And here comes the original story! Any Kougaiji fans out there... beware!
Disclaimer: Any Saiyuki references copyright Kazuya Minekura. Unfortunately. Oh, and the songs are from Hikaru no Go and Naruto. Consider them as the 'Opening' and the 'Ending' of the story. Don't laugh! I'm serious!
Kono me kimi no me ni
utsuru donna MONO mo
mikiwamete miseru yo shinjitsu o
Bokutachi wa kono jidai ni dore dake no yume kakaete
namida shite mayoinagara
sore ni kakete miteru no?
Boku wa sore demo hito ni hiketoranu you na
kimete mitsuke yume o te ni suru darou.
Kono me kimi no me ni
utsuru donna MONO mo
mikiwamete miseru yo
shinjitsu dake
Tatoe genjitsu ga
kitsuku umoresou demo.
Konna basho de owaru
boku janai.
Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End. –Horror.
The wind was howling, bringing clouds full of rain.
Endless, vacant stone jutted sharply from every patch of land.
The birds of Death himself—the crows—surrounded the area.
And inside a gigantic, stone claw of earth, there it was.
Houtou castle.
A horrible place for anyone to be. Not only because of the inhospitable surroundings. These were taken for granted to be as such. It was, mostly, because of the things that took place within it.
The forbidden act. The combination of youkai magic with human science. The result was the Minus Wave, a negative energy that turned all the youkai in Shangri-La into man-eating, monstrous demons. Without mind. Without logic. Without senses.
The two persons who were responsible for this disaster were in a room called the "Regulation Room".
One was a middle-aged man with short black hair, narrow eyes, and a light beard.
Ni Jianyi.
The other was a juicy youkai woman, still unaffected by the Minus Wave. Maybe she never would be.
Gyokumen Koushu.
They were half-naked, just done with their "business". There was a flare that illuminated everything inside the room and then darkness again. Gyokumen spoke first:
"It's going to rain." She was wearing her loose kimono.
"Yes. It's amazing how things get reversed. Even the blessings from the rain." He put on his white robe.
"So this is further proof of your saying that 'nothing is true', am I right?" She watched him take up his glasses with her arms crossed in front of her rich breasts.
"You're always right." He put his glasses on. "Like about his powerlessness." They glowed.
In a dark corridor of the second basement of Houtou castle, steps sounded and a light appeared. A young youkai man walked through the corridor holding a torch. He had long, red hair, and tanned skin with three red marks on his left cheek. His lavender eyes glimmered with worry in the light of the torch.
Kougaiji.
He was walking towards a very special room. He reached the front of a huge door and stared at it.
He stared.
And stared.
And stared.
Steps were heard again from the same direction he had come. He turned and took a battle stance in case it was an enemy. It was the sound of tall heels. Soon, the newcomer appeared.
It was a young youkai woman with long raven hair up in a ponytail which split in half at the tie, and blinked large, grey eyes. She was wearing a tight blue suit and a short yellow kimono, open in front of her breasts. The torch in her hand lit her path.
Yaone.
Once she saw Kougaiji, she smiled.
"You came very early, Kougaiji-sama." She bowed.
"I wanted to make sure that no one discovered our project. What about you, Yaone? You came early, too."
Yaone looked down. "I wanted to do the same…"
"Where is Dokugaku?" He asked, wanting to avoid the uncomfortable silence.
"He's probably finishing the job with lady Lirin. Err… Kougaiji-sama?" She struggled to say the following: "Is it really necessary to lock her inside her room?"
Kougaiji sighed, "Yes, it is. It's too dangerous for her, you know this. The spell 'Shin no Tobira' is forbidden for it requires huge amounts of chi. If the ones who cast it do not have it, death is certain." He wasn't looking at her while he was talking.
"And…we do? I mean all the three of us…we do?"
"I've spent all of three weeks searching for the 'Shin no Tobira' and I believe we do. Don't you trust me Yaone?" he wouldn't be angry or bothered if she did, but Yaone gasped.
"NO! No, my lord, that's not it! I would follow you everywhere, you know that! It's just…" she hesitated.
"…you're worried about our lives, right?" he finished for her.
Yaone couldn't tell him. She couldn't tell him that she was worried more about his life.
"It's all right, Yaone. I'm worried, too."
"…" She had no answer.
Suddenly, there were more steps from the same direction, only these steps were staggered, as though the one who was walking couldn't walk properly.
"Ouch, ouch, ah, damn…" Whoever it was moaned in pain. Kougaiji and Yaone lifted their torches towards that direction. They saw a very tall and very muscular youkai man. He had short black hair and red marks on his nose and forehead.
Dokugakuji.
"What happened, Dokugaku?" asked Kougaiji while Yaone ran to support him.
"Screw it, Kou! When Lirin realized that I was trying to lock her inside her room, she bit me!"
"Are you all right?" Asked Yaone as she put his arm around her shoulders to help him stand.
"She bit my leg, how does that sound?" Kougaiji and Yaone sweated. "Hey, Kou, was that really necessary? My leg could have been spared!"
Kougaiji sighed.
"Yes, it was. I don't want her around. It's too risky." Both Yaone and he were worried.
Dokugaku left Yaone and scratched Kougaiji's head. "Hey! Lighten up, skinny! We're with you, no matter what—I told you!" he said with a large grin.
