Later that evening the four men decided to retire for the night. Gojyo stretched out on the ragged couch that was in the room while Goku took one of the two beds. The saru and kappa laid in their respective spots as they watched Sanzo and Hakkai snuggle up to one another in the free bed contentedly. Gojyo rolled his eyes and turned over facing the wall, still a bit uncomfortable with actually seeing them display their affections for one another. They had been very open with the way they felt for each other since him and the saru had walked in on them. He sighed and closed his eyes, willing sleep to claim him, thankful when slowly it did.
Goku laid watching Sanzo and Hakkai for a few moments before he turned over with his back towards them. He could feel the heat flooding his chest and face, which caused a low swear to escape his lips. As unconsciousness started to seep in to him, his sluggish mind began to flash with visions of the red haired kappa. Groaning he rolled on over to his stomach and nuzzled his face in to the pillow, wishing it was Gojyo's chest. This did not help the images his mind was feeding him, for then he began to see Gojyo bent over him with a wicked grin he had seen countless times before when the erogappa was trying to pick up a woman. He let out another low curse word. He was intensely attracted to the redhead, he had never once, even for a split second, tried to kid his self about it. He also knew, though, that Gojyo wasn't in to guys, so he would never have him the way he wanted most. Finally, as sleep finally claimed him completely, his mind began to dance with a fevered dream of his kappa.
Sanzo lay wrapped up in Hakkai's arms and he in his. He nuzzled his lover on the neck absently as he was swept away in to a dream. Hakkai, on the other hand, lay silently, recalling the day's events. He blushed deeply as he recalled how Gojyo and Goku had walked in on them and one of their more intimate moments. A small smile formed on his lips as he recalled how Sanzo had spoiled him so completely as they had taken a bath together. He had managed to leave no fleck of his skin untouched or with out a kiss. He so adored when Sanzo was like that, so full of love and devotion. It was something he was blessed with less and less as of late. In the beginning, he had always been like that after their lovemaking, but recently he seemed to be becoming distant afterwards. In the past month, he had only showed him such care twice after sex, which was causing him to worry. He had said earlier that day that he did not regret being with him, that he never would. Hakkai was smart though, he could see the signs that perhaps Sanzo was lying to him. Soon his hectic mind soothed down enough that he finally fell asleep, snuggled in to the monk that he had fallen so deeply in love with that he had became his entire world.
Suddenly during the early morning hours right before the sky began to brighten, the four men was jerked out of their slumber by a loud crashing noise. Four sets of groggy sleep filled eyes looked about the dim room, shock waking them the rest of the way up as they saw a figure standing in the window. Shards of glass sparkled and glinted in the early morning light to cast eeriness over the intruder. Before any of them could react, the figure attacked, easily knocking the kappa and saru against separate walls as they finally became capable of moving and charged. Hakkai jumped and got between the invader and his precious Sanzo to protect him. This was a mistake. He suddenly felt a sharp pang in his right temple and all went dark as he fell in a limp heap on the bed.
Sanzo pulled his gun out from under his pillow and shot at the intruding figure as he moved to Hakkai. His efforts was in vain however as he was picked up and thrown against a wall himself. He grunted loudly at the impact. He took aim once more and was about to fire as the invader grabbed Hakkai and held him out in front of him, using him as a shield. "Shoot if you dare, monk," a low gravely voice spoke. Sanzo froze, horrified at what was happening. "You filthy coward," Sanzo hissed. "How dare you use him like this!" he seethed.
The figure sneered, an evil chortle escaping his throat. "Think of me what you will, Sanzo," he quipped and walked backwards to the window, keeping the man between him and the gun. "It will not change the facts. Let us see exactly how much this man means to you, shall we? We will be anxiously awaiting you," he chuckled and was out the window heading northwest, taking Hakkai's unconscious form with him.
Goku's heart seemed like it stopped for a moment. He looked over to Gojyo who was just as mortified as he was. "What the hell just happened?" Goku asked as he ran to the window, which Sanzo was already standing and looking out over the horizon in the direction Hakkai had been taken. "Wh…what are we going to do?"
Gojyo walked over to the window and laid a hand on each of his two companions' shoulders. "We have to get him back," he said. He had no doubt in his mind that neither of the three of them would be standing there alive at that very moment if it had not been for Hakkai. He knew though that even though he had saved the three of them on countless occasions that they had also saved him just as many times. Gojyo himself had been the one who had brought him back from death's house after Kanan, and the two of them had been together ever since.
Sanzo clenched his hand in to a fist, striking the windowsill harshly. "I will make that bastard pay for laying his hands on you, Kai. You just wait and see," he hissed out in to the growing light. He turned abruptly on his heels and walked over to the bed that he had been sharing with his precious Hakkai only moments earlier. Fighting back tears that was suddenly threatening to spill out he gathered his cigarettes and his fan, along with his other belongings. "Don't just stand there! Get ready to leave you morons!" he yelled as he pointed his gun at the saru and kappa.
