Title: Born to Be My Baby
Author: ¤Sha¤GojyoxCho¤Hakkai¤
Date: Began March, 2003
Chapter: 11/?
Rating: Chapter 1 - 8 : PG - 13
Chapter 9 : R
Chapter 10 - 11: PG - 13
Category: Romance, Angst, Language, Blood and the like
Main Pairing: Gojyo x Hakkai
As of now, this entire story is for, not only all you Gojyo x Hakkai fans, but Faye Faye as well! Because she lets me use her laptop to type this and I keep it at mah house. Thanks, Faye Faye! And Happy Birthday, too! Oh, and if you oh, so loyal, readers are reading this fanfic with the knowledge of the ENGLISH version of Saiyuki... shut off your computer and watch the JAPANESE version. They are so different, trust me, and the Japanese version, well, let's just say that in the words of ME... Americans mess up just about everything in anime. It should just be kept in Japanese and given English subtitles, but no... *rolls eyes*
Disclaimer: I do not own Gensomaden Saiyuki. All characters, names, etc. are copyrighted to Minekura Kazuya.
Warning: Shounen ai/yaoi (for you people who don't speak Japanese, that's male/male relationships.... isn't it cute? *smiles*)
Oh, and this chapter contains somewhat of a battle. Don't beat up on me. I really, really, REALLY stink at writting action scenes. I mean... it's really terrible.
Alright, here we go!
__________ Part Eleventh (11/?)
"It's terrible! It's absolutely horrid!" A woman burst through the doors of the hotel of which the Sanzo - ikkou were staying, flailing her arms like mad and demanding help as fast as possible at the front desk. "Please! Somebody has to help!"
"Please, calm down, ma'am." One of the employees of the hotel soothed, trying to calm the frantic woman down as best as he could. "What happened?"
"It was a youkai! He came out of nowhere and struck my fiance down and then fled! He ran! My fiance needs help! His arm is gone! He's lying in front of the grocery!"
"We'll call authorities and medical right away," the man assured and then ran off to the back of the hotel. Dialing tones and a hurried voice was heard as the man instructed upon where to find the injured person and what they needed.
The Sanzo - ikkou, who were right in the middle of eating breakfast at one of the tables, could not help but overhear.
"Should we do something?" Gojyo murmured to the others under his breath.
"No. What we need to do is find that youkai if he strikes again. We stand out too much. He'll come out," came Sanzo's reply.
"Yes. If Kougaiji is as persistant as to keep sending the youkai after us, which I am sure that he is, they'll keep coming."
"You'd think he would get the point that a few ordinary youkai are no threat. Him on the other hand... well, that's entirely different."
"Eeh." Gojyo nodded.
Countless footsteps were heard outside as many of the townspeople came to watch the tragety unfold. The medicals were there, but the man had lost so much blood, he was in critical condition.
He and his fiance were brought to the hospital immidiately.
Next Day ~ Early Evening
"Hakkai!? What's all this about!?" Gojyo gasped as he walked into his and Hakkai's room and his eyes fell upon a small round table with white table cloth and two glasses of dark crimson wine.
"It's, um...," Hakkai began but averted his eyes as a blush painted itself onto his cheeks. "It's what I planned.... It's not exactly dinner, but...."
His words were cut off as Gojyo planted a tasty kiss on Hakkai's lips with a light sigh and groan mixed in. "You're full of surprises," he murmured when their lips parted.
"Oh, and you aren't?" Hakkai giggled.
They clinked the delecate glasses together before they drank but before the wine touched their lips, Gojyo interrupted with a sudden, "Uh - oh.... Shouldn't we drink to something?" [1]
"Yes, erm.... How about we toast... to...," he paused. He really had no idea what to say and he laughed at himself for it.
"Alright, alright, alright," Gojyo laughed along with him. "Let's just drink to us. May we always be together."
"Lovely...," Hakkai breathed with a dreamy smile before sipping the wine from his glass.
"We aren't going to sit down at the table?" Gojyo inquired, for they were both standing in front of each other, next to the alabaster sheeted piece.
"No... It's nice just like this, isn't it?" Hakkai said and moved towards Gojyo, setting his glass down on the table before moving to wrap his arms around Gojyo's neck and lean against his chest.
"My, you're quite the romantic tonight, aren't you, baby?" Gojyo put his arms around Hakkai's waist but then began to sway side to side gently in a dancing sort of manner.
"We're going to dance without any music?" Hakkai asked, but once he did, Gojyo let a familiar pattern of notes flow from his lips in a steady humming as he locked his fingers with Hakkai's and placed his other hand on Hakkai's hip... lower than where it should have been. "Oh! Gojyo!" Hakkai cooed as he pressed himself closer to the other man. "I think you put it a little... too low?"
