Senko-san: Mwahahahahaha! I'm back with a new chapter!!!
Riyo-san: Ch! Baka! --;;;
Senko-san: (Ignoring Riyo-san) Singing I'm in such a good mood today! And I'm gonna go on with the next chapter! Sumimasen, minna san! It took me some time finishing this chapter... Demo ne, I hope you'll enjoy it, all the same!!! O
Riyo-san: Just get on with it!!!
Chapter 10
"Calm down, both of you..." Hakkai told them as Keiko handed them tea.
They were all in Gojyo and Hakkai's room now. The rest of the people staying in the inn returned doing their own activities, of course most of them muttered and swear at them for waking everyone up, but now, they have bigger problems to solve.
"Okay, now, from the beginning! Could you guys tell us how this happen?" Rio sat in front of them, between Sanzo and Hakkai. Keiko sat by the door with Yumei and Goku sat by the windowsill.
Both of them tried to explain at the same time and...well...the result was...no one could understand them, besides their bickering... The other six 'sweat- dropped', watching them quarrelling again.
"Yare yare desu ne..." Hakkai sighed.
"I guess...that was a stupid way of approaching the matter..." Rio held her forehead.
"Ch! Idiots will be idiots..." Sanzo muttered.
"Heh...are you addressing that to me, or these two 'bickering parrots' here?" Rio gave a sharp glare at him with a sinister smile.
"Think what you want..." Sanzo lit a cigarette.
"...I thought you'd say that..." she glanced back at the two in front of her.
Both of them were still arguing. Noticing their behavior was beginning to 'tick' Sanzo off, she stood up.
"Don't bother, Sanzo. Allow me..." she walked towards them.
They didn't realize she was in front of them now. She didn't take her eyes off them. She paused for a few seconds and...WHAM!!! Hikaze was flung to the end of the bed and Gojyo at the other. Everyone stared hard at them. The two tried to get up, both pissed off at her.
"RIO!!! WHAT WAS THAT FOR???" Hikaze stood up, holding her...err...I mean 'his' left cheekbone.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU??? HAVE YOU LOST IT??? WHAT WAS THAT PUNCH FOR???" Gojyo yelled back at her. He...opps...I mean 'she' was holding 'her' stomach. (Senko-san: Okay, this is kinda queer...demo...it'll be just for awhile! Promise!)
"Urusei na..." she glared at both of them.
Her glare gave them an uncomfortable feeling. She never looked that way before. 'Whoa...kowai...' Hikaze thought. 'Looks like she really lost it this time...' Gojyo sweat dropped.
"I've had it with you two! I have limits to my patience as well! You two are lucky that all you got was a punch! Believe me, I could 'give' you worse..." she told them, returning to her seat.
Everyone stared hard at her. She gave a soft sigh and looked at the two again.
"Now, one at the time. Hikaze, you start." She told them.
"W-well...actually, I had no idea how it happened...I woke up and...well...I'm like this!" Hikaze explained.
"Same here." Gojyo told them.
Silence.
"Demo..." suddenly, Gojyo remembered something.
Everyone looked at her as she tried to recall her memories. She opened her eyes to face all of them.
"Last night...I heard a voice...I'm not sure whether it was a dream...but then..." She tried to describe it.
"And then, there was a bright light, right?" Hikaze suddenly remembered it as well.
They stared at each other, surprised.
"YOU TOO?!" They yelled in disbelief.
Hakkai and Rio exchanged glances. Sanzo puffed another chain of smoke.
"That must be the cause for all of this..." he said.
"Anno, Hikaze-san? Do you remember anything else? Like...how this person looked like?" Keiko asked.
Hikaze paused and looked at Gojyo. She was giving him the same blank look back.
"No." he sighed.
Silence again.
"What now?" Hakkai looked at the others.
"It looks like the spell worked!" A voice chirped.
