Last chapter kinda sucked because I couldn't edit it to be a little neater.
I hope this chapter turns out a little better.
Enjoy! ===============================================================
500 years later.
Road dust kicked up and the sent of sakura blossoms lingered in the air. A traveler riding upon a green motor scooter neared the great city of Tokyo. The place where his instincts had lead him.
He wore a grey, faded t-shirt with a blue vest and worn-out blue jeans complete with ratty brown sneakers that held some indication that brown was not their original color.
He took off his helmet and riding goggles to reveal wild brown hair and a gold coronet. He took a good look at the city below.
Wide gold eyes surveyed the area. Taking in every detail. And finding the city safe enough, he quickly put his riding gear back on and started up the scooter.
As he neared the city, the familiar sounds of busy traffic and bustling residents filled his ears. He came across shrines on the way to the city entrance and admired how beautiful they were.
"Hakaryu...ya think this is it?" he asked.
The scooter made an awkward sound which caught the attention of some city residents.
"I hope it is..." ===============================================================
"GENJYO SANZO!" A beast of a man hollered at his late employee. "What have I told you about coming in late!? I thought we had a deal!"
"I'm here. That's all the deal was." Sanzo huffed.
"Listen kid. I'm only keeping you around here because your old man had me promise I wouldn't fire your ass like I should. So you better shape up!"
Sanzo rolled his eyes and began to tend to his normal duties in the bar.
"What's a smart kid like you not going to college for, eh? Your friends are getting masters degrees and such and what are you doin'? Cleaning puke of the booth seat cause some idiot drank too much."
Sanzo had about enough. "Will you just drop it Suchiro?"
Suchiro sighed and walked away.
'I've been waiting...for so long...I just want...'
There it was.
'I want...'
The voice that had called to him for quite some time now.
'I've....been waiting...so long.'
The voice never finished what it wanted. Maybe it didn't know?
Sanzo shook it off and returned to working. ===============================================================
The traveler and his pet dragon entered a bar. Both were silent.
A waitress saw the young man. "Hey! You can't be in here! We don't serve children!"
He hated that. Being called a child made him feel helpless at times. He threw a credit card down on the table and the waitress quickly re- considered.
"What would you like." She asked, cheerfully.
"Just a beer is fine, thank you."
She nodded and went off to fetch him one. She returned with a mug full of beer and placed it in front of him.
"So what's a cutie like you doing in these parts by your self?" she questioned.
"Just...looking for some people."
She smiled at him, and then noticed how incredibly thin he was.
"Why don't I fix you something to eat? You look like you haven't eaten in days."
The boy wondered if she knew how right she was. She got up and started to leave, but then turned around. "Hey, what's your name honey?"
"My name's...Goku...Son Goku." ===============================================================
Cho Hakkai ran down the hallway to his late night college class.
He was late...as usual. But that never stopped him from getting perfect scores on every test he took.
He wanted to work in the medical field because of his burning passion to help others.
Hakkai opened the door to his class room and took his seat near the door. They were already in an exam. Luckily, Hakkai had studied on the drive there.
He quickly skimmed through the exam with ease, smiling as he did so. This was his trade mark. Hakkai was known for having a good excuse to smile all the time, which made people either love him, or hate him.
An hour passed and he had finished. He passed his exam in and walked out the door.
"Hakkai!" he heard his name called and turned around.
Kanan laughed as she ran to him and flung her arms around his neck.
He laughed and lightly kissed her.
"How well did you do?" she questioned.
"I haven't gotten the results back, so I don't know yet." Hakkai said.
"How well did you think you did?"
He thought about it for a moment. "Great." He grinned.
Arm in arm, they exited the school and proceeded home. ===============================================================
Goku sat on a small bed, watching comedy central on an old remote-less TV.
The room he had been given was small and dirty, probably as a joke for the bar employees to laugh about.
It must've been a little awkward having a kid stay there.
