Seiko: Hi there! We meet again! First of all, I want to thank all those
people who kindly review my fic, honto ni, arigato gozaimashita! And for
those who read, but didn't review, thank you, thank you, thank you!! ...And
sorry if you found my fic were all quite TOO long!
Hakkai: {pops out from nowhere} SOU!!! Do tell us if you hate those long conversations between us five, ne? (o___^) Seiko can delete them, can't you, Seiko-chan?
Seiko: Hm!! But this story won't be funny anymore without us talking like mental problem patients... Don't you think so? ...ITTAAAAAA!!!!! It hurts, baka bouzu!!!
Sanzo: {still thwacking} ...YOU-TALK-TOO-MUCH-BAKA-ONNA!!! Start the chap already, kyoujo (=madwoman)!!!!!
Hakkai: ...Yameru kudasai, you two... how many times should I clean up all this mess??
Seiko: ...Itte, itte, itte!!!! {pulls Sanzo's hair} I SAID STOP IT!!! My head's aching!!! Ouch!
Sanzo: HANASEI!!!! Let go of my precious hair!! {pulls Seiko's ponytail}
Seiko: Oiii!!! Let go of my hair!!! {reaches scissors} ...Before I cut yours for real!!!
Sanzo: {lets Seiko go} ...Ch, you sure want to die early, onna!!! {takes out shoreiju} SHIINEEE!!!
Seiko: ...{kicks Sanzo outside} Lame threat!! {coughs badly} Ch, baka cough! Anyway, let's begin with Chapter 5, ignore this blonde, he's being OOC lately...{locks door, leaves Sanzo outside} Serves him right! {coughs again}
Sanzo(outside): OI!!!! Let me in!!! {kicks the door hard continuously}
Seiko: ...STAY THERE!!! And don't let him in until tomorrow, onii-chan! That kechi (=stingy) !! {cough, cough, cough}
Hakkai: ...Yare yare desu ne...(o___^())
Seiko: ..This chap contained horrifying death scenes, so if you're afraid of blood and raw fresh flesh, don't read it.. Just wait for the next chap, but if you're brave enough...go on! Besides, I don't think it's too violent...I LOVE BLOOD!!! ...HaaaaaCHIIIIIII!!!!!!! {sniffs} (^--^) Hihihi... Also some curses, well, just a bit, though.
Goku & Gojyo: ...kichigai onna(=crazy girl). {sweat dropped}
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MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
CHAPTER 5 - THE SPIRIT WITHIN
From the last chapter...
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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"...Izuko? Izuko? Are you okay?"
Izuko opened her eyes, and she found out that voice wasn't her brother's, but a crimson-eyed youkai with crimson hair as well, bending to her. She recognized that man, and slowly, she pushed herself to sit up, with Gojyo's helping hand.
"...Koko wa...Doko?"
Izuko rubbed her head slowly, her eyes went gazing around that place, a wooden hut. At the corner of the hut, there was a blonde man reading a newspaper with his reading glasses on.
He glanced at her for a while, continued by a 'ch' like always and he read the newspaper over and over again.
"...You fell unconscious, don't you remember?"
Gojyo poured some water into a glass and handed it to Izuko, and the latter received it with a smile and nodded. After she sipped some of the water, she put the glass on the ground, at the same time, her eyes caught a motionless figure next to her.
...It was Goku.
"...Hakkai went out with Hakuryu, he's searching for firewood."
Gojyo turned his gaze towards Goku, and his face showed clearly that he was concerned about that itan. The boy had been out cold for some time now, and he kept moaning slowly, as if he was having a bad nightmare, which he couldn't escape from it.
Izuko nodded slowly and she abruptly touched Goku's forehead. She realised that the boy's fever had gone, as a sign that he was getting better. Gojyo looked straight into the girl's raven eyes, wondering something Hakkai told him before about this young lady.
"...She's an itan, Gojyo. I just knew it." Hakkai told Gojyo once they reached the hut before.
Gojyo's thoughts went around and around like a merry-go-round, searching for the exact meaning by Hakkai's short statement.
'...He said that this girl's a heretic, like Goku? She has black eyes, not golden like this saru...'
Realising that he was just wasting his time thinking about it, Gojyo sighed and lit up his cigarette.
Izuko wiped Goku's sweat that assembled on his temple, followed by Sanzo's sharp stare towards those two. He had folded the newspaper and took off his glasses, paying his attentions to what would the girl do next.
The female latter suddenly swayed away Goku's blanket a bit, and she flipped Goku's shirt, clasping the pendant around his neck without taking it off. She then grasped her own pendant, with her other hand was put right on Goku's pendant.
Izuko closed her eyes, and her action really made the other two elders couldn't throw their gaze elsewhere but the girl.
"...What are you doing?" Gojyo moved nearer next to Goku, while staring at Izuko, hoping for any answers. He kept asking Hakkai before about what to do with the saru, but Hakkai was totally speechless. So, it's all up to the girl to answer them.
Izuko took about a while when then she opened her eyes slowly, looking at Goku with disbelief, but calmness was shown visibly on her face, at the same time making Gojyo cooled down a bit.
So did Sanzo, who finally leaned himself against the wooden wall, as he hadn't relax himself a bit since they reached that hut, worrying about Goku.
"...The spirit's still inside Goku."
She turned to Gojyo, then Sanzo before all of a sudden Goku moaned again, painfully. Those three stared at him in fret, as the itan started to move aimlessly on the floor, as if he was forcing something to let him go.
"...Can't you do something about it???" Sanzo voiced out his thoughts, as he moved closer to Gojyo and Izuko, hoping for any positive clarifications from the girl, obviously.
His face showed enough worry, made Izuko changed her thoughts about the monk being too stingy to have any feelings at all. Well, she was wrong.
"...There's only one thing to do... And you, being a monk, you should know it at the first place." She looked quite serious this time, leaving the monk asking himself whether he knew it or not.
As a result, he shook his head slightly, even the kappa got confused by the girl's talk that he scratched his head over and over again.
Izuko understood. She then continued with her previous plan...
"...I'm going to summon the spirit out, again."
"...again?? Kore o mae ni shita koto ga arimasu ka?? (=have you done this before??)"
Gojyo asked the girl once more, and the monk beside him just kept staring at those two, speechless.
She nodded, making her silver locks brushed vaguely on her cheeks.
"...I've done it once, while you were fighting the youkais back then. But it ended up when the spirit refused to do what I said, and she almost choked me to death, remember?"
Gojyo and Sanzo recalled the last incident, and they understood it quickly.
Izuko clasped her own pendant, while closing her eyes tight and her other hand was placed neatly on Goku's chest, right on the pendant Goku picked up before.
Not long after that, her pendant started to produce out bluish 'ki' beam that covered all over her self, together with Goku's frail body. The beam somehow made Izuko's surroundings gravity-zero, when her hair started to soar a bit, and Goku's blanket floated together, making the elders quite stunned.
Those two elders couldn't do anything but they gawked at the scene surprisingly. Izuko chanted something under her breath when then the pendant Goku wore floated, shone in bright yellowish beam.
