how do i love thee, let me count the ways
i love you

Wai! Before you go wondering where and how this image (up there) came to be, it's not FoR Manga English *_*, but something I edited. So the English words aren't exactly what they said, but something I just cooked up ^_~. I literally put words into their mouths ^^;;;. Anyhow, this section deals with the proof that Fuuko-san and Raiha-kun DO have feelings for one another (although Raiha-kun is a little more demonstrative). READ BETWEEN THE LINES, I SAY! Especially that Fuuko is such a Denial Queen ^^. These are excerpts from the manga, and one from the anime. Provided by Uruha Jyusshinshuu 2.5 manga translations (Volumes 6-9) by Kamiya Shuusai and from the Proof of Love Section (Volumes 11-13) of Raging Fire: A Flame of Recca Shrine. With a little editing by myself, most of this is a direct ripoff from their sites. Okay? More to come, with pics if and when I get some. For now, enjoy!
 

MangaVolume 6  
Chapter 6: The Person Who Should Be Here  
(Fuuko very energetic, running toward Mori Koran’s castle... *I can’t wait*)  

Fuuko : Aha! I guess I’ll go check out that castle! It looks weird and I’m curious. LET’S GO! (she bumps into  
someone while running) ah!  

(It happens to be a really cute guy – Raiha, who else... he holds on to her so she doesn’t fall down.)  

Raiha : You alright?  
Fuuko : ......... (blushing) I’m fine.  
Raiha (sometime later) : So you want to tour the castle? No problem! I’ll be your guide!  
Fuuko : Huh! you are the guy who lives in the castle? Oh. so that’s it.  

(In the castle, security guards, men in black.)  

Raiha : I’m back.  
Guards : Raiha-sama, who is the young lady?  
Raiha : My girlfriend.  
Fuuko ("PULL" him to the side) : Who the hell is your girlfriend?  
Raiha (sweatdrop) : Sorry. I was just kidding...... (opens the door) Come in...... (in a grand hallway) What do you think? Pretty isn’t it? Too bad I can’t take you upstairs. But the first floor is all open...... (turn around, Fuuko’s gone) Huh?  
Fuuko (running) : I’m sorry. The really nice guy! Just because you said so, I wanna go see the second floor now!  

(She accidentally touched a trap door on the wall and she falls in.)  

Fuuko : !? the wall? [shit!]  

(the wall closes back, and Fuuko is sitting in a cell behind the wall.)  

Fuuko : ouch...... what’s this place? (bang the wall) can’t open it! [shit! fuujin’s in domon’s bag! the match is  
gonna start soon, and I’m trapped here!] 

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Rats but I love overanalyzing everything to death ^_~. This is their first actual contact with one another. It's pretty evident here that Raiha was attracted to her from the very start. Telling the guards she was his girlfriend ^_~. He also was kind enough to escort her to the castle. I'm sure he knows she's Hokage, and by bringing her to Mori Kouran's castle, don't you suppose he's risking his neck getting slashed? Though I don't suppose it scares him one bit (knowing his abilities and all). As for Fuuko-san, well, she actually *blushed* when she first ran into him. Something she doesn't do very often. DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL? Knowing adolescent girls and their behavior, of course it does. The kind of blush Yanagi gets when she meets Recca-kun...oh you know what I mean. 
MangaVolume 6  
Chapter 9: Feast of the Illusion Master III (Reacquaintance With Wood)  
Side text : and Fuuko right now is...  
Fuuko (bang walls) : Let me out, damn it! (sit down) What the hell is this place? Oh no! I'm always on time, now...[Recca must be furious] huh? (sees three buttons on the wall) buttons? Can I get out by pressing these... [wait a second... there are three buttons... strange... but only one is the exit, all the other ones are traps. I'll just have to gamble it, we'll see how my luck goes.] (praying) Oh God! Buddha! Christ! I'll never be picky again! Please help me! (press) This one! (freezes) ...  

(the walls open and waters starts to pour in)  

Fuuko (deformed) : I'M IN TROUBLE NOW! 

