Forbidden Love
Chapter One: NostalgiaDisclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki, Kazuya Minekura does but I would like to own some of the characters ;;laughs menacingly;; ehem…;;cough, cough;;
" " : dialogue
oOo : end of scene
B : emphasis
I : flashback
start
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us—in the dullest and most dreary moments—can see a possibility of hope.
Maya Angelou
Twenty painstaking years passed without harm to the Child of Heaven. He grew believing he was nothing but a normal child. He had friends but not too many. He had many odd experiences but assumed everything was just an illusion.
"Oi, Hakkai…."
"Oi?"
A child with beautiful emerald eyes and unruly dark brown hair turned questioningly at the stranger with long red hair.
"Etou…what are you doing?"
The child simply smiled before deciding to reply, "I'm talking with the plants."
"Plants? Plants can't talk."
The child grinned and said, "Maybe they can't. But they're my only friends. They'll just have to do."
"You're weird but I like you anyway. I have no friends as well. Maybe we can be friends…I mean if you like to have one. Cause I really want to have…"
"Sure…I'm Cho Hakkai but Hakkai's fine." The child replied. 1
"Good. I thought you didn't want a friend. I'm Sha Gojyo."
"Earth to Hakkai."
"G-gojyo…you're early."
"Yeah…and you weren't even paying attention. You were talking with the plants…again."
Hakkai just laughed as the two headed for lunch.
Who could've foreseen an accident such as this?
The friends were walking peacefully when fortuitously Hakkai crashed into someone.
oOoOo
"I've wasted twenty long years and still can't track that damn Prince. I already sent alliances to earth, where the hell is that Prince?!" Shien said aggravated.
"Shien-sama, I have found some news about the whereabouts of the Child of Heaven," said a messenger who came from nowhere.
"Don't keep me waiting. Where is it?"
"The approximate location of the Prince is in a continent called Asia…."
The messenger eyed Shien anxiously waiting for his reply.
"You're life has been spared. Send me the generals immediately," ordered Shien.
"You will suffer severely my dear Prince."
Minutes later a conference was set. A plan was prepared for the attack; demons were easily divided to be sent to different countries. Their number depending on the area of the country.
oOoOo
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bump you."
"Hn."
"I'm really sorry. Can I do anything to make up for my clumsiness?"
The stranger with blonde hair and exquisite amethyst eyes ignored the question and continued his walk to a nearby inn.
The prophecy said the past would regretfully repeat itself.
"No angel can fall in love with a mortal lest someone of his own gender."
"I thought you were well informed Tenpou Gensui…your faith has been written, once Kougaiji is defeated you shall return to your rightful place here in Heaven. The Light would always accept the Child of Heaven and you shall but marry Yaone…"
"Yaone? I don't even know this girl…how can you pair me up with a girl I don't know lest love?!"
"She is a beautiful angel rightful to be your Queen."
"I write my own destiny, not you, Father. I cannot love Yaone whether or not she is appealing or not, I have learned love here in this foreign land I grew up in…"
"Love? You have come to love a mortal? Tenpou, this is not a simple matter, you are breaking the greatest decree of Heaven."
"I have no care for that anymore."
"It has been wrong to accept that rowdy monk, Konzen…"
"You have no right to judge my decisions, you aren't the one here on Earth. Sayonara Father…King of Heaven."
"Tenpou! TENPOU!"
"Hakkai!"
Emerald eyes snapped open staring at worried ruby eyes for the second time that day.
"There aren't any plants here…you're thinking way overhead again my dear friend."
"My apologies again, Gojyo."
"No harm done."
Then a solitary figure came into view, scowling outside the exuberant inn. 2
"Isn't he the one you met minutes ago? I bet he didn't get an available room at all."
Astonishingly, Hakkai approached the stranger and offered him a place.
oOoOo
Who would have thought that the stranger actually accepted Hakkai's peace offering? Or offer….
"Tadaima!"
"Okaeri…"
He's mother appeared from what seemed like their study-room and gaped at the stranger beside Hakkai, thinking she was only a figment of her imagination.
"R-reiji, come here quick."
Hakkai confusedly watch his parents gawk his companion.
"Konzen?!"
A/N: At last…after so many weeks and days, I've finally figured a way to edit this chapter. I hope you don't get confused anymore…
1 Hakkai actually interrupted Gojyo from starting a nonsense talk about why they should be friends or something like that…
2 I just wanted to highlight this part…I meant to show how Sanzo was very out-of-place in this scene standing outside a genki hotel.
P.S. Compared to my other fics…Forbidden Love will always have the flashback parts because it's the basis of comparison on what is happening between Sanzo and Hakkai from Konzen and Tenpou…so don't get too cranky about them too much…still you're free to site your comments just click the gray button below…thanks