"...I beg you, nameless spirit, reveal yourself!!"
Right after Izuko shouted for her demand, a figure gradually showed itself in a smoke-like form. It was white, and it went out of the pendant ushered by sudden cold breeze blew its environs.
Gojyo's locks swayed due to the chilly sudden wind, while Sanzo's robe floated, together with the sutra hang on his shoulders. They were stunned seeing the figure, that both Sanzo and Gojyo moved backwards and met the hut's wall.
Not long after that, the smoky figure started to change itself to a human- like form! And they could tell that spirit was a female, due to the long hair the spirit had.
Her eyes were both all-white, once she opened them slowly, facing Izuko. Her attire too, was pure white, and it almost gleamed when the spirit revealed herself entirely.
The shounens were speechless. The spirit was floating in the air, with both her hands widened freely, and followed by the sudden breeze of before.
Izuko opened her orbs once she felt like the spirit had obeyed her demand. She stared at the translucent woman in front of her, and she knew well, that was the same spirit she had summoned before back in the inn.
The spirit stared Izuko back, and she suddenly straighten her hands down, forming a white beam in her palm.
"...You again..." the spirit's voice echoed slightly in the small hut, followed by the humming sound of the soft wind blew throughout the place.
"...Sou. I'm the one who summoned you before, Izuko desu."
"...I've told you, I won't leave this body, until I accomplish my aspire!!"
The spirit looked annoyed, that the wind, which was some sort of her power blew even harder, and it blew Izuko's long silver hair, making the girl abruptly held them hastily. But still, Izuko didn't get herself nervous. Instead, she faced the spirit with a sharp look.
It surely made the other two amazed, when they were actually viewing such a young girl who had such courage to face that 'thing'.
"...Leave this body. I order you to leave him alone!"
"...No!!!" the wind blew even harder than before that Gojyo and Sanzo felt like running away when one of the hut's window shield broke and fell flat on the floor, almost hit the kappa's head.
"...Naze(=why)? He's still a kid, an innocent kid who doesn't have anything to do with you."
"...You might as well right about that, but I need this strong body to free my soul!"
"Free your soul??"
Everyone looked at the direction of the voice, right at the entrance. It was Hakkai, who got dumbfounded outside, some firewood fell from his arms while Hakuryu hid himself behind the door.
The spirit grinned, her white lips showed it clearly enough that she was teasing the ikkou. But then, she turned back to Izuko, making the girl looked back at the figure, narrowing her eyes in rage and fury.
"...You don't have to know about it."
"Then, leave him if you don't want to tell us about it!"
Izuko stood up, and her head almost reached the spirit's height. Her face was so near to that figure that the spirit smiled again, sarcastically.
"...Fine."
The spirit suddenly widened her arms, at the same time shining herself brightly, making the ikkou covered their eyes from it. They felt a sudden wind blew them abruptly in that very moment, and suddenly...
...it stopped.
The ikkou together with Izuko opened up their eyes, and they found out that they weren't in the hut, instead, they found themselves standing in the middle of a village, with a river flowed calmly near their standing position.
The warm breeze hit their skin comfortingly, while the sound of the river flowing made them calmed and the chirps of some sparrows struck their ears softly.
"...Watashi tachi wa doko desu ka? (Where are we?)"
Hakkai looked around that place. They hadn't been in that place before, and it sure made the ikkou quiet shocked, excluding Izuko. She knew well that the spirit was trying to tell them her past...
...that made her wanted Goku's body and mind so much.
"...Koko wa watashi ga izen sunde ita tokoro desu. (=This is where I used to live)" the spirit suddenly appeared and voiced out.
Gojyo and Sanzo too, was shocked by the sudden change of their surroundings and they gazed around that place, when then they heard someone.
"...Ittai..." a woman around twenty was groaning in pain, while holding her stomach, and due to what the ikkou saw, the woman's pregnant. A man around her age was holding her tight, to support her from falling.
From what they had seen, they were both youkais.
They headed to a house, and the male latter shouted on the top of his voice.
"...Sensei!! Sensei!! Help us.....!!"
Suddenly an old man came out while holding a stick, and he was the doctor that man mentioned just then. The pair walked in, and abruptly, the scene around them changed. They were now in a room, and they saw the previous pair with their newborn baby girl.
The ikkou were totally confused. Why would the spirit urge them to witness all this? What did she mean by these incidents?
"...Kuso, why are we here actually??" Sanzo was getting impatient already.
Gojyo too, felt the same that he felt like shouting to those people to quit playing things like this, when then he realised those were just illusions, a flashback of the spirit's past.
"...That's me, holding the baby."
That voice made the ikkou shocked and they turned at their back, when they saw the female spirit of before, standing straight over the ground by inches. No doubt, she was a ghost. She suddenly raised her hand and pointed right towards the pair...
"...Watch, and you'll understand why."
Right after she finished her last word, a sudden wind struck them all and again, the scenery changed to a forest at midnight, while the moon shone brightly up in the sky. The ikkou and Izuko looked at each other, rather perplexed by the scene.
"...Now what???" Sanzo looked around, and he saw nothing, but he admitted he felt like something was going to happen.
...Something bad, for sure.
Then they heard it.
"...ANATA!!!!!!!"
It was a woman's voice, and those four found that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.
"...That woman's voice!! The spirit's..." Izuko quickly turned back to the ikkou, and abruptly they heard a loud noise approaching, followed by that woman's scream.
She sounded like she was in trouble, and then they saw it with their own eyes.
There was a woman, hugging her child tight as if she was glued to her mother's chest and she was running hastily that she almost tripped and fell. Her clothes were all covered with blood, dark crimson blood. Not to mention her child's entire body from head to toe, were all enveloped by blood.
"...Oi, onna!!! Nigeru nai!!! (=Don't run away!!) Come back here!!!" a man's voice was heard and when the woman passed the ikkou and ran towards deep inside the woods, a group of humans, all men, ran after her. They were all holding blades and axes, also, all covered with blood.
They chased after the woman while shouting deafeningly, making the silent night became harsh, and tensed. The ikkou themselves felt quite worried about the woman of before that Gojyo hastily appeared his shakujou and ran towards the running men.
The others were totally puzzled. But apparently, they were not going to let that kappa went alone, so they too ran after him.
".What the hell is he doing??? It's just an illusion, and he's going to beat them up???"
Sanzo couldn't help himself cursing Gojyo, but he too felt rather shocked about what had just happened in front of his eyes. Hakkai and Izuko were both speechless, not knowing what to do with it.
Then, they reached the place.
...The place that made them most petrified with what had happened that time.
They saw the previous woman was leaning against a tree trunk, her legs and her head were bleeding hard, and she looked as if she was hit by something and the men caught her already.
But still, the child in her hug didn't get separated. The kid was weeping silently in her mother's embrace and the woman didn't throw her gaze elsewhere, but staring frightfully in deep fear at the men.
