To all my reviewers:
Ranka: Glad that you say my story is nice. Yes, in my timeline, Nii Jyeni did that to her. She was down on the ground, with her hands tied behind her, helpless (in the manga) as Lirin was captured. I think I'll make Hakkai a little dense compared to Tenpou Gensui. You know...Tenpou visits this timeline to know his future. He'll be able to make a guess of what that has happened. (So there won't be an open fight between Tenpou and Hakkai, I assure you)
Doublekidz (The Guy who gets bossed by his Sister): "Fallen Angel" is my new story with no ending and plot. I finished my story "Unforgotten and Unforgiven Past Memory". Just waiting to upload for the next chapter anytime....in fact I'm waiting for every anti H/Y fans and pro H/Y fans to scream at me.
Ceres17/Seiryuuflames: Yes....you got it right there. But there was another one that inspired me...the one where Konzen looks for Goku (Gaiden) and ends up with Goku (Gensomaden), the one where Konzen and Sanzo fights for Goku (Gensomaden). That one really push me to write this one. And no...Tenpou is not going to fight with Hakkai over Yaone...I think. He's just going to whack Hakkai's head with paperfan for treating Yaone bad. And there won't be Kanzeon, just another bitter powerful goddess (from chapter 2).
(????) Yes..a GREAT CHANGE, isn't it? Not the normal Hakkai/Yaone fics. I just hope I can bring a lot of romance in this fic. I don't know whether you will visit this page or not....but Annonymous Review-san, please give me your e-mail add at least, so that I can e-mail the next update, eh? I SO WANT YOU TO READ MY CHAPTERS.
Rei Bianca: Glad that you like my other Goku/Ririn fic. I SO ADORE YOUR FIC 'Military School'. Everybody...please read and review fic 'Military School'. Sanzo, Goku, Lirin is so COOL there!!!!
Rocky-road7: Me like Hakkai/Yaone fics too. I WILL!! I WILL!!!
Teiya Reinee: I'm so glad that you spot this fic. I wanted to inform you about the fic..but that would make me so desperate, eh? Will contact you through e-mail?.
I know this person may not read this chapter, but I so want this person
(Nikki) to know....I REALLY CAN'T WRITE KOUGAIJI X YAONE fics. I
wish...but I really can't. It's just that I can't see Kou and Yaone
together. Yaone may fall deeply in love with Kougaiji through the
tv (that I can see), but I felt Kougaiji in the tv series as someone who
treat Yaone like he treats Lirin (sisterly/subordinate care). On
the other hand, Hakkai who has no obligations towards Yaone, seems to rescue
and help Yaone, and perhaps protect her (remember the fight with Shien,
Hakkai actually didn't want Yaone to be involved in it, it's dangerous
for her). AND YES! In the OVA, Hakkai got injured while saving
Yaone. Yaone, on seeing 'sleeping' injured Hakkai, TELLS HIM THAT
SHE LIKES HIM (Hakkai). They never got to the part of Hakkai's reaction
towards this because Kougaiji entered the scene and disturbed them.
Onward with the story....
Disclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki. Kazuya Minekura does. If I do....I will slice and dice Gyokumen Koushu for the terrible things she did on the young twins(I really cried during the chapter), and Nii Jyenii for making Kougaiji a mindless puppet.
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"Oy, Hakkai, what are you thinking?" asks Goyjo lazily as he sees his
friend focusing his eyes on purple-pink roses that he bought from a woman
flower-seller. He knows that his friend bought the roses out of courtesy
and pity, the flower-seller is very old, but after buying them, Hakkai
seems to pay special attention on them. The brunette is petting at
his pet absently while looking lovingly at the flowers for almost an hour.
"Kind of remind you someone, doesn't it?" fibs Goyjo, showing a knowing smile. "A long hair woman with a desirable waist, butt and boobs."
"Goyjo," reprimands Hakkai with a shock face. "I'm shock that you actually plan on flirting with Yaone-san. She's an enemy, you know…"
"So it reminds you of that pharmacist woman," smirks the red-headed man, watching the brunette blushing his cheeks. "Even if I want to flirt with her, I don't think you would be shock. Maybe jealous, yes."
