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-Chapter Five-
"Shit, Hakkai. I can't sleep…let's just go after the monk" said Gojyo, sitting up in the backseat of the jeep.
"I agree. Sanzo shouldn't be that far ahead of us, and even if he was, as slow as he's walking we'd be able to catch up to him in to time at all. I think Hakuryuu (A/N: thanks for telling me how to spell it!) is rested enough to let us drive him." Hakkai revved up the engine and pushed the accelerator, moving the vehicle towards the mountain.
"Hey, Hakkai, did you really mean what I think you meant about Sanzo 'caring' about Goku more than us." Gojyo asked.
"Yes, I meant that. He loves Goku. I'm very sure that he loves him a great deal, too. It's been so long since he's loved someone."
"When you say love, do you mean as a fatherly figure or as…you know…love love."
"I mean love love." Hakkai said. Gojyo didn't speak. "Do you think less of him?" Hakkai asked the half-demon.
"Nah…it doesn't bother me. Hell knows I'd never 'lean that way' but it's his life. I'm just surprised, that's all."
"Surprised? Why?" asked the curious emerald-eyed man.
"Well, you know…I thought Sanzo couldn't love. He's always saying that Buddhist thing, free of everything, bound by nothing, or whatever the hell it is. I thought his heart was too cold to love, you know?"
"Yes, I know what you mean. But you know, whenever Goku is around him, the walls around Sanzo's heart seem to chip away more and more. I guess when Goku was captured, the wall finally fell down."
"Wall, huh? Hey, Hakkai, look up ahead" said Gojyo. They had been driving throughout their entire conversation, and now they had reached the foot of the mountain. Hakkai looked up and saw a figure in white robes sitting on the ground. It was Sanzo.
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The whole time Hakkai and Gojyo were starting to drive and the whole time they were having their conversation about Sanzo, the monk was still walking.
He had not stopped for that half hour, though fatigue was weighing down his eyes every moment. The whole time he wanted to sit down and rest, he kept thinking the same thought to himself. 'I can't afford to stop.'
He reached the foot of the mountain when he heard the jeep coming up not too far behind. 'So the idiots decided to come after all' he thought. He finally gave in and sat down to wait on them. He stood up as the car stopped and the two occupying it got out. Hakkai walked up to Sanzo's side.
"Sanzo, I sense a barrier." Hakkai said.
"Yeah, figures. The last time we were up here looking for Gojyo we had the same little problem."
"Yes, but this time we don't have Goku to paint on." (A/N: an incident in the book, if you haven't read them)
"We don't need that this time." Sanzo said, touching the Maten Scripture on his shoulders. "The only reason I used Goku to get through the barrier last time was because I didn't feel like wasting my scripture on the sex-craved taboo."
"Hey!" Gojyo shouted, but didn't start arguing.
"I feel it's necessary to use it this time…" Sanzo said without any other explanation, though the other two knew why it was necessary anyway.
The blonde monk closed his eyes and mumbled something the others could not hear. Then, he lifted his head, threw his arms in front of him and shouted "Makai Tenjyo!"
The scripture flew from Sanzo's shoulders and into all directions while he stood in the middle of it all. There was a tremendous 'BOOM' and a bright light, then the scripture lay flat on the ground and all was calm again. It had broken the barrier.
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Goku was still lying on the floor, wriggling because of the pain in his side. His movements started to slow a little. He was losing consciousness. Kami-sama was still there, watching Goku with eyes full of excitement.
"Not too much longer, now" he said. "Soon I'll have my brand new toy!"
"You b-bastard" Goku managed to say.
"I'm surprised, really" Kami-sama said, sounding as if he were talking to himself. "I'm surprised your Sanzo hasn't come for your rescue, yet. Well, I should say Genjyo. As I've said before, he isn't worthy of the title 'Sanzo.'"
"Shut up!" Goku yelled, though it wasn't very loud. "Sanzo will come, he has to. I've been calling him." 'He wouldn't leave me, would he?' Goku thought to himself. Suddenly, his vision became blurry. He tried blinking a couple of times, but it was no use. Darkness covered his sight. He was becoming unconscious.
