Disclaimer: Nope! Not mine. (Goes into a state of complete denial) See? Not even Mary-Sue belongs to me (smiles happily in her delusional state) but Kougaiji does

Kougaiji: (raises eyebrows) Oh? I belong to you do I?

Zell: Yep! I decided that just now!

Kougaiji: (sighs heavily) I don't have time for this.

Zell: (pouts) You don't?

Kougaiji: ...I need to claim the Maten Kyoumon. Do you know where Sanzo is?

Zell: Yes I do. (He's the only one you ever seem to want…)

Kougaiji: Well then?

Zell: I'm not telling you, you wont spend any time with me. But, I could always tell you for the right incentive

Kougaiji: Never mind, I'll just go ask those people over there if they have seen a bad tempered monk with a gun and a noisy, always hungry kid go by…

Zell: Oh… he left…

Rating: PG13

Warnings: Damn, by law, I had to reclaim ownership of HER and relinquish my ownership of Kougaiji… On the bright side, someone supplied me with a new disinfectant that seems more effective. Hmm, maybe I can chase down Kougaiji and he can supply us with BBQed Sue? Little bit of Hakkai angst. 858 implications. Language.


Gojyo and Mary-Sue

Pt 5

It was so nice by the river that Goku had to struggle to remember just why he was there in the first place. Even so, it didn't stop him from happily exploring though he did try his best to keep a close eye on Sue the whole time. Every time she moved too close to the kappa, Goku would 'excitedly' bound up to them in order to show them the latest thing he had found. Usually it was an unusual leaf or a pretty rock or something else like that. Occasionally, he would instead grab someone and drag them to look into the water at a fish or some other life form. Goku had grabbed Sue just once but decided not to do so again. He had felt strange and his resolve had weakened a just a little at the physical contact so now, if he was going to grab anyone, it would always be Gojyo.

His distractions were beginning to wear a little thin. After he had shown them the latest quite pretty rock, Gojyo had almost snapped in exasperation.

"We don't really need to see every leaf, rock and whatever else piece of shit in this forest baka saru. Keep 'em to yourself."

"But this rock is really pretty! Look how it sparkles in the sunlight!"

Gojyo growled and knocked the small rock out of the boy's hands. "I thought you said that you were going to behave!"

"What am I doing wrong now?"

"… Look Goku," Gojyo sighed, "you're not really doing anything wrong in particular. It's just that, well… Sue and I would like a little us time but you keep coming up with any and every stupid little thing that you find. It was a mistake to let you come."

'As if you could have stopped me from following.' Goku thought. "I'm sorry, it's just that it's been so long since I've had a chance to really enjoy a place like this. Normally, we're always traveling and there's no time." Goku said lamely in explanation.

"Yeah… I know but can you please give us a little space? One day you'll understand why for yourself."

Goku nodded, wanting to keep the kappa on side and wondering just what he was going to do now.

- - -

Hakkai eventually wandered back to the inn they were staying in and headed back up to the room he and Gojyo were supposedly sharing. There had only been three available rooms when they checked in the day before and Hakkai and Gojyo didn't mind sharing, after all, they had already been sharing for several years now.

He stood outside his room door and stared at it for a few minutes as for some reason, he was unable to just walk in. After a while, he finally managed to muster up the will to enter. Slowly, Hakkai walked to his bed and flopped backwards onto it and stared up at the ceiling. Hakkai remembered Gojyo recently telling him how he was concerned over the fact that he had been having trouble finding the enthusiasm for any of the women that he had been chasing and that even worse, he didn't know why or even what was wrong. Hakkai had felt terrible, he wasn't able to admit that he was secretly pleased over his friend's admission and had tried his hardest to be sympathetic. Now, Gojyo had finally found someone that he could be enthusiastic over and Hakkai knew that he should have been happy for Gojyo but… he wasn't.

He had seen Gojyo chase after countless women over the last few years and all of them had been the same, not in looks or personality or any of the other things that should have counted but in the fact that Gojyo was only after a night or maybe two of passion, nothing more and nothing less. This time, with Sue, seemed to be different.

