Disclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki blah, blah, blah…
A.N. Okie-dokie, I'm glad you guys liked the last chappy. I thought it was a bit boring. This chapter is a bit mushy. And thanks to delusional-lady, I now wrote this fic in less than one day after loosing ideas for 4 or 5 or 6 days. THANK YOU!!! But unfortunately, I think I made Gojyo too OOC here.
This is actually one of my longest, or at least going to be one of my longest fic since each fic I have only has about 1,000 words in each ^_^'. And here I have about 2,000 in each chapter. Why the heck am I boring you with this?! On to the fic!!! R&R!!!
P.S. I'm sorry this came a little late. I had exams…
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Part Three – My Damn Charisma
"… Such beauty…" the young intrigued Tetsuyo stared dreamily to the beautiful red-head in front of him. "True beauty…" He whispered that Gojyo barely heard him. "I have found you at last…"
"Eh?" was all she could muster. This man was falling for her? For him?! "Sonna… [1]"
"Such beauty cannot be compared to the moon and the stars of the night. It dims to such radiance…"
"What the hell…" He speaks in such a manner that was quite similar, she imagined, to Hakkai's when the monocled man was to woo. At least she was betted on it. Why couldn't this guy be Hakkai? Or she'd even be happy if this was Sanzo.
"Okay, what the heck…?" She whispered angrily to herself. Now she thought of her companions as… Cringing, her attention was again diverted from her thoughts to Tetsuyo.
"Such rare and beautiful eyes that glimmers more than the sun's rays…"
"Damn… This guy is getting eerie by the second…" She said and she intended for him to hear but it didn't seem as though the guy named Tetsuyo minded. "Damn."
"Eyes fit such an exquisite lady as yourself…"
He obviously didn't know the meaning of red eyes and red hair. "Such a misguided baka." If she was to be rescued by her knight in shining armor, well, this would be a very good time.
She took another look at her obvious suitor. He didn't look that bad for a love sick person. Not having a muscular body like Gojyo once had, he surely did take care of himself. He was neat and was a man you would think was of high stature. Except for his hair, he doesn't seem to bother with it much since he had a cap on and most of his hair was in it. She couldn't determine the color or length however she didn't linger on that little detail for long for something else caught it.
It was this man's piercing blue eyes that seem to catch her interest. They weren't cold like she imagined cobalt eyes would show, instead they glimmered with life. It was like looking at the ocean in a bright sunny morning.
"Where has such true beauty been all my life?" He whispered again, taking a hold of Gojyo's hand that was gripped at his risk and gently covering it with his, slowly reducing the gap between them. She was too caught up with her thoughts to perceive what was happening.
"Hey! Tetsuyo!" Gojyo snapped back to reality and saw that it was Ran. It also seemed that Tetsuyo stopped his advancement and looked at the old man. "You going to throw that painting away? I think I want to keep that."
Gojyo turned to Ran and mouthed a 'thank you' for the obvious distraction he had made. Ran smiled.
"Uh, I think I need to go now," Gojyo said quickly before she lost her senses in shock again. She pulled out of the man's grasp and walked backwards away from him. "I need to find my friends and I know that they're worried sick about me." She bowed slightly. "Ja ne." She dashed her way out of his grip and heaved a relieved sigh.
"Damn, I didn't think that I'd attract this much guys." She mumbled incoherently under her breath. "Never thought that I'd be frightened by a man. Note to self: Never act like a lovesick puppy."
She wasn't really looking where she was going, being too fixed with her thinking, until she bumped into someone. "Ouch."
"Sorry," Gojyo quickly said as she looked at whom she bumped into. A little girl was the one who fell on the floor, about eleven or twelve carrying a pack of apples and oranges. Dressed in a simple light-colored dress, her dark hair and purple eyes seem to stand out while her skin seemed to blend in; she was pale. Gojyo had bumped her too hard and some of the apples and oranges fell from the bag.
"It's alright, onee-chan [2]," She said smiling, picking herself up. Gojyo blinked when the little girl called her onee-chan, forgetting in a second that she was a girl herself at the moment. Reviving from her constant blinking, she crouched to help the little girl with the fallen fruits.
"You have beautiful hair and eyes," the girl said suddenly out of nowhere. "Like in my brother's story. He always said that if he could find the most beautiful girl in the world then his search would be over." The little girl giggled. "I wish I had them so my brother would stop searching." Gojyo handed her the last apple. "Thank you."
After readjusting the bag evenly, she stuck out her hand. "I'm name's Shan." Gojyo took it.
"You're a very social little girl, aren't you?" She could help but laugh. The little girl giggled. "What's your name?"
She thought for a moment, maybe it wasn't really safe to give her real name. But this was just a little girl, what harm could it do. "My name's Gojyo."
"Gojyo?"
Our redhead nodded.
"Hm…?"
"What? Is it that ugly for a name?" The little girl blushed. "Or maybe you would want to call me by another name?"
