A/N: There is an important notice concerning FFNet users in the real author's notes at the bottom of this chapter. Please read!
Disclaimer: Nope! Nobody is mine, Not Sanzo or Goku or Hakkai or even Gojyo. They all belong to the wonderfully talented Kazuya Minekura. Sue belongs to… well... technically, she belongs to me but I deny ownership! Gojyo wanted her, so therefore she belongs to him!
Gojyo: Ok, ok Zell. I admit it, I regret taking on Sue. Can we have game over already?
Zell: Oh no you don't! I warned you and you chose to ignore that warning so now you can suffer the consequences. Besides, I have handwritten up to the beginning of chapter ten and I am not rewriting things just to suit you. Anyway, you're so damned picky lately so who else would you want?
Gojyo: (hangs head) … I would rather have Hakkai…
Zell (laughs) Took you long enough. My answer? No!
Gojyo: Why the hell not? You keep saying yourself that we belong together so why the hell wont you let us be together in this story?
Zell: That's quite simple my dear Gojyo, I watch Gunlock.
Gojyo:… What does that have to do with it?
Zell: Everytime you go off with some random woman, you put Hakkai through hell. He becomes more and more obviously jealous each time and you, Mr. Oblivious, never seem to notice.
Gojyo: (eyes narrow in suspicion) So that's what this is about then.
Zell: Yes, revenge. Now, can we please get on with this story? You and Sue were drowning last time I posted.
Gojyo: Not only that… You leave us like that for two damn weeks without updating when you said you would!
Zell: (walks away whistling innocently.)
Rating: PG15 for language and Mary-Sues (not to mention that little bit of drink spiking she did back in earlier chapters…)
Warnings: Awooga, awooga! There is a Mary-Sue running about within this fic! If you spot her, please stand back at a safe distance! Awooga, awooga!
Gojyo and Mary-Sue
Pt 6
By Zelgadis55
Goku sighed and jumped down into the water. He was able to pull Gojyo away from Sue, though with her almost death grip on the kappa, the monkey like teen didn't find it very easy. Once he had pulled Gojyo away from her, Sue tried to grab Goku in her blind panic but he began to swim away, kappa in tow. The further away from Sue they became, the more Gojyo fought against the teenaged boy.
"Let me go, Goku!" Gojyo cried as he struggled. "I've got to save her, I love her!"
Goku knew he had to go back for that woman even though the thought disgusted him but not until he got the kappa onto the shore. Finally, exhausted from swimming with the fighting Gojyo, he reached the bank of the river.
Despite having nearly drowned, Gojyo immediately tried to go back into the water and Goku yelled in frustration. "I'll get her. You stay here!" Unfortunately, Gojyo didn't appear to be listening and he kept going. Goku grabbed the much taller youkai roughly and pulled him back to the shore again. Goku yelled again, "I said I will go get her. Just stay here!"
The kappa still tried to push by in his blind desperation to save Sue. Goku realized there was no other choice, so he punched Gojyo, knocking him to the ground. Even as the hanyou tried to stand again, Goku reached out his hand, "Nyoi-bo!" he summoned. He then called out "Sansekkon!" effectively causing his weapon to morph into its three-jointed form as he used it to pin his friend to the ground, jamming the ends well into the dirt so that Gojyo would have trouble rising once more. Goku ran back into the water and powerfully swam to where he had last seen Sue.
The teenaged boy was dreading coming into actual physical contact with her but there was no other way since Nyoi-bo was being used for 'crowd control'. Goku looked around but Sue was nowhere to be seen. He dared not go back without her though as he knew that Gojyo wouldn't rest until he either found her or drowned himself.
"Argh!" Goku spluttered in fright as he suddenly found himself pulled underwater. His mouth filled with water and he swallowed quite a lot of the liquid. Goku felt like he was choking on the water, also it definitely wasn't helping that he was beginning top feel weaker by the second. He knew the weakness wasn't from his lack of food either. Goku reached down to grab the wrist of the hand that had its vice-like grip tight around his ankle and pulled it up while he swam back up.
In relief, Goku broke the surface taking several huge lungfulls of air as he pulled Sue above the water's surface. He began to swim back to the shore. When he was halfway there, he noticed that Gojyo had managed to get out from underneath the sansekkon.
Gojyo watched the boy and Sue anxiously with a slightly confused expression. He waded out to his waist reaching out to grab hold of Goku and he pulled the exhausted, hungry boy and Sue the rest of the way back to the shore.
"Sankyu!" Goku said in little more than a tired murmur. "Haraheta…"
Gojyo nodded wordlessly as he checked to see if Sue was breathing. To his relief, she was. The concerned kappa then looked at Goku. The youth was laying on the ground, breathing deeply with his arms spread and eyes closed. "Goku…" he began hesitantly.
"...Yeah?"
