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Episode Summary of Fushigi Yuugi--III
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However, in Kutou, Yui overhears Tamahome's plans to leave. In desperation she appeals to Nakago, who has already tried keeping Tamahome in Kutou by force. Nakago gives Yui a pill to put in Tamahome's food, promising that it will make Tamahome hers forever. She gives this pill to Tamahome and it alters his personality, making him hate Suzaku no Miko and her seishi.
When
Tasuki, Chichiri and Miaka arrive in Kotou to get Tamahome, they are captured by Nakago
and his men (who have been tipped off by Tamahome). Evil-Tamahome tries to kill Miaka, and
badly injures Tasuki in a fight when he tries to protect her. The three have to return
home without Tamahome. Miaka, horribly depressed by this turn of events, kinda sorta tries
to kill herself (
she's not really
conscious of what she's doing...she just tries to walk into a lake, is all...). Hotohori
saves her, then, letting his emotion get the better of him, he proposes marriage to her.
Miaka considers, seeing as how Tamahome will be gone forever.
Soon after
this, Tamahome returns to Konan country on his own, intending to kill Miaka and the
others. Hotohori, in a rage at the earlier attempt on Miaka's life, fights Tamahome and,
well, runs him through with his sword. In this weakened state, Miaka's love reaches
Tamahome...his memories and former personality return and all is well.
Now that all seven seishi are assembled, preparations for the Suzaku summoning ceremony begin.
Yui,
in Kutou, is depressed at having failed to "win" over Miaka. Nakago reassures
her that he has a plan and everything is under control. He introduces her to another
Seiryuu seishi named Suboshi,
and while Yui can't see the significance, Suboshi looks eerily identical to Chiriko... 
We find
out that the boy everyone thought was Suzaku seishi Chiriko, is in fact a Seiryuu seishi, Amiboshi, sent by Nakago to infiltrate the
Suzaku seishi, disrupt their summoning ceremony, and kill them all (especially that
cheerful little miko of theirs). Amiboshi has an identical twin brother, also a Seiryuu
seishi (that would be Suboshi), and he keeps the Seiryuu side up to speed as to the goings
on in Konan country via the twins' special physical and spiritual link. 
At
the ceremony to summon Suzaku, Amiboshi whips out his flute and begins to play, focusing
his chi into the notes and creating a head-splitting tune (literally -- like, glass is
breaking and all that). As he plays, though, another tune begins as well, breaking the
pattern of his notes. He flees, and the Suzaku seishi take the chase. But he slips on the
riverbank and falls into the river, and that's the end of that. Suboshi feels that his
brother's chi is no longer with him, 
and
everyone assumes the worst.
Finally we
get to meet the *real* Chiriko, whose masterful playing of the leaf whistle disrupted Amiboshi's tune
and saved all of the seishi's lives. Meanwhile, the Suzaku summoning ceremony has already
failed. Taiitsu-kun appears to tell Miaka and the others that there is another way to call
Suzaku. They have to obtain the shinzaho, an item left behind by a
previous visitor to their world, Genbu no Miko. The shinzaho is located in Hokkan country,
to the north. Yui and her seishi will also be trying to get this item so it's once again a
race against time to retrieve it.
In
addition to this information, Taiitsu-kun gives each of the seishi (minus Tamahome) a
"power-up", a powerful item that will increase their particular ability: to 
Hotohori, a
powerful Deity's sword; to Nuriko, iron bracelets; to Chichiri, a beaded necklace; to
Tasuki, a diamond tassen; to Mitsukake, a jar of healing powder; and to Chiriko, a scroll.
Oh, and one more thing. Taiitsu-kun tells Miaka that she must not touch any male with love, since the miko must remain a virgin until the god is called (understandably a big bummer for Miaka and Tamahome...).
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