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Lady Ami: You know they're no match against me…

Me: You're not even supposed to know that!

Lady Ami: Why not write up a nice love story for me?

Me: You already had enough scenes! This whole story is about you!

Lady Ami: There can never be enough of me!

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The awkward silence filled the small room as Lila wiped a tear away from her eye. Her tale has ended, long ago, and both Sanzo and Gojyo looked at Lila in awe. Stunned at how her tragic story had unfolded, they both could not force a word out. Even Sanzo furrowed his eyebrows in concern and disregarded his cigarette.

"So yeah, that was it…" Lila said as she stood up and walked towards a cupboard.

"I-I'm sorry… I had no idea…" Gojyo stuttered as he messed with his hair.

"It's fine, don't talk about it anymore. Here, drink this." Lila commanded as she took out two vials of acid green liquid. There was no hot bubbling smoke, but just a certain kind of rainbow air that floated around the top of the vial.

By instinct, the both boys refused to even touch the vial; it looked like a dishwashing liquid, or something you would give to your sick cat.

"Do you want to save Goku, or not?" Lila asked impatiently and huffed.

After that sentence was said, Sanzo grabbed the vial and downed the green liquid without hesitation. Gojyo followed suit, and soon enough, both of them were on the floor grabbing their stomachs. Sanzo and Gojyo could feel the hot green liquid starting to bubble in their stomach, and passing through their veins quickly. Their muscles seemed to be expanding, stretching out their limit, as their chest starts to harden up, and making it too difficult to breathe.

"W-What…" Sanzo uttered out of breathlessness.

"Do not worry, it will pass soon," Lila said with a wave of her hand and walked towards her cupboard once again.

Both boys were left panting on the floor, recovering from the pain they had just experienced. Sweating till the floor was stained, they each tried getting up, but to no avail. Their muscles wouldn't budge and their feet wouldn't obey. Sanzo glared at Lila angrily, trying to figure out what the hell she was doing to them.

Lila brought out a black box and placed it on the table. Opening it, she brought out an item wrapped in a leather bag. A gun, she held in her hand, as she pointed it to both Sanzo and Gojyo.

"Lila… I-I thought you were on our side?" Gojyo muttered out within bouts of gasps of air.

"I am, and I'll always be, do not worry, this is for your own good, boys." Lila said as she gave a smirk and leaned forward to point the gun at Gojyo's chest.

"What the fuck… Lila, you said you wanted to save Goku!" Sanzo cried out angrily, shocked at her betrayal.

"I do, who ever said that I changed my mind? On second thought, I think I'll shoot both of you together!" Lila said happily as she retrieved another gun from the black box.

Sanzo and Gojyo looked at each other in the shock of being betrayed. They should have never trusted Lila so easily… She was, after all, part of NESS.

"I'm sorry…" Sanzo said and looked at Gojyo.

"I'm sorry too," Gojyo replied with tears forming in his eyes. "I never wanted it to end this way…"

They both shut their eyes tight as Lila came over with the two guns and pointed each of it directly at their hearts. She gave a smile of pride and kissed both boys on their foreheads.

"Be strong, and courageous, after all, that's what got you both so far."

With that sentence, Lila fired both guns right into the core of their bodies.

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Hakkai looked around impatiently as Kogaiji prepared guns and the rest of the weapons in his secret room at his house. Kogaiji discharged Hakkai a few hours ago, and brought him to his big house that was complete with an indoor swimming pool and a pet dog. Hakkai wasn't one to be impatient, but when it comes to saving his two friends, he didn't want to be too late.

Kogaiji armed himself, before arming Hakkai, whose body seemed to take the weight of the armory very well, in fact, it seemed pretty light to Hakkai.

"Wow, for a doctor to be keeping these…" Hakkai commented as he stroked the guns.

"Well, we never know when Lady Ami will attack me out of sudden anger, do we?" Kogaiji asked as he chuckled and put a few grenades in his pouch.

"Do we really need so many weapons?" Hakkai asked with a frown. He didn't like the idea of killing, but when angered, he could easily kill anyone in his sight.

"The answer is yes, if you want to go up against NESS, my dear patient." Kogaiji said with a slight smile as he walked into the kitchen, with Hakkai following.

Kogaiji threw a can of beer to Hakkai, who easily caught it.

"Nice reflexes," Kogaiji commented and grinned. "You don't want to be totally sober while entering NESS headquarters. Bottoms up!"

Kogaiji and Hakkai both opened their beer cans and emptied the can in one big gulp. They both burped a loud one after that, and Kogaiji patted Hakkai on the back.

"Not too bad for a boy who I thought was a sissy, eh?" Kogaiji said and laughed.

"What the- Excuse me!" Hakkai demanded.

Kogaiji laughed and walked out of the house and into the garage. He loved teasing people, maybe to liven up their mood before things get serious. Starting up his car, he motioned Hakkai to get in. The engine roared as they sped out of the house and down the road.

Hakkai observed the sun set in the beautiful open horizon... The clouds were shaded a light pink colour and a tint of orange covered it well.

"This may be the last sunset I see today…" Hakkai thought to himself.

"What's got you thinking?" Kogaiji asked as he glanced at Hakkai quickly before concentrating on the steering wheel, driving quickly past the busy city.

"I wonder… I wonder how Gojyo and Sanzo are…" Hakkai murmured, his chin resting on his palm.

"Do you think they're dead?" Kogaiji replied straight-forwardly.

"I would feel it, right? If something happened to them?" Hakkai questioned himself.