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Manga Volume 7  
Chapter 2 : Feast of the Illusion Master VI (Menou)  
Side text : and Fuuko right now (part III) is...  
Fuuko : [as I open my eyes, I've turned into a mermaid... playing with the fish in the warm ocean... (imagine  
herself as a mermaid) on the endless plane, my freedom... this is GREAT~ (while she's actually drowning) the mermaid princess is waiting for the handsome prince to come...]  
Raiha : ...... Hey, hey... (Fuuko open her eyes, still dazed) are you alright?  
Fuuko : Is it my prince calling me?  
(her eyes are very wide, she's in that room, lying on Raiha's lap and all the water's gone...)  

Raiha (smile, bow) : Your prince at your service. I'm here to save you.  

(Fuuko is blushing, very embarrassed, and the whole mansion shakes violently as she screams...)  

Fuuko (scream) : You're not suppose to listen in on girls dreaming! (bang) 

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This is one of my favorite *moments* come anime, come manga. Of course the manga version is much more romantic than the anime version. Apparently the anime wants to dispel *any* romantic notion that may have existed (there's a Raiha consipiracy in the anime, believe me *_*). So anyhow, Fuuko dreams of her prince coming to save her...so it's pretty obvious that despite her tomboyish tendencies that she does long for "Somebody" (you know that song by Depeche Mode...." I want somebody to share, share the rest of my life..."). And look who appears! And he calls himself her prince ^_^! Oiya! Isn't he soooo sweeet? And for the second time in less than 24 hours....she blushes...especially when she discovers he hears her subconscious wishes. 
MangaVolume 9  
Chapter 3: A Quite Peaceful Night  
( Meanwhile, Fuuko and Domon is training/exercising, Domon is really out of breath.)  

Domon (sweating) : Fuukoooo~~~ can we rest for a little while?  
Fuuko : You are pathetic!! You are so useless, you can't even do better than a girl.  
Domon : [don't say that...]  

(Fuuko lecturing while Domon just... get lectured... yes he does look pathetic, and someone approaches... *heart beat... faint... anyway...* Fuuko looks back...)  

Raiha (somehow he's just there, with a really nice smile) : You speak really forcefully, clear cut and powerful!!  
(holding two soda cans)  

(DON... Fuuko in super deformed face... remembers...)  

Fuuko : Y... you, back then... [is he still mad at me for knocking him out...!?]  
Raiha : They call me Raiha... it was terrible what happened the other day... I don't know what happened but you were gone when I woke up, such a sudden separation... an unfortunate incident.  
Fuuko (thinking) : He didn't realize that I knocked him out? This guy is so slow......  
Raiha (sort of starry eyes, cute face, grabs Fuuko) : But we finally meet again!  
Fuuko (sweatdrop) : umm!!  

(Domon knocks Raiha flying, but Raiha pops up right in front of him again, and Domon's eyes pop out)  

Domon : What do you think you are doing with my idol?  
Raiha : Hi! Nice to meet you. My name is Raiha! (band aid on his head)  
Domon (draws fist) : HOW DARE YOU!?  

(He punches and in a very swift movement, Raiha dodges and at that moment, the only time he didn't have a  
smile... he ends up behind Domon, who didn't notice yet)  

Domon : ! (Raiha's soda cans somehow were placed on top of his head)  
Fuuko : [what...? just now... he moved swiftly and fluently like a single leaf falling...]  
Raiha : I'm sorry, I just have a very amiable personality, please forgive me if I offend you. As for Domon-kun, you have a good punch, but your arm movement is over exaggerated, and it's easy to see it coming. If you can move your wrist a little less and support it with your waist, I think you will get better results. Anyway, bye. Fuuko-san, let's go on a date some time. (big smile)  
Domon : In your dreams!! (pissed off) Who was that guy, Fuuko!! You like him!?  
Fuuko : What are you talking about, that I like him!! He's just some weirdo I met before!!  
Domon (still has the cans on his head) : Hmph! He looks alright, but no where as good as me. No need to worry!  
Fuuko : ......  
Domon : ...... Huh? that guy, how did he know my name?  
Fuuko : !  
Raiha (flashback) : [Fuuko-san, let's go out on a date some time.]  
text : the guy named Raiha... he doesn't look like a bad guy... who is he...? 

