Back to the east.
By vermillian.
Summary: Five hundred years was passed, and Li Touten reappeared in Gyukumen Koushu side, only to gave Sanzo the same wound as he did to Konzen. What will be happened next?
Notes: Thanks for the reviews. I don't understand why my story has the tendency to be longer in every chapter. *sweat dropped* And I'm sorry again for the cliffhanger. In this chapter, it will be Goku-centric… again, and Dr Howan will also start to play a role. For Kougaiji-ikkou, I have to admit that they won't play much role in my story because I can't find a place for them, unless I change my plan and increase the chapter number. *major sweat dropped* Please read and review.
Disclaimer: I did not own any character of saiyuki. I own only Nakuma-kun, Sara-san, Yumi, Touya, Touma, and the new version of Gyumaoh.
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Chapter eleven.
Pay Back.
"SANZO!!!"
Because both Hakkai and Gojyo regained their memory once they were kami, they also regained their true power. Hakkai blew his enemy with his ki. He managed to run to Sanzo and didn't forget to drag the stunned Goku with him.
"Sorry," said Gojyo. Then he threw Sara away with his Shaku jou, and attacked Li Touten in order to prevent any more damage on Sanzo.
"History repeats itself," said Li Touten. He laughed evilly.
"Sanzo!" shouted Hakkai. He generated his ki and tried to close Sanzo's wound, with Goku stunned beside him.
Touya was about to attack his enemy, but Li Touten stopped him. "Let's them go."
"Nani?" Touya glared at the elder.
Li Touten smirked. "And you two." He mentioned Nakuma and Yumi. "We still have a time to do what we want, after Konzen was dead… again."
As a result, Nakuma and Yumi stepped back from Nataku, and let him to run to where Sanzo-ikkou was.
"Hakkai, how is he?" asked Gojyo.
The green-eyed youkai didn't suddenly reply. He stopped to use his ki, and removed his hand off to let the other saw that the wound wasn't breeding anymore. "I don't know. I already close his wound. He lost so much blood. The rest is depending on him."
Gojyo cursed something in a low voice.
While the other was taking and worrying about Sanzo, Goku was still speechless. His face paled and his heartbeat was increasing in every minute. There were many images to pass through his mind. What is this? Is this situation ever happen before? When?
Gojyo turned to Nataku. "Can you transfer the blood to him?"
Nataku was blushing. "Er… no, I can't."
"Why do you blush like that?" asked Gojyo. That was before he realized something. "Ah… There is only reason. That baba told you, didn't she?"
Nataku nodded, his face was still red. "She told me about the last time she tried to transfer your blood to Kon… er… Sanzo."
Transfer blood to him? Goku wondered. Then many fragmented memories were facing him.
*flashback*
In somewhere under the earth surface, Sanzo was laid on the ground. He was poisoned.
"What will we do, Hakkai?" asked Goku.
Hakkai didn't suddenly give an answer. He remembered what he ever told the boy. 'We have to believe in him that he won't die so easily, and be strong.'
'Okay. I'll be strong,' replied Goku.
"We have to get out of here for the first," answered Hakkai.
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The blood was covered on Sanzo's body. Because of his spontaneous reaction, the monk shield Goku from Rikudou's pike, and as a result, he took it instead of the boy.
"Sanzo!?" cried Goku.
"Ch'." That was the last word before Sanzo was unconscious.
Because of a lot of bloods on Sanzo's body, it caused the headache on Goku. The image was appearing in his mind. Who is that guy? There was the long blonde-hair man with a couple of purple eyes.
"Argh!" Goku was transforming to Seiten Taisei Son Goku.
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Where am I? It's so dark and narrow. I want to get out of here!
Suddenly the light was flashing to the boy's eyes. The wall that separated him from the world was broken. He was naked and sat alone on the top of the small mountain. The yellow ball was floating in front of him.
Seiten Taisei Son Goku was born.
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"Let me go!" protested the golden-eyed boy. "Where is food? You said you would feed me!"
"This is in front of Kanzoen Bosatsu-sama! Make yourself good!" scolded the man.
On another side, the blonde-hair man talked to the woman on the throne. "Is the boy that you want me to see?"
The woman, who was called Kanzeon Bosatsu, smirked… evilly. "Yes. At least he is less boring. Right, Konzen?"
At the time, the man who brought the boy shouted, "Ouch! Stop biting me!"
The boy escaped from the distance that he could be harmed, and he accidentally glanced at Konzen. The Sun?
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"Konzen! I have a new friend today!" stated the boy.
Konzen glanced at the boy before stopped to pay attention on him. "Really?"
