A/N: I got a review, so here is the next chapter. I'm really glad people are liking my characters so far. And don't worry, the other two will be showing up soon and if you read this chapter carefully you might see a sign of one of them (wink, wink). I'm trying to slowly introduce my characters so people get a better feel for them, so don't think this story is just about Sanzo, Goku, Hakkai, Cassandra, Evan and Gojyo looking for Raven and Warner, there is a plot to this, believe it or not.

I do not own Saiyuki, but I do own the characters from the Daycarthro Chronicles.

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Chapter 5: Grocery Shopping and Strange People

"Hakkai! Can we buy this? And this!" Goku points to various items. "And we have to get this too!" Goku is now standing with several items in his arms.

Good thing Sanzo gave me his gold card, Hakkai thinks.

"Hey Hakkai, do you think the blonde girl is a good cook?"

"Um, I don't know," Hakkai replies.

"How strong do you think she is?" Goku asked. "Do you think they are going to stay with us for a really long time? Hey, Hakkai!" Hakkai sweat drops. If Sanzo were here he would have lost it by now.

"Why don't you ask them when we get back," Hakkai smiles.

As the two wait in line, Goku keeps popping out of line when he sees something else he likes.

This line better hurry up, I don't think we can carry all this stuff.

"That will be $20.17," the cashier tells the customer. The blonde haired guy takes out a stack of bills and looks at it slightly confused, since he can't figure out how many bills he should give him. Finally he slips a few bills on the counter. The cashier hands a bill back to him, plus change.

"Sorry, I'm not from around here," the guy laughs uneasily when he sees he gave the cashier more than he needed to.

"Hey, you!" A tall man yells at the blond as he runs up to him.

"Great," the blond mumbles. "Hey there, buddy, sorry, I don't have rematches," he tells the tall man.

"You cheated. There is no way you could have won six hands in a row."

"No, I was just taught by the best."

"I want my money back."

"No refunds. Gotta go, maybe we can have another game later." The blond waves goodbye as he picks up his bags.

"You're not leaving until I get my money back," the man replies as he blocks the blond's path.

"In that case." He places his bags on the counter again, then he falls into his fighting stance, a smile playing on his lips. "Hey! Look at that cute chick!" He points behind the guy who whirls around. The blond grabs the bags and takes a run for it.

"Hey, come back here!" The man chases after him.

"What was that about?" Goku asks Hakkai when he returns with an armful of food.

"I'm sure it was just a misunderstanding," Hakkai smiles uneasily. There have been a lot of strange people around lately. The cashier rings up Hakkai and Goku's groceries.

"Your total is $353.99," the cashier smiles. Good thing the Three Aspects are paying for this, Hakkai thinks as he hands the cashier Sanzo's gold card.

"Um, Hakkai, how are we going to carry this all back?" Goku asks. A large sweat-drop forms on Hakkai's brow.

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The second Hakkai and Goku step into the room, they notice Sanzo, Gojyo, Evan and Cassandra are all in the same room. Sanzo is reading a newspaper. Evan is laying on one of the beds, gazing at the ceiling in a daze. Cassandra is sitting on the floor, holding a necklace above a map, while chatting in some strange language, while Gojyo is watching her.

"Good evening," Hakkai greets. Evan looks up and his eyes widen.

"Buy enough supplies," he says sarcastically. Goku is trying to balance a tall stack of boxes, while Hakkai has about half a stack. Cassandra opens her eyes and looks up at Hakkai and Goku. She quickly stands up and takes about half of the boxes from Goku.

"Is that better," she smiles at Goku.

"Thank you!" Goku smiles, a slight blush across his cheeks. She places the boxes on the table and glances at Hakkai, who now has Hakuryuu perched on his shoulder.

"Is that a dragon?" she asks as she walks up to Hakkai.

"This is Hakuryuu," Hakkai smiles.

"He's cute," she scratches the dragon under the chin.

"Kyuu," Hakuryuu purrs.

"Is he your guardian?" Her hazel eyes look into Hakkai's green ones.

"Um, no, he's my friend."

"Oh, for a second there I thought he was one of Daycarthro's creatures."

"Miss Cassandra, what were you doing before we came in?" Hakkai asks.

"Oh, I was trying to locate Raven by using my necklace. Raven once taught me a spell that would allow me to find him, but for some reason I can't locate him." Cassandra notices Evan eyes lower when he hears the mention of his brother. "I'm sure he's fine. He's used to taking care of himself." In the meantime, Goku is digging through the groceries, Sanzo whacks him upside the head.

"But Sanzo, I'm hungry!" Goku whines.

"Wait for dinner," Sanzo spits back.

"Hey, Cassandra are you a good cook?" Goku asks.

"You should ask Evan," she laughs.

"Hey Evan?" Goku calls, breaking Evan out of his thoughts. "Is Cassandra a good cook?" Evan suddenly bursts into laughter.

"Well, she's good at burning things," Evan laughs. "Raven and I banned her from the kitchen because she almost burned the house down a couple of times."

"At least I'm not as bad as Warner. Remember Warner's Secret Special?" Evan laughs even harder.

"I still can't figure what that was, but I could have sworn I saw it move." He fakes a shiver.

"And you've had your share of accidents. Do I have to remind you of the flaming birthday cake?" Cassandra replies.

"How was I supposed to know you shouldn't put candles on a coconut cake? Some lessons you can only learn through experience." Evan is now out of his bad mood and back to his usual cheerfulness. "Hakkai, are you going to cook dinner?" Evan asks. "Because if it's Sanzo, I'll just go out and eat."