Those humans somehow didn't look like humans, instead, they looked so much like assassins trying to kill their victim without any mercy. They were all giggling with such hentai way, that Izuko felt like killing them all that time.
But realising they were just delusions, she halted and stepped back right beside Hakkai.
The men laughed together, right when the woman moaned and groaned in pain due to what happened to her wounded parts of body. The ikkou somehow realised that the men threw stones towards her, which made her head hemorrhaged and tripped over, making her fell on the ground.
Gojyo was there, watching the scene fretfully and he was about to slash those men when Izuko reached his arm, shaking her head slowly.
"...It's just an illusion, Gojyo-san. Don't get involved in it. The spirit's trying to tell us about this, and we're here only to witness it with our own eyes."
Gojyo stared at Izuko's face for a while when then...
The humans went nearer to the woman and her child, making the mother trembled in terror and she hugged her child even tighter, at the same time the kid cried loudly. Her wails somehow annoyed the humans, when then the leader of the group did it.
The man frowned and abruptly grabbed the kid's head harshly, making the woman pulled back her daughter and kicked the man's leg hard, leaving him moaned in twinge. He got even more irritated that he lifted his leg and...
"...Iyaaaa!!!!!!"
Izuko screamed and squatted on the ground, but instead of the ikkou, the humans couldn't hear her cries. She was grabbing her head tight, as if it was going to burst out all its contents.
...the man kicked hard the woman's face, simultaneously making her fell and her face met the ground, while the child went away from her hug. She groaned again and was about to grab back her crying daughter when suddenly she realised the man of before grinned devilishly towards her, and he was lifting the poor child by grabbing her head up.
"...Yumi!!!!! Give me back my daughter, please...I beg you, please..."
The woman's crying, while crawling heading towards the man, and she hugged the man's leg, pleading the man to let go of her daughter. The kid was wailing and crying even louder and anyone would feel sympathized once they heard the kid's wail.
She kept on crying helplessly together with the men's annoying laugh when then, the previous man swung his leg towards that woman again, making her sent back to the tree trunk. She hit the tree hard, and she almost fainted when abruptly, she heard her daughter's cry got even worse.
She looked at the man again, when then she saw he was now punching her daughter repeatedly, trailed by the other men's laugh. The woman snapped her eyes wide opened seeing her daughter being tortured like that.
".... Shut up, you dirty kid!!! Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!!!"
He was still punching the girl cruelly, until she spat out a lot of blood. But still, she didn't let herself to stop her crying. Instead, she went on like that, when unexpectedly...
"...ARGHHH!!!! DAMARE!!!"
The man without warning lifted the kid even higher, and took out his blade inside his coat, and then...
"YUMIIIII!!!!!!!!"
Blood...
Blood...
Blood everywhere.
The other men watched in fright, but they couldn't do anything about it. It was their own leader who killed her. Once they betrayed, they would be killed also.
There, a death had occurred...
...The kid of before had died in such a sadist way. She was incised to two, and both her sides fell aimlessly on the ground, and still her orbs were both wide-opened. Her blood gushed out frantically and the man was showered by her blood, making the mother broadened her eyes in fume.
The ikkou couldn't stand the sudden thing happened that they turned away, while Sanzo clinched his tooth in fury, and he wished that he was there that time and shot the humans dead.
So did the other shounens thought, while Izuko, she was weeping, not daring to see what happened just then and Hakkai hurriedly reached her and hugged her tight, trying to calm down the girl. She was still a young teenager, though.
"...Yumii!!!!!" the woman suddenly had the strength to stand up and she surprisingly punched the man right inside his stomach, making the man bent and let out a loud groan.
The woman rushed towards her daughter and hugged her while wailing loudly over the kid's death. She was too young to die, but this human killed her mercilessly. She kept on crying and all of a sudden...
"...You... DIE!!!!!!"
The woman was about to lift her head when then another powerful blow made her flew backwards right into the bushes. The man was burning hot with anger since the woman had hit him hard before, and he suddenly moved forward and faced the frail helpless woman lying on the ground holding the pain.
The other men watched without any words came out from their mouth, when their leader lifted his blade once again towards the woman and...
"ARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
...Her head almost separated with her body and she was bathing with dark blood.
The woman's head fell first, before her body fell hard on the ground, making the ikkou even more shocked.
"...Not yet!!! You @#$%&@ onnaaaa!!!!! You must suffer more than THISSS!!!!!"
The man once again lifted his blade and knelt abruptly on the ground and stabbed the headless woman mercilessly over and over again, splashing a huge amount of blood all over that man's face, and his whole body was covered with her blood. He laughed like he was gone crazy already.
The loud wailings of the woman had already disappeared, and what was left was...
"...SHINEE!!!! You're not going to live anymore!!! Hahahahaha!!!!"
The man kept on stabbing the woman's body like he was gone extremely mad, mercilessly bashing the corpse with his blade when then his men came towards him and grabbed him away, leaving the corpse there...
...And it didn't look like a human anymore, not even a dead one.
...But a bunch of fresh bleeding flesh that had just been chopped altogether, leaving...
... A shining pendant.
The ikkou couldn't afford to watch it anymore, that they surely felt like killing those men right away. Sanzo unexpectedly lifted his gun and shot a lot of bullets out of it, making the ikkou a bit shocked. But they were totally understood why he did that.
The bullets somehow didn't affect the men, instead, they passed through the men without even a single wound hit them all, making Sanzo cursed deeply in his heart. Izuko was now trembling hard in Hakkai's arms when suddenly they saw the man picked up that ornament.
He sank his hand into the fresh flesh, and his men couldn't help themselves feeling disgusted by his act that they started to feel like vomiting, plus the rotten smell of blood and putrid fleshy tissue struck their nose abruptly as soon as their leader got that thing...
"...That pendant...It's that spirit's pendant!" Hakkai voiced out all his thoughts.
The others admitted, and they suddenly knew why the woman got chased and all that. Just because of that pendant.
'...Doshite?? Why do I have to watch all these things again?? I hate it!!!!'
Izuko encouraged herself to open up her eyes, and what she saw was the actual scene of the wooden hut of before, and there she was still in Hakkai's hug, when he suddenly let her go after he too realised...
....They were back to reality.
There in the hut, everything was normal. Not even a trickle of blood, like what they had just saw back then, bloods everywhere. Goku was lying on the ground frailly, still motionless and the pendant around his neck was still shining bright.
"Izuko, daijoubu desu ka??" Hakkai caressed the girl's head caringly, making her stopped crying.
Sanzo was too shocked to care about other things around him that time, his mind kept on recalling those blood scenes before in his dark past, when Oshio-sama got slaughtered. His eyes were still like that, opened wide. He tried to control his feelings, but he just couldn't. All of a sudden, Sanzo squatted on the ground, holding his head tight.
Gojyo beside him was even more terrified but he just let himself leaned against the wall, staring blankly at the ground. He was sweating all over, he felt like those incidents had just happened a while ago for real, not an illusion since it looked so bona fide to him.