The woman from the bar, who went by the name Otome, gave him dinner, and cleaned and stitched up his clothes for him. She also gave him new clothing to wear while his were being fixed up.
Goku patted Hakaryu on the head and the little dragon made a purring sound.
"I'm sorry I've been so hard on you Hakaryu...its just...I think this is it this time. I think this is where they are."
The dragon looked up at Goku with beady red eyes and mewed. ===============================================================
"What do we have here?" Sha Gojyo said as he removed a large rock for a car engine.
He brushed his long red hair back from his eyes and dug his hands into the car to stop an oil leek, which the rock had been preventing.
"Oh shit..." he sighed as he pulled his hands, now covered in a thick layer of oil, out of the engine.
"Well that sucks" he said and wiped his hands on a towel.
Gojyo had been working in the mechanics shop for as long as he could remember. His father showed him how to work on a car when he was about 7 years old. His old man, however, was killed by demons a few years back. Not that Gojyo really missed him anyway.
He took college night classes so he could continue his education and set up a bigger and better shop. Something his old man had never thought about doing.
Gojyo went into the office and sat down in a duct-taped piece-of-crap chair. He looked up at the ceiling with his hands behind his head, staring at nothing in particular.
Jien, Gojyo's older brother, hadn't showed up yet to the shop.
Knowing him...Gojyo wasn't expecting to see him anyway.
He sighed and looked at a photograph taped to the window of the office.
It was of him, Jien and his father the day that they opened the shop. That was probably one of the only happy memories he had of his father.
"I need a drink." He mumbled, and knew exactly where to go. ===============================================================
Goku woke up late that night and heard something outside.
He threw the sheets off him and got changed into his fixed up clothes.
Hakaryu blinked and flew sleepily onto Goku's shoulder and yawned. Goku opened the door and quietly went down the staircase.
He looked around to make sure no one saw him walk out the front door.
As he walked down the sidewalk he saw something run into an alley. He loaded an odd looking gun and followed it.
"You should get out of here Hakaryu; I'll call for you if I need you."
The little dragon mewed and flew off.
Goku snuck into the alley and looked around.
Nothing.
He was suddenly pushed up against the wall by a woman dressed in all black. Her face was hidden by a scarf.
"It's not safe to be out here all by yourself little boy." She hissed.
"I know." He smirked and kicked her in the gut.
She doubled over and he pointed the gun at her head.
"You!" she pointed. "You're that Son Goku kid I've heard about! The only survivor of the Sanzo party who hunts and kills his own kind!"
"Bingo." He leered.
She backed up and whistled. Two other male demons joined her side.
"You gotta call your dogs for help?" Goku mocked.
She growled and had the other two attack him.
Goku fought one of them off with the gun, shooting him in the head. But the other one knocked the gun out of his hand.
Goku summoned nyoibou and hit the demon in the gut. The boy quickly got the gun and shot at the demoness. Killing her.
He smirked as her body slowly disintegrated.
Goku put the gun in his back pocket and started to head to the inn, when he was tackled just as he was about to call Hakaryu.
The demon he had only hit with nyoibou was on top of him a slashing at his face. His claws scraped past one of his eyes and he yelped, flinging the demon across the alley.
Goku stood up cupping one hand over his eye. "You bastard." He said, taking the gun out of his pocket.
The demon took off, so Goku followed him. ===============================================================
Gojyo walked into the crowded bar and sat at his usual place in the back. He looked for a familiar face.
Just then, Hakkai walked in and spotted the red-head (Not that you couldn't with that hair color!). Hakkai smiled and sat down next to his friend.
"Sanzo off yet?" Hakkai asked.
"Nope, he's in back getting ready for last call."
Hakkai nodded.
The two ordered beers from the on-duty waitress.
"Hey guys!" a female voice called.
"Otome! What brings you here?" Hakkai asked.
