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Chapter 3: Gifted
"Bring it!"
And with that, the mini match started.
The bigger man moved first lunging forward in attempt to topple the smaller figure. Unfortunately, a flying bucket came his way which forced him to dodge it before continuing his charge. This however was not such a good choice as instead of a bucket flying into his face the foot of Hikaru did.
"This man's got a big punch...I better not get caught."
As he stumbled backward, more kicks and punches followed and finally stopped when...
"WHO PUT THE BUCKET THERE!"
The man opened his eyes. Lying on the ground, face first was the attacker, who was now rather upset about the sudden stop of her "combo".
"Brat..." he muttered as he wiped blood off his mouth. Again he charged and executed a heavy punch.
Hikaru shifted slightly, just enough to avoid it and landed a punch into the man's stomach.
Reiji spluttered and fell back, which caused Hikaru to scream "An opening!" and repeatedly stomped and kicked the poor guy.
After beating him to excess she crouched down and began looking through pockets and searching.
"W..wha..what..a..are..you.d-doing?" Reiji gasped.
The dark-haired girl looked up and gave him a funny look. "Robbing you, what else?"
she stated flatly. Promptly, she took out his pouch and ran off.
"G-get..her!"
Hikaru ran swiftly through the evening market. Looking back she saw the herd of Reiji's followers, obviously to retrieve the money.
Running blindly through the street brought her to finally meet a certain monk.
"Oomph!"
"Sorry!" Hikaru apologised and looked at the person she had collided into.
Her grey eyes met with purple (A.N: Sanzo's eyes are supposed to be blue but it looks rather purplely to me in the anime...")
The pair of grey orbs widened, her mouth dropped.
The girl jumped up and embraced the very annoyed monk.
"SANZO -SAMA!"
Meanwhile Goku and Gojyo were walking back from retrieving cigarettes for Sanzo.
"Ne, Gojyo. Do you think that girl is okay?"
"Well...considering that she ran off pretty quickly, that man's gonna be missing quite a sum of money" he replied and took a long drag on his smoke. "Why?"
"Nothing, just thinking." Goku muttered
"That's something you don't do often. In fact I never knew you could do it."
And the pair commenced in another daily fight.
"SANZO - SAMA! YOU LOOK EVEN BETTER IN REAL LIFE!SQUEEE!" Hikaru squealed and was finally pushed off of Sanzo.
"GET LOST!" the infuriated Sanzo took out his infamous harisen and gave the girl a hard whack.
"Mah mah...Shouldn't you be at home little girl? You know, it's quite late." Hakkai mentioned to Hikaru.
"...I'm 17, sir. And I can't go home because I'll just get kicked down again." she stated.
"What? Kicked down again? I'm sorry I don't quite understand." Hakkai said with a confused look.
"Let me start fresh. Hmm...My name is Ryuu Hikaru. Age 17 and a demon..."
And with the last piece of information Sanzo pointed his gun at her head.
"HEY!HEY!HOLD IT!LET ME FINISH!" Hikaru frantically shrieked.
The gun was removed.
"Carry on please." Hakkai encouraged.
"I was sent down here as your gift from Kanzeon Bosatsu-sama. I am supposed to help you on your journey."
"Gift?" queried Hakkai as he got confused again.
Sanzo stared at the girl hard, "Then I suppose you have the jade talisman" .
"Well...I had it...but err...I don't have it...you see I've kind of lost it to...ummm..some previous poker player..." Hikaru looked sheepish.
"Then tell me, what do the words on it say?" Sanzo raised his gun again.
"Ahh...don't shoot,man...don't shoot...'The Present and Future Are engulfed in the flames of battle but everything is a dream', there!" she held her breath.
Sanzo was deep in thought. Finally he spoke, "Hn...great now we have another one to take with us. Are the gods trying to make my journey easier or harder..." he muttered and began walking the other way.
"Well, Miss Hikaru, I suppose you are coming with us then." Hakkai flashed a friendly smile as the girl jumped with joy
I think this chapter's a bit shorter...hmm...I'll try to lengthen the next one then.
And try to get it done a.s.a.p too!
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