Warmth 10

~*~*~*~*~ Sequel chapter nine *~*~*~*~*~

Was it every-time things happened, are to be 'this' quiet??

"...?"
"Is something the matter Muma?"
"Uh-huh? Oh-no! Nothing!"
"Are you worried about Kage?"
"... Kind of..."
"Muma!" Betty softly called "you can go back if you want!"
"No!!!" firmly said the beast "if the female beast turns out to be truly Bijin, then I have to do this!"
"I see..." Toramaru stated...
"Sigh..." Betty felt guilty for ending up making the beast leave his home for someone that may not be even still alive...
"Say Betty, what was the place called again?" the samurai skeleton in red barked questioning...
"It's a place like a club, but truly it's a secrete laboratory, somewhere in Germany, Mackenzie and his underground lab are somewhere there... northeast... it's been some time since I've been allowed there, and the lab members change their position every now and then to lose track of any that might follow... I know a few spots, but they might be somewhere I've never been to!"
"Any idea how to get in?" the samurai in blue asked...
"If we find it?"
"Yes!"
"I don't know! You need a member's card to access the doors! They work on special keys! I'm afraid mine has been discarded!"
"Oh!!" both samurai's said...

"..." Muma drew in a deep breath, giving out a sigh... looking up at the midnight sky, it was snowing lightly at then, Toramaru and Betty-Su were wearing thick coats keeping them warm, the two samurai's and Muma didn't need them, the samurai's weren't affected by the weather, since they were nothing but armor and bones! And Muma has fur to keep him warm, as long as he's not wet of course!!
"It's getting late, I think we should camp here!" the risk breaker suggested...
"Good idea! We've still got a long way to go!"
"Are you sure it's safe?" the dark brown beast asked "we wont be spending our night in someone else's territory are we?"
"Territory?" pause, snapping "Oh-that's right! We don't have passports! We're probably gonna end up in jail if any one got us!"
"We need a pass what??" Toramaru asked, "I've been traveling for ages and I never heard of such things!"
"In each country, you can't leave from one place to another with out a passport!"
"Says who? This land is god's creation! Just because you live on it doesn't mean you can't let people pass!"
"It's not that way Toramaru! Passports are to make sure who you are and where are you from so they can help you if you had problems... it's a bit complicated, I'll explain it to you later, alright?"
"Fine! Let's go to that old hut, it seems abandoned!"
"Maybe we can rest there?" the samurai in red asked...
"I guess! If no one is there!" Betty replied...
"..." Muma said nothing as he followed them to the old hut...

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Meanwhile...
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"Ho-aren't you mommy's little angel, oh-yes you are!!" Kage cuddled her baby boy nuzzling him and he gurgled in joy...
"..." Tora said nothing watching her, then craned to the little white female oddly eyeing him... "Ja?" [Yes?]
"Vas?" [What?]
"(Smirk) some thing the matter girly?"
"(Pouting with a frown)" craning her head to the golden female, Ann was resting under the warm sunlight out side her mother's den, Jiaaku was keeping her company... tail lashing a few times, the white female walked like the hunter she was towards the dozing light brown male...
"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" the orange beast sang, head resting on his folded arms "I think you are in enough trouble already girl! Don't make thing worse!"
"Idiot!" whispered the white female glaring the beast with a mocking look...
"Lousy-little-runt!" slurred the beast...

