mmm, got Requiem(full-fleged rant in blog). If the series is that flashy and has that many typos in the subtitles(Golan was Gonou*dies laughing*), I'd rather wait for the dub, even if it's called whatever. Ah..but I cannot the deny the fact Hakkai, Gojyo, Sanzo(*dies*), and Kou sounded absolutly incredible *_*

Ionia - Yes! More pics! Wheee! Most preferably the Sanzo and Goku scene in the prologue here, but as long as it's the saiyuki boys, I'm very very content with any image ^__^

sf - "Just for a little while, and then I'm gonna leave again and make you angst!" "Nooo! Anything but that! Kaaaanaaan!" Aaa, I feel better now ^_^

Kinda funny how I planned this out to be Sanzo-centric..but it's like..not ^^;;


Incarcerated; Rain

Chapter Nine
{Gradually Fading}


Hakkai sighed, wiping the fresh water off the bench behind him before sitting down. He removed his monocle, rubbing at his right eye, " I don't know, Gojyo." Gojyo frowned and did likewise, crossing his legs over and tilting his head towards the sky that was previously crying. Crying for what? Sometimes the planet would cry and he wouldn't even know why.

"What don't you know?"

"Everything."

[Cherry blossoms...]

Gojyo sighed and tilted his head to the side before lifting his upper body. Hakkai choked on his breath as he was pulled close by the closest arm of the half-youkai. Gojyo absently rested his head in Hakkai's hair, watching the sakura blossoms fall.

[falling like rain]

[imprisoned in cherry blossoms]

"Boku wa...sado?"

Gojyo's eyebrows narrowed upward, holding Hakkai tighter in his grasp.

"No... You're not a sadist, Hakkai. That part of you is dead already." 'Isn't that what you said three years ago?'

[incarcerated in rain;]

"...Don't know..really. I don't know what to do, Gojyo."



Sanzo hurt all over. Especially his feet. In fact they were throbbing from pain. He had walked far and halfway across he had closed his eyes..to escape reality? To finally admit to pain. That was not like Genjo Sanzo at all. Sanzo stubbornly shut his eyes again. This was all a dream wasn't it? When he would wake up, he would be back in that stinkin' hotel room and that bakazaru would be hanging over him again as always. In the back of his mind however, he didn't want to open his eyes and admit to being wrong. Sanzo hated it when he was wrong.

'What are you so afraid of? Don't be an idiot!'

The blonde's eyes snapped wide open as a cold touch awaken all the nerves, running down his spinal cord and its branches. Two pairs of violet eyes stared down at him, so bright they may as well had glowed in the dark. Long golden hair glittered around the female who had approached him. He could see the curiousity in her eyes and the golden bangle on her forearm; the two rings that were set upon her necklace, one bigger than the other.

"Who..are you?" He wanted to say actually, 'Who the fuck are you?! What the hell am I doing here?!', but he was too tired and dehydrated. He even had to strain on those three words. The woman removed her hand from his cheek, running a long fingernail to the chakra on his forehead. Sanzo also hated it when he was shaken with surprise.

"....You..."

"You don't remember seeing me, but I know you." She looked like him as well. If she were a male, her voice would be like his, "I've been watching you for some time."

"You..didn't answer..my question, dam-" Sanzo coughed violently, finally noticing the chains around his wrists as they rattled when he reflexsively moved his hands to his mouth..or tried to. The woman caressed the chakra, not paying any attention to Sanzo's obvious lack of water.

"My dear, dear child. I've finally got you back."

[But I never had a family...]

"You'll never leave me again."

Sanzo choked on his breath as the finger penetrated his chakra. He wasn't hurt physcially on the head, but his mind was hurting as much at his body was now. His mind was being invaded again. For what? Why did she need to take his mind over again?

Never leave...

Sanzo blacked out.





"Oi oi! Why the gloomy looks?! We're going aren't we?" Gojyo grinned, an arm slung around a smiling, fake or not, Hakkai's shoulder. Koumyou smiled back, nodding as Hakuryuu flew off the green-claded man's shoulder to turn into a jeep again. Goku blinked in confusion, before looking back at the mountains again. Gojyo frowned.

