Warau Kisetsu

by: yumeneko

Chapter 11: Rewind

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Hibiemi looked at the music box set before her. The tune was very familiar. She could have heard it in those nights when she was still young. The soft music filling the moonlit room, and the visions of a blond boy looking through his window at the sleeping brunette on the other side.

"Azayaka na hibi... Vivid days..." Hibiemi smiled, "Until that letter came..."                                                         

She heard soft footsteps come into her territory.

"Are you me?" Hibi's hushed voice asked.

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The sweet melody played in Hakkai's ears, drawing him into the strange room. The rest of the Sanzo-ikkou followed him.

Hakkai saw a glint of gold.

"Hibi-chan!" Hakkai called out, but the voice that answered wasn't the young energetic voice of his sister, instead, it was that voice... from those memories of 500 years ago... Kanan... it was her necklace... that cross-shaped pendant... A tear fell from his eye... The right one.

"Gono... Is it you?"

"Ka... nan..." Hakkai felt frozen as the brunette maiden wrapped her arms around him.

"I've been waiting, Gono... So long... These five hundred years are too long to bear... Ne, let's go home, Gono..." Kana whispered as she looked into Hakkai's green eyes.

Hakkai paused.

Kana's eyes were green. Not the energetic brown that gave life to Hibiemi. But, remembering those times when his sister's smile faded, he could have sworn that her eyes became these eyes... Kanan's eyes...

Unknown to him, Homura was right behind this Kanan...

"ABUNAI, HAKKAI!" Sanzo pointed his gun at Homura, but Gojyo held him back in a close embrace.

"Sanzo, if you want Hakkai to be safe, stay away from this, it's his problem..." Gojyo said in Sanzo's ear. Sanzo drew back as he fell into Gojyo's embrace. The gun dropped from his hand and slid across the floor.

"Saa... Tenpou... Just remember how much you loved this woman... These memories as Hoshizora Hakkai will no longer exist... All you will have will be her. And she's all that you need..." Homura tempted Hakkai.

Just at the moment, Kougaiji's team worked their way to reopen Homura's doors.

Soft footsteps fell across the floor. The small sound of tears falling was heard by all. Sanzo heard his gun being picked up from the floor.

"You like her better, ne, onii-chan... You're trying to forget me... I guess you also hated me... I don't think you'll even hear me..." Hibiemi stepped into the light. It was her who was crying, and it was her who picked up the gun. She pointed the gun at Hakkai who didn't hear anything.

The door fell as Kougaiji's team rushed in. They stopped dead in their tracks. Tears were streaming down Hibiemi's cheeks as she pointed the gun at her own brother.

"Dame da, Hibi!" Gojyo called out the young brunette.

"Urusai! Ususai!" Hibiemi wailed as she backed away, "This Kanan... This woman... These memories of 500 years past... She is me... She'll disappear with me... I just want this world to be happy... This world hates me... But it loves Kanan... There's nothing I can do but disappear with her! Why the fucking hell did Kami-sama make me when everyone hates me?? I'll just go away... There is no Kami-sama with me..."

"Sanzo... I found this in the school vault... Can you try to do something with this?" Kougaiji handed Sanzo a sutra... The evil sutra.

Sanzo held the sutra in his hands. The memories of 500 years past started to flow though his mind.

Kanan has died... This Kanan is just an illusion...

Sanzo realized what would have to happen. But it was nearly too late. As he gave to command to destroy the illusion. Hibiemi destroyed herself...

"Lirin-chan! Don't look!" Goku shielded Lirin's eyes, "It's too bloody! It's too painful to look at!"

"HIBI-CHAN!" Hakkai broke away from his illusion. His sister was bleeding badly. The wound was extremely deep and seemed like it would never stop until Hibiemi would disappear. Hibiemi's blood pooled around her. Hibiemi's brown eyes slowly shifted to green as her brother cradled her in his arms.

"Sa... yo... na... ra... onii-chan... The world could be happier with… out… me…" Hibiemi smiled as she closed her eyes and fell into that abyss.

Enraged, Sanzo walked up to Homura, "Kono yarou! You've brought nothing but pain into this world! Why! Are you trying to make us suffer?!?"

"Easy there, Konzen..." Homura stared coldly at him, "I was just getting rid of the extras..."

"How dare you call Hibi-chan an extra!" Gojyo yelled at him, "She was the one who brought us all together in the first place!"

"How can you prove that? She was the cause of Hakkai's mother's death, she was the reason why Hakkai became melancholy."

"And she was the one who made me smile." Hakkai whispered through his anger, "If she was never born, I would have never met Sanzo. I would have never met Goku. I wouldn't have so many friends! I'll kill you, you bastard!"

"Easy there, Hakkai... We all want to kill him." Sanzo smiled at the angered brunette, "Bye, bye..."

Sanzo wrapped Homura in the sutra as Kougaiji, Gojyo and Hakkai attacked all at once, defeating this so-called 'god'.

Out of the abyss... Ni Jen Yi appeared and picked up Hibiemi's dead body, "Oh... What a waste... And of course... This girl doesn't just have one life..."

"Nani?" Hakkai turned around in shock.

"This girl is the Wind element. She can't just die in vain. These lives in her are all past lives. Those lives are like fuel to her. Once all those past lives would disappear, she'd just live one life like any other normal girl." Ni explained, "If you want, I could delete all her past lives."

"No. Don't. If that's what Hibi is, I don't want her to change." Hakkai smiled, "There's only one sister I shall never ever do incest on. And I won't have another sister either. And if I ever yearn for sex, I can always turn to Sanzo... ne?"

Sanzo nodded in acceptance, "Look..." The wounds on Hibiemi started to heal. The new life was taking over. Hibiemi opened her eyes.

"Onii-chan... Is this heaven?" She murmured. Hakkai picked her up and held her tight.

"Okaeri nasai, imouto..."

"Yamete yo, onii-chan!"

Now, that's the Hibiemi I know... And that's the Hibiemi I will have to put up with for the rest of my life...

~End Chapter 11~