Back to the east.

By vermillian.

Summary: Sanzou-ikkou was reunion and continued their journey. Nataku joined them. Unfortunately Goku lost of his memory while the others regained it. What will be happen next?

Notes: Thanks for the reviews. This chapter will tell us why Goku lost his memory and what's happen five hundred years ago. Please read and reviews.

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-Part Two-

Chapter eight.

The Kidnapping

"Who are you?"

*flashback*

Among the mist, there was the boy with golden eyes stood alone. It seemed he confused. He looked around and a bit frightened.

'Sanzo.' He waited a reply for a minute. When he realized that there was no one around him, he started to panic.

'Hakkai! Gojyo! Hakuryu!' He shouted but there was still no one answered him. Did they leave me? He wondered. No. No way. It can't be. He tried to sooth himself but he was still uncertain about it. What if they left me? It's possible, right? He asked himself. The half smile was putting on his face. After we met Gojyo and Sanzo, sometime they had a secret. They talked about something that they didn't want me to know. When I joined them, they always stopped the conversation and tried to change my attention to the other thing. Did they talk about the way to leave me?

Inside his mind was full filled with doubtfulness and anxiousness. He tried to think about the evident before he had been here. But it made the situation inside his heart got worse. Oh. Yes. After Sanzo joined us and started the journey again, Nakuma-ikkou attacked us. He and his followers were too strong. I was knocked in a few minutes. It's not only me, but Sanzo, Hakkai, and Gojyo were also at a disadvantage. We were lose. He shake his head. It's my fault. I'm the cause of this situation. I let the dangerous was nearby them. If I was not starting this journey, they would live peacefully at their places. I… I shouldn't start the journey again. I shouldn't find them. I shouldn't contact them. I shouldn't try to recall their memory. They may not want to recognize me. I forced them with my useless memory and their curiousness. If I didn't have the memory like them, it would be better that way. I shouldn't memorize them. If… if I lost my memory, if I forgot them, IF MY MEMORY WAS JUST GONE…

Goku opened his eyes, left his dream behind. He stared blankly at the guys around him and said. "Who are you?"

*end flashback*

The silent was taking place for a while. They, including Nataku, were stunned by Goku's word.

"Nani?" Gojyo finally squeezed the word from his throat. "Are you kidding? I'm not in mood for that stupid thing! Bakasaru!" He rapped the boy's head.

"It's hurt!" Goku rubbed his head.

Before Gojyo could do anything to the kid, Hakkai interrupted him. "Be cool, Gojyo." He cautioned and turned his attention to Goku. "What did you mean about your word?"

"I…" Goku knitted his brows. "I just asked who are you?"

"It's not the time for kidding, Bakasaru!" Gojyo rolled his eyes.

Goku pissed off. "I didn't kidding! I didn't know you! ALL OF YOU!" He stunned, something passed through his head, but he didn't have a time for considering it.

"What are you taking about?" Gojyo wanted to say more about this unbelievable situation, but he was interrupted by Sanzo.

"Gojyo," said Sanzo.

Gojyo pissed off because of this interruption. "Nani?"

Sanzo didn't care about it. "Get out of my way." Gojyo was surprised enough to let Sanzo passed to Goku without any protest.

Goku stared at the monk, widened his eyes. The sun?

*smack* "ITAI!"

"Bakasaru!"

"What are you doing?" protested Goku, "and stop calling me like that. I'm not a saru and I didn't know you! ITAI!" Goku cried when Sanzo hit him twice with paper fan.

"Maa. Sanzo. He still has injuries," coaxed Hakkai. "It seem his head was knocked so hard and he may get an amnesia from that collapse."

"Ch'." Sanzo kept his paper fan.

"Do you remember me?" asked Nataku after he kept quiet for a long time.

Goku turned his head to another boy, who had golden eyes as same as him. He felt his heartbeat was faster. He couldn't breathe easily, but he tried to ignore it. "No, I don't."

Nataku tarnished, but tried to cover it with a smile. "I see."

Goku didn't have a chance to say anything.

"Let's find the place for resting and think about this situation," said Hakkai and turned to Goku, "will you go with us?"

Everyone stared at Goku. The boy kept quiet, he didn't know what to do. Sanzo gave him a decision. The monk walked away.

