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Disclaimer: Well, I don't own Okami, Larka, Gin, Dravis, or Rosco, but, yeah, pretty much everything else is mine.

"Tomorrow, we'll be in the city and then we can do lots of stuff that have to do with politics! Hoorayyy..." Larka said sarcastically. She, actually, seemed pretty bummed about this. After all, we were stuck so luckily with having to do the political-type stuff.

"I know, Lar-Lar, it's suckish," I said in a "Hey, you're a cute wittle baby!" voice. "It'll be okay..."

She gave me the death glare and I chose to shut up at that particular moment. That seemed to be a wise move, because she drew in a breath and looked away at that moment.

Of course, being the idiot that I happen to be, I was singing a Wizard of Oz song in my head... You're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, you'll find he is a Whiz of a Wiz is ever a Wiz there was, if ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was the Wizard of Oz is one because, because, because, because, because, because, because of the wonderful things he does you're off to see the wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

OKAY, SHUT UP, I WAS BORED.

We wouldn't quite make it to the city by nightfall, so we had agreed to camp for one night and just take it easy today. Tomorrow, when we arrive, we'll probably all be covered in demon guts and mud and other crap like that. And it'll be raining, and-and, there will be epicness, and, um, lightening will strike all around us, and...

I said I was bored, didn't I?

Yuuki, luckily for you people who are bored to death of my idiotic rantings about nothing in particular that always seem to get off track just like they are at this exact moment, grabbed my hand and smiled warmly up at me. I felt a stupid smile paste itself onto my face. Ah, the things girls did to me.

"Ewww, their loveyness is gross! I can see it sparkling! Sick and wrong, man!" Larka said, giving us the cross with her two forefingers which made no sense since she was a god of a different religion...

"You're so immature, Larka," I said, rolling my eyes. "We're just holding hands."

"But it's icky!" she whined. "Do it later, man..."

In response, I frowned at her and said, "Am I not your elder brother? Treat me with some respect, She-Who-Needs-Escalator-Boots to be average sized..."

"Respect? How can I respect you? You have weird hairs on your head!" she cried, pointing to my two hairs that were weird. Okay, I had to agree with her there... they were pretty weird.

"I think it's cute," Yuuki said, making me feel all floaty again.

"I'm gonnnaaa diiiiieeee..." Dravis finally said from behind. "My life suuuuckkkkksssss..."

We stopped, once again, to allow him to catch up. You see, after Yuuki said no to eating too much of our food supplies, Dravis started getting hungry. He tried a hundred and one ways to get her to give up some food, but she just shook her head. So, now, he's walking super-slow and moaning and whining. WIMP.

"Dravis, I-" Larka began, but was interrupted by about twenty demons suddenly bursting out of the bushes and running across the road.

"Holy shizzz!" one screeched. "It's gonna get us, it's gonna get us! Holy crap, this was not in my job description!"

"Me neither! That's scary as piss!" another screamed.

"What the mufffinnnnnn!?" a third shouted as they ran away from the bushes.

A small cat came out from the bushes, looking somewhat annoyed. As I stared at it, I blinked. Huh. It had a forked tail. That's a little weird...

Yuuki gripped my arm a bit harder and looked up to me with wide eyes. "It's a Bakeneko, Jin! That's freaky!"

Bakeneko... Bakeneko... right, Bakeneko! That's a cat who became a spirit, of sorts. They could create fireballs and could inhabit dead people's bodies. Of course, then again, I never was very good with Japanese folklore, so I might've been off.

The cat looked at us for a moment before suddenly hissing, its hair standing up.

"I'll deal with the stupid cat," Larka growled. "I hate cats. Maybe it just has to do with my wolfish ancestors or something, but I absolutely can't stand them!"

I chuckled. "And you hate bugs, too, huh?"

"Shut up!" she snapped.

The cat suddenly stopped yowling, sat its furry butt down, and licked its paw. Which kind of confused all of us. Then, as soon as it was done, it turned back into super-pissy cat of evil spiritual demonic doom and crap like that. You know, the whole fun in a bottle or whatever.

