Series: Saiyuki

Author: Zelgadis55

Rating: PG13

Pairings: Gojyo and Sue, one-sided Hakkai and Gojyo

Warning: Sue

Disclaimer: Saiyuki and all the characters associated are property of Kazuya Minekura and the various license holders. Sue belongs to me but you can have her. Honest! Please feel free to take her from me anytime you like, the sooner the better.

Goku: (pulls face in disgust) But we're trying to get rid of her too.

Zell: I know you are. I wasn't trying to fob her off onto you, just maybe… some unsuspecting reader? (looks hopeful)

Goku: But, they know what she's like now… That won't work.

Zell: (sigh) I know. Still, you can't really blame a girl for trying, can you?

Goku: Guess not. (rumbling noise) I'm going to go find Sanzo or Hakkai so I can get one of them to give me some food, I'm really, really hungry.

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Gojyo and Mary-Sue

Pt 12

The monk left the building and true to his word, lit up a cigarette. While he supposedly relaxed in the cool night air, his eyes probed the darkness. Sanzo finished his first cigarette and satisfied that nobody was going to follow him, he lit up another and strode into the night, purpose filling his steps.

Several minutes later, he slowed his gait to a much more casual appearing pace and eventually stopped, leaning against a rather large tree. Once there, he lit up yet another cigarette, having finished the second one while walking and closed his eyes. He breathed deeply, silently filling his lungs with the smoke and blew it out again in a billowing cloud. There was silence for almost a quarter of an hour before Sanzo finally spoke.

"So," he said, "how long do you plan on sulking?" As he spoke, he continued to look as though he were merely relaxing against the tree.

There was silence a bit longer before the reluctant answer came. "Not sulking."

"Good." Sanzo replied flatly. He didn't want to be here, didn't want to appear as though he were becoming soft but he couldn't stand the way Goku was hurting. He couldn't stand the noise the saru usually made but this, this was worse. Of course, Sanzo had absolutely no intention on letting his charge know he felt like that. After a few more minutes of quiet, Sanzo spoke up again. "What happened?" he asked, just short of sounding brusque.

"You were there, you saw what happened." Came the hesitant reply.

Sanzo scowled at Goku's response, "What happened today?" he repeated.

A moment passed, "I thought you weren't interested. You told me to go away when I tried to tell you this morning."

"I'm asking now. You know I don't like having to repeat myself." Sanzo tried very hard not to snap it was like trying to give up breathing, very difficult to do.

Goku was quiet a little longer and Sanzo's irritation began to rise until finally he heard the saru take a deep breath after which, Goku told the whole story as he knew it. Sanzo listened without interrupting, even when at a couple of points during the retelling of the day's events, Goku seemed to take the scenic route. It was at those points that the monk grit his teeth in order to avoid snapping at the saru.

Never once during his narrative, did Goku come around into Sanzo's sight. It was a fact that the monk did not fail to notice, though he refused to draw attention to it. When Goku finished speaking, ending with mentioning the laxative in Sue's drink, Sanzo fought against a twitch threatening the corners of his mouth. He finally spoke, "Hhn, sounds like a succubus has targeted the kappa."

After a slight pause, he heard Goku move and at last come around the tree to face him. The saru still didn't look him in the eye but it was an improvement. "A succubus? What's that?"

"What this Sue obviously is. A succubus will bring its victim under their control, turning them against his friends and family if they get in her way. Once the hold they have on their victim is complete, they will drain them dry by feeding fully on their life force." Sanzo explained with a remarkable patience.

"Then what?" Goku asked quietly.

"The victim, in this case the perverted cockroach, will be left a withered husk. He'll be dead." Sanzo added flatly.

"Oh… I, I told Gojyo I would leave him alone. He hates me." Goku said slowly, sadly.

Sanzo rolled his eyes, "Didn't you listen to what I just said? A succubus turns their victim against his friends. Whatever the cockroach has said today, I doubt he's meant much, if any of it. That is her control over him speaking."

"Okay." Goku swallowed and finally looked up into Sanzo's eyes, though he seemed to almost physically recoil as he did.

"What is it now?" Sanzo asked, his already strained patience at its limit.

Goku looked away, "Why haven't you taken me back to the cave? I know I always annoy you."

Sanzo breathed slowly and evenly through grit teeth. He had known since Goku and Gojyo's fight that this question was coming but what could he tell the saru? That he actually liked him? That he would miss him if he were no longer there? Not an option. "What did I just tell you, twice, about anything the kuso kappa said?" Even in the dark, the monk could see the obvious hurt in Goku's face as Sanzo dodged the question.

"Yeah…" Goku muttered and thought, 'I knew it, Sanzo hates having me around and it's not like anyone needs me.'

