Chapter summary: The Sanzo Party arrives at a local inn after a few days sleeping rough there they met their first deadly foe.

Author's note: I am so sorry for the long wait. I am trying to juggle all my works, but it is not going so well. A massive thanks to my beta 777angeloflove. I would also like to apologise for my horrible maths. I wanted to try to keep to the Japanese Currency and I had to convert English pounds (£) into Japanese Yen (¥).

Author's note 13/07/2019: This chapter hasn't been checked by my beta, as I haven't updated this story since the end of January and I couldn't wait for it to be checked. I'll also like to apologise for the long wait.

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It has been a few days since the Sanzo Party left their hometown, and as always Gojyo and Goku are merely arguing in the back of the jeep.
"You're such a perv!" Goku screeched at Gojyo after punching him in the face.
"Me a perv?!" Gojyo shouted back while feeling his face for any bruises. "How am I a perv?"
"You tried to touch my boobs, to see if they were more massive than before!" Goku promptly accused Gojyo.
"It's not my fault your boobs happen to look like 34 DD in bra size!"
"That's because they are!" Goku suddenly, shouted. "I had them measured just a few weeks ago."
'Something I don't desire to repeat,' Sanzo thought.

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Flashback

Goku was in her bedroom, getting ready for the day ahead, but she met one problem with her clothes felt tight on her.
"Why do my clothes feel tight-fitting around my chest?" Goku asked aloud. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"The doors open!" Goku shouted.
The bedroom door opened, and Goku's guardian Sanzo entered Goku's bedroom and had a quick look around. "Your room looks tidy," Sanzo commented.
Goku smiled at her sun. "Thank you Sanzo, but for some reason my clothes feel tight around my chest area."
Sanzo hummed in thought and quickly looked at her clothes. 'Her clothes do look tight around her chest.'
"Let's go into the town." Sanzo said, although it sounded more like an order to Goku.
"Okay, Sanzo." Goku said, with a smile.
A few hours later after Goku tried on many bra sizes, Goku finally found her right size.
"Okay so for now you're a 34 DD in bra size and you need to come back in a few months' time to have another bra fitting." Explained one of the employees at the bra shop tills. "The total cost for the three bra packs happens to be ¥70.90, and as for the three bikini sets their total cost are ¥59.84. So the total cost for all six items are ¥130.74."
Sanzo looked at the employee as if to say, 'Are you nuts?!'
Reluctantly Sanzo paid for all the items while glaring at the cashier and quickly left the shop with Goku in tow.

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End of flashback

Sanzo getting annoyed with all the shouting at the back of the jeep shouted at both Goku and Gojyo. "Your little unrequited love affair is starting to get on my nerves. Get a room!"
Which naturally scared both Gojyo and Goku, and then became quiet.
"Your quiet back there guys. Are you making out?" Hakkai asked teasingly.
"As if!" Goku shouted.

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A few hours later, the Sanzo Party were their dinner that was given to them by a girl that looked around Goku's age.

"Wow, you're amazing! I have never eaten this good in my life, ever! I mean it, thank you!" Said a very happy Goku. "What's your name?"

"My name is Houmei." The girl answered, while trying to not look at Goku's huge boobs.

After a few short pleasantries Sanzo decided it was time to ask if they had any demon problems.

"Not too long ago the demons were living in this town. But one day they all disappeared, and they've devoured over ten townspeople." Homuei's father explained. "We humans don't understand what's going on."

'So, the demons congregate, attack, then the group leaves. Someone calls them, but to what gathering place? It's like a summoning that grows louder, and they follow it.' Sanzo thought to himself.

Suddenly, Houmei shouted. "I wish every demon would just disappear! What they have done... The things they have done. They are monsters; all of them monsters! It's impossible for humans and demons to live together even the villagers said so!" And with those final words of hers, Houmei left the dining room with tears in her eyes. Hakkai, Gojyo and Goku (whose eyes have sadness in her eyes and even developing tears herself) looked at each other in shock.

Seeing this, the old man apologised to the Sanzo Party and explained, "I'm really sorry. One of the victims killed was a friend of hers."

But unknown to them somewhere in the West a group of demons were sending assassins to kill the Sanzo Party.

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Later that night Hakkai, Gojyo and Sanzo were talking about the events while playing a card game while at the same time their eyes wandered to Goku who happens to be helping Houmei chopping wood.

"Do all humans think like that?" Gojyo asked.

"….."

""Too many crimes. The humans die. The survivors grieve. They grow angry. Who could blame them?" Hakkai said.

"They don't know the real reason for why this is happening. It justifies their prejudice." Sanzo piped up.

"They're just humans. They are stupid and judgmental. What's the mystery?" Gojyo said, as he expressed his hatred for the humans.

"Their prejudice may not threaten you, but Goku and I have to wear these little restraints and not everyone one in town may look at it as just fashion." Hakkai said while pointing at his ear cuff and Goku's golden tiara. However, the three adults quickly kept quiet as they overheard Houmei and Goku's chat.

"Thank you Goku for helping me with the blocks."

"Your welcome Houmei. But who was your friend that was killed by the demons?"

"His name was Ekitoku."

"I'm sorry Houmei."

Houmei smiled at Goku. They worked quietly together until Houmei spoke once again. "Goku, what's your opinion on demons?" Houmei asked.

"I don't have an opinion." Goku admitted. "Why do you ask?"