Izuko watched the elders, and she herself just couldn't deny her own feelings. She too, had a very dark past, and surely she was petrified if that incident happened again. But one thing made Izuko a bit confused when she saw Hakkai was still been able to smile at her, frailly.
Her gaze went to the boy on the ground, and she hastily went to Goku, placing her palms over the glowing pendant. Abruptly, the spirit of before appeared again. Right in the middle of the hut, lowering her head, and she looked so pitiful that none of the shounens or Izuko felt like scolding her anymore.
"...So, now you know, what had happened to me."
Izuko turned back, and she pushed herself up, walking towards the translucent woman. She placed her palm under the spirit's chin, and softly held it up. Making the all-white orbs faced her straight in her raven eyes.
"...I understand it now." She smiled to the spirit sweetly, before she stepped back and held her pendant for a while. Thinking something that the elders didn't know about it at all.
"...But, still, I just want to know why do you want this boy so much?"
"..To take revenge."
Izuko faded her smile and her expression became serious once more, making the spirit waited hard for her reply.
"...Don't you know? Even if you use this boy's body, you will never win over that beast."
"What do you mean? He's a strong person, and I could feel his strong self once I went into his mind"
"...He's strong, all right. Demo, anata ga yowai desu!! (=But you're weak!!)"
The sudden statement Izuko just gave to that spirit perplexed those boys. They looked at each other, not knowing what was in her mind that very time. They gawked at Izuko, and they saw the spirit frowned.
"...What the hell are you saying???" the spirit got mad suddenly.
Izuko let out a sigh before she placed two fingers on the spirit's temple, forming a bluish 'ki' energy, which abruptly made the spirit puzzled. So did the ikkou. She chanted something under her breath again, and it made the spirit felt rather...
...relieved and her mind became calmed all of a sudden.
Izuko did it on purpose, so that the spirit would be prepared to hear the next fact.
"...You've misunderstood one thing. Even if the person is the greatest fighter in the whole wide world, when a weak spirit takes over his mind and soul, he'll become as weak as the spirit. But if the spirit's strong, but the person who got possessed is weak, then the person will become as strong as the spirit inside him."
The others were all totally understood by her explanations, and the spirit felt quite disappointed. She floated back, staring at the ground blankly, while her head kept on reminding those incidents 10 years ago.
"...Masaka..."
"..But I do know, if you leave Goku's body by force, then his soul will get damaged too. He might as well...die"
The last word really made the ikkou more than shocked. Sanzo was the most traumatized person that time when he learnt that his one and only person who treated him like a father was going to...
...die.
"...Demo, I've got an idea, for both of your benefits."
The spirit halted and stared at the shiraga (=gray-haired) girl in front of her. She sure was glad if there was an alternative to just pay back her revenge...
...For her daughter's sake.
Izuko smiled once more, hugging herself and made the others felt rather perplexed. She had always played with other peoples' minds, but for sure, she brought them to better profits, calmness. Just as calm as her looks.
"...Stay with us." She smiled again.
....tsuzuku (=to be continued)
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Seiko: {yawns} Ahh, finished another VERY IMPORTANT chapter!! Omedetou to myself! Hehehe...(^--^) Onii-chan!
Hakkai: {sleeps already} ...
Seiko: {chuckles} ..No doubt! {cough, cough, cough} He's been with me since morning! {yawns again} ...Ahhhhh!!!!! Sanzo!!!! Forgot! {hurriedly goes out}
Sanzo: {sitting on the floor, with a paper bag beside} {snores quietly}...
Seiko: {chuckles} Kawaii ne, baka bouzu? Eh, what's this? {opens the paper bag} Hmmm? Korewa...coughing tablets?? Flu medicines?? {coughs even badly, making Sanzo awakes}
Sanzo: {stands up}...Finished typing?
Seiko: {looks unbelievably at the things}...Sanzo? You had a fever? Are you sick? {cough, cough, cough}
Sanzo: {sweat dropped} ...Anou na, it's YOU who's sick, not me. Baka. {goes in}
Seiko: {grabs Sanzo's hair} Oi, matte.
Sanzo: {veins throb out, takes harisen out} ...KONO...
Seiko: {kisses Sanzo's cheek} ...Sankyu! (^-^)
Sanzo: {blushes, paralysed by the kiss} ...
Seiko: {sweat dropped}...Oi!! Stop dreaming already! That's just my way to thank people! Ch, perasan. Anyway, thanks for reading!! I've finished the first chap of my 2nd fic, 'Hakkai's Sick???'!! It's a humorous one! Do give me some supports, okay?
Gojyo & Goku: {hide at the back of sofa} {giggles}
Gojyo: ...How lucky of him!!! Ch, I want one too...
Seiko: ...{grins devilishly} You want one of what?? Hentai ero gokiburi kappa??
Goku: {runs into room} Oyasumi!!! {sleeps}
Hakkai: {still sleeping, how cute, my onii-chan, ne?}
Sanzo: {blushes severely and goes back to his room}
Gojyo: ...I ...I actually didn't mean to peek on you two, but then you kissed him, and I... ITTAIIIIII!!!!!! {birds flying over head}
Seiko: {just smacked Gojyo's head with TV's remote controller} {coughs} GO TO SLEEEPP!!! NOW!!!!
Gojyo: {sleeps on the floor} Krooooaaaaarrrhhhhhhhh....
Seiko: (^--^()()()()()) This kappa...Btw, please don't get jealous, Sanzo's fanatic fans!! It's just a baka fake scene, okay? No way I'm going to kiss any boy in reality! NEVER!!! Okay then, see you again and do review, ne? I'll be waiting for your responses! {cough, cough, cough, cough..} Ahhhh!!! {went amok in the room}
Sanzo: {sweat dropped} Dear readers, if you have any tips on how to get rid of her yarou coughs, do tell her. It's been a month, and still...
Seiko: ARHHHHH!!!! Baka yarou coughs!!! Get away from me!!! {coughs even harder}
Sanzo: ....like that. Huh...{sleeps}
Seiko: Ahhh!!!! Before I forget...
Ami the 13th----- TQ!!! For liking my fic!!! Honto ni arigatou gozaimasu!! Oh, and yes,I do like Goku, but NOT as much as that bouzu next door!! (^-- ^) Hihihi...Keep in touch with 'Mischievous Spirit'!!
Gozilla-----Thank you too, for having reviewed MS so far! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! {cries} Uuuu.I'm touched with you all...(T----T)
Oh! And I'VE SUCCEEDED IN DRAWING IZUKO'S KAWAII FACE!! Do tell me if you want it okay? I'll send you straightforwardly via personal e-mail! Ja!
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Next chapters : Might as well includes Goku and Izuko's slight love story. And Izuko's past will be revealed, too! So, keep in touch!!! Onegai, and TQ!!!!
To all readers: Seiko planned to insert several Japanese daily conversations, to response to what our late PM had just told ...to learn other languages as well as English and other Asian's language. Dakara, please support her! (^--^) She loves the PM too much, I guess.
Seiko: {still crying} Honto!!! Uuuuuu....I'm gonna miss him for real!! {coughs} Arhhhh!!!!
