Seiko: {weeps} {weeps} {weeps} {weeps}…(T-T)
Sanzo: {sniffs} Oi, what happened to your kuso yarou sister all of a sudden???
Hakkai: {chuckles nervously} Shirimasen (=I don't know), Sanzo…
Seiko: {cries} {cries} {cries}…(T---T)
Sanzo: {veins all throb out, annoyed} OIII!!!! STOP CRYING LIKE THAT DAMNED USAGI TSUKINO ALREADY!!!
Hakkai: {chuckles}…Yare yare desu ne…
Goku: {pops out suddenly} I know, I know!!!
Others: WHAT?
Goku: She's disappointed with her own work!
Gojyo: No more reviews, ne?…So, who's gonna disclaim for her?
Others: {run away}
Seiko: {looks at Gojyo} {weeps, weeps, weeeeeps} {sparkling puppy eyes} (T----T)
Gojyo: {sweatdropped} OI!!! Cut it out already!!!
Seiko: {still crying} {weeps, weeps, weeps, weeps, weeps} (T-T)
Others: {death glare Gojyo}
Gojyo:{sweat dropped} Okay, okay!!! Seiko doesn't own Saiyuki, got it? Well, except for the OC, Izuko, and the storyline, then everything in this Saiyuki thing is Minekura Kazuya's property! Satisfied???
Seiko: {nods, nods, nods} {bows} {smiles, smiles, smiles} {ruffles Gojyo's hair} (^----^)
Gojyo: {blushes, blushes, blushes}
Sanzo: {veins all throb out} …That kapppaaa…{takes out harisen} {smacks, smacks, smacks kappa's and baka writer's head out cold}
Gojyo: {fainted already}
Seiko: {shaking hard on the floor} {reaches computer} {starts typing} {cries} (T-T)
Goku: ALERT!!! Baka humors EVERYWHERE!!! Obviously, NO yaoi/shounens-ai/lime. AND DON'T EVEN EXPECT SEIKO WOULD WRITE YAOI/SHOUNENS-AI/LIME fic!!!
Together: NOT even a single fic about it in Seiko's life!!!
Seiko: {sweat dropped} {takes Genma Saotome's board} {writes, writes, writes} (=I was planning to insert Goku and the Izuko love story in the future. No lime scenes though. Just pure, clean love story!! Nevertheless, they're still teenagers!} (^--^)
Goku: {blushes} Hihihi…Me? In love?? WEIIIRDDDD!!!
Sanzo: {sniffs, sniffs, sniffs} Aaaa, and please use your imaginations to imagine the events happened in this baka kuso yarou fic. Otherwise, you'll doze off in front of your computers. CH, do I have to explain that, baka {sniffs} yarou {sniffs} sick {sniffs} Onnaaa???? {sneezes} ACHOOO!!!
Others: …Look who's talking. {sigh}
Hakkai: {sweatdropped} Okay, continue with Chapter 6, ENJOY, and please R & R!! (o__^)
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MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
Chapter 6 – THE BEGINNING OF LIFE
………from the last chapter………
"…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.
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The last sentence went out of Izuko's lips clearly and it made those men and the spirit itself surprised. The ikkou had never thought about it before, since they were just thinking on how to get rid of the spirit...
…NOT to take it with them during their journey.
Izuko realised the ikkou were astonished, and she hurriedly explained why she said that, before Sanzo's harisen meet her head mercilessly later on.
"…I know this sounds weird, but Goku will die once you leave him, am I right?"
The spirit nodded, agreed with her clarifications.
The smile on Izuko's face didn't fade away, moreover she continued while walking nearer towards the lucent female spirit.
"… I heard that once the spirit inside the possessed one completed its task, in your case, to free your soul, then you'll leave that body without harming him, ne?"
The spirit gawked at the silver-haired girl without even a single word uttered. She somehow started to comprehend what Izuko meant by telling her to stay with the ikkou.
"…Saa, we'll help you to get your wish done, and you'll help us with Goku's substances."
…Silent.
'…I can't let that Goku die. He's the only one who warmed my cold heart ever since before, my little brother, my son! I can't afford to lose him. But then, these baka yarou onnas will wreck my whole entire life!'
