Seiko: Hi there! This is my first fic in Ffnet! So, if you feel like
complaining or whatever it is, then don't hesitate to do so, okay? I'm
willing to accept all those comments! (^^)
Sanzo: ....I guarantee your fic sucks, Seiko.
Seiko: ...Oh hohoho! Honto? Then we'll see who's going to be bullied in the fic, hohoho.
Goku: ...Dare ka?
Gojyo: ...Obviously, the blonde namaguza bouzu over there!
Sanzo: ...OMAE...(- -""""")
Seiko: Before I forget, Saiyuki doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Minekura-san! And thank you Ayie-chan, for encouraging me to write this fic!! Arigatou gozaimasu!! {bows}
Hakkai: Hai, hai. Anyway, enjoy the fic! (^___^)
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mischievous spirit
Chapter 1- iniquity LULLABY
(flasback.)
"...Koryuu? What are you doing here?" Komyou Sanzo looked at his one and only disciple sitting on the ground, with cuts all over his small figure. The Sanzo was sure that those naughty boys had bullied Koryuu again.
The flaxen haired child stopped grunting and lifted his head facing right towards the elder latter. He stared his master for a while, and Komyou Sanzo curled his warmest smile ever, making the child felt calmed.
But somehow, Koryuu had no idea why did his master always smiled like that, as if the world became the most peaceful place to live already...
...Because he felt like living in hell.
Koryuu didn't answer his master's question and he turned his gaze elsewhere. He ignored the Oshio-sama who abruptly sat together with him on the ground. Koryuu suddenly turned back to the braided latter and he showed his perplexed expression right on his face. His beautiful purple eyes met the Sanzo's and still, the man didn't throw his smile away. He kept on smiling and smiling without even a word came out from his lips.
Koryuu sweat dropped. Sometimes, he felt like Oshio-sama became insane or something. Always smiling even though there's nothing to be smiled at. He sure was crazy towards this smiling thing...
"...Nanda?" was the only word came out from Koryuu, making his Oshio-sama smiled even wider. Koryuu was damned annoyed and he pushed himself up, ignoring the pain caused by the cuts and bruises. All of a sudden, while he was about to leave, he felt something grabbed his wrist firmly, but it was warm and smooth that Koryuu was sure that was his mentor's touch...
"Sit here. Let me treat them for you." The elder latter had spoken, with such comforting voice, making Koryuu sat back by force.
The child murmured and grunted, and it sure made the Sanzo amused. He had never seen this kind of kid who always muttered about himself so much. Koryuu definitely was different from any other children he met during his travel everywhere to give sermons. The gakis would usually played with their friends and he could hardly heard them mumbling like the blonde.
"...I'm not a kid anymore. I can treat them by myself."
Komyo Sanzo ignored the kid's proud talk and took out the medicine box he brought along before and started treating Koryuu's wounds. The wakamono* sure felt weird, since it was the first time his Oshio-sama treat his cuts. Usually, Koryuu bandaged himself up, and he did it more like he was going to change himself to a mummy from any ancient times.
"...You see, Koryuu... Sometimes I'm impressed by the way you handle those kids out there. But don't you ever feel like fighting them back?"
Koryuu halted. He asked himself why he didn't fight back. Was it because....
"....I'm weak. Besides, you told me not to do so." The blonde answered with such a deep voice. His tone was flat, no emotion was included. His sight fell on the ground, while his hand played with the sand all around over and over again. He sure was bored by the same topic everyday.... about why he hadn't fight those kids back.
"....So, you still don't understand it."
"....What do you mean?"
Komyo Sanzo patted the boy's back and stood up with real manners. He smiled again and Koryuu stood up after a while later, tailing the Sanzo from behind. The Sanzo sat on a big rock, while Koryuu stood in front, still waiting for further answers.
All of a sudden, they heard chirping sounds from above and they both looked up. A group of birds were flying together heading to their nests. The scenery was almost wonderful, making Koryuu stunned for a while. He didn't know why, but watching the typical scenery with his 'father' beside, made the view that evening became the most interesting scenery to be looked at.
"...Like those birds, Koryuu. They fly together in a group, and have you ever wonder why they did that?"
Oshio-sama's question perplexed Koryuu that the kid threw his gaze at the man who was still looking at the sky with such gleeful expressions. The Sanzo realised his disciple was hoping for an answer, obviously. Koryuu would never knew anything if the braided young man didn't explain why various things had happened.
"...If they fly on their own, they will surely be attacked by any other bigger birds. Besides, by flying together, they learn more and they surely don't feel lonely."
Komyou Sanzo faced the boy, who was starting to understand what the monk had just told him about those birds. He then stood up and lifted his hand, right towards the kid's head.
Koryuu blushed. He felt embarrassed when someone took care of him that much, furthermore, by his Oshio-sama's warm touch. He widened his amethyst eyes and studied the figure right there, with a typical calming smile on the elder's face.
"...Shinpai shinaide, Koryuu. Once you have your own friends, then you'll gain the spirit to live... Or should I say, fight back?"
Komyo Sanzo removed his hand and folded his arms tightly, still facing the flaxen-haired.
"...But I don't have any friends out there. The kids kept teasing me around..."
"...Be strong, Koryuu. Life's not that complicated. There'll be someone who's willing to be your friend. I believe, there are. You have to fight back those down feelings here, in your heart. Fight back those worrying matters that bother you a lot here, in your brains. And then, fight back anything that against you, as long as you live, you have your own life, and as long as you own it, then you have the abilities to survive..."
"...By fighting back your own feelings."
