Jaya tired to ignore Sh'tens presents behind her even more so as she pulled away from him and hurried on up the isle towards the next cabin, the one that was both a relief and not at the same time. For now came the second trial of their plan. She could feel his eyes boring holds into her back and she didn't like it, it was giving her the shivers which didn't help anything at the moment much less keeping up the face she had been putting up till this point. She bit her lower lip and slipped through the deep blue curtain into the main 1st class compartment.

She saw a wisp of dark midnight colored hair, and deep green eyes that glanced back at her before disappearing again. Jaya tried to keep her pace steady as she moved closer and closer to them her. Keeping her eyes down as she had before as if studying the floor that passed unseen below her feet and her eyes.

Then just as suddenly she was right on top of them as she saw the small slip of folded paper held in one dark hand as if it were trash. Without thinking she slipped her hand down and took the end wrapping it around the small bottle in her hand as she did so. It was done and she had moved past them all in one second.

Jaya was shocked at how quick it had all happened. She reached the front of the plane and paused there only long enough for Sh'ten to pushed her forward with a strong hand.

Ryo watched the red hair'd girl as she moved towards the front of the plane and then came back down the other side to take her seat in the rows opposite theirs. Shaking a couple of pills from the bottle she gave them to the dark hair'd girl who seemed to rest easier after that. He wondered if she really was sick of if it was all an elaborate charade. If had been an act it sure had been a damn good one.

He wished Seiji was here he probably would have been able to tell which it had been. Though Ryo wasn't sure how his friend would have known he just had a feeling that he could have known.

~Been able to see the truth behind the lie or the lie behind the truth, the pattern with in the complex web of lies that surrounded them.~ he thought absently.

Gratefully Jaya slipped into her seat and let out a low breath of relief though she couldn't let herself relax yet as she quickly handed two of the pills to Maria praying that her friend would be able to keep the game going for a little while longer giving them what they needed.

Once that was done she turned her attention to the note in her hand or more correctly now in her lap. She glanced at Aoi who picked it up and carefully opened the folded piece of paper.

While she waited Jaya leaned back into the seat and closed her eyes letting a couple seconds of silence slipped over her head and wash through her mind. Somehow she felt mentally and physically spent after having done nothing but retrieved a bottle of meaning less pills.

~And get caught getting the other item~ she chided herself for her stupidity and rolled her eyes behind closed eye lids.

~How stupid could one get.~ She wondered slowly opening her eyes sorry to let the calm slip away from her and yet knowing that it had to go in order to find out what she needed to know. Hopefully something that would help them figure out the why of all that was happening around them. Perhaps the what, the how, and the what for as well but she wasn't counting on anything. Or at least she was trying not to. Not wanting to be disappointed as she had too many times in the past.

She was a fool like that. Always believing her heart thought she knew in her head that it wouldn't, and couldn't happen if her life depended on it. But somehow she always seemed to find a way to do it all over again. Falling into the same stupid trap over and over, always it ended the same with nothing but pained and sorrow that never did anything but hurt. Jaya was tired of the hurt but it seemed to follow her around like the black plague...

Naaza watched the blue hair'd girl out of the corner of his eyes only half listening to what Rajura was trying to say and what Sh'ten kept interrupting. Rajura kept complaining about Anubis something and he sighed to himself. It was probably the fact that Anubis had shut himself off from the rest of them while he was busy doing whatever it was he was doing up there. Getting his revenge as he had called it.

But of course Rajura was dying to know though he and the others would probably never hear the end of it when it was all over and done through. Anubis would tell it to them all in gruesome detail. He shuddered remembering the last story Anubis had told.

Naaza always liked to play the part of the not so couth jester but the truth to it was... Sometimes even he had his limits though he didn't like to talk about it. He had learned of the years to turn stuff out especially when Anubis got to talking about one of his 'times' so to speak or an 'escaped or two.' Even after they had started to fight with the Troopers.

Before it had been the 'adventures' in the world of the Youja kai still. But after that it became the fun that was to be had in the Nigen Kai. Only it didn't always sound like that much fun to all the Masho. Though non of them were man enough to admit it. They were men in other ways and non of them wanted to loose face to their friends and comrades.

For it was true despite their differences in looks, and age, they were friends in their own way and would never let any of the other down less they had to. They had all lived too long and now all that was left of the past and the present was each other. So that was what they ended up clinging to for they had nothing else. What they had became all the more special to them...

