Summary: {{Chapter 5!}}The story of Noroi Taihen, Izumi's grandmother.
Goy/Oc.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gensomaden Saiyuki. I wish but I don't. I only claim the plot line and the characters that do not appear in the Anime or manga of this. Origato.
May contain: offensive language, violence, and murders.
Does contain: odd characters and sequences.
Rated: R for excessive violence, bad language, romance, and weird people. I mean really really weird people. People you do not want to meet in a dark alley. I mean seriously. These people will kill you at the drop of a hat!
AN: Alright.....Wait a second....Does anyone even read these? I do....but that doesn't say much for the rest of the world.....Hey yo! If you are just starting to read this from this chapter: YOU SUCK!! YOU SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK! YOU TURD! Thank you Mrs. Keuhl for letting me borrow that line. I love that woman....She has got to be the world's greatest math teacher. She keeps me, the math idiot, awake! Enough praise of the math teacher! As you can see, I have writer's block, so I'm stalling with the history of this stupid girl's family.......What does this tell you? Hotaru: Healing Tahi: Nickname for Taihen Taihen: Terrible Noroi: Spell Totoro: this cat thing I saw in this movie...can't remember the name....Castle in the Sky maybe?
Chapter 5:
In the Case of Noroi Taihen
"Grandmother! Come on! If we don't hurry, Da's going to eat all the food!" A little red haired girl raced up the cliffs of her ancestral home, Yume- sato. You would never know she was blind from the way she carried herself.
"My goodness child! If a fool told me that your father had eaten me out of house and home, I would have to believe him. Wait for the old biddy Tahi."
"Yes Grandmother. Can we at least get there before he starts eating the door?" Tahi bounced around in one spot, the picture of childish impatience.
"We'll get there before he starts eating the windows! I put to much money in that house for him to eat it! Tell you what; we'll do a little practice." The old woman dropped her heavy satchel. "Let's see how good you are at this."
Tahi sat on a nearby rock. "Good at what Grandmother?"
The old woman cackled. "Foraging for your own food."
Tahi opened her mouth up wide. "Foraging for my own food.......From anywhere?"
The old woman pulled out a pipe. "Not necessarily. You will have the limits I had when I did this. Whatever a bandit does, you do. Keep in mind all the things I have taught you. Only steal from those who have more than what they need."
Tahi nodded. "Keep to the code. There are no real rules." The girl sat up and bowed. "I'll see you in three weeks Grandmother."
The old woman smiled. "Such a fighter. Be gone pestilence!"
Tahi scrambled away, a new purpose in her small mind.
"I wonder if she will last?" The old woman dusted off her satchel. "But then....we are all blind aren't we Kanzeon?"
The goddess shrugged. "I have nothing to do with it old biddy."
"Damn right I'm an old biddy. How long have I been alive? Two, three hundred years?"
"Try five hundred. So....do you still have Kyofu?"
"Of course. What kind of a warrior would I be without a weapon?"
The goddess laughed. "Oh you are a fascinating one Yuki Hotaru. You are a fascinating one. I'll keep watch on the girl. Make sure she doesn't die."
The old woman sighed and eased herself off the ground. "Whatever you say Kanzeon. Whatever you say."
"You should learn to trust me Hotaru. You aren't going to find eternal peace in Heaven you know unless someone vouches for you."
"Bah. I have five hundred years worth of mothering and good living in me. I wish you would tell me what happened to that man?"
"He....slipped.....on glass."
"Real convincing lie Kanzeon. I'm off to take care of some things."
The goddess shrugged. "Real convincing lie Hotaru....real convincing."
---------Three weeks later -----------Heaven
"What do you mean you CAN'T FIND HER?!?!?!?" Kanzeon sat up in her throne and grabbed her minion.
"We just can't find her....it's like someone is hiding her..."
"Obviously! FIND HER!" Kanzeon throttled her minion's throat.
"I...would......if you....would....let....me.........go....."
"Of course." The goddess threw her minion away from her. "Go!"
"I'm going!"
-----------Earth
"Mmmfghyt!" Tahi managed to mumble out of her tight gag.
"What did you say lovely?" A young man cut her gag with his long sharp knife.
"I said: I need to utilize the facilities!" The girl bit the knife and shook it from side to side.
"Bandits don't get to use the bloody tree!" Another young man lugged heavy logs around, his arms bulging out with the effort.
"Now come on Momiji! It's just a bloody kid!" A third young man roasted a pig on a spit.
"I don't care Totoro!" Momiji took up his own catch and skinned it. "Rabbit anyone?"