All of them abruptly stood up and look around. They saw no one...yet. Suddenly, a child hopped in from the window, causing Goku to nearly fall over in surprise. This child looked a bit strange. She had blue-greenish bright eyes and had a happy grin on her face. She had some speckles around her nose and pale lime-green hair wrapped into a bun, revealing her pointy little ears. She wore a yellow shirt with a flowery mini-skirt to match. Others than that, she wore a pair of green sandals with leaf patterns as straps. She looked at their astonished faces but stopped at Keiko and Yumei. She hopped in the room towards them. None of them did anything because she didn't appear to be a threat.
"Konichiwa, Keiko-chan! Yumei-chan! Remember me???" she beamed.
"Eh? Omae...?" Keiko looked closely at her.
Everyone else was puzzled and confused watching them but kept quiet...for now.
"Isn't she that girl yesterday?" Yumei asked Keiko.
"Ah! That's right!" Keiko remembered.
"So you still remember me, onesan!!!" the girl hugged Keiko happily.
"M-Mimi-chan! Chotto! Did you do all this to them?" Keiko gently pulled her off, and turned he to face Hikaze and Gojyo.
Mimi paused and looked back at her.
"Nope!" she grinned again.
"...I see...so it wasn't you who did it..." Keiko smiled gently.
"Yup! It wasn't me!" she sang.
"Demo...who did?" Yumei thought out loud.
"I asked my sister to do it!" Mimi told them cheerfully.
With that, everyone fell back anime style! (Ha! Ha!)
"Grr...in other words, you guys ARE the ones responsible for this!!!" Gojyo marched towards her and tried to catch her.
She quickly hid behind Keiko and pretended to cry. Yumei tried to calm Gojyo down and Rio tried to pull Hikaze back, whom was also trying to grab hold of the girl.
"Calm down, both of you!" Keiko told them.
Mimi stuck out her tongue at them, provoking them. 'This kid really knows how to annoy people...' Rio thought, calming Hikaze down.
"Mimi-chan? Why would you do such a thing on my friends?" Keiko asked gently.
"Because I wanted to repay you, onesan!" she cheerfully answered.
"Eh???"
"I heard your friends arguing last night, and they wished for understanding...I wanted to help them because they were your friends, aren't they, onesan?"
"Hai..." Keiko slowly answered.
"Demo, my powers isn't strong enough to do powerful magic...so...I asked my sister to help!" she finished.
"Sooka...? So it was your sister who casted the spell..." Yumei asked.
"Hai! Soo desu!!!" She replied.
"Looks like we have to meet your sister to undo all this, then. Anno...where do you live, Mimi-chan?" Keiko asked.
"If you want to meet my sister, you don't have to bother of looking for her because she's nearby!" Mimi told them.
"Eh? Do you mind telling her we need her help?" Hakkai asked.
"Sure!" Mimi hopped happily towards the window and leaned out.
"REIKA-ONECHAN!!! COULD YOU COME OVER??? MY FRIENDS NEED YOUR HELP!!!"
"GEEZ!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL!!!" Gojyo glared at her, unplugging her ears.
Suddenly, someone knocked at the door.
"That must be onechan!" Mimi jumped back into the room.
"That was fast..." Goku muttered.
"I'll get it." Keiko opened the door.
They saw a young woman around seventeen years old stepped in. She too, had blue-greenish eyes and pointed ears like Mimi's. Her hair though, was pale yellow, just like Yumei's. She wore a brown leather dress with black sandals. Unlike Mimi, she had a cold expression on her face.
"Onechan!" Mimi greeted her.
"Nanda, Mimi? Why did you call?" she asked.
"My friends want you to undo the spell you did." Mimi told her.
She looked at all of them and then looked back at Gojyo and Hikaze. She gave Mimi a gentle pat on the head before entering the room.
"Sumimasen, but that I can't do." Reika told them.
"NANI??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT???" Hikaze and Gojyo exclaimed in disbelief.
"Just like I said. No-can-do!" she shrugged.
"Why you-!!! You're just gonna ignore this after what you did???" Hikaze cracked his fists.
"The only people who can undo this spell are yourselves." Reika smirked.
"And how are we suppose to do that???" Gojyo asked, sarcastically.