"Do what your heart tells you, Kougaiji-sama. We'll follow you!" said Yaone.
Kougaiji looked each one of them. They had gone too far to go back. He nodded and laid his hands on the huge door. It opened with a creak.
Inside the room was one thing. On the opposite side, in a wall, among ropes and seals, there she was.
Rasetsunyo.
Kougaiji's one and only true mother.
Right beneath her feet, there was a large piece of fabric, hiding something. Kougaiji stood in front of it. Yaone and Dokugaku took their own places to the right and left of him. He took a deep breath and let it go out slowly. 'Mother… soon you'll be free. Whatever it takes.'
"So… let's start!"
He took the fabric away, revealing what was beneath it.
"OI! OI OI OI OI OI OI OI! LET ME OUT! OI!" She pounded her door with her strong little fists. She was mad. The tanned little blond youkai girl was mad. She also had two red marks on her right cheek. Her clothes consisted of a short, white Chinese-like blouse, light green trousers missing the right leg and a black jacket settled below her shoulders.
Lirin.
"Dokugaku! This ain't funny! Open the door!" Lirin was hitting her door for about a quarter of an hour. Since Dokugaku locked her in her room. She thought her situation sucked.
The sound of her hitting the door echoed through the entire corridor where her room was. Someone was walking towards her door. It was Ni with his rabbit.
Once he heard all the noise Lirin was making, he smirked.
"Oh, the kids nowadays. They're making so much noise." He made his way to her door holding his doll so that it seemed like the rabbit was about to open the door.
At the same time, Lirin ran to the other side of her room. 'Okay, here goes nothing!' she thought. She began to run towards her door.
Ni reached her door.
Lirin jumped.
CRAAAAASH!
"YAAAAAAAAHHH!"
The door flew with Ni still behind her and smashed against the corridor wall, with Ni still behind it.
"Kya! Damn! Why the hell did they lock me in! ONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-CHAAAAAAAAN! WHERE ARE YOU?" And she ran to the elevator, knowing that if there was one place her brother might be, was the room where Rasetsunyo was.
The door, still stuck on the wall, begun to slowly slide down. Revealing a flat Ni.
"What the…?" a female voice was heard. It was a woman with short black hair, wearing a white robe and large glasses before brown eyes.
Hwan.
"Hmph… serves you well, pervert." she began to walk away, but stopped suddenly. 'Wait! Could this mean…?'
Kougaiji had revealed what was below the fabric. A huge crest in the shape of a pentagram inside a circle, with kanji all around. He was standing to the one of the edges, while Yaone and Dokugaku were in front of the other two. Right between the other two was Rasetsunyo.
Kougaiji started chanting.
" Om no kya ta rei ya watsu…" and so on. (A/N: You really don't expect me to write down the whole mantra here! I mean, who knows who's going to see my fic!) Slowly, the pentagram began to glow with a golden light. An aura started to rise, making their hair and clothes fly. At that moment, all the three of them crouched down onto the circle.
"…rutsu nai EN!" Kougaiji ended the mantra. From the middle of the pentagram a huge ray of golden light, brighter than the rest of the pentagram, rose up, like a door had been opened. Kougaiji's eyes glimmered.
'Ding!'
The elevator reached the second basement and the door opened. Lirin got out.
"Onii-chan? Are you here?" then she saw the golden light coming from the opened door.
The wind was blowing madly now. From the ray poured thousands of tiny stars. Kougaiji and the others were smiling in excitement. Things were going well.
And then, everything changed.
'DONG!'
It was like a gigantic gong had sounded, echoing through the room.
The golden light became red.
"What…?" Dokugaku was confused.
"What's going on?" Yaone was anxious.
But Kougaiji was terrified. He knew what was happening.
"Huh?" Lirin was running towards the door when she saw the golden light turn red.
She was running as fast as she could.
"SHIT! GO AWAY! NOW!" Yelled Kougaiji to the others. They began to take their hands away from the circle.
She reached the door.
The red ray changed direction and led towards them.
She saw inside.
No sound.
Just blood.
From her brother's chest.
From her sister's heart.
From her oldest brother's head.
The blood dancing in the air, in front of her eyes.
Her pupils just a thin sliver.
Her scream was covered by the sound of the lightning.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
And it began to rain.
In the darkness, eyes opened. Thin, large eyes bleeding red light from their pupils. In the darkness of a gigantic cage they opened. In the darkness of the being's gigantic cage they opened onto a different world. In this world, deep inside Gyumaoh's daughter they opened...
After 5000 years, they were seeing again...
SHE was seeing again…
And it was raining.
It was raining while the funeral was done. And when she was left alone, the rain poured on her.
Right in front of their graves.
Nothing moved.
"Onii-chan… Yaone… Doku…" a whisper without meaning.
To be continued...
Hitotsu hidotsu omoidaseba
subete wakatte ita ki ga shite ita no ni.
Iroaseta kotoba wa
boku no sugu soba ni oite atta.
Kotae no denai yoru to
hitohira no nukumori to
haruka kanata no akogare to
tada sore dake wo kurikaeshi boku wa ikite iru.
Kono ryute ni kakaete iru mono
toki no shizuku.
Sotto nigishimete wasureta kioku
Nakushita Kotoba.
Hmm... What will Lirin do now? Let's see!
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Greece out!
