"ah, the hband's awake nice to know you don't die ickly" said sanzo bitterly as he got up "hakuuryu's as frozen and broken durg the attack we'll be here for a while if we don't all die of ld first"

"salt an open wound, sanzo see to your pet and i'll see to y wife, okay?" ruby red eyes narrowed his direction, irrored by eally srnful violet ones with a "huph" sanzo left the o and gojyo's gnce softened a bit, turng towards tenpou who turn was struck dub by the ter 'wife'

"fet about it sanzo's jt bitchg as ual it wouldn't have ade a difference if ere here or not"

a feeble lie far fro fortg even the way gojyo said it, the arshal knew that the redhead didn't see all too disposed towards fiveness silence reigned after that every bit of hi a kenren kenren never asked estions kenren, who only needed silence to say, 'tell ' kenren, who gave and gave, never assug who always soked off a grudge before g back to your ars

tenpou sat, iserably watchg as gojyo's shakg hands lit a cigarette the ld t have affected hi ore than it did hakkai's body which was one-hundred percent youkai guessg on the hair and eye lor- the shade of the sunset- gojyo was only half-half with half the resistance to ld that tenpou now had

outside, the stor fiercely ravaged the sturdy canvas, and deep side, the fallen god prayed that the standg buildgs of the vilge would be enough to give shelter to the people now holess- no thanks to hi the tent provided little warth and the half-breed was chg as close to the fire as rationally possible, takg care not to get burned by the flyg sparks granted, he was phg his liits and every other ute, a piece of hot ash would fly to his sk he'd curse profely and tenpou would ce

neither talked tenpou, out of sha and gojyo, he figured, out of disgt silence save for the high pitched whistlg ds that ca like screas through the night crept under the tent and gave sharp knives to the feverish half-youkai's badly healg wounds

his hand shook violently and the cigarette t a hellish end the fire "shit"

"i' sorry, gojyo" tenpou uttered after a long while of self-beratg "i should have-"

"people thkg ters of 'should haves' don't live very long around here" gojyo replied through ctterg teeth, stretchg out under the th bnket and starg to the fs; envyg it