The more Hakkai thought about the pair together, the more undeniable his jealousy became. 'Even if I wanted to pursue a relationship with my best friend, which I don't,' he added hurriedly within his mind, 'besides the fact that Gojyo would not be interested, I wouldn't stand a chance against her.' He realized with a profound sadness.

Hakuryu flew over to land on the bed next to Hakkai. He reached over and nuzzled the healer's cheek in an effort to make him feel a little better. "Kyuu…"

Hakkai turned his head to face the little dragon with a sad smile. "Why can't I bring myself to feel happy for him?" he murmured as he reached up his hand to scratch behind Hakuryu's head.

"Kyuu?"

He sighed, "There's no use dwelling on this but it's so hard to stop. Hakuryu, it hurts so much to see him with someone else," Hakkai closed his eyes, dropping his hand, "and there is nothing I can do about it."

- - -

There was a narrow bridge crossing the river not even wide enough for two people to walk side by side and Gojyo steered Sue towards it. Goku grinned and ran, jumping just ahead of Sue as she stepped out onto the bridge and cutting her off. Being ahead of the kappa meant that she was able to afford Goku an intense look of hatred.

"You little…" she hissed and stopped herself before she could say too much. "You almost knocked me into the water.

'I wish you had fallen.' Goku thought with a frown before turning to her with innocent eyes. "I'm sorry Sue, I didn't mean to almost knock you in." 'I hoped you would have lost your balance and fallen in yourself though.' "I just didn't want to be stuck behind the cockroach."

Gojyo didn't even seem to hear him or if he did, he certainly wasn't paying attention. He had been a little too close to the woman over the last twenty minutes or so and Goku had been unable to do anything about Gojyo and Sue's proximity to each other. The closer they were and the longer they remained close, the more he appeared to space out and both his expression and his eyes had become glazed over.

"Cockroach?" Sue's face took on a disgusted appearance. "He's a cockroach youkai?" she asked softly as she tried to hide her reaction.

It was all Goku could do to keep from laughing, "Yeah, a red cockroach kappa."

Her eyes widened at that before narrowing once more, Goku had said one word too many. "No matter, I've invested too much effort to give him up now." Sue smirked, she had seen the disappointment pass through Goku's features. "Now, can we please get moving as I don't want to stand here all day." She spoke up in a more normal volume.

Gojyo nodded in an almost dreamlike agreement, "It sounds like the lady is onto a good idea, monkey boy."

Goku scowled but started walking anyway. The other two followed fairly closely. "Don't call me that, I'm not a monkey."

Gojyo seemed to become a little more aware as he interacted with Goku and he smirked, "If the name fits saru, I might as well use it."

Goku suddenly turned and glared, "I said stop calling me that you stupid cockroach!" As he whirled around, the boy knocked Sue. This time, she did fall, straight down into the middle of the river with a loud splash. Both Goku and Gojyo stared down at her. Goku was too annoyed with Gojyo to really feel much pleasure from the fact that he had finally gotten what he had wanted earlier.

Gojyo stared without moving, the fog in his mind preventing his instincts from taking over.

Sue coughed and spluttered. "Go… jyo! Help me… Jump down and pull me out!" she commanded whenever she managed to keep her head above the water's surface.

Unthinkingly, Gojyo obeyed her and jumped even as Goku realized what he was doing.

"No! Gojyo, don't! You can't swim you stupid kappa." But, it was too late and both were now floundering about, having trouble keeping above the surface. Sue was making things worse as she kept trying to grab hold of Gojyo and pushing him under in her panicked effort to save herself.

To be continued


I have almost finished writing chapter 6, heck if I typed it now, I could even finish writing it I am that close to finishing it but its getting late. I wont have much net time tomorrow night as I will be playing badminton with friends so I will try to update again on Thursday night. :-)

Thank you to those who have reviewed

Wasabii: (Blinks) Wow, you really, REALLY wanna see her die, don't you?

Koryu-Sanzo: All that stabbing, are you just aiming to hurt her or something more sinister (laughs evilly).

Onigiri Monster: I think I am beginning to sense a pattern here, everyone wants to see her dead. (smiles) BTW, Thanks for the new disinfectant, I think it helped a little. At least in this chapter she also got a bath…