Kogaiji laughed a bit and continued driving, edging a right turn into Elizabeth Street. It seemed to have a dark aura around it, at least in Hakkai's eyes. The trees shaded the tall buildings that seemed to tower high above Hakkai and Kogaiji. The car drove past the buildings quickly and suddenly halted at a stop at street 25 when Hakkai shouted 'Stop!'.

"What's the matter? We're almost there! It's only a street down… Why, chickening out now?" Kogaiji asked as he reversed and parked his car.

"N-No… I saw Sanzo's car!" Hakkai exclaimed and got out of the car quickly before running towards the black and sleep BMW.

Kogaiji exited the car after him and stood behind Hakkai's skinny figure.

"I know I have a spare key somewhere… Sanzo left it with me before he left… Ah! Here it is!" Hakkai said and pulled out a key from his pocket as he unlocked the car and got in the driver's seat, searching around the compartments.

"I knew it," Hakkai stated as his hands held onto a white piece of paper.

The note that Gojyo and Sanzo left behind was now being read by Hakkai. He furrowed his eyebrows as his eyes picked up each and every word. Biting his bottom lip, unable to take it any further, Hakkai banged his palms onto the honk, causing a loud sound to emit from the car.

"What the fuck, Hakkai? Do you want to alert everyone here!" Kogaiji cried out loud before pulling Hakkai out of the car and slamming the door shut.

A slap sound was heard, as Hakkai grabbed his stinging cheek, tears rolling down his cheeks angrily. Anger grew in his heart second by second, threatening to turn him into the monster of anger that was almost never shown. Hakkai grabbed Kogaiji by his collar and slammed him onto the fence and shook angrily.

"I want to find them, Kogaiji… I WANT TO FIND THEM!" Hakkai shouted angrily before releasing Kogaiji.

"And we're doing that right now, you idiot! Anger's not going to help you now!" Kogaiji retorted before brushing himself off.

Hakkai said nothing and wiped away his tears. He couldn't believe how little faith Sanzo and Gojyo had in themselves. Had they not even thought about returning to him, reconciling their friendship? Thoughts ran through Hakkai's mind as he raced up the street to the headquarters, with Kogaiji guiding him. The wind brushed across Hakkai's face fiercely as he approached the foreboding door of NESS which was wide open.

"This is odd… It shouldn't be open…" Kogaiji stated and walked through. "It seems like the alarms are switched off, too."

"I don't care… Just get me to Sanzo and Gojyo now!" Hakkai said and took a big step into the room.

The pair took off down the flight of stairs, chasing down the same path that Sanzo and Gojyo once took.

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Author's note: I was contemplating whether to leave a cliffhanger, or just continue… And I decided to continue! So yay me!

The bullet rebounded from their muscles, causing a hard, bruising pain, but it's definitely something better than a real bullet wound. The pain arched towards every part of their bodies, and all of a sudden, they were able to move again. Sanzo and Gojyo stood up, both bewildered at what just happened. They looked at each other in confusion, before cornering Lila angrily, bombarding her with questions.

"What the hell just happened?"

"What did you do to us!"

"Why are you doing this?"

Lila gave a cheeky smile before bursting out in laughter, pointing at Gojyo and Sanzo's stunned faces. She reached out to Sanzo's chest and pinched a little at his chest muscles.

"My, looks like the potion worked well on you." Lila said and snorted before walking over to the seat and sitting down, patting the chairs beside her. "Come sit, I'll explain everything."

"Look, we're not falling for anymore of your tricks! I demand an explanation immediately!" Sanzo said angrily, his eyes widened.

"Fine, but I'll only explain if you sit down and calm yourselves down." Lila argued and continued patting the chairs beside her.

Gojyo and Sanzo had no choice but to walk over and sit down on the chairs. They stared at Lila angrily, contemplating whether to kill her or not.

"The green liquid that I gave you earlier on was the human advancement potion, made by NESS. No ordinary human would ever be able to surpass NESS guards. So the liquid you drank advanced your strength, speed, and reflexes and also gave you bullet proof skin. This potion is kept in the safest of rooms, where no one can easily access it, and only given to the strongest of guards or clones." Lila said with a huge grin on her face, as if she accomplished something huge.

"THEN WHAT'S WITH THE BLOODY GUN!" Gojyo shouted out of frustration.

"Relax, Gojyo-chan, the gun was just to test if your muscles were reacting well to the liquid I gave you," Lila replied.

"And what if it didn't?" Sanzo retorted with an angry glint in his eye. He felt as if Gojyo and he were play toys for this little girl, only that she was 60 years old.

"Then it's too bad," Lila started, "I knew the potion would work anyway, just wanted to give you boys a little scare." She finished and giggled.

Sanzo and Gojyo both stared at Lila, both speechless and not knowing what to say; a part of them wanted to tear her apart for playing around, and another part of them wanted to thank her.

"So we still going to save Goku or not?" Lila asked impatiently and put her hands on her hips.

"Of course!" Sanzo retorted without hesitation.

Gojyo nodded in agreement as he stood up and reloaded his guns. Lila gave a triumphant smile and patted both men on the back before walking to the door.

"Are you ready for this battle?" She asked and gave a piercing stare.

"Definitely," Gojyo replied.

"Then we are ready to go,"

With that, the door swung open, to the same pathway where the pair met this slightly deranged girl.

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YAY! Chapter 11 is done! I didn't have much inspiration lately; until I thought of more menacing things to write about. –giggles- I could've left you guys at a cliffhanger, but I didn't! YAY! Thank you so much for reading this story up to this point, in all honesty, I don't know when it's going to end. So for now, please continue to read and review!