"Actually I'm thinking about Kougaiji and his party," interrupts Hakkai trying to avoid the subject. "They don't seem to be appearing quite lately or sending any assasins on our way. They're slowing down their attacks."
"Who cares? It only makes our journey here easier and faster," snorts Sanzo as the smoking monk appears in the room, tugging Goku by his ear. He kicks Goku's butt, sending him sprawling in front of Hakkai who was sweatdropping. "Oy, Hakkai, tend to him. Feed him, play with him, do anything for him, just get him out of my sight," grumbles Sanzo as he gives his golden credit card to the brunette youkai. "This dumbass monkey has been getting on my nerves the whole afternoon. I can't get my reading and meditation done."
"Itai!" cry Goku, rubbing his aching body all over. The brunette youkai helps him.
"Oh, Sanzouhoushi-sama is getting really soft with his pet," comments Goyjo slyly, but shakes his hands frantically when the monk's Smith & Weeson gun is pointed at his head. He is then showned a few torn and tattered paperfans, hung mysteriously on the monk's robes. "It seems that he really is born from a rock," grumbles Sanzo, discarding the useless paper fans. The gaped red-headed half youkai watchs him with fascination at the number of paper fans he can keep in his body. The monks sighs when he thinks of getting some more new paper fans. Stronger ones. "I've been hitting him at his head, but he still doesn't get it in his thick head, that I don't want to go out unnecessarily."
"But, I'm hungry!" protests Goku, almost wailing.
"Shut up! Do you want me to permanently help you not to feel hungry anymore?" threatens Sanzo, showing the little monkey his gun.
"Maa, maa, Sanzo. Don't use your gun here, unless there's youkais trying to kill us. We don't want to attract any attention from people here, do we?" coaxs Hakkai, stepping between the monk and his charge. "Unless, Sanzohoushi-sama wants to preach this town about Buddha," he adds, knowing that the high priest hates preaching something that he doesn't believe in.
"Ch," Sanzo turns back to his room and slams the door when he exits.
"Don't take it to heart, saru. He's always like that, antisocial, grouchy and unpredictable miser," said Goyjo disgustedly as he lights up a cigarette. "But we all know how much he loves you. Look, he even gave Hakkai the credit card to spend on you."
The poor sad boy pouts his lips, before he sets his eyes on the golden credit card, which is on Hakkai's hand. "Shall we go now for shopping?" asks Hakkai, smilling invitingly. Compared to his other two comrades, Hakkai likes to openly show his affection towards Goku, the heretic monkey boy. His youth, naïve and full of life excitement helps the brunette to look forward to life. That and the fact that he gets frequent visit from Kougaiji-taichi. Not that he enjoy fightings, but he really looks forward meeting the medicine and poison expert woman.
"Yahoo!!" shouts Goku, jumping up and down. "Hakkai's the best!"
"Keep it down, bakasaru!!" shouts Sanzo from the other room.
"You're not going to the restaurant with that baka saru, are you Hakkai?" asked Goyjo lazily, flopping his butt on the bed and putting up his feets.
"I'm not bakasaru," cry Goku indignantly. The red-headed man rolls his eyes.
Hakkai shakes his head, and lifts up his right index finger. "Nope, I'M GOING TO COOK!" he smiles. Goku whopees at his announcement. But his moment of joy shortlives, when Sanzo suddenly appears and gives fan-bashing to him. The monk hrmphs before turning away the dazed monkey boy and sweatdropped human-turned-youkai.
"That settles," Goyjo decides. The half-youkai knows that there is something bothering Hakkai very much, or else he won't have strange cravings to do housework all by himself.
A surprised scream suddenly came out from Sanzo's room. The three look surprise at each other before rushing into the monk's room. Inside they find a small youkai girl on top of the irritated Sanzo, while another black-haired youkai is trying to persuade the youkai princess to get down from the monk. "Lirin, get down from Sanzo," says Dokugakuji, rolling his eyes.
"No!" whines Lirin. "I won't get down until Yaone-chan is found!"
"Yaone-san?" asks Hakkai surprise. Something is not right here. The sweet and polte pharmacist is not found with them, and she's always with the little youkai girl, taking care of her. But now the small youkai says that her babysitter is lost. Yaone-sam, he thinks suddenly. A week ago, she met him, bidding farewell and insisted that he should not wait for her again. Her face showed hints of sadness and distress. Hakkai begins to worry.
