sf - Ah, but cigarette now, booze later ^_^. And since school will be out in like a few days, I shall have more time on my hands to update incarcerated!
Aa, how embarassing was it that I read part of chapter 3 for English ^^;;
'The Distance' by Evan and Jaron is -the- Sanzo and Goku song! I swear to Kannon-sama!
Incarcerated; Rain
Chapter Ten
{Beginning of a Nightmare}
"You love me."
"No I don't."
"You always have."
"I don't know you."
"I'm your mother."
"No...You aren't."
Sanzo chewed on his lower lip as Celphia was literally standing over him. He was too tired to get up. He had too much pain to move. So now this was what he had become? A priest who can't even defend himself? Celphia kicked him in his gut again with those metal tipped boots, staining the leather on her boots with fresh blood. Sanzo didn't bother giving her a reaction.
This made her even more angry.
She kicked him over and over, even in the spots that had begun to bruise and cut. Sanzo's eyes were closed now. Fuck, just let him die already! The blonde woman's hair seemed to flare around her, and her eyes were amethyst daggers. Sanzo didn't care though. Celphia was enraged. But the monk did open his eyes when his side was slashed.
Celphia glared down at him, knocking him over to his stomach as she left the cell and snapped the lock shut. Sanzo groaned, lazily rolling on his back. Gently he prodded the new and old wounds, the scratches, and the bruises that marred his pale skin. Running his fingers against the tatters of his shirt, Sanzo coughed up a small amount of scarlet. He hissed, unable to form any sort of word in his mouth.
She came back within the next few hours.
It didn't seem like she acknowledged all the pain she made him go through
Or it didn't seem like she cared.
Celphia looked back at the locked cell after twenty minutes of being inside. She sighed, fingering the biggest of the two rings on the chain that graced her neck. Petting it with soft pale skin and nails that were a shade of purple like her eyes. Sanzo didn't look at her, only the ceiling. That was all he really looked at most of the time. The blonde woman shook her head, rustling her long billowing hair and walked away in echoing footsteps.
("I -am- your mother.")
("Could've fooled me.")
("You bastard!")
[[Doesn't he know? Why doesn't he believe me?]]
Celphia closed the prison door.
"A thousand for one, just to find you."
Sanzo stayed silent for hours and hours.
Goku bit his bottom lip, watching the other four around the flare of a campfire. He couldn't stayed here! But they were held back when Hakkai was knocked out somehow. Hakuryuu was stabbed against a piece of tree trunk that stuck out. Hakkai had nailed the tree as well, taking a hit to the back of the neck. So now they were here in the middle of God knows what. But Goku wanted to go! He was bouncing all around the camp, ready to run away. But he couldn't abandon Hakkai.
Hakkai was with them though. Sanzo wasn't.
"Oi, baka. If you're thinking of moving on, forget it. I sure as hell don't want to find you dead by the time we get there."
"I'm not going to die!"
"Says who?!"
"Says me!"
"Bakazaru!"
"Ero-kappa!"
"C-
"Please be quiet for Gonou and Hakuryuu," Kanan murmured. Gojyo let his breath release and sighed, muttering a whatever before leaning against the fresh grass. Hakuryuu was too tired to change into jeep so they could get their stuff, so the ground would have to do. A ground with dried blood, but it's something. Koumyou prodded at the fire with a stick, seeming to be lost in thought as his body repeated the same motion over and over. It seemed simple enough. Drive back to the mountains to rescue Kouryuu, but someone has expected this. Was it those eyes he saw? Amethyst irises glaring at him from afar. But it was only a feeling. Yet Koumyou always trusted his instincts.
Sanzo's eyes burned into the dank ceiling. Is this all he was going to be seeing the rest of his life? God, end it now. The blonde slowly moved into a dark corner near the bars, biting at his torn lip. He felt so weak. Like a weak and helpless human. Fuck. Sanzo's lips thinned out. He wasn't that at all. Maybe just this once though... Sanzo let the shadows overtake him, as if to disappear from the world when Celphia came back into the room of cells. Dead to the world. That's what he wished he were right now.
