(AN: wee!! Second chapter!! Sorry if Kachiro didn't seem too developed. I literally got her info the day I added her….I'll be doing some development. Fear not. (yawns)why am I so tired at 9:30?? Oh, yeah…it's that college thing again, isn't it?? Right, back to the chapter!!)

Chapter 2

Road Rage

"Wow…" Kasumi nearly swooned as her long white braids flew in the wind. "I've never ridden in a jeep before!!" She smiled brightly and sat back in her seat. "This ride is so much smoother than the truck's!"

"I'm glad I'm not in the truck…" Hakkai said with a sweat-drop.

"Well, it's a stick shift…" Kasumi explained with a shrug. "But it's been pretty reliable. For as long as we've it, that's pretty good…"

"Well, jeep is a stick shift as well," Hakkai explained.

"I'm hungry!!" Goku whined from the back seat next to Kasumi.

"Goku-san…" Kaika said, getting his attention. "…didn't you eat twenty minutes ago?"

"And it was quite a lot," Kasumi added. "You had your entire lunch and half of mine…"

"You can have something from the freezer if you want, Goku," the dark-haired driver said with a bright smile.

"Awesome!!"

"Is it…really healthy for him to eat that fast?" Kaika asked a little disturbed.

"Don't worry about it, he's eaten faster than this, Kaika-san…" Hakkai said with a small laugh.

"So…" Sanzo started from the back of the cab in the truck. "You're…Kachiro?"

The silver-haired woman next to him looked up from the window. "Uh…yes?" She blinked before going on. "Do you…not like my name?"

"It's not that…I was just wondering why you're going around impersonating a Buddhist priest…"

"I could ask you the same question…" Eda muttered from the driver's seat.

"What was that?" the blond man asked, leaning forward.

"Look, Sanzo, if you're going to threaten me would you mind doing it while I'm not driving?"

"Don't let him bug, you, babe," Gojyo said, pulling out a cigarette. "He does that to everyone…" he added, pulling out a lighter.

"Ignorant animals…"

"Whoa, Gojyo, if you're gonna smoke, do it with the windows open," Eda warned him.

"W-why…?"

"The dragon has asthma."

"Nani?"

"Great, the perfect addition to the group…an asthmatic truck…" Sanzo muttered, dripping with sarcasm.

Kachiro leaned out the window and focuses in on two small silhouettes in the sky. Were they…? "Eda-chan!! Stop the truck!!"

"Hakkai-san…" Kasumi said, gazing at the sky. "You might want to stop jeep…"

Hakkai was slightly confused, but stopped anyway, right behind the truck.

"What is it?" Goku asked as everyone got out of the jeep. "What are those things."

Eda jumped out of the truck and ran her fingers through her hair as she and everyone else watched three winged figures glide slowly towards them.

Sanzo didn't even get his gun half way out before Eda stopped him. "Sanzo, Kasumi may have just stopped the bullet and left it at that, but this is the family…and they're not so nice…"

"Onee-san, they're attacking, we have to set up a barrier," Kasumi reported.

Kachiro thrust her monk staff in front of her and created a barrier covering everyone.

Eda took off her pendant power limiter and grew white dragon wings as lightning engulfed the force field. "Hang on!!"

Kasumi added her own power and the bolts turned red, but that still didn't stop the shield from nearly cracking as the three youkai dove straight for them. The three demons finally leapt back, composing themselves.

"What do they want you for?" Sanzo asked suspiciously.

"Two reasons," Eda said, catching her breath.

"They want to kill Eda-chan…" Kachiro added.

"And…?"

"And they want to take me back with them," Kasumi finished.

"Which is all the more reason we won't let them," Kaika said with a smile to her new friend.

Kasumi returned the smile but only to go back to a worried expression as the Sky Dragons spoke.

"Come now, sister…" one said with a ruthless smile. "You know you belong with your own kind."

