Mosh-moshi!! Sorry I took so long to update but I have exams. The only
reason this is up is coz I've written this part in advance so am just
typing it out as fast as I can. So if there are any mistakes, just tell me,
and I'll try to sort it out.
In this second installment of this series, we get to see what happens when our resident Bad Priest loses his harisen. Don't ask where the idea popped out from; it just did. Methinks it was buried under heaps of algebra and vowels and maps of South East Asia then just dug itself out of the mess.
And so we have this, Part One of The Day Sanzo Lost His Harisen. Happy reading!!!
The Day Sanzo Lost His Harisen(Part 1)
"Is that the next town, Hakkai?"
"Hai."
"Oh goody!! Are there any restaurants there?"
"Are there any sexy chicks there?"
Indignantly, "Hey! I asked first!!!"
"Bakasaru! My question is more important than yours!!!"
"Urusei."
"Whatcha mean, 'your question is more important'??? Food is important too!!!"
Scoffs. "To your stomach maybe!!"
"Now, now, minasan, calm down, both of you. I'm sure there's plenty of food and good-looking girls there."
"Oh so NOW you're more IMPORTANT than me."
"I'd very well say so!!!!"
"Urusei."
"Bakayaro!!!"
"Ero keijun!!!"
"Calm dow-"
"BAKASARU!!!!"
"ERO-"
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSEI!!!!"
"Itai." The noise subsided with grumbles and mutters. Sanzo grunted and resumed watching the road. Not like there was anything to see anyway. Just a few bare trees or so. Moodily, he fingered the sutra. Hakkai, noticing the slight gesture, turned slightly.
"Something bothering you, Sanzo?"
"Keep your eyes on the road." Hakkai shrugged; Sanzo was, after all always like that, and kept driving. Sanzo continued staring out of the window when.
"Saru!!! What do you think you're DOING???"
"Finding my hidden stash of buns."
Splutter. "Buns??? BUNS??? In JEEP??? You must be." Goku triumphantly produced a rather worn-out sack bag that bulged prospectively. "If you give me one of those buns, I won't.I'll.ah heck, gimme one of those!."
"Why should I?"
"Because.Ah hell, never mind why!!!" Snatch. Bun in Goku's hands disappear.
"Wha.ERO KAPPA!!!"
"BAKA."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT KEEPING QUIET???"
"Ahaha."
Glare enough to kill a youkai. Hakkai immediately turned back to watching the road. Something told him it'd be safer.
Or not. Hakkai's amazingly-acute vision that could see things a mile away just seemed to have overlooked the figure right in his path.
*BLANG*
"It never fails to amaze me, Hakkai, how you ALWAYS manage to run into youkais EVERY TIME YOU DRIVE!!!!"
"Gomenasai.."
The youkais snarled as the Sanzo-ikkou climbed out of Jeep, who instantly changed into Hakuryuu, who flew away to a nice spot to watch all the action.
And the laughs.
Goku and Gojyo stuck a pose together, weapons looking menacingly sharp, dangerous expressions on their faces, both crouched in a lethal position.
"Youkai, your time has COME!!!!"
"Say goodbye to all you've ever known!!!!"
"This handsome face will be the LAST thing you ever SEE!!!!!"
Snort. "Handsome face. Please."
"Do you have something against the way I look??."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSENDAYO BAKANE!!!!"
"Itai." Goku and Gojyo muttered audibly as they prepared to use their deadly weapons.
Just as Hakkai brought down the last youkai. Dead bodies scattered all around him, he calmly picked his way out of the mess and smiled cheerfully. "All done."
"Sanzo nodded. "Yosh." Shooting the two hapless youkais he called his 'servants' a glare capable of raising the dead (which it didn't, thankfully),he climbed back into Hakuryuu, transformed back into Jeep, Hakkai right behind him.
Goku and Gojyo's jaws were practically touching the ground.
~*~*~*~*~
The innkeeper shook his head. "Sorry, No more rooms." He carefully crossed his fingers behind his back. Normally, he would welcome any prospect of making money.
Normally.
But the Sanzo-ikkou had gained.quite a reputation of destroying part of every inn they'd been into and terrorizing the tenants there. The warnings spread like wildfire; innkeepers all having wagging tongues and a love for gossip.
