To LN Tora, I am thinking about making this story a little bit
of hurting-and-comforting but I guess you'll have to wait for that! Glad
to know you like the part where Gojyo was being tortured! ^_~
Gojyo:
Why the hell do you like to make me suffer?! * grumble *
ME: Gojyo,
you're too gorgeous for any demon to resist! Ask Hakkai! (Pleading
silently at Hakkai)
Hakkai: Well, I'll back you up if you let me the
one to screw Gojyo instead of Kenshin. * smiles *
Kenshin: Hey! Wait
for your turn!
To Blinkie , I was picturing how angry Gojyo was at that time
and the way he was expressing it. I'm sooo glad you thought it is sexy as
well!! I love a story with a little twist in it and I try to do that every
time I write one. ^_^
ME: Look, Gojyo! Another reader love to see you
tortured!
Gojyo: * Groaning * Great! Just great! All right, how are you
going to repay me if I agreed to do another of this stupid scene?
ME:
Um… (looked around frantically and saw Hakkai) … I promised to write a
very sexy and sensual scene you and Hakkai if you did this for
me.
Gojyo: * Instantly * Fine! (Give Hakkai a very suggestive wink)The
thing I did for you, Hakkai!
To Ms. C , Thank you!! ^o^
ME: Kougaiji! Somebody wants me
to write something about you.
Kougaiji: Huh? (Glaring) Whatever. Just
don't you dare write about me just like you did to Gojyo.
ME: Why?
(scratching my head) Everyone still thinks Gojyo sexy…
Kougaiji:
(summoning a demon already)
ME: Fine, fine… (sweat-dropping)
Disclaimer: I do not own Saiyuki. Never did and never will. ( -_- )
A Curse of Taboo Child
Chapter 5: The Two Potions
The laboratory was dark when Zean closed the door. There were only a few candles to light up the room. There was no way he could work on the potion when he was hearing those obscene sounds from Kenshin's room. But even by closing the door, Zean could still hear the distressful muffling of Gojyo and he started to imagine the scene behind the closed door. He closed his eyes, feeling heartsick and totally furious as he tried to destroy the hateful images in his mind. He knew he would not find a moment peace until he found a way to make Gojyo pay.
Zean looked at the plastic bottle which contained the half-breed's blood. His blood is as red as ours… How can something that looks so similar be so special? He knew he was supposed to make a potion that enable demons to take off their control device. Bloods that had both human and demon's strengths and weaknesses could conceal demons' weakness and make them stronger.
Zean knew that would happen if he injected the potion into a demon. …Wait a minute… Zean straightened up as a thought struck his head. What if he injected the potion that contains demon's blood into a taboo child? Would it make him stronger or weaker? Then a pleasant possibility came out. Would it kill him? The blue-black haired demon stood up and started to pace around.
"I've planned to modify the blood, so it can blend with demon's blood. With that, the demon will have blood that is almost as same as the half-breed, only stronger," Zean said to himself, excited by the sudden idea. "But what if, I injected the potion that is made out from demon's blood into a taboo child?" The idea sounded so intriguing and perfect that Zean couldn't wait to start.
He pulled out a piece of paper and started to write the formula. "Let's see…" He said as he bit at the corner of his lips. "The original plan is to enable a demon's blood to combine successfully with a taboo child's blood, so the demon will have all the taboo child's strength and used his own energy to cover the taboo child's weaknesses. Then the demon can take off his control device and increase his energy to his fullest without any side-effect from taboo child's weakness."
"But nevertheless, a taboo child also has his own weaknesses. If I took the demon's blood and injected it into the taboo child…I wonder what would happen?" Zean furrowed his eyebrows for a while as he drowned himself into a deep thought. "Will it make the demon side in a half-breed stronger? If it did, what are the effects? And what would happen to the human side?"
So many questions… I cannot be sure of it until I test it on a taboo child. Then Zean realized he had no other half-breed to test on except the one that Kenshin was fucking with right now. Instead of feeling disappointed, Zean smirked at the thought of using Kenshin's sex toy as his experiment subject. It might kill him… If it did, Kenshin will be absolutely furious.
But Zean shook his head. No, Kenshin could go to hell for all he cared. So what if Gojyo died? It would make his life easier and his mind clearer from all the feeling of jealousy. And he swore, if the potion he made were actually a poison, he would make Gojyo's death so painful that he would never ask for another reincarnation! There was no way he was going to let the fucking half-breed died so easily. Not after he had turned Kenshin's attention away from him.
Now, all he needed to do was to find a demon's blood...