"...?" Eyeing the white female heading towards his sisters friend, Yuji gave out a tiny screech startling his mother and sister...
"Yuji! Sweetheart, what's wrong? What is it?" Kage asked, surprised of such noise coming from her child...
"What~?" mumbled Ann awakening from her doze, eyeing the white female startled blinking her, light ivy green eyes fixed on her somewhat glaring... "Oh-Geez, what do you want now you twany little furry maggot?" growled the white female, standing on her hind legs "you want another bite of me? Come and get it if you dare!"
"Ann!" scolded the light brown female "that is no way to speak to your younger sister!"
"Sister my foot! Mom! That little furry brat is nothing but a pain in the ass!!"
"ANN!" T___T "don't be a bad influence on your brother! Besides! Ashley's been through a different life! You have to understand that!"
"Understand? Understand what? That she is nothing but some sort of a-child-hunter or something?" the golden female reasoned "I mean look at her! The way she stalks, the way she glares! She a born killer!"
"Mercenary!" with a funny accent, Ashley corrected the golden females words "and just cause I'm younger doesn't mean I'm as stupid looking as you!" the white female calmly concluded...
"O_____O||| HUH???" every one eyed her in start and surprise, except Yuji, he was pretty much lost!
"Y-you can talk?" Tora asked...
"What dose it look like I'm doing?" the white female sneered, "..." glaring the younger child, the white female eyed the light brown female...
"Ashley..." breathed Kage; feeling alerted about this sudden change in events... this child was no child!!!
"I'm lost!" Jiaaku stated feeling totally confused "who is this kid?"
"Sabishii! Ashley is the alphabetical sequence of my code (1-14-8) (A-S-H) but since they couldn't call me (Ash), they added (ley), naming me Ashley!" the white female stated with a cool gaze at the worried young male...
"What's with the funny accent?"
"She's originally German!" Tora said mockingly...
"Oh!"

"Sabishii?" Kage asked, "who named you by that name?"
"My mother!"
"Your... mother? You mean Betty-Su?"
"No! Betty is mostly my baby sitter... my real mother is still back at the chamber with tests run over her, over and over I guess..." a strange tone clutched the young white female words "I didn't want to leave her, but they made me..." tears streaming down her face "I want my mom..." softly sobbing, the white female couldn't help but accept the light brown females hug...
"Oh-it's okay sweetheart, I'll take good care of you until your mother is back, okay?"
"... you mean it?"
"Of course!" holding Ashley in one arm, while holding Yuji in the other, Kage lifted Ash--err, Sabishii into her lap "now, I want you to promise me to be a good girl and make friends with Yuji, alright?"
"Me? And him??" the protest, Sabishii asked...
"Sabishii!" softly sang the female with a somewhat scolding tone...
"But... I don't like males!"
"What are you? A sex resist?" the orange beast mocked...
"Gotta problem gramps??"
"-O___O-!!! Why-I-ought-to T___T!!!"

"Kage!" Yami called as she headed back home after giving Lady Siren a visit "hey! How are things going?"
"Sabishii can talk!" Jiaaku suddenly barked with an amased-worried gaze on his face...
"Sabishii?" Yami asked...
"He means Ashley!" stated Kage...
"Oh-I know that Jiaaku, she's German!!"
"She can talk English Yami!"
"=O.O= Huh? She can?"
"Yup! U__U" smiled the white female...
"Since when?"
"Only god knows!" shrugged the orange beast...
"..." Sabishii said nothing, and settled eyeing the young light brown baby male...
"...?" Eyeing her glaring him, Yuji felt fright and clutched his mothers fur...
"...??" gazing down, Kage saw Sabishii extending a paw feeling the young males face "Sabishii, honey, I think your scaring him!"
"It's not my fault he's a wimp!"
"=O_O= (sweat drop) ^.^ that wasn't what I meant! I meant to say that Yuji doesn't like someone touching all over his face honey!"
"Well, you scroll all over him all the time, and he doesn't complain!"
"Well, I-umm, I-uhh... it's because I'm his mother! ^___^" Kage tried to reason, only to hear a chuckle seep out of the orange beasts muzzle...
"-OwO-" holding back an erupting smile, Kage was glaring him with a pout, Tora cleared his throat "Ahem, I'm gonna go take a walk now! See ya'!!" and with that he leaped away before exploding in a mad case of laughing his head off...
"Corny!" sung the white female "guys like him outta be locked in a single prison cell!"
"=T___T=" Ann gave a glare, it's not that she liked the little female; she hated it when some one said some thing bad about her favorite uncle...
"Ann!" Jiaaku softly called "are you okay?"
"I'm fine!" she calmly hissed, "I'm just feeling... livid!!"
"O__O Gulp!"
"..."
"I'm feeling lost!" Yami mumbled to her self, then walked towards her den...