Hakkai shrugged and smiled. "That's OK. We'll just have to find somewhere else. Arigato Gonzaimasu." His rather resigned yet still pleasant expression almost caused the innkeeper to soften. He hadn't the heart to tell him that no other inn would accept them there. He was on the verge of giving in and letting them room there.
Just as a blur of movement grabbed his shoulders and shook him until every bone in his body rattled. " Are you sure there NO FOOD either????"
The innkeeper muttered something before practically throwing the whole lot of them out of his inn. Once outside.
"Bakasaru!!! Why did you do that for???"
Wails. "Hungry."
Snort. "What's new."
"ERO GOKIBURI!!!!"
"BAKASARU WITH A BOTTOMLESS STOMACH!!!!"
"ERO KAPPA!!!!"
"Maa maa, minasan."
"BAKAYARO."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSEI!!!!"
The innkeeper, hearing the yells outside, sagged against the door with a palpating heart. Making the Holy Mother Mary Cross over his chest, he sighed.
Thank goodness he hadn't taken them in.
~*~*~*~*~
That night.
A blazing fire was burning as Sanzo sat near it, smoking. They had decided to camp on the outskirts of a forest. Gojyo had gone hunting for food in the nearby forest along with Hakkai.
Of Goku, he had no clue. Oh well.
THUD
A muffled yet solid sound was heard somewhere faintly in the woods. Strange, but it sounded like a sound the Nyoibou would make.
"Sanzo!!!" A faint cry was enough to make Sanzo jump right up unto his feet, Smith and Wesson's in one hand, harisen in the other. Why the harisen he didn't know, but he supposed it was a split reflex his body was very used to.
"Sanzo!!!" Sanzo pointed the gun at the direction the sound was coming from with deadly accuracy. He knew he wouldn't miss; he had never missed yet, unless it was intentional to scare to two sarus into silence. He wondered why Goku still wasn't back from wherever he was yet. He wasn't too concerned about Gojyo and Hakkai; the two of them should be able to watch each other's back. Besides, they were older and wiser than Goku. Hakkai was, anyway.
As much as he hated to admit it, he was worried about the saru.
What if some animal had decided that he would be a nice tasty morsel as a bedtime snack?
Sanzo didn't even want to consider the possibility.
A dark shape appeared from the shadow of the woods. A stout, big shadow. Sanzo aimed his gun right at it, robes flying in the wind.
"If I were you, I wouldn't take another step." The figure paused. Then.
"Sanzo (grunt), I could really (oof) use some help here.You pointing that (grunt) gun at me isn't really(uhh) helpful!!!"
"Goku??" Now that Sanzo could see the shape properly, silhouetted in the moonlight, he could just make out Goku, hunched over, carrying a huge animal in his back. A dead animal.
A bear.
Sanzo almost dropped his gun as Goku, heaving and grunting, dumped the heavy carcass beside the fire before smiling up at Sanzo expectantly.
"He'll do for dinner, won't he, Sanzo?" Silence. "Sanzo?"
*THWACK*
"WHO TOLD YOU TO GO HUNTING WITHOUT TELLING ME???"
"Itai!!" Goku clutched his head upon which a huge lump was growing and glared at Sanzo balefully. "What's wrong about being concerned for dinner?"
"Hakkai and Gojyo are out hunting for dinner, bakasaru!!!"
Snort. "They'll probably bring back rabbits; I saw a million of them running around."
"Oh, and rabbits ARE NOT FOOD???"
"Correction." Goku held up one finger. "Rabbits are NOT ENOUGH food."
Throb throb.
*THWACK*
"Ow." Just as Gojyo and Hakkai came back.
Carrying a couple of rabbits.
Then they caught sight of the bear.
I'm guessing nobody wants coney for dinner."
~*~*~*~*~
As the bear meat was finished, three quarters of it by Goku, who was still happily sucking on the last remnants of his dinner, Hakkai stamped out the fire, careful not to let any sparks fly to the nearby trees. A forest fire was the last thing they need.
Even massive weapons capable of killing youkais would be useless in fires. So, Hakkai, ever practical, decided to use the age-old motto, 'Preventing is better than stopping."
It had never failed him yet.