"And that your sister isn't even technically your sister," a second said, cutting a glare at Eda as she replaced her power limiter.

"Enough of the chit chat!" the third and only female butted in. "You know we won't stop sending more until we have you back home and your sister dead!!"

Eda scowled as the female gathered lightning in her hands.

"That's enough," Kasumi said, stepping forward. "I'll go with you, but you won't be able to kill my sister and I won't go peacefully.

Hakkai stared on in horror as the smaller youkai stepped forward. 'Hakkai-san,' Kasumi's voice rang through his head.

'Yes?'

'I can make them believe that they have done their mission successfully and Kachiro can make golems. Can you manipulate your chi to make an illusion?'

Hakkai mentally gave a sigh of relief. At least they had a plan. 'Leave it to me, Kasumi-san.'

'On my cue, then,' she finished, raising a hand with a small glowing orb resting over its fingers. She threw it at her enemies, knocking them to the ground.

"We have thirty seconds to create the illusion."

Kachiro nodded as an exact copy of Kasumi in her youkai form rose from the ground. She took out a charm and placed it on the golem's head and waited for it to disappear into its head.

Hakkai took this as his cue and formed a ball of pure chi, formulating it to fit their needs. He took a deep breath and threw it at the seemingly unconscious demons and waited.

The males rose from the ground and looked around in smug confidence. "The elders should be pleased."

"Leave that to elders, moron!" the female growled as she stood and turned to Kasumi's golem. "So you're finally ready?"

The golem bowed its horned head in defeat. "Yes." Its head turned and its pointed ears pricked back just for effect.

The female smirked and placed her hands on her hips. "Let's go, then," she said as the three dragons and the golem lifted off into the air.

"Aw!!" Goku whined as soon as they were gone. "I wanted to fight at least one of 'em!!"

"Shut up, you stupid monkey!" Sanzo said, smacking Goku in the head with his paper fan. He turned to Eda once more. "That was a little more than just a search-and-rescue-seek-and-destroy mission. Mind telling us the rest of the story?"

Eda shook her head to regain her composure and took a deep breath as she put her power limiter back on and twitched a bit as her wings grew back into her back. "That always hurts…" she muttered. "Right. As you already know, Kasumi and I are half-sisters. Our mother was the scout of our clan. Which means she pretty much went into the human world and gave reports to the elders. After one of her missions, she came back with me and no father in sight. Not like they would let a human in anyway…"

'That explains how you were born, what's the rest of the story?" Sanzo asked impatiently.

"Mother finally got the elders to accept Eda-chan and settled down with a rightful husband, my father. Everything was just fine until when the madness struck and, as you can imagine, Father was affected. He first killed Mother because of Eda, then proceeded to try and kill Eda herself, but I couldn't let him kill my sister after he killed my own mother, and he obviously wasn't in his right mind, so…I took his life…" Kasumi trailed off, hanging her head, the guilt obviously still on her shoulders.

"So they want me dead because they're all crazy and they want Kasumi with them to pass judgment," Eda finished. "You want any more of my life story you'll have to buy it out of me…" she added as her red dragon turned into her truck and blasted the music with the door open.

"There, there…" Hakkai said, patting Kasumi's shoulder as she cried softly. "Her, you can sit in the jeep and have a snack…" he said, leading her to the small vehicle.

"Geez, Sanzo, did you have to go and make 'em cry?" Gojyo grumbled, walking over to the truck.

"Eda-chan…" Kachiro called to her friend, also walking over to her to try and make things a little better.

Kaika had already gone to Kasumi to try and help Hakkai with the small, crying demon, and Goku had walked to her, too, to have a snack and try to cheer her up with a few jokes.

Sanzo let out an exasperated sigh. Was everybody crazy or was it just him…?

AN: sorry this chappie wasn't as long as the last one, but don't get your hopes up. I've read up to volume five not, yay! Hope you enjoyed it and as always, read and review!