Sanzo was struggling hard with his ego and his self-esteemed mind, whether to let the spirit and the girl be with them for somewhat a long time or just allow Goku to die, due to what would happened once the spirit went out by force.
He kept on thinking, and stared at Goku at the same time. His lips were shut, no way he was going to let out his own true feelings to those people around him.
But Gojyo and Hakkai shared the same thoughts. They were both approved with Izuko's suggestion, to let the spirit 'live' inside Goku until the problem got solved. Alas, one thing they afraid most, what if the spirit betrayed them, and Goku would still be like that? Likewise, what if…
…The spirit killed Goku?
Izuko waited tolerantly for the spirit's respond, and she admitted that she too felt rather worried about that spirit. She looked suspicious, being a spirit that was spellbound inside the sacred pendant since 10 years ago.
She might as well left Goku abruptly and simultaneously damaged the itan's soul. But then she realised something that made her believed in that cursed soul, based on her own past
…Her OWN self.
"…Saa, dou omoimasu ka? (=well, what do you think?)"
The spirit lifted her face, facing Izuko who was still curling her soothing tranquil serenity smile. She gaped at the young girl, and then she threw her gaze to the other three worried shounens behind. She had no other options, and she knew that was the only way to free her soul from the pendant's curse.
"…Sansei desu. (=agreed)"
Izuko was satisfied, and she gleefully beamed her smile again, making the spirit felt quite amused with it that she too, for the first time…
…smiled back.
"Oh, and where will we find that man who…" Hakkai couldn't finish his talk when the spirit raised her hand up and pointed to Goku.
"…I'll tell you, through that boy. He'll know all about that man automatically, I'll tell you while I'm still in his body. Just remember, go to the Northwest and I'll inform you when you reached the exact place."
"…Great! I'm most glad that you're agreed with it. Arigatou!"
Izuko bowed slightly, before the spirit approached her and out of the blues, lifted her hand, and held Izuko's pendant. Her act really made Izuko and the shounens a bit bewildered when the spirit chortled quietly.
"…This pendant, that's why you know everything about this matter, am I right?"
Hakkai watched those two, and he was attracted to what the spirit just said to that mysterious girl. About her own pendant, and everything she knew about 'that matter'.
'…What matter? Goku's matter or…' Hakkai halted.
The spirit looked exactly into Izuko's eyes, and smiled again before she suddenly landed a frosty kiss on Izuko's brow smoothly, making the others watched in perplexity. Izuko blushed slightly, she had not been kissed like that since two years ago…
So motherly-like…
The girl could feel the hand of the translucent spirit touching her head, some sort of cold feeling flowed through her whole body.
"…If only my daughter's still alive, she would be around your age, well maybe younger…"
Without expectations, tears started to assemble in Izuko's eyes and the spirit flew towards Goku, slowly went inside the pendant around his neck once more. Suddenly the gleaming beam disappeared along with the spirit, making the hut looked rather gloomy once more.
Sanzo ended his feelings with curses, but no one implicit on what was he mumbling about. Gojyo started to ease a bit, and he lit his cigarette while laying his butt on the ground hard along with a relieved sigh.
Hakkai smiled after those things happened, and he walked towards Izuko who was still standing there, facing the empty wall. He admitted this girl had done so much just to save Goku that she deserved to be treated nicely.
She looked quite dumbfounded when then Hakkai patted her shoulder, making her turned her face around, and she saw two emerald eyes looked at her in somewhat a sympathized expression. Abruptly, her tears started to roll down her white cheeks, and she hastily wiped them away before the elder asked her why.
"…Daijoubu ka, Izuko?"
"…Ee, dai…daijoubu Hakkai-san."
Hakkai knew this girl was hiding something from them, otherwise, she would never cried several times before, especially when someone got hurt…
…or killed.
'I wonder what is she hiding from us…' Hakkai gave way to the young lass.
Izuko walked towards Sanzo and Gojyo who were both feeling rather comforted and pleased when the spirit didn't make Goku's state even shoddier. Her sudden appearance made those two perplexed and stared at her surprisingly.
"I guess I've done what I should do. Do take care of Goku, and the spirit as what we've promised…"
The elders were silent. They were surprised by the girl's talk, as if she was going to leave them afterwards. Izuko continued while looking at the cursing monk sitting with one knee went up on the ground.
