Title: Sapphire Eyes and Amethyst Ones
Author: Sapphire-Amethyst
S.A.: I'm bored outta my mind here!
Shurei: Just think, you can spend lazy times finishing this fic.
S.A.: Hai, hai!
Sanzo: Hurry up. I wanna leave this pathetic place!
S.A.: Because you said that, I'm going to take longer! It'll be a long time before I can finish this fic, after all…
Gojyo: Nice work, selfish monk…
Sanzo: cocks gun What'd you say, redhead?
Gojyo: Nothing, nothing! Whispers Blondie…
BANG! BANG! Everybody begins to run out of the room, avoiding Sanzo's bullets and being chased by the wild monk himself
S.A.: You had to hit the jackpot, didn't you, ero kappa!
Gojyo: All right! All right!
Hakkai: Ahahaha…Guess Sanzo's grumpiness has reached its limit…
Goku: Good work, ero kappa!
Shurei: Stop talking and just run!
Ron: Why'd I get into this mess!
Kurogame: Anyone, stop Sanzo!
S.A.: Okie, okie! ducks to avoid a bullet I don't own Gensomaden Saiyuki, or its characters! I only own Ryuu Naoru! 1…2…3…Here we go! steps back to where Sanzo is and risks her life to stop the chaos
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Chapter 10: Poison
"S-Sanzo, w…wait!" Naoru's body was able to release itself from the bindings of nervousness and guilt after a few moments of watching Sanzo's figure getting smaller and smaller. She didn't want to discriminate Sanzo's race, she was just thoroughly annoyed by Sanzo's being such a nosy rebel. She ran after him. "G-gomenasai…!"
"Urusai!" Sanzo's voice growled back at her. Naoru immediately stopped chasing the monk, scared of Sanzo. She stared at the his retreating figure for a long time. She hadn't wanted to hurt Sanzo's feelings by discriminating his race. But now he didn't even want to talk to her.
Naoru decided to follow the monk silently back to the camp. As she was starting to walk, however, her instincts took control of her and she ran, leaping and taking down Sanzo's body, much to the surprise of the sun-haired man.
"What the hell are you doing!" Sanzo roared as he rolled over to see Naoru's eyes glowing a bright blue and her hands holding her bow, which apparently had been used already. The blond monk turned his head to the left to look at what Naoru was glaring, which was a low-class youkai, an arrow sticking out from his chest, slowly disintegrating into nothing after emitting a loud shriek.
Sanzo stared from the place of the enemy to Naoru, while the glow in the female youkai's eyes faded, a sigh coming out of her lips while she gave a small smile at him. "Gomenasai," she said, and got off of him. "I had to do that." She stood up and faced the place where the youkai once stood; Sanzo did the same. "Umm…I think there are a lot more…" Immediately, all around them, hundreds of pairs of eyes appeared, followed by the emergence of the whole of the youkai.
"Sanzo! Naoru!"
The two looked around to see Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo running toward them. "Are you two all right?" Hakkai asked when he and the other two were able to reach the monk and the ice youkai.
Sanzo merely grunted while Naoru answered, "Yes…"
Hakkai smiled and looked at the youkai surrounding them.
"So…" Gojyo started, looking at the east where the sun was beginning to rise. "Exercise first thing in the morning, huh?"
"Yosha!" Goku exclaimed, summoning his nyoibou. "This is going to be fun!"
Sanzo again grunted as he cocked his gun, aiming at a random youkai and pulling the trigger, planting a bullet in that youkai's head. This signaled the other youkai to attack, as well as the Sanzo-ikkou.
A few seconds later, Gojyo shouted, "Oi, Goku! How many have you killed?"
"Twenty!" Goku answered back, beating a youkai with his staff. "And that was the twenty-first!"
Gojyo laughed loudly, kneeing a youkai in the stomach. "Too bad, saru! That was my twenty-seventh!"
"Mou!" Goku exclaimed. "I am not a saru! I'm going to beat you!" Gojyo only laughed.
"Maa, maa…" Hakkai cut in. "This contest of yours has gotten me, too." He kneed a youkai "Unfortunately for the other players, that was my thirty-second."
"Mou, Hakkai!" Goku exclaimed.
"Oi, oi, Hakkai! Leave some for us!" Gojyo shouted.
