Seiko:...Konnichiwa, Saiyuuki fans! How are you?? (^--^)
Hakkai: ...Hai, konnichiwa! {looks at those three} Minna, do greet the readers, or they won't read this fic!
Others: ...Koooo---niiii---chiii---waaaaaaaa...
Hakkai: Hihihi..... Sorry!
Seiko: Actually those guys were extremely tired, after been chased all over this place last night... (^--^;;;)
Hakkai: ...Ee?? What do you mean by 'been chased'?
Seiko: Anou. I'll tell you at the end of this chapter, okay? Anyway, like what I always said before, I don't own Saiyuki, it belongs rightfully to Minekura Kazuya-san! {bows} thank you sensei, for creating GS the manga! (^- --^)
Sanzo: ...U...ruu...sa.....iii.....ba...kaa......on...naaaa... { sleeps }
Gojyo: ...Start.....the...chap.....teeeerrrr.....already..... { falls down from couch }
Goku: Uuuu...nikumans.....siu mais....chop suey.....chocolate cake.....brownies..... Peking roast duck..... { drools while sleeping }
Seiko and Hakkai: {sweat dropped}
Seiko: { chuckled nervously } ...I guess let's move on, ne, onii- chan?
Hakkai: Hai!!
Goku: .....Sushi.....ramen.....nasi lemak.....sambal belacan.....dried salted fish..... {drooooollllsss }
Hakkai: Eeeee?????? Since when he started eating Malay foods??
Seiko: ...Hihihi... (^--^;;;;;) He saw my cooking book, onii-chan. That's why....
Hakkai: Yare yare desu ne... If Goku asked me to cook them, you would be responsible for that, young lady! {sighs}
Seiko: ...Gomen nasai! { bows } Anyway, enjoy this chap! (^__^)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
Chapter 3 - THE PENDANT
...from the last chapter...
"..Arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Iyaaa!!!!!!!!! Please... leave me alone!!!!! Arhhhhhhh!!!!"
Goku screamed. He screamed so loud just like before, making Hakkai and Sanzo gathered along around Goku. They all shared the same thoughts.
'...What actually happened to Goku???'
The girl was standing straight with her eyes widened in fear...
'...No...It's not going to happen again.Please don't happen again...'
She suddenly fell on her knees, still staring at Goku fretfully, and she realised she was shaking hard in fear and terrified. She hugged herself, and prayed...
'...Please don't let this boy die,. .. like what happened to them...Izumi, and onii-chan...'
Before she knew it, she was crying hard, making the ikkou turned to her.
'...Why?'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"...Ojou-san? Daijoubu ka? Ojou-san...!" Hakkai called the girl repeatedly, after he saw the girl cried all of a sudden, making the ikkou rather perplexed.
...The girl kept on crying, while clasping herself tight, and she was bending down, hiding her face from the ikkou. She tried hard not to cry actually, when she just couldn't hold the tears. Her crystal tears dropped, swiftly absorbed into the wooden floor. Her sobs became even louder, making the men stared at her, puzzled.
Hakkai, being a caring brother reached the girl and knelt before her, and patted her shoulder gently. He didn't know the reasons why the silver- haired was crying, but he curled his warmest smile, which was always effective on making girls stop weeping. But then, the girl slowly pushed away Hakkai's hand, making the latter more puzzled.
'...Stop crying, Izuko. You don't want these guys show their sympathy on you, ne? So stop.'
The girl lowered her sobs and wiped her tears with her long left sleeve, and she slowly lifted her face, facing smiling Hakkai. She felt like her heart throbbed so fast that it could match a train's speed, when seeing Hakkai smiled...
...it was equal to her late onii-chan's smile. They looked the same.
"Anou...daijoubu ka? Why are you crying?" Hakkai asked the girl politely, trying not to hurt her inner feelings. The girl didn't say a thing, but she smiled back faintly towards Hakkai as if she was saying 'I'm fine' from her sweet smile. But still, the smile didn't satisfy Hakkai's request. The emerald-eyed man looked deep in the girl's raven eyes, and abruptly, the girl shed her tears again.
...It all happened all of a sudden. Before she realised it, she was crying again. Quickly, she covered her face with both her palms.
Hakkai knew something was wrong with that young girl in front of him. She couldn't be crying because of Goku, she didn't even know him in the first place. Not one of them. But then the brotherly instinct inside Hakkai showed itself clearly when the youkai widened his arms and abruptly...
...hugged the crying young girl.
Hakkai's act made the two other men gawked at the touching scene, even that cold-hearted Sanzo couldn't help himself to view the event. But then, he snapped himself back to reality when he realised he shouldn't be that 'touched'. Well, he did have a slight emotion after all. While Gojyo, recalled back his past when Jien once hugged him after he had been beaten by his stepmother, Jien's mother.
The girl herself was shocked, that she blushed severely in Hakkai's warm hug. She admitted the hug did remind her of someone...
...someone who used to make her calm down like this...
...someone who used to say sweet words just to make her stop weeping...
...someone who...
The girl stretched out her hands to hug the man back when suddenly...
'...But this is not onii-chan!!!!! He's a stranger, Izuko! A stranger!!!'
She halted. The girl pushed Hakkai slowly, making the latter felt quite guilty, to hug a young lady like that. He didn't know why, but she looked so pitiful, that he couldn't help with his own habits, being nice especially to youngsters. Even sometimes, he felt like hugging Goku all the time when he saw the saru sulked after being 'thwacked' by the harisen...
...Hakkai and his brotherly self. Just couldn't help it, though.
"....ARRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The ikkou and the girl were shocked by Goku's sudden scream. They turned to Goku, who was again struggling hard to overcome the pain that struck through his veins and muscles, like what he felt before.
".... Leave...me.....It hurts....."
Gojyo was deafened by the itan's loud cry that he hugged Goku even tighter, ignoring his own pain that struck him in his chest. But still, Goku was just grabbing himself tight, refused to let go of it. He seemed like he was struggling to get something out of his body and soul by force...
...But then, he just couldn't.
"Oi, Goku! Hold on, Goku!! Goku!!" Gojyo kept on calling him that, and suddenly, Goku's voice was heard feebly but clear enough.
"...Go...Gojyo...Ittai..."
Gojyo's eyes were filled with teardrops as he heard the voice, Goku's voice. He hugged the itan tightly into his arms, to make him feel better and stop trembling in pain. He hushed the itan somehow, as the saru stopped his moaning and the only thing left was his shaky frail body and the kid's body was sweating all over.
Hakkai was terribly stunned. He quickly came to first aid, and touched Goku's forehead, which started to burn up. Hakkai let out his 'ki' energy to heal the itan's mind, but then he realised he just couldn't do anything about it at all. But then, he didn't expect Gojyo would be that caring and loving person he ever met. Besides, Gojyo could only be Goku's fighting mate, not more than a hentai brother. But once he saw the incident, he admitted, Gojyo treated Goku as his real brother after all, although they're obviously not.
He turned abruptly to the girl behind him, who was staring at Goku with such sympathized look.
