Suna open his eyes to see the girl in front of him, sitting there with a big smile on her face. "He's waking up" she announce with a big smile, X looks over from where he sat and grins. Suna sits up and holds his head, they are back at the old campsite, "what happen?" He says as he grunts, X chuckle "well after seeing the girl up close and falling in love, you faint from being a virgin" suna eyes go wide and start blushing. "No i did not, stop saying such things you" suna screamed at X, X just covers his ears and poke his toungue out. The girl leans closer to suna "are you feeling alright?" Her ears twitching on her head, suna looks away from her close distance "I'm fine" all he could muster from his mind. "That's good" her eyes light up as she smiled at him, "thanks for saving me again" she said. Suna nods, she suddenly jumps up which surprised Suna, "my name is kuro nemiko" kuro stood with beaming energy. Suna looks up and smiles "I'm suna nikobu" then he turns to X. "And that's-" kuro cuts him off "X" she said. X spoke out "we've talk while you were out of it" kuro nods exictedly. Suddenly X and Suna's stomach starts to rumble, and they look at each other. "I guess we have not eaten anything since yesterday" Suna exclaimed while scratching his head, "I'm not big on missing it for another day, but I've not see a single animal since we walked in here" X looks around irritated. Kuro suddenly jumps in, "I can help find food if you like, consider it as a reward for saving me" she smiles, X and suna looks at eachother then back at her, "is that fine with you?" Suna asked her. Kuro nods excitedly again and with more certainty, "don't worry, I am practically an expert in hunting. I'll come back with a feast" she said with confidence. X grins "alright, I'm interested to see what you can get" suna turns to X "X, what are you saying?" Clearly thinks that sending a girl into a forest is dangerous. X turns to suna "she seems very confident, let her do it" suna looks in disbelief, but before he can argue back, kuro turns around "right, on it boss" she then leaps.
She jumps from one tree to another with great speed, seeming to move with no weight at all, flying through the forest. Suna looks at her gaining distance from them and then turns to X, X grins at him "seems like she can handle it" suna shakes his head "that's not the point, she was captured just a while ago and you sent her in the forest, alone with no protection" X leans back to a tree, "relax, she will be fine. She is an interesting one, like you" suna looks towards the direction she left and sighs. Kuro travels across a distance in short time, covering a whole lote of ground while jumping from one tree to another with her athleticism and flexibility. Seeming to be natural for her to traverse in shuch a manner, she then stop at a giant tree in the middle of the bamboo forest, a hole on the base of the tree can be seen. She crawls in, inside was her temporary hideout which still hold some of her belongings. She took a bag from a corner, stuff inside were a couple daggers, a scroll in which she opens to reaveal a painting of two people with similar features to her own, a young man and an older woman. She scrolls it back, a sad smile as she does. Lastly was a necklace inside a pouch, she shakes the pouch a bit then puts it back in, leaving her hideout for forever. Outside she stretches her body and sets off again to pursue food for her saviours. Rushijg through the trees, she finally smiles as she hears the sound of bamboo trees falling down, she then stops and stands in one of the trees. Her ears moving around on top of her head to the sound of the destruction, pinpoint it and she takes off again. She makes her way to a secluded area in the bamboo forest, an area freshly flatten of bamboo trees, a single animal stands in the center, looking around happily to what it has accomplished.
Kuro looks from above, her grin growing larger at the prey below, she takes out two daggers from her bag, holding one in each hand, she then dives down into the ground below from great height on all four. She starts to make way towards the prey from behind, the prey's brown skin shinning in her eyes. The prey turns around, feeling a sense of dread and sees her approaching slowly, this irritates kuro a bit for she failed to sneakily end it's life. The beast growls with its tusk aim straight at kuro's way, the pig stood there in the center charging to bash it's tusk onto kuro. Kuro stands up straight and taunts the pig to approach her, the pig takes it and starts to dash at her. Kuro smiles and as the pig gains closer to her, she runs towards it. Her foot stomping on it's snout, which makes the pig flings her up towards the sky, she stays midair doing a flip and landing on top of the pig. The pig starts to move around trying to get her off, kuro laughs with a big smile as she tries to stay on the pig. Kuro gets flung to the side eventually, and they are both looking towards each other again. Kuro with her hand and feet on the ground, the pig charges at her, she pushed one hand on the ground which flings her body to the side as she dodges the rampagin pig gunning towards her by a second. While she dodges she takes this chance to cut to the side of the pig, leaving a big gouge on the pigs body from the front to the back. The pig shrieks in pain, but huffs at her with its eyes glaring. Kuro turns around with the bloody dagger, swinging it as the blood splatters on the ground, she grins. They both then charges at each other, kuro goes under the pig with a slide, slashing it's leg with the two daggers. Appearing on the other side, she jumps up to dodges the pigs tusk as it swings around. While in the air, she swings a a number of cuts to the pigs back in fast pace, landing on the other end, the pig falls onto the ground with bloody wounds that resembles mutiple claw marks on its back. "Sorry piggy, but you're dinner" she walks towards the pigs head and pet it twice. The pig huffs in pain and kuro deals the killing blow onto its brain, she wipes her hand on her forehead with a sigh of accomplish.