"Okayyy, so I'll take care of it now!" Larka said, rolling her eyes and pulling the Lunar Cleaver out of nothingness. I needed to learn how to do that.

The cat, catching us all off guard, turned into a girl right before our eyes. She had two fans and had long black hair. She frowned at all of us, slightly holding one of her fans just under her chin. She was wearing one of those super-big kimono-type things that look like they're incredibly annoying to move around in.

"Don't you dare attack me, Moon God," the Bakeneko said, sticking her tongue out at Larka, which seemed to get my half-sister kind of pissed. "I am not here to deal with you."

"Then what're you here for, BAKAneko?!" Larka snapped. (Ha ha, that's a pun... baka means stupid, and neko means cat. So, stupid cat)

"Kouin-sama is here, I could not help but be attracted to his wonderful presence," she said, sighing and fluttering her eyelashes at me. Please tell me she didn't know me...

"Stop flashing your presence about, you dork!" Larka snapped, glaring at me. "You attract way too many stupid girls who remember their one night of passion with you much too well!"

"You don't teach me anything, so how should I know how to stop flashing my presence?!" I demanded. "And, also, can you not phrase it that way?! I don't want to think of all of the stuff that I did with girls before I erased all of my memories or whatever!"

"Kouin-sama, you don't remember me?" she asked, sounding crestfallen. "I was your very last girlfriend before you disappeared..."

"Correction," Yuuki said, frowning. "Technically, I was, even if it was only for, like, five minutes."

"Who's the more beautiful one, though?"

"Who's not a ghost?"

"Ugh, you're annoying."

"Look at who is talking!"

"Why don't you?!"

I sighed, staring at the wonderful sun and wrote a letter in my head. Dear Mommy, thanks for everything that you do for me, like sending me a beautiful girlfriend and helping me through hard times and all of that stuff. But, next time you give birth to a child, can you give them sex ed so they don't go around with random chicks, doing whatever they want? Yeah, thanks. Oh, and make sure to tell them they have siblings or they'll get confused. Sincerely, your son, Jin or Kouin or whatever you want to call me.

"Either way, Jin is my boyfriend now!" Yuuki finally said, sounding frustrated and grabbing my arm. "Mine!"

Whoa, I was her property now? When did that happen? Part of me didn't like the sound of being owned by Yuuki while the other side of me was very interested in what could happen if I was owned by Yuuki... no, Master, we shouldn't... wait, get out, weird fantasies!

The Bakeneko grabbed my other arm. "I'm certain he still loves me, somewhere deep in his heart!"

"Hey, am I allowed to say who I love?" I asked.

"No!" both girls shouted.

"Oh, wait, unless it's me," Yuuki said, smiling up at me.

"I-" I began, but was interrupted.

"Never say the fatal words, Kouin-sama! You'll be damned to hell for all eternity!" the Bakeneko cried.

"But-" I began again, but the girls were fighting again. I looked over to Larka, desperate for help. However, it seemed that she was helping Dravis raid the food. Darn her!

"SHUT UP!" I finally snapped and both girls let go, looking terrified. "I know I'm absolutely wonderful and handsome and crap like that, but I need a certain amount of space. You, Bakeneko-girl! I don't remember a thing about you, and I don't think I want to! Yuuki, you are my freaking soul-mate and have been that way without me really realizing it for the past eight years or so! So you two, shut up! That's who I love!"

"Take charge!" Larka said, her mouth full of food.

"Larkaaa!" Yuuki cried upon seeing that she and Dravis were getting into the food. "Dravis, what are you two doing?!"

"Fooooooooodd..." Dravis said, his eyes wide as he stuffed his face.

By this point, I had lost control of what was going on. Why? I dunno. With our little group, only insanity and oddness could ensue. I blamed the Internet.

"You let go of him!" the Bakeneko cried, suddenly grabbing onto my arm. "He's mine by forfeit!"

"You obviously weren't listening to a word I said," I stated, glancing down at the girl. "Leggo."

"You're my one true love!" she cried desperately. "Oh, Kouin-sama, I love you as much as the moon is envious of the sun for the brighter glow! I love you as much as the heaven is away from the earth! I love as much as death touches life! I love you!"