Gojyo, fiddling with an unlit cigarette, was sitting in his corner of the Jeep in a deep sulk.
"How that saru could bring down a bear is beyond me...."
"Oh, come on, Gojyo. He could bring down a youkai."
Glare. "That's different, Hakkai. A youkai is not a bear. Or a tiger. Or a wild beast waiting only to pick on your bones then play scales with them."
"Why don't you just accept it, Gojyo? Goku brought back dinner. Is it that hard to believe?"
"But a bear."
Understanding dawned in Hakkai's eyes. "Gojyo, you don't have to be jealous of Goku; we would have done the same in his place."
"Jealous??? Me??? THE handsome, suave Gojyo" Puh-lease, Hakkai, spare me the humor."
"He's confessed; he's definitely jealous." Goku smirked a little.
"Shut up, saru."
"Biida!" Goku stuck out his tongue at Gojyo perversely.
"Oh, so now you want to pick on my nerves." *SHING* Shakujou materializes. " I warn you; you are picking on the wrong youkai."
"Oh yeah?" *CHIAK* Nyoibou appears. "Bring it on!"
*Fwap* Harisen appears.
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSENDAYO!!! AND KEEP THOSE TOYS!!!"
Outraged spluttering.
"Toy??? TOY??? My SHAKUJOU???"
"My NYOIBOU???"
"You'd better watch it, monk, you're walking on a very, very fine line here."
BLAM BLAM
"Shutting up."
Sanzo kept his gun and harisen just as Hakkai curled up in the driver's seat.
"I'm going to sleep. Goodnight." Muttered replies. He closed his eyes. Soon, all they heard was soft, steady breathing.
Sanzo grunted. " I suggest you sarus get some sleep. We move first thing in the morning." Gojyo and Goku climbed into their respective seat before settling themselves into comfortable position. Of course, there was a little.inconvenience.
"Baka! Get your foot away from me!!!"
You get you hand off my stomach first!!!"
"Your fist."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"Urusei!!!"
Grumbles. Then silence.
It wasn't long before all four of the Jeep's occupants were asleep.
It wasn't long before a lousy band of youkais snuck up on them through the woods.
It wasn't long for them to come up with the idea to steal the sutra from the monk and split him between themselves. After all, they all wanted immortality.
Bad idea.
As soon as a particularly bold youkai ventured close cautiously to touch the sutra, a hand shot out and grabbed his hand in an iron-vice grip. A pair of smoldering, purple eyes were the last things he saw.
BLAM. The youkais shudder in sympathy for their fallen companion. Then, abandoning all plans for surprising the Sanzo-ikkou, they came out of hiding and jumped towards the Jeep.
Sanzo calmly put a bullet into each one of them.
Many fell, lifeless to the gound but still some stood,still determined to kill the monk.
Heck, these youkais just didn't know when to give up, do they?
Just as a youkai came close enough to actually touching Sanzo, a green ki ball slammed into his stomach, pushing him back with it's sheer force before exploding, taking the youkai along with it.
Something told Sanzo it wouldn't be heading to Heaven anytime soon.
Turning, he saw Hakkai, his face lit up by the glow of the ki ball in his hand.
It didn't look as pleasant as it did before.
A crescent blade swung through the air, slicing into a youkai just as a red, gold-topped staff jammed into the stomach of yet another, disabling it. Sanzo glared at his 'servants'.
"What took you sarus so long?"
"Why thank you, Sanzo, for thanking me oh-so-nicely for actually coming to your aid."
Another glare, as dangerous as the one before.
"Yosh, yosh."
"Hakkai?"
"Nande yo?"
"Start driving."
"Hai." Hakkai complied readily, starting up the Jeep. As it roared off, no one noticed the piece of wood-and-paper lying on the ground, fallen out in the midst of the battle.
~*~*~*~*~
The next morning.
"Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!." Goku wailed as if chanting a mantra.
"You just ate a WHOLE bear yesterday, keijun!"
"That was yesterday! I'm hungry NOW."
"Bottomless stomach."
"..WHAT WAS THAT???"
"I SAID, BOTTOMLESS STOMOCH, YOU DEAF SARU!!!"
"NANI!!! ERO GOKIBURI!!!"
"BAKAYARO!!!!."