~~~thanks all readers 4 ur support!! Luv ya all!!!~~~
Hakkai: {pops out from nowhere} SOU!!! Do tell us if you hate those long conversations between us five, ne? (o___^) Seiko can delete them, can't you, Seiko-chan?
Seiko: Hm!! But this story won't be funny anymore without us talking like mental problem patients... Don't you think so? ...ITTAAAAAA!!!!! It hurts, baka bouzu!!!
Sanzo: {still thwacking} ...YOU-TALK-TOO-MUCH-BAKA-ONNA!!! Start the chap already, kyoujo (=madwoman)!!!!!
Hakkai: ...Yameru kudasai, you two... how many times should I clean up all this mess??
Seiko: ...Itte, itte, itte!!!! {pulls Sanzo's hair} I SAID STOP IT!!! My head's aching!!! Ouch!
Sanzo: HANASEI!!!! Let go of my precious hair!! {pulls Seiko's ponytail}
Seiko: Oiii!!! Let go of my hair!!! {reaches scissors} ...Before I cut yours for real!!!
Sanzo: {lets Seiko go} ...Ch, you sure want to die early, onna!!! {takes out shoreiju} SHIINEEE!!!
Seiko: ...{kicks Sanzo outside} Lame threat!! {coughs badly} Ch, baka cough! Anyway, let's begin with Chapter 5, ignore this blonde, he's being OOC lately...{locks door, leaves Sanzo outside} Serves him right! {coughs again}
Sanzo(outside): OI!!!! Let me in!!! {kicks the door hard continuously}
Seiko: ...STAY THERE!!! And don't let him in until tomorrow, onii-chan! That kechi (=stingy) !! {cough, cough, cough}
Hakkai: ...Yare yare desu ne...(o___^())
Seiko: ..This chap contained horrifying death scenes, so if you're afraid of blood and raw fresh flesh, don't read it.. Just wait for the next chap, but if you're brave enough...go on! Besides, I don't think it's too violent...I LOVE BLOOD!!! ...HaaaaaCHIIIIIII!!!!!!! {sniffs} (^--^) Hihihi... Also some curses, well, just a bit, though.
Goku & Gojyo: ...kichigai onna(=crazy girl). {sweat dropped}
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MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
CHAPTER 5 - THE SPIRIT WITHIN
From the last chapter...
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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"...Izuko? Izuko? Are you okay?"
Izuko opened her eyes, and she found out that voice wasn't her brother's, but a crimson-eyed youkai with crimson hair as well, bending to her. She recognized that man, and slowly, she pushed herself to sit up, with Gojyo's helping hand.
"...Koko wa...Doko?"
Izuko rubbed her head slowly, her eyes went gazing around that place, a wooden hut. At the corner of the hut, there was a blonde man reading a newspaper with his reading glasses on.
He glanced at her for a while, continued by a 'ch' like always and he read the newspaper over and over again.
"...You fell unconscious, don't you remember?"
Gojyo poured some water into a glass and handed it to Izuko, and the latter received it with a smile and nodded. After she sipped some of the water, she put the glass on the ground, at the same time, her eyes caught a motionless figure next to her.
...It was Goku.
"...Hakkai went out with Hakuryu, he's searching for firewood."
Gojyo turned his gaze towards Goku, and his face showed clearly that he was concerned about that itan. The boy had been out cold for some time now, and he kept moaning slowly, as if he was having a bad nightmare, which he couldn't escape from it.
Izuko nodded slowly and she abruptly touched Goku's forehead. She realised that the boy's fever had gone, as a sign that he was getting better. Gojyo looked straight into the girl's raven eyes, wondering something Hakkai told him before about this young lady.
"...She's an itan, Gojyo. I just knew it." Hakkai told Gojyo once they reached the hut before.
Gojyo's thoughts went around and around like a merry-go-round, searching for the exact meaning by Hakkai's short statement.
'...He said that this girl's a heretic, like Goku? She has black eyes, not golden like this saru...'
Realising that he was just wasting his time thinking about it, Gojyo sighed and lit up his cigarette.
Izuko wiped Goku's sweat that assembled on his temple, followed by Sanzo's sharp stare towards those two. He had folded the newspaper and took off his glasses, paying his attentions to what would the girl do next.
The female latter suddenly swayed away Goku's blanket a bit, and she flipped Goku's shirt, clasping the pendant around his neck without taking it off. She then grasped her own pendant, with her other hand was put right on Goku's pendant.
Izuko closed her eyes, and her action really made the other two elders couldn't throw their gaze elsewhere but the girl.
"...What are you doing?" Gojyo moved nearer next to Goku, while staring at Izuko, hoping for any answers. He kept asking Hakkai before about what to do with the saru, but Hakkai was totally speechless. So, it's all up to the girl to answer them.
Izuko took about a while when then she opened her eyes slowly, looking at Goku with disbelief, but calmness was shown visibly on her face, at the same time making Gojyo cooled down a bit.
So did Sanzo, who finally leaned himself against the wooden wall, as he hadn't relax himself a bit since they reached that hut, worrying about Goku.
"...The spirit's still inside Goku."
She turned to Gojyo, then Sanzo before all of a sudden Goku moaned again, painfully. Those three stared at him in fret, as the itan started to move aimlessly on the floor, as if he was forcing something to let him go.
"...Can't you do something about it???" Sanzo voiced out his thoughts, as he moved closer to Gojyo and Izuko, hoping for any positive clarifications from the girl, obviously.
His face showed enough worry, made Izuko changed her thoughts about the monk being too stingy to have any feelings at all. Well, she was wrong.
"...There's only one thing to do... And you, being a monk, you should know it at the first place." She looked quite serious this time, leaving the monk asking himself whether he knew it or not.
As a result, he shook his head slightly, even the kappa got confused by the girl's talk that he scratched his head over and over again.
Izuko understood. She then continued with her previous plan...
"...I'm going to summon the spirit out, again."
"...again?? Kore o mae ni shita koto ga arimasu ka?? (=have you done this before??)"
Gojyo asked the girl once more, and the monk beside him just kept staring at those two, speechless.
She nodded, making her silver locks brushed vaguely on her cheeks.
"...I've done it once, while you were fighting the youkais back then. But it ended up when the spirit refused to do what I said, and she almost choked me to death, remember?"
Gojyo and Sanzo recalled the last incident, and they understood it quickly.
Izuko clasped her own pendant, while closing her eyes tight and her other hand was placed neatly on Goku's chest, right on the pendant Goku picked up before.
Not long after that, her pendant started to produce out bluish 'ki' beam that covered all over her self, together with Goku's frail body. The beam somehow made Izuko's surroundings gravity-zero, when her hair started to soar a bit, and Goku's blanket floated together, making the elders quite stunned.
Those two elders couldn't do anything but they gawked at the scene surprisingly. Izuko chanted something under her breath when then the pendant Goku wore floated, shone in bright yellowish beam.
"...I beg you, nameless spirit, reveal yourself!!"