"Just got off from work and I decided to see you guys." She turned and winked at Gojyo, who smirked in return.
"Anything interesting happen?" Hakkai questioned.
"Yes actually. This poor little kid came in asking for food and a room for the night. He was so cute I couldn't help but help him out."
"A kid? That's kinda weird." Gojyo said.
"He's sleeping back at the inn now." Otome smiled.
Sanzo walked over to the group.
"About time." Gojyo laughed.
Sanzo grumbled and ordered a drink.
"So tell us sunshine, anything new?" Otome prodded.
"No." Sanzo huffed.
"Ya know what your problem is Sanzo? You have nothing in your life you cherish. Maybe if you had something like that, you wouldn't be such a bastard." Gojyo informed.
"Then make this a little easier and tell me what's to cherish in my life." Sanzo snapped.
"No need to bite his head off Sanzo." Hakkai smiled.
Sanzo mumbled something and stood up. "I'm gonna go home. I'm tired."
"Alright, see ya later." Gojyo said.
Sanzo exited the bar. ===============================================================
Goku jumped into the air as the demon shot at him with a small 45 cal.
"You're no human. I can smell it." The demon hissed.
Goku glared.
"Why do you fight us? Your friends are dead and have been dead for 500 years. What do you still have to prove?"
Goku lowered the gun. "The fall of Gyumao didn't bring the demons back to their original selves. I made a promise to the merciful goddess that I would slay any demon who opposed a threat to man-kind. I have nothing to prove to myself...but I keep living so others can too. So I shoot down scum..." He pointed the gun "That means you."
The demon growled and charged at Goku.
The boy dodged him and elbowed him in the back of the head.
The demon charged again, this time grabbing Goku by the neck and pinning him down.
Goku hollered as sharp claws scratched at his chest.
The boy summoned nyoibou and stabbed the demon...over...and over again.
The demon fell on Goku and he pushed him off. Goku back away from the body and felt something on his hands.
He looked and saw a thick layer of blood dripping from his hands. Most of it, not his own.
He wanted to cry in terror at the sight of it. It had been 500 years since he had blood on his hands.
Goku stood up and yelped at the pain in his leg and chest.
He couldn't see well out of his right eye.
Goku staggered to the alley way entrance. ===============================================================
Sanzo lived about a half hour from the bar. He drove home.
He turned the music off and began to think about what Gojyo had said.
His thoughts turned to his family, who had been murdered by demons years ago. His heart had turned to stone that day.
Sure, he had friends who cared for him. And he would risk his life to save them. But it wasn't the same.
"What do I have to cherish?" He asked himself.
Suddenly, a kid staggered into the road and froze as he saw the car coming at him.
"HOLY SHIT!" Sanzo yelled and pounded the breaks.
He swerved to the left and grazed past the kid, causing the boy to topple backwards.
Sanzo stopped the car and first checked to make sure if he himself was ok. When he found no injuries on himself he looked outside in the now pouring rain.
There, he saw a child lying in a pool of blood.
Sanzo covered his face with his hand in shame. "Shit..." he murmured and got out of the car.
Sanzo turned the boy over on his back and examined him. He had brown hair with a gold coronet and he wore a navy t-shit which looked too big for him and blue jeans with ratty sneakers. Sanzo noticed the shirt was ripped open and he was bleeding pretty badly.
He picked the boy up and laid him in the back seat of the car. ===============================================================
Sanzo ran up the apartment steps carrying the injured boy. He opened his door and laid the boy on the couch.
He knew if he called the hospital they would question him. So he called the next best thing...
Hakkai.
He dialed Hakkai's number and hoped for him to be home. ===============================================================
Hakkai awoke to his phone ringing and picked up "Hello?" he said sleepily.
"Hakkai..."
"Sanzo? What are you doing calling this late?"
"Hakkai...I think you need to come over...quickly." ===============================================================
And there we go! Done with this chappie!
WOOT!
