Chapter 5

"Shiemi can you help me a second?" Luna holds the yukata way from herself so she doesn't get it dirty.

"Sure." Shiemi turns around from her work. "Oh no Luna what happened to you?"

"Ha, well Shima's brother Kinzo kind of knock Shima into me and sent my breakfast flying all over us." She blushes.

Shiemi suppresses a giggle. "That would have been quite the site." Shiemi and Luna walk over to a vacant room for her to change into.

"I'm kind of glad you weren't there it was really embarrassing. Shima's face ended up smack dab in the middle of my chest. He probably liked it the little perv." Luna wasn't paying attention to where she was going and ran into someone. "I'm so sorry I…" She stopped when she realized it was Suguro. Looking down at the ground she apologizes again. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. Forgive me." She bows and then walks around him not waiting for his response.

Shiemi bows to Suguro and then follows her, "Luna?"

Suguro watches them walk away fuming at what he thought he had just heard.

He stalks over to the cafeteria but is intercepted by Juzo. "Morning Bon. Are you heading over for the meeting?"

"Ah yeah in a second I just have a bone to pick with Shima." He grits his teeth.

"Do you want to help him pick the rice out of his hair too? Kinzo was being Kinzo and knocked him into that foreign girl sending her breakfast all over the two of them." Juzo laughs.

Suguro feels his body start to loosen up. "Oh is that what happened?"

"Yeah! If nothing else my brothers are always good for a laugh. See you at the meeting hall Bon."

Luna and Shiemi heard every word. "What is Suguro so mad at you about? He didn't even say hello."

Luna shakes her head as Shiemi helps her secure the yukata with the first of the ties. "I don't know."

Shiemi finishes up tying the yukata. "There."

Luna twists her hair up onto her head and secures it with a few bobby pins.

"Wow Luna, from behind you almost look Japanese now!"

"Thanks Shiemi." Luna smiles.

They go about their work for the rest of the day and meet up in the kitchen in the evening. Luna sits peeling vegetables for dinner as Shiemi does laundry.

Kamiki comes in the room, "What the heck? Are the two of you still working?"

Luna looks up from the potato she is peeling. "Just keeping busy." She smiles at Kamiki.

"Yeah, it's nice to be helpful." Shiemi responds

Kamiki looks at the two of them. "It looks like you're both sulking to me." She says folding her arms over her chest.

Luna goes back to peeling and sighs. "What could we possibly be sulking about Kamiki?"

"Well I know that Shiemi is pining over Rin." She turns to Shiemi before she can protest. "Uh-uh, don't deny it. And you Luna, you're pining over…"

Shima opens the drape over the door nearly knocking Kamiki over. "Ice! I need ice for Bon."

Luna gets up and goes to the ice chest as Konekomaru walks Bon into the kitchen and sets him down.

Luna walks over to Suguro lightly pressing a towel against his right cheek. The eye on that side is puffy and the side of his face all black and blue. "Tss…Thank you, Luna."

She feels her heart start to race at the sound of her first name coming from his voice. He slides his hand across hers. If it was intentional she could not tell but it made her palms sweat. She lowers her hand so that Suguro could put the towel of ice where he wanted it.

"What happened?" Kamiki asks.

Suguro looks up at the group. "The Right eye of the Impure King was stolen."

A collective gasp falls over the room.

"And that's not all. Okumara," Suguro grits his teeth, "Okumara flared up again. In front of everyone and he's been arrested."

"Rin?" Shiemi wobbles and Luna goes over to keep her from falling.

"They have locked him up in one of the cells in the guard house." Suguro adds.

A commotion can be heard from out in the hallway and they hear. "Juzo's back with Mumushi."

Suguro throws the towel down on the counter and runs out into the hallway. Everyone follows him into the main breeze way.

Mumushi speaks as loud as she can panting in pain from carrying the right eye and embarrassed about being tricked into being the traitor. "Please send all who are able to help Ossama (Tatsuma Suguro) the Impure King has been released and he needs your help." She starts to pass out but Juzo lifts her up into his arms caring her to the infirmary.

While passing the group of exwires he says, "You exwires stay here. Renzo, Koneko keep Bon safe."

They all stand in their little group confused among other feelings.

Ms. Kirigakure comes up behind the group after all have dispersed from the breeze way. "I have a mission for you exwires. I need you to break Rin out of prison. These cloaks will help you to not be seen while doing so." She sets them down on the ground. "Suguro, I'm entrusting this to you and this is from your father." She hands him Rin's demon sword and a note Tatsuma wrote to Rin.

"The Kurikara!" He looks at the note and squeezes it in his hand.

"I need you to make him believe that he can use it again."

Suguro nods and grabs a cloak from the pile. "Come on guys."