Gojyo had never felt so damned exhausted or so damned hurting or so damned filthy in his entire life before as he lay naked on the bed, looking up at the ceiling blankly. His face and body was pale from both tiredness and lack of life-fluids. In fact, his hair and his eyes were the only thing that was vibrant with color and when strands of his fiery hair plastered artlessly across Gojyo's empty face, it made such a contrast color. Bruises and bite-marks were all over his body and his lips were swollen from Kenshin's brutal kisses.
He couldn't move… he couldn't think anymore… He could only feel every sore spot on his body, which was countless. Gojyo's eyes were wide and empty and his breaths were shallow. Kenshin had left him after screwing him up for who-know-how-many times and told him that he would be back. And Gojyo didn't think he could hold on behind his fragile mind shield anymore if Kenshin started another round of this torture. After the raven-haired demon had broken Gojyo's silent vow not to scream, he felt all his defiant instantly crumbled down. If he had his stubbornness before, now he had nothing else left to cling to.
Snap out of it! The voice retorted inside his head. Don't give in just yet! You have always been so strong.
Gojyo curved up a small mocking smile. I shouldn't give in just yet? Why shouldn't I? It's not like I'm going anywhere now.
Where is your towering pride?! You let the bastard screwed you like that and all you did was stay still? What the hell is the matter with you?! The voice ceaselessly taunting him as if it tried to spark even a little fire in Gojyo's cold mind.
Stay still? Gojyo couldn't believe what he was hearing inside his head. It was there to witness everything! It was there to feel everything! And it said he was staying still? I fought! I fought like a losing fighter in a losing damn battle! He has taken away everything! Do you hear me? Every damn thing!
If Hakkai saw you like this… The voice brought up the very thing that Gojyo didn't want to think about.
Shut the hell up! Hakkai will never see me like this! Then Gojyo voiced out the possibility that he had tried to deny from the very first time he discovered his death had been forged. He's probably done with his mourning over some fucking shape shifter and goes on with his life!
Is that what you think?
What the hell should I think then? That Hakkai would still believe I'm alive even after seeing my dead body in front of him? All we have is countless of meaningless sex and only three years of mutual friendship! He knew that was completely untrue to him, if not to Hakkai. Who was he fooling? Only when he was loving Hakkai, he felt different… exciting… and totally addictive. Eyes of red to meet with the green, fire in spirit to be matched up with coolness, intensity of lust to be pleased by gentleness of yearning. They were as different as night and day. The fact that Hakkai pleased him so much had never ceased Gojyo's amazement. Hakkai… how he missed him.
You should have more faith in your friends! They have never failed you before!
Gojyo snorted and laughed mirthlessly when he heard the irony in the voice's words. Of course they have never failed me before. That's because they knew I am still alive, then! Now, to them I'm dead! Why in living hell should they think otherwise?!
The voice inside him went silent as if it had no more to argue and Gojyo felt strangely so disappointed when he heard no more feedback. He had lost almost everything and he was hoping the argument inside his head would keep him from falling more into the darkness. When the voice went silent, Gojyo knew it was an irrevocable sign that he had touched the bottom of the darkness and he might not be able to get out. And suddenly, he felt an emotion he had stopped feeling a long time ago; a feeling of fear.
So lost was he in his thought that he didn't hear the sound of footsteps that was walking nearer and nearer to Kenshin's room. When Gojyo was finally aware of the presence inside the room, his whole body stiffened for he thought Kenshin had finally got back and continued the painful activities. Damn it! How many times he wants to screw me in one day?
"It looks like Kenshin has used you well." That voice was nothing like Kenshin's smooth and husky voice. Gojyo turned his head slowly to the demon beside him, oblivious with his nakedness and his battered body, and saw Zean stood there.
Zean expected him to flung out his sarcastic retorts like he always did but Gojyo just stared at him blankly. His magnificent blood-red eyes had lost their usual twinkles, his long hair was in complete disarray and his face was so pale. But even in this kind of predicament, Zean had to swallow a bitter truth that this half-breed still hadn't lost the attractiveness that had captured Kenshin's attention. If only I didn't order Kenshin to capture him… Zean felt a slight remote and that made him angry even more. "Oh, don't tell me Kenshin had broken your spirit already," Zean mocked. "It has only been one day."
