"Is something the matter, Kyoko?" Shinbe asked quietly. Frankly, he'd been tied in knots thinking about her ever since Kyou had taken her from their grasp. Granted, it hadn’t been long but it was long enough to awaken a side of him he’d been trying to deny.
"No," she answered his question apparently content to walk by his side in silence.
Shinbe slowed his step, watching the rest of the small group walk ahead. His eyes strayed to Suki’s form as she walked beside Kamui. He was startled out of his vision quest by Kyoko’s voice.
“You don’t have to baby-sit me Shinbe,” she said quietly.
Shinbe pointed his staff toward the swaying hips several yards in front of them. “Ahh… but the view here is nice.” He smiled happily when he got a giggle from her instead of a smack upside the head.
"Shinb
