Hakkai: Seiko-chan! Seiko-chan! {pats Seiko to wake her up}
Seiko: Hm? Eh, it's morning already?
Hakkai: Hai! Ohayo, Seiko-chan! What do you want for breakfast today? (o___^)
Seiko: ...{death glares Hakkai}
Hakkai: {sweat dropped} .....Seiko-chaann??
Seiko: {takes Sanzo's newspaper and placed it before Hakkai's eyes} ...See?!
Hakkai: {reads the headline} All Muslims STILL fast today... HUH!!!!! Aaa, gomen nasai, Seiko-chan! I didn't mean to!!! {bows and bows and bows}
Seiko: Naahh, that's okay. But still, you can cook for these scalawags. I don't mind.
Sanzo: {cocks shoreiju} ...Want to die early?
Seiko: {takes out scissors} ...Want me to cut your hair?
Sanzo: ...Ch! {veins pop out} {placed back shoreiju}
Seiko: ...Muarkkhh hahahaha!! {laughs hysterically facing outside the window}
Hakkai: Oh, before we forget, Seiko doesn't own Saiyuki, it belongs rightfully to Minekura Kazuya-san! Ne, Seiko-chan?
Seiko: Sou yo! And for those Muslim readers out there, HAPPY FASTING!!! Oh, let's start with the next chap...{turns on the computer} Oi, bouzu! Smoke outside!! Not here in my precious room!
Sanzo: ...Whatever!! {throws cigarette and starts eating} Yum, yum!
Seiko: {sweat dropped} Oh Lord, Please save me.... Uuuuu... (T-T)
Hakkai: Yare yare desu ne... {pushes Sanzo out} Come Sanzo, eat outside kay?
Seiko: ...LET'S START!!! Chapter 4!!! Oh, baka humor alert!! ENJOY! (^--^)
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MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
CHAPTER 4-SAVING THE ITANS
{{{from the last chap}}}
"...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...'
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"...Woah, so many of them?? What are they? Youkai breeders??" Gojyo protested while appearing his shakujou from nowhere. Sanzo who was cocking his shoreiju towards the malicious youkais turned to Gojyo, sweat dropped.
"...I thought Goku melted your shakujou?" Sanzo turned back to those demons, followed by the kappa's irritating smirk, making Sanzo felt like shooting the water monster than to kill the youkais they were supposed to destroy.
"I'm a great magician, don't you know?" Gojyo replied with such annoying tone, and unexpectedly a familiar white shining material fell hard on his head, making his face met the ground.
Gojyo lifted his head and moaned helplessly, rubbing his bleeding nose, while trying to hold the pain.
"...Stop being proud of yourself, kono hentai kappa!!" it was the harisen which met with Gojyo's head just before, and Sanzo's act really made the youkais couldn't help themselves from stumbling head over heels.
Gojyo stood up and combed his crimson locks of hair between his fingers. Then, he grabbed back the shakujou and prepared himself to kill any of those damned youkai, obviously, before he got killed.
Besides, he was in the mood to fight after been given 'spared energy' by the silver-haired girl before, back in the old inn. Sanzo too, got reenergized after he received the 'ki' power of hers.
"...Saa, shall we start?" Sanzo pulled his trigger and without waiting any response from the uncountable youkais, he pulled the hammer twice and the shoreiju shot two shiny silver-coloured bullets dashing towards several youkais in front.
Simultaneously, a straight line of youkais turned to black dusts and vanished.
The other youkais got stunned. They were actually there not to fight with any ill-tempered monk or any funny looking red headed man, but they were supposed to capture a heretic, a female heretic.
One of the youkais suddenly stepped forward, and he abruptly halted in front of those shounens before them.
"...I'm sorry, but we're not here to hurt you men. But we're here to capture a female itan, and it's an order from our boss. So, if you don't mind..."
Suddenly, a green 'ki' blast came out from inside the inn and it hit directly through the previous spoken youkai, leaving dusts separated everywhere and slowly vaporized into the air. Obviously, it was Hakkai.
"...Sorry, but we do mind about it." Hakkai came out of the inn and stepped between Gojyo and Sanzo, forming another 'ki' ball in his palms. He didn't have to turn his head to both his companions to explain why he did that.
"...They want to take the girl away. Dakara, we must protect her, minna- san."
Sanzo sighed and grunted. He hated it when he had to trouble himself just to save some other person's life. But when he thought back about the girl's action to help them before, he stopped his sighing and once more lifted his shoreiju and pulled its trigger, geared up to shoot another youkai.
"...You sure are getting meaner day by day, Hakkai."
"...Sou ka?" Hakkai chuckled, making Gojyo beside a bit puzzled.
"But they said they want to capture an itan, a female one. How come you said..."
"...I'll tell you later, Gojyo. It's a long story, I think."
Gojyo understood. He raised his shakujou and smirked naughtily towards the youkais left. They sure were many, but they didn't scare Gojyo a bit.
"...So?? Any other explanation you want to confess? We've got a 'great' counselor here!"
Apparently, Gojyo was talking about Hakkai, being a 'great' counselor. That certainly made Hakkai giggled, but then...
"...TROOPS!!! DESTROY THEM!!!"
The loud order was followed by the youkais cry and they all attacked the ikkou at the same time, the same technique used by lots of youkais who fought with the ikkou since a year ago.
It made them bored, though. Sanzo sighed loudly, Gojyo sighed more louder and Hakkai sighed even more louder. They certainly were tired of those unchanged youkais.
"...Sou, that's the way to greet your enemies!" Hakkai blasted his green 'ki' towards a group of youkais who suddenly jumped and almost hit him with their weapons, it effectively hit those wicked youkais and they vanished into the air, blown by the wind.
Hakkai continued his fight by using his Xi Gong for better results, and it surely killed lots of youkais at a time.
Gojyo kept on jumping aback when a group of youkais started to harm him with their axes and sickles, not allowing Gojyo to even move his shakujou and cut those demons. But then, he found something that might help, a wooden barrel of water!
Hence, without wasting any time, Gojyo darted towards the container as fast as he could and he lifted it, throwing it right headed for the running youkais.
And it worked, when the youkais shrieked like goats after they had been splashed with water and they halted for a while, cold. Gojyo took the chance to use his shakujou for good, and in a fraction of a second, all the youkais had finished. They vanished like the others.
"Ch, that saru was right! I am a water monster after all..."
The only left was Sanzo, shooting madly towards the jumping youkais who made Sanzo thought they were acting a hundred percent like frogs! He somehow wasted a lot of his bullets just to shoot those toad-like youkais, since they moved around too much, making the monk yelled like he's gone crazy already.
Hakkai and Gojyo knew Sanzo was madly mad at those youkais that they had predicted what the stingy monk would do.
Hakkai and Gojyo finished their own opponents as quick as they could and hastily darted inside the inn and closed the door, locking it from inside.
They looked at Sanzo through the dusty window when then the monk jumped back, standing straight with his palms met each other, and his mouth started to chant the Tripitaka clear and loud.