Naaza liked the way the blue hair'd girl looked. Her dark midnight blue colored hair was strikingly beautiful and her eyes were an amazing color of blue that he had never seen before. Almost a teal in the setting red gold color of the clouds out side the plane. Or a deeper blue like that of the ocean where it starts to get deep and yet is not so deep when you look down on it from the sky.

She had a way about her that made him want to challenge her to take her. She was dangerous and she didn't care who knew it and she didn't like to be pushed around and she let people know it without coming right out and telling them that.

He watched her as she leaned forward to say something to the not too bad looking red head he had asked Sh'ten to keep. He wasn't bad either but he liked her more because she reminded him of the red hair'd leader who was leaning against the wall between the cock pit and the cabin where he and the others were. Perhaps he would have some fun with her later or perhaps Sh'ten would have his way. He had seen the red hair'd leader watching her when they had come back from getting the medicine for the dark hair'd one.

She seemed to be okay now thought still slightly pale and he was inclined to believe that she had actually been sick. Slowly he let his gaze slide away from the blue and red hair'd girl over to the other side of the plane.

His eyes lighted on Ryo and Shin who sat before him and he wondered what it had been like to kick in the bath room. All of the sudden the un-resistible urge to try it out nearly made him want to sit down in the nearest seat available and his gaze was swift in returning to the blue hair'd girl.

Slowly a nasty smile spread across his thin but too thin lips. Pulling them back in a sneer he headed down the isle towards them.

::I'm going to have some fun.:: he sent. ::I don't see why we shouldn't if Anubis gets to.::

::Just don't' take too long.:: Replied Rajura with a grin. ::And I wana know what it was like when you get back.::

::What don't wana try it with me?::

::Hhmm maybe later Naaza-kun.::

::Thought I might go after you.:: Sh'ten thought with a snicker.

::Who the red head?::

::Perhaps:: was the quiet reply. ::Or maybe Nasuti.::

::You've had your eye on that one for a long time.:: Shot Rajura.

::Then its about time.:: Growled Naaza shutting off the connecting with his two fellow Masho...

Aoi looked up. The green hair'd man was suddenly intently listening with their conversation. He moved down the aisle and stood next to them. Aoi glared at him.

"Back up," she said. "We're having a private conversation and it does not concern you." Aoi felt slightly nervous now about being on the aisle seat as Naaza sat on the armrest on the seat located on the other side of the aisle. He leaned forward.

"You like snakes do you?" he said.

Aoi glared at him. "I wasn't talking to you."

Naaza reached out and turned her head back to face him. "You're talking to me know."

Aoi looked into his eyes and sized him up. Under normal circumstances his attentions might be welcomed. He was very attractive in a way. But Aoi didn't like being threatened. "Get your hands off me."

Naaza chuckled. "Feisty." He put a hand on her thigh and slid it up under her skirt. "I like that."

Aoi gasped as his fingers brushed against her underwear. She blushed and grabbed his wrist. "Don't touch me." She yanked his hand out from under her skirt.

Naaza stood up and pulled Aoi up out of her seat. He yanked her close to his body. He dragged a protesting Aoi down the aisle towards the back of the plane.

Jason watched Aoi as she stood up at the green hair'd mans commands and wondered what was going on not that he was so sure that he actually wanted to know. Too many things had been eye openers today to the ways of the world.

He's merely been traveling to visit an aunt who lived on the main land and now look where he was. Somewhere over the pacific ocean in the middle of no where on a plane controlled by a bunch of strange men who's attitudes he didn't like at all. Or a the least didn't understand or want to understand.

He had no idea what might happen next and he wasn't so sure that any of the others that were with him knew any more then he did. If they did they weren't telling, and were doing a good job of hiding it that's for sure. Carefully he studied those in the small group and wondered about them. Aoi, and Jaya seemed to be the two in charge and Maria appeared to be more then happy to let them take control of the situation playing along with whatever games they came up with. While the two little boys Ramer, and Jun were fast asleep on the seat next to each other.

Jaya had made them keep their seat belts on, but had moved the armrests back so that they could stretch out. The tension of that past few hours was beginning to ware on them all and you could see it. In Jaya's eyes in the way Maria sat back in her seat, studying the one in front of her with a pensive look that gave away too much and yet nothing at all, at the same time. He knew it made no sense but that's the way it was whether it made sense or not.