"Well, that was poetic, even if it didn't make any sense," I stated, raising an eyebrow. "Plus, I'm not interested. I don't even know your name."

The girl didn't seem to be too pleased to hear that. She took a step away from me, no longer looking desperate but instead looking angry and full of hatred. To be honest, that scared me a little bit, because either she was on her period and was having serious mood swings or she wanted revenge because I didn't love her. Please be the first.

Of course, when have I been lucky?

Kitty ears on girls are cute in most situations, except when the girl has fangs and has grown her nails out so long that she could touch her nose with them while holding her hand an arm's length away. Her eyes were slits and she looked seriously pissed.

"Uhhh, Larka, was that supposed to happen?" I asked, glancing over to them.

Larka shook her head while putting some food back into the bag where she had take it out from. "Nu-uh, man, you're screwed. Get out your sword or she'll kill you."

"Yeah, that's freaky," Yuuki said as she held onto Dravis' ear, who crying because of want of food.

"You fool!" the Bakeneko screeched. "I will rip you apart unless you date me, right here and right now!"

"Oh, Gods above..." I groaned, pulling out my sword. "Why didn't I pick more normal girls to have sex with?"

"Punishment!" Dravis shouted, not missing a beat.

"You're stupid!" Larka also shouted, not missing a beat.

Yuuki didn't say anything.

The Bakeneko lunged at me, and managed to deflect it, bringing out a cheer from Larka, who knew I was learning all of this stuff. The Bakeneko, however, didn't seem pleased with this, removed its claws from being intertwined with my sword and swiped at me again. I jumped away, feeling freaked out.

If we flash back to a few seconds ago, maybe a minute ago, she was telling me how much she loved me. Now she was trying to kill me. What's with girls and their mood swings?!

Come to think of it, why wasn't Larka or Yuuki or Dravis (okay, never mind about Dravis...) helping me?! I was getting attacked by a demon-cat-ghost-girl-thing and they were just sitting around, watching me! Maybe they thought I could handle it or something. I wished I was wimpier. Wow. Strange thought, no? Now that I was stronger, I wanted to be wimpier...

She managed to back me up into a tree and continued attacking me. I missed dodging/deflecting one of the blows and it sliced through my shirt and my skin. I muttered a swear word as I slammed the flat part of my blade against her head, smashing her about three meters away from me.

"Ow, ow, ow..." I managed, touching my side where blood was beginning to flow from. "That freaking hurt."

"You're getting about a seventy-eight for effort so far on this test!" Larka shouted. "Stop screwing around because your grade is going down with every passing second and if you fail this test, then I'm gonna make training one-hundred times harder for you! Now kill her!"

Oh. So this was a test for Larka, huh? Crap. I'd have to win or face her wrath.

"I love you, Jin! Do your best!" Yuuki cried, being my sweet little cheerleader. Aw, she was so sweet.

Dravis flipped me off. Not nice.

The Bakeneko had gotten up and seemed punch drunk, staggering around a bit. There was some wetness in her hair that shone red, so, and I was just guessing here, but she was bleeding a bit. She glared at me, growling and baring her fangs.

Once again, throwing herself at me, I slammed the flat side of my blade against her body, this time against her arm. I didn't really want to slice anyone up into pieces, no matter how much she wanted to rip me apart. However, as I felt my skin ripping again, I realized that I might not have a choice soon.

"What's wrong?!" the Bakeneko demanded, giving some demonic laughter. "Unable to beat a little girl?!"

"More like a female dog," I muttered, getting in position again, know she would throw herself at me again, somehow.

She jumped up from above this time, kicking me in the face before I really knew what was going on. As she landed lightly behind me, I turned quickly with sword out far from my body and finally used the sharp end against her. It lodged itself into her waist and blood spurted out. I felt disgusted and quickly pulled my sword out, which didn't help, instead making more blood fly out.

I tasted some blood myself, although none had spilled on to me, so I guessed that I had gotten a bloody nose from her kick to my face. I rubbed it and winced, feeling pain signals send themselves to my brain. This was turning into quite a demented battle.