The youkais halted, not knowing what to do when suddenly...
"...MAKAI TENJOU!!!!!!"
Hakkai and Gojyo inside cheered gleefully for Sanzo's victory, and if only they were girls, they would have changed themselves to pom-pom girls and shouted for Sanzo! Imagine that, 'pom-pom Saiyuki girls!'
"...Wait, Hakkai. I guess we're off the limit. Where did you find the idea anyway?"
".....What? pom-pom girls? I found it out in one of your magazines, Gojyo!"
".....Ee??? You read those books??" Gojyo jerked back, and he almost trip over the chair behind.
"...Yare yare desu ne... I accidentally saw it in our backpack, sumimasen!"
"Phew! I thought you read it!"
Hakkai giggled gleefully and unlocked the door, after he saw Sanzo started to walk towards the inn. Sanzo was still mumbling and murmuring, cursing with al his heart when then...
...They heard a girl's scream.
'That girl!!' that was the only word that suddenly struck those shounens' heads. They hurriedly ran upstairs, when then they saw something that they couldn't afford to see at the first place!
"...Let go of me, I can't breath...."
Hakkai, Gojyo and Sanzo were more than just stunned. They saw Goku was conscious again, pinning the girl down the floor, strangling her neck hard, while the girl used all her energy left to push the itan away. The spirit within Goku's body revealed itself again!
The three stooges... Ooopps! I mean the three men dashed towards them both and they pulled Goku as hard as they could with all their might. They could see Goku's eyes were flashing red again, made them terrified most.
Abruptly, Goku 'hit' those three with his death-promising glare, even more deadly than Sanzo's, making them sent back like before. They knocked themselves against the wall, but for Sanzo, he was sent flying towards downstairs!
Sanzo was terribly shocked that he screamed helplessly all along his 'journey' to the ground floor, hitting his butt on the stairs step by step...
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{A/N: Fine! Laugh as much as you want! Muarhh hahahha!!! Don't worry, Sanzo's eating outside, so laugh till you weep! Hahahahahaha!!! Hakkai: .....I don't think that's funny, Seiko-chan! Please be more serious! Seiko: Uh, gomen! (T-T)}
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"...Sanzo!!!" Hakkai stood back and helped Gojyo to stand up, and then he learnt that Goku was still strangling the girl's neck tight, and it was impossible for her to breath.
Gojyo was the one who ran first to help the girl, but when he was about to pull Goku's arms, the itan once more used his psychic abilities on Gojyo by just swinging his one hand and this time, Gojyo was sent outside, through the window, and he had a wonderful 'voyage' to the actual ground!
"...Gojyo!!!"
Hakkai couldn't stand it any longer. If he were to let this happen, the girl might as well died. He stepped closer to Goku, and when he was just at his back, Hakkai lifted his hand and...
"Gomen nasai, Goku!"
He smacked the pulse area on Goku's neck, making the itan unconscious again, and he fell right on the silver-haired girl. She was gasping hard for oxygen and Hakkai helped her to sit up, after he lifted Goku and put him aside.
She held her neck, and coughed continuously, while Hakkai quickly reached downstairs and took the backpack on the table and rushed upstairs again, ignoring moaning Sanzo, shaking helplessly on the floor.
"...Ooi...Hakk....kaiii..." . "...Gomen, Sanzo! But that girl needs first aid!" Hakkai went to the girl with a water bottle in his hand. He uncapped the bottle and slowly made the girl drank the water inside. But then, the girl spitted out all the water and smacked Hakkai's head hard, making the elder rather puzzled.
"...What? What?"
"...What kind of thing you gave me to drink?? It doesn't taste like water..." she coughed again, and Hakkai patted her back slowly this time while tasting the water inside the bottle when then...
"...It's liquor!!! Uh, sumimasen ojou-san! I gave you the wrong bottle! Here." Hakkai took another bottle and gave it to the girl. And he was sure that was plain water, NOT hanyya's water, like how Sanzo described it before for liquor...
".Arigatou." the bottle exchanged hands, when suddenly they heard footsteps on the stairs, and Hakkai was sure that were Sanzo and Gojyo. Realising that, he didn't look back but he busied himself checking Goku's pulse after the itan fell unconscious.
But then, the girl shuddered her eyes open and tugged Hakkai's sleeve repeatedly while her eyes kept on staring at the figure behind Hakkai.
"...Matte kudasai, ojou-san..."
"...De...demo..."
The figure was holding some kind of weapon, and he was about to hit Hakkai with it. The girl was terrified, since she thought that figure was a youkai left during the fight and she abruptly pushed Hakkai away, and the figure accidentally hit her instead.
"...Ittai... What was that?" the girl opened her eyes and started rubbing her swollen head when suddenly, she realised...
That figure was no youkai! It was the blonde monk with his notorious harisen!
"...Ojou-san!! Daijoubu desu ka??" Hakkai quickly hurried towards the girl, and he gawked at Sanzo, who was showing no leniency after what he had done.
"...It's her fault. Who told her to push you away, when actually I was going to spank your head off??"
"...Spank my he...Demo doshite???"
"...kkkk...kono....." Sanzo was about to smack Hakkai's head for THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIFE, when then a water monster emerged from behind and towed Sanzo's waist, thwarting him to beat Hakkai.
"Oi, stop it baka bouzu!!! Are you crazy or what??"
'THWACKKK!!!!'
A thwack was successfully formed on the kappa's head, leaving him cried out in pain while crouching on the floor. The other two sweat dropped looking at the incident.
Sanzo then shoved back his harisen and folded his arms, cursing and cursing and cursing all night long.
" Sanzo, gomen nasai! I didn't mean to ignore you just now, but this ojou- san over here was almost get killed!" Hakkai bowed continuously before Sanzo.
"Who asked you to take care of that baka yagi onna???? She can take care of herself, forbid sake! She's @$%&%$#@!!!!"
Wild veins popped out of the girl's head all over, her eyebrows almost meet each other due to the frowning, and her tooth clinched in anger after she heard those curses, purposely directed towards her.
She abruptly stood up and patted her clothes. When then...
"Arhhh!!!!! Shiinee!!!!"
...Unpredictably the girl jumped and pounced on Sanzo, making him fell on the floor with his spine still aching due to his fall just now. The girl strangled Sanzo while the flaxen-haired as usual took out his dearly loved harisen and smacked the girl's head brutally.
Well, the girl didn't show any pity by strangling Sanzo like that either, though.
"...Yameru kudasai, you two! Stop it!" Hakkai pulled the girl's shoulders, but still, she refused to let go of Sanzo who got even more aggressive with his thwacking.
Gojyo grinned, followed by a laugh that struck him all of a sudden, he found it fun to see the stingy monk picked a fight with a girl. Hakkai was bewildered by Gojyo's laugh that even the two latter stopped their 'grappling' session.
They all gaped at Gojyo who abruptly laughed with no reasons.
Gojyo almost burst his tears out when he saw those three gawked at him like that, that the stupid kappa laughed even more hysterically and he stepped back, and further back, and...