"Oh, but not low enough for me, babe," Gojyo informed his lover and brought his hand down to the brunette's lower hip and gave it a firm squeeze.
"Gojyo!"
"Mm, you know, everything about your body is just unbelievable," Gojyo let a smile creep across his lips as Gojyo squeezed Hakkai's leg again.
"Gojyo, stop! You'll drive me wild!" Hakkai gasped.
"Oh, you mean I haven't yet?"
It was amazing, Hakkai had thought, that the littlest touch from Gojyo could make Hakkai go crazy. Sooner or later, it would get to the point where if Gojyo even looked at Hakkai, he would burst out in an orgasm!
Both of them tumbled over to the bed, landing onto the shaky thing, clutching furiously to each other. The breathing hurried and their bodies were shaking. The gambler showered Hakkai's face with delecate kisses as the pad of his thumb gently stroked one of the brunette's cheeks. They both felt a pressure built up in their lower abdominal areas, nothing related to a sexual orgasm but more of an anxious nervousness.
Before Hakkai knew it, his shirt was open entirely and Gojyo was gently re - exploring every feature of the brunette's chest with his tongue and fingers.
And Hakkai was about to ask Gojyo to do something to him when a pained scream rang through the hotel room from outside.
Both men paused reluctantly but realized that their love for each other would have to painfully wait as they both ran to the window and the red - haired man lifted it open in a hurry to find that there was a faint figure of a person, barely able to be seen lying motionless in the dark dirted street with a pool of, supposedly, blood seeping out from where their shoulder was.
"Damn it," Gojyo cursed quite loudly and threw on his jacket, ordering Hakkai to follow immediately behind him by taking one of his hands in his as they both sprinted out the door of their room and down the steps. Fortunately enough for him, the green - eyed man had worked his hand free of Gojyo's grasp long enough to button his shirt up before anyone could see.
They both arrived outside along with another person from the hotel, who carried a flashlight, for it was getting darker, and Sanzo. The person lying motionless on the ground seemed to be around sixteen years of age, dressed in green and a God - gone - wrong nose piercing.
"Is he alive?" Hakkai inquired to the others in a whisper as the person with the flashlight shone the beam on the body.
"He's breathing but it's real weak. He won't last much longer," Sanzo informed. His gaze fell to the side of the body. "He's lost so much blood, even if we did call medical attention, it wouldn't do us any good."
"Yes, but...," Hakkai's eyes widened when the realization came over him. "Look. He was injured the same way as the first man." Hakkai motioned toward the teenager's shoulder: his arm nearly severed entirely off of his body. "But, see, where the skin here," he pointed to where the huge gash in the skin began, "see how it's that desgusting purple colour? There was probably pressure put to it. It wasn't a sharp object that made this man lose his arm. It was a pressure."
"Extreme pressure," Gojyo murmured.
"Did you notice that that was the way that the first man was injured, also?"
"Then that means...," Sanzo muttered.
"That, if the two victims were attacked in the same way, that the offender attacked them from above," Hakkai finished Sanzo's sentence. All four of them, including the man with the flashlight, turned their heads upward, toward the sky.
"Could they have come from the top of the buildings and jumped down, then?" the man asked as he flipped off the switch of his hand - held - lantern.
"Most likely," Sanzo answered.
"Hey, guys!" Goku sprinted frantically toward the others and skidded to a stop but turned around a full one - eighty before pointing to the rooftop of the hotel they were staying in. "I heard someone on the roof just now...! Look, there he is!" the boy cried as a figure became clear in the last light of the reluctantly setting sun.
"He was on the roof!" Gojyo cried.
"O-o-o-h, shit!" the miscellaneous man cried and scrambled frantically for the nearest building. "I'm not stayin' out here!"
"He's a youkai," Sanzo concluded abruptly with a step forward.
"How can you tell?"
"It's that stench." The monk's features twitched at the mention of it.
"Let's go get him, then! Before anyone else gets hurt!" Goku yelled enthusiastically.
"Goku, Hakkai, you go that way," Sanzo instructed as he pointed in one direction and then in the other when he finished, "Gojyo and I will get on the other side of him. Try to find a way to get on the roof. If there aren't any, use a window. This guy can probably jump yards at a time."
"Understood," Hakkai said with a nod as he and Goku ran off in the opposite direction as the monk and half - breed.
"God damn it, why does everything have to get other people involved all the time?" Gojyo muttered, mostly to himself, as he ran to the nearest building to try and find a stairway to the roof.
