Title: Born to Be My Baby

Author: ¤Sha¤GojyoxCho¤Hakkai¤

Date: Began March, 2003

Chapter: 13/?

Rating: Chapter 1 - 8 : PG - 13

Chapter 9 : R

Chapter 10 - 14 : PG - 13

Category: Romance, Angst, Language, Blood and the like

Main Pairing: Gojyo x Hakkai

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*)

*bashing self with frying pan* Grr.. I'm still angry with myself for waiting so long to put these chapters up... But what can I say? I've had a shitload of homework and everyone is saying that all that preparation shit for high school starts in eighth grade. *twitch twitch* They say they're preparing me for high school... My ass.

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Alright, enough blab, on with the show!!

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Chapter 14/?

"Well, here's your pay for the day, Sha," a middle - aged woman spoke from behind the counter as she handed the half - breed an elvelope that felt full to the brim of hard work.

"Thanks a bunch," Gojyo said as he opened the package and took a quick glance into it and with a smile of satusfaction at his earnings, he continued, "and I'll see you tomorrow, Mir."

"Sure thing! Hey, wait a minute, Gojyo."

"Hn?" The red - haired man turned around from inside of the doorway. "Yeah, what is it?"

"You showed up here pretty suddenly and you've got some work ethic," Mir explained, scratching the back of her head. "If you don't mind me asking, just what is it that you're planning on using that money for?"

"Aah, it's something for... someone special to me," Gojyo stated, beaming as he placed the envelope of his day's earnings snugly into his pant pocket.

"Do tell."

"Well, I can't tell you exactly what I'm getting, but... Tch, nevermind." The demon smirked. "See you later."

"'Kay, then." Mir rose her hand to wave as Gojyo stepped out into the deep night with a heavy sigh and warm smile.

"Alright," the half - breed whispered to himself softly. "Yatou's Dinner Serve at eight. It's... about nine. That means work at Reshitsu's Bar."

* * *

Hakkai...

'Nn? What? I... I can't feel my body.'

Hakkai...!

'Who's calling my name? Their voice is so harsh.'

Wake up, Hakkai...

'Stop calling me. You sound angry and I'm not in the mood to deal.'

Wake up or I'll call you by your other name...

'My what!?' Hakkai's eyes shot open to a view of the hotel ceiling, the same as when he had fallen asleep in the first place. 'But... Who was calling me just now?'

"So... You're finally awake."

"Who...," the brunette turned his head to the side, where the currently unknown person had sat. The man by his bedside let out a snicker that rang through his throat and transformed into a toothy grin. "You... What are you doing here!?" Hakkai's entire body began to shake, and he wanted to move; he wanted to stand and beat the other man senseless; but he couldn't feel anything at the moment. If he could have, he knew that his hands would have become fists and they would tremble with an anger so intense, the burning of the brightest star would not compare to the rage that would flare within.

"Aw, you sound so disappointed to see me."

"What...the... FUCK are you doing here!?"

"I've heard that tone before...," the youkai chuckled with an obscene smirk accented by the disturbingly sensual lick of his lips. "I've been looking for you."

"I... killed you," Hakkai spoke in trembling words as his pupils became smaller as realization set in. "I killed you... twice before."

"Silly."

"Shut up...," he murmured as he tried to close his eyes. Now his entire body was paralyzed. 'Shut up...'

"I only came back..."

'Shut up.'

"... Because I love you."

The green - eyed human turned youkai's eyes would not shut, yet he felt his sight slowly drifting away from him as the scenery continued to darken and fade into a nonexistant world. But the image of that demon would not fade; it refused to leave his mind. The trauma was unbelievable. Hakkai felt wave after wave of nausia wash over him from his head to his feet in trembling breaks. 'No! Your's is not love!'

Suddenly the able one reached forward with a clawed hand and placed two fingers over Hakkai's eyes, one over each. His other hand secretly wove it's way around to Hakkai's left ear where his earcuffs resided and ran a fingernail over them. He smirked and opened his mouth to say something but he stopped himself as if he knew what was coming next:

"Hakkai!!" A desperately familiar tone rang through the room as Gojyo burst through the door, breaking the lock by use of his elbow and a good running start. "By the Gods...," he murmured in horror once he saw just who it was that had binded Hakkai to the bed and was sitting at his bedside.

"How unpleasant...," the demon spoke as he stood and faced Hakkai completely. "You would not want to miss this, now would you?"

'What is he talking about?'

The healer's body began to move without his consent as he stood up and next to the other demon.

A horrifying cackle trailed behind the other as he approached Gojyo and as the gambler lunged forward to deliver a worthy punch to the other's jaw, his choked scream of pain echoed through Hakkai's mind like a rock's drop down a canyon.

When Hakkai's thoughts yielded to his sight, he began to see just what had happened. Gojyo had been impaled through his chest by the other youkai. Blood poured over the floor, spreading across the wooden surface with a sickening splash.