"No," replies Sanzo. "We didn't see Yaone on our way, and we don't plan on looking for her."
"Selfish," cries Lirin, shaking his shoulders hard. That irritates Sanzo so much that he raise his paperfan and whacks Lirin to the ground. The little girl does not even shield herself or retaliate. She just sits and cry, despite being whacked. Huge teardrops fall from her emerald eyes. A hand grabs Sanzo's arm.
"Stop it," orders Dokugakuji harshly. "We just come to ask you whether you have seen Yaone, because we thought she would come here for help," he says, giving a glance at the green-eyed youkai. "But after seeing you guys, I don't think she would come here." He forcefully drags Lirin. "Come, Lirin." Sanzo snorts, but is met by three pairs of disapproving eyes.
"Oy, Dokugakuji, where's Kougaiji? Doesn't he get worried also over his female subordinate?" asks Goyjo, stopping him. He has to stop his half-brother from leaving. Hakkai seems to be quiet but the half-youkai could see that he's worried.
Dokugakuji's face flashes in anger. "After Goku beats Kou up in the dessert, he became a changed person. He doesn't give a damn about us or his sister anymore. I bet if Yaone dies, he would not bother to ask why."
"Can you tell us what happened to Yaone-san?" inquires Hakkai politely. But the red-haired man knows that despite the smilling face, the brunette youkai is having difficulty controling himself. At any moment, he would lose his calm and could go berserk.
Kougaiji's swordsman shakes his head. "I'm not sure," he confesses. "Normally I'm not worried so much over Yaone's disappearance. She would come back with medicinal plants and poisons after a few days, but if what the serving ladies' rumors are true, I'm afraid we won't be able to see her anymore."
"What rumour?" whispers Hakkai, almost afraid to hear the answer.
"That Nii Jyeni raped her."
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"How is she?" asks Tenpou Gensui worriedly after the woman healer finally allow him to enter the room. On the bed laid the unconscious woman. She looks beautiful and angelic while sleeping, but he knows she is suffering in her sleep. Before this, the purple-haired woman tosses around the bed, mumbling and sobbing in her sleep. The West Army Marshall have to wrap his arms around her and restrain her when she wakes up screaming, trying to hurt herself by throwing her off the bed. He really feels guilty injecting sleeping drug into her, but after seeing her terrific, frantic and panicked expression and blank purple-pinkish eyes, he has to do it again. He holds the fragile crying woman in his arms, rocking her and soothing her to sleep before laying her down on the bed. Only then he rushes out to get a healer woman to check his newly-found friend. He is lucky that he didn't have to go to search further. The innkeeper's wife is a healer.
He sits on the bedside and brushes the unconscious woman's hair bangs gently. "How is she?" he repeats the question.
The old woman eyes him suspiciously, "Normally I don't treat youkais very much, but I think I know what happened to her. Are you sure you met her today in the forest?"
He nods several time.
"I've checked her while she's sleeping. There are signs of penetration, forced penetration and she was a virgin when it happened," she tells him.
It doesn't surprise him. Actually this was the reason why he ask for her assistance. He has seen and heard how the captive women were in their enemy camps. Most of them were violated for animalistic and sexualistic pleasure, and some had committed suicide, rejecting any rescue attempts. She displays these kind of characters.
The sleeping woman's hand suddenly shoot out, and catch hold of his hand unconsciouly. His heart stirs up when he saw Yaone pull his hand towards her, hugging it. She whimpers slightly when he tries to take his hand away from her.
"She needs support and encouragement from people around her to forget this brutal experiences. It will take some time," the old woman comments when she saw this. He agrees silently and makes a vow to take care of her and protect her.
"Normally I don't agree having a young man taking care of a poor girl. But I will make this an exception, since I'm busy and she doesn't have her friends around her," the old woman tells him. She then hands him a few herbal packets. "Boil this herbs every morning and give this to her. It will calm her down and let her sleep her stress off. After that young man, it's up to you all to settle this problem yourself." Looking sharply at the young handsome man, she asks, "You won't take this opportunity, especially when she's like that?"
"Certainly not!" cried Tenpou indignantly. But the woman-healer
just grin cheekily and point her finger at their hand contacts.
