Chapter #4:

The rain fell onto the ground, forming puddles of sparkling water. The wind, being slightly warm, blew at a slowing pace, turning part of it into mist. Some of the mist jumped onto Satso's face, it facing the ground. Seiya slowed her walking pace down, to match Satso's. Turning her head to the ground like Satso, Seiya glanced over at her through the small slits in her eyes.

"I know what it's like, Satso." Seiya looked forward.

Satso slouched a bit more while walking, but nodded slightly to Seiya, who was trying to cheer her up. A few feet up the road, was Ray. She walked rather close to Hiei. But, he seemed not to mind.

"You. Dog demon. With the ears...Ah yes. Inuyasha...are you certain you know where this so called 'paradise' is?"

"...I'm sure."

Looking over at Hiei slightly, InuMe leaned over to Inuyasha almost whispering.

"Are you sure you know where you're leading us all to? "

"InuMe...If I wasn't sure about this, I wouldn't be bringing you all here. You should know that."

"Hmmn..."

"I WILL take us there...I'll take you all the way."

"Inuyasha, you fool. What the hell are you talking about? InuMe...don't get too close to that pervert." Sesshoumaru was walking beside Inuyasha and InuMe.

"Wha...where the hell did YOU come from and what are you talking about? It seems SOMEONE is more of a pervert than I gave him credit for... "

InuMe sighed, while she squinted her eyes slightly when she turned her gaze back to the road, looking further up it.

"The...hell? Is that who I think it is? It couldn't be Shadow... "

Everyone slowly lifted their heads from a daze of bickering and walking. It was ShadowMan. Satso's cat ears pirked up in hearing his name. Shadow, in the distance, fell to his knees. The neko started to jog to him, followed by Raven, who was walking with her eyebrow quirked and arms crossed.

"Izzy! What the heck are you doing here? " Satso bent over, putting a hand on his back. "Is everything okay? Are you hurt? "

"Mm...m...Satso...come a bit...closer. There's something I need to tell you. Something im...por...tant." Shadow coughed.

"Shadow! What happened! "

"I neeeed you, Satso."

Shadow slid his hand down Satso's back without her knowing. He almost made it to her ass, but Raven punched him hard on the shoulder making him squeal slightly and cling to Satso's leg.

"You haven't changed AT ALL...little perv." Raven mumbled to herself as Hiei walked over with Ray still close behind him.

"Who the hell is...ShadowMan? " Hiei demanded to know.

"Don't talk about Izzy like that! " Satso clung back to him.

"Wha...whaa? Fine..." He shrugged.

Seiya walked over to the current commotion on the other side of the road, followed by Sesshoumaru who was getting sick of talking with his half brother.

"So, THIS is the ShadowMan I've heard of. " Seiya eyed him slightly, but looked a little puzzled. Shadow smiled at all of the people surrounding him, putting a hand on the back of his neck to rub it slightly in embarrassment.

"InuMe...he doesn't quite lo--...InuMe? " Seiya looked around for InuMe. "Hey...where IS that little devil? "

Ray looked around to see InuMe was no where to be found either. She also noticed Inuyasha was gone. Bursting out in a small laughter, Ray put a hand to her mouth and tried to hold in her laughing while two red specks appeared on her cheeks. Hiei eyed Ray with a slightly puzzled look.

"Uhm...Mind explaining, Ray? " Hiei blinked a few times.

Ray made a small noise in the back of her throat as if to keep another laugh back.

"It's..." She laughed again. "...Kind of obvious. Have you noticed who else is missing? "

"Ah, yes. That dog-eared fellow. Inu..yash..a, was it? "

Ray quickly put a hand around Hiei's lips, covering his mouth.

"They might still be near. They could hear you talking about them, if they are, " she looked around suspiscously, "try to act like we don't know what they're doing when they return from a long and hard journey. " Ray snickered a bit and let go of Hiei.

"Stupid...half...demons..." Sesshoumaru shrugged. Raven began to put on a disgusted look, as Satso bursted out what she just HAD to say.

"HAHA! InuMe's gettin' laid! "

Ray almost tackled Satso down the hill, while grabbing onto her, shaking her slightly.

"Satso..sshhhh.."

Satso mumbled from inside of Ray's hand, as if she was trying to say more to make it worse.

"Hey, guys. Whatcha' talking about? "

Ray let go of Satso's mouth, looking up and putting a stunned face on as everyone else did the same.

"She can fly! She can fly, she can fly! " Shadow, stating the obvious, pointed at InuMe. Satso, still slightly annoyed, slapped him on the top of his head lightly to give him a wake up call.

"Don't be a smartass..." Shadow grinned and still clung to her leg in complete glee.

While lowering to the ground and hovering above it by a few inches, InuMe blinked a few times at the odd looks she was getting from them all. Raven still had a disgusted look on her face, while her eyebrow began to twitch at how dissapointed she was. Sesshoumaru had a blank face, not considering what was happening very important and wanting to keep going on his way. Seiya was smiling nervously, as she folded her hands infront of her and stayed quiet for the time being. Ray's mouth was open, while acting stunned, but enragely annoyed as something groped her ass. Shadow was smiling gleefully, but before he could burst out a loud, pleasuring word, he was tackled to the ground by the wrestling Satso, being slapped on both of his cheeks. Hiei's eyes got from barely open to "OMFG!WTF!BBQ!" big and largely open, while looking and taking in what he had just seen happen to Ray. InuMe landed on her feet to the ground.

"...What? "

Continued...Bwahaha...