The MotherhoodRiver
By Aki-sama
Chapter One: A Long Way From Normal
There are things in this world that are not supposed to be comprehended.
However, there are circumstances that we cannot control. Such things as love or family are sometimes non-negotionable. But sometimes, we don't want them to be negotiable at all.
For Hakkai, his journey of this thing called fate started on a surprisingly hot and humid day. It was not pleasant for the company he was driving with, and it wasn't at all pleasant for him. But somebody had to stay on the bright side, and that somebody always turned out to be Hakkai himself.
Sanzo was brooding again. In no mood to talk, smoke, or even yell at people, the Holy Monk had become completely mute for the afternoon. This caused practically everyone else to become silent and Hakkai was enjoying the small blessing, as it was not a common occurrence.
"Hey…Sanzo?" Goku spoke up in a subdued voice from the back of Jiipu, "I'm thirsty."
There was a long pause. A couple of orbiting planets stopped, well, orbiting, and a few stars "super-nova'ed" out of existence. Nobody even breathed.
"Oi, Bakasaru," mumbled a dried up Gojyo, who was sitting opposite of the little monkey looking listless, "Aren't you supposed to say 'I'm hungry'?"
"I know," whined Goku in his most pitiful voice (it reminded one of a small puppy on the side of the road, looking skinny, helpless, and just ever-so darling), "But it's too hot and humid today, so I'm thirsty instead!"
"Ch," said our beloved, most witty, charming…eh, never mind, you know who, "It'll save me some money."
"Ara," said Hakkai, voice of reason as always, "I think I see a river." There was a mass crowding of Hakkai's right side.
"Where!?" cried both the monkey and the kappa. Sanzo cocked his gun. Both Gojyo and Goku sat back down. An awkward silence followed.
"Don't worry," Hakkai answered, placating the two in the back, "We'll be there very shortly."
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They were there very shortly, only staying there long enough to fill up four (in Goku's case, eight extra) water casks. Hakkai snuck a quick sip of the water while no one was looking. They piled all the water in the back and Sanzo suggested politely that nobody would drink until they got to a town. Mass argument ensued, leaving the water almost completely forgotten.
Maybe the group wouldn't have stopped there at all if they had read the sign at the mouth of the river.
What was it you ask? Hey, you're reading the story right? What are you asking me for? You'll find out soon enough.
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"Hey, Hakkai."
"Yes, Gojyo?"
"Did you notice anything weird about this town?" Gojyo poked his head between Hakkai's and Sanzo's. Luckily, the monk was merciful (snort) and didn't hit him with anything sharp and painful. Hakkai frowned slightly.
"Yes," he looked carefully around the town. There were young women, old women, and lots of children. There was only one gender they were missing.
"There seems to be a lack of guys around here," wondered Gojyo, perpetual pervert and 24 hour sex-fiend, "I wonder if they all got killed by youkai or something."
Cho Hakkai nodded solemnly, "I suppose, but I think we will find out soon enough."
Goku was confused. Sanzo just grunted an affirmative.
They eventually found an inn with relatively good housing and absolutely great food. Every bite of every dish was scintillating, and full of flavor. Goku was temporarily blissed out. There was no stopping him, and he ended up eating the rest of the food supplies for the inn. The innkeeper didn't bother getting angry, as he was getting a substantial amount of payback via a little golden card. The waitress that was serving them was a beautiful, raven-haired bombshell. She smirked as Gojyo tried to hit on her, and eventually she just ended up throwing a large, rather dead fish at his head.
It worked.
She was also the one who ended up showing them to their respective double-bedded rooms.
"Rooms 39 and 58 are yours," she pointed at both of them with her free hand. The rooms were, for some weird numbering reason, right next to each other. After handing them their respective keys, she nodded each one a goodnight and headed back downstairs.
Hakkai had roomed with Gojyo, partially because he thought it would cause less property damage, and also because he enjoyed playing card games with him and beating him no matter which gambling cheat Gojyo pulled. Plus, Goku could actually control Sanzo's temper fits, and vice versa. Hakkai didn't really like being a mediator the entire time.
Both parties went to bed peacefully and Hakkai thought rather comfortably to himself that today had been a fun and enjoyable day.
Next morning, it all went downhill and straight into Hell itself.
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Gojyo was up at 5:00am.
This was not normal.