Right after Izuko shouted for her demand, a figure gradually showed itself in a smoke-like form. It was white, and it went out of the pendant ushered by sudden cold breeze blew its environs.
Gojyo's locks swayed due to the chilly sudden wind, while Sanzo's robe floated, together with the sutra hang on his shoulders. They were stunned seeing the figure, that both Sanzo and Gojyo moved backwards and met the hut's wall.
Not long after that, the smoky figure started to change itself to a human- like form! And they could tell that spirit was a female, due to the long hair the spirit had.
Her eyes were both all-white, once she opened them slowly, facing Izuko. Her attire too, was pure white, and it almost gleamed when the spirit revealed herself entirely.
The shounens were speechless. The spirit was floating in the air, with both her hands widened freely, and followed by the sudden breeze of before.
Izuko opened her orbs once she felt like the spirit had obeyed her demand. She stared at the translucent woman in front of her, and she knew well, that was the same spirit she had summoned before back in the inn.
The spirit stared Izuko back, and she suddenly straighten her hands down, forming a white beam in her palm.
"...You again..." the spirit's voice echoed slightly in the small hut, followed by the humming sound of the soft wind blew throughout the place.
"...Sou. I'm the one who summoned you before, Izuko desu."
"...I've told you, I won't leave this body, until I accomplish my aspire!!"
The spirit looked annoyed, that the wind, which was some sort of her power blew even harder, and it blew Izuko's long silver hair, making the girl abruptly held them hastily. But still, Izuko didn't get herself nervous. Instead, she faced the spirit with a sharp look.
It surely made the other two amazed, when they were actually viewing such a young girl who had such courage to face that 'thing'.
"...Leave this body. I order you to leave him alone!"
"...No!!!" the wind blew even harder than before that Gojyo and Sanzo felt like running away when one of the hut's window shield broke and fell flat on the floor, almost hit the kappa's head.
"...Naze(=why)? He's still a kid, an innocent kid who doesn't have anything to do with you."
"...You might as well right about that, but I need this strong body to free my soul!"
"Free your soul??"
Everyone looked at the direction of the voice, right at the entrance. It was Hakkai, who got dumbfounded outside, some firewood fell from his arms while Hakuryu hid himself behind the door.
The spirit grinned, her white lips showed it clearly enough that she was teasing the ikkou. But then, she turned back to Izuko, making the girl looked back at the figure, narrowing her eyes in rage and fury.
"...You don't have to know about it."
"Then, leave him if you don't want to tell us about it!"
Izuko stood up, and her head almost reached the spirit's height. Her face was so near to that figure that the spirit smiled again, sarcastically.
"...Fine."
The spirit suddenly widened her arms, at the same time shining herself brightly, making the ikkou covered their eyes from it. They felt a sudden wind blew them abruptly in that very moment, and suddenly...
...it stopped.
The ikkou together with Izuko opened up their eyes, and they found out that they weren't in the hut, instead, they found themselves standing in the middle of a village, with a river flowed calmly near their standing position.
The warm breeze hit their skin comfortingly, while the sound of the river flowing made them calmed and the chirps of some sparrows struck their ears softly.
"...Watashi tachi wa doko desu ka? (Where are we?)"
Hakkai looked around that place. They hadn't been in that place before, and it sure made the ikkou quiet shocked, excluding Izuko. She knew well that the spirit was trying to tell them her past...
...that made her wanted Goku's body and mind so much.
"...Koko wa watashi ga izen sunde ita tokoro desu. (=This is where I used to live)" the spirit suddenly appeared and voiced out.
Gojyo and Sanzo too, was shocked by the sudden change of their surroundings and they gazed around that place, when then they heard someone.
"...Ittai..." a woman around twenty was groaning in pain, while holding her stomach, and due to what the ikkou saw, the woman's pregnant. A man around her age was holding her tight, to support her from falling.
From what they had seen, they were both youkais.
They headed to a house, and the male latter shouted on the top of his voice.
"...Sensei!! Sensei!! Help us.....!!"
Suddenly an old man came out while holding a stick, and he was the doctor that man mentioned just then. The pair walked in, and abruptly, the scene around them changed. They were now in a room, and they saw the previous pair with their newborn baby girl.
The ikkou were totally confused. Why would the spirit urge them to witness all this? What did she mean by these incidents?
"...Kuso, why are we here actually??" Sanzo was getting impatient already.
Gojyo too, felt the same that he felt like shouting to those people to quit playing things like this, when then he realised those were just illusions, a flashback of the spirit's past.
"...That's me, holding the baby."
That voice made the ikkou shocked and they turned at their back, when they saw the female spirit of before, standing straight over the ground by inches. No doubt, she was a ghost. She suddenly raised her hand and pointed right towards the pair...
"...Watch, and you'll understand why."
Right after she finished her last word, a sudden wind struck them all and again, the scenery changed to a forest at midnight, while the moon shone brightly up in the sky. The ikkou and Izuko looked at each other, rather perplexed by the scene.
"...Now what???" Sanzo looked around, and he saw nothing, but he admitted he felt like something was going to happen.
...Something bad, for sure.
Then they heard it.
"...ANATA!!!!!!!"
It was a woman's voice, and those four found that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.
"...That woman's voice!! The spirit's..." Izuko quickly turned back to the ikkou, and abruptly they heard a loud noise approaching, followed by that woman's scream.
She sounded like she was in trouble, and then they saw it with their own eyes.
There was a woman, hugging her child tight as if she was glued to her mother's chest and she was running hastily that she almost tripped and fell. Her clothes were all covered with blood, dark crimson blood. Not to mention her child's entire body from head to toe, were all enveloped by blood.
"...Oi, onna!!! Nigeru nai!!! (=Don't run away!!) Come back here!!!" a man's voice was heard and when the woman passed the ikkou and ran towards deep inside the woods, a group of humans, all men, ran after her. They were all holding blades and axes, also, all covered with blood.
They chased after the woman while shouting deafeningly, making the silent night became harsh, and tensed. The ikkou themselves felt quite worried about the woman of before that Gojyo hastily appeared his shakujou and ran towards the running men.
The others were totally puzzled. But apparently, they were not going to let that kappa went alone, so they too ran after him.
".What the hell is he doing??? It's just an illusion, and he's going to beat them up???"
Sanzo couldn't help himself cursing Gojyo, but he too felt rather shocked about what had just happened in front of his eyes. Hakkai and Izuko were both speechless, not knowing what to do with it.
Then, they reached the place.
...The place that made them most petrified with what had happened that time.
They saw the previous woman was leaning against a tree trunk, her legs and her head were bleeding hard, and she looked as if she was hit by something and the men caught her already.
But still, the child in her hug didn't get separated. The kid was weeping silently in her mother's embrace and the woman didn't throw her gaze elsewhere, but staring frightfully in deep fear at the men.
Those humans somehow didn't look like humans, instead, they looked so much like assassins trying to kill their victim without any mercy. They were all giggling with such hentai way, that Izuko felt like killing them all that time.