"What was I thinking? I should have just summoned shakujou for Sue to grab hold of. I could've easily pulled her out that way. Instead, I made things worse…"
Goku frowned and opened his eyes. He then sat up and looked directly at Gojyo. "You've been acting weird all day and it gets worse every time you go near her!" Gojyo stiffened at his words, getting ready to defend Sue's honour so Goku hurriedly continued while he still could. "Do all of us a favour and stay away from her, even if only for a few hours. Then think about how you've been feeling and acting and try to see the difference. Please?" Goku begged.
"What are you trying to say, saru? That Sue is a bad influence?" Gojyo asked angrily, "Well, if she is, then she certainly isn't the only one. Take a look at your precious sun, that bastard monk is the worst influence outta all of us!"
"Leave Sanzo out of this!" Goku snapped, raising his voice in anger, "He's got nothing to do with this. As for her, I don't think its that she's a bad influence, I think its that she is controlling you somehow or something!"
"That's bullshit!" Gojyo snapped, "My mind belongs to me, no-one else!"
"Yeah? Then explain what happened when Sue ordered you to jump into the water! Huh? Can you, you stupid kappa? You can't even swim!"
Gojyo was silent as he contemplated Goku's words.
"I've noticed too, when I touch her, its kinda like my strength is slowly leaking and like my brain is beginning to fog over or something." Goku continued desperately.
"You're imagining things!" Gojyo snapped furiously, "Your brains always in a fog, bakazaru, so how would you even know the difference? As for getting weak, have you even eaten since breakfast?"
Goku's stomach growled again and he looked down at it, "No… I didn't even finish breakfast. The way you treated Hakkai put me off eating."
Gojyo found he had to struggle to remember what had happened. That fact on its own really should have set off the alarm bells in his head but it didn't. "I didn't do anything to him," he denied, "Hakkai just took off for some reason."
"Yeah," Goku admitted, "but you told me that you didn't care about what was wrong with him."
The hanyou stiffened as he realized the saru was right, 'But, that's not true. I care about Hakkai more than anyone else, except for maybe Sue.' His red eyes stared at Sue for a moment, "Look saru, I don't have to take this crap, from you or anyone else, I'm outta here!"
Goku stared as Gojyo stood and picked up Sue. After a moment, Goku began to scramble to his feet too.
"Don't bother to follow us! Make your own damn way back!" The kappa said harshly. "Oh and by the way, I don't want you telling Hakkai about the way I panicked this afternoon, it'll only worry him. If you do say anything to him, I'll make sure you can't say anything else, ever!"
Then the furious but slightly confused Gojyo stalked away, carrying the unconscious, emerald eyed, brunette in his arms as Goku stood there staring after him in dismay.
To be continued.
A/N: Ok, I must apologize for taking so long with this chapter. I am sorry but unfortunately, due to feeling so tired and not sleeping well over the last couple of weeks I was just too lethargic and basically stuffed by the time I got home from work to be able to type. I had already written my rough draft and am now up to about chapter 10 so I hadn't been ignoring it. I tend to write my draft on the busses to and from work each day… Even over the weekend, I just felt too tired to do anything and considering that when I type up my chapters, that is my BIG editing session, I just really couldn't do any justice to this.
I decided to update 'Gojyo and Mary-Sue' first due to the smaller chapter length in comparison to 'Distorted Mirror' however I hope to update that one in the next few days. Also, I am going to slow down on the posting of this fic since it is set not too long after 'Distorted Mirror' fic, I wish to finish posting that one before this.
IMPORTANT NOTE
I am going to update my bio a little to include the address of a petition for Fanfiction Net. If you write or even if you just read, please go and give the petition a look and hopefully sign it. It is quite an important petition in that it is protesting the fact that FFNet keeps taking away more and more of our rights as authors in preventing us from using certain characters and symbols in our stories. While many stories might not require the use of these, there are many stories that do, for just the names of particular characters or animes if nothing else… There are quite a few points on this petition. If you agree with this petition, please, if you can, also include the address in your bio. The more people that see and sign it, the more likely the chance that we might be able to get some of our freedoms as authors and readers back.
Gambatte!
Thanks to Diva Urd for e-mailing me the petition in the first place.
Thank you to those who reviewed
Wasabii: I am sorry to hear about what happened at your school… I didn't mean to remind you of that and I was never planning on letting anyone drown, besides being a horrible way to go, it would have been over way too quickly for Sue, she hasn't had enough time to suffer yet. Heck! Hakkai hasn't had a turn yet.
Koryu-Sanzo: (smiles at the hyperactivity) First knives, now pistols (grin) She didn't actually try to kill Gojyo, she has her own plans for our favourite ero-kappa and she needs him alive for that…
Onigiri Monster: I did see someone go out of their depth in a pool once when they couldn't swim. I don't really remember a great deal how I felt at the time as I was 10 at the time. There were no adults around only the kids older sister and me, all I remember was reacting and pulling the kid back to a place where he could reach the bottom… I hope you are glad Gojyo was saved and I am sorry, but I hope I didn't disappoint you too much by Goku also saving Sue. She was never going to drown. While I don't know exactly how she will be ultimately dealt with, I do have plans. Its just that by the time I write what I think I am going to write, the story has evolved and taken on a life of its own and things happen a little differently that how I originally imagined it…
