The Problem
Chapter 1: Where's Dogface?
Disclaimer: I don't own Samurai Deeper Kyo.
They had been walking for over 20 hours now. It was cold, rainy and in the middle of fall. In other words today was the worst in history.
'Why can't we stop? We have been going now for almost a full day!!' Yuya thought angrily. She would yell at the man before her but at the moment that was not a safe idea. He had been extremely angry the whole day and we only fought twice! The last person who talked was Yukimura, who is never intimidated by anyone no matter what, but one glare and the raising of killing aura from the Killer of 1000 Men had him shutting up quickly.
'Okay, we better stop soon before I pass out from exhaustion,' Yuya griped in her head. She was not used to being told to not talk and actually listening to it. I mean Kyo told her all the time to shut up but she usually never listened. I mean, why would she? She is Yuya the Bounty Hunter, one to be feared! Though, that meant nothing to the man that was leading their group. While she was in her thoughts she ran into said man, he turned around quickly with a withering glare. Yuya shrunk away slightly and went to stand (coughhidecough) by Red Tiger.
"We will stop here for now," Demon Eyes Kyo gruffly told before he sat on the ground against a tree.
'Yes!! Best moment all day right now!!' Yuya cheered in her head. 'Maybe she could find a hot spring somewhere…'
"Dogface! Bring me my sake!" came a yell to her right. Yuya sighed sadly; she hated being the 'servant'.
"Okay, Kyo," Yuya said with no emotion in her voice.
She brought the sake to the man she both trusted with her life and feared at the same time.
"Hey Kyo, I am going to go and try to find a hot spring," the bounty hunter told, all the while knowing he didn't care.
"Good. You smell, dogface and maybe cleaning yourself up will take some of your ugliness away; though I don't think it will matter too much. You are way too ugly for it to make any difference," Kyo insulted with a smirk.
Yuya's eyes stung a bit from the insult but hid it from Kyo by looking down, "What?! Why are you so mean to me? What have I done to you?!"
"Lived," The demon relied nastily.
Yuya looked shocked; he had never said anything so cruel before. She looked around with her eyes and saw that the guys had stopped what they had been doing to stare at Kyo in disbelief. That just made the whole situation worse; they had heard the whole conversation; heard that she really was nothing but an annoying girl to their leader. A tear escaped from her eye before she could stop it, so she quickly turned around and headed for the forest that was not to far away from the group.
"What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you say such mean things to her?" Benitora exclaimed loudly.
"What?" Demon Eyes said as if he hadn't insulted the only girl in their group.
Red Tiger looked furious but just turned away and went to talk to Akira.
A few hours later, everyone was starting to worry about the whereabouts of Yuya, well almost everyone Kyo was still sitting against his tree smoking and drinking as if the girl's absence for hours was completely normal.
"I am really starting to worry about Miss Yuya. I think she should have come back by now," Yukimura said softly in concern.
"Kyo, don't you think that you should go look for her?" Sasuke asked as he was worried for his nii-san.
"What would I do that for?" Kyo shot back.
"Well maybe because you are the reason she left in the first place!" Red Tiger cut in angrily.
"I did not make the woman do anything. She was going to go take a bath before she ran off," Kyo replied haughtily. He was really getting annoyed that they were blaming him for the girl's absence.
'Well you were the one who insulted her. You even made her cry,' accused a voice in the demon's head.
'Shut up Kyoshiro. I don't care if I made her cry or not,' Kyo said in less anger. He didn't know he had made her cry. Oh well it was not his problem.
"If she isn't here before we leave tomorrow then we will go look for her," stated the Killer of a thousand Men.
"In the morning?! Why wait so long?" yelled Benitora.
"Because I am tired and I said so, servant number two," growled Kyo.
Benitora just stared in anger for a minute before he walked away. As Kyo looked around he noticed that everyone was tenser and not talking like they usually did when they stopped.
"Damn woman, you are way more trouble than you are worth," Kyo muttered to himself. And without realizing it he adjusted himself so he sat in the exact direction the girl left before.
In the morning, when everyone woke up they looked all around to see if Yuya had come back; but she was no where in sight. Everyone but Kyo looked at each other in worry for the woman's safety. Secretly though, Kyo was very troubled; what had happened to her? Why wasn't she back yet?
They all gathered their things was about to head in the direction when they saw something in the distance. Red Tiger looked in anticipation, hoping it was his beloved Yuya-han. They the figure wasn't Yuya, nor was it even a woman. It was a man that was short and lithe. He had a short sword at his waist and he walked right up to Kyo.
Kyo reached for his sword in caution, "What do you want here?"
"I have some news for you from my lord," the man said in a gruff voice. He looked smug and as if he didn't just walk into the almost dangerous group in the world.
"Yea, what makes you think that I give a damn what you're news is?" Demon Eyes growled back.
"Oh, I am sorry. I guess you don't want to know where your little friend was last night. That's fine, I guess I will be on my way," the man said mockingly. As the samurai turned, there was a sword at his throat and a pissed off demon at the end of it.
"Where is she?" Kyo asked as his killing aura rose even higher. The man has the sense to become fearful and started telling quickly.
"My lord has, for a while now, wanted to challenge you Demon Eyes Kyo for the title of the strongest so he thought for you to come to his that he would take the most important thing to you."
"That woman isn't important to me but I don't like it when someone takes my servants. For they are so very hard to find these days," Kyo joked though nothing about him looked like he was joking or in a good mood. Everyone new that what Kyo said was a lie; if someone hurt or took Yuya then Kyo took it personally, which meant this man would soon be dead and they would be heading to where ever Yuya was to get her back. All they needed to know first was where they were going.
"Where did you take her?" Kyo questioned angrily, his killing aura still extremely high.
"She is at my Lord's castle, which is on the Kanoki lake," the samurai replied in open fear.
Kyo grinned widely that did not mean he was happy, quite the opposite in fact, he was pissed.
"Thanks," And with that he swiftly cut him in half. Demon Eyes Kyo put his muramasa away and turned to his "servants". They all avoided his eyes, looking at him with him so angry was not a good way to stay alive.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go," commanded the Killer of 1000 Men. And then they were off to save the woman that was the most important to everyone, but not more than one man, that man being Demon Eyes Kyo. Yuya whether he knew it or not was the only important person to Kyo. He only needed her with him, always by him. And he would get her back.
A/N: Wow… I think that was pretty darn good! I hope you do too! There will be one more chapter before its done. I think that will be up rather fast. Please review and tell me what you think. Also if there is some error please tell me. I kinda stink at commas and things like that…horrible I know. Thank goodness for technology!!lol