Spike: (reads over Kai's shoulder) Bloody hell! She's at it again guys!
All of Kai's favorite characters: (collective groan)
Razor: (crosses fingers) Please don't let it be me, please don't let it be me.
Kai: (rolls eyes) Oh come on guys, it's not that bad!
Satoshi: Yes it is Kai-chan.
Kai: (mutters) Stupid, ungrateful, muses.
Yami Bakura: I heard that Kai
Kai: Lay off will yah? For your information I'm doing a Saiyuki fic this time
Sanzo: (grumbles) Why do I feel like this will only lead to my utter annoyance.
Hakkai: (smiles) Oh I don't know Sanzo, sounds like it could be fun to me.
Satoshi: You don't know her very well then do you?
Kai: You make me sound so horrible.
Satoshi: You stuck my hand to the wall with a knife!
Kai: Good point
Satoshi: No pun intended I'm sure.
Goku: Lil Kai don't own Saiyuki! Please R/R!
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"You know what do, Gabriel?" a voice inquired from the shadows.
"Yes Lady Koushu," a woman's voice responded as a figure kneeled on the floor, "I am to kill Sanzo and his group of misfits: Cho Hakkai, Sha Goyjo and Son Goku."
"And if you fail me?"
The women stood up from her spot. "You need not concern yourself with that," she replied cracking her thorn covered whip, "their lives are mine." and with that, she left to do her task.
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"Hakkai! Hakkai, get your ass out of bed!" Sanzo shouted as he tried to shake his friend from the nightmare that held him. "Hakkai!" finally the priest's efforts paid off, for Hakkai had stopped thrashing about and had bolted into a sitting position nearly hitting Sanzo in the head.
"Sanzo?" Hakkai questioned, opening his eyes only to come face to face with one very pissed off priest. "What's wrong, Sanzo?"
Sanzo glared at the groggy figure. "I swear are you deaf?" he asked irritated. "All your thrashing and screaming has kept me awake for the past half an hour."
"My what?"
"You were having another one of your nightmares, Hakkai," Sanzo explained taking out a cigarette and lighting it.
Hakkai's look of confusion faded into a look of sadness when fragments of nightmare began to resurface. "Kanna.." he muttered as he got out of his warm bed and began to get dressed.
"Where do you think your going, Hakkai?"
"I'm going out for a walk," Hakkai answered as he pushed past the priest to the door, "maybe that will help clear my mind."
Sanzo took a deep drag off his cigarette before nodding at Hakkai. "Whatever, just don't go getting yourself into trouble," he replied, "I don't feel like comin' to rescue your happy ass."
Hakkai laughed at the comment. "I'll be sure to keep that in mind, Sanzo," he stated leaving the room.
"Idiot," Sanzo muttered before inhaling another lungful of smoke.
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Hakkai let out a deep sigh as he stood on the bridge and stared off into the water. "Kanna, why do you haunt me so?" he pondered to himself out loud as he tossed a pebble into the water before walking towards the inn again.
"Gouno?" A soft voice inquired causing Hakkai to stop dead in his tracks, "Is that you, Gouno?"
Hakkai turned around slowly to face the owner of the voice. "Kanna?" he managed to spit out as tears began to run down his face. "No, it's just my imagination playing tricks on me."
The girl gave Hakkai a confused look as she walked over to him. "What's wrong Gouno?" she asked wrapping her arms around his waist, "Aren't you happy to see me?"
Hakkai looked down at the girl. "I don't know who you are, but you have to stop this!" he begged. "You're not real, you're dead."
Kanna laughed as if what Hakkai had said was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. "What are you talking about my sweet?" she asked leaning in to capture Hakkai's lips in a kiss. "Now do you believe me?" Hakkai shook his head and started to speak, but he was silenced by Kanna's finger to his lips. "There's someone I want you to meet."
Hakkai glanced at the girl on the other side of the clearing that he was lead to. "Who are you?" he asked as he took note of his surroundings. The girl he was now speaking to had on a short black kimono and short black boots. She also wore her long sliver hair in a pony tail. "I'll ask you again, who are you?"
The girl smirked and walked towards Hakkai. "My name is Gabriel," she answered grabbing a hold of Hakkai's chin and pulled him close to her face, "and I'm here to make sure you or your misfit friends don't leave here alive."
Hakkai chuckled to himself as he remembered what Sanzo had told him before he left. "Sanzo told me not to go getting myself into trouble, but I guess it can't be helped," he stated pulling himself out of her grasp and took up a fighting stance, "now if you'll be so kind as to release this girl from your Necromancy spell, so that she may rest in peace, and I will leave and pretend like none of this ever happened."
Gabriel laughed as she pulled out a long, black whip with thorns covering it. "Now why would I want to go and do a silly thing like that, my dear Hakkai?" she questioned in a sing song voice as she cracked the whip in Hakkai's direction, catching his wrist, "I'd say we make a pretty good team." Gabriel smirked as she cracked the whip back and watched Hakkai grit his teeth in pain as blood began to flow freely from the gash.
"Don't say I didn't warn you," Hakkai muttered as he ignored the pain in his wrist and began to gather energy.
Gabriel dodged Hakkai's blast and ended up behind him. "You're going to have to do better then that, dear Hakkai," she cooed snapping the whip so that it ended up around Hakkai's neck, "or you'll end up dead."
Hakkai made a gagging noise as he tried to untangle himself from the whip. "I hardly say you're fighting fair, Gabriel," he replied giving the Necromancer a smirk.