"...Arhhhh!!!!!!!!! Yaaaaa hu hu hu huiiiiiii....."
'.....THUUUUUD!!!'
The three sweat dropped. They looked at each other with weird expressions and then they all rushed to the window, and they saw a flat horny water monster on the ground, groaning in pain, and it was still been able to move.
Thankfully the distance between the ground and the second floor wasn't too long, that made the helpless kappa saved from sudden death.
"...Itteee....." The kappa groaned in pain while holding his back.
Thank goodness that saru was unconscious, or otherwise he would have been laughing like crazy seeing Gojyo like that.
"...Yare yare desu ne... That's why you shouldn't laugh at others, Gojyo." Hakkai quickly went to fainted Goku and lifted him up on his back. He then walked downstairs followed by the girl who helped with the backpack, while Sanzo cursed on Gojyo's awkwardness.
On the way downstairs, a small white dragon flew above them and went out, transforming itself to a big green jeep. The girl was utterly stunned. She had never met with any dragon that could change themselves to vehicles.
But she somehow didn't show her stunned expression too much, since the boy was still fainted.
"Hayaku, Gojyo! We need to reach the next village quick!"
Hakkai placed out cold Goku on the backseat, followed by the injured kappa who jumped in the jeep and moaned like a 90-year-old man as he settled himself on the seat, putting Goku's head on his lap.
Then, Sanzo and Hakkai got on the jeep on their usual seats. The girl was still standing next to the jeep, staring at Goku.
"Anou, ojou-san?" Hakkai turned to the girl, trailed by Gojyo's look upon her.
"...Hai?" the girl answered, and she felt like crying that time, she just didn't know why. But for sure, she would felt like crying whenever she saw sick person.
"...Why don't you step in yet?"
Hakkai politely asked the girl, and this time, Sanzo had none to protest about Hakkai's request to make the girl follow them. For Goku's sake.
The girl stared back at Goku, still messing up her mind on whether to go along or not. Just a while then, the girl looked up, curling her sweetest smile and hopped onto the jeep, landing herself at the back of Sanzo's seat.
"...Sorry to interrupt your journey, but I promise I'll leave as soon as I cured this boy."
"...Make it sooner, and you had some nerves to let a baka yagi onna like her to follow us, Hakkai."
Obviously, that was Sanzo's insolent talk. Hakkai was about to reply the monk when then an azure coloured sword passed swiftly near Sanzo's neck less than a centimeter. The monk almost jump his heart out and sweated all over nervously, so did Hakkai beside, whilst the kappa behind almost swallow his own cigarette.
"...And onii-san, I beg you not to insult me during this baka ride of yours. Got it?"
The girl didn't pull back her sword, instead she kept it like that, while waiting for the bouzu's respond.
But of course, the monk wouldn't say anything nice towards others, that Hakkai was damned worried if all of a sudden Sanzo would curse with all his heart, making the girl ran out crazy and chopped the bouzu's head off for real.
Realising that was his task to make peace, Hakkai bowed to the girl, pleading her to retreat her sword.
"...Ojou-san, Onegai shimasu! He didn't say it on purpose...."
"...Alas, I did." Sanzo suddenly intervened and he was about to curse the girl behind when Hakkai sent him a deathly defiant stare, making his body shivered slightly.
".I hope so, onii-san." The girl understood well, and she vanished her sword, leaving Sanzo sighing in relieve deep in his heart.
Hakkai smiled and he stepped on the acceleration bar, causing the jeep to move forward in full speed. They needed to reach the next town as fast as they could, since the village had no facilities, not even a people in that spooky place.
Besides, they need to rush, as they had to let the girl alleviate Goku's pain caused by the possessing thing.
Hakkai had no ability to treat haunted patients, but the girl did. The ikkou knew it well since they saw the girl tried to commune with the spirit within Goku's frail body, and they realised that girl by hook or by crook, had the ability to converse with invisible living forms.
The ikkou got tons of things to ask about Goku, and the girl definitely would be the 'victim' to answer their questions.
"...Ojou-san? We haven't introduce ourselves yet, ne?"
The girl was shocked by the abrupt subject the emerald-eyed latter contributed just then. She was actually still checking Goku's condition before, when subsequently the elder struck her back to reality. She turned to Hakkai, making the latter smiled again.
"...Shitsurei, what did you just say?"
"...I said we haven't tell our names yet, ne? Boku wa Cho Hakkai desu. Hakkai would be fine."
"...Sou ka? Watashi..."
The girl hadn't finished her words yet when the crimson-eyed interrupted their conversation. He tapped the girl's shoulder, making her to face Gojyo.
"...I'm Gojyo. Sha Gojyo." He winked his eye naughtily, and without any prospect from the elders, the girl made her sword worked again.
It appeared all of a sudden right between Gojyo's eyes, right on his nose, and obviously the others' sweat dropped. Hakkai giggled nervously like always, and Sanzo grinned devilishly, felt rather amused by the way the girl treated the hentai kappa.
"...I guess my harisen won't trouble itself smacking the kappa's head anymore."
Hakkai almost stumble head over heels hearing Sanzo's statement that he nearly lose control of Hakuryu.
"...Ma, ma Sanzo...Ojou-san? Yameru kudasai..."
Gojyo gulped nervously, and he tried so hard to make the girl let down her guts by moving his face elsewhere, but it seemed like this girl's an expert in sword fighting. The sword was still headed to Gojyo's face right in the middle of it, no matter how hard the kappa tried to get away.
"...And you, hentai onii-san. Try and seduce me, and I'll cut your nose off."
She slowly put her sword down, and it vanished again in a fraction of a sec. She turned again towards Goku before she looked at Hakkai once more, whom she considered him to be a 'polite onii-san', while ignoring the 'hentai onii-san' behind and the 'stingy onii-san' in front.
"...That boy there is Son Goku, and this man is Genjo Sanzo. I hope you can call us by our names, since we're not used being called 'onii-san' all the time..." he giggled gleefully, followed by Sanzo's grunt, a sign that he too, was agreed with that statement.
"Honto? Gomen nasai, I didn't know about it..." she smiled again, making Hakkai couldn't let his gaze off that sweet girl behind.
"...and what's your name?"
The girl turned around and she saw the redheaded kappa wiped his sweat due to the last encounter with the blue sword. She giggled, and she looked so cute that even Sanzo blushed vaguely after he saw the girl from the rear side mirror.
Hakkai was actually about to ask the girl's name, but he gave way to the kappa this time.
"...Izuko desu."
"...Izuko?? Kawaii namae desu ne...So, wanna go out with me?"
Hakkai sweat dropped while patting his head hard, couldn't believe that the crimson-haired somehow forgot about the threat the girl named Izuko just did to him.
On the other hand, Sanzo was cursing the kappa so hard inside that his head started to frown and numerous veins popped out all of a sudden. But then, before he was to whack the kappa's head...
"...I mean what I meant, Gojyo-san."
Hakkai and Sanzo were both puzzled. 'Just words? No violent scenes?' They hurriedly looked back and they realised...