Totoro threw a piece of kindling at Momiji. "What's wrong with the bloody pig?"
Tahi grimaced. "I wouldn't eat those roasted if I were you."
"And why not little bandit girl?" The first young man flicked his knife in front of her face, waiting for a reaction.
"Because the pigs around here have a tendency of being a big attraction for bigger pigs."
"That's not much of a bloody answer." He hand signaled the other two to get out the bows.
Momiji grunted. "Why are we trusting this bloody brat?"
Tahi started laughing. "Bows aren't much good. What you want is a spear. A really long spear!"
"Very funny girl. What's your name?"
"Tahi."
"What's it short for or I pluck your bloody eye out."
Tahi started laughing again. "It won't matter! I'm already blind!"
Momiji stood up. "That's just plain unnatural!"
Totoro grinned. "I say we keep her for her own good. Chivalry and what not. What do you say Captain?"
The first young man grinned. "I'm only a Corporal. But I vote we keep her."
"I'm glad you have such a lovely democratic association here." Tahi remarked dryly from her hollow.
"Lovely....Tahi was it? We are keeping you so you don't hurt yourself." Corporal remarked in a cheery voice.
"Great. Now go tell Grandmother of your decision."
"There are bloody more of you?" Momiji sat up, his sword in one hand.
Totoro stabbed the pig with his pocket knife. "Why is this bloody pig green?"
Tahi jumped up. "Damn! Clapper pig! Douse it!"
Totoro complied, watching his dinner shrivel away into a pile of dust. "Well....that's peculiar..."
Tahi sat back down. "Stab the rabbit."
Momiji shot the rabbit with an arrow. "Red!"
"Edible for human consumption."
"Three cheers for the culinary genius! Hip hip!"
"Hooray!" The other two men raised their beer mugs.
"Hip hip!"
"Hooray!"
"Hip hip!"
"Hooray!"
"I'm starving! Pass the hind leg please."
"Right or left good chap?"
"It's all the same to me!"
The Corporal shook his head as he watched his prisoner. She appeared to be munching on some plant... "What the devil are you eating Tahi?"
Tahi smiled. "Peppermint."
"Where the devil did you find that bloody wonder?" Momiji sat there chewing his rabbit hind leg.
"My garden."
"Oh she has a bloody garden. Ain't it lovely chaps?"
"Just lovely."
"I say chap, pass the butter an' bread?" Totoro reached for the pack behind the Corporal.
"I do say chap, if you stare at the lass long enough she might turn green!"
"What a horrible thing for my complexion. Pass the honey please?"
"Of course my good lady! Here you are now!"
The Corporal shook his head. This is what happens when the British get lost. They have a bloody picnic.
----------Four years later
"Grandmother? I'm home." A young woman opened her grandmother's door only to be whacked by a frying pan.
"FOUR YEARS! NO CARDS...NO MESSAGES! HELL not even a pigeon!"
"I'm sorry Grandmother!"
"Tahi! I should kill you for that....but I'm so happy to see you....."
"I know Grandmother. Good news!"
"What?"
"I'm pregnant!"
"YOU'RE WHAT?!?!?!?!?!"
"Pregnant."
"Do I know the father? Please tell me I know the father..."
"No. He's British."
"I'm going to kill the British....."
"But the British are really a good thing...."
"Shut up."
"Yes Grandmother."
"Tahi....what have I told you about sleeping with strange men?"
"Corporal isn't strange. He's just underestimated."
The old woman thwacked her. "Oh do shut up. When is it due?"
"Two days give or take. Totoro is really a great medic."
"So is it a bastard?"
"No! Legal by terms of the British."
"How quaint."
------Three months later.
"What the hell do you mean she's dead? I let you British blockheads take my granddaughter out for patrol and you kill her?!?!?!?!"
"Sorry m'am. Not like we had anything to do with it. Corporal's dead too!"
"You killed my granddaughter!"
The baby whined in the corner.
"Oh do be quiet Mischa."
AN: Man this is a crappy chapter. Oh well. Not much you can do when you're stalling for time. All right. I have to go write the continuing saga of what the hell Goyjo officially is now. There was a purpose in me writing all this stuff. The points: All of Izumi's female relatives except Hotaru die soon after delivering their child. These children are always female, blind, blue eyes, and red haired. The chapter about Kijin-Hakai Yume was actually supposed to tell you something important about the plot line. Right. That's all I have to say for now. I'm working on Chapter 6. I swear it's not a history. I swear! It actually picks up where Chapter 2 left off. Leaving you, AsianOrange, not yelling at me over my stalling maneuvers.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gensomaden Saiyuki. I wish but I don't. I only claim the plot line and the characters that do not appear in the Anime or manga of this. Origato.
