Chapter 4

Sanzo swore that the gods were having a fucking good time right now while they were watching him suffer. (They were. Just... Don't tell Sanzo)

After he had went through the whole damn demon army, giving every. Single. One. A piece. Of. His mind, it took rest of the night for the group to get rip off of all of the bodies. When they were done, the sun was already peeking from behind the mountains. They decided that they were far too tired to keep on going, and fuck it if they used a day for nothing, so they laid down some blankets and fell asleep immediately. They were woken up maybe three times from their naps by another army of way ward demons, but mostly they were able to sleep off most of the day. It was well past afternoon when they finally rose up again to continue, and by the time they finally reached the next village, or town, it was already evening.

"Shit, Looks like all of the restaurants and shops are closed already..." Gojyo muttered as they walked through the town, the setting sun mocking them for STILL not having a place to sleep at.

"Noooo..." Goku moaned, his stomach rumpling LOUDLY in protest. Hakkai gave both a sympathetic look and ruffled Goku's hair.

"If we are lucky, maybe there is an open inn that's owner won't mind if we ask for food and few rooms..." He tried to cheer up his companions, but he also knew how small the possibility of that was. They also wouldn't be able to sleep on Hakuryuu's back, since the small dragon was beat, and also in very bad need of food and sleep.

Sanzo didn't say anything, but he was relentlessly looking around them. While the whole place appeared to be peaceful and quiet, Sanzo could feel something wrong with it. It was something very, very small, and if Sanzo wouldn't have been looking for anything abnormal, he wouldn't have sensed it, but there was this hazy mist like aura wavering in the air. Like... Like a smoke that circled in the air after a candle had been blown out.

He didn't like it.

"Hm? What's with our crappy monk? He has been awfully quiet." Gojyo hummed, nodding his head towards Sanzo for empathiasum. Hakkai nodded in agreetment as they followed the blond's movements with care.

"He seems very tense." He observed. Goku had also realized this, but before he had a chance to go and ask his guardian about his behaivior, Hakuryuu's head suddenly shot into the air. Hakkai almost stumbled over from surprise and gave a small yelp. He stopped walking so he could study his little companion on his shoulder.

"Hakuryuu? What's the matter?" The small dragon didn't answer, instead it listened intensly the surrounding area. Now everyone had stopped to stare at the small creature, waiting in confusion for something to happen. Then, without any warning, Hakuryuu let out a LOUD screech, forcing others to to cover their ears for the sake of their hearing.

"GRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuu!"

"WHOU WHAT THE FUCK HAKURYUU?!" Gojyo snarked when the dragon finally stopped. However, the small white dragon hissed at him, making all of them halt. Hakuryuu NEVER hissed.

Suddenly something occurred to all of them; it seemed like no one of the people still outside cared much about the sudden screech, OR about the fact that there were four strange males with a small dragon. Many didn't normally fuss about Hakuryuu, but it wasn't uncommon for some braver kids to come up to Hakkai and ask if they could pet Hakuryuu.

Now however, no one had done as much as glanced their way.

Then Goku's eyes narrowed. "Did you hear that?"

Others perked up and glanced at Goku's direction. "Hear what?"

"QYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuu...!" Suddenly a high pitched sound rang through the air, and Hakuryuu shot into a flight, whole Sanzo group after it.

"THAT!" Goku exclaimed as they raced after their small friend.

~O~

ABOUT twenty hours earlier with Yusuke and others...

When they had settled to the two rooms that Roshi had given to them, (Yusuke, Puu and Kuwabara in another while Kurama and Hiei shared the other one), they wordlessly agreed that Yusuke and Kurama would be on the charge of the money, also including earning the said money. While Hiei and Puu would be making scouting trips around, looking for any information about their target and his henchmen, or anything about this world at all. Kuwabara on the other hand would also be gathering money by doing small jobs here and there also, and information from where he could get it, but more than anything, he was to keep an eye on the town and it's citizen.

All of them had a bad feeling about this place, and they gathered that Kuwabara had the highest chances of going around without raising any suspiciousness and to be able to sense it if there was something unnatural involved.

