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Ehem.... therefore, here is the next chapter!!!!

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Summary : Hakkai is out of the prison. I bet u have guessed it. Aaand... we begin with the action part!!!! Here u will meet more charas. Enjoy.
"Uwaaaah delicious!!! Delicious!!! That is super-tasty!!!"

Hakkai smiles at the overjoyed Goku. When he doesn't know Goku, here or there, he would say that he has not been eating for centuries.
"Do you like it?"
"Yes, yes, I like it very much. What is it??"
"It is only a soup with mushrooms and artichokes."

Hakkai gets the job easily, no wonder, since his cooking skill has been proved during the journey. Goku is very happy that Hakkai is finally out of the prison, Gojyo admires Hakkai's "toughness", and in the end Sanzo, who doesn't give any comment to Hakkai's cooking skill nor does he treat Hakkai as a person he has put in jail a few days ago.

A hand pats Hakkai's shoulder as he is about to wash the dishes. It's Gojyo.
"Now you are part of us. I think it is necessary to introduce myself formally to you."
He stands right behind the sunset, giving a very impressive background to his profile.
"I am Sha Gojyo, the present leader of our Swamp Clan."

Hakkai tries his best to suppress his laughter, but Gojyo doesn't look bothered at all.
"Well, well, of course I can't expect you to say that it is a great name for a clan. But that's the reality."
Hakkai chuckles.

"And my dear brother in law, who sits over there and eats greedily, is the leader of the Stone Clan."
Hakkai starts to ponder if this is all his imagination.
"There you can't be astonished. They are really as hard as stones. Try with him..."

"He!!! I heard that!!!" yells Goku to them.

"What are these clans actually?" asks Hakkai amazed.
Gojyo scratches his head.
"Uh, well... we are all, of course, one.. ehm.. tribe. You may call it so. But we are all divided into 4 clans. So... there are Swamp, Stone, Goldfish—belongs to Sanzo..."

Hakkai's face grows pale as he forces himself not to burst out with laughter.
"Oh, are you having stomachache? Just sit down, it will be better," says Gojyo casually, not noticing how Hakkai's body shakes for suppressing the laughter.

"So, where was I? Ah, yes. And the next is.. uhm, I do really forget."

Hakkai has stopped holding his stomach, as he says to himself that in this story he is supposed to be the leader of the fourth clan.
An immense pain pricks somewhere around his heart.

"So, and for sure you have known that Sanzo is the leader of the leaders..."
"Wait," Hakkai cuts him off. "Who is the leader of the fourth clan, then?"
It doesn't look as if Gojyo were happy to continue talking about this matter, nonetheless he answers.

"The clan is now.. well you can say that it is gone. It has emerged with Sanzo's clan, even if the people of this clan never claim to be member of Goldfish Clan. They do respect the last leader so much that they don't want to lose the remembrance of him."

Hakkai looks at the sand under his feet. He can hear his voice come out of his mouth and ask,
"Can you tell me about the last leader of this clan? Is he dead?"

Gojyo shakes his head.
"No. He disappears one day. With his sister."

That's probably me, says Hakkai to himself.

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A scream brings Hakkai out of his thoughts. Suddenly people are running in chaos.
"What happens?" he turns to Gojyo. Gojyo reveals his shakujo under his cloak, ready to attack anyone or anything which cause the chaos.

"Let's continue later," he says shortly before he rushes to the screaming crowd, not even waiting for Hakkai's response.

Hakkai doesn't belong to the people who prefer to watch than to act, anyway. Soon he forms his well-known ki-balls as he runs after Gojyo.
It should be no problem after all, when the ki-balls do appear.
The big problem starts to manifest itself as Hakkai's aware that nothing shows up on his hand palms. Hakkai is terrified and shocked. This, maybe, is the biggest shock he ever had after finding himself in this unknown environment.