"Because we're all selfish bastards in the end of it," Sanzo told him, as if scolding him.
"Truth."
"Over there." Sanzo stopped dead in his tracks; Gojyo, on the other hand, nearly tripped trying to cease in his dash. "That's got a starcase to the roof."
"How can you tell?" Gojyo asked with his usual, everyday, nonchalant, tone.
"Looking through the window might help," Sanzo answered as if it were the most obvious thing to ever exhist.
"Am I supposed to feel stupid?"
The monk turned to the hybrid and gave him a glare that stated by itself, "Do you really want an answer?"
They both ran for the building and jerked themselves up the narrow stairway before finally coming to an old wooden door that led to the roof with a rusted lock over it. Of course, the lock would never stand a good kick from the half - breed as he jumped up to the top of the establishment.
'Good thing they make all the buildings the same height,' Gojyo laughed to himself in his mind.
Both Gojyo and Sanzo were in complete confusion as they scanned the tops of every building for the youkai that could have been terrorizing the townspeople. Nothing. Their sight did fall, however, onto Hakkai and Goku on the far other side of the tiny town, both of them waving over to the red - haired man and the blonde to let them know that they had found a way to a rooftop. Gojyo waved back; nobody ever expected Sanzo to, so of course, he didn't.
Gojyo gave a big shrug Hakkai and Goku's way to let them know that they hadn't found the villain of the moment yet. He pointed to the other two as if inquiring if they had found anything yet. Goku shook his head violently and gave a look that made him look like Shidou Hikaru [2].
But it was when all four of them least expected it that one of the buildings, the furthest away from both search groups, tumbled frantically to the ground, as if every brick was pulled down into the dirt.
"Here we go," Sanzo murmured, more to himself than anyone else.
Before any of them knew it, the destruction of the buildings had come to the ones that they were standing upon at the very moment, letting various other homes and stores crumple in the path to reach them.
Every thing paused.
Every thing was so still.
And they waited right there... but nothing happened. The wind blew a howling, haunting ballad unto the town. Every thing there was so silent, you could hear the dust as it was picked up and placed back on the ground again in tiny twisters of miniature gale winds. Nobody moved.
But Hakkai's eyes widened suddenly and he cried out, "Get down! Get down on the ground now!" But nobody had time to react as Sanzo and Gojyo's building began to shake and hastely crumble to the floor.
"Fuck!" Gojyo cursed and tried his best to avoid the clatter of being caught in the destruction but was engulfed in a fog of contruction ashes and bricks, along with Sanzo, both of them unable to be seen after the smoke had cleared.
"Gojyo! Sanzo!" Hakkai cried as he frantically tried to find the quickest way to the ground and decided, even though they were two stories into the air, that he would jump. When he landed, a pain shot through his ankle as he heard something crack in his body with an air of determination, but he kept going. He ran forward, down the road, a turn here and there, before he realized that Goku was right behind him, keeping up with him with no problem.
They were haulted, however, by the figure on the rooftop as it appeared right before them, and, as Sanzo has stated before, it was a youkai.
"One youkai! Kougaiji must not get it, yet!"
"Either that or his henchman are becoming increasingly weaker when he sends them out to kill us," Hakkai sighed as he felt a bead of sweat run its way down the side of his face. "Goku, can you handle this guy without sustaining serious injury while I try to find Gojyo and Sanzo?"
"Eh!" Goku nodded.
"Good," Hakkai exhailed in relief for the constant flow of energy that ran through the teenager, seeing as he was never able to hold still. He turned around and ran.
But when Hakkai heard a scream come behind him, turning around prived as a mistake.
The next thing he knew, everything went black....
* * *
'Is something wrong, Hakkai?'
'Hakkai, you look so scared.'
'I know what you're gonna say.'
"G... Gojyo?"
'Listen to me, Hakkai.'
'Yes, we should both live for the ones we love, baby.'
'I swear...'
"Gojyo?"
'I'll love you forever...'
"Ah!" Hakkai gasped and sat straight up, his posture taking the form of irregularly poor and his breathing hurried. "Wh - what happened?" His hand flew over his shoulder, which at that point, began to throb painfully. There was a hot, slippery texture on his forehead, a bandage, drenched in sweat, and a rough feeling that graced his fingertips when he touched his shoulder. A bandage there, also. What had happened? The last thing he remembered was when Goku had cried out and then everything went black. The last thing he felt was a moisture from the ground, somewhere around his body (most likely blood) and the irritating feeling of gravel digging its way under his flesh.
The pain ebbed down gradually until it was barely there and the brunette took this opportunity to look around. "Is anybody here?"
