By Onigiri Monster
Rating: PG
Some minor language and a few painful fan smacks to the head.
Disclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki... If I did, Goku would be miiiiiine... They all belong to Kazuya Minekura, except for my original characters, which are mine.
Summary: Somehow, the Sanzo-ikkou ends up at an anime convention called Otakon and Goku gets lost! How will the others find him with so many cosplayers running around? Extreme confusion and lots of Pocky!
A/N: For those who don't know, Otakon's an anime convention. About 15,000 people were there when I went. You know you can't have an anime convention without... COSPLAYERS!! Plus with that many people there, about half of them were yaoi fans cosplaying as their favorite yaoi couples with their bf/gf ... The scary thing: accidentally witnessing them in their "tender" moments... you know what I mean? shudders This is just a short, innocent story based on one of my own experiences. grins mischievously
Just a little warning: This story might seem like a shounen-ai, but technically it's not, just to let you know... I'm not a real big fan of yaoi or shounen-ai.
Prologue: How it BeganIt was a normal day, slowly turning to night as the sun began to set in front of the Sanzo-ikkou. It was still another day's drive to the next town so they had to settle for camping in the forest that night. Gojyo and Goku were doing their normal bickering while Sanzo sat by himself staring off to the West with his "To the West" expression. Hakkai had his usual "Hakkai smile" on his face and started to set up camp. Everything was going fine as usual, but something was about to happen that no one ever expected would ever happen.
Goku suddenly stopped his argument with Gojyo and glanced towards the trees.
"Hey, baka, what are you looking around for? Food?" Gojyo joked.
Goku didn't respond. He stood up slowly and walked towards the forest, looking around at every tree and bush carefully for few minutes. Everyone watched him, slightly confused at what he was doing looking around. None of them knew that someone was watching them in the deep darkness of the forest.
Sanzo glanced over at Goku, with a note of irritation in his voice. "Oi, Bakasaru. What are you doing? It's annoying me."
He didn't respond again and kept peeking around.
"Oi, did you hear what I said?" Sanzo asked again, now with that familiar vein throbbing under his left eye.
Goku finally began to walk back to the others, occasionally glancing back towards the trees and sat down. "I sense something here... and I think it's watching us." He said, with an unusual seriousness in his voice.
Everyone became silent and looked around cautiously for any sudden movement. Tension hung in the air with increasing velocity until finally, Hakkai spoke. The tension slowly subsided around them.
"Goku's right. There's something here. We should stay on guard, just in case its youkai." He cautioned. Goku kept glancing back into the forest as Hakkai got their dinner out and smoothly changed the subject. "Come, minna-san! Lets eat now."
Goku quickly forgot about the problem that was just discussed and hopped up and down in his seat with excitement. He was gleaming with joy, as dinner was his most favorite meal out his other 17 meals everyday.
"Yes! Time to eat!"
"Heh. Look how quickly the bakasaru forgets what he was just doing when there's food set in front of him." Gojyo teased but Goku didn't hear him because he was too busy thinking about...well...food.
"Food food food food food fo—!" Goku was abruptly cut off when Sanzo's fan came crashing down on his skull, letting the sound effect echo through the forest.
"OWWW!!!!! What was that for?!!" Goku complained clutching his head, now with a painful bump forming where the fan had made direct contact.
"For being too noisy. Now shut up and eat or I'll hit you even harder." Sanzo threatened as he began to eat as well.
Gojyo snickered. "Haha. Serves him right—"
The sound of the fan hitting against another head could be heard echoing loudly through the forest as a flock of birds flew out of the trees.
Gojyo caressed the new bump forming on his head, which was noticeably larger than Goku's.
"HEY!! What the hell was THAT for?!?!? I didn't do anything!!"
"Hn. I know. I just felt like hitting you." Sanzo replied nonchalantly.
He continued to eat like nothing happened. Gojyo was fuming with anger and his face started to turn red. Goku's shoulders shook with mirth, forgetting he was just hit too while Hakkai just...smiled.
"You..." Gojyo began but stopped suddenly.
A rustling sound could be heard coming from inside the forest to his left. Everyone tensed up and stared in that direction, not even blinking. Then a figure slowly approached them, its dark Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt and blue jeans camouflaging it in the darkness of the night, making it difficult to see the figure well. Its head hung low as it stopped walking all of a sudden. The figure stood in one spot, about 10 meters from where they were. Only the sound of the campfire crackling could be heard as the four men watched it intently, each of them equally confused and suspicious of the stranger. Sanzo didn't show it, though.
Finally, after what seemed to be about a minute, the silence was broken by an evil laughter coming from the figure. It wasn't just any evil laughter, but the kind of evil laughter that only fanfic authors can have when a new idea pops up in their mischievous little minds. (Right?? I'm not sure... I know I did...). Of course, they didn't know that it was that kind of evil because they didn't know that it even existed. Sanzo sensed the "I'm-Here-To-Torture-Everyone"-vibe radiating off of it and quickly drew his Smith & Wesson, clicking off the safety as he aimed the gun directly at its head.
"Who the hell are you and what do you want?" he asked threateningly, keeping it pointed at the figure as it began to walk towards them again. The other three took defensive stances, preparing for a battle.
It stopped laughing all of a sudden and slowly brought its head up to meet their gaze. Strangely enough, it was smiling at them.
"Hey! That's just a girl." Gojyo said and lowered his defense a bit. Hakkai and Goku took a closer look and, to their surprise, it was. She was about the age of 14, with dark hair down to her shoulders. (This isn't turning into a Mary Sue, I swear.) Hakkai and Goku lowered their defenses too, but Sanzo didn't move a muscle. He threw one of his famous Death Glares at the girl, causing her to briefly melt into a puddle of drool. She quickly restored herself back to normal and continued to smile.
"I don't care who you are." Sanzo growled, starting to get annoyed. "You still didn't answer my question."
There was silence again. A very long and uneasy silence that would've gave Goku enough time to gobble up 100 meat buns.
Finally, she spoke with and evil grin crossed on her face.
"Beware... the cosplayers..." she trailed off into evil laughter again.
Everyone's expression changed from suspicion to extreme confusion so fast you would've missed it if you blinked.
"What--?" They all started to say in unison, but were cut off in mid-sentence when all four men suddenly disappeared.
The Fanfic Author's laugh echoed through the empty forest as she, too disappeared with a snap of her fingers.
TBC
So... how was it??? O.O;; This is my first fic so it's probably not best thing you've ever read... I'll try my best to make it fairly good. The next chapter will be up sometime before September 7 because that's when school starts for me... bleh. Reviews would be much appreciated!! Thank you!!