A/N: This story contains context of a graphic and violent nature that some may find offensive. Also, this story contains a slash sub-story. If this offends you, extreme and detailed violence then please do not read my story. If you do like this kind of story, please read on!

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DISCLAIMER: I do not (unfortunatley) own the Saiyuki boys or anything related to them. :Which is a shame really: Well, it's probabaly a good thing because I would deprive the world of them by keeping them in a box under my bed. As soon as I save up enough money I'll buy them and...ahem anyway. Please don't sue me, I have no money. ((Note to self: get a job and buy the Saiyuki boys then put them in a box under my bed))

GOJYO: I didn't get laid! -outraged-

(Sanzo smacks him over the back of the head with his fan)

GOJYO: Why'd ya have to go and do that!

HAKKAI: Although he does not go about it in the exact right way, he does have a point. You should have more respect in women.

GOJYO: I just wanna screw them.

ME: HEY!

(Gojyo tries to fend me off against my outraged self)

HAKKAI: Oh dear

SANZO: There she goes again. KEEP IT DOWN.

ME: What is the point of the sufferage if you're going to say stuff like that Gojyo and I dont beat the shit out of you for it!

GOKU: What's the sufferage?

HAKKAI: The sufferage was a point in history of this world where women who were opressed because of their sex protested about equal rights and the right to vote.

GOKU: Oh...well...I like cheesecake. O.O

(Hakkai emerges from the kitchen dressed in a pink frilly apron)

HAKKAI: Oh? Because I made you one. . Alex, could you please stop strangling Gojyo so that we can eat the cake?

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Chapter five: Here, let me help you

Early

Morning

Let me know you well

Want to

Hear you

Underneath your spell

Lips are

Trembling

Like the Autumn leaves

Hold me

Kiss me

Restless heart it cleaves

Every

Sunday

Make me feel the air

Move

Be-

-side me

Let me take you there

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Gojyo woke and she wasn't beside him. He sat up in the empty bed, it was still dark outside. It was raining outside. That beautiful damp scent was absorbed into the bark of the nearby trees. The gentle early morning breeze poured into the small room somewhat extinguishing the scent of lust and sweat from the prostitute's room.

He slumped over the matress, droopy lids aching from sleep deprivation. He pushed strands of hair from his eyes and looked to the open window. The silky material of the curtain bristling as if being sucked outside of the room by some kind of vaccum. His lazy eyes brushed over the tiny sparkling stars in the black sky. He sighed deeply and took the crumpled packet of cigarettes from the bedside table. His fingernails shone in the dim glow of his matchstick flame.

"Man. I am exhausted"

Gojyo grumbled. A smoke always helped him sleep. A smoke or a blowjob but he didn't think he was going to get one of those tonight. He lay his head back against the wall and exhaled the grey smoke into the darkness of the bedroom. Watching it catch the glow of the moonshine, which seemed to make every boring object around him a little radient and luminous.

And omnious growel of thunder echoed across the village and moments later a jagged line of electricity bolted through the sky. "I hate thunder storms." Ebony re-entered the room and lay back down on the bed. She was shivering. She had goosebumps. Gojyo wondered if he should intervene.

Now she was crying.

/Beautiful, juuuust great./

"Whas the matter?"

No reply.

"hey, I was talkin to you." He turned her over, her face was illustrated with bruises, tears smudging the blood beneath her eye. He narrowed his brow. "What happened?" He asked a little more gently. She didn't answer. "Lady, did you hear me? What happened? Who did this to you?" She grinned "Is this compassion?" He glared. "Tell me who did this." She turned back over. "The inn keeper. Ironic really, he beat me because I didn't sleep with you." He wanted to ask why it was ironic. But he decided instead to go and beat the shit out of the damned inn keeper. He stood up and pulled his shirt on. "Where are you going" She asked without looking at him. "To teach that scum of life a lesson." He took one last drag from his cigarette and crushed the glowing end on the bed side table. The light from the hallway hurt Ebony's eye. She stared at the door long after it had closed.

"Heeey, welcome back to the dancefloor sir. Are you here to pick up another girl?" The inn keeper beamed with a sleazy smile. Gojyo pulled his fist back and slammed it - clenched - into the man's face. The instant crack satisfied gojyo. "Never hit a woman unless she is an insane youkai who wants to eat your brains."