Hakkai stands in awe, staring at his hands, nearly expecting that the ki-balls will appear any time. At that moment a strong grip on his shoulder throws him to the ground. Sanzo peers at him, clearly pissed off.

"Don't stand here around. Go and hide if you don't want to die!"

Hakkai is startled. He is not used to be told to hide, moreover not by Sanzo!
Hakkai jumps to the side in time as a kick is about to hit him. He glances at the attacker and faces Lirin's surprised face.
"Oh, wow. Never know that someone as good as you belongs to this tribe." She comments.
"Thank you." answers Hakkai politely--like usual, never forgets to thank anyone who makes compliments to him.
"Heey, leave him alone, I am your opponent!!"

Goku lands with a high jump on the ground exactly between Hakkai and Lirin, his nyoibou firmly held in his hand..
"Yo, long time no see!!" greets Lirin cheerfully and the fight starts without any other word exchange.

Hakkai misses his ki-balls, but when he has to fight, he can also fight with his own hands.
And he doesn't need to look for victims... they come to him.

In the middle of this chaos, nobody really notices that a small figure perfectly covered in brown cloak steals her way to the prison. Her hands are trembling as she pushes the prison door aside.

Inside, Dokugakuji whistles to the commotion outside. The tiny figure tiptoes slowly to his cell and lets out a little gasp as she sees him.
"Why does it take so long?" Dokugakuji asks, turning to the tiny figure.
Her hood slides back and reveals a gentle face with two watery eyes.

"Yaone."

"Ugh!!"
Hakkai is doing quite well since he has been busy doing the same thing for 15 minutes. Elbowing and punching the people around is really no problem for him, but he starts to ask himself, when it will end. More than that, he moves gradually farther and farther, apart from his own people, in this case the people from Sanzo, Goku and Gojyo. Ceaselessly shot bullets tell him that Sanzo is okay somewhere, but he has gotten no sign from Goku and Gojyo.
And just as this thought goes across his head, Goku lands over a big muscled man who is about to be finished by Hakkai (Wonder which one he would prefer..). And not safe and sound. Goku bleeds at many parts of his body, including the head.

"Aaah..." groans Goku.

"Goku!!" screams Hakkai worried. A sword next to him just matches the condition. He reaches for it and swings it energetically around. Successfully forcing a bunch of people to stay back, Hakkai runs as fast as he can with Goku on his back.

It is too strange. Goku won't be injured that badly in normal fights like this. He lays him slowly on the ground after running some meters away from the fight area.

"Take breath, Goku... I will help you."

And that is it. Hakkai has lost not only his ki-balls, but also his healing power. And Goku's injures look so serious, he could die of blood loss!!

"Hey, here are two!!"

As if that were not enough, some of their enemies find their hiding place and start to attack them enthusiastically. And unfortunately, Hakkai has left the sword at the "cauldron of war" as he ran away before...


"Strange, these people attack like crazy." remarks Gojyo. "And they don't look as if they will go before we are totally destroyed."
"Hmm." responses Sanzo, his eyes wander over the people fighting with each other.

He can see Lirin kicking his people happily about 10 meters away from them. And Kougaiji stands in front of them. Both sides are now taking a short break. No one is trying to interfere, anyway. Kougaiji is holding a giant lance firmly despite his bleeding arm. Gojyo with his shakujo and finally Sanzo with his gun plus the deadly looks. They look threatening enough.

Sanzo thinks hard. Usually Kougaiji and his men don't act this way. They are commonly well equiped with plans. But today they attacks blindly. As if.... As if....

Then a thought strikes through his head like a thunder. Sanzo turns around to run..

"Sanzo!!!"
..and is stopped by Kougaiji's lance thrown just in front of him.
"Too late." notes Kougaiji.

Sanzo scowls at him. "You..."

Hakkai can't stand it any longer. He has no weapon and his power has reached its limit. It's over. It's over with them. He dodges some hits but fails to see a lance thrusted to his head. Hakkai can't evade it anymore.....