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This one's in Goku POV....sorta

I've been running in this down pour for god knows how long.

I keep having to remind myself that I can't go back.

My legs ache and my chest feels like it's on fire.

I stop in a clearing and drop to my knees.

I look up into the weeping sky. I curse under my breath.

The earth pities me.

Now that I'm alone, I can try to figure out what's happening to me.

For hours, I have had the lusting desire for blood.

I picture the crimson liquid on my hands. But to no avail...I still want it.

Thoughts of my friends. Hakkai, Gojyo...Sanzo. I can see them.

Dead.

I try to wipe the image from my head. But it returns every time.

Sanzo is looking right at me every time. His eyes are lifeless.

He just stares.

My mentor...my savior...my sun. The one who saved my from my dark prison.

He's covered in blood as he lies there dead.

I want him to stop looking at me. With those eyes.

I can smell the blood that flows from others around me.

I can even taste it.

I recognize no one but my three companions.

Bodies lie dead as far as I can see.

All of them staring at me with dead eyes. As if asking..."Why?"

The thought of this senseless act makes the desire burn even more.

I pick myself up off the ground and run as fast as I could. Not caring who or what I would run into.

I trip over a tree root and begin to fall.

My shoulder is stabbed by something sharp. I look down and see a broken blade sticking half way out of the ground and now stuck in my shoulder.

I wince in pain and pulled the blade out.

I look around and see what used to be a camp site.

The tents had huge holes ripped in them. Weapons were scattered everywhere.

My stomach growled and I began to search the site for any remaining food.

No luck.

The rain beats down harder as I lie down on a ripped up sleeping mat. I pull the blanket around me and a funny smell appears.

I turn around onto my back to be staring at a faceless corpse. I scream in horror as I jump back onto another corpse. This one, however, had a face...but no arms or legs.

I stand there looking at the bodies. All of them were human.

"Demons..." I whisper.

Just like in the images...they all stare. Even the faceless one seems to be looking right at me.

"Stop..." I say. "It's not my fault. Please just stop!"

My cries are not heard by the dead...but then again...the dead probably wouldn't listen anyway.

"If I had known...I would have tried to save you."

I can suddenly picture Sanzo among them. He stares.

"Don't look at me!" I begin to wail.

I grab the body by the collar and begin the shake it. "I'm not like them! I don't kill humans! I'm not like THEM!!!"

My sobbing can't be heard over the thunder.

My cries can never be heard. Even from that dark mountain prison.

I was silent to the gods.

"You can't blame me!" I cry out and start to beat the already mutilated corpse.

My claws dig into it's chest and cold blood spills on the ground and covers my hands.

I regain my senses and fall to the ground. My shoulder throbs, but I don't care.

All I can do is stare at my hands.

The dark liquid drips from them and lands on my lap.

I crawled as far away from the camp site as possible. I want so badly to sleep.

My knees give out and I'm forced down by my own weight.

"Just sleep...for a few minutes..." I choke.

I close my eyes...and give in.

End POV
"What the hell?" a demon with black hair looked upon the body of a young boy.

"Is he dead?" asked another with red hair.

The black haired one turned the boy onto his back. "Nope...still breathing."

"Wonder what he's doing way out here all alone."

"I say we eat him...I haven't munched on human in a while." The black haired demon smirked.

The red haired one studied the boy. "That's not a human. He's wearing a power limiter." He pointed to the gold coronet on the boys head.

"Hey...one of the Sanzo-party wear's one of these. This ain't any regular demon...this is Son Goku." The black haired one grinned.

"What's he doing all alone out here? Shouldn't the others be around?"

The black haired one eyed the boy. "I thought these power limiters were supposed to make demons look like humans."

"They are."

"Look."

They looked at Goku's demon ears, teeth, claws and tail.

"Maybe...it needs new batteries?" The red head suggested.

"Don't be stupid. If we hand this kid over to That Bounty Hunter we ran into...We might get rewarded!!!" He laughed.

"Hey, that sounds like a plan!"

Suddenly, the two demons' heads were slammed together and they fell to the ground unconscious.

A figure stood behind them, smiling.

She looked down at Goku.

"Uh-oh" she said.
Hakkai awoke to the sun shinning right in his eyes.

He yawned and sat up, quietly, so not to wake Gojyo, who was calling his pillow some female name.

Hakkai couldn't help but laugh.

He climbed out of bed and walked into Sanzo's room.

"Hey Goku, would you like to help me with break—"

He looked around the room.

Sanzo was there...but no Goku.

'Maybe...maybe he went downstairs.' Hakkai told himself.

He ran down the flight of stairs and searched the main entrance.

No Goku.

"Miss, did you happen to see a young man wandering around here?" Hakkai asked, with some hope left.

"I'm sorry sir...I haven't seen the boy since the night that bounty hunter attacked."

Hakkai's hope faded completely. What was he to tell the others?

He walked back upstairs in a defeated-like way and went back into his room, where Gojyo had just woken up.

Gojyo noticed the sad look in Hakkai's eyes. "What's got you so down?"

Hakkai kept his face hidden. "It's Goku..."

"Why? Something wrong with him?"

"Goku's gone Gojyo."

"What do you mean 'gone'?"

"He's just gone Gojyo...he must've left last night."

"What!? That idiot couldn't live a day out there alone!"

Hakkai looked up. "Gojyo...what do we tell Sanzo when he wakes up?"

Gojyo couldn't think of anything. "Tell 'im the truth I guess."

They thought about it for a minute. And finding no other solution...

Agreed.
I woke to the smell of something cooking. My stomach growled as I turned onto my back.

I yawned and tried to figure out my surroundings.

I was in a small cave and I was wrapped in a blanket.

My shirt and cape were hanging outside on a tree to dry and my shoulder was wrapped in bandages.

I searched the cave. I seemed to be alone.

"Goooooood morning!" A female voice chirped.

I looked up to be face to face with Lirin.

"It's about time you woke up sleepy head." She laughed.

I felt sort of embarrassed...considering the fact she was the one who took my shirt off me.

"It's just a little past noon. You're just in time for lunch."

My eyes brightened. I was starving!

She saw this and giggled.

I looked to the direction of the heavenly smell and saw two chickens roasting over a fire.

"There's a farm near by...and I could hear your stomach growling all last night." She smiled.

She was here all last night!? It shocked me that she had stayed the whole time and risked getting in trouble by Kougaiji. Or worse...Gyoukumen.

"How did we get here?" I asked.

"We flew."

I was a bit confused.

"By dragon." She finished.

"Oh."

She came a little closer to me and sat down.

"I'll have to make some more medicine for you later."

"Medicine?" I asked.

"Yeah. That big cut on your shoulder needs a little more. It might start hurting again."

"Oh, well, it feels fine. Thank you."

"Okay...but if it starts hurting just tell me." She smiled.

I nodded.

I couldn't help wonder why she took care of me. We were enemies. Why was she doing this?

"Hey Goku?" she looked at me with a more serious expression now.

"Yeah?"

"Is your power limiter broken?"

"No...it isn't."

"Then what's going on with your ears and stuff?"

I looked down at the ground. "I...I don't know."

She didn't say anything, so I assumed she had no idea either.

"Maybe it'll go away." She suggested.

"Maybe..." I brought my knees under my chin and wrapped my arms around them.

I closed my eyes. I was again caught in my own misery.

I then felt Lirin's arms wrap around me. My whole face went red and I couldn't move.

'What the hell?' I thought.

"It's ok..." She whispered. "I'll take care of you."
OOOOOOK!!!!

I'm finally done with this chapter (Sorry it took so long to post up)

Hope you liked!

Lirin-Chan.