"...?" Eyes locked with the white female, Yuji saw her drawing back her hands, feeling something odd, Yuji blinked his mother taking them both to the den...
"Now it's getting late, it's time for your nap time!"
"I'm not sleepy!" the whiter female protested...
"..." Yuji cutely made noises to his mother...
"Aw-is my little man hungry?"
"..." Yuji smiled...
"Wimp!" hissed the white female... eyeing Kage laying them down then craning to her child; Sabishii had no idea what 'breast feeding' was...
"Okay..." stated the female feeding her child, and then eyes the confused little white female eyeing the male child happily feeding "is some thing the matter honey?"
"Um, what are you doing?"
"I'm feeding, why?"
"Umm... feeding him... what?"
"Milk!"
"Milk?? O__o??"
"Don't tell me they never left you breast feed from you mother!"
"B-breast-feed?"
"O-you poor child! No wonder you're so violent!"
"...??"
"Sabishii, honey..." Kage called wit in idea floating in her mind "are 'you' hungry?"
"O___O??" eyes shot wide open; the white female eyed the boy half way to dream land "n-no (Clears throat) not really!"
"How old are you?"
"About... a year!"
"Aw-you poor little angel!"
"..." Feeling the rush of some thing cold and stings, Sabishii felt like crying...
"Sabishii! What's wrong? I didn't up set you did I?"
"Why..."
"...?"
"Why am I created so differently from the others??" the little one started crying, snapping out of the need to sleep, Yuji eyed the white female crying, and couldn't help but to feel something uncomfortable as well, and started crying him-self!
"O-it's okay!! It's okay!! Stop your crying!" soothed the light brown female hugging the two children, soothing down their mane, kissing and hugging, cuddling and comforting...
"I want my mom..." the white female sobbed, head over the females shoulder, tears dripping on her fur...
"..." Not being able to sooth that, Kage hugged the little female a bit tighter...

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Somewhere else...
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"What?? No-way-ho-zay!!"
"Aw-C'mon Muma!!" pleaded Betty "just this once?"
"NO! Kage would kill me if she found out!"
"I'm not going to tell her! Trust me!"
"Promise?"
"Cross my heart and hope to die!!"
"..." Pouting, tail lashing in need of an acceptable excuse, sadly, he couldn't find one... Muma gave a white thing "all-right... hop-on!"
"Thank you!" sung the golden haired woman, perching her self on the dark brown beasts back...
"Betty, are you sure you don't want us to help?" the Samurai in blue asked...
"Yeah! Things could get ugly!" the one in red concluded...
"I beg of you Betty!" Toramaru pleaded, "reconsider!!!"
"I have made my mind Toramaru, thank you for your concern!"
"..." Pouting still, Muma mumbled some thing un-understandable under his breath...
"...? What did you say?"
"-O__O-! N-nothing! C'mon! Let's get going!"
"Let's make tracks!" the golden haired woman smiled...

Leaping far away towards the raging snowstorm, Betty on Muma's back was holding to the fur as tight as she can, head ducking down, hidden in that nice thick coat she was wearing, Muma had his yellowish-gray eyes shot wide open as he dashed his way out... where were they heading, what are they attending to do, why? No one --[from the readers!]-- knew...

"I hope she knows what she's doing!" the risk breaker whispered, then lightly gave a chuckle...
"What's so funny?" the samurai in red growled...
"Yeah! What's so funny?" the one in blue concluded...
"...?" Craning to them, the spirit builder gave a pause, "you know, I never got the chance to know your names!!"
"...??" confused, the two samurai's eyed each other, "didn't Betty tell ya'?"
"No!" softly stated the man, shifting his spear to rest on his shoulder; foxtail flickered with the breeze that blew into the hut through the broken window...
"Well now, I'm Tzao-Chang (morning), and this is my brother, Wan-Chang (evening)!" the red one stated as he pointed a thumb to his blue brother...
"It's an honor to meet you! I'm Toramaru! (Distant Tiger)" the risk breaker smiled extending a hand shake...
"It's an honor..." Tzao-Chang smiled...
"Indeed!" Wan-Chang placed his skeleton hand on the shaking hands of the risk breaker and his brother, "but hey!!" he suddenly barked "I know! How about if the three of us vow?"
"A vow?" Toramaru asked "a vow to what?"
"To stand together until we make it out together!"
"I need no vow to keep such things!" chuckled the risk breaker...

