Disclaimer: I would like to say that Gensoumaden Saiyuki does not belong to me at all. All characters honorably belong to Kazuya Minekura-san Sensei except for the storyline and the original characters that rightfully belong to me. The title "Love Potion No.9" is not mine too. I'm just borrowing it from a Hollywood movie.
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Ayie: Yare yare… gomen nasai minna-san, this fic was pending for a quite some time and some readers even think that I had stopped writing this fic. GOMEN! I'm sorry for the delay but I was having my examination week and I have to focus on my revisions. Sumimasen… bows head…and ma…ma…how can I get the comical idea for this fic? Well, I'm trying my best here…so forgive me if this chap is not somewhat humorous… gomen…
Sanzo: -__-++…takes out the harisen and whacks ayie's head continuously… STOP…TALKING…AND…WRITE!!!! keep whacking and starts stomping his foot on Ayie
Ayie: @__@""…ittei…staggers aimlessly
Hakkai: Yare yare desune…Sanzo, I think you've put too much bumps on her head slaps head in disbelief, knowing that he has to work on healing ayie's headache, again!… by the way, minna-san, thanks for reviewing the fic and more for waiting patiently for the uploading. Arigatou na minna-san bows slightly, with a merry smile on his face
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Love Potion no.9
Chapter 6
The jeep kept on moving to the horizon.
Aiko lifted her face and looked away to the horizon. She retreated her eyes and then bowed her head slightly, looking down to her hands, which clasped on something. She opened her cupped hands and studied the phial. The phial contained some kind of transparent liquid that reflected her image back to her.
"What's that?" Goku stumbled on her arms and peeked into her hands. The sudden weight caused Aiko to accidentally jerked back and sent the phial soaring up before her head. She gawped and waited anxiously for the phial to crash over the floor of the jeep. 'Here it goes…our only chance'.
It came just in time. Gojyo caught the phial just before it crashed down to the floor. Aiko sighed with relief. 'It was safe!' she leant against the jeep and sighed out a very deep breathe.
"What's this?" Gojyo asked as he held up the phial and studied it intently. He shook the phial with haste and watched as the bubbles formed on the surface.
A slight curl appeared on her sweet cherry mouth. She snapped her finger and said,
"That's the love potion number nine"
"Ek?" Goku and Gojyo turned to each other's face and gaped. They turned at Aiko and looked at her with their eyes widened.
"Love potion number nine?"
Aiko smiled merrily.
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-Flashback-
"Reika!" the calling made her head turned to the door. Aiko smiled at seeing her uncle standing by the door.
"Kei-jii-san" she addressed him with respect. She was about to rise to her feet when her uncle gestured and urged her to sit down. Aiko surrendered to the order and remained seated by the bedside. She waited for the bold youkai to say something. The look on Kei's eyes suggested that he had something important to tell her.
Kei strode to Aiko's bed and halted right before her. He patted the girl's head and smiled eerily. Aiko looked up to Kei's face with some sort of suspicion. "Kei-jii-san… daijoubu desuka ne?" she asked with worries.
Kei laughed, seemed to be amused with the amount of suspicions and worries showered upon her beautiful face. He sank to the bedside, sitting before the girl and then took the girl's hands into his. One of his hands brushed the locks on the side of the girl's face. He ended up pinching Aiko's rosy cheek.
"Ittei!" the girl hissed in pain. She pouted at Kei as she rubbed the aching spot on her cheek. "Nani yo?" she asked, quite irritated when Kei laughed heartily to her face.
Kei stopped laughing and stared at Aiko's face. The girl was Reika once again, after months of hiding beneath the rigid and stiff Aiko. After the death of her family, the girl transformed abruptly into someone fearless of death and is capable of slaughtering thousands of youkais. Her hands were stained of blood and her life was sinful. The only way to forfeit from her sins was to travel to the West on the order of Goddess of Mercy, alone with her little brother, who was put under her care after the death of their family.
"O-jii-san" Aiko called out of wonders. It worries her to see her uncle staring at her like that.
Kei smiled. "It's a great pleasure to see you like this again Reika" he said as his smile widened. "I will never forget how beautiful you were before it happen and never stopped hoping that one day I'll see you like that again" he explained. He pinched Aiko nose and giggled as Aiko grunted. Even though Aiko was his brother-in-law's adopted daughter, it was not much to say that he adored her so much and indeed she was his favorite niece.