It was also not normal for Hakkai to be waking him up this early. Not on purpose, mind you, but Hakkai was not being himself.
"Oh, good-morning Gojyo-san!" chirped Hakkai's voice from the bathroom at an unnaturally higher pitch than was normal for a guy. Gojyo frowned. He leaned against the wall and sighed. Hakkai had woken him up at five because Hakkai was splashing around in the tub. Water always woke up the red-haired kappa, and he couldn't get back to sleep after that. Once he heard water, there was no turning back.
He heard movement from behind the door, and it opened.
Now, Gojyo was not the smartest man in the world, especially not in the morning, but he was prone to notice some drastic changes on a person, most principally on his friend.
There was the obvious height difference. Hakkai had gotten a whole head shorter during the night. Gojyo's eyes never really told him the truth at this ungodly hour, but this, he was sure of.
Next, there was the length of his hair. It reached down to a little past his shoulders. Gojyo, even with his fuzzy eyesight (mainly due to sleep deprivation and the weird thoughts telling him that it had been that long for as long as he had known him) couldn't miss something as obvious as that.
Then, and this is the kicker, there were the curves. Oh yes, Gojyo knew what a woman's curves should look like. And Hakkai, at the moment, had the curviest of curves he had ever laid eyes on. This, in itself, was already disturbing.
"H-Hakkai?!" the crimson kappa shrieked and backed up to the edge of his bed. Hakkai, who hadn't opened her eyes yet, nodded an affirmative cheerfully and walked right up to Gojyo. The sudden movement surprised Gojyo, and he ended up sitting his ass down on the bed.
It was at this moment that he noticed the most major change in his friend this morning.
Hakkai had wonderfully extravagant décolletage, which was, at the moment, hanging right in front of Gojyo's face.
"Ohayo, Gojyo-san," smiled Hakkai in his (or I should say her) usual cheerful manner. Hakkai's eyes were not open, but for some reason, she was finding her way around just fine.
Gojyo, however, felt like fainting dead away.
"O-Ohayo…"
"Would you like some breakfast this morning?"
"Um…"
"Oh come on," murmured Hakkai in a sound that was very much akin to a purring Siamese, "Don't you want some nourishment?" Hakkai leaned in, revealing more and more and…well, more.
In Gojyo's defense, the fact that Hakkai had only a very baggy/revealing shirt on with no pants at all was very distracting.
Hakkai leaned forward still, put her arms around Gojyo's neck, and straddled him with an uncharacteristic Cheshire cat grin on her face.
Gojyo gulped.
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"Good morning, you perverted kappa!" chuckled Goku with glee, "Sleep well?"
When Goku didn't get an immediate response, he took a look at Gojyo to see if his partner in crime was, in fact, dead.
"Oi!" he hopped into a chair and stared at the perverted kappa. His eyes were cloudy, and his face was flushed with a red akin to his hair.
Gojyo seemed to be lost to the world.
"Hey! I'm talking to you, baka!" Goku yelled loudly. Gojyo merely blinked, an expression of shock still fixed permanently onto his face. Still, no response.
"What's the matter with you?" asked Goku worriedly, "Are you sick? Do you have a fever?"
"Ha—Hakk—he….he…."
"What!? What did who do?" Goku was ready to go fight the person/youkai who gave Gojyo such a shock. He waited for Gojyo to finish, as it was obvious he was trying very hard to get something across.
"Hakkai—he's changed."
"What—?!"
"Ohayo, Goku-chan!" cried a kind, feminine voice from the kitchen. Goku looked up curiously. There had only been one waitress the night before, and Gojyo had hit on her, so she probably wasn't serving them breakfast. Goku's brow furrowed in thought. So, who could it possibly…?
Goku would have screamed if his vocal chords were at all capable to do so.
When he had turned to face the voice, he saw at first Hakkai with food in his hands. Then, as Goku's eyes wandered from the food, he saw that the person standing there was a girl. Connections formed relatively (and unusually) fast in his head, and he sat as still as stone.
If Goku had a mirror, he would have noticed that his face would have been an exact replica of Gojyo's.
"…."
"What the hell is all the yelling about?" Sanzo entered the room. He took a look at the monkey and the kappa, and found them staring in one woman's direction. "What the hell is wrong with you two?"
No response, but there was a quiet squeaking noise that was emanating from Gojyo's mouth. Sanzo sighed. At the moment, the dark-haired girl who was standing in front of him smiled brightly.