"Anou, ojou-san. I'm afraid we need your help here. I just couldn't find the cause why he reacted like this... And he's starting to get a fever too..."
Hakkai explained it clear and understandable. But still, the girl didn't say anything. She was just looking at Goku and she was actually afraid of the scene, since that very day her onii-chan died...
...in the same way.
"...Ojou-san?" Hakkai called the girl again after he realised she didn't pay much attention to his request before.
This time, the girl got struck back and she hurriedly went next to Hakkai who was healing several bruises made due to the previous fight. The girl bowed a bit, and stepped nearer to Goku, who was now shivering as if he was covered with ice, despite of his raising temperature... the ikkou just couldn't say more but gave a deep sigh in their hearts.
"...Sumimasen. I wasn't listening..." Not long after that, the silver- haired girl moved closer to Goku, and she looked in Gojyo's eyes as a sign to let Goku go for a while. Gojyo gently put Goku on his lap and the female latter touched Goku's forehead making him moaned again, slowly in pain.
'...Save him, Izuko. You mustn't lose this boy too. Just like how you lost your.' The girl shook her head, tried not to get too emotional while trying to help those men. She knew she had such a heavy task to carry on...
...to save another innocent life.
"...shhhh... Onii-san?" the girl turned to Hakkai who was checking Goku's pulse. Hakkai faced the girl, and a faint smile curled up on his face, as he answered the young lady.
"...He had just been possessed, but may I know what caused him to be like this?" She rubbed the itan's temple gently, and it made Goku eased a little bit. Gojyo and Hakkai looked straight to the girl's face, wondering what did she mean by that question. The girl continued after a long silence.
"...You see, if I don't know what made him like this, then I can't make him normal again." The girl looked sympathized when she said that, making Hakkai and those two shocked by the statement. Especially the sentence 'normal again'.
"...But you said he's fine! Why did you say that you're making him normal again? What do you mean by that?" Gojyo was worried that he was almost yelling at the girl. Realising that, Hakkai held Gojyo's shoulder, telling him to calm down.
"...Let her finish, Gojyo."
The girl stared at the men and she started explaining the actual thing happened to the boy.
" This boy must have made someone angry with him, that made that person cursed him like this. Do you remember anything about it?"
The ikkou looked at each other, and they shook their heads as the answer.
"...No, I don't think so. Instead, he made others adored him, than to hate him like that..."
Hakkai sure made a point. Goku had never been hated by someone that much. His childish acts certainly made the people around him liked him for being cute at this age! Even that cold-hearted Sanzo got melted whenever Goku showed his puppy eyes to him, then what about others?
"...Sou ka... Then, did he pick or take someone's belongings from anywhere? Maybe, old looking things or ornaments..."
Those men tried to recall their journey back then when all of a sudden, Hakkai stood up and reached something around Goku's neck inside his robe. The girl herself was shocked that she hastily gave way to the elder.
...It was a pendant.
"This... this pendant. The last time we fought the youkais, Goku found this thing and he refused to leave it there, saying that he wanted to give it back to its owner..."
**************************************************************************** ************************* (the day before...)
"....UUUuuuu...Hara hetta!!! Ne Hakkai! When will we reach the village? I'm so hungry that I can eat the whole jeep..." Goku groaned again as soon as his stomach started to grumble loud, followed by Hakuryu's 'coo' and even the kappa got distracted and woke up from his sleep.
"...Oi, saru! Can't you think anything else than foods??" the typical kappa yawned and started the fight with Goku as usual.
"...I'M NOT A SARU, KONO KAPPA!!!" Goku yelled back, facing the kappa whose veins got all throbbed out hearing his nickname. He stood on the jeep and pinched Goku's cheeks hard, making the itan stuck his fingers into Gojyo's mouth and started stretching the kappa's lips wide. They struggled to let themselves go, but couldn't help stretching each other's face. It's fun!
Hakkai couldn't do anything by the time he realised those two were ruining each other's face like that from the rear mirror. He chuckled nervously, not to mention his sweat dropped so much that even Sanzo was damned mad at those two behind.
"Koho heho happaaa!!!! Lek hoo hohf hee!!!! (=Kono ero kappa!!! Let go of me!!!!)"
"...Eek hurhst kohoo baha haruuu!!!! (=It hurts kono baka saru!)"
"I'mn hooct a bahaa hahruuu!!!!! HEHOO HAPPAA!!!! (=I'm not a baka saru!!!!! Ero kappa!!)
"...Oh heah? Baha hahru, bahaa hahru, bahaaa hahruu!!!!!!" (you totally can understand it, don't you?)
"...ArGGGGHhhh!!! HEHOOO HOOOHIHURIII HAPPPAAAA!!!! (=ero gokiburi kappa!!!)"
" BAHAA HAHRUUUUUU!!!!"
" EHOO HAPPAAA!!!"
" BAHAA HAHRUUUUUU!!!!"
" EHOO HAPPAAA!!!"
" BAHAA HAHRUUUUUU!!!!"
" EHOO HAPPAAA!!!"
Sanzo's veins popped out all over his head, that it almost burst in rage and fury when he heard those two baka pets behind, making Hakkai laughed nervously and he tried hard not to laugh hearing at those weird 'language', and obviously he failed. Sanzo's hands itched to shove out his harisen and thwack those two weirdos but then Hakkai successfully stopped him with his own effective magic words.
...well, sort of.
"Maa, maa Sanzo...Don't hit them with the harisen or they'll bite each others' fingers then." followed by a nervous giggle.
"...Fine." Sanzo shoved back his harisen inside his oversized sleeve and took out his shoreiju instead.
"...I guess I'll just shoot them to death." Sanzo turned around, not to mention Hakkai's sweat dropped more than ever as he tried hard not to lose control of the jeep from heading into the forest nearby.
'BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!'
"...URUSAI!!!!! I'll kill you if you don't!!!"
Well, as usual, Sanzo made another successful attempt to shut those troublemakers up. He sat back properly on his own seat and grunted while cursing those baka shounens behind. Hakkai grinned at the way Sanzo handled them, and he suddenly realised a sharp death-promising glare headed right towards him from beside his seat.
Hakkai let out a sigh and started to giggle gleefully, tried to make neither the harisen nor the shoreiju used on him.
"...Ii tenki desu ne, minna?" Hakkai gazed at those pets behind the jeep from his side mirror.
Those two behind held their red cheeks, almost swollen, and still, they started arguing again. But not with their normal language.
"...Hick hall yooooo hockl, koho baaahaa haarhuu!!!! Ikhhaaa.(=it's all your fault, kono baka saru! Itta...)"
"...Whack!!! Yoooo harhled ickh!!! Hooohiiburhii haapppaaa!! (=What! You started it, gokiburi kappa!)
"...Hehehe...It's such a bright sunny day with those two behind, ne, Sanzo?" Hakkai curled his typical sweat dropping expression smile.
"...Ch! Baka!"
Suddenly,. ...
'...SHREEECCCCKKKK.....' the jeep suddenly halted.