Koryuu looked up again, showing his face to the sky high above his head. While then, Komyou Sanzo continued his speech...
"...But Koryuu, once you have your own friends, you will at least feel that you're going to lose them. At least once, in your entire life."
Koryuu was stunned by the word 'lose'. 'What does Oshio-sama mean by that? I just can't understand.....' He however showed his puzzled expression while looking straight towards the elder's face.
"...And when you felt that, then there's only one thing you should do."
Komyou Sanzo turned his sight to the passing birds again before he gazed back to Koryuu.
"...Believe in your friends, more than you believe in yourself...and be strong, Koryuu."
The sun set right behind Komyo Sanzo, and that was the most wonderful, yet beautiful scene Koryuu had ever seen in his entire life. He saw the monk shone brightly...
...And Koryuu smiled.
'...Oshio-sama...'
(end of flashback) ******************************************************
...Be strong, Kooryu....
...Be strong.
"...Ne, Sanzo? Sanzo? Daijoubu ka?"
Sanzo shuddered his eyes wide open, and at the same time, he saw a pair of golden orbs right when he opened his own eyes. His veins throbbed out crazily around his temple, making the saru even more worried. Still, he didn't move away from getting too near to Sanzo.
"...Sanzo?" he asked with such a baka tone, then...
'THWACKKKK!!!!'
"...Ittai yo!! Nani sundai yo, Sanzoo???" Goku held his head right on the bump he had just got free of charge from Sanzo.
The monk shoved back his almighty harisen inside his huge sleeve and got out of the jeep at once after Hakkai gave way to the bouzu. He stood there behind the emerald-eyed youkai who was waiting for Hakuryu to transform back to its original form, while murmuring about Goku being a hentai caused by the kappa.
Well, as usual, the kappa always had a sharp hearing skill that he suddenly appeared next to Sanzo, making the blonde more than disturbed.
"...What did you say??? Baka namaguza bouzu??"
"...I said, Goku got infected by your hentai acts, that he started doing it already."
"Oi, that's my problem about girls having a crush on me! That's not my fault...."
Sanzo stopped and turned to Gojyo with his hand grabbed the harisen again, and...
"...Itte... Why did you do that??? Baka bouzu???"
Hearing the word 'baka bouzu', Sanzo's veins popped out again, with his eyebrows almost met each other, making the kappa lost his words, and the blonde latter successfully did numerous 'thwacks' on the kappa's head. Moreover, that time Sanzo was sure he didn't miss a spot, not even a single space on the gokiburi's head.
"...That's for being horny to those baka onna out there, erotic kappa!!!" Sanzo grunted and walked inside the inn followed by Goku behind. They left the kappa rubbing his head while squatting and moaning helplessly on the ground.
"...Anou bouzu!! I'll surely kill him tonight!!"
" Maa, maa, Gojyo... If you kill him then we wouldn't have enough money to feed ourselves, ne?"
Hakkai rubbed Hakuryu's head who was perching on its master's shoulder. He 'coo'ed gleefully and rubbed his small head to Hakkai's face, making Hakkai giggled by his cute acts. Gojyo stood up, with hands at the back of his hentai brain.
"...Makes point. Fine, I'll kill him when we finished our journey."
Hakkai chuckled nervously as he walked inside the inn alone, since Gojyo found a nice looking onna outside while he was just about to go inside the inn. No way this hentai redheaded man really was going to kill the bouzu, although they fought almost every minute!
"Yare yare desu ne... I hope Sanzo won't be mad again if he sees Gojyo right now..."
Gojyo was a caring person, despite of his looks, apparently. And he knew how Gojyo cared about that monk so much since they became best sorts of friends about three years ago. But Sanzo would rather shoot himself dead than to admit the kappa was his friend, instead of servant, like what Sanzo always described the other two along with Gojyo.
Sanzo inside was standing right in front of a counter, with a small bell placed on it. But somehow, it looked old and Sanzo could tell that inn was old itself by judging the amount of spider webs all over the counter.
But he had no other choice than to rent a room, at least. They hadn't sleep on bed for three days already. Goku saw the small bell and pressed it continuously, making the bell chimed loudly as the sound echoed in Sanzo's ears. Simultaneously, making the bouzu's eyebrows twitched madly and his tooth clinched. His hands itched to shove his harisen out, but then he left the saru, grunting.
Realising that no one came out, the saru gave up on the bell and rushed to Sanzo who had already went to settle himself on a chair nearby, just to get away from the baka saru. He lacked his energy to hit Goku's head or lift his shoreiju anymore, though. Furthermore, the ikkou had such a great fight with the youkais before they reached the village.
Hakkai walked to the kitchen, wondering if anyone was there.
"I'll go and check. Maybe the cook's here..."
Right after Hakkai mentioned about the word 'cook', the saru got activated and his sleepy eyes went wide-opened.
"Uuuu...Hara hetta!! Where are the foods we ordered? Arhh....."
".....Hakkai....." Sanzo's veins popped out again, followed by the emerald- eyed youkai's giggle from the kitchen hall.
"...Sumimasen! I didn't mean to say that word..."
Goku was moaning irritatingly, and his hands kept tugging at Sanzo's sleeves continuously, making the bouzu damned mad since he was a sensitive man with a sign 'sawaru na' written right on his beautiful face. As far as the monk knew, the inn didn't mention about serving any foods, but the ikkou were there to rent a place to sleep! And they didn't even order anything from anyone!
Sanzo was about to take out his shoreiju and aim it to the baka saru when all of a sudden...
....They heard it.