But realising they were just delusions, she halted and stepped back right beside Hakkai.
The men laughed together, right when the woman moaned and groaned in pain due to what happened to her wounded parts of body. The ikkou somehow realised that the men threw stones towards her, which made her head hemorrhaged and tripped over, making her fell on the ground.
Gojyo was there, watching the scene fretfully and he was about to slash those men when Izuko reached his arm, shaking her head slowly.
"...It's just an illusion, Gojyo-san. Don't get involved in it. The spirit's trying to tell us about this, and we're here only to witness it with our own eyes."
Gojyo stared at Izuko's face for a while when then...
The humans went nearer to the woman and her child, making the mother trembled in terror and she hugged her child even tighter, at the same time the kid cried loudly. Her wails somehow annoyed the humans, when then the leader of the group did it.
The man frowned and abruptly grabbed the kid's head harshly, making the woman pulled back her daughter and kicked the man's leg hard, leaving him moaned in twinge. He got even more irritated that he lifted his leg and...
"...Iyaaaa!!!!!!"
Izuko screamed and squatted on the ground, but instead of the ikkou, the humans couldn't hear her cries. She was grabbing her head tight, as if it was going to burst out all its contents.
...the man kicked hard the woman's face, simultaneously making her fell and her face met the ground, while the child went away from her hug. She groaned again and was about to grab back her crying daughter when suddenly she realised the man of before grinned devilishly towards her, and he was lifting the poor child by grabbing her head up.
"...Yumi!!!!! Give me back my daughter, please...I beg you, please..."
The woman's crying, while crawling heading towards the man, and she hugged the man's leg, pleading the man to let go of her daughter. The kid was wailing and crying even louder and anyone would feel sympathized once they heard the kid's wail.
She kept on crying helplessly together with the men's annoying laugh when then, the previous man swung his leg towards that woman again, making her sent back to the tree trunk. She hit the tree hard, and she almost fainted when abruptly, she heard her daughter's cry got even worse.
She looked at the man again, when then she saw he was now punching her daughter repeatedly, trailed by the other men's laugh. The woman snapped her eyes wide opened seeing her daughter being tortured like that.
".... Shut up, you dirty kid!!! Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!!!"
He was still punching the girl cruelly, until she spat out a lot of blood. But still, she didn't let herself to stop her crying. Instead, she went on like that, when unexpectedly...
"...ARGHHH!!!! DAMARE!!!"
The man without warning lifted the kid even higher, and took out his blade inside his coat, and then...
"YUMIIIII!!!!!!!!"
Blood...
Blood...
Blood everywhere.
The other men watched in fright, but they couldn't do anything about it. It was their own leader who killed her. Once they betrayed, they would be killed also.
There, a death had occurred...
...The kid of before had died in such a sadist way. She was incised to two, and both her sides fell aimlessly on the ground, and still her orbs were both wide-opened. Her blood gushed out frantically and the man was showered by her blood, making the mother broadened her eyes in fume.
The ikkou couldn't stand the sudden thing happened that they turned away, while Sanzo clinched his tooth in fury, and he wished that he was there that time and shot the humans dead.
So did the other shounens thought, while Izuko, she was weeping, not daring to see what happened just then and Hakkai hurriedly reached her and hugged her tight, trying to calm down the girl. She was still a young teenager, though.
"...Yumii!!!!!" the woman suddenly had the strength to stand up and she surprisingly punched the man right inside his stomach, making the man bent and let out a loud groan.
The woman rushed towards her daughter and hugged her while wailing loudly over the kid's death. She was too young to die, but this human killed her mercilessly. She kept on crying and all of a sudden...
"...You... DIE!!!!!!"
The woman was about to lift her head when then another powerful blow made her flew backwards right into the bushes. The man was burning hot with anger since the woman had hit him hard before, and he suddenly moved forward and faced the frail helpless woman lying on the ground holding the pain.
The other men watched without any words came out from their mouth, when their leader lifted his blade once again towards the woman and...
"ARHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
...Her head almost separated with her body and she was bathing with dark blood.
The woman's head fell first, before her body fell hard on the ground, making the ikkou even more shocked.
"...Not yet!!! You @#$%&@ onnaaaa!!!!! You must suffer more than THISSS!!!!!"
The man once again lifted his blade and knelt abruptly on the ground and stabbed the headless woman mercilessly over and over again, splashing a huge amount of blood all over that man's face, and his whole body was covered with her blood. He laughed like he was gone crazy already.
The loud wailings of the woman had already disappeared, and what was left was...
"...SHINEE!!!! You're not going to live anymore!!! Hahahahaha!!!!"
The man kept on stabbing the woman's body like he was gone extremely mad, mercilessly bashing the corpse with his blade when then his men came towards him and grabbed him away, leaving the corpse there...
...And it didn't look like a human anymore, not even a dead one.
...But a bunch of fresh bleeding flesh that had just been chopped altogether, leaving...
... A shining pendant.
The ikkou couldn't afford to watch it anymore, that they surely felt like killing those men right away. Sanzo unexpectedly lifted his gun and shot a lot of bullets out of it, making the ikkou a bit shocked. But they were totally understood why he did that.
The bullets somehow didn't affect the men, instead, they passed through the men without even a single wound hit them all, making Sanzo cursed deeply in his heart. Izuko was now trembling hard in Hakkai's arms when suddenly they saw the man picked up that ornament.
He sank his hand into the fresh flesh, and his men couldn't help themselves feeling disgusted by his act that they started to feel like vomiting, plus the rotten smell of blood and putrid fleshy tissue struck their nose abruptly as soon as their leader got that thing...
"...That pendant...It's that spirit's pendant!" Hakkai voiced out all his thoughts.
The others admitted, and they suddenly knew why the woman got chased and all that. Just because of that pendant.
'...Doshite?? Why do I have to watch all these things again?? I hate it!!!!'
Izuko encouraged herself to open up her eyes, and what she saw was the actual scene of the wooden hut of before, and there she was still in Hakkai's hug, when he suddenly let her go after he too realised...
....They were back to reality.
There in the hut, everything was normal. Not even a trickle of blood, like what they had just saw back then, bloods everywhere. Goku was lying on the ground frailly, still motionless and the pendant around his neck was still shining bright.
"Izuko, daijoubu desu ka??" Hakkai caressed the girl's head caringly, making her stopped crying.
Sanzo was too shocked to care about other things around him that time, his mind kept on recalling those blood scenes before in his dark past, when Oshio-sama got slaughtered. His eyes were still like that, opened wide. He tried to control his feelings, but he just couldn't. All of a sudden, Sanzo squatted on the ground, holding his head tight.
Gojyo beside him was even more terrified but he just let himself leaned against the wall, staring blankly at the ground. He was sweating all over, he felt like those incidents had just happened a while ago for real, not an illusion since it looked so bona fide to him.
Izuko watched the elders, and she herself just couldn't deny her own feelings. She too, had a very dark past, and surely she was petrified if that incident happened again. But one thing made Izuko a bit confused when she saw Hakkai was still been able to smile at her, frailly.