He blinked. 'Hope they're all alright.'
It was then that he noticed that he had been placed in a tiny bed with light, thin covers, almost horrifyingly white. He reached forward and gathered the covers all up in his hands to push them to the sides, but only to find that there were bandages on two of his fingers, over the tips, on his left hand.
'What the--?'
A thud was heard outside his nearly closed door and a familiar sandy colour ran across the crack between the door and the wall. 'Was that Sanzo?'
He got up and folded the covers over the mattress neatly before exitting the room to find, indeed, it was the monk, hastely making his way somewhere.
"S... Sanzo?" Hakkai spoke up suddenly, causing the blond to stop abruptly and turn his head slightly. "What... happened?"
"If you mean about the fight...," Sanzo began, turning to face the healer, revealing that there was a rather unsightly, bloodstained bandage over his right cheek and eye, "I was going to see if Gojyo and Goku made it out."
"Oh... Um... Why is part of my hand bandaged? I noticed when I woke up," Hakkai explained as he held up the hand with the alabaster cloth over it.
"Well, from what the doctors say, you fell. And it obviously onto the ground. So much gravel under your fingernails caused them to pop right off."
"What?" Hakkai went wide - eyed. "So... I have two less fingernails now?"
"Tch." Sanzo shrugged and continued proceeding to where he had planned before he was interrupted.
* * *
Later...
* * *
The brunette sighed as he lay back down on his ice cold sheets on his bed later that night, his hands over his stomach and his eyes locked on the ceiling as he was immersed deep in thought. His mind wondered to placed it hadn't cared to peek into before and he realized that he and Gojyo did always find a way to be alone with each other for a private moment. He touched his lips with his fingertips. Gojyo's kiss was still felt there, even though he still had no clue as to where the half - breed was.
Hakkai sneezed.
The window was open, letting all of the chilling air into the room. He could have sworn that the route in which they were travelling was two different worlds at times. At night, it could get unbearably cold but in the day, it was so hot, dehydration was easy to come by. He got up and shut the window.
A knock came over his door.
"Who is it?" Hakkai asked politely.
"It's me," Sanzo answered from the other side of the barrier. "Look, I need to talk to you."
"Alright," Hakkai said and moved to open the door. "What is it, Sanzo?"
For the first time, the brunette saw a look of hesitation come over the monk's features and he began to worry even more than before. Something might have happened to Gojyo or Goku. Was that what this was all about? Indeed, Sanzo made it out alright and Hakkai was there, also, but they had both been fighting alongside another person. What if they didn't make it out?
"Look, they can't find Goku... or Gojyo."
"What?"
"It might be hard on you but they gave up all hope on finding them in this town."
The brunette's hands began to shake unbearably as he brought one over his mouth to somewhat muffle the wail that escaped his lips, "It can't be! We can't give up yet! They're valuable friends to us! We can't stop yet! We need them!"
"The rest of the townsfolk have already given up hope but we can still go out and look for them. We'll do that in the morning, when we have some light to look by." Sanzo retreated to his room then.
* * *
Morning didn't seem to come the next day, do to an unbearably dark and unsightly layer of overcast plaguing the sky. Although the sun tried its hardest to penetrate the clouds, they did not give way and the entire day seemed as if night had gone into overtime.
Sanzo was out looking up and down every street.
Hakkai was at the sight where he had last seen Goku before he had mysteriously blacked out. He was able to move more freely now that a majority of the wounds he had endured were healing up nicely, even though his hand still stung and the cut on his forehead still burned.
"Goku! Can you hear me?"
He checked every tiny spot he could, behind buildings, trash bins, crates, everything; but there was still no sign of the teenager... or the half - breed.
*End Chapter #11*
Author Notes:
[1] Ah, that was in FAKE. I love that anime... Ryo and Dee were out on the veranda and Dee's like, "Uh - oh... Shouldn't we drink to something?" If you can't get your hands on the DVD to watch (which you should), you should buy the manga, which TOKYOPOP is currently publishing.
[2] Magic Knight Rayearth! Hikaru is so cute! Incase you don't get what the adorable Hikaru thing is about, well, when she gets into her chibi (super deformity) mode, she gets little kitty features, like ears. Really, really cute.
Alright, I know that chapter really, really... REALLY stank. I know. I don't like it either. Actually, I don't even know why I'm doing this so... Oh, well. The second DVD of Gensomaden Saiyuki is now available in America. Best Buy sells it for $20.00.
See you in the next (and hopefully way better) chapter! Chapter #12!
Bye and remember to always watch your anime in Japanese!
