's nephew (named after him) is a toddler reading lots of scary-looking thick books; and finally, a man and a woman stand on a hill with a tiny boy sitting on the man's shoulders, looking at the stars. This couple have a set of rings on their fingers that look oddly familiar, as they tell their son that the stars will always be watching over them. (Make a wild guess as to who this couple is! =) hee)
THE END.
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