Darkened Fear's Part Five

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Moments later

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"Great how did this ever happen?" Zonaki was hiding behind a rock, all bruised and beaten, there was blood stains on her caped coat and purple V necked T-shirt.

Hakkai was sitting right beside her, but in a more devastating condition, there was blood all over his white sash, his monocle was broken there was a crack down the middle of it and seemed to be suffering from a broken leg.

"Well if I recall, we were in a middle of a fight, that youkai swooped down, attacked you making you fly all the way over, then you banged into me and I got my leg broken in contact, then a whole group of youkai appeared and then we separated from Sanzo and the others and…"

"Alright, no need to go into so much detail Hakkai, I get the picture"

Zonaki closed her eyes a bit annoyed and frustrated.

'My fault for asking, I guess' Zonaki scratched her head as she stood up, she peeped around the corner, it was very dark, she couldn't see anyone let alone the enemy.

"I'd really go for one of Sanzo's fits right about now?" Zonaki sighed.

'Great, I didn't think I'd miss the old grump for a couple of minutes, let alone a day' thought Zonaki.

"Yes well I think we wouldn't find him by lying around here, so shall we get going then" suggested Hakkai.

"Yeah, come on" Zonaki went over to Hakkai, taking his right arm and taking it around her neck, and she lifted him up, Hakkai groaned.

"Don't suppose you can be a little bit gentler can you?" asked Hakkai as he smiled at her innocently as usual.

"How can I be gentle when we're kind a running for our lives, and that if Sanzo finds us we'd be cold corpses by then…"

"No need to be angry with me" Hakkai looked kind a worried at how Zonaki suggested that sentence she just pronounced.

"I'm not angry…" snapped Zonaki.

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What they up to I wonder?

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"OWWW! Watch were your going Monkey" you can tell that was Gojyo, who else would yell when they get hurt?

"Well I'm not the one who was running round screaming and shouting curse words" snapped Goku.

"Was not shouting" went the Kappa

"Was too"

"SHUT THE F UP!" Sanzo pointed his pistol to Goku and Gojyo and fired, luckily the bullet missed.

"YOU COULD'VE KILLED US YOU BALD HEADED PRIEST!" Gojyo yelled

Sanzo ignored him as he reloaded his pistol, carefully inserting the smooth bullets into the slits, and then looked at Gojyo, replying to his annoying cry, "It missed didn't it?"

Gojyo infuriated walked over to Sanzo, "Listen, we barely have that time to play target practice, we've got to find Hakkai and Zonaki….."

"We know that Ero Kappa, it's just how we find them first? Or where they are" Sanzo took out a cigarette and lighted it with his lighter.

"Do you think they're going to be okay Sanzo?" Goku look very concerned

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Well back to the other two

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"Grrrrrrrrr, know what? I hate the dark" growled Zonaki as she slammed her hand on the rocky surfaced wall.

"The feelings neutral" Hakkai smiled

"You know you could at least be a little bit concerned in a situation like this? We lost Sanzo, Goku, Hakaryu and Gojyo, you've got a broken leg, and there are thousands of youkai here wanting to kill us and…"

"Your afraid aren't yeah?" interrupted Hakkai as he looked at her with yet another innocent smile.

No comment, Hakkai closed his eyes "I must say you're doing a pretty good job in hiding it, but your afraid of the dark aren't you?" Hakkai opened them again and looked at her.

Zonaki nodded, "Yes your right? But how did you?"

"Remember when the torch went out, you ran into me, it was too dark so you wouldn't have known what was going on? But I remember the way when you screamed, you were terrified weren't you?"

Again Zonaki didn't answer; Hakkai looked over, and then stared down to the darkness of the cave, as the darkness stretched endlessly.

"You remember the time when Goku went into his demon form for a first time?"

"Yeah, he went completely out of control and almost took that Rikudo guy out" Zonaki replied

Hakkai continued "Yes he did, but remember after, he couldn't stop worrying about Sanzo and I went in to find him?"