And walked away.

When he returned to the room Ebony was sitting upright when he returned. She was trembling somewhat. Bleeding from the lip. Gojyo made sure he took a glass of water from the bar while he was there. He took a cloth from the drawer and carefully dampened the cloth. She pulled away from him. "Calm down Lady, I just wanna help." He said annoyed. She became still and eyed him suspiciously as he dabbed at the mottled blood on her chin. "Why" She questioned. "Dunno, because it's the right thing to do aint it?" She winced and blinked.

"Is it?"

He shrugged, "If it shuts you up." She glared at him, her hand at her eye patch. "When did you lose your eye?" "None of your business" She snapped. He put the cloth down and slipped his shirt off. "Go to sleep" he demanded. He lumbered sluggishly over to the couch and flopped onto the cusions. She looked to him, listened to him fall asleep and drew the blanket over his body. When she first saw this half youkai waltz into the bar she immediatley hated him. Although he spoke to her with a bitter tone, his words were tender.

She watched him from her bed, watched his lashes against his cheek. Her heart beat beneath her ribs. She rolled over and looked out the window. Pushed the blanket aside and stepped out to the balcony. /This village is full of sin, children are murdered, women exploited...men control. The good men were "taken care of."/ She looked to the ground far below her. She had propelled herself out of this window once and ensured that she did not die in order to protect the innocent. The real evil lived right there, in the hearts of all those who would use another for their own personal gain. She clutched her chest, grimaced and looked back to Gojyo. She wondered what his motives were.

She chose not to sleep that night just to watch the sun rise and vanquish the shadows before her. She walked down to the bar, her eye swollen from the night before. The inn keeper had a bandage over his nose. "You can forget about workin' here sweetheart" he sneered. "I'm sorry? I didn't quite understand. Are you saying I can't take my top off for old perverts anymore? Oh, I am sooo dissapointed." Sarcasm oozing in her elegant sounding voice.

Hakkai greeted her with a friendly smile. "Did you sleep well last night?" She nodded and took a seat beside him. "Here, I ordered this tea for you" He pushed a white cup towards her "I heard that Gojyo caused a little trouble." Ebony scoffed and rose the tea cup to her lips that Hakkai had produced. "No, the inn keeper did. He did this to my eye" she replied coolly. Hakkai looked discusted. "Gojyo took care of it last night?" He asked. "Yes." He drummed his fingers against the side of his cup. "How...unusual" Hakkai smiled. "Morning Sanzo" Sanzo grunted and took a seat. He opened the newspaper he had under his arm and pushed his glasses along the slope of his nose.

"Where is Gojyo?" Asked Hakkai sipping his tea. "He's waking the monkey" repied Sanzo shortly. "I can only imagine his tactics" chuckled Hakkai. Sanzo glanced at Ebony "Are you going to eat something." She shook her head "Anything I order could be poisoned. I would rather not risk it." Sanzo shot Hakkai a quizzical glance. "Oh, the inn keeper and Gojyo had a little row last night." "Why" "Because the inn keeper gave miss Ebony a black eye" Sanzo pushed the chair out, strode over to the inn keeper and punched him in his already broken nose. Hakkai winced and touched Ebony's hand. "perhaps we should leave?" He suggested mildly. Goku stumbled into view, eager for his breakfast. "We're leaving" said Sanzo over his shoulder. Goku dropped to his knees, his stomach growling like a starved lion. "AWWW MAN BUT I HAVEN'T EATEN YET!" - Outraged. Gojyo dragged the disraught Goku kicking and struggling from the inn.

Hakkai approached the driver's side of Jeep and glanced to Ebony. "Erm...would you like to please sit on Goku's lap while the jeep is in motion?" He asked carefully and politely. Sanzo glanced at Ebony and sat back offering his lap to her. Everybody could see that he wasn't thrilled by the idea, but he dealt with it passively.

Gojyo blinked and took his usual seat in the back beside Goku. "WHEN DO I GET TO EAT!" Whined Goku. Sanzo turned sharply "Shut-" Goku's eyes brimmed with innocent tears, a pleading look with Sanzo. The preist turned his back and crossed his arms over his chest. Hakkai continued driving. Ebony looked at Gojyo in the rear-view mirror.

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