"You wished that you understood each other, didn't you? That's just what you guys need to do..."
"Why should I try to understand HIM???" Hikaze glared at Gojyo.
"Ch! I also don't understand WHY I SHOULD UNDERSTAND A BEEP LIKE YOU???" Gojyo glared back at Hikaze.
"Well, whatever it is, it's your own choice. We will be going now. I don't like to be seen much in public anyway...to many humans..." Reika muttered.
"Matte...anno...this may sound rude...demo ne, are both of you... youkais?" Yumei asked in a soft tone.
Reika paused and looked at her. Her cold expression suddenly softens when she gave Yumei a gentle smile.
"Iya, we're not youkais...we're pixies." She explained.
"Pixies?" Yumei repeated.
"Yup! Pixies are we!" Mimi sang again.
"So are you..." Reika told her.
"Eh?"
"You are a pixie too."
"I...am??? B-but...that can't be true!!!" Yumei gasped in disbelief.
"Do you want proof, then? Take your choker off and you'll see..."
"H-how do you know about my choker?" Yumei touched the choker around her neck.
"Every pixie wears a choker right after they're born..." Reika smiled.
"In your pixie form, your speed and magic will increase!" Mimi cut in.
"That's why both of you aren't wearing your chokers?" Keiko asked.
"Hai, hai!" Mimi chuckled.
Reika gave one last glance at the two redheads and motioned to Mimi that she was leaving.
"Consider yourself lucky. It's not often you get your wishes granted..." she told them as she walked on.
"Ch! Yeah, right!" Hikaze muttered sarcastically.
In a blink of an eye, the two pixies vanished before them. All of them were quite for a while after that. All of them were entertaining their own thoughts.
"Whatever it is..." Sanzo broke the silence.
Everyone looked at him as he threw away his burnt – out cigarette butt. He looked back at all of them.
"We have to leave this town..."
"Nani??? Oi, Sanzo...!" Gojyo disagreed.
"......now..." Sanzo glared sharply at her.
"Ch! There's no point arguing with you, is there?" Hikaze sighed.
Sanzo looked at him, and then, at Gojyo.
"I think you two should change first. You two look ridiculous..."
"Change??? With what??? All of my clothes are THIS size if you haven't NOTICED!!!" Hikaze pulled at his now-tightly-shrunken shirt.
"Yeah, you arrogant monk!!!" Gojyo agreed.
"Ch! I thought you two had more brains than that bakasaru..." he simply replied.
"SARUTEI YUNNA!!!!!!!!" Goku yelled.
"Urusei!" Sanzo whacked him with his 'harisen'.
"Itteii...." Goku muttered, rubbing his head and glared back at Sanzo.
"Just swap clothes. Is that a problem?" Sanzo looked back at them.
"SWAP CLOTHES??????" Both of them yelled out.
"No way I'm gonna lend HIM MY CLOTHES!!!" Hikaze pointed angrily at Gojyo.
"SAME HERE!!!" Gojyo glared back at her.
"That's your problem! Fix it yourselves!" Sanzo simply replied, leaving the room.
Before anyone said anything else, Sanzo was already heading downstairs for breakfast.
"That arrogant monk!!! Damn!!!" Gojyo muttered angrily.
"Ch! What a jerk!" Hikaze sank on a chair and looked back at Gojyo. "Don't even THINK I'm gonna lend YOU MY STUFF!"
"Ch! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WANT TO???" Gojyo angrily yelled back.
As they continued to fight, Rio went and sat beside Keiko and Yumei, followed by Hakkai and Goku.
"Keiko, how did you guys meet these pixies anyway?" she asked.
"Ah? Oh...remember yesterday when we went to get some food supplies? We saw Mimi being chased by some thugs, threatening to kill her if she didn't hand over her money and valuables. So we helped her out and she kept saying that she wanted to repay us. We didn't want anything, demo...well, this is how it turned out..." Keiko sighed.
"Naru hodo..." Rio nodded and looked back at the two.
Hakkai let out a heavy sigh and smiled helplessly as they continued to squabble on and on...