Aiko stammered. A glint of tears strolled down her cheeks. Out of the blue, the sapphire-eyed girl flung her arms around the youkai's neck and hugged him tight. "Ojiisan…" she whined softly.
"Na na Reika…hush now" the sturdy demon patted the girl's head reassuringly and then caressed her soft wavy hair. He pulled Aiko from him and studied her face. Kei brushed his hand against Aiko's dreary cheek and wiped the tears away. "Don't taint your beauty with tears my dear daughter" Kei shook his head in disapproval. He will never approve any tears from the girl. All of his entire life, he had sworn to himself that he would make sure that Reika would never cry again.
"Now smile" Kei urged the girl as he tickled her cheek. Slowly, a sweet adorable smile appeared on her face. "Now that's better" the youkai grinned.
Kei reached to his vest and took out a phial from inside it. "Now Reika… I have something to give you for your journey to Okadia" Kei mentioned as he took Aiko's hand and put the phial onto the girl's palm.
"What's this?" Aiko studied the phial and then looked at her uncle's face, looking for the answer for her question.
"That's a potion, love potion" he answered, almost smiling.
"Love potion? What was it for?" Aiko was struck dumbfounded. Was her uncle trying to mock her, knowing about how Hakkai and her had this problem of showing affections upon each other? "I don't think I need that" she declined and tried giving the phial back to Kei.
Kei guffawed. "It's not for you baka!" Kei slapped the girl's head and Aiko mumbled and mumbled continuously.
"So, it was true…you are in some kind of relationship with Hakkai-san" all this while, Kei only made a wild guess about Hakkai and Aiko's relationship. He judged it from the way Aiko's eyes gleamed every time she talked about Hakkai and how the emerald-eyed man fixed his gaze upon his niece's face.
Aiko blushed severely. Now there she goes again, another slip of the tongue.
The man laughed again at seeing the blush on Aiko's face. But then, he turned serious at instant.
"You see…this phial contained the love potion number nine" he explained. "You could not kill any of the women and men from Okadia and Keioka but at least you can help bring them back together" Kei clasped Aiko's hand, which was holding the phial.
"Yare yare… I don't think Sanzo-nii-chan would like the idea" Aiko just could imagine what will happen if that high ranked monk knew about the idea of bringing the men of Keioka and women of Okadia back together. The image of Sanzo with his veins popping on his forehead, his face turned crimson red, his head blowing off steams and his hand searching for the shoureijuu or the harisen quickly came to her mind.
Aiko hastily shook the image away with shivers. Thinking of Sanzo while he's fuming almost equaled to her worst nightmare ever.
"Dai jou bu da yo… if he's the same man as Koryuu that you always told me about, I knew he would agree with the idea" Kei confirmed confidently. His experience from years of living made him a man of wisdom and virtue. "He's a monk…it's his job to preach and bring good to others"
Aiko shook her head. "He's not that kind of monk…no, he is never that kind of monk!" she stressed desperately. Yes! Genjo Sanzo is indeed a high ranked monk, but his attitude was just not of a monk. He is far different from a typical monk. This is a corrupted monk they're talking about, a monk named Toa Genjo Sanzo Houshi.
"Trust me Reika…I know about men than you think you did" Kei assured as he patted the girl's shoulder. Aiko's still unsure. She kept staring at the phial in her hand. "Mix the potion in their drinking water and you'll know the result in a nick of time" Kei rose up from the bedside. He glanced down to Aiko. Reaching out a hand he ruffled the young lass' hair.
"Are you sure it will work?" Aiko asked with doubt.
Kei smiled. "It's love potion number nine, of course it'll work dear" he promised as he walked to the door. "Believe in the power of love" he said softly right before he pulled the door closed.
Aiko looked down to her hand and held the phial before her face. The transparent substance in the phial was so solid that she thought a small drop of it could give tremendous effect.
"Love potion number nine?"
- End of Flashback-
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"Ek?!" Goku's eyes widened at hearing Aiko's answer. "Love potion number nine? Can it be drink ne Aiko?" he asked, excitedly. Just in the matter of time, he started feeling rather thirsty. The young itan tried grabbing the potion from Gojyo.
Aiko panicked. "Iie!" she disapproved as she snatched the phial from Gojyo's hand before Goku could touch it. Aiko quickly shoved the phial back into her dress. "This is not for an underage like you…!" she scolded the boy.
"Ch! You are so mean" Goku pouted. He crossed his arms before his chest and leant to the jeep. That was a sign of protest.
