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Saiyuki: Turning in Circular Motion

Chapter 2 : Fate Meetings

-The Wheel of Fate is like a clock, many cogs turn upon each other to make the machine work.

"Sanzo, are you out of your mind?"

Sanzo stuck his pinky finger in his ear and dug around boredly while Hazel finished yelling his indignation. What a loud fool. Damn Kanzeon for making him take Hazel. Damn her!

"What are you going to do if he turns on us?"

Sanzo sighed and flicked the wax off his finger, "He's not going to turn on us, he's too stupid, and if you don't calm the hell down, I'm going to have Nii give you a shot." He was trying to stay calm but instead he was getting more and more angry by the second.

"They always turn Sanzo. Your little pet is no different than the rest of them." Hazel raged on, "That harmless act is to gain your trust but he'll strike the moment your guard is down."

Sanzo's brow twitched, "If you don't like my decision, you don't have to come."

Hazel looked taken aback for a moment, "I'm still going, it's my duty as a Hunter to—"

"Then shut up before I kill you." Sanzo's face flashed with anger, "I'm tired of hearing your incessant whining! You are worse than he is." Sanzo pointed to Goku who was standing obediently still at the priest's side.

Hazel stammered on what he was going to say next and had a look of disgusted shock. His face turned red with insult but he held back what words he had to say lest he be regarded worse than the demon again.

"That's better." Sanzo smirked then turned to look at the last member of his little team. The man's name was Shuuei. He was an all right kind of guy when it came down to it. He often drank with Sanzo down at the bar in the evenings, "The first mission objective is to check out our lead on the Heart. Our target is a vampire by the name of Cho Hakkai. He was last seen near Eradel village. That's where we'll start."

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Gojyo clapped Hakkai on the back as they left the bar with a stack of bills. He whistled as he flipped through them, "Man, I told you we'd make a killing. This'll keep us in business for at least another two weeks." Gojyo stopped his train of thought when he noticed that his companion was moving in awkward tired motions for the third time that night. He put a hand firmly on the man's shoulder, stopping him, "Hakkai, you all right? You don't look so well man, and that's talking from how you usually look."

"I'm ok." Hakkai forced a smile on his face.

Gojyo frowned, "Hakkai."

The vampire sighed, seeing that his friend refused to be swayed by his lie, "The animals aren't enough."

"Damn, I knew it." Gojyo put the money in his top vest pocket, "We'll have to get you someone to feed off of."

"I don't want…" Hakkai started only to be interrupted.

"Don't want to and have to are two completely different things. There's shit I gotta do that I don't want to half the time but it comes with living so get used to it." Gojyo pulled Hakkai into one of the darker abandoned alleys, "You stay here, and I'll bring someone back. Just try not to kill them or we'll have murder on our hands."

"But Gojyo, it's not right to just randomly take someone off the street." Hakkai felt his limbs grow heavier with weakness.

"Look…you know I'd let you feed off me if I could but we'd both die from that so I'm afraid that's not an option. (1) Just be ready when I—"

"Hey!"

"Eh?" Gojyo looked down as he heard the loud voice to see a boy with bright golden eyes staring straight up at him. The first thing that crossed his mind was 'Hey, look, it's a food delivery service for vampires' but there was something wrong with the way the kid smelled. He had not even sensed him approach. He was not human.

"Have you seen a kitty run back here? I scared him on accident." The boy was trying to look past Gojyo, "Here kitty! Come back!"

"Get lost you brat, we're busy!" Gojyo glared at him. Whatever this kid was, he smelled dangerous.

"I'm not a brat." Goku glared back up at him.

"Oh, yeah? Then you're…" Gojyo glanced the boy over again, "a monkey."

"I am not! You, you…" Goku's face was turning red from frustration as he tried to think of something to say.

"I'm, I'm?" Gojyo laughed at him.

"You big cockroach!" Goku pointed at Gojyo's hair.

"Eh!" Gojyo looked dumbfounded for a moment, "Why you little---!"

"There goes the cat." Hakkai pointed over Gojyo's shoulder to a white kitten running down the street.

Goku smiled brightly then started after the cat only to stop dead in his tracks as he heard a loud angry voice.

"Goku, you gods damned brat! Get the hell over here before I kill you!"