Her gaze went to the boy on the ground, and she hastily went to Goku, placing her palms over the glowing pendant. Abruptly, the spirit of before appeared again. Right in the middle of the hut, lowering her head, and she looked so pitiful that none of the shounens or Izuko felt like scolding her anymore.
"...So, now you know, what had happened to me."
Izuko turned back, and she pushed herself up, walking towards the translucent woman. She placed her palm under the spirit's chin, and softly held it up. Making the all-white orbs faced her straight in her raven eyes.
"...I understand it now." She smiled to the spirit sweetly, before she stepped back and held her pendant for a while. Thinking something that the elders didn't know about it at all.
"...But, still, I just want to know why do you want this boy so much?"
"..To take revenge."
Izuko faded her smile and her expression became serious once more, making the spirit waited hard for her reply.
"...Don't you know? Even if you use this boy's body, you will never win over that beast."
"What do you mean? He's a strong person, and I could feel his strong self once I went into his mind"
"...He's strong, all right. Demo, anata ga yowai desu!! (=But you're weak!!)"
The sudden statement Izuko just gave to that spirit perplexed those boys. They looked at each other, not knowing what was in her mind that very time. They gawked at Izuko, and they saw the spirit frowned.
"...What the hell are you saying???" the spirit got mad suddenly.
Izuko let out a sigh before she placed two fingers on the spirit's temple, forming a bluish 'ki' energy, which abruptly made the spirit puzzled. So did the ikkou. She chanted something under her breath again, and it made the spirit felt rather...
...relieved and her mind became calmed all of a sudden.
Izuko did it on purpose, so that the spirit would be prepared to hear the next fact.
"...You've misunderstood one thing. Even if the person is the greatest fighter in the whole wide world, when a weak spirit takes over his mind and soul, he'll become as weak as the spirit. But if the spirit's strong, but the person who got possessed is weak, then the person will become as strong as the spirit inside him."
The others were all totally understood by her explanations, and the spirit felt quite disappointed. She floated back, staring at the ground blankly, while her head kept on reminding those incidents 10 years ago.
"...Masaka..."
"..But I do know, if you leave Goku's body by force, then his soul will get damaged too. He might as well...die"
The last word really made the ikkou more than shocked. Sanzo was the most traumatized person that time when he learnt that his one and only person who treated him like a father was going to...
...die.
"...Demo, I've got an idea, for both of your benefits."
The spirit halted and stared at the shiraga (=gray-haired) girl in front of her. She sure was glad if there was an alternative to just pay back her revenge...
...For her daughter's sake.
Izuko smiled once more, hugging herself and made the others felt rather perplexed. She had always played with other peoples' minds, but for sure, she brought them to better profits, calmness. Just as calm as her looks.
"...Stay with us." She smiled again.
....tsuzuku (=to be continued)
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Seiko: {yawns} Ahh, finished another VERY IMPORTANT chapter!! Omedetou to myself! Hehehe...(^--^) Onii-chan!
Hakkai: {sleeps already} ...
Seiko: {chuckles} ..No doubt! {cough, cough, cough} He's been with me since morning! {yawns again} ...Ahhhhh!!!!! Sanzo!!!! Forgot! {hurriedly goes out}
Sanzo: {sitting on the floor, with a paper bag beside} {snores quietly}...
Seiko: {chuckles} Kawaii ne, baka bouzu? Eh, what's this? {opens the paper bag} Hmmm? Korewa...coughing tablets?? Flu medicines?? {coughs even badly, making Sanzo awakes}
Sanzo: {stands up}...Finished typing?
Seiko: {looks unbelievably at the things}...Sanzo? You had a fever? Are you sick? {cough, cough, cough}
Sanzo: {sweat dropped} ...Anou na, it's YOU who's sick, not me. Baka. {goes in}
Seiko: {grabs Sanzo's hair} Oi, matte.
Sanzo: {veins throb out, takes harisen out} ...KONO...
Seiko: {kisses Sanzo's cheek} ...Sankyu! (^-^)
Sanzo: {blushes, paralysed by the kiss} ...
Seiko: {sweat dropped}...Oi!! Stop dreaming already! That's just my way to thank people! Ch, perasan. Anyway, thanks for reading!! I've finished the first chap of my 2nd fic, 'Hakkai's Sick???'!! It's a humorous one! Do give me some supports, okay?
Gojyo & Goku: {hide at the back of sofa} {giggles}
Gojyo: ...How lucky of him!!! Ch, I want one too...
Seiko: ...{grins devilishly} You want one of what?? Hentai ero gokiburi kappa??
Goku: {runs into room} Oyasumi!!! {sleeps}
Hakkai: {still sleeping, how cute, my onii-chan, ne?}
Sanzo: {blushes severely and goes back to his room}
Gojyo: ...I ...I actually didn't mean to peek on you two, but then you kissed him, and I... ITTAIIIIII!!!!!! {birds flying over head}
Seiko: {just smacked Gojyo's head with TV's remote controller} {coughs} GO TO SLEEEPP!!! NOW!!!!
Gojyo: {sleeps on the floor} Krooooaaaaarrrhhhhhhhh....
Seiko: (^--^()()()()()) This kappa...Btw, please don't get jealous, Sanzo's fanatic fans!! It's just a baka fake scene, okay? No way I'm going to kiss any boy in reality! NEVER!!! Okay then, see you again and do review, ne? I'll be waiting for your responses! {cough, cough, cough, cough..} Ahhhh!!! {went amok in the room}
Sanzo: {sweat dropped} Dear readers, if you have any tips on how to get rid of her yarou coughs, do tell her. It's been a month, and still...
Seiko: ARHHHHH!!!! Baka yarou coughs!!! Get away from me!!! {coughs even harder}
Sanzo: ....like that. Huh...{sleeps}
Seiko: Ahhh!!!! Before I forget...
Ami the 13th----- TQ!!! For liking my fic!!! Honto ni arigatou gozaimasu!! Oh, and yes,I do like Goku, but NOT as much as that bouzu next door!! (^-- ^) Hihihi...Keep in touch with 'Mischievous Spirit'!!
Gozilla-----Thank you too, for having reviewed MS so far! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! {cries} Uuuu.I'm touched with you all...(T----T)
Oh! And I'VE SUCCEEDED IN DRAWING IZUKO'S KAWAII FACE!! Do tell me if you want it okay? I'll send you straightforwardly via personal e-mail! Ja!
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Next chapters : Might as well includes Goku and Izuko's slight love story. And Izuko's past will be revealed, too! So, keep in touch!!! Onegai, and TQ!!!!
To all readers: Seiko planned to insert several Japanese daily conversations, to response to what our late PM had just told ...to learn other languages as well as English and other Asian's language. Dakara, please support her! (^--^) She loves the PM too much, I guess.
Seiko: {still crying} Honto!!! Uuuuuu....I'm gonna miss him for real!! {coughs} Arhhhh!!!!
~~~thanks all readers 4 ur support!! Luv ya all!!!~~~