Never Eternal
by yumeneko
Disclaimer: As usual... Saiyuki is Kazuya Minekura-sensei's... I'm just using it for angsty stuff...
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Lookie loo… It's another rewrite.
Warnings: Huge amounts of angst. Sanzo + Hakkai semi-fluff in later episodes. Sanzo shall become OOC. Might drive you sick. Lots of blood and gore. IYADA!! It's CG effects!! Wheeeeeee! *Thinks of Sanzo going through that portal thing with all the pretty Squaresoft CG... swoon!*
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"Walk across the bloody field, reaping the souls of the dead..."
The green-clothed figure came closer, "Genjo Sanzo..." he said in a voice that sounded like Hakkai's.
"Hakkai?" Sanzo questioned, trying to get closer.
As the figure came closer, and Sanzo fell to his knees as he looked at this stranger, for this mysterious figure has taken on the form of Hakkai.
"Hakkai... I thought you were dead..." Sanzo whispered in disbelief in front of the stranger.
"No, Genjo Sanzo... I am not Hakkai... I am the Grim Reaper." The stranger revealed in Hakkai's voice, "I came to take pity on you and return Cho Hakkai's soul to the living. In order for his soul to survive, I had to host his soul for the moment. His soul would have died if it didn't have a host. But I can't just give you his soul just like this. I was ordered to give you a test to prove that you truly want him to live again."
"Sanzo!" Sanzo heard Gojyo's searching cries in the distance.
Gojyo finally found his companion, but as he looked as the reaper, he said in disbelief, "Hakkai…?"
"Then what are these tests?" Sanzo asked.
"That… You will know when you take it." The reaper spoke, "But for the meantime, since my powers are nulled in this form, I'll have to find a temporary host for this soul." The reaper looked around for a host. Around the corner, the reaper found a music box.
"Yoshi... This will do." The reaper put his hand over the box and the two men watched the green aura of Hakkai's soul float into the box, revealing the true form of the reaper.
"You're a girl??" Gojyo asked the reaper in amazement. She was a
young brown-haired girl with huge purple eyes.
"No... This really isn't a true form. It's the soul that I wanted to keep..." The reaper smiled.
Sanzo picked up the music box and held it close and pleaded, "Please... Let me take the test..."
"Very well..." The reaper smiled, "I will tell you about your mission. I shall take you to the place of memories. Your job there is to change the memory of Hakkai dying. If you change any other memory before that, your whole life will change."
"Okay... I accept the test." Sanzo said sternly.
And so the reaper began to chant. A prism of light appeared under Sanzo's feet and in a blink of an eye, Sanzo disappeared...
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A/N: Wheee! Off to the world of memories we go! Does this sound familiar? Yep! Final Fantasy IX's Memoria! Okay now! Sorry about the short length of this chapter. What else could I add anyway…?