"Really??" the vilest voice sneered from the heart of the darkness, causing a shiver down the three peoples body "how interesting..." it concluded...
"Who goes there??" Wan-Chang hissed, slipping the Katana out of place, ready for a fight, armor clattering in the sudden swift of movement...
"Dose it even matter to you, you over grown bag-of-crummy-old-sack-o-bones!!!" the voice growled, violet eyes glowed suddenly in the darkness and a shape of some sort appeared, somewhat looking human, yet not truly human... the shoulders were too wide build, the head was a bit bent down, arms long, too long than they should've been! And huge thug like feet...
"..." Silence took over, Toramaru drew out his spear, and the foxtail flickered with the movement...
"What-the hell are you?"
"(Snort)" the beast thing said nothing, springing a leap towards the three of them... a direct hit into Wan-Chang's chest...
"Uh...!!" his armor cracked... a slash of long claws were dug into it, jerking up, Wan eyed the creature...
"Heh..." it chuckled, shaded in the darkness once more...
"Come out into the light cowered!" growled Tzao, Katana ready to slash...
"If you insist..." Stepping into the light...

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"Eew!!!" all three of them stated in disgust...
"On second thought, go back to the darkness!" Toramaru whispered...
"Hey!!! That's not in the script!!!" T___T the beast growled...
"I know!" Wan chuckled...
"Stick to the script!" I--Jessiy--cry thwacking them with a feminine mallet...
"Aw-C'mon Jess! Can't you take a jock??" Wan complained...
"Not now, later! C'mon Crisis!"
"Crisis??" Toramaru asked...
"I couldn't find the Japanese translation for the name, okay!"
"Slime bucket would've been better!" Wan stated...
"Stick to the script!" Crisis cried... violet eyes glowing again...
"Okay people! That's enough! Stick to the script!" walking away with the script book "and don't roll out again okay? I've got ideas squirming out of my head bothering me already!"
"Sure!"
"Okay..."
"All right..."
"What ever..."
"Sigh..."

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"..."
"Whose turn is it?" Wan asked...
"I think it's yours?" Tzao replied...
"(Pulling a script book from his pocket)" Toramaru read a few lines, "okay, we're suppose to fight his thing, lose, then another flash back comes..."
"Flash back? For whom?"
"Don't know! It's Betty and Muma's part from there!"
"Oh!"
"Would you three get this over with? I have a dentist check-up in an hour!!" the beast growled annoyed, foot thumping out of patents "and just to let you know, my jaws are killing me!!" it whimpered, one hand feeling his cheek...
"Sorry!" all three apologized...
"sh**!"
"Skip the fight!" I--Jessiy--growl, "move to the flash back already..."

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I open my eyes... it's the same place, have I been dreaming? Oh... sigh... I was hoping it was true... how I wish it was true, to be out under the sun once more... to feel the sensation of freedom... the wind, its breeze blowing in my face, its freshness flowing in my lungs, its movement going through my fur... the sun... its heat, its warmth...

A door sliding open...

Oh-no! The door opened! I hear footsteps on that solid cold floor... It's them again! God-no!! NO! Not again! Not now please! No... NO!! I can't take this any more... I want my freedom... though leaving this place would kill me... I need them, to stay alive... but... what is a nightingale... if it's trapped in a cage??

I would rather die free... than to live... imprisoned...

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"...??" jerking his head Muma sensed some thing quite tensing... he was sitting invisible in front of a small shop in a foreign place, snow lightly softened as the storm seemed to have stopped, until the shop's bells jingled as Betty-Su stepped out with her bag...
"Hey! Sorry to take so long..."
"You humans... why is it that you females adore shopping? A male breaks his back collecting these green papers you call money, and you females crack a smile spending it?? So complex!!" the beast growled...
"I took too long, didn't I??" with a meekly smile and a blush, Betty asked...
"I've been waiting for hours!!" the beast whined...
"Hey! We need supplies! Maybe you don't need to eat, but Toramaru and I do!!" reasoned the golden haired woman, "...?" Seeing that the shopkeeper was oddly eyeing her, Betty remembered he couldn't see the beast "maybe we should leave now, before people start thinking that I'm crazy!!"
"(Mumbling under his breath) let's move! The others are probably bored to death right now!"
"You mean waiting for us, don't you?"
"What ever..."