It was a woman's voice...
... And it was a soothing voice singing a sweet, sweet lullaby. In lilting tones, the warm, yet resonant voice filled the entire inn, shading everything with a glow of love. Apparently, it definitely was motherly love, spread all over the place.
Then, it vanished. As quick as it had come.
For a moment, everyone was silent and stunned. They wondered who could sang that nice lullaby, even those three young men felt like they were floating freely in the air when they heard the calmed song just then. Well, obviously Sanzo was excluded from having any feelings at all. (-___-())
Not long after that, they heard it again. Sanzo was damned annoyed about the noise that he wished he could just shot the woman to death. However, the other three latter felt a strange cold feeling running through their veins, making them shivered slightly.
Harsh, bitter wails suddenly could be heard from the second floor of the inn. The same woman's voice was crying, weeping so hard that the ikkou started to feel eerie and flabbergasted. Then, the lullaby was heard again but this time, it sounded dimly and went away slowly, followed by sobbing sounds between each verse of the lullaby. The voice started to sound peculiar as the ikkou heard the woman screamed in pain.
The ikkou were utterly shocked. They turned their sights towards the direction where the voice came from. Goku stopped his moans, Gojyo stopped his flirting with the girl outside, while those other two looked at each other with wonder. All of them felt somehow worried about the woman who had just sang the fainting lullaby.
Goku stood up abruptly, and the other latter turned their gaze towards Goku, who suddenly ran upstairs, followed by Hakkai behind. He ignored those elders behind and darted upstairs swiftly.
"...Goku?? Where are you going?" Hakkai asked fretfully, while trying to catch up with Goku. Hakuryu was left with the other two latter, and Hakkai himself hoped that his wild thoughts inside his mind about the voice were inaccurate. 'Is someone in danger? Or maybe youkais tricked us again like before?'
"...I smell blood, Hakkai! Hayaku!!"
"Matte kudasai, Goku!"
About a while later, Hakkai reached at the second floor and he saw nothing but an empty hallway with several ordinary beech doors at each side. Hakkai was perplexed. He too, admitted that he did smell blood came from upstairs, but as soon as he reached there after Goku...
...The smell disappeared.
"...That's weird. I did smell it a while ago... Goku?"
Hakkai's emerald-eyes went straight to Goku, who was dumbfounded and Goku's face turned pale in the moonlight. It seemed like he was shocked of something that Goku's eyes widened in fear and he was staring with such shocked expression at the end of the corridor. Hakkai looked again and searched for anything at the hallway, but nothing. Not even a person or a youkai was situated there. 'But why does Goku ...'
Hakkai started to get worried. He touched Goku's shoulder slowly; making the latter turned his golden orbs to the elder youkai, without even a blink. His eyes went on like that for a moment, and it sure made Hakkai terrified. He yanked his hand from Goku and suddenly....
"....Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Ahhrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!"
Hakkai was petrified. He then held Goku's shoulders and shook him anxiously.
"Goku! Hold yourself!! What happened?? Goku??"
Goku just kept screaming loudly, continuously and his loud screams sent Sanzo and Gojyo climbed the stairs, shocked by the deafening yell...
...And they knew that was Goku's voice.
Hakkai on the other side tried to calm Goku down, but the kid kept screaming, kneeling on the floor while holding his head, as if it was going to be separated from his body by that time. He glared at Hakkai who was coaxing him to cool down, while he kept on his screaming and yelling as if Hakkai was the one who's going to harm him. He smacked away Hakkai's touch, and stepped backwards, right heading to a wide opened window.
"...Goku!!!! It's me, Hakkai! Stop it, Goku!"
Hakkai stepped forward to reach the kid but then he realised, the more he got nearer to Goku, the more Goku would step backwards, and it might cause him to fall down through the window!
Hakkai stopped his movement, setting his emerald eyes on Goku, who was glaring at him with his frightened wide-opened orbs, and all Hakkai was able to do was to keep on calling his name to make him 'awake' ...
...Or else.
"Goku!!! Come here! What happened to you??" Hakkai screamed on the top of his voice, and right after he did that, Gojyo and Sanzo reached upstairs, and they were totally astonished.
"...What happened, Hakkai??" Gojyo asked nervously, and he was worried more than anyone else. He sure was anxious when he saw Goku's eyes went on like that, without even a blink, and he looked so much as if he was being scared or haunted by something...
"...I've no idea! He's just... just all of a sudden, he screamed and evaded me.I don't know why!" Hakkai gazed at the monk beside him, who also, was damned worried about that saru. Hakkai pleaded for any conclusions they could attempt to do, by staring at Sanzo with his emerald orbs, which abruptly became watery.
Sanzo turned away from Hakkai, and looked around the hallway, the whole place, and the corners. He examined the entire place, and then, he stared at Goku who that time was hugging his knees, shivering in fear, while murmuring something...
...Suspicious.
Sanzo was perplexed. He hadn't felt any youkais there, and then he took the chance to reach the kid, and he really hoped that this saru was fine, when actually he wasn't. Sanzo knelt before the shivering child, calling out his name again and again... but no answer. Goku was burying his face in his knees, while his shoulders went up and down continuously and Sanzo could tell that saru was trying to gasp more air into his lungs.
Sanzo somehow felt pity for Goku that he lifted his hand and was about to caress the kid's head when suddenly...
...He saw something...
...Something that horrified Sanzo most...
".Gokuu???"
The kid jerked his head up abruptly, and Sanzo jumped back in fear and shock. He saw two flashing red eyes stared at him with a devilish smirk right on his face, showing his sharp tooth. The ikkou were damned petrified that the kid they knew so well became this... this....
