Attitude Doesn't Always Equal Age
Chap.5
"Hakkai! Now isn't the time to playing hide-and-go-seek! C'mon, Hakkai! Hakkai!" Gojyo was now wandering through town, looking for the youkai who had disappeared sometime during the morning after spilling Goku's marbles on the floor and toppling the bookshelf. It took an hour to get the bookshelf back up, and Gojyo's back was still throbbing from his hard tumble on the ground after slipping on the marbles on the ground.
And then he saw the youkai; when he saw him, his anger subsided. Hakkai was playing with a small marionette with a little girl. The girl seemed to be enjoying it; she patted him on the head, waved and skipped away. Gojyo slowly approached Hakkai.
"Oh, Gojyo-ojisan. Are you mad at me for running away without telling you?" He asked.
"Naw, Hakkai. Just don't worry me like that, okay?" Gojyo assured him, ruffling Hakkai's hair.
"Uh, Gojyo-ojisan, are boulders supposed to be hurtling towards us?" Hakkai pointed to the boulder high in the air which was, indeed hurtling towards them. Gojyo shoved Hakkai out of the way, and the boulder landed with a crash where they had been a moment ago.
"Alright, Sanzo party! Today the great Lirin's gonna beat you guys up!" The red-head yelled out as she appeared atop the boulder.
'Not her! Why did Lirin have to pick today, of all days, to show up? This isn't good! Not now! Now now!' Gojyo grit his teeth. Hakkai was in no condition to fight; that much was obvious to him.
"Lirin, this is a group effort." Kougaiji warned as he, Yaone, and Dokugakuji strode up.
'Wonderful. They're all here. My day just can't get any better, can it?' Gojyo thought.
"There are only two of you here?" Kougaiji wondered.
"Well…yeah, but you guys are so weak only one of us is needed to get rid of you!" Gojyo snapped.
"Oh, really? Then…why don't you show us?" Kougaiji asked him.
"No prob!"
"Actually, I've been curious as to how powerful Hakkai-san is without his limiter. Perhaps he should fight." Yaone calmly suggested.
"NO!" Gojyo instantly yelled. The Kougaiji group recoiled from his reaction. "I mean…you know, he's, uh, so…um….soft against you guys. He's too…uh, mom-ish to…er, fight you properly."
"Yaone's right. I, too would like to see him fight in this form." Dokugakuji agreed.
"NO!" Gojyo's refusal came quicker this time, and was actually louder. Now Lirin was staring to look at him as if he were crazy.
"You haven't given us a reason why not. Stop beating around the bush and prepare to fight, Cho Hakkai." Kougaiji warned. Hakkai, innocent and wide-eyed, turned to Gojyo and pointed to himself.
"They want to fight me?" He asked. Gojyo sighed, and nodded. "But why would they wanna do that, Gojyo-ojisan?" He asked.
"Look, it's cause they think that…you're still like you were….two days ago."
"Hm? An' what was that, Gojyo-ojisan? Hm? What? What?" Hakkai chirped.
"Aw, shut up and go back to the inn, Hakkai!" Gojyo ordered.
"But I wanna know who these guys are, Gojyo-ojisan!"
"I said go back to the inn, Hakkai!"
"But Gojyo-ojisan-!"
"Go back or you're grounded! Got that?"
"But that's not fair!"
"Life's not fair. Live with it."
"But Gojyo-ojisaaaaaannnnnnn…."
"That's it! You're grounded! Now back to the inn before I have to take away those books, too!"
"But I use those to play my game!"
"Yeah, well, I'm none to enthusiastic about your game of 'throw-books-at-Gojyo's-head' and I damn well will take those books away if you don't march your ass back to the inn this second, young man!"
"Okay….Gojyo-ojisan…." Hakkai whimpered.
All the while, the Kougaiji gang stood there…dumbstruck.
'What the hell is going on here!'
A/N: I don't know if I mentioned this in the second chapter or not, but –ojisan usually means uncle.