Disclaimer: Don't own Saiyuki…I just own a very weird crazy mind that could lead to my shrink desperately needing to go to another shrink who would in turn have to go to another shrink etc etc etc….
A big thank you to anyone who reviewed the previous chapter. I appreciate your comments a lot!!! (^-^)………….So here goes Chapter 2………
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The Son I Never Knew
Hyo… (Italics Goku)
I opened my eyes and the rays from the sun blinded me. I closed them again and then I heard it…her voice…calling… again. It had haunted me ever since, calling me…but why was she sobbing now? I heard it again….the voice coming from the direction of the stream…it was real!
'What am I to you? Do you care for me? Am I just a pet to you? Is that what I am? A servant? Tell me! I want an answer!'
The words echoed through my head as I ran through the woods, to the voice, searching for its owner, searching for the voice that reminded me so much of her. I came to a clearing and then I saw him, only from the back though, a boy…maybe 18years old….brown hair, like autumn leaves, like Sana's. Again and again he repeated those words throwing stones violently in the stream, venting his anger. He sensed my presence and turned around abruptly. What I saw left me frozen in terror…golden eyes! Just like hers! Huge golden eyes like she had….eyes which where so large and still so innocent….eyes that just couldn't lie to you…He was looking menacingly at me, ready to attack, but I could see the pain in those eyes I had looked into so many times so long ago…
"It's OK. I won't hurt you" he lowered his guard……he reminded me so much of her…..
"Who are you?" he asked still uncertain whether I was a friend or a foe
"My name is Hyo and I live in these mountains……And you?'
He wiped the tears away from his eyes and suddenly they had the same radiance and vitality hers had always owned….it shocked me…. such similarity…….
"I'm Goku. I'm traveling with some friends but I've wondered off and I can't find the path that runs through the woods…maybe you can help me?'
"Sure". So we walked through the woods in silence this little boy and I…this little boy who seemed to me a ghost haunting me from the past, wanting to torture my soul further more.
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Sanzo (Italics Gojyo)
I felt them moving closer, two energies moving together…..my finger was already on the trigger, and then I released it.
"Hakkai! Hakkai!"
It was the saru. But who was with him? It was not long before they came into view and when I could see him clearly…I suddenly felt myself grow cold inside…..Were it not for the colour of the hair and the eyes Goku and the youkai accompanying him would be almost identical! I glanced at Hakkai. He countered my move with his usual smile. There was no need to search his eyes for an answer; I knew he had under stood. I looked at them again…it was like looking at a different version of the same being-that demon was an older version of Goku
……………………………………………THWACK……………………………………………………………………
"Ouch! Sanzo, that hurt! What have I done now?!"
"Baka saru! How many times have I told you not to wonder off?!! And how many times have I told you not to talk to strangers?!"
I could see Sanzo eying the youkai suspiciously…I don't blame him…it wasn't safe to trust anyone…
"But he's not a stranger!!! He's Hyo and he lives in the mountains!"
"And?"
"And…ehm….eh….I don't know!!!"
………………………………………….THWACK…..THWACK……………………………………………………….
"Dumb baka saru!!"
…………………………………….TWACH……………THWACK…………..THWACK…………………………….
Gojyo (Italics Hyo)
I sat down next to the demon that had brought our ever-hungry monkey back. He was leaning against a tree trunk, puzzled, looking at Sanzo hitting the saru mercilessly with his harisen
"It's always that way with them two…"
"Eh?" he looked at me and I saw in his eyes a mixture of pain and longing.
"Thanks for bringing the baka saru back….you know, the bonzou there might not look like the sensitive type…certainly doesn't act that way……….but you could tell he was worried sick when the kid didn't turn up at lunch-time….Wanna cig"
'No. Be careful with that…If the woods catch fire…'
"OK! OK!" I put the cigarette back into the packet 'Gee mate, what are you? Some kind of ambientalist demon?'
"Sorry but I can't let anything happen to this place…it's the only thing I've got left of her…'
His eyes dimmed further more…they told a story…a long story which did not have a happy ending…
"Place where you met your ex, eh? Women….they are more trouble then they're worth…With me it's a question of love them and leave them. Forget all about her, bro! Plenty of pretty girls around" I stood up and walked away from him, leaving him to his thoughts…….
Lover then leave her…Isn't that what I have done? I loved her, truly and madly and then I left her…but forget her? I
Couldn't!
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Goku (italics Hyo)
Ouch….my head still hurt from all those harisen thwacks Sanzo had give me…one day he's gonna cause me some serious brain damage and then he'll be sorry…or…? I sat down and sighed. Sanzo was the person I cared most about…and he was the only person that could bring my spirits down so much…A twig cracked under someone's weight and I looked up to see Hyo.
"Home sick, kid?"
'Nah…" I played with the dirt next to my feet
"Don't you miss your parents?"
The question was like a blade driven in a still open wound. It reminded me of what I truly was….
"Don't have any"
"Sorry, I lost my parents too when I was still very young…"
"I didn't lose mine…I never had any….I'm a heretic child…they say I was born from a mountain rock…I have no mother and I have no father….I am just a creature without roots"
He stood up and left. And suddenly reality hit me…it shocked me and confused me…that boy was born from a mountain rock…that boy could be…my son?
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Kenren Taishou: I hope that so far its good………..please read & review. Next chapter will be up soon!!!