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Kougajji tried tuning out the sounds of his sister and her new friend Shizuka feuding over their battle from before.

"I soooo let you win!"

"Yeah . . . sure ya did. That's why you were screamin' at the top of yer lungs." They growled at each other till Takai smacked them both over the head.

"That's enough. You know better than that Shizuka. Please just continue eating." He walked back to his seat next to his leader and calmly sat down.

"Thank you Takai. They were starting to give me a headache."

"Of course my lady. My brother can be quite the nuisance at times. But I know that you're already well aware of that."

Shinobu smiled a bit at the comment. "Come on now Takai, I've known you two for most of my life, he's like my younger brother too. He may seem like a bother to you, but to me he's only like this once in awhile. Maybe you just aren't handling him right."

"Perhaps you're right."

"Excuse me Miss Lady of Darkness, but . . . " Everyone's attention turned to Kougajji sensing the anger in his voice. ". . . just why the heck are you still here if you don't intend on helping us resurrecting or retrieving the scriptures, or, for that matter, fighting the Sanzo party!"

"My lord." Yaone made it her responsibility to calm the prince down. However, Shinobu remaining quiet and ignoring the question didn't help one bit.

"Well!!"

"Because I can't let you kill her."

"What kind of answer is that?"

"Please calm down my lord. There's no need for such anger." He was breathing hard and trying to keep calm.

"Well, I'll put it this way then. Why are you here prince if you're not interested in helping your dear mother either?" She glared at him to see if he would actually reveal the reason for his staying.

He didn't. "That's none of your business."

"Well then . . ." She got up from her seat with Takai following suite. ". . . if you don't instead on speaking family matters with us, why should I discuss mine?"

"What?"

"Besides . . . " She looked at him and gave a small smile. ". . . I thought you'd be glad that you could now focus all your attention on the Sanzo party."

"What?"

"What are you a broken record? Once you left I had a private meeting with your dear stepmother. My team and I shall retrieve the final scriptures and leave the Sanzo party to you four."

"Yeah, that way we wouldn't have come all this way for nothing. Even though the pay may not have been worth it now." Katashi was still upset that they were no longer getting the big paycheck they were promised in the beginning.

"You're willing to do that? Why?" He was still unsure about all of this.

"If I do this for you I have only one request for you in exchange."

Figures she wants something else, I thought she was letting this go too easily. "What?"

"The priestess now traveling with Sanzo, you can't kill her. You will let me get her scripture and you are not to touch her."

"What!?!" Both Kou (got tired of typing Kougajji) and Doku (his was too hard to start with) jumped at hearing that the woman they saw was a Sanzo.

"Are you saying that woman back there was a monk and a Sanzo none the less?!"

"Yeah what'd you think she was morons? She's a female Sanzo also known as Souryo, and she carries the Uten scripture. I'll get it without killing her got it."

"Why don't ya just kill her!?! Hiyeeeeeya!!!!!" Lirin punched the air and narrowly missed Shizuka.

"HEY!!!"

"Ooops sorryy."

"I would love to kill that little bitch, but I made a promise to our parents that I would protect her." The other four were dumbfounded.

"You realize that she's a human right?"

"I'M WELL AWARE OF THAT!!!" A large vein began to grow on her forehead. "She was adopted; my parents took her in when she and I were both young. It's not like I had a choice in that."

"Oh. . . "

"I wish she my parents never took her in . . . " They both died because of her, and yet they have me protect her. Because of her . . .

"You don't seem fond of her." Yaone brought Shinobu back into reality. "Is there a reason you hate her so much?"

"I have my reasons."

"You actually want to kill her don't you?"

"Lord Kougajji!?"

"Why don't you let us deal with her? At least you won't upset your parents by killing her yourself."

"Because . . .by the time we find the scriptures you all still won't have the Sanzo party's."

"What did you say?!"

"My sister is now traveling with them, which means she's supposed to help. In other words keep you from the scripture, so you'll have four on eight. I don't care how good you say you are or how good you actually are you can't fight all eight of them." She began to leave with her squad following her. "Don't worry though, we'll give you a hand once we're done." The four left the prince to earn their pay.

"Kou, do you think we can trust them?"

"Surprisingly . . . yeah Doku, I think we can. They may be the only ones in this castle we can trust."

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YEAY ALL DONE!!

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