Don't tell the pain get to you. Just let it kill you.
And you'll die a silent death.
"You love me."
"How can I possibly?"
Goku slept in long. Really long, even for him. But he didn't snore or anything. That's why Gojyo was so worried. And Hakkai had just woken up, going on about how he swore he saw a woman who looked like Sanzo. A woman with purple eyes was rare. The only human with purple eyes they knew on the planet was the monk. All the other Buddhist monks would sometimes say Sanzo got his eyes from heaven when he became a Sanzo. But Hakkai said it was weird. She was going on and on about how he was taking Konzen away from her.
("You took Konzen away from me.")
("Who?")
("Don't be an idiot. You know.")
Gojyo sighed as he watched Hakkai rub at his bruised neck. Someone was laughing at this. Someone was-but it probably wasn't who they thought it was.
Later Goku woke up, but he was crying again. Neither of them could remember the last time Goku cried except for when Sanzo disappeared. Gojyo hated it when he cried. Seeing people cry always hurt. Seeing people cry reminded him of -that- time. They all crowded around him as Goku confessed -his- dream. But to Goku it must've been too much like reality. Dreams like to fool people that way.
"Sanzo doesn't want me anymore."
"What are you talking about?"
"He said so himself."
"What?"
"He said so himself. Sanzo. Istudemo reiketsu na no?"
Are you always so coldhearted?
Sanzo's eyes were dull as trimmed purple nails felt over his skin. They were emotionless and a maelstrom of violet as she bent over him and kissed at his tattered lip. Don't look at her. She isn't there. She kissed him again, gently then forcefully, digging her nails into the flesh of his shoulders. Sanzo shut his eyes as a hand moved down over his chest. This isn't happening. It's only a dream. Sanzo sure as hell wished it were only a dream.
[[I broke the final you - Am I a sadist?]]
"Goku, that's not true."
"It is. He told me."
"But Sanzo isn't here."
"He said so."
"Do you have proof it was Sanzo?" Goku blinked at Koumyou who stared at him with dulling eyes. The youkai looked down at the ground as Gojyo shook his head.
"Saru, don't jump to conclusions. It's apparently bad for that empty skull of yours," The half-youkai ruffled the other's hair before walking away to look at the sky. Goku hugged his arms, holding his cape closer to him. Kanan glanced at him, eyebrows lifting as sympathy flooded her emerald irises. She finished the new bandage on Hakuryuu, walking over to the crest-fallen youkai.
"That wasn't all I dreamt about, were it a dream."
Kanan pulled Goku closer to her, "Tell me about it."
"There was a woman with him. She looked like him. The same eyes. The same color hair. She said I was poison to Sanzo. She said I didn't deserve to be with him."
[[ Pieces and pieces. They'll all break ]]
"She said he was better off where he was."
"Let's go."
"Huh?"
"We don't know for sure. Let's go. We'll travel by foot!" To make her point, Kanan stood up and stomped her foot on the ground of dried and fading blood. Goku blinked, before a smile grace his lips, "Yeah!"
"We're going to find Sanzo! And if he wants to stay..well..he'll stay!"
"I don't think Sanzo'll stay anyways," Hakkai smiled, coming back to the group with Gojyo," Sanzo would want to finish the journey first." Kanan smiled, patting Goku on the back, "See, Goku? He'll come back."
Goku nodded, letting the light into his eyes.
Hakkai's eyes softened, remembering the recent conversation with Gojyo.
("It's weird. The saru practically stalks the monk and one dream makes him back down.")
("Goku doesn't know what to do when someone gives him rejection. So he simply breaks down.")
("But Sanzo wouldn't do that.")
("Dreams can feel like reality too, Gojyo.")