Still as silent and grave as a tomb. Gojyo didn't even move an inch. The only thing that convinced Zean that Gojyo was still alive was the shallow rise and fall of his chest. Curving up a small smirk, he walked towards the redhead. "So silent…" Zean reached out the red strands that lay across Gojyo's face and pushed them aside. Gojyo still didn't move. "And so cold…" I guess Kenshin didn't break this half-breed's spirit yet. If he continued to fuck Gojyo like this, Kenshin will be better of fucking me rather than this living corpse.
"I have something that needs your help." With that Zean took out something that made Gojyo's body went cold and his heart tightened in trepidation. Something that cracked the icy wall Gojyo had built around him. An injection.
Damn it… Gojyo thought as his breath quickened in panic. Damn the fucking IT!!! His mind and body screamed in unbearable frustration. Couldn't they see his body couldn't take anymore of their fucking crazy treatments?! Why taboo children were so hated by them? If a taboo child were indeed a curse, it was human and demon's fault. After all, it was a human and a demon damned lusts that created them! They didn't ask to be born as a cursed child. All they wanted to do was to stay alive. All he wanted to do was to stay alive…
"No…" Gojyo whispered through his swollen lips as he forced his sore and aching body to move away from Zean. He couldn't take it anymore. He just couldn't!
"Why not, Gojyo?" Zean asked, pretending not to notice Gojyo's condition or the way his body was shaken as he tried to cover his nakedness with a blanket. "I did tell you that you are to be my guinea pig, didn't I?"
"To the hell with you…" Gojyo gasped as he tried to move his body away from Zean, ignoring every pain.
Zean saw this and he shook his head. "You cannot get away from me. You cannot even walk!" With that, Zean quickly pulled Gojyo and hold him down. He took out the injection that contained the potion he had brewed a few hours earlier while Kenshin was busy screwing Gojyo.
Gojyo started to struggle again when a thought struck his head. Why do I bother to struggle? Do I really think I could get away from him with this kind of condition? His body eagerly agreed with the thought. It couldn't take anymore of this. But his mind screamed in denial, telling him if he remained supple and not even willing to fight, then he better off as a corpse exactly like all his friends believed. The battle inside him raged until Gojyo felt so drained and starting to consider the act of surrender.
The needle was only a millimeter away from Gojyo's skin when they both heard. "Zean! What in the living hell do you think you are doing?!" Kenshin's angry voice roared.
Zean got off from the utterly exhausted redhead, who didn't know whether to be grateful for Kenshin arrival or not because he knew once he got rid of Zean, he would start to fuck him again. Zean walked towards the raven-haired demon. "You said that we both want something from him and you're right. You've used him to slack your damned lust and now it's my turn to use him for my experiment!" Zean retorted.
"Your turn?" Kenshin looked his long-time partner with an expression of disbelief. "You've taken almost all of his blood, damn it!"
Gojyo listened to the argument with a mixture of amazement, fury and thought it was a little bit of flattering When he was a kid, everyone pushed him away as if he was nothing but a mere nuisance. Now, everyone wanted him! He didn't know he was that special! And who the hell they think he was?! How could they argue whose turn to use him now as if he damned was a toy to be passed around?!
"I've found something that I know will interest you," Zean said as he grew tired of this meaningless argument and tried to reason with his short-tempered partner. He, who had almost never lost his cool for hundreds of years, was totally mad with jealousy and anger for a half-breed, who would probably be dead by the end of this week with that kind of treatment they gave to him. Just calm yourself down… Zean took a deep breath before he could continue. "A new possibility that will intrigue you."
Kenshin glared at him. Damn it! I have no other interest right now except to continue screwing the redhead. But he finally capitulated and told Zean to talk outside. Gojyo was totally aware with all this and he didn't like it a bit. Sure, both crazy demons were out of his sight but Zean's words brought untold chill to his body. He wished he knew what were they up to, so he could be prepared.
"All right, Zean, what is it?" Kenshin asked impatiently.
The demon told him and instantly Kenshin's expression changed from irritated into thoughtful. "Do you think that is what will happen?"
"I know it will. But I need to confirm it." Zean emphasized the word 'confirm'.
"Are there any possibility that he might be killed throughout your 'confirmation' process?" Kenshin asked and Zean narrowed his eyes at that question. "I haven't finished playing with him yet. Until I strip every layer of his defiant and hear him beg, I will not stop."
Zean's coolness was about to crumble and he knew it would if he heard one more word that expressed Kenshin's lust to Gojyo. So, he lied and said, "No. None at all."
"Fine, do it tomorrow." Kenshin turned around and headed right back to his room, where he knew the beautiful redhead was waiting for him there with such a coolness that will freeze the water.