Then there was the other group on the opposite side of the plan. Who were they? They where either what this whole thing was about or where some unexpected force that those near the front hadn't reckoned with. But that didn't explain the fact that they seemed to know each other on a more personal level. That in its self made him think that they where the reason for this whole Faso.

Jason sighed and leaned back in his seat, letting his eyes go furry as he stared up at the row of lights that lined the isles along the ceiling. He waited for Jaya to finish reading the letter Aoi had left on her seat when she had gone with the green hair'd wako. He wanted to see what it had to say. Wanted to know what was going on with the others, but he didn't know if Jaya and Maria were going to let him read it. Sure they had asked his impute on the initial idea... But that was different this was different...or was it?

"Take your jacket off." It was a command not a question that was obvious in the tone of voice with which it was said. There was a pause then silently trying to keep his eyes on Seiji's hunched form. Touma slipped the warn dark blue jacket off of his shoulders. He pause only for a second to let his eyes travel over the faded slightly lighter color of thread that had been used to embroider Tenku's Symbol across the back.

But it was the light barely viable deep green out line of Korin that caught his attention. Slowly his finger tip started to trace the outline of the two over lain symbols. Suddenly the old jacket was ripped from his hands and tossed into the corner. Raising his eyes Touma met Yami's gaze with one of his own.

Touma saw the Masho's intent, the lust in the Masho's deep blue eyes, he didn't flinch from it. Though it made his blood run cold, and fear raise in his throat. It was a fear, he thought he'd over come. All those years ago when he'd met the guys. When they'd become friends, fought their first battles as a team and in the end won.

Touma had thought that he had over come the fear, and pain of the past. That perhaps he could forget it, but always deep down knowing that one of these days it would return to haunt him. Only now it was more real then it had been on all the long cold dark nights laying wake in his deep. Except then he'd been able to roll over, to watch Seiji sleeping on the bed next to him. The swords man was so beautiful when he was a sleep almost like an angel. All the anger, the tension that was there and yet wasn't there during the day. The guard that always hide his deeper emotions behind that shield of his. It went down when he slept, he was beautiful.

~Oh Man he was so beautiful...~

It was a stinging slap across the cheek that brought the blue hair'd archer back from his reverie into the hurtful, yet some times wonderful world of reality. No longer could he just escape into the safety of his mind into the mysterious world of the all the books he'd read. Hidden within the pages of trials, and adventures of others. He was living a book of his own only in this one there was no happy ending. He slowly raised his eyes to meet Anubis 's hungry, lustful, revenge filled gaze...

"Lemme go you jerk! I'm going to kick your ass. Let me go!!!"

Naaza chuckled at her protest. He pushed her ahead of him once they had reached the back of the plane. He tugged the curtain closed. Aoi stumbled and hit one of the bathroom doors. She looked around for escape.

Naaza walked over and pinned her against one of the walls with his body. He reached up with one hand and ran it over her lips. She bit down on his finger. He jerked his hand back in surprise.

"Mmmm you are spunky aren't you? Cornered and overpowered and still you fight."

Aoi glared at him. "You know there are better ways to pick up women."

Naaza smiled at her. He worked his hand under her skirt again. With skilled fingers he maneuvered around her panties and into her womanhood. He growled happily when he found her to be excited.

"You like this don't you?"

Aoi flushed bright red. Naaza grinned as his mouth descended to kiss hers. Aoi's noise of surprised was muffled by his hot mouth. His tongue ran along her lips seeking a way into her mouth. She opened her mouth for him and allowed him to explore the slick heat. Their tongues fought a duel for dominance. Naaza broke the kiss breathlessly and looked at her surprised. She smirked at him.

"I'm not afraid of you," she informed him.

"I can tell." Naaza leaned in again and swiped at her mouth with his tongue. He pushed up the hem of her skirt with both hands. Raising an eyebrow at snake print panties he looked at her. Hooking his fingers around the waistband he slowly tugged them down to her ankles. Aoi carefully stepped out of them.

Naaza ran his hands up her legs. "You have very soft skin."

"Thanks." She gasped when she felt Naaza planting kisses along her thighs, slowly working inward. Reaching down to tangle her fingers in his hair she leaned her head against the wall.