The Marshal of West Army Heaven sweatdropped.
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Goyjo's half brother's answer stuns him more than he ever knew.
"Hakkai? Hakkai? Are you alright?" pokes Goku when he sees Hakkai's face turn white. The brunette nods his head, and kneels in front of the crying youkai girl, to have an eye-to-eye talk with her.
"Lirin-san, do you know where Yaone-san usually goes to whenever she's feeling sad," he asks politely, but there was a note of urgency in his voice.
The little girl stops crying, and looks at the monocle guy with a frown. "I…I don't know…I've never seen Yaone-chan's sad face. Most of the times she smiles, eventhough I know I make her angry."
"Sounds like someone in our group," comments Goyjo, folding his arms.
Hakkai nods his head, silently agreeing to what Lirin says. Whenever she meets him in the battle, she often wears a cheerful smile. They exchange polite greetings, and while the others are fighting intensely against each other with the aim to defeat the other, the two would only be having a friendly spar. He would never dream on using his chi blasts on her, especially not when she's smilling. And he knows in her smiling eyes that she would never mortally hurt him. Despite the numerous counts she threatens him.
"I don't know why, but I think Yaone-chan is in danger," sniffles Lirin.
"Perhaps she goes to a very faraway place to collect something for you or for herself," suggests Goku trying to coaxes the youkai princess to stop crying. "She may want to keep it a secret, that's why she doesn't want to tell you all."
"That can be true. But why doesn't she pack up more things if she wants to travel far?" argues Dokugakuji. "And the strange part, is she doesn't even bring along her spear."
Hakkai's eyes widened in realization and fear. Something has happened to Yaone, affecting her emotionally. Or else, she won't forget to bring along her trusted weapon, or maybe she just wants to die, giving a chance for the enemies to easily strike a blow on her.
"We have to leave now," says Dokugakuji suddenly. He picks Lirin up easily and set her on his waist like a mother carrying her toddler. "If Yaone comes to you, please tell her to go back. The Empress will send people after her, if she doesn't report to duty after one month."
"We're not going to look for her. End of story," Sanzo puts in firmly.
"But Sanzo," Goku begins pleading. The golden-eyed monkey has a soft spot for the purple-haired youkai. Once she rewarded the boy with a bag of meatbuns for not fighting violently with Lirin, and he felt that it was the most delicious meatbuns that he ever ate, next to Hakkai's of course.
"Urusai!" Sanzo glares at his charge. "Give that woman a benefit of doubt. She's not that silly as to commit suicide, just because someone decides to give her a blowjob. Our aim is to stop Gyumao at all cost. Yaone isn't that important and indispensable." He stops when he sees the brunette monocle man boring his green eyes at him. Normally Sanzo is not afraid of youkais or humans but this time he has a reason to do so. There was a silent anger and fury in his eyes warning him not to say anything further. Except for Goyjo, nobody else in the room has noticed or expected the slight change in him.
"The news about Genjo Sanzo's generousity is far-fetched," says Dokugakuji sarcastically before leaving the room.
"Wait!" Hakkai stops Dokugakuji from leaving. "Please tell me whether Yaone returns to you or not," his voice pleads.
"I will tell you about Yaone alright. When the next time we meet in the battle," answers Dokugakuji before leaving with Lirin.
The four stood silently before Hakkai starts to exit the room. "Oy, Hakkai where are you going? I thought you're going to feed Goku."says Sanzo, lighting up his cigarette.
Before the green-eyed brunette can explain, the monk cut in, "Take Goku and Goyjo with you. I don't want to see them here all the day."
"Arigatou, Sanzo," Hakkai smiles gratefully, causing the high priest to hrmph and read his old newspaper.
"Yeah!! We're going to eat!!" shouts Goku, forgetting the news of Yaone's mysterious disappearance.
"Bakasaru," grumbles Goyjo, catching the boy's shirt collar and tow him out, following Hakkai out.
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Warning: Beware of the grammar errors. I'm experimenting
now, using present tense as much as possible. But somehow, it doesn't
sound right. So I might repost any chapters, adding or deleting certain
parts to MAKE IT ROMANTIC. I already revised the chapter 2 again....to
show why Tenpou is here in the picture.
Please....I'm dying for reviews...