"I'm coming!" Goku ran down the street.

"Stupid kid." Gojyo muttered before he started to leave the alley. A hand on his arm stopped him.

"Gojyo, wait." Hakkai's voice was low and serious, "Did you see the insignia on that boy's coat?"

"Yeah, it was some sort of triangly… thing, I think. Why?" Gojyo turned to Hakkai.

"That's the symbol of the Hunter's Guild." Hakkai's eyes narrowed in concentration.

Gojyo on the other hand burst out laughing, "You're a riot, man! There's no way that little pipsqueak could be wearing a Hunter's jacket unless he stole it off them. He's too stupid to be one of them, besides he's a far cry from human. I don't know what the hell that smell was."

"The boy was a demon." Hakkai exhaustedly sat down on an empty barrel, "I couldn't tell you what he's doing with them, but they are here."

"What makes you say that?" Gojyo looked a bit more serious.

"The jacket was new and it fit him. It's a custom job." Hakkai frowned, "Didn't you smell anything strange like gunpowder or for that matter, silver on him?"

"Now that you mention it…" Gojyo looked warily to the alley entrance, "This is just great then. You wait here; I'm going to go check this out. We'll get you back to the house then I'll fish you up someone to eat."

"Gojyo…"

"Don't worry; it'll take more than a few pompous humans to take me out if it comes down to it. I plan to die in the arms of a beautiful woman after all." Gojyo winked then crept out into the shadows of the street.

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Sanzo closed the door to the inn room. This was juuust great. Now he was left with only a kill crazy monster hater and Goku. Life was just wonderful. Shuuei had been wounded from a past mission and sometimes it made him very sick, like now. There was nothing to do but wait for it to pass and hope that the doctor's medicine worked quickly. This would put a damper in his search for Cho Hakkai but still it would go on. He was mildly surprised to see Goku standing quietly on the other side of the hall watching the room door with a serious expression on his face. The little demon had walked outside only minuets after being in there. Sanzo decided to ignore him and started past the silent boy.

"Sanzo."

"What?"

"That man."

"Shuuei?"

"The creature inside him is almost ready to come out." Eyes never left the door.

"What the hell?" Sanzo gave the demon a weird out look, "What has gotten into you?"

"He's got something on the inside. It's really big and it's going to come out soon." Goku's eyes flew open wide as he found himself spun about by Sanzo. The priest was glaring down at him and gripping his shoulders tightly. It hurt.

"Are you accusing Shuuei of being infected?" Hard eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Sanzo…you're hurting me." Goku squirmed.

"Are you accusing that man of being infected with something?" Sanzo's voice was sterner, a demand that he answer.

"I don't know what you are saying. I saw the thing curled up in his chest. It was saying bad things—"

"Stop lying, it's not funny!" Sanzo's face was livid. How dare Goku make such an accusation, of a Hunter nonetheless! They were all screened every few days and as soon as they returned to headquarters for any signs of infection. There was no possible way that Shuuei could have been infected in the three days that they traveled. He was with Sanzo the whole time. Sanzo shook Goku, "I don't ever want to hear you lying to me again, you got that."

"But Sanzo, the creature in his chest it—" Goku's eyes filled with shock as a firm hand slapped him hard across the face. Hurt filled his expression. Sanzo had never struck him like that before.

"I said if you can't stop lying I don't want to hear your noise." Sanzo was still angry but watching that hurt face made him regret hitting the little demon. Goku for the while Sanzo had known him was an idiot but he had never meant any real harm. He sighed inwardly. Hazel's constant complaining must be finally pushing his paranoia off the edge. The demon was probably just trying to get some attention; it had been along trip after all.

"But…I…I saw it…" Goku was sniffling, "Really…"

"Goku," Sanzo frowned at himself as he saw the demon flinch at the sound of his voice. Yeah, life was so wonderful about now, "Why don't you watch Shuuei for a bit. Hazel and I will ask around town about the vampire. You need a little rest, perhaps you should sleep. And," Sanzo spoke up as he saw Goku's mouth start to open, "no more monster stories."

Goku was quiet for a moment, "But…what if the monster really does come out?"

Sanzo rolled his eyes. Goku was just not going to let him win this, "Then kill it. Your job until I get back is to protect Shuuei, got that?" Maybe giving him a slightly important sounding job would make the brat happy.

