One Last Chance

By: LanaPanther

Disclaimer: I no own, so you no sue! ^_^

Warnings: Japenese swearing. -_-;

::Chapter Four::

::The Introductions-2::



After a while the woman's sobs diminished to small whimpers, and Genrou looked at her, asking, "You wanna come to my place for a while? It's pretty late, and you look like you could use some sleep."

The woman nodded, and choked out a, "Thank you."

Genrou smiled at her, and said, "Don't worry about it. What's your name?" The woman sniffed at finally stood, giving Genrou a weak smile. She had on a white, long sleeve shirt under a dark blue short sleeve T-shirt with three white circles across the chest, baggy, army green pants, and black tennis shoes. Her hair was light blue with bangs that stood straight up, and the rest pulled back in a ponytail. She also had a large scar running across one of her amber colored eyes.

"Call me Chiri. Everyone does." she said with a small smile.

Genrou smiled back, and said, "Well Chiri, I'm Genrou. Let's go home. The streets aren't safe, but I have a feeling a good sleep WOULD be."

To Genrou's surprise however, her new friend buried her face in her hands, and said, "I'm such a BAKA! If I had been concentrating, and not panicing, I could've gotten him off, you know?"

"Aw, forget about it. Either way, he's gone, and you need some sleep." Genrou practically ordered, and tugged on Chiri's arm, trying to get her to come along.

"Hold on. That jerk made me drop some of my stuff, you know?" she said with a weak smile, and began hunting through the shadows for something. A little while later, she emerged with a tan bucket hat, a green and red glass beaded necklace, and a strange looking staff.

Genrou rose an eyebrow, and opened her mouth to say something, but Chiri shot a pointed look at Genrou's tessan, and her mouth snapped shut, while she hurriedly put it away with a guilty grin. "Ready to go?" Genrou asked, and turned. She was about to lead Chiri to her house, when she saw Tasuki and Chichiri, and stopped cold, drawing her tessan and growling, "Who the jigoku are YOU?"

"Umm, it's a long story, no da." Chichiri answered weakly. Tasuki , however was a little less shy.

"Holy Suzaku! Did you just FLAME that guy?!" he yelled, looking shocked, and Chichiri heard him mumble something about, 'Geez, are you SURE this's me? My temper's not THAT bad.'

Chichiri sweatdropped, and said, "She's you Tasuki . Without a doubt."

"Whaddya mean by THAT?!" Tasuki yelled, unsheathing his tessan, and pointing it threateningly at Chichiri.

"WHAT THE-?!" they heard Genrou scream, and they turned to see her staring at the tessan in Tasuki's hand. "You better start explaining." she growled, and narrowed her eyes.

"Okay, no da."Chichiri sighed, and then saw an equally astonished looking Chiri staring at his staff. Chichiri laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his neck, saying, "Can we get somewhere less out in the open first?"

Genrou studied the two of them for a second, before saying, "Fine. I'll take you to my apartment."