"…Sanzo-sama, I'm sorry if I disturbed you before, gomen nasai."
The other elders felt even more puzzled when she all of a sudden bowed and apologized to Sanzo, and the blonde shut his mouth up from cursing and stared at the girl in disbelief. She looked at the blonde before she walked towards Hakkai, smiling again.
"…And Hakkai-san. Well, I must admit I prefer calling you onii-san, and since I'm leaving will you please take good care of those two?"
Apparently, Izuko was talking about the spirit and Goku. The 'stingy onii-san' and the 'hentai onii-san' could surely take GREAT care of themselves. Hakkai faded away his smile, and stared shockingly at the silver-haired girl in front.
"You…you're not going to leave us like this, aren't you??" Hakkai sounded rather tensed despite of his calmed expression just before.
The girl was shocked that she wrenched back a bit from Hakkai and halted when suddenly she felt something hard was placed right at the back of her head, and she heard a clicking sound from behind. She turned around and she found out that Sanzo cocked his shoreiju right towards her and it almost touched her temple right when she turned back.
The other two sweat dropped along with the girl when they saw Sanzo was about to shoot his shoreiju when then…
'BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!'
"…Chikusho! I missed!!!"
Thankfully, Izuko ducked just in time when three shining bullets almost got buried right inside her skull just then. Not to mention how shocked Hakkai was when the bullets almost hit him too! The Sanzo somehow didn't show any satisfaction when he shoved out his beloved almighty harisen and…
'THWACK! THWACK! THWACK!'
"…Itte…It hurts, Genjo Sanzo!!! Why did you do that??"
"…URUSAI, BAKA ONNA!!!"
He was about to hit her head out cold with his 'finishing touch', when Hakkai and Gojyo grabbed him back, making him struggled so hard and left Izuko squatting on the ground. Sanzo cursed and cursed and cursed as if he was gone mad already when abruptly Izuko stood up, walking towards Goku while those three had not finished with their 'thrashing each other's head' session yet.
Izuko knelt right next to the itan while embracing the pendant Goku wore inside her smooth white palm. She stared at it for a while, and then her gaze went to Goku's naïve looking face. Even though he was unconscious, Izuko could predict that that gaki there was such a youthful adorable boy. Otherwise, those elders wouldn't love him that much.
'…Sumimasen, I have to let you live with this spirit. I've got no other choice, or else, you'll die. I don't want you to give up your life just like the others…You're the same kind as me. Dakara, gomen.'
Goku moaned again, but this time it sounded as if he heard the girl's thoughts, and he responded to it. Izuko smiled frailly, and touched the itan's forehead smoothly before she stood up once again and went towards the door.
She was actually wanting to say goodbye to those shounens, but then she realised Sanzo-sama would shoot her dead, Hakkai would plead and make such kawaii puppy eyes to her, while the hanyou would start talking nonsense about any 'dates before leaving' thing.
Thinking about those things made her shivered and she tiptoed passed them.
But unfortunately, she was wrong about them enjoying themselves arguing all night long and started to ignore her. Well, Gojyo and Hakkai let the bouzu free and they hurriedly ran hilariously towards the door and closed it tight, locking it from inside.
They leaned against it and they looked like as if they were preventing Izuko from going out. Gojyo with his usual cynical hentai smile, as well as Hakkai who started to chant his 'yare yare desu ne' line.
The monk, well, he cocked his shoreiju once more and placed it right on the girl's temple, making her trembled severely while counting the uncountable veins which popped out all over his head, not leaving any empty space. His flaxen eyebrows almost met each other due to the frowning and Izuko could hear him clinching his teeth clearly, making her sweat dropped madly.
"…WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING??? BAKA YAGI @#$%&@ ONNAAA?????"
Hearing those dirty words made Izuko's head almost burst out and exploded, and then she unexpectedly stood up and appeared her shining azure sword. She pointed the sword right towards Sanzo together with a death-promising glare set right at that bouzu, not to mention her temple was decorated with 'beautiful' blue veins throbbing everywhere here and there.
"…WHAT DID YOU SAY, KONO BAKA KECHI KICHIGAI YAROU MANUKE YAKKAIMONO BAKAMITAI IJIWARU JAAKU BOUZUUUUU!!!!!"
