Sixth Wheel: Stock

[Summary and clean up]

Thank you for reviewing everybody!

These alternatives were not meant to be so tragic. Honestly. I wanted to just flesh out this story after reading about a security guard who was pinned to the floor by a robber and had a gun pointed at his head. And so I thought: Sanzo!

Here I will attempt to explain some of the weirder things that have invaded this fic. I hope all this stuff helps. If it doesn't. . . :

1. Gonou; NOT Hakkai

Look, I know I should have said this before or it wasn't too clear but I am not writing Hakkai. It is Gonou who is the policeman ad he's married to Kanan (hence the glass ring). He didn't kill 1000 demons and he's happily married. He's also turning into a Kubota-Tenpou-wannabe. Arrg: here's the explanation for your 'evil Gonou', UltraM2000.

2. Smiley Sanzo?

Yes, I decided to experiment with a smiley Sanzo. If he weren't grouchy, he would be smiley. He stole his master's sutra back from Gojyo's shop (look below) and crystal bullets. The demon must have sold it or dropped it, I don't know. You decide.
He's definitely not as sullen as the Sanzo we all know and love but more like a desperate teenager on the edge. I'm writing him if he had made different choices after Komyou died. Like if he had decided to go about things in a slightly less destructive fashion.

3. Blind Gojyo

I'm guessing that a half-demon would inherit genetic defects like impotency (species are individuals that can breed and have fertile young but let's not go there) and blindness. He doesn't have the scars because his birth mother survived to raise him. He works as a glassmaker and he made the crystal bullets that Sanzo stole.

4. Drowned Sanzo
I wanted cruel irony. He returns to the river of his birth even in death. Assuming he was abandoned upstream, now he dies downstream (hence the harbour).
How did he die? Well, that's up to you to decide. He could have been murdered but I'm not ruling out suicide or an accident.
The corruption surrounding the disposal of bodies mirrors WA a little too much for my taste but I loved describing all the dirt and pollution (mental and physical). Gonou is the officer handling the disposal (if you didn't notice the black notebook *evil grin*.

5. Latent Goku
I suppose that the centuries without Sanzo's 'helpful' stimulation would make any child begin to degenerate. What more under the manipulative care of Ukoku Sanzo = Nii Jyeni! I'm assuming that he would have been released by Jyeni because of the little loophole of being released by a Sanzo and not just Genjo Sanzo.

6. Canon universe
I know it tends to lean towards AUs like those found in WA but this story takes place in Minekura's canon universe. I wrote it slightly darker though, just because.