"its too dark to keep walking. we should camp here for tonight." suggested Sakano.
"No way! We should keep moving. What if we get attacked again?" the others shouted. Finally, they were agreeing on something for once.
Sakano on the other hand was still set on continuing through the night. Sure they were taking a big risk but he thought camping out in a forest filled with man eating lizards and bears and more thieves would be suicide. The joker still insisted that they keep walking.
"It's much safer if we continue along the river, trust me."
Shuichi grabbed hold of his companion, trying as hard as he could to talk some sense into the jester. "If we keep traveling, we'll just get attacked again, and then again. We were lucky that time."
The two of them just kept arguing about whether or not to keep going or set up camp. The prince on the other hand was setting up camp, ignoring the two immature brats that he was forced to travel with. Overtime, the harder he tried to ignore the senseless bickering, the louder it seemed to get. He just kept setting up the tents and a fire, for a spoiled prince, he was good at setting up camp. Dammed Idiots. He thought. Why the hell did father send me with these two? When the camp was finished he decided to end their senseless arguing. But first he had to find a good approach to it. Some way to get their attention without doing anything too drastic, after all nothing would be worse than having them panic. But as he thought they were still at it. It seemed like they would never stop.
"We have to keep going!" shouted Sakano, pointing to the rest of the large forest.
"And we will, tomorrow morning." Shuichi shouted back. Now it was getting ridiculous and when they stopped for a brief moment, they noticed some of the firewood floating in the air. A lot of fire wood was floating near a tent that all of their belongings were near. They stared at the floating firewood. Oh how fascinating it was to see logs of wood floating into a brightly lit fire. It was Uncanny how easily they were distracted by such a fascinating site. They looked around and saw what could only happen in a dream. The prince was luring the logs into the campfire without even touching the wood. That's when they realized how the firewood was floating. Sakano and Shuichi looked at each other and then back at prince Eiri with such amazement. Wow. They thought. "We're camping for tonight." Sakano said. "But we start again first thing tomorrow morning."
The next day came in a matter of no time at all. The rookie warrior and his two comrades were still peacefully asleep. It seemed to be a good night for the group because thought the sun was brightly shining in the sky. Neither man woke up. What did wake Prince Eiri and shuichi up, was finding themselves in a very compromising position. The rookie warrior awoke only to find himself laying on top of the prince that he is supposed to protect. He screamed and then rolled off of the blond man. Eiri woke up to a panicking Samurai. He chuckled to himself for a moment then took this opportunity to taunt the traumatized boy. But then it would just turn into a verbal game of cat and mouse.
"You were cuddling me!" Shuichi said.
"No, I was just sleeping on my back. You snuggled me."
"I was NOT."
"You were too."
Ugh. Here we go again. Sakano thought. When will those two learn to get along? Soon after the morning affairs the group was back on the road to a town. There they could find a place to rest temporarily and then they would go back on the road to Eternias. Hopefully they would not get attacked by more thieves. About twenty miles walking they arrived at a village where they saw what appeared to be two teenage boys being tortured by bandits. At first they were going to ignore the ruckus and continue on but as they got into the village they saw that the torture was getting worse. The boys were being beaten with clubs and pushed to the ground, their faces covered in blood. They were struggling to survive their beating from those thieves. Shuichi began to feel as if he had to do something but he was afraid of getting killed by the bandits. But he couldn't just stand there and let them get beaten. So he pulled sakano aside and came up with a plan to distract the thieves while saving the boys. Once the plan was set it was time to put it in action.
What are those brats up to? Thought the blond. He wondered what the heck those tow could possibly plan. After all they were only capable of flipping out and arguing right? Well, boy was he in for a surprise.
Sakano led the boys away from the bandits with what looked some of the leftover food that they ate the other night. The two boys ran after sakano with the food. Then the bandits were being distracted by shuichi's swordplay, or lack of swordplay. They watched as he tried to impress them with his skills and he was less than impressive to them. When the bandits' attention got diverted from the rookie, they noticed that the two boys that they were beating up were with Eiri and sakano. Before they could do any damage to the others they were stopped by the sudden dropping of their tunics, Exposing parts of their bodies that were not meant to be seen by anyone but their mothers.
The entire village square burst into laughter at the sight of the naked thieves. The bandits ran off and were hopefully never to be seen again. The entire group of men just stood there in awkwardness. What the fuck just happened. They all thought simultaneously. But then Eiri began to realize that despite his strength or experience, Shuichi had some smarts and a good heart. But would he ever acknowledge him?
While in the village the boys had found them and wanted to thank them for their help.
"Hi there uhh… thanks for saving us back there." One boy with long red hair said. Then another boy with short black hair introduced them to the group. "my name is Suguru and my friend there is Hiro."
"Nice to meet you." Hiro bowed to them.
"Likewise." Shuichi said bowing down.
The men decided to find an inn to stay in while they were in the village but on the way there the usual antics continued.
"I must admit, you have some brains, some,"
"Are you calling me stupid?"
"Well, you're haven't shown the most smarts out of all of us."
"really? I'm stupid? At least I saved those boys. You didn't do a damn thing."
Hiro and suguru just stared at Shuichi and Eiri going at it yet again.
"Do they do this a lot." Asked Hiro.
"This is just them warming up." Replied sakano.
and of course they went about their business just like this. it was beginning to be the routine of their travels.
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