Goku who suddenly fell forward due to the sudden halt groaned in pain while the kappa had already hurled out of the jeep, right on his butt. The corrupted monk grunted again nervously, since he almost broke the front glass if he hadn't balance himself before.
"...Ittee....Why did you stop all of a sudden, Hakkai??" Goku rubbed his red nose hastily while looking at the dark-haired in front.
"...Yare yare... I guess we've got some unwanted guests here..."
The ikkou jumped out of the jeep, and automatically the jeep transformed to its original form. Hakuryu flew and perched on his master's shoulder while 'coo'ing fretfully.
They looked around, and they realised they've got surrounded all over by youkais!
Gojyo appeared his shakujou while the saru with his almighty nyoibou, both leaned at each other's back, preparing to defend themselves from the youkais that might kill them as well. They both stared at the big red eyes, apparently owned by the bad youkais, when suddenly, a big muscular youkai loomed in front of the ikkou, smirking annoyingly towards them.
"Don't they have anything else to do than trying to kill us?" Gojyo voiced his thoughts out, making Goku startled.
"...Whatever it is, I want to make it hurry... I'm still hungry..." Goku moaned as his stomach groaned again, but was totally ignored by the elders this time.
Sanzo lifted his shoreiju towards the boss-demon and abruptly shot the first bullet. The youkai vanished himself and suddenly appeared again with a loud scream.
"...ATTAAACKKKKK!!!!!"
In a fraction of a sec, all the youkais jumped out from their hiding places and headed towards the ikkou with a loud cry, and they utterly made the ikkou deafened by the noise. Mostly, Sanzo. His veins throbbed out all at once hearing those cries and he swore to himself he would kill ALL the noisy youkais.
"...Move, minna!!" Hakkai yelled out to his friends, and they've got separated to two groups. Hakkai with Sanzo, while the kappa teamed up with the saru.
The youkais kept on attacking those men without any hesitation, and the great Sanzo-sama didn't give any chance to the youkais either, not even a touch. He shot all the youkais like crazy, and the others understood completely why he was mad that time. They could hear his curses all the time, and sorry, the curses are censored in this fic!
"...Wow, hunger, tiredness, and wanting a place to rest really made him angry... Don't you think so, saru?" Gojyo smirked as three youkais attacked him at the same time, but he evaded and threw his crescent blade towards them, simultaneously making those nasty youkais vaporized and turned to dusts.
"...I'm not a SARU, for yelling out loud!!!" Goku was jumping repeatedly to dodge several attacks from numerous armed youkais, while trying to avoid other sudden assaults from different directions. He jumped again high onto the air and swiftly swung his nyoibou, hitting all youkais who tried to pounce him that time. They vanished and left Goku with other irritating youkais.
Hakkai as usual would curl his hideous smile towards his enemies and as a martial artist, he used his ability of Xi Gong skillfully. Not even a youkai felt brave enough to attack the emerald-eyed from close distance, since they knew they would die for sure. Thus, they could only attack Hakkai using their own 'ki' blasts.
"Yare yare desu ne... I didn't know you have this 'ki' energy..." Hakkai formed an energy barrier to protect himself from being harmed by the youkais' 'ki' balls. He smiled gleefully as Hakuryu came to help, when the dragon let out a huge flame blast and it burnt all the youkais left for the day. The youkais vanished after a loud shriek.
"...Woah, you're great Hakuryu!! I promise I won't eat you no matter how hungry I will get in the future!" Goku came running towards Hakkai and patted Hakuryu's small cute head, followed by the dragon's loving 'coo'. Gojyo came afterwards, right when he finished with his own opponents.
Sanzo himself had finished earlier than anyone else, and he broke the record on killing the most youkai for the day. Well, he's quiet cranky that day, though. No doubt.
"Oi, old man!" Sanzo lifted his gun headed right headed towards the youkai's head, and the other three of his companions joined in with their own weapons, concurrently making the boss-youkai clinched his tooth and stepped back.
"...Not so fast!!!! Argghhh!!!!" Gojyo jumped and. ....
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------
Goku sat on his seat quietly, and it was so rare to find out the saru was actually stop chanting his favourite word, or maybe names of foods. He was just staring at the thing he just picked up before, after they killed the last youkai for the day. He kept on looking intently at it, making the other three elders puzzled by his weird acts.
"...Goku? Daijoubu ka?" Hakkai curled his warm smile again, while looking at Goku from the rear mirror.
Goku didn't answer, making Hakkai and the two men even worrier. Goku was an energetic saru, not to mention he was the most genki boy the elders ever met. Gojyo threw away his cigarette and bent closer to Goku who was still speechless.
"Oi, saru! Are you sick or something?" Gojyo tried to attract Goku's attention by purposely insert the word 'saru' in his question, expecting the saru would jump and pounce over him, or maybe just a reply, 'kappa' or 'gokiburi' from the kid's mouth.
Still, Goku was wordless and his hands kept playing with the pendant he had just found.
Hakkai looked at the monk beside, hoping for any word from him about Goku's weird behaviour. His emerald eyes stared at Sanzo for a while before he looked back on the road and Sanzo somehow reacted with a cold attitude, like always.
"...Let him be like that. Once he see the foods, he'll surely become alive again." Sanzo had no energy left to cock up his shoreiju at the saru, and ask him whether he's the real saru they knew or not. Because he believed that saru was the real one.
"Hm...I hope so, Sanzo. I hope so."
(end of flashback) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The girl was terribly shocked, that she hurriedly took the pendant and examined it for a while. Then, she took out her own pendant, which shone before, and she seemed as if she was comparing those pendants by its looks.
'I wonder if the spirit's still within...'
Realising she was just imagining things, she took out her previous pendant, which shone so bright before, and she held it firm in her palms, putting it near her lips and she chanted something again in a language no one could ever understand... except her.
By the meantime, the ikkou were completely puzzled on what was the girl trying to do. The pendant shone again, revealing its blue bracing light, but this time, it didn't shine too bright like before. The blue 'ki' somehow covered both the girl's and Goku's frail body right after the girl finished her chanting.
Right when Goku's body shone altogether with the girl, Goku snapped his orbs open wide all of a sudden, followed by a deafening scream. He struggled again as if someone was grabbing his body tight and it wouldn't let him go. The ikkou were extremely shocked, and they thought that the girl was going to make Goku's condition even worse.
The girl kept on chanting and she looked like she ignored all Goku's scream, when actually her heart melted hearing them. She purposely closed her eyes, and she admitted she felt quite afraid to see the boy's condition. It made her flashing back those bad things before...
She was still placing her palm on Goku's chest while the other palm embraced her own blue pendant and the itan was still struggling hard with himself. Even Gojyo got kicked away by the boy, and he couldn't say anything about it, instead of just staring fretfully towards them both.
But knowing Sanzo, he suddenly lifted his shoreiju right on the girl's head, ready to pull the trigger and shoot the girl to death. Hakkai and Gojyo looked shockingly towards those two, as Sanzo scolded the girl with such anxious tone. He was worried about Goku.
.More than anyone else.
"Are you trying to kill him???"