It was hard to navigate their path now that the blood was hard to see, but they made it to a large tower by nightfall. It was one of those one tower bulidings, the dark making it seem like those cliché tower of doom in the movies. What bothered them though was that no youkai had attacked them. There were countless youkai before. Were they all wasted back at the hotel? Was that all this person had to offer? Goku was way ahead of the group, already inside. Hakuryuu was able to transform briefly, enabling the others to get things like Gojyo's shaku jou and Sanzo's sutras and gun, since he might be needing them. Goku fingered the Smith and Wesson around his belt. He had to find Sanzo. Where would he be?
"Goku! Wait!" Hakkai ran up to him, "Don't go by yourself. We don't know what's up ahead."
They agreed to split up. Hakkai and Goku would go up the stairs and Gojyo, Koumyou, and Kanan would check the bottom floor. The stairs spiraled around a center pillar, leading to the only other place there could be. The floor at the very top of the tower. The two glared at the wooden door ahead, as if it were a trap. Hakkai took a deep breath and slowly slid open the door. He wasn't ready for this kind of shock.
The room was emitting blue light it seemed. A row of cells to his right, a stone wall to his left. This was like...This was like. Hakkai's emerald gaze darted to the farest cell, noticing the figure curled in the corner. Kanan? No.
Sanzo.
Goku seemed to notice too and ran ahead of Hakkai. As he shouted Sanzo's name, the priest's head tilted ever so slightly. His clothes looked like rags now, except for the arm warmers which stayed in condition. His body was bruised and battered, blood dripped and smeared his skin. Sanzo looked like a nightmare with the scarlet on his skin. A bleeding porcelain doll. Goku pulled at the lock, not even noticing when Sanzo's arm started moving. The lock shattered as soon as Goku noticed the lack of a gun on his belt. He looked up to see Sanzo pointing the barrel at himself.
("This mansion is the beginning of a nightmare." - Vincent Valentine, Final Fantasy VII)
Goku's eyes dilated as Hakkai instinctively stepped forward.
("You're right-")
The gun clicked.
("- this mansion is the beginning of a nightmare" - Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII)
Bang.
[[You're poison to his mind. Poison to his soul]]
TBC
ano, am I using too many quotes? ^^;;
Aa, how embarassing was it that I read part of chapter 3 for English ^^;;
'The Distance' by Evan and Jaron is -the- Sanzo and Goku song! I swear to Kannon-sama!
Incarcerated; Rain
Chapter Ten
{Beginning of a Nightmare}
"You love me."
"No I don't."
"You always have."
"I don't know you."
"I'm your mother."
"No...You aren't."
Sanzo chewed on his lower lip as Celphia was literally standing over him. He was too tired to get up. He had too much pain to move. So now this was what he had become? A priest who can't even defend himself? Celphia kicked him in his gut again with those metal tipped boots, staining the leather on her boots with fresh blood. Sanzo didn't bother giving her a reaction.
This made her even more angry.
She kicked him over and over, even in the spots that had begun to bruise and cut. Sanzo's eyes were closed now. Fuck, just let him die already! The blonde woman's hair seemed to flare around her, and her eyes were amethyst daggers. Sanzo didn't care though. Celphia was enraged. But the monk did open his eyes when his side was slashed.
Celphia glared down at him, knocking him over to his stomach as she left the cell and snapped the lock shut. Sanzo groaned, lazily rolling on his back. Gently he prodded the new and old wounds, the scratches, and the bruises that marred his pale skin. Running his fingers against the tatters of his shirt, Sanzo coughed up a small amount of scarlet. He hissed, unable to form any sort of word in his mouth.
She came back within the next few hours.
It didn't seem like she acknowledged all the pain she made him go through
Or it didn't seem like she cared.
Celphia looked back at the locked cell after twenty minutes of being inside. She sighed, fingering the biggest of the two rings on the chain that graced her neck. Petting it with soft pale skin and nails that were a shade of purple like her eyes. Sanzo didn't look at her, only the ceiling. That was all he really looked at most of the time. The blonde woman shook her head, rustling her long billowing hair and walked away in echoing footsteps.
("I -am- your mother.")