"Good morning Sanzo-san!" she said with a cheerfulness usually reserved for rabbits, other fluffy animals, and that damned bluebird of happiness that Sanzo kept on hearing about.
"Who are you?"
The girl shook her head, "I am astonished that you don't know who I am Sanzo-san." Sanzo only frowned more deeply in annoyance. He pulled out his gun.
"I asked you a question," he stated simply. He noticed then, that the girl had on a dark green bandanna and had been keeping her eyes closed the entire time.
"What? But, I'm Hakkai, you silly!"
Another orbit-halting silence filled the room.
Sanzo dropped his gun and walked quickly over to where "Hakkai" was standing. He put his arms on her shoulders, and roughly shook her awake.
It was then that Hakkai opened her eyes and came back to the land of the living.
"Ano…Sanzo?" asked an innocent Hakkai. Sanzo dropped her like a hot potato and quickly backed off, a wide-eyed expression forming on his face (rather identical to Gojyo's and Goku's at the moment I'm afraid). Hakkai clutched her throat; was she catching a cold?
Goku acted first, "Is that you Hakkai?" The boy's tentative voice caused major worry for our little Hakkai.
"Why wouldn't I be?" asked Hakkai, completely lost. It was then that she acknowledged a concern, "Why are you out here with me at 6:30 in the morning?"
Sanzo replied callously, possibly causing irreparable brain trauma, "Because you're a girl, you moron."
Yet another orbit-shattering silence ensued.
Hakkai stood in the middle of the room, and was swiftly aware that she was wearing a very fluffy apron. With bunnies on it. Hakkai knew that Sanzo may have been joking when he told Hakkai that she was a girl, but Hakkai knew that Sanzo never made jokes like that unless he was seriously inebriated. She scratched the back of her head sheepishly.
"I do believe that I have an important meeting with a mirror," Hakkai said too cheerfully. With the notion of being a girl lodged in her mind, Hakkai realized that the voice she was using was that of a woman's.
She ran to the bathroom and shut the door.
"Oi," announced Sanzo to the shocked pair, "I am going to hit you both over the head with an anvil if you don't wake up NOW!"
It woke Goku up. He shut his gaping mouth and blinked a few times, "Was that really—?"
"Yes, it was," answered Sanzo testily, "Can we move on? I would like to eat breakfast sometime this century." Walking behind Gojyo, Sanzo kicked the kappa out of his seat and onto the table.
This was indeed enough to awaken him out of his stupor.
Gojyo choked on air, "What did you do that for?!"
"You weren't breathing, I thought I was being charitable," replied Sanzo. Gojyo rubbed his head, and then stopped.
"Um, that wasn't who I thought it was right? I mean, this whole thing is a nightmare, right?"
"If your head hurts like it should," Sanzo responded coolly, "Then you are not dreaming, and I wouldn't be this pissed off right now."
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Hakkai stood in front of the mirror.
It was most definitely odd to see someone else when you look at yourself in the mirror. One looks at a mirror for a couple of decades and never expects one's face to change excluding the effects from age. But here she was, staring back at himself and seeing a woman.
She was beautiful, and Hakkai was sure that she would have told her so, if not for the fact that she was Hakkai herself. Same color of hair (though a little longer), eyes, and the same overall look as the male Cho Hakkai. Just…female (a.k.a curvier and with breasts).
This was so weird. Hakkai leaned back against the wall and sighed. Then, being the level-headed person she knew she was, Hakkai opened the door and strode back downstairs.
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"Do you still want breakfast?"
The soft voice called from the shadows, causing Gojyo jumped straight into Sanzo's arms 'eeping'. The monk turned a beautiful shade of puce before reacting.
"YOU PERVERTED KAPPA!!!"
Wham.
"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow…" muttered Gojyo in pain and on the floor.
Hakkai giggled. The total force of that sound silenced everyone in the room. Hakkai frowned delicately.
"Now, now, I'm not that scary now that I'm female," asked Hakkai, who looked a little teary eyed. This made even Sanzo look around for an exit.
Goku and his stomach jumped in to save the day. "Hakkai! I would love breakfast! Are you almost done?" Hakkai smiled at the boy and nodded an assent.
"Yay!"
"Are you sure you want to do anything in your 'condition'?"
The voice had come from the kitchen door. The foursome turned their heads as one and beheld the raven-haired girl from last night. She was looking on at their antics with a knowing grin, and a sharp knife. Gojyo only saw the knife.