"They're acting like kids!" Goku finally voiced out, annoyed.
After a short silence, Rio stood up and headed for her knapsack and took something out.
"Oi, Hikaze." She called out.
"NANDA???" Hikaze angrily replied.
Rio tossed something at him and got him right at the face!
"NANI SUNTEII???" Hikaze pulled the thing off and looked at it.
It was a blue T-shirt. He looked back at her, puzzled.
"Wear it, for now. I'm sure that's big enough for you..." she told him.
"Ah..." Hikaze obeyed, heading for the bathroom. 'Luckily Rio's shirts are big...' he thought as he slammed the door.
"Keiko, do you mind lending Gojyo one of your clothes?" Rio asked.
"Iya, I'll get one right away." Keiko smiled and headed for her room.
After they changed, they looked much better. Now, for the pants. Since both of them stubbornly refused to swap clothes, Rio suggested that they buy some. Everyone agreed to that, because their clothes were not so comfortable for the two after all.
"If that's the case, Hakkai, you accompany Gojyo to get what he needs..."
"Hai, wakatta." Hakkai smiled.
"O-oi, Rio-...!" Gojyo began.
"Damare, omae baka ero kappa! You come with me, Hikaze. Keiko. You, Yumei and Goku stay here. We won't be long."
"What did you call me?! Takke!!!" Gojyo felt like punching her now, but didn't.
Rio ignored her and continued on telling the others what to do.
"Em." Keiko nodded.
"Ikuzou." She told them.
"Demo, Rio!!!" Hikaze protested.
"You guys got a problem???" She looked coldly at them.
They shook their heads hard, uncomfortable by her cold stare. Both of them gulped hard and followed the rest out of the room.
Chapter 10
Kowai- Scary, Naru hodo – Something like, "Is that so?", Damare-Another way of saying "Shut up"
Senko-san: Well! That's it for now! I have to continue on with my studies...my exam's next week, and I'm not ready for it yet.....waaaaaaah!!! ;;; I'll continue on the next chapter after the exams are over... Till then, jya ne!!!
Riyo-san: Ch! Baka! --;;;
Senko-san: (Ignoring Riyo-san) Singing I'm in such a good mood today! And I'm gonna go on with the next chapter! Sumimasen, minna san! It took me some time finishing this chapter... Demo ne, I hope you'll enjoy it, all the same!!! O
Riyo-san: Just get on with it!!!
Chapter 10
"Calm down, both of you..." Hakkai told them as Keiko handed them tea.
They were all in Gojyo and Hakkai's room now. The rest of the people staying in the inn returned doing their own activities, of course most of them muttered and swear at them for waking everyone up, but now, they have bigger problems to solve.
"Okay, now, from the beginning! Could you guys tell us how this happen?" Rio sat in front of them, between Sanzo and Hakkai. Keiko sat by the door with Yumei and Goku sat by the windowsill.
Both of them tried to explain at the same time and...well...the result was...no one could understand them, besides their bickering... The other six 'sweat- dropped', watching them quarrelling again.
"Yare yare desu ne..." Hakkai sighed.
"I guess...that was a stupid way of approaching the matter..." Rio held her forehead.
"Ch! Idiots will be idiots..." Sanzo muttered.
"Heh...are you addressing that to me, or these two 'bickering parrots' here?" Rio gave a sharp glare at him with a sinister smile.
"Think what you want..." Sanzo lit a cigarette.
"...I thought you'd say that..." she glanced back at the two in front of her.
Both of them were still arguing. Noticing their behavior was beginning to 'tick' Sanzo off, she stood up.
"Don't bother, Sanzo. Allow me..." she walked towards them.
They didn't realize she was in front of them now. She didn't take her eyes off them. She paused for a few seconds and...WHAM!!! Hikaze was flung to the end of the bed and Gojyo at the other. Everyone stared hard at them. The two tried to get up, both pissed off at her.
