Part Two: Moon night Chaser

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Followed

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Zonaki continued, storming down the dusty path way, carrying the paper bag of all the products that she had to get, Lirin was behind like a kitten getting too attached to the stranger.

"Hey" Zonaki turned round, Lirin stopped.

"HOW MUCH LONGER ARE GOING TO FOLLOW ME FOR?" Zonaki yelled, Lirin just gave her an adorable look and replied sounding like a four year old.

"If I follow you then I'll be able to find Sanzo and snatch the sutra off him" Zonaki didn't reply but stared, she was still planning to get her for what she did to her cigarettes.

"Well then I hope you enjoy long walks, because the Inn is miles away…" Zonaki turned back and walked on, Lirin skipped behind, "That's okay I like long walks" Zonaki frowned and sighed, 'Great, looks like I'm stuck with her for awhile…'

"Right, Lirin I'm going to show you something" Lirin looked at her, wondering what it is, Zonaki smiled at her, "What is it?" asked Lirin innocently

"This" Zonaki begun to run leaving faint footprints on the ground, her hair being tugged by the wind, "SEE YEAH LATER!" Zonaki called out.

"HEY NO FAIR!" Lirin screamed as she chased after her.

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Hours later

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Zonaki stopped and collapsed, with the bag in her arms, breathing heavily, trying hard to get it back, and feeling the dusty sand on her legs.

Then she looked up towards the night sky, Zonaki closed her eyes, "I must've ran around the whole village about five times, finally I lost her…"

Zonaki pulled her self up, feeling the sand sticking to her knees and lower legs, she wiped it off, and then shocks her head to shack away the tiredness, she looked down the alley way she was then, and then continued down it happily.

"Well at least I lost Lirin…" she smiled as the lights of the moon shone on her lighting up her youkai limiter which was sitting nicely around her neck.

"Hello" Zonaki jumped and looked beside her, Lirin was standing right there, "Aaaagh, how'd you, where did you come from?" Zonaki looked at Lirin her eyes wide, shocked and dazzled.

"I was right behind all the time" Lirin replied, Zonaki frowned 'Now I know how Sanzo feels when Goku follows him everywhere' Zonaki opened them and looked at Lirin eyes narrowed.

"Shouldn't you go back to your brother now?"

Lirin smiled, eyes closed, looking adorable and innocent again, "Nah he wouldn't mind, besides I have to get the sutra remember…"

"WHY NOT GET IT ANOTHER TIME!" Zonaki stiffened as they walked down the path, "What are you so angry about?" asked Lirin.

"The fact is that you chased me for hours on end, we ran all over the village not once but five times, plus I've been given a lecture from Hakkai, a beating from Sanzo, a complaint from Gojyo and a whine from Goku, and the fact that YOUR STILL HERE AND WON'T GO HOME IS MAKING ME ANGRY!" Lirin jumped.

"AND WHAT'S EVEN WORSE IS THAT YOU STOOD ON MY CIGARETTES!"

"So what you could always get another packet" Lirin looked at her with the adorable face again like she didn't have a clue.

Zonaki sulked, head down, feeling like the worlds going to collapse upon her

"That's not the point; the reason that I got those cigarettes is so Hakkai wouldn't lecture me, you see he banned me from smoking, two months ago, I'm not aloud until I'm TWENTY!" Zonaki yelled in Lirin's face, making Lirin step back.

Zonaki bowed her head down, crying "My life Suuuuuuuuuuuuuccks" Lirin looked at her, "Wow and I thought I had it bad?"

"Hey lookie here?" Zonaki and Lirin looked in front of them, there was a group of men, and they dressed like punks.

"What would two sweet chicks run down an alley way like this? Want us to keep you company, doll?" all the men started to giggle and snigger.

"Chicks he says..." Lirin looked at them with her hands on her hips.

Zonaki sighs, eyes closed, head down "Words of a low life" then raises it to look at them "Nothing but battered, worthless scum"

Lirin nodded agreeing with Zonaki's statement, all the men snarled at them, a man with a black jacket, grey shirt, had shadows below his dark grey eyes like he was drunk or on drugs. His pupils in his eyes were small; Zonaki and Lirin looked at him, with their innocent eyes.

"Now come on girl's all we want is to keep you company" said the grey shirt.

Zonaki looked at him and growled "Yeah and I want a cigarette life sucks doesn't it, especially when a CAT stands on them with out looking"

Lirin flinched then turned round, fist ready, "Hey I hope you weren't talking about me Dragon lady?"

"Who else around here has ears the size of a cat, big green eyes and is acting like one?"

Lirin thought for a moment, Zonaki glared at her angrily, "I meant YOU!"

"Well you were the one who dropped the packet" pointed out Lirin

"Well you were the one who banged into me, therefore making me drop the packet of cigarettes" Zonaki snapped, eyes narrowed, enraged and frustrated like her blood was starting to boil.

"Well at least I'm a lot sexier than you are" Lirin claimed as he placed her hands tightly on her hips.

"Oh yeah, well tell me how your much sexier than me?" Zonaki ordered as she walked a bit towards her, Lirin sniggered and started to point her finger at Zonaki's chest

"Your chest for once, is flat, mines twice as big so I can attract more attention than you can"

Zonaki looked down on her chest, and then turned red, embarrassed at that statement.

"My chest isn't that flat" Zonaki snapped as she fiddled with the end of her caped coat, with her innocent eyes peering down.

Lirin sniggered, "Well at least I can earn some peoples respect" Zonaki claimed as her eyes shot straight up looking at Lirin.

Lirin frowned, "HEY STOP AGRUING AND ACTING LIKE WE'RE NOT HERE!" Shouted the grey shirt.

All the men charged at them, one of them had a baseball bat and swung it at Lirin, Lirin jumped out of the way as the bat made contact unto the ground, and stood on the bat, arms folded, staring and smiling.

"EAT THIS" Lirin jumped and kicked him, leaving him on the ground.

A man came over to Zonaki and threw out his fists, Zonaki threw the bag up and dodged, the man withdrew his fists, Zonaki twirled round and kicked the man out of the way, and caught the bag as it came twirling down.

"You little bitch" the grey shirt came at Zonaki about to punch her, but Zonaki threw the bag towards Lirin

"Lirin catch" Lirin turned round and caught the bag.

Zonaki blocked the punch and countered by taking his arm and throwing him over her head, leaving him on the floor. Zonaki noticed something came out of his pocket, she picked it up, it was a bag, and she looked into it, jewellery, she slipped it into her pocket.

"Can I have the bag back please" Lirin threw the bag back, Zonaki caught it

"I think we should leave don't you?" asked Zonaki, Lirin nodded "Yeah this was a total waste of time" Zonaki shock her head.

"Hey your going to regret this" Zonaki and Lirin turned round, wondering what the hell he was talking about, the grey shirt stood up and snarled, "You two are pretty good fighters…"

Zonaki closed her eyes, "Well that's because I had a good teacher" Lirin looked at her, "Really who is it?"

Zonaki frowned at her, then thought of the person, and gave a warm comforting, "Hakkai" she mumbled softly.

Lirin starred at her, gaping, "You mean the Cooking man?"

"Shut up the both of you" Zonaki and Lirin looked at the grey shirt; he placed his hand on his wrist band, Zonaki gasped, it looked like a limiter, but none she's ever seen before.

"Now you'll see why people don't mess with me…" he took of his wrist band, and he started to glow in a dark red light.