Back to the east.
By vermillian.
Summary: The next task after journey to the west. Sanzou-Ikkou but Goku did no longer own their memories on each other. Goku had to recall their remembrances and find out who was the backup for this situation.
Notes: Thanks for the reviews. For Ryla-san, I will keep this original pattern for another two or three chapters before begin with my own pattern. About this chapter, three youkais passed the village that Shunrei lived (from book 2). In order to recall their memory back, Goku decided to visit this village for a while. Please read and review.
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Chapter five.
The Setting.
During the journey, Goku took the passenger seat at the front and Gojyo was at the back seat. No doubt that Hakkai took the driver position. In order to stay in jeep for a long day, Gojyo decided it's boring him. Then he invited Goku to play a card with him that caused Goku climbed his seat for playing poker. When the time was passed, Gojyo was the winner for all games and this was the fifth game.
"Sorry, kid. I have full house." Gojyo smirked at Goku when he showed his cards.
"Again!?" Goku was still not admitting it. "You cheated me!"
"You don't have any evidence, saru." Gojyo jeered. "Hey, lets come at a backseat and you can seek for your evidence that wouldn't exist."
"No way!" Goku declined. "I know you want to take my seat that I keep for Sanzo!"
Gojyo was still trying to provoke the boy. "Are you his pet? Oh I'm sorry. The answer is absolutely yes because you are his saru."
"Hey. I'm not a saru, ero-kappa!!" Goku pissed off and was more climbing his seat in order to throw his cards Gojyo.
"Do you want to fight?" Gojyo could defend himself from Goku and tried to pound Goku on the head.
"er… Sorry to interrupt you two. But please sit on your seat, unless we may…" Before Hakkai could finish his word, Gojyo was locking Goku's neck and it caused the imbalance of jeep. So jeep was spilling out the road and fallen in to a river.
"… get an accident." Hakkai ended his word.
"It's cold!" Goku cried out after he could reach the water surface.
"HELP! HELP ME! I CAN'T SWIM!!!" Gojyo was scrambling for reaching the water surface that made Goku had to roll his eyes.
"Baka! The water level is not even reach my chest!" Goku shouted. "What kind of kappa are you? You can't even swim!!!"
Gojyo perplexed for a while before pissed off. "I swim only on the bed! Not in a water, bakasaru!"
Before the argument got worse, someone was interrupting them. "Gojyo?"
"Huh?" Gojyo turned his head to source of the voice. What is this damn familiar? But he couldn't react anything when Goku greeted the new coming. "Oi! Shunrei!"
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-Shunrei's house-
"Arigato about the clothes." Hakkai said when they came to the kitchen with new cloth instead of the wet one.
"It's alright." Shunrei replied while peeked at Gojyo. "This is the same with the last time you visited this village."
"The last time?" Gojyo mumbled.
"Right. About a year ago." She paused and asked anxiously. "Is it something wrong? What's about another guy? I meant Sanso-san."
The room became silent and it's Goku who broke it. "er… It's something you should know." He intervened. "They lost their memory."
"You… You meant amnesia!?" Shunrei was panicked.
"Yes. But it's only some part." Goku admitted. "Because of some reason. After the journey, they were losing some part of their memory, our part, and… er… now we needed to find Sanzo. That's why we came here. Moreover I thought if they saw you again, they would remember something." He ended his word and the room became quiet again. Suddenly he turned his head to the first part of the house.
"What's up, Goku?" Hakkai asked worryingly.
Goku was still quiet for a while before widened his eyes then someone knocked the door. Hakkai and Gojyo turned quickly to that direction.
"Shunrei! Will you open the door, please?"
"Oh, hai! Oba-san." Shunrei went to open the door and introduced the new coming. "She's my next door oba-san and she's really good cooking."
"Let's have a lunch!" Oba-san invited.
Hakkai and Gojyo still stunned when Goku said happily with a stomach rumbling with hunger. "Yeah! My nose was right! It's food!"
"Bakasaru!" Gojyo pounded Goku on the head.
"ITAI! What did you think you do!? Perverted kappa!"
"Ne, please calm down." Hakkai coaxed. "You will scare this two ladies. Let's have a lunch. That would be alright?"
Gojyo paused and looked at two women. "They didn't scare at all." He muttered. "Let's eat, saru."
"Okay!" Goku was too happy about food, so he didn't care what Gojyo said.
Hakkai sighed. "I wish Sanzo was here." Then he came to join his comrades.
-Chou an temple-
*sneeze*
"Are you get cold, Sanzo-sama?" A monk asked surprisingly. "I will take a medicine for you."
Before he could go, Sanzo stopped him. "I'm not cold."
"But you…" He had to stop his word when Sanzo stared at him.
Sanzo walked away to his room. All the way, it had so many questions getting through his mind. What was that? Why did I feel like someone called me? It was different than usual. It's always a boy voice calling his name, calling him. It's a lot of noisy. But this time it had a man voice to join. What the hell is that? It's really bothering me. He had to hold his temple when some picture was flashed in his head and caused headache. "Ch'."
-Back to Shunrei's house-
In the room, there's only Goku, Gojyo, Hakkai, and Shunrei. Oba-san got back her home after she put the lunch.
"That's delicious!" Goku told Shunrei.
"I'll tell oba-san." Shunrei smiled back.
"Did you have stomach instead of your brain, saru?" Gojyo really wondered.
