Sorry for the delay. Got another ideas for new stories and I have to get it out. But like I said, I won't abandon my stories, so don't worry.

Let's get to the review first:

To Derago: I never plan on the number of chapters for each of my story. Only when I feel the end of it will I make an early announcement on the time it could end. If I do that, it could hinder my imagination.

With that of the way, let's continue the story!

"So this is the human village..." Soap comments. After about fifteen minutes flying, they have escaped the Forest of Magic. Looking from above, the soldiers can see the gate blocking between them and the entrance to the place. "Seems peaceful enough."

Alice: "On the outside. People might not be very friendly, except for few of them."

Roach: "What's the reason?"

Marisa: "It's about human-youkai relationship. Human here tends to not trust the other type, and most of them have seen first-handed of what youkai would do if provoked."

Soap: "Most of them, or all of them? If it's the later, then I would have been dead already."

Alice: "Don't ask the questions you already have the answers. Let's land down."

The guards on the watchtower notice the girls landing down, with soldiers being held by dolls. One walks out of plain view and calls out: "Halt! What's your business?"

Marisa waves her right hand towards the guy. "Hey Nita! It's me Marisa!"

The said guard sighs. "What do you want this time? Blowing up another corner of the village?"

"HEY! I would never do that!" Earning glares from the girls, she adds: "Most of the time. ANYWAY, I'm giving these guys a tour in the village!"

The guard observes the soldiers, then asks: "Are they human, or youkai?"

"They are from the Outside World!"

"Doesn't mean they're not youkai."

"If they try to hurt you, they would have been crushed by us!"

The guard thinks a bit, then walks back inside to argue with the other guard. Then Nita returns with the gate starts opening. "Get in. Don't cause any troubles."

"No promises!" Earning another glares, Marisa quickly fixes it: "Okay, promise, okay? Jeez, spoilsport..."

"Did this happen every time?" Soap whispers to Alice.

The girl nods. "It would be unusual if there's a day none of the explosions has her involved."

"HEY! That's not true!"

"Considering you blew up your own house, we're not surprised at all." Roach totally agrees, along with Ghost, which makes Marisa fume while walking.

Ghost asks Youmu: "By the way, where should we head to first?"

"Maybe the school. One of our friends has a very important role in protecting the village. We better show you to her first before she could have a reason to murder you all." Seeing that she's earning looks of disbelief from the soldiers, she quickly clarifies: "Sorry, figure of speech! I mean, she would probably beat you up, that's all. She doesn't like killing anyone at all."

Now that makes the soldiers sigh in relief. Alice shakes her head in disapproval: "Sometimes Yuyuko rubs off on you a bit too much." That earns her an embarrassed smile.

Soap decides to return to the subject: "What's she like? Violent or not?"

Marisa: "Quite the opposite. If anything, Keine would like to fix everything with peaceful solutions."

Roach: "But why school though? She works there?"

Alice: "She's the village's guardian, and also the one of the very few teachers in here. Mind you, the village was pulled in here from a long time ago."

Ghost groans. "So she's the only one knowing what to do here?"

Youmu shakes her head. "Not that, but she's capable of teaching the kids. There are people who are more intelligent than the others, but they don't fit the role as someone who could guide the younger ones."

"And I think it's better that way." All turns to Ghost for an explanation. "What? I mean, you forgot how our world was? Freaking news all over the places!"

Soap scolds. "That doesn't mean everywhere is the same."

Marisa actually agrees with Ghost: "I heard that people in the Outside world are bad. You will see similarities in here. That's why I moved out into the forest. Sometimes returning here just for some fun."

Having Shanghai knock lightly on Marisa's head, Alice comments: "Just hope we don't come across Yuuka or so, or we're not going to have fun times."

Roach: "One of the bad guys?"

Youmu: "Girl. And you can say that. Though if you don't provoke her, she won't do... much to you."

Ghost: "Sounds like a good reason to get those Danmaku bullets as soon as possible."

Alice: "If we can get a Kappa to work for that. Never heard of stocking Danmaku before. Oh, here we are."

