Kojima re-wrapped her arms around Fu. Once again, he blushed and looked back at her. She smiled at him. He frowned.

“Are you crazy?” he asked softly.

“Woooooo!!!!!!!!” Yumi cheered. “Things are really heating up around here!”

“Ugh!”  Fu growled at her.

“Fu-Kun,” Kojima started. “I think they should know a bit about the assassins we’re going after.”

Rai nodded.

“What’s the point of being killed by a group of people you don’t even know?” he said to Saruwatari and Matsuo mainly.

Kojima giggled.

Yumi just stared at him, her face a little red.

“Uh…” Fu looked around a little. “Well…I…I guess.”

“Great!”

“Now start explaining!” Yumi shouted happily.

“W-why me?!” Fu roared. One glance at Kojima’s angry expression made him change his mind. “Oh, fine!”

“Yay!” Yumi cheered. “Story time!”

Fu started, “The leader, Ariesa India, controls the element wind. From what I’ve heard, she’s the greatest assassin leader there is. Even her own comrades, all five of them against her, shiver from fear. Yet, she’s highly respected. Her second in command is Sakuchi Mirochi. Her element is electricity, and she’s the strongest of the group, small but dangerous. It’s actually in-human. Then there's the twins, Pama Iago and Frey.  Frey controls water, while Iago has telekinetic and other psychic powers. Iago uses whatever she has mainly to lift earth. Another is Ingo Meika, a.k.a Meek. She has a powerful moth army behind her. Her moths do whatever she tells them to do. They're also highly poisonous and have been known to melt flesh from bones with acid. Any questions?”

Saruwatari had a look on his face as if his brain had just been fried.

“Wow,” Yumi said in a monotone voice. “And I thought Avril was going to be tough looking for......Damn, I was wrong."

“I know!” Kojima exclaimed.

Matsuo had almost the same expression as Saruwatari, but he knew some of what they were talking about.

Fu looked serious, “I doubt that they will be easy to find....but whatever it takes.”

"No," Kojima corrected. "They'll be easy to locate. It's actually getting them to cooperate that'll be the task."

Yumi nodded. "Yeah. Killers don't exactly stay out of street rumors. As soon as they make a kill, we'll hear about it in the streets."

Saruwatari cleared his throat.

"And you expect us to take these insane girls down?"

"We won't need to take them down," Rai replied. "Honestly, it would take only two of them to probably kill us all. It would probably take them five minutes, even with Fu's quick healing."

"Besides," Fu put in, "Avril actually likes Rai and me. She won't let her friends kill us."

"What about us?!" Matsuo squealed, almost jumping off of the cart.

"Yumi and I are pretty much covered," Kojima assured him.

Saruwatari whimpered. "Not you, US!"

Kojima looked at Fu who looked at Rai who looked at Yumi who looked back to Kojima. Fu shrugged.

"I dunno."