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Raiha shows his amazing ability to appear and disappear out of nowhere. He sure likes surprising Fuuko-san. Fuuko appaears pretty impressed with his speed and grace. And if you notice (even without the pics), she gets a little edgy, maybe  a tad restless when he showed up. Of course you can contribute it to the fact that she was worried he remembered her knocking him out. But still...^_~ (So I give  lot of meaning to everything they do. So sue me!) Knowing Fuuko's personality as we do (being strong and confident), she isn't the type to get shaken/ confused/ agitated/however-you-put-it easily. So why the apparent disturbance when he's around? Every female whose ever had a crush knows what I'm talking about ^_^.  And when she thought of hm, which part of their acquaintance did she rembember the most..."Let's go out on a date sometime..." (think perhaps she's seriously considering it????)
Manga Volume No. 11 
Chapter 5: A Mysterious Old Man (note: these are two versions of the Manga translation, one from Kamiya Shuusai's site and the other from Firetigress' site) 
text : inside the hotel park PM 0:40 
Fuuko : hey, (exercising) I don't really mind if we walk together, but w--hy are you following me around? (raiha with big smiling face) Raiha-kun. 
Raiha (quite excited) : Come on! the finals are within a week!! 
Fuuko (pissed off) : That's enough. I'm already really nervous about this! just let me practice alone!! 
Raiha (looks so cute in this picture *heart*) : How cruel. I wanted to be with you, the two of us. 

(He was serious, and Fuuko is really blushing, and heart beats really fast.) 

Raiha (big cute smile) : do you dislike me? 
Fuuko (very nervous) : D... dumbass!! What are you talking about!! [w... what? just an instance now... what was that strange feeling...] 
Version 2 
Fuuko is exercising before the Dark Martial Arts Combat begins, (Jogging, actually) and she feels someone watching her. Then, as she is doing some stretches, the mysterious person reveals himself...   
Fuuko: Raiha?  
*Raiha smiles*  
Raiha: *Cheerfully* Isn't the final round of the Dark Martial Arts Combat in one week's time?  
Fuuko: *Angrily* Grr... I'm already so anxious and you still had to say that! Go away! I want to practise on my own!  
Raiha: How unfeeling! I just wanted to be with you, that's all.  
*Fuuko is shocked and blushes*  
Raiha: *Smiling* Don't you like me too?  
Fuuko: *Thoroughly embarassed* You... you idiot! Why did you  ask that out of the blue?!  
Fuuko: *Thinking* Wh... What is this? Why...why do I feel so funny? 
He is apparently quite the stalker, isn't he *_*? Can't blame him though. I mean...the boy is in love! And possibly for the first time in his life? He seems to be in a perpetual "high" state when he's around her. As for Fuuko-san...see her get agitated *again* when he showed up. She blushes for the nth time especially when he said he wanted to be with her. All the more when he asked if she liked him too. Now if she *really* didn't like him, she would just said, "Beat it! Get lost! How dare you say I like you." and probably throw in a punch or two...as she does with her other persistent admirers. BUT NOOOO...she puts on a defensive and asks in return why he asked that...all the while getting a funny feeling in her chest. If that isn't something folks....and I site again, female adolescent behavior (whilst I have nothing against female adolescents, as I used to be one, I site this because Fuuko IS a female teenager and she's expected to manifest such behavior ^_^).  

fuuko blushes again
 Manga Volume No. 13   
Before Fuuko's fight with Mikoto, Raiha was commenting on Mikoto's fighting abilities when Neon asked  
about her skills. When Fuuko entered the ring, however, he immediately stopped talking and said "Miss  
Fuuko!" (Or, in Chinese, "Feng Zi Xiao Jie!") with lots of hearts! ^_^ Then Neon sweatdropped and said  
"Raiha, just who's side are you on?" LOL. 
HE'S DEFINITELY IN LOVE WITH HER. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. See how distracted he gets just when she merely puts up an appearance. 
 