"Oi! Saru! I… if I had taken you back there you would have only been more annoying. Your voice would have only started up in my head again worse than before. By being here, I can at least have some peace."

It was a backhanded way of telling Goku that he wanted him around but it was a way that Sanzo could tell him without compromising the monk's own emotional walls. Not to mention that it was also an admission that Goku, knowing Sanzo the way he did, would be able to understand. Indeed, the saru's eyes lit up happily at the monk's words and he smiled, happy to know that his sun wanted him around after all.

At any rate, though it had been the truth that Sanzo spoke, he also knew that Goku's 'voice' never completely left. Occasionally, it was louder but for the most part, it had receded to a much quieter background noise, usually noticeable only by its absence. That 'voice', miserable as it had been tonight, was what had lead the monk to the saru.

Without any further words, Sanzo lit up another cigarette and began the walk back to the inn they were staying in, Goku running after him, much happier than he had been before.

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After a couple of hours, Sue's stomach and bowels had eased up on her enough that she felt she could risk not being within hovering distance of a toilet. She walked seductively over to where a concerned Gojyo sat and drew him into a deep kiss. It didn't really matter how much effort she put into it, her mere proximity was like an intoxicating drug. Without even trying, he would believe that it was the hottest kiss he had ever received and that worked in her favour. She had only drugged him in the beginning so that there would be less chance of him thinking twice about her and running, or just leaving in the middle of the night or following morning before dawn.

Sue pulled her head away from Gojyo and he hungrily moved his head toward her. "No Gojyo, please."

He pulled away, "What's the matter? Did I do something wrong?"

She smiled gently, "No, you didn't do anything wrong. It's… it's your friends."

"What friends?" Gojyo asked, "They sure haven't been acting much like friends lately."

"Yes…" Sue looked away from him and made a show of allowing fear to appear on her face. "I'm… I'm scared of them, of Goku. After everything he has done today, I'm scared of what he might try next time."

Gojyo looked at her sympathetically and she continued. "There's Hakkai too. I just don't like the way he has been looking at me. He hasn't said anything but it feels as though he is threatening me every time he looks at me. I don't know much of Sanzo but…"

"The less said about that bouzu, the better." Gojyo interrupted dryly. "He's the type that would shoot you just as easily as look at you."

A genuine fear filled Sue's eyes as she took in that piece of information. "Really?" At Gojyo's nod, she asked, "Then why do you stay with him and the others?"

"Hakkai's there." Gojyo frowned. "I guess that's changed now though. I'm not going any further with them. I think, I really believe that we can make something of this relationship and I definitely don't want to lose you. Would you mind if I stayed?"

Sue felt an enormous satisfaction fill her being and she honestly, for once, answered, "Nothing would make happier dear Gojyo. Still, this doesn't change the fact that I'm too scared of them and of what they might try, to stay here tonight. Do you mind if we sneak out and find another inn?"

Gojyo pulled his love into a close embrace and gave her a quick kiss. "I don't have any problems with that at all." He replied eager to accommodate her in any way possible, not to mention that right now, he felt like getting away from the others just as much as she did.

Sue pulled away from him smiling happily. "Great, just let me grab a few things and," she dropped the volume of her voice in embarrassment, "rush to the toilet again. Then we can be out the window within minutes."

Gojyo nodded with a loving smile as he watched Sue gather her things. Once she was ready and had made another trip to the lavatory, he climbed out the window of their first floor room ahead of his love in order to catch the bag she threw down to him. Gojyo put her belongings to the side and then caught her when she also jumped down. Then he picked up her bag and the two ran quickly into the night, in search of a new place to stay.

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When Sanzo and Goku returned to the inn, they noticed that Hakkai and Hakuryu were still at the table, much of the food still untouched. Goku felt his stomach grumble at the sight of it so when they headed over to meet Hakkai, he ran ahead. Once he reached the table, the youth picked up a meat bun and about to shove it into his mouth, he paused, "Are you ok, Hakkai?"

Hakkai looked up in mild surprise, he hadn't realised that Goku and Sanzo had returned already. Since Gojyo and Sue left, he'd been sitting here with Hakuryu, unenthusiastic about actually moving from his seat. "Goku! Yes, I'm fine." He replied with his customary smile to cover up his true feelings. "I've just been trying to think about how to deal with Gojyo and Sue. Though, I have been rather concerned about you as well. Are you alright now?"

"I was upset before but I'm good now. Really hungry but good." Goku grinned at his friend and finally stuffed the meat bun into his mouth. He then felt a much softer than usual 'thwap' from Sanzo's fan on his head and he looked around at the monk in surprise.

