"Goddamnit!" Gojyo shouted as he slammed his hand into the tree trunk next to him. Goku looked up at the kappa from his spot sitting on the ground, Sanzo was sitting on a rock a few feet away with a cigarette between his two lips, "How the hell could we lose him!?"
"Easy, we were making camp, he was attacked at a blind point with none of us around to keep him safe, and his was kidnapped," Sanzo said in a rather plain voice. Gojyo looked at the 'priest' with an irritated look.
"How can you say it so calmly!?" Goku questioned from the ground.
"Because we're going to get him back," Sanzo replied, flicking the now spent cigarette butt to the ground. Gojyo glared at him.
"How are we suppose to find him with no leads?" he questioned. Sanzo looked at the half demon with a side glance.
"We'll just have to ask around," Sanzo said, "Let's get walking." He started walking towards the town they were headed for before this little mishap. Gojyo looked at Sanzo's retreating back then at the monkey sitting on the ground. Goku looked at the perverted kappa before he jumped to his feet and ran after the blonde monk. Gojyo growled as he followed them.
'I can't believe we lost Hakkai! I knew one of us should have gone with him! Damnit!' Gojyo thought as he fell behind the two. Hakkai sometimes seemed weak and vulnerable, but he defiantly wasn't. The demon was able to channel his chi into blasts and force fields to keep himself and the others safe. So how did he get taken in the first place? That was a question that none of them could answer.
"Maybe someone in the town knows something about a gang of demons carrying Hakkai off," Sanzo said. Goku looked up at him.
"Well yeah but what if the demons didn't go in this direction? Or no one saw anything?" Goku asked.
"Then we'll just have to think of something else," Sanzo said. Goku sighed and looked at the ground. Gojyo looked around the forest surrounding the pathway headed for the town, hoping to get there by sunset, which was just a few hours away. Something was following them now, he was sure of it. His eyes darted towards the tree branches, Sanzo and Goku stopped up ahead of him, he was sure they knew of it too.
"Must be another youkai trying to take another one of us," Gojyo growled out. Neither Sanzo nor Goku moved.
"Not exactly," came a voice. It was female and not a child either. She like a woman, around Gojyo's age. The movement the boys had heard had stopped as she appeared in front of them all. Her face in a smirk, "Hi there."
She was around Sanzo or Gojyo's age, her wavy blonde hair fell to around her shoulders if not just a bit longer. Her slim but not anorexic skinny figure was covered in black yoga pants and a black tank top. Her hands rested on her hips giving her a slightly cocky look. She peered at the boys with smug sea-blue eyes. Under different circumstances, Gojyo would have said something perverted.
"Who the hell are you?" Sanzo questioned.
"The name's Mika," she said, "and I'm here to help you out."
"We don't need your goddamned help," Gojyo spat.
"Oh, so you don't do you? Then where's your friend Hakkai?" she questioned in an all too pleasant way.
"I told you it was someone from that stupid gang," Gojyo glared. Sanzo's hand was already on his gun.
"No need Sanzo," Mika said, holding up her hands as if to defend from a possible oncoming bullet, "I told you I was here to help."
"Why would you help us?" Goku asked.
"Probably some fucked up attempt at a trap," Sanzo said his gun now aimed at the youkai.
"Maybe, but if it's so fucked up then what's the point in not listening to me? You'll simply out maneuver our guards, get your friend back, and leave. So why not make it sooner rather then later?" Mika questioned, her eyes not faltering. None of them answered for a second. What she said did make sense. If they just got there, made it to Hakkai, and got back out, there was no point in not accepting her help. It'd get the job done faster. Sanzo's gun dropped to his side.
"Alright, spill it."