-Ja!
Author: ¤Sha¤GojyoxCho¤Hakkai¤
Date: Began March, 2003
Chapter: 11/?
Rating: Chapter 1 - 8 : PG - 13
Chapter 9 : R
Chapter 10 - 11: PG - 13
Category: Romance, Angst, Language, Blood and the like
Main Pairing: Gojyo x Hakkai
As of now, this entire story is for, not only all you Gojyo x Hakkai fans, but Faye Faye as well! Because she lets me use her laptop to type this and I keep it at mah house. Thanks, Faye Faye! And Happy Birthday, too! Oh, and if you oh, so loyal, readers are reading this fanfic with the knowledge of the ENGLISH version of Saiyuki... shut off your computer and watch the JAPANESE version. They are so different, trust me, and the Japanese version, well, let's just say that in the words of ME... Americans mess up just about everything in anime. It should just be kept in Japanese and given English subtitles, but no... *rolls eyes*
Disclaimer: I do not own Gensomaden Saiyuki. All characters, names, etc. are copyrighted to Minekura Kazuya.
Warning: Shounen ai/yaoi (for you people who don't speak Japanese, that's male/male relationships.... isn't it cute? *smiles*)
Oh, and this chapter contains somewhat of a battle. Don't beat up on me. I really, really, REALLY stink at writting action scenes. I mean... it's really terrible.
Alright, here we go!
__________ Part Eleventh (11/?)
"It's terrible! It's absolutely horrid!" A woman burst through the doors of the hotel of which the Sanzo - ikkou were staying, flailing her arms like mad and demanding help as fast as possible at the front desk. "Please! Somebody has to help!"
"Please, calm down, ma'am." One of the employees of the hotel soothed, trying to calm the frantic woman down as best as he could. "What happened?"
"It was a youkai! He came out of nowhere and struck my fiance down and then fled! He ran! My fiance needs help! His arm is gone! He's lying in front of the grocery!"
"We'll call authorities and medical right away," the man assured and then ran off to the back of the hotel. Dialing tones and a hurried voice was heard as the man instructed upon where to find the injured person and what they needed.
The Sanzo - ikkou, who were right in the middle of eating breakfast at one of the tables, could not help but overhear.
"Should we do something?" Gojyo murmured to the others under his breath.
"No. What we need to do is find that youkai if he strikes again. We stand out too much. He'll come out," came Sanzo's reply.
"Yes. If Kougaiji is as persistant as to keep sending the youkai after us, which I am sure that he is, they'll keep coming."
"You'd think he would get the point that a few ordinary youkai are no threat. Him on the other hand... well, that's entirely different."
"Eeh." Gojyo nodded.
Countless footsteps were heard outside as many of the townspeople came to watch the tragety unfold. The medicals were there, but the man had lost so much blood, he was in critical condition.
He and his fiance were brought to the hospital immidiately.
Next Day ~ Early Evening
"Hakkai!? What's all this about!?" Gojyo gasped as he walked into his and Hakkai's room and his eyes fell upon a small round table with white table cloth and two glasses of dark crimson wine.
"It's, um...," Hakkai began but averted his eyes as a blush painted itself onto his cheeks. "It's what I planned.... It's not exactly dinner, but...."
His words were cut off as Gojyo planted a tasty kiss on Hakkai's lips with a light sigh and groan mixed in. "You're full of surprises," he murmured when their lips parted.
"Oh, and you aren't?" Hakkai giggled.
They clinked the delecate glasses together before they drank but before the wine touched their lips, Gojyo interrupted with a sudden, "Uh - oh.... Shouldn't we drink to something?" [1]
"Yes, erm.... How about we toast... to...," he paused. He really had no idea what to say and he laughed at himself for it.
"Alright, alright, alright," Gojyo laughed along with him. "Let's just drink to us. May we always be together."
"Lovely...," Hakkai breathed with a dreamy smile before sipping the wine from his glass.
"We aren't going to sit down at the table?" Gojyo inquired, for they were both standing in front of each other, next to the alabaster sheeted piece.
"No... It's nice just like this, isn't it?" Hakkai said and moved towards Gojyo, setting his glass down on the table before moving to wrap his arms around Gojyo's neck and lean against his chest.
"My, you're quite the romantic tonight, aren't you, baby?" Gojyo put his arms around Hakkai's waist but then began to sway side to side gently in a dancing sort of manner.
"We're going to dance without any music?" Hakkai asked, but once he did, Gojyo let a familiar pattern of notes flow from his lips in a steady humming as he locked his fingers with Hakkai's and placed his other hand on Hakkai's hip... lower than where it should have been. "Oh! Gojyo!" Hakkai cooed as he pressed himself closer to the other man. "I think you put it a little... too low?"
