For all of you are wondering if Mako and Goku are gonna get together ... i'm putting it to vote.
Who do you want to see out of *all* the following couples?:

Goku/Mako
Gojyo/Mako
Sanzo/Mako (somehow I don't think this one's gonna be popular ...)

Hakkai/Rei Sanzo/Gojyo =^-^=;;
Goku/Rei Gojyo/Goku =^-^=;;

you can vote twice for two different couples if you want. e-mail me at chocofill@aol.com to vote.
On with chapter 7!

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Rei was no longer in the building. Which could only mean that she had ...
"K'SO!!! She ... REI!!! KIMI WA BAKAAAAAA!!!" Makoto shouted.

She dashed outside with Goku close behind her. As she predicted, the miko was outside trying to
ward off the attacking youkai, using fudas, without the powers of Mars.
"K'so! Shimatta! Ch'k'so! Kisama! Merde! Verdamt! Yob tuvoyo mat! Fuck! Shit! Bastards!
Bloody hell!" the Senshi of Jupiter cursed, "JUUPITAAA KURISUTAAA POWAA! ... MAEKU AUPPU!!!"

Rei watched as the girl who claimed to be her friend transformed. Something familiar tingled in
the back of her mind as Sailor Jupiter came into existance.
"Seiraa ... Juupitaa ... " she whispered in awe, then shrugged, "Doushite nai? MAASU
KURISUTAA POWAA! ... MAEKU AUPPU!!!"

The miko felt the comfortable embrace of the flames as they wrapped around her, felt the rush of
raw power and energy that came with the transformation, and remembered.
"Juupitaa! ... Oaku ... REBORUSHION!!!"
"Maasu! ... Furamu ... SUNAIPAA!!!"

The combined attacks met each other mid-air and combined to make electric leaves with veins of
fire. They shot at the attacking scorpion creature and hit it head on. It screamed in pain and
another came out of nowhere, attacking for its twin, extending claws and lashing out with a
poisonous tail.
"K'so!" Goku hissed as he jumped away to avoid the tail, "NYOI-BO!"

The ornamented priest's staff appeared in his hand.
"Extend!"

The weapon extended so the earth youkai could attack from a safe distance away. And attack Goku
did, with a fervor, though it did not do much.
"We need Sanzo, damnit!" Makoto shouted, stating what only she and Goku knew to be
obvious.
"Sanzo?! As in, The Sanzo?!" Mars asked, her miko side getting the better of her.
"Hai, hai," Goku yelled at back at her from where he was, impatiently, "Genjou ... the
... glorious ... monk ... Sanzo!"

His sarcastic sentence was broken by attacks and retreats. Jupiter and Mars were doing a fairly
good job of finishing off one scorpion between them, but by the time they finished, Goku would be
shishkabobed.
"We can only attack and hope for the best," Mars yelled, "And try not to get too many
civilians involved!"

Makoto and Goku nodded, not wasting their breath as they jumped from building to building to
avoid the swinging tails. Windows broke and glass fell down like a chinking, shiny shower.
Bricks and stone crumbled as walls caved in. Both youkai were attacking from different
directions, the three teens could not hold them off for much longer, and they all knew that.
Goku finally had to pause to catch his breath in a doorway. While he did, the Senshi tried to
distract the scorpions, but they could only handle one or they would be killed. The other
scorpion had a lock on Goku's position, but the earth youkai did not notice it.
"K'so! GOKU!!! ABUNAI!!!" Jupiter shouted.

She watched in horror, between jumps away from the scorpion she was attacking, as the poisonous
stinger of the other tail shot at her friend at an alarming speed.
"IIEEEEEEE!!! YAAAAMEEEETEEEEEE!!!"

Goku finally looked up and watched the tail that meant his death with wide eyes. He was trapped
between the tail and the door, and seemed stupified as he watched the tail come closer. Suddenly
a blur knocked him over and a gunshot sounded. The fatially wounded scorpion screeched.
"Oh, shut up and die," Sanzo's emotionless voice snapped.

A blast of chi came from out of nowhere and the other scorpion joined its twin in the great ever
after. Jupiter started slowly inching away, pulling Rei with her ... until she bumped into
something. That something turned out to be Hakkai. She had kept her eyes rivited on Sanzo and
had not noticed that the half-youkai had taken the opportunity to sneak up on her.
"I wouldn't leave just yet," he grinned at her, "It'll make it worse, ne?"

While Sanzo called upon his sutra to make sure that both scoprion-youkais were indeed dead, Goku
tried to force his blurred vision to clear so he could see *what* had knocked him down. Whatever
it was had a lot of hair.
A lot of red colored hair.
Held up by a blue colored band, which belonged to a very familiar body.
"Gojyo! What the hell're you doin' here?! You could have -- "

Goku's rant was cut short when he realized that his friend was unconscious, yet again, and could
not hear him. The boy sighed and wiggled his way out from under the dead weight, as gently as
possible.
And he did this for me ... Gojyo, kimi wa baka! We both could have been killed ... but
you still tried to save me ... maybe you aren't so bad, after all.

Sanzo watched Goku stroke Gojyo's hair, while the half-breed lay unconscious in his lap, with
narrowed eyes. Makoto and Rei stood by Hakkai, one looking sorry and guilty, the other just
looking confused. Both had de-transformed quickly, and the civilians had no idea who they had
been hardly five minutes ago.
"Ikuyo ... " Sanzo ordered, going to pick up Gojyo, "I'll yell at you later, when we get
back to the inn and you've showered." Baka-tachi ... don't ever make me worry about you again.

Hakkai looked after Sanzo, watching with slightly narrowed eyes and a thoughful expression. Then
he smiled slightly and shook his head, almost as if he had heard the monk's thoughts. With a
sigh, he put one hand on Makoto's shoulder and the other on Rei's, leading them back to the inn.
Makoto looked back at the earth youkai and noticed he was not moving.
"Goku! Come on, I'm not getting yelled at alone!" she called.

The boy blinked as if coming out of a trance.
"Hai, hai. Coming!"

And the group trudged after their leader, each knowing they would be yelled at, but none wanting
to hear it.
"Maybe we should have waited ... " Makoto muttered, "Gomen, Goku."
"Iie. Don't be, Makoto. The same thing would have happened, even if we hadn't. Shimpai
nai, ne?" he responded cheerfully.
"Besides, when he pulls out the gun, I'll be there to step in," Hakkai interjected, "So
he can't do anything to you."
"Except get us in our sleep," the Senshi of Jupiter muttered.

Rei looked horrified.
"He wouldn't do that!"
"Oh yes he would," Goku grinned, "Trust us, we know him better than you do."
"Demo ... he's ... "
"Sanzo? He's also an alcoholich and a chain smoker ... he has no problems about pulling
his gun on someone."

~Owari, chapter 7~

Eh ... one of my shorter chapters, isn't it? It's also at a fairly strange place to end, ne?
Gomen nasai, minna-san ... I promise I'll have more for you next time! I just need to think of
ideas. =^-^=;;