Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Saiyuki characters. They honorably belong to Minekura Sensei. Please don't sue me.
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Ayie: Help me!!! I'm a bit discouraged here…. I thought that my fic is getting boring and dull that I got no more review….cries sadly. Am I right? Should I continue or should I stop?
Hakkai: Ma….ma…ayie-san, don't give up. You wrote this fic because you are very fond of Saiyuki, don't you? And you love writing…that's the reason why…don't give it all up..
Ayie: I love writing, but I'm afraid that my fic was bad and terrible that no one wanted to read and review it continue to sob. May be I was a bad writer after all…
Gojyo: How do you know? Omae wo ba-ka…
Goku: Don't stop now! Don't give up….tugged at Ayie's sleeve, looking at her with puppy eyes
Ayie: May be you're right… after all, I'm fond of writing…and I loved Saiyuki! Don't worry, I'll continue and I'll complete this fic once and for all.eyes shining like stars
Hakkai, Gojyo and Goku: Yeah! That's the spirit.
Ayie: But…but.. I'm really suck in writing fighting scene….head hung low and sobbed..again! All: -___-" sweat dropped
Sanzo: Ch! Don't waste your time consoling her….She's in a bad mood due to the weather…and the fact that she's going back to the university after a month..
Ayie: Urusai!!!!switched on the laptop and starts to type Sanzo: smirked devilishly. Hakkai:nudged Sanzo with his elbow and smiled nice going… Sanzo: Ch!
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Chapter 13- The Confrontation
Gojyo swung his shaku jou and sent the crescent blade to slash his opponent, turning the latter into dust. He advanced and hit another youkai with his shaku jou. The youkai burst and what was left of his assailant were ashes. He turned around and found several youkais darting furiously toward him in full speed.
"Ch! Don't you guys ever give up?" Gojyo smirked as he combed his hair with his hand. "Well, too bad coz you're going to die!" Gojyo dashed toward the youkais while at the same time swinging his shaku jou fiercely. The crescent blade was once again sent flying to kill several youkais on its way back to the shaku jou.
Gojyo settled his opponents in a nick of time. He looked at Goku. "Oi saru! I've got fifteen down" Gojyo hollered at Goku. He kicked another youkai in his way and yelled "That's another one"
"Twenty.." Goku jumped high up and landed his nyoibou on top of a youkai head. The mentioned youkai howled loudly before he vanished into thin air. "Twenty one…" Goku landed on the ground and immediately bashed another youkai behind him with a rapid swing of his nyoibou. At the moment he stood up, a youkai darted on him and tried to punch him on the face. Goku dodged the attack by swaying his face a little to the left as he presented his assailant with a hard blow in the stomach with the end of his nyoibou. "Twenty….?" Goku blocked an attack with his nyoibou and returned it with a punch right on the youkai face. Goku turned around to Hakkai. "Hakkai…what's after twenty one?" he asked while he knocked down a youkai to the ground. The youkai turned to ash seconds after that.
Hakkai released a ki-ball and destroy several youkais right in front of him. He stood up and raised his forefinger to the sky. "That will be twenty two" He answered to Goku before he puched a youkai at his lower part and kicked another one at the face. A youkai thrust a spear toward him and Hakkai happily dodged the attack and returned it with his ki-ball.
" I see you're getting stronger each day Goku thanks to my diet plan…but don't forget me, I'm the one who cooked for you…" Hakkai smiled and at the same time holding back a youkai's staff that almost bash him on the head. He grabbed the staff and tossed it aside, leaving the youkai to gawk nervously. "So that makes me a better fighter" He giggled as he smacked the youkai's neck with his palm. Another group of youkai was totally turned into dust by the courtesy of his ki-blast.
"Ch! You ARE getting meaner each day Hakkai!!" Sanzo growled as he shot continuously to five different directions, eliminating five youkais in a row. He reloaded his gun at instant and blasted a youkai that came hovering on top of his head. He eluded a fierce blow from a youkai's spear and shot his assailant without mercy, shattering the latter into dust. Sanzo grunted and turned around to blast two more youkais at his back.
"BANG! BANG!" two more bullets penetrated the air and headed toward two youkai in the monk's way. The bullets hit its targets right on their heads and they tripped to the ground with a loud thump before turning into dust. The wind blew the dust away soon after. Sanzo smirked. He blasted off his last remaining bullet toward the last remaining youkai, for him. A new opponent charged at him with a sword held up high in his grip.
"Shi-nee!!" The youkai jumped and brought the sword down to Sanzo's head but the monk stopped the blow by blocking it with his shoureijuu. At instant, the blonde monk kicked the youkai, sending the latter to soar away from him. A ki-blast dashed from behind him and wiped out his assailant once the eye blinked. Sanzo turned around and found Aiko smirking at him.