Naaza licked her intently. The soft noises that escaped her lips were mesmerizing. Stabbing his tongue into the sweet warmth between her legs, he felt himself growing more and more excited. Finally he couldn't take anymore. He had to have her. Standing up he kissed her forcefully.

Aoi moaned into the kiss. She could felt his excitement hard against her thigh as he pressed himself against her. Reaching in between their bodies she worked the fastenings of his pants. Impatiently she pushed them down, taking his boxers with them.

Naaza broke the kiss and looked her in the eye. "I don't even know you're name."

"Aoi."

"You may call me Naaza."

"Alright … Naaza."

He grinned at her and pulled her away from the wall. Quickly he removed her remaining clothes. She in turn freed him from his shirt. Naaza grabbed some airline blankets and laid them out on the floor. After adding some pillows, he guided her down onto their makeshift bed.

"I thought you wanted to try out the bath room." She whispered.

"Maybe later." He hissed back.

Aoi rested her head on the pillows and looked at Naaza. He leaned down and kissed her. She moaned loudly into the kiss when she felt him penetrate her womanhood. Wrapping her legs around his waist she pulled him closer.

Naaza panted softly as he thrust into the wonderful warmth surrounding him. Sweat dripped off of his body. Leaning down he took one of Aoi's breasts in his mouth and suckled on it gently. His hand favored the other breast. He heard her take in a sudden gasp of breath as the warmth around his sex trembled with pleasure.

Aoi's body tensed as an orgasm tore through it. She arched her back and gasped with pleasure. Naaza smiled and admired how wildly beautiful she looked. Her long hair had worked itself out of its ponytail and tangled around her face. Her eyes were closed in the height of pleasure.

Naaza growled lowly in his throat and thrust harder into her. She opened her eyes and looked at him. She was very glad she had opted for the earlier flight. He moaned loudly as he came inside her.

Exhausted Naaza collapsed next to her. He pulled her tightly against his chest and pulled a blanket around them. Soon they were both asleep... But probably not for long the way things were developing.

Carefully Jaya let her silver green eyes slide across the hastily scrawled words on the piece of water paper that lay in her lap staring back up at her. She tired to keep her eyes and her mind on the words but they just seemed slide away from her. Her mind moving over to what might be happening to Aoi. But after the ordeal with the red hair'd man she wasn't sure she wanted to know. Yet there was nothing she could do about it, still it was going to effect her in more indirect ways. Right now she had to deal with the other problems at hand. They had to figure out what the hell they were going to do about everything. The only thing was she had no idea what so ever, and she didn't know what to do about it. She'd been trying to put on a good face for the younger ones of the group. Not to mention Maria she appeared to be calm now but Jaya knew her friend better then she cared to think about right now and that scared her in a way.

As to how the hell she was handling this she didn't want to think about that either and it really made no differences. She had to deal with it and she would that's all there was to the thing. She lived no matter what happened, she knew it would end some day and if it was to end now well then so be it. But she damned if she was just going to sit here and let that happen.

So she forced herself to try and read the words on the paper, trying to come up with something that could be done as she did so...

Hi,

I'm Shu, the muscular guy in the back. The dark hair'd hunk sitting next to me is Ryo. And the flack in front of him is Shin (the red head.) The cute gal next to him is Nasuti. The other two are Seiji and Touma. Seiji the blond, Touma's the strange blue head book worm. We're working on something over here, but if you come up with something don't hesitate to let us know. As to what's going on, we have an idea but it is too complicated to write down.

Shu

Jaya let her eyes fly away from the paper and over to the group spoke of in the note. Her eyes caressed their forms naming each of them in her mind remembering what had been written in the note. Except that the piece of paper only gave her more questions, and no more answers then she had in the beginning. Jaya closed her eyes and let out a long low breath, trying to clear her mind. She had to think, had to come up with something.

When she opened her eyes again she noticed that Jason was watching her from the seat in front of her with his large hazel colored eyes. Giving him a half smile that she hoped was more hopeful then she felt. Jaya sat up and carefully slipped the note to him.

~Maybe the young man would come up with something.~ She thought sitting back in the seat and closing her eyes again. Taking slow deep breaths, she managed to clear her mind almost, and let it go at that as she waited for an idea mauling over everything that she could think of, and everything that had happened, along with that which hadn't happened. Yet hoping that something would present it's self but knowing at the same time that if something did she would have to be read. Be ready to make the most of it to take the moment and use it to her advantage if she could.