"Saru! You're such a downer!" Damn, he never thought he would say that one day.

"Aa..Don't call me monkey!" the youkai pouted as the half-youkai just laughed, letting go of Hakkai as Kanan started to walk over to him.


"Gonou..."

"You don't have to say anything, Kanan," Kanan looked away to her feet as Hakkai passed by her.

And for a brief second she knew he was faking that smile again.

Kanan sighed and followed after her brother, catching the sympathetic look from Koumyou. She shook her head and climbed in the back with Gojyo and Goku. The brunette former Sanzo climbed into the front. This scenario was almost familar. Maybe vaguely to be precise. Hakkai looked at Koumyou, too used to the same routine that he was shocked to see an entirely different man sitting there in a Sanzo outfit. He held back his voice from saying, ' Shall we go, Sanzo?' and swallowed it.

"What are you waiting for, Hakkai? Iku zo iku zo!" Goku called over energeticly. The said man smiled bitterly to himself. Goku was like an enigma, especially in this situation. He had his ups and downs(mostly downs in this). And sometimes he would swear the childish youkai was faking his happiness. They had lost Sanzo once before, what made this any different? Hakkai wished he could emphasize with Goku. But wasn't what that conversation with Gojyo was about? Did he truly not care at all?

But Hakkai was too distracted to notice he had already started driving and was turning into a nearby tree. All his nerves reawakened as he swung the wheel in the opposite direction, saving from all from an uncalled for crash.

"Ano..uh..gomen nasai?" The green-claded man laughed nervously as Gojyo groaned, Goku blinked, Kanan caught her breath, and Koumyou smiled again.

"Please, Hakkai, don't do that again."



"'You just couldn't help helping them'? Kanzeon-sama, you just couldn't bear to let them die wasn't it? You had to go down there again and help them, didn't you?"

"..I am the Goddess of Mercy after all, Jiroshin. They cannot die just yet. Now is not the time," Kanzeon lifted her fingers to gently touch her eyelids, murmuring to herself and trailing off on her words "Born with the essence of heaven..."

"Kanzeon-sama...?"



[There go my chains, can't you see them falling?]

Sanzo groaned, lifting his arm to his eyes. The chains were gone. It didn't matter however. It didn't mean he got to go free. His wrists were sore and bloody, his legs still ached, and his head was hurting again like a bitch. His black shirt was ripped in several different places, his jeans loose around his hips. Sanzo grunted, peering with blurry eyes at the bars on the cell.

That woman, Celphia, she gets angry when she doesn't have her way.


("You're going to live here from now on. You're going to stay with me."

"If you're ordering me, I would rather bite my own tongue and die.")


When he woke up, he was in this cell, he was given water. But she..she called him Konzen. Why? And she was angry at him too. Really angry. He would be able to handle a woman's rage, but this was different somehow. She was human, wasn't she? He released a low sound, touching over the wound on his stomach that was still sticky and warm with blood.

Fuck, he seriously needed a cigarette.


Kanan gazed behind her, catching sight of the robes, the sutras, the gun, and the fan in the back. He had left without them, Kanan knew they were important. He wouldn't have left without them. That was insane. She looked over to Goku who was sleeping to the side and to Hakkai, who kept his eyes straight on the dirt and blood path.

Did Gonou still hate her? No that couldn't be true. Kanan looked up when Gojyo swung at arm around her shoulders, looking out at the side and avoiding her gaze(she found that weird). She sighed, touching the cross around her neck. She used to believe a cross would protect her. Of course, she found out only a few years ago that wasn't true. And she was pretty sure Gonou didn't want to talk to her now. A cross wouldn't save her from his bitter words either.

[[And slowly they will break down. The first, the most vunerable in his mind]]


All hell broke loose when Hakkai collasped against the wheel.


"GONOU!!"


TBC

This should've been longer. Aa..I had a different scene planned out to be the end, but...no ^^. Longer chapter next time! Promise!