'Goku will never do this.... Never! This is not him!'
The itan looked so much like Seiten Taisei, when Goku's diadem went off his head. It's just that the eyes...
...Looked so much like real demon.
"....Goku???" Sanzo suddenly called out the kid's name.
...no answer.
Sanzo was still there, facing the saru with eyes wide-opened. He surely was shocked by the way the new 'Goku' acted. He knew the typical Goku wouldn't do that, furthermore, towards him. He looked at the gaki's face and checked whether the diadem was properly placed or not...
....The diadem's still there.
The kid suddenly pushed the wooden floor hard and grabbed the wall behind to balance himself to stand up. But his smirk didn't fade away, and his crimson orbs still glared at Sanzo, and then...
Sanzo, Hakkai and Gojyo heard it.
"...Genjo Sanzo....." The voice was shaky, and horrendous, making those three elders shocked to death!
"...Mazaka...that's not Goku's voice..." Hakkai cursed slightly in his heart, down deep in his feelings. He surely knew that Goku was...
...Possessed!
The elders recognized the voice completely. It was the previous woman's voice! They knew it so well, since the way she sang while crying sounded exactly the same like the new 'Goku's' voice.
The other 'Goku' walked dimly towards Sanzo, who didn't even move a muscle. Sanzo glared at the latter in front of him with such guilty feelings. He wished someone just shot him to death, than to see the only thing he should protect in this mean world became like this!
Hakkai and Gojyo were both dumbfounded but they kept yelling Sanzo's name, telling him to get away from that 'someone' who was trying to attack him any minute now. But unpredictably the monk ignored his two companions and kept on staring at the kid latter, while thinking hard on how to purify 'Goku' and bring him back to reality.
Sanzo couldn't use his Evil Sutra or the shoreiju since Goku was originally a youkai, a heretic. If he were to use the sutra, then Goku would die... The same goes to the anti-descending gun.
The 'Goku' got nearer and nearer to Sanzo, and abruptly without any warning, he lifted his hand and...
"...Sanzo! Watch out!" Hakkai screamed but it was too late.
The itan was floating in the air about an inch from the floor, and he was heading directly towards the monk who hadn't enough space to move and evade, grabbing Sanzo's throat tight.
...TOO tight.
"...Kkkkk...Kono...baka.....saru.....haana...se....."
Sanzo fell on the floor and knocked his head on one of the doorknobs. He tried to ignore the pain and held Goku's hands, which were both grabbing, strangling Sanzo's neck firmly. Sanzo was trying hard to gasp in some air to breathe, but still, he tried hard enough to prevent his sutra from being stimulated.
The other two moved forward with their own weapons, Gojyo with his shakujo and Hakkai had already formed a 'ki' ball right in his palm. But frankly, they were actually didn't have any other choice than to hurt their best friend, but neither, they didn't want to lose the monk instead.
"...Gomen nasai, Goku!!!!!" Hakkai let out his 'ki' ball and it almost hit Goku's frail body, when then, the 'Goku' raised his hand and unexpectedly...
...The 'ki' ball reflected back and it was heading straight towards Hakkai!
It was too late for Hakkai to form an energy barrier, and even Gojyo wasn't being able to protect his best friend. They both hoped for a miracle to happen...
".....DAME!!! Bend down!"
Those two youkais didn't really care whose voice was it, but they hastily bent down as being told and all of a sudden, a thick white smoke appeared all around them. The smoke-barrier somehow absorbed the 'ki' ball and it disappeared just like that.
"...Korewa...?" Hakkai opened his eyes and all he saw was white solid smoke gathered around him and Gojyo, as if it was protecting them from any attacks. Then, Hakkai desperately turned his sight towards a strange black figure right in front of them both, and the figure was standing still, with a sword formed neatly in its firm grab. Neither Hakkai nor Gojyo knew who it was. After all, it saved them from being hit by Hakkai's own 'ki'.
Right after a while later, the smoke vanished gradually and both Gojyo and Hakkai saw the true face of their savior...
"...Anata wa dare desu ka?" Hakkai stood up followed by Gojyo beside. Gojyo was speechless, and obviously, Hakkai would be the one who thanked to anyone who helped them.
The figure somehow showed its own self. A long silver haired figure, with a sparkling sword aimed towards the 'Goku' and it was...
'...a girl???'
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Seiko: ...Finished chapter 1!!! So, how was it? I guess Sanzo's right about my fic really sucks! Uuu.... (T-T)
Sanzo: ...I've told you. Still, you didn't want to listen. I won't be responsible if the readers hate your fic, baka narrator!
Hakkai: ...Ma, maa...Yameru kudasai ne, anou anata tachi... (^___^;;;)
Goku: ...But how come I turned to be a bad character, ne??
Seiko: Just for a while, Goku! Besides, you're the main character, forgot it already? (^^)
Gojyo: But you said you want to bully Sanzo instead of us??
Seiko: {smiles devilishly} ...Obviously, I will. Just wait.... Hohoho!
Sanzo: ...Kkk.....
Seiko: Anyway, sorry if I made lots of grammatical mistakes!! I'm sorry!!! Honto ni, gomen nasai! Do correct my English, okay? Onegai...
Hakkai: Hai, hai. And I promise that I'll help her to make better fic for Chapter 2 ! Also, please review and help us make this story even better! Anything to say, minna? (^___^)
Sanzo: ...I hate that onna.
Gojyo: ...I'm sulking here!
Goku: ...I don't want to be a bad person!