...They were wrong at the first place.
Izuko was standing on the jeep, putting his palm covered with scarlet 'ki' ball, right in front of the hanyou's face, and she seemed like she was about to blast it anytime now.
The elders could see numerous veins throbbed madly on her forehead, not to mention her hands started to get itchy to beat the kappa up.
Gojyo, well, he was jerking his head back, while he was out of the jeep by half of his body, trying to balance himself not to fall. He kept on avoiding her, but failed. While Goku, on the other hand was placed on the next seat neatly.
Both elders in front sweat dropped so hard that they refused to look in front. Too interested to see what would happen next.
"...Izu...Izuko-san??" Gojyo was trembling that time, his hands were shaking while he himself was sweat dropping due to what Izuko did. The girl was still refusing to let Gojyo free from the dangerous threat, until all of a sudden...
"...HAKKAI!!!! LOOK OUT!!"
'BANG!!!'
Izuko hurriedly absorbed back her 'ki' ball while then she realised she was on Gojyo ON the ground right when she opened her eyes. She saw the jeep met with a big tree trunk, and as a result, the jeep transformed back to its original form, sending both elders and Goku on the ground too.
Hakuryu laid on the ground and he 'coo'ed in pain. Hakkai left the cursing monk and rushed to Hakuryu and he found the dragon's head was bleeding.
"...Hakuryu!! This is all my fault..." he formed his healing 'ki' beam and treated Hakuryu's wound.
Izuko rushed next to Hakuryu, and she promptly healed Hakuryu's head with her own bluish 'ki' beam, simultaneously making Hakuryu stopped 'coo'ing and his head was completely healed faster than before.
Hakkai sighed in relieve when Hakuryu flew to his shoulder and licked his cheek gaily. He turned to Izuko and smiled to her, who was starting to feel guilty. Abruptly, Izuko bowed to Hakkai and her voice trembled frightfully, wondering if the elders would scold her.
"...Sumimasen !! I really didn't mean to distract you before!"
Hakkai smiled again and stood up, making the girl lifted her head when suddenly...
"...ITTAA!!!!!! What was that for??" she turned around and she saw the blonde monk held his harisen with veins throbbed out crazily. With that, Izuko completely understood that she had just been the next victim in the monk's 'harisen's prey list'.
"...That's why I don't want a @#$%&@ girl like you to join us!! Kono baka yagi!!!!"
"...I'm not a goat, baka Sanzo!! Ch, it still hurts..." Izuko clasped her head tight, making the bouzu started to get panicked. Hakkai and Gojyo rushed towards those two, and Gojyo was the one who made Sanzo mad even worse.
"....Oi!! She's just a little girl, and you hit her like you really are a mental asylum patient!!"
Sanzo cocked his shoreiju right on the kappa's head, clicking the trigger and was about to pull the hammer when Gojyo abruptly ducked on time, making the monk cursed and they started to fight again.
Hakkai on the other hand was kneeling next to Izuko, worried. He saw Sanzo purposely hit her head 'smoother' than before, realising that she's a girl but Izuko was still moaning in pain as if Sanzo hit her too had. Hakkai tried to heal her head with his 'ki' but it didn't work.
"...I'm fine, Hakkai-san. It's just....an old disease..." she hissed and tried to stand up, when then she failed to balance herself, making her fell helplessly on the ground.
"...Izuko!! Izuko, daijoubu ka?? Izuko!!"
Izuko tried to open her eyes, but as she did, she saw a pair of green eyes, staring fretfully at her. Then she saw another two figure at the back of the latter, then...
...her eyes closed.
"...Izukooo!!!!"
'...Anou baka! Get up, Izuko, that boy's dying! This is not the time for you to get sick, GET UP!!!'
'...But I can't... it hurts too much... too much... But, that boy...Go...ku.....'
Izuko was fighting with herself, tried hard enough not to faint, and make things worse...
... besides, she was determined to save Goku's life...
...also, she knew well the boy had a big problem about the pendant thing.
...And she knew she was the only one who could save him...
...Who could save his soul...
...From being swallowed eternally by the spirit within the pendant.
'I must save him, no matter what the risks are...He's ONE of my kind.'
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Seiko: .....FINISHED! Well, actually not that this story's finished already! No way I'm going to give up writing! (^__^)
Sanzo: {cocks shoreiju on Seiko's temple} ...You really are going to die today, onna.
Gojyo: {holds shakujou next to Seiko's neck} ...You really are, baka onna narrator!
Goku: ......????
Seiko: {shivering in fear} wh...Why are you so mad?? I didn't do anything!
Both: ...SHINEE!!!!!
Hakkai: ...STOP IT, BOTH OF YOU!!! {takes Seiko away}
Others: {stunned} Hakkai??
Seiko: {crying} Uuuu..... (T---T) I'm the writer, and still you want to kill me that bad? Uuuu.
Sanzo: You deserved to die!
Gojyo: Look what you've done?? Now girls laughed at me whenever I met them!! You made us humiliated in your baka fic!!! {swings shakujou crazily} SHIIINEEE!!!!
Seiko: {runs away} Ahhh!!!!!
Sanzo: {chases Seiko} OI!!! Come back here!!! {shoots shoreiju madly}
Hakkai: ...Huh...Anyway, sorry if you are bored by this fic, and gomen also for inserting baka jokes that might get you annoyed. Seiko is just a beginner, though.
Goku: ...Hara hetta....
Hakkai: {ignores Goku} ...Seiko would like to apologize if the previous chaps are tooo long. She just couldn't help typing it all once she got started...
Goku: ...Hara hetta...
Hakkai: {ignores Goku again} ...And here are the Japanese words that might get you confused in the chap...
Yagi - goat
Kawaii namae desu ne - what a cute name
Shitsurei - Excuse me
Itan - heretic
Hanyou - half youkai/ taboo
Goku: ...Hara hetta....
Hakkai: {ignores Goku again} ...If you have any question about the meanings, do ask! And please, review! (o___^) So that Seiko can improve her writings. Oh, and hakkai-san, Seiko would like to thank you for having reviewed her fic! She got a severe problem about the words in her previous chaps, but she had repaired all of them already. So, mind if you read them again? Hihihi...(o___^) Gomen nasai!
Goku: .. {lies on the floor helplessly} {can't afford to say anything} {stomach grumbles loudly}
Hakkai: GOKU??? Now what happened?
Goku: .....Hara hetta..... {faints} {stomach grumbles again}
Hakkai: ...Ee??? Why didn't you say so? Come, I'll cook for you, okay? (o__^)
Goku: {sweat dropped} ...Anou na... I've said it before... WHATEVER!! Yaaaaaay!!! Dinner!!! (^___^) Ja, readers! Please review, onegai!
Seiko: {panting} ...O....ne...ga....i...shi...ma......su..... {almost faint}
Sanzo and Gojyo: ...HERE YOU ARE!!! SHI---------NEEE!!!!
Seiko: ARKKK!!!! {runs again} ...Bye! See you in chap 5!! Warhhhh!!!!