Sanzo's forehead was beginning to take on a steady beat. He reached into his robes, fingers poised to draw out the harisen.
And found nothing.
Nothing at all. Just empty space.
He frowned slightly. That couldn't be; he always kept his harisen up his sleeves so that it would be easy to draw out at any time. He began digging around his sleeves, telling himself it was BOUND to be in there somewhere.
Gojyo noticed Sanzo's rather.agitated actions and smirked. "Whoa, Sanzo. Feeling a little frisky today?"
A mutter. More digging. And total ignorance to Gojyo's raunchy question. Goku paused in mid-wail. Gojyo's eyes were staring at Sanzo as if he'd never seen him before. Even Hakkai turned around to survey Sanzo in complete amazement.
No harisen.
No sign of the harisen at all.
This was something short of a miracle.
Hakkai was so stunned he almost drove right into a nearby tree, only managing to swerve away in the nick of time and almost throwing the occupants of the car right out of their seats.
Still no smoldering glare. No dry words dripping with sarcasm.
And still no harisen.
Hakkai halted the Jeep in order to stare at Sanzo without causing any unfortunate accidents. Then only did Sanzo look up and snapped, "Baka! Keep driving!" before going back to checking and frisking himself frantically.
Goku and Gojyo sat, frozen in the backseat. Only one thought was crossing their already overtaxed minds.
Sanzo hadn't taken out the harisen. He hadn't said his traditional 'Urusei' or 'Urusendayo' or any other scathing remarks.
This could only mean:
Sanzo had gone crazy.
Their arguments had driven Sanzo to the edge of insanity
Hakkai had driven Sanzo to the edge of insanity (Was that even possible?)
Sanzo was being nice (Which was COMPLETELY impossible)
Sanzo had gone insane.
Either way, it did not look good.
They'd reckon too soon.
Even Hakkai jumped in his seat when Sanzo suddenly yelled, "TURN AROUND!!! TURN AROUND NOW!!!!"
"But."
"BAKAS!!!! TURN BACK!!!"
THE Jeep made a 360? turn, screeched and zoomed back in the direction from which they'd come.
~*~*~*~*~
Part II will be up in a bit; sorry for the wait!!! :p (I'll try to update soon)
In this second installment of this series, we get to see what happens when our resident Bad Priest loses his harisen. Don't ask where the idea popped out from; it just did. Methinks it was buried under heaps of algebra and vowels and maps of South East Asia then just dug itself out of the mess.
And so we have this, Part One of The Day Sanzo Lost His Harisen. Happy reading!!!
The Day Sanzo Lost His Harisen(Part 1)
"Is that the next town, Hakkai?"
"Hai."
"Oh goody!! Are there any restaurants there?"
"Are there any sexy chicks there?"
Indignantly, "Hey! I asked first!!!"
"Bakasaru! My question is more important than yours!!!"
"Urusei."
"Whatcha mean, 'your question is more important'??? Food is important too!!!"
Scoffs. "To your stomach maybe!!"
"Now, now, minasan, calm down, both of you. I'm sure there's plenty of food and good-looking girls there."
"Oh so NOW you're more IMPORTANT than me."
"I'd very well say so!!!!"
"Urusei."
"Bakayaro!!!"
"Ero keijun!!!"
"Calm dow-"
"BAKASARU!!!!"
"ERO-"
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSEI!!!!"
"Itai." The noise subsided with grumbles and mutters. Sanzo grunted and resumed watching the road. Not like there was anything to see anyway. Just a few bare trees or so. Moodily, he fingered the sutra. Hakkai, noticing the slight gesture, turned slightly.
"Something bothering you, Sanzo?"
"Keep your eyes on the road." Hakkai shrugged; Sanzo was, after all always like that, and kept driving. Sanzo continued staring out of the window when.
"Saru!!! What do you think you're DOING???"
"Finding my hidden stash of buns."
Splutter. "Buns??? BUNS??? In JEEP??? You must be." Goku triumphantly produced a rather worn-out sack bag that bulged prospectively. "If you give me one of those buns, I won't.I'll.ah heck, gimme one of those!."
"Why should I?"
"Because.Ah hell, never mind why!!!" Snatch. Bun in Goku's hands disappear.