R&R!!!
Lirin-chan
I hope this chapter turns out a little better.
Enjoy! ===============================================================
500 years later.
Road dust kicked up and the sent of sakura blossoms lingered in the air. A traveler riding upon a green motor scooter neared the great city of Tokyo. The place where his instincts had lead him.
He wore a grey, faded t-shirt with a blue vest and worn-out blue jeans complete with ratty brown sneakers that held some indication that brown was not their original color.
He took off his helmet and riding goggles to reveal wild brown hair and a gold coronet. He took a good look at the city below.
Wide gold eyes surveyed the area. Taking in every detail. And finding the city safe enough, he quickly put his riding gear back on and started up the scooter.
As he neared the city, the familiar sounds of busy traffic and bustling residents filled his ears. He came across shrines on the way to the city entrance and admired how beautiful they were.
"Hakaryu...ya think this is it?" he asked.
The scooter made an awkward sound which caught the attention of some city residents.
"I hope it is..." ===============================================================
"GENJYO SANZO!" A beast of a man hollered at his late employee. "What have I told you about coming in late!? I thought we had a deal!"
"I'm here. That's all the deal was." Sanzo huffed.
"Listen kid. I'm only keeping you around here because your old man had me promise I wouldn't fire your ass like I should. So you better shape up!"
Sanzo rolled his eyes and began to tend to his normal duties in the bar.
"What's a smart kid like you not going to college for, eh? Your friends are getting masters degrees and such and what are you doin'? Cleaning puke of the booth seat cause some idiot drank too much."
Sanzo had about enough. "Will you just drop it Suchiro?"
Suchiro sighed and walked away.
'I've been waiting...for so long...I just want...'
There it was.
'I want...'
The voice that had called to him for quite some time now.
'I've....been waiting...so long.'
The voice never finished what it wanted. Maybe it didn't know?
Sanzo shook it off and returned to working. ===============================================================
The traveler and his pet dragon entered a bar. Both were silent.
A waitress saw the young man. "Hey! You can't be in here! We don't serve children!"
He hated that. Being called a child made him feel helpless at times. He threw a credit card down on the table and the waitress quickly re- considered.
"What would you like." She asked, cheerfully.
"Just a beer is fine, thank you."
She nodded and went off to fetch him one. She returned with a mug full of beer and placed it in front of him.
"So what's a cutie like you doing in these parts by your self?" she questioned.
"Just...looking for some people."
She smiled at him, and then noticed how incredibly thin he was.
"Why don't I fix you something to eat? You look like you haven't eaten in days."
The boy wondered if she knew how right she was. She got up and started to leave, but then turned around. "Hey, what's your name honey?"
"My name's...Goku...Son Goku." ===============================================================
Cho Hakkai ran down the hallway to his late night college class.
He was late...as usual. But that never stopped him from getting perfect scores on every test he took.
He wanted to work in the medical field because of his burning passion to help others.
Hakkai opened the door to his class room and took his seat near the door. They were already in an exam. Luckily, Hakkai had studied on the drive there.
He quickly skimmed through the exam with ease, smiling as he did so. This was his trade mark. Hakkai was known for having a good excuse to smile all the time, which made people either love him, or hate him.
An hour passed and he had finished. He passed his exam in and walked out the door.
"Hakkai!" he heard his name called and turned around.
Kanan laughed as she ran to him and flung her arms around his neck.
He laughed and lightly kissed her.
"How well did you do?" she questioned.
"I haven't gotten the results back, so I don't know yet." Hakkai said.
"How well did you think you did?"
He thought about it for a moment. "Great." He grinned.
Arm in arm, they exited the school and proceeded home. ===============================================================
Goku sat on a small bed, watching comedy central on an old remote-less TV.
The room he had been given was small and dirty, probably as a joke for the bar employees to laugh about.
It must've been a little awkward having a kid stay there.
