Part 3

"Anyway!" linshishu broke the silence in the forest. The group was walking for 2 days already. "Why are we going to aioya anyway?" he added.

Aoshi looked at him "I need to know something and we're going to visit your uncle hiko seijuro" he replied. Linshishu was about to ask one more question when keisuke hit her elbow on his ribs.

"that's enough" she whispered "father doesn't like to answer so many questions" she added.

Linshishu remembered when he was 6 years old. He asked aoshi so many nonsense questions like 'how far is the earth from heaven' and he got punished. He spend the rest of the day cutting woods. "yah... Sorry I forgot" linshishu replied.

As they passed several large woods until they saw a very large tree with scratches on it. "we're near" aoshi said.

"Good! Coz I'm hungry!" jijiri said. Keisuke took her kodachi and hit the wooden part on jijiri's head.

"silence!" aoshi said to them. He looked aroundand took out his kodachi. Keisuke and the others also prepared themselves. Suddenly groups of slashers ame out of nowhere surrounding all of them "give us all your money and the girl" one of them said pointing at keisuke. "in your dreams fatso!" linshishu said. "You'll pay boy!" e replied, and start attacking them. Keisuke looked around and four men surrounded her. then one of them tried to slice into halves but she just evaded the attack and used the kaiten kenbu technique on him. Then she swirled around to slash the opponent on the back and used he omnyou hasshi on the other two. They were running towards her, perfectly aligned, so it was a fortune for her. meanwhile, jijiri scratched his sword on a huge rock creating a tornado of fire chasing the other men off. Linshishu was fighting the head of the group. He was perfectlyood or an amateur but the fight did not last long. linshishishu finish him off using the move called hiryu-jin, which his uncle taught him. The other slashers saw howgood they are and quickly ran away. "COME BACK HERE YOU COWARD COWS!" jijiri yelled. "what was that for? A warm up exercise?" linshishu asked aoshi. "those men think they're strong enough to rob people, they don't know who they'e dealing with" he replied. "c'mon we've got to get movin'" keisuke said "its getting dark she added.

The sun set behind the beautiful green mountains giving way to the moon. They reach the town just in time for supper. "we're here" keisuke said to herself. They passed many houses and reach a small, simple restaurant, the shirobeko restaurant. When they were about to go inside a chilly voive called aoshi. All of them turned and saw saitoh hajime walking towards them. " I didn't know you'd came back here" he said. "I'm here for business" aoshi replied. "business?" saitoh said and let out a howl of laughter making keisuke shiver. Aoshi lokked at saitoh coldly. " you haven't done any business for years!" he said. "its not what I meant" aoshi sneered. Suddenly a brown haired girl with golden-yellow eyes, like saitoh's kept popping out fro saitoh's shoulder. Aoshi noticed her and said "saitoh, who's that snake behind you?" saitoh raised one eyebrow and replied "this is my daughter, hikaru" the brown-haired girl came out from saitoh's back and bowed politely. She remarkably looked like saitoh except that she was just wearing like an underwear. Her top dress was just bandages, like keisuke's only it was covered with green cloth. Meanwhile her skirt was just a two pieced cloth just to cover the front and back legs. The cloth was up to her knees and a robe was tied to her waist to prevent it form going down. Then jijiri and linshishu drooled over hikaru. Saitoh saw jijiri and linshishu and asked aoshi who those to morons are "jijiri and linshishu, this is my daughter keisuke" he replied. "another popsicle " saitoh said. "so lets go in" he added. Then the group went inside the shirobeko restaurant.

The restaurant was filled with customers. The waitress assist them and lead them to a vacant seat. "finally! Food!" jijiri said. "shut up!" linshishu snapped. "go to another vacant seat" aoshi sait to keisuke. Keisuke nodded and lead her friends into another place. That night aoshi told saitoh why he was there. Meanwhile keisuke and the others spend the night eating. Hikaru and keisuke went well together while linshishu was still drooling over hikru. "you know what" jijiri whispered at linshishu. "what!" he murmured. "you're a pervert, disgusting low-life creature" jijiri replied. Linshishu's face went red and looked at jijiri "you're an idiot moron, bastard and a shit-eating fool" he said calmly. Keisuke and hikaru looked at them. " oh yeah! At least I'm not a pork-faced boy!" jijiri cut in. "at least, I am not an elephant" linshishu replied. Hikaru started to laugh but she was stopping it. "go to hell! Bastard!" jijiri yelled. "why don't you become a shit head on your next life!" linshishu yelled back . " you'll both become shit-heads on your next life if you don't stop I now" keisuke said. Jijiri and linshishu calmed down. Silence filled the atmosphere as all ofv them began to eat their desserts.

"lets go" saitoh called hikaru making all of them jump. Hikaru looked back at her friends with an I-don't-want-to-go reaction. Saitoh noticed it and talked to aoshi one more time, telling him if hikaru can tag along with them. Aoshi approved and payed the bills. Saitoh left them saying that he got to go to work. Hikaru thanked her father and assumed that she'll be fine.

They went to a small hotel and rest there for the whole night. Keisuke and hikaru stayed in one room while jijiri, aoshi and linshishu tooked the other. even keisuke and hikaru sleep in the other room, they can hera jijiri snores. As the dawn breaks, hikaru went up first. She woke keisuke and the two of them headed down after they took a bath. Not long, linshishu and jijiri followed them. "aoshi's gone" linshishu said. "he'll be back" keisuke replied. "what do we do?" jijiri asked her. "explore" hikaru replied. "Fine" linshishu said. The four of them went out exploring. As they reach the market place , hikaru bumped into a black-haired, Prussian- blue eyed girl "watch were your going!" she yelled. "sorry!" murmured hikaru. "don't you have any eyes!" she said. "Hey my friend already apologized isn't it enough?" keisuke cut in. "no its not!" the girl answered. "who the hell are you anyway!" linshishu yelled.