The girl looked directly into Sanzo's amethyst eyes, and calmness was shown clearly on her face as she turned away from Goku and she pushed away the shoreiju from her head, smiling so sweet towards the monk. The light that once covered her body together with Goku vanished, and the itan stopped his screaming and he was laid there helplessly, frailly on the girl's laps. Sanzo was stunned by her acts that he glared back at the girl, demanding for explanations.
"...Goshinpai naku, onii-san. I was just trying to communicate with the spirit, which possessed this boy. Nothing more."
"...And? What did you get?" Hakkai went nearer to the girl, and set his eyes on hers. She curled her faint smile and looked away from the youkai's eyes.
".I know you're worried about him. Don't be that, because he's okay now..." her voice was cool, but somehow it sounded as if she was hiding something from the ikkou. Hakkai realised that, and he touched the girl's shoulder abruptly, making the girl jerked a bit. She turned back, and she saw the man was smiling at her, and it surely made her heart soothed.
"Are you sure, ojou-san? If so Goku is all right, then why did he screamed just now? Is he..."
"...Ne, shinpai shinaide onii-san. He's fine." The girl tried to make him calm himself down with a smile that even Gojyo was attracted to it. It was just that this smile's too calmed and comforted making others felt eased.
'...No, he's not fine. You knew it well, ne, Izuko? Demo, if you tell them the truth, then they would surely felt miserable...' the girl thought about it for a while.
'...But if you don't tell them about it, when will they know about the truth?'
The girl felt guilty. She was trapped between two decisions, whether to tell them the truth or false. She fought with her own mind, and then she decided...
The girl was about to explain what she was thinking when suddenly, they heard some sort of noise coming from outside. Hakkai and Gojyo stood up and went to the window, and they saw them...
...Bad youkais.
"...Youkais, Hakkai." Gojyo dashed downstairs with the bouzu, leaving Hakkai with those two youngsters. The girl somehow was shocked, hearing the word 'youkai'.
'...Are they going to capture me back? NO!!! I don't want to go back!'
Hakkai stood up and rubbed the girl's head lovingly, making her sweat dropped. She actually felt weird when someone, especially a stranger like Hakkai rubbed his head as if she's a cat or something...
She pushed away Hakkai's hand politely with a smile on her face. Hakkai knew he had just made a mistake by caressing the girl's head like that. 'She surely felt weird, ne?'
"...I'll take care of this boy. Trust me."
"...Onegai shimasu. We'll come back once we finished.' And with that, Hakkai ran downstairs and joined both Sanzo and Gojyo, already got surrounded by the youkais.
'...They're looking after me.'
...To be continued. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seiko: { yawned } ...I want to sleep now. Oyasumi, onii-chan... { sleeps together with the others on the floor }
Hakkai: Eee??? Matte kudasai, Seiko-chan! You promised you're going to tell us about last night's incident!! Seiko-chaannn.... { shakes Seiko }
Seiko: ....Huh? Oh, gomen I forgot already. Okay... Actually last night... Arhhhhh(yawned). .. Hmmm... { sleeps }
Hakkai: ...Seiko-chan!
Hakuryu: Kyuuuu!!! Kyu!! { takes Seiko's diary}
Seiko: { sleepy mode } ...Great idea, Hakuryu...Read last night's event for me, onii-chan...Huwarrhhhh... oyasumi! Kuh...
Hakkai: { sweat dropped} ...Huh, okay then...
{ last night }
Sanzo: { reaches home, panting } huh...huh...
Hakkai: ...Eh? What happened??
Sanzo: { runs through the back door }
Seiko: SANZOOO!!!!!! Omae o korosu!!!! Where are you?? { reaches home, all wet } Onii-chan! Better tell me where he is!
Hakkai: { sweat dropped } Anou....
Gojyo: ...He ran through the kitchen's door. Now shoo! I'm watching TV here!
Seiko: { runs to the back, saw Sanzo's running away } Oiii!!! Come back here you...
Hakkai: ...there they go again... Huh...
Sanzo: { suddenly pops out from the front door } ...GOJYOO!!!!
Gojyo: ...ARKK????
Sanzo: ...OMAE.... { veins all popped out } { takes out shoreiju, runs after run away Gojyo }
Seiko: Ahh!!! There you are!!! MATTE, KONO BAKA BOUZU!!! { runs after bouzu, spills Goku's ice cream }
Goku: ...ARHHH!!!! Seiko-chan!!! You spilled my ice cream!!! Oi, Wait up!! Pay back my ice cream!!! { runs after Seiko }
Hakkai: { stumbles head over heels } ... Ittai...Those kids never learn...Huh...(o_^;;;;;())
Background: { Gojyo screams for help } { Sanzo's shoreiju shoots like crazy } { Sanzo's curses } { Seiko's yelling } { Goku's yelling } { Goku's.... (o___^()) stomach grumbles loudly } { All neighbours' curses }
"SPLAAAASSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Hakkai: ...Oro?? What the... { looks out } OH MY GOD!!! GUYS!!!
{{ Well, Gojyo IS a water monster right? So, he decided to protect himself in the place where he belong, and he didn't expect the others would jump into the lake together !!}}
Sanzo: KOROSU!!! Kappaaa!!!! { strangles Gojyo }
Gojyo: ...HANASEI, BAKA BOUZU!! { strangles back in the lake }
Goku: ...GIMMEBACKMYICECREAAMMM!!!!! { swims after Seiko}
Seiko: ...I didn't do it!!! Arkkk!!!! { got hit by Sanzo's harisen } OMAE.... {pulls Sanzo's hair }
Sanzo: ...LET GO OF MY HAIR, BAKA ONNAA!!!! KOROSU!!!
Seiko: ...I won't, baka bouzu!!! SHIIII---- { speechless } ---NE???
Others: { look at Seiko's fist, filled with locks of Sanzo's hair }
Sanzo: { jaw dropped } ......O-M-A-E.....{veins throb}
Seiko: { put back the hair on Sanzo's head } GOMEN!!! { hurriedly swims ashore and runs away }
Goku: ...Sa...Sanzo?
Sanzo: ....KKkkkkkk.....BAKA ONNAAA!!!!!! OMAE WO KOROSU!!!!!!! ARGHHH!!!! { shots madly again }
{END of Diary}
Hakkai: ...So, that's what happened, readers....Huh, I just can't believe it...That's why they've all got worn out like this...Sanzo chased them all night. And they only came back home early this morning... (o___^;;;;;)
Hakuryu: Kyuuu!!!!
Hakkai: Anyway, please R & R ne! We'll be glad to read those comments!! Ja!
Goku: ...Uuuuu...Give me back my ice cream... { talks, strangling Gojyo in sleep }
Gojyo: ...Itte.... Baka bouzu.... kuuuhhh... { strangles Goku back weakly, in sleep }
Sanzo: ...Ero kappaaa....Ko, ro, suuuu.... {punches Seiko weakly, in sleep }
Seiko: ...I didn't... take your ice cream, baka saru.... { kicks Sanzo repeatedly, in sleep }
Hakkai: .... { speechless, goes to the kitchen, sweat dropping } ....(o____--()()())
Hakuryu: KYUU!!! (=Bye, see you again!)