The boy didn't like it. He tried to call an attention again. "Yes, his age is around me."
Konzen knitted his brows. But in this place, the boy that ages around him is…
"Ne, Konzen."
"What?"
"Give me a name," requested the boy, "Nataku asked me a name but I couldn't tell him. I want to tell him next time!"
"I'll think about it later," replied Konzen. He was about to continue his sleeping when the boy interrupted him, but he couldn't."
"A NAME!" shouted the boy, "ANY NAME!"
"Oi! Stop annoying me! Okay, it's saru."
The boy surely didn't like it. "I'm not a saru!"
Konzen was about to do something terrible to the boy in order to stop the argument, but, again, he had to change his mind when he saw the pair of golden-eyed. He turned away from the boy. "Goku."
"Huh?"
"It's Goku," shouted Konzen, "now stop arguing me!"
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"Ten-chan! Ken-niichan! Hurry up!" Goku dragged his older friends to Konzen's office. They planned to have a picnic on Togenkyo, and Goku wanted Konzen to go with them.
"Hai, hai," replied Tenpou with his favorite smile.
"Do you remember the plan?" asked Kenren.
Goku nodded with a grin. "Sure!"
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On Togenkyo, Konzen-ikkou had to change their picnic into the fighting against the Emperor's order for saving the boy's life, Nakuma.
"Can they go with us?" asked Goku.
Konzen shook his head. "They can't."
"And you stay with them in Togenkyo, Sara," commanded Kenren.
"But I don't want to!" protested Sara.
"You have to!"
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In front of the boy, there were Tenpou and Kenren's bodies, lifeless, and the big wound on Konzen, that was caused by Li Touten's sword. He got it because of his attempt to protect Goku.
"Be alive."
"KONZEN!"
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If this was the deep underground where I can never see the sun, then I'll rather not know what's freedom and warmth.
Goku always watched the sunset. He had no memory, none at all. But he was waiting for someone for a long time, waiting for someone to find him.
"It's noisy," said the young monk.
Goku was speechless. He just looked up at the blonde-hair monk. The… Sun?
The monk sighed when he saw Goku's sight. "It's no other choice. Give me a hand. I'll bring you with me."
Suddenly Goku's hand reached the monk's, his chain and the cage was gone, like it's never being there. He found his guardian … his sun.
*End flashback*
"…ku. Goku," called Hakkai.
Goku winked. "H… Hai!"
"Are you alright?" asked Hakkai anxiously.
"I'm alright," replied Goku dryly.
"At least he didn't transform," hinted Gojyo.
Hakkai was about to say something when he was interrupted. "Does he finish to give a final instruction?" teased Touya. He pretended to apologize when Sanzo-ikkou glared at him. "Oh, sorry. I think he's gone."
"In fact, it seems he was unconscious because of losing too much blood. So I don't think that he will have the chance that you talk about," hinted Li Touten. He told Touya.
"I see," nodded the younger.
"Teme!" Gojyo was about to harm them when someone pulled his arm. He surprised when he realized that it's Goku, but the boy didn't face him so he was no idea what Goku thought. "What…"
Goku interrupted him. "Leave them to me."
"If only Touya, you may have a capacity to defeat him. But all of them? I don't think so," said Nataku.
"Nataku was right. Even I think that you have capacity to defeat no one," teased Gojyo. He raised his hand, but it didn't reach the boy. Goku avoided it.
"Goku," hinted Hakkai.
"I said leave them, Gojyo," repeated Goku.
"Do you forget what 'onee-chan' told you?" muttered Gojyo.
Goku ignored him and started to walk to Li Touten as the first target.
Unfortunately Sanzo interrupted him. "Bakasaru."
"Sanzo. Are you alright?" asked Hakkai surprisingly.
"I won't die that easy, baka," said Sanzo. He tried to sit up with Hakkai's help and turned to Goku. "You can't fight alone with all of them."
Goku glanced at the monk before turned back to Li Touten. "I can't leave him this time," explained the boy. However, the next sentence was surprising everyone, including in Li Touten's side. "I made the mistake twice. Five hundred years ago, I let him did this to 'Konzen', and I couldn't stop him to do the same thing this time. So all that I can do is to make him repay what he did."
"Goku. Do you…" Gojyo couldn't finish his word.
Goku ignored the red-hair youkai and turned to Hakkai "Will you…" He stopped it.
Hakkai understood. He nodded. "You don't have to worry about Sanzo. Just do what you want."
"Thanks," replied Goku. A little smile was putting on his face before it was gone in the next minute. He headed to Li Touten again. "Nyoibou!" With an unbelievable speed, Goku attacked Li Touten that might make a lot of harmful to the elder if Nakuma didn't interfere him.
