Author's Note: Random "what-if"ishy oneshot. There might be a work similar to this soon, but... Ah, I don't really know. It was written while I was bored. I am amused that this is exactly 500 words long. XD Spoilers for Reload vol. 9.

Disclaimer: Saiyuki is owned by Kazuya Minekura. And I'm no Kazuya Minekura.

Endless Void

"Do you want to know the true meaning of darkness?"

You only get to live once, so you have to live it to the fullest.

Ever since he was born, Genjyo Sanzo never believed in reincarnation or paradise. He never trusted anyone but himself. Ever since his life as Kouryuu ended, as his master came crashing down, so did his world. He then became the youngest Sanzo, his small shoulders burdened by the mission he accepted. It was until he finally embraced the consequences, he buried his humanity, he released all that black smoke, was he able to finally be worthy of the title "Sanzo".

You only get to live once, so you have to live it to the fullest.

With all his beliefs, despite his contradictory being, the "self" called Genjyo Sanzo was finally formed.

Years pass by, and his life was eternally disturbed. First there was this wild, silly, baboon-faced, ever-starving primate howling at his ears even after he already took him out at that stupid mountain. Then he has to capture some emotionally unstable young man who apparently nags like a monther, meeting some pink-haired, prissy, retarded, horny cockroach slash kappa along the way. "I'll die before I even get to travel with you." He said.

And yet, time passes by, and they're still in this stupid trip to the west. Throughout those days, his surroundings affected him, and he affected them in return. Every stride he took was another stroke written in history.

So when he dies, "others" shall remember the being known as Genjyo Sanzo.

But...

"A world where Genjyo Sanzo never existed."

The power of the Muten sutra is terrible – the power to destroy. It is neither "death" nor "darkness", but something worse - "naught", the ability to remove existence.

Genjyo Sanzo never existed.

Holes of darkness fill up, as the world turned into chaos – the results of an endless void.

Komoyou died without a successor.

Goku remained in his cage.

Gonou bathed in raining blood.

Gojyo continued his monotonous life.

Dark patches grew, like sunpots covering that illuminous gold, until all lights were shut out.

"Do you want to know the real meaning of darkness?"

See nothing. Hear nothing. Feel nothing.

Embrace Nothing.

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