Seiko & Hakkai: Huh... Sumimasen deshita!
*wakamono - youngster
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Sanzo: ....I guarantee your fic sucks, Seiko.
Seiko: ...Oh hohoho! Honto? Then we'll see who's going to be bullied in the fic, hohoho.
Goku: ...Dare ka?
Gojyo: ...Obviously, the blonde namaguza bouzu over there!
Sanzo: ...OMAE...(- -""""")
Seiko: Before I forget, Saiyuki doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Minekura-san! And thank you Ayie-chan, for encouraging me to write this fic!! Arigatou gozaimasu!! {bows}
Hakkai: Hai, hai. Anyway, enjoy the fic! (^___^)
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mischievous spirit
Chapter 1- iniquity LULLABY
(flasback.)
"...Koryuu? What are you doing here?" Komyou Sanzo looked at his one and only disciple sitting on the ground, with cuts all over his small figure. The Sanzo was sure that those naughty boys had bullied Koryuu again.
The flaxen haired child stopped grunting and lifted his head facing right towards the elder latter. He stared his master for a while, and Komyou Sanzo curled his warmest smile ever, making the child felt calmed.
But somehow, Koryuu had no idea why did his master always smiled like that, as if the world became the most peaceful place to live already...
...Because he felt like living in hell.
Koryuu didn't answer his master's question and he turned his gaze elsewhere. He ignored the Oshio-sama who abruptly sat together with him on the ground. Koryuu suddenly turned back to the braided latter and he showed his perplexed expression right on his face. His beautiful purple eyes met the Sanzo's and still, the man didn't throw his smile away. He kept on smiling and smiling without even a word came out from his lips.
Koryuu sweat dropped. Sometimes, he felt like Oshio-sama became insane or something. Always smiling even though there's nothing to be smiled at. He sure was crazy towards this smiling thing...
"...Nanda?" was the only word came out from Koryuu, making his Oshio-sama smiled even wider. Koryuu was damned annoyed and he pushed himself up, ignoring the pain caused by the cuts and bruises. All of a sudden, while he was about to leave, he felt something grabbed his wrist firmly, but it was warm and smooth that Koryuu was sure that was his mentor's touch...
"Sit here. Let me treat them for you." The elder latter had spoken, with such comforting voice, making Koryuu sat back by force.
The child murmured and grunted, and it sure made the Sanzo amused. He had never seen this kind of kid who always muttered about himself so much. Koryuu definitely was different from any other children he met during his travel everywhere to give sermons. The gakis would usually played with their friends and he could hardly heard them mumbling like the blonde.
"...I'm not a kid anymore. I can treat them by myself."
Komyo Sanzo ignored the kid's proud talk and took out the medicine box he brought along before and started treating Koryuu's wounds. The wakamono* sure felt weird, since it was the first time his Oshio-sama treat his cuts. Usually, Koryuu bandaged himself up, and he did it more like he was going to change himself to a mummy from any ancient times.
"...You see, Koryuu... Sometimes I'm impressed by the way you handle those kids out there. But don't you ever feel like fighting them back?"
Koryuu halted. He asked himself why he didn't fight back. Was it because....
"....I'm weak. Besides, you told me not to do so." The blonde answered with such a deep voice. His tone was flat, no emotion was included. His sight fell on the ground, while his hand played with the sand all around over and over again. He sure was bored by the same topic everyday.... about why he hadn't fight those kids back.
"....So, you still don't understand it."
"....What do you mean?"
Komyo Sanzo patted the boy's back and stood up with real manners. He smiled again and Koryuu stood up after a while later, tailing the Sanzo from behind. The Sanzo sat on a big rock, while Koryuu stood in front, still waiting for further answers.
All of a sudden, they heard chirping sounds from above and they both looked up. A group of birds were flying together heading to their nests. The scenery was almost wonderful, making Koryuu stunned for a while. He didn't know why, but watching the typical scenery with his 'father' beside, made the view that evening became the most interesting scenery to be looked at.
"...Like those birds, Koryuu. They fly together in a group, and have you ever wonder why they did that?"
Oshio-sama's question perplexed Koryuu that the kid threw his gaze at the man who was still looking at the sky with such gleeful expressions. The Sanzo realised his disciple was hoping for an answer, obviously. Koryuu would never knew anything if the braided young man didn't explain why various things had happened.
"...If they fly on their own, they will surely be attacked by any other bigger birds. Besides, by flying together, they learn more and they surely don't feel lonely."
Komyou Sanzo faced the boy, who was starting to understand what the monk had just told him about those birds. He then stood up and lifted his hand, right towards the kid's head.
Koryuu blushed. He felt embarrassed when someone took care of him that much, furthermore, by his Oshio-sama's warm touch. He widened his amethyst eyes and studied the figure right there, with a typical calming smile on the elder's face.
"...Shinpai shinaide, Koryuu. Once you have your own friends, then you'll gain the spirit to live... Or should I say, fight back?"
Komyo Sanzo removed his hand and folded his arms tightly, still facing the flaxen-haired.
"...But I don't have any friends out there. The kids kept teasing me around..."
"...Be strong, Koryuu. Life's not that complicated. There'll be someone who's willing to be your friend. I believe, there are. You have to fight back those down feelings here, in your heart. Fight back those worrying matters that bother you a lot here, in your brains. And then, fight back anything that against you, as long as you live, you have your own life, and as long as you own it, then you have the abilities to survive..."
"...By fighting back your own feelings."
Koryuu looked up again, showing his face to the sky high above his head. While then, Komyou Sanzo continued his speech...