They have reached the front gate of the school. Upon seeing it, Roach whistles: "Woah. You know, I heard you girls have a lot of good structures in your country, especially wooden ones. Guess those are truth."

Marisa: "We do have our own fashion, you know?" She then looks up to see the sun floating above their head, while being covered mostly by cloud. "By the look of it, she's currently in a class now. We should go somewhere else before returning here."

The soldiers shrug, as Soap asks: "Where can we find a good place for quick cash?"

Youmu points her thumb to a nearby building: "That place is where people giving requests. Let's head in."

"Um... what's going on here?" Ghost asks out loud.

"No idea." Roach shares his comrade's confusion.

While they're not really hoping the place is 'clean', they're at least expecting everything should be in order. What they're witnessing is like the aftermath of a storm. Many people in old Japanese outfits are lying around while trying to use their arms and legs to cover their own bodies. Marisa, not very surprised about this, walks to one of the counters and asks one of the guys behind it: "Hey, another fight happened?"

"Don't need a second guess. They just tried to pick on an Outsider. Thought the confused guy could be bullied, and oh wrong they are."

Hearing about that, Soap plans to walk to the duo and ask, but Alice stops him. "Could be another outsider. Sometimes outsiders will be stranded in here, unlike you being dragged out of hell."

Marisa continues: "You know where he could be now?"

"Could be anywhere. But just around the school maybe, since I saw him with miss Keine before."

"How does he look like?"

"Green outfit... actually, he doesn't look like a normal villager. I mean, the way he fought, he could be a guard or something."

"Did he have any kinds of weapons on him?"

"Define them." Marisa gestures Roach to come near. The man understands and walks to the counter while showing the AK47. "Hm... not exactly the same, but similar."

Roach asks: "Did he, by any chances, say his name?"

"No. He was asking for some jobs, when those guys *Points at the hurt people* tried to mug him. After the fight he just left."

"Thanks for the info. By the way, I would like to ask if there's anything for us, including that guy as well if he didn't get one, to do."

"Hm... wait a second." He starts checking the papers on his table. "If you're skilled as the guy before, maybe you can do this: Someone is asking to 'deal' with a pack of werewolves at the east of the village. But be careful, it's full moon period tonight, so you might have to be quick. For more details..." He then gives Roach the paper. "Go to this location. The requester will say more about it."

"Hm..." Roach then gives Soap the paper. "You think we can take it?"

"That's our duty, protecting innocents. That one's definitely calling for us. Thanks for that, mister."

"You are welcome. Once you're done, you don't have to return here to collect the money, the requester will give you the reward."

"Thanks." Soap puts the paper in one of his pockets. Then he gazes at the guys. "Should we do something for them?"

"Leave them be." Marisa pulls the two out of the mess. "That's what they get. Now let's get that friend of yours."

"People here are that desperate?" The man scratches his head in annoyance. "Mugging a guy in a daytime? They picked the wrong person to do so."

"I'm sorry for... the minority's behavior." Keine bows lightly in apology. "It's hard enough to protect them from the Youkai, but what they're doing to each other is beyond my hands."

"It's not your fault, don't worry. Still, I would like to give a word to the people responsible in this village."

"Even with my permission, you can't face them without accommodation. And... you are an Outsider."

"Hell with that! They are responsible for that! We can't just let them do what they want!"

"But still, just lay low for..."

"Miss Keine! Miss Kirisame wants to see you!" One of the children runs into the teacher's room, interrupting the conversation.

"Marisa? Thank you." As the kid leaves, Keine stands up and bows. "Sorry, but one of my friends is here and she wants to talk to me. You are free to go anywhere you want."

"Nah, it's fine. I would have to follow you out anyway."

Nodding, Keine gestures the man to follow her. On the way out the man's greeted by the children, as he gives back a friendly hand wave. Then the duo meets the girl and...

"GRIGGS!" The one with the Mohawk hair shouts next to the black-dress girl. That same Mohawk of his ally before he got the shot through his head...

"SOAP!" The two immediately walk forward and pull themselves into a bro-hug. "Good to see you here! I thought I have to wait for longer time!"