"Isn't this it?" he snickered. "Isn't this how you killed me the last time?"

"G...Gojyo..."

The crimson that emitted from the half-breed's body was more crimson than any other blood he had seen. More scarlet red than any of the other youkai's blood that he had slain those few years back. Redder than his hair and redder than his eyes, which were slowly losing their fire as his mouth formed his last words:

"Hakkai... Baby... "

"My word," the taller one remarked. "Wouldn't this blood look lovely covering you... Cho Gonou?"

"Chin Iisou!"

The healer's eyes flashed open with the speed of a hummingbirds wings, his pupils dialating and his breathing coming in more heaving gasps than ever felt before in any battle or other nightmare. Horrifying shock was still filtering out of his body in the form of sweat as his focus blurred and resharpened repeatedly. Impossible.

"A... dream. Oh, thank the Gods it was all just a dream"

A stinging, gashing feeling became urgently present on his cheek near his left ear. It felt similar to a paper cut but triply deeper and whatever made the incision was still embedded into his cheek. He reached up with trembling fingers to retrieve a single thread like material, which he held out in front of him for further examination, upon which he realized that it was no thread, but a hair. A single lake-blue hair.

He choked at the smell of blood that suddenly filled his lungs as he lunged forward into a poor-postured sitting position.

"This punishment is so... repellent."

Gentle thuds could be heard outside of the healer's room as his attention became focused on the mahogany door across from his bed. But the brunette's muscles never bothered to tighten when the other youkai stepped into the room, after the craking door was sent ajar about half way; nor did his attention fully focus on said youkai when he murmured his name in a manner of worry and exhaustion.

"Hakkai?" Goku inquired, rubbing his eye with one hand, a blanket clenched in his other, neverminding the fact that he had been dragging it across the dusty wooden floor the entire time: the exact image of a child when he woke from his sleep in need of a cold glass of water.

"Hm?"

"What's wrong?"

"What do you mean, Goku?" the healer querried through falsly beaming lips. "And what are you doing up in the middle of the night?"

"I woke up 'cause I heard you screaming in your sleep, like someone was hurting you."

"Oh, it was just a nightmare is all," he replied, waving it off as if it were nothing, when, infact, he knew that it was one of the most disturbing dreams that he had ever had. "Go back to bed, Goku. We should be heading out to the next town tomorrow..." He nearly trailed off on that mentioning, seeing as he had not seen Gojyo for quite a while, and he hoped that he would be able to see him before then.

"Alright," Goku sighed tiredly as he walked toward the door. "'Night, Hakkai."

"Good night."

***

About two hours passed and Hakkai felt no sleep come to him as he still lay awake in his bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, almost afraid to fall back asleep due to the dream that he had had just a few hours ago. He sighed to himself as he forced himself up and over to the window to open it, and did successfully after a small struggle with the window lock. Pushing half of his body out of the window and turning his head both ways to expect the dimly lit streets of the now tranquil town, he found nothing on the move accept for the occasional cloud of dust that the wind kicked up, nonchalantly pushing it down the road until the breezes died.

The green - eyed demon blinked hard as he felt the exhaustion and need for sleep take over his body and he muffled a yawn with one of his hands as he folded his arms and placed them on the windowsill, laying his head over his arms and simply staring blankly at the uninterestingly homely roads. His eyelids felt as if they were continuously gaining more and more weight as he finally let his eyes drift shut.

Due to his nervous and unsettled state, he finally fell into a deeper state of slumber a little over an hour later, still leaning on the windowsill; yet he could still hear the howling of the gales outside and the seldom rustle of some animal in the streets, most likely a stray cat or dog.

Hakkai sighed and felt himself ultimately begin to fall into actual, dreaming sleep, but not before hearing the steady grinding of gravel outside, somewhere supposedly right under where he was, one floor lower.

"Wh...What? Who else could be up at this hour?" the brunette whispered to himself as he rubbed his eyes quickly before looking out the window once again. But the only sight that he saw when he lunged almost half-way out of the window was a gentle stay of long dark hair before the person outside entered the hotel; his hotel.

"Who...?"

*End Chapter #14*

Author Notes:

None... Geh. I can't believe how lazy I am. Well, here are the chapters I was hoping to put up earlier. Yeah, now it's New Year's Eve and on the brink of 2004. I'm stuck at home baby-sitting my brother while my parents go out to a party with their friends. *sniffle* Well, this is free time, isn't it? I just didn't feel very happy when writing this chapter, so it's... unhappy and short.

Hopefully, I will be able to write more, and update more chapters, soon, along with editting the chapters, 'cause, jeezus, i need to. And if I don't put more chapters up when school starts back up (since I'm on winter break now), then I'll definetly have time to when I get out on summer break, seeing as that's the time when I really had time to get the first ten chapters up here.

Happy Holidays, along with a Happy New Year!

-Ja ne!