"So now can we fight?" asked Goku, and Kougaiji had to agree.

"It looks like we meet again – " Yeah, yeah, fast-forward to the good chunks, forget this lousy dialogue.

Jien: Y'know, this author isn't so bad.

Yaone: Don't let her do that to you.

Jien: You have a point, there.

Kougaiji leaped back just in time to avoid a swipe of the Nyoi-bo, but Goku smiled even wider as he moved to close the gap between them, separating the Nyoi-bo into its three sections. Their eyes met as, for a moment, they paused in mid-air, similar bloodthirsty grins plastered all over their faces.

Hakkai got thwapped in the head by a medicine ball. He turned to see Yaone staring back at him, a determined look on her own face. They nodded to each other, and Yaone opened her mouth to speak –

"I'm doing this for Lord Kougaiji – " Yadda yadda, and the battle between ki and alchemy began.

Dokugakuji and Gojyo merely looked at each other, then began their own fight. The clash of metal rang through the clearing.

Lilin chomped happily on one of Sanzo's meat buns.

Finally.

Sanzo sure gets it lucky in these fights, doesn't he?

"GENJO SANZO!" Roared a horde of youkai. "THE SUTRA!"

Goku and Kougaiji paused again in mid-air, and Kougaiji turned only enough to narrow his eyes at the horde leader. The leader, for his part, meeped accordingly, and Sanzo was left once again with Lilin, the other youkai having departed quickly.

"Damn you," Sanzo muttered in Kougaiji's general direction. And just for good measure, he said it in Goku's direction as well.

Meanwhile, Yaone and Hakkai were having tea and crumpets in the back seat of Jeep, and Dokugakuji and Gojyo were doing Bruce Lee impressions in the creek.

"HWAAOOoohhhhhhhh…"