Sanzo settled into his seat and in a slightly short tone said, "If you plan on eating bakazaru, then sit down!"

The youth looked slightly embarrassed and sat, which prompted a vaguely amused smile from the healer. Then Sanzo spoke up again, this time to Hakkai.

"I heard what has happened today. From what Goku told me, it seems like the cockroach has been targeted by a succubus." Sanzo stated.

"A succubus?" Hakkai repeated in astonishment. "That would explain a lot. But, why didn't I realise?" he wondered, more to himself than anybody else.

"Have you ever dealt with a succubus before?" The monk asked.

Hakkai shook his head, "I can't say that I have. Have you?"

"No. They are only rarely heard of since their victims usually die alone. People close to the victim usually don't know what is happening since they get driven away or rejected by those they once thought were their friends." Sanzo glared slightly in Goku's direction, "You were lucky, saru."

Goku swallowed his cold food and looked to his mentor in confusion. "How was I lucky?"

"To be alive. You were getting in her way and not taking her hints to leave her and the kappa alone." The blonde explained. "She's probably been having to work at keeping that kuso-kappa on his leash and wasn't able to spare the energy or concentration to deal with you indefinitely. Out at that river would have been the perfect place to take care of any annoyances. No-one would have noticed or said anything, except the kappa and like usual, his brain isn't functioning correctly."

Hakkai started slightly at those words, giving Sanzo a slightly sharp look even as Goku responded to the monk's comment.

"Oh." Was all the youth said, looking down at the table.

Goku and Sanzo then heard a scraping sound that caught their attention and they looked up to see Hakkai pushing away from the table, standing up. "If Gojyo is truly in that much danger then I am not willing to play around any longer." Hakkai explained, a hint of anger creeping into his otherwise polite, soft-spoken voice. "Whether he likes it or not, if I have to, I will drag him away from her."

"Kyuu!" Hakuryu cried out in agreement with his master.

Goku grinned and also pushed away from the table. "I'm coming too."

Sanzo just continued to sit there and lit up another cigarette as the others looked expectantly to him. "Sanzo? Aren't you coming?" Hakkai inquired insistently.

The monk expelled a large cloud of smoke from his lungs before replying, "You don't need me." He said flatly. If he caught the look of disappointment and annoyance that quickly passed over the healer's face, Sanzo did not let on.

"Fine," Hakkai replied with a forced cheerfulness, "if that is your choice. Lets go, Goku." The teenager nodded even as he stared at Sanzo a moment longer, before following the healer from the table, Hakuryu kyuued softly from his perch on Hakkai's shoulder.

Trying not to appear obvious about it, Sanzo watched in concern as the other three left the room.

- - -

"This is Sue's room?" Goku asked in surprise. It was only a couple of doors down from the one Hakkai was supposed to have been sharing with Gojyo.

Hakkai nodded and said "Yes, it is." He knocked on the door solidly and waited. There was no reply so he tried again. When there was still no reply, Hakkai tried the handle only to find it locked. "Gojyo!" he called. No reply. The healer grew worried and began knocking repeatedly while calling his friend's name.

When there still were no results, Goku turned, running down the hall and stairs to exit the inn. Once outside, he ran to the side of the building where Sue's room was located and summoned his staff, "Nyoi-bo!" he called. The teenager planted the end of the weapon firmly on the ground and commanded it to grow longer, causing it to lift him to be level with the open window. He peered inside. The room was lit but there was no sign of movement within. Goku climbed inside, sending Nyoi-bo back to wherever it came from and ran over to the door, unlocking it and letting the worried healer and dragon inside.

"There isn't anyone here." Goku told them, pointing out the obvious.

Hakkai's face turned ashen as he looked around, nodding. "And from the looks of things, most of Sue's belongings are gone." He observed. Hakkai then slowly added, "They appear to have run off together."

To be continued

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Thanks to everyone who has reviewed

C.T Saiyukily Twisted: Yeah… Gojyo certainly isn't thinking straight at the moment and man did he go too far with what he said. Still, its not really him, his mind is being toyed with. I also feel as though I have been near Sue for too long. (smiles) Thank you for calling me evil :-)

ZL: Sorry, I can't kill her off just yet… much as I want to. I need her to help finish the story so you will need to put up with her living state for several more chapters yet. The thing about Gojyo is that he can be such a jerk, just not usually this much of one. And I truly do like him. He is one of my 5 favourite characters. I like Kougaiji the best and slot number two is a toss up between the four main characters. I just can never decide :-)

SweetSnowCherryblossomDarkness: Ah, that's ok about not signing in. I hope the computer is a bit better off now. Hakkai is quite huggable and I can see him needing one right about now so I wont tell if you give him one :-)