IV

"Grahhh…" Yumi roared as her scythe cut through the beast's paw. Letting out a loud whistle, Yumi's mount came to her as she jumped onto it and rode around the monstrous beast confusing it while cutting it down without mercy. "This is the end for you," Yumi said once the creature fell onto the ground before her bloodied and barely alive. Have mercy, please have mercy on my child... the creature begged Yumi with its dying breath. "Go and ask Hel that," Yumi snarled holding her scythe up high that it transformed into a sword as she drove it down onto the feline's heart.

"Yumi, where is Noriko?" the captain of the group asked finally coming around. "I don't know," Yumi simply replied wiping away the blood on the corner of her mouth. "Go look for her, don't let her do something rash Yumi," he said gently with a concerned look on his face. "Mm," Yumi nodded her head and climbed back onto her mount and rode off.

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Tossing the young woman onto the hard ground in the back of the cave once they made it there, Noriko went back out to check on the direction of the wind outside the cave. Once she was sure that everything is well, Noriko gathered some herbs and fruits before securing the cave with a well-disguised vines curtain and a trap set right behind it. With her godly scent, Noriko knew that even with the wounds she'd inflicted upon those women, it will not be enough to slow them down for long until they give chase after her to get back one of their own.

Even with the confused and frightening look on her beautiful face, Noriko couldn't think of anything else but the primal instinct that's dominating her mind at the moment. Overpowering her victim, Noriko ripped the woman's plain kimono right off of her body paying no attention to the shrilling scream, she took the herbs and mashed it with her hands before applying to the light wound she'd given to the woman earlier. It was only but a graze of the skin, but it would be a shame for such delicate skin to have scar upon it as Noriko's mind agreed with it.

Once her attention on the wound was done, Noriko stared at the woman for a long moment. Even in the darkness of the cave, Noriko had no problem seeing things as though it's bright as daytime. The heat in her body, the primal instinct wanted to satisfy its hunger, needs and desire and Noriko gave into it.

Capturing the victim's lips, Noriko kissed with great hunger and maybe a hint of madness within it. Struggle as the victim may, she was at the mercy of Noriko's incredible strength despite of her demi-bloodline. The kisses stray away onto the victim's neck, while Noriko's right hand kept the victim's hands in place as her left hand slowly messaging the victim's breast.

Suddenly, a current of cold air swept through the cave and the next thing Noriko knew or felt was the cold wall on her back and it started to get a bit hard to breathe. "You fool, didn't we agree on never abducting a woman no matter how beautiful she is?" Yumi's hostile tone snapped Noriko out of her haze. Yumi was furious as she clutched her hand around her cousin's throat while snarling at the young girl, both had sworn to never take a woman even if she offered herself to them after the disaster they'd gone through when they let a woman joined the group after saving her from the monsters. "Now tell me Noriko, how will we return to them now that we've broken our oath?" Yumi asked.

For as long as both could remember, they'd always been together like each other's shadow and never too far away from each other. Yumi always seemed to be the more level-headed between the two, but when she snap she become much more destructive than Noriko. Noriko was more of a wild child, but she is much kinder when compared to her cousin when it comes to hunting monsters.

"What will you do when they come for her?" Yumi asked suddenly letting go of Noriko, who dropped onto the ground with a thud while gasping for air. "I will not give her up," Noriko finally managed. "How will you manage a one on three? Not to mention she could just stab you from behind for kidnapping her and violating her." Yumi pointed out as she took off her rawhide jacket that she'd always carried with her and put it over the nude form that was still laying there shaken and crying. "She is not a normal human who happened to travel with a group of halfa cousin," Yumi warned her cousin. The one strange ability that Yumi seemed to have that Noriko doesn't have was the ability to see a person's soul to tell whether they're human or not, and that's the one skill that let them hunt down monsters that disguised themselves as human easily. "It matter not, I've already marked her." Noriko replied firmly. "Then we best hurry to Niflheim," Yumi said picking up the woman instead of letting Noriko do it. "And until we get there, you're not to touch this woman cousin," she warned walking out of the cave with Noriko trailing right behind her.

Outside, the sun has set on them, "Let us make haste, I already told the others that we will be away for a while." "I'm sorry cousin, for getting you involve into a crime that I committed out of lust," Noriko said as they took a shortcut to get out of the forest and headed for Niflheim. In the Land of Mist, one could easily hideaway and could never be detected, and there is the home to the cousins despite that they never truly been there for more than two days for their whole life. Once outside of the forest, Yumi whistled and called for her mount along with Noriko's mount, as they climbed on Yumi got the woman in front of her before the rode off toward Niflheim.

"What is your name maiden?" Yumi asked after riding in silent for a long time. "Todō Shimako," the woman in her arms replied meekly. "My name is Yumi and that girl there is my cousin, Noriko. Shimako-san, please forgive my cousin's roughness towards you, she is in heat though I'm not sure why she'd lost her self-restrain this time." Yumi explained. "In.. heat…?" Shimako echoed not sure how could a human be in heat. "Like you, my cousin is a demi and because of her heritage, she inherited some… unique traits…" Yumi trailed off when Noriko started to growl very lowly as a warning sign to her cousin to not reveal too much about their origin.

A/N: And so, we're moving forward and Shimako is way too damn calm! I say it! More exciting things to come. Enjoy, ja ne~