Hakkai: ...Hai, konnichiwa! {looks at those three} Minna, do greet the readers, or they won't read this fic!
Others: ...Koooo---niiii---chiii---waaaaaaaa...
Hakkai: Hihihi..... Sorry!
Seiko: Actually those guys were extremely tired, after been chased all over this place last night... (^--^;;;)
Hakkai: ...Ee?? What do you mean by 'been chased'?
Seiko: Anou. I'll tell you at the end of this chapter, okay? Anyway, like what I always said before, I don't own Saiyuki, it belongs rightfully to Minekura Kazuya-san! {bows} thank you sensei, for creating GS the manga! (^- --^)
Sanzo: ...U...ruu...sa.....iii.....ba...kaa......on...naaaa... { sleeps }
Gojyo: ...Start.....the...chap.....teeeerrrr.....already..... { falls down from couch }
Goku: Uuuu...nikumans.....siu mais....chop suey.....chocolate cake.....brownies..... Peking roast duck..... { drools while sleeping }
Seiko and Hakkai: {sweat dropped}
Seiko: { chuckled nervously } ...I guess let's move on, ne, onii- chan?
Hakkai: Hai!!
Goku: .....Sushi.....ramen.....nasi lemak.....sambal belacan.....dried salted fish..... {drooooollllsss }
Hakkai: Eeeee?????? Since when he started eating Malay foods??
Seiko: ...Hihihi... (^--^;;;;;) He saw my cooking book, onii-chan. That's why....
Hakkai: Yare yare desu ne... If Goku asked me to cook them, you would be responsible for that, young lady! {sighs}
Seiko: ...Gomen nasai! { bows } Anyway, enjoy this chap! (^__^)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
Chapter 3 - THE PENDANT
...from the last chapter...
"..Arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Iyaaa!!!!!!!!! Please... leave me alone!!!!! Arhhhhhhh!!!!"
Goku screamed. He screamed so loud just like before, making Hakkai and Sanzo gathered along around Goku. They all shared the same thoughts.
'...What actually happened to Goku???'
The girl was standing straight with her eyes widened in fear...
'...No...It's not going to happen again.Please don't happen again...'
She suddenly fell on her knees, still staring at Goku fretfully, and she realised she was shaking hard in fear and terrified. She hugged herself, and prayed...
'...Please don't let this boy die,. .. like what happened to them...Izumi, and onii-chan...'
Before she knew it, she was crying hard, making the ikkou turned to her.
'...Why?'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"...Ojou-san? Daijoubu ka? Ojou-san...!" Hakkai called the girl repeatedly, after he saw the girl cried all of a sudden, making the ikkou rather perplexed.
...The girl kept on crying, while clasping herself tight, and she was bending down, hiding her face from the ikkou. She tried hard not to cry actually, when she just couldn't hold the tears. Her crystal tears dropped, swiftly absorbed into the wooden floor. Her sobs became even louder, making the men stared at her, puzzled.
Hakkai, being a caring brother reached the girl and knelt before her, and patted her shoulder gently. He didn't know the reasons why the silver- haired was crying, but he curled his warmest smile, which was always effective on making girls stop weeping. But then, the girl slowly pushed away Hakkai's hand, making the latter more puzzled.
'...Stop crying, Izuko. You don't want these guys show their sympathy on you, ne? So stop.'
The girl lowered her sobs and wiped her tears with her long left sleeve, and she slowly lifted her face, facing smiling Hakkai. She felt like her heart throbbed so fast that it could match a train's speed, when seeing Hakkai smiled...
...it was equal to her late onii-chan's smile. They looked the same.
"Anou...daijoubu ka? Why are you crying?" Hakkai asked the girl politely, trying not to hurt her inner feelings. The girl didn't say a thing, but she smiled back faintly towards Hakkai as if she was saying 'I'm fine' from her sweet smile. But still, the smile didn't satisfy Hakkai's request. The emerald-eyed man looked deep in the girl's raven eyes, and abruptly, the girl shed her tears again.
...It all happened all of a sudden. Before she realised it, she was crying again. Quickly, she covered her face with both her palms.
Hakkai knew something was wrong with that young girl in front of him. She couldn't be crying because of Goku, she didn't even know him in the first place. Not one of them. But then the brotherly instinct inside Hakkai showed itself clearly when the youkai widened his arms and abruptly...
...hugged the crying young girl.
Hakkai's act made the two other men gawked at the touching scene, even that cold-hearted Sanzo couldn't help himself to view the event. But then, he snapped himself back to reality when he realised he shouldn't be that 'touched'. Well, he did have a slight emotion after all. While Gojyo, recalled back his past when Jien once hugged him after he had been beaten by his stepmother, Jien's mother.
The girl herself was shocked, that she blushed severely in Hakkai's warm hug. She admitted the hug did remind her of someone...
...someone who used to make her calm down like this...
...someone who used to say sweet words just to make her stop weeping...
...someone who...
The girl stretched out her hands to hug the man back when suddenly...
'...But this is not onii-chan!!!!! He's a stranger, Izuko! A stranger!!!'
She halted. The girl pushed Hakkai slowly, making the latter felt quite guilty, to hug a young lady like that. He didn't know why, but she looked so pitiful, that he couldn't help with his own habits, being nice especially to youngsters. Even sometimes, he felt like hugging Goku all the time when he saw the saru sulked after being 'thwacked' by the harisen...
...Hakkai and his brotherly self. Just couldn't help it, though.
"....ARRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The ikkou and the girl were shocked by Goku's sudden scream. They turned to Goku, who was again struggling hard to overcome the pain that struck through his veins and muscles, like what he felt before.
".... Leave...me.....It hurts....."
Gojyo was deafened by the itan's loud cry that he hugged Goku even tighter, ignoring his own pain that struck him in his chest. But still, Goku was just grabbing himself tight, refused to let go of it. He seemed like he was struggling to get something out of his body and soul by force...
...But then, he just couldn't.
"Oi, Goku! Hold on, Goku!! Goku!!" Gojyo kept on calling him that, and suddenly, Goku's voice was heard feebly but clear enough.
"...Go...Gojyo...Ittai..."
Gojyo's eyes were filled with teardrops as he heard the voice, Goku's voice. He hugged the itan tightly into his arms, to make him feel better and stop trembling in pain. He hushed the itan somehow, as the saru stopped his moaning and the only thing left was his shaky frail body and the kid's body was sweating all over.
Hakkai was terribly stunned. He quickly came to first aid, and touched Goku's forehead, which started to burn up. Hakkai let out his 'ki' energy to heal the itan's mind, but then he realised he just couldn't do anything about it at all. But then, he didn't expect Gojyo would be that caring and loving person he ever met. Besides, Gojyo could only be Goku's fighting mate, not more than a hentai brother. But once he saw the incident, he admitted, Gojyo treated Goku as his real brother after all, although they're obviously not.
He turned abruptly to the girl behind him, who was staring at Goku with such sympathized look.
"Anou, ojou-san. I'm afraid we need your help here. I just couldn't find the cause why he reacted like this... And he's starting to get a fever too..."