The Proof from Anime Episode 23 or 24 (It's the episode where Kaoru Koganei joins the Hokage team)  
Side comments courtesy of Firetigress, owner of Raging Fire: A Flame of Recca Shrine, except for the ones in neon pink, which are mine.  
drawn together by the fuujin 
This pic courtesy of Perlya from The Willow Glade
I've got the whole scene between Fuuko and Raiha when he saves her from drowning written down. I love  
it, I love it, I love it! ^_^  

(Fuuko awakens and sees Raiha staring at her.)  
Fuuko: Hold on! You're with Kurei!  
Raiha (Smiling gently. [At least it LOOKS like a smile to me.^_^]) Yes, my name is Raiha.  
(Zoom out to show that he is holding her. [Ah! How beautiful! :P])  
Fuuko: (Shocked, she moves away from him. [Aw, come on Fuuko, couldn't you have stayed that way for a  
little while longer? *wink**wink*]) Oh! A member of Kurei's! How come you came to rescue us?  
Raiha: Our purpose was not to kill you two. Master Kurei was able to fulfil his plans to capture you and let  
Koganei fight in this battle. And that's why you're here, safe and sound.  
Fuuko: Koganei? He's fighting instead of us in the Dark Martial Combat?  
Raiha: Yes. (He gets up to leave and walks away)(He's actually disappointed she moved away too soon, just when he's enjoying having her on his lap ^_~)   

ARE THEY KAWAII OR WHAT
This pic courtesy of Perlya from The Willow Glade
Fuuko: (Getting up as well and following him) Hey wait!  
(Raiha stops with his back to her)  
Fuuko: How come you rescued us knowing full well that we're your enemies?  
Raiha: It's just fate.  
Fuuko: It's just fate?  
Raiha: Your psychic device, God of Wind, and mine, God of Thunder, are fated to fight one another. That's  
why I couldn't leave you here to die. (Don't lie, you freakin Uruha! You couldn't leave her to die just because you can't take it if she left you *_*)    
Fuuko: So does that mean that we're going to fight in this tournament together?  
Raiha: No, but perhaps next time. I'm sure the power of our psychic devices will draw us near each other  
once again.(He's being indirect. Raiha!!! He doesn't need the psychic device to draw them nearer. He wants to and he just cant say it, the poor anime Raiha.)   
(He walks away)  
Fuuko: (Running after him) Oh hey wait a minute!  
(Raiha has gone. [At least I think so. They don't show it, but she doesn't catch up with him, so...])  
Fuuko: (In a bewildered/confused/whatever tone) Fate?  

There you have it! Wasn't that scene wonderful? It was one of my favourite scenes... *sighs happily* 
The Fuuko-Raiha romance is severely *underplayed* in the anime, sad to say for us Raiha-Fuuko fans. Whoever animated this masterpiece by Anzai Noboyuki is obviously pushing for *swallow* Fuuko-Domon. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't hate Domon-san. I just don't like him very much. I know, I know, he loves her unconditonally and kisses the ground she walks on. But when there's someone better who's available, why settle for less? (Listen TOKIYA!!!). I know there are pro-Domon out there, but if you look at my poll where I asked who they pick for Fuuko-san...only 6% voted for Domon-san. In short, 94 % think Fuuko deserves better in the guise of Tokiya, Raiha, Recca and Saicho. So anyhow, this little if any, hint in the anime convinced me to push for Raiha. And now that I have the manga, all the more am I rooting for Raiha. So anyways...this scene from the anime above is one of my favorites. Now if only they'd make it Raiha-Fuuko in the end... 

