Covered in ash pt:1

Before she could thought or say something Touji trew the bucket of water from the river at sako's body.

Sako shrieked, extending her arms involuntarily and gasped when she felt the cold water hitting her all of sudden, why did you do that?! she asked.

We needed to cleanse you with the water of the pure river. replied

But not like that you idiot. she replied all soaked and shivering from cold, then she realized she was leaving everything of her at the sight of the boys and covered again blushing sure they saw everything.

What did I got myself into? She thought wondering what other things this ritual may involve.

Sako walked inside the circle of stones and stood just at middle where she was well litted by the torches, the boys entered the circle as well and took the positions that Renzo indicated them circling sako, she felt nervious whit this arrangement, she felt like being watched from all sides, especially from the back where two of the boys had a perfect complete view of her rear, for a moment she thought about covering there but that have meant uncovering her breasts or cortch both options that were worse for her.

Renzo gave them a signal and they started to sing a silly song kind of thing and approached closer to sako taking a few steps forward and one back advancin little by little, thing that startled her a little. Was all this really necessary? then they crouched and started to pulverize the layer of ash from the floor that must have been deposited on the floor after several years, they reduced it to a dust and applied water to it applyable to sako's skin that watched closely at their procedures, after a moment sako felt the first ashy hand on her calf, it was followed for more hands on her shins and lower thigst. Cover her well boys, we may not get another chance to tou- I mean catch that tengu! said Renzo, and sako felt their activity intensify, little by little they went up from her lower thights to her upper thights and after that to her hips, when they got there sako felt their little, gentle, quick taps of ash over her body turn into slower, and longer grabs, soon she started to feel that they were undoubtedly squeezing her. hey, stop that. she said moving moving away from them.

stop what? asked Arata who moments earlier had a handfull of sako's left buttock.

stop groping me like that. she replied

No one here is groping no one, we're just covering you in ash, as in the ritual, right guys? Said Renzo.

Right. they replied

They'll always say you're right, no matter what you ask them. said sako

Of course not, every single one of them have their own opinion, do I tell you what you have say guys? answered Renzo.

Right. they replied almost immediately

You were supposed to say no, you airheads! said Renzo pissed and they corrected themselves. Anyways everything we do here is to accomplish our goal, the reason we all are here is to catch a tengu, remember? our goal is the most important thing. he added.

She didn't said anything but it was evident that she was not pleasured with the answer so Renzo said. I know it may seem like we're fooling you or something but you gotta believe us, also you were the one who asked, we only told you what we we're doing and you came here to see it by yourself, we didn't plan any of this.

Sako thought about it for a moment and she had to admit he was right, it was her curiosity that started all this when she saw the shades last night.kWith that in mind she kept silence and decided to return to the center of the stone cicle and go along with them. after all she realized that things were already going on and she couldn't go back, she was already naked, wet and half covered in ash and also she didn't remember which way she came.

Also, One more thing, you need to keep your arms extended in the air, that's necessary for the ritual to work, it's to receive the energy from the sky. said Renzo

Sako hesitated but focused on the reason why she was here. It's for the goal, it's for the goal. she said to herself to not feel the embarrassment as she left her body exposed.

After she lifted up her arms she looked at the boys to see if they were starting, and indeed they were all looking at her up and down, from the front to the behind, snickering among themselves, she felt their gazes and her self consciousness made her body shake and her face reddened two tones. Stop staring! she said finally and the boys like coming out of a trance went to continue covering her in ash.