The yellow eyed yokai watched as the cloaked man stood infront of the stone doll examining every inch of the thing. The fox yokai walked up to him and gazed over at the same sight. "Hey Hayate do you know why this thing is so important?" he asked, Obu stopped to look back at them.
"I can understand your curiosity Yasu, I have yet to tell any of you -except Chihiro- what my purpose is for this master piece." The lighting flinger cared not for what he was going to do with the stone puppet he just wanted to know why they had to wait around doing nothing. He could be challenging the lord of the west right now to keep himself entertained even though he can only challenge the lord once every few months.
Did Obu really need them to just wait around with him till whatever plan happened happened. He looked up at the night sky which was clear of clouds so nothing blocked the full view of the stars. What was so important about the night of the new moon he thought to himself.
Obu looked to the the sky and chuckled to himself which sent a ominous chill down the fox yokai's back. The small toad like woman Chihiro appeared from the forest ridding along top of the head of the oger she had gotten as a gift from the strange yokai. They all looked to her as she herself was smiling ear to ear with a giggle of her own. Hearing her laugh sent a shiver running up both yokais back.
"Oh my dear Chihiro what a lovely mood you seem to be in what could provoke such a cackle to part from those toad like lips" said the fox as he placed his tail on to his lap and used his fingers to comb through its fur. "Shut up you sly flea infested scavenger." She snapped at the fox, Yasu moved his hands from his tail and whispered to himself "I don't have fleas I was just really itchy that one time." The cloaked yokai thought she must of been in a good mood since she only tossed an insult at the fox instead of literally tossing him. She looked to him with a gleam in her eye as she held out her balled up hand. Everyone there stared wondering what would make a toad glow. When she released her fingers there was nothing in her palm. Yasu snorted with a laugh "nice "thing" you got their" the dragon yokai Hayate didn't know how to react he only felt annoyed by the wait it took for them to receive nothing.
Suddenly the cloaked figure chuckled once more as he lifted his hand to hers "the last piece" he said then the other two turned to look at him with confusion over there face. From the witches hand he picked up a very long nearly invisible strand of silver hair. "It seems as if your stone puppet succeeded in getting a strand of hair from the lord of the west." Obu walked back to his new stone puppet "why would you need hair from that inu?" asked Yasu, the yellow eyed demon seemed to wonder as well. The yokai tapped his finger on the forehead of the puppet which then suddenly created a small hole. The yokai rapped the long silver stand around his finger then removed it and placed it in the small opening.
"Lets just say he's apart of my plain to capture and use the hanyõ before she dies." The fox didn't understand why or how he was going to use a fake lord to catch this hanyõ he was after. Seeing the look upon the creatures face the cloaked yokai decided to let these two in on a small part of his plan.
"The others that you sent out to find this hanyõ were just sacrificial pawns I take it." The lightning flinger said which clicked in the fox yokai's mind "they were never going to survive an encounter with this half-breed? So..were they just way markers." Yasu asked "hohoho your smarter then I gave you credit for fox" the witch laughed "yes you could say that. I sent them out so that Chihiro could track there movement's. You see my dear hanyõ has herself a very capable group of strangers hovering around her. And now I believe that the lord of the west seems pretty curios about her as well."
"So how are you going to handle them?" "My plan to handle everything has already been set in motion." An idea has been planted in the mind of lord Sesshomaru, he thought to himself not wanting to give every detail to his plan light. "The only thing left is to let things take root and wait for my opportunity to claim my prey.
"So then whats your plan for having us sticking around?" Hayate asked, the cloaked yokai could tell this demon was tired of waiting around which was all dragon yokai that hadn't scratched the age of 800. "My plan for you and everyone else has yet to reach our present but I can see waiting around here is of no enjoyment so I will not bind you here. You all may choose to go where you yearn. I will seek you all out once again when the time for my plan comes forth.
"Specking of plans" the witch said as her smiled turned wicked "the Hihi's that I had sent out have all perished." He looked at the women who smiled to him, he knew what that meant that they had found her and the group of strangers. "Whats this about?" the fox asked wanting to be included "And what of the other village that you sent the group of demons to?" He asked Chihiro "they still live the village that they had gone to has been destroyed." He nodded to her, so they did find her. "Good, this will move things along faster" he turned to his puppet. The two yokai that had no idea what they were talking about began to put things together for themselves.
"Did you make sure that if they encountered her that they were to give her the message I gave you?" She nodded to him"they were given the message" "What message" the fox asked still trying to get them to spill the rest of the plan they had. "Lets just say that we given her the motivation to retrace her steps back to the unprotected." "Soft Inu's always bargain to get what they lost back" the witch cackled. The yellow eyed demon looked from Obu to Chihiro and didn't like there way of going about things,why couldn't they just go up to the hanyõ themselves. He turned his back to them as he thought of what kind of fight this would get him. Shaking his head from his thoughts he had agreed to help for his fight so he would not go back on his word. There was no need for him to think in this plan of Obu the cloaked figure. The yellow eyed dragon began to leave and that grabbed the attention of the fox yokai. He looked to the puppet that stood there and to the yokai that stared at it with accomplishment. He looked back to the lightning flinger that was now disappearing into the forest.
He said that we could go were we wanted no need to stick around here he thought to himself as he too left to follow after Hayate. Just because he had nothing better to do doesn't mean that he was one to like waiting around a campfire. He rather spend his time wandering around tricking unsuspected humans and yokai. However this time he had decided to follow his new companion around and to see what makes him tick.
The two remaining yokai noticed the departure of the dragon and the fox but cared not for he would retrieve them when the time for him to use them was upon him. "So now that the village has been set a blaze what will the hanyõ do?" but the cloaked figure said nothing his head lowered and he grew still which caught the attention of Chihiro who then looked up to the large tree when she heard a deep growl in the form of laughter echo from the hollow hole. "Most Ino's are predictable, the lord of the west, his brother and her father all follow the same pattern. When something that they cherish is taken they bargain." Now that everything was beginning to line up and he had his key component to the chaos he was going to bring, it was time for him to start his next step. Chihiro rose up to the hole and seen a very large brown eye staring at her.
Author's note: Sorry that this chapter is really short I just felt like if I writ any more here I'd give too much away.