Hi there! Back again! I'm finally updated it after lots of bugging and nagging from some certain people *coughumacough* Okay! Here it goes, R, R, R, and R!ß read, rest, relax, and review! ^^
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Goku sat in the lobby bored and hungry…as usual. Rose walked up looking a little concerned.
"Hey, Goku."
"Hey."
"Are you hungry?"
"Yeah! How'd you know?"
"Your stomach is very noisy. I'll go make you something, ne?"
Goku simply nodded. Why was Rose so unhappy? Rose got up and walked to kitchen, and Goku looked around for one of the others. Where was everyone? He stood up and stretched just as Rio run up to him looking extremely hyper.
"Goku!"
"What? What's wrong?"
"Nothing! That's exactly it! It stopped raining! Wanna go for a walk?"
"Uh…"
Rose walked out of the kitchen with ANOTHER large plate of meat(y) buns.
"Oh… What's wrong?"
Rio frowned. "Why does everyone think something's wrong!? NOTHING is wrong."
O.O "Okay…sorry I asked."
"Rio said it stopped raining." Goku said.
Rose nodded her head. "Yes. That's probably where everyone has gone- into town."
"Gojyo definitely went there…especially because we saw a lot of women when we first came here." Ø .Ø "He's out picking them up. And Hakkai probably went shopping without me."
"Good! So we can go for a walk!" Rio grabbed Goku's arm and guided him to the door. Goku, before being dragged away, grabbed the plate of meat buns out the door with him. Rose looked at Rio's happy face and smiled. "No one, was meant to be locked up." She said to herself.
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Rio and Goku walked around the town looking at all the shopping stands. Each of them pointed to something different--mostly food, but still each different types of food. Goku sighed.
"I wish Hakkai was here. He would have Sanzo's ABM card."
"You mean ATM card?"
"Yeah, whatever."
Rio stuck out her tongue. "You shouldn't talk to me like that. I have the money." She pulled out a large wallet.
O.O "Where did you get that?!"
"Guh, I run an inn!"
Ø .Ø "Well, you don't have to bite my head off. I was just sayin'*."
They walked around a little more until the sun started to set, then started to walk back to the inn. They got a few yards away from the inn when Rio said: "Go on. I'll catch up."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Just take some of these bags I've been carrying the heaviest ones all the way."
"Well why didn't you say somethin'? I would've--"
"You can go now."
Goku stopped for a minute. "I--okay." He took the heaviest bags that Rio had been carrying and left he lightest ones. Hey got to the back door of the inn, and looked back at Rio. She was kneeling next to a big stone, looking rather sad…even from that far away.
"That's her father's grave."
Goku sun around to look at Ritsuko. "You! The…what was it again?"
Ritsuko completely ignored him. "Rio's parents were demons…obviously. Her father owned this inn, and her mother was a cook. Rio's job was to take over the inn when her father had retired." Goku looked at Ritsuko surprised. "She was? Did her father retire?"
Ritsuko sighed. "No, unfortunately, he never even got close. He was killed by one of the villagers, because he thought that Rio's father killed his wife and children. Rose had been here, visiting, and--"
"Rose?"
"Yes, those two have known each other longer than I've known them both."
"But, I thought you were Rio's sister…"
"Oh, I am. But, I'm her step-sister." She looked at Goku's face and sighed. "We don't have the same parents by birth, but by marriage." Goku nodded and so Ritsuko went on. "Rose and Rio had been helping Rio's mother cook, when they had heard a crash in the lobby. All three ran out and saw her father being attacked by the villager and a few of his little friends. Rio and Rose had been instructed to go back to the kitchen by her mother, and they did. But, not in time for Rio. She saw her father slaughtered by the villagers. As they were hiding in the kitchen, Rio's mother had run in--with blood one her hands and she was holding a wound. She yelled at Rio and Rose to follow her, and they ran out the back door. The villagers burned the house down, and, the ones who felt awful, took her father's body and buried it over there. The inn was destroyed, but Rio rebuilt it, her mother remarried my father, and Rose worked in the new inn with Rio. And that's the story."
Goku sighed. "Why is she so happy?"
"Well, because she believes that one day she and her father will meet again."
"How so?"
"That's another story. Ask Sanzo, he would know better than me."
Goku looked back at the stone, but Rio was no longer there. {I don't I even have parents…} He thought sadly.
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Oooookey dokey then. REVIEW IT PLEASE! I guess it wasn't that good, but well, it is my first story--T.T I shouldn't hold that as an excuse…okay! I stink at these stories and I am sorry! *bows* Gomen nasai! *bows again and backs into kitchen*
*Anyway… about the part where Goku says: "I was just sayin'" LOL MY FRIENDS FROM WHICH I GOT THIS IDEA FROM AND WHO ARE HELPING ME RIGHT THIS! (honestly, I can't do it alone…I NEED THEM!) It's just a little joke… O.~ "I'm not passin' judgment. I'm just sayin'…" NEXT CHAPTER: Okay, so I haven't thought of another one yet…T.T GOMEN NASAI!!