Back to ze past

"By the sounds of it, only a peice of the braclet." Amaterasu smiled at raven wile she crossed her arms.

Yuki manged to throw the old man off his shoulders and walk far enogh ahead for the old man not to go catch up.

"I love the wawy that things always make sense." Raven said dryly. "Follow the foreigner with the piece of bracelet and avoid the old man. Simple."

"Seems the easiest way to do it." Amateras laghed, looking over at him.

Yki now hng to the back of the group.

"I used to wonder why demons became known as bad luck." Raven said, shaking his head and smirking. "Can't settle down for long at all without something out there happening."

Mori and Taro were walking beside one another at the front of the group, Mori irritably denying Taro a look at his arm on account of 'It's fine', and 'I'll bash your head in if you don't cut it out'. It ended up with Taro dancing out of Mori's range, grinning madly whilst the panther cursed furiously in the kurohyou tongue. 'If it's fine, that wouldn't have hurt!" Taro pointed out cheerfully.

Sadaharu winced when some of the curse words reached his ears and dropped back. Mori was evidently unimpressed. He smiled slightly. It was good to see someone making his father like figure really smile again... even if it was accompanied by violent twitching. He looked back and waited for the group to move past a little so he could walk alongside Yuki.

Yuki took hold of Sadaharus hand, his eyes boring straight ahead though a small smile touched his lips.

Amateras laghed at Ravens comment. "I don't know... I seetled down for a few years right?"

"And then gradually moved back into an adventurous lifestyle? I think not." he said with a grin. "At least I'm not just watching the gates anymore. That starts to drag you down after three years." He furrowed his eyebrows suddenly and scratched the back of his head. "That was a lot of words."

Sadaharu snickered slightly and then tried to look completely serious.

Amaterasu laughed. "Nice to see yo can speak though."

Yuki kissed Sadaharus knuckles and let his hand drop.

Sadaharu grinned at him and then crossed his arms. "So, we're going to try and get all these things before Luke? that the plan?"

Raven made a non-comittal grunting noise and continued walking; although he looked thoroughly amused.

"That is the plan." Yuki grinned. "And hopefully it doesn't fall through."

"No, let's hope it doesn't." Sadaharu said with a quirked smile. "My sister has one. Unless she's already given it to Luke."

"Possibly." Yuki sighed, running a hand through his hair. "How are you feeling?"

Sadaharu tapped his fingers against his crossed arms. "My head is killing me, I don't feel great and," He grimaced at Yuki. "I'm pretty irritated that I agreed with you. In brutal honesty." He said and offered a smile. "Apart from that, all smooth sailing."

"Need to stop and take a few, or can you wait till nightfall?" Yuki asked, worried.

"Night's not that much longer" He said with a half shrug. "Won't change much apart from drawing attention to me, right?" He asked, turning to look straight ahead. "I'm fine for the moment"

"Just, let me know if you need anything." Yuki said. "I'm your best mate, its my job to worry."

Not much later, Sadaharu was just about to cave in and turn to Yuki when Mori decided to stop for the night. He was hugging his arms around himself, shivering and his face was lacking colour. He gave a small sigh of relief and set his back against a tree whilst Mori, Taro and Raven starting arguing over the minimal choices of food. He rose a hand to his splitting head. This was ridiculous.

"Sadi and I are gonna fish for dinner." Yuki said, grabbing hold of Sadaharu and dragging him into the trees.


"Is he ok?" Amaterasu asked.

"You know how he is when he's human." Mori said from where he was building a fire. "Can't not catch a cold." He sat down to prod at the fire. "Hopeless, he is. Kid'll be fine."

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"When you said I'd hate you by today, you were right" Sadaharu said with a groan once they'd stopped, cradling his head and swaying. "How bad can it be in comparison?" He muttered through grit teeth.

Amaterasu hummed and looked down into the fire, squatting by it.

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Yuki grabbed hold of Sadaharus face. "Listen to me. Just look at me. Your feeling it now but once your off it you'll be thanking me."

"Yeah." Sadaharu gave a short laugh and then grimaced heavily, sitting down against the tree and bringing his knees up against his chest, still with one hand to his pounding head. "Shit."

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"We have to change direction" Taro said, cheerfully, somehow managing to stretch out so he was lying on mori's lap. the panther gave him a look of absolute mortification before he shoved him off onto the floor. "What the hell was that about?!"
"Oh, it's moved, that's all." Taro said with a grin.

"Come on." Yuki sighed, heaving Sadaharu up. "Theres a river close by. Just a little further."

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Amaterasu gave a small laugh. Wuu sat down and with a stretch and a yawn, collapsed.

"Travelling with Mori-wanwan must have been absolutely horrid!" Taro chuckled, moving to sit cross-legged. "He doesn't bring any good qualities to a conversation, does he?"
"Let's see you converse with a faceful of dirt." Mori warned.

"A~iii, i made him mad again."
"Moron."
"Softie."
"Idiiot"
"Mo-Neko, stupide peur chaton!"
"...What?"

Mori scowled, crossing his arms and leaned away from the blonde man who was leaning towards him. Taro snickered suddenly and prodded him between the eyes.

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Sadaharu walked along with Yuki, deciding it better for the both of them for now to remain silent. His irritability was getting the better of him. But he still had enough reason to see it wouldn't get him anywhere.

Yuki placed his down by the water, and removing his own shirt he placed it in the water, and ran it over Sadaharus face gently. "Just keep doing this and I'll fish for the dinner."

Sadaharu did as Yuki said, finding that the coolness of the water offered a slight reprieve from the headache. He gave a small sigh. It didn't helpp the chills wracking him, but they were nothing over his head. "Thanks for this." He murmured.

Yuki sighed, having cast in his make-shift rod. "Come here." He opened one arm for Sadharu.