"I get that we need money and all that shit..." Yusuke growled under his breath as he tried to balance the three round trays in his his arms. "But why does it feel like I'm doing all the work here?"

Yusuke sent a nasty glare at Kurama's direction, who in turn sweat dropped. Kurama and Yusuke had agreed to help around in the bar/kitchen, that were added to the inn, while Kuwabara and Hiei would be going around the town. Roshi was more than fine with it, he even told them some of the easiest ways to go around the town. Yusuke would be working mostly in the kitchen, since he had a knack for cooking, and Kurama was supposed to be kind-of-a-waiter/ bartender...

Except he hadn't done anything except sat happily in one of the bar stoles, wiping. One. God. Damn. Glass. For. The. Whole. Time...

And Roshi had just laughed. He even offered Kurama a drink! (Though Kurama had declined.)

"It's not like I haven't done anything. I have been entertaining our guests here" Kurama singed with a grin and waved to a direction of two, happily drunk and ready-to-pass-out-looking ladies. One of them giggled as she cuddled the rose he had given her.

"He he he, reeeaally funny. Now help me here, man!" Yusuke huffed as he gave out orders from one of the trays. Kurama chuckled voicelessly, but as he was about to stand up to help his friend, someone grabbed his left arm. He looked, and saw another completely drunk woman. When the two others realised he was trying to leave, they drunkenly swayed to him.

"Kuuuuu-kun, don't leeeaaveeee! Weeee wweeere having so much... FUN!" One babbled out, other two joining in.

"YEEAaaaah, just sit back down, and show me one more of those tricks~ I bet I could make them a little more excitingggg~" Kurama gave a sheepish smile that came out more like a grimace.

"Kuuuu-chaaaan~" Suddenly, a few more ladies came in. Then few more. and more. And suddenly all of the drunk chicks in the bar, plus few guys, were around Kurama, whining at him to 'stay'...

"..."

"..."

"...Help?" Kurama gave Yusuke a pleading look, but the other only chuckled, going back to serving. "You had it coming, 'Kuu-chan~'!"

Roshi bursted out into a full blooming laughter when Kurama sifted his miserable puppy eyes at him. "Not in your dreams boy! Why do you think I offered you that drink? These chicks do this all the time when there is a new handsome face around here. I have tried to break them apart a few times, and I almost got my hand bitten off! Plus, now they will order more food and drinks, so fine by me!"

If he hadn't been busy smiling at the drunk guy flirting with him, Yusuke swore Kurama would have cried.

"I hate you..." Yusuke laughed out loud at the moody voice of the fox demon. "Damn straight, and don't you forget that!"

Yusuke and Kurama were interrupted by Hiei, and they both could sense that he was rolling his eyes at them. "Really? Didn't we agree to keeping the line clear?"

Kurama chuckled. "Yeah, sorry. How's it at your end? Anything interesting?"

"Nothing. The blue bird also hasn't found anything." There was a small smugness in that last segment, and Yusuke almost laughed out loud when he returned to kitchen. But instead of going back to cooking, (it wasn't like he had any orders to do) he leaned against a wall and refocused back to their mental conversation.

"Really Hiei? You are annoyed that a dragon-bird beat you?" Hiei immediately growled back.

"Shut it Uremeshi!"

"You didn't deny that!" Yusuke teased, and Kurama decided that now was a good time to step in.

"Now now, keep the line clear, remember?" Both grumbled something under their breath at that, but Yusuke turned back to being serious. "Kuwabara, do you have anything?"

Kuwabara, who had been oddly silent through the whole thing, finally spoke up in all of their minds. "Yeah... Yeah I found something alright, there are some kind of talismans EVERYWHERE. But from what I have understood, only I can see them... DO NOT ASK HOW I FOUND OUT ..." There was a heavy trace of embarrassment in the last line, and Hiei immediately dived for a chance to humiliate the physic.

"You asked someone about them didn't you?"

"..." There was a heavy silence that answered them well enough. Yusuke had to cover his mouth with the back of his hand to cover the small chuckle that escaped him.

