Well, I guess the last chapter wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I still think it sucked ass though. But, I guess some people actually liked it. That's cool! Anyway, my life sucks. I just got back from going to my grandfather's funeral, which really sucks ass. So I couldn't get this chapter up for you all! But I got it up now! Hope it's good! But first, gotta thank the reviewers!

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Ok, now it's time for the chapter! Here ya go!

Chapter 6

Night had fallen over the town once more, brining with it the chilly air from the north. Clouds hung over the earth, shading it from the lit moon and the bright stars. The sky was about as gloomy as the moods of four young men. Hakkai sighed as he washed his hands clean of the blood. The four girls slept quietly, Hitachi on the single bed with the others sleeping on the floor surrounded by pillows and blankets for comfort.

Hakkai was able to close their more serious wounds and bandage them. Sanzo and the others had gone searching the town for the man who had attacked them, but came back with nothing. The wounds he created weren't deep; however, Kirashi's wound from Dokugakuji was fairly deep. It took a lot of energy from Hakkai to close all of their wounds, but he knew he had to do it.

Sanzo didn't think it would be too good an idea to have separate rooms, so they decided on staying in one room and keeping guard over the girls, seeing as how they had to have been the main targets. They had searched the entire town, looking high and low, for the mysterious man, but with no luck. For now, they all sat around the room, Gojyo backwards on a chair, Goku sitting on the ground by Julin looking pretty guilty, and Sanzo on the window sill watching for any youkai.

"I was able to patch up their wounds, but they wont be getting up for a couple days," Hakkai said, drying his hands off.

"So what the heck happened? I mean, one minute we're fighting Kougaiji and them and the next all four of the girls are attacked by some guy when our backs were turned," Gojyo said, taking a drag from his cigarette. Something was really off. For now, he had set his strange feelings aside to deal with later on.

"I'm not sure, but I think it might be a way to get to us. Sort of like an indirect way of breaking us, making it easier to kill us off," Hakkai explained, looking down at the sleeping forms.

"I don't care what the reason for it is. The girls aren't even involved in all of this. Why should they have to pay for just traveling with us?" Goku asked, never taking his guilt laden eyes off Julin.

"Sometimes people don't always play fair, Goku. They'll take any chance they have to win, whether it involves innocent people or not," Hakkai explained, knowing exactly how Goku felt. They all felt guilty for having involved the girls in this whole mess and being the cause for their injuries.

"Either way, we'll be stuck here for a little while. Gojyo, you and me will keep watch outside the door. Goku, you stay by the window. Hakkai, you stay right where you're at. You're in charge of the girls until their wounds have healed," Sanzo said, standing from the chair by the window.

Hakkai nodded as Goku took Sanzo's place. Gojyo stood and followed Sanzo out. Once the door was shut, Sanzo turned to Gojyo. "I'm guessing you felt the some thing as I did."

"You mean that sudden weird feeling of having to help them?"

Sanzo crossed his arm, leaning back against the wall. "That and the knowing of them begin in some type of danger. I knew Hitachi cold handle Lirin on her own, but I couldn't let her. I didn't want her to fight, and I don't know why."

"I know what you mean. Kirashi could easily match Dokugakuji with her flutes, but I didn't want her to fight him. I had to step in. Why? Hell if I know," Gojyo replied, lighting another cigarette. "At that time I didn't care. I just wanted to get her some help."

"Same here. Why do you think that man was after them though?"

"To get to us I guess," Gojyo replied, blowing out the smoke from his cancer stick.

"The only person really after us is Kougaiji, and Lirin didn't seem to know who that man was, so I doubt Kougaiji sent him. Besides, it's not his style. He'd much prefer to kill us off himself," Sanzo said, staring at the wall in front of him.

"I guess so. Who knows anymore? We'll just have to wait and see what happens," Gojyo replied, sitting down on the ground and leaning back against the door.

Goku sat upon the chair, watching out the window. Every once in a while, his eyes would drift to the sleeping forms in the room. Bandages stuck out from their clothes to cover the bleeding wounds. He felt really guilty about dragging them into their mess.

"They'll be fine, Goku." Goku looked up into the smiling face of Hakkai, but he knew he felt the same way. "They're strong and aren't going to give up that easily."

"I know. Hey, Hakkai, do you have any idea why we could all feel their danger? I mean, we were on the other side of town and could tell they were gonna get hurt. But why?"

Hakkai thought about that for a moment. It had slipped his mind when he was tending to the wounds. "Well, there's this old saying, that if the person you love is in danger, you could sense it somehow. Not like we can tell where a youkai is, but something in the back of your mind or in your heart tells you that the person you love needs you. It might not have been Kougaiji who was putting Julin in danger, but that man. Your heart must've sensed it somehow," Hakkai explained, remembering the tug from his own mind.

Goku blinked a bit, looking at Julin. Did he really love her? Maybe he did. It was strange. He didn't know what his feelings for her were. Maybe he did love her, maybe he didn't. He felt like he could be himself around her. That she wouldn't think of him as an idiot all the time.

Hakkai smiled a bit at Goku and turned back to his own thoughts. It seemed all of them had started to connect with the girls that decided to travel with them. Though they had only known them for a short time, they had grown fond of their company. Hakkai himself had grown fond of Maki. She was always cheerful and full of life that was practically contagious. Hakkai thought of what he had told Goku. Could it be that he had fallen for someone? Couldn't be…could it? Was his heart really big enough to hold a place for her?

Cold eyes watched them as they lost themselves in their own thoughts. Everything was falling into place. Soon their eyes would be opened, but the next step had to be put into action first. A grin crossed the man's face slowly. A small stick was held within his hands, an aura of blue surrounding the wood. The grin widened as the hands bent the wood. The branch creaked in protest before snapping in two pieces. He grinned again as four sets of screams erupted from the once quiet room.

Ok, there's chapter 6! Finally! Hope yall like it! Wanna know what happened? Then review and find out!