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"I hate him! I hate him! Ugh I hate him!" Lina yelled, pacing around the room like a spoiled child. She had barged back into their room still topless and with hickeys to spare as Hiyo hurried out of bed to offer her a nice robe, and now she was venting what appeared to be pent up anger.

"Ms. Lina maybe-"

"He is such a selfish little fruitcake! Touching me like that...and drugging me, drugging me! He drugged the infamous and beautiful Lina Inverse!"

"Well I'm sure that-"

"That bastard has some nerve putting something in my drink! I still feel all hot everywhere because of whatever he did to me!"

"Ms. Lina please just-"

"I was the one who was supposed to be seducing him, not the other way around! The one in charge was supposed to be me! Not him, me! Xelloss is just a selfish, fruity, twisted, freaky, son of a-"

"MS. LINA!" Hiyo screamed. "Please, there is no need for such language."

Lina cocked an eyebrow at her, resisting the urge to protest that Hiyo was three times the evil person she was. "Hiyo I don't know what to do, he'll never let me live this down!"

"Maybe, but you really should just ignore him Ms. Lina. I know I was wrong to send you off to him like that, but what he did would have happened sooner or later you have to admit."

Lina shrugged and crossed her arms, using childish methods to avoid facing her problems as usual. Xelloss just didn't understand anything, did he? Drugging her, confusing her, and to top it off attempted rape! Keh, she'd teach him a lesson tomorrow morning, oh yes, a good lesson.

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"Morning Lina." Zelgadiss mumbled, not looking up from the newspaper in his hands, not that it mattered much to Lina since her head was down as well as she collapsed into her chair. "Yeah, morning."

Xelloss smiled at both of their bowed heads, and chirped, "Why, hello Lina-san. How are you this morning?" Her head shot up so fast Xelloss had to resist the undeniable urge to wince. "I'm fine." She grated out, clenching her teeth visably before turning her attention to the newly arrived waitress.

Hiyo frowned, looking at each face seated at the little table and contemplating just pouring her tea on all of them. Zelgadiss had barely uttered three words all morning and was oblivious to the hostility around him, Lina was in full on pout-mode and only spoke when spoken to (of course an insult followed by a death glare was directed towards Xelloss anytime he decided to speak), and Xelloss just sat with that smile on his face sipping tea, seeming to enjoy the less-then-happy moods they all donned.

Hiyo was used to her little brothers and sisters fighting, and of course she was familiar with the silent treatment that trailed after such childish fights, but this was utterly ridiculous.

"Err, Ms. Lina, I think it would be a nice idea if we headed out after breakfast. Wouldn't you agree?" She asked, hoping to lighten the atmosphere.

"Whatever is fine with me, but since we have so much to carry we should probably leave behind the unnecessary baggage." Lina grumbled and turned a pointed look at Xelloss, lifting an expectant eyebrow. He raised a hand to his chest, an innocent and wounded look on his face.

"You couldn't be speaking of me now, could you Lina-san?"

"I didn't say that."

"Not directly."

"Would you two keep it down? I'm trying to read." Zelgadiss mumbled, his eyes still glued to the paper.

Lina ignored him, and turned her stone gaze right back to Xelloss. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"It means what I said it meant."

"Didn't I just say to shut up?" Zelgadiss was looking up now, giving them both a irritated look. Xelloss smiled. "My apologies Zelgadiss-san." Zel snorted and lowered his head back down to the newspaper.

"Whatever." Lina responded, digging into the food that the waitress had dropped off.

Hiyo put her head in her hands, and rested them down onto the table. They were all acting like little children, no they were acting much worse then children. "Oh kami, this is going to be a long trip to Nara..."

"Lina-san, you shouldn't eat so much you know." Xelloss observed over the brim of his tea cup, earning himself a scowl from the little sorceress.

"I can eat as much as I want, and it's none of your damn buisness." She responded through bites of food, emphasining her point by taking large bites while speaking.

"Indeed it isn't." Xelloss murmured, hiding his smile with a sip of his tea.

"Lina?"

"What?" Lina grunted, regrettably putting down her fork and turning her attention to Zel.

"You need to see this." He handed her the newspaper over the table, and watched her face as she skimmed through the article.

"What the...?" Her face scrunched up in confusion, and she blinked trying to make sense of the words. "Is it already this bad?"

Hiyo gave her a questioning look, and Lina slid the paper over the table to her. "Oh no..." Hiyo murmured, giving Lina a worried glance as she read through.

"What is it?" Xelloss asked, leaning over to try and peek at what ever seemed to be so interesting. Hiyo shoved it into his hands and pointed down to the article. "You know that prince that visited us while Ms. Lina was asleep? It says here that he was attacked on his way back to his kingdom, right here in this town we're in. He has been comatized for the last two days in the hospital just down the road from here."

"So someone didn't want him returning to Nara." Lina mused, leaning back into her chair.

"It would appear that he didn't tell anyone that he'd spoken to us." Zelgadiss put in, taking the paper back from Xelloss.

"If he had then someone would have come for us by now, so it seems we are the uninvited guests."

"No surprise there..." Zelgadiss mumured.

"But besides that, we need to find out who did it."

Hiyo held her finger in the air to interrupt. "Um, Ms. Lina, how do you know that it wasn't just a coinsidense? It could have been just another robber gone wrong."

Lina smirked, and plucked the paper from Zel's hands. "It says that there he had a bag of coins attached to his hip when he was found just outside the village, which proves that if he had gotten mugged that little bag wouldn't be there."

"So is it safe to assume that this King sent assassains out for Fairaag's head?" Xelloss piped up, his gaze roaming from face to face.

"Personally I think it's all just too fishy, too obvious. I have a feeling that someone knows Fairaag visited us, and whoever knows doesn't like it."

"Does this mean we aren't going to Nara?" Hiyo asked, watching as Lina resumed eating her breakfast.

"Hell no! What are you, crazy?" She answered between munches, swallowing down her last piece she stood up. "Hurry your asses up! If we hurry we can make it to the outskirts of Nara before sunset."