Dawn of the New Morning: A Gensomaden Saiyuki Fan Fic 18
Author's notes: This is the last chapter. That's it.
I'm so sorry, but I'm really pissed off because this is the third time I rewrote this chapter. It was done, but the first time, my diskette suddenly became unformatted, then the second time my diskette was lost. And now I have no trust in diskettes.
I'm sorry if it's full of crap – please understand that I'm almost sick and tired of writing this chapter all over again.
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People busied themselves with errands and tasks as other people came in and out of the market. His emerald eyes glazing over the items he saw in stalls and stands, his companion's golden ones searching for an item to buy.
"Ne, Hakkai, I'm getting hungry!" Son Goku wailed.
"Goku, Sanzo said not to splurge on you…" Hakkai reminded his companion and himself, staring at the golden credit card in his hands. "But I wonder why the gods never retrieved the credit card."
"I don't care about that, Hakkai!" Goku said, pointing to a stand full of fresh, hot, and newly baked pork buns. "Pork buns pork buns pork buns pork buns!!!" He added, putting on his best puppy-dog-eyes look and turned to the older man. Hakkai laughed and smiled.
"I guess some food wouldn't hurt." Hakkai chuckled as he and Son Goku started to walk to the stall.
"WAII!!!!!!!!! MESHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"Ne, ne, Hakkai…I'm getting hungry and tired all over again…" Goku moaned as he and Hakkai walked further to the market.
"I know. Why don't you go back home? Bring these along with you." Hakkai said, placing two bags of groceries in Goku's arms.
"Eh? A~re?"
Hakkai looked at him with an amused expression on his face. "I'm going further to look for some more things we might need. I'm pretty sure that you and Gojyo would eat certainly a lot more." Goku finally nodded, understanding what he was saying.
"Hai!"
"You do know the way, don't you, Goku?" Hakkai asked the younger one.
"Of course I do! Don't be late – I don't want to wait on dinner too long!" Goku grinned, waving goodbye before running away to their abode down the street.
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She sighed heavily as she placed the groceries down on her new doorstep. She pushed away a stray lock of hair as she looked at the sky, a look of disappointment etched in her eyes. The whole day was almost spent in the market trying to find that thing that Kanzeon ordered her to find. It was a tough task because Kanzeon Bosatsu never told her anything about the 'thing' she had to find, only that 'You'd know it was the one you were searching for when you see it.'
Yaone jumbled in her pockets for the keys for her new home, still looking incessantly to nowhere. She finally grasped the set of keys in her hand and pulled it out of her pocket, jamming it into the keyhole. Disappointed and happy at the same time, she tried to open the door with the key she was holding.
Her purplish-pink eyes strayed down to the key she was holding, finally noticing that it was the wrong one. As she searched for the other key, she remembered her newly found friend she met at the market.
Fukutsuza Naoki was her name, a girl with long, purplish-black hair and blue eyes. She and Yaone met down at the market and became acquaintances right away, with Naoki being so cheerful, noisy…and always hungry. But nevertheless, even though Naoki was Yaone's neighbor, she was still disillusioned about the fact that she had not seen her 'target'.
The wind gently blew across her face, rustling her hair. At that exact moment, she saw a figure stop and look up at the sky, a figure which she had seen not too long ago and missed seeing.
She slowly turned to the direction of the road, seeing someone standing a few meters away from her doorstep. The figure, which was a man, had soft, black-brown hair bouncing along his features as the wind blew across the strands, a monocle hovering over his right eye, which was in the shade of supple forest green. His jade eyes were observing the clouds up above, probably contemplating on what he was doing there.
Her eyes brimmed with tears as she recognized who it was. She smiled a smile of unexplainable happiness as she tried to blink her tears away, only to know that blinking the tears away was a feeble attempt. Her crystalline tears continued to flow down her flushed cheeks as she knew…definitely knew that he was the one she was looking for.
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Cho Hakkai stopped in his tracks and placed his grocery bags down beside his feet. Somehow he had taken a wrong turn as he continued to search for more things in the market. He looked up the sky as he though about how he ended in that quiet, residential lane, pondering on how to come back to their humble abode.
His jade green eyes jerked up at the sound of someone sobbing, holding back tears. Hakkai turned to his left, seeing something that made his eyes widen.