Aiko smiled. She looked at Goku's face and the boy quickly turned away with a harsh humph. The ponytails on both sides of his head swayed frantically as he made that sudden movement of his head.
Gojyo laughed like crazy. "Now you really are turning into a girl saru" he taunted the boy. Goku gave Gojyo a threatening glare and suddenly leapt over the kappa. He tugged at the kappa's hair and bit his ear fiercely.
"Ai chi chi…!!" Gojyo hissed in pain. He tried in vain to shove the boy away from him.
Aiko looked at the front seat. Sanzo's vein is making its appearance, again. She sweat dropped. "Ma…ma…minna-san, let's kiss and make up" she pled as she tried pulling Goku away from the struggling-to-let-go Gojyo.
"No way I'm going to kiss this perverted kappa!" Goku kept bobbing Gojyo's head while the latter kept punching him on the face.
"And no way I'm going to kiss you saru!!!" Gojyo hollered.
"Saru teryuna!!!" Goku protested.
"Goku!!!" Aiko wrapped her arms around Goku's waist and yanked him away from Gojyo with her mightiest effort. The force made her back knocked really hard with the jeep, alas, Goku slammed onto her, hard!
"Ittei…" Aiko moaned as she clutched her spinning head. She could count the tiny winy little birds that flew around her head, chirping and twitting merrily. 'K'so' she muttered beneath her breath as she shook her head frantically, shoving the aches away.
"Gomen ne Aiko?" Goku stared down to her face with guilt. A pair of golden eyes blinked and glittered innocently. The itan crawled up beside her and lent her a helping hand when she tried to rise to a sitting position.
Aiko smiled. "Dai jou bu da…" she laughed slightly. The girl reached for something from her sling bag and took out a kento. The kento was held out to Goku and the boy received it with the heartiest thanks.
The mutant girl sat up straight and glanced at the monk. Sanzo looked quite at peace now. No more veins popping here and there on his face. His arms were folded carefully before his torso and there's no sign of those arms sinking into the oversized sleeve and came out again with the harisen or the shoureijuu.
Aiko sighed. 'That's lucky'
"Ma…ma…minna-san, we're here" Hakkai exclaimed as he stepped on the brake and put the jeep on a halt, at sudden. The jeep stopped right before the entrance gate of the city. The gate was so huge that they have to look up to the sky in order to measure the height.
"Sugee!!!" Goku gawped at seeing the magnificent gate.
The driver disembarked the jeep and walk to the entrance. Hakkai knocked on the door. It was solid steel and there's no way Harkuryuu could simply slammed on it.
"How are we going to get inside?" Gojyo scratched his head. He looked around. Huge gate surrounded the city, making a fortress out of it. Thick forest enveloped the fortress and the height of the gate however outlasted the highest tree available.
Aiko hopped off the jeep and walked to the entrance. She went to the side of the entrance and pulled on a rope, which rang a big bell that hung on top of the entrance.
"I didn't see that" Hakkai grinned sheepishly. Aiko slapped her head in disbelief.
"Yo!" suddenly a voice greeted them. A female voice. They looked up and found a woman in uniform poking her head from the guard stand on top of the fortress, looking down to them. The woman studied them and then asked "What do you want?"
"We're traveler… and we need to replenish our ration" Aiko hollered to the guard. "Can we ask for your kindness and let us do some shopping in your city?"
The woman in uniform disappeared for a moment and then reappeared after another. She yelled down. "We'll open the gate for you!" she gestured to another woman, probably her comrade, and the latter pulled up a lever. There was a rattling sound of a steel rubbing to another and then was followed by a loud creaking noise.
The huge door opened slowly, revealing the content of the city bit by bit. Hakkai and Aiko hopped into the jeep. The emerald-eyed man stepped on the accelerator pedal and stirred on the gear. Jippu moved slowly and entered the city.
As soon as they entered the city, the huge door closed. The creaking noise reemerged. Gojyo dug his ear furiously. The creaking noise is giving him some sort of a pain in the head. He looked around and bewildered at seeing the scene of the city.
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It's a normal city with abnormal residents. There was huge swarm of humans but neither one of them was a man. Guards, soldiers, vendors, stall keepers, butchers, warriors… neither any of them were not female.
Gojyo's face turned furious fuchsia. The burning sensation was arousing in him and he felt like something bursting in his body. His hands turned cold and wet with sweats, and one of them almost swept a face of a nearby pedestrian, who they happened to drove side by side with.
But then, his eyes were fixed into the basket that the girl held. His hand stopped at instant and it was retreated back to his side. The basket contained red ripe apples, which reminded him of Kazo.