"Well, looking past Kuwabara's embarrassing and stupid honesty, ("HEY!") those talismans sound like bad news. I for one didn't see any. You guys?"

"No, but I did sense something off about this place." Kurama admitted, while Hiei grunted.

"I could try looking for them with my Jagan eye. It can most likely detect them if they have demonic or other wise supernatural powers on them." Others wondered about Hiei's idea, but Yusuke shot it down.

"No, we aren't allowed to remove our limiters unless it's important. If we remove them now, we also might blow our cover and raise some suspiciousness."

"Whatever. Just don't come crying to me when this explodes to our faces." Hiei grumbled, clearly a little frustrated that his idea was so quickly shot down. Kuwabara noticed this right at the bat.

"Welcome to the club Hiei..."

"What?"

"Nothing"

"Kuwabara, tell me this instance what were you applying with-"

"Guys, clear line? Okay, now return back to your places. Report if anything changes." Yusuke finished, getting back to work and everyone else also returned back to what they were doing.

~O~

With Kuwabara...

Kuwabara sighed as he took a bite out of the apple he had gotten from helping an elder lady. He was leaning against one of the buildings that surrounded a street market, that was remarkably larger than many other markets he had seen before. There were people rushing, others just chatting and kids playing around. It looked like avery peaceful and sunny afternoon day.

Well, if it wasn't for all those creepy talismans... They were everywhere, on building's walls, boots, he had even seen few on a well or carriages!

Kuwabara studied them quietly, not keeping his stare on them for too long and making sure it looked like he was just staring at the space. From the once he had seen so far, most of them were seals, rather than protector charms. It was a little difficult, but after he focused some of his spiritual energy into his eyes, he could make out the prayers written on them.

'Free of greed, free of evil'

'Chain down the beast'

'Do not let the one locked inside, out'

And many more, but those he seemed to run into the most. "... So weird..."

~O~

With Hiei and Puu...

After Hiei dropped the connection, he kept going till he and Puu met up. They started going further towards the edge of the smallish town, Hiei hopping from roof to roof and Puu flying over him. (Actually they were racing, but they just couldn't admit that, now could they?)

Suddenly Hiei felt a need to sit down. Then, without a warning, a sharp pain shot through his skull and he actually flinched. Hiei's vision started to get blurry and then it was alarmingly hard to stay straight. He was so out of it, that he slowed down to walking. Puu realised something was wrong with his scouting partner, and he started circling Hiei.

"Guyy, Guyy Guyy!" Puu was desperately trying to get his attention, but the other wouldn't answer, and Hiei just kept walking along the roof they were on.

Hiei's eyes were glassy, and for once, there was no annoyed frown on his face, but the agony that slowly took it's place was no better. Puu tried to think what he should do, he didn't know where Kuwabara was, Yusuke and Kurama were too far, and Puu couldn't leave Hiei like this. It tried to turn back into it's larger form so it could try to catch Hiei, but found that it couldn't.

"GUUuuuyyyyyy!"

When Hiei started to sway, Puu was already making very distressed sounds, hoping that someone would hear and come to investigate. Hiei finally fell down and started sliding down the roof. Puu screeched as it tried to stop him, or at least steer him to a softer landing spot than stones and concrete. Puu actually managed to get him fall on top of some empty boxes, that softened his fall.

After Pu made sure that the fire demon was more or less okay, it went back to trying to call help, just hoping that someone would hear. Then, Puu finally got heard something.

"GRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuu!" Puu's head shot up. It was very, very sure that no animal or bird could make such a noise.

Wait...

An unusual noise that answered Puu's distressed calls? That actually understood what Puu was trying to get across?...Didn't Koenma say that that Sanzo and his friends had a dragon? But even if it was them, would Yusuke and others want him to get in contact with them?

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Oh whatever! Hiei needed help and this was Puu's chance!

"Gyyyuuu!" Pu tried to call back, but it didn't look like it was enough. Determined to get Hiei some help, Puu flied over the alleyway, and gathered as much of air into it's lugs as it could, before releasing a screech.

"QYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuu...!"