……………
The elders were all sweat dropped and stunned to death, witnessing such a sweet looking girl to curse even fouler words than the kinpatsu (=blond) bouzu. Even Sanzo was speechless, his jaw dropped that it almost reached his waistband, and abruptly his shoreiju fell and met the ground.
He sure was surprised, and dumbfounded by the girl's talk that he couldn't afford to fight back. His brains admitted that the girl was so much stingier than him. (^--^())
"…Maa, maa Izuko…" Hakkai approached those two when he saw Sanzo got struck back to reality and 'summoned' his almighty notorious harisen out of his oversized sleeve. The emerald-eyed youkai stood in front of the lass and shook his hands frantically, joined with a nervous giggle formed comically right on his stunning face.
"…Go away Hakkai-san, before I cut your head together with this big-mouth bouzu!!!"
Sanzo couldn't stand it anymore that he abruptly lifted his sugoku (=almighty) harisen, pushing Hakkai hard aside and…
"…Oh, no you won't!!!"
Izuko swung her sword skillfully and guess what she had just cut to half??
"…Argh!!! My harisennnn…!!"
"…Aaaaaaaaaa!!" Gojyo yelled loudly with such joyful tone when he saw Sanzo's harisen got incised, and he approached Izuko before he hugged her tight in his arms, jumping like the real saru, well, more REALISTIC saru, unbelievably. He sure was feeling grateful, don't think so?
Hakkai and Sanzo sweatdropped, and they could see the young lady was blushing severely plus her head started to produce even more blue coloured veins decorating her temple underneath her silver locks.
The brunette and the blonde stepped back hastily and opened the door as quick as they could, running away from the hut, as they could clearly predict what would the girl do to that hentai erotic kappa inside.
Then…
"…ARGHHHH!!!!!!! LET GO OF ME KONO HENTAI BAKA KUSO YAROU BAKAMITAI YAKKAIMONO IJIWARU ERO GOKIBURI HARASSER KAPPA!!!!"
"…AAAaAAAaAaaAAaaaaAaaRRRGGGgggGGghhHHhhHhHH!!!!!"
Those two outside that time made a note to themselves, 'Never Mess Up Things With Izuko' right permanently in their brains, and they must admit, they felt rather satisfied when the hentai kappa got tortured like that, it was just that they had never expect A SIMPLE YOUNG GIRL almost around Goku's age was the one who would teach that kappa how to behave himself.
"…Yare yare desu ne…kawaisou ne, anou Gojyo? (=How pitiful, that Gojyo)
"…Ch, jigou jitoku da zo!!! (=serves him right) Who told him to act hentai towards that crazy onna??"
Inside the hut, Izuko was still tormenting the erotic kappa with all her might, and she used her fists quite a lot on the kappa's head, but still his head was too hard that it would never got dented easily.
But as a result, Izuko's hand started to swell and not to mention that kappa's head and face were now filled with numerous uncountable lumps, and he looked so much like a water monster who got stung by a bunch of horrible killer bees and had not enough time to jump into any water source (where he came from) just to get away from the insects!
"…Ahhhhh!!!! Stop touching me all over kono bakamitai hentai otoko!!! (=twit perverted man)"
"…Ahhhh!!!! Spare my life, Izuko! Ow! Ow! Owwww!!!! ITAI DA ZO!!!! STOP it already!!!"
"NEVER!!!!"
Izuko kept on beating that pitiful kappa up on the ground, when then the water monster got impatient and stood up all of a sudden and started to run away in order to save his life. He pushed himself up, and ran all over the hut making that small place somehow shook vaguely due to that cat and mouse a.k.a cat and dog chasing period.
Alas, Izuko kept on kicking the kappa's butt, and ran after him swinging her sword crazily.
But then, Gojyo accidentally bumped into Izuko that made her fell helplessly on…
"…ITAI !!!!!!!!!! GET OFF ME YOU…"
…it stopped abruptly.
They were both shocked by that voice.
Gojyo halted running all over the place while Izuko was sweat dropping so hard when she found that she was ON Goku by any chance, that her nose almost touched the itan's making Goku halted his last word, and they were both blushing severely and stunned.
…Raven met Golden.
Thankfully Izuko gained her balance before, or else she would have kissed that itan if she hadn't.