Goku narrowed his eye. "I have no business on you. Get out of my way."
"What if I don't?" replied Nakuma.
Without warning, only one throw of Nyoibou, Goku sent Nakuma to another side of the hall that caused the wall collapsed down.
"Nakuma!" shouted Sara. She and Yumi ran to check Nakuma whether he got any wound or not.
"So strong," murmured Nataku.
Gojyo was speechless. Is that his true power?
"Goku!" shouted Hakkai when he saw Touya came to attack the boy from behind.
Touya smirked. "It's too late." He wouldn't say it if he only knew. Even he took the advantage when Goku was busing with Nakuma, he still too slow for the boy. Before he could attack Goku, the unseen punch was knocking him, and broke his ribs. Then he was sent to another side of the room by only one kick.
"He's faster than the last time he was in his original form. How could it be?" said Gojyo unbelievably.
It's Sanzo who answered him. "It may because he regained his memory that brought his true power back, like you and Hakkai."
At the moment, Goku changed his target back to Li Touten. "You have to pay."
"If only you think you can," replied the elder. Although he said it with his full confidence, it seemed to be impossible to defeat Goku, who regained his true power.
Goku attacked the elder again with his Nyoibou but Li Touten just could defend it in time.
"What are you smirking for?" asked Goku.
Li Touten didn't suddenly reply. He changed the topic. "Do you know what is the deal between Gyukumen Koushu and me?"
"What?" Goku couldn't catch what the elder tried to say.
"The deal is if our plan is success, she will get her husband back and also Togenkyo. For my sharing part is Tenkai," said Li Touten.
"Nani!?" said Gojyo unbelievably.
"Why did you tell me?" asked Goku.
"It's because," replied Li Touten, "I don't want you to beware your back."
"Nani?"
"Goku!" shouted Hakkai. Touya was about to kill the boy. Hakkai realized that Goku couldn't defend himself in time. He generated his ki as a big ball and threw it to Touya. As a result, the ogre was disappeared. He's gone.
"You're alone," said Goku. His mind was concentrating at the elder. He was about to harm Li Touten, but unfortunately Yumi was interfering and separated him from the elder.
It's not only Yumi, but Nii Jyeni also joined this interference. He sent youkais that were more than a hundred in order to interrupt Sanzo-ikkou. Although Goku and the other could easily defeat them, they still couldn't prevent the evasion of Nakuma-ikkou. As a result, Nakuma-ikkou, including Nii Jyeni and Li Touten, was escaping from the castle and went back to the main one without any obstruction.
When Goku and the other defeated all of youkais, they decided to get out of this castle and found some place for Sanzo to take a rest.
"Nataku," called Goku. "Thanks for coming."
Nataku didn't suddenly replied. "That's all right and it's because I want to…"
Goku interrupted. "It's not your fault if you want to talk about five hundred years ago. After all, we are friend, aren't we?" He grinned.
Nataku stared at his friend for a while before nodded, and gave back a big grinned. "Sure!"
-An inn-
"Oi! Saru!" called Gojyo.
Goku pissed off. "Don't call me saru! Your red hair cockroach!"
"Baka," muttered Sanzo. The vein was popped up on his head as its original form.
Hakkai laughed.
"Hey! I just want to ask," protested Gojyo.
"You can if you won't call me saru, ero-kappa," replied Goku.
Gojyo glared at the boy. "Do you want to fight?"
Before the argument would be increasing, Hakkai interrupted them… again. "Maa, maa. What do you want to ask him, Gojyo?"
Gojyo changed his target of glaring before answered. "I want to ask him whether he know or not why he lost his memory, and how he regained it."
"Sou ka," said Hakkai. He turned to Goku. "For us, we started to regain our memory when we first met you. We tried to remember the rest, but we just regained all of it when we met Nataku. What's about you?"
Goku was absolutely tongue-tied. He took a minute before replied something. "Did you say you started to remember when you saw me at the first time? Why didn't you tell me?" Then he turned and stared at Sanzo.
The monk didn't want to answer about it. "Ch'."
"Sorry, Goku." It became Hakkai's duty to answer the boy. "But we didn't think that we would regain all of memory so fast. We afraid that if we told you and it became a daydream, it might hurt you."
Goku sighed. "I thought… forget it." He shook his head.
"Say it," ordered Gojyo.
"I don't want to talk about it. After all, it was the past," protested Goku.
"It means you know the reason." Gojyo didn't give up. "Come on! Let's talk about it."