"Wha.ERO KAPPA!!!"
"BAKA."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT KEEPING QUIET???"
"Ahaha."
Glare enough to kill a youkai. Hakkai immediately turned back to watching the road. Something told him it'd be safer.
Or not. Hakkai's amazingly-acute vision that could see things a mile away just seemed to have overlooked the figure right in his path.
*BLANG*
"It never fails to amaze me, Hakkai, how you ALWAYS manage to run into youkais EVERY TIME YOU DRIVE!!!!"
"Gomenasai.."
The youkais snarled as the Sanzo-ikkou climbed out of Jeep, who instantly changed into Hakuryuu, who flew away to a nice spot to watch all the action.
And the laughs.
Goku and Gojyo stuck a pose together, weapons looking menacingly sharp, dangerous expressions on their faces, both crouched in a lethal position.
"Youkai, your time has COME!!!!"
"Say goodbye to all you've ever known!!!!"
"This handsome face will be the LAST thing you ever SEE!!!!!"
Snort. "Handsome face. Please."
"Do you have something against the way I look??."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSENDAYO BAKANE!!!!"
"Itai." Goku and Gojyo muttered audibly as they prepared to use their deadly weapons.
Just as Hakkai brought down the last youkai. Dead bodies scattered all around him, he calmly picked his way out of the mess and smiled cheerfully. "All done."
"Sanzo nodded. "Yosh." Shooting the two hapless youkais he called his 'servants' a glare capable of raising the dead (which it didn't, thankfully),he climbed back into Hakuryuu, transformed back into Jeep, Hakkai right behind him.
Goku and Gojyo's jaws were practically touching the ground.
~*~*~*~*~
The innkeeper shook his head. "Sorry, No more rooms." He carefully crossed his fingers behind his back. Normally, he would welcome any prospect of making money.
Normally.
But the Sanzo-ikkou had gained.quite a reputation of destroying part of every inn they'd been into and terrorizing the tenants there. The warnings spread like wildfire; innkeepers all having wagging tongues and a love for gossip.
Hakkai shrugged and smiled. "That's OK. We'll just have to find somewhere else. Arigato Gonzaimasu." His rather resigned yet still pleasant expression almost caused the innkeeper to soften. He hadn't the heart to tell him that no other inn would accept them there. He was on the verge of giving in and letting them room there.
Just as a blur of movement grabbed his shoulders and shook him until every bone in his body rattled. " Are you sure there NO FOOD either????"
The innkeeper muttered something before practically throwing the whole lot of them out of his inn. Once outside.
"Bakasaru!!! Why did you do that for???"
Wails. "Hungry."
Snort. "What's new."
"ERO GOKIBURI!!!!"
"BAKASARU WITH A BOTTOMLESS STOMACH!!!!"
"ERO KAPPA!!!!"
"Maa maa, minasan."
"BAKAYARO."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSEI!!!!"
The innkeeper, hearing the yells outside, sagged against the door with a palpating heart. Making the Holy Mother Mary Cross over his chest, he sighed.
Thank goodness he hadn't taken them in.
~*~*~*~*~
That night.
A blazing fire was burning as Sanzo sat near it, smoking. They had decided to camp on the outskirts of a forest. Gojyo had gone hunting for food in the nearby forest along with Hakkai.
Of Goku, he had no clue. Oh well.
THUD
A muffled yet solid sound was heard somewhere faintly in the woods. Strange, but it sounded like a sound the Nyoibou would make.
"Sanzo!!!" A faint cry was enough to make Sanzo jump right up unto his feet, Smith and Wesson's in one hand, harisen in the other. Why the harisen he didn't know, but he supposed it was a split reflex his body was very used to.
"Sanzo!!!" Sanzo pointed the gun at the direction the sound was coming from with deadly accuracy. He knew he wouldn't miss; he had never missed yet, unless it was intentional to scare to two sarus into silence. He wondered why Goku still wasn't back from wherever he was yet. He wasn't too concerned about Gojyo and Hakkai; the two of them should be able to watch each other's back. Besides, they were older and wiser than Goku. Hakkai was, anyway.
As much as he hated to admit it, he was worried about the saru.
What if some animal had decided that he would be a nice tasty morsel as a bedtime snack?