An hour pass by, Suna sits tapping his hand on his leg, looking worried, X in the other hand has no care in the world as he closes his eyes, "it's been too long, i should have stop this. How are you so calm?" Suna turns to X and glares at him. X open one eye and looks at the forest "because she's back" suna looks confused "huh? What do you mean?". Suddenly the sound of laughter can be heard from above suna, he looks up and sees a girl falling down onto him with the biggest smile. Suna screams as she crashes down on him, "I got food" kuro looks down on him with a big smile and sparkling pink eyed. Suna looks towards her and blushes "where is it?" He looked at her hands which hold nothing. Kuro then got off him "coming down now" suna looked confused as he was looking at her, then looked up to see a giant pig falling down on him. He screams again as the pig lands on him squashing him, sand emerge from the bottom of the pig and reformed into suna as he breaths heavily from shocked. Kuro giggles and jumps up and down behind him holding his shoulders, "there's the food" she said with pure happiness. X gets up and looks at the big pig, seeing the hundred of scratch marks on it's body, he grins and looks at kuro still with suna. "Where did you find it?" X asked, kuro turns to him "i saw it alone in the forest eating fruits, it was the only one i could see for forever, so i took him." She smiled "he was very tough, it took me so long to get him down" she chuckles. X put his hand on it, scratches it a bit which does leave a cut on the body, he grins while doing so. "Now, how do we cook it?" X turns to the two of them and smiles.
The pig is roasted under a giant fire, holded up by two trees and a big stick through the pig, the skin of the pig has gotten crunchy and dark brown. "Is it ready yet?" Kuro looks at it with a watery mouth, "no, almost" suna said to her. X looks at it and also drools, "i think it's cook enough" he said reaching his hand out. Suna slaps it away "wait a couple more seconds" kuro and X looks at it with big eyes. "Alright it's good" suna said finally, X and kuro rushes on to the pig despite the open fire and start taking meat off. They finished it and left it to bones, X and kuro looking satisfied and full, suna looking at the bone pile then back at them. They sat near the bone pile as they digest the food they have consumed, suna then looks at Kuro "kuro, how did you get captured?" Kuro looks at him with a thinking face, "they caught me when i was still asleep, when i woke up i was already in their arms" she explained. Suna looked at the bone pile of the big pig then back at her, "did you try to escape?" Kuro looks at him and thinks again "i haven't gotten to that part, i was still trying to get my hands free from the rope". Suna just nods "i see, why were you out here in the first place?" Kuro then looks down "i was searching for my brother, he went out to save my mother who was taken by those bastards, i couldn't wait any more and went after him." X looks at the two of them talking and sits back. "You'll find him and your mother" suna said to her, kuro smiles in return and nods. X then jump in the conversation "we're heading to the capital, you could join us and find your brother their" kuro eyes light up from the suggestion "i would love too, i like you two and want to stay with you guys" she said with a big smile. Suna smiles back at this "then, I'll help search for your brother too" kuro smiles at suna, "after we do our stuff" X looks at suna, suna nods in return.
Kuro tilts her head to the side, "what kind of stuff?" She ask them. X looks at Suna, signaling him to tell her the whole story. Suna reluctantly sighs and faces Kuro "So, X is not from this place" Kuro's eyes light up "He's an Alien?" She jumps in her sit. "No no, not quite" Suna shakes his head, X side eyes Suna. "Okay, the land we stand on has been transported to another earth and X is from that earth" Suna looks at Kuro to see her reaction. Kuro face stays the same way with big curious eyes and a smile on her face, listening intently. Suna continues "X wants to learn why this has happen and to get that information he must save lord nahishi's daughter from Juhebi, so lord Nahishi will then tell him all the information he wants" Suna finishes and look at Kuro again, Kuro looks the same and nods in understanding. X laughs from where he sits "you should explain everything from now on" Suna looks at X in irritation but then turns to Kuro "Do you understand?" Kuro nods in return "Yup, all clear" Suna with no choice just believes her words. X gets up and stretches "alright, that's enough for a lunch break" he slaps his stomach with satisfaction "we still got a long way to go" he grunts with irritation of the distance to the capital. Kuro and Suna gets up as well, Suna went to put out the fire as they all get ready to leave. "So you're coming with us?" Suna ask, X peeks back from where he stands. "Of course" she said with a giant smile. Suna smiles in returns and X just chuckles as he sets off first, while the two follow behind him.