"Ok." Goku wiped a sleeve over his eyes.

Sanzo started to walk away but stopped after a few steps. Without looking over his shoulder, he spoke his last piece.

"Next time, make up a more believable story."

Goku watched Sanzo leave then walked into Shuuei's room. He pulled a chair up to the ill man's bedside. Turning it backwards, he sat in it. The demon crossed his arms over the back of the chair then leaned his chin on them as he stared. The usually bright eyes were dark with agitation as he stared, not at the man but at the large coiled creature that he saw just beneath the flesh of the man's chest.

"You made Sanzo mad at me. I won't forgive you.

There was a laugh, which did not come from Shuuei's mouth, "Why should it matter to you what that human thinks? We are much stronger than those ants. If you don't like his attitude, break a few bones, I guarantee that he'll change his mind."

"I don't like you." Goku glared then he put a hand to the red side of his face, "When you come out, I'm going to kill you. Sanzo said I could."

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Gojyo quietly stalked toward the inn following the scent of the demon. Crouching behind a stack of crates, he watched as two men wearing coats similar to the one the demon had been wearing walked out of the inn. In fact, the scowling blond had the demon's smell strongly on him. He must be his master. Too bad for the kid, guy looked like a prick. Gojyo ducked quickly behind the crates as the blond Hunter looked over his way.

"You, behind the crates, come out here!"

Damn, discovered already. Gojyo took out a cigarette from his top pocket and lit it. A sexy guy like him was not cut out for this spying gig, "I don't take orders from men, besides; I'm taking a smoke break. It's rude to harass people you know."

There was the sound of a gun hammer cocking. Gojyo looked to the side to see Sanzo with a gun level at him, "Didn't you know it's also rude to stalk people."

Gojyo held up his hands, "Geez, take it easy. I'm just smokin'."

"Why are you watching us?" Sanzo frowned, "Who are you?"

"I'm just your average joe wondering what the hell Hunters are doing in town." Gojyo shrugged.

"What's going on Sanzo?" Hazel appeared at Sanzo's side gun drawn.

"Just a busybody sticking his nose where it don't belong." Sanzo eyed Gojyo for a moment then nodded ever so slightly to Hazel.

The silver haired Hunter looked as if he were going to walk away when suddenly he turned, pulled his hand out of his pocket and threw something at Gojyo. The werewolf did not have time to think as the object hit him. His arm burned from the contact. Gojyo jumped back with a growl of pain.

"What the hell!"

Sanzo's smirk twisted almost evil, "Bane check, werewolf. You failed."

Gojyo looked to the ground at the offensive object only to see a strange leafy flower lying there, "Well shit…"

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Hakkai fretted. Gojyo was taking a long time. The werewolf was in trouble, he just knew it. Hakkai pushed himself off the barrel he was sitting on only to have to catch it for support. How could he help Gojyo like this? If he did not get blood soon… odds were that he would be meeting his friend in hell very soon. Hakkai looked up to see someone enter the alley. Moving to the shadows, he watched the man stagger about. He was drunk. Hakkai crept quietly toward the man who had yet to notice him. He heard the rustling of cloth then the trickle of liquid. The vampire frowned. Did the man not know that it was obscene not to speak of unsanitary to urinate on a building?

Finishing his business, the man turned to perhaps return to the pub for another drink but instead when he wakes in the morrow will have a memory of glowing green eyes and a sharp prickling on his neck. Also, a small note would be found in his top breast pocket explaining divine retribution for defacing another's property.

Hakkai left after tucking the note into the man's pocket. He moved swiftly in the direction his senses told him that the werewolf had gone. He came across the courtyard before the inn to see two of the Hunters fighting with a large auburn werewolf.

"Gojyo!"

Sanzo's head turned quickly to see a pale-skinned man rushing in on the scene. He turned and fired a shot only to see the stranger turn to mist as the bullet passed harmlessly through him. His expression narrowed in concentration. Dark haired, green eyed, vampire with a monocle glass. This must be Cho Hakkai.

"Hazel, you get the werewolf."