Sanzo didn't even want to consider the possibility.
A dark shape appeared from the shadow of the woods. A stout, big shadow. Sanzo aimed his gun right at it, robes flying in the wind.
"If I were you, I wouldn't take another step." The figure paused. Then.
"Sanzo (grunt), I could really (oof) use some help here.You pointing that (grunt) gun at me isn't really(uhh) helpful!!!"
"Goku??" Now that Sanzo could see the shape properly, silhouetted in the moonlight, he could just make out Goku, hunched over, carrying a huge animal in his back. A dead animal.
A bear.
Sanzo almost dropped his gun as Goku, heaving and grunting, dumped the heavy carcass beside the fire before smiling up at Sanzo expectantly.
"He'll do for dinner, won't he, Sanzo?" Silence. "Sanzo?"
*THWACK*
"WHO TOLD YOU TO GO HUNTING WITHOUT TELLING ME???"
"Itai!!" Goku clutched his head upon which a huge lump was growing and glared at Sanzo balefully. "What's wrong about being concerned for dinner?"
"Hakkai and Gojyo are out hunting for dinner, bakasaru!!!"
Snort. "They'll probably bring back rabbits; I saw a million of them running around."
"Oh, and rabbits ARE NOT FOOD???"
"Correction." Goku held up one finger. "Rabbits are NOT ENOUGH food."
Throb throb.
*THWACK*
"Ow." Just as Gojyo and Hakkai came back.
Carrying a couple of rabbits.
Then they caught sight of the bear.
I'm guessing nobody wants coney for dinner."
~*~*~*~*~
As the bear meat was finished, three quarters of it by Goku, who was still happily sucking on the last remnants of his dinner, Hakkai stamped out the fire, careful not to let any sparks fly to the nearby trees. A forest fire was the last thing they need.
Even massive weapons capable of killing youkais would be useless in fires. So, Hakkai, ever practical, decided to use the age-old motto, 'Preventing is better than stopping."
It had never failed him yet.
Gojyo, fiddling with an unlit cigarette, was sitting in his corner of the Jeep in a deep sulk.
"How that saru could bring down a bear is beyond me...."
"Oh, come on, Gojyo. He could bring down a youkai."
Glare. "That's different, Hakkai. A youkai is not a bear. Or a tiger. Or a wild beast waiting only to pick on your bones then play scales with them."
"Why don't you just accept it, Gojyo? Goku brought back dinner. Is it that hard to believe?"
"But a bear."
Understanding dawned in Hakkai's eyes. "Gojyo, you don't have to be jealous of Goku; we would have done the same in his place."
"Jealous??? Me??? THE handsome, suave Gojyo" Puh-lease, Hakkai, spare me the humor."
"He's confessed; he's definitely jealous." Goku smirked a little.
"Shut up, saru."
"Biida!" Goku stuck out his tongue at Gojyo perversely.
"Oh, so now you want to pick on my nerves." *SHING* Shakujou materializes. " I warn you; you are picking on the wrong youkai."
"Oh yeah?" *CHIAK* Nyoibou appears. "Bring it on!"
*Fwap* Harisen appears.
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"URUSENDAYO!!! AND KEEP THOSE TOYS!!!"
Outraged spluttering.
"Toy??? TOY??? My SHAKUJOU???"
"My NYOIBOU???"
"You'd better watch it, monk, you're walking on a very, very fine line here."
BLAM BLAM
"Shutting up."
Sanzo kept his gun and harisen just as Hakkai curled up in the driver's seat.
"I'm going to sleep. Goodnight." Muttered replies. He closed his eyes. Soon, all they heard was soft, steady breathing.
Sanzo grunted. " I suggest you sarus get some sleep. We move first thing in the morning." Gojyo and Goku climbed into their respective seat before settling themselves into comfortable position. Of course, there was a little.inconvenience.
"Baka! Get your foot away from me!!!"
You get you hand off my stomach first!!!"
"Your fist."
*THWACK* *THWACK*
"Urusei!!!"
Grumbles. Then silence.
It wasn't long before all four of the Jeep's occupants were asleep.
It wasn't long before a lousy band of youkais snuck up on them through the woods.
It wasn't long for them to come up with the idea to steal the sutra from the monk and split him between themselves. After all, they all wanted immortality.