Puu only stopped when it was about to drop from the sky, completely out of breath.

"GRYYYYYuuuuuu!" Puu raised it's head as it tried to answer the nearing calls.

"Gyyyyuuu!" And so Puu kept giving his new friend directions.

And as this whole exchange went on, no one but the answered creature and Puu reacted to it.

~O~

Sanzo's groups point of view...

"Voi, what the heck is wrong with that thing?!" Gojyo exclaimed as they raced after Hakuryuu.

"Hakuryuu is following some kind of distress call! Can't you hear them?!" Goku yelled back as he tried to keep up with their dragon friend, an turned to right in a sharp turn.

"Yes, and it seems like whatever is calling for Hakuryuu is trying to lead us to it!" Hakkai called, trying to keep up.

"Isn't that pretty obvious?!" Sanzo snarled before putting up more speed. It seemed like Hakuryuu was slowing down... AAAaaand it dived to an alley. "SHIT! DON'T LOSE YOUR SIGHT OF IT!

"EASIER SAID THAN DONE!" Gojyo managed to growl back just before Hakuryuu peeked out, to see if they were still following, before returning into the shadows of the alleyway.

"... I TAKE THAT BACK!" Gojyo called, earning a hit from a paper fan.

When they finally caught up, Hakuryuu was sitting in the middle of the alley with his new friend, studying what appeared to be a pile of busted boxes. The creature next to Hakuryuu was smaller than the white dragon, about the size of an average sparrowhawk. It looked like a mix between a dragon and a bird, and it had a striking resemble to a Phoenix, thought it's feathers were blue and it had a black mane running down it's long neck, similar to Hakuryuu's own mane.

The group tried to get closer, but the second they stepped forward, the blue creature leaped to air before settling over the boxes, hissing at them.

"Umm..." Gojyo scratched the back of his head as that thing kept eyeing them warily. "What are we supposed to do now?"

"Whouh! What's that?" Goku exclaimed, only to earn a blow to head and more hissing.

"How the hell should I know?" Sanzo growled. The second he and the creature locked gazes, it was a glaring contest. Which Sanzo won, since it sifted it's gaze to Hakkai as the man crouched down to look a little less imitative.

"It looks like it's protecting something..." He mused before he tried to sooth the flustered being. "Shhh, we don't want any harm now... He is our friend, and he lead us to you..."

When Hakuryuu saw that things wouldn't go anywhere as they were, it flew to Hakkai and landed on his shoulder, before turning to his friend. "Gryyu! GYyyyyu."

It looked a little conflicted, not entirely convinced, but it stopped hissing. It lowered itself down to the boxes, and motioned to Hakuryuu and Hakkai to come closer. Hakuryuu beamed and nudged his friend closer to the busted boxes, and Hakkai did as he was told. He soon saw why that little thing was so defensive.

"Oh my... Guys, you need to see this." There in the middle of the boxes was a boy, probably a teenager, since he was all black. His hair was spiky and it was pointing straight up. The only thing about him that WASN'T black, was his skin, the white headband, silver earpieces and the silver bracelets that peeked out from under his left hand's sleeve. He was just laying there, unconscious.

"Wha- HOLY SHIT-!" Gojyo jumped back the second he saw the kid. Well, he can't be blamed, kids skin was pale as a sheet. "IS HE EVEN BREATHING?!"

Hakkai paused, and checked he was about to check, when the bird thing nodded it's head. "I think so..." Hakkai turned to look at Hakuryuu next. "Can you ask your friend what he wants us to do?"

"Gryyu" Hakuryuu nodded and it turned to the blue creature. "Gryyu?"

"Gyuuu, Gyuu gyyy... Gyiuiuuu" Others had no idea what they were saying, but finally Hakuryuu turned to Hakkai, who translated to others.

"Alright, so our winged friend here is called Puu, and the boy is Hiei." He glanced at Pu to confirm, before continuing. "Hiei just suddenly fainted while they were on the roof, and landed on this box pile. Pu was calling for help when we came, and he asked if we could bring his friend to an inn he, Hiei and their friends are staying at at the moment. He said he can show the way if we carry him."