"...But Koryuu, once you have your own friends, you will at least feel that you're going to lose them. At least once, in your entire life."
Koryuu was stunned by the word 'lose'. 'What does Oshio-sama mean by that? I just can't understand.....' He however showed his puzzled expression while looking straight towards the elder's face.
"...And when you felt that, then there's only one thing you should do."
Komyou Sanzo turned his sight to the passing birds again before he gazed back to Koryuu.
"...Believe in your friends, more than you believe in yourself...and be strong, Koryuu."
The sun set right behind Komyo Sanzo, and that was the most wonderful, yet beautiful scene Koryuu had ever seen in his entire life. He saw the monk shone brightly...
...And Koryuu smiled.
'...Oshio-sama...'
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...Be strong, Kooryu....
...Be strong.
"...Ne, Sanzo? Sanzo? Daijoubu ka?"
Sanzo shuddered his eyes wide open, and at the same time, he saw a pair of golden orbs right when he opened his own eyes. His veins throbbed out crazily around his temple, making the saru even more worried. Still, he didn't move away from getting too near to Sanzo.
"...Sanzo?" he asked with such a baka tone, then...
'THWACKKKK!!!!'
"...Ittai yo!! Nani sundai yo, Sanzoo???" Goku held his head right on the bump he had just got free of charge from Sanzo.
The monk shoved back his almighty harisen inside his huge sleeve and got out of the jeep at once after Hakkai gave way to the bouzu. He stood there behind the emerald-eyed youkai who was waiting for Hakuryu to transform back to its original form, while murmuring about Goku being a hentai caused by the kappa.
Well, as usual, the kappa always had a sharp hearing skill that he suddenly appeared next to Sanzo, making the blonde more than disturbed.
"...What did you say??? Baka namaguza bouzu??"
"...I said, Goku got infected by your hentai acts, that he started doing it already."
"Oi, that's my problem about girls having a crush on me! That's not my fault...."
Sanzo stopped and turned to Gojyo with his hand grabbed the harisen again, and...
"...Itte... Why did you do that??? Baka bouzu???"
Hearing the word 'baka bouzu', Sanzo's veins popped out again, with his eyebrows almost met each other, making the kappa lost his words, and the blonde latter successfully did numerous 'thwacks' on the kappa's head. Moreover, that time Sanzo was sure he didn't miss a spot, not even a single space on the gokiburi's head.
"...That's for being horny to those baka onna out there, erotic kappa!!!" Sanzo grunted and walked inside the inn followed by Goku behind. They left the kappa rubbing his head while squatting and moaning helplessly on the ground.
"...Anou bouzu!! I'll surely kill him tonight!!"
" Maa, maa, Gojyo... If you kill him then we wouldn't have enough money to feed ourselves, ne?"
Hakkai rubbed Hakuryu's head who was perching on its master's shoulder. He 'coo'ed gleefully and rubbed his small head to Hakkai's face, making Hakkai giggled by his cute acts. Gojyo stood up, with hands at the back of his hentai brain.
"...Makes point. Fine, I'll kill him when we finished our journey."
Hakkai chuckled nervously as he walked inside the inn alone, since Gojyo found a nice looking onna outside while he was just about to go inside the inn. No way this hentai redheaded man really was going to kill the bouzu, although they fought almost every minute!
"Yare yare desu ne... I hope Sanzo won't be mad again if he sees Gojyo right now..."
Gojyo was a caring person, despite of his looks, apparently. And he knew how Gojyo cared about that monk so much since they became best sorts of friends about three years ago. But Sanzo would rather shoot himself dead than to admit the kappa was his friend, instead of servant, like what Sanzo always described the other two along with Gojyo.
Sanzo inside was standing right in front of a counter, with a small bell placed on it. But somehow, it looked old and Sanzo could tell that inn was old itself by judging the amount of spider webs all over the counter.
But he had no other choice than to rent a room, at least. They hadn't sleep on bed for three days already. Goku saw the small bell and pressed it continuously, making the bell chimed loudly as the sound echoed in Sanzo's ears. Simultaneously, making the bouzu's eyebrows twitched madly and his tooth clinched. His hands itched to shove his harisen out, but then he left the saru, grunting.
Realising that no one came out, the saru gave up on the bell and rushed to Sanzo who had already went to settle himself on a chair nearby, just to get away from the baka saru. He lacked his energy to hit Goku's head or lift his shoreiju anymore, though. Furthermore, the ikkou had such a great fight with the youkais before they reached the village.
Hakkai walked to the kitchen, wondering if anyone was there.
"I'll go and check. Maybe the cook's here..."
Right after Hakkai mentioned about the word 'cook', the saru got activated and his sleepy eyes went wide-opened.
"Uuuu...Hara hetta!! Where are the foods we ordered? Arhh....."
".....Hakkai....." Sanzo's veins popped out again, followed by the emerald- eyed youkai's giggle from the kitchen hall.
"...Sumimasen! I didn't mean to say that word..."
Goku was moaning irritatingly, and his hands kept tugging at Sanzo's sleeves continuously, making the bouzu damned mad since he was a sensitive man with a sign 'sawaru na' written right on his beautiful face. As far as the monk knew, the inn didn't mention about serving any foods, but the ikkou were there to rent a place to sleep! And they didn't even order anything from anyone!
Sanzo was about to take out his shoreiju and aim it to the baka saru when all of a sudden...
....They heard it.
It was a woman's voice...