The girl turned to me, not really caring that there was a gaping hole in her side and that the blood from her head wound was beginning to stain her kimono. Her eyes were bright red at this point and her fangs seemed much longer than usual. I was guessing that she was seriously pissed now that I was killing her. Eek. Bad/weird thought.

"She's being controlled, Jin!" Yuuki cried from the side. "By Lee! I can tell! You won't be able to save her, so you'd better just kill her!"

Easier said than done.

"Seventy-three!" Larka shouted.

Easier done than said. For the sake of my life, I'd better kill her.

Her blows seemed lots faster than before and I was barely able to block the hits. I was getting hit more often, but I found myself thinking less about the pain and more about the pain that I needed to give her. I was starting to get obsessed with the idea of causing this girl pain, with making her bleed.

I cut off one of her arms, which helped me block a bit better but got me covered in more blood. I didn't dare open my mouth by this point because I would be drowning in blood, both hers and my own. This was getting to be quite gory and demented, and I found myself wishing that Yuuki wouldn't watch.

Quite suddenly, I realized how tired I was. There was no strength left in me after all of this fighting. There was only so much that my human body could take, and I had been pushing it pretty far over the past few weeks, fighting constantly with Larka and practicing my powers, trying to gain control... this was the final step.

I fell to my knees, taking in deep breaths and tasting my own blood. I glanced over to Larka, who seemed to be somewhat shocked. I gave a weak smile before falling over, feeling tunnel-vision beginning. The last thing I remember seeing was two feet, Yuuki's, I think, walking over to the Bakeneko's.

Well, I failed the test.


I opened my eyes and saw the sky, which was a light purple, indicating that the sun had set a little while ago. Slight chills grabbed me, and, as I tried to move, I felt my body being extremely uncooperative. Pain sapped my strength and I fell back down, taking in deep breaths and forcing the tears back into my eyes.

"You're awake," I heard Yuuki's soft voice say. I glanced over to her and saw that she was pulling some sort of ointment out of her bag. I wondered how much stuff she could keep in there, but stopped as soon as I felt a headache coming on.

"Nn," I answered, trying not to move.

"You passed out and we took care of the demon for you," she said, kneeling down next to me. This was about the moment that I realized I wasn't wearing a shirt, which usually would have made me turn bright red, but, due to what was going on right now, didn't since this was more medical than sexual. "I've been dressing your wounds since about two hours ago. Your body was extremely exhausted, so we're thinking about just letting you sleep tomorrow. You've been working yourself too hard."

I winced as I felt her fingers gently brush the ointment over one of my wounds. As I glanced around, I noticed the fact that Larka and Dravis weren't around. I couldn't help but wonder where they were, but chose not to say anything due to the fact that it would hurt more to talk than it did to think.

"Please... be more careful next time," Yuuki said softly, staring hard at the wound she was dressing. "I don't want you getting hurt..."

I blinked and gave a weak smile to her. She was really too nice to me. I was happy that she was worried about me. This girl who was, although sometimes annoying because she whined, really sweet and beautiful cared about me so much. I was happy.

"Hey, looks like someone is awake," I heard Larka say. "Sorry, Dravis and I were talking in private..."

"And by talking she means kissing," Yuuki said. "And before you try to deny it, I happened to catch a glimpse of you so there's no point."

"Sh- shut up, dork!" Larka cried.

"Why are you embarrassed?" Dravis asked. "We never get any alone time any more. It's nice to make out once in a while."

"Dravis, you're not helping!" Larka shouted.

I gave a weak laugh, then stopped, being that it kind of hurt a lot. Larka seemed somewhat concerned at this and gently touched my forehead.

"You're kind of hot," Larka said softly. "Are you feeling okay?"

"No..." I mumbled. "Your fault..."

"Sorry, I didn't think she'd be quite that powerful," Larka said, sighing. "She's just a Bakeneko so I didn't think she'd have that much power... or that she would be controlled by Lee. I wouldn't have not helped if I had known that she was controlled by Lee."

I sighed, starting to feel tired. "Don't... be... sad..."

I think I fainted again, because I don't remember anything after that. Dang it.

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