{{{endless story of Seiko}}} (T----T)
Seiko: Hm? Eh, it's morning already?
Hakkai: Hai! Ohayo, Seiko-chan! What do you want for breakfast today? (o___^)
Seiko: ...{death glares Hakkai}
Hakkai: {sweat dropped} .....Seiko-chaann??
Seiko: {takes Sanzo's newspaper and placed it before Hakkai's eyes} ...See?!
Hakkai: {reads the headline} All Muslims STILL fast today... HUH!!!!! Aaa, gomen nasai, Seiko-chan! I didn't mean to!!! {bows and bows and bows}
Seiko: Naahh, that's okay. But still, you can cook for these scalawags. I don't mind.
Sanzo: {cocks shoreiju} ...Want to die early?
Seiko: {takes out scissors} ...Want me to cut your hair?
Sanzo: ...Ch! {veins pop out} {placed back shoreiju}
Seiko: ...Muarkkhh hahahaha!! {laughs hysterically facing outside the window}
Hakkai: Oh, before we forget, Seiko doesn't own Saiyuki, it belongs rightfully to Minekura Kazuya-san! Ne, Seiko-chan?
Seiko: Sou yo! And for those Muslim readers out there, HAPPY FASTING!!! Oh, let's start with the next chap...{turns on the computer} Oi, bouzu! Smoke outside!! Not here in my precious room!
Sanzo: ...Whatever!! {throws cigarette and starts eating} Yum, yum!
Seiko: {sweat dropped} Oh Lord, Please save me.... Uuuuu... (T-T)
Hakkai: Yare yare desu ne... {pushes Sanzo out} Come Sanzo, eat outside kay?
Seiko: ...LET'S START!!! Chapter 4!!! Oh, baka humor alert!! ENJOY! (^--^)
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MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
CHAPTER 4-SAVING THE ITANS
{{{from the last chap}}}
"...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...'
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"...Woah, so many of them?? What are they? Youkai breeders??" Gojyo protested while appearing his shakujou from nowhere. Sanzo who was cocking his shoreiju towards the malicious youkais turned to Gojyo, sweat dropped.
"...I thought Goku melted your shakujou?" Sanzo turned back to those demons, followed by the kappa's irritating smirk, making Sanzo felt like shooting the water monster than to kill the youkais they were supposed to destroy.
"I'm a great magician, don't you know?" Gojyo replied with such annoying tone, and unexpectedly a familiar white shining material fell hard on his head, making his face met the ground.
Gojyo lifted his head and moaned helplessly, rubbing his bleeding nose, while trying to hold the pain.
"...Stop being proud of yourself, kono hentai kappa!!" it was the harisen which met with Gojyo's head just before, and Sanzo's act really made the youkais couldn't help themselves from stumbling head over heels.
Gojyo stood up and combed his crimson locks of hair between his fingers. Then, he grabbed back the shakujou and prepared himself to kill any of those damned youkai, obviously, before he got killed.
Besides, he was in the mood to fight after been given 'spared energy' by the silver-haired girl before, back in the old inn. Sanzo too, got reenergized after he received the 'ki' power of hers.
"...Saa, shall we start?" Sanzo pulled his trigger and without waiting any response from the uncountable youkais, he pulled the hammer twice and the shoreiju shot two shiny silver-coloured bullets dashing towards several youkais in front.
Simultaneously, a straight line of youkais turned to black dusts and vanished.
The other youkais got stunned. They were actually there not to fight with any ill-tempered monk or any funny looking red headed man, but they were supposed to capture a heretic, a female heretic.
One of the youkais suddenly stepped forward, and he abruptly halted in front of those shounens before them.
"...I'm sorry, but we're not here to hurt you men. But we're here to capture a female itan, and it's an order from our boss. So, if you don't mind..."
Suddenly, a green 'ki' blast came out from inside the inn and it hit directly through the previous spoken youkai, leaving dusts separated everywhere and slowly vaporized into the air. Obviously, it was Hakkai.
"...Sorry, but we do mind about it." Hakkai came out of the inn and stepped between Gojyo and Sanzo, forming another 'ki' ball in his palms. He didn't have to turn his head to both his companions to explain why he did that.
"...They want to take the girl away. Dakara, we must protect her, minna- san."
Sanzo sighed and grunted. He hated it when he had to trouble himself just to save some other person's life. But when he thought back about the girl's action to help them before, he stopped his sighing and once more lifted his shoreiju and pulled its trigger, geared up to shoot another youkai.
"...You sure are getting meaner day by day, Hakkai."
"...Sou ka?" Hakkai chuckled, making Gojyo beside a bit puzzled.
"But they said they want to capture an itan, a female one. How come you said..."
"...I'll tell you later, Gojyo. It's a long story, I think."
Gojyo understood. He raised his shakujou and smirked naughtily towards the youkais left. They sure were many, but they didn't scare Gojyo a bit.
"...So?? Any other explanation you want to confess? We've got a 'great' counselor here!"
Apparently, Gojyo was talking about Hakkai, being a 'great' counselor. That certainly made Hakkai giggled, but then...
"...TROOPS!!! DESTROY THEM!!!"
The loud order was followed by the youkais cry and they all attacked the ikkou at the same time, the same technique used by lots of youkais who fought with the ikkou since a year ago.
It made them bored, though. Sanzo sighed loudly, Gojyo sighed more louder and Hakkai sighed even more louder. They certainly were tired of those unchanged youkais.
"...Sou, that's the way to greet your enemies!" Hakkai blasted his green 'ki' towards a group of youkais who suddenly jumped and almost hit him with their weapons, it effectively hit those wicked youkais and they vanished into the air, blown by the wind.
Hakkai continued his fight by using his Xi Gong for better results, and it surely killed lots of youkais at a time.
Gojyo kept on jumping aback when a group of youkais started to harm him with their axes and sickles, not allowing Gojyo to even move his shakujou and cut those demons. But then, he found something that might help, a wooden barrel of water!
Hence, without wasting any time, Gojyo darted towards the container as fast as he could and he lifted it, throwing it right headed for the running youkais.
And it worked, when the youkais shrieked like goats after they had been splashed with water and they halted for a while, cold. Gojyo took the chance to use his shakujou for good, and in a fraction of a second, all the youkais had finished. They vanished like the others.
"Ch, that saru was right! I am a water monster after all..."
The only left was Sanzo, shooting madly towards the jumping youkais who made Sanzo thought they were acting a hundred percent like frogs! He somehow wasted a lot of his bullets just to shoot those toad-like youkais, since they moved around too much, making the monk yelled like he's gone crazy already.
Hakkai and Gojyo knew Sanzo was madly mad at those youkais that they had predicted what the stingy monk would do.
Hakkai and Gojyo finished their own opponents as quick as they could and hastily darted inside the inn and closed the door, locking it from inside.
They looked at Sanzo through the dusty window when then the monk jumped back, standing straight with his palms met each other, and his mouth started to chant the Tripitaka clear and loud.
The youkais halted, not knowing what to do when suddenly...
