The monks had been set free and their gags had been removed... Kim, Lyn, and I protested about letting them out of the ropes and stuff but yeah Sanzo said we had to let them go... Crappity crap crap, this sucks... The monks were outraged of course... They didn't expect the mighty and holy priest Sanzo to sneak some girls into a temple which had a strict rule about girls who didn't work at the temple being in the holy place. When Sanzo tried to explain the monks would cut him off and keep on ranting on and on about the situation... they also didn't like the idea of dangerous and filthy yokai being inside the temple walls as well.. Sanzo's expression was utterly and truly annoyed as hell. I sighed and stood with Lynto and Kimiko, the three of us along with Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai had been ignoring the monks for the past fourty five minutes and they wouldn't shut up about it.. So Kimiko and Lynto now knew that Goku, Hakkai, Gojyo, and I were yokai.. Hey.. two more people on Sanzo's side, he was the only human until Lynto and Kimiko came along. The fight with the yokai had worn Hakkai out, he was sitting on the ground and leaning against the wall. Despite Kimiko's advice for Hakkai to sleep, Hakkai said he was fine and that he couldn't sleep if he tried with the monks yelling... After the monks finished yelling about the yokai being at the temple, they turned their attention to us.. Lynto, Kimiko, and I gave a nervous smile and waved slightly. In a flash the monks were right in front of us and yelling our ears off... 'Blah blah unholy blah blah breaking rules blah blah stupid girls' I only got bits in my head since I wasn't listening to them... but then something they said struck me... they had called us all pieces of street rat trash... I walked toward them and growled, they had said the wrong thing to the wrong girl... I'm a aries and I'm not afraid to punch some bald bitches in the face...

"Hey you nee-" My sentence was cut off short. A monk got in my face and continued to yell, man his breath was stinking... "You broke the rules... for some low life girls to come off the street and into our holy sacred temple.This temple is now unclean" the monk yelled loudly. I shrunk back a bit, hey man ya need to take it easy... just because we crashed at the temple didn't mean it was unclean. The monk went onto say more, while the three of us felt worse.

"Hey leave em' alone ya big baldy butt"! I heard Goku shout. I went back to stand with Lynto and Kimiko who were snickering at what Goku said. 'Big baldy butt... ha ha that's a funny thing to call him'. Hakkai stood up slowly... even though he should have been resting and then along with Goku and Gojyo, they stood in front of us. Trying to somewhat block out the monk's sight of us, it didn't shut them up though... It got quiet when Sanzo walked to the monks and gave them a ice cold stare, they flinched a bit and took a few steps back. The mighty Sanzo to the rescue.

"Tch... look they are also part of the Sanzo party and we needed a place to stay... we will leave right after this but don't blame them... we had to stay here it wa s our only option... to me your giving me the impression at that you don't want us to finish our journey west" Said Sanzo cooly. 'Yes... go Sanzo'! The monks stared at Sanzo, flabbergasted and shocked expressions on their faces. "N-no not at all Sanzo, we want you to finish your journey"! They said quickly.

Sanzo nodded and then muttered a quick, "Good... now... the next village we will be heading to next, tell us how to get there..."

Yeah it turned out that to get to the village we had to walk through a dense forest and then make our way over a mountain, yeah we are soooo lucky. The mountain wasn't on the map which means that who ever made the map sucks donkey butt and that it would take probably two days to get over the mountain. We had left the temple and were now out in the middle of the forest setting up camp. Hakuryuu and Kenryuu couldn't drive through the forest scince it was too thick and Hakkai needed rest so... we were camping out. Lyn, Kim, and I didn't mind as much because we weren't alone... the guys were camping out along with us. Kimiko and I were making a tent but... yeah I kept tripping over my feet and falling ontop of the tent. So I wouldn't further damage the tent or myself I was sent off to go and fetch firewood. It was dark out but it was only seven o'clock. We had walked half way through the forest and it took us a long time but... at least now we could rest. I wasn't afraid of the dark... it wasn't scary... not at all... w-well maybe a little.. I started to hunt around in the dark for sticks to feed the dim fire we had now going... I now almost had a big pile of sticks and pieces of wood gathered in my arms, I smiled and kneeled down to pick up another stick when... A large snap was heard from behind me, I shot up and looked around. Okay a snap from a twig in a dark forest with no light is scary shit man... I frantically looked around trying to figure out where the snap came from... I could hear the shuffling of some feet coming toward me... 'Over here... no wait over there.. what the heck is going on... I'm afraid... its creepy'. I turned around and backed up slowly.

