Ritsuka was following natsuo and yoji as they lead him out of the forest, at least that's what they told him as they walked along. "So this will take me out of the forest, so I can't hurt anything or anyone anymore?" he asked after what seems like hours of silence. Yoji looked back and nodded "…yeah" then he looked at natsuo, a sad look on his face.
"What is it yoji?" he said after trying to ignore the face yoji was staring at him. "We shouldn't do this to him" he said softly "He hasn't done anything wrong" Natsuo looked at him "Listen I don't wanna be this small forever, the only person who can help us is this goddess who wants him"
"Uh is something wrong you two?" Ritsuka asked softly, natsuo looked back "No nothing is wrong" he said "you two make camp I'm going to go and get food" Yoji looked confused "but why are we stopping now?" Natsuo looked at ritsuka as he sat down and was tooo busy taking off his shoes. "I'm going to tell the goddess you sat right here and make sure he doesn't get away" he whisphered and looked over to ritsuka to make sure he didn't hear.
Yoji nodded and went to ritsuka "Lets make camp" he said with a smile that isn't reassuring. "Is something wrong yoji?" he asked softly as he watched the little blue kitten boy struggle to pick up sticks for a fire. "Something wrong?" he asked panicking a little "No nothing is wrong"
Ritsuka wasn't convinced as he stood up, the earth turning black under his feet. Yoji looked up at him "Uh maybe you should put your shoes back on ritsuka?" he suggested as he dropped the sticks in a pile. He nodded as he sat back down "Maybe you're right" he said, sitting back down and putting on his boots.
Yoji managed to get a little fire going, but it wasn't big enough to keep ritsuka warm enough. He sat on the dirt rubbing his arms to get a bit warmer. After while yoji went to sleep, ritsuka watched as the fire went out. He sat in the dark, munching on mushrooms that was growing on a nearby tree, not bothering to check if they were poisonous since it wouldn't harm him. Thinking to himself 'where did natsuo go'
There was some rustling in the bushes and a little ball a light came and smacked ritsuka in the face, in a very dim voice he could hear it say "Master Ritsuka!" Panicking ritsuka pulled the ball of light off his face and threw it. He got up and scooped up yoji who managed to stay sleeping and ran into the woods.
Yuiko slammed against the tree "Owie that hurt" she said rubbing her back, then perked up as she looked around "Master Ritsuka? Darn it he got away again" Then soubi appeared out of the bushes, still looking like he was in pain even after he stopped bleeding. "Was he here?" he asked, holding out his hand to yuiko.
"Yes yuiko saw him, then master ritsuka threw yuiko to the wall and ran that way" she said pointing into the woods. "He ran that way but that's towards the god's mountain, he'll run into misaki" he said running in the direction ritsuka went.
Ritsuka kept running, not caring where he was going since he knew soubi was close. He then bumped into something that felt as hard as a tree, falling back and dropping yoji. That fall was enough to wake him up and he looked up as ritsuka laid on the ground. Ritsuka hit his head pretty hard and his vision started to blur, despite it being dark. One of misaki's guards was standing infront of him and picked up ritsuka, giving yoji enough time to scurry away and hide. "Oh no…" he said quietly as the guard tossed ritsuka over his shoulder and walked towards the mountain.
Yoji was overwhelmed with guilt and sat down, quietly sobbing as he hid in the brush. That's when soubi walked by and yuiko stopped him "Do you here that?" Yuiko jumped off hi s shoulder and went looking around for the noise and she saw yoji. "Hey why are you crying kitten?" she asked softly. "I'm not a kitten" he hissed "And I just let this boy get captured by the goddess misaki"
"Who's your friend" yuiko asked softly, yoji wiped his eyes with his little paws "He's name was ritsuka"
