Disclaimer: why must I do this again? (Suddenly is looking face-to-face with Sanzo's gun) oh, now I remember! .U ……. NOT MINE!

Fantasy is reality, but reality sucks

Ch. Blood and flowers

Oooooooooooooooooooooo Minei's POV ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I stared down the main hallway of the base with mixed emotion. The normally gray walls were painted with the blood of guards and the walls themselves looked as if they were going to collapse. I continued to walk down the halls and out the exit and kept walking. Exactly past the gardens, Sakura and Sona were waiting for me.

" Here." I said handing Sakura the piece of soft cloth that she made me go ALL the way back to the newly destroyed base to get.

" YES! My favorite sword cloth." She replied, taking the said cloth and wiped the blood off both of her said favorite weapons. Since I had never really seen them up close, I inspected them from the shiny silver hilt with the blood red tassel at the end, to the embedded vines on the blade that began at the hilt and ended halfway down the blades.

When she finished cleaning her swords, she swiftly slipped them into the sheaths at her hips.

" Can we go now!" Sona whined impatiently. Sakura's face turned serious and nodded. She turned and walked, heading for an unknown destination. Sona and I silently followed.

Oooooooooooooooooooooo Kyo's POV ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I stared in awe at the field Goku had led me to. The field was covered in flowers of all colors, millions of butterflies hovered over the flowers, and birds flew overhead. The scents of flowers were everywhere. It was absolutely wonderful. It had been so long since it had somewhere like this.

" Wow." I muttered under my breath.

Goku ran up and slapped my arm and ran off yelling, " Tag, you're it!"

" Oh, so it's tag we're playing, is it?" I mumbled, narrowing my eyes playfully. I immediately started running after him. When I was about a foot away I jumped in the air, landing right in front of him, and lightly tapped him on the nose.

" You're it." I replied, quickly jumping into a near-by tree.

" Hey! Not so fast!" he shouted, jumping up after me. When he almost reached the top, I quickly jumped down.

" You're too slow!" I laughed.

" No, you're just too fast!" Goku yelled back.

" Time-out!" I shouted, falling backward into a pile of flowers. Petals of all sorts of colors flew everywhere, in my hair, on my clothes, all over me!

" That leather must be really getting to ya." Gojyo said, appearing above me, looking down at my immensely sweating body.

" Yeah." I replied, out of breath. Gojyo reached out his hand and helped me up. I extended my claws and sliced off the long sleeves and pant legs.

" Hey, stupid monkey! Sanzo wants you!" Gojyo yelled to Goku, who was still in the tree.

" What?" came Goku distant cry. Gojyo took the long walk to the tree Goku was in. I saw Goku come down and Gojyo whispered something to him. Goku ran past me and seemed to head back to the inn, so I didn't think about it much. I sat down where I was standing. Gojyo came up and sat beside me and lit a cigarette.

" How long have you been in that place?" he asked suddenly.

" As I said before, ever since I was four. It's been so, so, so long since I've smelled anything like this," I answered, " The only time I was every outside was when I was when he would chain me to that post."

" Damn, that had to be harsh." Gojyo added.

" You have no idea." I mumbled, easing myself on my back to watch the clouds.

" Well… there's something I gotta tell you. Um, I've kind of had these dreams of you, even before I actually met you." Gojyo finally told me. (Not that she didn't kinda already know)

" Really!" I asked while quickly sitting up.

" Yea. Weird, huh?"

" Me too! Something was chasing me and then I fell…" I stated.

" Yea! And I saved you, then helped you up and…" he replied.

" Then I woke up." I added.

" And then, er… you woke up?" he asked.

" Yes. Why, did something else happen?" I asked back with a curiously.

" Er, uh…N-no. Nothing" He stuttered. I stared at him for a while, and then finally shrugged as a reply. " We better head back, Sanzo said that you're cooking. What are you gonna cook?"

" What ever you guys want, I guess." I answered.

We entered our room and noticed everyone was sitting in a circle, playing cards.

" Hello. Goku was just telling us about your little game of tag and by the sounds of it, you're pretty fast. It's good to have someone for Goku to play with." Hakkai informed us without looking up form his cards.

" Get cooking, girl." Sanzo said dully.

" What would you wish me to cook, sir?" I asked immediately.

" I fell like noodles today. Gojyo, you go with her, here's my card. Buy only what you need." Sanzo demanded.

I briefly nodded and followed Gojyo out the door.

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Wow! So short yet it took me this long to update…… I REALLY SUCK AT THIS! Well, I hope you guys review anyway. .U I would have gone on with the story but then this chapter would be WAY TOO LLLOOOOOOONG!