("Could've fooled me.")
("You bastard!")
[[Doesn't he know? Why doesn't he believe me?]]
Celphia closed the prison door.
"A thousand for one, just to find you."
Sanzo stayed silent for hours and hours.
Goku bit his bottom lip, watching the other four around the flare of a campfire. He couldn't stayed here! But they were held back when Hakkai was knocked out somehow. Hakuryuu was stabbed against a piece of tree trunk that stuck out. Hakkai had nailed the tree as well, taking a hit to the back of the neck. So now they were here in the middle of God knows what. But Goku wanted to go! He was bouncing all around the camp, ready to run away. But he couldn't abandon Hakkai.
Hakkai was with them though. Sanzo wasn't.
"Oi, baka. If you're thinking of moving on, forget it. I sure as hell don't want to find you dead by the time we get there."
"I'm not going to die!"
"Says who?!"
"Says me!"
"Bakazaru!"
"Ero-kappa!"
"C-
"Please be quiet for Gonou and Hakuryuu," Kanan murmured. Gojyo let his breath release and sighed, muttering a whatever before leaning against the fresh grass. Hakuryuu was too tired to change into jeep so they could get their stuff, so the ground would have to do. A ground with dried blood, but it's something. Koumyou prodded at the fire with a stick, seeming to be lost in thought as his body repeated the same motion over and over. It seemed simple enough. Drive back to the mountains to rescue Kouryuu, but someone has expected this. Was it those eyes he saw? Amethyst irises glaring at him from afar. But it was only a feeling. Yet Koumyou always trusted his instincts.
Sanzo's eyes burned into the dank ceiling. Is this all he was going to be seeing the rest of his life? God, end it now. The blonde slowly moved into a dark corner near the bars, biting at his torn lip. He felt so weak. Like a weak and helpless human. Fuck. Sanzo's lips thinned out. He wasn't that at all. Maybe just this once though... Sanzo let the shadows overtake him, as if to disappear from the world when Celphia came back into the room of cells. Dead to the world. That's what he wished he were right now.
Don't tell the pain get to you. Just let it kill you.
And you'll die a silent death.
"You love me."
"How can I possibly?"
Goku slept in long. Really long, even for him. But he didn't snore or anything. That's why Gojyo was so worried. And Hakkai had just woken up, going on about how he swore he saw a woman who looked like Sanzo. A woman with purple eyes was rare. The only human with purple eyes they knew on the planet was the monk. All the other Buddhist monks would sometimes say Sanzo got his eyes from heaven when he became a Sanzo. But Hakkai said it was weird. She was going on and on about how he was taking Konzen away from her.
("You took Konzen away from me.")
("Who?")
("Don't be an idiot. You know.")
Gojyo sighed as he watched Hakkai rub at his bruised neck. Someone was laughing at this. Someone was-but it probably wasn't who they thought it was.
Later Goku woke up, but he was crying again. Neither of them could remember the last time Goku cried except for when Sanzo disappeared. Gojyo hated it when he cried. Seeing people cry always hurt. Seeing people cry reminded him of -that- time. They all crowded around him as Goku confessed -his- dream. But to Goku it must've been too much like reality. Dreams like to fool people that way.
"Sanzo doesn't want me anymore."
"What are you talking about?"
"He said so himself."
"What?"
"He said so himself. Sanzo. Istudemo reiketsu na no?"
Are you always so coldhearted?
Sanzo's eyes were dull as trimmed purple nails felt over his skin. They were emotionless and a maelstrom of violet as she bent over him and kissed at his tattered lip. Don't look at her. She isn't there. She kissed him again, gently then forcefully, digging her nails into the flesh of his shoulders. Sanzo shut his eyes as a hand moved down over his chest. This isn't happening. It's only a dream. Sanzo sure as hell wished it were only a dream.
[[I broke the final you - Am I a sadist?]]
"Goku, that's not true."
"It is. He told me."
"But Sanzo isn't here."
"He said so."