"Ara," murmured Hakkai, "I would prefer it if this bit of news not reach beyond this village." The girl laughed.
"Don't worry, I'm only interested in your well-being," she assured him. The Sanzo-ikkou was not convinced. "No, really!" she insisted walking over to the nervous Hakkai, "Hello, my name is Hoshi and I can tell you why you are the way you are as of this morning."
There was a mass crowding around her and she laughed out loud, "No need for all of you! I just need to talk to Hakkai-san," she gave the evil eye, "Alone."
Sanzo immediately got up and left. Goku followed reluctantly and sulked up the stairs. Gojyo was the only one still standing.
"Ah, Gojyo—,"
"I know," Gojyo waved his hands as if to brush off Hakkai's worries, "I'm leaving. But I want you to tell us everything, got it?" He waggled a finger in Hakkai's direction. Hakkai's tense smile eased itself into a more comfortable position. Gojyo looked taken aback. Hakkai was actually smiling a smile. Not just one of those placating smiles, or worried smiles; Hakkai was smiling from her heart.
"Arigatou Gojyo."
"Sure, sure…" and with those parting words, Gojyo wandered back up to his room. He was smiling mischievously, which was never a good sign.
Hmm, I wonder if I should tell him what he did to me this morning….
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"So, what happened to me?"
Hoshi had designated a table outside. They were having tea, but for Hakkai, it wasn't as calming as it usual. The 18-year old girl set her tea set down and looked at Hakkai seriously. Hakkai braced herself for the worst.
"Did you pass by a river on your way here?"
Hakkai felt as though cold ice had been poured down her back.
"Yes," Hakkai answered tentatively, getting the ominous feeling that this conversation was going to only get worse, "We were all thirsty, and I snuck a sip of water when no one was looking. No one else has drunk any of it thus far."
Hoshi breathed a sigh of relief, "Good," she said happily, "Because that is the river that grants motherhood."
Hakkai froze. The teacup shattered in her hand.
"Yup, blessed by the Kanzeon Bosatsu herself, the river helped this village after we were devastated by a plague. It only killed men, and we were left to rebuild this village. We prayed, since we were stuck out here in the middle of nowhere, with no hope having any men come by soon enough, that we could have an alternate means of having children," she paused and looked at Hakkai, who was silently shaking, the teacup in forgotten pieces on the floor.
"I-I'm sorry about the cup," stuttered Hakkai, "I'll pay for it." Hoshi gave Hakkai a funny look. She sighed.
"No you're not pregnant."
Hakkai smiled wearily, "Thank the Kami." Hoshi frowned suddenly and turned her head skywards.
"I wouldn't do that just yet," she muttered, "I remember that men who drink from the river do get pregnant, I just don't know when (or how)."
Hakkai refroze.
"The thing is, the women of the village were in kind of a hurry to have children," Hoshi grinned nervously, feeling that Hakkai might just crack and try to kill the messenger, "The women who do drink from the river conceive and give birth within nine days instead of nine months."
Hakkai was making little frightened rodent noises. Hoshi immediately wished she hadn't said anything.
"I mean," she began loudly, trying to snap Hakkai out of it, "That's only for women, I don't know about men." She shrugged lamely, "It's never happened before."
Hakkai nodded slowly. Then, very carefully, she got up and started walking to the doorway. Hoshi quickly got up and called to Hakkai, "I'm very sorry for dropping the bomb like this!" She bowed her head in apology.
Hakkai smiled weakly, "Sorry, I do appreciate the information, now I can—," she cut herself off in the middle of her sentence, "Oh no." Then, with her eyes widened in fear and worry, Hakkai exited, apparently pursued by an invisible bear.
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"Man, I can't believe it."
"Hn."
"Yeah, Hakkai as a girl!" cried Goku in disbelief from his position on the floor. Gojyo lay in a spread-eagled position on the bed, messing up his hair on purpose. Sanzo, predictably, was reading the newspaper.
"Why are we so calm about this?" asked Gojyo, muffled by the amount of hair he had on his face. Goku stopped tinkering with the pattern on the floorboards and looked up at the ceiling.
"Maybe because we've seen weirder," Goku uttered thoughtfully. Sanzo snorted, agreeing mentally that if all they had to deal with was a male-turned-female Hakkai, life would be soooooo much easier.