"RIO!!! WHAT WAS THAT FOR???" Hikaze stood up, holding her...err...I mean 'his' left cheekbone.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU??? HAVE YOU LOST IT??? WHAT WAS THAT PUNCH FOR???" Gojyo yelled back at her. He...opps...I mean 'she' was holding 'her' stomach. (Senko-san: Okay, this is kinda queer...demo...it'll be just for awhile! Promise!)
"Urusei na..." she glared at both of them.
Her glare gave them an uncomfortable feeling. She never looked that way before. 'Whoa...kowai...' Hikaze thought. 'Looks like she really lost it this time...' Gojyo sweat dropped.
"I've had it with you two! I have limits to my patience as well! You two are lucky that all you got was a punch! Believe me, I could 'give' you worse..." she told them, returning to her seat.
Everyone stared hard at her. She gave a soft sigh and looked at the two again.
"Now, one at the time. Hikaze, you start." She told them.
"W-well...actually, I had no idea how it happened...I woke up and...well...I'm like this!" Hikaze explained.
"Same here." Gojyo told them.
Silence.
"Demo..." suddenly, Gojyo remembered something.
Everyone looked at her as she tried to recall her memories. She opened her eyes to face all of them.
"Last night...I heard a voice...I'm not sure whether it was a dream...but then..." She tried to describe it.
"And then, there was a bright light, right?" Hikaze suddenly remembered it as well.
They stared at each other, surprised.
"YOU TOO?!" They yelled in disbelief.
Hakkai and Rio exchanged glances. Sanzo puffed another chain of smoke.
"That must be the cause for all of this..." he said.
"Anno, Hikaze-san? Do you remember anything else? Like...how this person looked like?" Keiko asked.
Hikaze paused and looked at Gojyo. She was giving him the same blank look back.
"No." he sighed.
Silence again.
"What now?" Hakkai looked at the others.
"It looks like the spell worked!" A voice chirped.
All of them abruptly stood up and look around. They saw no one...yet. Suddenly, a child hopped in from the window, causing Goku to nearly fall over in surprise. This child looked a bit strange. She had blue-greenish bright eyes and had a happy grin on her face. She had some speckles around her nose and pale lime-green hair wrapped into a bun, revealing her pointy little ears. She wore a yellow shirt with a flowery mini-skirt to match. Others than that, she wore a pair of green sandals with leaf patterns as straps. She looked at their astonished faces but stopped at Keiko and Yumei. She hopped in the room towards them. None of them did anything because she didn't appear to be a threat.
"Konichiwa, Keiko-chan! Yumei-chan! Remember me???" she beamed.
"Eh? Omae...?" Keiko looked closely at her.
Everyone else was puzzled and confused watching them but kept quiet...for now.
"Isn't she that girl yesterday?" Yumei asked Keiko.
"Ah! That's right!" Keiko remembered.
"So you still remember me, onesan!!!" the girl hugged Keiko happily.
"M-Mimi-chan! Chotto! Did you do all this to them?" Keiko gently pulled her off, and turned he to face Hikaze and Gojyo.
Mimi paused and looked back at her.
"Nope!" she grinned again.
"...I see...so it wasn't you who did it..." Keiko smiled gently.
"Yup! It wasn't me!" she sang.
"Demo...who did?" Yumei thought out loud.
"I asked my sister to do it!" Mimi told them cheerfully.
With that, everyone fell back anime style! (Ha! Ha!)
"Grr...in other words, you guys ARE the ones responsible for this!!!" Gojyo marched towards her and tried to catch her.
She quickly hid behind Keiko and pretended to cry. Yumei tried to calm Gojyo down and Rio tried to pull Hikaze back, whom was also trying to grab hold of the girl.
"Calm down, both of you!" Keiko told them.
Mimi stuck out her tongue at them, provoking them. 'This kid really knows how to annoy people...' Rio thought, calming Hikaze down.
"Mimi-chan? Why would you do such a thing on my friends?" Keiko asked gently.
"Because I wanted to repay you, onesan!" she cheerfully answered.
"Eh???"
"I heard your friends arguing last night, and they wished for understanding...I wanted to help them because they were your friends, aren't they, onesan?"