Goku and Gojyo jumped in to action and gathered what possessions they had with them. A few moments later, the three of them had set out to follow the direction the figure had taken Hakkai. They were silent and quick on their feet as they made their way quickly over the terrain. To Sanzo, minutes seemed to be passing like eternities. He truly did not know what he would do if he couldn't find Hakkai; if he had truly lost him for good. It made his heart shatter to think of how he had been so distant to the man lately. He just hoped that he could find him to tell him he was sorry; that it wasn't anything he had done or not done. It was just because they had so little time together just the two of them with out interruptions from the other two that it had made him nervous and scared to show him too much affection. If he would have known that something like this was going to happen, he would have not have hesitated to show him the affection he knew he craved and needed.
Hakkai slowly began to come too, the pain in his temple reminding him instantly of what had happened. He opened his eyes and blinked several times before he could focus on anything. Finally, shapes and shadows took on solid forms as he looked about his surroundings. Sunlight glinted in through a smear on a small window and filtered in to the room in a dust mote. He had no idea how long he had been unconscious but it had apparently been a while. He tried to move, his actions stopped short by the clinking of chains. He took inventory of his person, seeing he was well bound with a quite generous length of chain wrapped about his torso and down his legs. His hands were shackled in a position that would make it impossible to use his Ki technique. "Yare yare, looks like I am in quite a predicament," he quipped as he tested the chains with no luck. He then looked around the room he was in to note for the first time it looked like a cellar or basement. The walls were stone and leaked water making the environment dark and dank. He could smell the musky sent of mildew and rotten wood, which made his stomach lurch. Closing his eyes he sighed deeply, trying to settle his nerves and knotted gut. "Sanzo…please be safe and find me…" he whispered prayerfully.
A door opened, the hinges creaking loudly with protest and age. A figure dressed in black then descended a set of stairs, coming to rest at the landing to take in the prisoner chained to one of the walls. "So, you're awake finally, are you?" the figure asked with a chuckle. "I'm glad, now we can get to know each other a bit while we await the monk's arrival." With this the apparent male walked over to his captive and reached a pale boney hand out to clasp his chin and lift his head. "Look at me," he ordered.
Hakkai swallowed a fearful lump in his throat that had suddenly formed as he looked up at his warden. It was a man with long stringy and filthy black hair. His eyes were set close together making him look much like a rat, and were just as beady as one's as well. They were of a deep red making them look like pools of blood instead of eyes. The skin of his face was moist and creamish in color and gave him the appearance of a corpse. Jagged uneven teeth flashed in the dim light of the room as the man before him flashed him an evil smirk. This was apparently not a human man but a demon. "He will kill you…," he finally said. This earned him a quick harsh slap across the face, the man's claw like nails scratching him and breaking the skin. As he felt his warm blood spill over his cheek he gritted his teeth. He would have to take care not to anger his capturer like that again, least something worse happened.
"He is more then welcome to try, Hakkai, but I doubt he will be capable." The boney hand that held the man's chin released him only to trace a sharp long fingernail over his neck and chest. "I wonder what it is about you exactly that our dear Sanzo likes so much." Fabric tearing echoed in the dampness around the two men and another sneer formed on the figures lips as he took in the now bare flesh of his prisoner's chest. Chains creaked and clanked as the bound Hakkai tried to shy away from the rat like eyes on his skin. "Oh, come now, don't be like that. You aren't when it's Sanzo looking at you..." he said as he trailed his hand down the bare chest. "When it's Sanzo touching you…," he remarked as the man tried to shy further away in vain. "Just close your eyes and pretend it's him," he quipped as he leaned forward, darting his tongue in his ear briefly before closing his lips on his neck, and suckling harshly.
Hakkai shuddered in disgust and tried as best as he could to fight free from the perverse attentions of the figure before him. He swallowed hurriedly as bile threatened to lurch up in to his mouth. "Who are you? Why are you doing this…?" he asked lowly as the man retreated for a moment. "What is it you hope to gain by doing this to me?" He then felt those boney hands on his chest once more and turned his face away, whimpering in fear and disgust. He could only imagine that this was what it was like for Kanan when that demon had kidnapped and raped her. He knew that the same thing was about to happen to him, he just knew it.
"Well, let's see. In order of your questions, my name is Shadid, I'm doing this because I want to, and what I will gain from this is both pleasure and revenge." With this he ran his hand down to the waist of Hakkai's pants and kreened. He chuckled as his captive fought against the chains to get away from his touch. "There is no hope of escaping these chains, dear Hakkai, but if it makes you feel better you are more then welcome to try as much as you want to break free." With that said he slid his hand down in to his pants and squeezed lightly at his prize.