Zean was about to turn around too when he braved himself to ask Kenshin one question that had been bothering his mind. " Tell me something, Kenshin," Zean watched the raven-haired demon turned around. "Why mastering Gojyo has become an obsession to you?"
Kenshin curved up a smile. "Because he has so much pride and arrogance inside him. I love and hate that." Then he vanished into his own room.
Pride and arrogance? Zean thought bitterly. That is all he has anyway when we first brought him here…
"Well…" Hakkai spoke up after a long silent in the jeep. Goku was abnormally quiet without Gojyo to talk to and argue with for two straight days that Hakkai couldn't take it anymore. "Do you know exactly where we are heading, Sanzo?"
"To Kougaiji's, of course." Sanzo glared at the brunette beside him for asking a stupid question.
"You mean to the west?" Hakkai raised his eyebrows.
"So?" Another impatient answer from Sanzo.
"Um…nothing. I'm just checking whether my earlier understanding is correct." Hakkai turned his attention back to the road. Go to the west? How long does this journey take, anyway? A month? Two months? Gojyo would be as good as dead by the time they got to Kougaiji's place. Protests was hovering on his lips but when he thought back the way he was losing control back in the town, Hakkai felt he had no right to tell Sanzo what he really felt.
Sanzo cast a glance at the man beside him and saw lines of fatigues and worries on his usually cheerful expression. He knew Hakkai was dying to object his decision to go to the west and he knew his idea was crazy as well. But then, Kougaiji always managed to catch up with them and challenged a fight in times when they didn't want it. So, Sanzo was hoping Kougaiji would appear. Hell! He would welcome his annoying little sister with opened arms if that would draw her brother and their subordinates to them. The atmosphere inside the jeep was getting too damn quiet and too damn strange and it was really getting into his nerves.
And Goku… Sanzo risked a swift glance at the boy who had been so quiet ever since they left the town. Not even a single 'I'm hungry, Sanzo' escaped from him. He had no idea Gojyo would bring this much effects to them. Then, the sooner Kougaiji appeared, the sooner they would find Gojyo, the sooner he could shoot the damned redhead for making him running around like this and the sooner he would hear those annoying bickering behind him.
It was as if the God was answering Sanzo's thoughts, although he didn't know which one, when he heard Goku called him name. "Sanzo… look!"
Sanzo looked at the direction where Goku was pointing at and he almost… he repeated… 'almost' breathed out a sigh of relief when he saw Kougaiji and Dokugakuji were heading in the same direction as theirs. "Hakkai, stop. I think we've found what we're looking for."
"Huh? What?" But Sanzo didn't need to enlighten the healer as Hakkai had also noticed the people that they had been searching. Great. Looks like we don't have to waste two months to start the fight! Hakkai thought as he hit the brake pedal.
With that Sanzo calmly stepped out from the green jeep and reached out for his gun. Hakkai readied himself and Goku knew that a fight was about to begin and he summoned his long stick. It was obvious that all three of them were furious and tense as hell. All right! I hated all this hunting and I'm ready to kick someone's butt! "Kougaiji!" Goku shouted and for once, Sanzo didn't hit him with his paper fan for shouting. How could he? He had wanted to hear Goku's voice for the past two days and he didn't care how loud it was.
The redhead demon swiftly turned around, together with his subordinate when he heard a voice that had been so familiar to him. "Goku…" Kougaiji hissed.
As if the demon's hiss triggered everything, Sanzo raised his gun, aiming dangerously towards Kougaiji, Hakkai gathered his gleaming his qi and Goku pointed his stick towards his subordinate. "I ask you only once, Kougaiji," Sanzo said quietly but enough to tell Kougaiji that he meant all business. "Where is Gojyo?"
"Gojyo? The redhead?" He finally realized that Sanzo's group was missing one member. "How the hell should I know?" Kougaiji glared at the monk. "I'm not his bloody nanny."
"I told you, I'm only asking you once," Sanzo said calmly and clicked the trigger. Everybody around him realized the stress the monk was having and any wrong answer would make him blow the gun. "Now tell me. Where is Gojyo?"
Dokugakuji stepped in front of his master, wielded his sword protectively. "He told you that he doesn't know. That means he doesn't know."
Hakkai was frustrated to his limit now. He did not sit two days in the jeep and did not sleep for two nights just to come here and get 'I don't know' bullshits from them. Gritting his teeth and narrowing his eyes, he pointed his gleaming hand towards Gojyo's half-brother. Half-brother or not, if this bastard didn't tell him where Gojyo was, he would blow his body into pieces. "Tell. Us. Now."