Hakkai explained it clear and understandable. But still, the girl didn't say anything. She was just looking at Goku and she was actually afraid of the scene, since that very day her onii-chan died...
...in the same way.
"...Ojou-san?" Hakkai called the girl again after he realised she didn't pay much attention to his request before.
This time, the girl got struck back and she hurriedly went next to Hakkai who was healing several bruises made due to the previous fight. The girl bowed a bit, and stepped nearer to Goku, who was now shivering as if he was covered with ice, despite of his raising temperature... the ikkou just couldn't say more but gave a deep sigh in their hearts.
"...Sumimasen. I wasn't listening..." Not long after that, the silver- haired girl moved closer to Goku, and she looked in Gojyo's eyes as a sign to let Goku go for a while. Gojyo gently put Goku on his lap and the female latter touched Goku's forehead making him moaned again, slowly in pain.
'...Save him, Izuko. You mustn't lose this boy too. Just like how you lost your.' The girl shook her head, tried not to get too emotional while trying to help those men. She knew she had such a heavy task to carry on...
...to save another innocent life.
"...shhhh... Onii-san?" the girl turned to Hakkai who was checking Goku's pulse. Hakkai faced the girl, and a faint smile curled up on his face, as he answered the young lady.
"...He had just been possessed, but may I know what caused him to be like this?" She rubbed the itan's temple gently, and it made Goku eased a little bit. Gojyo and Hakkai looked straight to the girl's face, wondering what did she mean by that question. The girl continued after a long silence.
"...You see, if I don't know what made him like this, then I can't make him normal again." The girl looked sympathized when she said that, making Hakkai and those two shocked by the statement. Especially the sentence 'normal again'.
"...But you said he's fine! Why did you say that you're making him normal again? What do you mean by that?" Gojyo was worried that he was almost yelling at the girl. Realising that, Hakkai held Gojyo's shoulder, telling him to calm down.
"...Let her finish, Gojyo."
The girl stared at the men and she started explaining the actual thing happened to the boy.
" This boy must have made someone angry with him, that made that person cursed him like this. Do you remember anything about it?"
The ikkou looked at each other, and they shook their heads as the answer.
"...No, I don't think so. Instead, he made others adored him, than to hate him like that..."
Hakkai sure made a point. Goku had never been hated by someone that much. His childish acts certainly made the people around him liked him for being cute at this age! Even that cold-hearted Sanzo got melted whenever Goku showed his puppy eyes to him, then what about others?
"...Sou ka... Then, did he pick or take someone's belongings from anywhere? Maybe, old looking things or ornaments..."
Those men tried to recall their journey back then when all of a sudden, Hakkai stood up and reached something around Goku's neck inside his robe. The girl herself was shocked that she hastily gave way to the elder.
...It was a pendant.
"This... this pendant. The last time we fought the youkais, Goku found this thing and he refused to leave it there, saying that he wanted to give it back to its owner..."
**************************************************************************** ************************* (the day before...)
"....UUUuuuu...Hara hetta!!! Ne Hakkai! When will we reach the village? I'm so hungry that I can eat the whole jeep..." Goku groaned again as soon as his stomach started to grumble loud, followed by Hakuryu's 'coo' and even the kappa got distracted and woke up from his sleep.
"...Oi, saru! Can't you think anything else than foods??" the typical kappa yawned and started the fight with Goku as usual.
"...I'M NOT A SARU, KONO KAPPA!!!" Goku yelled back, facing the kappa whose veins got all throbbed out hearing his nickname. He stood on the jeep and pinched Goku's cheeks hard, making the itan stuck his fingers into Gojyo's mouth and started stretching the kappa's lips wide. They struggled to let themselves go, but couldn't help stretching each other's face. It's fun!
Hakkai couldn't do anything by the time he realised those two were ruining each other's face like that from the rear mirror. He chuckled nervously, not to mention his sweat dropped so much that even Sanzo was damned mad at those two behind.
"Koho heho happaaa!!!! Lek hoo hohf hee!!!! (=Kono ero kappa!!! Let go of me!!!!)"
"...Eek hurhst kohoo baha haruuu!!!! (=It hurts kono baka saru!)"
"I'mn hooct a bahaa hahruuu!!!!! HEHOO HAPPAA!!!! (=I'm not a baka saru!!!!! Ero kappa!!)
"...Oh heah? Baha hahru, bahaa hahru, bahaaa hahruu!!!!!!" (you totally can understand it, don't you?)
"...ArGGGGHhhh!!! HEHOOO HOOOHIHURIII HAPPPAAAA!!!! (=ero gokiburi kappa!!!)"
" BAHAA HAHRUUUUUU!!!!"
" EHOO HAPPAAA!!!"
" BAHAA HAHRUUUUUU!!!!"
" EHOO HAPPAAA!!!"
" BAHAA HAHRUUUUUU!!!!"
" EHOO HAPPAAA!!!"
Sanzo's veins popped out all over his head, that it almost burst in rage and fury when he heard those two baka pets behind, making Hakkai laughed nervously and he tried hard not to laugh hearing at those weird 'language', and obviously he failed. Sanzo's hands itched to shove out his harisen and thwack those two weirdos but then Hakkai successfully stopped him with his own effective magic words.
...well, sort of.
"Maa, maa Sanzo...Don't hit them with the harisen or they'll bite each others' fingers then." followed by a nervous giggle.
"...Fine." Sanzo shoved back his harisen inside his oversized sleeve and took out his shoreiju instead.
"...I guess I'll just shoot them to death." Sanzo turned around, not to mention Hakkai's sweat dropped more than ever as he tried hard not to lose control of the jeep from heading into the forest nearby.
'BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!'
"...URUSAI!!!!! I'll kill you if you don't!!!"
Well, as usual, Sanzo made another successful attempt to shut those troublemakers up. He sat back properly on his own seat and grunted while cursing those baka shounens behind. Hakkai grinned at the way Sanzo handled them, and he suddenly realised a sharp death-promising glare headed right towards him from beside his seat.
Hakkai let out a sigh and started to giggle gleefully, tried to make neither the harisen nor the shoreiju used on him.
"...Ii tenki desu ne, minna?" Hakkai gazed at those pets behind the jeep from his side mirror.
Those two behind held their red cheeks, almost swollen, and still, they started arguing again. But not with their normal language.
"...Hick hall yooooo hockl, koho baaahaa haarhuu!!!! Ikhhaaa.(=it's all your fault, kono baka saru! Itta...)"
"...Whack!!! Yoooo harhled ickh!!! Hooohiiburhii haapppaaa!! (=What! You started it, gokiburi kappa!)
"...Hehehe...It's such a bright sunny day with those two behind, ne, Sanzo?" Hakkai curled his typical sweat dropping expression smile.
"...Ch! Baka!"
Suddenly,. ...
'...SHREEECCCCKKKK.....' the jeep suddenly halted.
Goku who suddenly fell forward due to the sudden halt groaned in pain while the kappa had already hurled out of the jeep, right on his butt. The corrupted monk grunted again nervously, since he almost broke the front glass if he hadn't balance himself before.