"Who said anything about playing fair?" Gabriel remarked snapping the whip slicing Hakkai's hand open.
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Sanzo sighed as he got out of Hakkai's bed and wondered into the next room. I wonder what's keeping Hakkai. he thought to himself as he tripped over a empty beer can and nearly landed on top of Goyjo and Goku, who were fast asleep on the floor. "Get up, stupid Kappa and Monkey!" he shouted throwing the empty beer can at Goyjo's head, successfully waking him up.
Goyjo shot up to a sitting position on the floor as he rubbed his head. "What the hell was that for, Sanzo?" he shouted standing up. "What'd you wake me up for?"
Sanzo smirked and lit a cigarette. "Go find Hakkai," he remarked, "and take the stupid Monkey with you."
Goyjo shot Sanzo a confused look before hitting Goku in the head with a pillow. "Hakkai is missing?" he repeated as Goku sat up. "Why can't you go do it yourself yah lazy priest?"
Goku let out a big yawn and rubbed his eyes. "Breakfast time, already?" he asked standing up.
Sanzo looked at Goku before turning his attention back to the Kappa. "Because I asked you to do it," he replied pointing his banishing gun at Goyjo, "now shut up and move your asses!"
"Stupid…egotistical…monk," Goyjo muttered under his breathe as he drug Goku behind him, "come on, Monkey."
"But I'm still hungry!"
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Gabriel smiled as Hakkai collapsed at her feet. "What a shame, out before I got to show you all of my tricks, I was expecting more," she scolded shaking a finger at him, "Oh well, we'll have lots more fun when you wake up again." Gabriel looked up and the sound of another noise coming towards her.
"Hakkai, come on out now!" Goyjo shouted as he came into the clearing, "The pissy priest wants me to drag your ass back to the inn!"
Oh look, another one of Sanzo's friends to play with, Gabriel thought to herself as she hid among the trees.
"If I didn't know any better I'd say you were enjoying yourself a bit too much, Lady Gabriel," a figure pointed out as he played with one of the sticks in his mouth.
Gabriel turned to the figure and gave him a glare. "I didn't bring you back to your Shikigami form for you to patronize me," she snapped, "now what don't you go make yourself useful, Chin Yisou!"
Chin Yisou gave a slight chuckle. "No, I suppose not Lady Gabriel," he replied glancing at Goyjo, who was tending to Hakkai's wounded hand and wrist, "your orders?"
Gabriel smirked at Chin. "Go play with him," she stated, "just be sure to leave a little to get information out of later."
Chin Yisou nodded and left to do his task. "Well, well, well, look who has decided to join our little party," he remarked as he landed right in front of, "it's so nice to see you and Gouno again."
Goyjo looked up from wrapping Hakkai's bloody hand with his blue headband to come face to face with the fortune teller. "Oh great, how many times do we have to kill you before you stay dead?" he inquired turning his attention back to Hakkai, "And for your information it's Hakkai not Gouno or what ever the hell his old name use to be."
Chin Yisou only laughed at Goyjo's comment. "My mistake," he mocked as he fingered a Mahjongg tile, "no matter, I won't have to remember it for much longer anyways." Chin Yisou smiled and threw the tile towards Goyjo causing it to flash into a hideous looking creature that was drooling on Hakkai.
Goyjo rolled his eyes at Chin as he moved to attack the creature. "Sorry creature from the black lagoon, but Hakkai is not on the menu!" he declared knocking the Shikigami away from Hakkai's unconscious body with his Shakuju. The creature let out a hiss and attacked Goyjo again only to end up a cloud of dust. "Please don't tell me that's all you got!"
Chin Yisou shook his head and reveled three more tiles. "You were able to defeat one Shikigami no problem," he stated tossing the tiles causing them to transform, "how well can you do against three?"
Gabriel let out a growl as she watched from the safety of her hiding place. "Fool, he's just toying with him right now," she muttered, "if he messes this up I swear I'm going to make him wish he was never brought back in the first place."
Chin Yisou gave a sadistic smirk as his Shikigami pinned Goyjo up again a tree. "What happened to that cocky attitude, Redhead?" he inquired walking over to Hakkai and knelt beside him, "Gouno actually looks innocent while he's sleeping don't you think?" he ran his fingers through Hakkai's hair.
Goyjo glared at Chin Yisou as he struggled to fend off his creatures. "You better stay the hell away from Hakkai, Chin Yisou!" he shouted in anger.
Chin smiled. "And just what are you planning to do about it?" he asked as Hakkai began to whimper, "You're not exactly in a position to be making demands."
You bastard. Was Goyjo's last coherent thought before his mind fell into darkness.
Gabriel appeared out of the shadows giving Chin Yisou a mock round of applause. "Good job on almost letting them escape, "she scolded grabbing a hold of Goyjo by his red mop of hair, "now all we need is the little midget and Sanzo will come running."
Chin Yisou smiled as he picked up Hakkai as if he were a child. "Now the real fun begins," he muttered as he followed Gabriel.
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Sanzo: (sideways glance) Well Kai, it would appear that I'm your favorite.
Kai: (blinks) How do you figure Sanzo-sama?
Sanzo: Because I'm the one that's going to end up savin' their sorry asses and you're not otherwise maiming or torturing me.
Kai: (blinks again) Is that what normal authoresses do?
Satoshi: (mock clapping) Very good, Kai.
Kai: (glare) Yeah, you're not funny, Hiwatari
Satoshi: Please Read and review.