"Because, I think that Humans and demons should never have been living together in the first place. It is not natural! Just look at everything that is happened. You agree with me, don't you Goku?... They are evil, disgusting! We should find a way to kill every one of them, don't you think so?"

This caused Goku to look at the ground until Sanzo came to collect her.

"Goku, come on its time for bed." Sanzo gently coaxed Goku to their shared bedroom. However, on their way they noticed a group of Gypsies standing around the reception area of the inn.

"Looks like the circus is in town." Sanzo said unhappily.

"Oh, yes. I'd like to show a couple of those little carnival hotties what kind of action in going on under my big top." Gojyo said as he was making rude gestures with his hands.

"Can you stop being a perv?!" Goku exclaimed unhappily. "There are children here!"

Hakkai just smiled and said, "It warms my heart to see all of us getting along with each other so well. Good times."

Which caused all three members of the Sanzo Party to look at Hakkai like he has grown another head.

"Come on let's all get to bed, before anymore weirdos come into town."

But not before everyone thought the same. 'Their here to kill us!'

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It was after midnight and each member of the Sanzo Party (apart from Goku whose sleeping with her guardian) had their own room to sleep in. In Sanzo and Goku's shared room, Sanzo is shown to be curled around Goku like a protective Lioness while Goku looks like Lion cub in Sanzo's arms. But unknown to them their door opened quietly and then entered a man holding a knife above Sanzo's head as he did he noticed Goku and quickly realised who she was.

'This must be the girl born from the Earth's aura that my master mentioned.'

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Flashback of the assassin's orders

"There is believed to be a Party who are travelling here. One of them is a girl who was born from the Earth's aura. She is a very powerful being, as she is neither human nor demon or even a goddess." The master of the group assassins explained.

"What do we do with her master?" One of the assassin's asked.

"You are to capture her alive along with one the Scriptures of Heaven and Earth that one of the members are carrying with them." The master answered. "Do not fail me."

With that the assassins left for their mission.

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End of Flashback of the assassin's orders

As the assassin was about to kill Sanzo, both guardian and ward woke up and quickly attacked him.

"Who are you?" Goku asked. "What are you doing here?"

"I don't have to answer to you Princess."

"Okay, then you answer to me!" Sanzo shouted.

Suddenly, Gojyo and Hakkai entered the room and instantly ran towards Goku, whose boobs were about to burst from her pyjama top which caused Hakkai to take off his jumper and put it over Goku's head.

"Who are you?" Sanzo repeated.

"I don't have to say anything."

"What is your mission?" Hakkai asked.

"That's a better question." The assassin said. "My mission was to capture one of the Scriptures that you carry as well as the girl."

"Why me?"

But before the demon could say anymore Sanzo killed the demon and growled. "No one and I mean no one will take the monkey away from me."

As Hakkai and Gojyo about to leave the Sanzo and Goku's room, they heard Goku scream and what they saw was not pleasing as Sanzo and Goku were caught in a web and tried to get Sanzo and Goku free from the web's clutches.

"You have to find the source of the web and use my gun." Sanzo explained.

And as Sanzo said the source revealed itself and it happened to be a female spider demon.

"How did you know, that the only way to destroy my web was to find me?" The Spider Lady asked.

"When studying to become a Sanzo priest, you had to learn everything about Demons and their powers." Sanzo answered while growling at the same. The Spider Lady smirked and said. "Such spirit. Seems wasted on a human. Legend has it, if you consume a priest of high virtue, you will live longer. One ranked as high as Sanzo could supply life everlasting, give or take a decade or two. To human women, you must look very handsome, but to me, you're dinner."

"NO!" Goku shouted in anguish. "You leave him alone!"

The Spider Lady then swiftly looked at Goku. "Why don't you join our demon brothers and sisters?"

""Not interested." Goku swiftly replied. Sanzo then looked at Goku and quickly recognised Goku's love for all living beings is coming to life. "And stop looking at them like they're different or we're better. We're all the same, all of us."

Quickly but quietly Hakkai finally reached Sanzo's gun and fired it to the Spider Lady and it injured her, while simultaneously Goku and Sanzo were from the webs.

However, before the party could kill the demon. The demon herself was eating her companions to make her stronger.

"Oh shit!" Goku cursed loudly, in which she was given the look from Hakkai.

"Goku, young ladies don't curse." Hakkai lectured to Goku.

"Sorry."

Sanzo then quickly released his Scripture of Heaven and Earth while at the same chanting a spell and then Goku used her Nyoi Bo and the Spider Demon Lady was instantly killed.

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The next morning, the Sanzo Party were about to leave the village but not before Goku and Hakkai gently explained to Houmei and her father that there are good demons as well as bad demons.

"Houmei, the demons throughout the land are not doing these terrible things for the thrill of it all. Something is making them act this way, some of them anyway. You are young. Be careful of blatant judgement."

With those final words the Sanzo party left the village but not before Houmei gave the party some lunch to eat while on their journey.

Simultaneously, somewhere in the West.

"The first assassination attempt failed." The master said angrily.

"We can always send more."

"No!" The master shouted. "We cannot fail anymore; I need the girl and the Scripture."

"Why?"

"Did you not hear me the first time!"

"Yes, but you never gave us reasons why you want the girl."

"Her 'boyfriend' is the reason why, as I can't get revenge on him, I might as well get revenge on the girl and make her my concubine."

But what they didn't know is the 'masters' stepmother overheard and smiled evilly. 'My plan is going nicely.'