"Think about it and quickly make a decision, saru," said Sanzo. He turned back to Hakuryu who already transformed to jeep.

Goku didn't think anymore what he should do in this situation. He just did what he wanted the most. He followed his sun. "Hey, wait!"

Sanzo glanced at the kid. "Ch'." He could lie no one. All of them relieved for Goku's decision.

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They set up the camp for resting. Meanwhile Goku surprised for everything, he wondered all the time. Did I really know them? Why did I feel so familiar with them? But when I tried to remember it, I just found nothing.

"Saru, if you don't want to help us, just get out of my way," said Gojyo.

Goku pissed off. "I'm not a saru! Red cockroach!" What did I say?

Gojyo also stopped, like the other, and stared at Goku. "Pardon? What did you call me?"

"Red cockroach," repeated Goku. He ignored his doubtfulness. "Your red hair style just like a cockroach."

Sanzo glanced at Gojyo. He kept quiet for a while and said. "I agreed." As a result, Hakkai and Nataku turned their face away from Gojyo in order to hide their smile.

"Baka," muttered Gojyo

Goku recalled their attention. "You didn't tell me my name. What is it?"

Sanzo looked the boy from the corners of his eyes. "Saru, that's it."

"No! I'm serious!" protested Goku. He pulled Sanzo's robe. "Give me a name!" What is it? Did this situation ever happen?

Sanzo also wondered, but he didn't mention anything. "Goku."

"Huh?"

"It's your name. Goku," replied Sanzo.

"What is the meaning?" asked Goku, "ne, what did it mean?"

"Stop disturbing me, bakasaru!"

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Because of injuring, Goku had to take some rest and let the other discussed about the situation.

"Do you think that he really lost of memory, Hakkai?" asked Gojyo.

"Maybe," replied Hakkai, "the injury on his head may affect his brain and cause an amnesia."

"Is that ape really have a brain?" murmured Gojyo humorously.

Hakkai ignored him. "What do you think, Sanzo?"

"As your thinking," said Sanzo shortly.

Gojyo wasn't seemed to satisfy with this situation "What did we recall our memory for?" muttered he.

Hakkai smiled as his usual form.

"When will he recall his memory back?" thought Nataku out loud.

The silent was taken place and it's Hakkai who broke it. "I don't know but I believe that he will finally remember us."

"I hope so," murmured Gojyo.

"However why did you come here?" asked Sanzo, "on earth. Why now, Nataku?"

Nataku didn't immediately answer the monk. It seemed he tried to find a proper word. "Did you recall all of your memory including what's happen 500 years ago?"

"… Yes," replied Sanzo. The other two youkais also nodded. They remember clearly what happen 500 years ago.

*flashback*

Konzen was finishing his job when young Goku got in his room. "Konzen." He glanced at the kid and ignored him.

Goku didn't want Konzen to neglect him. He shouted beside his keeper's ear. "KONZEN." As a result, the vein was popped up on Konzen's forehead.

"What did you think you do? Bakasaru!" *smack*

"ITAI! Konzen!" cried Goku.

"Maa. Konzen. You shouldn't so tough with him," coaxed Tenpou Gensui, beside him was the red hair Taishou, Kenren.

"He's still a kid." Kenren expressed his opinion.

"Ch'. What is your business to be in my room?" asked Konzen.

It's Goku who gave him an answer. "Let's go down to the earth!"

"Nani?"

"The earth," repeated Goku. "Ten-chan said there is beautiful! Will you go with me?"

Konzen glared at Tenpou and turned his attention back to his finished job. "No. If you want to go, you can ask them to go with you." He pretended to do his job.

The boy didn't give up. "They will," said Goku, "but I want you to go with us. Will you?" He paused and then added, "Please?"

Konzen looked at the boy for a while before gave up with the innocent eyes. He sighed. "But I have to come back within two hours."

It's work. Goku thought while he gave Konzen a big grin. He remembered what Tenpou told him about Konzen's answer. The man said Konzen might reply that way and he told Goku the trick to keep Sanzo more than two hours.

They went down to the earth. When they arrived and was looking for a place to picnic, they heard someone cried for help.

"What is that?" Goku knitted his brows.

