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When I woke up again, Takashi was nowhere to be found. I slowly began to start panicking; what if he got hurt?? What if he doesn't come back??? I heard something trugding along in the bushes behind me. I turned around as quickly as I could and noticed Takashi walking towards me holding two rodents in his hand. "Breakfast," he said.

He got down and started to work on a fire. I began to start feeling cold, I noticed my blouse was off and my entire torso was wrapped up in a cloth and my arm in a sling. I felt myself beginning to blush. This wasn't a time to be modest; I knew I had been injured badly. But still ... did he really have to?

He must have sensed something, because he looked up and said, "You were bleeding badly and your arm was dislocated. If I didn't do something quick, you'd still be out and maybe even dead." He reached over and grabbed my cloak and threw it over to me. "Here, put this back on if you're getting cold"

I quickly wrapped it around myself. It didn't do much, but at least it blocked out the small breeze. When he finished cooking, he handed me a small part of the meat, and we both sat and ate silently. It wasn't the best peice of meat I've ever had, but food is food ... Or at least that's what I say.

When we finished, he looked at me and said, "Can you get up and move??"

I stood up and started walking around. I was fine, or at least the injuries didn't hurt or re-open. "Good," he said.

"What??"

"We need to get moving as soon as we can, before that thing finds us in this shape."

"So what do we do?"

Takashi looked down and sighed. "I don't know. Neither of us are in any shape to try and take it on again. Might as well go back to the village and tell them they'll have to wait until we recover, or that they'll have to find someone else to get the job done ... You seem to be taking this well ..."

"What?"

"You didn't forget that too, did you?"

Of course not! I knew I had a ego when it came to hunting demons ... Only, none of it was getting to me right now. It was strange ... I looked back at him, "No, I didn't ... It's just ... I don't know ..."

He looked concerned. "Yeah, they'll definately have to find someone other than us ..."

Something clicked, this was a class X demon ... The highest you find in this section of the world ... And we were ranked Class S hunters, the only ones capable of taking on X demons and higher. I almost shouted this to him, but somehow he was able to calm me down. "True, we are the highest in the ranks ... But what do you propose we do? We'll get killed if we go after it now!"

I interrupted, "But more people other than us will be killed if we don't get this over with now! Better us two than hundreds!"

He laughed, "Haha!! That's the Yuki I know! Okay then ... Let's grab our things and go!"

I looked back at him, "I don't have my swords. We're going to have to go back to that place and search for them."

"I was going to lead us there to find the monster anyway ... "

"How was I supposed to know that?"

"You weren't!!"

I growled at him.

"Come on ... We're wasting time ..."

And we both trodded off, unsuspecting of the fates that lay before us ...