*" Aiko always said that my hair reminded her of an apple"
The little hanyou's voice rang before his ears. And then the innocent remark was replaced with the loud agonizing cry that Kazo gave him when they were alone, when he rocked the boy to sleep on the very day of their arrival to Kei's bungalow.
"I promised you… you will be all right, I'll make sure of it"
He gave the boy a promise and he had to keep that promise somehow, even if it means he had to sacrifice his life for it.
Gojyo turned his head around and looked down to the floor of the jeep. It's better if he did not see anything. The flame in him was swept away with the cold cries of Kazo. 'Ch! You owed me two kid'
Aiko glanced at Gojyo from the corner of her deep blue eyes. Her lips curled slightly at seeing the kappa, almost looked like he's meditating with his chest heaved up and down in a very calm rhythm. The kappa's eyes were closed.
Hakkai smiled. He could see his friend sudden act of change; how he retreated his hand at seeing the apple; how he stood dumbfounded as if thinking of something and how he turned his gaze away to the floor of the jeep, everything was seen from the rear view mirror, which he was acquainted with since the last three month. It's the only way he could keep an eye to the redheaded and the itan to make sure they are not killing each other when he's driving. The now-a-woman youkai's smile widened even more at seeing his lover's face, smiling at Gojyo.
Hakkai drove the jeep to an inn, which is the only inn in the town. The inn was a wooden building with a fine taste of exotic architecture. One cannot find such marvelous architecture quite often in one's life. Gojyo whistled at the sight of the inn. A very eye-catchy signboard welcomed them as soon as they reached the building.
The jeep was parked just right in front of the entrance of the inn and the people boarding the green jeep hopped off of it at instant. The green machine of transportation quickly transformed into a sweet little white dragon that glided happily to his master's shoulder. Nimmiku took her usual position on Aiko's slender shoulder. She nuzzled her mistress' cheek and let out a soft comforting coo.
Aiko chuckled and she rubbed the dragon's neck in return. Suddenly, her eyes widened at remembering something she had totally forgotten. "Hakk…I mean…Leona!" Aiko called and then looked around to make sure that neither of the ladies from the huge swarm of humans around them heard her slip of the tongue.
Hakkai turned around. The plait that hung limply on his shoulder swayed with the movement of his head. He looked at Aiko with wonders.
Aiko walked to Hakkai's side. She leant on his side and whispered something to his ear. Hakkai's eyes widened and he abruptly turned around and looked over his shoulder, to Harkuryuu, the only male 'available' in their group. The law of the city was that all males are forbidden to enter the town, but they had completely missed out a minor part mentioned in the law; that all males including male animals.
"Yare…yare…desune" he had to do something about the male Harkuryuu. The only thing that distinguished a female dragon and a male dragon was the sound of their coos. Male's coos tend to be firmer than the female's. "Harkuryuu… make sure you don't make any sound when there's someone else around" Hakkai looked at his pet.
Harkuryuu nodded and puffed out tiny smokes.
"And make sure you don't do that too…female dragons don't puff out smokes on purpose" warned Hakkai and the little dragon quickly flapped his wings and winded the smokes away.
Hakkai smiled. "Shall we go in?" he asked as he held the door. "Ladies first" he didn't say that to Aiko, but to the monk. Hakkai held the door opened and grinned. Sanzo narrowed his eyes and sent the youkai a death glare. Grumbling endlessly, he stepped inside the inn and was followed by Goku, Gojyo and Aiko.
Aiko winked at Hakkai when she walked passed by him. "Nice going" she giggled. "Remember, let me do all the talking since you haven't drink the potion to change your voice" Aiko reminded the dark haired youkai.
"Hai…hai!" Hakkai grinned with glee. His lover worried too much. He looked at Gojyo, who kept scratching his itchy shoulders furiously, at Goku, who kept forgetting that he was not supposed to show his masculine voice by whining 'Hata harahetta ne Sanzo' and at the same time revealing Sanzo's identity, and at Sanzo, who's hand kept going inside the cardigan to find the harisen when a woman actually could not be so violent. 'I guess Aiko had the reason to worry'
"And stop grinning like that!" Aiko nudged his side with an elbow. "A girl was not supposed to grin so much" she reminded.
"Demo… you grinned" Hakkai corrected. "And you're a girl"
Aiko arched one fine black brow. "Anou…I was different" she reasoned.