The young one beamed. "If you wouldn't mind."
"Shoot."
"Well, I heard of a story before of a beautiful maiden of the sun named Lian [3]. Maybe I'll call by that, onee-chan. Is it okay?"
She smiled at the little kid, she kind of reminds her of Goku. "How about this, you just call me onee-chan."
Shan thought for a moment. "Okay." She said finally agreed. "I'm glad to meet you, onee-chan! I hope to see you again." She waved her hands and ran off.
"You be careful." She called back and went on her way. "Maybe it would be best to stick with women to talk to for a moment," she noted to herself.
"Here we go again," Once more she pushed her way through the crowd of rushing people. Shoving her way all the way through, she realized that the more she pushed the more they would push back. Giving up, she stepped aside again into an alley and hoped that she spotted her companions before she gets herself into more trouble.
"Hey, gorgeous." She couldn't help but sigh in disbelief. She wasn't even there for more than ten seconds and she already has guys on her trail. What was she, a magnet for trouble as well as women and men? She turned around and saw four guys that were buff and tall, your average gangster type. She raised a brow.
"Whatcha doing alone in this alley?" One of them sneered. She looked at him as he continued to speak. "Do you know how dangerous for a cutie like you to be wondering in these parts unaccompanied?"
Gojyo couldn't help but snort. "Dangerous?" She put her hand on her waist and shifted her weight to one leg. "What could be dangerous in a place like this? It could hardly be you guys since you don't look smart enough to even know the word."
One of them growled. "She's got a sharp tongue on her."
"Never mind that," One who had a blonde hair said, "Come with us, lady." He took a step forward to Gojyo. "We'll make sure that you have a good time."
"Wait, she had red hair and red eyes. Does that make her—"
"Don't matter." It was the one who took a step towards Gojyo. It seems that he was the leader of this boisterous gang. "She still got a pretty face on her." He grasped her hand and pulled her body to meet his. "Such a dainty little thing, aren't you?"
Birds at a nearby roof fluttered away from a loud punch in the alley. In it the gangster was at his knees clutching his stomach. "You damn little half-breed…"
Gojyo smiled a mischievous smile. "You won't like me when I'm angry."
"That little—" One of them started but was cut off by their leader, the one who was hit by our ever so attractive redhead. "Never mind that! Don't just stand there! She can't take all of us at one time!"
They encircled Gojyo like predators surrounding a weak prey. They all had a look that she was quite familiar and it was not a look that implicated anger… more of lust. It dawned to her that it didn't matter to them that she was a half-breed. Heck! She would assume that it didn't matter if she was a full-pledged demon. They just wanted to get what they want and what they wanted was her… somewhere between them and a bed.
"You could've just come with us nicely," One of them stated. "We could have given you a good time but now I think we need to use vigor."
"Hah," Gojyo snorted, "I think I underestimated you. Imagine knowing the word 'vigor'. You're smarter than I thought."
"A sharp-tongue doesn't suit a fine lady like you."
"An intelligence doesn't suit a brainless monkey like you."
"GET HER!" They were about to pounce when they heard a loud noise, like cans being knocked over. Turning, they saw nothing but trash bins knocked over by the side of the alley's entrance.
As if by cue in the midst of distraction, Gojyo felt strong and quick hands surround her waist. In a blink of an eye, she realized that she wasn't in the alley anymore. The wind was much stronger and passing by her face, she felt herself relax in the arms of her savior. She was on the rooftop on one of the houses near the alley.
"Best not invigorate them. They like girls with spunk." He said emotionlessly. She suddenly snapped back to her senses and recognized who she was again and what she was doing. Pushing her body away from her rescuer, she finally got a good look at him and what she saw made her gasp.
"You—" It's him…
Kougaiji.
Kougaiji turned around and looked as though he was going to leave. A strong gale swept both of their red hairs to dance on the rooftop. Her rescuer stopped. "A young lady like you shouldn't be wondering alone."
Gojyo snapped her head to that comment. All day long everybody, Hakkai, Goku, Sanzo and now him, was saying the same thing. They all thought that just because the Gojyo they knew was now a girl, she now couldn't protect herself. No, just because they thought she was a girl period, she couldn't protect herself. "I could do fine by myself, thank you. Just so you know, I was doing quite well without your help." She suddenly retorted.
"Hm. I see." She glared at him. He, Kougaiji, obviously didn't get it. She wasn't as frail as they all thought she was. She could still fight yet she didn't bother retorting anything back at him, knowing that this was useless, after all it was like talking to that damn monk. She turned her back at him and looked at the sunset. She didn't realize that she had been trying to find her friends for that long. She gazed evenly as it hued a beautiful shade of yellow, red and orange spectrum.
"You're afraid of me?" He asked suddenly. "You being half-demon yourself?"
"I'm not afraid of you!" Gojyo barked at him hotly although she didn't look at him since she still had her back turned. Not wanting to see his face, not wanting him to know and see her eyes, she did not turn to meet with his powerful gaze.