"Ha, Sanzo cook," Gojyo laughs. "The food would be as bitter as him." A stress mark forms on Sanzo temple.

"Or he get so frustrated he beat it with his fan," Evan adds. A click sound grabs the demon's attention.

"Want to say that again?" Sanzo asks as he points his gun at them.

"Aw, I think we hurt his feelings," Evan pouts. Sanzo fires at him, but the child disappears in time. Evan reappears next to Cassandra.

"Um Sanzo, Evan was joking around," Cassandra says as she backs away from the angry monk.

"Cassandra, he tried to hurt me," Evan whines as he hides behind Cassandra. "Why does he always have to be mean to me?" Evan then sticks his tongue out at Sanzo, which causes the monk's eye to twitch.

"Great, you already found someone to replace Raven," Cassandra sighs. "One of these days, you are going to get yourself into trouble."

"But at least I'm having fun."

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As they eat dinner, Evan keeps watching Goku who is stuffing his face. He has eaten more than half of the food on his own and doesn't appear to be slowly down.

How can a person eat so much food! Evan thinks in awe. Evan reaches for a spring roll, but Goku snatches it up, stuffs it in his mouth and swallows it without even chewing then reaches for something else to shove into his mouth. Evan bites his lower lip when he sees Goku going for the last dumpling. Oh, no you don't! The boy kicks Goku's chair out from under him.

"Ow! What did you do that for?" Goku yells at Evan.

"I didn't do anything," Evan says innocently as he is about to bite into the dumpling. Evan's hand suddenly comes up empty. Goku smiles at him as he shoves the dumpling into his mouth. How did he do that!

"Hey!" Evan is about to slap Goku upside the head when Sanzo smacks the child with his fan.

"Keep quiet," Sanzo growls.

"But he…" Evan begins.

"Shut up!"

"Bastard monk," Evan mutters. Sanzo smacks him again. "Ow! Stop…" smack! "…doing…" smack! "…that!"

"Oh, Sanzo," Cassandra interrupts, hoping to stop the fighting. "How long are we going to stay here?" Sanzo sits down and places his fan back into his sleeve.

"Until Daycarthro picks you up," Sanzo replies, glaring at Evan. The boy glares back then kicks Sanzo's leg under the table.

"Shi ne!" Sanzo yells, firing at Evan who disappears.

"Don't you know you're not supposed to hit kids!" Evan yells.

"You don't count!" Sanzo yells back.

"Maa maa," Hakkai tries to calm Sanzo down.

"Come on, you stupid blond! You want to fight me, bring it on," Evan challenges, then begins to speak in his native language as he starts a spell.

"Evan!" Cassandra's voice breaks Evan's concentration. "Stop it! You know it's reckless to cast spells when it is unnecessary. Someone might sense us and I don't feel like fighting anyone when Raven and Warner aren't here." Evan looks away.

"You're lucky Cassandra's here," he whispers. Evan then smiles at Sanzo. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow morning, Sunshine," Evan taunts, then vanishes from sight.

"I'm going to kill him," Sanzo says as he lights a cigarette.

"And you said Evan can be nice," Gojyo laughs.

"He doesn't like people threatening him," Cassandra replies. "But he does enjoy annoying the hell out of people who have short tempers." She glances at Sanzo. "Or to get their attention," she adds, thinking of Raven. "I guess I'm going to call it a night too." She stands up from her chair.

"How about I go with you?" Gojyo asks as he gives her one of his charming smiles.

"Maybe next time—if I lose my self-respect," she counters. Goku bursts into laughter.

"Serves you right, perverted kappa."

"Goodnight," Cassandra tells the others. Sanzo watches her leave the room. Maybe she isn't as annoying as the brat, Sanzo thinks.

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The next day, Cassandra, Hakkai, Goku and Evan are in town, buying a few more items like clothes and food since Goku managed to go through most of the food they bought the previous day.

Hakkai glances at the blonde woman next to him, as she gazes around the town, taking in the new sights. Cassandra is very different from the women he has met. For one thing, she is a really strong, when she was weak she stilled managed to be a worthy adversary. She's nice, but is capable of telling someone off, like Gojyo, who keeps hitting on her.

I wonder what her friends are like, Hakkai wonders. Cassandra suddenly frowns when she thinks of something.

"Hey, Evan, what's today?" Cassandra asks, looking at the boy.

"Don't worry, it's only Wednesday, still plenty of time before Friday." Evan ruffles his black hair. "We'll be out of here before it happens," Evan mumbles, looking a little disturbed.

"I'm sorry I brought it up, I was just wondering if we were going to have to explain certain things."

"Don't worry about it," Evan smiles at her, trying to reassure her. She nods her head then glances at Goku who is watching her.

"What happens on Friday?" Goku asks. Cassandra laughs nervously, while Evan pouts.

"Oh nothing that concerns you." Cassandra waves the curious youkai off. They walk in silence for a while, but as they pass a restaurant Cassandra and Evan stop.

"What is it?" Hakkai asks. He follows their eyes and sees they are looking at the same blond guy who was in the grocery store the day before. The young man appears to be talking with a pretty young woman as they eat breakfast.

"I can't believe we ran into the idiot here," Evan says as he shakes his head.

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A/N: I think that's a good place to end this chapter. Who could the blond guy be? If you paid attention, you probably figured it out by now. Let's just say, next chapter should be pretty humorous. Oh and that whole thing about Friday night, that's my little surprise, like I said, some of my characters are really complex.

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