They walk toward the capital following the dirt path constructed on the ground seperating the bamboo forest in half. X walks behind the two as they chat between themselves, he looks around the scenery, admiring the peace of the forest. His eyes fall back to the two in front of him, Kuro walking with energy and carefree with Suna who steps silently like a wind. Kuro turns to Suna, her minds returns to their conversation over lunch "hey, you explain what X is doing but you never said why you're coming with him" Kuro looks at him to see his reaction. Suna looks towards the direction to the capital "I want to save her too, I can't sit back in the willage and do nothing while she is suffers a cruel fate" Kuro's eyes soften she looks towards the same way "oh, are you close with her?" She asked. Suna nodded "we were the closes, we would go play around in the village as kids and do all sorts of trouble" he chuckled to himself, Kuro smiles in return "that's nice, you're strong so i believe you can save her" Suna turns towards her due to her words and smiles with a nod "yea, I will" Kuro's eyes turn wide as she looked at Suna's determine eyes. X butts in from behind "getting very confident huh?" he grin looking at Suna. Suna smiles in return not faltering from doubt "i will save her" X and Kuro smile at him "alright kid, I'm interested" X says as he chuckles. Kuro skips forwards going up and down "This is gonna be lots of Fun" she says with the biggest smile on her face.
X looks towards the distance and smiles "look at that, i was starting to hate sleeping on the ground" Suna and Kuro look over to where X is looking as they see a medium size village at the distance. They make their way to it before arriving at the front gate, people walking around on the street, kids playing around and a couple of guards patrolling the streets. Suna looks towards the guards, they wear dark green leather armor reminiscent of snake scales and they all don a mask with the characteristics of a snake which covers their whole face except for the one in the middle which has the mask of a cobra and they adopt a hood. They walk in groups of 4 with the cobra in the middle leading the pact, the normal snakes hold a spear while the cobra holds a sword. X yawns and passes between Suna and Kuro, "where are you going?" Suna asked him. "I'm going to look for an inn, I want to lay on a bed after so long. You two do whatever you want, ciao" he waves his hand in the air without turning to around to look at them as he walks away. Suna shakes his head in disbelief "I thought we were going to the capital as fast as possible, he doesn't take this seriously" his voice filled with irritation but then he sighs. Kuro looks around the village with eyes that sparkle, she pulls on Suna's arm "woah, My first ever human village. Let's look around huh?" She turns to Suna with pleading eyes, Suna unable to resist nods in return "well, we gotta wait for X either way, might as well" Kuro jumps in excitement with Suna's agreement.
As the two walk, some village people turn to look at them both, their eyes tell curiosity as they look at Kuro and Suna walking. Kuro's ears twitch and her tail waving around simultaneously with her excitement, her smile as big as ever and she pulls along Suna. Suna smiles looking at her excitement as she points towards stalls of snack and food sold at the street, her mouth watering by the sight of the delicious delicacy. Suna takes out his pouch and talks to the vendor, buying one of the taiyaki presented, he gives it to kuro who takes a big bite and mumbles with food in her mouth with delight, her eyes sparkling. While eating her eyes wonder towards the street, looking at the people walking, then her eyes falls onto a group of kids running around together and playing with one another, she smiled at them. One of the kids accidentally hit a hebi guard while running, Kuro sees the guard gets irritated and scolds the kids, suddenly the guards kicks the kid down to the ground, Kuro's eyes widen and she rushes to the scene. Suna who was buying another taiyaki for Kuro turns around to find her missing and looks around to see her running towards the guards, his face falls to distress "Kuro, wait!".
The guard grunts at the kid on the ground while the other kids stood still afraid, the kid on the floor glares towards the guard which irritates him more. The other guards just stood and watch while laughing, the captain laughs as well. "What's you looking at me like that" the guard said to the kid, kicking him again on the stomach which pushes the kid back. The kid doesn't back down and the guard hold him down with his leg "you should know your place" the guard looks down on the kid. "Hey, stop that" Kuro's voice move through the air, the guard looks up and scoffs "or what?" He stops and starts walking towards Kuro. He stands in front of her and looks at her. Kuro looks back at him with anger in her eyes, the kids that were standing runs away, while the one on the floor stoods up and runs but before getting to far turns around to look at her again. The tension rises between the two as Kuro stares into the mask, the guards grips his spear. Suna suddenly appears in between the guard and Kuro, his back against the guards as he looks at Kuro, his eyes pleading to her to stop this, kuro doesn't falter. The guard seeing this gets angry, "who are you, her boyfriend?" He says scoffing. Suna ignores the guards words "let's go, Kuro" he says calmly towards Kuro. Kuro looks at Suna and suppress her anger, the guard seeing himself being ignored gets more angry and lifts his spear, Kuro sees this widen her eyes but it was to late. The spear pierced Suna, and suna sees blood splatter in the air.