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DemimondaineSyoran, Kurogane and Sakura landed on a muddy street as Mokona landed gracefully on Syoran's head. Kurogane growled as rain fell down on them getting them soaked to the bone.
"You!" they heard a man call out.
Syoran helped Sakura to her feat as Kurogane grabbed Mokona from the boy's head in the process standing up in his two feet. They could barely see, it was dark and rainy, the man approached them with three others behind him. The man who had yelled out was caring a lamp and a long trench coat with a hat, he had a gun over his shoulder and a crest in form of an 'A' with an arrow going through it. The three men that had followed him were wearing the same thing.
"Just who are you?" the man said putting the lamp really close to Kurogane's face.
"I'll advice you to keep your distance" Kurogane warned revealing his sword.
"Sorry wanderer" said the man.
"You!" One of the guys behind the one with the lamp exclaimed pointing to Syoran.
The lamp guy turned his lamp to Syoran's face and quickly withdrew almost in disgust at the look of his scared face.
"Is there an Inn here somewhere?" asked Kurogane in annoyance.
"I'll take you" volunteer Lampman waving off his companions.
Kurogane nodded, the man turned around and started walking fast down the street; but the whole time Kurogane did not take his hand off his sword. Mokona was inside his cloths warm but alert. Syoran's arm was still not heal yet but he kept his sword somewhere he would be able to draw fast and protect his princess. She stayed close behind him but far enough if there was danger so she would stay out of Syoran's way.
The place where they were staying was a combination between an Inn and a pub. Once they had been dried off they were sitting in one of the last tables in the corner. They were speaking in low tones asking their usual questions to Mokona.
"Do you feel Hime-sama's feather here?" Syoran asked.
"Mokona does feel something" Mokona said.
"What about the mage?" asked Kurogane after a moment of silence.
The white bun concentrated and then opened his eyes.
"He is here" he blinked and looked around the table, "just like the feather, Mokona feels him but Mokona don't know how to locate him."
Kurogane snarled, "big help you are" Mokona was about to cry.
"Please Kurogane-san" Sakura said, "Don't make him feel bad, he is doing all he can"
Kurogane looked at her big emerald eyes and saw a rush of troubled tears forming.
"Mokona misses Fai-san!" Mokona sobbed and ran to the princess' arms. She hugged him tightly trying to not cry herself, "but Kurogane is being mean to Mokona and Mokona isn't strong"
Syoran said goodnight to Kurogane as he took Sakura and Mokona upstairs to their room where he stayed until they both fell asleep.
Kurogane sat there drinking an alcoholic drink (after all it was a pub) thinking things over. He heard from a table near by, two men drinking and talking intensely.
"It makes sense" one of them said, "It was about time when the King came down to the village and proclaim more concubines."
"Just hoppin'…" he took a drink "it isn't ze new pretty thin' in ze whore house"
"'re you talkin' about the pretty blonde one with blue eyes?"
"yeah, that's ze 'ne"
"You've gotten him 'aven't you?"
"No," they took another drink, "'aving up, to buy him. Pretty thin's 're costly!"
They raised their cups to toast.
"to who eva gots him foist!" they laughed and started drinking more.
Fai, Kurogane thought.
TBC
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