Zonaki closed her eyes to remember that, she turned her face back and shock her head, "Yeah, I was there by the door yeah know? You told him to be strong and…"

"Well I want you to listen to those words too, it kind a complies with the same situation"

"Not really Hakkai…the words you said to Goku were, 'In order to help someone you must learn to help yourself, If you have someone who trusts you, you should try all you can to protect yourself' and then you go on to say 'We need to live up to that, Grow strong and be proud of it' Where your exact words if I'm wrong?"

Hakkai was the one with nothing to say this time as they continued down the dark passage way.

"Those words only had something to do with helping others and not to do with your fears"

Hakkai smiled and closed his eyes, "Yes I suppose your right…"

A moment of silence filled the air, 'Wonder if I was being too harsh?' thought Zonaki.

"But you know, sometimes in order to get past your fears is to face them…" Zonaki looked up at Hakkai wondering what he was saying.

"What do you mean Hakkai?" Zonaki looked at him innocently, like she didn't have a clue, like an innocent nine year old than a nineteen year old.

"Well lets say that I'm afraid of the water…I try my best to get over that fear, by simply go into it, facing it head on, but if I don't then I'll suffer for the rest of my life terrified in fear of it, we don't face it, how can we ever decide to ourselves what we can do to get over it?" Hakkai looked down giving her a smile with his eyes closed.

Zonaki looked at him, confused, as they walked down the passage way, and then there was a sound of constant mumbles and horrific laughs. Zonaki stopped.

"What is it?" Hakkai looked at Zonaki then looked down the passage way, and then he could finally hear the constant mumbles and laughs as well.

"Wait here for a second…" Zonaki settled Hakkai gently near the hard surface of the caves walls, then rose up, "Not back in three minutes, begin to worry" teased Zonaki.

Zonaki ran down the passage way, "Kasthra Cyo" she whispered and a marble like flail came into view, she slashed it out, it went out like a snake slithering quickly to get to it's prey.

There was a sound of screams coming down the passage way, Zonaki stopped and swung the flail back so she can catch the end with her free hand.

Zonaki then threw her flail away, it vanished, Zonaki clapped her hands together, and then slowly parted them, and a sphere glowing bright blue appeared. Zonaki then threw the blue sphere down the passage way, there was a sound of it making contact.

'Hang on a sec if I use my Aurnia magic then I can cause a cave in, duh Zonaki' Zonaki thought angrily.

Zonaki strode off down the passage way, she hear some groaning, what Zonaki could tell there was three figures, lying on the floor.

"'Oh don't worry we wouldn't get attacked in miles', or where those you exact words?" moaned a voice, Zonaki stood shocked, she knew who that voice belonged to.

Zonaki ran down the passage way and got to the three shadowed figures, eyes widened, jaw dropped in shock, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.

Sanzo, Goku and Gojyo were lying on the ground, Sanzo was strangling Gojyo, Goku was completely dramatised or mystified as the eye can see.

Gojyo was taping his hand on the ground.

"Hey I didn't know that there would be Youkai down here, don't blame me Priesty" Gojyo kept tapping on the ground, "And besides I give up, I GIVE UP!"

"Can you two get off me now, I'M DYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!" shrieked Goku

Sanzo looked down on him with a glare

"OH SHUT UP!" Sanzo got out the harisen and smacked him with it.

"Um? Guy's?"

The three of them stopped their bickering, and looked up, eyes widened and surprised.

"Zonaki-chan?" Goku looked at her, again innocent.

"I didn't hurt you guys did I?" Zonaki looked at them concerned

Sanzo looked at her, with an angry look, so did Gojyo "That was you?"

"Ummmm? I guess a sorry won't work would it, I thought you were the enemy?" Zonaki laughed nervously.

"Oh now I understand…" Sanzo glared

"You know what we have to do Sanzo?" Gojyo sniggered

"Um? Oh Shit"

The End, To be Continued