"Hai..." Keiko slowly answered.
"Demo, my powers isn't strong enough to do powerful magic...so...I asked my sister to help!" she finished.
"Sooka...? So it was your sister who casted the spell..." Yumei asked.
"Hai! Soo desu!!!" She replied.
"Looks like we have to meet your sister to undo all this, then. Anno...where do you live, Mimi-chan?" Keiko asked.
"If you want to meet my sister, you don't have to bother of looking for her because she's nearby!" Mimi told them.
"Eh? Do you mind telling her we need her help?" Hakkai asked.
"Sure!" Mimi hopped happily towards the window and leaned out.
"REIKA-ONECHAN!!! COULD YOU COME OVER??? MY FRIENDS NEED YOUR HELP!!!"
"GEEZ!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL!!!" Gojyo glared at her, unplugging her ears.
Suddenly, someone knocked at the door.
"That must be onechan!" Mimi jumped back into the room.
"That was fast..." Goku muttered.
"I'll get it." Keiko opened the door.
They saw a young woman around seventeen years old stepped in. She too, had blue-greenish eyes and pointed ears like Mimi's. Her hair though, was pale yellow, just like Yumei's. She wore a brown leather dress with black sandals. Unlike Mimi, she had a cold expression on her face.
"Onechan!" Mimi greeted her.
"Nanda, Mimi? Why did you call?" she asked.
"My friends want you to undo the spell you did." Mimi told her.
She looked at all of them and then looked back at Gojyo and Hikaze. She gave Mimi a gentle pat on the head before entering the room.
"Sumimasen, but that I can't do." Reika told them.
"NANI??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT???" Hikaze and Gojyo exclaimed in disbelief.
"Just like I said. No-can-do!" she shrugged.
"Why you-!!! You're just gonna ignore this after what you did???" Hikaze cracked his fists.
"The only people who can undo this spell are yourselves." Reika smirked.
"And how are we suppose to do that???" Gojyo asked, sarcastically.
"You wished that you understood each other, didn't you? That's just what you guys need to do..."
"Why should I try to understand HIM???" Hikaze glared at Gojyo.
"Ch! I also don't understand WHY I SHOULD UNDERSTAND A BEEP LIKE YOU???" Gojyo glared back at Hikaze.
"Well, whatever it is, it's your own choice. We will be going now. I don't like to be seen much in public anyway...to many humans..." Reika muttered.
"Matte...anno...this may sound rude...demo ne, are both of you... youkais?" Yumei asked in a soft tone.
Reika paused and looked at her. Her cold expression suddenly softens when she gave Yumei a gentle smile.
"Iya, we're not youkais...we're pixies." She explained.
"Pixies?" Yumei repeated.
"Yup! Pixies are we!" Mimi sang again.
"So are you..." Reika told her.
"Eh?"
"You are a pixie too."
"I...am??? B-but...that can't be true!!!" Yumei gasped in disbelief.
"Do you want proof, then? Take your choker off and you'll see..."
"H-how do you know about my choker?" Yumei touched the choker around her neck.
"Every pixie wears a choker right after they're born..." Reika smiled.
"In your pixie form, your speed and magic will increase!" Mimi cut in.
"That's why both of you aren't wearing your chokers?" Keiko asked.
"Hai, hai!" Mimi chuckled.
Reika gave one last glance at the two redheads and motioned to Mimi that she was leaving.
"Consider yourself lucky. It's not often you get your wishes granted..." she told them as she walked on.
"Ch! Yeah, right!" Hikaze muttered sarcastically.
In a blink of an eye, the two pixies vanished before them. All of them were quite for a while after that. All of them were entertaining their own thoughts.
"Whatever it is..." Sanzo broke the silence.
Everyone looked at him as he threw away his burnt – out cigarette butt. He looked back at all of them.
"We have to leave this town..."
"Nani??? Oi, Sanzo...!" Gojyo disagreed.
"......now..." Sanzo glared sharply at her.
"Ch! There's no point arguing with you, is there?" Hikaze sighed.
