By yumeneko
Disclaimer: As usual... Saiyuki is Kazuya Minekura-sensei's... I'm just torturing some characters here.
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Note: Look who has come back from the grave… I've been listening to Eyes On Me while writing this… * blink, blink *
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Chapter 3: In The Moonlight
"Sanzo…" Hakkai entered Sanzo's room that evening after Gojyo and Goku had fallen asleep.
"I was waiting for you…" Sanzo said as he stood up.
"Well then, shall we go?" Hakkai asked the monk.
Sanzo nodded in reply and went ahead of Hakkai.
"Gojyo told me something about the curse in this town…" Hakkai said, "Right, we only know about the sorcerer? Gojyo told me that the curse placed upon the people was something about not having any emotion… He also told be about the sorcerer's whereabouts."
"So where is this sorcerer?" Sanzo asked the youkai beside him.
"Somewhere near a cliff around this town…"
"Well then, we'll investigate it tomorrow… For now, I just want to relax in this quiet town…" Sanzo sat down on a park bench. Hakkai sat down beside him and Sanzo rested his head on his shoulder, "Hakkai…"
"Hai, Sanzo…" Hakkai drew him closer to him, "This town's just so peaceful this way… It's not like the other towns we've been at. We can be left in peace…" He felt Sanzo nod against his neck.
Yet suddenly, Hakkai heard his own heartbeat in his ears…
Hakkai… Hakkai…
His heart seemed to say. He clutched his heart and started to feel faint.
Hakkai… Hakkai…
"Hakkai? Hakkai!!" Sanzo tried to awaken his lover. Hakkai moaned as he began to awake.
"What… happened?" He asked, eyesight still blurry from his ordeal.
"You fainted…" Sanzo said relieved.
"I felt something trying to take over me…" The brunette got up, still in Sanzo's arms.
"It might be that curse…" Sanzo said, helping Hakkai to his feet, "Maybe it's starting to affect us…"
"I don't know…" Hakkai shook his head, "It felt more like possession than curses. Let's go back… We'll examine the cliff tomorrow."
Sanzo nodded in agreement as he helped Hakkai get back to the hotel.
When they entered the hotel, they found that Gojyo was waiting for them at the lobby.
"I knew you two were outside… So what happened?" Gojyo inquired.
"I just fainted… Nothing much…" Hakkai said weakly.
Fainting? Possession? There's something creepy here… And in a sense, it's familiar… Sanzo thought as he carried Hakkai to his room, "I'll watch over you tonight, Hakkai… Who knows what will happen out there…"
"Goku…" there was a voice at Goku's window.
"Eh? Lirin?" Goku looked out the window to find Lirin perched on the windowsill.
"Ne, Goku… We're you wondering about those rumors the others were talking about?"
"Un. Wanna go check it out?"
"Sure… I'm getting the heebie-jeebies from thinking about it…" Lirin nodded as Goku opened the window and jumped out with Lirin. Unfortunately, he didn't see the cloaked man smiling in a nearby alley…
"Have fun, children…"