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"…So who's going to lead the tribe?"
"Boskov."
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"What? Have you gone crazy? Didn't he just return after being gone for six years?" Maria hissed at Clover.
"Yes, this is why I'm leaving you to watch him." Clover told her.
"How? I'm a human, if you haven't noticed!"
"Right, and the tribe trusts you-"
"And the village trusts you and your tribe. I fail to see how this makes any difference."
"It's for this very reason that I can leave you to watch him: no one would think anything of it." Maria couldn't argue with the logic in Clover's response.
"Besides, I'm giving one last command before I resign as leader."
"Really, what?"
"I'm sending Leah and Mia to the sister tribes to tell them to be on stand-by."
"Stand-by for what?"
"In case if I need their help later."
"You do realize if they rejected helping your tribe, they'll reject helping you on your own."
"I know, but that doesn't mean I can't try." Clover told her while standing up shakily to search for Leah and Mia.
After ten minutes of scanning faces, she found Leah hugging a sobbing Mia close. Clover strode over to them as she felt many pairs watching her, only four kept watching, The Sanzo Group.
"The strangers are watching me… probably making sure I don't run off…" She thought to herself.
"Leader…" Leah said as Clover approached.
"I'm not going to be your leader for much longer." Clover told her. Mia and Leah looked up at her in shock.
"What… why…?" Leah asked her.
"Because I made a deal with the four strangers, the ones watching us right now." Clover told them, lightly gesturing her head in the direction of the Sanzo Group. Leah and Mia peered around Clover to look at them.
"They are watching us…" They thought, looking back at Clover.
"Why haven't you told the rest of the tribe yet?" Mia asked her.
"Because I'm issuing one more order before I resign." At this Leah and Mia straitened up, waiting for their last order from Clover. "I want you two to go and tell the other tribes of what happened and to be ready for my request of help at any time."
"Even you not being leader anymore?" Mia asked.
"Yes, I'm going to tell them now."
"Even the humans?" Leah asked.
"Yes." Clover said, turning and striding into the middle of the large gathering, everyone who wasn't already watching immediately looked up at her, even the humans.
"Alright, listen up! I can't be the leader anymore. Boskov will be taking my place. Please don't let this hinder the friendship between the village and the tribe." She shouted.
"Why?" Boskov demanded, knowing the answer.
"Because a deal is a deal."
"Deal? What deal?" A villager asked her.
"The one I made with those strangers." Murmurs of "That's why they're still here!" sounded through the crowd.
"Are you leaving?" one of the children asked her.
"Yes."
"Will you ever be back, Ms. Clover?" one of the villagers asked.
"I'm not sure."
"At least stay tonight!" Jason cried while running up to Clover, when he reached her he hugged her legs with his little arms.
"Sure." She couldn't reject a crying child.
Maria walked up to Clover with a medical kit, as everyone else went back to what they were doing before the announcement, with the occasional glance up at Clover.
"Take off your cloak; I need to finish healing your wounds." She told Clover.
"You sure?" Clover asked her.
"Can't be any worse than the wounds you sustained before." Maria answered.
Clover looked at her skeptically before taking off her cloak. There was a collective gasp from Maria and anyone looking up, then even more gasps as the ones who weren't looking saw her wounds. Gojyo and Sanzo even dropped their cigarettes.
"O-oh my g-god…" Maria mumbled, stumbling backwards.
Clover had deep cuts all over her body, but what shocked really shocked everyone was the giant really deep cut that ran down her back. It had started to get infected.
"I warned you." Clover told her, sitting to wait for her friend to recover and heal her. Maria closed her gaping mouth and sat down to heal Clover. As soon as she sat down, Clover fell onto her side, the pain and loss of blood finally getting to her.
"Stupid. Why do you always do this?" Maria whispered while healing her best friend. Later that night, after all the yokai were healed, the humans were returned to the village by riding Holly's back again.
Clover woke up the next morning and packed her stuff as she get ready to leave with the Sanzo group, with the help of Roscoe. She told the Sanzo Group she was ready to go, when she finished. The group of five walked out to the edge of the forrest, where the little white dragon turned into the jeep.
"So that's how they get around… that's a bit strange." Clover thought to herself, as she pet mini-Holly.
Before she could climb into the jeep with her new traveling companions, cries of children yelling "wait" were heard. The Sanzo group turned around as the yokai children burst through the bushes, Jason leading them all.
"C-Clover, w-wait!" he gasped out. She noticed something in his hand.
"Is that… a lei?" She thought as she kneeled down to their level.
"Here! We made it!" Jason told her holding up the lei.
"We made out of all your favorite flowers!" A yokai child told her.
"And some of our own!" Another told her.
"Thank you. I'll cherish it forever." She told them, letting Jason lift it over her head and place it on her neck. The children swarmed her into a group hug. They cried as they held her, some blew their runny noses on her cloak.
"Hey, hey, hey! How many times have I told you not to do that?" She told them. The children just smiled up at her.
"You promise to come back?" One of the smallest asked.
"You know I don't make promises I might not be able to keep." She told her.
"So that means no?" She asked, sadly.
"Yes, I'm sorry." The children looked down sadly. "But that doesn't mean I can't promise to try when all this is over." Clover told them, causing their hopes to rise. She stood up and hopped into the jeep.
"Bye-bye leader, return soon." The youngest yokai said, waving to her.
"I'm not your leader anymore. Now go home, all of you." Clover told them, looking into the trees at the hiding adults.
Hakkai started the jeep and drove off, down the road. The Sanzo group drove down the mountain and through the small village. The human villagers waved to Clover as the Sanzo Group passed by. They kept on driving until dark, when they stopped at the woods and set up camp.
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Hi… Roscoe/Holly is the same animal… she has more forms… what they are and their names will be revealed later… but the only time my multi-form OC is a boy is when she is Roscoe… other than that it's a girl… bye…