Gojyo on the other side was damned astonished about what had just happened, but being an erotic perverted kappa who loved to interfere in other people's matter, ESPECIALLY this kind of stuff, he beamed his annoying smile on his swollen hilarious face and started teasing the kids.
"…So, since when you two started this SPECIAL bond between you two, huh?" trailed with a loud funny-sounded laugh just like how Kodachi laughed, and that made both Hakkai and Sanzo outside thought the kappa had gone crazy due to the blasts Izuko gave 'free-of-charge' before.
"BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
"…What happened to that baka kappa already???" Sanzo walked towards the hut together with Hakkai beside him.
"…I've no idea, Sanzo!" Hakkai chuckled nervously.
Izuko realised she was actually making the saru under her felt rather uncomfortable, that she hastily stood up and blushed so hard that her face became all blood-red. Not to mention Goku's golden orbs went wide opened staring in disbelief at the girl, he was blushing too, no wonder.
Izuko bowed to Goku and apologized before she took the window shield that had just broken before and rushed to the laughing-like-mental asylum-patient (imagine that) kappa…
"…DAMARE!!!!!!!! KONO HENTAI KAPPA!!!!"
"…ARGHHHHH!!!!!" and he fainted helplessly on the ground, with his face was still beaming a WIIIIDE smirk, kissing the ground like an out cold clown, who died caused by the baka jokes he made himself. Well, not that the kappa had died, mind you readers.
Izuko was panting hard, trying to control her rage and tried with all her might not to kill that kappa already, plus she was still blushing due to what happened before with Goku.
"…Yare yare desu ne…"
Hakkai suddenly poked his head in and felt quite amused when he saw Gojyo like that, it sure made him laughed if Sanzo wasn't there! But suddenly, his eyes caught something tremendous…
"…GOKU!!! You're awake!!"
Hakkai was about to reach Goku who was still sitting on the ground, staring fretfully at Gojyo, and he sure looked like he didn't know anything about the incidents before. He then looked at Hakkai and question marks popped out of his head, puzzled about Hakkai's expression. When then…
'THWAAACKKKKKKKK!!!!!'
"…ITAI YO!!!! Why did you do that, Sanzo??? Ouchhh…"
"…YOU STILL WANNA ASK, BAKA SARUUUUU?????? KONO…"
All of them sweatdropped, except that flat fainted horny water monster kissing the ground instead of girls, and the mad kichigai bouzu who enjoyed himself so much thwacking the saru's head after he hadn't done that for the past several hours.
…This time, a monkey was tortured cruelly just like the water monster of before.
…'Peace' at last, huh?
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"…Ite, it hurts!!!"
Goku yelped as Izuko bandaged Goku's leg due to his fight with the ikkou while he was possessed before at the inn. He kept on moving, making the girl's veins went all popped out from her forehead, throbbing crazily.
She had been bandaging the same injury for hours now, and still she just couldn't get it, why do sarus moved too much??
She lifted her almighty fist and…
"…ITAAAAII!!!!! What was that for????"
Goku rubbed his swollen head repeatedly to ease the pain, and he admitted this girl was more brutal than Sanzo's harisen and Gojyo's knuckles or kicks. But the blow sure made him stopped moving and the elders looked at each other, surprised.
"…Okay, give me your head."
Izuko's statement made those shounens sweat dropped, and they felt rather amused by the girl's hilarious aimless talk. If she said that in a more serious tone to other people out there, then they would surely have chopped their head off and gave it to Izuko.
"...What are you staring at? Hm? Hm?" she smiled cutely, making those guys responded to it with different acts.
"…You are sooo cute, you know??" Hakkai rubbed the girl's head again, making her sweat dropped even more. She pushed away Hakkai's hand while chuckling at the elder gleefully.
Not long after that, the hentai-not-satisfied-kappa beamed his typical hentai smile, and he was actually holding the pain smiling like that. Yeah! His face was swollen so bad, that it looked so much like Ranma who once got stung by lots of bees while training to defeat Ryota, remember? (imagine, imagine, imagine!)
And still, he pushed himself to smile, making the others laughed so hard while rolling all over the ground looking at Gojyo's face!! Even Sanzo grinned devilishly and he too tried NOT to laugh by facing the wall and all his temple's veins throbbed out like before!