"...MAKAI TENJOU!!!!!!"
Hakkai and Gojyo inside cheered gleefully for Sanzo's victory, and if only they were girls, they would have changed themselves to pom-pom girls and shouted for Sanzo! Imagine that, 'pom-pom Saiyuki girls!'
"...Wait, Hakkai. I guess we're off the limit. Where did you find the idea anyway?"
".....What? pom-pom girls? I found it out in one of your magazines, Gojyo!"
".....Ee??? You read those books??" Gojyo jerked back, and he almost trip over the chair behind.
"...Yare yare desu ne... I accidentally saw it in our backpack, sumimasen!"
"Phew! I thought you read it!"
Hakkai giggled gleefully and unlocked the door, after he saw Sanzo started to walk towards the inn. Sanzo was still mumbling and murmuring, cursing with al his heart when then...
...They heard a girl's scream.
'That girl!!' that was the only word that suddenly struck those shounens' heads. They hurriedly ran upstairs, when then they saw something that they couldn't afford to see at the first place!
"...Let go of me, I can't breath...."
Hakkai, Gojyo and Sanzo were more than just stunned. They saw Goku was conscious again, pinning the girl down the floor, strangling her neck hard, while the girl used all her energy left to push the itan away. The spirit within Goku's body revealed itself again!
The three stooges... Ooopps! I mean the three men dashed towards them both and they pulled Goku as hard as they could with all their might. They could see Goku's eyes were flashing red again, made them terrified most.
Abruptly, Goku 'hit' those three with his death-promising glare, even more deadly than Sanzo's, making them sent back like before. They knocked themselves against the wall, but for Sanzo, he was sent flying towards downstairs!
Sanzo was terribly shocked that he screamed helplessly all along his 'journey' to the ground floor, hitting his butt on the stairs step by step...
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{A/N: Fine! Laugh as much as you want! Muarhh hahahha!!! Don't worry, Sanzo's eating outside, so laugh till you weep! Hahahahahaha!!! Hakkai: .....I don't think that's funny, Seiko-chan! Please be more serious! Seiko: Uh, gomen! (T-T)}
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"...Sanzo!!!" Hakkai stood back and helped Gojyo to stand up, and then he learnt that Goku was still strangling the girl's neck tight, and it was impossible for her to breath.
Gojyo was the one who ran first to help the girl, but when he was about to pull Goku's arms, the itan once more used his psychic abilities on Gojyo by just swinging his one hand and this time, Gojyo was sent outside, through the window, and he had a wonderful 'voyage' to the actual ground!
"...Gojyo!!!"
Hakkai couldn't stand it any longer. If he were to let this happen, the girl might as well died. He stepped closer to Goku, and when he was just at his back, Hakkai lifted his hand and...
"Gomen nasai, Goku!"
He smacked the pulse area on Goku's neck, making the itan unconscious again, and he fell right on the silver-haired girl. She was gasping hard for oxygen and Hakkai helped her to sit up, after he lifted Goku and put him aside.
She held her neck, and coughed continuously, while Hakkai quickly reached downstairs and took the backpack on the table and rushed upstairs again, ignoring moaning Sanzo, shaking helplessly on the floor.
"...Ooi...Hakk....kaiii..." . "...Gomen, Sanzo! But that girl needs first aid!" Hakkai went to the girl with a water bottle in his hand. He uncapped the bottle and slowly made the girl drank the water inside. But then, the girl spitted out all the water and smacked Hakkai's head hard, making the elder rather puzzled.
"...What? What?"
"...What kind of thing you gave me to drink?? It doesn't taste like water..." she coughed again, and Hakkai patted her back slowly this time while tasting the water inside the bottle when then...
"...It's liquor!!! Uh, sumimasen ojou-san! I gave you the wrong bottle! Here." Hakkai took another bottle and gave it to the girl. And he was sure that was plain water, NOT hanyya's water, like how Sanzo described it before for liquor...
".Arigatou." the bottle exchanged hands, when suddenly they heard footsteps on the stairs, and Hakkai was sure that were Sanzo and Gojyo. Realising that, he didn't look back but he busied himself checking Goku's pulse after the itan fell unconscious.
But then, the girl shuddered her eyes open and tugged Hakkai's sleeve repeatedly while her eyes kept on staring at the figure behind Hakkai.
"...Matte kudasai, ojou-san..."
"...De...demo..."
The figure was holding some kind of weapon, and he was about to hit Hakkai with it. The girl was terrified, since she thought that figure was a youkai left during the fight and she abruptly pushed Hakkai away, and the figure accidentally hit her instead.
"...Ittai... What was that?" the girl opened her eyes and started rubbing her swollen head when suddenly, she realised...
That figure was no youkai! It was the blonde monk with his notorious harisen!
"...Ojou-san!! Daijoubu desu ka??" Hakkai quickly hurried towards the girl, and he gawked at Sanzo, who was showing no leniency after what he had done.
"...It's her fault. Who told her to push you away, when actually I was going to spank your head off??"
"...Spank my he...Demo doshite???"
"...kkkk...kono....." Sanzo was about to smack Hakkai's head for THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIFE, when then a water monster emerged from behind and towed Sanzo's waist, thwarting him to beat Hakkai.
"Oi, stop it baka bouzu!!! Are you crazy or what??"
'THWACKKK!!!!'
A thwack was successfully formed on the kappa's head, leaving him cried out in pain while crouching on the floor. The other two sweat dropped looking at the incident.
Sanzo then shoved back his harisen and folded his arms, cursing and cursing and cursing all night long.
" Sanzo, gomen nasai! I didn't mean to ignore you just now, but this ojou- san over here was almost get killed!" Hakkai bowed continuously before Sanzo.
"Who asked you to take care of that baka yagi onna???? She can take care of herself, forbid sake! She's @$%&%$#@!!!!"
Wild veins popped out of the girl's head all over, her eyebrows almost meet each other due to the frowning, and her tooth clinched in anger after she heard those curses, purposely directed towards her.
She abruptly stood up and patted her clothes. When then...
"Arhhh!!!!! Shiinee!!!!"
...Unpredictably the girl jumped and pounced on Sanzo, making him fell on the floor with his spine still aching due to his fall just now. The girl strangled Sanzo while the flaxen-haired as usual took out his dearly loved harisen and smacked the girl's head brutally.
Well, the girl didn't show any pity by strangling Sanzo like that either, though.
"...Yameru kudasai, you two! Stop it!" Hakkai pulled the girl's shoulders, but still, she refused to let go of Sanzo who got even more aggressive with his thwacking.
Gojyo grinned, followed by a laugh that struck him all of a sudden, he found it fun to see the stingy monk picked a fight with a girl. Hakkai was bewildered by Gojyo's laugh that even the two latter stopped their 'grappling' session.
They all gaped at Gojyo who abruptly laughed with no reasons.
Gojyo almost burst his tears out when he saw those three gawked at him like that, that the stupid kappa laughed even more hysterically and he stepped back, and further back, and...
"...Arhhhh!!!!!!!!! Yaaaaa hu hu hu huiiiiiii....."