"I figured that you might need help" Aiko smiled as she dodged a brutal bash from a youkai staff. She knocked down the youkai with a sharp blow from the back of her hand. Her hand seemed to act like a sword. She swung around and kicked another youkai at his groin. The latter yelped in agony.
"Ouch! That must had hurt like hell" Gojyo shook his head with a distorted face. He swayed his shaku jou and annihilated his opponents as the crescent blade darted then slashed them into pieces.
"Ch!" Sanzo took the chance to reload his shoureijuu. Once he was finished, another shot was released toward a youkai, dashing madly to him with a loud scream.
"You are making my ears hurt" Sanzo mumbled as he turned around and fired his gun.
Aiko released a ki-ball and fired it at a group of youkai who tried to snatch her backpack away. The youkais were blown into black dust and vanished at once. Suddenly, a youkai came scampered toward her with his hand forming a fireball. The fireball was released and Aiko was able to dodge it at the right time but was sent soaring in the air, away from her last standing position. Aiko flipped several times in the air and gain her balance by doing that, and at the same time she released a ki-blast onto the youkai. The result of her ki-blast was a big explosion that had illuminated large group of youkai and a big crack on the earth.
Gojyo stammered at that sight. 'Gee…better stay away from this girl'.
Aiko landed on her feet and stood up at instant. She backed away a few steps and bumped to someone's back. Her hair was untied when she turned her head and faced the man behind her. Aiko almost blasted a ki-ball before releasing it into a tiny puff of smoke. Her hair swayed freely and brushed the face of the man she had bumped into. 'Hakkai?'
Hakkai stood watching at the girl's face as her hair brushed his face softly. Their faces were so close that their nose almost touched. Both of the brunettes stared at each other's face and muted.
"Ahem!" They were broken away from each other by an alarming cough of Gojyo. They gazed at their comrades and blushed, seeing a pair of bishounens and a pair of boys looking at them with a sneer look on their faces. They turned to look at each other's face once again and blushed severely.
"Gomen nasai" They apologized and bowed to each other at the same time, causing their heads to bump at each other's. They flinched and rubbed their aching heads. The flushes of red on their cheeks got even worse.
The youkais became terribly furious at that sight. The ikkou totally disregarded their existence. They were made fool by the ikkou and they couldn't take it anymore. The youkais charged madly toward the brunettes.
"Gomen!" Aiko was the one to apologize and she turned around abruptly, blasting the charging youkais with her ki-blast. Aiko tied her hair back into a ponytail. Hakkai might not saw her, but their other companions could clearly see the flushes of red on that girl's face as she charged at her opponents.
Gojyo flung an arm around Hakkai's shoulder. "Hakkai, there seems to be a chemistry between you two" Gojyo smirked. Hakkai just smiled as he punched a youkai that came darting from Gojyo's back. Gojyo stood dumbfounded.
"Gojyo, you better get back to your position" Hakkai smiled as he swerved to his back and kicked an assailant. Gojyo mumbled continuously as he charged madly to youkais at his back. He was terribly fumed at the surprise assault, which could cost him his life if Hakkai wasn't aware of it.
'Chemistry huh?' Hakkai glanced at Aiko from the corner of his eyes. He smiled quietly and released a ki-ball toward his coming opponents.
"Yosh!!" Kazo was indeed delighted to see the event between the brunettes. He ducked his body and kicked a youkai at his feet, making the latter to stumble down on earth with a loud thump. He lurched forward and jumped furiously onto another youkai, bringing him down to the ground. Kazo sat on the youkai's body and slammed the latter's face with his palm. His opponent fainted as his nose was broken into pieces, result of the blow from the boy's knuckle.
Kazo rose up and bashed his new opponent by jumping in the air and kicked the latter's neck. There's a loud crack on the youkai's neck before he stumbled down on earth, lifeless.
He was about to dash toward the last remaining youkai when he heard a scream from behind. Kazo turned around to find a youkai smashing his sword to his head. "K'so!" Kazo grumbled as he shielded his head with his arms, trying to prevent the worst damage that could happen. Before the enemies' sword made encounter with his head, a staff blocked the sword.
Kazo looked at Goku. Goku was grinning toward him as he held the extending nyoibou to his direction. Goku had summoned his nyoibou to extend in order to block the sword from reaching Kazo's head. Goku lifted the nyoibou and sent the youkai to fly away to a far distance. Once again the nyoibou shortened to its normal length.
"Sankyu" Kazo shouted as he punched a youkai at his jaw with his palm. The youkai fell enormously to the ground, moaning at his broken jaw.
