"Kodo-oooooooooneesamaaaaaaaaaaaa..."

"What?"

"I is hungry-YATTE!" A loud smack was heard and Telope began to cry again.

"I KNOW you're friggin' hungry!!!" Kodo screamed hoarsely, holding her paper fan aloft. It had proven VERY useful on this particular trip.

"Why does you always hits me, you baka!?" Telope sniffed indignantly.

"Why do you always complain? I know you're hungry! I can't do a GOD damn thing about it, so shut the hell up!" Kodo growled menacingly, but Telope only rolled her eyes. In spite of the frequent beatings she never thought of Kodo as a threat. If Kodo said "Jump!", Telope said "Up your ass...". Then Kodo would slaughter her with a machete. But Telope was always able to come back, because she was the Kiba... which has little or nothing to do with this story.

Indeed, it had been almost two weeks since they had wandered ignorantly into nature's asshole, a.k.a., the desert. And -if Kodo's calculations were correct- they were completely lost. Unfortunate, huh? Little shits... ahem... Lovely demonesses!

Telope was the youngest of the two, a 26-year-old (though she acted like a child) dog demon with unnaturally long silver hair. Of course, most things about demons may seem unnatural to you and me, but even for a demon, her hair was ridiculous. The greatest contributing factor being that every time she tried to cut it, it would grow back even longer! Ooh, ahh, ect. She was about 5' 8", yellow eyes, doggy ears... pretty familiar look to fans of a certain hanyou who must not be named. But she dressed rather differently, e.g., short skirt, sleevless halter top, main colors being red and black. On her cheeks were two red wavey marks, proving her as the Kiba.

Kodo was her ex-half-sister-in-law (meaning that her half-sister was once married to Telope's husband's half-brother at one time), but usually they only reffered to each other as sisters. Kodo was the oldest (duh) being 573-years-old. A snake demon with longish red and blonde hair (which she always wore in a ponytail), Kodo looked no older than Telope due to the wonderful excuse of demon aging. She was about 5' 5" and her eyes were sort of gradient red to gold. She wore a dark red chinese-style button sleeveless shirt, a long black skirt with gold Thai embroidery, and big black boots.

Needless to say, the two were uncomfortable.

"Kodo-oneesama..." Telope was panting, her dog side showing through yet again. Kodo turned her head to look at her shrewdly.

"... you're hungry." She stated. Telope stared at her amazedly.

"How did you..." she stopped short, her ears swivelling about on top of her head, listening carefully. "Does you sees anything?" Kodo shook her head.

"Telope, I can't sense a damn thing with all this heat spread out everywhere!" But then she heard it as well. A dull mechanical putter, something grinding on the sand and... voices. Just as Kodo heard the sound, Telope's expression changed. She shut her eyes tight and grinned broadly. She started to run towards the sound, trying to stifle her laughter.

"They sounds just like us!" She cried delightedly.

"Huh...?" Kodo followed after her, thoroughly confused and straining to hear what the people were saying.

'shut the hell up that's mine get offa me i'm gonna kill you you stupid fuc-' Kodo heard distant yells and couldn't help but laugh. Is that what Telope thought they sounded like? Ha!

"HEY! TELOPE GET YOUR GIPPY ASS BACK HERE!! DON'T MAKE ME CHOP OFF YOUR GOD DAMN LEGS!!!" She screamed as she followed Telope in the chase of the distant jeep.

It was a long dash but she finally caught up. Kodo stopped running and looked around. Now where did that darn jeep go...? More importantly, where the hell was Telope?! A few lines of buildings centered around a well, a tree or two, and some random gardens. What a city. Kodo sighed and wondered how the HELL she could lose Telope in a town where both sides of the sign said "Welcome to Town!".

"Telopeee...? Where'dya gooo?" she called walking near to the center of the village. Gunshots rang nearby. "Well, I guess that's what I get for asking..." Blood suddenly sprayed out of the door of the tavern directly next to Kodo. "... shit..."

"DEMONS! THEY'RE DEMONS!" a man screamed as he dashed outside, pushing past Kodo. She sighed in frustration and was just about to run inside when the fight came to her. A boy with brown hair and yellow eyes was thrown at her and she fell backward in surprise. She quickly pushed him off, muttering curses as the boy quickly decided to fight her as well.

"Who the hell are you, kid?" Kodo asked offhandedly as she dodged a swing from his staff. He grinned and was just about to swing at her again when he was bludgeoned into the ground by none other than Telope with her usual, "Happy, Smile, Hello!" style.

"Kodo!" She exclaimed with pure delight, landing gracefully on the boy's back. Kodo stared at her for a moment, then shook herself inwardly, deciding it best to just nod and smile. Just nod and smile...

Just then he caught his second wind, lifting his head off of the ground, he spit the dirt out of his mouth, smiling almost as happily as Telope.

"Ah... Yes... you... are... AWESOME!!" He cried, jumping up from under Telope's feet to stand next to her. "What did you say you're name was?!"

"T-E-L, O-P-E! This is Telope's song! But everybody just calls me Tel-chan, or T-chan, or Telo-chan, or Telope-o-chan, or..." Telope went on and on and inevitably confused the boy as was her wont. But apparently the boy was familiar with Kodo's policy as he smiled and nodded along.

"And... what's you're name?" Kodo asked him.

"Goku. Time to leave." A cold male voice came from the doorway of the tavern. He was tall with longish blond hair and blue eyes. A human, Kodo noted.

"Oh great... a monk..." Kodo mumbled. "I bet you would like nothing more than to slay us, no?"

"Who, Sanzo??" Goku exclaimed, as if it were the most ridiculous thing in the world.

"Yeah, we're not some 'champions of justice' or anything." Another man came outside. He had red hair and red eyes. Goku rolled his eyes.

"Why do you say that all the time, Gojyo? The Sailor Moon reference was only funny once!"

"Hey, why don't you just shut you're stupid monkey face! You wouldn't know humor if it came up and started picking your nose!" He picked Goku up by the shirt.

"GOD! THE MONKEY THING IS SO OLD! DAY IN, DAY OUT! 'STUPID MONKEY!', 'CHIBI CHIMP'! SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!" But before the arguement could escalate into a full-blown brawl, there came 'divine' intervention.

"Shut." BAM! "The." BAM! "Hell." BAM! "Up!!!" BAM! Sanzo obviously didn't hesitate to use fire arms... Of course, every shot only grazed the two, but that was good enough for Kodo.

"I IDOLIZE this man!" Kodo exclaimed. She received more than a few strange looks from the Sanzo party. Telope hopped onto her shoulders.

"Sees?! This is what me means!"