"…WHACKKKK???"
"…MUARHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
They laughed even harder that they almost burst their stomach laughing so hard at him when they heard Gojyo's new slang, while rolling and rolling all over the ground and that kappa received a powerful thwack on his head from the great Toua Genjo Sanzo Houshi.
He too, was about to laugh, but being a namaguza bouzu, he successfully camouflaged his laughs with a 'thwack' on the kappa's head!
"…ITAAAAII!!!! Whack do yoo..."
He stopped as soon as Sanzo placed a loaded shoreiju on his temple, grinning like before with numerous veins throbbed like mad!
"...YOU TALK, YOU DIE!!!"
Gojyo gulped. He had no intentions to make them laughed like that, it was just that he couldn't help talking like that since his lips almost got squashed by his biiiiggg swollen cheeks, making it difficult for him to speak properly.
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Gojyo: Uuuuuuuu……………(T---T) {crying helplessly facing the window}
Neighbours: MURKKK HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAAH!!!!
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Izuko stopped laughing, so did the others. They didn't want to risk their heads being thwacked like that. They just watched the kappa weeping vulnerably thinking about his fate. Izuko smiled sweetly towards Goku, at the same time making our adorable Goku blushed and stared at Izuko in disbelief.
Instead of sitting crossed-legs, Izuko knelt and made herself higher than Goku, placing a small bandage around his temple. She did it gently, despite of her atrocious, brutal acts towards that kappa before. After she finished bandaging, she stood up and took her bag pack, facing the elders.
"Saa, I've done. May I leave?"
Again, she repeated the previous topic, about leaving the ikkou. Well, she did tell the elders before that she would leave once she finished curing Goku. The shounens all stared at her, while Sanzo grunted under his breath.
Hakkai was the one who opened his mouth, and told her about their opinions on her decision to leave. He stood right before the girl, looking at her black eyes while curling his best smile.
"…Well, why don't you stay with us too?"
Izuko was stunned. She put her bag pack down, and faced the elder once more.
"…But I thought you want me to go once I've done dealing with the spirit?"
"…What spirit???" Goku asked fretfully, making the kappa darted to him and smacked his head hard.
"……ITAI DA YO!!! It hurts, baka ero kappa!"
Gojyo hastily reached a wooden board and started writing words on it with dirt, and it said "Shut up, and hear what's she gonna tell!!!"
Sanzo was about to shoot those guys up when Hakkai sent him a glare that told him to stop making things worse. Besides, both Goku and Gojyo had shut their mouth for good already.
"…We want you to stay with us. Can you?" Hakkai politely asked Izuko.
"…Demo, Sanzo-sama said…"
"Mada, mada!! Ne, Sanzo! You don't mind, right?"
Hakkai once again sent him a death-promising glare with his beautiful emerald eyes, urging him to agree. Well, it worked, though. Sanzo lit up his cigar and answered with such lethargic lazy tone.
"....Whatever you want."
Izuko was stunned again, but she declared deep inside her heart, that she felt happy to stay with those weird men. They made her smile all the time, not to mention the baka practical jokes they've made before.
She smiled, and bowed again before she lifted her bag once again.
"…Thanks, you guys! At least I can get some exercises by beating Gojyo-san up!" she giggled and turned to that swollen-faced kappa, followed by his giggle as well.
"Saa, shall we go now?"
The elders were more than happy when they heard the girl's reply to travel with them together. Besides, they could solve that spirit thing and stuff with her help, since none of the boys knew how to commune with spiritual things like that.
"…Demo, where to? The spirit didn't tell us where that man lived."
Izuko thought about it for a while when then she recalled something.
"…She said Goku will know about it, and she told us to go to the Northwest. Remember?"
Hakkai nodded and he abruptly turned to Sanzo, who was murmuring something that you might not want to know. (-__-()) He was cursing again.
While that Goku? Well, his head was filled with tons of question marks, all popped out at once hearing those people's talk.
He didn't remember anything about any spirits, ghosts, souls, whatever! But the last thing he remembered was when they all heard that lullaby back in the inn, and before he knew it, he was awaked, seeing a girl on him, blushing.
"…What spirit, ne, Hakkai? Ojou-san?"
