( I said prying intent, meaning i could sense you as well, Ayame was the one that said she could see you.)

<<what the hell?? i am on the other side of town!!>>

Ayame smiled.
"Good idea," she replied, her head upon Kotetsu's shoulder. She took more of her own weight as she felt herself gaining more control over herself. She looked up at the sky, and saw an angry-looking face glaring at her, before turning away.
She sighed. Haki would never accept her brother had settled down with an angel. Never mind, Ayame thought, retuning her gaze to Kotetsu.

"I just thought I.....it's nothing.." The feeling had faede now and she hastened to catch up with him. "Yosho-kun, please let me carry that.." She pointed to one of his caskets. "I don't want to walk around empty handed."

Kotetsu Shifted slightly so to better walk with Ayame leaning against him. "Then lets just walk around this island and see what there is to see." He said with a half smile and ignored Haki's prying intent.

Haki smiled as Karatsu re-emerged from the dragon form.
'Now you have wings too, like me' Her face darkened asa recognition entered her mind.
'Kotetsu is on the move again i see. Never had any respect for anyone but himself. Selfish bugger.' She scowled at the image of the brother who was always better than her, at least, in her parents eyes.
'Never mind about him, what about us? What are your intentions towards me Karatsu? I hope they are strictly honourable!' Her ever-changing mood errupted in impish giggling again, as she laughed at his obvious discomfort.

Ayame smiled, albeit a little weakly.
"I just want to see what there is to see. I haven't been here long, so I don't know what there is to see," she replied, a laugh escaping from her lips. She leaned on Kotetsu more than she wanted to, mainly because she hated being dependant on anything, and then she realised that she was married now; she would have to change some of her ways if she and her lover were to last.

Yosho looked about, sensing a great many presences and even seeing a few normal humans wouldn't be able to see. Shaking his head, Yosho brought his attention back to Azura. "Nothing out of the ordinary, why do you ask?" He said calmly, thinking back to when he sensed an Earth demon earlier.

Karatsu had an uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach when he noticed Haki's eyes. His bit of discomfort was well hidden by his dragon form as the earth and clay crumbled around him, revealing Karatsu's original form plus a pair of wings from a mountain dragon. "Most people who see my dragon arts and live assume I am kin to them, I just borrow their spirits through a blood contract I signed at birth." The clay wings ardened slightly before the outer layer shattered, revealing a more natural looking pair of wings.

Helping Ayame to her feet once he was sure she was ok enough to walk, Kotetsu glanced up, sensing his sister and his former shadow on the other side of the island they had just left. "So, anything on this Island you wish to see, or would you like to head towards another island?" He asked, wrapping an arm around her waist more for Ayame's support than anything.

Haki grinned impishly as Karatsu rose beside her, full of awe at his dragon-form.
'I suppose...' Her brow furrowed slightly, but was replaced by her usual chirpy smile. She shook hersefl slightly and whizzed off, dodging invisible things that weren't really there.
She stopped again as he drew up beside her, which was no suprise. I mean who could outfly a dragon?
'Your too serious' She said too him but not facing. 'The only time i hear you laugh seems to be at mine, or other peoples msifortunes, however funny they may seem to you. You should smile willingly, live freely and make jokes without thinking about other, more sinister things' She turned to face him now, a twinkle in her eye.

The night was cold and clear, a soft breeze caressing Nature's creations. Azura couldn't remmembere when it had been so peaceful, probably because it never was......"Lead the way...Yosho-kun..." Wondering if another battle would come their way, she sudden;y sensed something. "Yosho...did you feel something?"

Karatsu muttered silently before his body took the form of an earthen Serpent Dragon and following after Haki. When he caught up with her, Karatsu could only sigh as he hovered next to Haki and watched below. "It looks like your friend has accepted The Kitsune dispite the risk, why interupt them?" He asked, his once calm voice was now rougher as he spoke through the dragon.

Yosho could only smile and followed Azura, agreeing that the injured took precidence over sight seeing. "the Temple itself isn't far, but it'll be nightfall by the time we reach it." He said glancing up at the sky before following Azura instead of being dragged.

Haki looked puzzled slightly.
'Surely if its bad luck then we should tell Hiroshime?' She tilted her head to the left(again). Falling silent she looked up at the sky and reconised a decent wind.
'I take it you can fly?' She asked with a grin before launching herself into the air. Her feathered black wings opened and she felt them catch the breeze. She flapped them lazily whilst looked down at Karatsu.
'Come on! the weather is perfect!' She did a loop-the-loop to demonstrate. Feeling a tad dizzy, she almost lost her balance, but regained quickily.

"Yes!!!! Lets!!!" She started to say but stopped..."Um..Yosho..." She looked at him. "Let's get to the temple as fast as we can...You have to tend to that priest, and that's more important..." She gave a sudden pull to his arm, pulling her out of the inn. "Let's go, let's go..." Azura remmembered something Rosiel-sama had told her...He had said...'My child, whenever you can, hold onto a life..." And she would, from now...

Karatsu was caught off gaurd at Haki's kiss and glanced back at Yosho. "it's nothing important, just that the Kitsune Clan are known tricksters among Earth Demons like myself, we are taught to avoid them if at all possible, considering the size of their clan, I thought I would never have to deal with one. It's considered bad luck to cross paths with a Kitsune, however if he's the son of their last elder, he chose to live as a human, forsaking his bloodline legacy." Karatsu spoke in a calmer tone, not wanting to upset Haki any more than he had already done

<<oi!>>Haki heard the coldness in his voice and paused. She looked from Hiroshime and the stranger then to Karatsu and back again several times. She was dying to consumate her curiosity but Karatsu had stopped and she was enjoying spending time with him. With a little sigh she went back to him and gave a gentle kiss on the cheek before blushing shyly.
'Whats wrong? Have they angered you?' She asked quietly the pink escaping her face.

Ayame smiled, shaking her head again to clear it of the fog which had consumed her mind. She kissed him back softly, finding her vision was clearing and her strange tiredness was easing up a little.
"Thankyou," she repeated in a stronger voice, gripping the crystal hard. If she was doing well, then that meant they were either not interested anymore, or hadn't noticed.

Almost falling over for realizing haki stood no real chance of maturing, Karatsu glanced up and noticed Yosho before making a disturbed face and staying put instead of following her. "that would be one of the few surviving members of the Kitsune Clan, the Masaki Clan if I remember correctly, they are known tricksters, however i heard the last villiage elder had a son who became a healer, honoring his mother..." A hint of annoyance was on Karatsu's voice as he stayed put.