Beraku looked at Suzume dubiously."So, at what point in this duel did the woman’s clothes completely disappear?" He thought to himself, annoyed, and looked down at the ground."

They must be some kind of bandit group, and they must of come upon that woman, and jumped her.” He pacing back and forth slightly, unaware that the others were watching him. “If they think that I believe their explanation, then perhaps I can go ahead to the next town, and find out about them." He stroked his chin.

"There might even be a reward for them.” He added after a moment, smiling to himself.

He abruptly stopped pacing, and turned to the rest of the group. “Ah, ok then”, he told them, trying to look as innocent as possible. “I’ll just be on my way”, he said as he rushed off, trying to think of a contact he had in the next town that could help him.

Kazunori had stopped abruptly and had started drinking again. Of course, this time he decided to drink light and had started drinking Beraku's wineskin. Of course, he was always drinking so no one cared. The Kazunori saw the man running off towards town, and Kazu realized that he still had his wineskin. Kazu knew it was up to him to return it, so he started to chase after him. And in an attempt to get him he shouted "Gets back here yous!"

Raikotsu walked onto the deck, looked around with a notable lack of interest, then walked off after Kirakiri and the others.

With a few magic-enhanced jumps, and some running, he swiftly caught up to the shapeshifter, walking next to and slightly behind him/her/it.

"Kirakiri..." he whispered contritely, "To tell you the truth, I just can't get that blonde-haired girl out of my mind. I have to find out more about her." his cheeks turned a faint shade of rosy-violet, gazing up at the taller demon with wide blue eyes.

"I-I wish someone on our side was distracting me from her." he confessed in a slightly timid voice, slipping his hand inside of Kirakiri's, agile fingertips caressing the shapechanger's palm.

Kirie, extremely weirded out by Raikotsu but doing very well to hide it, decided to just go with the flow. Kirakiri obviously had a destination, and since Kirie wasn't needed near the torso or back at home, there was no good reason to abandon them all.
"I think I'm going to be crying for a very long time after all this is over."
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Grey Kimono Fujiko watched Kurama and his party from afar, so low to the ground that the tall grass concealed her form well. At least, the enemy hadn't seen her yet.
Yuna had released Fujiko sometime after having dealt with Shizuka and asked that she merely be ready to exact her own revenge when Genkai collected the torso, so Fujiko found it was best to monitor the legendary warrior in the making. Unfortunately...
"Damn, they're so slow. I'd pull out my own fangs if it would get them to move their asses a little faster."
Something moved out of the corner of her eyes and one of her legs lashed out quickly, killing a snake which Fujiko brought to her mouth and ate voraciously. "Maybe I'll kill and eat one of them later. If anything, it might get them moving faster."

"Kurama,you better have a plan to get us to the next destination. The sooner we get there, the sooner we kill Talkaz, teh sooner we have less demons on our trail. C'mon, let's hurry up and get unlost."

Garud was already starting to lose his patience.

Jade hung by the back of the group, hoping that someone would not ask her to get them unlost. She knew where her village was, and she knew how to get there, but she didn't want to go. She was aware that they needed the scroll from her village, but their enemies were still far behind, and any delay that they could have would make her happy...

"Halt!"

Crap... Two black clad ninja, both male, appeared from the trees. They were rather loud in their approach, so Jade surmised that they were newer trainees. They were both wielding swords, although they were not in a battle stance. "Why are you in this forest?" They spoke threateningly, but did not make a move. Jade sighed, knowing full well that she needed to make herself known or risk some kind of incident. She walked forward, "we are coming back to the village to retrieve the scroll from the elders." They took one look at her clothes and her scarf and their eyes widened. Obviously they weren't new enough to not know her. "Why are you with them?"

"Because he is Genkai Kurama, and as such I must go with them."

They eyed the group and motioned for them to follow.

Youji, who had almost tried to beat Kurama's sense of direction back into him, stopped when he saw the two ninjas from Jade's village. Knowing that they would end up following them anyway (adventures with Kurama tended to be this way, no matter how hard you protested), he shrugged and simply followed them.

If the strangers did try to ambush them, it was still better than sticking around here.

Suzume looked at the ninjas, then the group, and then walked off after Youji. He didn't know why, but a nap sounded really nice right around now. He didn't care about any of the business, no matter how "interesting" it could be. Basically, he just wanted to go back to slacking for a little bit.

"...Yeah, a nap and a good meal. None of the 'save the world' bullshit," he muttered, not really caring about being heard. "Just a nap and a good meal."

OOC: Sorry for the delay

Beraku heard shouting from behind him, and turned around to find the man from before, running after him.
He cringed slightly in worry, and was instantly embarrassed. "Calm down you idiot", he told himself.
"He can't have figured out anything.
Then why is he running after me then?” He added worriedly.
Beraku frowned hesitantly, and stopped to wait for Kazunori to reach him.
"Do you mind if we keep walking? I'm in a bit of a hurry”
"In a hurry to collect a reward for turning in that group of bandits your with if I'm lucky."
"So, what were you saying?" He asked him as they started walking again.

"I gotsh shomethin for yas." Kazunori said as he kept walking with the man, reaching behind his back. Kazunori had put the winesack there, but thats also where he kept his sword, and knowing Kazunori's drunkinness, he grabbed the wrong thing first and pulled out his sword.