"Oi Kazo, you should be more alert next time" Aiko shouted from afar. She was well aware that her brother almost got killed. "I would not cry if you got killed you know" Aiko jested as she blocked continuous blows from several youkais with an energy barrier.
"Nag..nag..nag…" Kazo whispered down at his throat. "Yeah! Yeah!" he replied to his sister. Goku chuckled.
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Lexus smirked as he glanced down at the foothill.
"Looks like we're losing all of our men" Wai appeared next to him. Lexus turned to face the older man and once again glanced at the carnage far below their position.
"It's time for us to act" Lexus turned around abruptly and walked toward three figures behind him. "Ikuzo!" he ordered as he secured the sword, thrusting out from his jacket.
"Hai Lexus-sama" the three figures stood up and followed their leader. Wai trailed their steps after giving the battlefield a second look.
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"Whoosh!" Hakkai's ki-ball swept his opponent and they vaporized in the thin air. He glanced around. No more youkai remained. They were all completely exterminated, except for one or two that were dying.
They are the last one standing.
"Daijoubu desuka, minna?" Hakkai asked. That was his usual habit every time after they fought.
"Harahetta yo…!!!" Goku and Kazo whined, clutching their grumbling stomach.
"Well, that was easy" Gojyo lit a cigarette, and put it between his lips.
"Ch!" Sanzo was reloading his shoureijuu. That was the sixth times for today.
"Daijoubu da yo" Aiko replied, smiling to Hakkai.
Hakkai smiled. 'Well, everyone was fine'.
Aiko checked the tenant in her backpack. The baby was sleeping soundly. 'Thank God I fed him before'. She hoped the mother was all right. Aiko could not imagine that the innocent baby has to live alone if the mother would have not survives. She didn't want the baby she's holding in her arms to get the same bad luck as she had had.
"It must be hard for you to let him go when it's time" Hakkai appeared from behind her at sudden. Aiko jerked forward slightly, shocked she was.
Aiko sweat dropped as the man behind her smiled edgily. Aiko smiled back. "He belongs to his mother and I'll make sure of that" Aiko assured as she nuzzled her nose to Dai's cheek. The baby in her cradle giggled amusingly. Nimmiku perched on Aiko's shoulder, the first time in two days. The she-dragon peeped into her master's arms and cooed adoringly at the baby.
"Kyu!!" Harkuryu landed on Hakkai's shoulder and nudged softly to his master's face. Hakkai chuckled.
"Well…well…look at that, two pairs of lovebirds" Gojyo smirked. 'His chance of flirting with Aiko was zero'. Gojyo looked at Hakkai. Now, the smile of his once-a-housemate pal was different from the usual smile he always displayed on his face. This smile is so sweet and sincere and it didn't hide anything. Happiness was clearly shown beyond that smile. Gojyo smiled. 'May be he had lived once again'.
"Lovebirds?" Kazo looked at Gojyo. "What kind of birds are they?" he asked, curiously. He never heard that type of birds before.
"Can they be eaten ne Sanzo?" Goku tugged at Sanzo's sleeve.
There was a vein popped out at Sanzo's temple. His hands itched madly and he couldn't stand it anymore. He reached into his robe and took out his harisen.
"WHACK!!" he smacked at the boy tugging down at his sleeve.
"Ittai…!" Goku cried painfully as he clutched to his head. "Omae wo kechi.." he pouted and received another blow from the almighty harisen. Goku clamped his mouth shut.
"I'll tell you next time since you're still a kid, kiddo" Gojyo ruffled Kazo's hair. The boy's face flushed with anger.
"Don't call me kiddo! Kono gokiburi!" Kazo shouted as he jumped onto Gojyo's hair and bit the man's head. Gojyo hollered in agony. He tried to get Kazo off his head by pulling the boy's legs but Kazo was reluctant to let go.
"GET.OFF.ME.Kono baka gaki!!!!" Gojyo shouted in alarm.
Hakkai and Aiko turned to their comrades and sweat dropped. Looked like there's another bloodshed is going to happen between those four. They hurriedly went to their comrades. Aiko tried to calm the raging Sanzo from whacking the daylight out of Goku and Hakkai tried with full effort to disengage Gojyo and Kazo from each other.
"Yada…yada…I wasn't expecting the famous Sanzo-ikkou would be fighting among each other" an unfamiliar voice put the ikkou into sudden halt. They looked at the direction of the voice and found five strange figures standing handsomely.
The ikkou was once again stood in their fighting pose, getting ready to fight.