Gojyo could not stop thinking about this early morning. It was really troubling him, since he found himself not only enjoying Hakkai more as a girl, but also because he was starting to think that the "incident" that happened early this morning had caused a circuit to be shorted in his brain. She made him more nervous then he had ever been around a girl (especially since it was still Hakkai, though Gojyo was still unsure about this morning). Still fuzzy headed and jittery he yelled in surprise when the door slammed open and a blur that looked like Hakkai rushed in.
"Where are those water flasks!?" she cried, breathless. Sanzo stared at Hakkai before pointing at the table, where four flasks of water lay. Hakkai immediately snatched them and dumped their contents out the window, as if expelling a demon.
"Hm," wondered Sanzo in his normal baritone, "The water from the river did this?" Hakkai, still a little breathless, nodded a yes. Several foreheads were wiped in relief.
"Thanks for getting rid of it then," Gojyo smirked, "And why are you still out of breath, did you forget what rooms we were in?"
There was a slight crackle in the air as Hakkai formed an expression that was feared by almost everyone (who had a brain) on this earth. She gave Gojyo the Angry Eyes. Everyone knew that Hakkai never got worried or upset about the little things, but sometimes, like now, the little things aren't so little, and tension builds up a hell of a lot easier.
Gojyo whimpered.
"I am not used to this body," answered Hakkai maturely, and Goku hid himself behind Sanzo, "I don't think you would like running from the courtyard two blocks from here and running up the stairs with these would you?"
Once Gojyo actually looked at what Hakkai was pointing at, he felt very lightheaded. Goku peaked out from behind Sanzo and started laughing uproariously. Sanzo, of course, was expressionless.
Gojyo did not move. Hakkai marched out of the room. Sanzo grunted and went back to reading his newspaper.
Goku kept on laughing, "And you have to share a room with her!"
Gojyo hit the monkey with a shoe.
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In the evening, Gojyo found himself sitting at a table that contained vast amounts of good food (courteously made by Hoshi-san), and amiable conversation. Hakkai had restored her good mood and took to laughing at even the littlest things. She still hadn't told the entire story that much was certain. The rest of the group just supposed that she would spill the beans later tonight, when she wasn't as shaken up.
"That was great Hoshi-san!" crowed Goku. Hoshi smiled broadly.
"It's great to hear that someone likes my cooking."
"Of course it's good," said Hakkai in a warm voice. Gojyo glanced at the brunette. She was wearing her usual clothes, just readapted to fit her new form, and a little more baggy than usual. She really was beautiful, in classic way that made other women wish they were her. Good bone structure and a great body (not to mention great tits); Hakkai had turned into the kind of woman that gave the regular man wet dreams.
"Gojyo?"
Gojyo shook himself out of his reverie, "Huh?"
Hakkai smiled curiously, "You were staring at me, is there something you want?"
Goku grinned evilly, "Hey, Gojyo," he snickered and elbowed him in the ribs.
Sanzo narrowed his eyes but said nothing. Hoshi, following up Goku's suggestion, smirked and spelled it out for them, "You thinking 'special' thoughts about Hakkai, eh Gojyo-san?"
Mass blushing occurs.
"Of course not!" replied two voices in unison. Gojyo stared at Hakkai in surprise, and Hakkai stared back.
Goku and Hoshi pointed as one and squealed, "Look! Their blushes are bruising their cheeks!" Neither of the accused knew what to say. Sanzo's eye twitched.
Goku stopped pointing and glanced at Sanzo, as he had felt a disturbance in the Force. Sanzo had put down his newspaper and was now polishing his gun.
Nobody missed this "subtle" hint to knock it off.
"I would prefer them to not die of embarrassment before Hakkai explains to us what exactly happened," Hakkai and Gojyo sighed in relief, but only before Sanzo continued his little speech, "Even if they do want to fuck each other like rabbits in heat."
"WHAT?!" screeched Gojyo, reaching the decibel of sound that usually shatters wine glasses. Everyone at the table (sans Sanzo and Gojyo), started laughing, even Hakkai.
The dinner included Gojyo yelling, Hoshi and Goku pointing and laughing, Sanzo with his harisen, and Hakkai smiling good-naturedly all the way through. It was a very good dinner.
Once they were upstairs and in their rooms, Hakkai settled herself comfortably on one of the beds and proceeded to explain the very strange circumstances.