Izuko turned back, her black eyes met the golden ones once more.
"…Don't you even remember anything about it? Not a single clue?"
Goku halted and tried so hard squashing his brains to recall back those things, but failed. He shook his head, making his chocolate hair moved along and brushed his golden diadem.
Izuko understood well, that the spirit would appear again, replacing Goku's body when they ever need any hints about that man who killed her cruelly 10 years ago. If not, Goku would have known everything about that beast already.
"…Sanzo? Can we delay our journey to the West?"
Sanzo was about to protest when then he saw FOUR pair of different coloured eyes for each person made such kawaii puppy blinking eyes towards him, that made him almost shot his head to death, rather than viewing that view!
'One saru's enough already, and then FOUR of them?? You've gotta be kidding me!!!'
Couldn't do anything about it, and Sanzo stood up while wearing his robe back, continued cursing.
"…Iku zo!!!!"
They were more than glad when the boss finally agreed, and Izuko herself felt quite glad being with these strong men, and moreover…
…She wouldn't ask for more, just to be with these shounens.
…If two years ago she lost her brother…
She was not going to lose these men as well.
'I guess this is the beginning of my life…'
The kappa and saru jumped gleefully, and ran out to the loyal dragon outside, who had already transformed itself to a big green jeep. He cooed as he saw Izuko with the boys, and he sure felt delighted to have a new friend.
Right when the ikkou plus Izuko in it, went on the jeep, the sun started to rise gradually showing its pretty shining self and lightened the whole wide world. Birds chirped merrily and the sky started to change its colour brightly.
Warm soothing wind blew smoothly and brushed those men and Izuko's face, making them smiled in satisfaction. The glum dark night had transformed to a sunny fine bright day, once again. The scene was so beautiful, that made the ikkou were all in a good mood to start their new journey…
…To the Northwest.
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The night was fine, and Hakkai was driving peacefully due to the silence he achieved since quiet a while ago. He took a glance at his companions through the rear mirror.
Gojyo and Goku were sleeping peacefully, (well, although they were snoring out loud with mouth opened wide facing the sky) with both hands tugging at each other's hair.
They were actually fighting for a meat bun when Sanzo as usual smacked those good-for-nothings' heads cruelly and at the same time making them shut their mouth up, but still, they kept on tugging out each other's hair, in a mute version.
But Hakkai admitted that scene was different. Not that Sanzo's harisen was a brand new harisen after the old one got destroyed, or not the surprisingly mute version of those shounens' fight.
…It was Izuko's sweet giggles and smiles.
Hakkai glanced at the young girl who was sleeping peacefully with her sword under her chin, in case if the kappa got up abruptly and 'accidentally' molest her out of the day, then she would use her blade for good, although she hadn't done it before.
But one thing Hakkai felt somewhat suspicious about her was her past. All those crying, all those weeping…
…And most of all, he realised that girl had GOLDEN eyes just like Goku. It wasn't that Hakkai was a colour-blinded youkai, but that night at the inn…
…She was crying over Goku's condition surprisingly although he was a stranger to her before, and Hakkai saw it. Her tears covered her black eyes, and made her eyes turned GOLD.
That was why Hakkai told Gojyo before about the female itan. But still, that kappa didn't see it yet, nor Sanzo. When she cried, Hakkai would be the one who reached her and looked at her eyes deeply, just to make sure about the colour. No duh!
…And he was accurate about it.
'…That girl, hides almost everything about herself. I knew it, I just knew it.'
"…Uhhh…gimme back the bun…kono ero kappa…Kuuuuhhh…"
"…It's miiinneeee…baka saruuuu…"
"…Yare yare desu ne…" Hakkai chuckled
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There, somewhere in Togenkyo, was a big fort on a hill, and it looked horrifying with its dark evil-like atmosphere. The day at that place looked petrifying enough, and the night was more than worse.
There, inside the fort was a man, with muscular body, and he was viewing the most awful scene in his favourite room, where three of his subordinates were tormenting a teenage girl, slapping her, bashing and trampling her over and over again. They somewhat didn't show any mercy on doing that to her, and they totally ignored the girl's loud cries and groans.
