"When did this happen?" Tikal asked, staring at the plushie.
"I don't know!" Neko yelped, eyes tearing up.
Neko sniffled and stared wide-eyed at her plushie.
"It's okay Neko," Kagome murmured, still holding her plush.
"NO IT'S NOT!" Cat, Neko, and Sireah yelled at once.
Kagome, Lucky Slorg and Tikal slowly backed away from the Kuramaismists.
Neko hugged her plushie and silently pulled her knees up to her chest.
"I can try to fix him for you, Neko…" Sireah started.
She couldn't entirely tell what Neko was saying,but it sounded a bit like 'work of the cheesegraters' and 'Karasu'.
Cat had gone silent.
"What is it?" Lucky Slorg asked.
"Do you…hear something?"Sireah inquired as she looked up.
"Hey, you're right." Neko looked up from her plushie.
Wondering where the noise was coming from, the girls all turned to the direction it sounded from- up.
"Is it…?" Tikal started,but she was interrupted by a drop of rain.
Soon, water was pounding down from the sky,Neko and her friends drenched. Running as fast as their legs would carry them, they had grabbed their things and left the area, en route for any place where they could stay dry.
Cat had spotted a cave a while back, so they headed off that direction ;however, they abruptly stopped when, in the pounding rain, Sireah had run into someone unseen.
Ignoring them, they continued on into the cave,which,for some reason,was glowing slightly,until they finally stopped inside the entrance.
"So, Neko what exactly was wrong with your plushie anyway?"
"He's missing a thorn on his rose whip!" Neko squeaked.
Everyone other than Neko,Cat,and Sireah sweatdropped.
"Hey," Kagome said, "was it me, or did that person Sireah ran into look a little like Botan?"
"Nah," Sireah said, "There's no way we could be in THAT cave….Right?"
To be continued...