By the end of the explanation, even Sanzo looked like he felt sympathy, even though Hakkai was the one who went to the river in the first place.
"So, you're gonna get pregnant," Goku shuddered at the word, "but you don't know when or how?"
"Precisely."
"Is there any cure?" asked Gojyo from the floor.
Hakkai shook her head, "Hoshi mentioned none."
"Great," growled Sanzo.
Hakkai shrugged, "I suppose you could always pray to the Kanzeon Bosatsu to lift the 'blessing'," she rubbed her stomach worriedly, "She was the one who blessed the river in the first place."
Sanzo made a facial expression that can only be equated to shock in his world.
"What? That hag blessed something?!"
"Yes, unfortunately."
Far up in Heaven, Kanzeon Bosatsu laughed her merry little ass off. As the Heavens shook with her mighty guffaws, Kanzeon-sama wondered idly if this could get any better.
"So, you don't know what would make you p-pregnant?" Gojyo stuttered on the word.
"I'm sorry to say this, but no."
Gojyo leaned back and blew out the smoke from the cigarette he had previously lit and sighed wearily. Hakkai smiled nervously. Gojyo took one look at her and sighed again.
"Wonderful," he muttered under his breath. Reaching over across his bed, he grabbed the water flask that Goku had brought with him from the kitchen. "You'd think that giving us thousands of youkai to battle everyday was bad enough…" he paused as he chugged half the flask, "but noooo…." He finished of the flask and tossed it on the floor. "You know," he stretched his arms behind his head and yawned, "If one… just one more weird thing happens this week," murmured Gojyo as he started to feel sleepy all of a sudden, "I'm going to go completely… bat shit."
Zonk.
And thus Gojyo retired for the evening.
The rest of the Sanzo-ikkou stared in amazement.
"Since when does he go to sleep this early?!" cried Goku in utter amazement. Hakkai blink-blinked. Sanzo just snorted and shoved Gojyo and Hakkai out the door, closing the evening's discussion with the words, "We'll discuss this in the morning."
As Hakkai dragged Gojyo back to their room, she wondered briefly what she had done this morning. All she could really remember was waking up in the middle of the dining area with Sanzo shaking her shoulders. What did she do before then? She must have been awake enough to take a shower and go downstairs by herself, so what did she do earlier?
Oh well, she thought sleepily, I guess I'll ask Gojyo tomorrow morning when he's awake. She yanked Gojyo onto his bed, and realized how much she was lacking in the upper arm strength department. Gojyo seemed to weigh 3 times as heavy now that Hakkai was a girl. Since Gojyo was so tired and Hakkai didn't wake to wake him, she took the floor.
Tomorrow, thought Hakkai as she drifted into her own exhaustion, is going to be very interesting.
It's really too bad that Hakkai was always right.
Allo!
If you knew me, you would be surprised at how fast I finished this chapter. Seriously.
DISCLAIMER: I own—Ano, can I at least own Hakkai? (gets hit with a flaming log)-- ITAI! Ok, ok…sheesh.
I own nothing. So suing me would get absolutely nowhere.
Sanzo: If we were real, I would kill you, not sue you.
Aki: Demo…
Gojyo: Yes, KILL.
Aki: But...
Goku: I can't believe you did that to Hakkai!
Aki: But I had to! See this? holds up a plot-bunny with absolutely terrifying looking fangs (its chewing on a carrot)
Sanzo-ikkou: YAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
Hakkai: Maa…what a large bunny.
Aki: It would have killed me!
That's why my evil little brain made me come up with this story, because it would have eaten me from the inside out like the little parasite it is. I hate plot-bunnies.
Preview for Next Chapter:
The woman standing in front of the mirror had hair that looked like it was on fire, at least, when the sun shone on it. Goku watched, mesmerized as the red hair was flung about. The single strands that were caught in the sun's rays looked like sparks from when metal clashed on metal. Then the woman noticed Goku's presence and turned to face him.
Goku froze. The face staring at him (even if it wasn't exactly the same) was Gojyo's. Goku's thoughts whirled.
No, he thought in a daze, "It can't be!"
Aki-sama; forever on Hiatus with everything else (sorry 'bout that folks who read my other stuff, I'm working on it).
P.S. I know that there weren't very many typical fights with Youkai or fights with Gojyo and Goku over any little thing. Thos will come soon. Yes. Very soon.