"How much different?" Hakkai asked, almost sneering. "From the look of it… we're not much different don't we?" he smiled in a way that almost made Aiko fell in love with him again, twice. Hakkai nudged her shoulder with his and lifted his brows, looking at her with leering eyes.
'Ek! Hakkai had turned hentai?' Aiko quickly shoved herself away from Hakkai as the man laughed slightly. 'Damn it… he tricked me again'
"Well… we're not much different, true" Aiko admitted. "But… I'm prettier than you" she chirped as she walked away to the reception counter. Aiko looked over her shoulder and smiled, which made Hakkai's smile got even wider.
Hakkai looked at Aiko, who demanded rooms from the innkeeper. He turned the other way around and found his comrades settling themselves at one table at the diner. Hakkai made his way to the table but he was blocked by a bunch of sturdy and well-built women in uniform. From the muscles that stood out from their appearance and the weapons that they carried, it was no doubt that they were warriors.
"Well… well… look what we have here" one woman said as she leered at Hakkai from the top to bottom. "New chick in town" she exclaimed and was echoed with her friends' laughter.
'K'so!' Hakkai cursed. He hated the way they looked at him, as if they wanted to have a taste on him. He could have sworn that they had the worst hentai look ever; the one he never saw on Gojyo's face; gleaming on their faces.
One of the women reached out a hand to touch Hakkai's cheek but then, another hand stopped her. The hand gripped her hand tight and twisted it. The sturdy warrior woman cringed in pain and hastily aided her hand when it was let go.
"I believe this girl is mine" a figure appeared from behind Hakkai and stood next to him. "Do you mind leaving my girl alone?" Aiko said sternly. Her voice was so firm and so cool that it sent the creepy feelings down to Hakkai's spine. Aiko was so confident and it was proven when she flung one arm around his shoulder and suddenly landed a peck on his cheek. Hakkai blushed furiously.
"Am I right honey?" Aiko asked soothingly, as she stared right through his eyes. A comforting smile was displayed on her lips. Hakkai nodded eagerly, almost like a child who was scared out of his guts.
"Now will you excuse us…? We've got business to do" Aiko held Hakkai's hand and dragged him away to Sanzo, Gojyo and Goku, who were being harassed by the same way as Hakkai's but was not able to do anything, even to talk. "Now you keep away… these girls are all mine…get one of your own!" she warned as she gestured to the ikkou to rise.
The three was left astounded at the remark but they quickly rose up and followed Aiko, who had mounted the stairs with Hakkai's hand still in hers. The innkeeper's assistant trailed the pair with her head bowed in shyness, blushing at how Aiko had treated Hakkai.
"It looks like, we have to be her girls from now on ne Sanzo?" Gojyo said softly. Sanzo's forehead twitched and a vein popped out between the wrinkles. He reached into his cardigan and took out the harisen, which came out in a brutal whack to the kappa's head.
"Ittei…" Gojyo hissed as he rubbed his head to cease the pounding pain.
"She's so small…wonder how she managed to get all those four" Gojyo could barely hear the astounding remark from one of the warrior woman whom they had left at the diner. He smirked and cast a glance at Aiko. She's dragging Hakkai like he was her girl. 'One thing for sure, among us four… Hakkai is her favorite'
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Now they stood in an aisle with rooms on both sides.
"Which one is ours?" Aiko asked to the innkeeper's assistant. The tall girl took out a cluster of keys and picked two out of the bunch. She walked to one side of the aisle and put the key into a lock.
"This is your room" she pointed to Gojyo, Sanzo and Goku, and walked to the room next door. She unlocked the door and looked at Aiko and Hakkai. "This is yours… the honeymoon suite" she held out one hand in a welcoming manner.
Hakkai sweat dropped. He looked at Aiko with disbelief. 'She actually asked for a honeymoon suite?'
Aiko bit her tongue. "I didn't ask for a honeymoon suite… I asked only for a room with five beds" she explained, trying to untangle the matter.
'Thank God!' Hakkai sighed a deep relief.
The girl bowed slightly. "Hai! But my master insisted on giving you this honeymoon suite…since she adored you and your lover here" She pointed to Hakkai. Aiko almost stumble to her feet at that explanation as Hakkai's sweat dropped for the umpteenth times.
Gojyo nudged Hakkai's side and whispered something to his ears. They almost resembled two women gossiping. "This is your chance…" he said but then retreated his eyes in shame when Hakkai returned his favor with a deadly glare.
