Attitude Doesn't Always Equal Age
Chap. 7
Detestai, Shiyuko's mother, seemed to be a young woman around her late twenties. Her hair was a caramel brown, a golden color mixed into that caramel brown. She wore a denim vest over a green spaghetti strap tank top and a pair of hip hugger denim jeans. Her pointed ears had three golden rings hooked onto each ear, a silver stud up at the top of each one.
"That's your mother? She doesn't look old enough." Gojyo whispered.
"Oh, doesn't she? One of the abilities she leeched is eternal beauty. She's gonna look like that until she's over a thousand. And she's always made herself look younger, anyways." Shiyuko hissed back.
"My, my. A half-breed." Detestai stepped down from her perch on the windowsill and slunk up to Gojyo. She reached her hands up to Gojyo's face, her hands finally coming to rest on the sides of his head.
It took but a moment for the pain to register with Gojyo. He suddenly cried out in pain, the red hot flashes of pain shooting through his body. He wanted to fall over, or to at least recoil from the pain, but his body was unwilling to move. It felt like every single nerve in his body was on fire; like millions of tiny little pins were being forced through his skin; like someone had just put him into an oven set to the temperature of the sun, or perhaps Sanzo's full anger.
When Detestai pulled back from Gojyo, he visibly doubled over and proceeded to vomit. She laughed, and pulled at Shiyuko's wrist.
"Come on, son. We have matters to attend to."
"No, not this year! I'm not going with you!" Shiyuko violently pushed her away. Detestai was frozen for a moment, then her hair flared up like a fire, and small sparks of black fire danced in her eyes.
"Not this year? Listen to me, you disgusting little maggot, you're going to come with me, or so help me, I'm going to…"
"He said he's not gonna go with you, ya idiot!" Goku snapped, knocking Detestai away with nyoibou. Detestai growled out an answer to him. Shiyuko frowned.
"Just cause he restated what I said is no reason to curse in youkai at him." He reasoned.
"You little brat!" Detestai shouted. Suddenly a green wall rose between Detestai and Shiyuko.
"Um….I don't really know what's going on here, but if he says he doesn't wanna go with you, mean lady, then he doesn't have go with you. So…just go away!" Hakkai snapped at Detestai, who was just as amazed as Shiyuko that Hakkai had risen a barrier between them.
"….Grr….fine! You win this match, Shiyuko! But I will be back, and when I return….you will be mine!" Detestai clenched a fist, and leaped out the window.
Shiyuko turned to Hakkai, and approached the youkai carefully.
"Did you raise that barrier? Did you help me?" He asked.
"Of course I did! You were in trouble and needed help!" Hakkai replied cheerfully.
"G-guys…?" Gojyo's weak voice called. "I kinda need some more help stomaching what that wench did to me." He struggled to his feet, and Goku gasped, while Lirin rolled over laughing.
A/N: Guess what Detestai did to him in your review! Oh yeah, I went crazy making up Detestai's outfit. She sounds like a demoness fashion model, doesn't she?