Sanzo ducked behind a crate and emptied his gun of the bullets it contained only to load it with a different set. Snapping the chamber shut, Sanzo entered back into the fray, zeroing in on the vampire. Sanzo fired and this time, the bullet plunged deep into the vampire's leg. Hakkai fell with a loud hiss of pain.

"Hakkai!" Gojyo made to run over to his wounded friend but a rain of bullets reminded him that he was still in the middle of entertaining his own party.

Sanzo move cautiously toward the wounded vampire and almost reached his target when there suddenly came the sound of shattering glass followed by the loud meaty thump of something hitting the ground. Sanzo made to glance briefly at the disturbance, but instead found that it grabbed his whole attention. Goku was lying on the ground in the middle of a pile of glass shards. Sanzo looked up to the third story inn room only to see Shuuei crouched in the pane-less window ledge. Without a word, Shuuei jumped out of the window only to land flawlessly on the ground below.

"Shuuei, what—" Sanzo stopped as he saw the man's shirt was hanging open and the skin on his chest was pushed, stretched into the semblance of a face. It was as if something was trying to burst out from the inside. The possessed man grabbed the dazed demon off the ground then threw him across the battlegrounds as if he were so much trash.

"Goku!"

Sanzo ran to the demon's side and helped him sit up. Gold eyes focused on him, "Sanzo, it won't come out." Sanzo looked confused for a second, "The creature in his chest said that it was not going to come out until it killed you. I can't protect Shuuei if he tries to hurt you. I won't do it!"

Sanzo was relieved to see that the Goku appeared to be fine. He looked back to Shuuei who was attempting to kill Hazel now. The werewolf was by the vampire's side now, despite how awkward a thought it was that they were working together given their races history. Sanzo let his logical brain reestablish his priorities, "Goku, distract Shuuei while I work up the means for an exorcism."

"Ok." Goku held out his hand and a strange rod appeared in it.

"Don't hurt him." Sanzo's voice was flat. It was a command to be obeyed.

"Got it!" Goku smiled.

Sanzo put a hand on the demon's head briefly, "Good watch job."

With a big grin stretched across his face, Goku ran off after Shuuei, jumping between the two fighting Hunters.

Gojyo ran to Hakkai's side as soon as the distraction had started. The vampire was not moving. He knelt and shook the man's shoulder.

"Hakkai, you undead bastard say something!"

Hakkai twitched ever so slightly, "Can't…move."

"Damn Hunters, the bullet must have been coated in something." Gojyo growled. He started to gather Hakkai up when he felt a sudden dark presence behind him. Hakkai's eyes dilated.

"Gojyo!" There was a loud meaty sound.

The werewolf spun about only to see Goku standing just behind him with the staff raised in a defense position. The possessed man's attack had been stopped. The knife he was using ground against the wooden rod threatening to become lodged in it. The demon had saved him.

"At least you're good for something monkey." Gojyo grabbed Hakkai and leapt out of the way, as Goku jumped back breaking the stand off.

"I'm not a monkey you big red cockroach!"

Goku dodged and struck out every so often in his attack. He found that it was very hard to keep Shuuei's attention. After the possessed man had struck Hazel through a wall, he had turned on the werewolf and the guy who had helped him find the kitten. Now, he was trying a run at Sanzo. Goku sped quickly trying to get in the way only to see five knives leave the man's hand. There was a pained sound as they all plunged deeply into Sanzo's torso. A look of pained surprise crossed Sanzo's face then with a cough of blood, he fell to the ground. Ignoring Shuuei, Goku ran to his keeper's side.

"Sanzo! Saanzooo!"

Goku fell to his knees and tore the knives out then began to shake the priest, "Sanzo! Sanzo get up!"

Sanzo felt numb and his consciousness was wavering on leaving him. The knives must have had some of the paralysis poison on them. His eyes blurred and it was becoming harder to see. He wanted to tell the stupid brat to stop shaking him because it was not making things any better but his whole body refused his commands. That is when he felt a hot prickling on his face. Scalding water…violet eyes focused for just a moment to see the water sparkling through the air. Demon tears, Goku was crying.

Gojyo was knelt beside Hakkai who he had propped against a nearby building wall. He tore the bullet out of Hakkai's leg. The vampire would heal; in fact, he had already gotten some of his movement back.

"Gojyo, look." Hakkai pointed.