"Oh, but not low enough for me, babe," Gojyo informed his lover and brought his hand down to the brunette's lower hip and gave it a firm squeeze.
"Gojyo!"
"Mm, you know, everything about your body is just unbelievable," Gojyo let a smile creep across his lips as Gojyo squeezed Hakkai's leg again.
"Gojyo, stop! You'll drive me wild!" Hakkai gasped.
"Oh, you mean I haven't yet?"
It was amazing, Hakkai had thought, that the littlest touch from Gojyo could make Hakkai go crazy. Sooner or later, it would get to the point where if Gojyo even looked at Hakkai, he would burst out in an orgasm!
Both of them tumbled over to the bed, landing onto the shaky thing, clutching furiously to each other. The breathing hurried and their bodies were shaking. The gambler showered Hakkai's face with delecate kisses as the pad of his thumb gently stroked one of the brunette's cheeks. They both felt a pressure built up in their lower abdominal areas, nothing related to a sexual orgasm but more of an anxious nervousness.
Before Hakkai knew it, his shirt was open entirely and Gojyo was gently re - exploring every feature of the brunette's chest with his tongue and fingers.
And Hakkai was about to ask Gojyo to do something to him when a pained scream rang through the hotel room from outside.
Both men paused reluctantly but realized that their love for each other would have to painfully wait as they both ran to the window and the red - haired man lifted it open in a hurry to find that there was a faint figure of a person, barely able to be seen lying motionless in the dark dirted street with a pool of, supposedly, blood seeping out from where their shoulder was.
"Damn it," Gojyo cursed quite loudly and threw on his jacket, ordering Hakkai to follow immediately behind him by taking one of his hands in his as they both sprinted out the door of their room and down the steps. Fortunately enough for him, the green - eyed man had worked his hand free of Gojyo's grasp long enough to button his shirt up before anyone could see.
They both arrived outside along with another person from the hotel, who carried a flashlight, for it was getting darker, and Sanzo. The person lying motionless on the ground seemed to be around sixteen years of age, dressed in green and a God - gone - wrong nose piercing.
"Is he alive?" Hakkai inquired to the others in a whisper as the person with the flashlight shone the beam on the body.
"He's breathing but it's real weak. He won't last much longer," Sanzo informed. His gaze fell to the side of the body. "He's lost so much blood, even if we did call medical attention, it wouldn't do us any good."
"Yes, but...," Hakkai's eyes widened when the realization came over him. "Look. He was injured the same way as the first man." Hakkai motioned toward the teenager's shoulder: his arm nearly severed entirely off of his body. "But, see, where the skin here," he pointed to where the huge gash in the skin began, "see how it's that desgusting purple colour? There was probably pressure put to it. It wasn't a sharp object that made this man lose his arm. It was a pressure."
"Extreme pressure," Gojyo murmured.
"Did you notice that that was the way that the first man was injured, also?"
"Then that means...," Sanzo muttered.
"That, if the two victims were attacked in the same way, that the offender attacked them from above," Hakkai finished Sanzo's sentence. All four of them, including the man with the flashlight, turned their heads upward, toward the sky.
"Could they have come from the top of the buildings and jumped down, then?" the man asked as he flipped off the switch of his hand - held - lantern.
"Most likely," Sanzo answered.
"Hey, guys!" Goku sprinted frantically toward the others and skidded to a stop but turned around a full one - eighty before pointing to the rooftop of the hotel they were staying in. "I heard someone on the roof just now...! Look, there he is!" the boy cried as a figure became clear in the last light of the reluctantly setting sun.
"He was on the roof!" Gojyo cried.
"O-o-o-h, shit!" the miscellaneous man cried and scrambled frantically for the nearest building. "I'm not stayin' out here!"
"He's a youkai," Sanzo concluded abruptly with a step forward.
"How can you tell?"
"It's that stench." The monk's features twitched at the mention of it.
"Let's go get him, then! Before anyone else gets hurt!" Goku yelled enthusiastically.
"Goku, Hakkai, you go that way," Sanzo instructed as he pointed in one direction and then in the other when he finished, "Gojyo and I will get on the other side of him. Try to find a way to get on the roof. If there aren't any, use a window. This guy can probably jump yards at a time."
"Understood," Hakkai said with a nod as he and Goku ran off in the opposite direction as the monk and half - breed.
"God damn it, why does everything have to get other people involved all the time?" Gojyo muttered, mostly to himself, as he ran to the nearest building to try and find a stairway to the roof.