"He doesn't seem to know its me." She mumbled incoherently under her breath so she wouldn't be heard. 'What am I, stupid? Of course he doesn't recognize me.' She hissed mentally to herself. 'I mustn't give him the impression that I am Gojyo. Having a body that I'm not used to might give him the upper hand.'
"Then why did you gasp when you saw what I was?"
"I told you! I'm not afraid of you. Damn it! I'm not afraid of a demon!" She whipped her body to face him, only to see an intense gaze just inches away from her. She starred back at the searching eyes.
"You're eyes tell me differently." He knitted his brows together. He had an expression that seemed to be searching deeply into her. She was getting nervous by the second. "Your eyes seem upset." He said. This was what she was afraid of, he was getting this certain look; it was a look of realization. "And such familiar eyes you have."
Gojyo took a step back and another… She thought that he was going to know… and another… Completely forgetting that she was on a building about twice the height of trees… and another. It didn't occur to her at all. She tripped on the ledge.
"Ah!" She tried to grab anything that would stop her fall. Her hands waved and hunted but nothing was there to grasp. She felt her hair dancing frantically with the wind as she stared at the roof where she once was. It was getting farther and farther. It didn't bother her though, not that she thought of it. She could just land gracefully on the ground like how she did it before with her old self.
This thought made her quite sure of herself until she felt familiar arms around her. She felt that her body was being carried by the same warm hands that saved her before. "Careful," she heard him say calmly as he pulled her into his arms more securely.
As soon as his feet were planted firmly on the ground, the first thing her instincts told her was to get away from the warm body that saved her twice. She scrambled out of Kougaiji's arms and stood in front of him glaring, almost wanting to slap him. No, scratch that, punch him.
"You're blushing." He said impassively
"I'm not blushing!" she retorted. The nerve of that demon. "Damn, he's as blunt as that monk," she grumbled this under her breath. And subsequently, she felt all her blood rise to her cheeks; Gojyo knew that she was flushed at that very moment, but that was only because she was irritated by the way he treated her like some damsel in distress… right?
"Monk?" He raised his brow. She heaved a sharp intake of breath. Damn it, he heard! "Monk?" he asked again.
She would've answered. She would have told him that he heard wrong but something made her stop. It was a soft sound but she heard it. It was some kind of click that she was sure she heard a million times before, and footsteps that were suddenly behind Kougaiji. Oh, no…
"I think she was talking about me."
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To be continued…
[1] sonna – no way
[2] onee-chan – sister
[3] Lian – This name supposedly means daughter of the sun in Chinese. And the story was made up, of course. I didn't get it from any Chinese mythology books ^_^'. If you're wondering why I'm using Chinese names now is because Saiyuki was based on a Chinese novel.
Author's Notes
Guardian of Jupiter: Thanks! Yes! Finally, another vote!!! I've been waiting for pairings you guys want and I'm glad to hear you want Hakkai/Gojyo! ^______^ I love that pair too!!! Yeah! I would like to hurry up with Hakkai's I'm-your-best-friend-crap but you know him, takes it nice and slow. Good thing we have Tetsuyo and the others to hasten his pitiful attempts to woo a certain redhead. *evil grin*.
Ashura Akuma: Yes, quite hard for her not to fall indeed. Ah, but the question is: Which one will she fall for? ^______^
MoMo-kun: You want a competition for Gojyo's attention? ^___^ Your wish is my command! I've made up my mind that, yes, I will put that most awaited competition. But when…
shourin: Ruby ring, nice touch. ^_____^ Hmmm… but like you said, nobody can deny gojyoxhakkai pairing. But hey! I'm waiting for the votes and there is going to be a competition for her attention. ^_____^ (grins)
Miyahara Yuuki: Thanks! ^____^ I'm really glad you like what I'm writing so far.
Sky Rat: Thank you very much! Happy to know that people are really interested in this fic! This is the first ever Saiyuki fic I've done! ^_____^
Kairi-chan: Yeah, the idea struck as amusing as well! Thanks! ^___^
dalpin crage: Maybe more of a competition for Gojyo! (Gojyo x Hakkai, Sanzo, Goku, Tetsuyo…) Yup, lots of that in later chapters! ^____^
JuniperMoon: Sorry about that giggling. ^_^' I can't help but put that! I mean, who would want a laughing out loud like a manic Gojyo-turn-girl? ^____^' Err… Anyway, I'll try and put a more Gojyo type in later chapters. ^__^
delusional-lady: THANK YOU!!! ^____________^ So that's what I was forgetting. Them. How can I forget them?! *smacks head* You just gave me a scheme! Mwahahahaha!
I just experimented what kind of relationship those two will have if Gojyo was a girl and to my surprise, this is the only thing I could come up with. Is it too OOC? I'm very sorry if it is! L
Is this chapter too long? Maybe I should shorten it next time? What do you think? Give me feedback!