"Do you have proof it was Sanzo?" Goku blinked at Koumyou who stared at him with dulling eyes. The youkai looked down at the ground as Gojyo shook his head.
"Saru, don't jump to conclusions. It's apparently bad for that empty skull of yours," The half-youkai ruffled the other's hair before walking away to look at the sky. Goku hugged his arms, holding his cape closer to him. Kanan glanced at him, eyebrows lifting as sympathy flooded her emerald irises. She finished the new bandage on Hakuryuu, walking over to the crest-fallen youkai.
"That wasn't all I dreamt about, were it a dream."
Kanan pulled Goku closer to her, "Tell me about it."
"There was a woman with him. She looked like him. The same eyes. The same color hair. She said I was poison to Sanzo. She said I didn't deserve to be with him."
[[ Pieces and pieces. They'll all break ]]
"She said he was better off where he was."
"Let's go."
"Huh?"
"We don't know for sure. Let's go. We'll travel by foot!" To make her point, Kanan stood up and stomped her foot on the ground of dried and fading blood. Goku blinked, before a smile grace his lips, "Yeah!"
"We're going to find Sanzo! And if he wants to stay..well..he'll stay!"
"I don't think Sanzo'll stay anyways," Hakkai smiled, coming back to the group with Gojyo," Sanzo would want to finish the journey first." Kanan smiled, patting Goku on the back, "See, Goku? He'll come back."
Goku nodded, letting the light into his eyes.
Hakkai's eyes softened, remembering the recent conversation with Gojyo.
("It's weird. The saru practically stalks the monk and one dream makes him back down.")
("Goku doesn't know what to do when someone gives him rejection. So he simply breaks down.")
("But Sanzo wouldn't do that.")
("Dreams can feel like reality too, Gojyo.")
It was hard to navigate their path now that the blood was hard to see, but they made it to a large tower by nightfall. It was one of those one tower bulidings, the dark making it seem like those cliché tower of doom in the movies. What bothered them though was that no youkai had attacked them. There were countless youkai before. Were they all wasted back at the hotel? Was that all this person had to offer? Goku was way ahead of the group, already inside. Hakuryuu was able to transform briefly, enabling the others to get things like Gojyo's shaku jou and Sanzo's sutras and gun, since he might be needing them. Goku fingered the Smith and Wesson around his belt. He had to find Sanzo. Where would he be?
"Goku! Wait!" Hakkai ran up to him, "Don't go by yourself. We don't know what's up ahead."
They agreed to split up. Hakkai and Goku would go up the stairs and Gojyo, Koumyou, and Kanan would check the bottom floor. The stairs spiraled around a center pillar, leading to the only other place there could be. The floor at the very top of the tower. The two glared at the wooden door ahead, as if it were a trap. Hakkai took a deep breath and slowly slid open the door. He wasn't ready for this kind of shock.
The room was emitting blue light it seemed. A row of cells to his right, a stone wall to his left. This was like...This was like. Hakkai's emerald gaze darted to the farest cell, noticing the figure curled in the corner. Kanan? No.
Sanzo.
Goku seemed to notice too and ran ahead of Hakkai. As he shouted Sanzo's name, the priest's head tilted ever so slightly. His clothes looked like rags now, except for the arm warmers which stayed in condition. His body was bruised and battered, blood dripped and smeared his skin. Sanzo looked like a nightmare with the scarlet on his skin. A bleeding porcelain doll. Goku pulled at the lock, not even noticing when Sanzo's arm started moving. The lock shattered as soon as Goku noticed the lack of a gun on his belt. He looked up to see Sanzo pointing the barrel at himself.
("This mansion is the beginning of a nightmare." - Vincent Valentine, Final Fantasy VII)
Goku's eyes dilated as Hakkai instinctively stepped forward.
("You're right-")
The gun clicked.
("- this mansion is the beginning of a nightmare" - Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII)
Bang.
[[You're poison to his mind. Poison to his soul]]
TBC
ano, am I using too many quotes? ^^;;