"Kind travelers, you really should leave this place."

It was dark outside when Yuki & Bankotsu finally arrived at some random village.

"Naze?" Yuki asked.

"There is a very dangerous demon who comes to this mura every night, bringing only destruction."

"A demon you say?" Bankotsu asked.

"Yea, a horrible youkai."
"You're in luck!" Yuki said, "We exterminate demons."
"Really?" the man asked, "Can you help us?"

"For the right," Bankotsu was saying when Yuki hit him with her elbow, "Ouch!"

"Of course we can." Yuki said.

"Thank you! May Buddha always be with you, we are eternally grateful."

"So, we're just gonna do this as charity?" Bankotsu asked.

"Someone wise once told me, 'Send your blessings to others and you will be rewarded'."

"I still think it's stupid."

"What kind of demon they said this was?"

"Some oversized crow or something like that."

All the villagers were hiding in their huts when the demon came.

"Here goes… Claws of pain that
I have to sever
Demon you are gone forever."

And the evil being vanished.

"You're really good, you didn't even need me." Bankotsu said.

"I always need you." She said.

Their faces were a few inches apart when a few villagers came.

"Thank you so much!" one said.

"Domo arigato majo sama." Another said.

The village leader came to them and said:

"Unfortunately we have no money to offer you, we can only ask of you to stay here tonight and join us in the feast we will hold in your honor."

"We would love too." Yuki said

During the feast, one of the men said:

"I heard that in one of the richest daimyo's territory there is a dangerous evil entity that is killing many and causing great destruction. I think he will pay a nice sum of money to anyone who will rid his lands of this evil."

Yuki looked at Bankotsu and said smirking: "Send your blessings…"

"Whatever." he shrugged.

The next day, the two set out towards the rich daimyos' land.

"Maybe if I kill him we can take over and…"

"KOISHII! Stop this nonsense before I hex you!"

"Okay, okay! I was only making a suggestion! Shish..."

"You'll learn…someday…"

Yuki looked around her; the view was lovely, she looed up towards the heavens and remembered the legand her mother once told of the tenyouu (sp? Means Celestial Maid) pruncess Kaguya.

Once upon a time, there lived a kind old man and his wife in a village. One day, when the old man went to the bamboo forest, he found a shining bamboo. Upon cutting it, he found inside a baby girl. The old man and woman decided to bring her up because they had no children. They named the baby "Kaguyahime." Whenever he went to cut bamboo after that, the old man found money in the bamboo. They became rich.

Kaguyahime grew steadily and became a beautiful lady. She had a lot of young men who wanted to marry her. But she didn't show interest. She always looked up at the night sky.

Her father asked her, "What makes you so sad? What's the matter?"

She said, "I'm all right. But, to tell the truth, I was born on the moon. I must return to the moon on the night of the 15th of November when angels will come to meet me."

"That's nonsense," said the father, very embarrassed and angry.

The next day was the 15th. The father hoped she would never return to the moon. On that day, the moon was appearing over the mountain, when a gold light flashed. An angel came down. Kaguyahime couldn't help following the light. She slowly flew up into the sky hand in hand with the angel. Nothing could stop them.

The old man and his wife could do nothing but watch her departure.

'Mother… if only you were here to see my perfect bliss… but I know you are watching over me…'