"...Ittee....Why did you stop all of a sudden, Hakkai??" Goku rubbed his red nose hastily while looking at the dark-haired in front.
"...Yare yare... I guess we've got some unwanted guests here..."
The ikkou jumped out of the jeep, and automatically the jeep transformed to its original form. Hakuryu flew and perched on his master's shoulder while 'coo'ing fretfully.
They looked around, and they realised they've got surrounded all over by youkais!
Gojyo appeared his shakujou while the saru with his almighty nyoibou, both leaned at each other's back, preparing to defend themselves from the youkais that might kill them as well. They both stared at the big red eyes, apparently owned by the bad youkais, when suddenly, a big muscular youkai loomed in front of the ikkou, smirking annoyingly towards them.
"Don't they have anything else to do than trying to kill us?" Gojyo voiced his thoughts out, making Goku startled.
"...Whatever it is, I want to make it hurry... I'm still hungry..." Goku moaned as his stomach groaned again, but was totally ignored by the elders this time.
Sanzo lifted his shoreiju towards the boss-demon and abruptly shot the first bullet. The youkai vanished himself and suddenly appeared again with a loud scream.
"...ATTAAACKKKKK!!!!!"
In a fraction of a sec, all the youkais jumped out from their hiding places and headed towards the ikkou with a loud cry, and they utterly made the ikkou deafened by the noise. Mostly, Sanzo. His veins throbbed out all at once hearing those cries and he swore to himself he would kill ALL the noisy youkais.
"...Move, minna!!" Hakkai yelled out to his friends, and they've got separated to two groups. Hakkai with Sanzo, while the kappa teamed up with the saru.
The youkais kept on attacking those men without any hesitation, and the great Sanzo-sama didn't give any chance to the youkais either, not even a touch. He shot all the youkais like crazy, and the others understood completely why he was mad that time. They could hear his curses all the time, and sorry, the curses are censored in this fic!
"...Wow, hunger, tiredness, and wanting a place to rest really made him angry... Don't you think so, saru?" Gojyo smirked as three youkais attacked him at the same time, but he evaded and threw his crescent blade towards them, simultaneously making those nasty youkais vaporized and turned to dusts.
"...I'm not a SARU, for yelling out loud!!!" Goku was jumping repeatedly to dodge several attacks from numerous armed youkais, while trying to avoid other sudden assaults from different directions. He jumped again high onto the air and swiftly swung his nyoibou, hitting all youkais who tried to pounce him that time. They vanished and left Goku with other irritating youkais.
Hakkai as usual would curl his hideous smile towards his enemies and as a martial artist, he used his ability of Xi Gong skillfully. Not even a youkai felt brave enough to attack the emerald-eyed from close distance, since they knew they would die for sure. Thus, they could only attack Hakkai using their own 'ki' blasts.
"Yare yare desu ne... I didn't know you have this 'ki' energy..." Hakkai formed an energy barrier to protect himself from being harmed by the youkais' 'ki' balls. He smiled gleefully as Hakuryu came to help, when the dragon let out a huge flame blast and it burnt all the youkais left for the day. The youkais vanished after a loud shriek.
"...Woah, you're great Hakuryu!! I promise I won't eat you no matter how hungry I will get in the future!" Goku came running towards Hakkai and patted Hakuryu's small cute head, followed by the dragon's loving 'coo'. Gojyo came afterwards, right when he finished with his own opponents.
Sanzo himself had finished earlier than anyone else, and he broke the record on killing the most youkai for the day. Well, he's quiet cranky that day, though. No doubt.
"Oi, old man!" Sanzo lifted his gun headed right headed towards the youkai's head, and the other three of his companions joined in with their own weapons, concurrently making the boss-youkai clinched his tooth and stepped back.
"...Not so fast!!!! Argghhh!!!!" Gojyo jumped and. ....
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------
Goku sat on his seat quietly, and it was so rare to find out the saru was actually stop chanting his favourite word, or maybe names of foods. He was just staring at the thing he just picked up before, after they killed the last youkai for the day. He kept on looking intently at it, making the other three elders puzzled by his weird acts.
"...Goku? Daijoubu ka?" Hakkai curled his warm smile again, while looking at Goku from the rear mirror.
Goku didn't answer, making Hakkai and the two men even worrier. Goku was an energetic saru, not to mention he was the most genki boy the elders ever met. Gojyo threw away his cigarette and bent closer to Goku who was still speechless.
"Oi, saru! Are you sick or something?" Gojyo tried to attract Goku's attention by purposely insert the word 'saru' in his question, expecting the saru would jump and pounce over him, or maybe just a reply, 'kappa' or 'gokiburi' from the kid's mouth.
Still, Goku was wordless and his hands kept playing with the pendant he had just found.
Hakkai looked at the monk beside, hoping for any word from him about Goku's weird behaviour. His emerald eyes stared at Sanzo for a while before he looked back on the road and Sanzo somehow reacted with a cold attitude, like always.
"...Let him be like that. Once he see the foods, he'll surely become alive again." Sanzo had no energy left to cock up his shoreiju at the saru, and ask him whether he's the real saru they knew or not. Because he believed that saru was the real one.
"Hm...I hope so, Sanzo. I hope so."
(end of flashback) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The girl was terribly shocked, that she hurriedly took the pendant and examined it for a while. Then, she took out her own pendant, which shone before, and she seemed as if she was comparing those pendants by its looks.
'I wonder if the spirit's still within...'
Realising she was just imagining things, she took out her previous pendant, which shone so bright before, and she held it firm in her palms, putting it near her lips and she chanted something again in a language no one could ever understand... except her.
By the meantime, the ikkou were completely puzzled on what was the girl trying to do. The pendant shone again, revealing its blue bracing light, but this time, it didn't shine too bright like before. The blue 'ki' somehow covered both the girl's and Goku's frail body right after the girl finished her chanting.
Right when Goku's body shone altogether with the girl, Goku snapped his orbs open wide all of a sudden, followed by a deafening scream. He struggled again as if someone was grabbing his body tight and it wouldn't let him go. The ikkou were extremely shocked, and they thought that the girl was going to make Goku's condition even worse.
The girl kept on chanting and she looked like she ignored all Goku's scream, when actually her heart melted hearing them. She purposely closed her eyes, and she admitted she felt quite afraid to see the boy's condition. It made her flashing back those bad things before...
She was still placing her palm on Goku's chest while the other palm embraced her own blue pendant and the itan was still struggling hard with himself. Even Gojyo got kicked away by the boy, and he couldn't say anything about it, instead of just staring fretfully towards them both.
But knowing Sanzo, he suddenly lifted his shoreiju right on the girl's head, ready to pull the trigger and shoot the girl to death. Hakkai and Gojyo looked shockingly towards those two, as Sanzo scolded the girl with such anxious tone. He was worried about Goku.
.More than anyone else.
"Are you trying to kill him???"