"Because we're all selfish bastards in the end of it," Sanzo told him, as if scolding him.
"Truth."
"Over there." Sanzo stopped dead in his tracks; Gojyo, on the other hand, nearly tripped trying to cease in his dash. "That's got a starcase to the roof."
"How can you tell?" Gojyo asked with his usual, everyday, nonchalant, tone.
"Looking through the window might help," Sanzo answered as if it were the most obvious thing to ever exhist.
"Am I supposed to feel stupid?"
The monk turned to the hybrid and gave him a glare that stated by itself, "Do you really want an answer?"
They both ran for the building and jerked themselves up the narrow stairway before finally coming to an old wooden door that led to the roof with a rusted lock over it. Of course, the lock would never stand a good kick from the half - breed as he jumped up to the top of the establishment.
'Good thing they make all the buildings the same height,' Gojyo laughed to himself in his mind.
Both Gojyo and Sanzo were in complete confusion as they scanned the tops of every building for the youkai that could have been terrorizing the townspeople. Nothing. Their sight did fall, however, onto Hakkai and Goku on the far other side of the tiny town, both of them waving over to the red - haired man and the blonde to let them know that they had found a way to a rooftop. Gojyo waved back; nobody ever expected Sanzo to, so of course, he didn't.
Gojyo gave a big shrug Hakkai and Goku's way to let them know that they hadn't found the villain of the moment yet. He pointed to the other two as if inquiring if they had found anything yet. Goku shook his head violently and gave a look that made him look like Shidou Hikaru [2].
But it was when all four of them least expected it that one of the buildings, the furthest away from both search groups, tumbled frantically to the ground, as if every brick was pulled down into the dirt.
"Here we go," Sanzo murmured, more to himself than anyone else.
Before any of them knew it, the destruction of the buildings had come to the ones that they were standing upon at the very moment, letting various other homes and stores crumple in the path to reach them.
Every thing paused.
Every thing was so still.
And they waited right there... but nothing happened. The wind blew a howling, haunting ballad unto the town. Every thing there was so silent, you could hear the dust as it was picked up and placed back on the ground again in tiny twisters of miniature gale winds. Nobody moved.
But Hakkai's eyes widened suddenly and he cried out, "Get down! Get down on the ground now!" But nobody had time to react as Sanzo and Gojyo's building began to shake and hastely crumble to the floor.
"Fuck!" Gojyo cursed and tried his best to avoid the clatter of being caught in the destruction but was engulfed in a fog of contruction ashes and bricks, along with Sanzo, both of them unable to be seen after the smoke had cleared.
"Gojyo! Sanzo!" Hakkai cried as he frantically tried to find the quickest way to the ground and decided, even though they were two stories into the air, that he would jump. When he landed, a pain shot through his ankle as he heard something crack in his body with an air of determination, but he kept going. He ran forward, down the road, a turn here and there, before he realized that Goku was right behind him, keeping up with him with no problem.
They were haulted, however, by the figure on the rooftop as it appeared right before them, and, as Sanzo has stated before, it was a youkai.
"One youkai! Kougaiji must not get it, yet!"
"Either that or his henchman are becoming increasingly weaker when he sends them out to kill us," Hakkai sighed as he felt a bead of sweat run its way down the side of his face. "Goku, can you handle this guy without sustaining serious injury while I try to find Gojyo and Sanzo?"
"Eh!" Goku nodded.
"Good," Hakkai exhailed in relief for the constant flow of energy that ran through the teenager, seeing as he was never able to hold still. He turned around and ran.
But when Hakkai heard a scream come behind him, turning around prived as a mistake.
The next thing he knew, everything went black....
* * *
'Is something wrong, Hakkai?'
'Hakkai, you look so scared.'
'I know what you're gonna say.'
"G... Gojyo?"
'Listen to me, Hakkai.'
'Yes, we should both live for the ones we love, baby.'
'I swear...'
"Gojyo?"
'I'll love you forever...'
"Ah!" Hakkai gasped and sat straight up, his posture taking the form of irregularly poor and his breathing hurried. "Wh - what happened?" His hand flew over his shoulder, which at that point, began to throb painfully. There was a hot, slippery texture on his forehead, a bandage, drenched in sweat, and a rough feeling that graced his fingertips when he touched his shoulder. A bandage there, also. What had happened? The last thing he remembered was when Goku had cried out and then everything went black. The last thing he felt was a moisture from the ground, somewhere around his body (most likely blood) and the irritating feeling of gravel digging its way under his flesh.
The pain ebbed down gradually until it was barely there and the brunette took this opportunity to look around. "Is anybody here?"