Leaping off, after the female settled on his back, having to hang around her made Muma feel alerted in an odd way... the only females he used to be with were his wife/mate, Kage, his daughter Ann, and Yami! Yami was like a sister to Muma, never thought of her as any thing else... but then, some thing white popped out into his stream of thoughts... it was Ashley/Sabishii, and ... Bijin?? Somehow... Muma felt sorry and lonely for his friend... Bijin... and Ashley... in a way, they matched, meaning that it's a sure thing Ashley might be Bijin's daughter, if so, she gave birth to a child, form a human? It is so complex...

'Bijin... how long has it been?' he thought to him self as he ran across the empty snow desert, 'When you gave out your life to help Kage that day... you were so... either crazy, or brave... (Light chuckle) right then... when you fell of that cliff... I was the only one who found you... yet... you begged me not to let any one know you survived... you said you were dieing...you wanted me to just leave you there...' some thing shimmered in the beast's yellowish gray eyes, drawing a deep breath, needing to maintain him self, 'I couldn't just leave you... your scares on my face... form the out side they seem gone... but they scared my heart... you've been my little sister!! I couldn't leave you... I never thought I'd end up doing so...'

"Muma??" whispered the golden haired woman "why are you crying??" she pulled a hanky from her coat's pocket, drying away the streaming tears from the beast face...
"I... I'm sorry..." whispered the beast, only then did he notice that he stopped in the middle of a forest, panting a little, Muma needed to clear his mind...
"Muma..."
"...?"
"Is it Kage?"
"... no..."
"Is it Yuji?"
"No..." clears throat...
"What's wrong Muma?" asked Betty-Su, sliding off his back, hands brushing back his gray mane...
"It's Bijin..." a few more tears streamed down...
"..."
"I can't believe... she's been through so much..."
"Muma..." Soothed the human, eyeing those hot tears burning the beasts face, tears on a face of a beast, she never dreamed of seeing it, defiantly not on a face of a male!
"And it's all because of me!!!"
"...? You? What do you mean??"
"..." Yellowish gray eyes blinked constantly at the light blue eyes, facing away, Muma brushed away his tears with his forearm "C'mon, we'd better be moving... we shouldn't be hanging around her and goofing off while the others wait!" firmly stated the beast trying to clear his voice...
"Your right!!" whispered the females, perching on the males back once more...
"..." Taking a deep breath, Muma leaped away running through the forest once more, continuing his path...

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I open my eyes... Kage is a sleep right now... Kage?? What?? Where?? What is she doing here in-- ... -- wait a sec! I'm furry! I have claws! And a tail?? I turn to Kage once more, her fur beautifully shimmers as she lye there in sleep, and I find my self snuggled into her bosom!! Embarrassing! I slip my way back, I look around, and there I see that little white female again, darn, forgot her name... what am I doing here?? What's going on?? I look at my hands, paws, or what ever they call them, they're light brown! Sort 'a like Kage, the tail and mane, crimson red and tipped in milky tan, somewhat gray... I'm lost... what am I doing here?? Why am I here in the den?? Am I... Yuji??

"Something the matter?" a funny voiced accent stated...
"Huh?" the little beast craned to the white female...
"What's the matter dummy?"
"Dummy? Who're you callin' dummy?"
"I'm callin' YOU dummy... DUMMY!" Sabishii growled hand swiftly clutching the young light brown males torso fur "wanna make sum-thin of it?"
"...?" In start, the little light brown child, blinked the female "are you crazy or some thing?"
"Grr!!" one clawed hand stroked the little beasts face, flipping him over tumbling off the grass bed, only to fall thwacking on his face...

