Kougaiji-CHAN!?
Chapter One
For once, they were making good time. The beach they were driving along was a nice change of scenery, and the town assured them after the storm last night, there may be a few trees down, and it would be faster for them to travel this way. Hakkai hadn't pressed the issue; there were plenty of people here to fix the problems on their own. Plus, he and Sanzo had been edgy, the monk catching up on sleep as he sat there in the front seat. Goku and Gojyo had decided that arguing over why the ocean was blue was the best way to spend the time since they arrived at the town. Hakkai figured they had finally reached a new level of being stubborn if they were still on the same subject.
"Aunty! Uncle! Look what I found!" Another thing about the beach….
"Jeep, transform!" Sanzo was not going to appreciate waking up like this. The poor girl who had ran in front of them from one of the few sand castles was know firmly wedged between the sand and one blond monk.
"Aaaah! K-chan, are you okay?" Hakkai decided that missing one good night of sleep should not be making him see one towel wrapped around her waist with a (conservative) bikini topped form of Yaone. Or…
"Ow! Seeing me brother in swimming trunks is not my idea of a good start to the day. Shit," Gojyo mumbled.
"Speak for yourself." Came Goku's reply. "I think Sanzo is chest deep in a female version of Kougaiji. Wait, wha-"
The tree of them stared. Sure enough, flat on her back, hand clutching a conch shell as she stared with lilac eyes at the blond hair that had to be connected to a body because she was pinned, with maroon hair pulled into a ponytail was a defiantly female prince(ss) of demons.
Sanzo does not enjoy burying his face into pillows, because one, they were soft, and two, they were suffocating, and three, it usually meant his backside was not protected. So why had the world stopped and felt soft? Lifting up his head, Sanzo decided screaming was not a good course of action.
Instead, "…Morning. What happened?" Pulling himself up, Sanzo helped the –this is so wrong- woman to her feet, and passed her to replicas of his –her- aides. Turning, he stared down at the group still sitting.
"Well?"
Hakkai was first up. "The poor girl didn't see us, and she ran from that sand castle," he pointed to the one two feet ahead, "right in front of us, and I immediately choice the safest course of action."
"Yeah, and you got to check if she was okay or not," was all Gojyo drawled, when Sanzo took a very threatening step forward, hand reaching for his waist, an obvious just-because-people-are-here-does-not-mean-I-will-hesitate-to-shoot-you look on his face.
"Er, don't they look a lot like the Kougaiji-taichi, minus Lirin?" was Goku's next question to break the silence.
Turning around, Sanzo muttered a distinct "Idiots." to them. He bowed to the three demons. Odd, this near the village, morning, and no one else here…maybe the storm last night knocked down a few trees and everyone was in the forest. In which, all the more privacy, and no lewd rumors about him. "I am sorry for scaring you. We did not have a proper lookout for where we were going, and I must say, that may be entirely my fault, as I was asleep."
"Oh, no Monk-san. I was so excited about finding one of those conches Uncle Doku keeps telling me about that I forgot to watch where I was going." The girl looked up from her bow. "Oh, no. Forgive me, Sanzo-sama."
Sanzo looked up to Yaone and Dokugakuji. Both made the slightest shake of their heads. "Well, I insist that the problem was my fault," like hell it was "and would you go with my friends and your Uncle and buy yourself a treat with this money as my form of an apology?" There. That got rid of trouble two and three, source of problem, source of problem that he-she trusted, and one person to watch over the proceedings. And left him to talk to someone who may have an idea of what was going on. They could leave Kougaiji in this form, speed up even faster with no hindrance to their travel, but Sanzo had a sneaky feeling that Kougaiji would try to help them if the situation was reversed. Well, at least now he had an outside that matched his heart….shit.
"A crazy experiment and I hope your memory is intact."
Yaone smiled at him, watching the others buy ice cream at a just opened stand up where the grass was.
"All I can remember is that we had to get her out of there, and that Lirin said she would split up and find a way back to us. Everything else was fuzzy, but,' Yaone blushed "I had been keeping a journal, so once I broke the code, bits and pieces started floating through my head. All I know is that there must be a way to save Lord Kougaiji from completely disappearing into K-chan."
"Hmmm." He was going to need a new pack of Marlboro reds after this mess was resolved.
A/N: Eheh, heh. My muse is threatening me with writers block if I don't stop starting new stories and finish the old ones, so I put out two new chapters and then put this one up. Now she is muttering about loopholes. So, how was the writing style? Good? Bad? Choppy? Smooth? I need reviews that will answer these questions. Please leave replies in the purple box. You know you want to critique.