... And it was a soothing voice singing a sweet, sweet lullaby. In lilting tones, the warm, yet resonant voice filled the entire inn, shading everything with a glow of love. Apparently, it definitely was motherly love, spread all over the place.
Then, it vanished. As quick as it had come.
For a moment, everyone was silent and stunned. They wondered who could sang that nice lullaby, even those three young men felt like they were floating freely in the air when they heard the calmed song just then. Well, obviously Sanzo was excluded from having any feelings at all. (-___-())
Not long after that, they heard it again. Sanzo was damned annoyed about the noise that he wished he could just shot the woman to death. However, the other three latter felt a strange cold feeling running through their veins, making them shivered slightly.
Harsh, bitter wails suddenly could be heard from the second floor of the inn. The same woman's voice was crying, weeping so hard that the ikkou started to feel eerie and flabbergasted. Then, the lullaby was heard again but this time, it sounded dimly and went away slowly, followed by sobbing sounds between each verse of the lullaby. The voice started to sound peculiar as the ikkou heard the woman screamed in pain.
The ikkou were utterly shocked. They turned their sights towards the direction where the voice came from. Goku stopped his moans, Gojyo stopped his flirting with the girl outside, while those other two looked at each other with wonder. All of them felt somehow worried about the woman who had just sang the fainting lullaby.
Goku stood up abruptly, and the other latter turned their gaze towards Goku, who suddenly ran upstairs, followed by Hakkai behind. He ignored those elders behind and darted upstairs swiftly.
"...Goku?? Where are you going?" Hakkai asked fretfully, while trying to catch up with Goku. Hakuryu was left with the other two latter, and Hakkai himself hoped that his wild thoughts inside his mind about the voice were inaccurate. 'Is someone in danger? Or maybe youkais tricked us again like before?'
"...I smell blood, Hakkai! Hayaku!!"
"Matte kudasai, Goku!"
About a while later, Hakkai reached at the second floor and he saw nothing but an empty hallway with several ordinary beech doors at each side. Hakkai was perplexed. He too, admitted that he did smell blood came from upstairs, but as soon as he reached there after Goku...
...The smell disappeared.
"...That's weird. I did smell it a while ago... Goku?"
Hakkai's emerald-eyes went straight to Goku, who was dumbfounded and Goku's face turned pale in the moonlight. It seemed like he was shocked of something that Goku's eyes widened in fear and he was staring with such shocked expression at the end of the corridor. Hakkai looked again and searched for anything at the hallway, but nothing. Not even a person or a youkai was situated there. 'But why does Goku ...'
Hakkai started to get worried. He touched Goku's shoulder slowly; making the latter turned his golden orbs to the elder youkai, without even a blink. His eyes went on like that for a moment, and it sure made Hakkai terrified. He yanked his hand from Goku and suddenly....
"....Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Ahhrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!"
Hakkai was petrified. He then held Goku's shoulders and shook him anxiously.
"Goku! Hold yourself!! What happened?? Goku??"
Goku just kept screaming loudly, continuously and his loud screams sent Sanzo and Gojyo climbed the stairs, shocked by the deafening yell...
...And they knew that was Goku's voice.
Hakkai on the other side tried to calm Goku down, but the kid kept screaming, kneeling on the floor while holding his head, as if it was going to be separated from his body by that time. He glared at Hakkai who was coaxing him to cool down, while he kept on his screaming and yelling as if Hakkai was the one who's going to harm him. He smacked away Hakkai's touch, and stepped backwards, right heading to a wide opened window.
"...Goku!!!! It's me, Hakkai! Stop it, Goku!"
Hakkai stepped forward to reach the kid but then he realised, the more he got nearer to Goku, the more Goku would step backwards, and it might cause him to fall down through the window!
Hakkai stopped his movement, setting his emerald eyes on Goku, who was glaring at him with his frightened wide-opened orbs, and all Hakkai was able to do was to keep on calling his name to make him 'awake' ...
...Or else.
"Goku!!! Come here! What happened to you??" Hakkai screamed on the top of his voice, and right after he did that, Gojyo and Sanzo reached upstairs, and they were totally astonished.
"...What happened, Hakkai??" Gojyo asked nervously, and he was worried more than anyone else. He sure was anxious when he saw Goku's eyes went on like that, without even a blink, and he looked so much as if he was being scared or haunted by something...
"...I've no idea! He's just... just all of a sudden, he screamed and evaded me.I don't know why!" Hakkai gazed at the monk beside him, who also, was damned worried about that saru. Hakkai pleaded for any conclusions they could attempt to do, by staring at Sanzo with his emerald orbs, which abruptly became watery.
Sanzo turned away from Hakkai, and looked around the hallway, the whole place, and the corners. He examined the entire place, and then, he stared at Goku who that time was hugging his knees, shivering in fear, while murmuring something...
...Suspicious.
Sanzo was perplexed. He hadn't felt any youkais there, and then he took the chance to reach the kid, and he really hoped that this saru was fine, when actually he wasn't. Sanzo knelt before the shivering child, calling out his name again and again... but no answer. Goku was burying his face in his knees, while his shoulders went up and down continuously and Sanzo could tell that saru was trying to gasp more air into his lungs.
Sanzo somehow felt pity for Goku that he lifted his hand and was about to caress the kid's head when suddenly...
...He saw something...
...Something that horrified Sanzo most...
".Gokuu???"
The kid jerked his head up abruptly, and Sanzo jumped back in fear and shock. He saw two flashing red eyes stared at him with a devilish smirk right on his face, showing his sharp tooth. The ikkou were damned petrified that the kid they knew so well became this... this....
'Goku will never do this.... Never! This is not him!'
