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Neko was content enough to listen to his friend banter on about how he hoped he would see that man again to pay him back. Stifling a chuckle, Neko only shook his head as he undid the bag from his belt and began to sift through it for what he needed. If Yuki ever did meet that man again he would more than likely get his a** handed to him…..again. “You realize that man was a dragon, right? Generally a big creature, they eat things like you and me.” The words left his mouth in a calm conversation like tone, but that really didn’t help dumb down their meaning any.

Having found the first thing he need, Neko pulled out a small folded up piece of cloth. Unraveling it revealed that it contained small bits of willow bark wrapped up crystallized ginger to hide the flavor of the wood. Holding out a piece to Yuki he explained. “Chew on this it will help with the pain.” Putting the rest away Neko drew out a small flask from his bag setting it aside and went to work on Yuki’s arm as it was the first thing available to him. It was a fairly clean cut but the wound was pretty deep it would need to be disinfected and stitched in a few places.

“This is going to hurt a little,” Neko paused a moment, rethinking. “Or a lot, we’ll see.” Holding Yuki’s arm firmly, Neko undid the cap on the flask one handed and generously poured the alcohol on the wound to disinfect it. Initially it would burn quite a bit but the pain would slowly subside and the area would be numb. Letting go of Yuki’s arm, Neko reached into his bag again and produced a curved needle and thick thread which he readied for use by pouring alcohol over it as well. “Now don’t move.” Holding Yuki’s arm steady with his left hand, Neko eased the needle into the flesh around the wound with his right hand. With the area being numb, Yuki wouldn’t feel much but there would still be tiny pricks of pain as Neko made his way up his arm. Ten stitches later and the wound was closed and the bleeding was coming to a stop. Cleaning up the blood Neko wrapped up Yuki’s arm with the little bit of gauze that he had and moved on to his back.

At first glance, the damage done to Yuki’s back made Neko flinch and make a slightly concerned looking face. Luckily he was behind Yuki so he wouldn’t be able to see his reaction. On top of Yuki’s shirt being completely tattered, his back was soaked in oil and blood with bits of wood and glass jutting out here and there. Luckily the coal oil from the lamp was slowing the flow of blood from the wounds but was probably not helping much with the pain. “Well,” Neko grimaced trying to think how this would work. “I’m going to need you to take your shirt off…. as carefully as possible. Unless you want me to just cut it off of you. It doesn’t look like a simple mending is going to fix it anyway.”

Hitsu smiled as the two approached, but quickly was reminded that they weren't quite... Accustomed to civilization. Well, for Riyo it was to be expected, but Mitsu's reaction surprised her a little. "Over here, Mitsu." She directed gently, placing a hand on the chair alongside her at the table. "Sit up here in the chair, not on the floor. The boys aren't here to torment you this time, don't be afraid." While Mitsu's attention seemed to be on her, she'd given the instruction. However, the girl seemed intrigued by Kyo's animal companion. It wasn't until then that Hitsu really took much notice of it, and it was little more than a brief glance. It hadn't seemed any threat, so why worry? When Mitsu moved back toward her, Hitsu patted her shoulder a bit to try and get her attention, gesturing toward the chair again. "Why not come up here and sit?"

She cast a glance across the table at Riyo, and couldn't help but grin. Sure, it might have been odd for someone to be so entertained by a table, but it was amusing to see her trying to figure all of these things out. "Table." She said clearly to Riyo, patting the top of it gently. Then, Riyo's attention traveled toward Kyo's wolf, and Hitsu's turned to Daelik as he returned with their drinks. "Thank you." She said quietly as her cup was set in front of her, then watched him a few moments. Was it normal for people to stare so much around here? This one seemed to be doing it a lot. A lean toward Kyo as he spoke, though her attention still seemed centered on Daelik as she responded only with a nod to Kyo. She pointed toward the barkeep, though she tried to keep such a gesture out of view as not to seem rude should he look toward her. "Why does he keep staring at everyone like that? It's... Strange." It was the look in his eyes, more than the action itself, that had her wondering. She would have known, perhaps unfortunately, had she not been talking to Mitsu when Daelik had been whispering to Kyo. Though her ears were quite sensitive, Hitsu never was great at paying attention to more than one thing at a time.

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Elsewhere, Yuki could only huff at Neko's response. "I don't care what he was..." He muttered, though could find no words to try and convince his friend that he would stand a chance of not getting his rear kicked the second time around. At least next time he'd have his usual advantages, or at least he could hope. Yuki removed the material around his forearm, or what was left holding it there, and set it aside. As Neko handed him the willow bark, he wrinkled his nose but took it anyway and placed it into his mouth. The look on his face suggested that the ginger didn't really make the taste any better, but he continued to chew in hopes that it would at least have the effect desired.

Yuki cast a worrisome glance at Neko, especially as he re-thought just how to describe what he might feel. "What is-" Just as quickly as he could begin to ask, Neko had started to pour. Well, that answered his question for certain, and Yuki clenched his jaw against the urge to shout. Alcohol had hurt enough on little cuts and scratches, let alone something as deep as this. It felt like an eternity that it burned to Yuki, and the strong scent of the alcohol made his nose and eyes burn. Well, that's what he'd blame if Neko saw him tearing up, anyway.

Once the intense burning had subsided, Yuki seemed to breathe again, apparently holding it in for those several seconds that he was trying not to make a sound. He seemed a lot more tolerant of the stitching, mostly thanks to the numbing of the area due to the alcohol. The process itself just seemed to take too long, and if anything it just made him even more impatient. "Do they have to be so close together?" He actually groaned, when Neko was only halfway through. He wanted to get out of here, find Hitsu and leave, and the fact that he'd likely still need help balancing for a bit didn't seem to cross his mind.