"Me too, mate." They then release each other off. Griggs then notices another soldiers. "That's your new comrades?"

"Yeah. That..." Soap turns back and points to Roach. "is Gary Sanderson, his alias is Roach. The other is Simon Riley, alias Ghost."

Griggs nods and starts hand-shaking the soldiers. "Nice to meet you all. The name's Griggs, First Force Recon of U.S Marine Corps."

Ghost answers back: "Our pleasure. Mind if I ask how long you have been here?"

"About two days, actually."

Roach: "And how did you get here? Hope it's not like Soap."

Griggs turns to Soap, who sighs when remembering about the event. "I got dropped through a girl's house's rooftop and crashed her living room. Luckily I fixed it this morning."

"Man, then we're in the same boat. I dropped through there." Everyone looks at where the Marine points at, to see a spot of the roof being fixed with wood planks. "Fortunately there's no one inside, but miss Keine nearly kicked me flying off the building if I didn't dodge fast enough."

Marisa just smirks as she nudges the embarrassed Keine. "You just had to do so, huh?"

"I thought he's a thief. And it's still full moon period."

Griggs continues: "And she looked a bit different as well. But after that it's okay when she calmed down and heard my story..."

"Wait." Soap interrupts. "You don't have a letter of him sending to you?"

"What letter? Oh, right." The Marine pulls out a paper from his chest pocket. "But it only told me that he pulled me off hell and put me here, and helped me understanding Japanese, and that's it. Anyway, how's General Shepherd? I would like to see him one day."

The TF141 soldiers look at each other uneasily, causing the Marine to ask back: "What's wrong? Did he get into troubles?"

Soap puts his hands on his hip and looks down to the ground for a second, before raising his head to Keine. "Miss, can we put this conversation inside? It's not a good idea for the kids to hear this story."

Keine, seeing the solemn on his face, nods. But she asks Marisa first: "Are there anyone else?"

Marisa: "Youmu is buying some food, and Alice is looking for some potions. They will join us soon."

Keine: "Alright then. Please get inside, everyone."

After Soap told the ending event of MW2...

"Sh!t. Shepherd... I know he's reckless, but I never thought he could be THAT crazy..."

Soap agrees: "None of us saw that coming. The whole world nearly believed it, except ones directly involved. And the ones who are dead..."

Roach has done inspecting the paper Griggs got. "Okay, this one is a bit too vague. I mean, the ones we got told us enough, but Griggs' is not at the same level. There's no hidden words or anything."

Ghost: "Is it because he has died long ago? That's why he can't retrieve info from the time Zakhaev died till now."

Soap: "Could be... Griggs, what weapons do you have?"

Griggs: "The M249 SAW and an M9. No bullets either."

Roach then reminds his Captain: "Sir, can you get that job paper out?"

Griggs remembers: "Ah right! Damn those guys made me forgot."

Soap pulls out the paper and spreads it on the paper while saying: "Yeah, guess muggers are everywhere." He then summaries the job: "Basically there's a group of wolf-Youkai threatening the east side of the gate. I would like to head in immediately, but our weapons are basically useless now. So we now must find a Kappa or someone who could provide us Danmaku to fight back."

Keine replies: "There's a Kappa warehouse nearby. We could head there first before doing the request."

Soap stands up and plans to walk to the door: "Then that's our next destination. Let's..." Before he is pulled back by Keine. "What is it?"

"Whatever you do, don't kill anyone here. I can stand you fighting, but not spilling blood."

Seeing the dead serious in the teacher's eyes, Soap reassures: "Don't worry. We don't kill people without a good reason. We will promise you to not kill anyone who's not deserved it."

Keine sighs in relief, but still adds: "If you want to kill someone, tell me first so I could arrange something else."

"We will keep that in mind. Everyone, let's roll!"

Chapter 5 end!

The next one is Griggs. Just finished MWR recently... and HOLY HELL the number of grenades and the insane accuracy in Veteran difficulty! It's like dodging Impossible Spells!

See you all in the next chapters!