The itan looked so much like Seiten Taisei, when Goku's diadem went off his head. It's just that the eyes...
...Looked so much like real demon.
"....Goku???" Sanzo suddenly called out the kid's name.
...no answer.
Sanzo was still there, facing the saru with eyes wide-opened. He surely was shocked by the way the new 'Goku' acted. He knew the typical Goku wouldn't do that, furthermore, towards him. He looked at the gaki's face and checked whether the diadem was properly placed or not...
....The diadem's still there.
The kid suddenly pushed the wooden floor hard and grabbed the wall behind to balance himself to stand up. But his smirk didn't fade away, and his crimson orbs still glared at Sanzo, and then...
Sanzo, Hakkai and Gojyo heard it.
"...Genjo Sanzo....." The voice was shaky, and horrendous, making those three elders shocked to death!
"...Mazaka...that's not Goku's voice..." Hakkai cursed slightly in his heart, down deep in his feelings. He surely knew that Goku was...
...Possessed!
The elders recognized the voice completely. It was the previous woman's voice! They knew it so well, since the way she sang while crying sounded exactly the same like the new 'Goku's' voice.
The other 'Goku' walked dimly towards Sanzo, who didn't even move a muscle. Sanzo glared at the latter in front of him with such guilty feelings. He wished someone just shot him to death, than to see the only thing he should protect in this mean world became like this!
Hakkai and Gojyo were both dumbfounded but they kept yelling Sanzo's name, telling him to get away from that 'someone' who was trying to attack him any minute now. But unpredictably the monk ignored his two companions and kept on staring at the kid latter, while thinking hard on how to purify 'Goku' and bring him back to reality.
Sanzo couldn't use his Evil Sutra or the shoreiju since Goku was originally a youkai, a heretic. If he were to use the sutra, then Goku would die... The same goes to the anti-descending gun.
The 'Goku' got nearer and nearer to Sanzo, and abruptly without any warning, he lifted his hand and...
"...Sanzo! Watch out!" Hakkai screamed but it was too late.
The itan was floating in the air about an inch from the floor, and he was heading directly towards the monk who hadn't enough space to move and evade, grabbing Sanzo's throat tight.
...TOO tight.
"...Kkkkk...Kono...baka.....saru.....haana...se....."
Sanzo fell on the floor and knocked his head on one of the doorknobs. He tried to ignore the pain and held Goku's hands, which were both grabbing, strangling Sanzo's neck firmly. Sanzo was trying hard to gasp in some air to breathe, but still, he tried hard enough to prevent his sutra from being stimulated.
The other two moved forward with their own weapons, Gojyo with his shakujo and Hakkai had already formed a 'ki' ball right in his palm. But frankly, they were actually didn't have any other choice than to hurt their best friend, but neither, they didn't want to lose the monk instead.
"...Gomen nasai, Goku!!!!!" Hakkai let out his 'ki' ball and it almost hit Goku's frail body, when then, the 'Goku' raised his hand and unexpectedly...
...The 'ki' ball reflected back and it was heading straight towards Hakkai!
It was too late for Hakkai to form an energy barrier, and even Gojyo wasn't being able to protect his best friend. They both hoped for a miracle to happen...
".....DAME!!! Bend down!"
Those two youkais didn't really care whose voice was it, but they hastily bent down as being told and all of a sudden, a thick white smoke appeared all around them. The smoke-barrier somehow absorbed the 'ki' ball and it disappeared just like that.
"...Korewa...?" Hakkai opened his eyes and all he saw was white solid smoke gathered around him and Gojyo, as if it was protecting them from any attacks. Then, Hakkai desperately turned his sight towards a strange black figure right in front of them both, and the figure was standing still, with a sword formed neatly in its firm grab. Neither Hakkai nor Gojyo knew who it was. After all, it saved them from being hit by Hakkai's own 'ki'.
Right after a while later, the smoke vanished gradually and both Gojyo and Hakkai saw the true face of their savior...
"...Anata wa dare desu ka?" Hakkai stood up followed by Gojyo beside. Gojyo was speechless, and obviously, Hakkai would be the one who thanked to anyone who helped them.
The figure somehow showed its own self. A long silver haired figure, with a sparkling sword aimed towards the 'Goku' and it was...
'...a girl???'
to be continued... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seiko: ...Finished chapter 1!!! So, how was it? I guess Sanzo's right about my fic really sucks! Uuu.... (T-T)
Sanzo: ...I've told you. Still, you didn't want to listen. I won't be responsible if the readers hate your fic, baka narrator!
Hakkai: ...Ma, maa...Yameru kudasai ne, anou anata tachi... (^___^;;;)
Goku: ...But how come I turned to be a bad character, ne??
Seiko: Just for a while, Goku! Besides, you're the main character, forgot it already? (^^)
Gojyo: But you said you want to bully Sanzo instead of us??
Seiko: {smiles devilishly} ...Obviously, I will. Just wait.... Hohoho!
Sanzo: ...Kkk.....
Seiko: Anyway, sorry if I made lots of grammatical mistakes!! I'm sorry!!! Honto ni, gomen nasai! Do correct my English, okay? Onegai...
Hakkai: Hai, hai. And I promise that I'll help her to make better fic for Chapter 2 ! Also, please review and help us make this story even better! Anything to say, minna? (^___^)
Sanzo: ...I hate that onna.
Gojyo: ...I'm sulking here!
Goku: ...I don't want to be a bad person!
Seiko & Hakkai: Huh... Sumimasen deshita!
*wakamono - youngster
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