"I thought you will take a longer time to finish my men" the blue haired man, seemed to be the leader of among the five sighed as he shook his head. "Well, let's see how long will it take for you to finish us or perhaps for us to finish you" he took off his jacket and tossed it away as he drew out his sword. He stood in a fighting position, followed by the men behind him.
"We'll finish you in a matter of a second" Gojyo smirked as he glanced at the blue-haired man. 'This man is a human, but why does he took side on youkai?'. Gojyo gripped the steel bar of his shaku jou tightly.
"I'm hungry and I'm not happy with it" Goku mumbled, irritated by the sudden appearance of the ikkou. He held his nyoibou firmly. "So, I'm going to kill you instantly!" he yelled out.
The blue-haired man smiled. "You must be Son Goku?" he said as he stared at Goku. "Well, let me introduce myself and my men" he continued.
"I'm Lexus, the leader of the youkai army of Baron's mansion and these are my men" he introduced himself without being asked. "We are the group from the Left Wing and we are known as Left Wing Assassins" he finished his sentence with his head bowing slightly.
"Nice meeting you" Hakkai bowed back. "But you see, we are not interested in knowing our enemy, it will makes us regret that we have to kill them" he looked up and smiled.
"Assassins or no assassins, we are going to assassinate you once and for all" said Kazo, ready to attack.
"Well then…let's begin our business" Lexus smirked. "It will be an honor for me to kill you with my own hands Genjo Sanzo" he sneered at the monk.
"Ch!" Sanzo grunted. "Not even in your nightmares" he said as he fired a bullet toward Lexus. Believe it or not, the blue-haired man dodged the bullet easily.
"Is that all what you got?" Lexus smirked.
"K'so!" Sanzo cursed. 'This man knew my aim as soon as I fired'
"Here goes!!" Hakkai released a ki-ball toward the enemy, which sent all of them to scamper around the area. Even the Sanzo-ikkou scampered around and faced their foes one to one. Goku stood protectively in front of Sanzo as Lexus advanced toward them.
"Sanzo?" Goku called out, asking for permission to handle this fight.
"Ch!" Sanzo grunted, the sign of 'yes'. He couldn't do anything when his opponent can easily dodge his bullet and furthermore, this foe was human. His shoureijuu was not meant to kill any human and without his spirit-ascending gun, Sanzo was in no condition of fighting anyone.
"Arigatou" Goku uttered softly as he darted toward Lexus with the nyoibou held firmly in his hands.
Hakkai on the other hand, had to face Wai, the eldest of the Left Wing Assassins. They bowed to each other before backing away a few steps and stood in a fighting mode.
"Gomen, Ojisan…I do not favor of fighting an older man than me" Hakkai said with a melodious tone.
"Well, don't hesitate young man because I will not" Wai replied.
"Sorewa…." Hakkai smiled. "I've got no choice then" He blasted a ki-ball to Wai.
"With your outfit, there's no way you can bring any lady to bed" Gojyo teased his opponent, a big youkai with baggy outfit. "You should change your appearance"
"You talk too much" the big youkai, known as Yoda, smirked. "Never mind, talk as much as you wanted because after this you'll be talking no more" he jested as he drew out his spear.
Gojyo grinned. "The only time I was not talking was when I locked lips with girls" with that he dashed toward Yoda.
"Matte kudasai" Aiko put her opponent to a halt. The opponent, a young female youkai looked at her curiously. "Let have this fight clean and fair, do not get the baby involve in it" Aiko explained.
"Hai!" the female youkai, whom her comrades called Meili, nodded. Aiko quickly put Dai on top of a rock and shielded him with an energy barrier. She went back to her position. "You are so nice, it'll be a shame that you have to die at my hand" Meili smiled.
Aiko returned that smile. "One thing you don't know about me is that I died once" Aiko's word made Meili startled. "And being human, who can only lived once, I can't die twice" Aiko continued as she released a ki-blast to Meili and the latter returned it with an explosion from her mini bombs.
"You make me hungry!" Kazo yelled at the man in front of him. The youkai was barely the same height as his. "You are so short" Kazo said, quite amazed. The youkai burned with rage at that 'compliment'.
"K'so!" the dwarf youkai, named Sen, darted toward the half-breed. "You're dead meat kiddo!!" he cursed.
"Nani?!" Kazo jumped and darted toward Sen. "Don't call me kiddo, kono baka!!"
The fight had started.
To be continue…..
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Ayie: There goes….my head almost burst, trying to picture the fight and finding the right words for every moves. Wah! My head's spinning….Oro…oro….@_@.
Goku: Brave yourself Ayie-nee-chan supporting Ayie from falling down
Hakkai: Well, ayie struggled to finish this chap…don't kill her if the fighting scene was dull and boring.