"You certainly are becoming mean, Hakkai," Sanzo shot a youkai.
Naoru was watching her companions beat up every enemy in the place while she killed some. Sanzo seemed to have regained his good mood back, and she knew it was because his friends had come. Naoru smiled despite the sad feeling that once Sanzo sees her again, his foul mood would come back. She wished she could lighten his mood, like what the others could do. She was starting to feel out of place.
A few more minutes later, the place was then empty except for the four guys and the lone woman.
"Whew! That was a good exercise, ne?" Gojyo asked, wiping his forehead with the back of his hand.
"Kougaiji should send more of them," Hakkai recommended. "It lets us start the day with more color."
"I'm hungry!" whined Goku, making a vein pop in Sanzo's forehead…again.
"You're always hungry," Gojyo answered. "Bakasaru."
"I'm not a monkey, ero kappa!" Goku retorted.
"No matter what you say, you're still a saru, saru!" Gojyo answered back, hitting the boy.
"Maa, maa…" Hakkai cut in, raising his hands in a defending position.
"Anyway, let's go back, guys," Gojyo said, throwing his arms behind his head as he turned around and started for the campsite. Everyone else but Naoru followed, until Hakkai stopped and turned. "Coming, Naoru-san?" Behind him, Sanzo's figure stopped, too.
Naoru faked a smile, answering, "I'll follow."
Hakkai smiled, "All right. Be sure to get back early. We'll only eat breakfast and it's back to the road again." Naoru nodded, and he left.
As she watched the four men disappear into the shadow of leaves of the trees, she tried hard not to drop to her hands and knees, until her head ached so much and her eyes blurred she did so.
Her hands trembled, her whole body did so. She lifted her right hand to support her head by the forehead, while the free one supported her on the ground. Shoot! she thought, The poison!
Then she removed her hand from her forehead and felt for something thin, long, and shiny sticking from her left upper arm. Her face, which was already contorted and sweating, grimaced a bit more as she pulled out the venom-containing needle. Baka no youkai… she thought bitterly. The poison-filled needle had been aimed for Sanzo.
"K'so…" she muttered quietly, trying to stand up, but failing miserably. Then she went to smell the poison, and smelled the air. An herbal plant for the poison was nearby, luckily. Now, if she could only get there without fainting…
She tried to stand up again, but her knees buckled again. She cursed to herself and growled. I have to get up…
Luckily, she did. And she started slowly walking for the herbal plant, not using her eyes, for they were getting blurry, but her ability to smell, a trait she got from having canine blood in her.
Why hadn't she told the guys? She didn't want them to fuss over her, though she was sure only Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo would. Sanzo was too cold-hearted,she hated to admit.
She kept holding onto the branches and trunks of trees, the smell of the herbal plant getting stronger. At the same time, though, her body was becoming more and more like lead, and she was afraid she wouldn't get there on time. All she had to do was take a leaf and eat it, then everything would be all right.
Finally, Naoru knew that the plant was there in front of her a few feet away, but she also knew the poison had already spread completely over her body. With a last effort, she weakly lunged for the plant getting a hold of a leaf and plucking it. She put it in her mouth and started chewing, hoping that the antidote would take effect before she dies. Then she swallowed it, praying that it will work.
She was sitting by a tree, whose shadow the plant was standing on. Naoru felt sleepy. She laid down, and closed her eyes, thinking if she was going to sleep because it was too late, or her body had only gotten tired of fighting off the poison…
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S.A.: O.o Hmm…I guess that's over.
Shurei: NANDA!
S.A.: Just kidding! The hell if I let that finish with only that…that!
Sanzo: Baka.
Shurei: SA's replies:
KiyomoRi: You didn't need to tell me, my dear…I can't believe I made that last chapter sentimental! How could I! It ruins my reputation for being a torture-bringer to you, Ron, Sanzo, and Hiei!
Innocence: sniff No, it's okay. Actually, I'm glad you criticize me on a constructive manner. Thankies for the error you informed me! Arigatou gozaimasu!
i love athrun:umm...okay...? ...Here ya go!
S.A.: Okay, want me to kill Sanzo?
Sanzo-fans: SHI-NE! starts throwing at authoress
S.A.: avoiding thrown junk Oh come on! You know I'd never do that!
Sanzo: smirking arrogantly
Hakkai: Ahahaha…Please R&R!