High in the sky, an invisible golden film of Ki kept the fierce winds at bay.
Sakura pressed tightly against Goten's embrace, her short pink hair blown into a mess by the wind.
But she had already grown completely used to it.
She even had the leisure to turn her head and watch the sand dunes and canyons racing backward beneath her.
After becoming this man's woman, she had grown far more daring.
"That oasis down there is so pretty."
"You're prettier than the oasis."
Goten replied offhandedly, tightening his arms a little.
Sakura's back pressed snugly against his chest. That familiar warmth seeped through their clothes, making her ears redden again.
"Such a smooth talker."
Despite her words, she nestled a little deeper into his embrace.
Just as she was losing herself in this wonderful feeling, Goten abruptly stopped flying and hovered in midair.
He frowned slightly, looking at a spot below.
"What's wrong?"
Sakura followed his gaze, but there was nothing below except an empty stretch of sand.
Goten tilted his head and glanced down, looking somewhat disdainful.
"There's a really hyper guy up ahead playing with clay."
Playing with clay?
While Sakura was still puzzling over that, an utterly flamboyant shout rose into the sky from the Desert Canyon below.
"Art is an explosion! Ha!"
Boom!
Sand and dust churned as a giant white clay owl rose from the ground.
Its outstretched wings spanned dozens of meters.
A young man with a long blond ponytail stood on the owl's back.
His hair covered half his face, and the eye left exposed shone with crazed excitement.
Goten looked at the man with the blond ponytail and curled his lip.
"Looks like Ino. Too bad he's a guy."
Sakura couldn't help bursting into laughter in his arms.
"Don't let