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"GASP!!!" Ushio leaped out of bed seeing the view of the ground zooming in right into his face, feeling his face, torso and neck, every thing seemed okay, but then again, maybe the wasn't!
"Ushio?" softly called the priest after knocking on the door "are you alright? I heard your shouting from here!"
"N-nothing dad! It's nothing!"
"Well, go back to sleep then, remember, you have school tomorrow..." sound of foot steps walking away...
"Sure..." whispered the boy slipping back into bed, 'I hope it was nothing but a dream'

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What proves it wasn't?
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"Sabishii! There was no need to be so nasty!" scolded the light brown female nursing her child's bleeding face "it's okay baby, mommy's here!!! Stop you crying..." hugging and cuddling her hurt infant, Kage felt something burn within her soul, she really felt like killing the little white female, but then again, she couldn't... her motherhood wouldn't let her...
"Why don't you let me handle this twany little trouble making female?" growled the orange beast, Tora felt hatred at the little female, it's not he liked her at any case...
"Your not gonna hurt her uncle Tora..." Ann hissed, "...not before I do!" she sneered, silver tail lashing like an angry cat, claws extended ready to cut through any thing fleshy...
"Wanna bet?" the ancient beast mocked...

"Neither one of you is going to lay a hand on Sabishii!" Kage hissed...
"(Sobbing)" Yuji hung to his mothers fur, lightly opening his eyes a crack watching what was going on, feeling hurt in his face, the little child felt something form within him... that might determine his future...
"..." Saying nothing, the little white female glared the young child with cold hued ivy green eyes...
"Kage!" Yami softly called, "I got them..." the tanned female smiled showing a small bottle and a few spicks of cotton, "this is probably gonna hurt him, are you sure you don't want me to do it?"
"I'll take care of that wound Yami!"
"A mothers heart could never harm it's child no matter what the reason was!!" the ancient orange beast stated calmly, "your not gonna do it right female! Let Yami do it!"
"I'm with Tora!" said Jiaaku...
"Me too!" Ann said...
"Better let me do it!" Yami asked, she knew her friend would never hurt her child even if she just wanted to nurse him...
"Sigh... all right..." breathed the light brown female...
"..." Seeing that he had been removed from his mothers warmth, Yuji started crying out loud wanting her back... only now could we see the little stream of blood drawing it's cursed line on his forehead, over the eye, reaching his chin...
"I'm sorry baby!" Kage kissed her child calming him down, as Ann and Jiaaku escorted her out side the den...
"..." Tora said nothing, craning back to the coldhearted little female who stood on her hind legs attending to simply walk away, Tora couldn't help but to rise his flat clawed hand, thwacking her once on her soft rear sending her flying out the den, landing right on the face splattering snow all around...
"GASP!" Sabishii was surprised, feeling her tushy she growled as she jerked her head around... only to freeze eyeing that gruesome scary looking set of silver slit eyes, glaring her, cursing her, mumbling under his breath with words she never heard of...
"..." Back hunched up, ears perked back, claws extended, teeth shown, eyes glaring, breath hot and burning, thunder crackling, heat of his soul fuming up like never before, Tora could just reach out and rip that little white furry maggot to smithereens and not feel guilty the next morning... if only the light brown female didn't stand in his way, "Move-Out!" Tora hissed to the female...
"You can't do this Tora! I wont let you!" Kage whispered, worry over her child occupied her mind...

"Mother..." Ann stated calmly "why are you protecting a child that seems to want nothing but death?" the golden female's fit was fuming as well "I mean Sabishii is nothing but a lousy little girl that wants nothing but Yuji's death!!! She wants to kill him mom!!"
"There is something good in everything..." Kage stated, "Just cause she acts bad doesn't mean there is nothing good about her!"
"..." Confused, the white female said nothing...
"Kage!" Jiaaku called "why are you defending her?? She tried to kill Yuji more than once and you know it!"
"I have my reasons!"
"To what? Do you want to give a better chance in killing him?" Tora sneered, "I have never heard of a female that has the will to wait for someone to take away her child!" something burned in his voice, Tora was talking from his heart "if Yuji was my child, I swear that little bit** wouldn't have lived for this long! You must be crazy to keep such a devil near him!!"
"..." Eyeing those eyes glaring her with hate, Sabishii felt the fear creep near her, the orange beast wasn't fooling around, he meant his words, and she knew he did, craning to the golden female and light brown male, they all had the same look... hate!
"..." Kage thought of those words, slowly looking back down at the frightened looking white child...
"..." Kage had a scary look as well, not as strong as the rest, but it was there, that look, it gave Sabishii a nasty shiver down her spine, fear clutched her whole...