'.....THUUUUUD!!!'
The three sweat dropped. They looked at each other with weird expressions and then they all rushed to the window, and they saw a flat horny water monster on the ground, groaning in pain, and it was still been able to move.
Thankfully the distance between the ground and the second floor wasn't too long, that made the helpless kappa saved from sudden death.
"...Itteee....." The kappa groaned in pain while holding his back.
Thank goodness that saru was unconscious, or otherwise he would have been laughing like crazy seeing Gojyo like that.
"...Yare yare desu ne... That's why you shouldn't laugh at others, Gojyo." Hakkai quickly went to fainted Goku and lifted him up on his back. He then walked downstairs followed by the girl who helped with the backpack, while Sanzo cursed on Gojyo's awkwardness.
On the way downstairs, a small white dragon flew above them and went out, transforming itself to a big green jeep. The girl was utterly stunned. She had never met with any dragon that could change themselves to vehicles.
But she somehow didn't show her stunned expression too much, since the boy was still fainted.
"Hayaku, Gojyo! We need to reach the next village quick!"
Hakkai placed out cold Goku on the backseat, followed by the injured kappa who jumped in the jeep and moaned like a 90-year-old man as he settled himself on the seat, putting Goku's head on his lap.
Then, Sanzo and Hakkai got on the jeep on their usual seats. The girl was still standing next to the jeep, staring at Goku.
"Anou, ojou-san?" Hakkai turned to the girl, trailed by Gojyo's look upon her.
"...Hai?" the girl answered, and she felt like crying that time, she just didn't know why. But for sure, she would felt like crying whenever she saw sick person.
"...Why don't you step in yet?"
Hakkai politely asked the girl, and this time, Sanzo had none to protest about Hakkai's request to make the girl follow them. For Goku's sake.
The girl stared back at Goku, still messing up her mind on whether to go along or not. Just a while then, the girl looked up, curling her sweetest smile and hopped onto the jeep, landing herself at the back of Sanzo's seat.
"...Sorry to interrupt your journey, but I promise I'll leave as soon as I cured this boy."
"...Make it sooner, and you had some nerves to let a baka yagi onna like her to follow us, Hakkai."
Obviously, that was Sanzo's insolent talk. Hakkai was about to reply the monk when then an azure coloured sword passed swiftly near Sanzo's neck less than a centimeter. The monk almost jump his heart out and sweated all over nervously, so did Hakkai beside, whilst the kappa behind almost swallow his own cigarette.
"...And onii-san, I beg you not to insult me during this baka ride of yours. Got it?"
The girl didn't pull back her sword, instead she kept it like that, while waiting for the bouzu's respond.
But of course, the monk wouldn't say anything nice towards others, that Hakkai was damned worried if all of a sudden Sanzo would curse with all his heart, making the girl ran out crazy and chopped the bouzu's head off for real.
Realising that was his task to make peace, Hakkai bowed to the girl, pleading her to retreat her sword.
"...Ojou-san, Onegai shimasu! He didn't say it on purpose...."
"...Alas, I did." Sanzo suddenly intervened and he was about to curse the girl behind when Hakkai sent him a deathly defiant stare, making his body shivered slightly.
".I hope so, onii-san." The girl understood well, and she vanished her sword, leaving Sanzo sighing in relieve deep in his heart.
Hakkai smiled and he stepped on the acceleration bar, causing the jeep to move forward in full speed. They needed to reach the next town as fast as they could, since the village had no facilities, not even a people in that spooky place.
Besides, they need to rush, as they had to let the girl alleviate Goku's pain caused by the possessing thing.
Hakkai had no ability to treat haunted patients, but the girl did. The ikkou knew it well since they saw the girl tried to commune with the spirit within Goku's frail body, and they realised that girl by hook or by crook, had the ability to converse with invisible living forms.
The ikkou got tons of things to ask about Goku, and the girl definitely would be the 'victim' to answer their questions.
"...Ojou-san? We haven't introduce ourselves yet, ne?"
The girl was shocked by the abrupt subject the emerald-eyed latter contributed just then. She was actually still checking Goku's condition before, when subsequently the elder struck her back to reality. She turned to Hakkai, making the latter smiled again.
"...Shitsurei, what did you just say?"
"...I said we haven't tell our names yet, ne? Boku wa Cho Hakkai desu. Hakkai would be fine."
"...Sou ka? Watashi..."
The girl hadn't finished her words yet when the crimson-eyed interrupted their conversation. He tapped the girl's shoulder, making her to face Gojyo.
"...I'm Gojyo. Sha Gojyo." He winked his eye naughtily, and without any prospect from the elders, the girl made her sword worked again.
It appeared all of a sudden right between Gojyo's eyes, right on his nose, and obviously the others' sweat dropped. Hakkai giggled nervously like always, and Sanzo grinned devilishly, felt rather amused by the way the girl treated the hentai kappa.
"...I guess my harisen won't trouble itself smacking the kappa's head anymore."
Hakkai almost stumble head over heels hearing Sanzo's statement that he nearly lose control of Hakuryu.
"...Ma, ma Sanzo...Ojou-san? Yameru kudasai..."
Gojyo gulped nervously, and he tried so hard to make the girl let down her guts by moving his face elsewhere, but it seemed like this girl's an expert in sword fighting. The sword was still headed to Gojyo's face right in the middle of it, no matter how hard the kappa tried to get away.
"...And you, hentai onii-san. Try and seduce me, and I'll cut your nose off."
She slowly put her sword down, and it vanished again in a fraction of a sec. She turned again towards Goku before she looked at Hakkai once more, whom she considered him to be a 'polite onii-san', while ignoring the 'hentai onii-san' behind and the 'stingy onii-san' in front.
"...That boy there is Son Goku, and this man is Genjo Sanzo. I hope you can call us by our names, since we're not used being called 'onii-san' all the time..." he giggled gleefully, followed by Sanzo's grunt, a sign that he too, was agreed with that statement.
"Honto? Gomen nasai, I didn't know about it..." she smiled again, making Hakkai couldn't let his gaze off that sweet girl behind.
"...and what's your name?"
The girl turned around and she saw the redheaded kappa wiped his sweat due to the last encounter with the blue sword. She giggled, and she looked so cute that even Sanzo blushed vaguely after he saw the girl from the rear side mirror.
Hakkai was actually about to ask the girl's name, but he gave way to the kappa this time.
"...Izuko desu."
"...Izuko?? Kawaii namae desu ne...So, wanna go out with me?"
Hakkai sweat dropped while patting his head hard, couldn't believe that the crimson-haired somehow forgot about the threat the girl named Izuko just did to him.
On the other hand, Sanzo was cursing the kappa so hard inside that his head started to frown and numerous veins popped out all of a sudden. But then, before he was to whack the kappa's head...
"...I mean what I meant, Gojyo-san."
Hakkai and Sanzo were both puzzled. 'Just words? No violent scenes?' They hurriedly looked back and they realised...
...They were wrong at the first place.