The woman from the bar, who went by the name Otome, gave him dinner, and cleaned and stitched up his clothes for him. She also gave him new clothing to wear while his were being fixed up.
Goku patted Hakaryu on the head and the little dragon made a purring sound.
"I'm sorry I've been so hard on you Hakaryu...its just...I think this is it this time. I think this is where they are."
The dragon looked up at Goku with beady red eyes and mewed. ===============================================================
"What do we have here?" Sha Gojyo said as he removed a large rock for a car engine.
He brushed his long red hair back from his eyes and dug his hands into the car to stop an oil leek, which the rock had been preventing.
"Oh shit..." he sighed as he pulled his hands, now covered in a thick layer of oil, out of the engine.
"Well that sucks" he said and wiped his hands on a towel.
Gojyo had been working in the mechanics shop for as long as he could remember. His father showed him how to work on a car when he was about 7 years old. His old man, however, was killed by demons a few years back. Not that Gojyo really missed him anyway.
He took college night classes so he could continue his education and set up a bigger and better shop. Something his old man had never thought about doing.
Gojyo went into the office and sat down in a duct-taped piece-of-crap chair. He looked up at the ceiling with his hands behind his head, staring at nothing in particular.
Jien, Gojyo's older brother, hadn't showed up yet to the shop.
Knowing him...Gojyo wasn't expecting to see him anyway.
He sighed and looked at a photograph taped to the window of the office.
It was of him, Jien and his father the day that they opened the shop. That was probably one of the only happy memories he had of his father.
"I need a drink." He mumbled, and knew exactly where to go. ===============================================================
Goku woke up late that night and heard something outside.
He threw the sheets off him and got changed into his fixed up clothes.
Hakaryu blinked and flew sleepily onto Goku's shoulder and yawned. Goku opened the door and quietly went down the staircase.
He looked around to make sure no one saw him walk out the front door.
As he walked down the sidewalk he saw something run into an alley. He loaded an odd looking gun and followed it.
"You should get out of here Hakaryu; I'll call for you if I need you."
The little dragon mewed and flew off.
Goku snuck into the alley and looked around.
Nothing.
He was suddenly pushed up against the wall by a woman dressed in all black. Her face was hidden by a scarf.
"It's not safe to be out here all by yourself little boy." She hissed.
"I know." He smirked and kicked her in the gut.
She doubled over and he pointed the gun at her head.
"You!" she pointed. "You're that Son Goku kid I've heard about! The only survivor of the Sanzo party who hunts and kills his own kind!"
"Bingo." He leered.
She backed up and whistled. Two other male demons joined her side.
"You gotta call your dogs for help?" Goku mocked.
She growled and had the other two attack him.
Goku fought one of them off with the gun, shooting him in the head. But the other one knocked the gun out of his hand.
Goku summoned nyoibou and hit the demon in the gut. The boy quickly got the gun and shot at the demoness. Killing her.
He smirked as her body slowly disintegrated.
Goku put the gun in his back pocket and started to head to the inn, when he was tackled just as he was about to call Hakaryu.
The demon he had only hit with nyoibou was on top of him a slashing at his face. His claws scraped past one of his eyes and he yelped, flinging the demon across the alley.
Goku stood up cupping one hand over his eye. "You bastard." He said, taking the gun out of his pocket.
The demon took off, so Goku followed him. ===============================================================
Gojyo walked into the crowded bar and sat at his usual place in the back. He looked for a familiar face.
Just then, Hakkai walked in and spotted the red-head (Not that you couldn't with that hair color!). Hakkai smiled and sat down next to his friend.
"Sanzo off yet?" Hakkai asked.
"Nope, he's in back getting ready for last call."
Hakkai nodded.
The two ordered beers from the on-duty waitress.
"Hey guys!" a female voice called.
"Otome! What brings you here?" Hakkai asked.
"Just got off from work and I decided to see you guys." She turned and winked at Gojyo, who smirked in return.