The pain of Yuki's back had dulled quite some time ago, likely that he'd grown used to the burning, or the area had generally grown numb to it after so long. Though, most likely the discomfort would introduce itself again once the wounds were messed with. "I'll take it off." He replied, "Believe me, if Hitsu doesn't see it for herself she'll never let me hear the end of it." As he went about removing it, he imitated Hitsu in a high mock-voice; "'How do you know I couldn't mend it if you left it out in the forest? What a waste of a perfectly good garment... You know, you could have worn it with a hole in it, I'm sure it didn't look that bad...'" Once he'd gotten the shirt off, he shook it free of what glass was stuck to the material and tossed it on top of his other garment. He then decided he might as well remove the one for the opposite wrist, since there wasn't much sense in keeping it there when the other was gone. It would have looked out of place anyway. A handful of small scars had been hidden underneath it, but they were nothing compared to what he'd have from the injury Neko had just stitched up. Well, at least he'd covered it. Yuki didn't want to think about how much worse it would be if Hitsu could see it.

"interesting..." poke mumbled as she sipped on the drink daelik had supplied him. She wasn't sure what to make of the wolf that was currently nuzzeling up to riyo, besides the fact it was very obedient and didn't look like most other wolves. This was adding to the suspisions that she was having about kyo.

The whispering didn't escape pokes ears. While she didn't have better then adverage hearing, she wasn't seated so far away that she couldn't heard what he said. She tried not to dwell on any hidden innuendo's in that message, and instead turned to face kyo to try and make some conversation. "So, what do you...do for a living?" she asked after kyo responded to hitsu's question.

Riyo had continued to look around for a moment when she heard a mans voice close to her. She looked up at Daelik and blinked. Why was he.... Staring at her. "N-nyu?" She asked, staring right back at him. Though, as he kept staring, fear began to show in her eyes. Her ears went back against her head.

A greusome image flashed through her memory banks for a split second, then disappeared before she even got a chance to make out the contorted figures. Why such an image had chosen to pop up at this time was beyond her, but it did indeed scare the wits out of her.

She almost jumped out of her seat as she felt something rubbing against her leg, quickly she pulled up both of her legs into the chair and hugged them tightly. After a second, she looked down to see what it was. That wolf.. She didn't change the way she had been sitting after she saw it, she kept her legs close to her. "Nyuu.." She cried out and hid her face. She didn't want to be here anymore.

Calmly throwing the bit of wood to the side, Neko smirked. “Don’t be such a baby about it. If you would have clenched up on three it would have only made it worse.” Patting Yuki’s shoulder he continued. “But never fear we can try again. You have two more large shards of glass embedded in your back that will be loads of fun. Maybe this time I will make it to three.” He couldn’t hide his sarcastic tone, his demon side was enjoying this a little to much to his own disappointment.

"Oh no..." Kyo said with a tone of genuine regret. "Rei Ichi, Amendment: Disregard your last command and come here." The wolf let out an annoyed whine and shimmered before moving to where it was previously. "I'm sorry...I didn't mean to scare you." He said as he began to pet the wolf absently. Even though he knew it wasn't much more than a programmed wind-up toy, the gesture wasn't completely empty. "Ichi doesn't hurt people." He left off the end of that sentence, 'unless I order him to.'

"Oh, my apologies. It's just that we're fresh out of 'Nyuu'. I'll see what I can come up with, though..." Daelik then turned and went into the kitchen. He returned shortly with a tray of drinks and a tray of food. He set the trays on a nearby table and placed a plate of fish in front of each person. Grinning at Kyo, he then placed the drink tray halfway between Riyo and Mitsu. It had about ten different kinds of alchoholic beverages on it, and two glasses of water. These he placed in front of Riyo and Mitsu proper, the rest he left on the tray between them. He didn't know what either of them really wanted, so he gave them a bit of everything seeing as how Kyo was paying for it anyhow. He laughed when Kyo gave him the stink eye. On his way back to the kitchen he exclaimed "Entrepeneurship Hoooooooooooooo!", stretching the last syllable until he had went through the kitchen door. Kyo chuckled. Daelik may have given Kyo his meal for free, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to pay for it.

Once Daelik came back with the drinks, Mitsu looked at them curiously. Some of them had strange colors and an odd smell. Ignoring her food for the moment she went to investigate pulling two out of the ten drinks toward her. One had a slightly fruity smell but Mitsu couldn’t place it and the other had a smell that Mitsu really couldn’t describe at all. Taking more interest in the fruity smelling one, Mitsu put the other glass back and sniffed at the drink trying to decide what was in it.

It only took a short moment for her mind settled on trying it instead of determining what was in it. So tipping the glass back Mitsu took her first big gulp of the drink, taking down nearly half of it at once, and nearly choked when the alcohol hit her throat. Swallowing hard Mitsu pushed the drink aside sticking out her tongue in a disgusted manner. She had found something for once that she didn’t like. It had tasted good at first but the burning sensation she could do without.

The alcohol didn’t seem to be effecting Mitsu at the moment as she focused her attention back on her plate of food. When she reached for the fish, however, she noticed she was having a hard time trying to grab it. Her vision was out of focus and the longer she tried to focus on and grab hold of the fish on the plate, the more her head started to hurt. Her body was metabolizing the alcohol much faster than it needed to so the effects of drunkenness were almost instant.