Manga volume no. 20 (This Translation courtesy of Flame of Recca Translation Page) 
Raiha (talks to Soukakousai when the  latter entraps Fuuko in the cauldron):This won't do. Does it make you happy to get love in such a way? This girl is not a doll void of emotion. It's probably what it necessary for you to have such morals. You've been rejected. 
Raiha (while being sucked into Soukakousai's cauldron himself, on purpose):I get it, of course Fuuko is inside? Teyaah--- 
Fuuko: ...Who...?  
Raiha:I've come to save you. It's your prince---  
Fuuko:...prince...? Him...you too...you are too...seem something like...no use...I can't remember...  
Raiha:This is...going to get dangerous. Sorry, Fuuko-san. Her emotions have been suppressed. [After a long time, her soul will weaken and become warped.] Hopeless of nothing. It's not difficult to crush an ordinary soul. This enemy of nothingness has stopped her thoughts, 'emptied' her heart, and thus this horrible entity has weakened her life force. And so...spirit must be inserted into her 'empty' heart---With this! A torrent of emotion!! This action...I really didn't want to do it! E, even so...It's an emergency, so I say...such evil thoughts I'm having, that is bad, but... (Raiha, unable to rouse Fuuko after waving his hand in her face and then slapping her, resorts to plan C as a desparation move) 
Fuuko: Lately, it's been pitch black. Right, what am I doing? 86 who? Soukakusai, right hand of a pervert Pervert PERVERT  
Fuuko:What are you doing, you asshole---!!! Do you really want to die, ass!!! (knocks Raiha flying, thinking it was Soukakousai who was doing that to her)   
Fuuko: ...teh, huh?...Raiha?  
Raiha: Enough---I'm dead. I get it--- So that's how you got in here.  
Fuuko: Un...I thought there was no exit, I've tried from the start. It's the same as when I was in Magensha's majigen...But I used the final Fuujin-chan  
Fuuko: I've become just a first year high school student...I can't escape here because of that guy's power...so I believed. It was hopeless.  
Raiha: You aren't alone. You shouldn't think negative thoughts.  
Fuuko:[???]  
Raiha:It's because humans think negatively. That's probably why things become hopeless. But, with every minus, why shouldn't there be good things. Even if people can't think of everything positively.You...all of you gave it your all that time...fighting--- And so, you beat Kurei! Stand up! Let's find that exit! We'll question hopeless things later---Until then, stand up with courage!  
Raiha:...that was kind of a lecture, huh?  
Fuuko:...uun! Thanks!! Let's find it---!! Whooho---!! (Fuuko had apparently forgiven him for doing such, understanding why he had done it)   
Soukakusai:Forgive... oho...goho...ba-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah  
Raiha: Please, Fuuko-san... I wish you would close your eyes.You don't want to see this...  
Fuuko: ...n...  
Soukakusai: Please!! My life...!! Spare my life..., Ah-ah...  
Raiha:Did you smile when women said the same?  
To those who have not read my explanation of manga volume 20 in the Written In The Stars Section, I chopped up some parts here to make it shorter, so you may not fully comprehend. Fuuko gets trapped in the cauldron of Soukakousai. The emptiness inside drains the person of his energy and life. Raiha enters, gives Fuuko a wake-up call by a *very naughty* deed. He saves her in the process, even if she got to wallop him, but she obviously forgives him after learning he had saved her life. Raiha saves her for a second time around ^_^. And even if he did do that naughty thing, she forgave him. Raiha apologized in advance, and he was desperate. He did it to save the life of the girl he cares so much about, risking his butt getting kicked by her. In the first place, he had subjected himself to a danger of being turned into a husk when he entered the cauldron. WHY DOES HE DOES THIS? I'm sure you know the aswer to that one ^_^. ANOTHER MOST IMPORTANT POINT, she forgave him. Now if that were some other guy, she'd definitely send him to the Netherworld. But it was RAIHA. And she knew he did it because HE CARED. And she cares too...even if she'd die before admitting it... 
no this isn't a lover's quarrel
MANGA VOLUME NO. 23 (SUMMARY COURTESY OF KAMIYA SHUUSAI) 
Fuuko starts off playing video game with Ganko and losing pathetically... and then she takes her out to the park to play. While Ganko is all happy, Fuuko wonders what she's gonna do with her fuujin completely powerless, now that all the small crystals are gone. They walk around and she's is stopped by a mysterious old fortuneteller. He gives Ganko all good fortunes but shocks Fuuko by saying that he can see death in her future. He asks her to pick a fortune note... (not the forutne cookie ones... the ones like in a temple...) and Fuuko has to read it when she gets home.  
     