"We didn't know, damn it!" Dokugakuji denied heatedly. "And while we are on it, what had happened to Gojyo?"
"Don't you dare start that," Sanzo glowered, still reluctant to put down his gun. But deep down, Sanzo had this bad feeling that they really didn't know about what had happened. And if that were true… where else would they search? They had lost any trail that lead to Gojyo. To the lowest hell of it!
"Yeah!" Goku shouted. "We all know you faked the note, acting like someone else kidnapped Gojyo's brother and then you took him away!" Goku's golden eyes shone angrily. "Give him back, or you really are going to get it!"
"Gojyo was taken away too?" Dokugakuji's face went white and cast a look to Kougaiji. "I thought Gojyo is strong enough to be caught…" He whispered to the redhead and the latter's expression went grim. Instantly, Sanzo's shrewd eyes knew both of them knew something that they didn't.
"Too?" Sanzo frowned. "What do you mean by that?"
Dokugakuji looked at Kougaiji again as if asking his permission whether it was fine with him if he shared the information or not. Kougaiji noticed Dokugakuji's white face the moment he learned about his half-brother's missing and recalled the moment where Dokugakuji told him about how much he loved his half-brother that he was willing to kill his own mother to save Gojyo. And if sharing information with his enemy would save Gojyo and put Dokugakuji's mind at ease, Kougaiji wouldn't mind. Slowly, he nodded his head.
"Lately, there's a rumor among the demons, saying that there is a potion that enables demons to take off their control device and still remain unaffected by the wave." Dokugakuji said and slowly put down his sword. Sanzo, Hakkai and reluctantly Goku did likewise.
"A potion?" Hakkai frowned. "Where does it come from?" And where does it lead me? I want to know where Gojyo is, not some stupid potion!
"We still didn't know." Dokugakuji shrugged his shoulders. "But it is said that the main ingredient of the potion was blood and demons are really excited by the discoveries."
"What do you mean by blood?" Sanzo asked, frowning even deeper. Somehow he didn't like what this damned information was going to tell him. If Dokugakuji were going to tell him what he thought he would, then this would too bad for Gojyo. And to Hakkai too… by the look of it.
"A taboo child's blood." Kougaiji stated flatly.
"A what?" Hakkai said in disbelief. A taboo child's blood? The raven-haired demon captured Gojyo for his blood? "Then, Gojyo…"
"Probably was dead by now," the redhead demon finished the unfinished sentence. "Many of taboo children were found dead with their throat was ripped opened and their blood were completely drained out. It was being done by ignorant demons, of course, for they believe that drinking a taboo child's blood could keep their sanity at bay."
"And the 'genius' who makes those bloody discoveries?" Sanzo asked again.
"Still remains unknown and out of sight." Kougaiji said curtly. "But it is to be rumored that he had finally found a perfect half-breed and had started on making the potion." Kougaiji looked at Sanzo. "Though, I never expected that the so-called perfect half-breed is Gojyo, if it is true that demon has him."
"Are you saying that Gojyo is out there, somewhere with a crazy demon, and his blood was being completely sucked out?" Hakkai asked angrily. No! Not again! Don't you dare tell me Gojyo is dead!
"Of course! Why the hell would anyone keep a cursed child after he got what he wanted?" Kougaiji retorted a very obvious question back to Hakkai. Both groups sensed the animosity rose between them again and immediately, they raised back their weapons and glared at each other.
The tense atmosphere was suddenly broken by a long laughter from nowhere, echoing through the forest. "Why?" An alien voice asked as if Kougaiji was asking a question that shouldn't be asked at all and he laughed again. "The answer is so obvious, Kougaiji."
Hakkai's green eyes looked around for the source and he found it.
"Gojyo is so beautiful and so hot-headed… It is such a shame if I killed him just like that." The demon smiled. "So, I decided to use and taste the flaming spirit in my bed."
Walking towards them so casually with a streak of very annoying self-confident, a tall demon curved up a smirk. But Hakkai's eyes didn't see all that. All he saw was the demon had raven-colored hair and a pair of startling lavender eyes. And a sudden rush of blood-lust vengeance shot through Hakkai. This fucking demon dares to touch Gojyo?! Gojyo is his! No one can touch Gojyo except him!
Raven hair... lavender eyes... It is him… Hakkai realized. It is the fucking demon that took Gojyo away!
Another chapter is completed! You know what I'm going to ask. Reviews!
Oh great, the semester break is over. * sigh * Looks like I have to
slow down all the updates.