The girl looked directly into Sanzo's amethyst eyes, and calmness was shown clearly on her face as she turned away from Goku and she pushed away the shoreiju from her head, smiling so sweet towards the monk. The light that once covered her body together with Goku vanished, and the itan stopped his screaming and he was laid there helplessly, frailly on the girl's laps. Sanzo was stunned by her acts that he glared back at the girl, demanding for explanations.
"...Goshinpai naku, onii-san. I was just trying to communicate with the spirit, which possessed this boy. Nothing more."
"...And? What did you get?" Hakkai went nearer to the girl, and set his eyes on hers. She curled her faint smile and looked away from the youkai's eyes.
".I know you're worried about him. Don't be that, because he's okay now..." her voice was cool, but somehow it sounded as if she was hiding something from the ikkou. Hakkai realised that, and he touched the girl's shoulder abruptly, making the girl jerked a bit. She turned back, and she saw the man was smiling at her, and it surely made her heart soothed.
"Are you sure, ojou-san? If so Goku is all right, then why did he screamed just now? Is he..."
"...Ne, shinpai shinaide onii-san. He's fine." The girl tried to make him calm himself down with a smile that even Gojyo was attracted to it. It was just that this smile's too calmed and comforted making others felt eased.
'...No, he's not fine. You knew it well, ne, Izuko? Demo, if you tell them the truth, then they would surely felt miserable...' the girl thought about it for a while.
'...But if you don't tell them about it, when will they know about the truth?'
The girl felt guilty. She was trapped between two decisions, whether to tell them the truth or false. She fought with her own mind, and then she decided...
The girl was about to explain what she was thinking when suddenly, they heard some sort of noise coming from outside. Hakkai and Gojyo stood up and went to the window, and they saw them...
...Bad youkais.
"...Youkais, Hakkai." Gojyo dashed downstairs with the bouzu, leaving Hakkai with those two youngsters. The girl somehow was shocked, hearing the word 'youkai'.
'...Are they going to capture me back? NO!!! I don't want to go back!'
Hakkai stood up and rubbed the girl's head lovingly, making her sweat dropped. She actually felt weird when someone, especially a stranger like Hakkai rubbed his head as if she's a cat or something...
She pushed away Hakkai's hand politely with a smile on her face. Hakkai knew he had just made a mistake by caressing the girl's head like that. 'She surely felt weird, ne?'
"...I'll take care of this boy. Trust me."
"...Onegai shimasu. We'll come back once we finished.' And with that, Hakkai ran downstairs and joined both Sanzo and Gojyo, already got surrounded by the youkais.
'...They're looking after me.'
...To be continued. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seiko: { yawned } ...I want to sleep now. Oyasumi, onii-chan... { sleeps together with the others on the floor }
Hakkai: Eee??? Matte kudasai, Seiko-chan! You promised you're going to tell us about last night's incident!! Seiko-chaannn.... { shakes Seiko }
Seiko: ....Huh? Oh, gomen I forgot already. Okay... Actually last night... Arhhhhh(yawned). .. Hmmm... { sleeps }
Hakkai: ...Seiko-chan!
Hakuryu: Kyuuuu!!! Kyu!! { takes Seiko's diary}
Seiko: { sleepy mode } ...Great idea, Hakuryu...Read last night's event for me, onii-chan...Huwarrhhhh... oyasumi! Kuh...
Hakkai: { sweat dropped} ...Huh, okay then...
{ last night }
Sanzo: { reaches home, panting } huh...huh...
Hakkai: ...Eh? What happened??
Sanzo: { runs through the back door }
Seiko: SANZOOO!!!!!! Omae o korosu!!!! Where are you?? { reaches home, all wet } Onii-chan! Better tell me where he is!
Hakkai: { sweat dropped } Anou....
Gojyo: ...He ran through the kitchen's door. Now shoo! I'm watching TV here!
Seiko: { runs to the back, saw Sanzo's running away } Oiii!!! Come back here you...
Hakkai: ...there they go again... Huh...
Sanzo: { suddenly pops out from the front door } ...GOJYOO!!!!
Gojyo: ...ARKK????
Sanzo: ...OMAE.... { veins all popped out } { takes out shoreiju, runs after run away Gojyo }
Seiko: Ahh!!! There you are!!! MATTE, KONO BAKA BOUZU!!! { runs after bouzu, spills Goku's ice cream }
Goku: ...ARHHH!!!! Seiko-chan!!! You spilled my ice cream!!! Oi, Wait up!! Pay back my ice cream!!! { runs after Seiko }
Hakkai: { stumbles head over heels } ... Ittai...Those kids never learn...Huh...(o_^;;;;;())
Background: { Gojyo screams for help } { Sanzo's shoreiju shoots like crazy } { Sanzo's curses } { Seiko's yelling } { Goku's yelling } { Goku's.... (o___^()) stomach grumbles loudly } { All neighbours' curses }
"SPLAAAASSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Hakkai: ...Oro?? What the... { looks out } OH MY GOD!!! GUYS!!!
{{ Well, Gojyo IS a water monster right? So, he decided to protect himself in the place where he belong, and he didn't expect the others would jump into the lake together !!}}
Sanzo: KOROSU!!! Kappaaa!!!! { strangles Gojyo }
Gojyo: ...HANASEI, BAKA BOUZU!! { strangles back in the lake }
Goku: ...GIMMEBACKMYICECREAAMMM!!!!! { swims after Seiko}
Seiko: ...I didn't do it!!! Arkkk!!!! { got hit by Sanzo's harisen } OMAE.... {pulls Sanzo's hair }
Sanzo: ...LET GO OF MY HAIR, BAKA ONNAA!!!! KOROSU!!!
Seiko: ...I won't, baka bouzu!!! SHIIII---- { speechless } ---NE???
Others: { look at Seiko's fist, filled with locks of Sanzo's hair }
Sanzo: { jaw dropped } ......O-M-A-E.....{veins throb}
Seiko: { put back the hair on Sanzo's head } GOMEN!!! { hurriedly swims ashore and runs away }
Goku: ...Sa...Sanzo?
Sanzo: ....KKkkkkkk.....BAKA ONNAAA!!!!!! OMAE WO KOROSU!!!!!!! ARGHHH!!!! { shots madly again }
{END of Diary}
Hakkai: ...So, that's what happened, readers....Huh, I just can't believe it...That's why they've all got worn out like this...Sanzo chased them all night. And they only came back home early this morning... (o___^;;;;;)
Hakuryu: Kyuuu!!!!
Hakkai: Anyway, please R & R ne! We'll be glad to read those comments!! Ja!
Goku: ...Uuuuu...Give me back my ice cream... { talks, strangling Gojyo in sleep }
Gojyo: ...Itte.... Baka bouzu.... kuuuhhh... { strangles Goku back weakly, in sleep }
Sanzo: ...Ero kappaaa....Ko, ro, suuuu.... {punches Seiko weakly, in sleep }
Seiko: ...I didn't... take your ice cream, baka saru.... { kicks Sanzo repeatedly, in sleep }
Hakkai: .... { speechless, goes to the kitchen, sweat dropping } ....(o____--()()())
Hakuryu: KYUU!!! (=Bye, see you again!)