The werewolf looked to see the scene between the demon and the priest, "What the hell? Is he crying over that priest? Demons can cry? Isn't he supposed to be glad or something?"

"Maybe—" Hakkai stopped as he saw a strange golden shimmer overcome the demon's body.

Goku could not stop his tears. Sanzo was hurt badly and he did not know what to do. What did he have to do to make it stop? He tired putting his hands over the wounds but the blood just kept coming, there was so much of it and now it was coming out of Sanzo's mouth. What was he supposed to do? What if Sanzo died? What would he do then? He would be all alone again, just like before. There was a cracking sound and the diadem that encircled his head snapped down the middle. His mind faded in the presence of an insatiable urge to kill.

Long horns sprouted out of his head and his nails and ears grew long and pointed. A pair of black wings jutted out of his back in a sudden surge. The Demon Equal to the Heavens had emerged. Slanted hate filled eyes surveyed the grounds until landing on Shuuei, a target. Almost fast enough to appear as though he were phasing, Goku ran at the man.

Hakkai watched with wary interest in this sudden change of combat and personality. The demon tore into the possessed man like a tiger tearing into its kill. The demon was radiating so much evil energy that the talismans that the man attempted to throw at him burst into flames. The fight lasted a few rounds when Shuuei realizing that this was a fight he could not with disappeared to fight another day.

"Unholy flying monkeys of death…" Gojyo grinned, "Damn, he's a tough little monkey. I guess we should check on the priest, kid did save my hide earlier."

"Wait! There's something wrong with him!" Hakkai spoke only seconds before Goku found a new target, him.

Gojyo tried to intercept the demon but was batted aside. Hakkai turned into mist moments before Goku made contact. Goku jumped right through the mist then growled in angry confusion as to what had happened to his target. Seeing Gojyo again, he ran after him. The werewolf found that he could barely hold his ground against the demon.

"What's up with this crazy brat? One moment he's a stupid kid next he's an insane killing machine. What gives? Damn it, chew on this!" Gojyo thrust his arm into the open mouth which latched onto him with a vengeance, "Stop moving damn you!"

"Hold him there, I have an idea." Hakkai moved as fast as his sluggish limbs would let him and made his way over to where the diadem lay upon the ground in two pieces. Hakkai picked them up and chanting a spell mended it. He tossed the whole diadem to Gojyo, "Try this!"

Gojyo caught the diadem out of the air and shoved it down on Goku's head only to have the circle shatter. The demon leapt away form him with a yowl of anger, "No good, guess you can't put something that powerful back together." Gojyo batted the demon away with all of his force as it jumped at him again.

Goku hit the ground and rolled only to bump into something. He looked over his shoulder only to see a hand wilding a talisman press against his forehead suddenly. The golden shimmer crossed over the demon once more and he reverted to normal only to fall unconscious to the ground, diadem securely in place. The hand fell exhausted to the dust from which it had risen and the owner of said hand finally lost his battle with conscious thought.

"…idiot…"

Hakkai was quiet for a moment then chuckled, "Well, that was anti-climatic wasn't it?"

Gojyo made a scoffing sound and reverted back to his human form, "I thought that priest was dead already. His damn pet almost bit my damn arm off." Gojyo walked over and picked the bloody priest off the ground. He slung him over one shoulder, "Let's go home. I'm tired."

Hakkai smiled, "taking care of a Hunter, Gojyo? What a big heart you have."

"Heart nothing." Gojyo made a mock shiver of disgust, "I just want to know why these Hunter's are poking around in my town."

Hakkai picked up Goku, "Or is it that you just feel pity for someone?"

Gojyo turned to walk off, "Nah, I just hate tears."

End Chapter 2

Oh goaahh, I thought it would never end never! It didn't look this long on paper! Paper you lied to me! Traitor! Whew…there you have it, next chapter Working Gears in the Machine---- How will they keep Sanzo from killing them? How do they get to get along? Where did Hazel go?

(1) The two viruses (Lycanthropy) and (Vampirism) are polar opposites. When they come into contact, they each try to destroy the other. So if Hakkai bit Gojyo their viruses (blood transmitted for were and saliva for vamp) would destroy each other in a slow painful set of months. Fun…yeah…sure….