Back to ze past

"That's great!" He said and examined the doll for a moment before handing it back. "She's beautiful." He beamed at the girl.

Sadaharu smiled. "Thanks. Know where we're headed, Yuki?"

"When I grow up I'll be as pretty as her and when I'm as pretty as her I'll be a pretty wife and then I'll marry Yuki and we'll have pretty babies." Evelyn grinned and walked away, hmming softly to the doll.

"Not a darn clue." Yuki grinned in return before clearing his throat and looking away.

Shade stared off after her with with a look of bewilderment, shaking his head.

"When are we leaving then?" Sadaharu asked, standing up and crossing his arms, smiling lightly at Evelyn's comment.

Elizabeth smiled softly afterher daughter.

Yuki looked away, eyes wide and mouth set. He shuddered. "When big Daddy comes back." Yuki said. "We'll ask if he wishes to join with us."

Wuu held up the bracelet peice in the cloth, only to have it fal and roll away

"Big... daddy..." Sadaharu's eye twitched. "Big daddy? Mori?" He chuckled. "Didn't he say he'd be back in a day or two? I mean, he's probably still at the tevern... We could check their first." He suggested with a light shrug.

"WUU!" Yuki exclaimed, ignoring Sadaharus comment. "We don't drop anciant artifcats! NO! Big no. Get it?" The rat sighed and went to pick it up.

Wuu just leant back and grinned.

Sadaharu smirked slightly. That's what you get for bringing old monks around. Raven, still in the cabin, looked sorely tempted to intervene as the artefact passed into Yuki's hands. He may have spent about three years with Amaterasu, but trusting a demon with something like that... It was bound to have amplified effects.

Yuki tossed the peice into the air. "Looks different than the last time I saw it." He confessed before handing it back to Wuu.
Wuu hit the rat. "Wrong person to pick it up!" He dropped the artefact again.

Taro placed Rhun on the floor and leaned down to pick it up. He offered it back to Wuu with a smile. "Maybe dropping it isn't the best way to figure something out."

"North, south east or west?" Wuu smiled, his hands behind his back.

Taro frowned lightly and curled his fingers over the fragment. "North." He said and glaced at the monk. "So they do draw the others."

"Only when choosen one holds!" Wuu said, hummed as he walked away.

"Taro my pretty young man." Yuki grinned, putting his arm over the fools shoulder. "How would you like to come on an adventure?"

Taro laughed. "An adventure, hmm?" He turned the fragment of the bracelet in his hand. "I suppose I could, if I could help. And if we can bring Mori-kitty along." He said with a smirk. "I know he just can't bear to leave me alone for long." He winked at Sadaharu who chuckled.

"See, now we also get Mori-Kitty." Yuki grinned. "Now to wait for Mori-kitty to return. Because if he doesn't soon, who knows what will happen to his precious Fool around such a perverted Rat."

Sadaharu made a strange noise between a laugh and a cough. He walked off to get some water. Taro grinned. "My word, that is one way to make the big-kitty angry." He snickered and ducked away from Yuki, walking off to his room to find anything he might want to bring.

Yuki laughed. "One way to make one kitty angry thats for sure." He muttered under his breath.
"Now we wait for Mori-Kitty to come home so we can get out of your hair. Thank you princess. Your beauty has made this stay worthwhile."Yuki bowed and kissed Elizabeths hand.

Only an hour or two later, Mori walked back into the cabin, one arm crossed protectively over the other. He was grumbling inaudibly under his breath and didn't look impressed in the slightest. "What?" He growled when Sadaharu made as if to ask. "Kitsune. Tried to set me on fire." He muttered darkly. "No sign of Etsuko either! And the damned fox made me drop my sake!" He sighed and prodded his forehead.

"My dear," Yuki smirked. "Mori-kitty. We have, as a collective group, decided to go north in search of the second peice to the anciant braclet. You are lucky enough to come long, for we need taro-fish to follow along too."

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"Taro-Daddy." Evelyn said, climbing onto his bed. "Are you leaving us because you hate us?"

Mori glowered at the nicknames for the both of them and then turned away with a grunt. "Suppose I could come along."

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"What? No!" Taro exclaimed, sitting down next to Evelyn and beaming at her. "I'll be back sweetie, I'm just going to go on a trip with Uncle Mori." He said. "I don't hate you, what on earth gave you that idea?"

"Could? Should? Want to? Need to?" Yuki teased, sitting back. "Come to me my Taro-fish. Mori-Kitty is pouting!" He called into taros room.

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"Then will you bring me back a present?" Evelyn asked, getting onto her knees. "I'd like a present from outside the village."

"Good idea!" Taro smiled and picked Evelyn up. "I'll bring you a present." He said and picked up a small bag of odds and ends with hos free hand and walked back into the main room.

"What's this? My Mori-puu pouting?!" Taro laughed as he walked in, placing the pouch onto the table and putting Evelyn down in one of the chairs, kissing the top of her head. "Fear not, we will not have to be seperated!" Mori scowled darkly.
"You're pushing your luck, I'd be careful if I were you, or you'll find yourself lost" He said irritably.

Yuki decided to give a small laugh insted of the comment raising in his throat.

"Lets just go." Amaterasu sighed, saying her goodbyes to those members of the household staying behind and walking out.

Yuki bowed deeply and left, Wuu jumping onto his back as he did so.

Mori and Sadaharu followed suit, the former still holding the asumably burnt, bandaged arm and Taro tailing them both, grinning in his vacant way.

"Raven! COme on." Amaterasu shouted into the house.

Raven walked out of the house and moved quickly to catch up. "So we're following a bracelet?" He asked Amaterasu, stepping in beside her.