"Kage!" Kyofu called as he walked towards them "mind if I handle this?" the black beast calmly asked, crimson tail lashing left and right...
"Kyofu..." Ann wondered, the old black beast doesn't like children, maybe he's save her the trouble and kill the twany little maggot! And with that stream of thoughts, Ann had a vile smile on her face "I don't see why not! Maybe you can crack her mind open!"
"Kage..." said the beast, awaiting the female's respond...
"..." Kage craned away, she gave no answer...
"Mom...?"
"Kage...?"
"Hey female!!!" Tora growled "you're not going out of this one so easy!!"
"..." Eyeing him with the corner of her eye, Kage said nothing and leaped away, Sabishii was left behind, as the black beast laid his firm hand on her shoulder when she attended to follow...
"HEY! Not so fast!" shouted the ancient orange beast racing after the light brown female...
"Uncle Tora!!!" Ann cried reaching out a hand, but to no avail, the beast couldn't hear her...
"..." Feeling lost, the little white female dropped her gaze to the hand resting on her shoulder...
"Come... this way..." was all what Kyofu said, as he trailed away, not running back to her...
"..." Since she had nothing else to do, Sabishii followed, taking one last look at the golden females glaring eyes cursing her, Jiaaku said nothing; he was waiting for the tanned female at the entrance of the den...

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What about Tora and Kage?
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"Okay sister, Pull over!!!" hissed the beast (too much 'Stop you're under arrest' I guess!)
"...!!" Glaring him running right besides her, Kage gave a snort and kicked up to high speed...
"HEY!!!" fuming worse than ever, Tora cried (AAAAHHHHHH!!!!) as he kicked up his gears as well, thunder crackling in his forelock, whiteness mixed in white and blue...
"...?" Jerking her head a bit back, the orange guy was still on her tail, with a glaring chuckle, Kage went like-crazy and started laughing her head off, thunder crackling as she ran so fast she kind of went POOF right out of sight among the thick trees...
"What the--?" hitting the breaks, snow shoved away, Tora shot his eyes jerking his head from one side to another "where'd she go?" looking at the ground, her footprints were there, then gone! "She can't fly..." the beast murmured "but, then again..." shifting his head up as the sound of falling snow cough his ears...
"HA!!!" cried the female thwacking the beast one on the noggin, sending him flat on the stomach...
"OW!!!" thudding like a huge sack of something, Tora had swirly eyes and stars twinkling around the bump on his head, "Wa-ha-hoo... what hit me??"
"(Pant-pant-pant)" Kage said nothing eyeing him get up, draw up his hands and nurse his head...
"Geez... reminds me of the spear!!!" the beast hissed at the female, but then, Tora eyed her there, she... was she crying? There were dry tears lines on her face, yet there was a crazy smile on her face, eyes looking sleepy, yet, they seemed as if they were glaring him...
"Whew..." Kage took one step near the orange beast, and then simply, and delicately, kissed him once on the cheek "thank you Tora..."
"-O___O-!!" heart leaped up throbbing in his throat, Tora had to take a huge gulp of air to pull it back...
"(Bashful smile) thank you so dearly!"
"..." If only beasts could blush, Tora's face would've went on fire now!
"(Giggling)" Kage couldn't help it when the beast actually thought his feet were suddenly interesting, "I'm sorry..."
"Next time... give me a warning!" the beast whispered, face shaded in dark orange bangs... one thing Tora learned from hanging around Kage, when she says 'thank you' don't ask why, cause it could only get you in trouble... usually it does!!
"I will..." smiled the female, sitting back on her hunches, and then shifting her gaze a bit, looking around...