Suddenly Sanzo was seized by nausea and fear. His heart started to pound in his chest as Hakkai's face flash through his mind. He stopped dead for a moment before gasping loudly and taking off in a full out run towards the direction the intruder had gone. He didn't know how, but he knew that Hakkai was in terrible danger. He heard the footfalls of Gojyo and Goku keeping in time with his own. He was thankful that they didn't question why he had sped up because he honestly couldn't explain what he felt or knew. 'Hang in there, Kai. I'm coming…' he thought as he sped towards the one person he had ever cared for enough to give his body to. 'I will kill that bastard for ever thinking he could lay his hands on you.' Breaking free from the tree line of the wooded area they had went through, Sanzo's eyes were instantly pulled to a ran-down shack that rested only a few yards away. He darted across the small distance to the structure, kicking the door in with his gun pulled. It was relatively abandoned, but his eyes caught the pile of rags made in to a make shift nest in one of the corners and there were a few candles lit nearby. "Hakkai!" he called out loudly soon followed by Gojyo and Goku calling for him as well.
Hakkai jumped as he heard the all too familiar voices that were calling him. Thankfully it had also caused his capturer to jump and retreat from him. "Sanzo! Goku! Gojyo!" he called out just as loudly to them. He was quickly silence by a powerful blow to his abdomen, the impact knocking the air out of his lungs thoroughly. He gasped and choked for air, the smell of the underground room he was in making him want to vomit as it seeped in to his lungs. He heard hurried footsteps coming closer and looked up as he saw Sanzo and the other two stop dead at the foot of the steps.
"So you finally arrived," Shadid replied as he turned back to Hakkai. "Hmm, and things were just starting to heat up and get good…" he quipped as he leaned over, licking at his captives neck and ran a hand down to fondle him through his pants.
Hakkai shied away and clenched his jaws as he tightly closed his eyes. "S…Sanzo…" he whimpered out, pleading for his lover to rescue him. He jumped as he heard gunfire. He opened his eyes slowly to see the demon bleeding from a well-aimed shot to his chest. He watched as the figure staggered backwards away from him.
"You filthy bastard, how dare you put your hands on him! I will send you to hell for this!" Sanzo seethed as he fired the remaining four shots in his gun in to the figures chest and stomach. He glanced over his shoulder to Gojyo and Goku. "Don't just stand there! Find the damned keys so we can get him out of here!" he yelled as he removed the empty shells from the chamber of the gun and reloaded it. He went to Hakkai and examined his physical injuries, tears welling up in his eyes. "Oh, Kai…"
"Damn it!" Gojyo suddenly exclaimed as he backed back down the steps to the others with a shotgun pointed at his head. He put his arms up and turned his head to look at his friends over his shoulder. "Looks like we have more company…" he quipped as he turned to face the new foe. "I don't care if you point that thing at me, just don't point it at my face…," he said with a wink. He then suddenly summoned his weapon and took a strike at the enemy. The new figure laughed as he disappeared, reappearing beside Sanzo and the chained Hakkai. "Nice try half-breed," he taunted as he grabbed Sanzo and threw him hard against the wall. "Time to play boys!" he called out.
Goku and Gojyo ran to Sanzo's side as three more men appeared in the room. "Well now, isn't this a fine mess we've landed in. Hakkai's more or less out of commission until we can take care of these guys and in such close quarters mine and the saru's weapons are more or less useless, plus if you go firing helter sketler like usual you're liable to hit us or Hakkai," Gojyo said give an unwanted recap.
"Shut up, erogappa…we can see," Sanzo said with a grunt as he stood. He could feel the blood trickling down the nap of his neck on to his back from his head hitting the wall. His back was throbbing like crazy as well from the impact. He blinked a few times to clear his blurred vision and hissed. "We will just have to do this the old fashioned way…," he quipped as he placed his gun in his robes. He knew he wouldn't be able to use it; he wanted to kill these bastards but didn't want to harm his friends or his chained lover in doing so. "Hang in there Hakkai, we will get you out of this hell hole soon, I promise."
Hakkai nodded and watched on in horror as his beloved Sanzo and his two friends began to face off with the other intruders. He did not understand how it was that he could have missed their presences earlier, but then again he hadn't really been in his right frame of mind for a two reasons. One, his head was killing him from the hit to his temple that had knocked him out; and two, he had been so frightened at his kidnapper's advances that he hadn't really been able to think or concentrate on anything. "Do hurry Sanzo; I don't want to be chained up like this any longer then necessary."
Shadid: pronounced like shaded.