Others were stunned, but the reactions were soon very... varying.

"Wait, YOU UNDERSTAND THEM?!"

"OOOH! THAT MEANS WE CAN EAT!"

"Sure, just get him on Kappa's back."

After a small argument, it was decided, (more like forced), that Gojyo would carry Hiei, while Pu showed them the way...

"Ugh, for such a small being, the boy is no feather..." Gojyo grunted as he stomped on wards.

"Stop whining, we get a roof over our heads for tonight." Sanzo sighed, while Goku kept on chatting about food. Hakkai, on the other hand, was having an interesting conversation with the two smaller creatures.

~O~

Up in the Heaven...

"... They are going to kill me..." Koenma deadpanned as he stared at Hiei's unconscious figure. He had figured out that Hiei would probably get the worst one, being the only one out of them who was a full demon from body to soul.

Demons always had the worst luck...

Kanzeon patted him on the back unhelpfully. "Look on the bright side, you are immortal, the worst they can do is torture you for eternity."

"..." Koenma buried his face into his hands, ignoring their assistants who were snickering on the back ground.

~O~

Meanwhile with Yusuke, Kurama and Kuwabara...

"Okay, now I'm getting antsy... They should have been here by now." Yusuke growled. He and Kurama were done for the day, and even Kuwabara had returned by now. Right now they were sitting in one of the tables, waiting for Puu and Hiei to come back. There weren't many people in the bar, or in the tables Roshi had for the people ordering food. Most had already went home or back to their rooms.

"I could go look for them, I didn't see them when I came back since we went to opposite directions, but maybe..." Kuwabara offered, already standing up, but Kurama grabbed his hand.

"It wouldn't be any of use. Hiei is the best one out of us to conceal his presence, and he won't be found unless he wants to be." Kurama signed when Kuwabara and Yusuke looked at him, Yusuke translating to Kuwabara.

"And I can't pin point Puu with these limiters, so we don't have ANY clue to where they are..." Yusuke sighed, ruffling his hair in annoyance. While it would be easy for Puu to fly around, looking for clues or anything helpful, part of the reason they had put Puu on Hiei was that they STILL had no idea what Hiei's side effect would be, and they had no way of knowing if it would be harmless or actually fatal one.

And now they had no idea where they were, or when they would be back.

"Grr, great, so we are stuck here, sitting like ducks then?" Kuwabara growled, flopping back to his seat. He and Hiei may not get along well, but he still liked that shrimp.

Just then, the door was opened, and a blue blur shot through it and nailed Yusuke's face, making him fall back in his chair. "ARG!"

CRASH!

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"You okay down there Uremeshi?" Kuwabara questioned as he and Kurama peered down at him and Puu.

"Urg... Just peachy." He grumbled, sitting up and helping Puu on to his shoulder, who was rubbing his head against his cheek by the way. "Okay, okay, I get it, you missed me, but where's Hiei?"

"Gyyuu!" Puu flapped it's wings, and gestured towards the door, where stood four men. One was a blond, who looked like a monk or a priest, with a scripture on his shoulders and a permanent glare on his face. The other one was long haired red head, with a blue bandana holding his hair from his face, with matching scarlet eyes and two scars on his right cheek. He had a stupid looking grin and some white shirt under blue vest and brown pants and boots.

The other two had short brown hair, and while the other one was short and clearly younger than the others, the older one had a warm smile that remained Yusuke of Kurama. Man had green clothes and a monocle over his left eye, and there was a small white dragon, about sizes of a house cat, on his shoulder. The last guy, or kid, had a golden diadem on his head, white jeans and white shirt under some sort of orange cape.

And there was unconscious Hiei on the red head's back.

Kurama's and Kuwabara's eyes widened, but Yusuke's eyes narrowed. He turned tense and ready to strike. Before he could get up and beat the shit out of them, Kurama managed to put a hand on his shoulder, effectively stopping him. While Yusuke stood up, Kurama walked up to them, Kuwabara with his sword in reach and Yusuke whose fists were balled, looming behind him.