"Anything interesting happen?" Hakkai questioned.
"Yes actually. This poor little kid came in asking for food and a room for the night. He was so cute I couldn't help but help him out."
"A kid? That's kinda weird." Gojyo said.
"He's sleeping back at the inn now." Otome smiled.
Sanzo walked over to the group.
"About time." Gojyo laughed.
Sanzo grumbled and ordered a drink.
"So tell us sunshine, anything new?" Otome prodded.
"No." Sanzo huffed.
"Ya know what your problem is Sanzo? You have nothing in your life you cherish. Maybe if you had something like that, you wouldn't be such a bastard." Gojyo informed.
"Then make this a little easier and tell me what's to cherish in my life." Sanzo snapped.
"No need to bite his head off Sanzo." Hakkai smiled.
Sanzo mumbled something and stood up. "I'm gonna go home. I'm tired."
"Alright, see ya later." Gojyo said.
Sanzo exited the bar. ===============================================================
Goku jumped into the air as the demon shot at him with a small 45 cal.
"You're no human. I can smell it." The demon hissed.
Goku glared.
"Why do you fight us? Your friends are dead and have been dead for 500 years. What do you still have to prove?"
Goku lowered the gun. "The fall of Gyumao didn't bring the demons back to their original selves. I made a promise to the merciful goddess that I would slay any demon who opposed a threat to man-kind. I have nothing to prove to myself...but I keep living so others can too. So I shoot down scum..." He pointed the gun "That means you."
The demon growled and charged at Goku.
The boy dodged him and elbowed him in the back of the head.
The demon charged again, this time grabbing Goku by the neck and pinning him down.
Goku hollered as sharp claws scratched at his chest.
The boy summoned nyoibou and stabbed the demon...over...and over again.
The demon fell on Goku and he pushed him off. Goku back away from the body and felt something on his hands.
He looked and saw a thick layer of blood dripping from his hands. Most of it, not his own.
He wanted to cry in terror at the sight of it. It had been 500 years since he had blood on his hands.
Goku stood up and yelped at the pain in his leg and chest.
He couldn't see well out of his right eye.
Goku staggered to the alley way entrance. ===============================================================
Sanzo lived about a half hour from the bar. He drove home.
He turned the music off and began to think about what Gojyo had said.
His thoughts turned to his family, who had been murdered by demons years ago. His heart had turned to stone that day.
Sure, he had friends who cared for him. And he would risk his life to save them. But it wasn't the same.
"What do I have to cherish?" He asked himself.
Suddenly, a kid staggered into the road and froze as he saw the car coming at him.
"HOLY SHIT!" Sanzo yelled and pounded the breaks.
He swerved to the left and grazed past the kid, causing the boy to topple backwards.
Sanzo stopped the car and first checked to make sure if he himself was ok. When he found no injuries on himself he looked outside in the now pouring rain.
There, he saw a child lying in a pool of blood.
Sanzo covered his face with his hand in shame. "Shit..." he murmured and got out of the car.
Sanzo turned the boy over on his back and examined him. He had brown hair with a gold coronet and he wore a navy t-shit which looked too big for him and blue jeans with ratty sneakers. Sanzo noticed the shirt was ripped open and he was bleeding pretty badly.
He picked the boy up and laid him in the back seat of the car. ===============================================================
Sanzo ran up the apartment steps carrying the injured boy. He opened his door and laid the boy on the couch.
He knew if he called the hospital they would question him. So he called the next best thing...
Hakkai.
He dialed Hakkai's number and hoped for him to be home. ===============================================================
Hakkai awoke to his phone ringing and picked up "Hello?" he said sleepily.
"Hakkai..."
"Sanzo? What are you doing calling this late?"
"Hakkai...I think you need to come over...quickly." ===============================================================
And there we go! Done with this chappie!
WOOT!
R&R!!!
Lirin-chan