After the plane landed it was time to go to the car rental place to pick up the SUV that Yoh had rented online.
The place sounded very nice online but like everything else on the internet things aren't always how they seem. It took a good hour to find the place; it was hidden in-between two very large building. No sighs or anything were posted to indicate where it was located, but one sigh was posted outside the building. In large blue letters were "Why go elsewhere to be cheated. Come here first."
"What sort of shit hole did you rent from," Horo asked looking at the decrepit building.
"It's not a shit hole, on the internet it said that customer satisfaction is their top priority," Yoh replied cheerfully.
But unfortunately for once Horo was right, the place was a shit hole, and obviously customer satisfaction was booted back a few notches and replaced with getting peoples money giving them the wrong car and sending them on their way. The loaded SUV turned out to be truck that was older then all of them combined, and was so rusted that you had to look closely to find its original colour. Anna was very pissed but all they had were little cars that would never hold them plus their stuff.
"Boy this thing probably doesn't have much horse power," Yoh muttered as he started to load the camping gear into the back.
Horo snorted loudly, "Horse power! What ever horses ran this thing died a long time ago, that's probably why it has that funky smell."
"Actually that smell is from the squirrel that got caught in the belt a few years back, and we never really got everything cleaned out of it, so when you start it up you may smell something, but don't worry you wont be able to notice it after a while," Yoh and Horo stood there mouths wide open listening to what the sales person was saying.
"You know the burning squirrel bits sorta smell like hotdogs," Horo said as they sped down the road.
"That nasty," Ren said leaning his head against the window looking very disgusted.
Yoh took in a deep breath, "You know it sorta does, why did you say that Horo now I'm hungry."
The group was in luck a rest area was only a few miles ahead. After they each got something to eat they had to wait for Anna who had to go to the bathroom.
"I'm bored let's play a game," Horo wined.
"What is there to play in a truck," Ren hissed.
Horo shrugged his shoulders in response. He looked down at the seat that was covered in a variety of stains and an idea hit him.
"Lets play name that stain."
Yoh and Ren looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"What? There's nothing else to do."
"Fine," Ren sighed.
"Our first contestant is Yoh," Horo yelled out in a corny game show hosts voice. He pretended to take out some notes and started to read off the invisible paper. "Here it says he enjoys playing with tape in interesting ways, and stealing shopping carts from the mall to sell back to them at unreasonably high prices. So Yoh would you say Wal-Mart carts are top of the line?"
"Um… yes I guess they are like the BMW's of the cart world."
Ren shook his head regretting what he had gotten himself into.
"And our second contestant on name that stain is Ren. Ren says his favorite hobbies include getting angry and glaring at people. Well would you look at that folks he's glaring at me right this moment. Now that's a man who is passionate about his hobbies."
"Why are you pretending to be a game show host?" Ren asked
"Shut up Ren, this is my game show damn it, I'm the one asking the questions here."
In the end it was a heated game that lasted around two minutes, with Yoh coming out on top winning a hand full of Ren's chips for guessing a possible vomit stain on the roof.
Yoh had the window of the truck open enjoying the fresh air and also trying to escape the now awful smell of burning squirrel. He enjoyed being out in the wild, getting clean air in his lungs and just watching the scenery as they flew down the road.
"I still don't know how on earth I let you talk me into this," Ren growled as he drew patterns in the thick layer of dust that covered the dashboard.
"We are shaman's it's only natural for us to go and live in the grace and beauty of nature. We are part of nature and nature is apart of us. We must connect with nature, like Shamans did years ago," Yoh said.
Thud!
"When you said connect with nature did you mean connect a little furry animal with your front tire?" Horo replied, looking back at the now very flat animal that had ran out in front of the truck.
Anna looked over at Yoh, sending him death glares.
Yoh smiled nervously, "Oups."
Sorry for the long wait. And sorry to all the squirrel lovers out there. But trust me that sort of thing can happen, I know from experience.