Of course Fuuko ends up being in the forest after that because when she read the note, it not only asked her meet in the forest, it even has her name on it... so the old guy was purposely aiming that at her. He appears, she  asks him who he is, of course he says something about fate and then reveals that under his disguise, he really is... ... ...  
    
RAIHA!!!???  
     
Of couse Fuuko falls head over and then totally slaps him around for tricking her in one of those really funny pictures... (my poor Raiha-kun... T.T) but to her surprise, Raiha is very serious this time. He points a sword in her face and says that the death that he foresaw was true. She really is too weak right now. So they start fighting, while Fuuko is totally pissed off that Raiha said that she has a death look... Raiha dodges all her attacks easily and while he's internally praying that Fuuko, please get stronger... in these three days, he will make her learn the real meaning of the will to have strength.   

So one day passes, two days passes, on the third day... look at the poor forest that's all wrecked... Fuuko almost got no sleep, she begins to think about all the different faces of Raiha ever since she first met him... and then the key was to feel that presence... Raiha suddenly attacks her, but she was actually ready because she sensed it and catches him off guard. So in one second she actually has him cornered and points the big spear in his face. His goofy smile comes back and says congratulations to her. As they are about to leave the forest, he says that he has sharpened all of her senses and nerves in three days and that finally he has something for her, a present, I guess.  

He takes out a crystal with the word FUU on it... you guessed it, it's fuujin's main crystal. Fuuko is shocked. He says that he has been using it to seal raijin's powers all along. Sealing the frightening power that even he is afraid of.  However, the time has come. There will be a very difficult battle in the near future for Kurei and the others. He has found his own answers meanwhile. With that same look in his eyes as the time when he killed Soukakusai, he said, "I will fight with raijin." So now he gives the fuujin crystal to Fuuko so she can let the true power of fuujin awaken. He says that she qualified and... good luck. As he leaves, Fuuko suddenly stops him and says that she has one last question for him. Why is he fighting for Kurei? He leaves her pondering alone by saying "because of blood." What does that mean? No one knows as of now. But you can be sure that we will find out in the future... this is already laying down a foreshadowing of their story... 
Now why the heck do you think Raiha would go to these lengths, risking his life, to train Fuuko-san for an up-and-coming battle? Why? Why? Why? And if you don't know the answer...then how the heck did you go this far. IT'S OBVIOUS. And he has the central stone of the fuujin...what does that mean? That they are, truly DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER. I REST MY CASE.
MANGA VOLUME 21 
(Hokage Ninja, Raiha, Mori Kouran and his personal guards/clones are about to fight) 
Raiha : <to Koku> That's not right old man, it's dangerous! 
Domon : You. . . you. . . YOU! 
Fuuko: Stop it Domon!  Raiha-kun's my hero!  I'm alive thanks to him. 
Domon : Yo hero! 
Raiha : <sheepish look> a hehe
Fuuko defends Raiha...and from who? From her good friend Domon. Why do you think she does? She even called him, "MY HERO." Knowing Fuuko and all, don't you think there's a subtle refernce there? MY HERO. Only DIDs (damsels-in-distress) call men MY HERO. Fuuko is most cerainly not one. Why the sudden reference? She obviously puts out her feminine foot forward when he's around. Why so? Geez...do I have to answer that one ^_^?   

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So what do you think people? Is that not proof enough ^_^. I have manga scans showing these events, though not all of them. I can't wait to see what happens next. Hopefully Anzai Noboyuki-sensei makes a Recca-Yanagi part II out of my favorite FoR couple. I CAN'T WAIT!!!! To change the frequency, click  below, okay??? ^_^ 
 
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