"It seem someone is in trouble, maybe fighting," replied Tenpou, "What's up, Kenren?" He asked his friend when he saw Kenren stared at that direction with a strange attitude.

"I don't know," answered Kenren, "but I feel something wrong with it." He ended his word and was running to the source of voice. As a result, the other had to run after him.

When they reached the area that the fight occurred, they found the man with black hair lied on the ground, and had a brown hair woman with pointed eyes and a red hair boy beside him.

"Rei!?" said Kenren unbelievably. He ran to the man called Rei.

"Kenren?" said Rei with a weak voice.

Even Kenren felt a bit relief; he still wanted to kill someone who let his friend to be like this.

"Let's me check him," said Tenpou.

While Tenpou was looking for injury, Konzen glanced at the woman and the boy, and turned to Kenren. "Who are they?"

"I don't know them," replied Kenren. He meant the woman and the boy. "But for that guy, he's my friend and good soldier in my troop. I have no idea why and how he's getting in this situation."

"His injuries are so harmful," said Goku but Tenpou shake his head and corrected the boy.

"It's not 'so harmful', Goku. It's 'too harmful'."

The woman shivered. "Will he die?"

Tenpou said sorrowfully to her. "Sorry, madam."

Kenren was still in shock when someone grabbed his hand. "Rei?"

"Will you promise me?" asked Rei, "will you protect them for me? Protect them, including Sara."

"Sure, I will," assured Kenren. As a result, Rei smiled and closed his eyes. "Hey, don't dare to sleep right now. Don't you see I still awake. How could you sleep before me?"

Rei laughed. "I just want some rest." He fell as sleep with a deep and rhythmic breathe. When Kerren decided his friend wouldn't get worse, he turned to the only woman in that place.

"Who are you?" asked Kenren, "how did you relate with him?"

She raised her grievous eyes to him. "I'm Celine. I'm his…" But she couldn't finish her word when someone interrupted.

"She is his wife and that boy is their son, Kenren Taishou-sama." The new coming mentioned at the boy with golden eyes. This kid was seemed in the same age with Goku.

"His wife?" asked Kenren surprisingly. "But she's youkai."

"Yes. That's why we have to kill the boy. He's taboo child."

Konzen looked at the kid. But he's still young.

"No, please!" begged Celine, "please leave him. He's a kid. He's innocent."

"Shut up!" yelled the man, "unless you wanted to follow your husband."

It made Kenren stunned. He glanced at his friend but Tenpou assured him. "He's gone."

"Kenren-sama, please leave them. We have to complete our work." When Kenren didn't replied, the leader assumed that it meant yes. So he gave a sign at his troopers to attack the boy. Before they could do anything, there were someone joined and interrupted them. She's a silver hair woman.

"Oni-chan!" said she, "What's happen, Kenren-sama?"

Kenren ignored her question. "Why did you come here, Sara?"

"I felt something wrong with my brother," replied Sara, "who did this to him?"

Kenren didn't have to reply. The leader of this hunting said. "He impeded our work. He didn't give us a boy. And if you don't give him, we have to make you give up."

Sara pissed off. "Nani?" Before she had a chance for revenging, Kenren interrupted her. "Kenren-sama?"

Kenren ignored her. "I promise Rei that I will protect his family and I won't break it. If you want to do something with them, you have to win over me," said he, "if you can."

"No, you're wrong, Kenren," corrected Tenpou, "you have to say 'us', not 'me'." He included Goku and Konzen who were ready to fight.

When the fight was taking place for a while, the hunting group lost and went back to heaven. Before they went, they gave Kenren a warning. "We will tell the Emperor about this situation, prepare yourself for his angry, Kenren Taishou." They disappeared.

Kenren stared at the area that the hunter ever be before turned to Sara. "Are you okay?"

"Yes," replied Sara. "What will we do next? The Emperor must be angry."

"Yes, he will be," said Kenren. "But we can't send the boy to him."

Tenpou lowered himself to face the boy and asked. "What is your name?"

"I'm Nakuma," replied he. His face was still pale and the tear filled in his eyes.

"I know some place for hiding," said Konzen. Everyone stared at him. "I ever went down to the earth when I was boring the heaven."

"You're really surprising me, Konzen-sama," murmured Kenren.

"Thank you very much, Konzen-sama," said Celine.