Goku ignored him and turned his attention to Shunrei. "Did you find your Jien?"
Jien? Gojyo stunned.
Shunrei's face became sad. "Not yet."
"I'm sorry. But I believe he will get back to you this soon, you don't have to worry about that." Goku tried his best to console her.
"Thank you." She tried to smile at him. "I will go for laundry. Please take a rest."
Goku wanted to follow her but Hakkai stopped him. "Just let's her alone for now."
"Okay." Goku accepted.
After Gojyo was in silent for a while, he questioned Goku. "Who's Jien?"
"Her lover." Goku looked at Gojyo. "He's not your brother." He paused and became to the rare serious face. "I have to tell you something. I can't wait for Sanzo before telling you."
"It is not you forgot it? Ch'. Just admit it." Gojyo rolled his eyes. "You are saru, by the way."
Goku didn't mention about it. "Kanzeon Bosatsu told me that after the castle was collapsed, she sent someone to scout for a survivors. They found nothing." He paused. "Except Gyumaoh's body that we already knew he's dead and his youkais, they found the witness who saw a big dragon flew to the north. They discovered later that was Kougaiji's dragon. It's mean Kougaiji-ikkou, including your brother, still alive."
"My brother?" Gojyo stared at the boy. "How did you know he's my brother?"
"You told me once." Goku answered. "Hakkai told me about your brother, and you told us who he is when you found him. However that's not the thing I want to tell you." Goku stopped and continued it again. "What I want to tell you is it's not only Kougaiji-ikkou that still survive from that collapse, but Gyukumen Koshu and her scientists are also alive. It made us, Kanzeon Bosatsu and me, believed that Gyukumen Koshu is the backup of Nakuma. She control him, and also control the chaos on Togenkyo!"
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-Neo-Houto Castle-
The front of the big capsule, that was big enough to put a man who's about seven feet, was the woman.
"Gyukumen-sama." The man who wore the laboratory suit called her an attention from the downstairs.
"Oh! It's you. Dr. Ni." Gyukumen Koshu said.
"Do you like it?" Ni Jyeni asked for an opinion.
She turned to the capsule again. "Absolutely yes. This thing will help me a lot without my Ririn." She referred coldly to her daughter. "I don't think you came here just for asking my opinion, right?"
"That's right." Ni Jyeni replied. "I want to introduce you to this twin, Touma and Touya."
"Gyukumen-sama." The older brother, Touma said. Bothof them knelt in front of the stair beside Ni Jyeni.
Gyukumen Koshu gave a nod. "What is your plan, Dr. Ni?"
"I thought Nakuma-sama should have more people to help his work other than those two girls." He smiled evilly. "And Touma agreed with me to send his brother, Touya, for helping Nakuma-sama. It's a miracle about the twin. They can contact each other no matter how far. What is your opinion, Gyukumen-sama?"
"That's great idea. Helping my nephew is what I want." The fake smile was put on her face. "Just do it. Say him, I want to give him a hand. Then he will not ignore it."
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-Next morning, Shunrei's house-
"Thanks for giving us stay here last night." Hakkai told Shunrei.
"Don't you mind. Last time you help me a lot. This is just a little thing that I can give to you." She replied.
"But did you sure you okay? Yesterday…" Goku didn't complete his word when Shunrei shook her head.
"I'm alright." She smiled at the boy then turned her sight to Gojyo. "Gojyo ever told me once, a good woman won't cry. I won't cry and I will keep waiting for Jien."
"Huh? Did I say that?" Gojyo murmured. Suddenly it's like some picture was flashed in his head, a tear… her tears. Luckily no one saw the change in his eyes but Hakkai. And he was absolutely no doubt, even he didn't know why, that Hakkai wouldn't talk about it in front of Goku.
After they said goodbye to Shunrei and oba-san, and left the village, Goku broke the silent. "Hakkai. Did you feel the same way with me?"
"Felt what?" Hakkai asked.
"I felt… I felt this is the last time for us to see her." Goku replied.
Yes, I did. But Hakkai answered the boy the other thing. "Why did you think that? We can come to visit her anytime after the journey is complete. Right, Gojyo?" He hinted his companion and Gojyo could catch what Hakkai sent to him.
"Yes. That's right." Gojyo gave a support. "You shouldn't use your rare brain with something like this, saru."
"Stop calling me like that, ero-kappa!" Goku shouted.
"But Hakkai was right, wasn't it?" Gojyo asked for an admission.
Goku kept silent for a while before gave them a big grin. "Yes, Hakkai was right!"
Hakkai gave a smile back. "And where will we go next?"
"Hmmm…" Goku was thinking. "The temple on a rocky mountain! I want to visit Yo!" He said. "Last time we took five days from there to getting this village." He mentioned Shunrei's village. "IKU ZO!"
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-Chou an Temple-
"Genjo Sanzo has arrived." The servant announced.
"Sorry to interfere you duty, Genjo Sanzo. But it's something we want you to do." Sanbutsushin said.
"It's alright." Sanzo replied.
"We want you to visit a temple on the west." Sanbutsushin told him. "That you and your sensei, Koumyou Sanzo, ever visited once."
I can't remember it. He thought.
"You have to arrive in five days." Sanbutsushin said. "We will send you to a village. From there, you will take about five days to reach that temple. That's all we can do for you. Make yourself ready within an hour."
"As you wish." He received the order.
"And the place that you have to go is the temple on the rocky mountain."
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