Izuko was standing on the jeep, putting his palm covered with scarlet 'ki' ball, right in front of the hanyou's face, and she seemed like she was about to blast it anytime now.
The elders could see numerous veins throbbed madly on her forehead, not to mention her hands started to get itchy to beat the kappa up.
Gojyo, well, he was jerking his head back, while he was out of the jeep by half of his body, trying to balance himself not to fall. He kept on avoiding her, but failed. While Goku, on the other hand was placed on the next seat neatly.
Both elders in front sweat dropped so hard that they refused to look in front. Too interested to see what would happen next.
"...Izu...Izuko-san??" Gojyo was trembling that time, his hands were shaking while he himself was sweat dropping due to what Izuko did. The girl was still refusing to let Gojyo free from the dangerous threat, until all of a sudden...
"...HAKKAI!!!! LOOK OUT!!"
'BANG!!!'
Izuko hurriedly absorbed back her 'ki' ball while then she realised she was on Gojyo ON the ground right when she opened her eyes. She saw the jeep met with a big tree trunk, and as a result, the jeep transformed back to its original form, sending both elders and Goku on the ground too.
Hakuryu laid on the ground and he 'coo'ed in pain. Hakkai left the cursing monk and rushed to Hakuryu and he found the dragon's head was bleeding.
"...Hakuryu!! This is all my fault..." he formed his healing 'ki' beam and treated Hakuryu's wound.
Izuko rushed next to Hakuryu, and she promptly healed Hakuryu's head with her own bluish 'ki' beam, simultaneously making Hakuryu stopped 'coo'ing and his head was completely healed faster than before.
Hakkai sighed in relieve when Hakuryu flew to his shoulder and licked his cheek gaily. He turned to Izuko and smiled to her, who was starting to feel guilty. Abruptly, Izuko bowed to Hakkai and her voice trembled frightfully, wondering if the elders would scold her.
"...Sumimasen !! I really didn't mean to distract you before!"
Hakkai smiled again and stood up, making the girl lifted her head when suddenly...
"...ITTAA!!!!!! What was that for??" she turned around and she saw the blonde monk held his harisen with veins throbbed out crazily. With that, Izuko completely understood that she had just been the next victim in the monk's 'harisen's prey list'.
"...That's why I don't want a @#$%&@ girl like you to join us!! Kono baka yagi!!!!"
"...I'm not a goat, baka Sanzo!! Ch, it still hurts..." Izuko clasped her head tight, making the bouzu started to get panicked. Hakkai and Gojyo rushed towards those two, and Gojyo was the one who made Sanzo mad even worse.
"....Oi!! She's just a little girl, and you hit her like you really are a mental asylum patient!!"
Sanzo cocked his shoreiju right on the kappa's head, clicking the trigger and was about to pull the hammer when Gojyo abruptly ducked on time, making the monk cursed and they started to fight again.
Hakkai on the other hand was kneeling next to Izuko, worried. He saw Sanzo purposely hit her head 'smoother' than before, realising that she's a girl but Izuko was still moaning in pain as if Sanzo hit her too had. Hakkai tried to heal her head with his 'ki' but it didn't work.
"...I'm fine, Hakkai-san. It's just....an old disease..." she hissed and tried to stand up, when then she failed to balance herself, making her fell helplessly on the ground.
"...Izuko!! Izuko, daijoubu ka?? Izuko!!"
Izuko tried to open her eyes, but as she did, she saw a pair of green eyes, staring fretfully at her. Then she saw another two figure at the back of the latter, then...
...her eyes closed.
"...Izukooo!!!!"
'...Anou baka! Get up, Izuko, that boy's dying! This is not the time for you to get sick, GET UP!!!'
'...But I can't... it hurts too much... too much... But, that boy...Go...ku.....'
Izuko was fighting with herself, tried hard enough not to faint, and make things worse...
... besides, she was determined to save Goku's life...
...also, she knew well the boy had a big problem about the pendant thing.
...And she knew she was the only one who could save him...
...Who could save his soul...
...From being swallowed eternally by the spirit within the pendant.
'I must save him, no matter what the risks are...He's ONE of my kind.'
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Seiko: .....FINISHED! Well, actually not that this story's finished already! No way I'm going to give up writing! (^__^)
Sanzo: {cocks shoreiju on Seiko's temple} ...You really are going to die today, onna.
Gojyo: {holds shakujou next to Seiko's neck} ...You really are, baka onna narrator!
Goku: ......????
Seiko: {shivering in fear} wh...Why are you so mad?? I didn't do anything!
Both: ...SHINEE!!!!!
Hakkai: ...STOP IT, BOTH OF YOU!!! {takes Seiko away}
Others: {stunned} Hakkai??
Seiko: {crying} Uuuu..... (T---T) I'm the writer, and still you want to kill me that bad? Uuuu.
Sanzo: You deserved to die!
Gojyo: Look what you've done?? Now girls laughed at me whenever I met them!! You made us humiliated in your baka fic!!! {swings shakujou crazily} SHIIINEEE!!!!
Seiko: {runs away} Ahhh!!!!!
Sanzo: {chases Seiko} OI!!! Come back here!!! {shoots shoreiju madly}
Hakkai: ...Huh...Anyway, sorry if you are bored by this fic, and gomen also for inserting baka jokes that might get you annoyed. Seiko is just a beginner, though.
Goku: ...Hara hetta....
Hakkai: {ignores Goku} ...Seiko would like to apologize if the previous chaps are tooo long. She just couldn't help typing it all once she got started...
Goku: ...Hara hetta...
Hakkai: {ignores Goku again} ...And here are the Japanese words that might get you confused in the chap...
Yagi - goat
Kawaii namae desu ne - what a cute name
Shitsurei - Excuse me
Itan - heretic
Hanyou - half youkai/ taboo
Goku: ...Hara hetta....
Hakkai: {ignores Goku again} ...If you have any question about the meanings, do ask! And please, review! (o___^) So that Seiko can improve her writings. Oh, and hakkai-san, Seiko would like to thank you for having reviewed her fic! She got a severe problem about the words in her previous chaps, but she had repaired all of them already. So, mind if you read them again? Hihihi...(o___^) Gomen nasai!
Goku: .. {lies on the floor helplessly} {can't afford to say anything} {stomach grumbles loudly}
Hakkai: GOKU??? Now what happened?
Goku: .....Hara hetta..... {faints} {stomach grumbles again}
Hakkai: ...Ee??? Why didn't you say so? Come, I'll cook for you, okay? (o__^)
Goku: {sweat dropped} ...Anou na... I've said it before... WHATEVER!! Yaaaaaay!!! Dinner!!! (^___^) Ja, readers! Please review, onegai!
Seiko: {panting} ...O....ne...ga....i...shi...ma......su..... {almost faint}
Sanzo and Gojyo: ...HERE YOU ARE!!! SHI---------NEEE!!!!
Seiko: ARKKK!!!! {runs again} ...Bye! See you in chap 5!! Warhhhh!!!!
{{{endless story of Seiko}}} (T----T)