Konzen didn't answer her. If the tense didn't take over Kenren's mind, he might say something about Konzen's kindness.

Goku disappointed. "Can't he stay with us, Konzen?"

"He can't," said Konzen, "do you forget what the hunter wanted to do with him? He won't safe in heaven." After he looked at Goku, he added. "And he won't safe if you come to see him. Those hunters can follow you to find him."

"I'm sorry," apologized Celine, "if it's not because of us,…"

Tenpou interrupted her. "It's not your fault, and this is what we want to do."

"Yes. You don't have to guilty about it," added Goku.

She looked thankfully.

After Konzen showed Celine the way to the hidden place and prepared to get back to heaven, Kenren gave a command to Sara. "You go with them."

"Nani!?" startled Sara.

"I said you have to go with them," repeated Kenren.

"But Kenren-sama…"

"I order you!" yelled Kenren.

Sara compressed her lips, didn't want to receive that order.

"If I find that you follow us, … You don't want to know what I gonna do with you," threatened Kenren. "I don't want you to be my problem."

"But I can't let you take a response for this situation alone. I can help you," contradicted Sara.

"Yes. You can help me," said Kenren sarcastically, "you can help me by make more trouble. I don't want you to go with me."

Sara's face was looked paleness and the tear was filled in her eyes. It caused Kenren's heart was pulled by the unseen force but he acted like nothing happen.

"Let's go." He turned away from Sara and disappeared. Konzen and Goku followed him. Before Tenpou followed his friends, he turned to Sara. "Good luck." They left Rei's family behind.

When they reached heaven, they headed to Konzen's room.

"You shouldn't so tough with her, Kennii-chan," muttered Goku.

"It's better for her. At least she was safe there," said Kenren.

"But you know what she think about you, Kenren," opposed Tenpou, "and you are…"

Kenren didn't want Tenpou to finish his word. "It's the best way, unless she will follow us. And that kid also need a protection."

"And if my premonition is right, we are also need it," said Konzen.

His premonition was right. They didn't have to wait so long when the Emperor sent his suite to tell them to have an audience with him.

"It's our time," said Tenpou.

Konzen nodded. "Let's go."

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"It's not a good memory, right?" Gojyo tried to make a joke.

Hakkai gave an opinion. "There were starting from that situation."

"If you could turn back time to that moment, would you change it?" asked Nataku.

They looked at each other and it's Hakkai who answered the question. "No."

Nataku laughed nervously. "I should know it."

Before they could continue their discussion, the scream interrupted them.

"Goku!" yelled Hakkai, "it's his voice!"

"Ch'."

"What's happen, saru?" shouted Gojyo.

Goku couldn't reply him. The boy was unconsciousness. He was carried by Touya.

"Let's us borrow him for a while," said Nakuma, "you know where to find us if you want him back."

"Sara!" shouted Gojyo.

She glanced at him with a knowledge that he remembered her. The pain was painted in her eyes. "Let's go, Nakuma." They disappeared.

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-Neo-Houto Castle-

"Here you are," said Nakuma. He sent Goku to Nii Jyeni.

"Thank you, prince."

"What will you do with him?" asked Nakuma.

Nii Jyeni pretended to regret. "Oh, sorry. I can't tell you. It's a secret."

His acting caused Nakuma pissed off. "Ch'." He walked away to his place.

In his room, Sara was waiting for him. "Do you sure that this is what you want?"

Nakuma compressed his lips. "I have no choice. That bitch use my mother's life as a wager."

"What will they do with him?" She meant Goku.

"I don't know," replied Nakuma. What should I do, mother?

Back to the hall, Gyukumen Koshu and her scientist were changing their opinion. "He did a good job. Right, Nii?" asked Gyukumen Koshu.

"Yes. Gyukumen Koshu-sama."

"How long do you take for this work?"

"If you meant Son Goku, I should take a couple of day for it," replied Nii Jyeni.

"Hurry up," said Gyukumen Koshu, "oh, I'm waiting to see you again, my beloved." She told the guy who slept in the big capsule. He's so similar to Nakuma, except that he was darker and was seemed stronger. "My Gyumaoh."

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Another chapter was finished. Sorry about this long chapter, I just couldn't stop it. What do you think about it? Please read and review.