Sanzo looked at him, and then, at Gojyo.
"I think you two should change first. You two look ridiculous..."
"Change??? With what??? All of my clothes are THIS size if you haven't NOTICED!!!" Hikaze pulled at his now-tightly-shrunken shirt.
"Yeah, you arrogant monk!!!" Gojyo agreed.
"Ch! I thought you two had more brains than that bakasaru..." he simply replied.
"SARUTEI YUNNA!!!!!!!!" Goku yelled.
"Urusei!" Sanzo whacked him with his 'harisen'.
"Itteii...." Goku muttered, rubbing his head and glared back at Sanzo.
"Just swap clothes. Is that a problem?" Sanzo looked back at them.
"SWAP CLOTHES??????" Both of them yelled out.
"No way I'm gonna lend HIM MY CLOTHES!!!" Hikaze pointed angrily at Gojyo.
"SAME HERE!!!" Gojyo glared back at her.
"That's your problem! Fix it yourselves!" Sanzo simply replied, leaving the room.
Before anyone said anything else, Sanzo was already heading downstairs for breakfast.
"That arrogant monk!!! Damn!!!" Gojyo muttered angrily.
"Ch! What a jerk!" Hikaze sank on a chair and looked back at Gojyo. "Don't even THINK I'm gonna lend YOU MY STUFF!"
"Ch! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WANT TO???" Gojyo angrily yelled back.
As they continued to fight, Rio went and sat beside Keiko and Yumei, followed by Hakkai and Goku.
"Keiko, how did you guys meet these pixies anyway?" she asked.
"Ah? Oh...remember yesterday when we went to get some food supplies? We saw Mimi being chased by some thugs, threatening to kill her if she didn't hand over her money and valuables. So we helped her out and she kept saying that she wanted to repay us. We didn't want anything, demo...well, this is how it turned out..." Keiko sighed.
"Naru hodo..." Rio nodded and looked back at the two.
Hakkai let out a heavy sigh and smiled helplessly as they continued to squabble on and on...
"They're acting like kids!" Goku finally voiced out, annoyed.
After a short silence, Rio stood up and headed for her knapsack and took something out.
"Oi, Hikaze." She called out.
"NANDA???" Hikaze angrily replied.
Rio tossed something at him and got him right at the face!
"NANI SUNTEII???" Hikaze pulled the thing off and looked at it.
It was a blue T-shirt. He looked back at her, puzzled.
"Wear it, for now. I'm sure that's big enough for you..." she told him.
"Ah..." Hikaze obeyed, heading for the bathroom. 'Luckily Rio's shirts are big...' he thought as he slammed the door.
"Keiko, do you mind lending Gojyo one of your clothes?" Rio asked.
"Iya, I'll get one right away." Keiko smiled and headed for her room.
After they changed, they looked much better. Now, for the pants. Since both of them stubbornly refused to swap clothes, Rio suggested that they buy some. Everyone agreed to that, because their clothes were not so comfortable for the two after all.
"If that's the case, Hakkai, you accompany Gojyo to get what he needs..."
"Hai, wakatta." Hakkai smiled.
"O-oi, Rio-...!" Gojyo began.
"Damare, omae baka ero kappa! You come with me, Hikaze. Keiko. You, Yumei and Goku stay here. We won't be long."
"What did you call me?! Takke!!!" Gojyo felt like punching her now, but didn't.
Rio ignored her and continued on telling the others what to do.
"Em." Keiko nodded.
"Ikuzou." She told them.
"Demo, Rio!!!" Hikaze protested.
"You guys got a problem???" She looked coldly at them.
They shook their heads hard, uncomfortable by her cold stare. Both of them gulped hard and followed the rest out of the room.
Chapter 10
Kowai- Scary, Naru hodo – Something like, "Is that so?", Damare-Another way of saying "Shut up"
Senko-san: Well! That's it for now! I have to continue on with my studies...my exam's next week, and I'm not ready for it yet.....waaaaaaah!!! ;;; I'll continue on the next chapter after the exams are over... Till then, jya ne!!!