May contain: offensive language, violence, and murders.
Does contain: odd characters and sequences.
Rated: R for excessive violence, bad language, romance, and weird people. I mean really really weird people. People you do not want to meet in a dark alley. I mean seriously. These people will kill you at the drop of a hat!
AN: Alright.....Wait a second....Does anyone even read these? I do....but that doesn't say much for the rest of the world.....Hey yo! If you are just starting to read this from this chapter: YOU SUCK!! YOU SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK! YOU TURD! Thank you Mrs. Keuhl for letting me borrow that line. I love that woman....She has got to be the world's greatest math teacher. She keeps me, the math idiot, awake! Enough praise of the math teacher! As you can see, I have writer's block, so I'm stalling with the history of this stupid girl's family.......What does this tell you? Hotaru: Healing Tahi: Nickname for Taihen Taihen: Terrible Noroi: Spell Totoro: this cat thing I saw in this movie...can't remember the name....Castle in the Sky maybe?
Chapter 5:
In the Case of Noroi Taihen
"Grandmother! Come on! If we don't hurry, Da's going to eat all the food!" A little red haired girl raced up the cliffs of her ancestral home, Yume- sato. You would never know she was blind from the way she carried herself.
"My goodness child! If a fool told me that your father had eaten me out of house and home, I would have to believe him. Wait for the old biddy Tahi."
"Yes Grandmother. Can we at least get there before he starts eating the door?" Tahi bounced around in one spot, the picture of childish impatience.
"We'll get there before he starts eating the windows! I put to much money in that house for him to eat it! Tell you what; we'll do a little practice." The old woman dropped her heavy satchel. "Let's see how good you are at this."
Tahi sat on a nearby rock. "Good at what Grandmother?"
The old woman cackled. "Foraging for your own food."
Tahi opened her mouth up wide. "Foraging for my own food.......From anywhere?"
The old woman pulled out a pipe. "Not necessarily. You will have the limits I had when I did this. Whatever a bandit does, you do. Keep in mind all the things I have taught you. Only steal from those who have more than what they need."
Tahi nodded. "Keep to the code. There are no real rules." The girl sat up and bowed. "I'll see you in three weeks Grandmother."
The old woman smiled. "Such a fighter. Be gone pestilence!"
Tahi scrambled away, a new purpose in her small mind.
"I wonder if she will last?" The old woman dusted off her satchel. "But then....we are all blind aren't we Kanzeon?"
The goddess shrugged. "I have nothing to do with it old biddy."
"Damn right I'm an old biddy. How long have I been alive? Two, three hundred years?"
"Try five hundred. So....do you still have Kyofu?"
"Of course. What kind of a warrior would I be without a weapon?"
The goddess laughed. "Oh you are a fascinating one Yuki Hotaru. You are a fascinating one. I'll keep watch on the girl. Make sure she doesn't die."
The old woman sighed and eased herself off the ground. "Whatever you say Kanzeon. Whatever you say."
"You should learn to trust me Hotaru. You aren't going to find eternal peace in Heaven you know unless someone vouches for you."
"Bah. I have five hundred years worth of mothering and good living in me. I wish you would tell me what happened to that man?"
"He....slipped.....on glass."
"Real convincing lie Kanzeon. I'm off to take care of some things."
The goddess shrugged. "Real convincing lie Hotaru....real convincing."
---------Three weeks later -----------Heaven
"What do you mean you CAN'T FIND HER?!?!?!?" Kanzeon sat up in her throne and grabbed her minion.
"We just can't find her....it's like someone is hiding her..."
"Obviously! FIND HER!" Kanzeon throttled her minion's throat.
"I...would......if you....would....let....me.........go....."
"Of course." The goddess threw her minion away from her. "Go!"
"I'm going!"
-----------Earth
"Mmmfghyt!" Tahi managed to mumble out of her tight gag.
"What did you say lovely?" A young man cut her gag with his long sharp knife.
"I said: I need to utilize the facilities!" The girl bit the knife and shook it from side to side.
"Bandits don't get to use the bloody tree!" Another young man lugged heavy logs around, his arms bulging out with the effort.
"Now come on Momiji! It's just a bloody kid!" A third young man roasted a pig on a spit.
"I don't care Totoro!" Momiji took up his own catch and skinned it. "Rabbit anyone?"