Bad idea.
As soon as a particularly bold youkai ventured close cautiously to touch the sutra, a hand shot out and grabbed his hand in an iron-vice grip. A pair of smoldering, purple eyes were the last things he saw.
BLAM. The youkais shudder in sympathy for their fallen companion. Then, abandoning all plans for surprising the Sanzo-ikkou, they came out of hiding and jumped towards the Jeep.
Sanzo calmly put a bullet into each one of them.
Many fell, lifeless to the gound but still some stood,still determined to kill the monk.
Heck, these youkais just didn't know when to give up, do they?
Just as a youkai came close enough to actually touching Sanzo, a green ki ball slammed into his stomach, pushing him back with it's sheer force before exploding, taking the youkai along with it.
Something told Sanzo it wouldn't be heading to Heaven anytime soon.
Turning, he saw Hakkai, his face lit up by the glow of the ki ball in his hand.
It didn't look as pleasant as it did before.
A crescent blade swung through the air, slicing into a youkai just as a red, gold-topped staff jammed into the stomach of yet another, disabling it. Sanzo glared at his 'servants'.
"What took you sarus so long?"
"Why thank you, Sanzo, for thanking me oh-so-nicely for actually coming to your aid."
Another glare, as dangerous as the one before.
"Yosh, yosh."
"Hakkai?"
"Nande yo?"
"Start driving."
"Hai." Hakkai complied readily, starting up the Jeep. As it roared off, no one noticed the piece of wood-and-paper lying on the ground, fallen out in the midst of the battle.
~*~*~*~*~
The next morning.
"Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!." Goku wailed as if chanting a mantra.
"You just ate a WHOLE bear yesterday, keijun!"
"That was yesterday! I'm hungry NOW."
"Bottomless stomach."
"..WHAT WAS THAT???"
"I SAID, BOTTOMLESS STOMOCH, YOU DEAF SARU!!!"
"NANI!!! ERO GOKIBURI!!!"
"BAKAYARO!!!!."
Sanzo's forehead was beginning to take on a steady beat. He reached into his robes, fingers poised to draw out the harisen.
And found nothing.
Nothing at all. Just empty space.
He frowned slightly. That couldn't be; he always kept his harisen up his sleeves so that it would be easy to draw out at any time. He began digging around his sleeves, telling himself it was BOUND to be in there somewhere.
Gojyo noticed Sanzo's rather.agitated actions and smirked. "Whoa, Sanzo. Feeling a little frisky today?"
A mutter. More digging. And total ignorance to Gojyo's raunchy question. Goku paused in mid-wail. Gojyo's eyes were staring at Sanzo as if he'd never seen him before. Even Hakkai turned around to survey Sanzo in complete amazement.
No harisen.
No sign of the harisen at all.
This was something short of a miracle.
Hakkai was so stunned he almost drove right into a nearby tree, only managing to swerve away in the nick of time and almost throwing the occupants of the car right out of their seats.
Still no smoldering glare. No dry words dripping with sarcasm.
And still no harisen.
Hakkai halted the Jeep in order to stare at Sanzo without causing any unfortunate accidents. Then only did Sanzo look up and snapped, "Baka! Keep driving!" before going back to checking and frisking himself frantically.
Goku and Gojyo sat, frozen in the backseat. Only one thought was crossing their already overtaxed minds.
Sanzo hadn't taken out the harisen. He hadn't said his traditional 'Urusei' or 'Urusendayo' or any other scathing remarks.
This could only mean:
Sanzo had gone crazy.
Their arguments had driven Sanzo to the edge of insanity
Hakkai had driven Sanzo to the edge of insanity (Was that even possible?)
Sanzo was being nice (Which was COMPLETELY impossible)
Sanzo had gone insane.
Either way, it did not look good.
They'd reckon too soon.
Even Hakkai jumped in his seat when Sanzo suddenly yelled, "TURN AROUND!!! TURN AROUND NOW!!!!"
"But."
"BAKAS!!!! TURN BACK!!!"
THE Jeep made a 360? turn, screeched and zoomed back in the direction from which they'd come.
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Part II will be up in a bit; sorry for the wait!!! :p (I'll try to update soon)