"Excuse me, but would you mind telling us why our unconscious friend is on your back?" Kurama calmly signed, but there was a hash glare on his face. At their confused and wary looks, Yusuke was about to step in, but the older man with monocle stepped forward to answer.

"Um, if I understood correctly, you asked about your friend here?" After getting a nod, the man's smile grew. "Ah, good, then I'm not as rusty as I thought. Anyway, from what Puu told us, your friend Hiei fainted out of blue, and fell from a roof into an alley. We were looking for an inn, and my friend here," He pointed at the white dragon on his shoulder. "Heard Puu's distressed calling, and lead us to them." The man finished proudly in one breath, others looking at him in astonishment.

Finally, Yusuke got himself together. "Well, I've heard worse. Now, if you don't mind, I'll take that bone head." He gestured at Hiei, and the red head was more than happy to get rip off his package. His yaws dropped when the smaller male easily lifted Hiei, and managed to maneuverer him to his own back without any trouble.

"By the way, I'm Cho Hakkai, the blond is Genzo Sanzo, that's Son Goku and the one who was carrying your friend is Sha Gojyo." Hakkai explained, and got a small bite on his ear "Ah! And this is Hakuryuu." He added, not minding that he was biten.

"Gryyuu!" Hakuryuu gave a small bow in greeting, and Yusuke just gave them an blank look. Covering how Kurama and Kuwabara kind of froze momently.

"Right..." Kuwabara sighed, shaking himself and relaxing his hold on his swords' sheath strap. "I guess we own you a thanks for picking up the shrimp for us-OUCH! WHAT THE HECK HIEI?!"

Even as unconscious, Hiei managed to hit Kuwabara for calling him as a shrimp. Yusuke out loud laughed and Kurama chuckled lightly as Kuwabara glared at the sleeping demon. Sanzo's group also snickered at this, thought Sanzo and Hakkai were a little less blunt about it.

"Yes, thank you. Hiei likes to be on his own, so we had no idea where to go look for him." Kurama signed, before gicing a brief bow.

"Ah, no problem, I understand what you mean..." Hakkai answered, eyeing Gojyo and Sanzo from the corner of his eye. They of course saw this.

"Oi, Hakkai, what was that about?" Gojyo asked, suspicious. Sanzo just glared when Hakkai laughed lightly. "Oh, nothing..."

"Hey, what is that blue thing anyway?" Yusuke glanced at Goku, who had suddenly appeared in front of him, who had his hands behind his head. Yusuke chuckled when Kuwabara jumped at the kid's sudden appearance.

"HOLY CRIST-WHAT IS IT WITH EVERYONE AND THEIR SUDDEN APPEARANCES?!!" Kuwabara whisper exclaimed under his breath, holding the place where his heart was, as Kurama unhelpfully patted his back. Sanzo's group sweat dropped at the sight, feeling a little sympathy.

"Oh Puu?... Good question." Yusuke answered, completely ignoring Kuwabara almost dying from a heart attack again, turned his head to look at the bird-ish creature that innocently sat on his shoulder. "What are you anyway?"

"Gyyyuuu!" Puu proudly claimed, and Yusuke raised an eyebrow. "RIiiight... Still can't understand a word."

"Come on guys, lets get going. We need to ask for rooms for a night before they all get booked again..." Sanzo growled, already walking towards the front desk.

"Yeah, yeah, coming. See ya later!" Goku called, running after Sanzo. Gojyo gave them a quick salute as he passed, and Hakkai gave a small bow with Hakuryuu. "It was nice to meet you."

When they all had left, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama and Puu speeded to Kurama's and Hiei's room to make sure he was fine.

~O~

"Looks like a migraine to me. It most likely got so bad that he fainted." Kurama noted in their heads. "I can give him some herds to easy it and to get him wake up."

"You do that, Kurama..." Yusuke agreed, flopping to a chair next to window, while Kuwabara sat on Kurama's bed next to Hiei.

"What do you think? Of that Sanzo and his group?" Kuwabara asked, looking at the ceiling. "I could feel strong demonic and spiritual energy from all of them. Two of them also had limiters like you guys."