A hawk was soaring right above them; it's voice echoing through the sky...

"...??" looking up, Tora eyed the creature...
"It's beautiful..." Kage whispered "don't you think?"
"Yeah it is, isn't it!" the orange beast smiled, and then looked at the light brown female "... reminds me of you!"
"...?"
"Lovely, elegant, fast... and absolutely crazy in a stubborn kind of way!"
"If only it was orange, I would've said it was you!"
"On the contrary, my dear! It's more like you!"
"Aw-are you flattering me?"
"I didn't say that you did!!"
"..."
"..."
"(Giggling) thank you Tora!"
"Don't mention it, or I'll have to kill you!"
"Of course!"
"Sh**..." the beast mumbled feeling embarrassed "C'mon! Let's head back, your baby boy is probably whining like a siren already!"
"Oh-yes! Lady Siren!!" the female breathed, placing her hand on her lips "I promised her yesterday I'd visit her today!"
"Tell her you were occupied! Some one as old as her should understand!"
"Tora! She's only 860!!"
"So!!"
"Never mind!" chuckled the female shaking her head "I'll see her later, care to join?"
"Uh-no! I just remembered some thing... I'll see you later!" Tora said as he watched the female give a nod and walk away back towards her home, "I have a few humans to check!!" he whispered to him-self, and with that, the ancient orange beast leaped away...

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And where are we now??"
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"OW! Watch where you're going Dammit! You stepped on my tail!!!" growled the dark brown beast nursing his fluffy milky tanned tail...
"Sorry!" Tzao apologized "it's so damn dark here! I can hardly see any thing!"
"HUSH!" scolded Wan, "that thing is still around here! Be quiet or it's really gonna get us!"
"I just hope Toramaru is okay..." Muma breathed...
"What about Betty-Su?" Wan whined, "I'm worried!"
"Your not the only one bro!"
"Betty-Su did not get harmed, not like Toramaru! I mean that thing has claws all over his body!"
"Tell me about it! Where do you thing he took them?"
"Probably to the lab!"
"Can you get their smell??"
"Not now I cant! Betty's perfume was so hot its stuffing up my nose, I can hardly sniff anything!"
"Dang!" both samurais snapped their skeleton fingers...
"But you gotta admit! She does smell nice!" Tzao blushed...
"OH-SHDDAP!!!" hissed Wan, face blushing as well...

"A-HA!!! Found you!!" the creature laughed as it attacked them...
"Ah!!!" the two brothers hugged in start, but then snapped and let go...
"RUN FOR IT!" cried the dark brown beast dodging a set full on one-meter long claws...
"Come back and fight you cowered!!" scolded the violet eyed beast "you guys are no fun!" he pouted as he ran after them with his claws shimmering in the shaded darkness he was lurking in...
"(Panting)" Muma took a look back "did we lose--THWACK--him... uhh..." with a thud, Muma saw stars and birds chirp around his face...
"Muma!!!" cried Wan, quickly eyeing the thing heading right towards the beast who got him self bashed into a pillar in the middle of the room...
"WAN!" cried the red Samurai, "duck!"
"Wow!!" Dodging a thing that was thrown at the beast, Wan saw it hit the enemy and bounce back, just like a boomerang, only for it to reveal as his brothers rib!!!
"Hurry!!" Tzao scolded...
"I'm getting' I'm getting'!! Sheez!" placing a hand on the pillar for support, Wan heard a sound of something going (beep) "Huh?" removing his hand, it was a button "what the--(there was no floor under him any more)--gulp... bye-bye!!" waved the samurai as he fell, Muma was pulled in as well...

"Dammit! They found the passage way!" the creature growled running and jumping into the hole before it closed, it was now shut tight...
"WAN! MUMA!" Tzao hurried towards it, but was too late "Sh**!!" glaring the button, Tzao hesitated "Aw-what the heck!" bashing it, the ground under him didn't just slide open, it blasted right under his feet sending him sliding and zooming down fast "Whoa!!!!" until he hit something hard, he blanked out...

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A/N: nothing... XP