She was there, standing in all her majestic glory as she sobbed uncontrollably, staring so lovingly at him as he stared surprisingly at her. Tears were flowing down her cheeks, same liquid brimming her eyes, blurring her vision. All of a sudden, as he was still standing tranquil in shock, she ran to him, crying as she sprinted up to him as fast as her legs could carry her. In one swift movement she was already in his arms, weeping frenziedly as she buried her face in his neck, taking in his sweet scent.
"Y-yaone?" Hakkai asked in a soft but bewildered tone, his eyes focused on the lady in his arms.
"Yokatta na…atashi wo…ureshii ne…" Yaone murmured through a muffled breath, still crying on Hakkai's shoulder. "I haven't seen you and a long time…"
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Once Yaone calmed down, she and Hakkai entered her home and sat down on the couch. Yaone told Hakkai all about what she saw when she was in heaven, all except for the fact that she knew who Hakkai was in his past life. Hakkai looked at the clock after some time to see it was already a quarter until 5.
"Doumo sumimasen, Yaone-san. It seems that I have to go home before Goku kills me." Hakkai said, laughing softly. He stood up and Yaone followed suit. Hakkai smiled and took her hands in his, leaning down and pressing his lips onto hers. As he drew back, he became satisfied with the flushed look on Yaone's face. "But I promise I'll visit tomorrow."
Yaone could only nod as her sweetheart walked away, throwing a saccharine smile to her direction before leaving her home.
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"**** YOU!!!!" Naoki cursed, glaring at her laptop. "If only this wasn't Togenkyo and I was back at home, you'd explode because of my cussing, you stupid *******, full of ******** computer! AARRGH!!!!" Naoki continued to cuss, probably a vein going to pop any minute. "Why the hell wouldn't you read this stupid diskette?! And now you say it's not formatted?!?!?! Damn, go to hell!!!!!"
Naoki breathed in and out heavily, panting after all the cursing she had done. She was still glaring at her laptop, which had a pop-up window box that said 'Windows could not read from the described material. It may not be formatted'. "I hate you."
Out of the corner of her blue eye, she saw a brunette walk out of her neighbor's house and walk happily out to the market.
"What the…?" Naoki started, then finally realizing who it was. "He he he, going perfectly as planned. Got to tell Fumi-chan is it all right, Fumi-san? and Rei-chan and Raei-chan about this."
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"Right. Now all we have to do is contact Naoki and tell her not to let Kougaiji, Lirin or Dokugakuji catch any glimpse of Yaone or make any contact with her in any way possible, or else we'd be in big trouble." The Goddess of Mercy, Kanzeon Bosatsu, remarked to her guard, Jiroushin. "But it seems that they looked to the dawn of the new morning after all."
"Seems so, Kanzeon Bosatsu-sama." Jiroushin agreed, nodding as he did. "It seems so."
"KANZEON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Oh no…Naoki already knew what I did…hide me."
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Author's notes: I know, Fukutsuza Naoki is I, A. Pikachu. The readers of Raei Dagger's story Remnants of a Shattered Crystal, probably knew it was me. Anyway…I know it's corny, but I had to do something. It's my first time doing a self-insertion fic so please I hope you don't mind. See, I had this great idea for a humor fic and I just had to put it in.
I thank all of you for supporting me all the way, especially to my friends in FF.net! And I consider all of you my friends, yes, you my reviewers! I feel so sorry for ceres17, since she was the 100th reviewer and she didn't leave an e-mail address. So, there's no reward for the 100th reviewer…aww…
All of you have been so kind to review this pathetic story! I am so touched that you made this story my third to hit the 100 barriers…my first one has 396. (I am so disappointed! 4 more and 400! Anyone who'd kind enough, please review that story for me! Consider it as a…Christmas gift? I dunno)
And please review if you want me to make a sequel…or you could treat Aoi Tsuki as an AU sequel…but still review! I would be really happy if this fic hits 150-200. Uh…I'm asking too much from you, aren't I?
I'm so sorry for my greediness, I'm still pissed off and nothing could cheer me up other than your reviews! And my modem getting fixed!
So, I guess I'll see you sometime! Please read Aoi Tsuki! Sankyuu!
Doumo arigato gozaimashita, muchos gracias, maraming salamat po, sankyuu!!!!
-A. Pikachu a.k.a. Son Goku friends call me Goku since I eat a lot but never gain a pound a. k. a. Fukutsuza Naoki
P.S: please support Raei Dagger-chan's Remnants of a Shattered Crystal and me and Rei-chan's Aoi Tsuki! I would really love you if you do. Sankyuu!