"True. They also smelled strongly of smoke and beer, but there seemed nothing wrong with them, nore were there any sings of being addicted." Kurama added as he slipped herb tea into Hiei's mouth.

"Eh, I don't know. If you ask me, they're just a bunch of weirdoes." Yusuke shrugged as he watched how Hiei's eye brows knitted together as strongly smelling herb was put under his nose. "We'll need to keep an eye on them to see what kind of people they are..."

~O~

With Sanzo's group...

They managed to get two rooms, and they decided that Goku and Sanzo would share one, while Hakkai and Gojyo would have the other one. Right now they were sitting inside Hakkai's and Gojyo's room, playing Mah-jong.

"So, any thoughts about those boys we met?" Gojyo wondered as he lit up a smoke. "The one with long black hair sure seems strong."

"Yeah, and he didn't even flinch when I tried to surprise him! Even the guy with red hair reached for something, probably a weapon, but he stopped when he saw that guy with black hair didn't react." Goku commented, showing his rarely seen intelligence, making others pause for a sec.

"... Right." Sanzo huffed, taking in a drack of his smoke. "The one with red hair had green eyes... But I still felt something off about him, so he isn't a pure human for sure. Same with the other two black haired ones. The ginger is definitely a human, but he has strong spiritual powers."

"Yes, I think so too. Did you see the number of Limiters they had? And the boy with long black hair seemed to have very strong ones." Hakkai added, while his eyes focused on the game. "They also didn't give us their names, or ask how we knew their friends names."

"Well, what they SHOULD have asked, is how you understood that bird thing, Hakkai." Gojyo huffed out, putting his smoke out with annoyance.

"Well, whatever they are, they are definitely weirdoes" Goku decided, adding few pieces to his line.

Sanzo blew out a cloud of smoke with closed eyes, before opening them. "For now, lets keep our guard up and see what happens."

~O~

Outside of the inn...

Roshi was whistling as he threw out a trash bag, not caring that the shadows around the place were basically looming over him. When he got the trash taken care of, he leaned against the inn's wall and light up a smoke.

"Uugh... How do you STAND that disgusting smell?" Sneered a high pitched voice from the shadows on his right.

"Oh how I've missed your LOVELY voice, Layfu..." Roshi snarled back, and watched as a young woman stepped out of the shadows.

She was wearing some sandals, and a grey jump suit with a hood. There were a pair of cat ears in the hood, and a long tail was dragging the ground as she walked. The jumpsuit was furry, and it had black stripes, making it look like a grey tiger's fur. The woman had light blond hair, that was on a messy bun. Her black eyes were half lid, and she had MASSIVE bags under them. She yawned as she came closer to Roshi, hands in her pockets. "So I take it that they got here then?"

"Yes, because YOU are so damn lazy and didn't deal with them yourself." Roshi snarled again, taking a heavy drack from his smoke as Layfu leaned the wall next to him. "How did you even get so many demons into a one place?"

"I didn't have to doo anything~ They all sensed some strong killing intense from that direction, and the all went there themselves~" Layfu talked in a sing-song tone, making Roshi's eye brow twitch. "So I thought they would do the thing and I went a sleep~"

"... Of course, how could I think about anything else?" Roshi sighed, releasing a buff of smoke. "So, how are things with Boss? He felt pretty excited yesterday."

"Same old, same old~ He said that prince-san finally made his move~" Layfu purred, making Roshi grin.

"Oh? Interesting..." Finally, he dropped the smoke and put it out. He gave Layfu his final words as he went back inside. "Now get going! I'm not having you sleeping in my inn for free again!"

"Boo, You aren't fun Roshi~" Layfu whined, but left. She disappeared back into the shadows, like she never was there.

She also had a tattoo on her right cheek. Tattoo of six normal skulls in a ring, with one golden one in the middle. The golden one had one green eye, and one purple eye.

~O~

ALRIGHT! GOT AN UPDATE! TAKE THAT WRITERS BLOCK!

So yeah, now we have more! AND IT'S SO LONG HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE THIS OVE 5,663 WORDS LONG!