Totoro threw a piece of kindling at Momiji. "What's wrong with the bloody pig?"
Tahi grimaced. "I wouldn't eat those roasted if I were you."
"And why not little bandit girl?" The first young man flicked his knife in front of her face, waiting for a reaction.
"Because the pigs around here have a tendency of being a big attraction for bigger pigs."
"That's not much of a bloody answer." He hand signaled the other two to get out the bows.
Momiji grunted. "Why are we trusting this bloody brat?"
Tahi started laughing. "Bows aren't much good. What you want is a spear. A really long spear!"
"Very funny girl. What's your name?"
"Tahi."
"What's it short for or I pluck your bloody eye out."
Tahi started laughing again. "It won't matter! I'm already blind!"
Momiji stood up. "That's just plain unnatural!"
Totoro grinned. "I say we keep her for her own good. Chivalry and what not. What do you say Captain?"
The first young man grinned. "I'm only a Corporal. But I vote we keep her."
"I'm glad you have such a lovely democratic association here." Tahi remarked dryly from her hollow.
"Lovely....Tahi was it? We are keeping you so you don't hurt yourself." Corporal remarked in a cheery voice.
"Great. Now go tell Grandmother of your decision."
"There are bloody more of you?" Momiji sat up, his sword in one hand.
Totoro stabbed the pig with his pocket knife. "Why is this bloody pig green?"
Tahi jumped up. "Damn! Clapper pig! Douse it!"
Totoro complied, watching his dinner shrivel away into a pile of dust. "Well....that's peculiar..."
Tahi sat back down. "Stab the rabbit."
Momiji shot the rabbit with an arrow. "Red!"
"Edible for human consumption."
"Three cheers for the culinary genius! Hip hip!"
"Hooray!" The other two men raised their beer mugs.
"Hip hip!"
"Hooray!"
"Hip hip!"
"Hooray!"
"I'm starving! Pass the hind leg please."
"Right or left good chap?"
"It's all the same to me!"
The Corporal shook his head as he watched his prisoner. She appeared to be munching on some plant... "What the devil are you eating Tahi?"
Tahi smiled. "Peppermint."
"Where the devil did you find that bloody wonder?" Momiji sat there chewing his rabbit hind leg.
"My garden."
"Oh she has a bloody garden. Ain't it lovely chaps?"
"Just lovely."
"I say chap, pass the butter an' bread?" Totoro reached for the pack behind the Corporal.
"I do say chap, if you stare at the lass long enough she might turn green!"
"What a horrible thing for my complexion. Pass the honey please?"
"Of course my good lady! Here you are now!"
The Corporal shook his head. This is what happens when the British get lost. They have a bloody picnic.
----------Four years later
"Grandmother? I'm home." A young woman opened her grandmother's door only to be whacked by a frying pan.
"FOUR YEARS! NO CARDS...NO MESSAGES! HELL not even a pigeon!"
"I'm sorry Grandmother!"
"Tahi! I should kill you for that....but I'm so happy to see you....."
"I know Grandmother. Good news!"
"What?"
"I'm pregnant!"
"YOU'RE WHAT?!?!?!?!?!"
"Pregnant."
"Do I know the father? Please tell me I know the father..."
"No. He's British."
"I'm going to kill the British....."
"But the British are really a good thing...."
"Shut up."
"Yes Grandmother."
"Tahi....what have I told you about sleeping with strange men?"
"Corporal isn't strange. He's just underestimated."
The old woman thwacked her. "Oh do shut up. When is it due?"
"Two days give or take. Totoro is really a great medic."
"So is it a bastard?"
"No! Legal by terms of the British."
"How quaint."
------Three months later.
"What the hell do you mean she's dead? I let you British blockheads take my granddaughter out for patrol and you kill her?!?!?!?!"
"Sorry m'am. Not like we had anything to do with it. Corporal's dead too!"
"You killed my granddaughter!"
The baby whined in the corner.
"Oh do be quiet Mischa."
AN: Man this is a crappy chapter. Oh well. Not much you can do when you're stalling for time. All right. I have to go write the continuing saga of what the hell Goyjo officially is now. There was a purpose in me writing all this stuff. The points: All of Izumi's female relatives except Hotaru die soon after delivering their child. These children are always female, blind, blue eyes, and red haired. The chapter about Kijin-Hakai Yume was actually supposed to tell you something important about the plot line. Right. That's all I have to say for now. I'm working on Chapter 6. I swear it's not a history. I swear! It actually picks up where Chapter 2 left off. Leaving you, AsianOrange, not yelling at me over my stalling maneuvers.