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 9: The Love Of A Brother
"Shi-ne…" Sanzo pushed Ren away.
"Heh. You're lucky it wasn't in Kuro-sama's orders to kill you." Ren smirked as he charged forward.
"Yamete kudasai, Ren… I'll handle him…" Hakkai's voice echoed through the dark, empty ballroom.
"Kuro-sama." Ren disappeared. Sanzo turned to look at who had Hakkai's voice. Who he saw was a cloaked man.
"You don't remember me, do you, Sanzo?" The cloaked stranger said as he removed his cloak.
"Hakkai?"
"Wrong answer…" The man with Hakkai's face smiled.
"Those eyes… You're someone else… Quietus?" Sanzo asked.
"Oh… I see. You remember your supposed future if you let Hakkai die back in the battlefield…" Quietus took a step forward.
"I thought I killed you." Sanzo whispered.
"But you changed the future. You brought me back…" Quietus took another step.
"Why do you have Hakkai's body? Did you possess him again?"
"I just took his soul out of his body again… But I had no use for Hakkai's body. I just noticed I have more power just the way I am…" Quietus came nearer.
"Just the way you are… This is your real form… You look exactly like Hakkai."
"I really don't know why I was born like this. A perfect copy of Hakkai…" Quietus stopped moving.
"Then… Tell me… Why are you hunting me down? Is it revenge for that bullet I put through your head?"
"Oh… That reminds me. If the future never happened… Why does my head still feel a bullet going through it? I still have a use for you… I'll use your power to take my revenge on Pandemonium…" Quietus smiled as he took another step nearer Sanzo.
"Why do you take revenge on Pandemonium?"
"For a strange reason… My body seems to react to Pandemonium as a place of torture." Quietus moved closer, "I pity the souls that live there…"
"You were never shown genuine love, have you?" Sanzo understood.
"It might be…" Quietus' fists loosened, "There's something inside me missing. A part of memory." He snapped his fingers and Sanzo started to feel pain in his forehead.
"A part of emotion." He snapped his fingers once again and Sanzo's chest filled with pain.
"A part of myself…" He snapped his fingers one last time and Sanzo's whole body filled with pain.
"Quietus… You're doing all of this for nothing!" Sanzo collapsed on the ground. Quietus started to approach Sanzo, but suddenly, his hidden memories came back.
"Aniki!! Stop tickling me!!""Ne, Hiro… What did you get in your tests today?"
"Aniki… Emiko seems to be becoming more and more like mom…"
"Hiro… Have you seen Kouryuu?"
"No. I haven't seen him lately, Hakkai."
"Kouryuu? That blonde guy across the street? Is it me or are we both bisexual?"
"Mou! Hiro… Don't spill the beans… Emiko might start gossiping…"
"Ha ha ha… Funny thing. I've also got a thing for Kouryuu…"
"Looks like we have another reason why we're twins, eh?"
"Emiko's acting strange lately…"
"Why?"
"I think she wants to kill me. Seriously."
"Now you die…"
"Emiko… Murderer…"
"You won't be alone…"
"Hiro… Cho Hiro… Hiro… Wake up… It's me… Your twin… Hakkai."
"No… These memories… Are mine…" Quietus got to his knees, "Gomenasai, aniki! I don't want you to die!!" His cries echoed through time, reaching Hakkai's soul in the place of memories.
"Hiro… His memories came back…" Hakkai whispered as he suddenly got sucked back into his own body.
"I have to find him…" Hakkai ran off towards the lair.