"E-eh eh... here... there... where"? I said softly while looking around the area. Just tree's and pitch black dark that's all, maybe it w- I bumbed into something hard and blinked, slowly without turning around I reached up my hand and felt above me.. I felt a nose so it was a person... and I was touching their nose wow I sound stupid... Maybe it was one of the other's please don't let it be Sanzo... I turned and then my eyes turned a bit wide, the sticks that I was carrying slipped out of my arms and fell to the ground with a light 'clank'. A large shadow stood right there, it was very tall and large and it towered over me... I blinked a bit feeling dizzy and then I fell to the ground and then it all went black...

I sighed and watched as the fire slowly went out... Ashurri was suppose to be getting fire... Lyn and I had set up our tent and now everyone was waiting for Ashurri to get the fire, so we could happily heat up our can of beef stew and eat dinner for tonight. I rested my chin on the palm of my hand, Ashurri was always hyper... so she probably ran off chasing... a.. um chasing a chipmunk or something... Lyn watched as Goku dug into the bag, cans flying through the air as he looked for some cans of beef stew. She grabbed Gojyo's lighter and then lit a small stick that sat next to her then threw it into the small fire, the fire flickered but didn't grow any brighter. A simple stick wouldn't do it... I sighed and stood up trying to find something to do scince it was quiet and boring... watching cans fly in the air isn't exactly what you call fun...I looked at Lyn and she tore her attention from Goku's 'Beef stew search'. We would have to go look for her, she probably got lost or in trouble.

"Come on lets go find her... I swear she's like a monkey sometimes" said Lynto while she blew a hanging strand of her brown hair out of her face. Goku stopped throwing things out from the bag and popped his head back up. His hair was sticking up even more with static, he shook his head and his hair went back to normal then he popped his head back into the bag and continued to search... they have a lot of canned food don't they?

I nodded and started to walk toward the forest, so now we had to go and hunt for Ashurri... great this is loads of fun... I walked into the forest with Lyn following with her arms folded across her chest, Hakkai called after us and told us not to go too far and we nodded in reply. My stomach grumbled a bit, we didn't get much to eat at the temple and the delay in the fire prevented us from cooking our dinner tonight. 'Where could she b-' I stopped dead in my tracks of what I saw and held out a arm stopping Lynto and making her look as well.. Ashurri was on the ground unconscious with two shadows standing over her and looking at her. 'Ashurri... who are these people... this is just so perfect' I thought with a frown...

"Um Kim... this is really creeping me out" whispered Lynto, the wind blew roughly making the tree's sway and the leaves shook. I only nodded a bit... Who are they? What did they do to Ashurri? What the heck is going to happen?

Kim and Lyn:No comment... -Turns and snickers, whispers- Ash fainted...

Ash:HEY!! I can hear you and that shadow thing was scary!!

Lyn:Well yeah it was scary... those two shadows creeps me out, seriously they come near me and I will kick them in the face!

Goku:Ashurri doesn't own Saiyuki or its characters, they belong to Kazuya Minekura.. next chapter will come out soon! -Looks at Sanzo- Ssssssaaaannnnzzzzoooooooo! I'm hungry!

Gojyo:Your always hungry stupid tiny chimp!

Goku:Hey shut up ya watersprite!

Goku and Gojyo:-Bunch of rambling insults-

Sanzo:-Eyebrow twitches and then fires gun off, missing Goku and Gojyo because they duck- SHUT THE FUCK UP! DO YOU WANT DO DIE?!