The black-haired lass was wrist-tied with a chain that attached around her neck, and it made her felt more painful together with the bashes she got from the bad youkais kicking her viciously. She was trying hard not to cry, and she kept on been tortured like hell. Her face showed no other expressions but disgust, hatred, repugnance, abhorrence, and extremely loathing look.
The youkais laughed hysterically at her, quite enjoying hitting her like crazy, but suddenly they halted and turned to their boss who was watching the wonderful satisfying scene, like what he thought about it, and the girl spitted out a lot of dark crimson blood, flowing freely along the metal shackles.
"…What should we do next, boss?? She won't tell us about it!" a bald youkai suddenly went out of the room, leaving the other two inside, staring at her with such annoying stare.
The 'boss-demon' just kept his mouth shut and abruptly he turned around, heading to his own room. While heading to his destination, he suddenly opened his mouth and replied his subordinate's query.
"…Do whatever you like to her, until she tells us about that damned itan."
The youkai latter smirked and went back to the room, telling his friends about it and they totally had turned themselves to farthest devilish youkais. They glared at the helpless girl with such hentai look, and laughed irritatingly.
The girl was trembling in fear, jerking back painfully and met her back with the wall, staring back at the youkais fretfully, and her golden eyes started to produce out terrified tears and she started to groan helplessly, as a sign for the youkais not to do anything to her anymore.
Those nasty youkais somehow didn't care about her feelings much, when they abruptly stepped nearer to the girl while giggling in such perverted way. The young lass shook and trembled in terror when she could clearly predict what would the youkais do to her.
She was about to scream when someone's face suddenly appeared in her mind, two of them.
She felt rather calmed despite of the youkais tried to grab her, when she unexpectedly smiled.
'…I'll never let you die, like how Keigo nii-chan died….'
There, that time, in the fort, a girl's virginity had been destroyed mercilessly by three damned youkais. She was speechless, although her body was wrecked harshly, and 'eaten' by those nasty demons, and all she could do was closing her eyes, and recalled those happy moments she had gone through, although she did feel enormous pain due to the molests…
'…Do whatever you like, kill me, rape me, but I'll never give up my twin's life to you...'
'…Yeah, go on, destroy me, raze my body, my dignity, everything. Just ruin my life, it's useless by the way...'
'…I'll never let you kill her…'
She smiled, underneath those youkais' damned bodies, unexpectedly…
'…Izuko…'
'…Save yourself.'
tsuzuku…
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*is 'Raven' the correct word to say 'black'? I thought Raven is a bird, ne? Please explain to me, onegai.
P/S: I don't wanna insert any long conversations in the future. Lemme say this again, I love writing, but for sure, I'm depressed by the response... Gomen and thanks. Especially, thanks 4 those who reviewed before. {bows} I'm too talkative, that's why all you readers hate me…I know.
Rook-san – Thanks for liking my fics!! Ooooh, I'm really glad there're some who like my fics, and yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Sankyu na, and I hope your oncoming fics gonna be extremely great!! (^--^)v Please laugh more, ok? Hahaha!!!
Confessions…
Hm, I've inserted a new OC again!! Please don't get mad with me, since I guess this story's going to be a looooooggg story and well, I won't tell you what'll happen in the end!! No fun!
But for the next chap, I'll insert more serious scenes, not baka lame jokes about Gojyo. I pitied on him, well, sort of. Also I guess I've made this story rather confusing ne? Shinpai shinaide, I'll try to insert straight forwardly scenes than just flashbacks.
I admit it's gonna be more interesting in the next chaps. But without reviews, I guess this story's going to be the most pathetic story on earth. (T-T) I'm tired to say this again, Review, onegai.
Explanations:
1. Izuko had a weird past, that made her eyes raven-coloured instead of golden like what Hakkai saw. The same goes to her silver hair, which was different from her twin's hair.
2. Do tell me if you're confused with anything, I'll explain them to you. Dakara, review, onegai shimasu!
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-LIFE'S GREAT, Don't Think So?-
-Besides, to die is a good way of escaping...
-But if you die nothing will change...
-Instead if you decide to continue living...
-You can ATLEAST...
CHANGE SOMETHING.
PS: I've used the above words for 2 years now, and thanks to Sanzo, I failed in committing suicide before. {bows} Hontou ni arigatou gozaimashita ne, Sanzo-sama! (^-^)