"Sumimasen…" the tall girl with brown curly hair bowed slightly. "I have to go… enjoy your days here" she greeted them and walked away from them.
Gojyo could feel something rather disturbing when the brown-haired girl walked passed by him. He could sense that he was being stared at. The hanyou turned around and studied the girl, who was now descending the stairs. 'There's something weird about that girl…sheesh Lord! Give me courage to survive this'
Gojyo turned to his comrades.
"Sanzo…I think you should have this honeymoon suite" Aiko suggested. She suggested that for two reasons. First, she knew how pissed off that monk would be at having to sleep in one room along with the saru and the kappa, and they need as little rage as possible from the monk. Secondly, she could not share one bed with Hakkai…it's too taboo.
"Yes…she's right" Hakkai supported the idea.
"Aiko… I don't think that's a good idea, the innkeeper expected you to be in one room with Hakkai" Gojyo protested. "What if she found you in another room… she will get suspicious over us" he made a sense here.
"What's wrong if you guys were to share a room… He is your girl" Sanzo mocked the girl and turned abruptly. He stepped into the room with a slight curl flickered before his face, a smile that even Kanzeon Bosatsu would never notice.
Hakkai and Aiko sweat dropped. They looked at Goku and Gojyo with pleading looks. But the latter two pretended not to noticed and whistled as they walked into the room, trailing Sanzo and finally slammed the door closed, right before the brunettes' nose.
"K'so!" Aiko cursed. She banged on the door fiercely. "I'll get you for this!!" she warned. Her banging caused several doors to be opened and curious heads popped out from in between them. Hakkai and Aiko sweat dropped. She stopped banging and looked around with a deep blush on her face.
"Ek! Gomen nasai!" Aiko bowed her head continuously and chuckled. Hakkai did the same thing and then clasped on Aiko's hand and dragged her into the room. He closed the door softly behind them and slammed his back to it. Aiko was next to him, dumb and struck by silence.
"So…I was your girl ne?" Hakkai looked at Aiko as he leant on one side. His brows lowered and his emerald eyes turned soothe. Aiko's eyes widened and the deep flushes of red got even deeper in red. She smiled nervously.
"Anou…" Aiko was lost of words.
To be continue…
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* this is uttered by Kazo to Gojyo when they first met in the second chapter of the prequel 'Surviving Life'. He resembled the color of his hair with an apple and pointed out his similarity with Gojyo. This is the starting line of where Gojyo found him as an interesting kid.
Ayie: Gosh! I was getting confused myself…I always made mistakes on addressing the ikkou with 'her' or 'she' and Aiko with 'him' or 'he'. I was having this image of Hakkai, Sanzo, Goku and Gojyo as women and it affected me to the address. Yare yare desune…
Hakkai: It looks like Love Potion no.9 finally being introduced ne?
Gojyo: So…when will it be put in good use? smirks devilishly
Aiko: This is definitely not for you ero kappa…! whacks Gojyo's head
Ayie: Here goes… the thanking session…
Arista Niara – Ne? Always the first one ne? So, you find the last chap funny ne? How about this one? ^___~ Thanks for liking this fic. Gomen that I could not update this fic sooner as you had expected… I was having my examination week. Thanks ne?
GS my dear – Ma…ma…I missed you already. Did you have a great vacation? I hope you did ^____^…Hey! I don't know if Flora…nope! I mean Sanzo is in a very bad mood…she… I mean he seems to be enjoying this. What color are your pins? Gojyo's pink…I choose that for her…emph him. Nice one eh? [Gojyo: -___-+++]… come back soon ne? Don't make me wait. Thanks for the profiterolle…yum yum…
Leila Winters – it's great to know that there's new readers for this fic… I thought no new readers would read this fic since it's only a sequel…Yes! Goku really need motherly affection and Hakkai does need feminine cares and love. Thanks for reading and reviewing ne? ^_____^
AliasofWestgate – Thanks for the compliment and thanks for loving this fic…thanks for the review of Brotherly Love too. Here your wish is granted…new chappie. Don't worry ne… Gojyo will have more appearance on the later chaps. [I know you're a major fan of Gojyo] dai jou bu da… every characters have their special scene somewhere in the fic…hehe…
Chibineko – Well…Sorry for making you wait for so long and sorry that it took me days to post this one chap… the next chap will be updated soon since I was looking forward on writing more on Hakkai and Aiko, together, in a room…[Hakkai and Aiko: *sweat dropped*]…. Thanks for waiting and for being patient. Thanks for you concern… I will not stop this fic…