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Episode Summary of Fushigi Yuugi--IV
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Back in the real world, Keisuke runs into his buddy Tetsuya. After Keisuke relates the goings-on of the
book to his friend, Tetsuya agrees to help Keisuke get to the bottom of this book and why
it's so ... "engaging"... 
Nuriko, Miaka and Tamahome set off for Tamahome's village to pick up his family so that they can stay at Hotohori's palace where it is safer. But they arrive too late. Suboshi, presumably out of revenge for his brother's death (which he believes is the fault of the Suzaku seishi), has viciously killed Tamahome's entire family.
Tamahome's
increased power then becomes apparant; he becomes the "revenging ogre," almost
uncontrollable and unstoppable in his rage. Nuriko tries to restrain him, but he still
would have killed Suboshi, were it not for a Seiryuu seishi making her grand appearance,
Soi. Soi rescues Suboshi from Tamahome and takes off. 
Miaka is
spurred on by the act of violence against innocent and helpless victims and she makes a
decision to go head to head with Yui for the shinzaho, if that's what it will take. Yui,
not knowing the full story, hears that Miaka has made this decision, and returns the vow
in kind. 
The Suzaku
trio now return to Hotohori's palace, and the gang sets off for Hokkan (minus Hotohori,
who must remain behind and do his emperor-ly duties). In the real world, Keisuke finds one
of Miaka's hairs in the book, and realizes that he can communicate with her through the
hair. He and Tetsuya, through 
their probing, have found that the miko of the
legend is supposed to be consumed by her respective god after the summoning ceremony, and
he tries to warn Miaka of this. However, Miaka ignores these warnings, out of loyalty to
her seishi. Further, she gets Tasuki to burn a couple of her hairs, to destroy this, her
only link to her brother and to the real world. 
Soon after
they set sail, the Suzaku people encounter a tremendous lightning storm, provided courtesy
of Soi. The ship is badly damaged, and Tamahome, Nuriko and Miaka are swept overboard. The
three fallen seishi find their way to a fisherman's 
cave where they dry off and recover
from the incident. Here Nuriko reveals some very interesting tidbits; first, that he's
decided to quit being gay and crossdressing; and second, his reasoning for doing so in the
first place.
At the age of ten, Nuriko lost the most precious thing to him in the world: his nine-year old sister Kourin. In despair (and very poor handling of grief), Nuriko decided that Kourin would never die as long as he were there to live her life out for her. So he took her name, wore her clothes, and basically developed a female mentality in order to "become" Kourin. This explains his behaviour in the past. But having finally been able to come to terms with Kourin's death, Nuriko is ready to move on and become his own person.
Upon finally arriving in Hokkan, Miaka and the seishi decide to split up to increase their chances of finding the shinzaho. Each group takes a flare with them with which to signal the others. When Nuriko offers to accompany Miaka and Tamahome, his offer is refused for fear of two pretty ladies attracting too many of the wrong kind of attention. This irks Nuriko, and he hacks his butt-length braid completely off so as to better resemble a male.
The group consisting of Nuriko, Tamahome, and Miaka are the first to find the shinzaho's whereabouts. While Tamahome is off getting the information however, Nakago sets another Seiryuu seishi, Ashitare, after Miaka. Nuriko injures him and scares him away by lighting their flare in his face.
Tamahome stumbles upon Yui while he is off alone, and again tries to get her to give up and come with him. She seems to realize that this cannot end well for either side but feels that she's in too far and cannot stop now. To get Tamahome off her case, she tries to hurt him, cruelly informing him that he's only a character in a book. Tamahome is confused by this but doesn't have the opportunity to ask her what that means.
Later that night, Nuriko confides to Tamahome that he has fallen in love with Miaka in a totally heterosexual way, having given up the gay cross-dressing life for good. However, being the totally considerate sweetheart that he is, he promises not to interfere with Miaka and Tamahome's love. As long as Miaka's happy, he'll be happy for her.
The next day, Nuriko volunteers to go and get the shinzaho, located at the top of Mount Black, while Miaka and Tamahome locate and inform the others. But once there, Nuriko encounters Ashitare once again. Having been beaten by Nakago for failing to kill Miaka once, and ticked off at Nuriko for hurting him, Ashitare does some serious damage to Nuriko, causing fatal wounds. Before he goes down, though, Nuriko manages to take out Ashitare as well. The other Suzaku seishi and Miaka are forced to say goodbye to Nuriko and they bury him a the top of Mount Black.
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