By yumeneko
Disclaimer: As usual... Saiyuki is Kazuya Minekura-sensei's... I'm just torturing some characters here.
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Note: This can be the start of everyone's confusion… The story links to Never Eternal and Warau Kisetsu (Both are my older stories) at this point.
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Chapter 7: Cho Hakkai File 2 Read-Only
"Gojyo-san… Meet my sister, the mage mistress, Yoru." Yoriko said as she walked to her sister's side.
"You traitor… You tricked me!" Gojyo cursed out loud.
"Exactly… That's the point of this game…" Yoru smiled, "Don't worry… The grandest illusion comes to the ones who face our master… It's too bad you won't live to see it! Shatter frozen blades of air! Cyclops!" She summoned.
Gojyo felt the earth rumble at his feet. And out of the ground came forth a hideous one-eyed beast with chains wrapping around his purple skin.
"You'll never be able to defeat the Cyclops, Sha Gojyo… This is the end of you! DIE!!" Yoriko's face broke into a menacing grin.
Gojyo leaped to dodge the Cyclops' initial attack, but the monster quickly shot him down with chains shooting out of his hideous skin.
"Traitor…" Gojyo landed safely.
Maybe if I kill Yoru, this damn monster will disappear…
Gojyo started to rush towards the silver-haired summoner. But suddenly, he felt something burning within him. He looked behind him; the Cyclops disappeared.
"Fool…" Yoru laughed, "You've been a fool to attack me… I hold the powerful black and summon magic in my hands… I've just affected you with poison. Die slowly, Sha Gojyo… Let us leave this poor soul alone to die, my sister…"
Meanwhile, as Gojyo tried to fight the burning poison within him, Hakkai laid lifeless in his bed. But fortunately, his soul found the place of memories.
"What is this place?" He questioned. He walked through familiar paths. The orphanage… The hundred-eyed monster's castle… Kanan's death… And Sanzo, seeking him, the criminal. But after passing though familiar memories, he ran into a strange place that looked overrun by computers. And there were two CDs in front of him. One was labeled "Cho Hakkai File 1". The other was labeled "Cho Hakkai File 2 Read-only". Curious, Hakkai took the second file. He looked to his right and saw an open disk drive. He loaded the CD inside and suddenly his surroundings became blurry. When his surroundings became focused again, he looked around.
"This isn't Togenkyo or Tenjiku… This must be a future life…"
Everything looked different. And as he peeked through one of the doors, he saw himself tickling a perfect copy of himself.
"Aniki! Would you stop with that! You're ruining the bed!! I just fixed it this morning!"
"Mou… Hiro… Would you stop being so uptight…?"
"Look who's talking, Hakkai… You're uptight yourself… Have you ever forgotten that we are twins?"
Twins? I have a twin in another life? Hakkai thought shocked as he continued to watch the scene. But he looked behind to find a younger brunette with short hair and brown eyes pass right through him and barge into the twin's room.
"Onii-chan… You two sound two men romping… I could have sworn Kouryuu could have been in this room right now with you two…"
"Emiko… You're starting to sound like mother…" Hiro laughed.
"Hakkai-niichan… Better go prepare breakfast today. It's your turn…" Emiko smiled as she left the room.
Suddenly a bright flash blinded him. The flash faded to show Emiko in a dark room with one of the twins.
"There can never be two a single maiden has to die for…" Emiko said as she took out a gun and pointed it at the twin, "Die… Never be reborn… Be a sacrifice less… Hiro-niichan… Gomenasai… But both of us has to die to let Hakkai-niichan live… It's been like this for centuries. It's the legacy of the Chameleon Heart."
"Before you kill me… Tell me about this legacy, Emiko…" Hiro asked unafraid.
"The Chameleon Heart was created by a maiden who wanted her brother, a criminal to survive. She used her own blood to charm the Chameleon Heart. She was an enchantress, so her blood gave the holder of the stone, her brother, the power to shape shift. She promised him that she'd keep him safe forever. So anyone born with the fate to sacrifice herself will have to. But you are a hindrance, Hiro-niichan. If I don't kill you, neither you nor Hakkai-niichan will live. But I'll live… Someday, when eleven lives will be merged, the priestess of the wind will arise and I will be reborn as her…" Emiko narrated, "Now you die…" She shot Hiro in the forehead.
"Emiko… Murderer…" Hiro gasped as blood trickled from his forehead.
"You won't be alone…" Emiko whispered as she shot herself in the heart. Her eyes faded to green as she slowly bled.
"Sou na…" Hakkai gasped at the sight he saw. The floor was covered in Hiro and Emiko's blood, "This can't be true… In every life I live, there is someone sacrificing her life for me… Kanan… She must have been one of them. No… I thought all the bloodshed would be over." Hakkai got to his knees and looked at Hiro's lifeless body, then something caught his eye. There was a mark in his scalp.
Cho Hakkai File 2
"He… is me."