He blinked. 'Hope they're all alright.'
It was then that he noticed that he had been placed in a tiny bed with light, thin covers, almost horrifyingly white. He reached forward and gathered the covers all up in his hands to push them to the sides, but only to find that there were bandages on two of his fingers, over the tips, on his left hand.
'What the--?'
A thud was heard outside his nearly closed door and a familiar sandy colour ran across the crack between the door and the wall. 'Was that Sanzo?'
He got up and folded the covers over the mattress neatly before exitting the room to find, indeed, it was the monk, hastely making his way somewhere.
"S... Sanzo?" Hakkai spoke up suddenly, causing the blond to stop abruptly and turn his head slightly. "What... happened?"
"If you mean about the fight...," Sanzo began, turning to face the healer, revealing that there was a rather unsightly, bloodstained bandage over his right cheek and eye, "I was going to see if Gojyo and Goku made it out."
"Oh... Um... Why is part of my hand bandaged? I noticed when I woke up," Hakkai explained as he held up the hand with the alabaster cloth over it.
"Well, from what the doctors say, you fell. And it obviously onto the ground. So much gravel under your fingernails caused them to pop right off."
"What?" Hakkai went wide - eyed. "So... I have two less fingernails now?"
"Tch." Sanzo shrugged and continued proceeding to where he had planned before he was interrupted.
* * *
Later...
* * *
The brunette sighed as he lay back down on his ice cold sheets on his bed later that night, his hands over his stomach and his eyes locked on the ceiling as he was immersed deep in thought. His mind wondered to placed it hadn't cared to peek into before and he realized that he and Gojyo did always find a way to be alone with each other for a private moment. He touched his lips with his fingertips. Gojyo's kiss was still felt there, even though he still had no clue as to where the half - breed was.
Hakkai sneezed.
The window was open, letting all of the chilling air into the room. He could have sworn that the route in which they were travelling was two different worlds at times. At night, it could get unbearably cold but in the day, it was so hot, dehydration was easy to come by. He got up and shut the window.
A knock came over his door.
"Who is it?" Hakkai asked politely.
"It's me," Sanzo answered from the other side of the barrier. "Look, I need to talk to you."
"Alright," Hakkai said and moved to open the door. "What is it, Sanzo?"
For the first time, the brunette saw a look of hesitation come over the monk's features and he began to worry even more than before. Something might have happened to Gojyo or Goku. Was that what this was all about? Indeed, Sanzo made it out alright and Hakkai was there, also, but they had both been fighting alongside another person. What if they didn't make it out?
"Look, they can't find Goku... or Gojyo."
"What?"
"It might be hard on you but they gave up all hope on finding them in this town."
The brunette's hands began to shake unbearably as he brought one over his mouth to somewhat muffle the wail that escaped his lips, "It can't be! We can't give up yet! They're valuable friends to us! We can't stop yet! We need them!"
"The rest of the townsfolk have already given up hope but we can still go out and look for them. We'll do that in the morning, when we have some light to look by." Sanzo retreated to his room then.
* * *
Morning didn't seem to come the next day, do to an unbearably dark and unsightly layer of overcast plaguing the sky. Although the sun tried its hardest to penetrate the clouds, they did not give way and the entire day seemed as if night had gone into overtime.
Sanzo was out looking up and down every street.
Hakkai was at the sight where he had last seen Goku before he had mysteriously blacked out. He was able to move more freely now that a majority of the wounds he had endured were healing up nicely, even though his hand still stung and the cut on his forehead still burned.
"Goku! Can you hear me?"
He checked every tiny spot he could, behind buildings, trash bins, crates, everything; but there was still no sign of the teenager... or the half - breed.
*End Chapter #11*
Author Notes:
[1] Ah, that was in FAKE. I love that anime... Ryo and Dee were out on the veranda and Dee's like, "Uh - oh... Shouldn't we drink to something?" If you can't get your hands on the DVD to watch (which you should), you should buy the manga, which TOKYOPOP is currently publishing.
[2] Magic Knight Rayearth! Hikaru is so cute! Incase you don't get what the adorable Hikaru thing is about, well, when she gets into her chibi (super deformity) mode, she gets little kitty features, like ears. Really, really cute.
Alright, I know that chapter really, really... REALLY stank. I know. I don't like it either. Actually, I don't even know why I'm doing this so... Oh, well. The second DVD of Gensomaden Saiyuki is now available in America. Best Buy sells it for $20.00.
See you in the next (and hopefully way better) chapter! Chapter #12!
Bye and remember to always watch your anime in Japanese!
-Ja!