"Oh, goodie!" he heard Kami-sama say. "Finally!"
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"Let's go." Sanzo said to the others, gathering the scripture from the ground and placing it back in its rightful position upon his shoulders. They hadn't been walking long before they reached the unending staircase.
"Is it just me or did we get here quicker this time?" Hakkai said.
"Well, last time Sanzo probably wasn't hurrying so fast and making you have to run and catch up." Gojyo said to Hakkai. "Shit. Hey, slow down, Sanzo!"
Sanzo kept going. He looked up at the staircase. 'I'm coming, Goku' he thought. He put his foot on the first step. Then the second, the third, and then the fourth. Pretty soon he was running up the stairs, faster and faster, until he didn't have any feelings in his legs anymore. Sanzo turned around, looking for his other two companions. He couldn't see them. The monk sighed and sat on a step. He knew that Goku's time could possibly be running out, but he also knew that if he were to meet up with Kami-sama, he'd need someone to help him fight. He couldn't beat the freak by himself.
Sanzo had been sitting for about ten minutes. 'Where are those two?' he thought. Suddenly, he heard something behind him. Sanzo stood up and whirled around, whipping his gun out in front of him. He couldn't see anything more than three inches away due to the mysterious fog that always lingered over the stairs. It was quiet, so quiet that the only thing Sanzo could hear was his own ragged breathing.
"AHHH!"
The scream ripped through the silence, breaking Sanzo's thoughts.
"Goku" Sanzo said quietly to himself. He started running up the steps, not caring about Hakkai and Gojyo, not caring about the fog, not caring about meeting up with Kami-sama or any other thing that could happen. The only thing that was on his mind was getting to Goku at that very moment.
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"Look, Hakkai, the monk is too far ahead." Gojyo said, "Let's just go down and wait by the jeep." Hakkai didn't seem to acknowledge that Gojyo had spoken.
"Hellooooo" Gojyo said, waving a hand in front of the emerald-eyed man's face."
"Shh…" Hakkai said. They both stood still. "Did you hear that?"
"What?"
"That laughter."
"What laughter?"
Suddenly, a strange, maniacal laughter filled the air around them. It was a kind of laughter that sent shivers down one's spine.
"What the hell?" Gojyo said. Then, right before their eyes, Kami-sama appeared.
"Yes," he said. "You might as well turn around and go wait by your jeep. It'll be too late by the time you get there, anyway." Kami-sama waved his hand, and Goku appeared in front of them, floating. His eyes were dull and his body was a bloody mess.
"Goku!" both men shouted at once, starting towards him. They tried to touch him but their hand went right through the boy's body.
"No no no." Kami-sama said. "This isn't the real Goku, but this is what the real Goku looks like right now"
Gojyo gritted his teeth. "Listen here, buddy! I don't have time to sit around and chat and look at a fake Goku. Get the hell out of my fucking way!" He tried to pass Kami-sama, but was held back by Hakkai.
"Hakkai! What the hell are you doing, man? Goku could be dying!"
"What do you want from us?" Hakkai said to Kami-sama, ignoring Gojyo for the moment.
"I want you to go back down the stairway. This boy is going to be my new toy and I don't want to give him back!"
"You son of a bitch!" Gojyo yelled.
"Besides…" Kami-sama continued, "I can't have you two interfere with my plans. I know Genjyo is coming, and I'm waiting for him to try and take away Goku. It's almost like a little game. A game between me, the monk, and the monkey. If Sanzo beats me, he gets his precious pet back. But if I win, they will both be mine! And we all know he can't beat me!" he shouted.
With that, he pushed Hakkai and Gojyo with incredible strength down the stairs. The two went tumbling down step after step till they hit the bottom knocked-out.
-TBC-
Okay! So that was kind of a weird ending! To tell you the truth, I don't even know how this will all end; I'm just writing and making up as I go along. Bear with me if I'm slow on updates or if one chapter happens to be ten times better than another. I'm still new to the whole writing thing. And I'm going to use a saying Kazuya Minekura said at the end of Saiyuki, Volume 7 (I think)."If it looks like I'm fading, light a torch for me."
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