Goku compressed his lips. He still didn't want to talk about it. But when he started to say, it looked like everything was prepared on his tongue. "I just thought that you didn't want to remember the past, and I was a troublemaker who forced you to think about it. You might not want me to be there. I thought if I didn't contact you or lost my memory, everything would be better." The silence was taking place. While the boy talked about the reason that let him to forget the past, he stared at his fingers just like it was the most interesting thing in the world. He still continued what he did after he ended his sentence.
*smack* *smack* *smack* Sanzo's favorite paper fan hit on Goku's head, and destroyed the silence.
"ITAI!" protested Goku. "What do you think you do?"
Sanzo ignored the protest. "Baka. You are always being a troublemaker by yourself."
Goku was about to continue protesting when Gojyo pounded him on the head. "What do you think you do? Ero-kappa!"
"Ch'. Bakasaru," said Gojyo, "how did you think you could force us? We always do what we want to do. Don't you remember what 'Konzen-sama' always said? Bakasaru!"
"Maa, maa," said Hakkai. He's always the one who calmed down the argument, and he did it again. "It's the past. Everything is going to be better now."
"Ch'," muttered Goku. He kept quiet for a while. "Thanks."
"Baka," said Sanzo.
The tense was passed. Hakkai reverted to the topic. "How did you regain your memory? Is it because of Sanzo?"
Goku nodded. "When I saw a lot of his blood, I started to remember the past and the story was passing through my head, including what happen in Tenkai."
"I see," replied Hakkai.
"Then you remember everything," concluded Nataku.
Goku nodded instead of the answer.
They continued their conversation for a while before Hakkai could realize how late at night was. "Let's take some rest. We have to regain our energy and attack the main castle in a couple of day."
"Tomorrow," said Sanzo.
Hakkai didn't even glance at his leader when he rejected the suggestion. "Two days after tomorrow, and no regret."
"I agree," said Goku seriously.
"Two votes," approved Gojyo.
"No, you are wrong," stated Nataku. Everyone stared at him. "It's three."
"Don't forget me and it will be four," hinted Hakkai.
"Kyu!"
"Five, including Hakuryu." He smiled at the white dragon and then turned to Sanzo. "Do you have any comment, Sanzo?"
Sanzo swore and cursed something, which would be censored if he said it on air. "Do whatever you want."
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-Neo-Houto Castle-
"Three ribs were broken. He's also losing a lot of blood, and still unconscious. We have to heal him as soon as possible," said Nii Jyeni. He smirked when he saw Sara's eyes. "Will you let him in my charge?"
Sara gritted her teeth. If only I have a healing power. "Please."
"Sara-sama!" protested Yumi.
"We have no choice but to trust him," replied Sara.
"Clever girl," murmured Nii Jyeni. As a result, he got two glares. "Yare, yare. I will try my best. By the way, Dr. Howan is with me."
"It's the only reason that I let him to be with you," said Sara coldly.
"Hai, hai. Oh, she just comes in time to save my life," teased Nii Jyeni. He mentioned Howan, who just arrived the place.
She turned to Sara. "What's wrong with him?"
Before Sara could reply anything, Nii Jyeni interrupted with his words. "He underestimated his enemy." And he got three glares because of it. He made an excuse. "I just said as the outsider."
Sara sighed. "I don't want to admit it but he was right."
"Sara-sama," hinted Yumi.
"It's true, Yumi. None of us thought that Goku could improve his power in soon, but we are wrong," said Sara. She turned to Howan. "I entrust you. Please take care of him."
Howan nodded. "With my life, Sara-sama."
After the doctor brought Nakuma to the surgery and left two women behind, Yumi turned to the aunt of her master. "Can we trust her?"
Sara nodded. "Well, it happened before you united with us."
On the surgery, after the operation was accomplished, Nakuma was still unconscious. Howan volunteered to look after him. When the other left her alone, she stared at Nakuma.
"Is it twelve year? It's a long time," murmured Howan, "after you helped me that day."
At Sara's room, she just finished to tell Yumi the first meeting between Nakuma and Howan.
"So Nakuma-sama was saving her from her people," concluded Yumi.
Sara nodded. "It's meaningful to her. Without him, she wouldn't be what she is. You don't have to worry that she will betray us."
"Hai, Sara-sama," replied Yumi.
After they continued their conversation for a while, Yumi turned back to her room and left Sara behind with her own thought. They will be here in a few days. What will we do? What will I do? She went to her window and stared outside the room. She tried to change her thought, but there was only one thing in her mind, only one picture. "Kenren-sama."
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It's longer than usual, ne? ^^ About Howan's past, I have no space for her in this series, but I'll put it in the new one. I'll post it soon. Back to this chapter, what do you think about it? Please read and review.
